I am a Research Associate at Lancaster University where I am also finishing my PhD.

In my PhD research explored how synergies between System Families, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), and Generative Software Development (GSD) help to produce new development paradigms to support the life cycle including the phases design, programming, testing, deployment and also execution, of reflective middleware families.
A particular and novel contribution of my research is the modelling of two different dimensions of dynamic variability, namely structural variability and environment and context variability. I am developing a prototype called Genie as part of my PhD. My PhD supervisor is Prof. Gordon Blair.

Currently, I am interested in the role of software engineering, and specially the application of model-driven techniques, during the development and operation of dynamically adaptive systems. At the moment, I am working for the projects DiVA (Dynamic Variability in complex, Adaptive systems), an European Framework 7th project, and the Divergent Grid project, an SPRC funded project.
This is a list of my publications .

Prior to joining Lancaster team I was a Lecturer (awarded tenure 2002) in the Computing School at the Universidad Central de Venezuela .

Research:
Keywords: MDE, Models@run.time, Dynamic Variability, Dynamically Adaptive Systems, Self-adaptive Systems.

New Events
- Formal Research Demonstrations, 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2008, Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008
- Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2008) Workshop at ICSE 2008
- Conference Code Generation, 2008, CG2008, Cambridge, UK, 25 - 27 June 2008
Currently, I am co-ordinating
- Workshop Models@run.time 08   Models@run.time at MoDELS 2008, 28th September - 3rd October, Toulouse, France

Past Events
- Dagstuhl Seminar on Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems . 13.01.08 - 18.01.08, Seminar 08031.
I have co-ordinated:
- Workshop Models@run.time 07   Models@run.time at MoDELS 2007, October, Nashville, TN, USA
- Workshop Models@run.time 06   Models@run.time at MoDELS 2006, 3rd Oct 2006, Genoa, Italy
- Workshop Model-Driven Software Adaptation 07   M-ADAPT'07 at ECOOP'07, 30th July 2006, Berlin
- Working Meeting "Models and Aspects for Product Families: A Roadmap for Research"   1st Nov 2006, Lancaster, UK

I serve as a Reviewer for:
Journal of Software and System Modeling ( SoSyM ), Springer-Verlag

I serve as Program Committee member of:
- MDDAS 2008 The First IEEE International Workshop on Model-Driven Development of Autonomic Systems, Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008
- REV 2008 Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’08), Barcelona, Spain, Monday 8th September, 2008
- WCAT 2008 5th Workshop on Coordination and Adaptation Techniques, L’Aquila, Italy, September 15th, 2008
ASE 2008
- ARAMIS 2008 Automated engineeRing of Autonomic and run-tiMe evolvIng Systems, L’Aquila, Italy, September 16th, 2008
ASE 2008
- IDEAS 2008 11th Iberoamerican Workshop Requirements Engineering and Software Environments, Recife, Brazil, 11-15 February, 2008

Teaching This year, I'm teaching CSC141 Discrete Mathematics.
During the last three years I was teaching CSC152 Practical Web Technologies and CSC141 Discrete Mathematics.

Miscellaneous:
in other words, what is really important!

When I am not working I might be walking on the hills in the Lake District (on a weekly basis), or running (however my right foot is not doing well these days I have started running again; just taking it easy), or perhaps dancing or taking pictures or hanging around with Talisker my dog. I wish I could have more time for these activities.

I love eating good food and I am MAD about sushi. I LOVE chocolate, BTW dark and bitter chocolate, if it is not at least 75% Cocoa that is not chocolate :). If chocolate is from Venezuela even better!