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GECAD international researchers visited Alqueva Floating Solar Plant

On May 5^th, 2023, international researchers from GECAD had the opportunity to participate in a study visit to the Alqueva Floating Solar Plant subsidized by the Master in Renewable Energy in ISEP. [+]

09-05-2023

GECAD is participating in the CYTED thematic network

GECAD is participating in the CYTED thematic network - Network for large-scale integration of renewable energy into electrical systems – (P722RT0026 RIBIERSE-CYTED) [+]

27-12-2022

Professor Zita A. Vale awarded by the IEEE Power & Energy Society

Professor Zita A. Vale awarded by the Analytical Methods in Power Systems Committee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society. [+]

27-12-2022

GECAD participated in the 10th Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference (SASG2022)

GECAD participated in the 10th Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference (SASG2022) held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during 12-14 December. [+]

27-12-2022

José Almeida awarded second place at the REN Prize

The Master's Thesis of José Almeida, Researcher at GECAD, was awarded second place in the REN Prize. [+]

30-11-2022

Ricardo Faia with an outstanding PhD Thesis

Ricardo Faia concluded his Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering at the University of Salamanca with a maximum classification. [+]

30-11-2022

Prof. Zita Vale participated in the 14th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2022)

Prof. Zita Vale participated in the 14th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2022) held at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during August 8-11. [+]

29-11-2022

GECAD participated in the last IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022)

GECAD participated in the last IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022) held in Padova, Italy, during July 18-23. [+]

29-11-2022

Call for the 2022-3 Competition on solar generation forecasting (New Deadline: 15^th January, 2023)

Benchmarking of artificial intelligence methods for solar generation forecasting to address the increasing importance of energy resources forecasting in current and future power and energy systems. [+]

28-10-2022

ISAP Online Event: Machine Learning and AI for Sustainable Power and Energy Systems

The Machine Learning and AI for Sustainable Power and Energy Systems event will focus on the employment of artificial intelligence technologies for power system operation in a competitive environment, integrating renewable energy and storage systems into the power grid, electric vehicles/low-carbon transportation, and the other hot topics of interest in modern power systems. [+]

05-10-2022

F1000Research

Prof. Zita Vale co-authored a publication in F1000Research in the new Energy Section last month. [+]

23-09-2022

GECAD has participated in the last IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE PES GM 2022)

GECAD has participated in the last IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (IEEE PES GM 2022) held in Denver, Colorado, USA, during 17-21 July. [+]

24-08-2022

GECAD has participated in the last Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2022)

GECAD has participated in the last Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2022) held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, during July 9-13. [+]

24-08-2022

IoTalentum's Third Network Meeting

Partners of the IoTalentum project, an Innovative Training Networks (ITN) funded by Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020-953442) have meet between 4th-8th July 2022 in Eindhoven, Netherlands at the TU/e campus. [+]

24-08-2022

Competition on solar generation forecasting (New Deadline: 31^st October, 2022)

This competition fosters the benchmarking of artificial intelligence methods for solar generation forecasting to address the increasing importance of energy resources forecasting in current and future power and energy systems. [+]

05-07-2022

TradeRES project webinars on innovative electricity market designs

GECAD is organizing and participating in TradeRES project webinars in the scope of the H2020 European project TradeRES. [+]

04-07-2022

GECAD welcomes the Univerity of Alberta, Centrale Lille and JUNIA from the Grande École d'Ingénieurs

Professor Petr Musilek from University of Alberta (Canada), Prof. Bruno François from Centrale Lille (France) and Prof. Dhaker Abbes from JUNIA - Grande École d'ingénieurs (France) visited our research group. [+]

09-06-2022

University of Coruña's visit to GECAD

Professor Jose Rolle and researcher Esteban Jove from the University of Coruña visited our research group. [+]

08-06-2022

ENERGY-Lab's visit to GECAD

Professor Michel Benne and Dominique Grondin from Le laboratoire ENERGY-Lab visited our research group. [+]

07-06-2022

Data Week 2022 - BDVA - Big Data Value Association

The Data Week 2022 registration is now open. Data Week is a great opportunity to get visibility for your hub. [+]

11-05-2022

MAS-Society Project Third and Final Workshop

MAS-Society project is coming to an end, and the project team discussed and shared their latest achievements at the MAS-Society Project's Third Annual Workshop. [+]

05-05-2022

GECAD interview on RTP3's Tech 3 program: A Universidade, as ideias concretizadas em novas empresas

Tech 3 is a small format that addresses topics such as creativity, innovation, technology and knowledge. Each program addresses the history of one or more companies, from their inception to the present and future prospects. [+]

