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Alberto Sampaio

Im a Lecturer in the Informatics Engineering Department (www.dei.isep.ipp.pt) of Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto (www.isep.ipp.pt) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto from more than 18 years. This, after spending a few years in the software industry.

I was a member of the Pedagogical Council of my school, ISEP, till July 2010. I was also the coordinator of the International Relations of my department for about 10 years. I am a researcher of the < class="s1">LABORIS/CIETI group (Research Lab on Systems) at ISEP. I am a member of the Portuguese sectorial committe responsible for analysing SE and IS documents produced by the JTC1/SC7 from ISO/IEC.

I cooperate with the software engineering community in general, for example, for the < class="s1">SWEBOK and < class="s1">ESPICE. I also collaborate with some scientific events, as a committee member or as a reviewer, among other things ... (see also the Department?s Prog. Context - CPROGDEI).

My main current research interests are on software quality, empirical research, software evolution and software engineering education. Some reasons for these interests: in software, in general, people accept each new idea/fashion as a salvation. Too many people never read F. Brooks or Watts Humphrey and too many people ignore scientific scrutiny. So, are we really educating engineers?

I appreciate all that, but there is more than that, much more. During my free times I enjoy to be with the family, to read and to run a little on the trails.

A serious iphone application (from someone I know): http://listaryapp.com/

A blog for teachers at higher eduction (in Portuguese): http://forumsnesup.wordpress.com/

Books (in Portuguese)

(1st ed. 1998) (1st ed. 2007)

(4th ed. 2005)

Some Publications

(refereed)
Sampaio, A., Sampaio, I., < class="s4">Exploring suggestions for improving a computing course: an empirical study. In Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research (Koli Calling '10). ACM, USA, pp.13-20, 2010.
Sampaio, A., < class="s4">Software Phenetics, Phylogeny and Evolution, In Proceedings of the Third International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability, 1st October, Paris, 2007.
Sampaio, A., Gray, E., Sampaio, I.B., Martins, M., < class="s4">Towards an Internal Numerical Taxonomy of Software Process Assessment Methods, Mensura'06 - Intl Conf. on Software Process and Product Measurement, November 6-8, 2006, Cadiz, Spain, Edited by Alain Abran, Reiner Dumke and Mercedes Ruiz, pp.252-263, 2006. ISBN: 978-84-9828-101-9.
Sampaio, A., Gray, E., Moreira, H., Martins, M., < class="s4">Selection of Projects in Software Process Assessment: New Perspectives, pp.135-146, In G. Harindranath, D. Rosenberg, J.A.A. Sillince, W. Wojtkowski, W.G. Wojtkowski, S. Wrycza, J. Zupancic, Eds, New Perspectives on Information Systems Development: Theory, Methods and Practice, Kluwer Academic Press, NY, USA, 2002. ISBN: 0-306-47251-1.
Sampaio, A., Vidal, R.M., < class="s4">Software Development Processes and their influence on the Competitivity of Software Companies (Processos de Desenvolvimento de Software e a sua Influencia no Aumento de Competitividade das Organizacoes do Sector), 3rd National Meeting of the College of Electronics engineering of the Portuguese Associtation of engineers (Ordem dos Engenheiros), Porto, June 1997. (in Portuguese).

Some events that I collaborate with:

2011 African Conference on Software Engineering and Applied Computing

SEPG North America 2011, in Portland, Oregon, March 21-24, 2011

International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice - SETP'10 (Orlando, USA

The 8th Intl Conf on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies -CCCT'10(July, 2010, USA)

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13th European Systems and Software Engineering Process Group Conference (Munich, Germany, June 10?13, 2008)

Third International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability (October,2007, at 23rd IEEE ICSM)

6th Intl Conf. on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology-QUATIC'07 (Sept.13-15, 2007, Portugal)

TEQUA'07

The Teaching of Quality in Information and Communication Technology Education Programs (at 6th QUATIC)

Actividade Lectiva (teaching)