FCT "Pluriannual" : 10/23* 54276,36 € = 23598,42 €

Projects:

“Agreement Technology”- COST Action IC0801

Travel and short stays.

Ends July 2011.

- RESPLAN - QREN. FEUP/SISCOG/2009.

72.782,40 €

Ends Mar 2011

- REACTION - Tecnologia de Recuperação, Extracção e Agregação de Informação para Integração e Organização de Notícias.

83844 €

Oct 2010-Sept 2013

- Trust-aware Automatic E-Contract Negotiation in Agent-based Adaptive Normative Environments.

PTDC/EIA-EIA/104420/2008 : 17808€ (2010)

May 2010-Oct 2012,

- Intellwheels - Intelligent Wheelchair with Flexible Multimodal Interface,

FCT/PTDC/EEA-CRO/98664/2008: 94500 €

begin July 2010

- ERAS - Expeditious Reconstruction of Virtual Cultural Heritage Sites,

(FCT/PTDC/EIA-EIA/114868/2009), 118549 €

begin Dec 2010

- “GRACE: Integration of Process and Quality Control Using Multi-agent Technology”,

NMPP2-SL-2010-246203, 2010-2013, 330k€ for IP Bragança (P.Leitão)

Doctoral Grants from FCT:

17 students (BD: 23590, 29773, 31449, 30461, 41356, 39070, 36360, 36610, 44663, 44109, 43704, 66364, 66717, 60727, 66597, 44541, 71598)

Others:

CAPES (Brazil) , F. Gulbenkian, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Instituttet

Postdoc FCT/SFRH/BPD/65575/2009

3 IAESTE scholarships

FCT Sabbatical Grant SFRH / BSAB / 975 / 2010 (E.Oliveira)

2 SAPO grants

DAI&R includes 10 PhDs, 17 other researchers and 11 collaborators. DAI&R pursues research accommodated under ACM CCS section: I.2.11 Distributed Artificial Intelligence.

DAI&R, has the following research lines: 1)“Agent-based Interoperability”, 2)“Robotics and Team Coordination”, 3)“Text Mining”, 4)“Infrastructures and Applications”.

1) In the long-term research on Electronic Institution(EI) Platform for B2B contracting, we are investigating interrelationships between Trust issues and normative systems. EI is a computational normative environment, for multi-agent interactions, supporting trust-based business contracts among partners. We propose algorithms for the estimation of agent’s trustworthiness, using the dynamics of trust and specific contextual information. Two models SinAlpha and ContextualFitness, are seen as Trust and Reputation module for the EI.

MAS approach is being used in MAS-T2er Lab Project (MAS-based Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research). An integrated MAS allows for the assessment of intelligent transportation solutions through the metaphor of agents. Inferring and applying traffic management strategies is our goal.

MASDIMA – MAS for Disruption Management proposes a decentralized system to find the best composed solution after a disruption in the pre-existent plan has occurred. Airline Operations Control and a real airline company I.S. provide the scenario.

Closely related, is the aim at developing intelligent, adaptive and reconfigurable control solutions for automation and manufacturing systems, based on MAS and service-oriented principles.

Through MAS we propose realistic simulations of ecological models including physical and biogeochemical processes together with human factors to provide flexible aquatic ecosystems management.

2) To define languages to describe missions and scenarios, strategies for coordinating teams of autonomous (or semi-autonomous) agents that perform in rich, dynamic, both cooperative and adversarial environments. New coordination strategies, such as tactics, flexible formations or setplays, are being developed for teams of autonomous agents that perform complex tasks. We will also further develop our common framework for implementing a platform to control different agents/robots for cooperative robotic tasks. To further validate our approach we plan to participate in RoboCup (simulation 2d, simulation 3d, mixed reality, standard platform league) using the same base code and coordination methodologies. Agent-based Team coordination is useful in multiple scenarios although Robotics is a good application domain for testing ideas. In this context we are developing methodologies for improving robotic team performance and test coordination methodologies for agents’ joint missions in search and rescue domains. For that objective we are defining high-level languages for the appropriate description of scenarios, missions, teams and environment disturbances.

3) “Text mining” research line is growing fast inside the group. We are developing methods for extracting information (opinions, events, trends) from user-generated contents (blogs, twitter messages, on-line user comments) and from industrial media (on-line news). Research on inferring ontology-based resources (taxonomies, thesaurus) using information obtained from resources like Wikipedia is intended to be transferred to the non-academic. We are mostly devoted to Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques applied to the Portuguese language.

A Web based search tool based on Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques to find out relevant literature for genomic or proteomic sequences is also in progress.

4) We are driven by the need of a Dynamic Scheduler for heterogeneous clusters in a multi-user environment. We address the problem of scheduling multi-user jobs in a cluster. Jobs (or applications) include a set of dependent tasks and are represented by Direct Acyclic Graphs. The aim is to develop scheduling algorithms that maximize the use of resources by allowing a variable mapping of processors to a given job and achieve satisfactory QoS level.

On the applications side, we are using a Graphical Processor Unit to achieve high computational efficiency. GPU is currently being used to deal with Digital Reconstructed Radiographs generation from Polygon meshes, for registering 3D deformable models of vertebrae on 2D radiographs.

We proposed a method for 3D modeling of the human spine from two planar radiographs. A statistical articulated model of the spine is deformed until it best fits recognized splines.

We aim at developing bioinformatics methods and strategies for the interpretation of biological data characterizing the metabolism and immune system.