30-03-2022

IoTalentum consortium meeting

GECAD hosted a meeting of the consortium of the #IoTalentum project, namely on March 14th, 15th and 16th... [+]

30-03-2022

Third progress meeting of the DISRUPTIVE project

Last month in PRODUTECH, Porto, was the meeting of the DISRUPTIVE project... [+]

29-03-2022

Advanced Training Session In Transactive Energy

Friday, 1st April, at 17h30 (GMT) the Advanced Training Session In Transactive Energy will take place via Zoom, addressing the new opportunities of transactive energy in smart grids and the application of such models... [+]

28-03-2022

GECAD scientific paper received the best paper award at 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2021)

The paper entitled "Using Machine Learning to Predict the Users Ratings on TripAdvisor Based on their Reviews" has received the MDPI Electronics Journal - Best Paper. [+]

25-10-2021

IECON Special Session on Computational intelligence for power system networks and smart grid at Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2021)

The aim of this special session is to explore the application of computational methods for performance improvement of power system networks and the electrical grid. [+]

07-07-2021

Workshop on Disruptive Information and Communication Technologies for Innovation and Digital transformation

On June 18, GECAD organizes the workshop on Disruptive Information and Communication Technologies for Innovation and Digital transformation, under the scope of the DISRUPTIVE project. [+]

15-06-2021

DOMINOES Project Final Event

DOMINOES project is coming to an end and invites you to its final event on the 15th of June (@zoom). [+]

07-06-2021

DOMINOES newsletter #4

Check the more recent news about the project. [+]

11-01-2021

EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network on Internet of Things IoTalentum has started

The driving force for IoTalentum is to provide interdisciplinary and integral training and research in IoT: infrastructures, cybersecurity and applications... [+]

23-11-2020

GECAD project ranked in the first position in 186 projects

PRECISE (Power and Energy Cyber-Physical Solutions with Explainable Semantic Learning) project ranked 1st among 186 projects submitted to the Electrical and Electronics Engineering area of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology call for projects. [+]

09-11-2020

Omid Abrishambaf with an outstanding PhD Thesis

GECAD researcher Omid Abrishambaf, on 26th October 2020, defended his doctoral work at the University of Salamanca in Spain. [+]

27-10-2020

Isabel Praça nominated for the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) cybersecurity of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity

Isabel Praça nominated for the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) cybersecurity of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. Besides... [+]

26-09-2020

Luís Gomes with an outstanding PhD Thesis

GECAD researcher Luís Gome, 24th September 2020, defended his doctoral work at the University of Salamanca in Spain. [+]

25-09-2020

Goreti Marreiros was successful in the Aggregation (evidence of maturity in the Portuguese academic career)

On September 14th and 15th, Goreti Marreiros, who currently serves as Director of GECAD, carried out her Aggregation successfully and was approved unanimously... [+]

16-09-2020

Free Online Training Course on Machine Learning, Agent-based Systems, and Optimization in Power and Energy

This online training course is divided in two parts: Machine Learning and Agent-based Systems in Power and Energy, and Evolutionary Optimization Methods and Applications in Power and Energy. The first part will be presented by Professor Zita Vale (Full Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), Professor Carlos Ramos (Full Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), Dr. Tiago Pinto (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), and Dr. Pedro Faria (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto) considering their work developed under MAS-Societyproject. The second part will be presented by Dr. João Soares, Dr. Pedro Faria (Invited Professor at ISEP/P.Porto), and Dr. Fernando Lezama, considering their work developed under CENERGETIC, and COLORSprojects. This training course is online and free of charge. The participants who attend will receive certification. [+]

25-06-2020

Cyber Factory #1 Newsletter

Check the recent news about Cyber Factory #1 project. [+]

31-10-2019

DOMINOES newsletter #1

Check the recent news about the DOMINOES project. [+]

31-10-2019

H2020 DOMINOES major achievement

The paper “Towards transactive energy systems: An analysis on current trends”, authored by Omid Abrishambaf, Fernando Lezama, Pedro Faria, and Zita Vale, researchers from GECAD, Polytechnic of Porto, has been published in the journal Energy Strategy Reviews from Elsevier. [+]

17-10-2019

DREAM-GO - Results in Brief published article on CORDIS

Demand Response helps fulfil the Smart Grid potential | Result In Brief | CORDIS | European Commission [+]

11-07-2019

CENERGETIC algorithm ranks third in CEC/GECCO/SEMCCO competition among 36 other participants worldwide

