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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
* 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

Projects
CASA -
Evaluation of Software Composition Techniques (with Lancaster Univ.)
MDEvol -
Enhancing Model-Driven Evolution and Reuse (with Brazilian Navy) 
AvaTar - Evolution of Modular Programming Techniques (with Darmstatd Univ.)
CODES - Systems and Software Enginnering for Digital TV (Procad)
MecCoM - Contemporary Modularization Mechanisms: Empirical Studies
REACT - Error Recovery in Context-Aware Asynchronous Systems
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
Rachel Burrows (PhD, 2007)
Kleinner Farias (PhD, 2008)
Francisco Dantas (PhD, 2009)
Camila Nunes (PhD, 2009)
Isela Macia (PhD, 2009)
Leandra Dias (MSc, 2009)
Éverton Tavares (PhD, 2010)
Eiji Barbosa (MSc, 2010)
Alessandro Gurgel (MSc, 2010)


Former PhD Students and RAs
Eduardo Figueiredo (PhD, 2006
-2009)
Nelio Cacho (PhD, 2006-2008)
Claudio Sant'Anna (PhD, 2005-2008)
Neil Loughran (R.A., 2006-2008)
Phil Greenwoord (R.A, 2006)
Safoora Khan (PhD, 2006
-2009)      
Omar Alhadythi (PhD, 2005-2008)       

 



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ICSE'11 - PC Member, 33rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
AOSD'11 - Co-Organizing Chair, 10th ACM Intl. Conference on AOSD
ICAART'11 - PC Member, 3rd Intl. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
MODELS'10 - 13th ACM/IEEE Conf. on Model-Driven Engineering, Languages and Systems
SPLASH - OOPSLA 2010 - Workshops Committee Member, at OOPSLA/SPLASH 2010
Onward! 2010 - Publicity Chair, at OOPSLA/SPLASH 2010
SPLC'10 - PC Member, 14th ACM Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2010)
ACoM 2010 - Co-Organizing Chair, Workshop on Assessing Modularity Techniques at SPLC
BW-MDD 2010 - General Chair, 1st Brazilian Workshop on MDD at CBSoft 2010
AOSD'10 - PC Member, 9th ACM Intl. Conf. on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
ICAART'10 - PC Member, 2nd Intl. Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
ICSE'10 - 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering
VaMoS'10 - 4th Intl Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems
ESCOT'10 - Co-Chair, Workshop on Evaluation of Composition Techniques, at AOSD 2010
WISAD@ECSA 2010 - PC Member, Ws. on Imperfect Information in Architecture Design
CBSoft'10 - Steering Committee, Brazilian Conf. on Software: Theory and Practice, 2010
SBES'10 - Tutorials' Chair and PC Member, 24th ACM SIGSoft Brazilian Symposium on
Software Engineering
AOSD Spring School - Panelist, 5th Springer School on AOSD, 2010
CTD'10 - Evaluation Comittee Member, Dissertations' Contest, Brazilian Computer Society
QUATIC'10 - PC Member, 7th IEEE Intl. Conference on the Quality of ICT
AOSE'10 - 11th Intl Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering at AAMAS 2010
CIbSE'10 - PC Member, 13rd Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering
SLE'09 -
2nd International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009)
FSE'09 - 17th ACM Intl. Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
Model-Driven Evolution of Product Lines - Colloquium at PUC-Rio - Organizer
Keynote @ LA-WASP'09: "Are your concerns in good shape? Observing crosscutting..."
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Editor, Special Issue on
Exception Handling
TOOLS'09 - 47th Intl. Conference on Objects, Models, Components, Patterns
ICPC'09 - 17th IEEE Intl. Conference on Program Comprehension
WICSA'09
- 8th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009


 
  Informatics Department - PUC-Rio

  OPUS Research Group

  Software Engineering
Lab
  URL: http://www.les.inf.puc-rio.br/opus/