The main sources of funding for the research of our group are the Plurianual Program, FCT and QREN funded projects and PhD/MSc scholarships funded by FCT and other institutions.

Plurianual Program, funded by FCT for LIACC: 37054 Eur

Funding for Projects:

RESPLAN funded by QREN, 2009-2010: 13000 Eur

ACORD - Adaptative Coordination of Robotic Teams (FCT - PTDC/EIA/70695/2006), Partners: FEUP/LIACC and Univ.Aveiro/IEETA, Dates: January 2008 – December 2009, Funding FCT: 23750 Eur

Funding for Scholarships:

- 14 PhD Scholarships from FCT.

- PhD Scholarships from CAPES, F.Gulbenkian and Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Instituttet.

- Three IAESTE Scholarships.

- Five FCT BII Scholarships.

- Four MSc Scholarships in collaboration with industry.

DAI&R-Distributed Artificial Intelligence & Robotics is LIACC's group affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering at UP. Our team includes, for the next period 8 (plus 1 nonresident) PhDs and about 20 Researchers and is mostly devoted to research in the area of Distributed AI and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) seeking solutions for Distributed, Dynamic and Decentralized problems.

There are classes of problems that inherently are of a distributed, dynamic and decentralized nature as those which occur when different and heterogeneous entities need to inter operate over a computer network. To deal with this kind of problems, our main objectives are:

(1) To develop further our long term research on “Electronic Institution” for agent-based B2B operations, a computational framework providing services like negotiation mediation, ontology mapping, contract drafting, monitoring and enforcement, Trust and Reputation indexes evaluation for consortia and Virtual Organizations’ life-cycle automatic assistance. The core component is a normative environment wherein norms regulating contractual relationships are being formally specified to enable norms monitoring and enforcement. A prototype implementation together with a Computational Trust and Reputation Model for estimating agents’ trustworthiness taking into account dynamics of the contextual information is being developed.

(2) Multi-Agent teams' coordination and simulation: To define high-level languages for the description of missions and operating 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 setplays, are being developed for teams of autonomous agents that perform complex tasks in rich, dynamic environments. We will also further develop our common framework for implementing a platform to control different agents/robots to be used in cooperative robotic tasks. To further validate our approach we plan to participate in RoboCup with three distinct teams using the same base code and coordination methodologies. To continue the development of the Intelligent Simulator of Coastal Ecosystems (EcoSimNet) using ecological models including physical and bio geochemical processes, integrating human decisions/factors in the simulation scenarios. To simulate, through MASDIMA – Multi-Agent System for Disruption Management, Airline Operations Center solutions taking into consideration several dimensions of the disruption problem (airline operations, flights/aircrafts, crew and passengers). The MASDIMA aims at a possible generalization of disruption management generalization.

(3) Text Mining: In the previous two years, this new line of investigation took the scene in our group. We are willing to go fast from research to proof of concepts on Information Extraction from Industrial Media (news filtering, quotation extraction, biography generation). We are also exploring techniques for Opinion Mining from User Generated Contents (blogs, micro-blogs and user comments). Also Machine Learning based approaches to Language Processing and Text Classifications. Inductive Logic Programming will be used for searching and ranking relevant scientific papers related to a particular genomic or proteomic set of sequences. We aim at developing lexical-semantic resources for Portuguese language processing.

(4) Multi-agent Systems and other applications: To further develop a platform for intelligent wheelchairs (IW) displaying cooperative behavior towards other IW as well as humans in hospital environments. To consolidate the MAS-T2er Lab Project (Laboratory for MAS-based Traffic and Transportation Engineering Research) is an integrated multi-agent system that applies a methodological approach that allows for the assessment of today’s intelligent transportation solutions through the metaphor of agents. To propose intelligent, adaptive and reconfigurable control solutions for automation problems and manufacturing systems using MAS and service-oriented principles. To prove the concept of the Real-time Dynamic Multimedia Storyline system, based on online audience biometric Information. To propose a dynamic scheduler for heterogeneous clusters in a multi-user environment that maximizes the resource usage by allowing a floating mapping of processors to a given job and second, that achieve at least satisfactory levels of QoS. To continue with the 3D reconstruction of human spine building models of the spine from planar radiography.

- An important issue we would like to first emphasize is that recent lines of research as it is the case of Text Mining, found in the group a good environment for new promising realizations, simultaneously in the scientific and industrial fields (agreement with Portugal Telecom).

- During 2009, DAI&R group published 9 papers in International Journals and 1 Book, edited 2 conference proceedings and published 96 papers in peer reviewed proceedings and books from which 33 are ISI indexed.

- During 2009, 1 PhD thesis and 31 MSc theses have been completed. Although the number of completed PhD during this period was low, for 2010, a total of 12 PhD theses are expected to be completed in the group.

- A sign of our progressive influence on the non-academic environment is the number (and quality) of contacts with organizations and companies, including contacts with important companies like Schneider Electric GmbH, TAP airlines, Portugal Telecom, SISCOG and Microsoft.

- Concerning the recognition by our scientific peers, we have been also involved in the organization of several Conferences and Workshops’ (9) at different levels and participated in more than 50 international scientific meeting Program Committees.

- We believe that our group’s approach to the concept of "Electronic Institution" is becoming more accepted and closer to a possible instantiation for real domains. Once the Normative Environment formalization and the Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) Model have been proposed to the research community, although further developments are still needed, we feel more comfortable to get closer to the application domain and a funded project is going to start on that direction. Getting into more details, a model of norm inheritance and defeasibility has been formalized and fully implemented, allowing for contracts to adjust the normative response in business-specific cases. Also, contract monitoring has been enhanced with a flexible model of deadlines, formalized using directed obligations with liveliness and deadlines. A model for adaptive deterrence in the normative framework has been designed, taking inspiration from economics and legal theory. Regarding our proposed CTR Model, SinAlpha is a trust aggregation that takes into account important properties of the dynamics of trust (taken from the psychological field), and Contextual Fitness, a component that explores a new trend in the trust field, that is the exploration of the situational context. Both modules were already implemented and tested in a simple scenario, and the main results were published in international events.

