Research

List of publications and contributions to the research community.

Publications

ResearchGate | Google Scholar | DBLP | Scopus

Books and Volumes

• Nuno Moniz, Rita P. Ribeiro. Imbalanced Domain Learning with R. CRC Press. 2022 (to be published)
• Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo, Natalhie Japkowicz, Michal Wozniak, Shuo Wang, ed. LIDTA 2021. 3rd International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications (with ECML/PKDD 2021)
  Volume 154. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). 2021.
• Luís Torgo, Stan Matwin, Nathalie Japkowicz, Bartosz Krawczyk, Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, ed. LIDTA 2018. 2nd International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications (with ECML/PKDD 2018)
  Volume 94. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). 2018.
• Luís Torgo, Stan Matwin, Gary Weiss, Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, ed. COST 2018. International Workshop on Cost-Sensitive Learning (with SIAM SDM 2018)
  Volume 88. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). 2017.
• Luís Torgo, Bartosz Krawczyk, Paula Branco, Nuno Moniz, ed. LIDTA 2017. 1st International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications (with ECML/PKDD 2017)
  Volume 74. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). 2017.

Journal Articles

• Nuno Moniz, Vítor Cerqueira Automated Imbalanced Classification via Meta-learning
  Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2021. GitHub

• Mariana Oliveira, Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Vítor Santos Costa. Biased Resampling Strategies for Imbalanced Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
  International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Springer, 2021. GitHub

• Vítor Cerqueira, Nuno Moniz and Carlos Soares. VEST: Automatic Feature Engineering for Forecasting
  Machine Learning Journal, Springer, 2021. arXiv | GitHub

• Rita P. Ribeiro, Nuno Moniz. Imbalanced Regression and Extreme Value Prediction
  Machine Learning Journal, Springer, 2020. R Package

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo. A review on web content popularity prediction: Issues and open challenges
  Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier, 2019.

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Magdalini Eirinaki, Paula Branco. A Framework for Recommendation of Highly Popular News Lacking Social Feedback
  New Generation Computing Journal (EPIA’2017 Journal Track), Springer, 2017. GitHub

• Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo. Resampling Strategies for Imbalanced Time Series Forecasting
  International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Springer, 2017. GitHub | R Package

• Nuno Moniz, Francisco Louçã, Márcia Oliveira, Renato Soeiro. Empirical Analysis of the Portuguese Governments Social Network
  Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 6(1), 1-19, Springer, 2016.

• Nuno Moniz, Adriano Campos. Relational Data on Members of Portuguese Governments (1976-2014)
  Data, MDPI, 2015.

Conference Papers

• Nuno Moniz, Susana Barbosa. Prediction of Dansgaaard-Oeschger events using machine learning
  European Geosciences Union 2021 General Assembly (EGU 2021), Session “Tipping Points in the Earth System”. Online. 2021

• Tânia Carvalho, Nuno Moniz. The Compromise of Data Privacy in Predictive Performance
  International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2021). Porto, Portugal. 2021. GitHub

• Alberto Oliveira, Ricardo Freitas, Alípio Jorge, Vítor Amorim, Nuno Moniz, Ana C. R. Paiva, Paulo J. Azevedo. Sequence Mining for Automatic Generation of Software Tests from GUI event traces
  21st International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2020). Guimarães, Portugal, 2020.

• Yassine Baghoussi, João Mendes-Moreira, Nuno Moniz, Carlos Soares. Underground Train Tracking using Mobile Phone Accelerometer Data
  23rd Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (IEEE ITSC 2020). Online, 2020.

• Nuno Moniz, Rita P. Ribeiro, Vítor Cerqueira, Nitesh Chawla. SMOTEBoost for Regression: Improving the Prediction of Extreme Values
  5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2018). Turin, Italy, 2018. GitHub | R Package | Slides

• Vítor Cerqueira, Fábio Pinto, Luís Torgo, Carlos Soares, Nuno Moniz. Constructive Aggregation and its Application to Forecasting with Dynamic Ensembles
  European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2018 (ECML/PKDD 2018). Dublin, Ireland, 2018.

