Vaz Salles, Marcos Antonio

I have defended my PhD thesis November 7, 2008 and will start as a postdoc at the Cornell Database Group in December, 2008.

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Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles is a Research Assistant (Ph.D. Student) at the Databases and Information Systems group of Prof. Dr. Donald Kossmann, Institute of Information Systems, ETH Zurich, currently working on Personal Information Management under the supervision of Dr. Jens-Peter Dittrich.

Publications

• Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Dwarfs in the Rearview Mirror: How Big are they really?
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand. [ Paper ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi.
  Adding Structure to Web Search with iTrails.
  Workshop on Information Integration Methods, Architectures, and Systems (IIMAS; in conjunction with ICDE), April 2008, Cancún, México. [ Paper | iMeMex.org ]
• Jens Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Lukas Blunschi.
  Managing Personal Information Using iTrails.
  Personal Information Management Workshop (PIM; in conjunction with CHI), April 2008, Florence, Italy. [ Paper | iMeMex.org ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Olivier René Girard, Lukas Blunschi.
  iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces.
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2007, Vienna, Austria. [ Paper | Slides | Video | iMeMex.org ]
• Cristian Duda, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Björn Jarisch, Donald Kossmann, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Bringing Precision to Desktop Search: A Predicate-based Desktop Search Architecture (Poster Paper).
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. [ Paper ]
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Markus Färber, Olivier René Girard, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  From Personal Desktops to Personal Dataspaces: A Report on Building the iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System.
  GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), March 2007, Aachen, Germany. [ Paper | Slides | iMeMex.org ]
• Lukas Blunschi, Jens-Peter Dittrich, Olivier René Girard, Shant Kirakos Karakashian, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System (Demo Paper).
  Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 2007, Asilomar, USA. [ Paper | iMeMex.org ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Sergio Lifschitz, Eduardo Maria Terra Morelli.
  Towards Autonomic Index Maintenance.
  Brazilian Symposium in Databases (SBBD), October 2006, Florianópolis, Brazil. [ Paper ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens-Peter Dittrich.
  iMeMex: A Platform for Personal Dataspace Management.
  VLDB Ph.D. Workshop, September 2006, Seoul, South Korea. [ Paper | iMeMex.org ]
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management.
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2006, Seoul, South Korea. [ Paper | iMeMex.org ]
• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Donald Kossmann, Lukas Blunschi.
  iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle (Demo Paper).
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), August 2005, Trondheim, Norway. [ Paper | Poster | iMeMex.org ]
• Sérgio Lifschitz, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Autonomic Index Management (Poster Paper).
  IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), June 2005, Seattle, USA. [ Paper | Poster Slides ]
• Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, Sérgio Lifschitz, Maíra Ferreira de Noronha, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Implementation of an Agent Architecture for Automated Index Tuning.
  International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB; In conjunction with the ICDE), April 2005, Tokyo, Japan. [ Paper | Slides ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Sérgio Lifschitz.
  A Software Agent for Index Creation on PostgreSQL (Demo Paper, in Portuguese).
  I Demo Session – Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), October 2004, Brasília, Brazil, CD-ROM Proceedings, p. 37-42.
  This demo was awarded the 2nd place prize among other 10 demos presented at the session. [ Paper ]
• Rogério Luís de Carvalho Costa, Sérgio Lifschitz, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Index Self-tuning with Agent-based Databases.
  CLEI Electronic Journal – Special Issue of Best Papers presented at CLEI’2002, December 2003, Volume 6, Number 1, 22 pages. [ Paper ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Sérgio Lifschitz.
  An Agent-based Architecture for the Index Self-tuning Problem in Relational Databases (in Portuguese).
  Ph.D. and M.S. Workshop, Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), 2003, Manaus, Brazil, p. 125-130. [ Paper ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Fátima Pires, Juliano Lopes de Oliveira.
  Development of a Computer Aided Geographic Database Design System.
  Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), 1998, Maringá, Brazil, p. 235-250. [ Paper ]
• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Fátima Pires, Juliano Lopes de Oliveira.
  Development of a Computer Aided Geographic Database Design System (in Portuguese).
  GIS Brazil 98, 1998, Curitiba, Brazil, p. 1-10. [ Paper ]

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant. Information Systems Laboratory. FS 2007, ETH Zurich.
• Teaching Assistant. Data Warehouses. SS 2007, ETH Zurich.
• Teaching Assistant. Architecture and Implementation of Database Systems. WS 2006/2007, ETH Zurich.
• Teaching Assistant. Data Warehouses. SS 2006, ETH Zurich.
• Teaching Assistant. Architecture and Implementation of Database Systems. WS 2005/2006, ETH Zurich.
• Teacher and Coordinator. Database Tuning and Administration I and II (in Portuguese). 2002-2005, Extension Program (CCE) – PUC-Rio.
• Teacher. “Oracle Administration” and “Oracle Tuning” (in Portuguese). 2004-2005, Petrobras Corporate University – in partnership with PUC-Rio.

Technical Reports

• Jens-Peter Dittrich, Cristian Duda, Björn Jarisch, Donald Kossmann, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Bringing Precision to Desktop Search: A Predicate-based Desktop Search Architecture.
  Tech Report, ETH Zurich, November 2006. [ Report ]
• Sérgio Lifschitz, Anolan Milanés, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  State of the Art in Relational DBMS Self-tuning (in Portuguese).
  Tech Report PUC-RioInf.MCC35/04, PUC-Rio, October 2004. [ Report ]

Master's Thesis

• Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles.
  Autonomic Index Creation in Databases (in Portuguese).
  Master’s Thesis, Computer Science Department, PUC-Rio, July 2004. [ Thesis ]

Additional Information

[ CV | DBLP ]