publications

2026

  1. NSDI
    Slowpoke: End-to-end Throughput Optimization Modeling for Microservice Applications
    Yizheng Xie, Di Jin, Oguzhan Çölkesen, Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris, and Nikos Vasilakis
    In 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2026

2025

  1. SOSP
    ORQ: Complex Analytics on Private Data with Strong Security Guarantees
    Eli Baum, Sam Buxbaum, Nitin Mathai, Muhammad Faisal, Vasiliki Kalavri, Mayank Varia, and John Liagouris
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 31st Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’25), 2025
  2. EuroSys
    CAPSys: Contention-aware task placement for data stream processing
    Yuanli Wang, Lei Huang, Zikun Wang, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Ibrahim Matta
    In Twentieth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ’25), 2025
  3. VLDB
    Disaggregated State Management in Apache Flink 2.0
    Yuan Mei, Rui Xia, Zhaoqian Lan, Kaitian Hu, Lei Huang, Paris Carbone, Yanfei Lei, Vasiliki Kalavri, Han Yin, and Feng Wang
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025
  4. HotStorage
    RingSampler: GNN sampling on large-scale graphs with io_uring
    Qixuan Chen, Yuhang Song, Melissa Martinez, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2025
  5. GRADES-NDA
    Bridging GNN Inference and Dataflow Stream Processing: Challenges and Opportunities
    Naima Abrar Shami and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In Proceedings of the 8th Joint Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA), 2025

2024

  1. EDBT
    Crayfish: Navigating the Labyrinth of Machine Learning Inference in Stream Processing Systems
    Sonia Horchidan, Po Hao Chen, Emmanouil Kritharakis, Paris Carbone, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2024
  2. SIGMOD DEMO
    Queryshield: Cryptographically secure analytics in the cloud
    Ethan Seow, Yan Tong, Eli Baum, Sam Buxbaum, Muhammad Faisal, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Mayank Varia
    In Companion of the 2024 International Conference on Management of Data, 2024
  3. DaMoN
    In situ neighborhood sampling for large-scale GNN training
    Yuhang Song, Po Hao Chen, Yuchen Lu, Naima Abrar, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, 2024

2023

  1. NSDI
    SECRECY: Secure collaborative analytics in untrusted clouds
    John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, Muhammad Faisal, and Mayank Varia
    In 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23), 2023
  2. Security
    TVA: A multi-party computation system for secure and expressive time series analytics
    Muhammad Faisal, Jerry Zhang, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Mayank Varia
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23), 2023
  3. VLDBJ
    A survey on the evolution of stream processing systems
    Marios Fragkoulis, Paris Carbone, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Asterios Katsifodimos
    The VLDB Journal, 2023

2022

  1. EuroSys
    A New Benchmark Harness for Systematic and Robust Evaluation of Streaming State Stores
    Esmail Asyabi, Yuanli Wang, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Azer Bestavros
    In Proceedings of the Seventeenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys’22), 2022
  2. BiDEDE
    The non-expert tax: quantifying the cost of auto-scaling in cloud-based data stream analytics
    Yuanli Wang, Baiqing Lyu, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, 2022
  3. DEEM
    Evaluating model serving strategies over streaming data
    Sonia Horchidan, Emmanouil Kritharakis, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Paris Carbone
    In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Data Management for End-To-End Machine Learning, 2022
  4. aiDM
    GCNSplit: Bounding the State of Streaming Graph Partitioning
    Michał Zwolak, Zainab Abbas, Sonia Horchidan, Paris Carbone, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In Exploiting Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Data (aiDM’22), 2022
  5. SAC
    Learning on Streaming Graphs with Experience Replay
    Massimo Perini, Giorgia Ramponi, Paris Carbone, and Vasiliki Kalavri
    In The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’22), 2022

