Plácido A. Souza Neto
PhD in Computer Science
I'm Full Professor (Professor Titular) at IFRN (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology) in Natal-RN, Brazil. I held position at Grenoble Alpes University (France) as Post-doctoral fellow between 2014 and 2015. My actual research includes Database Systems, specially on interactive analysis of spatiotemporal data, and Internet of Things. I was Undergraduate Course Coordinator (Analysis and System Development Technology) at IFRN from March 2017 to Abril 2020. I also was Director of Education for the IFRN Natal Central Campus from May 2020, for almost 3 years. I also held position at Orléans University (France) between 2023 and 2024 as Postdoctoral Researcher at Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO), Université d'Orléans, in cooperation with LIFAT Laboratoire - Université de Tours and LLL Laboratoire - Université d'Orléans over the domain of Data Science Queries: Language and Algorithms in the context of DOING - APR-IA project.
Research Interests
My research interests include Data Science Queries, Graph Data Science, Graph Neural Networks, Graph Embedding, Graph Database Systems, Urban Data Science, Spatial-Temporal analysis, Data analysis and Internet of Things. I have worked on Big Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Service-Oriented Approaches, Model-Driven Development and Software Engineering.
Positions - Career Profile
[From March 2023] Full Professor (Professor Titular - in Brazil) at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil
[From March 2023 to Feb 2024] Postdoctoral Fellow at Université d'Orléans - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO), A13 Office - France - Data Science Queries: Language and Algorithms; Coordinator : Mirian Halfeld Ferrari Alves (PAMDA team of the LIFO).
[From March 2012 to March 2023] Associate Professor at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil
[May 2020 to Feb 2023] Director of Education for the Natal Central Campus (CNAT) at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil;
[March 2017 to Abril 2020] Undergraduate Course Coordinator (Analysis and System Development Technology) at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil;
[September 2014 to August 2015] Postdoctoral Fellow at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) France, HADAS team "Service-Level Agreement (SLA) Guided Data Processing by Composing Services"; Coordinator : Genoveva Vargas Solar (CNRS-LIG-Grenoble) Sponsoring agency: CAPES/Brazil;
[[August 2007 to August 2012] Adjunct Professor at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil;
[September 2005 to July 2007] Assistant Professor at Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil;
[September 2011 to May 2012] PhD stage at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) France, HADAS team "A Methodology for Building Service-Oriented Applications in the Presence of Non-Functional Properties". Supervisor : Genoveva Vargas Solar (CNRS-LIG-Grenoble) Sponsoring agency: CAPES/Brazil;
Degrees
2019 - Qualification in Section 27 (Maître de Conférences / CNU / France) - Habilitation to Compete for Teaching Associate Position in French Universities.
2012 - PhD in Computer Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil [with 9 months ofstage at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) France, HADAS team] "A Methodology for Building Service-Oriented Applications in the Presence of Non-Functional Properties". Supervisors : Martin Alejandro Musicante (UFRN) and Genoveva Vargas Solar (CNRS-LIG-Grenoble) Defended in 11/12/2012.
2007 - Master in Computer Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil "JCML: Java Card Modeling Language - Definição e Implementação". Supervisor : Anamaria MArtins Moreira (UFRN) Defended in 06/09/2007.
2005 - Bachelor degree in Software Development Technology, Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte - Natal/Brazil "Proposta de Modelo para Gerência de Conhecimento em Acompanhamento de Projeto de Software". Supervisor : João Maria Filgueira (IFRN) Defended in July/2005.
Publications
Journals
João Moreno Vilas Boas, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Israel Philipe Assunção Medeiros, Vinícius Pereira da Silva Oliveira, Eugênio Pacelly Brandão De Araújo. An educational robotic approach for improvements of learning in technology courses. Brazilian Journal ofDevelopment, Curitiba, v.7, n.1, p.2357-2375 Jan. 2021.
Thiago Medeiros Barros, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Ivanovitch Silva, Luiz Affonso Guedes. Predictive models for imbalanced data: a school dropout perspective. MDPI Education Sciences Journal - 2019.
Khalid Belhajjame, Valeia de Castro, Javier A. Espinosa-Oviedo, Martin Musicante, Umberto Costa, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Jose Luis Zechinelli-Martini. πSOD-M: building SOC applications in the presence of non-functional requirements. International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS) 14(4): 400-431, 2018.
Plácido A. Souza Neto, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Genoveva ; Umberto Costa, Martin Musicante. Designing Service-Based Applications in the Presence of Non-Functional Properties: A Mapping Study. Information and Software Technology, v. 69, p. 84-105, 2016.
Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Valeria de Castro, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Javier Espinosa-Oviedo, Esperanza Marcos, Martin Musicante, Jose Luis Zechinelli-Martini, Chistine Collet. Reliable Web Services Composition: An MDD Approach. Polibits, v. 49, p. 17-27, 2014.
Umberto Costa, Anamaria Moreira, Martin Musicante, Plácido A. Souza Neto. JCML: A specification language for the runtime verification of Java Card programs. Science of Computer Programming, v. 77, p. 533-550, 2012.
Umberto Costa, Aanamaria Moreira, Martin Musicante, Plácido A. Souza Neto. Specification and Runtime Verification of Java Card Programs. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, v. 240, p. 61-78, 2009.
