Helena Cristina Rodrigues

Affiliation

Education

• PhD in Computer Science,  University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K., (1998).
• MSc in Computer Science,  Universidade do Minho , Portugal (1993)
• Licenciatura in Engenharia de Sistemas e Informática, Universisdade do Minho, Portugal (1991)

Research Interests

• Distributed Systems Management
• Object-oriented Technology and Mobile Computing
• Distributed Embedded Systems
• Distributed Applications
• Distributed Memory Management
• Mobile Computing
• System Support for Ubiquitous computing
  

Relevant Publications

• Pascoe, J., Thomson, K and Rodrigues, H., Context-Awareness in the Wild: an Investigation into the Existing Uses of Context in Everyday Life, Workshop on Context Aware Mobile Systems (CAMS'07, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops, Eds. Meersman, Tari, Herrero et al, pp. 1884-1893, Springer, November 2007. To be published.

• Pascoe, J., Rodrigues, H. and Ariza, C., An Investigation into a Universal Context Model to Support Context-Aware Applications, Workshop on Context Aware Mobile Systems (CAMS'06, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, Springer LNCS 4278 Part II, Eds. Meersman, Tari, Herrero et al, pp. 1884-1893, November 2006.
• Fernandes, J. M., Machado, R. J., Monteiro, P., Rodrigues, H., A Demonstration Case on the Transformation of Software Architectures for Service Specification, Proceedings of the 5th IFIP Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems - DIPES 2006, Braga, Portugal, October, 2006, IFIP Series, Springer-Verlag, New York, U.S.A.
• Machado, R. J., Fernandes, J. M., Monteiro, P., Rodrigues, H., Refinement of Software Architectures by Recursive Model Transformations,J. Munch, M. Vierimaa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement - PROFES06, Amsterdam, Netherland, June, 2006, pp. 422-428, LNCS Series vol. 4034, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany.

• Rodrigues, H., Pascoe, J. and Ariza, C., On the Development of an Open Platform for m-Government Services, In IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems (MOBIS'05), Leeds, UK, Kluwer, December/05. Accepted fo publication.
• Machado R.J., Fernandes J.M., Monteiro P. and Rodrigues H., Transformation of UML Models for Service-Oriented Software Architectures, In 12th IEEE International Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2005), Greenbelt, MD, E.U.A., pp.~173--82, IEEE Computer Society Press, Abr/2005, ISBN 0-7695-2308-0

• Arouca, D.; Figueiredo, C.; José, R.; Machado, R.; Monteiro, P.; Moreira, A.; Pascoe, J.; Pinheiro, L.; Rodrigues, H.; Santos, L.; Santos, M.; Silva, A. e Tilsner, D., Os Sistemas de Informação Geográfica no suporte a Serviços Móveis para o Cidadão, In VIII Encontro de Utilizadores de Informação Geográfica, Oeiras, 2-4 Junho, 2004

• Rui José, Adriano Moreira, Helena Rodrigues, and Nigel Davies, The AROUND architecture for location-based services, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), the Journal of Special Issues on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing. ISSN 1383-469X,  Special issue on Mobile & Wireless Data Management, 2003.  
• Rui José, Filipe Menezes, Adriano Moreira, Helena Rodrigues and Noé Vilas Boas, System Support for Integrated Ubiquitous Computing Environments, In UbiSys - System Support for Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp’03  Workshop, Seattle, USA, October 2003. 
• H. Rodrigues, Rui José, Adriano Moreira and Hélder Pinto, Hypergeo: context-aware access to geographic information for mobile users, Proceedings of the 12^th IST Summit on Mobile & Wireless communications, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2003. Instituto de Telecomunicações Editor. ISBN 972-98368-1-7.

• H. Rodrigues and R. Jones,  Cyclic distributed garbage collection with group merger  In Eric Jul, editor, Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 249-273, Brussels, July 1998. Springer.

• H. Rodrigues and R. Jones, A cyclic distributed garbage collector for Network Objects. In Ozalp Babaoglu and Keith Marzullo, editors, Tenth International Workshopon Distributed Algorithms WDAG'96, number 1151 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 123-140, Bologna, Italy, October 1996.

    Theses and Dissertations

• H. Rodrigues,  Cyclic Distributed Garbage Collection, PhD Dissertation, University of Kent, UK, 1998.
• H. Rodrigues, Implementação Distribuída de CAMILA, MSc.  Dissertation, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, 1993.

USE-ME.GOV - USability-drivEn open platform for Mobile GOVernment

European Commission - 6FP Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme, Contract nº 002294.
Collaborating Institutions: PortugalSpace, S.A. (Portugal) - Coordinator, Retevisión Móvil, S.A (Spain),  Universidade do Minho - Centro Algoritmi (Portugal), Town Hall Vila Nova de Cerveira (Portugal), Indra Systems, S.A. (Spain), Asociación Extremeña de Formación Tecnológica (Spain), The Poznan University of Economics (Poland), Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information technology (Germany), Arakne S.R.I. (Italy), City Hall of Bologna (Italy), IntuiLab, S.A. (France).
 Principal investigator at UM and co-author of proposal (Jan./04-Fev./06)

VADE - Value Added Environments for Dynamic Support to Location-Based  Services in UMTS Networks

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Programa PRAXIS XXI.
Collaborating Institutions: Associação Centro de Computação Gráfica - CCG/ZGDV, PT Inovação, and Movensis.
Researcher (Feb./02-Jan./04)

Hypergeo - Easy and friendly access to geographic information for mobile users

European Commission-5FP Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme, IST-1999-11641.
Collaborating Institutions: Matra Systèmes et Information, Nouvelles Frontières España, Universidade do Minho, Institut Jozef Stefan, University of Eduction at Hradec Kralove, CAS Software AG, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, City University, and CETIR.
www.hypergeo.org
Principal investigator at UM and co-author of proposal (Jan./00-Dec./01)

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Programa PRAXIS XXI (PRAXIS/P/EEI/14267/1998.)
Collaborating Institutions: Universidade do Minho, INESC, IDITE-MINHO and Câmara Municipal de Guimarães.
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Researcher (Jul/98-Nov./01)

Teaching

• Métodos de Programação, Licenciatura em Engenharia de Comunicações, 1º semestre (Aulas Teóricas)
• Sistemas Operativos, Compiladores e Ambientes de Exploração, Licenciatura em Informática de Gestão, anual (Aulas Práticas)
• Seminário em Computação Móvel, Mestrado em Sistemas de Informação

•  Sistemas Operativod, Compiladores e Ambientes de Exploração, Licenciatura em Informática de Gestão, anual  (Aulas Teóricas e Práticas)
• Seminário em Computação Móvel, Mestrado em Sistemas de Informação

• Sistemas de Informação Distribuídos, Mestrado em Sistemas de Informação
• Sistemas Operativos, Compiladores e Ambientes de Exploração, Licenciatura em Informática de Gestão, 2º semestre (Aulas Teóricas e Práticas)

Contact

E-Mail: helena@dsi.uminho.pt
Phone: +351 253 510308
Fax: +351 253 510300