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Andrey Soares

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University.


My research interest is primarily in the area of:
Ontology-Driven Information Systems

My advisor and mentor is Dr. Frederico Fonseca.

I am also interested in:

  • Information Systems Analysis and Design
  • Ontology Engineering and Reasoning
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Domain and Business Modeling
  • Design Science
  • Scenario-Based Design
Internship - Summer 2008
Model-Driven Business Transformation Group
Business Informatics Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

 

Publications

WORKING PAPERS

Soares, A., Linehan, M.H., Extending EMF to implement SBVR.

Soares, A., Fonseca, F., Building Ontologies for Information Systems: A Quest for Methodologies.

Soares, A., Fonseca, F., A Scenario-Based Ontology for Information Systems Design. UNDER REVIEW

Haynes, S., Kannampallil, T. G., Ritter, F., Cohen, M., Soares, A., Rampart: A Service and Agent-based Architecture for Anti-Terrorism Planning and Resource Allocation. UNDER REVIEW

REFEREED PAPERS

Soares, A., Fonseca, F., Ontology-Driven Information Systems at Development Time. IJCSS – The Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals – Special Issue. Published by the International Association for the Advancement of Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (IAAMSAD). Forthcoming. Accepted in June 2007.

Soares, A., Ontologies and Scenarios as Knowledge Representation for use in Design Research. SIGCHI-Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2006) - Workshop on Exploring Design as a Research Activity. University Park, PA. 2006

Soares, A., Thiry, M., Specification of a MIB XML for Systems Management. Proceedings of the LCN 2002 - 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Network, Tampa, Florida - USA. 2002. p.241-248

Soares, A., Thiry, M., Borges, P. S. S., Odontological patients clustering based on ART2 neural network. VII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computaciσn, El Calafate, Argentina. October, 16-20, 2001.

Soares, A., Thiry, M., A solution for systems management in Linux. VII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computaciσn, El Calafate, Argentina. October, 16-20 2001. p. 1-8. (Portuguese)

Soares, A., Thiry, M., Borges, P. S. S., Patients clustering based on Odontological Anamnesis form: an ART2 application. ENEGEP 2001 - XXI Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produηγo, Salvador, Bahia – Brazil. October, 17-19 2001. (Portuguese)

Soares, A., Ferro, H., Supporting tools for teaching computer networks and Distributed Systems: Lessons Learned. II Scientific Initiation Seminar – FURB - UNIVALI - UNOESC - UNISUL - FERJ. Itajai – Brazil. October, 30 - November, 1 1997. (Portuguese)

BOOK REVIEW

Soares, A., Book Review: Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-peer Networks, by Dinesh C. Verma. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - JASIST. Vol. 57, No 2. 2006. pp. 293-294. (Published online 19 October 2005).

PRESENTATIONS / POSTERS

Soares, A., Ontology-Driven Information Systems at Development Time. Design Research Workshop, June 1, 2007, Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA.

Soares, A., Ontology-Driven Information Systems at Development Time. Doctoral Symposium - ISOneWorld Conference. April, 13 2007. Las Vegas, NV.

Soares, A., Sharing Ontologies with Peer-to-peer networks. Graduate Exibhition - Pennsylvania State University. 2005. University Park, PA 

Soares, A., Ferro, H., Supporting tools for teaching computer networks and Distributed Systems. I Scientific Initiation Seminar – UNIVALI. Itajai – Brazil. September, 24-29 1996. (Portuguese)

MASTER'S THESIS

Soares, A., Specification of a MIB XML to management systems . Computer Science Department – Federal University of Santa Catarina. Florianopolis, SC – Brazil. 2001 (Portuguese)

 

Projects

SBVR Tool Design and Development

SBVR (Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules) is a standard, proposed by Object Management Group (OMG), for modeling and representing vocabulary and rules of a business domain.
Supervisor: Mark Linehan - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Period: Summer 2008

IBM Research

RAMPART

The Rampart anti-terrorism planning system is the product of a three-year collaboration between the United States Marine Corps and the Penn State University - College of Information Sciences & Technology. Rampart is a decision model realized in a cognitive support system designed to be used by anti-terrorism officers, facilities planners, public works officers, and emergency response personnel. The model and system provide support for asset prioritization, calculation of anti-terrorism mitigation project utilities, and resource allocation.
Supervisor: Dr. Steve Haynes and Dr. Frank Ritter - Penn State University
Period: Summer 2006 - Summer 2007

