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Papers In International Journals

• The Renoir Dataflow Platform: Efficient Data Processing without Complexity
  L. De Martini, A. Margara, G. Cugola, M. Donadoni, E. Morassutto
  Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). 2024.
• Cromlech: Semi-automated monolith decomposition into microservices.
  G. Quattrocchi, D. Cocco, S. Staffa, A. Margara, G. Cugola
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 2024.
• Commonsense reasoning and automatic generation of iot contextual knowledge: An answer set programming approach.
  A. Rubio, R. Cantarero, A. Margara, G. Cugola, D. Villa, J.C. Lopez
  Internet of Things. 2024.
• A Model and Survey of Distributed Data-Intensive Systems
  A. Margara, G. Cugola, N. Felicioni, S. Cilloni
  ACM Computing Surveys. June 2023.
• TSpoon: Transactions on a Stream Processor
  L. Affetti, A. Margara, G. Cugola
  In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Volume 140. June 2020.
• Foundations of Composite Event Recognition (Dagstuhl Seminar 20071)
  A. Artikis, T. Eiter, A. Margara, S. Vansummeren
  Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 10, Issue 2, September 2020.
• High-Accuracy and Video-Rate Lifetime Extraction from Time Correlated Single Photon Counting Data on a Graphical Processing Unit
  A. Margara, P. Peronio, G. Acconcia, G. Cugola, I. Rech
  Review of Scientific Instruments. AIP Publishing. Volume 90 - Issue 10. 2019.
• On the Semantics of Distributed Reactive Programming: the Cost of Consistency
  A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Volume 4 - Issue 11. 2018.
• A Survey of Recent Trends in Testing Concurrent Software Systems
  F. Bianchi, A. Margara, M. Pezzè
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Volume 4 - Issue 8. 2018.
• Defining the Execution Semantics of Stream Processing Engines
  L. Affetti, R. Tommasini, A. Margara, G. Cugola, E. Della Valle
  In Journal of Big Data. Volume 4 - Issue 12. December 2017.
• Introducing Uncertainty in Complex Event Processing: Model, Implementation, and Validation
  G. Cugola, A. Margara, M. Matteucci, G. Tamburrelli
  In Computing Journal. Volume 97 - Issue 2. February 2015.
• Streaming the Web: Reasoning over Dynamic Data
  A. Margara, J. Urbani, F. van Harmelen, H. Bal
  In Journal of Web Semantics. Volume 25. June 2014.
• High Performance Publish-Subscribe Matching Using Parallel Hardware
  A. Margara, G. Cugola
  In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Volume 25 - Issue 1. January 2014.
• Deployment Strategies for Distributed Complex Event Processing
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Computing Journal. Volume 95 - Issue 2. February 2013.
• Low Latency Complex Event Processing on Parallel Hardware
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Volume 72 - Issue 2. February 2012.
• Complex Event Processing with T-Rex
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Journal of Systems and Software. Volume 85 - Issue 8. August 2012.
• Processing Flows of Information: From Data Stream to Complex Event Processing
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  ACM Computing Surveys 2012. Volume 44 - Issue 3. June 2012.
• SLIM: Service Location and Invocation Middleware for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In International Journal Of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) - Special Issue on Engineering Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing. Volume 1 - Issue 3. 2010.

