Education
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07/2009 - now
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Professor at Instituto de Informática e Estatística, UFSC, Brazil
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02/2008 - 05/2009
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Post-Doctoral, Insitituto de Informática, UFRGS, Brazil
Financial Support: CAPES (PRODOC Program)
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11/2006 - 01/2008
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Post-Doctoral, Hasselt University, Belgium.
Financial Support: Hasselt University/GeoPKDD
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10/2002 - 10/2006
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Ph.D. in Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
UFRGS, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Thesis: Enhancing spatial association rule mining in geographic databases.
Financial Support: CNPQ
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09/2004 - 03/2005
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University of Minnesota, Sandwich Program with prof. Shashi Shekhar)
Financial Support: CAPES
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2001
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M.Sc. in Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Thesis: Providing support to topological integrity constraints to the OpenGIS Abstract Specification Model.
Financial Support: CNPQ
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1995
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B.S. in Computer Science at Universidade de Passo Fundo, UPF, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
Thesis: Conceptual, logical, and physical design and implementation of a transportation information system
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Awards
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2001
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3rd Best Paper at GIS-Brasil 2001. "Extending the OGC Abstract Specification Model to Support Topological Integrity Constraints".
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2007
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Best 2006 Brazilian PhD Thesis Award. "Enchancing Spatial Association Rule Mining in Geographic Databases".
Awarded by the Brazilian Computer Society, 2007.
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Scientific Activities
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2006 - now
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Program Committee Member : IEEE-STDM'2007, IEEE-SSTDM'2007, GeoInfo'2007, Webmedia'2007, IADIS'2008
Journal Reviewer: IJGIS, Transportation Research Part C, DKE
External Reviewr: ENIA'2007, ERDB'2008, IEEE-IV'2007.
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Main Professional Activities
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2008 - now
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II/UFRGS: research fellow (PRODOC/CAPES)
Main Activities: - data models and algorithms for spatio-temporal data mining, specially for moving object trajectories.
- semantics in data mining
- information retrieval
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2006 - 2008
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Hasselt University: research staff member
Main Activities: - algorithms for spatio-tempral data mining
- data models for enriching trajectories with semantic information
- semantic data mining
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2000 - 2001
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Brazilian Army (First Division of the Brazilian Army located in Porto Alegre): Systems Analyst
Main Activities:
- Object Oriented design and modeling of the Brazilian geographic space, following the UML notation, and using the Rational Rose toolkit.
- Implementation of topological integrity constraints in the Gothic DBMS, using the Lull programing language.
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1997 - 1999
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Mds Consultoria e Informática Ltda – Software House: Systems Analyst and DBA
Main Activities:
- INGRES database administrator (DBA) at: Trensurb (Metropolitan metro transportation system),
Novo Hamburgo county government, Casa Lyra, Pallotti, and IMEC.
- Design and development of comercial automation systems.
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1995 - 1997
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Transportes Waldemar Ltda (Transportation Company, Carazinho-RS): Systems Analyst
Main Activities:
- Conceptual design and implementation of a transportation information system
(database INGRES, Operational System Unix)
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Research Projects Member
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2006-2007
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GeoPKDD: Spatio-temporal and geo-referenced data are growing rapidly, because of the
collection of telecom data from mobile phones and other location-aware devices, as well as the daily collection of
transaction data through database systems, network traffic controllers, web servers, sensor networks, and so on.
Concerning this new kind of data, the goal of the GeoPKDD project is to develop theory, techniques, and systems
for geographic knowledge discovery, based on new privacy-preserving methods for extracting knowledge from
large amounts of raw data referenced in space and time.
GeoPKDD is a European Project supported by the european union. The partners of the project are 8 universities:
KDD-Lab/Italy, Hasselt University/Belgium, WUR/the Netherlands, EPFL/Switzerland, CTI/Greece, UNISAB/Turkey, and FIS/Germany.
More information can be obtained from the
project website www.geopkdd.eu
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2002
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GEOSIST: Geographic information system for the Health Department of the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul.
This project had the objective of analysing relationships of specific diseases with environmental accidents and environmental conditions
around residential areas.
The project resulted in a GIS designed with Rational Rose, following the UML notaton, and was implemented in
PostGIS, PostgreSQL, MapServer, with the language Php.
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1999 - 2000
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SIGMODA: The project SIGMODA had the objective to investigate methodologies for geographic database design and modelling
for Geographic Information Systems. One of the results of this project was the object oriented conceptual framework named GeoFrame,
which has evolved to GeoFrame-T, with support to spatio-temporal data modeling. This framework has been the basis of many other
projects in the geographic information context, as for instance, the object oriented conceptual model of the
Brazilian Army (Primeira Divisão de Levantamento do Exército).
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1998 - 1999
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SINPLI: The project SINPLI had the objective to specify techniques based on workflow systems to provide
support for business processes of the Fundação Estadual de Proteção Ambiental of the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
A workflow information system was developed in order to automate the environmental license process, as well as to increase the
control of environmental protection.
TRANSCOOP: The project TRANSCOOP had the objective to investigate new techniques for
software development based on project management models and cooperative work. One of the results of this project was the
conceptual model TransCoop-M. This model incorporates quality measures according to the ISO/IEC 9126
International standards and CMM (Capability Maturity Model).
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Teaching experience
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2002 - 2004
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Professor at Universidade Luterana do Brasil - ULBRA
1. Software Engineering II (UML)
2. Project Management
3. Design and Conceptual Modeling of Object-Oriented Databases
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