- Academic impact:

We have successfully integrated in LIACC research, the work of a number of students both at PhD as well as at the master’s level.

5 PhD theses successfully finished and 4 others are already submitted. 26 MSc thesis.

19 papers have been accepted for publication in international journals.

In 2010, three different papers co-authored by our group researchers were awarded as Best papers:

Best paper award inTrack "Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems"at ICEIS2010: J. Urbano, A. P. Rocha, E. Oliveira, “Refining the Trustworthiness Assessment of Suppliers through Extraction of Stereotypes", 12th Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, Madeira, 2010

Best paper award on Service-oriented automation at IEEE INDIN'10: J. M. Mendes, P. Leitão, F. Restivo, A. W. Colombo , “Process Optimization of Service-Oriented Automation Devices Based on Petri Nets”, Proc. of the 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’10), Osaka, Japan, 2010.

Best paper award in track "Human-Computer Interaction", V. Vinhas, E. Oliveira and L. P. Reis, “BioStories - Dynamic Multimedia Interfaces Based on Real-time User Emotion Assessment”, 12th Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, Madeira, 2010.

Several of the DAI&R group collaborators are now members of the Editorial Board of 10 International Journals.

Local technical responsible for an EU-FP7 R&D project, (P.Leitão)

- Proof of concepts through Prototyping:

Former “Verbatim” prototype has been released as a product called VOXX by PT related enterprise (SAPO) at Codebits 2010 annual meeting. Classification of news, based on Machine Learning algorithms, identification of Named Entities and the development of techniques to automatically annotated text corpora have been developed. Our work, in collaboration with others (INESC, DEI), lead to the establishment of UP-SAPO Labs in our Faculty in close association with LIACC which got a number of scholarships for students.

Development of tools and strategies for automatic microblog messages processing. Analysis of the Portuguese Twitter environment (numbers, trends, evolution, styles) and the creation of a specific corpus.

EcoSimNet platform (simulator) supporting independent agents that interchange results whenever necessary. A Parallel Simulated Annealing algorithm for aquaculture optimization has been integrated into EcoSimNet.

A Cartesian coordinates based system for calculating soccer final game statistics using both players and ball coordinates. The prototype has been used for team strategy optimization and intelligent selection of setplays, for the FC Portugal team.

New prototype of an intelligent wheelchair including a multi-modal interface. The associated Intellwheels project funded by FCT, started in July, enabling to further develop the project and to consolidate the collaborations with APPC – Portuguese Association for Cerebral Palsy and ESTSP – Superior School for Health Technology of Porto for testing the Intelligent Wheelchair prototypes.

Biostories: an emotional driven multimedia content delivery system

- Models:

The new version of the computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) model, composed by SinAlpha and Contextual Fitness modules, was integrated in the Electronic Institution platform.

Soccer ontology was developed to fix the semantics of the variables that compose a soccer game and their relationships. This ontology enabled us to further refine our generic strategy model for a competition.

- Social impact:

Two patents were published.

organization of several Conferences and international workshops

Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents. (R.Rossetti)

National delegate for European Union COST Program ACTION IC0801 (E.Oliveira)

Work on BioStories was extensively announced through:

Video Report\Interview for “Exame Informática” TV – Sic Notícias – Series III, Ep 7;

(available at http://aeiou.exameinformatica.pt/ei-tv-7-iii-sony-vaio-lg-pop-e-a-biostories= f1005731);

Video Report\Interview for “Exame Informática” TV – Web (available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM0gOxQ9RpE);

Interview in Journal “Exame Informática” nr 178 April 2010 - pp 84-85; (available @ http://aeiou.exameinformatica.pt/investigadores-portuenses-criam-aplicacao-que-capta-estados-de-espirito-video=f1005359);

Radio Interview for TSF – Mundo Digital.

Interview in Boletim Informativo FEUP. In BI FEUP Nr 45, pp 14-15, March 2010

available @ http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~jft/Publicacoes/BI2010.pdf

I.Garcia-Perez, A.C.Alves, S. Angulo, J.V.Li, J.Utzinger, T.M.D.Ebbels, C.Legido-Quigley, J.K.Nicholson, E.Holmes and C.Barbas, “Bidirectional Correlation of NMR and Capillary Electrophoresis Fingerprints: A New Approach to Investigating Schistosoma mansoni Infection in a Mouse Model”, Anal Chem, 82, 203-210. (IF: 5.214)

P.Masson, A.C.Alves, T.M.D.Ebbels, J.K.Nicholson and E.J.Want, “Optimization and Evaluation of Metabolite Extraction Protocols for Untargeted Metabolic Profiling of Liver Samples by UPLC-MS”, Analytical Chemistry, 82, 7779-7786. (IF: 5.214)

H.Faoro, A.C.Alves, E.M.Souza, L.U.Rigo, L.M.Cruz, S.M.Al-Janabi, R.A.Monteiro, V.A.Baura, and F.O.Pedrosa, “Influence of Soil Characteristics on the Diversity of Bacteria in the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest”, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 76, 4744-4749. (IF: 3.686)

D.C.Silva, R.A.M.Braga, L.P.Reis, E.Oliveira. "Designing a Meta-Model for a Generic Robotic Agent System using GAIA Methodology". Information Sciences, Elsevier, ISSN: 0020-0255 (accepted in December 2010) (IF: 3.291)

J.G.Barbosa, B.Figueiredo, N.Bettencourt, J.M.Tavares, “Towards automatic quantification of the epicardial fat in non contrasted CT images”, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, ISSN: 1025-5842 - Taylor & Francis, DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2010.499871 (in press) (IF:1.454)

