SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The full list of publications, and associated resources, can be consulted here (or more easily at DBLP or Google Scholar).

CURRENT PROJECTS

SpecRep
Constraint-based Specification Repair, an FCT exploratory project that aims to develop techniques to support the automatic repair of faulty specifications.
SAFER
Safety Verification for Robotic Software, a COMPETE2020 project that aims to develop techniques to promote the verification of safety critical properties for robotic software controllers.
DigiLightRail
Verification of railway topological design models.
VORTEX
Collaborative Laboratory on Cyber Physical Systems and Cyber Security​, aiming to create skilled jobs and economic and social value, by promoting employment through the development of knowledge-based activities.

PAST PROJECTS

TRUST
Trustworthy Software Design with Alloy, a COMPETE2020 project that aims to develop a methodology for trustworthy software design that is both formal, unified, and lightweight around Alloy.
PTCRIS
An ORCID-based Synchronization Framework for the Portuguese CRIS, a project commissioned by FCT that aims to develop a synchronization framework for information exchange between the various national systems and international systems.
InteGrid
Demonstration of INTElligent grid technologies for renewables INTEgration and INTEractive consumer participation enabling INTEroperable market solutions and INTErconnected stakeholders, an H2020 project that aims develop innovative solutions of smart grids.
NanoSTIMA RL1.3
High-Assurance Medical Cyber-physical Systems, a NORTE2020 project that aims to contribute to safer medical cyber-physical systems through the development of such design and analysis techniques.
FATBIT
Foundations, Applications and Tools for Bidirectional Transformation, a COMPETE project that aimed to propose effective bidirectional transformation frameworks for model-driven engineering, spreadsheet validation and transformation, and language-based editors defined with attribute grammars.
BEST CASE RL8
Languages and Tools for Critical Real-Time Systems, an ON.2 project that aimed to contribute to a change to the current paradigm of secure ITC infrastructure, according to which the deployment and operation of a critical system implies security enforcement as a reactive process.

SOFTWARE

Electrum Analyzer
an extension of the Alloy Analyzer, integrated into Alloy 6, for the bounded and unbounded model checking of Electrum models. Now being integrated in Alloy6.
Pardinus
is an extension of Kodkod with support for target-oriented, temporal and decomposed model finding with symbolic bounds.
Alloy4Fun
is a web application for the online editing and sharing of Alloy models and instances, including simple specification challenges.
PTCRISync
is an ORCID-based synchronization framework for CRIS's developed following formal methodologies.
Echo
is an Eclipse plug-in to operationalize QVT-R bidirectional model transformations using Alloy.

CURRENT STUDENTS

Chong Liu
Co-supervision of the PhD thesis on "Lightweight Trustworthy High-level Software Design".
Jorge Cerqueira
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on the "Automatic Repair of Behavioural Specifications".
Marco Barbosa
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on the "Verification of safety properties of ROS systems with TLA+/TLC".
Gonçalo Duarte
Supervision of the MSc thesis on the "Application of Formal Analysis Techniques to Robotic Software".
Patrícia Barreira
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on "A Formal Methods Perspective on NoSQL Distributed Transactions".

PAST STUDENTS

André Santos
Co-supervision of the PhD thesis on "High-assurance Robotics Software".
Rafael Moura
Supervision of the MSc thesis on the "Graph databases for HR relationships".
Pedro Silva
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis "Towards a Quantitative Alloy".
Renato Carvalho
Supervision of the MSc thesis on the "Analysis of Message Passing Software using Electrum".
Eduardo Pessoa
Supervision of the MSc thesis on "Parallel Verification of Dynamic Systems with Rich Configurations".
José Pereira
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on "A Web-based Social Environment for Alloy".
André Santos
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on "Applying Coding Standards to the Robot Operating System".
Miguel Costa
Co-supervision of the MSc thesis on "Software Quality for the Robot Operating System".

ACTIVITIES

ICT4S'22
OC member (web and virtualization).
IRC'21
PC member.
QRARSAC'21
PC member.
Tutorial@IROS'21
Improving the Software Quality of ROS Applications with HAROS, organizer and speaker.
Tutorial@FM'19
Formal software design with Alloy and Electrum, organizer and speak.

TEACHING

Computing Theory (TC)
BSc, Fall 2020, 2021 (L.EIC@FEUP)
Fundaments of Programming (FP)
BSc, Fall 2020, 2021 (L.EIC+MIEIC@FEUP)
Operating Systems (SO)
BSc, Spring 2021 (MIEIC@FEUP)
Formal Methods in Software Engineering (MFES)
MSc, Fall 2020 (MIEIC@FEUP)
Program Calculation (CP)
BSc, Spring 2020 (MIEI@UM)
Specification and Modelling (EM)
MSc, Fall 2015, 2018, 2019 (MIEI+MCC@UM)
Computer Labs I (LI1)
BSc, Fall 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 - 2017, 2019 (MIEI@UM)
Imperative Programming (PI)
BSc, Spring 2018 (MIEI@UM), 2019 (MIEI+LCC+MIEFis@UM)
Functional Programming (PF)
BSc, Fall 2016 (LCC+MIEFis@UM), 2017 (MIEI@UM)
Applied Informatics (LAD)
BSc, Spring 2017 (LLA@UM)
Software Development Labs (LDS)
BSc, Fall 2013 (LEI@IPP)
Checkout the LI1@UM Hall of Fame with the best student projects from 2013 to 2020.