ADVANCE'2026


International Workshop on ADVANCEs in ICT Infrastructures and Services,
25-28 March 2026, Florianopolis, SC-Brazil

Technical Programme
ADVANCE Workshop program will be composed of several invited speaker presentations, technical full and short (work in progress) paper presentations and several short professional courses that will be delivered in the workshop official venue, the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.

The ADVANCE Workshop program will be combined with the Workshop on Automotive Systems 2026 organized by the Software/Hardware Integration Lab of the Federal University of Santa Catarina to offer more opportunities for exchange and networking.

Download Final Proceedings (open access) here

ADVANCE'2026 Technical Programme

DAY 1: Wednesday March 25th, 2026

Keynote 1 : Prof Jonice Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prof Jonice Oliveria

Title: Humans as Sensors: Smarter Beings for Better Cities

Summary: In the era of data-driven urbanism, cities are increasingly monitored through digital infrastructures such as IoT devices, surveillance systems, and environmental sensors. However, beyond these technological layers, humans themselves act as powerful and dynamic “social sensors,” continuously generating data through their behaviors, perceptions, and interactions—especially within online social networks.   This talk explores the concept of humans as sensors, emphasizing how user-generated content from platforms such as social media can be leveraged to better understand urban dynamics in real time. By analyzing patterns of communication, mobility, sentiment, and collective attention, it becomes possible to capture phenomena that are often invisible to traditional sensing infrastructures, such as perceived safety, social tensions, and emerging events.   Finally, the talk argues that integrating human-centered sensing into urban intelligence systems can contribute to more responsive, inclusive, and adaptive cities. By treating citizens not only as data sources but as active participants in urban sensing ecosystems, we can move toward smarter cities that are not only technologically advanced, but also socially aware.

Short Bio:  Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), she holds a PhD in Systems Engineering and Computer Science, with a multidisciplinary focus on scientific knowledge management at the intersection of management, social computing, and computer science. Her research lies at the interface of data science, social network analysis, and public policy. She is the founder and director of the Social Computing and Network Analysis Lab (Lab CORES), where she leads research on interorganizational network modeling, large-scale data integration, and the analysis of urban and social dynamics.

Bio: Prof Jonice Oliveria is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), founder and head of  Lab CORES. Her research is at the intersection of Data Science and Social Computing, focusing on Big Social Data (treatment, management and knowledge extraction). In her research, she is trying to solve real-world problems, with a special interest in crowd dynamics at large scale events, urban problems and determine how the analysis of social networks can help in promoting wellness in neglected populations. [if interested, a bit more about her...].


Technical Session 1 (Full Papers)
Chair: Prof Joberto S. B. Martins


  • Paper 1.1: An Evaluation of Device-to-Device Communication and URLLC Service in 5G Networks.

Edson Camargo, Antônio Fröhlich

  • Paper 1.2: Designing Cyberphysical Systems Software Components for Middleware Interoperability

Matheus Wagner, Antônio Augusto Fröhlich


  • Paper 1.3: Observability: The Missing Piece of Management in NFV-based Network Environments

Guilherme Werneck de Oliveira, Elias Procópio Duarte Jr., Vinicius Fulber-Garcia


   


Technical Session  2 (Full Papers)

Chair: Prof José Neuman De Souza


  • Paper 2.1: Towards Automatic Discovery of Correlations between Unstructured and Structured Data in Automotive Data Lakes

Rodrigo Gonçalves, José Luis Conradi Hoffmann, Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, João R. Campos


  • Paper 2.2: The Impact of Process Competition on Energy Consumption: Analysis and Modeling

Joberto S. B. Martins, Eduardo Gomes Campos, Rafaela Sousa de Alencar Lacerda, Adnei Willian Donatti, Charles C. Miers, Tereza C. M. B. Carvalho


  • Paper 2.3: PHIOT: A Spatio-Temporal Behaviour Modeling Framework for Phishing Detection in IoT Networks

Swagatika Sahoo, Nathan Cormerais, Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid


Technical Session 3 (Short Papers)

Chair: Prof Nazim Agoulmine


  • Paper 3.1: Autonomous Cargo Box Delivery System

Konstantin Aprosin, Robert Reis de Souza


  • Paper 3.2: ITS@OpenRAN – Towards an Intelligent Transport System support on the Open Radio Access Network

Edson Camargo, Antônio Fröhlich


  • Paper 3.3: Dynamic Map-based Data-Centric Approach for Tourism and Cultural Heritage Preservation Digital Twins

Joberto S. B. Martins, João Spínola Falcão, João G. P. Hohlenwerger, Daniel C. Santos, Lucas Almeida De Sousa, Nazim Agoulmine


  • Paper 3.4: Giselle: A RAG-Based Generative AI Platform for Mental Health Care

FABIO JOSE GOMES DE SOUSA, Ronaldo Fernandes Ramos, César Olavo Moura Filho, Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade, Ivana Cristina H. C. Barreto, Antônio Mauro Barbosa de Oliveira