Papers In International Conferences

• On the Semantic Overlap of Operators in Stream Processing Engines
  V. Gulisano, A. Margara, M. Papatriantafilou
  In Proceedings of the 25th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware '24). December 2 -- 4, 2024. Hong Kong.
• Safe Shared State in Dataflow Systems
  L. De Martini, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '24). June 25 -- 28, 2024. Lyon, Paris.
• Aggregates are all you need (to bridge stream processing and Complex Event Recognition)
  V. Gulisano, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '24). June 25 -- 28, 2024. Lyon, Paris.
• The DEBS 2024 Grand Challenge: Telemetry Data for Hard Drive | Failure Prediction
  L. De Martini, J. Tahir, C. Doblander, S. Frischbier, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '24). June 25 -- 28, 2024. Lyon, Paris.
• Streamlined deployment of a distributed and scalable co-simulation platform for integrated energy systems
  F. Chini, D. Canali, L. Barbierato, D. S. Schiera, L. Bottaccioli, A. Margara, E. Patti
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems. September 16 -- 19, 2024. Budapest, Hungary.
• DEBS Grand Challenge: Analysis of Market Data with Noir
  L. De Martini, A. Margara, G. Cugola.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '22). Copenhagen, Denmark. June 27 - July 1, 2022.
• Deriving a Realistic Workload Model to Simulate High-Volume Financial Data Deefs for Performance Benchmarking
  V. Sladojević, S. Frischbier, A. Echler, M. Paic, A. Margara.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS '22). Copenhagen, Denmark. June 27 - July 1, 2022.
• Pangaea: Semi-Automated Monolith Decomposition into Microservices
  S. Staffa, G. Quattrocchi, A. Margara, G. Cugola.
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC '21). Dubai, UAE. November 22-25, 2021.
• Rethinking Safe Consistency in Distributed Object-Oriented Programming
  M. Kohler, N. Eskandani, P. Weisenburger, A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi.
  In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (PACMPL), Issue OOPSLA 2020. November 15-20, 2020.
• The Kaiju Project: Enabling Event-Driven Observability
  M. Scrocca, R. Tommasini, A. Margara, E. Della Valle, S. Sakr
  In proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed and Event Based Systems (DEBS 2020). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. July 13-17, 2020.
• Efficient Temporal Reasoning on Streams of Events with DOTR
  A. Margara, G. Cugola, D. Collavini, D. Dell'Aglio
  In proceedings of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018). Heraklion, Crete, Greece. June 3-7, 2017.
• FlowDB: Integrating Stream Processing and Consistent State Management
  L. Affetti, A. Margara, G. Cugola
  In proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2017). Barcelona, Spain. June 19-23, 2017.
• High-Throughput Subset Matching on Commodity GPU-Based Systems
  D. Rogora, M. Papalini, K. Khazaei, A. Margara, A. Carzaniga, G. Cugola
  In proceedings of the 2017 European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2017). Belgrade, Serbia. April 23-26, 2017.
• Break the Windows: Explicit State Management for Stream Processing Systems
  A. Margara, D. Dell'Aglio, A. Bernstein
  In proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '17). Venice, Italy. March 21-24, 2017.
• Dynamic Data Flow Testing of Object Oriented Systems
  G. Denaro, A. Margara, M. Pezzè, M. Vivanti
  In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '15). Florence, Italy. May 16-24, 2015.
• Efficient Analysis of Event Processing Applications
  G. Cugola, A. Margara, M. Pezzè, M. Pradella
  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS '15). Oslo, Norway, June 29-July 3, 2015.
• Effective Runtime Monitoring of Distributed Event-Based Enterprise Systems with ASIA
  S. Frischbier, E. Turan, M. Gesmann, A. Margara, D. Eyers, P. Eugster, P. Pietzuch, and A. Buchmann
  In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Application (SOCA '14). Matsue, Japan. November 17-19, 2014.
• Towards Automated A/B Testing
  G. Tamburrelli, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE '14). Fortaleza, Brazil. August 26-29, 2014.
• Ajira: a Lightweight Distributed Middleware for MapReduce and Stream Processing
  J. Urbani, A. Margara, C. Jacobs, S. Voulgaris, H. Bal
  In Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '14). Madrid, Spain. June 30 - July 3, 2014.
• We have a DREAM: Distributed Reactive Programming with Consistency Guarantees
  A. Margara and G. Salvaneschi
  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS '14). Mumbay, India, May 26-29, 2014.
• Learning From the Past: Automated Rule Generation for Complex Event Processing
  A. Margara, G. Cugola, G. Tamburrelli
  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS '14). Mumbay, India, May 26-29, 2014.
  Best Paper Award
• DynamiTE: Parallel Materialization of Dynamic RDF Data
  J. Urbani, A. Margara, C. Jacobs, F. van Harmelen, H. Bal
  In Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC '13). Sydney, Australia. October 21-25, 2013.
• Seven Commandments for Benchmarking Semantic Flow Processing Systems
  T. Scharrenbach, J. Urbani, A. Margara, E. Della Valle, A. Bernstein
  In Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '13). Montpellier, France. May 26-30, 2013.
• Aggregation for Implicit Invocations
  S. Frischbier, A. Margara, T. Freudenreich, P. Eugster, D. Eyers, P. Pietzuch
  In Proceedings of the 12nd International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD '13). Fukuoka, Japan. March 24-29, 2013.
• High-Performance Location-Aware Publish-Subscribe on GPUs
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2012). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. December 3-7, 2012.
• Reconfiguration Primitives for Self-Adapting Overlays in Distributed Publish-Subscribe Systems
  E. Di Nitto and D. J. Dubois, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO '12). Lyon, France; September 10-14, 2012.
• Green Move: Towards Next Generation Sustainable Smartphone-Based Vehicle Sharing
  G. Alli, L. Baresi, A. Bianchessi, G. Cugola, A. Margara, A. Morzenti, C. Ongini, E. Panigati, M. Rossi, S. Rotondi, S. Savaresi, F. Schreiber, A. Sivieri, L. Tanca, and E. Vannutelli Depoli
  In Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2012). Pisa, Italy; October 4-5, 2012.
• High Performance Content-Based Matching Using GPUs
  A. Margara, G. Cugola
  In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2011). New York, US. July 11-15, 2011
  Best Paper Nominee
• TESLA: a Formally Defined Event Specification Language
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of 4th ACM International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2010). Cambridge, United Kingdom. July 12-15, 2010 DEBS 2020 Test of Time Award
• Context Aware Publish Subscribe: Model, Implementation and Evaluation
  G. Cugola, A. Margara, M. Migliavacca
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 09). Sousse, Tunisia. July 5-9, 2009.

