INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES in one of the organizers of Hackacity

INES is one of the partner institutions behind the first brazilian edition of hackacity (http://hackacity.eu), which being held on May 27th and 28th in Olinda/Recife and simultaneously in Porto (Portugal), Santander (Spain) and Amersfoort/Utrecht (Netherlands). Hackacity is a hackathon that aims to test big data and promotes its use to develop solutions that will have an impact in the city, but also foster collaboration amongst stakeholders. For 24 hours, participants get together to develop solutions based in open source platforms as FIWARE to address challenges faced by the citizens, using data provided by the city.

Claudio Nascimento, vice-president of the Brazilian Network of Human Smart Cities, is in charge of the organization of the event in Brazil. Kiev Gama (CIn-UFPE), INES researcher, and Sergio Soares (ISI-TICs/CIn-UFPE), INES Executive Coordinator, are in charge of the technical coordination of Hackacity Brazil. Herbertt Diniz, researcher from INES, will provide a workshop on the FIWARE platform during the morning of may 27th, just before the event. More details about the brazilian edition can be found in the official website: http://olinda-recife.hackacity.eu

INES at AMW 2016

Diego Ernesto Rosa Pessoa will attend the Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2016) to present the following papers: “Towards a Multi-Layer Architecture for Combination of Schema Matchers” and “A Query-driven and Incremental Process for Entity Resolution“. The Alberto Mendelzon Workshop is an initiative of the Latin American community of researchers in data management. This event is held annually since 2006, and it aims to create opportunities for dissemination and exchange of research results from globally produced investigations, encouraging participants to propose innovative and technological developments. The 10th edition will be held in Panama City, Panama from June 6th to 10th 2016.

INES at SERP’16 – The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice

The researcher Marcel Oliveira, from UFRN, will attend the SERP’16 – The 14th International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice. He will present the paper “A Validation Strategy for an Automatic Code Generator using Java Pathfinder”.

Equipment to support research at UFPE (Ubitrans)

The INES project “UbiTrans – Recomendação de Rotas usando Transporte Público Multimodal” is acquiring a notebook to support research at the Universidade Federal of Pernambuco.