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Alysson Bessani

LASIGE members awarded with EDCC Distinguished Paper and Posters Awards

LASIGE members at the Ciências ULisboa Scientific and Coordinating Councils

LASIGE's 2024 PhD graduations

Alysson Bessani keynote at OPODIS 2024

LASIGE's paper awarded at the ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference 2024

LASIGE researchers featured on 2024 Stanford's University top 2% most-cited authors

LASIGE research published in Expert Systems with Applications

Alysson Bessani receives the DSN2024 Test-of-Time Award

Hasan Heydari and Alysson Bessani publish at ACM PODC

Vawlt raised a 2,15 M€ investment

Alysson Bessani interviewed by Ciências ULisboa

LASIGE's Executive Committee Elected (2024/2025)

LASIGE researchers featured on 2023 Stanford's University top 2% most-cited authors

Alysson Bessani wins “Computer Sciences and Informatic Engineering-2023 Prize” by Ulisboa/CGD

LASIGE @ Workshop on New Software Abstractions for Hardware Security Technology

Strong presence of LASIGE @ DSN2023

LASIGE @ the roadshow EA-IDEIA

LASIGE 25 years Celebration

LASIGE Workshop on Project Proposal Writing: Lessons Learned from Succesful PIs

8th LASIGE Workshop (2023)

LASIGE researchers featured on Stanford's University top 2% most-cited scientists list

Vedliot’s 3rd Project General Assembly

LASIGE at INForum 2022 organization

LASIGE projects selected by FCT Call 2022

1st LASIGE Forum

LASIGE publishes @ IEEE SP'22

LASIGE's Executive Committee Elected (2022/2023)

Vawlt is now multilingual

LASIGE researchers at Stanford University's list world's top 2% scientists

LASIGE @ Ciências Research Day 2021

Best Paper Award @ SRDS’21

Alysson Bessani and Nuno Neves receive the DSN-2021 Test-of-Time Award

Alysson Bessani at Stanford University's list world's top 2% scientists

Alysson Bessani chair of CIRED working group 2020-3

Half million euros invested at Vawlt Technologies

LASIGE' project, DiSIEM, a successful story at EU

LASIGE gets H2020 MSCA RISE funding in the SEEDS project

GenoDedup tool @ Exame Informática and Dinheiro Vivo

LASIGE blockchain papers presented @ DSN 2020

Alysson Bessani was keynote speaker at FAB’2020

LASIGE's Vinicius Cogo and Alysson Bessani research published in IEEE Transactions on Computers, a top ranked journal

5th LASIGE workshop (2020)

Best Student Paper Award at ACM/IFIP Middleware 19

LASIGE relevant participation - INForum 2019

Armilar invests EUR 0.5 millions in Vawlt

INForum 2017

IBM Faculty Award 2016 granted to Alysson Bessani

Poster Presentation Award @ EuroSys 2016

PTDC 2014 | SR&TD 2014 Project Grants results

DAIS 2015 - Program co-Chair

ONGOING

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
APOSTLE new Approaches for Secure Distributed Data Processing and Access FCT 01/02/2025 31/07/2026
SMaRtChain Fast and Energy-efficient Distributed Consensus for Blockchains FCT 01/03/2023 28/02/2026
ATTRACT ATTRACT-EDIH: European Digital Innovation Hub for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing​ EU Digital European Programme IAPMEI / PRR- Portuguese Resilience and Recovery Plan 01/10/2022 30/09/2025

