Helio J.C. Barbosa

Current Positions

"Tecnologista Senior" at LNCC (National Laboratory for Scientific Computation) and
"Professor Associado IV" at the Computer Science Department of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora ( UFJF).

Civil Engineer, Federal University of Juiz de Fora ( UFJF ), 1974.
M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ( COPPE/UFRJ ), 1978.
D.Sc. Civil Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ( COPPE/UFRJ ), 1986.
D.Sc. Dissertation "Algoritmos Numéricos para Problemas de Contato em Elasticidade".
( Chapter 1 ), ( Chapter 2 ), ( Chapter 3 ), ( Chapter 4 ), ( Chapter 5 ), ( Chapter 6 ), ( Chapter 7 ).
Visiting Scholar, Div. Applied Mechanics, Stanford University, USA, 1988-1990.

CILAMCE 2014.
The 35th edition of the Iberian-Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering to be held in Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, November 23 to 26, 2014. .
In particular, Nelson F.F. Ebecken and I are organizing once again the Mini-Symposium:
Computational Intelligence Techniques for Optimization and Data Modeling
which intends to provide a forum in which engineers, researchers, and students can exchange ideas and information about modern search procedures (such as genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, artificial immune systems, etc.) artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, and other computational intelligence tools, applied alone or in association with other techniques, in the solution of real-world engineering problems as well as data and knowledge modeling tasks.
Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2014
Deadline for full papers: July 18, 2014
Please visit the website here for updated information.

Special Session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization .
Efrén Mezura-Montes and I are organizing a special session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization during the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence to be held in Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.

O XI Simpósio de Mecânica Computacional (SIMMEC) e o II Encontro Mineiro de Modelagem Computacional (EMMCOMP) serão realizados em Juiz de Fora-MG entre 28 e 30 de Maio de 2014.

5ª Escola Luso-Brasileira de Computação Evolutiva (ELBCE).
no Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Petrópolis, RJ, de 18 a 21 de fevereiro de 2014.

Special Session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization .
Efrén Mezura-Montes and I are organizing a special session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization during the IEEE World Congress on Evolutionary Computation to be held in Cancún, México, June 20-23, 2013.

Special Session on Nature-Inspired Techniques for Symbolic Regression.
Douglas A. Augusto, Heder S. Bernardino, and I are organizing a special session on Nature-Inspired Techniques for Symbolic Regression during the IEEE World Congress on Evolutionary Computation to be held in Cancún, México, June 20-23, 2013.

LNCC wins an international Machine Learning Competition.
The international machine learning competition organized by Aspiring Minds was won by the brazilian team "LNCC", composed by Douglas A. Augusto, Heder S. Bernardino, and myself.
The problem was solved using a high-performance implementation of genetic programming. More details about the competition are available here.

WCCM 2012.
The 10th edition of the World Conference on Computational Mechanics, to be held in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, July 13 to 16, 2012 .
In particular, we are involved in the organization of the Mini-Symposium:
Nature Inspired Techniques for Structural Design, Optimization and Identification Problems
which intends to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their work, share their experience, and discuss current trends in applying nature inspired techniques, either on their own or in conjunction with other techniques, to perform structural design and optimization or to solve inverse problems in damage detection and system identification.
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2012.
Please visit the website here for updated information.

Special Session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization .
Efrén Mezura-Montes and I are organizing a special session on Nature Inspired Constrained Optimization during the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence to be held in Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.

Jornada em Inteligência Computacional 2012.
Estamos organizando mais uma vez a Jornada em Inteligência Computacional que acontecerá no âmbito da 10ª Edição do Programa de Verão do LNCC (03 de janeiro a 17 de fevereiro de 2012).
Veja a programação aqui.