Promoting Conversational Apis: A Conceptual Framework and a Method for Api Design

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To my advisor Professor Alessandro Garcia for the stimulus and partnership for this work. Thank you for believing in my work and for accepting the difficult mission of concluding a doctoral work that was already underway. To my first teacher counselor Clarisse de Souza and to my co-coordinator Luiz Afonso for all the help and guidance in the initial part of the Doctorate. By chance of fate we ended up not concluding the doctorate together, but your help was fundamental for my success. Thanks also to Professor Renato Cerqueira for the opportunity to carry out part of the research in the IBM Research Brazil laboratory. To all friends and research partners of OPUS and SERG groups. Thank you for all your support throughout my Doctorate. Counting on such well aligned and tuned groups helped a lot on the path to individual success. Thank you very much to all of you who in various ways contributed to my work. In particular, my thanks to Daniel Tenorio and Rafael Maiani who participated in an active way dedicating much time to my Doctoral research. Thank you very much for your valuable comments, suggestions and reviews. To my mother, Miriam, and to my wife Erica, without whom I would not have achieved success in this thesis. Thank you for all your support throughout this journey. To my in-laws, Alcemir and Dione for their support and affection over the past few years. To my brother Ernesto and his family. To my grandmother Zica and my aunts Marlene and Neuza. To all my friends and family who have supported me in this journey in various ways, thank you very much.