R.A.M. Braga, M.Petry, A.P.Moreira, L.P.Reis, "IntellWheels: A Modular Development Platform for Intelligent Wheelchairs". JRRD - Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, ISSN 0748-7711 (accepted in December 2010) (IF:1.367)

Luís Mota, L.P.Reis and Nuno Lau, "Multi-robot Coordination using Setplays in the Middle-size and Simulation Leagues", Mechatronics, Elsevier, ISSN: 0957-4158, DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2010.05.005, (accepted in May 2010) (in press) (IF:1.198)

J.G.Barbosa, B.Moreira, “Dynamic scheduling of a batch of parallel task jobs on heterogeneous clusters”, Parallel Computing, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/ j.parco.2010.12.004 (in press) (IF:1.125)

P.Leitão, “A Holonic Disturbance Management Architecture for Flexible Manufacturing Systems”, International Journal of Production Research (in press). (IF:0.803)

P.Abreu, I.Costa, D.Castelão, J.Moreira, L.P.Reis, J.Garganta, "Human vs. Virtual Robotic Soccer: A Technical Analysis about two Realities", European Journal of Sport Science, Taylor & Francis, ISSN: 1746-1391 (accepted in November 2010) (IF:0.742)

A.Castro and E.Oliveira "A New Concept for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control". Proc. of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. (in press) (IF:0.714)

P.Abreu, D.C.Silva, P.Mendes, and V.Vinhas, "Effect of the Usage of Wikis on an Educational Context", International Journal of Computer Application in Engineering Education, DOI: 10.1002/cae.20434. (IF:0.203)

J.Bohacik, K.Matiaško, R.J.F.Rossetti “Summary of making fuzzy rules from decision trees based on cumulative information and classification ambiguity”, Journal of Information Technologies (JIT), vol.3, no.1, p.1-17. (ISSN: 1337-7469)

D.C.Moura, J.G.Barbosa, A.M.Reis, J.M.Tavares, “A Flexible Approach for the Calibration of Biplanar Radiography of the Spine on Conventional Radiological Systems”, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Tech Sc.Press, ISSN: 1526-1492, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp.115-138, 2010

H.L.Cardoso and E.Oliveira “Social Control in a Normative Framework: An Adaptive Deterrence Approach”, in Journal Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS), ISSN 1570-1263 IOS Press, The Netherlands (in press)

A.P.Costa, M.J.Loureiro, L.P.Reis, "Metodologia Híbrida de Desenvolvimento Centrado no Utilizador aplicada ao Software Educativo". Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação – RISTI Nº 6, pp. 1-15, AISTI, ISSN: 1646-9895, December 2010.

P.Sá, C.Guerra, I.P.Martins, M.J.Loureiro, R.Vieira, A.P.Costa, L.P.Reis, "Desenvolvimento de Recursos Didácticos Informatizados no Âmbito da Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável. O Exemplo do Courseware Sere". Revista Eureka sobre Enseñanza y Divulgación de las Ciencias, Nº7, pp. 330-345, ISSN: 1697-011X, 2010.

L.Lemos, L.P.Reis, "Light 3D Mapping for Search and Rescue Operations", Robotica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação", Publindustria Lda, Nº 80, pp. 10-15, ISSN: 0874-9019, September, 2010.

B.M.Faria, L.P.Reis, N.Lau, G.Castillo, "Classification of FC Portugal Robotic Soccer Formations: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms", Robotica - Automação Controlo Instrumentação, Publindustria Lda, ISSN: 0874-9019, (accepted in March 2010)

Book Chpt:

A.J.Castro, E.Oliveira. “Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control - An Intelligent Agent-Based Approach", Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, IN-TECH.

P.Abreu, V.Vinhas et al. , "Real-Time Wireless Location and Tracking System with Motion Pattern Detection", Robot Localization and Map Building, In-Tech, pp. 467-492.

D.Moura, J.Boisvert, J.G.Barbosa et al. . “Fast 3D Reconstruction of the Spine by Non-expert Users Using a Statistical Articulated Model”, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, V. 158, Research into Spinal Deformities 7, IOS Press, pp. 268-269

LNCS/LNAI Springer:

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira. “Directed Deadline Obligations in Agent-based Business Contracts”, in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems V, LNAI 6069, Springer, pp. 225-240.

J. M. Mendes, F. Restivo, P. Leitão and A. W. Colombo. “Injecting Service-Orientation into Multi-Agent Systems in Industrial Automation”, AI and Soft Computing: Part II, LNAI 6114 Springer, pp. 313-320.

N.Hormazábal, H.L.Cardoso, J.L.de la Rosa, E.Oliveira. “An Approach for Virtual Organizations' Dissolution”, in Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems V, LNAI 6069, Springer, pp. 70-85.

R.Ramos-Pollán, M.A.G.López, E.Oliveira. "Introducing ROC curves as error measure functions. A new approach to train ANN-based biomedical data classifiers", in Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications, LNCS, V. 6419/2010, pp.517-524, Springer, 2010.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira. “Monitoring Directed Obligations with Flexible Deadlines: a Rule-based Approach” (invited paper), Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies VII, LNAI 5948, Springer, pp. 51-67.

J.Urbano, H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira. “Making Electronic Contracting Operational and Trustworthy”, in Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Proc. of the 12th Ibero-American Conf. on AI (IBERAMIA 2010), LNAI V. 6433, Springer, pp. 264-273, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, 2010.

