João Luís Ferreira Sobral


Professor at:
Departamento de Informática
Universidade do Minho

Phone: +351 253 604459 (ext. 4459 or 4439)
(Laboratório de Investigação de Arquitectura de Computadores)

Teaching

Interest areas

Projects

Publications

Talks

Novidades


Teaching

·         Opção - Visão por Computador - LESI/LMCC 5º Ano (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Opção - Arquitecturas Paralelas I - LESI 4º Ano (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Visão por Computador - MICEI (06/07, 05/06, 04/05, 03/04, 02/03)

·         Sistemas Digitais I – LESI 2º Ano (06/07)

·         Conceitos de Sistemas Informáticos – LESI 1º Ano (05/06)

·         Laboratórios Integrados III - LECOM 2ºAno (05/06)

·         Arquitectura de Computadores II - LESI 3º Ano (04/05, 03/04, 02/03, 01/02, 00/01)

·         Opção - Arquitecturas Paralelas II - LESI 5º Ano (04/05)

·         Computação Paralela - MICEI (04/05)


Areas of Interest

·         Computer Architecture (super-scalar architectures, multi-core, multithread support, virtual machine support)

·         Object oriented programming and aspect-oriented programming (object and aspect design patterns)

·         Parallel Computing (design of scalable applications, run-time systems, GRID computing)

·         Computer Vision (wavelet processing for inline automatic inspection)


Funded projects (current)

·         AspectGrid: Pluggable Grid Aspects for Scientific Applications
Project leader, funded by FCT, 138 K€, GRID/GRI/81880/2006

·         PPC-VM: Parallel Computing Based on Virtual Machines (March 2004 - November 2007) http://gec.di.uminho.pt/ppc-vm
Project leader, funded by FCT, 74 K€, POSI/CHS/47158/2002

·         SeARCH: Services and Advanced Research Computing with HTC/HPC clusters (September 2004 – ) http://www.di.uminho.pt/search
Researcher, Project funded by FCT, 240 K€ CONC-REEQ/443/EEI/2005

Projects (old)

·         AUTOMAP: Automatic System for the Mapping of Existing Defects on Tanned Leather (October 2003 - July 2004)
Scientific consulter - PSEC funded by IDITE-Minho

·         SIGMA: SIstema de Geo-referenciação Móvel Assistido por Imagem (July 2003 - July 2005)
Researcher - Project funded by ADI (POCTI - Medida 2.3 [POSI – Medida 1.3])

·         ViAr - Arqueologia Virtual e Acessível com Computação Adaptativa em Cluster (March 2002 - March 2005)
Researcher - Project funded by FCT, 63 K€, POSI/42041/CHS/2001

·         SETNA Ambientes Escaláveis, Ferramentas e Algoritmos Numéricos (May 1997 - May 2000),
Researcher, PRAXIS XXI,

 


Publications (selection)

Full list of publications

C. Cunha, J. Sobral. An Annotation-Based Framework for Parallel Computing, 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2007), Naples, February 2007, IEEE Computer Society, 2007. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF

J. Fernando, J. Sobral, A. Proenca. JaSkel: A Java Skeleton-Based Framework for Structured Cluster and Grid Computing, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2006), Singapore, May 2006, IEEE Computer Society, 2006. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF

J. Sobral. Incrementally Developing Parallel Applications with AspectJ, 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'06), Greece, Rhodes, April 2006, IEEE Computer Society, 2006. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF, presentation

C. Cunha, J. Sobral, M. Monteiro, Reusable Aspect-Oriented Implementation of Concurrency Patterns and Mechanisms, Fifth ACM International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD'06), Bonn, Germany, March 2006. http://portal.acm.org/, PDF (© ACM, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution)

J. Sobral. Optimised Filters for Texture Defect Detection, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'05), Genova, Italy, September 2005, IEEE Computer Society, 2005. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/, PDF


Recent talks

·         Pluggable Parallel Patterns, 1º Encontro de Utilizadores Search, Universidade do Minho, 28 de Fevereiro 2007.

·         An Annotation-Based Framework for Parallel Computing, 15th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing, Naples, February 2007.

·         Recolha de medidas antropométricas assistida por computador, Apresentação do livro “Estudo antropométrico da população portuguesa”, Guimarães, 6 de Novembro de 2006.

·         Portable Parallel Computing, Sessão de apresentação de projectos, Núcleo de estudantes ACM Minho, Braga, 24 Outubro 2006.

·         Aspect-Oriented Pluggable Support for Parallel Computing, 6th International Meeting of Vector and Parallel Processing (VecPar’2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, June 2006.

·         JaSkel: A Java Skeleton-Based Framework for Structured Cluster and Grid Computing, 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2006), Singapore, May 2006.

·         Incrementally Developing Parallel Applications with AspectJ, 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'06), Greece, Rhodes, April 2006.

·         Aspect-Oriented Support for Modular Parallel Computing, Jornadas de Informática (JOIN'06), Universidade do Minho, 5-7 de Abril de 2006.


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