2026

  1. It Works on My Machine: A Systematization of Knowledge on Reproducibility and Replicability in ML-Based Ransomware DetectionPereira, B., Cepa, B., Brito, C., Silva, J. M., Rimmer, V., Paulo, J., & Esteves, T.In 5th Workshop on Rethinking Malware Analysis (WORMA), colocated with EuroS&P (Just accepted). IEEE, 2026.

  2. Holpaca: Holistic and Adaptable Cache Management for Shared EnvironmentsPeixoto, J., Gonzalez, A., Bhimani, J., Rangaswami, R., Brito, C., Paulo, J., & Macedo, R.In 17th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) (Just accepted). ACM/SPEC, 2026.

  3. MinatoLoader: Accelerating Machine Learning Training Through Efficient Data PreprocessingNouaji, R., Bitchebe, S., Macedo, R., & Balmau, O.In 21st European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). ACM, 2026.

2025

  1. Polylayer: the Next 700 Storage ConfigurationsLopes, J., Pereira, B., Pereira, F., Muñoz, V., Gomes, T., Ribeiro, R., … Maia, F.In Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM’25), colocated with SRDS. 2025.

  2. Idiosyncrasies of Programmable Caching EnginesPeixoto, J., Gonzalez, A., Bhimani, J., Rangaswami, R., Brito, C., Paulo, J., & Macedo, R.In Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM’25), colocated with SRDS. 2025.

  3. Speed Kills: Revisiting Data Deduplication for Modern Storage DevicesOliveira, R. P., Esteves, T., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM’25), colocated with SRDS. 2025.

  4. One Does Not Simply Cache: A Study on Distributed Caches for AI Training in HPCFerreira, A., Sousa, G., Ruhela, A., Cazes, J., Bhimani, J., Rangaswami, R., Macedo, R., Brito, C., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Reliable Large-scale Data Management (RLDM’25), colocated with SRDS. 2025.

  5. No Two Snowflakes Are Alike: Studying eBPF Libraries’ Performance, Fidelity and Resource UsageMachado, C., Gião, B., Amaro, S., Matos, M., Paulo, J., & Esteves, T.In Workshop on eBPF and Kernel Extensions (eBPF’25), colocated with SIGCOMM. ACM, 2025.

  6. Keigo: Co-designing Log-Structured Merge Key-Value Stores with a Non-Volatile, Concurrency-aware Storage HierarchyAdão, R., Wu, Z., Zhou, C., Balmau, O., Paulo, J., & Macedo, R.Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 2025.

  7. Exploiting Trusted Execution Environments And Distributed Computation for Genomic Association TestsBrito, C. V., Ferreira, P. G., & Paulo, J.IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 2025.

  8. Promoting Sustainable And Personalized Travel Behaviors While Preserving Data PrivacyBrito, C., Pina, N., Esteves, T., Vitorino, R., Cunha, I., & Paulo, J.Transportation Engineering. 2025.

2024

  1. Can Current SDS Controllers Scale To Modern HPC Infrastructures?Miranda, M., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., Ruhela, A., Harrell, S. L., Cazes, J., Macedo, R., Pereira, J., & Paulo, J.In Workshop of Intel Extreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG), colocated with SC. IEEE, 2024.

  2. When Amnesia Strikes: Understanding And Reproducing Data Loss Bugs With Fault InjectionRamos, M., Azevedo, J., Kingsbury, K., Pereira, J., Esteves, T., Macedo, R., & Paulo, J.Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 2024.

2023

  1. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning on Apache SparkBrito, C. V., Ferreira, P. G., Portela, B. L., Oliveira, R. C., & Paulo, J.IEEE Access. 2023.

  2. Toward A Practical And Timely Diagnosis of Application’s I/O BehaviorEsteves, T., Macedo, R., Oliveira, R., & Paulo, J.IEEE Access. 2023.

  3. CRIBA: A Tool For Comprehensive Analysis Of Cryptographic Ransomware’s I/O BehaviorEsteves, T., Pereira, B., Oliveira, R. P., Marco, J., & Paulo, J.In 42nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). IEEE, 2023.

  4. Diagnosing Applications’ I/O Behavior Through System Call ObservabilityEsteves, T., Macedo, R., Oliveira, R., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Data-Centric Dependability and Security (DCDS), colocated with DSN. IEEE, 2023.

  5. Taming Metadata-Intensive HPC Jobs Through Dynamic, Application-Agnostic QoS ControlMacedo, R., Miranda, M., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., Ruhela, A., Harrell, S. L., Evans, R. T., Pereira, J., & Paulo, J.In IEEE/ACM 23rd International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid). IEEE, 2023.

  6. SOTERIA: Preserving Privacy in Distributed Machine LearningBrito, C., Ferreira, P., Portela, B., Oliveira, R., & Paulo, J.In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). ACM, 2023.

