Alysson Bessani

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
108 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Alysson Bessani is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Alysson Bessani has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 36 papers in Information Systems and 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Alysson Bessani's work include Distributed systems and fault tolerance (77 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (26 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (20 papers). Alysson Bessani is often cited by papers focused on Distributed systems and fault tolerance (77 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (26 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (20 papers). Alysson Bessani collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Brazil and Germany. Alysson Bessani's co-authors include Miguel Correia, João Sousa, Paulo Sousa, Nuno Neves, Paulo Verı́ssimo, Lau Cheuk Lung, Giuliana Santos Veronese, Rafael R. Obelheiro, Fernando M. V. Ramos and Marcelo Pasin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Expert Systems with Applications and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Alysson Bessani

102 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

State Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMART 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. State Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMART
    2014 297 citations Alysson Bessani, João Sousa et al. Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alysson Bessani Portugal 24 2.0k 1.3k 759 249 168 108 2.5k
Seth Gilbert United States 18 2.3k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 447 0.6× 215 0.9× 56 0.3× 108 2.8k
Christian Cachin Switzerland 29 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 213 0.9× 108 0.6× 79 2.4k
Richard D. Schlichting United States 25 2.4k 1.2× 973 0.7× 660 0.9× 223 0.9× 155 0.9× 107 2.8k
Rodrigo Rodrigues Germany 26 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 805 1.1× 129 0.5× 177 1.1× 73 2.7k
Laurent Vanbever Switzerland 25 2.2k 1.1× 549 0.4× 466 0.6× 711 2.9× 112 0.7× 106 2.5k
Martin S. Beck Singapore 3 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 898 1.2× 298 1.2× 279 1.7× 8 2.7k
Richard Schantz United States 20 1.2k 0.6× 552 0.4× 604 0.8× 46 0.2× 101 0.6× 81 1.6k
Mike Hibler United States 15 1.9k 0.9× 533 0.4× 422 0.6× 246 1.0× 162 1.0× 36 2.1k
Özalp Babaoğlu Italy 23 2.1k 1.0× 555 0.4× 351 0.5× 97 0.4× 72 0.4× 91 2.4k
Boon Thau Loo United States 28 2.9k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 756 1.0× 290 1.2× 268 1.6× 185 3.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alysson Bessani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alysson Bessani

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of LLM-based chatbots for OSINT-based Cyber Threat Awareness. Expert Systems with Applications. 261. 125509–125509. 17 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2023). How Hard is Asynchronous Weight Reassignment?. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 523–533.
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2023). On the Minimal Knowledge Required for Solving Stellar Consensus. 682–691.
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Alchieri, Eduardo, et al.. (2022). COBRA: Dynamic Proactive Secret Sharing for Confidential BFT Services. 1335–1353. 12 indexed citations
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Melo, Wilson S., et al.. (2020). Field surveillance of fuel dispensers using IoT-based metering and blockchains. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 175. 102914–102914. 10 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2018). On the Challenges of Building a BFT SCADA. 163–170. 9 indexed citations
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Neves, Nuno, et al.. (2016). SieveQ: A Layered BFT Protection System for Critical Services. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 15(3). 511–525. 11 indexed citations
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Sousa, João & Alysson Bessani. (2015). Separating the WHEAT from the Chaff: An Empirical Design for Geo-Replicated State Machines. INFM-OAR (INFN Catania). 146–155. 28 indexed citations
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Wandelt, Sebastian, et al.. (2015). On-Demand Indexing for Referential Compression of DNA Sequences. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132460–e0132460. 7 indexed citations
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Distler, Tobias, et al.. (2015). Extensible distributed coordination. 10 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2014). SCFS: a shared cloud-backed file system. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 169–180. 62 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2014). State Machine Replication for the Masses with BFT-SMART. Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon). 355–362. 297 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2013). On the efficiency of durable state machine replication. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 169–180. 37 indexed citations
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Sousa, João & Alysson Bessani. (2012). From Byzantine Consensus to BFT State Machine Replication: A Latency-Optimal Transformation. 37–48. 43 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2011). OS diversity for intrusion tolerance: Myth or reality?. 383–394. 65 indexed citations
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Bessani, Alysson, Paulo Sousa, & Miguel Correia. (2010). Active quorum systems. 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Veronese, Giuliana Santos, Miguel Correia, Alysson Bessani, & Lau Cheuk Lung. (2009). Spin One's Wheels? Byzantine Fault Tolerance with a Spinning Primary. Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon). 135–144. 99 indexed citations
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Veronese, Giuliana Santos, Miguel Correia, Alysson Bessani, & Lau Cheuk Lung. (2009). Highly-Resilient Services for Critical Infrastructures. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 5 indexed citations
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Alchieri, Eduardo, et al.. (2008). Consenso Bizantino entre Participantes Desconhecidos. 156–169.
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Bessani, Alysson, et al.. (2007). Evaluating Byzantine Quorum Systems. 253–264. 5 indexed citations

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