Paper accepted for presentation at CLUSTER 2016

Paper 
In-Cache MapReduce: Leverage Tiling to Boost Temporal Locality-Sensitive MapReduce Computations
 
has been accepted for presentation at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2016) to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, 13-15 September, 2016

Collaboration with the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Colloquia on Robotics and societal Innovations

within the chair of Prof. Birgit Blättel-Mink and in the framework of the ERASMUS agreement between FCT-UNL and the Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main.

Paper accepted for presentation at ISPA 2016

Paper Ephemeral Data Storage for Networks of Hand-held Devices has been accepted for presentation at the14th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2016) to be held in Tianjin, China, 23-26 August, 2016

Article accepted for publication in Journal of Supercomputing

Article "Cache-Conscious Run-time Decomposition of Data Parallel Computationshas been accepted for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Supercomputing. 

MINO/COST SPRING SCHOOL ON MINLP April 5 to 8, 2016

Spring School on Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming and Applications.

The MINO Initial Training Network of the European Union and the ICT COST action TD1207 announce a school for doctoral students and post-docs of mathematics and computer science. It is intended for people interested in the general field of nonlinear finite dimensional optimization.

III Iberian Modelling Week 2016

From April 11 to April 15, 2016, the III Iberian Modelling Week will take place at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto. This edition is organized by the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto in collaboration with the Portuguese Network for Industrial Mathematics (PT-MATHS-IN) and the Spanish Network for Mathematics and Industry (math-in).

Paper accepted for publication at SAC 2016

Paper "From Atomic Variables to Data-Centric Concurrency Control" has been accepted for publication at the OOPS track of the 31th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2016) to be held in Pisa, Italy, 4-8 April 2016.

MSc thesis " Cache-conscious Splitting of MapReduce Tasks and its Application to Stencil Computations"

Daniel Magro has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Cache-conscious Splitting of MapReduce Tasks and its Application to Stencil Computations being awarded a classification of 17 out of 20.

MSc thesis "Distributed Storage in a Cloud of Mobile Devices"

Ricardo Monteiro has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Distributed Storage in a Cloud of Mobile Devices being awarded a classification of 17 out of 20.

SAC — MUSEPAT 2015

The Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, Applications, and Tools (MUSEPAT) technical track is part of the 31st ACM/SIGAPP Sym

UNL Thesis Template (release 2.4.5)

The release 2.4.5 is available at github

Lots of styles

  • Support for multiple institutions: unl/fct(*) ul/ist
  • Added lots of styles: bianchi bluebox brotherton dash default elegant(*) ell ger hansen jenor lyhne madsen pedersen veelo vz14 vz34 vz43
  • Added official guidelines for UNL-FCT and UL-IST

Participation in INForum 2015

Three of my students had their papers accepted in INForum 2015.

T. Vale, R. J. Dias, J. A. Silva, J. M. Lourenco. Execução concorrente e determinista de transações. To appear in Proceedings of INForum 2015. Covilhã, Portugal. Sep 2015.

R. Monteiro, J. A. Silva, J. M. Lourenco, H. Paulino. Armazenamento Distribuído para uma Rede de Dispositivos Móveis. To appear in Proceedings of INForum 2015. Covilhã, Portugal. Sep 2015.

Job: Paleontologist

We are looking for experienced paleontologists (3 years or more since completion of PhD + work with 300 citations or more) for enrol in a five-year contract as paleontology researcher at Nova University, in Portugal (through a competitive application at FCT funding agency). Open to any subject of paleontology including paleobotany, vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, and sedimentology.

Article accepted for publication in journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Article "Execution of Compound Multi-Kernel OpenCL Computations in Multi-CPU/Multi-GPU Environmentshas been accepted for publication in a special issue of the Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience journal.

Paper accepted for publication at INForum 2015

The paper "Armazenamento Distribuído para uma Rede de Dispositivos Móveisreporting the ongoing work of my Master students Ricardo Monteiro have been accepted for publication at INForum - Simpósio de Informática 2015 to be held in Covilhã, Portugal, 7-8 September 2015.