PAST

Acronym Title Funding Entity Start Date End Date
SEEDS A holistic design of secure vehicular networks: communications, data caching and blockchain services EU 01/03/2021 28/02/2025
VEDLIoT Very Efficient Deep Learning IoT platform EU H2020 01/11/2020 31/10/2023
ThreatAdapt Adaptive Byzantine Fault and Intrusion Tolerance FCT 01/07/2019 30/06/2023
IRCoC Intelligent Resilience for Cloud-of-Clouds Services FCT 01/07/2016 31/12/2019
Abyss Autonomic Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems FCT 01/07/2016 31/12/2019
DiSIEM Diversity Enhancements for SIEMs EU H2020 01/09/2016 31/08/2019
RSC Smart Grids Resilient Supervision and Control in Smart Grids FCT 01/03/2016 28/02/2018
SUPERCLOUD User-Centric Management of Security and Dependability in Clouds of Clouds EU H2020 01/02/2015 31/01/2018
SEGRID Security for smart Electricity GRIDs EU FP7 01/10/2014 31/12/2017
ParIS Strategic partnership in Information Security EU ERASMUS+ 01/10/2014 30/09/2017
Biobank Cloud Scalable, Secure Storage of Biobank Data EU FP7 01/12/2012 30/11/2015
SITAN SITAN - Services for Intrusion Tolerant Ad Hoc Networks FCT 01/04/2011 30/09/2014
RC-Clouds Resilient Computing in the Clouds FCT 01/01/2011 31/12/2013
MASSIF MASSIF - MAnagement of Security information and events in Service InFrastructures EU FP7 01/10/2010 30/09/2013
TClouds Trustworthy Clouds Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure EU FP7 01/10/2010 30/09/2013
REGENESYS Regeneration of Replicated Systems FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2012
ReD Resilient Database Clusters FCT 01/04/2010 31/03/2012
CloudFIT CloudFIT - Fault and Intrusion Tolerance for Cloud Computing FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2011
DIVERSE Diversity for Intrusion Tolerant Systems FCT 01/01/2010 31/12/2011
ReSIST NoE ReSIST - Resilience for Survability in IST (Nework of Excellence) EU FP6 01/01/2006 31/03/2009
CRUTIAL CRitical UTility InfrastructurAL resilience EU FP6 01/01/2006 31/12/2008
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Christian BergerLívio RodriguesHans P. ReiserVinicius CogoAlysson BessaniChasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury. In Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference, pages 158-171. ACM, 2024 [Biblios]
Christian BergerLívio RodriguesHans P. ReiserVinicius CogoAlysson BessaniChasing Lightspeed Consensus: Fast Wide-Area Byzantine Replication with Mercury. In Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference, pages 158-171. ACM, 2024 [Biblios]
Hasan HeydariRobin VassantlalAlysson BessaniKnowledge Connectivity Requirements for Solving BFT Consensus with Unknown Participants and Fault Threshold. In 2024 IEEE 44th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pages 221-231. IEEE, 2024 [Biblios]
Tiago CarvalhoAntonio CasimiroAlysson BessaniOn the Design of Coordination Services for IoT. In 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume (DSN-S), pages 38-42. IEEE, 2024 [Biblios]
Diogo AvelasHasan HeydariEduardo AlchieriTobias DistlerAlysson BessaniProbabilistic Byzantine Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 170-181. ACM, 2024 [Biblios]
Christian BergerLívio RodriguesHans P. ReiserVinícius CogoAlysson BessaniPoster: Faster Quorums with FlashConsensus. In 2023 IEEE 28th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
David HylandJoão SousaGauthier VoronAlysson BessaniVincent GramoliTen Myths About Blockchain Consensus, In Advances in Information Security, Blockchains, pages 3 - 24. Springer International Publishing, 2023 [Biblios]
Robin VassantlalHasan HeydariAlysson BessaniOn the Minimal Knowledge Required for Solving Stellar Consensus. In 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
Hasan HeydariGuthemberg SilvestreAlysson BessaniHow Hard is Asynchronous Weight Reassignment?. In 2023 IEEE 43rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE, 2023 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson BessaniBrief Announcement: Auditable Register Emulations. In 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021), pages 53:1-53:4. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021 [Biblios]
Ricardo MendesTiago OliveiraVinicius Vielmo CogoNuno Ferreira NevesAlysson Neves BessaniCHARON: A Secure Cloud-of-Clouds System for Storing and Sharing Big Data. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 9(4):1349-1361, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P. ReiserAlysson BessaniMaking Reads in BFT State Machine Replication Fast, Linearizable, and Live. In 40th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2021). IEEE, 2021 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoJoao PauloAlysson BessaniGenoDedup: Similarity-Based Deduplication and Delta-Encoding for Genome Sequencing Data. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 70(5):669-681, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021 [Biblios]
Fernando AlvesAmbrose AndongaboIlir GashiPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniFollow the Blue Bird: A Study on Threat Data Published on Twitter. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2020), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 217-236. Springer International Publishing, 2020 [Biblios]
