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Alessandro Garcia Assistant Professor                         Informatics Department, PUC-Rio Head of the Opus Research Group D.Sc. Computer Science, DI - PUC-Rio, Brazil (2004)        In cooperation with:      - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA      - University of Waterloo, Canada Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK (2005-2009) Electronic Mail Address afgarcia (at) inf.puc-rio.br

             

Research Interests Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Exception Handling, Software Fault Tolerance, Software Architecture, Product Lines, Software Metrics, Empirical Software Engineering, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Distinctions and Awards * TWAS-ROLAC Prize for Young Scientists, August 2010 * Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, since Nov 2009 * Distinguished Young Scholar in Computing Research, Faperj - 2009 * Research Productivity Grant, CNPq - 2009 * Distinguished Young Scholar, PUC-Rio - 2009 * Research Award - Career Achievements, Lancaster University - 2006 Ongoing Projects ComDADO - Combating Architecture Degradation via Anomaly Pattern Detection AMAComP - Identifying Architecturally-Relevant Code Anomalies (with USC and Drexel) GComp - Managing Cross-Organizational Reusable Assets (with PETROBRAS) DAnSis - Detecting Anomalies in Evolving Systems (with UFF and LNCC) MDCC - Software Engineering for Ubiquitous Systems (with UFC) TACOR - Software Composition Techniques for Recovery-Oriented Software CASA - Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques (with Lancaster Univ.) SciPRO -  Improving Quality of Scientific Software (with LNCC) MDEvol - Enhancing Model-Driven Evolution and Reuse (with Brazilian Navy)  AvaTar - Evolution of Modular Programming Techniques (with Darmstatd Univ.) CODES - Systems and Software Engineering for Digital TV (Procad) MecCoM - Contemporary Modularization Mechanisms: Empirical Studies REACT - Error Recovery in Context-Aware Asynchronous Systems (with INPE) Evaluation and Adaptation of Contemporary Modularity Techniques History-Sensitive Assessment of Product Lines Metrics for Product-Line Software Architectures Composing Software Models: Metrics and Experimental Studies  Procad - Aspect-Oriented Techniques for Product Lines A Testbed for AOSD RODEP: An Aspect-Oriented Business Process Infrastructure

Current Students Francisco Dantas (PhD, 2009) Camila Nunes (PhD, 2009) Isela Macia (PhD, 2009) Éverton Tavares (PhD, 2010) Bruno Cafeo (PhD, 2011) Eiji Barbosa (PhD, 2012) Alessandro Gurgel (MSc, 2010) Roberta Arcoverde (MSc, 2010) Manuele Ferreira (MSc, 2012) Diego Albuquerque (MSc, 2012) Former PhD Students and RAs Kleinner Farias (PhD, 2008-2012) Rachel Burrows (PhD, 2007-2011) Eduardo Figueiredo (PhD, 2006-2009) Nelio Cacho (PhD, 2006-2009) Claudio Sant'Anna (PhD, 2005-2009) Neil Loughran (R.A., 2006-2008) Phil Greenwood (R.A, 2006) Safoora Khan (PhD, 2006-2009)       Omar Alhadythi (PhD, 2005-2008) Eiji Barbosa (MSc, 2010-2012) Leandra Dias (MSc, 2009-2010) Marcelo Moura (MSc, 2008-2009) Thomas Addison (MSc, 2007-2008) Karla Damasceno (MSc, 2005-2006) Cidiane Lobato (MSc, 2004-2005)

 

ICSE'13 - PC Member, NIER @ 35th International Conference on Software Engineering AOSD'13 - MODULARITY - PC Member, 11th ACM Intl. Conference on AOSD ICSE'12 - PC Member, 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering AOSD'12 - MODULARITY - PC Member, 11th ACM Intl. Conference on AOSD MODELS'12 - PC Member, ACM/IEEE 15th Intl. Conf. on Model-Driven Engineering SPLC'12 - PC Member, 16th ACM Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) ICSM'12 - Tool Session PC Member, 28th Intl. Conf. on Software Maintenance ICPC'12 - 20th Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension WEH'12 - Co-Chair, 5th Workshop on Exception Handling at ICSE'12 FOSD'12 - 3rd Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD 2011) JSS - Guest Editor, Journal of Systems and Software, Software Engineering in Brazil ESELAW 2012, PC Member, 9th Experimental Software Engineering Workshop CIbSE'12 - PC Member, 14th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering ENASE'12 - PC Member, 7th Intl Conf. on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering CSMR'12 - 16th European Conf. on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) ICSE'11 - PC Member, 33th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering ECSA'11 - 5th European Conference on Software Architecture ICPC'11 - 19th Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension AOSD'11 - Co-Organizing Chair, 10th ACM Intl. Conference on AOSD SPLC'11 - PC Member, 15th ACM Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) ESCOT'11 - Co-Chair, Workshop on Evaluation of Composition Techniques at ECOOP'11 CSMR'11 - 15th European Conf. on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) FREECO'11 - PC Member, 1st Workshop on Free Composition at ECOOP'11 FOSD'11 - 3rd Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD 2011) CTD'11 - Referee, PhD and Master's Dissertation Competition - Brazilian Computer Society IJSA - Editorial Board, International Journal on Software Architecture ICSR'11 - PC Member, Doctoral Symposium at 12nd Intl. Conf. on Software Reuse (ICSR) ICAART'11 - PC Member, 3rd Intl. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence CIbSE'11 - PC Member, 13th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering EA@AOSD'11 - PC Member, Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2011 AOSE'11 - PC Member, Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering at AAMAS'11 CBSoft'11 - Steering Committee, Brazilian Conf. on Software: Theory and Practice, 2011 SBES'11 - Program Chair, 25th ACM SIGSoft Brazilian Symp. on Software Engineering LADC'11 - 5th Symp. on Dependable Computing, Workshop on Exception Handling (EHCoS) BW-MDD 2011 - Organizing Committee, 2nd Brazilian Workshop on MDD at CBSoft 2011 LA-WASP 2011 - Organizing Committee, Latin-American Workshop on AOSD (LA-WASP)