Publications

• Book
• Refereed Publications
• Technical Reports
• Thesis 

Book

Refereed Publications (Journals, Conferences, Workshops, Book Chapters)

2010

• Database Replication: A Tutorial. B. Kemme, R. Jiménez-Peris, M.Patiño-Martínez, G. Alonso. Chapter of the book “Replication: Theory and Practice”, LNCS 5959, pp. 219-250, B. Charron-Bost, F. Pedone, A. Schiper (eds). Springer 2010.
• SMS based Group Communication Systems for Mobile Devices. Ch. Seeger, B. Kemme and H. Wu. International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, 10 pages, June 2010.

2009

• A System of Architectural Patterns for Scalable, Consistent and Highly Available Multi-Tier Service Oriented Infrastructure.  R. Jiménez-Peris, M.Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme, F. Perez-Sorrosal, D. Serrano. Chapter of the book “Architecting Dependable Systems. Volume 6.”. LNCS 5835. pp. 1-23. R. de Lemos, J-C. Fabre, C. Gacek, F. Gadducci, M. ter Beek (eds). Springer.
• Replicated Database Concurrency Control (Definitional Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 2390-2391, Springer.
• Data Replication (Regular Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 2390-2391, Springer.
• Traditional Concurrency Control for Replicated Databases (Regular Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 3144-3149, Springer.
• Replication for High Availability (Regular Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 2397-2402, Springer.
• Eventual Consistency (Definitional Entry). Marc Shapiro and Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 1071-1072, Springer.
• Partial Replication (Definitional Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 2045-2046, Springer.
• One-Copy-Serializability (Definitional Entry). Bettina Kemme. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, pp. 1947-1948, Springer.
• Snapshot Isolation and Integrity Constraints in Replicated Databases. Y. Lin, B. Kemme, R. Jiménez-Peris, M.Patiño-Martínez and J. Enrique Armendariz-Iñigo. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume 34, No. 2, 2009. pp. 11:1-49.
• A Highly Robust P2P-CDN under Large-Scale and Dynamic Participation. M. El Dick, E. Pacitti and B. Kemme. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Advances in P2P Systems (AP2PS), pp. 180-185, October 2009.
• A Unified Framework for Load Distribution and Fault-Tolerance of Application Servers. H. Wu and B. Kemme. In Proc. of Euro-Par, pp. 178-190, August 2009.
• Mammoth: a massively multiplayer game research framework. J. Kienzle, C. Verbrugge, B. Kemme, A. Denault, M. Hawker. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Foundations of Digital Game (FDG), pp. 308-315, April 2009.
• M. El Dick, E. Pacitti and B. Kemme. Flower-CDN: A hybrid P2P overlay for Efficient Query Processing in CDN. In Proc. of Int. Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 427-438, March 2009.

2008

• Maintaining Replicas in Unstructured P2P Systems Ch. Leng, W. Terpstra, B. Kemme, A. Buchmann. ACM CoNEXT, December 2008.
• An Autonomic Approach for Replication of Internet-based Services. D. Serrano, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme. IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Oct. 2008.
• Area-Based Gossip Multicast . Ch. Seeger, B. Kemme, P. Kabus, A. Buchmann. Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), October 2008.
• Persistence in Massively Multiplayer Online Games . K. Zhang, B. Kemme, A. Denault. Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), October 2008.
• pSense - Maintaining a Dynamic Localized Peer-to-Peer Structure for Position Based Multicast in Games. A. Schmieg, M. Stieler, S. Jeckel, P. Kabus, B. Kemme, A. P. Buchmann, Int. Conf. on Peer-to-Peer-Computing, IEEE Computer Society, September 2008.
• Showing Correctness of a Replication Algorithm in a Component based System. H. Wu, B. Kemme. IDEAS Conf., September 2008.
• Replication in Service Oriented Architectures. M. Ameling, M. Roy, B. Kemme. Int. Conf. on Software and Data Technologies. July 2008.
• Online Recovery in Cluster Databases. W. Liang, B. Kemme. Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 2008.

