Pedro Alves
I'm a doctoral candidate in INESC-ID at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal. I'm researching how relaxed consistency protocols can improve the efficiency of collaborative tools for distributed teams.
My Research
I'm doing my research in articulation between IST and Opensoft, being advised by Prof. Paulo Ferreira, senior researcher at INESC-ID and Eng. José Vilarinho, CEO of Opensoft. I'm particularly interested in bridging some gaps between Distributed Systems and Computer Supported Cooperative Work:
- Large-scale messaging protocols
- Adaptable consistency requirements based on current user context
- Efficient awareness and presence propagation among a social network
- Causal relation in messages exchanged by a group of dispersed people
My Publications
ReConMUC - Adaptable Consistency Requirements for Efficient Large-scale Multi-user Chat
Pedro Alves, Paulo Ferreira. The 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Hangzhou (China), March 19–23, 2011.
Distributed Context-Aware Systems
Pedro Alves, Paulo Ferreira. Technical Report RT/22/2011, INESC-ID, 2011.
Privacy in Distributed Context-Aware Systems
Pedro Alves, Paulo Ferreira. Technical Report RT/23/2011, INESC-ID, 2011.
My Background
1999 - Graduation in Computer Engineering, by Instituto Superior Técnico.
1999 - 2000 - Consultant at Link
2000 - 2002 - Consultant at SIBS
Since 2002 - Project coordinator at Opensoft
Get in Touch
Feel free to contact me at pedro.h.alves (at) ist.utl.pt