The HyDE-DF algorithm developed by Dr. Fernando Lezama and also co-authored by Dr. Joao Soares, Mr. Ricardo Faia and Professor Zita Vale has been ranked third place in the 100-Digit Challenge competition with 93 points out of 100. [+]

08-07-2019

NETEFFICITY promoveu comunidades sustentáveis e inteligentes em Portugal

Alfândega da Fé, Penela e Vila Real integraram um projeto inovador para reduzir o consumo energético e otimizar os recursos da energia renovável. As três cidades formaram comunidades sustentáveis, colaborativas e autossuficientes graças ao NetEffiCity, um projeto desenvolvido por profissionais e investigadores do ISEP. [+]

07-06-2019

GECAD will participate in the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference – GECCO 2019

GECAD will participate in the upcoming Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference – GECCO 2019 to be held in Prague, Czech Republic between July 13th-17th 2019. [+]

07-05-2019

The DOMINOES 3rd General Assembly has been held in ISEP/GECAD

The DOMINOES 3rd General Assembly has been held in ISEP/GECAD premises on April 9-10 in Porto, Portugal. [+]

03-05-2019

GECAD participates in 2019 GTD Asia Bangkok, Thailand

GECAD will participate in the upcoming 2019 GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand between 19-24 March. [+]

22-01-2019

DREAM-GO Final Workshop photos and videos available

The photos and videos of DREAM-GO final workshop are now available on the project official website. [+]

21-01-2019

GROUPLANNER project meeting

Today a meeting with the research team of GROUPLANNER project, one of the new SAICT projects of GECAD started in 2018. [+]

17-01-2019

DREAM-GO Workshop: Demand response approaches for real-time renewable energy integration

DREAM-GO Horizon 2020 project is announcing its final workshop, to take place January 16th and 17th 2019, in ISEP, Porto. [+]

18-12-2018

GECAD launches the website for the algorithm competition at CEC and GECCO 2019.

The website with the competition goals and rules has been launched. [+]

18-12-2018

GECAD visits Honda Research Institute - HRI - November 2018 for future research collaborations

The visit has been held in Honda RI premises involving researchers from HRI and 3 researchers from GECAD. João Soares and Fernando Lezama give their talks on "Integration of electric vehicles in the grid" and "Computational intelligence for energy resource management in smart grids”, respectively. [+]

03-12-2018

GECAD algorithms competitions launched for 2019 in GECCO & CEC 2019

GECAD algorithms competitions proposed in GECCO (Prague, Czech Republic) and CEC 2019 (Wellington, New Zealand) have been accepted. These competitions aim to attract researchers working on the topic of energy resource management under uncertainty to foster discussion and advance the development of state-of-the-art computational intelligence based algorithms. [+]

26-11-2018

GECAD Excellence in publications in WoS/JCR Journals

During the last 5 years GECAD researchers published 106 papers in Web of Science / JCR journals. From these papers 27 (25.5%) are in Top 5% of their categories’ ranking, 36 (34%) are in Top 10%, and 50 (47.2%) are in top 25% (quartile Q1). [+]

05-11-2018

The patent titled “METHOD OF CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC POWER MICRONETWORKS AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING IT” has been granted

The Inventors of the patent titled “METHOD OF CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC POWER MICRONETWORKS AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING IT” have been notified that the patent is granted. This decision takes effect upon publication in the European Patent Bulletin 18/46 of 14.11.2018. [+]

30-10-2018

GECAD participates in the electric mobility days 23-24 November at ISEP

GECAD will participate in the next edition of the electric mobility days between 23-24 November. GECAD has been in this line of research for around 10 years with intensive work in the scope of simulation of electric vehicles in the electricity network and advanced integration of them by proposing intelligent algorithms. [+]

20-10-2018

New competitions will be launched following the success of WCCI2018 and PES GM 2017.

ISEP/GECAD is now preparing to launch new algorithm competitions in IEEE PES GM 2019, IEEE CEC 2019 and GECCO 2019. [+]

18-10-2018

Students from Brazil and Korea participating in GECAD projects this semester

10 Students from the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC, Brazil), 9 from Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM, Brazil), and 3 from Sungshin Woman’s University (WSU, Korea) have arrived this semester to work in GECAD projects. [+]

15-10-2018

GECAD participates today in the Infoday MSCA-H2020 session

GECAD participates in Infoday MSCA-H2020 this October 15th at University of Porto rectory building. [+]

15-10-2018

NetEffiCity Demonstrator Project successfully completed

NetEffiCity was a demonstration project that GECAD participated in the last 18 months whose overall objective was the validation and demonstration of solutions to promote energy efficiency in buildings, reducing energy consumption in periods of higher cost and optimizing the use of renewable energy resources. The creation of a sustainable, collaborative and self-sufficient energy community was one of the main goals of this project, implemented in three Portuguese municipalities: Alfândega da Fé, Penela and Vila Real. [+]

