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INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCES

Keynote Talks

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  • Abrahão S. Quality assurance in model-driven development: a Multimodeling approach. Invited Speech at 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, January 7-9, 2014.

  • Abrahão S. Bridging the Gap between Model-driven Development and Web Project Estimation. Invited Speech at the Workshop on Web Quality, Verification and Validation (IWWQVV 2007), co-located with the 7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2007), Como, Italy, July 16, 2007, 978-88-902405-2-2, pp. 321-322.

  • Abrahão S. Early Life-Cycle Estimation for Web Projects
    Invited Speech at the Australian Conference on Software Measurement (ACOSM 2005), co-located with the 2005 Empirical Software Engineering International Week, Organized by ASMA (Australian Software Metrics Conference), Noosa Heads, Australia, 17-18 Nov 2005.

  • Abrahão S. Metrics for Estimating the Quality of Web Projects, Invited Speech at the 2nd Software Engineering Conference (SPOL 2005), Organized by IS8 Component of Software Engineering & IEEE Computer Society, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 29-30 Sept 2005, In the Conference Magazine: ISSN 1390-292X.

  • Abrahão S. OOWS: An Approach for the Conceptual Modeling of Web Applications (in Spanish) 11th National Congress Computer Science, Software Engineering, Medellín, Colombia, March 2002 (in Spanish).

Courses and Seminars Taught

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  • Seminar “Empirical Methods in Software Engineering: Guidelines and Practical Examples”, University of Malaga, Master’s Program in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, December 2000, December 2021 and December 2022.

  • Invited Professor at the National University of Asunción (UNA), Paraguay, MSc in Information Technology and Communications , Course "Software Quality and Metrics" August 2012, August 2013, December 2014 and December 2015.

  • Tutorial "Empirical Research in Model Based Software Engineering" by Michel Chaudron, Marcela Genero, Silvia Abrahão, Jon Whittle, and Lars Pareto, at the ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2013), Miami, USA, September 30, 2013.

  • Seminar “Integrating Usability into Model-Driven Web Development" at the Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8, 2012.

  • Seminar “Early Usability Evaluation in Web Application Development" at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy, January 2012.

  • Seminar “Experiences on Applying Theoretical Models for Evaluating Functional Size Measurement Methods” at the Department of Software Engineering, Charles University, Prague, December 2008.

  • Seminar at Informatics Faculty of the Technical University of Madrid: Metrics for New Technologies and Object-Orientation. Organized by the Spanish Association of Software Metrics, 16 March 2005 (8 hours).

  • Course at Informatics Faculty of Informatics, University of Lins, Sao Paulo, Brazil: Programming in Java, 10 to 24 de October 1997 (30 hours).

  • Specialization course "A Practical Introduction to Software Transformation Systems", Centro de Apoyo Científico y Tecnológico a la Investigación (CACIT), University of Vigo, Spain, February 1999 (30 hours).

Selected Invited Talks​

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  • Abrahão S. “On the Effectiveness of Goal-Oriented Modeling Languages: Value@GRL vs. iStar”, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University pf Watterloo, Canada, January 2019.

  • Abrahão S. “Monitoring the Quality of Services using Models@Runtime”, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, November 20217.

  • Abrahão S. Monitoring the quality of cloud services using models@runtime, Invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, January 11 2017.

  • Abrahão S. “A Multimodeling Approach for Architecture Derivation and Evaluation” at the Modularity and Software Architecture at PUC-RIO, Brazil, March 18, 2013.

  • Insfran E., Abrahão S. Multiple Views and Relationships for Quality Driven Architecture with AADL, AADL Standards Meeting, co-located with the SAE 2012 Power Systems Conference, Oct 30-Nov 1, 2012, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

  • Invited talk “Multimodeling Approach for Quality-Aware Software Product Lines” Rolls-Royce Software Centre of Excellence, Rolls-Royce plc, Derby, UK, December 1-2, 2009.

  • Invited talk “A Multimodeling Approach for Cloud Computing” during the Google EMEA Faculty Summit, Software Engineering Track, 10-12 February 2009, Zurich.

  • Abrahão S. Evaluating Functional Size Measurement Methods: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Invited conference at U. Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 2007. Organized by Prof. Esperanza Marcos.

  • Abrahão S. Estimating Web Projects: Project Size Measurement and Indicators Generation. Invited Speech at 2nd Software Engineering Conference, Organized by IS8 Component of SE & IEEE Computer Society, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 29-30 Sept 2005, In Conf. Magazine: ISSN 1390-292X.

  • Abrahão S. Empirical Evaluation of Functional Size Measurement Method (in Spanish) Experience Exchange Session of the Spanish Association of Software Metrics. In conjunction with the presentation of the International Software Benchmarking Standards Group (ISBSG) repository by Peter Hill. Technical University of Madrid, Spain, September 2003.

  • Invited talk at Spanish Association of Software Metrics (AEMES): Empirical Evaluation of Functional Size Measurement Method. In conjunction with the seminary about the ISBSG repository by Peter Hill. Technical University of Madrid, Spain, September 2003.

  • Abrahão S. Metrics for Web Applications: Theoretical and Empirical Validation (in Spanish) 2003 Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Software Metrics, Madrid, Spain, October 2003 (in Spanish).

  • Abrahão S. Extending an OO Metric to Sizing Web Applications, 2002 Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Software Metrics (AEMES 2002), Madrid, Spain, November 2002 (in Spanish).

  • Abrahão S. Estimating the Software Functional Size from Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemas, 2001 Annual Conference of the Spanish Association of Software Metrics (AEMES 2001), Madrid, Spain, October 2001 (in Spanish).

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