Education and interests

• Dr. Eng., 1997 - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção (UFSC / PPGEP), with research abroad at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Virginia Tech / ME, visiting researcher, 08/94 to 10/95), and at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, guest researcher, 11/95 to 10/96).
Advisor: Ricardo Miranda Barcia, Ph.D. (UFSC / PPGEP)
Co-advisor: Jan Helge Bøhn, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech / ME)
Thesis: Manutenibilidade da Semântica de Modelos de Dados de Produtos Compartilhados em Rede Interoperável
• M. Eng., 1991 - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção (UFSC / PPGEP).
Orientador: Ricardo Miranda Barcia, Ph.D. (UFSC / PPGEP)
Dissertação: Uma Abordagem de Inteligência Artificial para o Problema de Programação da Produção
• Engenheiro civil, 1987 - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).

• Peer review
• Metrics (scientometrics, bibliometrics)
• Process mechanism and explanation (systemic analysis according to Bunge)
  
• Metrics of process (e.g. validity, reliability) and of authors' and referees' records in time
• Computational support to automate analyses and assessment of processes, works, and feedbacks
  
• Applications in education
• Student self-organization of peer review rounds
  
• Applications in business
  
• Modeling
• Systemic modeling and analysis (CESM-Bunge)
  
• Database/information modeling
• Translation between natural and modeling languages
• Ontologies and knowledge modeling (esp. a non-functionalist view of knowledge engineering - one that allows for insighting, serendipity and other possibilities through support for human thinking instead of automatically doing the 'thinking')
  
• Ontology (esp. Bunge's systemism, CESM model - Composition, Environment, Structure, and Mechanism)
• Use of this ontology in high-level modeling (higher than the CommonKADS contextual models), including for modeling computer-processable ontologies
  
• Information systems, knowledge systems
• e-gov platforms
• Information exchange, common ontologies