R.Silva, L.Sarmento, T.Grant, E.Oliveira, B.Maia. “Comparing Sentence-Level Features for Authorship Analysis in Portuguese", Int. Conf. on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 27-30 April 2010, LNAI 6001, pp. 51-54, Springer

J.Teixeira, L.Sarmento, E.Oliveira. “Comparing Verb Synonym Resources for Portuguese", in Int. Conf. on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Porto Alegre, Brazil, LNAI 6001, pp. 100-109, Springer

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha, E.Oliveira. “Trust Estimation Using Contextual Fitness", 4th Int. KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, LNAI 6070, pp.42-51

A.Danek, J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha, E.Oliveira. “Engaging the Dynamics of Trust in Computational Trust and Reputation Systems", 4th Int. KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland, LNAI 6070, pp. 22-31

L.P.Reis, R.A.M.Braga, M.Sousa, A.P.Moreira. "IntellWheels MMI: A Flexible Interface for an Intelligent Wheelchair", RoboCup-2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XII, LNAI 5949, 2010, pp. 296-307, Graz, Austria, Springer, Heidelberg.

R.A.M.Braga, P.Malheiro, L.P.Reis. "Development of a Simulator for Robotic Intelligent Wheelchairs in a Hospital Environment", RoboCup-2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XII, LNAI 5949, 2010, pp. 23-34, Graz, Austria, 2010, Springer, Heidelberg.

F.M.Cunha, R.A.M.Braga, L.P.Reis. "A Cooperative Communications Platform for Safety Critical Robotics: An Experimental Evaluation", 8th PAAMS 2010, Salamanca, Spain, Adv. Prac. App. of Agents and MAS, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Vol. 70, pp. 151-156, Springer, 2010

F.M.Cunha, R.A.M.Braga, L.P.Reis. "Evaluation of a Communication Platform for Safety Critical Robotics", 10th Int. Conf. on AI Soft Computing (ICAISC 2010), 2010 Zakopane Poland, AI and Soft Computing, LNAI, Vol 6114 , pp. 239-246, Springer

IEEE publications:

I.Timóteo, M.Araújo, R.J.F.Rossetti, E.Oliveira. "TraSMAPI: An API Oriented Towards Multi-Agent Systems Real-Time Interaction with Multiple Traffic Simulators". 13th Int. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, p.1183-1188.

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha, E.Oliveira. "Trustworthiness Tendency Incremental Extraction Using Information Gain”, 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto, Canada, pp. 411-414.

J.C.Pacheco, R.J.F.Rossetti. "Agent-Based Traffic Control: a Fuzzy Q-Learning Approach" 13th Int. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, September 19-22, pp.1172-1177.

P.Abreu, J.Moura, D.C.Silva, L.P.Reis, J.Garganta. "Football Scientia – An Automated Tool for Professional Soccer Coaches". 2010 IEEE Int. Conf. on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS 2010), Singapore (pp. 126–131)

D.C.Silva, R.A.M.Braga, L.P.Reis, E.Oliveira. "A Generic Model for a Robotic Agent System using GAIA Methodology: Two Distinct Implementations" IEEE Conf. on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 2010), Singapore (pp. 280–285)

L.Mota, N.Lau, L.P.Reis. "Co-ordination in RoboCup's 2D Simulation League: Setplays as flexible, Multi-Robot plans", 2010 IEEE RAM 2010, Singapore (pp. 362-367)

B.M.Faria, L.P.Reis, N.Lau, G. Castillo. "Machine Learning Algorithms applied to the Classification of Robotic Soccer Formations and Opponent Teams", IEEE CIS 2010, Singapore (pp. 344-349):

M.R.Petry, A.P.Moreira, R.A.M.Braga, L.P.Reis. "Shared Control for Obstacle Avoidance in Intelligent Wheelchairs", 2010 IEEE RAM 2010, Singapore (pp. 182-187)

R.Rodrigues, A.Coelho, L.P.Reis. "Data Model for Procedural Modelling from Textual Descriptions". IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1-8

J.M.Mendes, P.Leitão, F.Restivo, A.W.Colombo. “Process Optimization of Service-Oriented Automation Devices Based on Petri Nets”, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’10), Osaka, Japan, pp. 274-279. (BEST PAPER AWARD).

L.S.Passos, R.J.F.Rossetti, Eugénio C. Oliveira. "Ambient-Centred Intelligent Traffic Control and Management", 13th Int. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, 2010. p.224-229.

L.S.Passos, R.J.F.Rossetti. "Analyzing Classifiers for Web Content Related to Traffic Information", IEEE Conf. on Automation Science and Engineering, Toronto, Canada, 2010. p.307-312.

J.Barbosa, P.Leitão. “Modelling and Simulating Self-Organizing Agent-based Manufacturing Systems”, 36th Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’10), Arizona, US, pp. 2696-2701.

J.M.Mendes, P.Leitão, F.Restivo, A.W.Colombo. “Composition of Petri nets Models in Service-oriented Industrial Automation”, 8th IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN’10), Osaka, Japan, pp. 578-583.

P.Leitão, J.Alves, J.M.Mendes, A.W.Colombo “Energy Aware Knowledge Extraction from Petri Nets Supporting Decision-making in Service-oriented Automation”, IEEE Int. Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’10), Bari, Italy, pp. 3521-3526.

