Awards

       2021

  • Best paper at 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2021), Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC): MARIANO, RICHARD; SANTOS, GEANDERSON; BRANDÃO, WLADMIR. Improve Classification of Commits Maintenance Activities with Quantitative Changes in Source Code. In: 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2021, Online Streaming. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2021. v. 2. p. 19-29.
  • Best scientific poster at the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2021), Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC): SALGADO, VINICIUS; SANTOS, DIEGO; DUTRA, FREDERICO; PARREIRAS, FERNANDO; BRANDÃO, WLADMIR. Ontology-based Approach for Business Opportunities Recognition. In: 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2021, Online Streaming. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2021. v. 1. p. 594-601.
  • Doctoral thesis "A 5G Vehicle-to-Everything Ecosystem with Internet of Vehicles based Approaches" selected for publication and presentation in the second phase of CTD SBRC 2021, CTD SBRC. Advisor: Professor Fátima de Lima Procópio.  Doctoral thesis presented by Carlos Storck. 
     
    2020
  • Best undergraduate final project in Information Systems, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas). Rhaylander Mendes de Miranda Almeida. Machine learning algorithms for breast cancer detection in mammography images: a comparative study. 2020. Undergraduate Final Project. (Information Systems) - Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Advisor: Wladmir Cardoso Brandão.

    2019
  • 1st place: Marathon of Parallel Programming (WSCAD 2019). Matheus A. Souza (Doctorate student), Felipe A. L. Soares (Master's degree student), and prof. Henrique C. Freitas (technician). http://lspd.mackenzie.br/marathon/current/index.pt.html.
  • Honorable Mention at the XI SBCUP; co-authorship of the scientific article named "Protocolo Baseado em Métricas de Redes Complexas para Mitigação de Tempestade Broadcast", Brazilian Symposium on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing – SBC (Brazilian Computer Society). Professor Fátima de Lima Procópio.
  • G. Fonseca, E. Duque, H. Vieira, G. Gontijo, and L. Ishitani. "Desenvolvimento de jogos para terceira idade: lições aprendidas com design participativo".  In Proceedings of SBGames 2019.  Rio de Janeiro:  SBC, October 2019, pp.  111–120.  (Best paper award in the Arts and Design Track).

    2018
  • Best undergraduate final project in Computer Engineering: Lucas A. Maciel (student), Henrique C. Freitas (Advisor), PUC Minas.
  • 2nd best undergraduate final project in Computer Engineering: João Paulo P. Novais (student), Henrique C. Freitas (advisor), PUC Minas.
  • Co-authorship of the best scientific paper at the II Workshop of Urban Computing (CoUrb):, XXXVI Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, 2021. Professor Fátima de Lima Procópio.

    2017
  • Silva, P., Dias, S., Brandão, W., Song, M. and Zárate, L. Formal Concept Analysis Applied to Professional Social Networks Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017). p. 123-134. (Best student paper award)
  • Honorable mention for 3rd place among other undergraduate papers at the WSCAD-WIC 2017. Student João Paulo Novais, with the contribution of Matheus Souza and Henrique C. Freitas (advisor). João Paulo Novais, Matheus Souza, Henrique Cota Freitas. "Proposta e Avaliação de uma Rede-em-Chip Programável". 69-74
  • Honorable mention for the 2nd place of the best paper at the WSCAD 2017 - Student Pedro Henrique Penna. The paper covers results of his Master's thesis defended at the PPGCC/UFSC under the orientation of Professor Márcio Castro and co-advised by Professor Patrícia Plentz and in a cooperation that involves the Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and PUC Minas. Currently, professor Henrique C. Freitas is Pedro Penna's doctoral advisor, in co-supervisory with UGA, where the advisor is Professor Jean-François Méhaut. Pedro Henrique Penna, Márcio Castro, Patricia Plentz, Henrique C. Freitas, François Broquedis, Jean-François Méhaut. BinLPT: A Novel Workload-Aware Loop Scheduler for Irregular Parallel Loops. 220-231

        2015

  • First place in the Marathon of Parallel Programming at the WSCAD 2015 went to the team formed by João Paulo Pereira Novais (Computer Engineering) and João Saffran (Computer Science) under the supervision of Matheus Alcântara Souza (Recently graduated with a Master's degree in Informatics) and advised by Professor Henrique Cota de Freitas (PPGInf) and Professor Luís Fabrício Góes (PPGEE). The event is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) - Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing. Find the details about the marathon at http://lspd.mackenzie.br/marathon/15/.
  • Second place in the Marathon of Parallel Programming at the WSCAD 2015 went to the team formed by Alyson Deives Pereira Gabriel Antunes Garcia e Garcia, and Pedro Henrique de Mello Morado Penna (both from Computer Science). They were advised by Professor Henrique Cota de Freitas (PPGInf - Postgraduate program in Informatics) and Professor Luís Fabrício Góes (PPGEE). The event is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) - Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing. Find the details about the marathon at http://lspd.mackenzie.br/marathon/15/.

