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Departamento de Informação e Sistemas

Centro de Informática – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Av. Jornalista Anibal Fernandes s/n – Cidade Universitária (Campus Recife), 50740-560 Recife-PE, Brazil

Tel: (+55 81) 2126-8430, x4092   Fax: (+55 81) 2126-8438

@: vcg (at) cin (dot) ufpe (dot) br

The Emerging Web of Social Machines – read

We define a notion of social machine and envisage an algebra that can describe networks of such. To start with, social machines are defined as tuples of input, output, processes, constraints, state, requests and responses; apart from defining the machines themselves, the algebra defines a set of connectors and conditionals that can be used to describe the interactions between any number of machines in a multitude of ways, as a means to represent real machines interacting in the real web, such as Twitter, Twitter running on top of Amazon AWS, mashups built using Twitter and, obviously, other social machines.

This paper tries to explain the web in terms of a new concept named Social Machines (SM). This is not a theoretical paper as yet; but, in more than one sense, we think that this work can collaborate to the process of providing a unifying vision to describe web based information systems and are starting to work on what could be a practical way of dealing with the complexity of this emerging web of social machine.

Academic Degrees:

Awards:

  • Br-SCMM: Modelo Brasileiro de Maturidade para Cidades Inteligentes. Melhor artigo da trilha Sistemas de Informação e os Desafios do Mundo Aberto do IX Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas de Informação (SBSI 2013), João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. Promovido pela Sociedade Brasileira de Computação.
  • RiSE Reference Model for Software Reuse Adoption in Brazilian Companies. First place in the Contest of Thesis and Dissertations in Software Quality (Concurso de Teses e Dissertações em Qualidade de Software – CTDQS) – Type: Ph.D., X Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS Conference), Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), Curitiba-PR, Brazil, 2011.
  • Honorable Mention as THE BEST TOOL of the X Workshop on Tools and Applications (X Workshop de Ferramentas e Aplicações), XVII Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia Systems and Web – WebMedia (XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sistemas Multimídia e Web), Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), Curitiba-PR, Brazil, 2011
  • Honored Professor, Class of Analysis and System Development, FAFICA (Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Caruaru), Caruaru, Pernambuco, 2008.
  • COMPGOV Project: Shared Library for E-Gov Components,(in portuguese), among the ten best projects, Meeting of Software Quality and Productivity (EQPS), 7th Brazilian Simposium on Software Quality (SBQS), Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2008
  • Reuse in Software Engineering (RiSE),(in portuguese), among the ten best business plans, Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge, Brazilian Contest (FGV-CEPE), São Paulo, Brazil, 2007.
  • A CASE tool for Aspect-Oriented Software Development (in portuguese), is among the three best tools in the XI Tools Session – XVIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES Conference), Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), Brasília-DF, Brazil, 2004.

Books:

RiSE Reference Model for Software Reuse Adoption: An Approach for Brazilian Companies  C.R.U.I.S.E - Component Reuse in Software Engineering

Computer Societies Membership:

Research Interests:

  • Social Machines, Social Networks, Cloud Computing, Social Computing
  • Education in Software Engineering, Serious Game, Game Development, Game Environment for Education
  • Software Reuse: Software Reuse Adoption, Software Reuse Risks and Costs Models, Tools and Environments, Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE), Domain Engineering, Software Product Lines, Open Source, PSEE, CASE Tools, Design Patterns.
  • Software Reengineering, Software Transformations, Reverse Engineering, Refactoring
  • Aspect-Oriented Software Development (aosd.net), AspectJ Project

Research Projects:

  • OpenBio & OpenBio Wiki (EUBrazil Open Data Cloud Computing e-Infrastructure for Biodiversity), since 2011
  • INES (National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering), since 2008
  • RiSE: Reuse in Software Engineering Group, since 2003
  • Phoenix: An Approach for Aspect-Oriented Software Reengineering – core development at Federal University of São Carlos, 2003 – 2005 (concluded)
  • MVCase Tool – core development at Federal University of São Carlos, 2001 – 2005 (concluded)
  • Software Reengineering using Transformations (site in portuguese)  – core development at Federal University of São Carlos, 2001 – 2003 (concluded)
  • Draco-PUC Transformation System (site in portuguese)  – core development at Federal University of São Carlos, 2001 – 2005 (concluded)

Research Partners:

Thesis:

  • RiSE Reference Model for Software Reuse Adoption in Brazilian Companies. D.Sc. Proposal at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).  Advisor: Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira. Download, read and/or share.
  • Phoenix: An Approach for the Aspect-Oriented Software Reengineering. (in portuguese) M.Sc. Dissertation presented in March 03, 2005 at Federal University of São Carlos (UFScar). Advisor: Antonio Francisco do Prado. Download, read and/or share.
  • VPN Analisys and Implementation in a Linux Environment. (in portuguese) B.Sc. Monography presented in December, 2000 at Salvador University (UNIFACS). Advisor: Antonio Carlos Fontes Atta. For download, request for me.