Publications

2025

• Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration
  M. Böther, T. Robroek, V. Gsteiger, R. Holzinger, X. Ma, P. Tözün, A. Klimovic
  SIGMOD 2025
  
  

• Towards A Modular End-To-End Machine Learning Benchmarking Framework
  R. Bayer, T. Robroek, P. Tözün
  TIDS 2025
  
  

• Resource-Efficient Machine Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 24311)
  O. Balmau, M. Boehm, A. Klimovic, P. Pietzuch, P. Tözün
  Dagstuhl Reports 2025
  
  

• The Five-Minute Rule for the Cloud: Caching in Analytics Systems
  K. Duwe, A. Anadiotis, A. Lamb, L. Lersch, B. Leskes, D. Ritter, P. Tözün
  CIDR 2025
  
  

2024

• Reaching the Edge of the Edge: Image Analysis in Space
  R. Bayer, J. Priest, P. Tözün
  DEEM 2024
  [arxiv entry for the longer report with more details on the satellite]
  
  

• Surprise Benchmarking: The Why, What, and How
  L. Benson, C. Binnig, J. Bodensohn, F. Lorenzi, J. Luo, D. Porobic, T. Rabl, A. Sanghi, R. Sears, P. Tözün, T. Ziegler
  DBTest 2024
  
  

• An Analysis of Collocation on GPUs for Deep Learning Training
  T. Robroek, E. Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab, P. Tözün
  EuroMLSys 2024
  [arxiv entry for the longer report]
  
  

• Optimized CNN Architectures Benchmarking in Hardware-Constrained Edge Devices in IoT Environments
  P. D. Rosero-Montalvo, P. Tözün, W. Hernandez
  IEEE IoT Journal 2024
  
  

2023

• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2022 Report
  S. Amer-Yahia, D. Agrawal, Y. Amsterdamer, S. S. Bhowmick, A. Bonifati, R. Borovica-Gajic, J. Camacho-Rodríguez, B. Catania, P. K. Chrysanthis, C. Curino, J. Darmont, G. Dobbie, A. El Abbadi, A. Floratou, J. Freire, A. Jindal, V. Kalogeraki, S. Maiyya, A. Meliou, M. Mohanty, B. Omidvar-Tehrani, F. Özcan, L. Peterfreund, W. Rahayu, S. Sadiq, S. Sellami, U. Sirin, W. C. Tan, B. Thuraisingham, Y. Tian, P. Tözün, G. Vargas-Solar, N. Yadwadkar, V. Zakhary, M. Zhang
  SIGMOD Record 2023
  
  

• Data Management and Visualization for Benchmarking Deep Learning Training Systems
  T. Robroek,  A. Duane, E. Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab, P. Tözün
  DEEM 2023
  
  

• Profiling and Monitoring Deep Learning Training Tasks
  E. Yousefzadeh-Asl-Miandoab, T. Robroek, P. Tözün
  EuroMLSys 2023
  
  

• Hybrid Anomaly Detection Model on Trusted IoT Devices
  P. D. Rosero-Montalvo, Z. István, P. Tözün, W. Hernandez
  IEEE IoT Journal 2023
  
  

• Data Pipes: Declarative Control over Data Movement
  L. Vogel, D. Ritter, D. Porobic, P. Tözün, T. Wang, A. Lerner
  CIDR 2023
  
  

2022

• TPCx-AI on NVIDIA Jetsons (preprint)
  R. Bayer, J. V. Tøttrup, P. Tözün
  TPCTC 2022 
  
  

• Reviving the Workshop Series on Testing Database Systems – DBTest
  C. Binnig, A. Böhm, T. Rabl, P. Tözün
  Datenbank Spektrum 2022
  
  

• Database Indexing and Query Processing (Dagstuhl Seminar 22111)
  R. Borovica-Gajic, G. Graefe, A. Lee, C. Sauer, P. Tözün
  Dagstuhl Reports 2022
  
  

• Diversity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2021 Report
  S. Amer-Yahia, Y. Amsterdamer, S. Bhowmick, A. Bonifati, P. Bonnet, R. Borovica-Gajic, B. Catania, T. Cerquitelli, S. Chiusano, P. Chrysanthis, C. Curino, J. Darmont, A. El Abbadi, A. Floratou, J. Freire, A. Jindal, V. Kalogeraki, G. Koutrika, A. Kumar, S. Maiyya, A. Meliou, M. Mohanty, F. Naumann, N. S. Noack, F. Özcan, L. Peterfreund, W. Rahayu, W. C. Tan, Y. Tian, P. Tözün, G. Vargas-Solar, N. Yadwadkar, M. Zhang
  SIGMOD Record 2022
  