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo. The Utility Problem of Web Content Popularity Prediction 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2018 (HT 2018). Baltimore, USA, 2018. GitHub | Presentation

• Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo. Evaluation of Ensemble Methods in Imbalanced Regression Tasks
  1st International Workshop on Learning with Imbalanced Domains: Theory and Applications (@ ECML/PKDD 2017). Sköpje, Macedonia, 2017. GitHub

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Magdalini Eirinaki Time-Based Ensembles for Prediction of Rare Events In News Streams
  2nd International Workshop on Data Science for Social Media and Risk (@ ICDM 2016). Barcelona, Spain, 2016.

• Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo. Resampling Strategies for Imbalanced Time Series
  3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2016). Montreal, Canada, 2016. GitHub | R Package

• Magdalini Eirinaki, Nuno Moniz, Katerina Potika. Threshold-Bounded Influence Dominating Sets for Recommendations in Social Networks
  9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SOCIALCOM 2016). Atlanta, United States of America, 2016.

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo. Combining Social and Official Media in News Recommender Systems
  ECML PKDD 2015 - Doctoral Consortium, Porto, Portugal, 2015.

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Fátima Rodrigues. Resampling approaches to improve news importance prediction
  13th International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2014). Leuven, Belgium, 2014.

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo. Improvement of News Ranking through Importance Prediction
  KDD2014 - 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, NewsKDD Workshop - Data Science for News Publishing. New York, United States of America, 2014.

• Nuno Moniz, Fátima Rodrigues. Extracting structure, text and entities from PDF documents of the Portuguese legislation
  KDIR 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval. Barcelona, Spain, 2012.

Other Publications / Data Sets

• Nuno Moniz. Real-time 2019 Portuguese Parliament Election Results Dataset
  ArXiv preprint arXiv:1912.08922, 2019. UCI

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo. Multi-Source Social Feedback of Online News Feeds
  ArXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07055, 2018. UCI

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, João Vinagre. Data-Driven Relevance Judgments for Ranking Evaluation
  ArXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06136, 2016

• Nuno Moniz, Luís Torgo, Magdalini Eirinaki. Socially Driven News Recommendation
  ArXiv preprint arXiv:1506.01743, 2015

Thesis

• Nuno Moniz. Prediction and Ranking of Highly Popular Web Content
  University of Porto, Sciences College. Portugal. 2017. (Ph.D.)

• Nuno Moniz. Bridging the gap between closed and open data. System proposal for the Portuguese Legislation
  Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto. Portugal. 2012. (M.Sc.)

• Nuno Moniz. Estimating the Number of Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Superior Institute of Engineering of Porto. Portugal. 2009. (B.Sc.)

Software

• IRon (2020). An R Package for solving Imbalanced Regression tasks Nuno Moniz, Rita P. Ribeiro

• ReBoost (2018). An R Package with Boosting and SMOTEBoost implementations for Regression Tasks
  Nuno Moniz, Vítor Cerqueira, Rita P. Ribeiro, Nitesh Chawla

• rewind (2018). An R Package with Biased Resampling Strategies for Time Series
  Nuno Moniz, Paula Branco, Luís Torgo

Misc

Visiting Researcher

San Jose State University (California, USA) with Magdalini Eirinaki (Oct-Dec 2015)
Brunel University (London, UK) with Allan Tucker (Jul 2015

Awards and Honors

Winner, World Summit Awards (WSA) 2019 – for meuParlamento.pt. January 2020
Winner, Arquivo.pt Award 2019 – for meuParlamento.pt. July 2019
Finalist, 1st Runner-up in Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2017. Porto, Portugal, 2017
Full Scholarship, FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). 2013–2017
Winner, Merit diploma for outstanding academic performance. Polytechnic Institute of Porto. 2012
Scholarship, Research Integration Scholarship. FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology). 2008–2009