- Public deployment of the Verbatim quotations extraction system, in partnership with Sapo.pt/Portugal Telecom (http://verbatim.labs.sapo.pt) November 2009. It successfully integrates three different classification techniques (Nearest Neighbor, Support Vector Machines and Rocchio).

- A software common framework suitable for implementing an agent-based software to control different robots for several cooperative robotic tasks including in Robotic Soccer has been developed and tested (ACORD/FCPortugal project). A complete "setplay" framework was developed enabling easy definition and execution of flexible "setplays" in any RoboCup league with distinct robots. Also, a soccer ontology and software for automatically detecting a set of (robotic) soccer events has been developed enabling high-level analysis of soccer games.

- A book as well as a book chapter (to appear in 2010), a Journal paper and five other papers were published about our MAS proposal for dealing with the Disruption management.

- Online Emotion Classifier for a Biometric Multichannel HW inclusion detecting user emotions when immersed in a simulated 3D Immersible Environment lead to the BioStories' Vertical Prototype.

- Flexible control for manufacturing systems work has been published in international scientific journals (3 articles) , and in international top-ranked conferences (8 papers), Moreover, we have one European Project approved (EU-FP7) and P. Leitão is now chairing IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents.

- A dynamic scheduling method to minimize the completion time of a batch of jobs on clusters has been proposed.

- A method for fast 3D reconstructions of the spine that only requires the identification of two splines by the user was tested on radiography exams of patients.

- New prototype of an intelligent wheelchair including a Planning module is now available. The associated Intellwheels project was accepted for funding by FCT 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.

Publications in peer review Journals

Antonio J.M. Castro and Eugenio Oliveira "Quantifying Quality Operational Costs in a Multi-Agent System for an Airline Operations Recovery".International Review on Computers and Software, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 504-516, July 2009 ISSN 1828-6003.

Daniel Castro Silva, Vasco Vinhas, Luís Paulo Reis and Eugénio Oliveira, “Biometric Emotion Assessment & Feedback in an Immersive Digital Environment”, IJSR – International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1,Number 4, pp. 307-317, November 2009.

Hugo Marques and Owen Holland, "Architectures for Functional Imagination" in Neurocomputing, Volume 72, Numbers 4-6, pp. 743-759, 2009. (ISI)

Paulo Leitão, “Agent-based Distributed Manufacturing Control: A State-of-the-art Survey”, International Journal of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 22, n. 7, pp. 979-991, Elsevier, 2009. (ISI)

Claudia-Melania Chituc, Américo Azevedo, César Toscano, “A framework proposal for seamless interoperability in a collaborative networked environment”, Computers in Industry, Vol.60 no. 5, pp.317-338, 2009. (ISI)

Claudia-Melania Chituc, Américo Azevedo, César Toscano, “Collaborative business frameworks comparison, analysis and selection: an analytic perspective”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol.47 nº 17, pp.4855-4883, 2009.(ISI)

Paulo Leitão, “Holonic Rationale and Bio-inspiration on Design of Complex Emergent and Evolvable Systems”, Transactions on Large Scale Data and Knowledge Centered Systems, pp.243-266, Springer, 2009.

Paulo Leitão, P. Valckenaers and E. Adam, “Self-adaptation for Robustness and Cooperation in Holonic Multi-agent Systems”, Transactions on Large Scale Data and Knowledge Centered Systems, pp. 267-288, Springer, 2009.

S. Drisis, J. Alexiou, D. Moura, M. Lemort, “A proposed novel methodology for optimisation of sequences in MRI imaging: optimising the flip angle”, International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol.4, pp.S9-S10, 2009 (In CARS 09 – Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery).

Books and Proceedings Edition (3)

A.J.M.Castro "Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control: Designing a Multi-Agent System with a GAIA based Methodology" Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Aug, 2009, ISBN 978-3639191141.

A.A.Sousa and E.Oliveira, (Eds.) “Proceedings of DSIE’09- Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering”, FEUP Publishing, Feb, 2009, ISBN 978-972-752-110-4

A.Rocha, F.Restivo, L.P.Reis and S.Torrão (Eds.), “Proc. 4th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies”, APPACDM, P.Varzim, Portugal, Jun, 2009, ISBN 978-989-96247-0-2 (ISI)

Indexed by ISI Web of Science (33):

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Risk Tolerance and Social Awareness: Adapting Deterrence Sanctions to Agent Populations”, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 14th EPIA2009, Springer LNAI Vol. 5816, pp. 560-571, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009. (ISI)

A.J.M.Castro, E.Oliveira. “A Multi-Agent System for Airline Operations Control”. 7th Int. Conf. on PAAMS’09, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 55, pp. 159-168, Springer, 2009 (ISI)

J.M.Mendes, A.Bepperling, J.Pinto, P.Leitão, F.Restivo, A.W.Colombo, “Software Methodologies for the Engineering of Service-oriented Industrial Automation: The Continuum Project”, 33rd Annual IEEE COMPSAC’09, Seattle, USA, pp. 452-459, 2009. (ISI)

N.Rocha, D.Santos and R.Rossetti, “myTIS: a MAS-based TIS for public transport users in” In Urban Transport XV, 15th Int. Conf. on Urban Transport and the Environment, Bologna, Italy, v.107, pp.177-183, 2009. (ISI)

A.Mota, A.J.M.Castro and L.P.Reis “Recovering from Airline Operational Problems with a Multi-Agent System: a Case Study”, 14th EPIA 2009, Springer LNAI Vol. 5816, pp. 461-472, Aveiro, Portugal, 2009. (ISI)

L.Sarmento, A.Kehlenbeck, E.Oliveira and L.Ungar, “Efficient clustering of web-derived data sets”, MLDM’2009, Leipzig, Springer LNAI, Vol.5632, pp.398-412, 2009. (ISI)

