Paulo Fernandes

Academic Title

  • Program Director & Professor of Practice

Contact Information

  • Stochastic Models
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computer Science in Multidisciplinary Environments
  • B.Sc. Computer Science Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
  • M.Sc. Computer Science Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
  • Ph. D. Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France,
  • Simulation, Analytical, and Numerical Methods to Solve Markovian Models
  • Machine Learning, Data Mining Algorithms, and Natural Language Processing
  • Software Engineering Modeling and Metrics
  • Algorithms and Programming

LOPES, L.; DURAN, M.S.; FERNANDES, P.; PARDO, T.A.S. PortiLexicon-UD: a Portuguese Lexical Resource according to Universal Dependencies Model. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, France, p. 6635–6643, 2022. 

ASSUNÇÃO, J.; FERNANDES, P.; VINCENT, J.M. Piecewise Aggregation for HMM Fitting: A Pre-Fitting Model for Seamless Integration with Time-Series Data. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, v. 29(11&12), p. 1835-1850, 2019.  

CZEKSTER, R.; FERNANDES, P.; LOPES, L.; SANTOS, A. R.; SALES, A.; WEBBER, T. Stochastic Performance Analysis of Global Software Development Teams. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodology, v. 25 (3), p. 26:1-26:32, 2016.

LOPES, L.; FERNANDES, P.; VIEIRA, R. Estimating term domain relevance through term frequency, disjoint corpora frequency - tf-dcf. Knowledge-based Systems, v. 97 p. 237-249, 2016. 

LOPES, L.; FERNANDES, P; VIEIRA, R. ExATO - High Quality Term Extraction for Portuguese and English. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2016), Omaha, USA, 2016. 

ANTOS, A. R.; SALES, A.; FERNANDES, P.; NICHOLS, M. Combining Challenge-Based Learning and Scrum Framework for Mobile Application Development. In: 20th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2015), Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015.

FERNANDES, P.; OKELLY, M. E. J.; PAPADOPOULOS, C. T.; SALES, A. Analysis of Exponential Reliable Production Lines using Kronecker Descriptors. International Journal of Production Research, v. 51, n.14, p. 4240-4257, 2013.

FERNANDES, P.; LOPES, L.; YERALAN, S. Symbolic Solution of Kronecker-based Structured Markovian Models. IEEE 21st International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis And Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2013.

CZEKSTER, R. M.; FERNANDES, P.; SALES, A.; WEBBER, T. Stationary Solution Approximation using a Memory-Efficient Perfect Sampling Technique. In: Spring Simulation Multiconference (Spring Sim), 2011, Boston, USA. 44th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 2011). Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 2011. p. 126-133.

BENOIT, A.; FERNANDES, P.; PLATEAU, B.; STEWART, W. J. On the Benefits of using Functional Transitions and Kronecker Algebra. Performance Evaluation, Elsevier, v. 58, n. 4, p. 367-390, 2004.

FERNANDES, P.; PLATEAU, B.; STEWART, W. J. Efficient Descriptor- Vector Multiplication in Stochastic Automata Networks. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM Press, v. 45, n. 3, p. 381-414, 1998.