Penn State

ONTOLOGIES IN ACTION

An information architecture to support investigation of linked Health-Environment Interaction using ConceptVISTA, an ontology creation and visualization tool developed by researchers at the GeoVISTA Center, that allows users to define and link concepts and resources pertaining to a conceptual domain. Users can add and view additional information related to concepts and resources. ConceptVISTA stores ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) format and can import outside ontologies. ConceptVISTA provides users with a useful set of ontology management functions.
Supervisor: Dr. Fred Fonseca and Dr. Mark Gahegan - Penn State University
Period: Fall 2004 - Summer 2006

Penn State Mark

 

Resume

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology (expected Summer 2009)
PSU - Pennsylvania State University - USA
Advisor: Dr. Frederico Fonseca

Non-Degree Studies: English and Computer Science (2002-2004)
LPC – Las Positas College - USA

M.S. in Computer Science (2001)
UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil
Advisor: Dr. Marcello Thiry Comicholi da Costa

Graduate Diploma in Computer Networks (2000)
UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil

B.S. in Computer Science (1998)
UNIVALI - University of Valley of Itajai - Brazil
Advisor: Dr. Paulo Roberto Riccioni Goncalves

Associate Degree in System Analysis (1994)
ACEI - Catarinense Association of Education and Informatics - Brazil

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant
• RAMPART: Anti-Terrorism Planning – Pennsylvania State University, USA (Summer 2006 - Summer 2007)
• NSF-ITR Ontologies in Action: An information architecture to support investigation of linked Health-Environment Interaction - Pennsylvania State University, USA (Fall 2004, Spring 2005, and Spring 2006)
• FEESC - Research Internship - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil (Fall 2000, Fall 2001)
• CNPq Scientific Initiation - University of Valley of Itajai, Brazil (1996 – 1997)

Teacher Assistant
• IT Project Management (IST 302) - Pennsylvania State University, USA (Fall 2005)
• Introduction to Computer Languages (IST 240) - Pennsylvania State University, USA (Spring 2006, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)

Instructor
• Pennsylvania State University, USA (Fall 2008)
• University of South of Santa Catarina, Brazil (2000 - 2001)
• Federal Technical School of Santa Catarina, Brazil (2000 - 2001)
• Tupy Technical School, Brazil (1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Researcher
• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY (Summer 2008)

Systems Administrator
• SERPRO – Federal Service of Data Processing, Brazil (1998 - 2000)

Software Engineer
• IONICS Informatics and Automation, Brazil (1996 - 1998)
• ALTOQI Technologies, Brazil (1994 - 1996)
• SERVIDADOS Accounts, Brazil (1993 - 1994)

Other
• Admissions & Records Assistant, Las Positas College, CA (2003 - 2004)
• Resident Assistant, College Park-Carlos Bee Hall, Hayward, CA (2002 - 2003)

LANGUAGES

Portuguese (native speaker)
English
Spanish

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Conference Reviewer
• iConference (2008)
• GEOS - Geospatial Semantics (2007)
• GEOINFO (2005-2007)
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Network (2002)
• Argentine Congress of Computer Sciences (2001)

Organizing Committee
• Logistics Chair - IST Graduate Symposium (Theme: Information Technology in a Globalizing World) – February 24, 2006.
• Student Volunteer - SIGCHI-Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2006) – June 26-28, 2006.
• Student Volunteer - The First Conference of the i-School Community (iConference) - September 28-30, 2005

AWARDS

Design Research Summer School. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. May, 29 - Jun, 1 2007.

Doctoral Symposium - ISOneWorld Conference. Las Vegas, NV. April, 11-13 2007.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

 

Collaborators

BEPPLER, Fabiano Duarte 
FONSECA, Frederico (Dr.)
GAHEGAN, Mark Gahegan (Dr.)
HAYNES, Steven (Dr.)
KANNAMPALLIL, Thomas George
SAAB, David
SAWYER, Steve (Dr.)
THIRY, Marcello (Dr.)

 

Contact

Andrey Soares

College of Information Sciences and Technology
The Pennsylvania State University
309 IST Building
University Park, PA
16802

 

 

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