2. Overview
• The Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
maintains a structure of Thematic Groups
(GT) that join SBC members with common
interests
• SBC provides three types of GTs organized
in a hierarchical structure:
• Major Areas (Grandes Áreas - GA)
• Special Commissions (Comissões Especiais - CE)
• Interest Groups (Grupos de Interesse - GIs)
GA1 GA2
CE1 CE2 CE3 CE4
GI1 GI2 GI3 GI4 GI5
GI6 GI7
GI8
SBCDirectorBoard
Presidency
Administration
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Events and special commissions
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3. Major Areas (GA)
• A Major Area (Grande Área - GA)
• Represents a group of Special Commissions (Comissões Especiais – CE) with a
thematic intersection
• 5 Major Areas
• GA1. Computing Systems
• GA2. Software Systems
• GA3. Computing Techniques and Technologies
• GA4. Computing Applications
• GA5. Data and Information Management
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4. Special Commission (CE)
• Special Commissions (Comissões Especiais - CEs)
• Join members with common interests in a Computing subarea
• Each Special Commission organizes its own annual symposium and general
meetings
• A SBC member can join to any CE
• A CE can be linked to one or more Major Area (GA)
• Conditions to create a CE
• Requirement from at least 50 SBC members from 10 different institutions
• A steering committee and a coordinator
• A CE is an evolution of a GI (3 years of maturation)
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5. Interest Group (GI)
• Conditions to create an Interest Group (Grupo de Interesse – GI)
• Requirement from at least 10 SBC members from 3 different institutions
• A GI can be linked to one or more Special Commission(s)
• A GI needs the approval of the associated CE and of the SBC Council
• A GI needs to organize an annual or biennial workshop in the event associated
to the corresponding CE
• A coordinator reports the GI activities to the corresponding CE
• Exceptionally, a GI can be independent of a CE. In this case it is
directly linked to a GA or to the Events and Special Commission
Director Board
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6. GA 1. Computing
Systems
GA 2. Software Systems GA 3. Computing
Techniques and
Technologies
GA 4. Computing
Applications
GA 5. Data and
Information
Management
Arquitetura de
Computadores e
Processamento de Alto
Desempenho
Concepção de Circuitos e
Sistemas Integrados (1/2)
Algoritmos, Combinatória e
Otimização
Biologia
Computacional (1/2)
Bancos de Dados
Concepção de Circuitos e
Sistemas Integrados (1/2)
Engenharia de Sistemas
Computacionais (1/2)
Biologia
Computacional (1/2)
Geoinformática
Engenharia de Sistemas
Computacionais (1/2)
Engenharia de Software Computação Gráfica e
Processamento de Imagens
Computação Aplicada à
Saúde
Redes de Computadores e
Sistemas Distribuídos
Linguagens de Programação Computação Musical (1/2) Computação Musical (1/2)
Robótica (1/2) Métodos Formais Interação Humano-
Computador
Comissão Especial de
Informática na Educação
Segurança da Informação e
de Sistemas
Computacionais (1/2)
Segurança da Informação e
de Sistemas
Computacionais (1/2)
Inteligência Artificial Jogos e Entretenimento
Digital (1/2)
Sistemas Tolerantes a
Falhas (1/2)
Processamento de
Linguagem Natural
Inteligência
Computacional (1/2)
Inteligência
Computacional (1/2)
Sistemas de Informação
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Current organization
7. Cloud Computing Interest Group
• Requirement of at least 10 SBC members from 3 different institutions
• motivation to create the group
• definition of the workshop
• SBC members and institutions
• coordinator
• Cloud Computing is crosscutting to several subareas
• linked to several CEs?
• independent of a CE, linked to a GA or to the Director Board?
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