Information and data management at PUC-rio and UFMG

Abstract

This article presents a summary of the main activities of the Database & Information Systems Research Group at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Information Management Research Group at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). These two groups played a pioneering role in the development of the information and data management research area in Brazil. The survey covers about four decades of research work, aiming at theoretical and practical results, with increasing participation of other groups that they helped to initiate.