Guillermina Cledou defended her doctoral thesis entitled “A Virtual Factory for Smart City Service Integration”. The researcher received a unanimous evaluation of “good with distinction” from the jury.

Rui Pereira defended his doctoral thesis entitiled “Energyware Engineering: Techniques and Tools for Green Software Development”. The researcher received an unanimous evaluation of “very good” from the jury.

Ricardo Gonçalves defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Multi-Value Distributed Key-Value Stores”. The researcher received a unanimous evaluation of “good” from the jury.

On 27 September, it took place the third and final assessment by the European Commission on the SafeCloud project. The project is a work led by INESC TEC's High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab). With an investment of over EUR three million, this project focuses on the area of the infrastructures in the cloud, that despite its advantages, still present several challenges of safety, privacy and integrity in the data storage and processing.

Integrated in the 10th Summer in the Campus Programme of the University of Minho, the activity Computing Without Borders was organized by the Informatics Department in collaboration with HASLab.

Fábio Coelho defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Towards a Transactional and Analytical Data Management System for Big Data". The researcher received an unanimous evaluation of “very good” from the jury.

The European project CloudDBAppliance achieved a positive assessment in the first 18 months of activity under the European Commission’s assessment that took place on 6 July in Brussels.

Carlos Baquero, researcher of the High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab) and Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, completed the habilitation exams on 26 and 27 July at the University of Minho, being unanimously approved by the members of the jury.