Dr Grazziela Figueredo

 
role Role: Research Fellow
qualifications Qualifications: BSc, MSc, PhD
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homepage Homepage: http://www.ima.ac.uk/figueredo

Research

  • Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) and Computational Modelling of the Immune System
  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  • Bio-inspired Computing
  • System Dynamics
  • Agent-based Simulation
  • Multi-scale Modelling and Simulation

Teaching & Supervision

  • Previous Jobs (as Lecturer):
  • Teaching: Artificial Intelligence, Data Structure and Graphs Theory, Concepts of Formal Languages, Compilers, Concepts of Programming Languages, Introduction to Data Processing, Computer Architecture, Numerical Calculus, TCP/IP protocol, Mobile Computing.
  • Previous Undergraduate Final Projects:
    • Knowledge Discovery Applied to ITIL Techniques from a Cell Phone Company.
    • Basic Review of Datamining techniques.
    • Implementation of a Final Project Articles Repository.
  • Lab assistance for G52APR (Application Programming) module (2010), G54SIM (Simulation for Computer Scientists) module (2011)  and G64OOS - Object Oriented Systems (2012) at the University of Nottingham.
  • Visiting lecture for G54SIM (Simulation for Computer Scientists) module (2010).

Current Projects

 

  • ADAC - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/adac/
  • Chaste - http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/chaste/
    • Vascular Tissue Modelling Environment - Development of a user-friendly Vascular Tissue Modelling Environment (VTME) within the "Cancer, Heart and Soft Tissue Environment" (Chaste, http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/chaste//), already part of the VPH ToolKit (http://toolkit.vph-noe.eu/). VTME will be an open-source, extensible, virtual research environment for 3D in silico simulation of vascular tissue growth, which allows user-specification of submodels via SBML and CellML. VTME will allow biologists to test hypotheses on the mechanisms of vascular tissue growth and homeostasis, and to test potential new treatments for various pathologies.

 

Previous Projects

  • SIGA - Control of Brazilian Marines' Provisioning (Controle de Abastecimento da Marinha do Brasil - Módulo de Obtenção). (2002 - 2004)
  • Knowledge Discovery on Petrobrás (Brazilian Petroleum) Health Insurance System. (2007)

Esteem


Journal Reviews

  • IJACT (2012)
  • Memetic Computing (2012)
  • Evolutionary Intelligence (2008)

Member of the Programme Committee

  • The 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2013)

Conference Reviews

  • CILAMCE (2009, 2010)
  • SCSC(2010)

Graduation Projects Examiner

  • Centro Universitário Metodista Bennett - Rio de Janeiro

Awards

  • FAPERJ scholarship for best master student in computer science (COPPE-UFRJ) (2003)
  • Best poster at the IMA poster day (16/06/2010)

Journal Papers
Author(s) Title Publisher Page Year
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin Investigating Mathematical Models of Immuno-Interactions with Early-Stage Cancer under an Agent-Based Modelling Perspective BMC Bioinformatics 14(Suppl 6) S6 2013
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Tanvi V. Joshi, James M. Osborne, Helen M. Byrne, Markus R. Owen On-Lattice Agent-based Simulation of Populations of Cells within the Open-Source Chaste Framework Interface Focus tbc 2013
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Nelson F. F. Ebecken, Douglas A. Augusto, Helio J. C. Barbosa An Immune-inspired Instance Selection Mechanism for Supervised Classification Memetic Computing 4 135-147 2012
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Luis A. V. Carvalho, Helio J. C. Barbosa, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Evolutionary Algorithms to Simulate the Phylogenesis of a Binary Artificial Immune System Evolutionary Intelligence 1 133-144 2008

Conference Papers
Author(s) Title Publisher Page Year
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Peer-Olaf Siebers, Uwe Aickelin and Stephanie Foan A Beginners Guide to Systems Simulation in Immunology Proceedings of the 11th Int. Conf. on Artificial Immune Systems 57-71 2012
Grazziela P Figueredo, Uwe Aickelin, Peer-Olaf Siebers Systems Dynamics or Agent-Based Modelling for Immune Simulation? Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011), LNCS Volume 6825, Cambridge, UK 81-94 2011
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Uwe Aickelin Comparing System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for Tumour Growth and its Interactions with Effector Cells Proceedings of the International Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2011 15-22 2011
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Uwe Aickelin Investigating Immune System Aging: System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modeling Proceedings of the International Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2010 174-181 2010
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Uwe Aickelin Defining a Simulation Strategy for Cancer Immunocompetence Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2010) 4-17 2010
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Nelson F. F. Ebecken, Helio J. C. Barbosa An immune-inspired sampling technique for data selection The XXX CILAMCE 2009
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Uwe Aickelin, Amanda Whitbrook System Dynamics Modelling of the Processes Involving the Maintenance of the Naive T Cell Repertoire Proceedings of the 9th Annual Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2009), Nottingham, UK 13-18 2009
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Nelson F. F. Ebecken, Helio J. C. Barbosa A Suppression Immune Based Mechanism to Find a Representative Training Set in Data Classification Tasks Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4628, Santos, Brazil 59-70 2007
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Luis A. V. Carvalho, Helio J. C. Barbosa, Nelson F. F. Ebecken Genetic Algorithms to Study the Evolution of Paratopes and Antibodies in Artificial Immune Systems THe XXVII Iberian Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering 2006
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Douglas A. Augusto, Leonardo Daister, Beatriz S. L. P. Lima Três Abordagens Inspiradas na Natureza para a Resolução de Problemas Multimodais The XXVI CILAMCE - Iberian Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering 2005
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Luis A. V. Carvalho, Helio J. C. Barbosa Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithms to Simulate the Immune Systems Gene Libraries Evolution Advances in Natural Computation: First International Conference 941-944 2005

Book Chapters
Author(s) Title Publisher Page Year
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Heder S. Bernardino, Helio J. C. Barbosa Introducao aos Sistemas Imunologicos Artificiais Metaheuristicas em Pesquisa Operacional tbc 2012

Research Reports
Author(s) Title Publisher Page Year
Grazziela P. Figueredo Translating Simulation Approaches for Immunology PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science, Nottingham University 2012
Grazziela P. Figueredo, Tanvi Joshi, James M. Osborne, Helen Byrne, Markus R. Owen Vascular Tissue Modelling Environment The 2012 Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine 2012
Grazziela P. Figueredo First year report Annual report 2009 2009
Grazziela P Figueredo Algoritmos Genéticos na Evolução das Bibliotecas de Genes do Sistema Imune MSc Thesis 2004
Grazziela P. Figueredo Algoritmos Genéticos Aplicados a Problemas de Corte e Empacotamento Final year undergraduate project 2002

 

 

Intelligent Modelling and Analysis Research Group, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK.