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Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at El Paso
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I am the leader of the Trust
Laboratory at the University of
Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and a co-PI of UTEP Cyber-ShARE Center of
Excellence that aims to provide scientists and other cyber-infrastructure
(CI) users with information that will enable them to make informed
decisions about retrieved resources and to have confidence in using
results from CI-based applications. Cyber-ShARE is a true
multi-disciplinary research effort between computer science,
geosciences, environmental sciences, computational math, and
education. In this collaborative effort, I am the leader of the Cyber-ShARE
Computer Science Project that aims to increase the scientist
use of semantic web
technologies in support of CI-based applications and services.
Cyber-ShARE is a multi-million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. I am a
recipient of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Early Career
Faculty Award under the DHS
Scientific Leadership Awards for Minority Serving Institutions
program.
I am a co-leader of the Inference Web (IW) project, a
collaborative research effort between Stanford University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and UTEP. The IW project aims to provide
infrastructure for explaining answers from software
systems. Inference Web is sponsored by a number of DARPA and DTO (formely known as
ARDA) projects.
Prior to joining UTEP, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory at
Stanford University. I am a former member of the Information Management Group at the
School of Computer Science of
the University of
Manchester, United Kingdom, a leading research group on Semantic
Web, Grid and e-Science solutions in Europe. I am a former member of
the Database Group at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
(UFMG), Brazil , a leading research group on information
extraction and information retrieve in Latin America.
Publications:
- Selected:
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Leonardo Salayandia, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Ann Q. Gates, and Flor Salcedo.
Workflow-Driven Ontologies: An Earth Sciences Case Study.
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 2006.
(PDF)
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J. William Murdock, Deborah McGuinness, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Chris Welty, and David Ferrucci.
Explaining Conclusions from Diverse Knowledge Sources.
Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006),
Athens, GA, USA, November 2006.
(PDF)
(nominated for best paper)
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Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L. McGuinness and Richard Fikes. A
Proof Markup Language for Semantic Web Services. Information Systems 31(4-5): 381-395, 2006.
(PDF)
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Deborah L. McGuinness and Paulo Pinheiro da Silva. Explaining Answers
from the Semantic Web: The Inference Web Approach. Journal of Web
Semantics, Vol. 1 No. 4, October 2004, pages 397-413.
(PDF)
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Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L. McGuinness and Rob
McCool. Knowledge Provenance Infrastructure. IEEE Data Engineering
Bulletin. Vol. 26 No. 4, pages 26-32, December 2003.
(PDF)
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Paulo Pinheiro da Silva and Norman W. Paton. User Interface Modeling
in UMLi. IEEE Software, Vol.20 No. 4, July/August 2003, pages
62-69.
(PDF)
- Full list by year
- Full list by category
- My entry in
DBLP. (Thanks to Michael Ley)
Teaching:
Citations:
- A list of some papers citing my work excluding self-cited papers, viz., when citing and cited papers share at least an author.
- A list of citations to my work as in Google Scholar.
Education:
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Postdoc training, Computer Science, Stanford University, USA,
2002-2005.
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Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom,
2002.
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M.Sc., Computer Science, UFMG, Brazil, 1998.
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Undergraduate, Mathematics, UFMG, Brazil, 1996.
Research students:
Research interests:
- Active research:
- tools and infrastructure enabling explainable systems
- semantic web applications and tools
- cyber-infrastructure-based applications including scientific workflows
- provenance and trust management
- Less active but still very interesting research:
- model-based user interface development environments
- object-oriented design of systems including interactive system
- formal specification and verification of software systems
- legacy systems and reverse engineering
- database systems and web repositories
Projects:
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Trust Lab Tools - Explanations, provenance and trust for Cyber-Infrastructure
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Inference Web -
Explanations for the Semantic Web (or understanding answers in the Web)
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ARDA AQUAINT -
Question answering against large heterogeneous collections of
information such as the Web
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ARDA NIMD -
Novel Intelligence from Massive Data
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DARPA
CALO - Cognitive Agent that Learns and Observes
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DARPA DAML - A language and tools
for the Semantic Web
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DARPA Explainable Knowledge Aggregation
- DARPA RKF
- Support for subject matter experts to perform Rapid
Knowledge Formation
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UMLi - User interface design in
UML
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EPSRC Teallach - Systematic and
generic support for the development of user interfaces to object-oriented database applications
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COPASA CAPPLES - Risk
assessment of the migration of legacy systems using performance analysis
Professional Activities
- PC member for the following events:
- Reviewer for the following events/publications:
Personal information
(with photos)
Created on April 19, 1997.
Last updated on October 24, 2006.