Hervé Paulino, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the NOVA University of Lisbon, and a member of the NOVA LINCS research center. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the NOVA University of Lisbon in 2006, in the area of mobile agent computing. Currently, his research interests center on availability in large-scale systems (with particular focus on edge systems) and on the parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.