V.Vinhas, L.P.Reis and E.Oliveira, “Emotion-Based Multimedia Retrieval and Delivery Through Online User Biosignals: Multichannel Online Biosignals Towards Adaptative GUI and Content Delivery”, ICAART 2009, pp.232-237, Porto, Portugal, 2009. (ISI)

F.Santos, R.Rossetti “Ubiquitous Computing Applications in Health”, CISTI’2009, 4th Iberian Conf. on IST, APPACDM, P.Varzim, Portugal, June 17-20, pp.615-620, 2009. (ISI)

G.Soares, R.Rossetti, N.Flores, A.Aguiar, H.Ferreira, “A Cooperative Personal Agenda in a Collaborative Team Environment”, 6th Int. CDVE 2009, Luxembourg, LNCS 5738, Springer. pp.193-196, 2009 . (ISI)

J.Gonçalves, E. Esteves, R.Rossetti, E.Oliveira, “Simulating Communication in a Service-Oriented Architecture for V2V Networks”, 14th EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, LNAI Vol. 5816, Springer, pp.15-26, 2009. (ISI)

J.Pereira, Rosaldo J.F. Rossetti, E.Oliveira, “Towards a Cooperative Traffic Network Editor. In Yuhua Luo (Ed.): Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering”, 6th CDVE 2009, Luxembourg, LNCS 5738, Springer, pp. 236-239, 2009 (ISI)

Fábio L. Correia, R.F. S. Amaro, R.Rossetti, “Task Management and Itenerary Planning - An Integrated View based on Multi-Agent Systems”, ICAART 2009, Porto, pp.361-364, 2009 (ISI)

L.Sarmento, F.Gouyon, B.G.Costa, E.Oliveira, “Visualizing Networks of Music Artists with RAMA”, 5th Int. Conf. on Web IST, Lisbon, pp. 232-237, 2009 (ISI)

L.Sarmento, J.Teixeira, E.Oliveira, “Assessing the Impact of Thesaurus-Based Expansion Techniques in QA-Centric IR”, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2008), Aarhus, Denmark, Springer LNCS, Vol. 5706, pp. 325-332, 2009 (ISI)

L.Sarmento, A.Kehlenbeck, E.Oliveira, L.Ungar, “An Approach to Web-scale Named-Entity Disambiguation”,. MLDM’2009, Leipzig, Springer LNAI, Vol.5632, pp. 689-703, 2009 (ISI)

J.Teixeira, V.Vinhas, L.P.Reis, E.Oliveira, “Automatic Emotion Induction and Assessment Framework - Enhancing user Interfaces by Interpreting users Multimodal Biosignals”. BIOSIGNALS 2009, pp. 487-490, Porto, 2009 (ISI)

V.Vinhas, L.P.Reis, E.Oliveira, “Dynamic Multimedia Content Delivery based on User Emotions: Multichannel Online Biosignals Towards Adaptative GUI and Content Delivery”, BIOSIGNALS 2009, pp. 299-304, Porto, 2009 (ISI)

P. Leitão, “Holonic Rationale and Self-Organization on Design of Complex Evolvable Systems”, HoloMAS’09, Springer LNAI 5696, pp. 13-24, 2009. (ISI)

J.M.Mendes, P.Leitão, F.Restivo and A.W.Colombo, “Service-oriented Agents for Collaborative Industrial Automation and Production Systems”, HoloMAS’09, Springer LNAI 5696, pp. 1-12, 2009. (ISI)

A.Pereira, L.P.Reis and P.Duarte, “EcoSimNet: a Multi-Agent System for Ecological Simulation and Optimization”, 14th EPIA'2009, Springer LNAI 5816, pp. 473-484, 2009. (ISI)

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha and E.Oliveira. “Computing Confidence Values: Does Trust Dynamics Matter?”, 14th EPIA'2009, Springer LNAI 5816, pp. 520-531, 2009. (ISI)

P.Abreu, D.C.Silva, P.Mendes and V.Vinhas, “The Impact of the usage of Wikis from a Teacher/Student Perspective in an Educational Context”, ICCSE 2009, Nanning, China, July 2009, pp. 1325–1330, 2009 (ISI)

D.Coutinho, A.Sousa and L.P.Reis, “Human-Machine Interface to Control a Robot with the Nintendo WII Remote”, in ICAART 2009, pp. 345-348, Porto, 2009 (ISI)

P.M.Moreira, L.P.Reis and A.A.Sousa, “New Algorithms for GPU Stream Compaction: A Comparative Study”, GRAPP 2009 - 4th Int. Conf. on CG Theory and Applications, pp.119-128, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb, 2009. (ISI)

P.M.Moreira, L.P.Reis and A.A.Sousa, “JUMPING JACK: A Parallel Algorithm for Non-Monotonic Stream Compaction”, GRAPP 2009, pp.137-146, Lisbon, Portugal, Feb, 2009. (ISI)

M.Silva, L.P.Reis, A.Sousa, B.M.Faria and A. P.Costa, “iiBOARD - Development of a Low-Cost Interactive Whiteboard using the Wiimote Controller”, GRAPP 2009, pp.337-344, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009. (ISI)

B.M.Faria, N.Lau, L.P.Reis, “Classification of Facial Expressions using Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms”, CISTI’2009, APPACDM, pp. 197-202, P.Varzim, 2009. (ISI)

R.Almeida, L.P.Reis, A.M.Jorge, “Análise da Previsão das Formações das Equipas no Domínio do Futebol Robótico Simulado utilizando Metodologias de Classificação no WEKA”, CISTI’2009, APPACDM, pp. 627-632, P.Varzim, Jun, 2009. (ISI)

R.F.Guedes, L.P.Reis, A.Sousa, “Surpassing the Limitations of the NXT Lego Robot with Distributed Computing”, CISTI’2009, APPACDM, pp. 633-638, P.Varzim, Jun, 2009. (ISI)

