UC researchers Take Over UFAL
A group of University of Coimbra (UC) researchers arrived to the Federal University of the Alagoas (UFAL) to re-conquest the place.
This also marks the first visit of Prof. Marco Vieira, which is the scientific coordinator of the project, to the UFAL and is inserted in the context of a 1-month secondment. Nuno Antunes is a post-doc researcher and will be fulfilling a 3-month secondment, as will Cristiana Areias, which is returning to Maceió after last year’s secondment url.
The secondment kick-off activities include a series of seminars by the local students of Prof. Baldoíno Fonseca’s group which serve to start collaborations and receive feedback (full schedule available here). Presentations by Cristiana and Nuno are scheduled for the following Thursdays, during the regular meeting of the research group Engineering and Systems Group (EASY) at the Institute of Computing-UFAL.
During the stay, Nuno will be in charge of the second part of the Software Engineering discipline in the Master in Informatics program at UFAL, covering topics of Secure and Dependable development of systems.
The first class was held together with a talk by Marco entitled “Dependable and Secure Computing @ UC: Past… present… & future”. The talk focused on the UC’s research work and attracted a large attendance (see the picture below), inclusively with as several UFAL professors taking their students to attend. The talk served also as motivation for the students and to discuss potential collaborations.
Nuno’s and Cristiana’s longer secondments will allow collaborating with the local MSc and BSc students. Currently, Henrique Alves and Marcus Piancó are already developing work on the prediction of software vulnerabilities based on change history information and on the existence of certain Code Smells. Furthermore, other students will have the opportunity to collaborate in the implementation of techniques for testing and injecting faults in Service Oriented Architectures.
Ítalo Silva starts his Secondment at UC
Ítalo Silva is already at the University of Coimbra (UC) to perform a four-month secondment. Ítalo is a student of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) where he just finished his master’s degree working with architecture-centric software development processes, under the supervision of Prof. Patrick Brito and Prof. Baldoino Fonseca.
Ítalo will use this time to work with Prof. Marco Vieira and to get involved with the activity of the local group, which activity is focused on the development of dependable and secure systems. This will allow Ítalo to find new research topics to pursue in the near future, for instance to start a PhD.
The initial secondment presentation, entitled “A decision-making tool to support architectural designs based on Quality Attributes”, is planned for the next week. Among other research activity, the presentation will present a tool that supports young architects in selecting the architectural style to use based on the system requirements and quality attributes. As usual, the presentation will be inserted in the context of the regular seminars of CISUC-SSE group, which attracts local professors, researchers and students.
Cross-project workshop at University of Coimbra
As the University of Coimbra (UC) received the visit of Thais Ussami (from UNICAMP, but currently seconded in UNIFI) and Andrea Rossi (Post-doc at UNIFI), there was the opportunity for presenting the work that both are developing at the University of Florence.
At the same time, UC was receiving visits from researchers of two other European projects: CECRIS and CABRIOLET.
Prof. Domenico Cotroneo, Fabio Scippacercola and Dario Ricci (University of Naples) and Nuno Silva (Critical Software) were the visitors from the CECRIS project.
On the other hand, Prof. Vecheslav Kharchenko and Prof. Anatoliy Gorbenko (National Aerospace University "KhAI", Kharkiv, Ukraine), and Prof. Yurij Kondratenko (Black Sea State University, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) are visiting UC in the context of the CABRIOLET project.
This created the opportunity for a multi-disciplinary cross-project workshop, which contributed to rich discussions about research activities and potential collaborations. The workshop was organized in the context of the regular seminars of CISUC-SSE group, which attracted the participation of UC professors, researchers and students, with the average audience being above 20 participants.
Feeding the conversation were five talks. Prof. Vecheslav Kharchenko used this opportunity to present the KhAI and the R&D activities that his specific department is developing. The other presentations were more focused on technical material, presenting the work that each has been developing recently. Below follows the complete list of presentations:
- “ZarzirBird Project: Modeling RPAS Dynamics for Load Stability”, Andrea Rossi
- “An Analysis of Software Engineering Issues from Aerospace Critical Systems”, Dario Ricci
- “R&D of Computer Systems and Networks”, Prof. Vecheslav Kharchenko
- “Using Diversity in Cloud-Based Deployment Environment to Avoid Intrusions", Prof. Anatoliy Gorbenko
- “Automated test generation in an iterative and incremental environment”, Thais Ussami
The discussions will continue throughout the week, as there are many research activities that are of common interest to the partners represented and there is the opportunity of finding fruitful future collaborations.
Baldoino’s Secondment in Coimbra!
Baldoíno Fonseca is in Portugal to spend a one-month secondment at the University of Coimbra (UC). Baldoíno comes from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) where he is an Associate Professor and also the coordinator of the UFAL team in the DEVASSES project.
After the introduction of his work during the project’s face-to-face meeting in Florence, Baldoíno moved to Coimbra where he will have further opportunity to find common interests and start collaborations in the context of the project. A presentation is planned in the context of the regular seminars of CISUC-SSE group, in order to present further details on UFAL’s research and also to reach a broader audience of local professors, researchers and students.
The secondment will be important the planning of the future work of researchers to be seconded at the UC (Ítalo Silva) and also the researchers going to UFAL (Nuno Antunes and Cristiana Areias).
With some overlap with the secondment of Regina Moraes, this is also an opportunity to have interesting Transfer of Knowledge presentations and discussions that can be important to find collaboration opportunities between UFAL and UNICAMP, fostering the collaboration between the two research groups.
Finally, during the secondment period there will be opportunity to work on the project deliverables in hands and also search for funding opportunities for the medium/long term.
