Petar Jovanovic

About me

I am coming from a small, but beautiful town of Aranđelovac in Central Serbia. In August 2010, I graduated Software Engineering, at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. In October same year, I continued my education at the Barcelona School of Informacs (FIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), finishing MSc in Computing, the next year.

In September 2011, I decided to pursue my PhD studies under the supervision of professors Alberto Abelló and Oscar Romero, inside the Group of Information Modelling and Processing (MPI). In 2013, I have been awarded a full-time, four year PhD grant by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, inside the FPU grant program. I have been working on the problems of requirement-driven design and optimization of data-intensive flows. In 2014, I joined the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate program of Information Technologies for Business Intelligence, Doctoral College (IT4BI-DC), and continued my PhD studies in cohort with Université Libre de Bruxelles, and my co-advisor, professor Toon Calders.

In September 2016, I obtained my PhD title, under the cotutelle between Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Research interests

• Big Data management
• Management and optimization of data-intensive flows
• Data warehousing, ETL
• Distributed data processing, MapReduce, Hadoop ecosystem

Projects and external cooperations

• 2012-1014. Part of the research project TIN2011-24747, of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Inovation (MICINN), working on the development of new techniques for information integration.
• 2012-2014. Part of the R&D collaboration project between Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and HP Labs, Palo Alto, under the supervision of the HP Labs' researcher Alkis Simitsis. Project focused on automating the logical design and optimization of hybrid data flows, enabling engine independent design and composition of hybrid data flows that may span different execution and storage engines, thus enabling inter-engine management and optimization of hybrid data flows.

Publications

Journals

• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alberto Abelló: A Unified View of Data-Intensive Flows in Business Intelligence Systems: A Survey.T. Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems 29: 66-107 (2016)
• Vasileios Theodorou, Petar Jovanovic, Alberto Abelló, Emona Nakuçi: Data generator for evaluating ETL process quality. Inf. Syst. 63: 80-100 (2017)
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló: Incremental Consolidation of Data-Intensive Multi-flows. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 28(5): 1203-1216 (2016)
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló, Daria Mayorova: A requirement-driven approach to the design and evolution of data warehouses. Inf. Syst. 44: 94-119 (2014)

Conferences

• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Toon Calders, Alberto Abelló: H-WorD: Supporting Job Scheduling in Hadoop with Workload-driven Data Redistribution ADBIS 2016: 306-320
• Rizkallah Touma, Oscar Romero, Petar Jovanovic: Supporting Data Integration Tasks with Semi-Automatic Ontology Construction. DOLAP 2015: 89-98
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló, Héctor Candón, Sergi Nadal: Quarry: Digging Up the Gems of Your Data Treasury. EDBT 2015: 549-552
• Emona Nakucçi, Vasileios Theodorou, Petar Jovanovic, Alberto Abelló: Bijoux: Data Generator for Evaluating ETL Process Quality. DOLAP 2014: 23-32
• Petar Jovanovic, Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson: Engine independence for logical analytic flows. ICDE 2014: 1060-1071
• Petar Jovanovic, Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson: BabbleFlow: a translator for analytic data flow programs. SIGMOD Conference 2014: 713-716
• Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson, Petar Jovanovic: xPAD: a platform for analytic data flows. SIGMOD Conference 2013: 1109-1112
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló: Integrating ETL Processes from Information Requirements. DaWaK 2012: 65-80
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló: ORE: an iterative approach to the design and evolution of multi-dimensional schemas. DOLAP 2012: 1-8
• Petar Jovanovic, Oscar Romero, Alkis Simitsis, Alberto Abelló: Requirement-Driven Creation and Deployment of Multidimensional and ETL Designs. ER Workshops 2012: 391-395

Patents

• A. Simitsis, K. Wilkinson, P. Jovanovic. Optimizing Analytic Flows. United States Patent 9,600,786, filed April 9, 2013 and issued March 21, 2017.

• Posters:
• GEM. P Jovanovic, O Romero, A Abelló, A Simitsis, eBISS, 2013
• CoAl: Incremental requirement-driven design and deployment of data intensive flows P Jovanovic, O Romero, A Abelló, A Simitsis, eBISS, 2014

• Thesis:
• Requirement-driven Design and Optimization of Data-Intensive Flows, Petar Jovanovic, PhD Thesis, September, 2016
• Integration of Multidimensional and ETL design. Petar Jovanovic, Master Thesis, 2011

Research stays at other institutions

• July - Septemeber, 2012. HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA.
• March - July, 2013. HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA.
• September - December, 2014. Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) departmentComputer, l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
• August - November, 2015. Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) department, l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Teaching

Other activities

• 2015: Part of the local organization team of the Fifth European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS 2015), Barcelona, Spain
• 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: Part of the admission support teams for the IT4BI and IT4BI-DC Erasmus+ programs.

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