R.Almeida, L.P.Reis, A.M.Jorge, “Analysis and Forecast of Team Formation in the Simulated Robotic Soccer Domain”, 14th EPIA'2009, Aveiro, LNAI 5816, Springer, pp. 239-250, Oct, 2009. (ISI)

J.Azevedo, M.Oliveira, P.Pacheco, L.P.Reis, “A Cooperative CiberMouse@RTSS08 Team”, 14th EPIA'2009, Aveiro, LNAI 5816, Springer, pp. 251-262, Oct, 2009. (ISI)

R.Braga, M.Petry, A.P.Moreira, L.P.Reis, “Concept and Design of the Intellwheels Platform for Developing Intelligent Wheelchairs”, Springer LNEE, Vol 37. pp. 191-203. Apr, 2009. (ISI)

H.Picado, M.Gestal, N.Lau, L.P.Reis, A.M.Tomé, “Automatic Generation of Biped Walk Behavior Using Genetic Algorithms”, 10th IWANN 2009, Springer, LNCS Vol. 5517, pp. 805-812, Salamanca, Spain, Jun, 2009. (ISI)

Publications not included in “International Conferences” slot:

H.L.Cardoso, D.D.Teixeira, E.Oliveira, “Enhancing Interoperability: Ontology-Mapping in an Electronic Institution”, Agent-based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability, Springer LNBIP, 25, pp. 47-62, 2009.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “A Context-based Institutional Normative Environment”, Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems IV”, LNAI 5428, Springer, pp. 140-155, 2009.

P.Ferreira, E.Esteves, R.Rossetti, E.Oliveira, “Applying Situated Agents to Microscopic Traffic Modelling”, MAS for traffic and transportation. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. Chapter 5, pp. 108-123.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Adaptive Deterrence Sanctions in a Normative Framework”, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009), IEEE, pp. 36-43, Milan, Italy, September 15-18 , 2009.

L.Sarmento, S.Nunes, J.Teixeira and E.Oliveira, “Propagating Fine-Grained Topic Labels in News Snippets”, Workshop Int. Analysis and Proc. of Web News Content (in IAT 2009), pp. 515-518, Milan, Italy, 2009.

T.Freitas, A.Coelho, R.Rossetti, “Improving Digital Maps Through GPS Data Processing”, 12th Int. IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC’09, St.Louis, USA, Oct. 4-7, pp.480-485, 2009.

M.C.Figueiredo, R.Rossetti, R.Braga, L.P.Reis, “An Approach to Simulate Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Traffic Scenarios”, ITSC’09, St.Louis, USA, pp.322-327, 2009.

P.F.Loureiro, R.Rossetti, R.Braga, “Video Processing Techniques for Traffic Information Acquisition Using Uncontrolled Video Streams”, ITSC’09, St.Louis, USA, pp.127-133, 2009.

E.Esteves, R.Rossetti, P.A.Ferreira, E.Oliveira, “Conceptualization and implementation of a microscopic pedestrian simulation platform”, 2009 ACM SAC, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, ACM. pp. 2105-2106, 2009.

J.M.Mendes, F.Restivo, P.Leitão and A.W.Colombo, “Customizable Service-oriented Petri Net Controllers”, 35th IECON’09, Porto, Portugal, 2009.

P.Leitão, J.M.Mendes and A.W.Colombo, “Smooth Migration from the Virtual Design to the Real Manufacturing Control”, 7th IEEE INDIN’09, pp- 539-544, 2009.

J.Pinto, J.M.Mendes, P.Leitão, A.W.Colombo, A.Bepperling and F.Restivo, “Decision Support System for Petri nets Enabled Automation Components”, 7th IEEE INDIN’09, pp- 289-294, 2009.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Flexible Deadlines for Directed Obligations in Agent-based Business Contracts (Ext. Abstract)”, 8th AAMAS 2009, IFAAMAS, pp. 1307-1308, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Directed Deadline Obligations in Agent-based Business Contracts”, AAMAS’09 Workshop COIN, pp. 77-92, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

N.Hormazábal, H.L.Cardoso, J.L.Rosa, E.Oliveira, “An Approach for Virtual Organizations' Dissolution”, AAMAS’09 Workshop COIN, pp. 93-108, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Flexible Deadlines for Directed Obligations in Agent-based Business Contracts (Ext. Abstract)”, 8th AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

J.Barbosa, B.Moreira, “Dynamic job scheduling on heterogeneous clusters“, Int. Symp. Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE CS, pp. 3-10, Lisbon, 2009

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha, and E.Oliveira, “Trust Evaluation for Reliable Electronic Transactions between Business Partners”, AAMAS’09 Work. on Agent-based Tec. and App. for Enterprise InterOPerability, pp. 85-96, Budapest, Hungary, 2009.

A.Sousa, C.Santiago, L.P.Reis, M.L.Estriga, “Automatic Detection and Tracking of Handball Players”, in VipImage 2009, Taylor & Francis, pp.213-219, Oct, 2009, Porto, Portugal

L.P.Reis, A.J.Neves, A.Sousa, “Real-Time Vision in the RoboCup - Robotic Soccer Int. Competitions”, in VipImage 2009, Taylor & Francis, pp.319-324, Oct, 2009, Porto, Portugal

B.M.Faria, N.Lau, L.P.Reis, “Applications of Machine Learning Algorithms for Individual Recognition and Facial Expressions Classification”, VipImage 2009, Taylor & Francis, pp 233-239, Oct, 2009, Porto, Portugal.

H.L.Cardoso, E.Oliveira, “Monitoring Cooperative Business Contracts in an Institutional Environment”, 11th ICEIS’2009, pp. 206-211, Milan, Italy, 2009.

J.F.Goncalves, R.Rossetti, E.Esteves, E.Oliveira, “Towards a Microscopic Traffic Simulation Framework to Assess Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks”, ISC’2009 - Industrial Simulation Conf., pp.183-190, Loughborough, UK, 2009.

