Education  

• The University of York, England, UK
  DPhil in Computer Science, 2000
  Thesis: Resource Management in Open Distributed Tuple Space Systems
  Advisor: Dr. Alan Wood
• State University of Campinas, Brazil
  MSc in Computer Science (by Research), 1995
  Thesis: A Study on Models of Parallel Computation
  Advisor: João Carlos Setubal
• University of Fortaleza, Brazil
  BSc in Computer Science, 1992

Scholarships

• PhD Scholarship (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil)
  August 1995 – August 1999
• MSc Scholarship (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil)
  January 1992 - December 1994
  

Research Interests

• Coordination Models and Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Swarm Intelligence
• Self-Organization
• Biologically-Inspired Computing
• Mobile Computation
• Grid Computing

Research Grants

Current

• Exploring the Use of Nature-Inspired Algorithms in Software Testing Tools
  PI: Ronaldo Menezes
  Status: Funded by CNPq (Brazil), 2005-2006, $70,000
  (project developed in conjunction to IVIA Ltd., Brazil)
• SwarmLinda: A Swarm-based Approach to Scalable Linda Systems
  PI: Ronaldo Menezes and Robert Tolksdorf
  Status: Funded by NSF and DAAD (Germany), 2004-2006, $15,000
  (click here for project website)

Past

• Proactive, Selective Behavior Filtering with Data restoration: A New Technique for Runtime Neutralization of Malicious Mobile Code
  PI: James Whittaker
  Co-PIs: Ronaldo Menezes, Cem Kaner, Michael Thomason, Jens Gregor and Gerald Marin
  Status: Funded by Office of Naval Research, 2001–2005, $4,000,000

Publications (new ones in Bold)

Book Chapters

• Scalability in Linda-like Coordination Systems
  Ronaldo Menezes, Robert Tolksdorf and Alan Wood
  in Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies and Applications
  A. Omicini, F. Zambonelli, M. Klush and R. Tolksdorf (editors), Springer-Verlag, 2001

Journal

• Case Studies for Self-Organization in Computer Science. Marco Mamei, Ronaldo Menezes, Robert Tolksdorf and Franco Zambonelli
  Journal of Systems Architecture, September 2006. Elsivier. 
• On Coordination and its Significance to Distributed and Multi-Agent Systems. Sascha Ossowski and Ronaldo Menezes
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal. 2006. 18:359--370. Wiley Press.
• On the Semantics of Coordination Models for Distributed Systems: The LogOp Case Study. Ronaldo Menezes, Andrea Omicini and Mirko Viroli
  Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Vol 97, pp 97-124. July 2004. Elsevier
• Resource Management in Open Linda Systems. Ronaldo Menezes
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 15:1233-1256, Wiley Press
• Coordination in a Content-Addressable Web. Ronaldo Menezes, Iain Merrick and Alan Wood
  Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Journal
  Volume 2, Number 3, pp. 287 -- 301, Kluwer Academic Press. September 1999

Refereed Papers