1 Citizenship: Argentina
EDUCATION
• Doctor in Computer Science, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Dissertation: A Planning-based Approach for the Exploration of Quality-driven Design Alternatives in Software Architectures. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Campo. Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Len Bass (SEI & Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Prof. Dr. Kai Koskimies (Tampere University, Finland), Prof. Dr. Horacio Leone (UTN-SantaFe University, Argentina) - September 2004.
• Master in System Engineering, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Dissertation: An Empirical Study about Separation of Concerns Approaches. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Campo. Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr. Horacio Leone (UTN-SantaFe University, Argentina), Prof. Dr. Marcelo Frias (Buenos Aires University, Argentina), Prof. Dr. Alejandro Clausse (UNICEN University, Argentina) - March 2001.
• System Engineer, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Advisors: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Campo and Prof. Dr. Alejandro Clausse - June 1999.
WORK EXPERIENCE
• Current Position: Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Researcher at the ISISTAN Research Institute, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Also Assistant Researcher with CONICET-Argentina (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research) since March 2006.
• Chief Architect in the research project Architecture-driven Fault Localization for Eclipse (ISISTAN, UNICEN University) in cooperation with Intel Corporation, since October 2005. • Teaching/Research Assistant at the Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos
Aires, Argentina), from 1997 to 2004. Some of the undergraduate courses taught include: Introduction to Programming, Foundations of Computer Science, Logic Programming, Object-oriented Programming, Software Design and Software Engineering.
• Lecturer at the UTN-SantaFe University, in 2001 and 2004. Graduate courses taught: Software Engineering and Advanced Techniques for Software Design (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Marcelo Campo).
• Consultant of Delsat Group (Mar del Plata, Argentina) for reengineering a telecommunications software product family, during 2003-2004.
Jorge Andrés Díaz Pace, PhD. Computer Science
ISISTAN Research Institute - UNICEN University (Argentina)Also CONICET - Argentina Paraje Arroyo Seco - Campus Universitario (B7001BBO) Tandil - Buenos Aires - Argentina
Phone: + 54 -2293 - 440363 (Ext.30), Fax: + 54 -2293 - 440362 E-mail: adiaz@exa.unicen.edu.ar - http://www.exa.unicen.edu.ar/~adiaz
2 AWARDS & FELLOWSHIP GRANTS
• SADIO-Intel Award for Outstanding Young Researchers in Informatics, October 2005.
• Postdoctoral research grant awarded by CONICET-Argentina (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research), from December 2004 to June 2005.
• Senior research fellowship grant (SAPOST) awarded by the Science and Technology Secretary of the UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina), April-November 2004.
• Postgraduate research fellowship grant awarded by CONICET-Argentina (National Council of Scientific and Technological Research), from April 2000 to March 2004.
• Research grant awarded by the Argentine government (FOMEC Project), to work with Dr. Mohamed E. Fayad at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA). January-April, 2000.
• Research grant awarded by the Argentine government (FOMEC Project 1227), 2000 (not accepted because of incompatibility with CONICET grant)
• Semi-Senior research fellowship grant awarded by the Buenos Aires Council of Scientific Research (CICPBA - Argentina), 2000 (not accepted because of incompatibility with CONICET grant).
• Semi-Senior research fellowship grant (SAINI) awarded by the Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina), from July 1999 to April 2000.
• Junior research fellowship grant awarded by the Buenos Aires Council of Scientific Research (CICPBA - Argentina), from June 1998 to May 1999.
RESEARCH TOPICS
• Software architectures, architectural design, quality attributes
• Object-oriented frameworks, separation of concerns, aspect-oriented development • Design tools, software agents, planning,
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES
1. "Computer, please, tell me what I have to do ..." An Approach to Agent-Aided Application Composition. Campo, Marcelo R. - Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. International Journal of Software and Systems. 74 (2005) 55-64. Elsevier.
2. Bubbly Flows Simulations using Object-oriented Software Agents. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Campo, Marcelo R. - Clausse, Alejandro. International Journal of Heat and Technology. Vol 21 No 1, Pp. 77 – 84. Edizioni ETS, Italia, 2003.
3. Reflecting on Separation of Concerns. Pryor, Jane - Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Revista de Informática Teórica y Aplicada - UFRGS. Vol 9 No 1, Pp. 7 – 36, Departamento de Informática UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brasil. ISSN: 0103- 4308. 2002.
4. Developing Object-oriented Enterprise Quality Frameworks using Proto-frameworks. Campo, Marcelo R. - Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Zito, Mario. Software: Practice and Experience,Vol 32 No 8, Pp. 837 – 843. Wiley. 2002.
