Maria da Graça S. Abrantes

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First Degree (Licenciatura - a five year degree) in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, September 1979.

From October 1979 to June 1984, system analyst of the UNIVAC-1100 Software Development and System Support Department of SPERRY-UNIVAC Lisbon.

From July 1984 to July 1998, assistant lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the School of Agriculture of Lisbon Technical University. Past activities included the management of the VAX/VMS computer network in the Computer Center of the School of Agriculture and research work on Database Management Systems, Decision Support Systems and Methodologies for Information Systems Development.

Since 1991, researcher at INESC (Institute for Computers and System Engineering), in the Computer Graphics and Multimedia group.

PhD in Software Engineering and Computers from Instituto Superior Técnico (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), in July 1998.

Presently auxiliary professor of the Mathematics Department at the Lisbon Technical University's School of Agricultural Sciences (ISA).

From January 2001 to Decembre 2004 member of Conselho Directivo of Instituto Superior de Agronomia.

Since May 2003 President of Conselho Pedagógico of Instituto Superior de Agronomia.

Member, Geographical Information Systems Users Association (USIG).

Main interests: Geographical Information Systems, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Database Management Systems.


Recent publications

  • Z. Chora, M. R. Gomes, G. Abrantes. SIG no Suporte aos Processos de Negócio do IVV. In ESIG 99 CD-ROM, 1999.
  • Abrantes, M.G., Gomes, M.R., 1998. GEO-OMT, An Object-Oriented Method Supporting the Development of Facilities Management Systems. GISPlanet'98 CD-ROM.
  • Abrantes, M.G., 1998. Contribuições para uma metodologia de desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação Geográfica. Dissertação de Doutoramento, IST/UTL.
  • Afonso, P., Gomes, M.R., Abrantes, M.G., 1998. A Geomarketing Decision Support System Based on Fuzzy Set Theory. Geocomputation 98 CD-ROM.
  • Augusto, E., Gomes, M.R., Abrantes, M.G., Costa, J.M., 1997. Arquitecturas para Acesso a Informação Georreferenciada através da WEB. Presentation to the 4th ESIG (Lisboa: USIG).
  • Abrantes, M.G., Pinheiro, A., 1997. Behaviour Modelling in Geographic Applications. In Geographical Informatio’ 97 From Research to Application through Cooperation, Proceedings of the 3 rd JEC, 1 editado por S. Hodgson, M. Rumor, J.J. Harts (Netherlands: IOS Press), 254-257.
  • Augusto, E., Gomes, M.R., Abrantes, M.G., 1997. Accessing Geographic Data Through WWW. In Geographical Information’97  From Research to Application through Cooperation, Proceedings of the 3 rd JEC, 1, editado por S. Hodgson, M. Rumor, J. J. Harts (Netherlands: IOS Press), 135-144.
  • Abrantes, M.G., 1996. The Object-Oriented Approach to the Specification of Geographic Applications. In Geographical Information  From Research to Application through Cooperation, Proceedings of the 2 nd JEC, 1, editado por M. Rumor, R. Mcmillen, H.F. Ottens (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press), 248-257.
  • Costa, J., Pinheiro, A., Abrantes, G., 1995. Desenvolvimento de aplicações para suporte de sistemas de redes - Estudo de um caso: o SIGTPE. Presentation to the 3rd USIG. Lisboa 1995.
  • Abrantes, M.G., Carapuça, R., 1994. Explicit Representation of Data that Depend on Topological Relationships and Control over Data Consistency. In EGIS/MARI’94 Conference Proceedings, 1, editado por J.J. Harts, H.F. Ottens, H.J. Scholten (Utrecht/Amsterdam, The Netherlands: EGIS Foundation), 878-887.
  • Abrantes, G., 1993. Características da Informação Geográfica em Formato Digital, Conceitos e Técnicas para a Re-Utilização Eficaz dos Dados (Characteristics of Geographic Information in Digital Format, Concepts and Techniques for an Efficient Re-use). Presentation to the 2nd USIG, Estoril 1993.

Endereço Postal:
Profª Maria da Graça Silva Abrantes
Departamento de Matemática

Instituto Superior de Agronomia
Tapada da Ajuda
1349-017 LISBOA
Portugal

e-mail: graca@isa.utl.pt
URL: http://home.isa.utl.pt/~graca/graca.html