Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque
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Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque was Visiting Professor at the GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography of Heidelberg University, and Professor at the Department of Computer Systems of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Main Research Areas
- Collaborative Information Systems for Disaster Management
- Volunteered Geographic Information
- Geosensor networks
- (Geo)Information Management
- Decision Support Systems
- Business Process Management
- Sociotechnical Approaches to Information Systems
- Information Technology for Development
Projects
- Open Flood Risk Map: A decision support system based on user-generated spatial data for communities in support of emergency response planning in flood management
- Disaster Mapping 2.0: Collaborative Geographic Information Systems for Building Resilience against Disasters
- AGORA - A Geospatial Open collaboRative Architecture for building resilience against disasters and extreme events
Courses
- Disaster Mapping 2.0: Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Risk Management and in Humanitarian Aid
Scholarships And Awards
- 2014-2017 Visiting Professorship from Heidelberg University funded through the DFG Initiative of Excellence
- 2013-2014 Scholarships from FAPESP and CAPES for a research stay at Heidelberg University
- 2006-2008 Humboldt Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay at University of Hamburg
- 2004-2006 Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to perform part of the PhD studies at Technical University of Dortmund
- 2001 Scholarship from FAPESP (The Sao Paulo Research Foundation) for a “scientific initiation” during the undergraduate studies
Publications
Full texts and a more complete publication list can be found in my profiles at researchgate and google scholar
Articles in peer-reviewed journals (selection)
- de Albuquerque, J. P., & Christ, M. (2015). The tension between business process modelling and flexibility: Revealing multiple dimensions with a sociomaterial approach. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2015.08.003
- de Albuquerque, J. P., Herfort, B., Brenning, A., & Zipf, A. (2015). A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 29(4), 667–689. doi:10.1080/13658816.2014.996567
- Horita, F. E. A., de Albuquerque, J. P., Degrossi, L. C., Mendiondo, E. M., & Ueyama, J. (2015). Development of a spatial decision support system for flood risk management in Brazil that combines volunteered geographic information with wireless sensor networks. Computers & Geosciences, 80, 84–94. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2015.04.001
- Steiger, E., de Albuquerque, J. P., & Zipf, A. (2015). An Advanced Systematic Literature Review on Spatiotemporal Analyses of Twitter Data. Transactions in GIS. doi:10.1111/tgis.12132
- de Albuquerque, J. P., Diniz, E. H., & Cernev, A. K. (2014). Mobile payments: a scoping study of the literature and issues for future research. Information Development, 1–27. doi:10.1177/0266666914557338
- Beder, D. M. ; Ueyama, J. ; Albuquerque, J. P. ; Chaim, M. L. . FlexFT: A Generic Framework for Developing Fault-Tolerant Applications in the Sensor Web. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Online), v. 2013, p. 1-12, 2013.
- Albuquerque, J. P . Flexibility and Business Process Modelling: a Multidimensional Relationship. Revista de Administração de Empresas [Journal of Business Administration], v. 52, p. 313-329, 2012. (in Portuguese)
- Albuquerque, João Porto ; Krumm, Heiko ; de Geus, Paulo Lício ; Jeruschkat, René . Scalable model-based configuration management of security services in complex enterprise networks. Software, Practice & Experience, v. 41, p. 307-338, 2011.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Prado, E. P. V. ; Machado, G. R. . Ambivalent Implications of Healthcare Information Systems: a Study in the Brazilian Publich Health Care System. Revista de Administração de Empresas [Journal of Business Administration], v. 51, p. 58-71, 2011.
- Abuquerque, J. P. ; Krumm, Heiko ; Geus, Paulo Lício . Formal validation of automated policy refinement in the management of network security systems. International Journal of Information Security (Print), v. 9, p. 99-125, 2010.
- Albuquerque, J. . Rethinking formalization processes in computerized systems: analyzing the co-evolution between software and organizational practices. RECIIS. Electronic Journal of Communication Information and Innovation Health, v. 3, p. 7-15, 2009.
