2026 Alvaro A. A. Fernandes: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	30	14155	13721	905	888	148	3427

Overview

Alvaro A. A. Fernandes is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, decision sciences, and social sciences, with a focus on data quality, management, and advanced database systems.

Their work is frequently published in various venues, including:

SN Computer Science
Journal of Data and Information Quality
Expert Systems with Applications
Information Systems
Research Portal (King's College London)

Fernandes's recent publications address both theoretical and practical aspects of data management and integration. Notable papers include:

Data Preparation: A Technological Perspective and Review (2023) in SN Computer Science
Targeted evidence collection for uncertain supplier selection (2020) in Expert Systems with Applications
Schema mapping generation in the wild (2021) in Information Systems
Fairness-aware Data Integration (2022) in Journal of Data and Information Quality
Schema Mapping Generation in the Wild: A Demonstration with Open Government Data (2020) in Research Portal (King's College London)

The main fields of study represented in Fernandes's research are:

Computer Science
Decision Sciences
Social Sciences

Their research also engages with subfields such as:

Management Science and Operations Research
Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems and Management
Safety Research

Key topics in Fernandes's work include:

Data Quality and Management
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Technology, Environment, Urban Planning
Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Among the researchers frequently collaborating with Fernandes are Norman W. Paton, Νικόλαος Κωνσταντίνου, Lacramioara Mazilu, Martin Koehler, and Pavel Pankin, with Paton and Κωνσταντίνου being the most regular coauthors based on joint publication counts.

Best Publications

Distributed Query Processing on the Grid

Jim Smith;Anastasios Gounaris;Paul Watson;Norman W. Paton

154
Citations
Adaptive workflow processing and execution in Pegasus

Kevin Lee;Norman W. Paton;Rizos Sakellariou;Ewa Deelman

142
Citations
Structure inference for linked data sources using clustering

Klitos Christodoulou;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

139
Citations
Service-Based Distributed Querying on the Grid

M. Nedim Alpdemir;Arijit Mukherjee;Norman W. Paton;Paul Watson

129
Citations
Dataset Discovery in Data Lakes

Alex Bogatu;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;Norman W. Paton;Nikolaos Konstantinou

125
Citations
Optimizing Utility in Cloud Computing through Autonomic Workload Execution

Norman W. Paton;Marcelo A. T. Aragão;Kevin Lee;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

115
Citations
Adaptive Query Processing: A Survey

Anastasios Gounaris;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;Rizos Sakellariou

109
Citations
OGSA-DQP: A Service for Distributed Querying on the Grid

M. Nedim Alpdemir;Arijit Mukherjee;Anastasios Gounaris;Norman W. Paton

99
Citations
An Effective Deductive Object-Oriented Database Through Language Integration

Maria L. Barja;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;M. Howard Williams

89
Citations
The design and implementation of OGSA-DQP: A service-based distributed query processor

Steven Lynden;Arijit Mukherjee;Alastair C. Hume;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

89
Citations
A semantically enabled service architecture for mashups over streaming and stored data

Alasdair J. G. Gray;Raúl García-Castro;Kostis Kyzirakos;Manos Karpathiotakis

81
Citations
An approach to ad hoc cloud computing

Graham N. C. Kirby;Alan Dearle;Angus Macdonald;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

81
Citations
User Feedback as a First Class Citizen in Information Integration Systems

Khalid Belhajjame;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;Cornelia Hedeler

78
Citations
Workflow adaptation as an autonomic computing problem

Kevin Lee;Rizos Sakellariou;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

75
Citations
Enhancing Services and Applications with Knowledge and Semantics

Carole A. Goble;David De Roure;Nigel R. Shadbolt;Alvaro A.A. Fernandes

71
Citations
Design and implementation of ROCK & ROLL: a deductive object-oriented database system

Maria L. Barja;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;Norman W. Paton;M. Howard Williams

71
Citations
SNEE: a query processor for wireless sensor networks

Ixent Galpin;Christian Y. Brenninkmeijer;Alasdair J. Gray;Farhana Jabeen

70
Citations
Distributed Query Processing on the Grid

Jim Smith;Paul Watson;Anastasios Gounaris;Norman W. Paton

69
Citations
OGSA-DQP: A Service-Based Distributed Query Processor for the Grid

M. Nedim Alpdemir;Arijit Mukherjee;Anastasios Gounaris;Norman W.Paton

67
Citations
A logic-based integration of active and deductive databases

Alvaro A. A. Fernandes;M. Howard Williams;Norman W. Paton

65
Citations
Resource Scheduling for Parallel Query Processing on Computational Grids

Anastasios Gounaris;Rizos Sakellariou;Norman W. Paton;Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman W. Paton University of Manchester

Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester

Dimitrios Gunopulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Leonid Libkin University of Edinburgh

Manolis Koubarakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

David De Roure University of Oxford

Oscar Corcho Technical University of Madrid

Georg Gottlob University of Calabria

Ewa Deelman University of Southern California

Gaurang Mehta University of Southern California

External Links

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