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Visiting assistant professor
João M. Fernandes is an assistant professor at the Department of  Informatics, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). He finished his  Ph.D. in 2000 and from Sep/2002 until Feb/2003 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the TUCS Embedded Systems Laboratory (Turku,  Finland). João is a (co-)author of several scientific publications on international conferences, journals and chapters of books. He has already served as a scientific reviewer for an Addison-Wesley book, for several international conferences, and for IEEE, Elsevier, and  Springer international journals. He has also served as a member of  the Programme or Organizing Committees of international workshops and  conferences. His research interests focus mainly on Software 
Engineering, Embedded Software, and Software Modelling.
João will spend a 10-month sabatical period in DAIMI (from Sep/2006 until Jun/2007) and plans to study how to combine, from a modeling  perspective, both UML and CPN models. In particular, he is interested in the transformation of UML 2.0 sequence diagrams into CP-net models, to validate user requirements based on scenarios.
For more information, consult his website at http://www.di.uminho.pt/~jmf