E.Esteves, R.Rossetti, E.Oliveira, “A Software Environment for Microscopic Pedestrian Simulation”, ISC’2009, pp.173-177, Loughborough, UK, 2009.

J.Barata, L.Ribeiro, P.Leitão, N.Silvério, “Maintenance Management and Operational Support as Services in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems”, 13th INCOM’09, Moscow, Russia, 2009.

P.Leitão, J.M.Mendes, A.Bepperling, D.Cachapa and A.W.Colombo, “Engineering Tools for the Integration of Service-oriented Production Systems”, 13th INCOM’09, Moscow, Russia, 2009.

D.Moura, J.Boisvert, J.Barbosa, J.M.Tavares, “Fast 3D Reconstruction of the Spine using User-Defined Splines and a Statistical Articulated Model”, 5th ISVC09, pp. 586-595, Las Vegas, 2009.

B.Figueiredo, J.Barbosa, N.Bettencourt, J.M.Tavares, “Semi-automatic quantification of the epicardial fat in CT images”, VipImage 2009, Taylor & Francis, pp.247-250, Porto, 2009.

A.J.M.Castro and E.Oliveira, “Using Quality Costs in a Multi-Agent System for Airline Operations Control”, 11th ICEIS’2009, AI and DSS, pp. 19-24, Milan, Italy, 2009.

A.Pereira, L.P.Reis and P.Duarte, “EcoSimNet: a Framework for Ecological Simulations”, 23rd ECMS’2009, pp.219-225, Madrid, Spain, 2009.

J.Urbano, A.P.Rocha and E.Oliveira, “A Trust Aggregation Engine that Uses Contextual Information”, EUMAS’2010- 7th European Work. on MAS, 12 pp., Ayia Napa, Cyprus, Dec, 2009.

D.C.Silva, R.Silva, L.P.Reis and E.Oliveira, “Agent-Based Aircraft Control Strategies in a Simulated Environment”, in Agents for Games and Simulations, Springer, LNCS Vol. 5920, pp. 190-205, 2009.

V.Vinhas, D.C.Silva, E.Oliveira and L.P.Reis, “Real-time Biometric Emotion Assessment in an Immersive Environment”, ICINCO’2009, Milan, Italy, pp. 153-158, 2009.

V.Vinhas, D.C.Silva, E.Oliveira and L.P.Reis, “Dynamic Multimedia Environment Based on Real-time User Emotion Assessment – Biometric User Data Towards Affective Immersive Environments”, ICEIS’2009, pp. 42-47, Milan, Italy, 2009.

V.Vinhas, P.Mendes and P.Abreu, “Wi-Fi Real-Time Location BI applied to a Retail Company”, ICEIS’2009, DB Inf. Syst. Integration, pp. 11-16, Milan, May 2009.

D.C.Silva, R.Silva, L.P.Reis and E.Oliveira, “Aircraft Control Strategies in a Distributed Cooperative Mission Simulation Environment”, FUBUTEC 2009, pp. 35-41, Bruges, Belgium, 2009.

P.Abreu, V.Vinhas, P.Mendes, L.P.Reis and J.Garganta, “Tool Based Analytical Support for Practical Professional Soccer Trainning”, FUBUTEC 2009, pp.68-76, Belgium, 2009.

A.P.Costa, M.J.Loureiro and L.P.Reis, “Development Methodologies for Educational Software: the Practical Case of Courseware Sere”, EDULEARN09, pp. 5816-5825, Barcelona, Spain, July 6 -8, 2009.

PhDs Concluded in 2009 (1):

P.M.Moreira, “Intelligent Optimization Methodologies Applied to the Visualization of Virtual Environments”, PhD in Electrical and Computing Eng., FEUP, Mar09

29 PhDs in Progress (12 to be completed in 2010)

MSc Concluded in 2009 (31):

P.R.Valente, “Calibração de Modelos Complexos Utilizando Agentes Inteligentes e Met. Optimização”, MEI/FEUP, Mar09

R.M.Almeida, “Previsão de Comportamentos de Adversários no Domínio do Futebol Robótico Simulado”, MADSAD/FEP, May09

R.F.Guedes, “Navegação e Orientação de Agentes Lego NXT”, MEI/FEUP, May09

L.F.Lemos, “3D Mapping for Search and Rescue Operations”, MEI/FEUP, May09

J.C.Miranda, “Sistema de Visão para Controlo de Cadeira de Rodas Inteligente”, MIASI/FEUP and FEP, Dec09

B.M.Figueiredo, “Quantificação Automática da Gordura Epicárdica nas Imagens de Tomografia Computorizada”; Course: MEB/FEUP, Apr09

F.Silva, “Sistema de Medida de Confiança para Selecção de Empresas em Sistemas B2B”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

B.D.Moreira, "Optimização do tempo de processamento de aplicações em clusters em ambiente multi-utilizador"; MIEIC/FEUP, Mar09

M.A.Santos “Detecção Automática da Polaridade em Notícias sobre Política” FEUP/MSc Multimedia, 2009.