2021

  1. Vision
    The future is big graphs: a community view on graph processing systems
    Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati, Hannes Voigt, Alexandru Iosup, Khaled Ammar, Renzo Angles, Walid Aref, Marcelo Arenas, Maciej Besta, Peter A Boncz, and others
    Communications of the ACM, 2021
  2. JSys SoK
    Sok: Function-as-a-service: From an application developer’s perspective
    Ali Raza, Ibrahim Matta, Nabeel Akhtar, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Vatche Isahagian
    Journal of Systems Research, 2021
  3. TPDS Survey
    Practice of streaming processing of dynamic graphs: Concepts, models, and systems
    Maciej Besta, Marc Fischer, Vasiliki Kalavri, Michael Kapralov, and Torsten Hoefler
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2021

2020

  1. SIGMOD Tutorial
    Beyond Analytics: the Evolution of Stream Processing Systems
    Paris Carbone, Marios Fragkoulis, Vasiliki Kalavri, and Asterios Katsifodimos
    In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2020
  2. HotStorage
    In support of workload-aware streaming state management
    Vasiliki Kalavri and John Liagouris
    In 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 20), 2020

2019

  1. VLDB
    Megaphone: Live state migration for distributed streaming dataflows
    Moritz Hoffmann, Andrea Lattuada, Frank McSherry, Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris, and Timothy Roscoe
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2019
  2. Book
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    Stream Processing with Apache Flink
    Fabian Hueske and Vasiliki Kalavri
    2019
  3. BIRTE
    FASTER State Management for Timely Dataflow
    Matthew Brookes, Vasiliki Kalavri, and John Liagouris
    In Proceedings of Real-Time Business Intelligence and Analytics, 2019

2018

  1. TKDE Survey
    High-Level Programming Abstractions for Distributed Graph Processing
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Vladimir Vlassov, and Seif Haridi
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2018
  2. NSDI
    SnailTrail: Generalizing Critical Paths for Online Analysis of Distributed Dataflows
    Moritz Hoffmann, Andrea Lattuada, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, Desislava Dimitrova, Sebastian Wicki, Zaheer Chothia, and Timothy Roscoe
    In 15th {USENIX} Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ({NSDI} 18), 2018
  3. VLDB
    Streaming Graph Partitioning: An Experimental Study
    Zainab Abbas, Vasiliki Kalavri, Paris Carbone, and Vladimir Vlassov
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2018
  4. OSDI
    Three steps is all you need: fast accurate, automatic scaling decisions for distributed streaming dataflows
    Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris, Moritz Hoffmann, Desislava Dimitrova, Matthew Forshaw, and Timothy Roscoe
    In 13th {USENIX} Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation ({OSDI} 18), 2018

2016

  1. PAM
    Like a Pack of Wolves: Community Structure of Web Trackers
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Jeremy Blackburn, Matteo Varvello, and Konstantina Papagiannaki
    In International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, 2016
  2. VLDB
    The shortest path is not always a straight line
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Tiago Simas, and Dionysios Logothetis
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2016

2014

  1. GRADES-NDA
    Asymmetry in large-scale graph analysis, explained
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Stephan Ewen, Kostas Tzoumas, Vladimir Vlassov, Volker Markl, and Seif Haridi
    In Proceedings of Workshop on GRAph Data management Experiences and Systems, 2014

2013

  1. EuroPar
    Ponic: Using stratosphere to speed up pig analytics
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Vladimir Vlassov, and Per Brand
    In European Conference on Parallel Processing, 2013
  2. Block Sampling: Efficient Accurate Online Aggregation in MapReduce
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Vaidas Brundza, and Vladimir Vlassov
    In 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) 2013, 2013
  3. Survey
    MapReduce: Limitations, Optimizations and Open Issues
    Vasiliki Kalavri and Vladimir Vlassov
    In 11th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA-13), 2013
  4. m2r2: A Framework for Results Materialization and Reuse in High-Level Dataflow Systems for Big Data
    Vasiliki Kalavri, Hui Shang, and Vladimir Vlassov
    In 2nd International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE 2013), 2013