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Ricardo Massa Ferreira Lima, PhD

Associate Professor

Center for Informatics

Federal University of Pernambuco (CIn / UFPE)


Short CV

  • Associate Professor (2008-Present), Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), Brazil
  • Associate Professor (2002-2008), Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE), Brazil
  • Post-Doc in Computer Science (2001), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • PhD in Computer Science (1996-2000), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) -Brazil
  • MSc in Computer Science (1994-1995), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE) - Brazil
  • BSc in Computer Science (1989-1993), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) – Brazil

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How to reach me

Postal Address:

Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
CEP: 50732-970
Recife-PE - Brazil

Tel: (+55 81) 2126-8430

Fax: (+55 81) 2126-8438

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Research interests:
    • Performance Evaluation of Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS)
    Currently, much of the technological infrastructure is event driven where systems output is dependent on a sequence of desirable actions taking place. In well-controlled environments, the action sequence may be structured and deterministic. However, elsewhere in the society, the action sequence may be fuzzy or even stochastic. This makes the evaluation of performance metrics a much more difficult task. Many of the sequential event-driven systems available may be modeled as Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS). The activation of events depends on logical conditions, which are important part of the system and its mathematical model.

    Studies related to DEDS have been under development since the late 1970s. The interest in DEDS receive a new impulse in late 1990s, when Petri nets and other techniques began to receive serious consideration.

    Our interest in this topic stems from our research on using Stochastic Petri nets to evaluate the performance of different kinds of DEDS, in particular power aware real-time systems, workflow management systems, and outbound logistic.

    • Capacity Planning
    current interest: service-oriented e-Business system modeled using BPEL (a business process execution language for Web services);
    • Compiler Construction and Optimization
    current interest: compiler optimization of power aware real-time systems;
    • Automatic Verification of Software Quality
    current interest: techniques based on static analysis

    Projects
    • MPhyscas
    • R-Tool

    Teaching

    Computação Eletrônica (in Portuguese)