Papers

List of Publications.

Using LLM Agents for Data Integration in Cybersecurity Incidents

Organizations across all sectors face a growing number of cyber incidents that can jeopardize their financial stability, reputation, and operational resilience.…
Nov 6, 2025

Defining the Basal Attractiveness Concept for Cybercriminals

Organizations across all sectors face a growing number of cyber incidents that can jeopardize their financial stability, reputation, and operational resilience.…
Jun 4, 2025

Dynamic Industrial Cyber risk Modelling based on Evidence (DICYME)

The increasing prevalence of cyber threats targeting industrial infrastructures highlights the urgent need for advanced cyber risk quantification models tailored to these…
Jun 4, 2025

7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums

At the beginning of the 2000s, one billion of the world’s population resided in slum settlements. This number was expected to double in twenty-five years. The growth of…
Jun 7, 2016

An Effective Heuristic for Multistage Linear Programming with a Stochastic Right-Hand Side

The multistage Stochastic Linear Programming (SLP) problem may become numerically intractable for huge instances, in which case one can solve an approximation for example…
Nov 1, 2014

Prospective Study of Leptospirosis Transmission in an Urban Slum Community: Role of Poor Environment in Repeated Exposures to the Leptospira Agent

Leptospirosis is a disease that is transmitted by human contact with an environment contaminated with urine from animals, such as rodents, infected by the Leptospira bacteria…
May 29, 2014

An efficient sampling scheme for dynamic generalized models

A multimove sampling scheme for the state parameters of non-Gaussian and nonlinear dynamic models for univariate time series is proposed. This procedure follows the Bayesian…
Mar 1, 2013

Public health vulnerability to climate change in Brazil

A national quantitative assessment of the current vulnerability of the Brazilian population to the health impacts of climate change was undertaken with the support of the…
Dec 1, 2009

A joint model for rainfall-runoff: the case of Rio Grande Basin

We present an analysis of runoff and rainfall data from Rio Grande, a basin located in the northeast of Brazil. The main challenges we face here are: (i) to model runoff and…
May 1, 2008

Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban

Leptospirosis, a life-threatening zoonotic disease, has become an important urban slum health problem. Epidemics of leptospirosis now occur in cities throughout the…
Apr 23, 2008

Integrating Data for The Assessment of National Vulnerabilities to the Health Impacts of Climate Changes: A Novel Methodological Approach and a Case Study from Brazil

A national quantitative assessment of the current regional vulnerability of the Brazilian population to the health impacts of climate change was undertaken with the support…
Jun 20, 2007

Revisiting Distributed Lag Models Through a Bayesian Perspective

This paper aims to show to practitioners how flexible and straightforward the implementation of the Bayesian paradigm can be for distributed lag models within the Bayesian…
Apr 1, 2006
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