Best Paper Awards:

1.      Mitchel Felske, Carlos Montez, Alex S. R. Pinto, Francisco Vasques, Paulo Portugal. GLHOVE: A Framework for Uniform Coverage Monitoring using Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks”. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-2013), Cagliari, Italy, September 10-13, 2013. 2013 ETFA Best Paper Award.

2.      Daniel G. Costa, Luiz Affonso Guedes, Francisco Vasques, Paulo Portugal. Partial Energy-Efficient Hop-by-Hop Retransmission in Wireless Sensor Networks”. IEEE 11th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-2013), Bochum, Germany, July 29-31, 2013. 2013 INDIN Best Paper Award.

3.      Tiago Semprebom, Carlos Montez, Gustavo Zomer and Francisco Vasques. Guaranteed Time Slot Allocation for Periodic Messages with (m,k)-firm constraints in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks”. Best Paper Award at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-2012), Krakow, Poland, September 17-21, 2012. 2012 ETFA Best Paper Award


Associate Editor / Member of Editorial Board of International Journals:

1.      Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks”, since 2014. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/

2.      Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “ISRN Communications and Networking”, since 2010. http://www.isrn.com/journals/cn/

3.      Member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks”, since 2010. http://www.iasks.org/journals/juspn/

4.      Associate Editor of the “IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics”, for the topic of Industrial Communication Systems, since 2007 http://tii.ieee-ies.org/


Program Chairman of International Conferences:

1.      Program Co-Chairman of the 11th Workshop on Real-Time and Embedded Systems, May 25th, 2009, Recife, Brazil. http://www.lasid.ufba.br/wtr2009/

2.      Program Co-Chairman of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation; September 15-18, 2008, Hamburg, Germany. http://www.etfa2008.org/

3.      Program Co-Chairman of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, June 27-30, 2006, Torino, Italy. http://wfcs2006.ieiit.cnr.it/

4.      Program Co-Chairman of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, Sept 22-24, 2004, Vienna, Austria. http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/wfcs2004/

5.      Program Co-Chairman of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Factory Communication Systems, Sept 6-8, 2000, Porto, Portugal. http://www.hurray.isep.ipp.pt/wfcs2000/


Track Chairman of International Conferences:

1.      Track co-chairman at the 42nd Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON'2016), which was held in Florence, Italy, October 23-27, 2016. http://www.iecon2016.org/

2.      Track co-chairman at the IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-15), which was held in Cambridge, UK, 22- 24 July 2015, for the topic Distributed and Networked Control Systems. http://www.INDIN2015.org

3.      Track co-chairman at the 24th IEEE-IES International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE-15), which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 3-5, 2015, for the topic: Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics. http://www.isie2015.org/

4.      Track co-chairman at the IEEE 12th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-14), which was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 27-30, 2014, for the topic Distributed and Networked Control Systems. http://indin2014.ece.ufrgs.br

5.      Track co-chairman at the IEEE 11th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-13), which was held in Bochum, Germany, July 29-31, 2013, for the topic Distributed, Embedded and Networked Control Systems. http://www.indin2013.org/

6.      Track co-chairman at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-13), which was held in Cagliari, Italy, September 10-13, 2013, for the topic Industrial Communication Systems. http://www.etfa2013.org/

7.      Track co-chairman at the IEEE 9th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-11), which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 26-29, 2011, for the topic Distributed, Embedded and Networked Control Systems. http://www.uninova.pt/indin2011/

8.      Track co-chairman at the 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON’09), which was held in Porto, Portugal, 3-6 November 2009, for the topic Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics. http://www.fe.up.pt/iecon2009

9.      Track co-chairman at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN-2007), which was held in Vienna, Austria, July 23-26, 2007, for the topic Applications of Industrial Informatics. http://www.indin2007.org

10.  Track co-chairman at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-05), which was held in Catania, Italy, September 19-22, 2005, for the topic Industrial Communication Systems. http://www.diit.unict.it/etfa2005/

11.  Track co-chairman of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-03), which was held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 16-19, 2003, for the topic Industrial Communication Systems. http://www.uninova.pt/etfa2003/


Special Session Chairman at International Conferences:

1.      Chairman of the Special Session: "Wireless Communications and Applications in Embedded Systems and Machine-to-Machine" organized at the 10th Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO-12), which was held in Funchal, Madeira Island, July 16-18, 2012. http://www4.uma.pt/controlo2012/specials.html#wireless

2.      Chairman of the Special Session: “Real-Time Communications: from theory to applications” organized at the 8th Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO-08), which was held in Vila Real, Portugal, July, 2008. http://home.utad.pt/controlo2008/

3.      Chairman of the Special Session: “Distributed Embedded Systems” organized at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM-04), which was held in April 5-7, 2004, Salvador/BA, Brazil http://www.eletro.ufrgs.br/incom2004/