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Numerical estimates based on computational modeling

Created in 1998, the Performance Evaluation Group assesses the performance of systems with an emphasis on developing numerical systems for analysis (computational mathematics) and performing localized studies that assess specific realities from computational systems to teams of people.

Launched in 2009 and recently renewed until 2015, PaleoProspec is one of the group’s main projects resulting from a partnership with Petrobras, the Center of Excellence in Research and Innovation on Petroleum, Mineral Resources and Carbon Storage (Cepac), and the School of Computer Science. The aim of this project is to produce information for the prospection of fossil fuels on the Atlantic Coast by regional paleographic and paleoclimatic models, allowing for the identification of the sites where the probability of hydrocarbon generation is highest. The amount of data necessary to produce statistics on probable past events, such as tectonic plate movements, demands a large computational structure that is able to calculate and process this information.

One of the missions of this group, which is active in fundamental and applied research, is to establish what occurred in the past and what might or ought to occur in the future using probabilistic models. The main international partnerships established by the group include the Universities of Grenoble and Versailles/Saint Quentin (France), the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the University of California at Riverside (USA), and North Carolina State University (USA).

Chaired by Professor Paulo Henrique Lemelle Fernandes, the projects conducted by the group precede its formal and recent creation. Such projects include collaborations with Professors Dalcidio Moraes Claudio (PUCRS), who was a pioneer of interval theory in Brazil; Edmundo Souza e Silva (UFRJ), the Brazilian precursor of Markov chains; and Virgilio Augusto Fernandes Almeida (UFMG), a pioneer in performance evaluation in Brazil.