Luís Soares Barbosa

Luís Soares Barbosa Luís Soares Barbosa

Current Position:	Associate Professor
Research:	HASLab (High-assurance Software Laboratory), a research unit at INESC TEC Member of IFIP TC 1 (Foundations of Computer Science)
	[FCT public key: J006763B66J] [DBLP ] [ACM Digital Library ] [RepositoriUM ]
Education:	DEng [Lesi], PhD [in Foundations Comp. Sci., Minho]
Address:	DI - Departamento de Informática, Escola de Engenharia Universidade do Minho
	Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal

[Email: lsb AT di uminho pt] [Telf: +351 253604463 (direct) or +351 253604430] [Fax: +351 253604471]

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Position Statement

: Software tecnology is pre-scientific in its lack of sound mathematical foundations to provide an effective basis to predict and certify programs' behaviour. Compared to other Engineering disciplines, we are somewhere in the 17th century. My research aims at improving scientific standards, seeking rigour and simplicity in software design and architecture through Mathematics. I do believe that, as Lenine once put it, nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Research Area and Publications

Main Research Area

Program semantics and calculi applied to systems understanding and rigorous software construction.


Applications:	Software components, services and architectures (Composition, reconfiguration and verification)
Focus:	Architectural patterns and calculi. Software connectors.
Foundations:	Coalgebra theory and coinductive reasoning. Modal and hybrid logics.
Method:	Correctness by construction.

Publications (most recent papers)

A coalgebraic perspective on logical interpretation
M. A. Martins, A. Madeira and L. S. Barbosa, in Studia Logica Special Issue on Abstract Algebraic Logic (in print), Springer. December, 2012.
A calculus for generic, QoS-aware component composition
L. S. Barbosa and Sun Meng, in Mathematics in Computer Science, 6 (3), Springer. November, 2012.
Analysing tactics in architectural patterns
Alejandro Sanchez, Ademar Aguiar, L. S. Barbosa, Daniel Riesco, in Proc. 35th Software Engineering Workshop, SEW-35, IEEE Press. Heraklion, October, 2012.
Software components as invariant-typed arrows
L. S. Barbosa, in SBLP'12 (CBSOFT keynote lecture), Springer Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci., 7554. Natal, September, 2012.
Reconfiguration mechanisms for service coordination
Nuno Oliveira and L. S. Barbosa, in WS-FM 2012 (Web Services and Formal Methods), Springer Lect. Notes in Comp. Sci. (to appear). Tallin, September, 2012.

All papers available from the following repositories: [DBLP ] [ACM Digital Library ] [RepositoriUM ]

Post-doc Fellows and Post-graduate Students

Current

PhD: Alexandre Madeira , co-supervision with Manuel Martins,Maths Departement, Aveiro University.
Theme: Foundations and techniques for software reconfigurability (An institution-independent approach to specifying and reasoning about reconfigurable systems) ( (Feb, 2009)
PhD: Alejandro Sanchez , co-supervision with Daniel Riesco, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina.
Theme: A calculus of architectural patterns (Mar, 2009)
PhD: Nuno Oliveira.
Theme: Architectural reconfiguration of interacting services (February, 2011)
PhD: Sara Fernandes, co-supervision with Antonio Cerone,IIST, United Nations University, Macau.
Theme: Peer-Production and Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Teaching and Learning (Sep, 2012)
MSc: Renato Neves, MSc in Informatics Engineering, DI, Univ. Minho
Theme: Proof support for Hybrid Logic (Nov, 2012)

Past Students

PhD: João Fernando Peixoto Ferreira, co-supervision with Roland Backhouse, University of Notthingham, UK.
Theme: Algorithmic problem solving: Principles and applications (concluded: 5 November, 2010)
PhD: Marco António Castro Barbosa.
Theme: Specification and refinement of software connectors (concluded: 7 September 2009)
PhD: Nuno Miguel Feixa Rodrigues.
Theme: Slicing techniques applied to architectural analysis of legacy software (concluded: 9 February, 2009)
PhD (co-supervision): Sun Meng, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University and UNU/IIST (Macau).
Theme: Coalgebra theory and its application to component software (concluded: 12 November 2004)
PhD: (visiting student) Shuling Wang, (DBLP) Visiting student from School of Mathematical Sciences of Peking University.
working on: Separation logic for object orientation (Apr to Jul, 2007)
MSc: Paula Cristina Soares Ribeiro, MSc in Computational Mathematics, Maths Dep., Univ. Minho.
Theme: Coinductive programming: Calculi and applications (in portuguese) (concluded: 16 March 2006)
MSc: David Rodrigues Sora, at CERN, Geneve, MSc in Informatics, Univ. Minho.
Theme: Formal specification of an object-oriented framework for designing control systems (concluded: 7 December 2007)
MSc: André Martins, MSc in Informatics Engineering, DI, Univ. Minho
Theme: An animator for the component calculus (concluded: 13 December 2011)

Professional Activities