5. Analyzing the Role of Aspects in Software Design. Campo, Marcelo R. - Díaz Pace, J. Andrés. Communications of the ACM - Special Issue on Aspect-oriented Programming. Vol. 44 No 10, Pp. 66 – 73. ACM Press. 2001.
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6. Applying Proto-frameworks in the Development of Multi-agent Systems. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Trilnik, Federico U. Revista Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial – Special Issue on Multiagent Systems. Vol 13 No 17, Pp. 53 – 67. Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA). 2001
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. A Knowledge-driven Approach for Aspect Composition. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Trilnik, Federico U. Chapter in "Aspect-oriented Software Development". ISBN: 0-321-21976-7. Addison-Wesley. 2004
2. Architecting the Design of Multi-Agent Organizations with Proto-frameworks. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Soria, Alvaro. Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems II, Research Issues and Practical Applications - LNCS 2940. Pp. 165 - 181 ISBN: 3-540-21182-9. Springer, Berlin, Alemania. 2004
3. Assisting the Development of Aspect-based Multi-Agent Systems using the Smartweaver Approach. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Trilnik, Federico U. Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, Research Issues and Practical Applications - LNCS 2603. Pp. 165 - 181 (284 paginas) ISBN: 3-540-08772-9. Springer, Berlin, Alemania. 2003
REFEREED CONFERENCES
1. ArchMatE: From Architectural Styles to Object-oriented Models through Exploratory Tool Support. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings OOPSLA 2005, Pp. 177-132. International Conference on Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications. October 16-20th, San Diego, CA, USA. 2005
2. Towards Advising Design Pattern Application through Interface Agents. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Berdún, Luis S. - Amandi, Analía - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings ASSE 2005 pp 1-18, (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 34 JAIIO 2005). August 2005. Rosario, Argentina.
3. Exploring Quality-driven Object-oriented Materializations for Software Architectures. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Diez, Alejandra C. - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings SBES ´04, 18th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering. Pp. 257-273. October 18-22th, 2004. Brasília – Brazil
4. Object-oriented Materialization of Software Architectures. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Diez, Alejandra C. - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings ASSE - (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 33 JAIIO 2004) - SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 2004.
5. Towards a Planning-based Approach for the Exploration of Architectural Design Alternatives. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings ASSE - Simposio Argentino de Ingeniería de Software (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 32 JAIIO 2003) - SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 2003.
6. Hint: A Planning-based Tool for Framework Instantiation. Trilnik, Federico U. - Díaz Pace, J. Andrés. Proceedings CACIC 2002 - Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación. Departamento de Computación, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 2002.
7. Smartweaver: Aspect-Oriented Development using the Smartbooks Approach. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Trilnik, Federico U. Proceedings ASSE - Simposio Argentino de Ingeniería de Software (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 31 JAIIO 2002) - SADIO. Santa Fe, Argentina. September 2002.
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8. An Empirical Study of Separation of Concerns Approaches. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings ASSE - Simposio Argentino de Ingeniería de Software (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 30 JAIIO 2001) - SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 2001.
9. Accomplishing Adaptability in Simulation Frameworks: The Bubble Approach. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Campo, Marcelo R. - Fayad, Mohamed E. Proceedings 25th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2001. IEEE Computer Society. Chicago, Illinois, USA. October 2001.
10. Un Framework para Simulación de Procesos Colectivos utilizando Agentes Reactivos. Díaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Clausse, Alejandro - Campo, Marcelo R. Proceedings SyM 1999 - Simposio de Simulación y Modelística (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa, 28 JAIIO) - SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 1999.
WORKSHOPS
1. InQuality: A Multi-agent System for Enterprise Quality Management. Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. - Soria, Alvaro - Zito, Mario. Workshop SELMAS 2003 - 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE 2003) IEEE - ACM Sigsoft, Portland, Oregon, USA. May 2003.
2. An Object-oriented Bridge among Architectural Styles, Aspects and Frameworks. Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Poster International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2002. IEEE - ACM Sigsoft. Portland, Oregon, USA. May 2002.
3. Smartweaver: an Agent-based Approach for Aspect-oriented development. Trilnik, Federico U. - Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R. Poster International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2002. IEEE - ACM Sigsoft. Portland, Oregon, USA. May 2002.
4. Smartweaver: an Agent-based Tool for Aspect-oriented Development. Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Campo, Marcelo R. Workshop SELMAS 2002, 1st Workshop o Software Engineering for Multi-agent Systems (in conjunction with ICSE 2002, International Conference on Software Engineering) IEEE - ACM Sigsoft. Portland, Oregon, USA. May 2002.