Proceedings Ed.:

A.Rocha, et al. (Eds), "Sistemas y Tecnologías de Información – Proc. of the 5th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies ", APPACDM, S. Compostela, Spain, (ISI)

Publications:

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha, E.Oliveira. “Refining the Trustworthiness Assessment of Suppliers through Extraction of Stereotypes", 12th Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information, Funchal, Portugal, pp. 85-92. (BEST PAPER AWARD Track "Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems")

V.Vinhas, E.Oliveira, L.P.Reis. "BioStories - Dynamic Multimedia Interfaces based on Automatic Real-time User Emotion Assessment". ICEIS - Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information System, INSTICC Press, pp. 21-29. (best Paper award)

C.Santiago, A.Sousa, M.L.Estriga, L.P.Reis and M.Lames. "Survey on Team Tracking Techniques applied to Sports", IEEE 2010 AIS.

J.Portela, P.Abreu, L.P.Reis, E.Oliveira, J.Garganta. "An Intelligent Framework for Automatic Event Detection in Robotic Soccer Games: An Auxiliar Tool to Help Coaches Improving their Teams Performance", ICEIS, INSTICC Press, pp. 244-249

B.M.Faria, B.S.Santos, N.Lau, L.P.Reis. "Data Visualization for Analyzing Simulated Robotic Soccer Games". IMAGAPP/IVAPP - Int. Conf. on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Angers, France, May 17-21, pp. 161-168, INSTICC Press

R.Rodrigues, A.Coelho, L.P.Reis. "Procedural modelling of monumental buildings from textual descriptions", GRAPP 2010 - Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, pp. 130-133, Angers, France, INSTICC Press

J. Urbano, A.P.Rocha and E.Oliveira. "In the Search of Better Deals Using Trust", Proc. of ECCAI'10 Workshop IAT4EB, Workshop on Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business, pp.25-30, Lisbon, Portugal.

L. Martinho, L.P.Reis. "Combining Loan Requests and Investment Offers in Peer-To-Peer Lending", Proc. of ECCAI'10 Workshop IAT4EB 2010, Workshop on Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business, Lisbon, Portugal.

M.Sordo, F.Gouyon, L.Sarmento. "A Method for Obtaining Semantic Facets of Music Tags. Workshop on Music Recommendation and Discovery", ACM Conf. on Recommender Systems, Barcelona, 2010.

T.R.M.Freitas, A.Coelho, R.J.F.Rossetti. "Correcting Routing Information through GPS Data Processing", 13th Int. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira, Portugal, p.706-711.

P.M.Ferreira, R.J.F.Rossetti, A.Coelho. "Information Systems for Public Transport Users", Proc. of the IEEE ITSC 2010 (ATSS’2010), Madeira, Portugal.

S.Carvalho, L.Sarmento, R.J.F.Rossetti. "Real-Time Sensing of Traffic Information in Twitter Messages", IEEE ITSC 2010 (ATSS’2010), Madeira, Portugal.

F.Aguiar, R.J.F.Rossetti, E.Oliveira (2010) "MAS-based Crowd Simulation Applied to Emergency and Evacuation Scenarios", IEEE ITSC 2010 (ATSS’2010), Madeira, Portugal.

P.D.Sousa, D.C.Silva, L.P.Reis. "Air Traffic Control with Microsoft Flight Simulator X". Proc. of the 5th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 378–383.

P.Valente, S.Hossain, B.Grønbæk, K.Hallenborg, L.P.Reis, "A Multi-Agent Framework for Coordination of Intelligent Assistive Technologies", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 77–82.

A.P.Costa, M.J.Loureiro, L.P.Reis. "Hybrid User Centered Development Methodology: The practical case of Courseware Sere", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 192-197.

A.P.Costa, M.J.Loureiro, L.P.Reis. "Courseware Sere: Technical and Didactic Evaluation Made by Students". 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 198-203,

L.P.Reis, R.Lopes, L.Mota, N.Lau. "Playmaker: Graphical Definition of Formations and Setplays", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 582–587.

P.Rego, P.M.Moreira, L.P.Reis. "Serious Games for Rehabilitation: A Survey and a Classification Towards a Taxonomy", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 349–354.

P.M.Moreira, L.P.Reis, A.A.Sousa. "I-om: Intelligent optimization for Computer Graphics and Visualization", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 484–489.

G.Silva, J.Costa, T.Magalhães, L.P.Reis. "CyberRescue: A pheromone approach to multi-agent rescue simulations", 5th CISTI 2010, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, pp. 576–581.

L.S.Passos, R.Rossetti. "Traffic Light Control using Reactive Agents", in Proc. 5th Iberic Conf. on Systems and Information Technologies, pp.588-593, Santiago Compostela, Spain.

F.L.Correia, R.F.S.Amaro, L.Sarmento R.Rossetti et al.. "AllCall: An Automated Call for Paper Information Extractor", in Proc. 5th Iberic Conf. on Systems and Information Technologies,, pp: 602-605, Santiago Compostela, Spain.

P.Sá, C.Guerra, I.P.Martins, M.J.Loureiro, R.Vieira, A.P.Costa & L.P.Reis. "Development of digital educational resources for education for sustainable development: the Courseware Sere". XIV IOSTE - Int. Organization for Science and Technology Education Proceedings. Bled: Slovenia.

L.Mota, N.Lau and L.P.Reis. "Multi-Robot Coordination using Setplays in the Simulation League", 10th Conf. on Mobile Robots and Competitions - ROBOTICA 2010, Leiria, Portugal, pp. 23-28.