Papers In International Workshops

• Nubes: Object-oriented program-ming for stateful serverless functions
  K. A. Marek, L. De Martini, A. Margara
  WoSC '23. Workshop on Serverless Computing. December 2023..
• Making Data Analysis More Efficient with Noir
  L. De Martini, A. Margara, G. Cugola
  BigHPC2023: Special Track on Big Data and High-Performance Computing. Naples, Italy. September 11-13, 2023.
• COMET: Co-simulation of Multi-Energy Systems for Energy Transition
  L. Barbierato, D. S. Schiera, R. Scoccia, A. Margara, L. Bottaccioli, E. Patti.
  International Workshop on Rising ICT Solutions for Smart Grids as Multi-Energy Systems (ICT4SmartGrid), co-located to COMPSAC 2022. Turin, Italy. June 21-July 1, 2022.
• Simple and efficient batch and stream processing at scale.
  A. Fino, A. Margara, G. Cugola, M. Donadoni, E. Morassutto.
  International Conference on Big Data (Workshop on Real-Time Stream Analytics, Stream Mining, CER/CEP & Stream Data Management in Big Data), BigData '21. Orlando, US. December 15-18, 2021.
• Temporal Pattern Recognition in Graph Data Structures
  P. Daverio, H. N. Chaudhry, A. Margara, M. Rossi.
  International Conference on Big Data (Workshop on Real-Time Stream Analytics, Stream Mining, CER/CEP & Stream Data Management in Big Data), BigData '21. Orlando, US. December 15-18, 2021.
• Temporal Reasoning on Large-Scale Graphs
  P. Daverio, H. N. Chaudhry, A. Margara, M. Rossi.
  Workshop on Reasoning about ACtions and Events over Streams (RACES) (RACES 2020). Co-located to KR 2020. Rhodes, Greece. September 12-14, 2020.
• Accountable Decentralized Event Reasoning Using Blockchains
  J. P. Munch, F. Weinacker, G. Salvaneschi, A. Margara.
  Workshop on Reasoning about ACtions and Events over Streams (RACES) (RACES 2020). Co-located to KR 2020. Rhodes, Greece. September 12-14, 2020.
• ConSysT: Tunable, Safe Consistency meets Object-Oriented Programming
  M. Kohler, N. Eskandani, A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi.
  In Proceedings of Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP 2020). Berin, Germany. July 23, 2020.
• Consistent Types for Safe and Efficient Distributed Programming
  A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi
  In Proceedings of Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP 2017). Barcelona, Spain. June 20, 2017.
• Towards an engineering methodology for multi-model scientific simulations
  A. Margara, M. Pezzè, I. Pivkin, M. Santoro
  In Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing in Science (SE4HPCS 2015). Florence, Italy. May 19, 2015.
• Ways to React: Comparing Reactive Languages and Complex Event Processing
  A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi
  In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Reactivity, Events, and Modularity (REM '13). Indianapolis, US. October 28, 2013.
• Living in the Present: On-the-fly Information Processing in Scalable Web Architectures
  D. Eyers, T. Freudenreich, A. Margara, S. Frischbier, P. Pietzuch and P. Eugster
  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop On Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP 2012) Bern, Switzerland. April 10, 2012.
• RACED: an Adaptive Middleware for Complex Event Detection
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM 09). Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA. December 1st, 2009.