  

• Micro-architectural Analysis of a Learned Index
  M. M. Andersen, P. Tözün
  aiDM 2022
  
  

• DBTest '22: 9th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems
  M. Rigger, P. Tözün
  SIGMOD 2022
  
  

• DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines
  P. Damme, M. Birkenbach, C. Bitsakos, M. Boehm, P. Bonnet, F. M. Ciorba, M. Dokter, P. Dowgiallo, A. Eleliemy, C. Faerber, G. Goumas, D. Habich, N. Hedam, M. Hofer, W. Huang, K. Innerebner, V. Karakostas, R. Kern, T. Kosar, A. Krause, D. Krems, A. Laber, W. Lehner, E. Mier, M. Paradies, B. Peischl, G. Poerwawinata, S. Psomadakis, T. Rabl, P. Ratuszniak, P. Silva, N. Skuppin, A. Starzacher, B. Steinwender, I. Tolovski, P. Tözün, W. Ulatowski, Y. Wang, I. Wrosz, A. Zamuda, C. Zhang, X. X. Zhu
  CIDR 2022
  
  

2021

• VLDB 2021: Designing a Hybrid Conference
  P. Bonnet, X. L. Dong, F. Naumann, P. Tözün
  SIGMOD Record 2021
  A slightly longer version of this report with more details is here as well as on arXiv.
  
  

• Micro-architectural analysis of in-memory OLTP: Revisited
  U. Sirin, P. Tözün, D. Porobic, A. Yasin, A. Ailamaki
  The VLDB Journal 2021
  
  

2020

• Training for Speech Recognition on Co-processors
  S. Baunsgaard, S. B. Wrede, P. Tözün
  ADMS 2020
  
  

• Hash-Based Authentication Revisited in the Age of High Performance Computers
  N. Hedam, J. Mollerup, P. Tözün
  ADMS 2020
  
  

• Open-Channel SSD (What is it Good For)
  I. L. Picoli, N. Hedam, P. Bonnet, P. Tözün
  CIDR 2020
  
  

2019

• WiSer: A Highly Available HTAP DBMS for IoT Applications
  R. Barber, C. Garcia-Arellano, R. Grosman, G. Lohman, C Mohan, R. Mueller, H. Pirahesh, V. Raman, R. Sidle, A. Storm, Y. Tian, P. Tözün, Y. Wu
  IEEE Big Data 2019
  
  

• LSM Management on Computational Storage
  I. L. Picoli, P. Bonnet, P. Tözün
  DaMoN 2019
  
  

• Scheduling Data-Intensive Tasks on Heterogeneous Many Cores
  P. Tözün, H. Kotthaus
  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 2019
  
  

• Umzi: Unified Multi-Zone Indexing for Large-Scale HTAP
  C. Luo, P. Tözün, Y. Tian, R. Barber, V. Raman, R. Sidle
  EDBT 2019
  
  

• Programming Storage Controllers with OX
  I. L. Picoli, P. Tözün, A. Wasowski, P. Bonnet
  NVMW 2019
  
  

• Wildfire: HTAP for Big Data
  R. Barber, V. Raman, R. Sidle, Y. Tian, P. Tözün
  Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies 2019
  
  

• Hardware-Assisted Transaction Processing: Many Core
  P. Tözün
  Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies 2019
  
  

2017

• Databases on Modern Hardware: How to Stop Underutilization and Love Multicores
  A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tözün, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis
  Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2017 (Book)
  
  

• Processing Java UDFs in a C++ environment
  V. Rosenfeld, R. Mueller, P. Tözün, F. Özcan
  SoCC 2017
  
  

• Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing: A Survey
  F. Özcan, Y. Tian, P. Tözün
  SIGMOD 2017 (Tutorial)
  
  

• Evolving Databases for New-Gen Big Data Applications
  R. Barber, C. Garcia-Arellano, R. Grosman, R. Mueller, V. Raman, R. Sidle, M. Spilchen, A. Storm, Y. Tian, P. Tözün, D. Zilio, M. Huras, G. Lohman, C. Mohan, F. Özcan, H. Pirahesh
  CIDR 2017
  
