Marcos K. Aguilera

Research interests

• Distributed systems
• Theory of distributed computing

Recent professional activities

Program committee member OSDI 2008
Program committee member DSN 2008
Program committee member ICDCN 2008
Program committee member DISC 2009
Program committee member PODC 2009
Program committee member OPODIS 2009
Industry track co-chair PODC 2009
Program committee member Hotdep 2009
Program committee member LADC 2009
Steering committee member LADC 2009
Program committee member ICDCN 2009
Program committee member SSS 2009
Program committee member PODC 2010
Program committee member DISC 2010
Program committee member DSN 2010

Recent papers

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Distributed systems

No time for asynchrony.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Michael Walfish.
Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, May 2009.

RPC Chains: Efficient client-server communication in geodistributed systems.
Yee Jiun Song, Marcos K. Aguilera, Ramakrishna Kotla, Dahlia Malkhi.
Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, April 2009.

Transaction rate limiters for peer-to-peer systems.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Mark Lillibridge, Xiaozhou Li.
International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, September 2008.

A practical scalable distributed B-tree.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Wojciech Golab, Mehul Shah.
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 2008.

Sinfonia: a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. (Best paper award)
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Marcos K. Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul Shah, Alistair Veitch, Christos Karamanolis.
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 2007.

Improving recoverability in multi-tier storage systems.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Mustafa Uysal.
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2007.

Olive: distributed point-in-time branching storage for real systems.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Susan Spence, Alistair Veitch.
3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2006.

WAP5: black-box performance debugging for wide-area systems.
Patrick Reynolds, Janet Wiener, Jeff Mogul, Marcos K. Aguilera, Amin Vahdat.
International Conference on World Wide Web, May 2006.

Theory of distributed computing

Remote storage with byzantine servers.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Ram Swaminathan.
ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, August 2009.

Partial synchrony based on set timeliness.
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Marcos K. Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Toueg.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2009.

Dynamic atomic storage without consensus.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Idit Keidar, Dahlia Malkhi, Alexander Shraer.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2009.

On implementing Omega in systems with weak reliability and synchrony assumptions.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Toueg.
Distributed Computing, 21(4), pp. 239-314, October 2008.

The mailbox problem.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Eli Gafni, Leslie Lamport.
International Symposium on Distributed Computing, September 2008.

Timeliness-based wait-freedom: a gracefully degrading progress condition.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Sam Toueg.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2008.

Abortable and query-abortable objects and their efficient implementation.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Svend Frolund, Vassos Hadzilacos, Stephanie Horn, Sam Toueg.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2007.

Brief announcement: remote storage with byzantine servers.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Ram Swaminathan.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, August 2007.

Altering document term vectors for classification - Ontologies as expectations of co-occurrence. (Poster)
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Amit Sheth, Marcos K. Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal.
International World Wide Web Conference, May 2007.

Consensus with byzantine failures and little system synchrony.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Sam Toueg.
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2006.

You can reach me at:

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