09-10-2018

DREAM-GO participates in SSCI2018 in Bengaluru, India next November

ISEP/GECAD from Polytechnic of Porto will participate in the upcoming 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2018) between 18-21 November 2018 in Bengaluru, India. [+]

25-09-2018

GECAD continues with the success in R&D projects

In the period 2013-2017 GECAD participated in 41 R&D projects, including 17 international projects (from FP7, H2020, and ITEA programmes) and 24 projects (from FCT, ANI, and namely with funding of Portugal2020 and Norte2020 Programmes). [+]

24-09-2018

Prof. Zita appointed as the new president of ISAP council

We are glad to inform that Prof. Zita Vale from ISEP has been appointed as the new president of ISAP council. [+]

15-09-2018

SAFECARE – SAFEguard of Critical heAlth infrastructure (CIP-01-2016-2017 / Nr. 787002) – kick-off at September 1st, 2018

ISEP Research Centre GECAD is a partner of SAFECARE – SAFEguard of Critical heAlth infrastructure (CIP-01-2016-2017 / Nr. 787002). SAFECARE project’s main goal is to provide solutions that will improve physical and cyber security in a seamless and cost-effective way. It will promote new technologies and novel approaches to enhance threat prevention, threat detection, incident response and mitigation of impacts. The project will also participate in increasing the compliance between security tools and European regulations about ethics and privacy for health services. [+]

20-08-2018

FUSE-IT is distinguished with ITEA Award of Excellence for Innovation 2018

FUSE-IT ITEA project (https://itea3.org/project/fuse-it.html), in which GECAD/ISEP has played several relevant roles, as technical coordinator, leader of two Work Packages and coordinator of the Portuguese Consortium (under GREEDi P2020 / ANI), is distinguished with the ITEA Award of Excellence for Innovation 2018. [+]

20-08-2018

DOMINOES participated in the “Datahubs as enablers for local energy markets” IEEE PES GM panel session

Our DOMINOES partner Empower, represented by its Development Director Jan Segerstam, has been invited to participate in a panel session titled ”Datahubs as enablers for local energy markets” organized by the AMPS Intelligent Systems technical committee in the prestigious IEEE PES General Meeting, Portland, US, early this August. [+]

15-08-2018

WCCI2018 competition in Rio de Janeiro supported by DREAM-GO

ISEP/GECAD organized an algorithm competition in July 2018 in the World Congress on Computational intelligence (WCCI 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [+]

17-07-2018

Steve Widergren from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory visits ISEP/GECAD

Steve Widergren has visited ISEP/GECAD in last June in the scope of DREAM-GO project. [+]

05-07-2018

LAPASSION@Santiago was a Success

Between April 2 and the June 8 LAPASSION@Santiago took place in Santiago (Chile). This was the first set of multidisciplinary projects for students, with 39 students, including 23 from abroad. [+]

07-06-2018

5th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2018)

Organized by Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), co-organized by ISEP, sponsored by CIETI&LEPABE, 2018 The 5th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER) will take place at Prague, Czech Republic during July 23-27, 2018 ( the 4th week of July, Monday to Friday). [+]

25-05-2018

Calls for REN Prize 2018 are open with Prof. Zita Vale part of the new jury

REN – The company behind the Portuguese energy network (gas and electricity) has launched the new edition of the REN Prize 2018 for distinguished master thesis with prizes up to 25 000 Euros. [+]

19-04-2018

Second LAPASSION Management Meeting and First LAPASSION Preparation Meeting held in GECAD-Porto and in the University of Vigo - Pontevedra

GECAD, and University of Vigo shared the organization of the two meetings of LAPASSION (Second Management Meeting, and First Preparation Meeting). The meeting took place on February 26-28 in Porto, and March 1-2 in Pontevedra, with the participation of 43 persons from the 15 partners. [+]

26-02-2018

LAPASSION Kickoff Management Meeting held in João Pessoa, Brazil

LAPASSION Kickoff Meeting was collocated with REDITEC, the big annual event of Federal Institutes of Brazil joining the around 1 thousand of participants among Rectors, Pro-Rectors, Campi Directors, and other representatives of Brazilian Federal Institutes. [+]

24-11-2017

Ministry of Education of Brazil signs a MoU with Polytechnic of Porto – LAPASSION is covered in the collaboration

