Zilverling

dr. L. Ferreira Pires (Luis)

Associate Professor
EEMCS-CS-SCS
Zilverling 2011
l.ferreirapires@utwente.nl
+31534893843
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Luís Ferreira Pires was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1961. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Electronics from the 'Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronåutica' (São José dos Campos, Brazil) in 1983 and, his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the 'Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo' (São Paulo, Brazil), in the Computer Networks specialisation, in 1989. He obtained his PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, in September 1994.

Since 1988 he is working at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands), initially as research fellow of the Faculty of Computer Science, from 1992 to 1994 as Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and since 1994 as Associate Professor of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. He is a member of the Services & Cyber-Security (SCS) group. His professional interests are design methodologies for distributed systems, architecture of distributed systems, modelling and specification techniques, middleware platforms and telematics applications. He is responsible for the Master courses ‘Service-Oriented Architecture with Web services’ and ‘ADSA: Model-Driven Engineering’, and the Bachelor Module ‘Software Systems’ and contributes to the Bachelor Modules 'Introduction to Business & IT' and ‘Data and Information’. 

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Ontology
    • Models
    • Service
    • Interoperability
    • Internet of Things
    • Application
    • Semantics
    • Enterprise Architecture

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Publications

2025

A Semantic Interoperability Framework for Data-Centric Applications in Agriculture (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Miranda Soares, F.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036567626A Novel UX-Based Approach for Ontology Evaluation: Applying Tree Testing to the Agricultural Product Types Ontology (2025)IEEE Access, 13, 137986-138004. Article 11108173. Soares, F. M., Saraiva, A. M., Pires, L. F., Pignatari Drucker, D., Braghetto, K. R., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3595447Exploring a Large Language Model for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development (2025)Data Intelligence, 7(2), 265-302. Soares, F. M., Saraiva, A. M., Pires, L. F., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.3724/2096-7004.di.2025.0020Perception and Practice of Data Management Plans in Health: An Exploratory Study (2025)Data Intelligence, 7(2), 381-396. Veiga, V., Pires, L. F., Henning, P., Moreira, J. & Henrique Lima Pereira, I.https://doi.org/10.3724/2096-7004.di.2024.0030Integrating quality requirements in agile software development at scale: Challenges, approach and validation (2025)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Alsaqaf, W. H. A.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036566056Towards an Ontology of Type-Level Phenomena for System Modeling (2025)In Research Challenges in Information Science - 19th International Conference, RCIS 2025, Proceedings (pp. 121-139) (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 547 LNBIP). Springer. Calhau, R. F., Almeida, J. P. A., Guizzardi, G., Hoffmann, R., Pires, L. F., Logan, J. & Moreira, J. R.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92474-3_8Exploring a Large Language Model for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Soares, F. M., Saraiva, A. M., Pires, L. F., Santos, L. O. B. d. S., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.18651Enabling components for the digital transformation of the container rental business (2025)[Thesis › EngD Thesis]. University of Twente. Ghasemi Ali Abadi, F.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036565868QUALIDADE DO PLANO DE GESTÃO DE DADOS: um desafio a ser enfrentado (2025)Ciencia da Informacao, 54(2). Veiga, V., Henning, P., Pires, L. F., Moreira, J. & Pereira, I. H. L.https://doi.org/10.18225/ci.inf.v54i2.7237Supporting Data for "Exploring ChatGPT-4 for Transforming Taxonomic Data into OWL: Lessons Learned and Implications for Ontology Development" (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Soares, F., Saraiva, A. M., Ferreira Pires, L., Bonino, L., de Abreu Moreira, D., Corrêa, F. E., Braghetto, K. R., Pignatari Drucker, D. & Botazzo Delbem, A. C.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12684940

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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