José Alexandre D'Abruzzo Pereira

José D'Abruzzo Pereira is a Ph.D. student in Information Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra, and member of the Software and System Engineering (SSE) group at CISUC. His research interests include software project management, security and vulnerability detection, static code analysis, software quality, and cloud computing. He received a MSc in Information Technology and Software Engineering from the University of Coimbra and Carnegie Mellon University, and a BSc. in Computer Science from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

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Published Papers (related to my Ph.D.):

Journal Papers:

• IEEE Access 2021: Characterizing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Large C/C++ Projects

Conference Papers:

• LADC 2019: An Exploratory Study on Machine Learning to Combine Security Vulnerability Alerts from Static Analysis Tools (additional content found here);
• EDCC 2020: On the Use of Open-Source C/C++ Static Analysis Tools in Large Projects
• SEAMS 2020: A Platform to Enable Self-Adaptive Cloud Applications Using Trustworthiness Properties (Demo Paper)
• EDCC 2021: Machine Learning to Combine Static Analysis Alerts with Software Metrics to Detect Security Vulnerabilities: An Empirical Study (additional content found here)
• LADC 2022: On the Use of Deep Graph CNN to Detect Vulnerable C Functions
• PRDC 2022: A Software Vulnerability Dataset of Large Open Source C/C++ Projects
• ISSRE 2023: An Approach to Characterize the Security of Open-Source Functions using LSP

Workshop Papers:

• ISSRE-Workshops 2020 (Doctoral Symposium): Techniques and Tools for Advanced Software Vulnerability Detection
• SAFELIFE 2021: On Building a Vulnerability Dataset with Static Information from the Source Code

Other publications:

• Inforum 2021: A study on software engineering team dysfunctions: an experience report (Communication paper)
• Inforum 2022: An Experimental Study of Elasticity in Kubernetes HPA for Microservice Applications - João Ribeiro, José D'Abruzzo Pereira and Nuno Antunes
• Inforum 2023: Automated Software Vulnerability Collection for a Database with Static Information - João Rafael Henriques, José D'Abruzzo Pereira
• LADC 2022: On the use of the TMA Framework to promote self-adaptation capabilities in TalkConnect - José D'Abruzzo Pereira, João Ribeiro, João Pires, Pedro Moita, Nuno Laranjeiro, Marco Vieira (Fast Abstract)
• IEEE Access 2023: A Model-Driven Approach for the Management and Enforcement of Coding Conventions - Elder Rodrigues Jr, José D'Abruzzo Pereira, Leonardo Montecchi

Projects:

International Projects:

• ATMOSPHERE: Adaptive, Trustworthy, Manageable, Orchestrated, Secure, Privacy-assuring, Hybrid Ecosystem for REsilient Cloud Computing
• AIDA: Adaptive, Intelligent and Distributed Assurance Platform
• ADVANCE: Addressing Verification and Validation Challenges in Future Cyber-Physical Systems

National Projects:

• METRICS: Monitoring and Measuring the Trustworthiness of Critical Cloud Systems
• TalkConnect - Voice Architecture over Distributed Network
• NEXUS Innovation Pact - Digital and Green Transition for Transports, Logistics and Mobility

• Web Chair ICPE 2023
• Web Chair ISSRE 2023