Eline Nascimento, National Secretary of the Ministry of Education of Brazil, and Rosario Gambôa, President of the Polytechnic of Porto, celebrated a Memorandum of Understanding this Wednesday, November 22, in the city of Joao Pessoa, Brazil. [+]

22-11-2017

LAPASSION Project approved

LAPASSION (Latin-America Practices and Soft Skills for an Innovation Oriented Network) is a project from the program Erasmus+ within the line KA2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices – Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education (reference 585687-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). [+]

04-08-2017

TheRoute Project started

TheRoute (Tourism and Heritage Routes including Ambient Intelligence with Visitants’ Profile Adaptation and Context Awareness - project reference SAICT/023447) has started. [+]

01-07-2017

SEAS is distinguished with ITEA Award of Excellence 2017

SEAS ITEA project, in which GECAD has played one of the most relevant roles, with the leadership one Work Package, coordination of the Portuguese Consortium and accomodation one the project pilot implementations, is distinguished with the ITEA Award of Excellence 2017. [+]

07-04-2017

EKRUCAmI project finishes with success

EKRUCAmI - Europe-Korea Research on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (www.ekrucami.ipp.pt) was a project receiving funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/, REA grant agreement No 318878 (PIRSES-GA-2012-318878), and also supported by the International Research & Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (Grant number: K 2013079410). [+]

01-02-2017

4th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research (ICEER 2017)

ICEER 2017 – The 4th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research is taking place @ISEP in Porto (Portugal) from 17 to 20 July 2017. The event is being organized by CIETI & LEPABE, on behalf of SCIEI. [+]

09-03-2017

15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS'17)

Research on Agents and Multi-Agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to present and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer... [+]

22-12-2016

14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 (DCAI'17)

The 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2017 is an annual forum that will bring together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distributed computing and artificial intelligence, and their application in different areas... [+]

22-12-2016

8th International Conference on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI'17)

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a recent paradigm emerging from Artificial Intelligence (AI), where computers are used as proactive tools assisting people with their day-to-day activities, making everyone’s life more comfortable... [+]

22-12-2016

7th International Conference in Methodologies and intelligent Systems for Techhnology Enhanced Learning (MIS4TEL'17)

Education is the cornerstone of any society and it serves as one of the foundations for many of its social values and characteristics. Knowledge societies offer significant opportunities for novel ICT tools and applications, especially in the fields of education and learning. In such a context, the role of intelligent systems, rooted in artificial intelligence, has become increasingly relevant to the field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)... [+]

22-12-2016

11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB'17)

The success of Bioinformatics in recent years has been prompted by research in Molecular Biology and Molecular Medicine in several initiatives. These initiatives gave rise to an exponential increase in the volume and diversification of data, including nucleotide and protein sequences and annotations, high-throughput experimental data, biomedical literature, among many others... [+]

22-12-2016

GECAD Researchers visit Green Technology Centre in Seoul, South Korea

On the 22nd November 2016, GECAD had the opportunity to visit the Green Technology Centre (GTC) of South Korea, in Seoul... [+]

02-12-2016

ISAP 2017

The 19th Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems (ISAP), will take place in San Antonio, Texas, USA at September 17th – 21st, 2017. [+]

02-11-2016

GIIS 2016

The Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS)? will be held in Porto, Portugal, from 19-21 October 2016... [+]

24-10-2016

Forth ELECON Workshop

The forth ELECON workshop location was in Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina state, located in the South Region of Brazil. Two partners of the ELECON project are... [+]

24-10-2016

OPAL GECAD Seminar

OPAL-RT in collaboration with GECAD invites you to participate in the seminar to be organized in the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Instituto Politécnico do Porto (ISEP), April 7th 2016. [+]

10-03-2016

1st Call of the IACOBUS Program

Please be informed that the 1st call for applying to the IACOBUS Program is opened until July 30, 2014 for the academic year 2014-2015. [+]

14-07-2014

GECAD researchers in the 2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition

On the track of the current research activities developed in GECAD, Professor Zita Vale and Pedro Faria participated in the 2014 IEEE PES T&D Conference & Exposition. The 50th anniversary was celebrated this year. The conference held in Chicago, Illinois, between 14-17 April 2014. As the main IEEE conference for transmission and distribution, it integrates an exposition where manufacturers, researchers, electric companies and other actors share their products and solutions. [+]

14-07-2014

GECAD researchers in the 13th Clemson University Power Systems Conference

Professor Zita Vale and Pedro Faria participated in the 13th Clemson University Power Systems Conference held in Clemson, South Carolina, United States, between 11-14 March 2014. The conference is intended to blend educational and industrial experiences to provide insight to all involved. The theme of the 2014 conference was the "Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Power and Energy Systems". [+]