B.M.Faria, G.Castillo, N.Lau, L.P.Reis. "Classification of FC Portugal Robotic Soccer Formations: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms". 10th Conf. on Mobile Robots and Competitions - ROBOTICA 2010, Leiria, Portugal. pp. 29-34.

L.Rei, L.P.Reis. "Brain: A Deliberative CiberMouse Agent", 10th Conf. on Mobile Robots and Competitions - ROBOTICA 2010, Leiria, Portugal, pp. 35-40.

F.Almeida, N.Lau and L.P.Reis. "A Survey on Coordination Techniques for Simulated Robotic Soccer Teams", MAS&S@MALLOW2010, The Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations, Federated Workshops, Domaine Valpré in Lyon, France, 2nd, Sep, 20107

J.L.Oliveira, F.Gouyon, L.Martins and L.P.Reis. "IBT: A Real-Time Tempo and Beat Tracking System". International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, pp. 291- 296, Utrecht.

J.L.Oliveira, L.Naveda, F.Gouyon, M.Leman and L.P.Reis. "Synthesis of Dancing Motions Based on a Compact Topological Representation of Dance Styles". 1st Int. Workshop on Robots and Musical Expressions, IEEE/RSJ on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan.

PhD Thesis completed (5)

Vasco H. Vinhas G. Moreira, "BioStories - Realtime Dynamic Multimedia Storyline Based on Online Audience Biometric Information", PhD Thesis (PRODEI), FEUP, University of Porto (Sup: E.Oliveira, L.P.Reis), October 15, 2010.

Luís A.D.F.M. Sarmento, “Definition and Computation of Similarity Operations between Web-specific Lexical Items”, PhD. Thesis (PRODEI), FEUP, University of Porto, December 2010 (Sup: E.Oliveira)

António M.C. Pereira, "Intelligent Simulation of Coastal Ecosystems", PhD Thesis (PRODEI), FEUP, University of Porto (Sup: L.P.Reis), December 6, 2010.

Rodrigo A.M. Braga, "Intelligent Wheelchairs' Development Platform", PhD. Thesis (PRODEI), FEUP, University of Porto, (Sup: L.P.Reis), November 26, 2010.

Francisco A.F. Reinaldo, "AFRANCI: A Multi-Layer Architecture for Cognitive Agents", PhD. Thesis (PDEEC), FEUP, University of Porto, (Sup: R.Camacho, L.P.Reis), November 15, 2010.

Master Thesis Concluded (25) (Sup):

Bruno Silva, “Health Management Information System (HMIS)”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jan2010 (A.P.Rocha)

Paula Kaminska, “Consumer-oriented online shop creation”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jan2010 (A.P.Rocha)

Daniel Rodrigues, “Implementation of an Information Retrieval System within a Central Knowledge Management System”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul2010 (A.P.Rocha)

Helder Nunes, “Gestão de Equipamentos e Mobiliário Urbano”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul2010, (R.Rossetti)

Fábio Aguiar, “Crowd Simulation Applied to Emergengy and Evacuation Situations”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul2010. (R.Rossetti, E.Oliveira)

Pedro Ferreira, “Information Systems for Public Transport Users”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul 2010 (R.Rossetti)

Sara Carvalho, “Real-time Sensing of Traffic Information in Twitter Messages”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul 2010 (R.Rossetti, L.Sarmento)

André Neves, “Web Usage Mining for Click Fraud Detection”, MIEIC, FEUP, Jul2010. (Co-R.Rossetti).

Filipe Pereira, “Modeling and Simulation of Healthcare Pharmaceutical Environments: A Petri Nets Approach”, MSc Industrial Engineering, IPB, Oct 2010. (P.Leitão)

José Barbosa, “Use of Bio-inspired Techniques to Solve Complex Engineering Problems: Industrial Automation Case Study”, MSc Industrial Engineering, Oct 2010. (P.Leitão)

Anildio Barbosa, “Desenvolvimento de robô manipulador didáctico baseado em componentes Bioloid”, MSc Industrial Engineering, Dec 2010. (P.Leitão)

João Gonçalves, “Sistema de visão artificial para manipulação de objectos de charcutaria fatiados”, MSc Industrial Engineering, Dec 2010. (P.Leitão)

Frederico Cunha, "Communications and Cooperation Methodologies in an Intelligent Wheelchair", MIEEC, Mar2010 (L.P.Reis, R. Braga)

Vitor Pereira, "Project and Development of a Case-Based Reasoning Poker Bot", MIEIC, Mar2010 (L.P.Reis)

Carlos Nunes, "Solução de Business Intelligence utilizando Tecnologias de Open Source", MIEIC, Mar2010 (L.P.Reis)

Filipe Marques, "Generic coordination methodologies applied to the robocup simulation leagues", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis)

Pedro Sousa, "Controlo autónomo de tráfego aéreo para veículos inteligentes utilizando o microsoft flight simulator X", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis, D.Silva)

Abel Santos, "Autonomous ...", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis, D.Silva)

João Portela, "Exploiting opponent behavior in multi-agent systems", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis, P.Abreu)

Luis Teofilo, "Building a poker playing agent based on game logs using supervised learning", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis)

Hugo Peixoto, "Waste collection route optimization based on real fill satus data", MIEIC, Jul2010 (L.P.Reis)

+Pedro Gomes, Hugo Mendes, Miguel Oliveira, Girson Monteiro.

Patents:

- Method for industrial automation system, based on software agent services; Authors: A.W. Colombo, P. Leitão, J.M. Mendes; Patent Number(s): WO2010043629-A1 (Publ. 22 April 2010); DE102008037446-A1 (Publ: 06 May 2010).