5. How to Handle Interacting Concerns? Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Campo, Marcelo R. Workshop ASOC 2000 - Advanced Techniques for Separation of Concerns (in conjunction with OOPSLA 2000, Object-oriented Programming,Systems, Languages and Applications) Minneapolis, USA. October 2000.
6. A Language for Simulation: Bringing Separation of Concerns to the Front. Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Campo, Marcelo R - Fayad, Mohamed E. Workshop ADC 2000 - Aspects and Dimensions of Concerns (in conjunction with ECOOP 2000, European Conference on Object-oriented Programming). Cannes, Francia. June 2000.
7. Simulación basada en Agentes Reactivos. Diaz Pace, J. Andrés - Trilnik, Federico U. - Clausse, Alejandro - Campo, Marcelo R. Workshop WICC 1999 - Workshop Argentino de Investigadores en Ciencias de la Computación. Red de Universidades Nacionales. San Juan, Argentina. May 1999.
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS
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• English • Italian
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES TALKS
• Speaker in ASSE 2004 -Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering (33 JAIIO). Organized by SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 2004. Topic: Perspectives on Automated Design Assistance.
• Panelist in IDS 2003 - 1st Latin-American Workshop on Software Engineering & Development: Theory & Applications. Organized by Microsoft and Hp. Buenos Aires, October 2003. Panel: Architectures and Methodologies for Software Development.
• Speaker in Agentes 001 - Software Agents Technologies. Organized by SADIO and ISISTAN - Buenos Aires, 13-14th July, 2001. Centro Cultural General San Martín. Topic: Architectures for Multi-agent Systems.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Member of the research project Architecture-driven Fault localization for Eclipse, developed at ISISTAN Research Institute, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) in cooperation with Intel Corporation . Since October 2005 to the present.
• Member of the cooperation project Advanced Environments for Software Architectures, between the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology of Argentina and the Academy of Sciences of Finland. Directors: Dr. Marcelo Campo (Argentina) and Dr. Kai Koskimies (Finland). From 2004 to 2006.
• Member of the PICT project Virtual Intelligent Assistants for Supporting E-Learning Processes, awarded by the National Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology (Argentina). Director: Dr. Marcelo Campo. From 2003 to 2005.
• Member (Category III) of the research project Software Agents Technology (Programa de Incentivos - Código 03/C141). From 2003 to 2005. Director: Dr. Marcelo Campo. Research line 2: Intelligent Tools for the Design of Software Architectures.
• Member (Category V) of the research project Architectures for Software Agents (Programa de Incentivos - Código C128). Director: Dr. Marcelo Campo. From 2000 to 2002.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
• Member of the project Reengineering a Telecommunication System into a Software Product Family, with the company Delsat Group (Mar del Plata, Argentina). During 2003 and 2004.
PROGRAM COMMITEES
• Member of the Program Committee of ASSE 2005 - Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 34 JAIIO 2005). August 2005. Rosario, Argentina.
• Member of the Program Committee of ASSE 2004 - Argentine Symposium on Software Engineering (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática en Investigación Operativa - 33 JAIIO 2004) - SADIO. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 2004.
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• Member of the Program Committee of SELMAS 2003, Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems. In conjunction with ICSE 2003. May 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee of SELMAS 2002, Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems. In conjunction with ICSE 2002. May 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Evaluator of articles for "Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II" - LNCS Springer, "Advances in Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III"- LNCS Springer, “Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development” - LNCS Springer, “Software: Practice and Experience. Special Issue on Experiences with Auto-adaptive and Reconfigurable “ - Wiley InterScience, among others.
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
• Advisor of the master thesis of Eng. Alvaro Soria, jointly with Dr. Marcelo Campo. Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - in progress
• Advisor of the doctoral thesis of Lic. Gabriela Vilanova, jointly with Dr. Marcelo Campo. Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - in progress
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
• Advisor of the graduate final project A Graphical Meta-Editor for the Generation of Architecture-centered Environments. Student: Martín Bustos. Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - in progress
• Advisor of the graduate final project A Tool Approach for Applying Transformations to Architectural Designs. Students: Gustavo Fuhr and Juan Casada. Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - finished, December 2005.
• Advisor of the graduate final project Derivation of Object-oriented Models from Architectural Styles and Quality Attributes. Student: Alejandra Diez. Faculty of Sciences, UNICEN University (Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina) - finished, May 2005.
