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Overview

Alessandro Garcia is affiliated with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and has a research focus primarily within the broad field of Computer Science. Their work concentrates on several subfields including Information Systems, Software, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Signal Processing.

Their main topics of research encompass Software Engineering Research, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software System Performance and Reliability, Information and Cyber Security, Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies.

Alessandro Garcia has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Information and Software Technology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development

Their recent papers include:

  • "Refactoring effect on internal quality attributes: What haven't they told you yet?" published in 2020 in Information and Software Technology
  • "Code and commit metrics of developer productivity: a study on team leaders perceptions" published in 2020 in Empirical Software Engineering
  • "An efficient approach for reviewing security-related aspects in agile requirements specifications of web applications" published in 2020 in Requirements Engineering
  • "How do Code Smell Co-occurrences Removal Impact Internal Quality Attributes? A Developers' Perspective" published in 2021 in Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering
  • "Evaluating refactorings for disciplining #ifdef annotations: An eye tracking study with novices" published in 2021 in Empirical Software Engineering

Frequent co-authors in Alessandro Garcia's research collaborations include Wesley K. G. Assunção, Anderson Uchôa, Marcos Kalinowski, Baldoíno Fonseca, and Willian Oizumi. These collaborations reflect sustained partnerships contributing to the research output.

Best Publications

  • Evolving software product lines with aspects: an empirical study on design stability

    Eduardo Figueiredo;Nelio Cacho;Claudio Sant'Anna;Mario Monteiro

  • Modularizing design patterns with aspects: a quantitative study

    Alessandro Garcia;Cláudio Sant'Anna;Eduardo Figueiredo;Uirá Kulesza

  • On the Reuse and Maintenance of Aspect-Oriented Software: An Assessment Framework

    Cláudio Nogueira Sant’Anna;Alessandro Fabricio Garcia;Carlos José Pereira de Lucena;Arndt von Staa

  • On the impact of aspectual decompositions on design stability: an empirical study

    Phil Greenwood;Thiago Bartolomei;Eduardo Figueiredo;Marcos Dosea

  • A Comparitive study of exception handling mechanisms for building dependable object-oriented software

    Alessandro F. Garcia;Cecília M.F. Rubira;Alexander Romanovsky;Jie Xu

  • Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II

    Carlos Lucena;Alessandro Garcia;Alexander Romanovsky;Jaelson Castro

  • Separation of concerns in multi-agent systems: An empirical study

    Alessandro Garcia;Claudio Sant'anna;Christina Chavez;Viviane Torres Da Silva

  • Survey of Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design Approaches

    Ruzanna Chitchyan;A. Rashid;P. Sawyer;A. Garcia

  • Composing design patterns: a scalability study of aspect-oriented programming

    Nelio Cacho;Claudio Sant'Anna;Eduardo Figueiredo;Alessandro Garcia

  • Are automatically-detected code anomalies relevant to architectural modularity?: an exploratory analysis of evolving systems

    Isela Macia;Joshua Garcia;Daniel Popescu;Alessandro Garcia

  • On the Relevance of Code Anomalies for Identifying Architecture Degradation Symptoms

    Isela Macia;Roberta Arcoverde;Alessandro Garcia;Christina Chavez

  • Quantifying the Effects of Aspect-Oriented Programming: A Maintenance Study

    Uira Kulesza;Claudio Sant'Anna;Alessandro Garcia;Roberta Coelho

  • Exceptions and aspects: the devil is in the details

    Fernando Castor Filho;Nelio Cacho;Eduardo Figueiredo;Raquel Maranhão

  • Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems

    Alessandro Garcia;Carlos Lucena;Franco Zambonelli;Andrea Omicini

  • Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study

    Roberta Coelho;Awais Rashid;Alessandro Garcia;Fabiano Ferrari

  • Agents in object-oriented software engineering

    Alessandro F. Garcia;Carlos J. P. de Lucena;Donald D. Cowan

  • Code anomalies flock together: exploring code anomaly agglomerations for locating design problems

    Willian Oizumi;Alessandro Garcia;Leonardo da Silva Sousa;Bruno Cafeo

  • Understanding the longevity of code smells: preliminary results of an explanatory survey

    Roberta Arcoverde;Alessandro Garcia;Eduardo Figueiredo

  • Taming agents and objects in software engineering

    Viviane Silva;Alessandro Garcia;Anarosa Brandão;Christina Chavez

  • How does refactoring affect internal quality attributes?: A multi-project study

    Alexander Chávez;Isabella Ferreira;Eduardo Fernandes;Diego Cedrim

  • Exceptions and aspects: the devil is in the details

    Fernando Castor;Nelio Cacho;Eduardo Figueiredo;Raquel Maranhao

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Awais Rashid
Awais Rashid University of Bristol
Yuanfang Cai
Yuanfang Cai Drexel University
Jon Whittle
Jon Whittle Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Holger Giese
Holger Giese Hasso Plattner Institute
Tom Holvoet
Tom Holvoet KU Leuven
Paolo Missier
Paolo Missier Newcastle University
Paolo Giorgini
Paolo Giorgini University of Trento
Andrea Omicini
Andrea Omicini University of Bologna
Mira Mezini
Mira Mezini Technical University of Darmstadt

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