Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo

Background

Carlos Mario Zapata Jaramillo was born on March 30, 1968, in Santa Barbara, Honduras. His recorded family connections include his mother, Carmen, and his father, Ram+. His professional and academic career has been based principally in Colombia, where he developed from civil engineering and construction project work into university teaching and research in systems and software engineering.

Education

Zapata Jaramillo completed his Civil Engineering degree at the National University of Colombia in Medellín in 1991. He subsequently pursued postgraduate study at the same university, earning a Specialization in Information Systems Management in 1999, a Master of Science in Systems Engineering in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Engineering with an emphasis in Systems in 2007. His academic training provided the foundation for his later work in software engineering, requirements engineering, computational linguistics, natural-language processing, and engineering pedagogy.

Career

Zapata Jaramillo began his professional career in 1991 as a project building engineer with various construction companies in Antioquia, Colombia, and continued in that field through 1994. From 1993 to 1994 he worked at Porticos Ltda. as a cost and schedule control engineer. He then served as an external project engineer at Maderas de Occidente Ltda. from 1994 to 2000 and became the company's general manager in 2000. Also in 2000 he began teaching at the National University of Colombia as an assistant professor. By 2008 he was an associate professor in the School of Systems of the Faculty of Mines at the university's Medellín campus, where his work has combined teaching, research, supervision, and academic project development. His research has focused on software engineering, requirements elicitation, pre-conceptual schemas, controlled languages, computational linguistics, natural-language processing, conceptual modeling, and methods for teaching software engineering.

Achievements

• Invention of pre-conceptual schemas and special diagrams for software requirements elicitation.

• Development of controlled-language and conceptual-modeling methods that support the transformation of natural-language requirements into UML and other software-engineering representations.

Works

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• conference paper

  • Pre-conceptual Schema: A Conceptual-Graph-Like Knowledge Representation for Requirements Elicitation

    (Co-authored paper presenting pre-conceptual schemas as a ...)

    2006

• doctoral thesis

  • Definición de un esquema preconceptual para la obtención automática de esquemas conceptuales de UML

    (Doctoral thesis developing UN-Lencep, pre-conceptual sche...)

    2013

• edited book

  • Software Engineering: Methods, Modeling, and Teaching, Vol. 3

    (Book on software-engineering theory, modeling, SEMAT-base...)

    2013

• journal article

  • Transformación de lenguaje natural a controlado en la educción de requisitos: una síntesis conceptual basada en esquemas preconceptuales

    (Co-authored article proposing a pre-conceptual-schema-bas...)

    2014
  • An Environment Based on Pre-conceptual Schemas for Automatically Generating Source Code under the MVC Pattern

    (Co-authored article describing an environment for generat...)

    2012
  • Reglas para la conversión de esquemas preconceptuales en diagramas de estructura compuesta

    (Co-authored study defining rules for converting pre-conce...)

    2012
  • Generating the Body of the Methods from Class Diagram Operation Semantics

    (Co-authored article on generating method bodies from the ...)

    2008

  • UN-LEND: Un Lenguaje para la Especificación de Modelos de UN-MetaCASE

    (Co-authored research article on a language for specifying...)

    2004

• Workshop paper

  • Computational Linguistics for Helping Requirements Elicitation: A Dream about Automated Software Development

    (Paper examining the application of computational linguist...)

    2010

Interests

• Software engineering education, computational linguistics, natural-language processing, requirements engineering, conceptual modeling, and controlled-language systems.

Connections

Zapata Jaramillo's documented family connections are his mother, Carmen, and his father, Ram+. Professionally, he has been associated with the School of Systems and the Department of Computer and Decision Sciences of the National University of Colombia's Medellín campus, where he has worked as an educator and researcher and has supervised doctoral research.

Father:

Ram+

Mother:

Carmen

References

• National University of Colombia, Faculty of Mines Documents Zapata Jaramillo as a faculty member whose areas of activity include software engineering, requirements engineering, and computational linguistics.
• National University of Colombia, Faculty of Mines—Distinguished Alumni Documents his degrees in civil engineering, information-systems management, systems engineering, and engineering with emphasis in systems, as well as his academic association with the university.
  2016
• IntechOpen author profile Documents his position as associate professor at the National University of Colombia and summarizes his degrees and research areas.