Publications

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How Context Injection Shapes Creativity in LLM-Generated Alternative Uses

How Context Injection Shapes Creativity in LLM-Generated Alternative Uses

17th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) • 2026
Four types of injected context are compared on the Alternative Uses Test, showing that context type steers LLM outputs toward distinct creativity profiles rather than giving a uniform boost.
Understanding developer well-being: measuring mental health and productivity in software teams

Understanding developer well-being: measuring mental health and productivity in software teams

Empirical Software Engineering • 2026
A catalog of 12 metrics for developer mental health and productivity, assessed through a survey and interviews with industry professionals.
Emotion Recognition in Agile Software Meetings: A Comparative Study of ML, DL, and Text-based LLM Approaches

Emotion Recognition in Agile Software Meetings: A Comparative Study of ML, DL, and Text-based LLM Approaches

19th International Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) • 2026
A comparative study of machine learning, deep learning and text-based LLM approaches for recognising emotions in agile software meetings.
The Topics of Depression on Social Networking Sites

The Topics of Depression on Social Networking Sites

Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) • 2025
Topic modeling of depressive expression on Instagram, Reddit and X in Brazilian Portuguese, comparing traditional techniques with an LLM-based methodology.
Scalable Reputation Management: A Multi-Task Prompting Approach Using Fine-Tuned PLMs for Sentiment and Topic Classification

Scalable Reputation Management: A Multi-Task Prompting Approach Using Fine-Tuned PLMs for Sentiment and Topic Classification

International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) • 2025
This study presents a PLM-based framework that streamlines corporate reputation management with efficient, multi-task, multi-company model performance.
Warehousing Data for Brand Health and Reputation with AI-Driven Scores in NewSQL Architectures: Opportunities and Challenges

Warehousing Data for Brand Health and Reputation with AI-Driven Scores in NewSQL Architectures: Opportunities and Challenges

International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) • 2025
Explores AI-driven scores in NewSQL architectures for brand health and reputation.
The Impact of Exogenous Variables on Soybean Freight: A Machine Learning Analysis

The Impact of Exogenous Variables on Soybean Freight: A Machine Learning Analysis

MDPI Sustainability • 2025
Analyzes soybean freight prices using machine learning with external variables.
VIBES--Vision Backbone Efficient Selection

VIBES--Vision Backbone Efficient Selection

arXiv preprint • 2024
Presents an efficient framework for selecting vision backbones in deep learning architectures.
'I am always tired': Perceptions on Mental Health and Productivity Metrics

'I am always tired': Perceptions on Mental Health and Productivity Metrics

Anais Estendidos do Congresso Brasileiro de Software: Teoria e Prática (CBSoft) • 2024
This study investigates tech and health professionals' perceptions of metrics for assessing mental health and productivity in software development to foster healthier work environments.
Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Support the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Mental Disorders

Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Support the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis of Mental Disorders

Minicursos do XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Computação Aplicada à Saúde (SBCAS) • 2024
Comprehensive review of AI applications in mental health diagnostics, treatment and pgonosis.
Detecting depression from social media data as a multiple-instance learning task

Detecting depression from social media data as a multiple-instance learning task

2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) • 2022
Proposes a multiple-instance learning approach for screening depression using social media data.
Provendo Segurança em Cidades Inteligentes: Aplicações, Desafios e Tendências em Mobilidade Elétrica e Tarifação Inteligente com NFTs

Provendo Segurança em Cidades Inteligentes: Aplicações, Desafios e Tendências em Mobilidade Elétrica e Tarifação Inteligente com NFTs

Minicursos do XXII Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais • 2022
Comprehensive review of principles, applications and challenges in electric mobility and smart charging with NFTs.
Screening for depressed individuals by using multimodal social media data

Screening for depressed individuals by using multimodal social media data

Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Doctoral Consortium) • 2021
Develops a multimodal framework for depression screening using social media data.
See and read: detecting depression symptoms in higher education students using multimodal social media data

See and read: detecting depression symptoms in higher education students using multimodal social media data

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media • 2020
Combines visual and textual social media data for depression detection in students.
Towards safer (smart) cities: Discovering urban crime patterns using logic-based relational machine learning

Towards safer (smart) cities: Discovering urban crime patterns using logic-based relational machine learning

2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) • 2018
Develops a logic-based relational learning approach for urban crime pattern analysis.
SiAPP: An Information System for Crime Analytics Based on Logical Relational Learning

SiAPP: An Information System for Crime Analytics Based on Logical Relational Learning

Proceedings of the XII Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems • 2016
Presents SiAPP, a crime analytics system using relational machine learning.