Book Chapters
- Wahoff, J. ; de Albuquerque, J. P. ; Rolf, A. . The Mikropolis Model – A Framework for Transdisciplinary Research of Information Systems in Society. In: Dwivedi, Yogesh K.; Wade, Michael R.; Schneberger, Scott L.. (Org.). Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society. Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society. New York: Springer, 2011, v. 2, p. 367-386.
- Rolf, A.; de Albuquerque, J. P. ; Simon, E. J. . Schlüsselqualifikation Orientierungskompetenz. In: Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha. (Org.). Schlüsselqualifikationen für Studium, Beruf und Gesellschaft : Technische Universitäten im Kontext der Kompetenzdiskussion. Schlüsselqualifikationen für Studium, Beruf und Gesellschaft : Technische Universitäten im Kontext der Kompetenzdiskussion. Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing, 2009, v. 14, p. 483-495.
- Albuquerque, J. P.; Simon, E. J. ; Wahoff, J. ; Rolf, A. . The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity in Information Systems Research: Towards an Integrative Platform. In: Aileen Cater-Steel; Latif Al Hakim. (Org.). Information Systems Research Methods, Epistemology and Applications. Information Systems Research Methods, Epistemology and Applications. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global, 2008, v. , p. 88-103.
- Simon, E. J.; de Albuquerque, J. P.; Rolf, A. . Notwendige und vorläufige Formalisierungslücken in Organisationen. In: Christiane Funken; Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer. (Org.). Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Zur Neuordnung formaler und informeller Prozesse in Unternehmen. Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt: Zur Neuordnung formaler und informeller Prozesse in Unternehmen. Wiesbaden, Alemanha: VS Verlag, 2008, v. , p. 239-261.
Full peer-reviewed papers published in Conference Proceedings (selection)
- Assis, L. F. F. G. de, Herfort, B., Steiger, E., & de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015). A geographic approach for on-the-fly prioritization of social-media messages towards improving flood risk management. In IV Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining (BraSNAM) (pp. 1–12). Porto Alegre: SBC.
- Eckle, M., & de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015). Quality Assessment of Remote Mapping in OpenStreetMap for Disaster Management Purposes. In Palen, Büscher, Comes, & Hughes (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference - Kristiansand, May 24-27 (pp. 1–8). Kristiansand, Norway: ISCRAM.
- Herfort, B., Eckle, M., de Albuquerque, J. P., & Zipf, A. (2015). Towards assessing the quality of volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap for identifying critical infrastructures. In Palen, Büscher, Comes, & Hughes (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference - Kristiansand, May 24-27 (pp. 3–10). Kristiansand, Norway.
- Link, D., Horita, F. E. A., de Albuquerque, J. P., Hellingrath, B., & S, G. (2015). A Method for Extracting Task related Information from Social Media based on Structured Domain Knowledge. In AMCIS 2015 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems (pp. 1–16). Atlanta, GA, USA: AIS.
- Moreira, R. B., Degrossi, L. C., & de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015). An experimental evaluation of a crowdsourcing-based approach for flood risk management. In 12th Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering (ESELAW) (pp. 393–403). Arequipa, Peru: Universidad Catolica San Pablo.
- Peters, R., & de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015). Investigating images as indicators for relevant social media messages in disaster management. In Palen, Büscher, Comes, & Hughes (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference - Kristiansand, May 24-27 (pp. 1–8). Kristiansand, Norway: ISCRAM.
- Rocha, R. dos S., Degrossi, L. C., & de Albuquerque, J. P. (2015). A Systematic Review of Geospatial Web Service Composition. In 2th Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering (ESELAW) (pp. 502–515). Arequipa, Peru: Universidad Catolica San Pablo.
- Herford, B., Albuquerque, J. P., Schellhorn, S., Zipf, A. (2014) Exploring the geographical relations between social media and flood phenomena to improve situational awareness: A study about the River Elbe Flood in June 2013. Akzeptiert (full paper) für: 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science: Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place.
