Announcements

Proceedings of MECC 2016

December 21, 2016

The proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC 2016), colocated with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016, have been published by ACM. Consult them in the ACM digital library.

MSc thesis "Scheduling Computations"

November 25, 2016

Guilherme Rito has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Scheduling Computations being awarded a classification of 19 out of 20.

Paper accepted for presentation at MECC@Middleware 2016

September 27, 2016

Towards the Opportunistic Combination of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with Infrastructure Access has been accepted for presentation at the 2016 1st Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC 2016) co-located with the Middleware 2016 conference to be held in Trento, Italy, 12-16 December, 2016

Paper accepted for presentation at CLUSTER 2016

June 30, 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

Paper accepted for presentation at ISPA 2016

June 4, 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

April 11, 2016

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

Paper accepted for publication at SAC 2016

November 24, 2015

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"

November 13, 2015

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"

November 4, 2015

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.

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

July 7, 2015

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

Paper accepted for publication at INForum 2015

July 4, 2015

The paper "Armazenamento Distribuído para uma Rede de Dispositivos Móveis" reporting 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.

Three poster papers accepted at the top ranked Mobiquitous conference

June 4, 2015

Poster papers Decentralized Storage for Networks of Hand-held Devices, Mobile Device-to-Device Distributed Computing Using Data Sets, and Group-to-Group Bidirectional Wi-Fi Direct Communication with Two Relay Nodes has been accepted for publication at the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2015) to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, in July 2015.

MSc thesis "Towards an Algorithmic Skeleton Framework for the Programming of the Intel Xeon Phi Processor"

December 17, 2014

Hélder Marques has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Towards an Algorithmic Skeleton Framework for the Programming of the Intel Xeon Phi Processor being awarded a classification of 18 out of 20.

Research abstract accepted at the ICDCN 2015 Student Research Forum

December 11, 2014

An extended abstract presenting the initial research of João Silva on topic Crowdsourcing Mobile Devices to Provide Storage in Edge-Clouds (conducted in the scope of the Hyrax project) has been accepted for presentation at the Student Research Forum of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2015), to be held in Goa, India, in January 2015. 

Paper accepted for publication at SAC 2015 - track MUSEPAT

December 1, 2014

Paper  Boosting Locality in Multi-version Partial Data Replication has been accepted for publication at the MUSEPAT track of the 30th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2015) to be held in Salamanca, Spain, in April 2015.