ToK Workshop #2
The DEVASSES ToK Workshop #2 is on the books, and it was a successful opportunity for transfer of knowledge among the project researchers and also with external researchers.
The event was held at the Institute of Computing on August 21-22, 2014 and organized by the UNICAMP. The theme for the workshop was Design and V&V Methodologies for Dynamic Systems, but the technical discussion also included other topics that go beyond that and are relevant for the project.
During the workshop the program included presentations of two featured lecturers who presented relevant topics for the project:
- Cláudia Werner is a Professor of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She presented her university and their work on "Dynamic adaptation: For process and Software Reconfiguration".
- Piedade Costa de Oliveira is Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission and an EU Fellow IBE/USP (Institute for studies Brazil Europe of the University of São Paulo). She presented information of the ongoing proposals for general data protection regulation in Europe.
Besides these presentations, there was time for 16 presentations where the project researchers had the opportunity to showcase their recent and ongoing research work. The full list of presentation is available here.
We highlight that 3 of these presentation were already on works that involve multiple partners of the project, resulting from secondment works and that are already in an advanced state.
The sessions had an average of more than 30 attendants, with only ~15 being project members from all the project partners (UNICAMP, UC, UNIFI, UFAL) . Besides the project members, in the attendance there were researchers from institutions as UFRJ, Legal Service of the European Commission, USP, Brasilian Air Force Academy, IBM, INPE, CPqD, as well as several local students.
Every presentation slot included time reserved for discussion, which allowed for more detailed comments on the work and to explore the opportunity of future research paths.
Finally, it was time for discussion about the project management, past and future secondments were analyzed, and future partnerships between EU and Brazil were prospected.