14-07-2014

Zita Vale nominated as an expert for the EU technical and political dialogue with Brazil on Smart Grids

Zita Vale nominated as an expert for the EU technical and political dialogue with Brazil on Smart Grids In June 2014 Zita Vale is going to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) of Brazil, in Brasília, to meet with the major Brazilian experts of Smart Grids. The appointment of the Director of GECAD and Professor of ISEP as an expert of the European Union was subscribed by MCTI. MCTI is aware of the scientific work developed by GECAD, which is a pioneer research center in the area of Smart Grids. [+]

04-06-2014

‘Science by Kids’ – the first Portuguese magazine on science and technology hosted by children, on SIC Kids channel

On May 5 premiered in SIC K Channel the magazine “Ciência por Miúdos” (Science by Kids), a project coordinated by the Polytechnic of Porto, with the objective of promoting science to the general public.. [+]

15-05-2014

World Search – The first App for Windows Phone with voice recognition in Portuguese

The World Search is the first App for Windows with voice recognition in Portuguese. It was created in Portugal, and it is the result of R&D project of Microsoft Portugal in the scope of QREN World Search.

The app is free and it allows search the Internet with Bing using the voice in European Portuguese. The R&D field of Microsoft Portugal ensures that this App will expand by enabling the interaction in Brazilian Portuguese and other European languages. Besides the participation of GECAD, by Professor Nuno Silva, the following companies and universities were involved: University of Aveiro, the Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon, and of the companies PT, IZONE, MAISIS, and Ponto.C.

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15-05-2014

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation supports a project sponsor for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Project MUDEI (Music, Design, Engineering for Innovation, and Internationalization) will be funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and coordinated by the Polytechnic of Porto. This project has the participation of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), and University of Salamanca (Spain). [+]

15-05-2014

Scientific Infrastructure of Smart Grids and Electricity Markets, financed by ON.2Programme, to be created at GECAD

GECAD’s most recente project called SASGER-MeC – Simulation and Analysis of Smart Grids with Renewable Energy Resources and Competitive Markets, has been approved by ON.2 Programme in the scope of the call for Support System for Scientific and Technological Infrastructures – Scientific Infrastructures (SAIECT-IEC/1/2013). [+]

02-05-2014

GECAD is once again the R&D center of IPP with more papers in the Certificates of Merit for Scientific Publication

GECAD is once again the R&D center of IPP with more papers in the Certificates of Merit for Scientific Publication, with 10 papers published in journals that are in the top 10% of rankings of their respective areas. The Certificates of Merit were awarded by IPP on the Day of the Institute, in February 25. The researchers awarded were: José Tenreiro Machado, Zita Vale, Alexandra Galhano, Isabel Praça Pereira, Hugo Morais, Bruno Canizes, Mohammad Ali Ghazvini, João Soares, Pedro Faria, Tiago Ferreira Pinto, and Tiago Miguel Sousa. The Certificated of Merit for Scientific Publication correspond to a distinction awarded by IPP to the authors who have published papers in journals that are in the top 10% of rankings of the respective area. [+]

18-03-2014

Luis Gomes wins 2013 Portugal Regional Prize and 2013 University Challenge

Luis Gomes - GECAD researcher, and Filipe Sousa – designer won for the first time the Regional Prize of Portugal, and for the second consecutive time the University Challenge. In 2012 the team won the University Challenge award of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC). [+]

18-11-2013

GECAD researchers participate in ISAP 2013

On the track of the current research activities developed in GECAD, Professor Zita Vale and João Soares participated in the Seventeenth International Conference on Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems – ISAP 2013 – that took place in Tokyo, Japan, between the 1st and 4th of July. [+]

20-09-2013

GECAD is organizing the first ELECON Workshop

GECAD is organizing the first ELECON workshop entitled “Towards Efficient European and Brazilian Electricity Markets” to be held in ISEP in September 24 and 25. [+]

17-09-2013

GECAD – the 5th R&D Unit of its Scientific Area, and the best positioned of Polytechnic of Porto in the bibliometric study of FCT

The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) presented the bibliometric study commissioned from the Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, which comprised all R&D Units and Associate Laboratories funded by FCT. [+]

14-08-2013

Polytechnic Institute of Porto Signs Agreement with South Korean Research Center

On 9 May, 2013 Prof. Carlos Ramos – Vice-President of Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP) and Prof. Hyun Yoe – Director of AITCRC (Research Center on the IT Convergence for the Agro-Food Sector) signed in Suncheon a collaboration agreement to work together in R&D activities. [+]

