MUSEPAT 2013 call-for-papers is out

The Call for Papers for the International Conference on Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools  (MUSEPAT 2013) was published today to some of the major scientific event calendars.

Nova espécie de dinossauro descrita por paleontólogos da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL) e Museu da Lourinhã

Nova espécie de dinossauro descrita por paleontólogos da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (UNL) e Museu da Lourinhã

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MUSEPAT 2013 website is up

Starting in 2013, The PADTAD Workshop Series will be merged with the MSEPT Conference to become the MUSEPAT Conference. MUSEPAT 2013, the International Conference on Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools, will be co-located with ESEC/FSE 2013 in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 21, 2012.

Article accepted for publication in the IJIMAI journal

Extended version of the paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2012) accepted for publication in the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence. More info can be found here.

Best Paper Award at HVC 2012

The paper
"Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations",
co-autored with my MSc and PhD students Vasco Pessanha and Ricardo Dias, has received the Best Paper Award at the Haifa verification Conference 2012, one of the most prestigious venue for the Software and Hardware verification scientific communities.

I want to acknowledge my gratitude to Vasco and Ricardo for their high quality work in this topic.

eNTERFACE'13 - call for projects

The 9th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces

The call for projects/papers is available on the workshop website:

http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/enterface13

Workshop on Worker-robot interaction in manufacturing industry

IR@MI

Workshop  25.10. – 26.10.2012

Venue: Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Karlstrasse 11, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

MSc thesis "Algorithmic Skeleton Framework for the Orchestration of GPU Computations"

Ricardo Marques has publicly defended his MSc thesis entitled Algorithmic Skeleton Framework for the Orchestration of GPU Computations, being awarded a classification of 19 out of 20.

Tiago Vale has concluded his MSc in Computer Science

Last Friday, Oct 26th, my student Tiago Vale defnended his MSc thesis in Computer Science, and was awarded with the highest possible final grade (20 points).  I am really proud of both, Tiago and Ricardo Dias, whose contribution to the technical and scientific advising of Tiago was a key contribution to this success.

Tiago is now starting his PhD under my advising.

CITI seminar on Single Operation Multiple Data

Talk on Single Operation Multiple Data to be presented by Hervé Paulino at the CITI weekly seminars. More info can be found here.

MSc (MEI) topics for 2012/13

My current MSc thesis topics are listed at

http://estagios.di.fct.unl.pt/public/professor/tese.php

Please do a "search/find" in the page for my name (e.g., "Lourenço")

If you are a student at Di-FCT-UNL and want to know more details about any of my thesis tiopics, please drop me an email ou just come to my office room (P2/9).

New paper accepted at HVC 2012

Our paper "Precise Detection of Atomicity Violations", co-authored by my ex-MSc Student Vasco Pessanha, my PhD student Ricardo Dias, and myslef, was accepted at the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC 2012).

The base of the paper is the MSc work of Vasco, which was (unofficially) co-supervised by Ricardo and (officially) me. We developed a new approach to find high-level dataraces in concurrent programs.

Petição Via utilitária ciclável entre o Parque da Paz e a Costa da Caparica

Petição Via utilitária ciclável entre o Parque da Paz e a Costa da Caparica

Para quem anda de bicicleta e/ou a pé. E também para aqueles que, mesmo que não pensem fazer uso dela, acham que era uma mais valia para o Concelho de Alamada.

Vamos lá todos subscrever esta petição!