L.Barreto “Protótipo de Procura Semântica aplicado a um Motor de Busca Documental”, MIEIC/FEUP, 2009

J.Carvalho, “Scheduling Treatment Protocols”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

J.Pereira, “Integration of a business module in the ERP jdx”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

J.L.Pereira, “Integration of a logistic module in the ERP jdx”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

J.F.Gonçalves, “Arquitectura Baseada em Serviços para Redes Veículo-a-Veículo”, MIEIC/FEUP, Mar09

E.Esteves, “Utilização de agentes autónomos na simulação pedonal em interfaces multi-modais”, MIEIC/FEUP, Mar09

T.R.Freitas, “Geospatial Data Processing for GPS Navigation Systems”, MIEIC/FEUP, Mar09

F.C.Santos, “Computação ubíqua para aplicações em saúde”, MIEEC/FEUP, Jul09

T.B.Nunes, “Towards a pedestrian navigation system”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

P.F.Loureiro, “Automatic Traffic Congestion Detection Using Uncontrolled Video Sources”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

J.Alves, “Extraction of Knowledge from Petri Nets Models in SoA-based Industrial Automation Systems”, MSc in Industrial Eng. IPB, Dec09

J.Vicente, "Learning Typical Paths", M.Sc. in TCS at DCTI/ISCTE, 2009

P.C.Alves, “FCPortugal: Coord. Equipas de Agentes Heterogéneos em Missões de Socorro e Salvamento”, MIECT/UAveiro, Jan09

M.J.Faria, “Definição de uma Ontologia Aplicada ao Futebol”, MIEEC/FEUP, Jul09

M.C.Figueiredo “An approach to Simulation of Autonomous Vehicles in Intense Traffic Scenarios”, MIEEC/FEUP, Jul09

C.M.B.Santiago “Image analysis of sports events”, MIEEC/FEUP, Jul09

J.M.Moura, “Alg. Detecção Aut. Eventos aplicados ao Futebol Robótico Simulado”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

N.P.Cruz, “Using a High-Level Language to Build a Poker Playing Agent”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

R.M.Lopes, “Coordination Methodologies applied to RoboCup: a graphical Definition of Setplays”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

R.J.Mestre, “Reconhecimento de Inf. Padronizadas no Conteúdo de Emails”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

L.P.Martinho, “Combining Loan Requests and Investment Offers”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09

A.G.Silva, “Persona Adaptable Vis. Scheduling in Supply Chain Management for an ERP System”, MIEIC/FEUP, Jul09 – dev. at Microsoft (Copenhagen, Denmark)

25 MSc in Progress (25 to be completed in 2010)

Patents:

Jorge Barbosa, Luís Miguel Almeida: ASSOFT Dep. Number 1579/D/09 – “Traceability management on food production”. This is a software package that enables food manufactures to comply efficiently with the HACCP regulation. The main characteristic is that the interface is rendered from XML description files allowing an easy adaptation of the application to any food industry, without requiring any change of the source code as well as of the data model. It was developed in collaboration with food industry and is now ready to start negotiations towards technology transference to a software house.

Prototypes:

- Verbatim is a system that automatically extracts, identifies and classifies quotes from online news without any human interaction, deployed to Portugal Telecom. http://verbatim.labs.sapo.pt. (L.Sarmento et al.)

- Intellwheels: Intelligent Wheelchair Development Platform – Enables easy development of Intelligent Wheelchairs (two new Wheelchair prototypes were also developed). (L.P:Reis, R.Braga)

- NetEditor: the MAS-T2er Lab network editor. A collaborative network editor that allows urban traffic networks to be modelled and exported into different microscopic traffic simulators (J.L.Pereira and R.Rossetti).

- 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 + IEETA/UA)

- Playmaker - Graphical Definition of Setplays for RoboCup teams (R.Lopes and L.P.Reis)

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

Organizing Committee:

CISTI’2009, 4th Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies, P.Varzim, Portugal, Jun, 17-20, 2009, (F.Restivo, L.P.Reis, A.P.Rocha).

MASTA’2009, Thematic Track on Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications, at EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, Oct 12-15, 2009 (A.P.Rocha).

IROBOT’2009 – 4th Int. Workshop on Intelligent Robotics, held as a Thematic Track at EPIA’2009, Aveiro, Portugal, Oct 12-15, 2009 (L.P.Reis)

AITUM’2009 - Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Transportation and Urban Mobility, at EPIA 2009, Aveiro, Portugal, Oct 12-15, 2009. (R.Rossetti)

Int. Workshop on Crowds & Pedestrian Behavior, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM Conf. Web Intelligence (WI’09) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’09), Milan, Italy, Sep 15, 2009. (R.Rossetti)

Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications, held at CISTI’2009, P.Varzim, Portugal, Jun 17-20, 2009. (R.Rossetti)

Special Session on Computer Vision in Robotics held at VIPImage’2009, FEUP, Porto, Portugal, Oct 14-16, 2009 (L.P.Reis)

Special Session on Bio-Inspired Methods, Techniques and Algorithms with App. in Engineering Systems - at IEEE IECON 2009, Nov 5, 2009. (C.Chituc)

DSIE’2009 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering, Porto, Portugal, Feb 5-6, 2009. (E.Oliveira)

Editorial Boards and Journal PCs:

Int. J. Agent-Oriented Software Eng. (IJAOSE), InderScience, ISSN: 1746-1375 (E.Oliveira)

Int. J. Autonomous Agents and MAS, Springer, ISSN: 1387-2532 (E.Oliveira)

Intelligent Decision Tech.: An Int. J., IOS Press, ISSN: 1872-4981 (E.Oliveira)

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

IJCVB – Int. J. Comp. Vision and Biomechanics, ISSN: 0973-6778, Serials Pub. (J.Barbosa)

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)

Program, scientific, advisory and/or steering committees of over 60 Int. Conferences, including:

AAMAS’09, PAAMS’09, EUMAS’09, HoloMAS’09, EPIA’09, IAT'09, PRO-VE'09, RoboCup’09, ICAART’09, Robotica09, ADMI’09, ESAW’09, COIN@AAMAS, ATOP@AAMAS, DCAI'09, WAT@CAEPIA’09, MASTA@EPIA'09, IROBOT@EPIA'09, AITUM@EPIA'09, GAI@EPIA’09, WIVE@PRO-VE'09, CISTI’09, WSIA@CISTI09, IEEE IECON09, ISPDC’09, HETEROPAR’09, ICIAR’09 IBERGRID 09, IASTED/PDCN’09, MITIP’09, INDIN’09, IC-EDUCA’09, ICEB 09, IEEE ITSC 09, ISC 09, VIPImage’09, SDIA’09, ASM’09, DSIE’09 and ISVC’09.