    2014
  • Professor Lucila Ishtani was honored with the Medalha Santos Dumont (Silver Degree Medal), as an acknowledgement of the significant contribution to the development of the state of Minas Gerais.
  • The CBSoft 2014 best tool award went to the team formed by Guilherme A. Oliveira (PUC Minas), Humberto T. Marques-Neto (PUC Minas), Henrique Rocha (UFMG), and Marco Túlio Valente (UFMG). Details regarding the NextBug tool are available at http://www.icei.pucminas.br/professores/humberto/?p=729.
  • First place in the Marathon of Parallel Programming at the WSCAD 2014 went to the team formed by Matheus Alcântara Souza (Master in Informatics), Gabriel Antunes Garcia e Garcia, and Pedro Henrique de Mello Morado Penna (both in Computer Science), advised by the professor of PPGInf Henrique Cota de Freitas. The event is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) - Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing. Find the details about the marathon at http://lspd.mackenzie.br/marathon/14/.
  • Third place in the Scientific Initiation Work Contest (CTIC 2014) went to Mariana Ramos Brito (former Computer Science major and Master's student of the PPGINF), advised by Professor Anna Izabel Tostes and Professor Fátima Duarte-Figueiredo, both from PUC Minas. Title of the paper: "Análise e Simulação da Saturação de Redes Veiculares".
  • Honorable mention at the Brazilian Symposium on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (SBCUP 2014) to Gabriel Novy, advised by PUC Minas professors Max Machado, Fátima Duarte-Figueiredo and Raquel Mini. Title of the paper: "Protocolo de Roteamento Híbrido, Baseado em Transmissor e Receptor para Redes de Sensores Sem Fio".
  • Honorable mention in the Exact and Earth Sciences area at the 22nd Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas to the student Pedro Henrique Penna from the Computer Science Course, advised by Professor Henrique Freitas from PPGInf.
  • Honorable mention in the Exact and Earth Sciences area at the 22nd Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas to the student Larissa Leijoto from the Computer Science Course, advised by Professor Cristiane Nobre from PPGInf.
  • Honorable mention in the Exact and Earth Sciences area at the 22nd Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas to the student Arthur Dias from the Digital Games Development Course, advised by Professor Lucila Ishitani from PPGInf.
     
    2013
  • SILVA, M. A. N.; FREITAS, H. C.. "Avaliação de Desempenho de Redes-em-Chip Através de Tráfegos do Simulador Noxim". In: Symposium on Computer Systems (Scientific Initiation Workshop - WSCAD-WIC), Porto de Galinhas. SBC, 2013. p. 194-197. It was among the three best papers. (Honorable mention)
  • Matheus Queiroz (Master's in Informatics), Pedro Penna and Daniel Carmo (both from the Computer Engineering Course), and Henrique Freitas (professor at the PPGInf), compose the team that won the 2nd place in the Marathon of Parallel Programming at the WSCAD-SSC 2013. The event is promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) - Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing. http://lspd.mackenzie.br/marathon/13/
  • The scientific initiation research "Métricas Sociais em Protocolos para Redes Tolerantes a Atrasos e Desconexões", by Thiago Assis de Oliveira Rodrigues (Computer Science student) and Raquel Aparecida de Freitas Mini (advisor - PPGInf), received honorable mention at the 21st Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas.
     

    2012
  • Professor Raquel had her co-advising work recognized through the Capes Thesis Award (Prêmio Capes de Tese) 2012. Best doctoral thesis in the area of Computer Science: Aplicação dos conceitos mundo pequeno no projeto de topologia para redes de sensores sem fio heterogêneas - Daniel Ludovico Guidoni (UFMG), Antônio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro - advisor (UFMG), Raquel Aparecida de Freitas Mini - co-advisor (PUC Minas).
  • SPERANDIO, R. C.; PATROCÍNIO JÚNIOR, Z. K. G.; PAULA, H. B.. Indexação e Recuperação Multimodal de Vídeo. In: Workshop of Theses and Dissertations in Database (WTDBD), 2012, São Paulo, Brasil. p.81-86. It was among the top 10 2012 Master's theses.
  • Lucas Maia Silveira, Humberto Torres Marques Neto – Caracterização e Modelagem Temporal de Chamadas de Telefonia Móvel em Grandes Eventos, Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas, Exact and Earth Sciences area. (Honorable mention)
     
