Research Lines

• Site-o-Matic: Web Automation - this research line is the follow-up of the Site-O-Matic and Palco3.0 projects. It includes:
  • SREC: Service of recommendation - initially developd for the site palcoprincipal.pt, the service is now available for other uses.
  • Monitoring recommender systems.
  • Incremental and time aware recommendation.
  • Client side web intelligence.
  • Temporal Information Retrieval - expansion of implicit temporal queries.
• Learning Distributions - including Distribution Rules.
• Active Learning - including the application of active learning techniques to classify and cluster textual documents.

Projects

Ongoing projects

• e-Policy The e-POLICY project is an FP7 STREP project funded under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme, Objective 5.6 ICT solutions for Governance and Policy Modeling (2011-2014).

Past projects (coordinating role)

• Palco 3.0 - QREN - 2009-2012 - with company Ubbin - about www.palcoprincipal.pt
• Site-O-Matic (Web Site Automation) - FCT funded - 2005/2008
• Triana (Urban transport travel time prediction) - FCT funded - 2005/2008
• Sol-Eu-Net Project (virtual european enterprise for Data Mining and Decision Support) - local coordinator - EU funded - 2000/2003

Past projects (participation)

• Knowleddge Base - POE - with PortalExecutivo, 2004
• Searching for high level rules in protein folding and unfolding: from amyloid diseases to protein structure prediction - FCT funded - 2007/2010
• MORWAQ - Monitorização e Previsão de Parâmetros de Qualidade da Água - FCT funded - 2008/2011
• Ranki - FCT.
• MODAL (Models for predicting algal blooms in river Douro) - POSI/FCT - 2003/2006
• CLASS(classification and association rules for decision support) - POSI/FCT - 2002/2005
• ECO - (Extraction of Knowledge from Databases) - 1997/2001