2022

  1. Protecting Metadata Servers From Harm Through Application-level I/O ControlMacedo, R., Miranda, M., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., Ruhela, A., Harrell, S. L., Evans, R. T., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO), colocated with CLUSTER. IEEE, 2022.

  2. Accelerating Deep Learning Training Through Transparent Storage TieringDantas, M., Leitão, D., Cui, P., Macedo, R., Liu, X., Xu, W., & Paulo, J.In 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid). IEEE, 2022.

  3. PAIO: General, Portable I/O Optimizations With Minor Application ModificationsMacedo, R., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., Chidambaram, V., Pereira, J., & Paulo, J.In 20th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). USENIX, 2022.

2021

  1. CaT: Content-Aware Tracing and Analysis for Distributed SystemsEsteves, T., Neves, F., Oliveira, R., & Paulo, J.In 22nd International Middleware Conference. ACM, 2021.

  2. Pods-as-Volumes: Effortlessly Integrating Storage Systems and Middleware into KubernetesFaria, A., Macedo, R., & Paulo, J.In 7th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (WoC), colocated with Middleware. 2021.

  3. The Case For Storage Optimization Decoupling In Deep Learning FrameworksMacedo, R., Correia, C., Dantas, M., Brito, C., Xu, W., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO), colocated with CLUSTER. IEEE, 2021.

  4. Monarch: Hierarchical Storage Management For Deep Learning FrameworksDantas, M., Leitao, D., Correia, C., Macedo, R., Xu, W., & Paulo, J.In Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads (REX-IO), colocated with CLUSTER. IEEE, 2021.

  5. PAIO: A Software-Defined Storage Data Plane FrameworkMacedo, R., Tanimura, Y., Haga, J., Chidambaram, V., Pereira, J., & Paulo, J.ArXiv - Computing Research Repository (CoRR). 2021.

  6. Realistic Assessment Of Faults In Storage SystemsBorges, C., & Paulo, J.Workshop on High-Performance and Reliable Big Data (HPBD), Colocated with SRDS. 2021.

  7. BDUS: Implementing Block Devices In User SpaceFaria, A., Macedo, R., Pereira, J., & Paulo, J.In 14th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage (SYSTOR). ACM, 2021.

  8. S2Dedup: SGX-enabled Secure DeduplicationMiranda, M., Esteves, T., Portela, B., & Paulo, J.In 14th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage (SYSTOR). ACM, 2021.

2020

  1. Genodedup: Similarity-Based Deduplication And Delta-encoding For Genome Sequencing DataCogo, V., Paulo, J., & Bessani, A.IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2020.

  2. A Survey And Classification Of Software-Defined Storage SystemsMacedo, R., Paulo, J., Pereira, J., & Bessani, A.ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2020.

2019

  1. A Case For Dynamically Programmable Storage Background TasksMacedo, R., Faria, A., Paulo, J., & Pereira, J.In Workshop on Distributed and Reliable Storage Systems (DRSS), colocated with SRDS. IEEE, 2019.

  2. TrustFS: An SGX-Enabled Stackable File System FrameworkEsteves, T., Macedo, R., Faria, A., Portela, B., Paulo, J., Pereira, J., & Harnik, D.In Workshop on Distributed and Reliable Storage Systems (DRSS), colocated with SRDS. IEEE, 2019.

2017

  1. DDFLASKS: Deduplicated Very Large Scale Data StoreMaia, F., Paulo, J., Coelho, F., Neves, F., Pereira, J., & Oliveira, R.In Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS). Springer, 2017.

  2. SafeFS: A Modular Architecture For Secure User-space File Systems: One Fuse To Rule Them AllPontes, R., Burihabwa, D., Maia, F., Paulo, J., Schiavoni, V., Felber, P., Mercier, H., & Oliveira, R.In 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (best student paper award). ACM, 2017.

2016

  1. Efficient Deduplication In A Distributed Primary Storage InfrastructurePaulo, J., & Pereira, J.ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). 2016.

  2. On The Cost Of Safe Storage For Public Clouds: An Experimental EvaluationBurihabwa, D., Pontes, R., Felber, P., Maia, F., Mercier, H., Oliveira, R., Paulo, J., & Schiavoni, V.In 35th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS). IEEE, 2016.

2014

  1. A Survey And Classification Of Storage Deduplication SystemsPaulo, J., & Pereira, J.ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 2014.

  2. Distributed Exact Deduplication For Primary Storage InfrastructuresPaulo, J., & Pereira, J.In Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS). Springer, 2014.

2013

  1. Towards An Accurate Evaluation Of Deduplicated Storage SystemsPaulo, J., Reis, P., Pereira, J., & Sousa, A.International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering. 2013.

2012

  1. DEDISbench: A Benchmark For Deduplicated Storage SystemsPaulo, J., Reis, P., Pereira, J., & Sousa, A.In International Symposium on Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI). Springer, 2012.