    2011
  • RIBEIRO, C. P.; CASTRO, M.; MARANGOZOVA-MARTIN, V.; MEHAUT, J-F.; FREITAS, H. C.; MARTINS, C. A. P. S.. Investigating the Impact of CPU and Memory Affinity on Multi-core Platforms: A Case Study of Numerical Scientific Multithreaded Benchmarks. In: IADIS Applied Computing, 2011, Rio de Janeiro. IADIS Applied Computing, 2011. p. 299-306. (best paper award)
  • OLIVEIRA, P. A. C.; DUARTE-FIGUEIREDO, F. L. P.; MARTINS, C. A. P. S.; FREITAS, H. C.; RIBEIRO, C. P.; CASTRO, M.; MARANGOZOVA-MARTIN, V.; MEHAUT, J-F.. Performance Evaluation of WiNoCs for Parallel Workloads based on Collective Communications. In: IADIS Applied Computing, 2011, Rio de Janeiro. IADIS Applied Computing, 2011. p. 307-314. (best paper award)
  • FERREIRA, M. K. ; CRUZ, V. S. ; KASSICK, R. V. ; FREITAS, H. C. ; NAVAUX, P. O. A. . Static Process Mapping Heuristics for MPI Parallel Processes in Homogeneous Multi-core Clusters. In: Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR), Colima, 2011. 8p. (best paper award)
  • Penna, P. H. M. M. ; FREITAS, H. C. ; FERREIRA, R. S.. Um Processo Automatizado para Modelagem e Prototipação de Redes Reguladoras em FPGA. In: Scientific Initiation Workshop (WSCAD-WIC), 2011, Vitória. Scientific Initiation Workshop (WSCAD-WIC), 2011. 4p. (2nd place award)
  • Detecção de Spammers na Rede de Origem, Pedro Henrique Bragioni Las Casas, Humberto Marques, CTIC/CSBC, 2011. (2nd place award)
  • ALVES, Thaína Amélia de Oliveira; MARQUES-NETO, Humberto Torres. Caracterização e Análise de Redes de Remetentes e Destinatários de SPAMs. In: X Workshop on Computer and Communication Systems Performance (WPerformance), 2011, Natal - RN. X Workshop on Computer and Communication Systems Performance, 2011. (2nd place award)
  • GONÇALVES, Kênia Carolina; VIEIRA, Alex Borges; ALMEIDA, Jussara Marques de; SILVA, Ana Paula Couto; MARQUES-NETO, Humberto Torres; CAMPOS, Sérgio Vale. Caracterização das Propriedades Dinâmicas da Estrutura da Rede Sobreposta do SopCast. In: X Workshop on Computer and Communication Systems Performance (WPerformance), 2011, Natal - RN. X Workshop Workshop on Computer and Communication Systems Performance, 2011. (2nd place award)
     
    2010
  • GUIMARAES, S. J. F.; PATROCÍNIO JÚNIOR, Z. K. G.. Identification and Analysis of Video Subsequence Using Bipartite Graph Matching. In: 16th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia 2010, 2010, Belo Horizonte. Proceedings of 16th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web - WebMedia 2010, 2010. (Best paper award)
  • MACHADO, Max do Val; MINI, Raquel A.F.; LOUREIRO, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira. Comunicação de Dados Baseada no Receptor para Redes de Sensores Sem Fio. In: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, 2010, Gramado. 28th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2010), 2010. p. 61-74. (Honorable mention for the best papers)
  • TERRA, R. ; VALENTE, M. T.. Conformação Arquitetural utilizando Restrições de Dependência entre Módulos. In: XXIII Theses and Dissertations Contest, 2010, Belo Horizonte. XXX Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2010. p. 1-8. (Among the top 11 2010 CTD Master's theses, out of 65 submissions)
     
