Pedro Nuno San-Banto Furtado

Pedro Furtado works as assistant professor of computer sciences at the University of Coimbra, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula, mostly in data management related areas. He is also an active researcher in the Systems and Software Engineering Group of the CISUC research laboratory. His research interests include data warehousing and mining, parallel and distributed database systems, with a focus on performance and scalability and data management in distributed data intensive systems. He received a PhD in computer science from the University of Coimbra (Portugal, 2000). He has a large number of research papers published in international journals, book chapters, and international conference proceedings, mostly in the subjects of parallel and distributed data warehousing. In his professional activities he also has had experiences with consultancy and in leading national research projects, as well as participating in European projects in the areas of parallel data management, quality of service in distributed systems, and wireless sensor networks. He also has a large experience with reviewing, having served on editorial boards of books and journals, as well as on program committees of international conferences.

Publications

On-Demand ELT Architecture for Right-Time BI: Extending the Vision
On-Demand ELT Architecture for Right-Time BI: Extending the Vision
Florian Waas, Robert Wrembel, Tobias Freudenreich, Maik Thiele, Christian Koncilia, Pedro Furtado. © 2013. 18 pages.
In a typical BI infrastructure, data, extracted from operational data sources, is transformed, cleansed, and loaded into a data warehouse by a periodic ETL process, typically...
QoS-Oriented Grid-Enabled Data Warehouses
QoS-Oriented Grid-Enabled Data Warehouses
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado. © 2011. 20 pages.
Globally accessible data warehouses are useful in many commercial and scientific organizations. For instance, research centers can be put together through a grid infrastructure...
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
Pedro Furtado. © 2011. 22 pages.
Data Warehouses are a crucial technology for current competitive organizations in the globalized world. Size, speed and distributed operation are major challenges concerning...
Evolving Application Domains of Data Warehousing and Mining: Trends and Solutions
Evolving Application Domains of Data Warehousing and Mining: Trends and Solutions
Pedro Nuno San-Banto Furtado. © 2010. 364 pages.
Data warehousing and mining technologies are key assets today in many areas of human knowledge, from scientific to commercial and industrial settings, and the last decades have...
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST)
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST)
Nik Bessis. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) focuses on integration techniques, methods, and tools employed in applied distributed computing systems...
ChunkSim: A Tool and Analysis of Performance and Availability Balancing
ChunkSim: A Tool and Analysis of Performance and Availability Balancing
Pedro Furtado. © 2010. 19 pages.
Self-tuning physical database organization involves tools that determine automatically the best solution concerning partitioning, placement, creation and tuning of auxiliary...
QoS-Oriented Grid-Enabled Data Warehouses
QoS-Oriented Grid-Enabled Data Warehouses
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado. © 2010. 21 pages.
Globally accessible data warehouses are useful in many commercial and scientific organizations. For instance, research centers can be put together through a grid infrastructure...
Deploying Data Warehouses in Grids with Efficiency and Availability
Deploying Data Warehouses in Grids with Efficiency and Availability
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, Pedro Furtado. © 2010. 22 pages.
Many global organizations are generating huge volumes of data, which are stored in highly distributed databases. These databases can be put together through a Grid infrastructure...
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
Pedro Furtado. © 2010. 22 pages.
Data Warehouses are a crucial technology for current competitive organizations in the globalized world. Size, speed and distributed operation are major challenges concerning...
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
A Survey of Parallel and Distributed Data Warehouses
Pedro Furtado. © 2009. 21 pages.
Data Warehouses are a crucial technology for current competitive organizations in the globalized world. Size, speed and distributed operation are major challenges concerning...
Efficient and Robust Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses
Efficient and Robust Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses
Pedro Furtado. © 2009. 20 pages.
Running large data warehouses (DWs) efficiently over low cost platforms places special requirements on the design of system architecture. The idea is to have the DW on a set of...
Placement and Scheduling over Grid Warehouses
Placement and Scheduling over Grid Warehouses
Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costal, Pedro Furtado. © 2009. 22 pages.
The computational grid offers services for efficiently scheduling jobs on the grid, but for grid-enabled applications where data handling is a most relevant part, the data grid...
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Pedro Furtado. © 2009. 9 pages.
Data Warehouses (DWs) with large quantities of data present major performance and scalability challenges, and parallelism can be used for major performance improvement in such...
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Pedro Furtado. © 2008. 20 pages.
Data Warehouses (DWs) with large quantities of data present major performance and scalability challenges, and parallelism can be used for major performance improvement in such...
Efficient Placement and Processing in Shared-Nothing Data Warehouses
Efficient Placement and Processing in Shared-Nothing Data Warehouses
Pedro Nuno San-Bento Furtado. © 2007. 26 pages.
Some businesses generate giga or even terabytes of historical data that can be organized and analyzed for better decision making. This poses issues concerning systems and...
Efficient and Robust Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses
Efficient and Robust Node-Partitioned Data Warehouses
Pedro Furtado. © 2007. 27 pages.
Running large data warehouses (DW) efficiently over low cost platforms places special requirements on the design of system architecture. The idea is to have the DW on a set of...
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Node Partitioned Data Warehouses: Experimental Evidence and Improvements
Pedro Furtado. © 2006. 19 pages.
Data Warehouses (DWs) with large quantities of data present major performance and scalability challenges, and parallelism can be used for major performance improvement in such...