- Service-oriented automation component for service-oriented automation system of web service, including a physical device-interface mechanism; Authors: A.W. Colombo, P. Leitão, J.M. Mendes; Patent Number(s): WO2009130221-A1 (Publ. 29 October 2009); DE102008002827-A1 (Publ. 04 February 2010).

Prototypes:

- Voxx automatically extracts, identifies and classifies quotations from online news, organizing the information on a website. Voxx (previously named Verbatim) has started as a prototype (at LIACC) and is now a product available at http://voxx.sapo.pt (L. Sarmento, J.Teixeira, E. Oliveira)

- Biostories prototype for adaptive multi-media content delivery. (V. Vinhas)

- NetEditor: the MAS-T2er Lab network editor (R. Rossetti and José Luís Pereira)

- ModP: a Pedestrian Modelling Platform, (R. Rossetti and Fábio Aguiar)

- TrasMAPI: an Agent-based API to support multi-paradigm traffic simulation, (R. Rossetti, Ivo Timóteo and Miguel Araújo)

- AllCall: Automated Call for Paper Information Extractor, (R. Rossetti, Fábio Lopez and Rui Amaro).

- ModP: a Pedestrian Modelling Platform. The ModP prototype is the first extension to the MAS-T2er Lab platform with the intent of including aspects related to pedestrian simulation into the framework. (E.Esteves and R.Rossetti).

- Framework - Interactive Robot Dancing System (J.Oliveira, L.P.Reis)

- EcoSimNet – Multi-Agent Ecological Simulator for Aquatic Ecosystems (A. Pereira and L.P.Reis)

- FC Portugal 2D – Simulation 2D League Team (including a Setplay framework) – RoboCup (L.P.Reis, J.Certo, L.Mota + IEETA/UA)

- FC Portugal 3D Humanoid Team (including GA optimization for biped walking) – RoboCup (L.P.Reis, N.Shafii + IEETA/UA)

- Matchflow - Graphical Definition of Tactics, Formations and Setplays for RoboCup teams (F.Marques and L.P.Reis)

- Image analysis system for handball games (C.Santiago and L.P.Reis)

IAT4EB 2010, Wshp on Intelligent Agents and Technologies for e-Business, collocated with ECAI 2010, 16-20 August, 2010 (A.P.Rocha) (E. Oliveira)

5th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies/5ª Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas y Tecnologias de Informacion, Santiago Compostela, Spain, June, 16-19, 2010 (L.P.Reis)

10th IFAC Wshp on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS’10), Lisbon, Portugal, 1-2 July 2010. Vice-chair National Organization Committee (P.Leitão)

4th IEEE Wshp on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation (ATSS), collocated with the 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC), Madeira Island, Portugal, September 19-22, 2010. (R.Rossetti)

1st Whp on Artificial Intelligence for Simulation | Simulation for Artificial Intelligence (AISSAI), collocated with the 19th European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-20, 2010. (R.Rossetti)

2nd Whp on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA), collocated with the 5th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 16-19, 2010. (R.Rossetti)

PAASC 2010- Performance Assessment and Auditing in Service Computing collocated with ICSOC 2010 ( Chair and Organizer C.Chituc)

DSIE’10 – Doctoral Symp. On Informatics Engineering, F. Engenharia Universidade do Porto, February 2010 (E. Oliveira)

Special Sessions:

on Active Traffic Management, within the 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC), Madeira Island, Portugal, September 19-22, 2010. (R.Rossetti)

on Bio-inspired Techniques and Algorithms with Application in Industrial Systems, included in the 35th IEEE Annual Conf. of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’10), Glendale, US, 7-10 November 2010. (P.Leitão)

on Robot Locomotion @ Controlo 2010 - 9th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Coimbra, Portugal, September 8-10, 2010 (L.P.Reis)

on “Collaborative Systems in Industrial Automation”, included in the IEEE Int. Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’10), Bari, Italy, 4-7 July 2010. (P.Leitão)

Industry contract research:

UP-FEUP-SAPO Laboratory mainly funded by SAPO (linked with Portugal Telecom) is now running near LIACC-DAI&R Lab at the Faculty of Engineering. The aim is to support R&D in text mining.

SISCOG, the only AI based Portuguese company is supporting LIACC-DAI&R work on Multi-agent Systems for Air Traffic Operations Control Center management.

Schneider Electric, a German based company has a contract for R&D on services-oriented Engineering through J. Marco Mendes PhD work.

Networks:

- COST IC0801 Agreement Technologies

- COST IC0805 Open European Network for High Performance Computing on Complex Environment

- Seminars abroad: IIIA research center, Barcelona, LIG Lab in Grenoble, Utrecht University, CETINIA, U.R.Juan Carlos, Madrid.