International Conferences/Workshops/Technical Reports
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Francisco B. Silva Junior, Felipe Pontes. Exploration of Interesting Dense Regions on Spatial Data. 3rd International Workshop on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA) in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2020).
Plácido A. Souza Neto, Francisco B. Silva Junior, Felipe Pontes, Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani. Exploration of Interesting Dense Regions in Spatial Data. CoRR abs/1903.04049 (2019).
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Felipe Pontes and Francisco B. Silva Junior. GeoGuide: An Interactive Guidance Approach for Spatial Data. DARLI-AP 2017 1st International workshop on Data Analytics solutions for Real-LIfe APplications in conjunction with The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Data.
Daniel Carvalho, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Nadia Bennani, Chirine Ghedira-Guegan. Rhone: a quality-based query rewriting algorithm for data integration. ADBIS 2016 20th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems.
Daniel Carvalho, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Nadia Bennani, Chirine Ghedira-Guegan. Can Data Integration Quality Be Enhanced on Multi-cloud Using SLA?. 26th International Conference (DEXA) 2015, v. 9262. p. 145-152.
Valeria de Castro, Martin Musicante, Umberto Costa, Plácido A. Souza Neto, Genoveva Vargas-Solar. Supporting Non-functional Requirements in Services Software Development Process: An MDD Approach. 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM) 2014: 199-210
Juliana Araújo, Rafael Souza, Nélio Cacho, Anamaria Moreira, Plácido A Souza Neto. Handling contract violations in Java card using explicit exception channels. 5th International Workshop on Exception Handling (WEH, ICSE) 2012: 34-40.
National Conferences/Workshops
Plácido A. Souza Neto, Camila Teixeira, Helora Monteiro, Samara Revoredo da Silva, João Moreno Vilas Boas, Sarah Thomaz. Design and Development of a Mechanism for Rubiks' Cube Solution Aiming Robotics Teaching. 8th Workshop of Robotics in Education (WRE 2017) joint to LARS’2017 – 14rd Latin American Robotics Symposium
Plácido A. Souza Neto, Martin Musicante, Genoveva Vargas-Solar, Jose Luis Zechinelli-Martini. Adding Contracts to a Web Service Composition Language. Workshop on Languages and Tools for Multithreaded, Parallel and Distributed Programming. Salvador-Brazil, 2010.
Umberto Costa, Anamaria Moreira, Martin Musicante, Plácido A. Souza Neto. Specification and Runtime Verification of Java Card Program. 11th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF). Salvador-Brazil, 2008.
Doctoral Jury
Rafael de Morais Pinto (UFRN) - 2022 - A Framework for Multidimensional Assessment of Public Health Interventions.
Aguinaldo Bezerra Batista Júnior (UFRN) - 2021 - Abordagem Baseada em Grafo de Conhecimento para Análise de Registros de Alarmes e Eventos Industriais.
João Batista de Souza Neto (UFRN) - 2020 - Mutação de Transformações para Testes de Programas Spark.
Thiago Medeiros Barros (UFRN) - 2020 - Um Processo Orientado a Dados Para Geração de Modelo de Predição de Evasão Escolar.
Francisco Sales de Lima Filho (UFRN) - 2019 - Smart Defender: Um Sistema de Detecção e Mitigação de Ataques DOS/DDOS Usando Aprendizagem de Máquina.
Bruno Neiva Moreno (UFPE) - 2016 - Representação e Análise de Encontros Espaço-temporais Publicados em Redes Sociais Online.
Master Jury
Jaine Rannow Budke (UFRN) - 2022 - Face Biometrics for Differentiating Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder: a methodology for collecting and evaluating a dataset.
Tuany Mariah Lima do Nascimento (UFRN) - 2022 - Using Semi-Supervised Learning Models for Creating a New Fake News Dataset from Twitter Posts: a Case Study on Covid-19 in the UK and Brazil.
Juliana Caroline Gonçalves de Araújo Silva Marques (UFRN) - 2021 - The Impact of Feature Selection Methods on Online Handwritten Signature by Using Clustering-Based Analysis.
Bruno dos Santos Fernandes da Silva (UFRN) - 2021 - An Investigative Analysis of Gender Bias in Judicial Data Using Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques.
Denis José Sousa de Albuquerque (UFRN) - 2019 - Identificação de Dificuldades e Questões de Interesse de Desenvolvedores de Aplicações Big Data com o Framework Apache Spark.
Valmiro Ribeiro da Silva (UFRN) - 2019 - An Investigation of Biometric-Besed User Predictability in the Online Game League of Legends.
Vítor Alcântara de Almeira (UFRN) - 2016 - WPTrans: Um Assistente para Verificação de Programas em Frama-C.
Personal
Ana Flávia Machado is my beloved wife. She is my favorite photographer, and it is wonderful the result of the match between Computer Science and Photography. The result is a lovely and meaningful life: Our little boys (Drummers): Lucas Kauai (Old Trafford Stadium) and Luiz Benício; Family in Orléans; Family in London; Family in Leeds, visiting a close friend; Family in Paris; Family in Natal/BR; Family in Studio/BR; My Music Companions: my drummers, Lucas and Benício.