2007

• Enterprise Grids: Challenges Ahead. R. Jiménez-Peris, M.Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme. Journal of Grid Computing. Volume 5, No. 3, pp. 283-294, 2007.
• Exploiting Reflection to Enable Scalable and Performance Database Replication at the Middleware Level. J. Salas, R. Jiménez-Peris, M.Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme. Chapter of the book Software Engineering and Fault Tolerance. P. Pelliccione, H. Muccini, N. Gueli, A. Romanovsky (eds). 2007. ISBN 978-981-270-503-7. World Scientific.
• Boosting Database Replication Scalability through Partial Replication and 1-Copy-Snapshot-Isolation. D. Serrano, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme. IEEE Pacific Rim Int. Symp. on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Dec. 2007.
• Consistent and Scalable Cache Replication for Multi-Tier J2EE Applications. F. Perez-Sorrosal, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Int. Middleware Conf., Nov. 2007.
• Enhancing Edge Computing with Database Replication. Y. Lin, B. Kemme, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris. IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2007.
• A Recovery Protocol for Middleware Replicated Databases Providing GSI. J. E. Armendáriz-Iñigo, F. D. Muñoz-Escoí, J. R. Juárez, J. R. González de Mendívil, B. Kemme. IEEE Int. Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), April 2007.

2006

• Applying Database Repliation to Multi-player Online Games. Y. Lin, B. Kemme, M.Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris. ACM Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), Oct. 2006
• Lightweight Reflection for Middleware-based Database Replication. J. Salas, R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme. IEEE Int. Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Leeds, England, Oct. 2006
• Enterprise Grids: Challenges Ahead. R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme. Invited Paper corresponding to the keynote speech at Int. Workshop on High-Performance Data Management in Grid Environments. co-located with VECPAR 7th Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, July 2006.
• Exp-WF: Workflow Support for Laboratory Information Systems. B. Gabor, B. Kemme. IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow'06), co-located with Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
• Don't be a Pessimist: Use Snapshot based Concurrency Control for XML. (Short Paper). Z. Sardar, B. Kemme. IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.
• Data mining using relational database management systems. B. Zou, X. Ma, B. Kemme, G. Newton, D. Precup. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Singapore, April 2006.

• Consistent Database Replication at the Middleware Level. M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme, G. Alonso. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS). Volume 23, No. 4, 2005, pp 1-49.
  
• A Replication Toolkit for J2EE Application Servers.  H. Wu, B. Kemme, A. Bartoli and S. Patarin.  Software Demonstration at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Conf. on Middleware, Grenoble, France, December 2005.
• Fault-tolerance for Stateful Application Servers in the Presence of Advanced Transactions Patterns. H. Wu, B. Kemme. Proc. of the IEEE Symp. on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Orlando, Florida, October 2005.
• The ADAPT Framework for Adaptable and Composable Web Services. A. Bartoli, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme, C. Pautasso, S. Patarin, S. Wheater and S. Woodman. IEEE Distributed Systems Online - Web Systems Section. Invited Paper. Sept. 2005.
• Exactly-Once Interaction in a Multi-tier Architecture. B. Kemme, M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, J. Salas. VLDB Workshop on Design, Implementation, and Deployment of Database Replication, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
  
• Consistent Data Replication: Is it feasible in WANs? Y. Lin, B. Kemme, M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris. Europar Conf., Lisbon (Portugal), August 2005.
  
• Fine-Granularity Access Control in 3-tier Laboratory Information Systems. X. Li, N. A. Naee, B. Kemme. IDEAS Conf. Montreal, Canada, July 2005.
  
• Middleware based Data Replication providing Snapshot Isolation. Y. Lin, B. Kemme, M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris. ACM Int. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, Maryland, June 2005.
  
• ADAPT: Middleware Technologies for Adaptive and Composable Distributed Components. A. Bartoli, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme, C. Pautasso, S. Patarin, S. Weater, S. Woodman. Europ. Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), Project Track, April 2005.
• Postgres-R(SI): Combining Replica Control with Concurrency Control based on Snapshot Isolation. S. Wu, B. Kemme. IEEE Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, April 2005.

• Eager Replication for Stateful J2EE Servers. H. Wu, B. Kemme, V. Maverick. Int. Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), Agia Napa, Cyprus, October 2004.
  