Ricardo MacedoJoão PauloJosé PereiraAlysson BessaniA Survey and Classification of Software-Defined Storage Systems. ACM Computing Surveys, 53(3):1-38, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020 [Biblios]
Enrique FynnAlysson BessaniFernando PedoneSmart Contracts on the Move. In 2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2020 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniEduardo AlchieriJoao SousaAndre OliveiraFernando PedoneFrom Byzantine Replication to Blockchain: Consensus is Only the Beginning. In 2020 50th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2020 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P. ReiserJoao SousaAlysson Neves BessaniAWARE: Adaptive Wide-Area Replication for Fast and Resilient Byzantine Consensus. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 1-1, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaAlysson BessaniNuno NevesLazarus: Automatic Management of Diversity in BFT Systems. In Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference. ACM, 2019 [Biblios]
Adriano SerckumeckaIberia MedeirosBernardo FerreiraAlysson BessaniSLICER: Safe Long-Term Cloud Event Archival. In 2019 IEEE 24th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Christian BergerHans P ReiserJoão SousaAlysson BessaniResilient Wide-Area Byzantine Consensus Using Adaptive Weighted Replication. In 38th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019), 2019 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson Neves BessaniEnabling the Efficient, Dependable Cloud-based Storage of Human Genomes. In 2019 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops (SRDSW). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Adriano SerckumeckaIberia MedeirosBernardo FerreiraAlysson Neves BessaniA Cost-Effective Cloud Event Archival for SIEMs. In 2019 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems Workshops (SRDSW). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Rui AzevedoIberia MedeirosAlysson BessaniPURE: Generating Quality Threat Intelligence by Clustering and Correlating OSINT. In 2019 18th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/13th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Nuno DionisioFernando AlvesPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniCyberthreat Detection from Twitter using Deep Neural Networks. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Fernando AlvesPedro Miguel FerreiraAlysson BessaniDesign of a Classification Model for a Twitter-Based Streaming Threat Monitor. In 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W). IEEE, 2019 [Biblios]
Wilson S. MeloAlysson BessaniNuno NevesAltair Olivo SantinLuiz F. Rust C. CarmoUsing Blockchains to Implement Distributed Measuring Systems. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 68(5):1503-1514, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019 [Biblios]
Nuno DionísioPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniAprendizagem Profunda e Ameaças de Cibersegurança em Fontes Abertas. In Proceedings do INForum 2018 - 10o Simpósio Nacional de Informática, 2018 [Biblios]
Paulo CoelhoTarcisio Ceolin JuniorAlysson BessaniFernando DottiFernando PedoneByzantine Fault-Tolerant Atomic Multicast. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Joao SousaAlysson BessaniMarko VukolicA Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Ordering Service for the Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Andre NogueiraMiguel GarciaAlysson BessaniNuno NevesOn the Challenges of Building a BFT SCADA. In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniSieveQ: A Layered BFT Protection System for Critical Services. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(3):511-525, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 [Biblios]
Wilson MeloLuiz F. R. C. CarmoAlysson BessaniNuno NevesAltair SantinHow blockchains can improve measuring instruments regulation and control. In 2018 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC). IEEE, 2018 [Biblios]
Eduardo Adilio Pelinson AlchieriAlysson BessaniFabiola GreveJoni da Silva FragaKnowledge Connectivity Requirements for Solving Byzantine Consensus with Unknown Participants. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 15(2):246-259, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018 [Biblios]
Carlos CarvalhoDaniel PortoLuís RodriguesManuel BravoAlysson BessaniDynamic adaptation of byzantine consensus protocols. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - SAC '18. ACM Press, 2018 [Biblios]
Eduardo AlchieriAlysson BessaniFabíola GreveJoni da Silva FragaEfficient and Modular Consensus-Free Reconfiguration for Fault-Tolerant Storage. In 21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2017), pages 26:1-26:17. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2017 [Biblios]
Joel AlcântaraTiago OliveiraAlysson BessaniGinja: one-dollar cloud-based disaster recovery for databases. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference on - Middleware '17. ACM Press, 2017 [Biblios]
Andre NogueiraAntonio CasimiroAlysson BessaniElastic State Machine Replication. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 28(9):2486-2499, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017 [Biblios]