Joint venture with Portugal Telecom to develop Verbatim and to establish a Academia-Industry Lab in FEUP dedicated to Information Extraction Technologies. (L.Sarmento, E.Oliveira)

Close collaboration with Schneider Electric, e.g. reflected by the R&D project funded by the Schneider Electric entitled “Mechanisms and Tools for Orchestration and Choreography on Service Oriented Architectures” that aims to develop orchestration mechanisms for service-oriented control in automation environments (funding: 120 k€; begin date: October 2006; duration: 36 months). (P.Leitão).

QREN funded project called RESPLAN- Resource Planner, with reference FEUP/SISCOG/2009 (E.Oliveira, A.Castro).

MSc Scholarships were sponsored by NDrive Navigation Systems, SA, to support work carried out within the MAS-T2er Lab sub-group. (R.Rossetti)

MSc Scholarship was sponsored by Microsoft (Copenhagen, Denmark) in the context of the development of Persona Adaptable Visualization Scheduling in Supply Chain Management for Microsoft ERP System (L.P.Reis)

A collaboration started with SOLTRÁFEGO–Soluções de Trânsito, estacionamento e Comunicações SA, which resulted in a partnership to jointly sign the Project Proposal entitled “iControl: Agent-Based Urban Traffic Control” (PTDC/SEN-TRA/115354/2009), submitted to FCT in 2009.(R.Rossetti)

Consulting for the company FLEX2000- Cordex for Expert Systems in the chemical foam production, Ovar - Fase III. (E.Oliveira)

Networking Projects:

- COST IC0801 - Agreement Technologies

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

Joint collaborations with:

- CMU, USA - MAPi doctoral program

- U. Pennsylvania – L.Ungar

- Google Inc. (NY) – A. Kehlenbeck

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

- FP6 Evaluation as an Expert - Thematic Priority/Activity FP6-2005 –IST-5 – call 2.5.2, Project 034120

- U. Texas, UTEN program, Rapid Screen sessions with Cliff Zintgraff: “Real Time Indoor Detection System”, “MAS for Disruption Management” and “ABS of Ecological Systems”.

- MFG.com, Atlanta, Georgia - Mitch Free (CEO) - project “Trust aware”

- Univ. Girona - N.Hormazábal and J.L.Rosa

- Collaborations with Politéchnique Montreal and the Nat. Research Council of Canada

- Univ. Libre Bruxelles, Radiology, Inst. Jules Bordet, Belgium

- U. Leeds, School of Computing - Raymond Kwan

- U. Coruña, Spain - M.Gestal

- U. Lancaster, UK - D. Hutchinson

- Microsoft (Denmark) – A.Ovsyannikov

Visiting academics:

- José A.Echeverría and J.Sabater-Mir, IIIA CSIC Barcelona, Spain

- Matteo Vasirani, Rey Juan Carlos University

- M.Dapena, Cuba

Joint supervision:

- PUCRS, Brazil

- Univ. Southern Denmark

International positions:

- P. Leitão, Associate member of the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence (CONET) INFSO-ICT-224053 - 48 months, funding of 4M Eur.

- P. Leitão, Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics TC on Industrial Agents and member of the IFAC TC5.1 TC on Manufacturing Plant Control.

- Co-organization of scientific events and joint research with:

Franziska Klügl, Orëbro Univ., Sweden

Giuseppe Vizzari, U. Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Ronghui Liu, Institute for Transport Studies, U. Leeds, UK

Susana Dessa Aguiar and Dr Kathryn Stewart, Edinbugh Napier University, UK

Sascha Ossowski, Alberto Fernandez, and Matteo Vasirani, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain

Ana Bazzan, Helena Cybis, and Roberto Silva, UFRGS, Brazil

Patrícia Tedesco, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

Werner Kraus Junior, Eduardo Camponogara, U.F. Santa Catarina, Brazil

Felipe Loureiro, U.F. Ceará, Brazil

FCT Project:

FCT - PTDC/EIA/70695/2006: ACORD - Adaptative Coordination of Robotic Teams (Principal Investigator: L.P.Reis), Partners: FEUP/LIACC and Univ.Aveiro/IEETA. (January 2008 – December 2009), Funding (95000 Eur) from FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

FCT Doctoral Grants:

SFRH/BD/23590/2005 - L.M.Sarmento

SFRH/BD/29773/2006 - H.L.Cardoso

SFRH/BD/31449/2006 - D.C.Moura

SFRH/BD/30461/2006 – L.R.Mota

SFRH/BD/41356/2007 – A.P.Costa

SFRH/BD/39070/2007- M.J.Urbano

SFRH/BD/36360/2007 - V.Vinhas Moreira

SFRH/BD/36610/2007 - D.C.Silva

SFRH/BD/44663/2008 - P.Abreu

SFRH/BD/44109/2008 - A.J.Castro

SFRH/BD/43704/2008 - J.L.Oliveira

SFRH/BD/66364/2009 - C.J.Costa

SFRH/BD/66717/2009 - L.S.Passos

SFRH/BD/60727/2009 – M.R.Petry

SFRH/BD/66597/2009 – N.Shafii

Other Doctoral Grants:

CAPES PhD Scholarship (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

J.P.Certo – Scholarship from project FCT/PTDC/EIA/70695/2006, Jul 2008 – Jul 2009

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

A.Danek - Scholarship IAESTE (N/ ref.) PT/09/37 (LIACC/NIAD&R), 1st Oct to 31st Dec 2009..

J.R.Alvarado - Scholarship IAESTE (N/ ref.) PT/09/39 (LIACC/NIAD&R), 1st Sep to 1st Dec 2009.

J.F.Teixeira - LIACC scholarship, Apr-Jul 2009.

C.Filippidou - IAESTE Mobility Programme

L.Fráguas - Scholarship funded by the RESPLAN Project, “Agência de Inovação”, QREN, start Oct 2009.