Tutorials

• Tutorial: a Unifying Model for Distributed Data-Intensive Systems
  A. Margara
  Tutorial in the 16th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2022). Copenhagen, Denmark. June 27 - July 1, 2022.
• Tutorial: Complex Event Recognition Languages
  (slides)
  A. Artikis, A. Margara, M. Ugarte, S. Vansummeren, M. Weidlich
  Tutorial (3 hours) in the 11th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2017). Barcelona, Spain. June 19-23, 2017.
• Tutorial: Taming Velocity and Variety Simultaneously in Big Data with Stream Reasoning
  E. Della Valle, D. Dell'Aglio, A. Margara
  Tutorial (3 hours) in the 10th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2016). Irvine, CA. June 20-24, 2016.
• Reactive Programming: a Walkthrough
  G. Salvaneschi, A. Margara, G. Tamburrelli
  ICSE Technical Briefing. In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '15). Florence, Italy. May 16-24, 2015.
• Processing Flows of Information: From Data Stream to Complex Event Processing
  A. Margara, G. Cugola
  Tutorial (3 hours) in the 5th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2011). New York, US. July 11-15, 2011.

Book Chapters

• Definition of Data Streams
  A. Margara, T. Rabl
  In "Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies - Big Stream Processing Section""
  Section Editors: A. Margara, T. Rabl
  Editors-in-Chief: S. Sakr, A. Zomaya
  Springer, 2019.
• Pattern Recognition
  A. Margara
  In "Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies - Big Stream Processing Section""
  Section Editors: A. Margara, T. Rabl
  Editors-in-Chief: S. Sakr, A. Zomaya
  Springer, 2019.
• The Complex Event Processing (CEP) Approach
  G. Cugola, A. Margara
  In "Data Management in Pervasive Systems"
  Editors: F. Colace, M. De Santo, V. Moscato, A. Picariello, F. A. Schreiber, L. Tanca
  Springer-Verlag, 2015.

Posters

• Distributed Object-Oriented Programming with Multiple Consistency Levels in ConSysT
  N. Eskandani, M. Köhler, A. Margara, G. Salvaneschi.
  Proceedings Companion of the International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications (SPLASH Companion 2019). Athens, Greece. October 20-25, 2019 .
• Poster: Temporal Pattern Recognition in Large-Scale Graphs
  H. N. Chaudhry, A. Margara, M. G. Rossi.
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference On Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2019). Darmstadt, Germany. June 24-28, 2019.
• McCAT: Multi-cloud Cost-Aware Transport
  S. Frischbier, A. Margara, T. Freudenreich, P. Eugster, D. Eyers, and P. Pietzuch.
  In EuroSys '14. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. April 13-16, 2014.
• ASIA: Application-Specific Integrated Aggregation for Publish/Subscribe Middleware
  S. Frischbier, A. Margara, T. Freudenreich, P. Eugster, D. Eyers, and P. Pietzuch.
  In Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Conference on Middleware (Middleware 2012). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. December 3-7, 2012.

Technical Reports And Thesis

• Towards Automated Rule Learning for Complex Event Processing
  A. Margara, G. Cugola, G. Tamburrelli
  Technical Report. VU University. April 2013.
• Combining Expessiveness and Efficiency into a Complex Event Processing Middleware
  A. Margara
  PhD Thesis. Politecnico di Milano. November 2011.
• A Column Generation Approach for the Operator Placement Problem
  A. Margara, F. Malucelli
  Technical Report. Politecnico di Milano. November 2010.
• Realizzazione e Confronto di Protocolli per il Routing Content-Based
  A. Margara, L. Perfetti
  Master Thesis (Italian only). Politecnico di Milano. April 2008