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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">With apologies for multiple posting.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">6th Brazilian Conference on Ontologies</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">September 23 - 25, 2013 - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brasil</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Co-located event: 2nd Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian Biodiversity Ontology</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ontology
is a cross-disciplinary field concerning with the study of concepts and
theories that support the building of shared conceptualizations of
specific domains. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in
the application of ontologies to solve modeling and classification
problems in diverse areas such as Computer Science, Information Science,
Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic, Knowledge Management
and many others. </span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">Brazilian Conference on Ontologies </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">foresees
an opportunity and scientific environment in which researchers and
practitioners from Information Sciences and Computer Science can
exchange the theories, methodologies, languages, tools and experience
related to the ontology development and application. </span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">In
particular, this Sixth Edition of the Conference is being held
simultaneously with the Second Workshop on Semantic Web and Amazonian
Biodiversity Ontology, putting forward the effort of the research
community in integrating the previous events about Ontologies that has
happened in Brazil in recent years, in order to create a unique highly
scientifically qualified international forum for presenting and
discussing the subject.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Therefore,
we provide a non-comprehensive list of areas and researchers’
communities from which we expect to receive submissions:</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Information Science, for instance working with ontologies, thesauri, knowledge management among other applications,</span></p>
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Artificial Intelligence, for instance working with knowledge based
systems, agents, ontology reasoning, among other applications</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Software Engineering, for instance working with conceptual modeling, Business Process Models, among other applications,</span></p>
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Informatics in Education, for instance working with Educational
Ontologies , Semantic Web-based Educational Standards, among other
applications,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">-
Linguistics and philosophy, working with natural language processing
using ontologies, theories of representation, among other applications.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Researchers
and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical, technical and
practical research contributions that directly or indirectly address the
issues above. Particularly welcome are e-science, life-sciences,
e-business and cultural applications.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><br>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">We
would like to invite you to participate in the 6th Brazilian Conference
on Ontologies, which will be held this year in Belo Horizonte, MG,
Brazil, on September 23-24. ONTOBRAS is the Brazilian meeting for
discussing Ontologies and this year will be sponsored by Federal
University of Minas Gerais. We are interested in the various aspects of
the field, from its philosophical and theoretical foundations to the new
technologies and innovative applications. In this edition, the meeting
is opened to submissions in two categories: </span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
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Full papers (maximum 12 pages) written in English and describing work
with clear demonstrated results. Accepted full paper will be invited for
oral presentation. The best full papers will be invited to be extended
for publication in an influential international journal.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
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Short papers (maximum 6 pages) written in Portuguese, English, or
Spanish and describing ongoing work. Accepted short papers will be
invited for poster presentations.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">All
submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and must
follow the article formatting rules provided by the Brazilian Computing
Society (SBC). The models for Microsoft Office Word can be downloaded at
this</span><a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/sbc_template.doc" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> link: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/sbc_template.doc</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">; models for OpenOffice and Latex can be found at this</span><a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">link</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">: <a href="http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip" target="_blank">http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/ontobras-most2011/sites/default/files/Template_SBC.zip</a>. </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Submissions should be done via Easychair: </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontobras2013</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">The conference proceedings will be published in the online journal CEUR-WS (<a href="http://www.ceur-ws.org" target="_blank">http://www.ceur-ws.org</a>).</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Main track submission deadline: July 15, 2013</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">TOPICS</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Suggested areas include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontology and Conceptual Modeling:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Semantic consistency </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontologies and Knowledge Organization:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Facets Theory</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontology Engineering:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Methodology, languages and tools</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Merging, mapping and alignment</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ontology language interoperability</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Integration methods, problems and practice</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Semantic Web:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Modelling</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Information retrieval</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ontology Search</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontology and Natural Language Processing:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Patterns of ontologies for specific applications</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontology applications:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Domain ontologies in e-science, e-business, natural sciences and others</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Knowledge management</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education</span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Ontology Visualization</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">KEYNOTE SPEAKERS / TUTORIALS</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">To be announced.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">PANEL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">A
panel on Brazilian federal e-government solutions, applications,
success cases, standards, efforts and actions performed by the Brazilian
W3C Office will be presented at the event.</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">COMMITTEES</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">General Chairs - ONTOBRAS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Marcello Peixoto Bax (UFMG, Brazil) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil)</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Chair - AMAZONIA SEMANTICA</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- José Laurindo Campos dos Santos (INPA, Brazil)<br>
</span></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Program Chairs - ONTOBRAS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Maurício Almeida (ECI - UFMG)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Renata Wassermann (IME - USP)</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Steering Committee</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Bernadette Loscio (UFPE, Brazil) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Fernando Gauthier (UFSC, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Giancarlo Guizzardi (UFES, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Marcello Bax (UFMG, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Maria Claudia Cavalcanti (IME, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Maria Luiza de Almeida Campos (UFF, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">- Sonia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil)</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Program Committee <br></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Alan Pedro da Silva (UFAL, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Alcione Oliveira (UFV, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Alexandre Rademaker (FGV, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Alicia Diaz (UNLP, Argentina)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ana Maria de Carvalho Moura (LNCC/RJ, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão (USP, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Andre Freitas (DERI, Ireland)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Andreia Malucelli (PUCPR, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Cassia Trojahn (INRIA & LIG, France)</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Claudio Gutierrez (UCHILE, Chile) </span><br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Emerson Paraiso (PUCPR, Brazil) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Evandro de Barros Costa (UFAL, Brazil) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fabio Andre Porto (LNCC, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fernanda Baiao (UNIRIO, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fernanda Lima (UnB, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fernando Naufel do Amaral (UFF, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Flavio S. Correa Da Silva (USP, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Fred Freitas (UFPE, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Frederico Durao (CESAR, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Gabriela Henning (UNL, Argentine) </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Gerd Wagner (BTU Cottbus, Germany) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Gustavo Giménez-Lugo (UTFPR, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ig Ibert Bittencourt (UFAL, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Jaime Simão Sichman (USP, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">José Parente de Oliveira (ITA, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Jose Laurindo Campos Dos Santos (INPA/MCTI, Brazil)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Luis Márcio Spinosa (PUCPR, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Mara Abel (UFRGS, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Marcela Vegetti (INGAR/UTN, Argentine) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Marcelo Bax (UFMG, Brazil)</span></p>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Marcio Moretto Ribeiro (USP, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Maria Luiza Campos (UFRJ, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Mauricio Almeida (ECI-UFMG, Brazil) (co-chair)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Monalessa Barcellos (UFES, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Oscar Corcho (UPM, Spain) </span></p>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Osvaldo Pessoa (USP, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Regina Braga (UFJF, Brazil)</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Renata Galante (UFRGS, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><br>
</span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Renata Wassermann (IME-USP, Brazil) (co-chair)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Renato Souza (FGV, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Ricardo Falbo (UFES, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Roberta Ferrario (LOA, Italy)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Sandro Fiorini (UFRGS, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Sônia Elisa Caregnato (UFRGS, Brazil)</span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Sean Siqueira (UNIRIO, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Seiji Isotani (USP, Brazil) </span><span style="font-size:11px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(217,217,217);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Stefan Schulz (MUG, Austria)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:11px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr">--<br>Renata Wassermann<br>
Associate Professor<br>Computer Science Department<br>University of São Paulo<br><br></div></div>
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