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Books:

"Programação em Perl" (Programming Perl), Levi Lúcio, Vasco Amaral. First edition in October 2001 by FCA editora/Lidel, in Portugal, ISBN 972-722-251-X.

Vasco Amaral, Luis Marcelino, Lui­s Veiga, H. Conrad Cunningham: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, PPPJ 2007, Lisboa, Portugal, September 5-7, 2007 ACM 2007, ACM ISBN:978-1-59593-672-1

Luis Veiga, Vasco Amaral, Luis Marcelino, Giacomo Cabri, Nigel Horspool: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, PPPJ 2008, Modena, Italy, September 5-7, 2008 ACM 2008, ACM ISBN:978-1-60558-223-8

Dissertation:

"Increasing productivity in High Energy Physics data mining with a Domain Specific Visual Query Language", Vasco Amaral. Phd. Thesis, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2005.

DBLP entry

High Energy Physics (HEP) publications

H-index according to harzing.com (28th of June 2008)

Query: v. amaral: eng,phy

Papers: 29 Cites/paper: 5.03 h-index: 5

AWCR: 17.96 Citations: 146 Cites/author: 31.71 g-index: 11

AW-index: 4.24 Years: 9 Papers/author: 8.92 hc-index: 4 AWCRpA: 3.53

Cites/year: 16.22 Authors/paper: 3.93 hI-index: 0.93 hI,norm: 2

Hirsch a=5.84, m=0.56

Contemporary ac=4.50

Cites/paper 5.03/1.0/1 (mean/median/mode)

Authors/paper 3.93/3.0/3 (mean/median/mode)

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Published articles in refereed international Conference Proceedings:

2008 "Foundations for a Domain Specific Modeling Language Prototyping Environmen: A compositional approach", Luis Pedro, Vasco Amaral, Didier Buchs, Proc. 8th OOPSLA ACM-SIGPLAN Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) - October, 2008

2006 "Towards a formal, model-based framework for control systems interaction prototyping", M. Risoldi, V. Amaral, RISE 2006 conference, Springer. (pdf)

2005 "Formally Specifying the Syntax and Semantics of a Visual Query Language for the Domain of High Energy Physics Data Analysis" V. Amaral, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte, VLHCC, pp. 251-258, 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05).(pdf)

2004 "Domain Specific Visual Query Language for HEP analysis or How far can we go with user friendliness in HEP analysis?", V. Amaral, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte, Proc. CHEP'04, 27 September-1 October, Interlaken, Switzerland.

2003 "A Domain Specific Visual Query Language for the High Energy Physics Environment", V. Amaral, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte, Proc. 3rd OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM), ISBN: 951-39-1582-4/ISSN: 1239-291X , Anaheim, California, USA, 2003: 9-16. pdf

2003 "Designing and Implementing a New Abstraction Layer to Optimize the HEP Analysis Process", V. Amaral, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte, IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium NSS, October 20-24, Conference Record N26-104, ISSN: 1082-3654, ISBN(CD-ROM):0-7803-8258-7, ISBN(SoftBound):0-7803-8258-7,Portland, Oregon, USA.

2003 "A Visual Query Language for HEP Analysis", V. Amaral, S. Helmer, G. Moerkotte, IEEE Nuclear Sciences Symposium NSS, October 20-24, Conference Record N26-105, ISSN: 1082-3654, ISBN(CD-ROM):0-7803-8258-7, ISBN(SoftBound):0-7803-8258-7, Portland, Oregon, USA.

2001 "Operational experience running the Herab-B database system", Vasco Amaral, A. Amorim et. al Proc. of CHEP'01, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Sept.2001), Beijing/CHINA, ISBN:1-880132-77-X, Science Press 6-11:396-397, 2001.

2001 "Studies for optimization of data analysis queries for HEP using HERA-B commissioning data", Vasco Amaral, A. Amorim, et. al. Proc. of CHEP'01, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Sept.2001), Beijing/CHINA, ISBN:1-880132-77-X, Science Press 3-10:154-155.

2000 "The Hera-B database management for detector configuration, calibration, alignment, slow control and data classification", Proc. of CHEP'00, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Feb. 2000), editor Mirco Mazzucato INFN Padova, Padova/Italy.

2000 "Impact of Software Review and Inspection", Proceedings CHEP2000, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, editor Mirco Mazzucato INFN Padova, Padova/Italy.

2000 "Performance and scalability of the back-end DAQ sub-system", Proc. of CHEP'00, International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (Feb.2000), editor Mirco Mazzucato INFN Padova, Padova/Italy.

Published articles in national (portuguese) Conference Proceedings:

2006 "I-UsE: Integrated Usability Evaluation Environments" L.Marcelino, V. Amaral Proceedings of Interaccao 2006, Grupo Portugues de Computacao Grafica, ISBN:972-98464-7-2, Braga, Portugal October 2006. pdf