A.Pereira - Scholarship funded by the RESPLAN Project, “Agência de Inovação”, QREN, start Oct 2009.

Other Grants (FCT BII):

J.L.Pereira, MIEEC/FEUP (FCT’s BII Scholarships)

F.Correia, MIEEC/FEUP (FCT’s BII Scholarships)

R.Amaro, MIEEC/FEUP (FCT’s BII Scholarships)

M.Araújo, MIEIC/FEUP (FCT’s BII Scholarships)

I.J.Timóteo, MIEIC/FEUP (FCT’s BII Scholarships)

- Enhancement of the self-adaptation features of the normative environment, including norm evolution and the selection of other enforcement policies based on the evolving characterization of an agent population. A model for automatically negotiating contractual conditions taking into account the trust values derived from a Computational Trust and Reputation system.

- Enhancement of the Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) model in the Electronic Institution environment that derives the confidence level of candidate partners based on appropriate metrics and past behavior. To use argumentation-based interactions for electronic contract negotiation in order to obtain different contracts according to each specific partner characteristics (for example: trustworthiness).

- Enhancement of the actual Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) system in development. This includes the specification, implementation and testing of a new machine learning-based module of this system that allows the estimation of the trustworthiness of agents (business partners) that are new entrants in the system.

- Service-oriented and multi-agent control solutions for advanced automation and production systems, exhibiting distribution, modularity, re-configurability and responsiveness features. Application of bio-inspiration theories in complex and evolvable systems, namely in distributed manufacturing systems.

- Multi-criteria scheduling towards Cost Effective Computing: To obtain significant gains in energy consumption it is necessary to see the various platforms in an integrated manner. On the one hand, using a paradigm similar to the Cloud / Utility Computing, where the user requests resources without worrying about the physical platform, and secondly, by scheduling virtual machines previously configured according to user requirements

- Using Image Analysis techniques, such as 3D/2D Registration, constrained by statistical metrics for fine-tuning the current 3D model reconstructions.

- Development and application of Machine Learning techniques to state-of-the-art information extraction tasks, namely opinion mining and trend extraction in both industrial media and user-generated content.

- Enhancing Verbatim with selection capabilities of the best features for the classifiers based on the type of news. Study on sentiment analysis: the automatic detection of irony on text, the inference of opinions on text based on the polarity of words and the study of trends based on sentiments expressed by people through social networks as the Twitter.

- Inclusion of coalitions between similar agents to improve “what if” simulation scenarios in the EcoSimNet platform. Integration of all applications in a complete and fully-functional Environment Decision Support System (EDSS).

- To conclude the definition of disturbance and mission languages. Integrate air traffic controller into the framework and to complete the framework, as to allow for mission definition, execution and evaluation.

- To develop a tool to automatically construct team and players behavior models through final game statistics. Construct an offline and online analysis software capable of automatically detecting the best strategy for a robotic team in order to improve their game performance.

- To create distinct robotic teams and participate in RoboCup 2010, using the same base code for controlling all the teams’ robots. These teams will also use the same coordination methodologies with emphasis for the use of setplays as the main coordination methodology.

- To further improve out Intellwheels – Intelligent Wheelchair prototype by adding a fully functional multi-modal interface, new autonomous navigation and high-level planning capabilities as well as a patient mining module, capable of automatically detecting the wheelchair user’s characteristics.

- To build a full prototype of a Disruption Management MAS for the Airline Operations Domain (AOC) and to abstract to other application domains. To create an IDE to visual define the MAS for AOC.

- To build a Knowledge Transfer platform allowing to convert the knowledge gathered in MAS-T2er Lab Project research activities into courses to be offered in both to undergrad and to post-graduate levels; Release the open-source versions the MAS-T2er Lab Project’s software.

Projects Approved for funding:

- “GRACE: Integration of Process and Quality Control Using Multi-agent Technology”, FP7-NMP-2009-3.2-2 Adaptive Control Systems for Responsiveness Factories, 2010-2013, and with a funding of 330k Eur for IPB (P.Leitão).

- PTDC/EIA-EIA/104420/2008, “Trust-aware Automatic E-Contract Negotiation in Agent-based Adaptive Normative Environments”. NIAD&R (FEUP), PI: E.Oliveira) 2010 to 2012, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. 66816 Eur

- RIPD/ADA/109636/2009 "INTELLWHEELS - Intelligent Wheelchair with Flexible Multimodal". NIAD&R (FEUP), (PI: L.P.Reis) Accepted, July 2010 – June 2012, approved funding 52840 Eur.

- RESPLAN- Resources Planner project. The amount pending for approval is around 62000 Eur (E.Oliveira).

Projects Submitted for funding:

- PTDC_EIA_EIA_111169 – Multi-criteria scheduling towards Cost Effective Computing, budget of 100.584 Eur.

- REACTION: Project Submitted to University of Texas at Austin – Portugal Program. Ref. UTA-Est/MAI/0006/2009. Budget for LIACC as Participating Institution: 93780 Eur

- FCT/PTDC/EIA-EIA/112495/2009 – “OPTIMISM” Budget for LIACC as Participating Institution: 59280 Euros

- PTDC/AAC-AMB/111213/2009,MODELFISH - Modeling Feed Intake Regulation as a Tool for Waste Management in Fish Production, Total funding: 152452 Eur. LIACC budget :15245 Eur.

- COST Action “Agreement Technology” funding for traveling to AT meetings.

- FCT/PTDC/EIA-EIA/114661/Pending funding: “Learning Sub-goals and State abstraction for autonomous Agents (LeSS Agents)”; Submitted: 12/2009; Amount: 111432 Eur; Principal Investigator: Luís Miguel Martins Nunes .

- Submitted proposal to FCT: “iControl: Controlo de Tráfego Urbano baseado em Agentes”. Requested funding: 154686 Eur

- Protocol FEUP/ SAPO Portugal Telecom; up to 10 scholarships a year.