Gala Dinner (included in Full Registration, tickets available at welcome desk)


Villa do Porto Restaurant
Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GtECz9EwC1oaMhWL8




DAY 2: Thursday March 26th, 2026


Keynote 2 : Prof Mauro Antonio De Oliveira, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Prof Mauro Oliveira

Title: "AI Datacenters: Opportunities and Threats"


Summary:  The global expansion of datacenters dedicated to Artificial Intelligence marks a new stage in the planet’s digital infrastructure. Far beyond mere technological facilities, these computational complexes have become strategic elements of contemporary geopolitics, concentrating economic power, scientific capability, and political influence. In this lecture, based on the books Digital Sovereignty: Colonialism and Literacy and SABIÁ – Brazilian Sovereignty and Autonomy in Artificial Intelligence, we discuss how the worldwide race for AI infrastructure simultaneously creates major development opportunities and new risks of technological dependency for countries in the Global South

Short Bio: Prof Mauro Oliveira is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Ceará and in the doctoral program at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sorbonne University, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Federal University of Ceará. He previously served as Brazil’s National Secretary of Telecommunications at the Ministry of Communications and currently represents the scientific community at the Digital Sovereignty Chamber of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. His work focuses on digital sovereignty, AI governance, and data center infrastructure.


Technical Session 4 (Full Papers)

Chair: Prof Paulo Antonio Leal Rego

  • Paper 4.1: Sk-Iterative: A Greedy Scheduling Algorithm with Spatial Reuse for Dense Wireless Networks

Chrystopher Bravos, Fabio Camargo, Flavio Assis, Elias Duarte


  • Paper 4.2: Bridging Blockchains: A Comprehensive Analysis of Interoperability Challenges and Multi-Blockchain Architectures

Eduardo Albuquerque, Pedro Silva, Matheus Silva, Gislainy Velasco, Sérgio Teixeira, Paulo Cunha


  • Paper 4.3: SABIÁ: A Guideline for the installation of AI Data Centers as Critical Infrastructure in Brazil

Caio Cavalcanti, Daniel Gularte, Antonio Wendell De Oliveira Rodrigues, Paulo Cunha, Mauro Oliveira


ADVANCE + WAS 2026: https://lisha.ufsc.br/LISHA+Auto+2026 


ADVANCE+WAS 2026 Technical Session A


14:00 - 14:30     Computer Vision for Predictive Maintenance of Vehicles   

14:30 - 14:50     SmartData on Wheels and ADAS Safety Models    

14:50 - 15:10     Vehicular Dynamics in the CARLA Simulator     

15:10 - 15:30     On the Modeling the Safety Envelopes of Autonomous Vehicles    


ADVANCE+WAS 2026 Techincal Session B

16:00 - 16:30     Predicting Transient Overloads Related to ADAS in Time-sensitive Vehicular Networks 

16:30 - 16:45     Final Remarks


DAY 3: Friday March 26th, 2026


Technical Session 5 (Full Papers)

Chair: Prof Hakim Abdelhafid

  • Paper 5.1: Voice of the Streets: a platform for urban violence detection based on social sensing

Eliel Silva, Jonice Oliveira, Tiago França


  • Paper 5.2: Analysis of ZKPs-based approaches of Multi-party blockchain-based genomic data sharing.

Huyen Trang Le, Adnan Imeri, Nazim Agoulmine


  • Paper 5.3: GISSA GPT: An Agent-Oriented Architecture for Intelligent Governance in Digital Health

Caio Leandro Rodrigues Cavalcanti, Fabio Gomes De Souza, Rodrigo Matos Aguiar, César Olavo De Moura Filho, Luiz Odorico Monteiro de Andrade, Antônio Mauro Barbosa de Oliveira


Technical Session 6 (Short Papers)   

Chair: Prof Nazim Agoulmine


  • Paper 6.1: Fine‑Grained Personal Data Usage Control using Blockchain, Verifiable Credentials, and IRM Technologies

Louis Raffin, Karima Boudaoud, Yves Roudier

    

  • Paper 6.2: Proposal for Automating the Verification of Vulnerability Fixes in Fork-based Projects

Robson S. Santos, Lincoln S. Rocha, Paulo A. L. Rego, Emanuel B. Rodrigues, José Neuman Souza

        

  • Paper 6.3: CARAMEL: A Microservice-Based Infrastructure for Scalable Big Social Data Management

Paulo Freitas Silva Júnior, Taigo Cruz de França, Jonice Oliveira


  • Paper 6.4: Addiction Markers in Online Betting and Casino Platforms: A Systematic Literature Review

Pierre Kouyoumdjian, Karima Boudaoud


DAY 4: Saturday March 27th, 2026


Steering Committee Meeting : International Cooperation Networking Session.



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