13-05-2013

Best Paper Award for GECAD researchers at the 2012 IT4ENERGY

The 2012 International Workshop on Information Technology for Energy Applications – IT4ENERGY2012 has been organized by Prof. Paulo Carreira (IST/INESC-ID) and Prof. Vasco Amaral (FCT/UNL), and was held on September 6th - 7th, 2012, at the Portuguese Engineering Association (Ordem dos Engenheiros), in Lisbon. The 2012 IT4ENERGY brought together experts of the sector with the objective of presenting different approaches on IT for Energy applications... [+]

18-09-2012

Two GECAD researchers receive distinction at the 17th Edition of REN Awards 2011/12

The researcher of GECAD Tiago Manuel Campelos Ferreira Pinto, Master in Computer Engineering, received the 2nd REN Award 2011/12 for his master dissertation entitled “Adaptive Learning in Agents Behaviour: a Framework for Electricity Markets Simulation”, supervised by Prof. Zita Vale and co-supervised by Prof. Fátima Rodrigues. In this work it has been developed a system which allows agents to optimize the energy offers to the market... [+]

28-08-2012

GECAD’s Project wins Poliempreende – Porto Contest

The NearTour Project, presented by a team of 5 researchers from GECAD, won the 9th Edition of Poliempreende-Porto Contest. The team lead by Ana Almeida, and also composed of the researchers Ricardo Anacleto, Nuno Luz, Lino Figueiredo and Constantino Martins, was victorious in presenting the NearTour, a company proposal which aims to sell two services in order to improve quality of tourism. With these tools it is possible to maximize the opportunities arising from technologies before the new generation of tourists from ubiquitous cities (U-Traveler). This way, they are contributing to the competitiveness of the region in a national and international market, experiencing an integrated and innovative relationship with the touristic destination... [+]

08-08-2012

Scientific paper of GECAD researchers is distinguished in the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition

In May 7th – 10th 2012 was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, the 2012 IEEE Power & Energy Society Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition. This event comprises a conference and an exhibition on equipment and applications used in power grid transmission and distribution. The highlight of GECAD participation in this conference was the selection of the work “Virtual Power Players Demand Response Programs Management Based on Locational Marginal Prices”, by Pedro Faria, Hugo Morais and Zita Vale, as an Outstanding Poster. [+]

09-07-2012

GECAD wins award of the biggest European association of wind sector (EWEA)

Two GECAD researchers associated with the project IPP-ReTEE participated in the EWEA 2012 Annual Event – the biggest European event of wind sector, held at the Bella Center, in Copenhagen, Denmark, from April 16 - 19. [+]

21-05-2012

GECAD in the limelight of the Seventeenth Edition of REN Award

GECAD researcher Tiago Manuel Campelos Ferreira Pinto received the 2nd REN Award (REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais) for his work entitled “Adaptive Learning in Agents Behaviour: A Framework for Electricity Markets Simulation”, a work supervised by Prof. Zita Vale, Director of GECAD, and co-supervised by Prof. Fátima Rodrigues. The award is worth € 6.500,00. It was also awarded an honorable mention to the researcher João André Pinto Soares for his work entitled “Modified Particle Swarm Optimization for Day-Ahead Distributed Energy Resources Scheduling Including Vehicle-to-Grid” supervised by Prof. Zita Vale and co-supervised by Dr. Hugo Morais. [+]

17-04-2012

15 Prizes for GECAD researchers

Fifteen GECAD researchers are awarded with the Certificate of Merit in Scientific Publication from IPP, a prize created to recognize authors of papers published in scientific journals from the first 10% of the categories ranking, according citation index Thomson Reuters / ISI. [+]

27-02-2012

Luiz Faria presents a research line on teaching and learning at the School of Education (ESE)

Luiz Faria – researcher at GECAD – presents the work he is developing in GECAD in a session of the Scientific Research Forum of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, which takes place at the School of Education (ESE) on February 16, 2012 at 4.30 p.m. The presentation is called "A research line in ISEP on teaching and learning".

16-02-2012

Forum for Scientific Research of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (FICIPP)

Zita Vale – Director of GECAD – has been invited to present a lecture on Raising Funding for R&Dat the opening session of the Forum for Scientific Research of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (FICIPP) held in Oporto, from 13 to 24 February 2012.

