Ligia Kerr

Group of Computer Networks, Software Engineering and Systems

GREat is composed of professors and students (graduate and undergraduate) of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and other Institutions. Its main research areas are: - Mobile Devices * Software Development for Android / Windows Phone; Software customization and adaptation for Android devices; Game development for Android / Windows Phone; Certified Compatibility Android devices for OEM Google Partners; Testing for LTE-Advanced; CDMA,GSM including mobility test scenarios. - Cloud Computing / SDN * SLA4 cloud, Cloud Billing Solutions; Workload Modeling and Simulation; Metrics for Elasticity Evaluation; Cloud Models for Development Application e Mobile Cloud Computing. - Internet of Things * Intelligent Enviroments (Smart buildings and cities); Programming environment to facilitate the development of IoT/Ubiquitous applications; Development of applications to control sensors/actuators e Integration Cloud-Iot. - Wireless Sensor Network * Energy-aware networks; Smart agriculture; Management e Security. - Natural Language Processing * Applications: Devices commands, Chatterbots / Q&A (Question and Answer), Information Retrieval/Extraction; Tools: Word Sense Disambiguiation, Syntatic Parsing, POS-Tagging, Lexical Analysis; Linguistic Resource Production: Dictionary construction, Sentence (Corpus) Generation. - Ubiquitous Systems * Annotation systems; Recomendation systems; Tools for Pervasive Games; Loosely Coupled Context Acquisition Middleware; Mobile Educational Apps. - Security * Security for Android; Vulnerabilities Analysis and Fix; VPN, Digital Certificates and Encryption security tools; Automated Tests. - Web Applications and Tools * Web Portal for accessing and concentrate information from another systems; Project management software, resourcing and scheduling tools; Releases compilation scheduling tool and file repository; Automation and generate XMLs for android systems.