Joint research:

- CMU, USA - MAPi Doc program (PhD co-supervision)

- U. Pennsylvania – L.Ungar

- Google Inc. (NY) – A. Kehlenbeck

- Imperial College London School of Public Health (A.Alves)

- NASA AMES Research Center - S.Wolfe, M.Sierhuis

- U. Girona - N.Hormazábal, J.L.Rosa

- Polit. Montreal and NRC Canada

- U. Leeds, School of Computing – R. Kwan

- U. Lancaster, UK - D. Hutchinson

- U.. S. Compostela: C. Sexto

- U. Vigo: M. Cota

- U. Southern Denmark/Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Inst.: K. Hallenborg

- IPEM-UGhent: M. Leman, L. Naveda

- U. Augsburg, Germany: M. Lames

Visiting academics:

- Javier V. Salceda, U. Polit. Catalunya, Spain

- Farida Cheriet Ecole Pol. Montreal

Joint supervision:

- PUCRS, Brazil

- Univ. Southern Denmark

International positions:

- National Delegate COST-Action “Agreement Technology” (E. Oliveira)

- Associate member CONET INFSO-ICT-224053 (P.Leitao)

- Chair IEEE Industrial Electronics TC on Industrial Agents and member of IFAC TC5.1 TC (P.Leitao)

- Border of Governor of the IEEE ITS Society, (R.Rossetti)

- RoboCup Sim. League Tech. Committee (L.P.Reis)

Editorial Boards:

JAAMAS- J. of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Springer (E.Oliveira)

IJAOSE- Int. J. Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Inderscience Publishers, (E.Oliveira)

IDT- Intelligent Decision Techn.: An Int. Journal, IOS Press (E. Oliveira)

IJI - Int. J. Imaging, ISSN: 0974-0627, CESER Publications. (L.P.Reis)

ICT'AE – Inf. and Comm. Tech. for the Adv. Enterprise: An Int. J. ISSN: 1647-1407 (L.P.Reis),

Tékhne – Polyt. Studies Review, ISSN: 1645-9911 (L.P.Reis)

RISTI - Iberian J. Inf. Syst. Tech., ISSN: 1646-9895 (L.P.Reis)

Int. J. Computational Intelligence Tech., ISSN: 0976–0466 (L.P.Reis)

PCs (among others):

AAMAS'10, PRO-VE'10, SBIA'10, RoboCup’10, ICAART’10, Robotica'10, ASM'10, AIS'10, CISTI'10, WSIA@CISTI10, SOCO'10, LARS/EnRI'2010, KDIR'10, AISSAI'10, ITSC@ATSS'10, DSIE'10, COIN@AAMAS 2011, IDC2011, WS Ag.DM Interaction, ISCIF@IWANN2011, ATOP@AAMAS, 2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM IAT, CSCWD 2010, COIN@MALLOW2010, WIVE@PRO-VE'10, DCAI'10, BI'2010@PAKDD, ATT2010@AAMAS, IEEE ITSC2010, A-MEST’10, INDIN’10, IMS’10, MITIP’10, ICE-B 2010, ATSS@IEEE ITSC2010, ABModSim'10, ISC'10, SIM@ACM-SAC'10, WAT 2010.

Projects:

“Agreement Technology”- COST Action IC0801, National delegate (E. Oliveira), member of the working Groups 3 (Norms) and 5 (Trust and Reputation) (E.Oliveira, M.J.Urbano), Ends July 2011.

RESPLAN - QREN funded project with reference FEUP/SISCOG/2009 together with SISCOG company. (E.Oliveira), LIACC-NIADR: 72.782,40 €

REACTION - Tecnologia de Recuperação, Extracção e Agregação de Informação para Integração e Organização de Notícias. (E. Oliveira, L.Sarmento), Funding: FEUP-LIACC: 83844 €

Trust-aware Automatic E-Contract Negotiation in Agent-based Adaptive Normative Environments., May 2010-Oct2012, (FCT/PTDC/EIA-EIA/104420/2008). - (PI: E.Oliveira)

Intellwheels - Intelligent Wheelchair with Flexible Multimodal Interface (FCT/PTDC/EEA-CRO/98664/2008, 94500 Eur, begin in July 2010) - (PI: L.P.Reis)

ERAS - Expeditious Reconstruction of Virtual Cultural Heritage Sites (FCT/PTDC/EIA-EIA/114868/2009, 118549 Eur, begin in dec 2010) - (Responsible at LIACC: L.P.Reis)

“GRACE: Integration of Process and Quality Control Using Multi-agent Technology”, Contract n° NMPP2-SL-2010-246203, 2010-2013, and with a funding of 330k€ for the I. Poli. Bragança (P.Leitão).

FCT Sabbatical Grant SFRH/BSAB/975/2010 (E.Oliveira)

FCT Doctoral Grants (SFRH/BD):

23590/2005 - L.M.Sarmento

29773/2006 - H.L.Cardoso

31449/2006 - D.C.Moura

30461/2006 – L.R.Mota

41356/2007 – A.P.Costa

39070/2007- M.J.Urbano

36360/2007 - V.Vinhas Moreira

36610/2007 - D.C.Silva

44663/2008 - P.Abreu

44109/2008 - A.J.Castro

43704/2008 - J.L.Oliveira

66364/2009 - C.J.Costa

66717/2009 - L.S.Passos

60727/2009 – M.R.Petry

66597/2009 – N.Shafii

44541/2008 - B.M.Faria

71598/2010 - L.Teófilo

Other Doctoral Grants:

CAPES PhD Scholarship BEX 4142/05-5 (Government of Brazil) - R.A.Braga

F. Gulbenkian PhD Scholarship – C.M.Santiago

Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Instituttet PhD Schoolarship (IntelliCare project) - P.Valente

Other Grants:

B.Pimentel (Postdoc Scholarship) FCT/SFRH/BPD/65575/2009

Z.Kokkinogenis – Scholarship from FCT/TDC/EIA/66924/2006

L.Fráguas and A.Pereira - Scholarships funded by RESPLAN Project, “Agência de Inovação”, QREN, start Oct 2009.

SAPO grants for MSc/PhD students: G.Laboreiro, S.Carvalho