- Horita, F., Fava, M.C., Rotava, J., Ueyama, J., Souza, V., Mendiondo, E. and Albuquerque, J.P. AGORA-GeoDash: A Geosensor Dashboard for Real-time Flood Risk Monitoring. Akzeptiert (full paper) für: Proceedings of the 11th International ISCRAM Conference.
- Albuquerque, João P. ; Christ, M. . Business processes as sociomaterial networks: exploring the multiple dimensions of flexibility in process modeling. In: 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, 2014, Waikoloa, HI, USA. 2014. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, 2014. p. 1485-1494.
- Craveiro, G. S. ; Santana, M. T. ; Albuquerque, J. P. . Assessing Open Government Budgetary Data in Brazil. In: ICDS 2013, The Seventh International Conference on Digital Society, 2013, Nice, France. Proceedings.... Lisboa: IARIA, 2013. p. 20-27.
- Horita, F. E. A. ; Degrossi, L. C. ; Assis, L. F. F. G. ; Zipf, A. ; de ALBUQUERQUE, J. P. . The use of Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing in Disaster Management: a Systematic Literature Review. In: AMCIS 2013, 2013, Chicago, Illinois. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems. Atlanta, USA: AIS, 2013. p. 1-10.
- Salles, Guilherme ; Fantinato, Marcelo ; De Albuquerque, Joao Porto ; Nishijima, Marislei . A Contribution to Organizational and Operational Strategic Alignment: Incorporating Business Level Agreements into Business Process Modeling. In: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2013, Santa Clara. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. p. 17-24.
- Albuquerque, J. P. De ; Christ, M. Revealing the Sociotechnical Complexity of Business Process Modeling An Actor-Network Theory Approach. In: 18th Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2012, Seattle, Washington. AMCIS 2012 Proceedings. Atlanta, USA: AIS Electronic Library, 2012. p. 1-7.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Prado, E. P. V. ; Coelho, F. S. ; Celso, R. P. . Analyzing the Curricular Approach of the Undergraduate Education on Information Systems in Brazil. In: Americas Conference on Information Systems - AMCIS 2011, 2011, Detroit. AMCIS 2011 Proceedings. Paper 317.. Atlanta, USA: Association for Information Systems, 2011. p. 1-11.
- Diniz, E. H. ; De Albuquerque, J. P. ; Cernev, A. K. . Mobile Money and Payment: a literature review based on academic and practitioner- oriented publications (2001-2011). In: 4th Annual Workshop ICT IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT - Workshop of the International Conference on Information Systems ICIS 2011, 2011, Shangai. Proceedings.... Atlanta, USA: Association for Information Systems, 2011. p. 1-27.
- Figueira Filho, Fernando Marques ; De Albuquerque, J. P. ; Geus, Paulo Lício De . Broadening The Perspective On Classification Systems In The Web: Analysing Web Classification As A Situated Activity Whithin Communities Of Practice. In: Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Collaborative Technologies 2010. Algarve, Portugal: IADIS Press, 2010. p. 117-124.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Krumm, Heiko ; Geus, Paulo Lício De . Model-based Management of Security Services in Complex Network Environments. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium: Pervasive Management for Ubiquitous Networks and Services. Washington D.C.: IEEE, 2008. p. 1031-1036.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Simon, E. J. . Dealing with Socio-Technical Complexity: Towards a transdisciplinary approach to IS research. In: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2007). St. Gallen: University of St. Gallen, 2007. p. 1458-1468.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Krumm, Heiko ; Geus, Paulo Lício De . Policy Modeling and Refinement for Network Security Systems. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE, 2005. p. 24-33.
- Albuquerque, J. P. ; Krumm, Heiko ; Geus, Paulo Lício De . On Scalability and Modularisation in the Modelling of Network Security Systems. In: 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2005, Milan, Italy. Computer Security - ESORICS 2005. Proceedings. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2005. v. 3679. p. 287-304.
- Albuquerque, J. P.; Isenberg, Holger ; Krumm, Heiko ; Geus, Paulo Lício De . Improving the Configuration Management of Large Network Security Systems. In: Ambient Networks 16th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2005, Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2005. v. 3775. p. 36-47.