CINTESIS – Center for Health Technology and Services Research is a large Research and Development (R&D) Unit whose mission is to find short-term answers and solutions to concrete health problems, while never losing sight of the cost-effectiveness balance.
Headquartered at the University of Porto, CINTESIS prides itself on its multicentric, decentralized, and flexible nature. Its structure includes 46 partner institutions (29 higher education institutions, 12 hospitals/health institutions, and 5 healthcare companies) and hubs in 6 higher education institutions: 5 universities (University of Porto, NOVA University Lisbon, University of Aveiro, University of Algarve, and University of Madeira) and 1 Polytechnic (Nursing School of Porto).
In total, the center brings together around 500 researchers, working across 23 research groups, organized into 3 major thematic lines: Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges (TL1), Clinical and Translational Research (TL2), and Data, Decision & Information Technologies (TL3).
The Center of Mathematics of the University of Porto (CMUP) is a research center in Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal. Since its foundation, CMUP’s main goals have been to conduct and support mathematical research, as well as to promote the dissemination of Mathematics as a fundamental discipline for the development of society at all levels.
CMUP has around 50 integrated researchers, mainly from various faculties of the University of Porto, but also from the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. This structure has enabled CMUP to achieve both critical mass and diversity, allowing it to carry out world-class research in several areas and to benefit from the synergies that arise from interactions among its researchers. CMUP hosts four main research groups (Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, and Probability & Statistics) and four main research lines (Computational Mathematics, Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Models and Applications, and Automata and Semigroup Languages).
The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), one of the leading associated laboratories in Portugal, is a private non-profit institution focused on scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and the pre-incubation of new technology-based companies. Currently, INESC TEC comprises 13 R&D Centers structured across four thematic domains: Computer Science, Industry and Innovation, Intelligent Networked Systems, and Energy.
Faculty members of the DCC are involved in the following INESC TEC centers:
The Centre for Industrial Engineering and Management (CEGI) focuses on research at the intersection of its knowledge areas. More specifically, it develops methodologies to make optimization and data mining techniques more hybrid. Another objective is to study the relevance of using service design and engineering approaches to better frame decision-making problems. Activities in each of the identified research domains range from fundamental research to consulting and service provision.
The mission of the Centre for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) is to pursue scientific excellence in programming languages, parallel and distributed computing, security and privacy, information mining, and web systems, through the development of scalable software systems for challenging and multidisciplinary applications. The research environment is enriched by young and talented researchers who, together with senior scientists, constitute the critical mass and scientific expertise required to fulfill its mission. CRACS research lines cover a wide range of issues related to scalable computing, including: high-level programming languages, parallel and distributed computing, information extraction from data, and web-based systems and applications.
The High-Assurance Software Laboratory (HASLab), based at the University of Minho, designs and implements high-assurance software systems—software that is correct by design and resilient to environmental faults and malicious attacks. HASLab’s research is anchored in a rigorous approach to three core areas of Computer Science: Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Cryptography & Information Security. Its contributions span from fundamental research on formal methods and algorithms to applied research on tools and middleware addressing real-world demands arising from long-term industrial collaborations. The laboratory includes members from several universities, namely the University of Porto and the University of Beira Interior in Portugal, and University College London and Teesside University in the UK.
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) conducts research in the strategic field of Data Science, which has seen growing worldwide interest and is now essential to all areas of human activity. The massive volumes of data collected (Big Data) and the widespread use of sensor-equipped and processing-capable devices present both opportunities and challenges to scientists and engineers. Furthermore, the demand for complex decision-support models is spreading across domains such as business, healthcare, science, e-government, and e-learning, encouraging investment in diverse approaches. LIAAD’s overall strategy is to leverage data flow and diversity and to develop research lines aimed at reducing the gap between raw data and actionable knowledge, offering a variety of modeling solutions. Scientific work at LIAAD focuses on: machine learning, data mining, data analysis and statistical methods, modeling, and optimization.
The Institute of Telecommunications (IT) is a private, non-profit organization of public interest, established as a partnership of nine Research & Development (R&D) institutions in the field of Telecommunications.
IT’s mission is to create and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of telecommunications. The institute is actively engaged in both fundamental and applied research at national and international levels. At the same time, IT is committed to advancing higher education and training, by hosting and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students. It also plays a role in public engagement through awareness initiatives, knowledge transfer to industry, and the provision of non-competitive consultancy services.
IT’s scientific expertise, which underpins its main research and educational activities, covers the following areas: Wireless Communications; Optical Communications; Networks and Multimedia; Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies.
The Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory (LIACC) was created in 1988 at the University of Porto, initially comprising three groups from the Faculties of Sciences, Engineering, and Economics.
Over the years, LIACC has undergone several changes and spin-offs of different groups. Today, the laboratory focuses on four main research lines: Distributed and decentralized software systems; Knowledge and information extraction; Intelligent human–machine cooperation; and Declarative programming for more secure software systems.
To achieve these objectives, LIACC’s research is centered on the unit’s core activities, while adapting to the new challenges of a rapidly evolving society, technological development, and the proliferation of networked devices, where everyone is both a producer and consumer of information. Another goal is the automation of intelligent decision-making, not only for individual agents — both artificial (agents, robots) and human — but also within networks and teams, in distributed environments.
CISTER (Research Centre in Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems) is a Research Unit based at the School of Engineering (ISEP) of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), Portugal.
Since it was created, CISTER has grown to become one of the leading European research units, contributing with seminal research works in a number of subjects, namely: real-time communication networks and protocols; wireless sensor networks (WSN); cyber-physical systems (CPS); real-time programming paradigms and operating systems; distributed embedded systems; cooperative computing and QoS-aware applications; scheduling and schedulability analysis (including multiprocessor systems).
CISTER has a strong and solid international reputation, built upon a robust track record of publications and a continuous presence on program and organising committees of international top conferences.
Currently, there are around 60 people involved in CISTER, where half of them are PhDs, and encompassing more than 20 nationalities.
Notably, CISTER was, in 2004, 2007 and 2017, awarded the classification of Excellent in FCT evaluations..