    2009
  • The student Ricardo Terra was awarded with the third place among other Master's theses at the XVI Latin American Master Thesis Contest, Latin American Center for Studies in Informatics (CLEI) for the work "A Dependency Constraint Language to Manage Object-Oriented Software Architectures", advised by Professor Marco Túlio Oliveira Valente.
  • Professor Humberto Torres Marques Neto received the Medalha da Inconfidência, which is the higher commendation given by the Minas Gerais state government, in acknowledgement of the services rendered to the higher education of Minas Gerais.
  • The research developed by the student Tiago Rodrigues Lopes dos Santos was qualified as the best work at the 17th Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas, under professor Luis Enrique Zárate's orientation. Title: VALEDOURO Mineração de Dados para Análise de Dados Epidemiológicos.
  • Simulação e Análise de CACs de UMTS, Anna Izabel J. Tostes, Fátima de Lima Procópio Duarte Figueiredo, CTIC/CSBC, 2009. (2nd place award)
     
    2008
  • The student Cristiano Maffort was awarded with the third place among the Master's theses on the XXI Theses and Dissertations Contest by the SBC with the paper "Aspectos para Construção de Aplicações Distribuídas". Orientation: Professor Marco Túlio Oliveira Valente.
  • The research developed by the student Emerson de Salles received honorable mention at the Scientific Initiation Seminar da PUC Minas, under the orientation of Professor Clodoveu Davis. Title: Algoritmo de Casamento Aproximado de Strings para Recuperação de Nomes Próprios e Nomes Geográficos.
  • The scientific initiation student Anna Izabel J. Tostes received the Brazil Women in Technology Award from Google. Advisor: Professor Fátima de Lima Procópio Duarte Figueiredo.
     
    2007
  • Among the top 10 papers in the XXVI Scientific Initiation Work Contest promoted by the SBC. Aspectos para Execução Remota de Aplicações J2ME. Advisor: Professor Marco Túlio Oliveira Valente.
  • The research developed by the student Anna Izabel Toste was qualified as the best work in the Scientific Initiation Seminar da PUC Minas, under the orientation of Professor Fátima de Lima Procópio Duarte Figueiredo. Title: Simulação e Análise de Redes Móveis de Terceira Geração 3G.

     2006
  • Otimizações de Co-Localização em um Middleware de Comunicação Orientado por Aspectos, Rodrigo Palhares, Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente, CTIC/CSBC, 2006. (1st place award).
  • Um Middleware para Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Sensíveis ao Contexto, Daniel Coutinho de Miranda, Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente, CTIC/CSBC, 2006. (among the top 10).
  • Uma Plataforma de Middleware Orientada por Aspectos, Diana Campos Leão, Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente, CTIC/CSBC, 2006. (among the top 10).
  • Maffort, C. A.; Valente, M. T. O.; Aspectos para Construção de Aplicações Distribuídas; XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, Florianópolis, 2006. (5th best paper).
  • Guidoni, D. L.; Machado, M. V.; Mini, R. A. F.; Loureiro, A. A.; Difusão de Dados Baseada em Atraso e Energia para Redes de Sensores Sem Fio, 24th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks. (Honorable mention).
  • The research developed by the student Érica Rodrigues Oliveira received the award for the best paper at the Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas, under the orientation of professors Lucila Ishitani, Maria Augusta Vieira Nelson and Silvio Jamil Ferzoli Guimarães. Title: Um Modelo para Adequação de Objetos de Aprendizagem ao Padrão SCORM.
  • The research developed by the student Maricélia Carvalho Ferreira, José Sérgio Pereira Neto, Juliana Wildemberg, and Leilane Cristina de Freitas received honorable mention at the Scientific Initiation Seminar at PUC Minas, under the orientation of Professor Silvio Jamil Ferzoli Guimarães. Title: Uso do Ritmo Visual para a Identificação de Eventos em Vídeo.

    2005
  • The works below received honorable mention in the event "PUC Minas Scientific Initiation Seminar".
  • Representação do Conhecimento de Redes Neurais Através de Análise Formal de Conceito e sua Aplicação em Processos Industriais (a computational environment). Students: Ana Angélica Nascimento Alvarez, Bruno de Castro Alvarenga Soares, Bruno Magalhães Nogueira, Tadeu Renato André Santos. Advisors: Luis Enrique Zárate, and Mark Alan Junho Song.
  • Um Sistema de Chamada Remota de Métodos Orientados por Aspectos. Student: Diana Campos Leão. Advisor: Marco Túlio de Oliveira Valente.
  • Uso de Ritmo Visual para Identificação de Eventos. Student: Leilane Cristina Castro Pereira. Advisor: Silvio Jamil Ferzoli Guimarães.
  • Estudo e Simulação da Evacuação de Agentes Autônomos Motoristas-e-Veículos de um Estacionamento. Student: Enock Tony dos Santos. Advisor: Ricardo Poley Martins Ferreira.

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