• Adaptive Middleware for Data Replication. J. M. Milan-Franco, R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme. ACM/IFIP/USENIX Conference on Middleware, Toronto, Canada, October 2004.
  
• Comparison of UDDI Registry Replication Strategies. C. Sun, Y. Lin,  B. Kemme. IEEE Int. Conference on Web Services (ICWS), San Diego, California, July 2004.

• Exp-DB: Fast Development of Information Systems for Experiment Tracking. N. A. Naeem, S. Raymond, A. Poupon, M. Cygler, B. Kemme. Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE '03), Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June, 2003, CAiSE Forum, Short Paper Proceedings.
• Database Replication Based on Group Communication: Implementation Issues. Future Directions in Distributed Computing (FuDiCo), Research and Position Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2584 Springer 2003.
• Are quorums an alternative for data replication? R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, G. Alonso, B. Kemme. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 28, No. 3, 2003, pp 257-294.
• Using Optimistic Atomic Broadcast in Transaction Processing Systems. B. Kemme, F. Pedone, G. Alonso, A. Schiper, M. Wiesmann.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 15, No. 4, 2003. pp. 1018-1032

• Improving the Scalability of Fault-Tolerant Database Clusters: Early Results. R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the IEEE 22nd Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems 2002, ICDCS'02. Vienna, Austria. July 2002.

• How to Select a Replication Protocol According to Scalability, Availability, and Communication Overhead. R. Jiménez-Peris, M. Patiño-Martínez, G. Alonso, B. Kemme. Proc. of the 20th IEEE Int. Conf. on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS'01, New Orleans, Oct. 2001
• Online Reconfiguration in Replicated Databases Based on Group Communication B. Kemme, A. Bartoli, O. Babaouglu. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2001), Goteborg, Sweden, June 2001.

• Database Replication Techniques: a Three Parameter Classification M. Wiesmann, F. Pedone, A. Schiper, B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS2000), Nürnberg, Germany, October 2000.
• Scalable Replication in Database Cluster. M. Patiño-Martínez, R. Jiménez-Peris, B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Toledo, Spain, October 2000.
• Don't be lazy, be consistent: Postgres-R, a new way to implement Database Replication. B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Cairo, Egypt, September 2000.
• A New Approach to Developing and Implementing Eager Database Replication Protocols. B. Kemme, G. Alonso. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 25, No. 3, September 2000, pp 333-379.
• Understanding Replication in Databases and Distributed Systems. M. Wiesmann, F. Pedone, A. Schiper, B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the IEEE 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, April 2000.
• Processing Transactions over Optimistic Atomic Broadcast Protocols. B. Kemme, F. Pedone, G. Alonso, A. Schiper. Proc. of the IEEE 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Austin, Texas, June 1999.
• Transactions, Messages and Events: Merging Group Communication and Database Systems. B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the 3rd ERSADS European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, April 1999.
• A Suite of Database Replication Protocols based on Group Communication Primitives. B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Proc. of the IEEE 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 1998.

Technical reports and unrefereed publications

• Don't be a Pessimist: use Snapshot based Concurrency Control for XML. Z. Sardar, B. Kemme. Technical Report SOCS-TR-2005.6, School of Computer Science, McGill University. October 2005.
• Using Optimistic Atomic Broadcast in Transaction Processing Systems. B. Kemme, F. Pedone, G. Alonso, A. Schiper. Technical Report No. 325, ETH Zürich, Departement of Computer Science, 1999.
• Database Replication based on Group Communication. B. Kemme, G. Alonso. Technical Report No. 289, ETH Zürich, Departement of Computer Science, February 1998.
• Datenbankreplikation unter Verwendung von Gruppenkommunikation. B. Kemme. In: 9. Workshop "Grundlagen von Datenbanken", Königslutter, Germany, May 1997. (In German).
• Aplicación de la Lógica Temporal Proposicional para la Representación y Ceducción de Conocimientos TemporalesB. Kemme, J. Borrego Díaz. In: Actas del X. Congreso de Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Formales. Sevilla, September 1994 (In Spanish).

Thesis

• Database Replication for Clusters of Workstations. B. Kemme. Dissertation (PhD thesis). Diss. ETH No. 13864, ETH Zürich, Departement of Computer Science, 2000.