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Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics - CPGEI Department of Informatics - DAINF Federal University of Technology of Parana - UTFPR Av. Sete de Setembro, 3165 Curitiba-PR, CEP 80230-901, Brasil Tel: +55 (41) 3310-4700 e-mail: roberto.t.alves@gmail.com Education: PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Industrial lnformatics - CPGEI / UTFPR 2005 MSc in Electrical Engineering and Industrial lnformatics - CPGEI / UTFPR 2003-2005 BSc in Computer Science - UTP 1999-2002 Main Interest Areas Bio-Inspired Computing Artificial Immune System Fuzzy Systems Genetic Algorithms Ant-Colony Optimization Data Mining Hierarchical / Multi-Label Classification Association Rules Clustering Bioinformatics Preditcion of Gene Function Gene Ontology (GO)