Vinicius V. CogoAlysson BessaniFrancisco M. CoutoMargarida  Gama-CarvalhoMaria FernandesPaulo Esteves-VerissimoHow Can Photo Sharing Inspire Sharing Genomes?. In Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (PACBB), pages 74-82. Springer International Publishing, 2017 [Biblios]
Tiago OliveiraRicardo MendesAlysson BessaniExploring Key-Value Stores in Multi-Writer Byzantine-Resilient Register Emulations. In 20th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2016), pages 30:1-30:17. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2016 [Biblios]
André CorreiaPedro M. FerreiraAlysson BessaniDescoberta de Ameaças de Segurança através do Twitter. In Proceedings do INForum 2016 - 8o Simpósio Nacional de Informática, 2016 [Biblios]
Vinicius Vielmo CogoAlysson BessaniFrancisco M. CoutoPaulo VeríssimoA high-throughput method to detect privacy-sensitive human genomic data. In WPES 2015 - Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (together with ACM CCS’15), 2015 [Biblios]
Tobias DistlerChristopher BahnAlysson BessaniFrank FischerFlavio JunqueiraExtensible Distributed Coordination. In EuroSys’15: The 10th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Systems Conference, 2015 [Biblios]
João SousaAlysson BessaniSeparating the WHEAT from the Chaff: An Empirical Design for Geo-Replicated State Machines. In SRDS 2015 34th Symposium on Reliable Distributed SystemsLocation: , pages 146-155, 2015 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniRicardo MendesTiago OliveiraOn the Consistency of Heterogeneous Composite Objects. In PaPoC’15: 2nd Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data (together with EuroSys’15), 2015 [Biblios]
David MatosNuno NevesAlysson BessaniSITAN: Services for Ad Hoc Networks with Unknown Participants. In International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2014 [Biblios]
Tiago OliveiraRicardo MendesAlysson BessaniSharing Files Using Cloud Storage Services. In DIHC'14: 2nd Workshop on Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds (together with Euro-Par'14), pages 13-25, 2014 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniJoão SousaEduardo AlchieriState Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMaRt. In 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pages 355-362, 2014 [Biblios]
Diego KreutzAlysson BessaniEduardo FeitosaHugo CunhaTowards Secure and Dependable Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures. In 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), pages 43-52, 2014 [Biblios]
Vinicius CogoAndré NogueiraJoão SousaMarcelo PasinHans P. ReiserAlysson BessaniFITCH: Supporting Adaptive Replicated Services in the Cloud. In DAIS’13: 13th International IFIP Conference on Distributed Applications and Inoperable Systems, 2013 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniAn Intrusion-Tolerant Firewall Design for Protecting SIEM Systems. In WSR’13: Workshop on Systems Resilience (together with IEEE/IFIP DSN’13), 2013 [Biblios]
Fábio BotelhoFernando RamosDiego KreutzAlysson BessaniOn the feasibility of a consistent and fault-tolerant data store for SDNs. In EWSDN’13: 2nd European Workshop on Software Defined Networks, 2013 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniLeucio A. CutilloGianluca RamunnoNorbert SchirmerPaolo SmiragliaThe TClouds Platform: Concept, Architecture and Instantiations. In DISCCO’13: 2nd International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing (together with IEEE SRDS’13), 2013 [Biblios]
Pedro CostaMarcelo PasinAlysson BessaniMiguel CorreiaOn the Performance of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, 10(5):301-313, 2013 [Biblios]
Paulo VerissimoAlysson BessaniMarcelo PasinThe TClouds architecture: Open and resilient cloud-of-clouds computing (DOI). In IEEE/IFIP 42nd International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), pages 1-6, 2012 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniReplicação na Cloud (of Clouds). In WTF 2012: XIII Workshop de Testes e Tolerância a Falhas, 2012 [Biblios]
Miguel GarciaNuno NevesAlysson BessaniDIVERSYS: DIVErse Rejuvenation SYStem. In INFORUM - Simpósio de Informática, 2012 [Biblios]
Alysson BessaniMiguel CorreiaBruno QuaresmaFernando AndréPaulo SousaDepSky: Dependable and Secure Storage in a Cloud-of-Clouds. In EuroSys'11: The 6th ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Systems Conference. Salzburg, 2011 [Biblios]
Luis T. A. N. BrandãoAlysson BessaniOn the Reliability and Availability of Systems Tolerant to Stealth Intrusion. In LADC'11: The 5th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing. IEEE, 2011 [Biblios]
Bernhard KauerPaulo VeríssimoAlysson BessaniRecursive Virtual Machines for Advanced Security Mechanisms. In 1st International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Computing Environments (DCDV'11), 2011 [Biblios]
François AubryAlysson BessaniPaulo SousaBFT Services Programming with a Dependable Tuple Space. In 39th IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), 2009 [Biblios]
Francisco VieiraPaulo SousaAlysson BessaniTransparent Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Directory Service using COTS components. In 39th IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2009), 2009 [Biblios]
Eduardo AlchieriAlysson BessaniJoni FragaFernando PereiraProactive Byzantine Quorum Systems. In XI International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA'09), 2009 [Biblios]