  

2016

• More Than A Network: Distributed OLTP on Clusters of Hardware Islands
  D. Porobic, P. Tözün, R. Appuswamy, A. Ailamaki
  DaMoN 2016
  
  

• Wildfire: Concurrent Blazing Data Ingest and Analytics
  R. Barber, M. Huras, G. Lohman, C. Mohan, R. Mueller. F. Özcan, H. Pirahesh, V. Raman, R. Sidle, O. Sidorkin, A. Storm, Y. Tian, P. Tözün
  SIGMOD 2016 (Demo)
  
  

• Micro-architectural Analysis of In-memory OLTP
  U. Sirin, P. Tözün, D. Porobic, A. Ailamaki
  SIGMOD 2016
  
  

• Characterization of the Impact of Hardware Islands on OLTP
  D. Porobic, I. Pandis, M. Branco, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki
  The VLDB Journal 2016
  
  

2015

• Applying HTM to an OLTP System: No Free Lunch
  D. Cervini, D. Porobic, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki
  DaMoN 2015
  
  

• How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores
  A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tözün, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis
  ICDE 2015 (Tutorial)
  
  

2014

• Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores
  P. Tözün
  PhD Thesis, EPFL
  
  

• ADDICT: Advanced Instruction Chasing for Transactions
  P. Tözün, I. Atta, A. Ailamaki, A. Moshovos
  PVLDB 2014
  
  

• Dynamic Fine-Grained Scheduling for Energy-Efficient Main-Memory Queries
  I. Psaroudakis, T. Kissinger, D. Porobic, T. Ilsche, E. Liarou, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki, W. Lehner
  DaMoN 2014
  
  

• How to Stop Under-Utilization and Love Multicores
  A. Ailamaki, E. Liarou, P. Tözün, D. Porobic, I. Psaroudakis
  SIGMOD 2014 (Tutorial)
  
  

• ATraPos: Adaptive Transaction Processing on Hardware Islands
  D. Porobic, E. Liarou, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki
  ICDE 2014
  
  

2013

• Toward Scalable Transaction Processing -- Evolution of Shore-MT
  A. Ailamaki, R. Johnson, I. Pandis, P. Tözün
  PVLDB 2013 (Tutorial)
  
  

• OLTP in Wonderland -- Where do cache misses come from in major OLTP components?
  P. Tözün, B. Gold, A. Ailamaki
  DaMoN 2013
  
  

• STREX: Boosting Instruction Cache Reuse in OLTP Workloads Through Stratified Transaction Execution
  I. Atta, P. Tözün, X. Tong, A. Ailamaki, A. Moshovos
  ISCA 2013
  
  

• From A to E: Analyzing TPC’s OLTP Benchmarks -- The obsolete, the ubiquitous, the unexplored
  P. Tözün, I. Pandis, I. C. Kaynak, D. Jevdic, A. Ailamaki
  EDBT 2013
  
  

• Scalable and Dynamically Balanced Shared-Everything OLTP with Physiological Partitioning
  P. Tözün, I. Pandis, R. Johnson, A. Ailamaki
  The VLDB Journal 2013
  
  

2012

• SLICC: Self-Assembly of Instruction Cache Collectives for OLTP Workloads
  I. Atta, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki, A. Moshovos
  MICRO 2012
  
  

• OLTP on Hardware Islands
  D. Porobic, I. Pandis, M. Branco, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki
  PVLDB 2012
  
  

• Reducing OLTP Instruction Misses with Thread Migration
  I. Atta, P. Tözün, A. Ailamaki, A. Moshovos
  DaMoN 2012
  
  

2011

• PLP: Page Latch-free Shared-everything OLTP
  I. Pandis, P. Tözün, R. Johnson, A. Ailamaki
  PVLDB 2011
  
  

• A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools
  I. Pandis, P. Tözün, M. Branco, D. Karampinas, D. Porobic, R. Johnson, A. Ailamaki
  SIGMOD 2011 (Demo) -- BEST DEMO AWARD
  
  

• Communix: A Framework for Collaborative Deadlock Immunity
  H. Jula, P. Tözün, G. Candea
  DSN 2011