15-02-2012

Third International Conference on Security-enriched Urban and Smart Grid (SUComS)

GECAD researcher, Hoon Ko is organizing the The Third International Conference on Security-enriched Urban and Smart Grid (SUComS) that will be held in 29-31July in Oporto, Portugal. [+]

10-02-2012

Summer School on Neural Networks in Classification, Regression and Data Mining

GECAD (Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support Research Center) will collaborate once again in the organization of the Summer School on Neural Networks – NN2012 – to be held in Oporto, in July 2012. Ning Chen will represent GECAD in the Local Organizing Committee of NN2012. [+]

10-02-2012

IFSC visits GECAD

Prof. Jair Líbero Cadorin, Coordinator for the International Affairs of the IFSC Rectorate – Federal Institute of Santa Catarina, visits GECAD on December 13. [+]

12-12-2011

Visit of the Dean from U. P. Mackenzie to GECAD

On November, 15 2011 took place a visit to GECAD by the Dean of Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, – Prof. Benedito Aguiar Neto – and by Prof. Cláudia Forte responsible for interinstitutional and international cooperation UPM. [+]

12-12-2011

GECAD / IPP coordinates an integration Project on European Wind Energy Network

The North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2) approved the project IPP_ReTEE – IPP_ International Technological Networks of Wind Energy Sector. [+]

26-07-2011

GECAD/IPP coordinates an International Cooperation Project on Affective Computing

The North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2) approved the project CIPCA - International Cooperation Projects on Affective Computing. [+]

26-07-2011

IPP distinguished 5 GECAD researchers

It is with great pleasure that GECAD announces that five researchers received merit scholarship grants per exceptional scholar performance from IPP. [+]

12-07-2011

Paper of GECAD in Bioinformatics journal

António Costa and José Tenreiro Machado from GECAD and the Genetics expert Maria Quelhas, from Health National Institute, published in the prestigious Bioinformatics journal the paper titled “Histogram-Based DNA Analysis for the Visualization of Chromosome, Genome and Species Information”. [+]

03-05-2011

3 papers of GECAD in IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine

The March/April 2011 edition of IEEE Intelligent Systems, with guest editors Carlos Ramos and Chen-Ching Liu, is dedicated to the topic “AI in Power Systems and Energy Markets”, and involves 3 papers with authors from GECAD. [+]

15-04-2011

Delegation of Bosnia-Herzegovina researchers visits GECAD

A delegation of researchers from several Bosnia-Herzegovina researcers visited GECAD on January, 23, 2011.

07-04-2011

Universities of Applied Sciences Network distinguishes GECAD

Zita Vale, Director of GECAD, was invited to present GECAD R&D, being invited by UASNET – Network of Universities of Applied Sciences, in the organization Meeting held in Porto, March 1-2, 2011. [+]

07-04-2011

GECAD researchers distinguished with the Scientific Publication Merit Award

Goreti Marreiros, Ricardo Santos and Carlos Ramos were distinguished with the Scientific Publication Merit Award by the Polytechnic of Porto. This award was due to the publication of the paper “Context-Aware Emotion-Based Model for Group Decision Making” in the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine. [+]

07-04-2011

Joana Neves in a Panel about the Cooperation with Russia

Joana Neves, GECAD researcher, will have a speech on the Russia and Cosmos Day, integrated in the Russian Cultural Week to be held in ISCAP, on April, 12 2011. [+]

07-04-2011

Template para preparação de projectos para concurso FCT

Foi disponibilizado um Template para preparação de projectos para concurso FCT. [+]

07-01-2011

R&D in Polytechnic Institutes presented in the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic

Carlos Ramos, former GECAD Director and Vice-President of the Polytechnic of Porto, presents the results of the Science in Portugal Report relative to the Polytechnic System part. [+]

17-12-2010

GECAD in a 8M€ project of the Health Cluster

AAL4ALL (Ambient Assisted Living for All) project was approved in the aims of the Portuguese Health Cluster. It envisages the creation of an industrial ecosystem for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) products and services, supported in the concept of specific patterns. [+]

11-11-2010

Technical meeting about project Word Search

Realizou-se no dia 2010-10-22 nas instalações do GECAD no ISEP uma reunião técnica do projecto World Searchcom membros da Maisis Lda. e membros do GECAD-ISEP (2 dos 8 membros do consórcio que compõem o projecto). [+]

29-10-2010

Technical meeting about project OOBIAN

Realizou-se no dia 2010-10-22 nas instalações do GECAD no ISEP uma reunião técnica do projecto OOBIANentre membros da Maisis Lda. e membros do GECAD-ISEP. [+]

29-10-2010

Project OOBIAN approved

O projecto OOBIAN proposto pela empresa Maisis Lda. foi recentemente aprovado pelo QREN. O projecto OOBIAN visa aplicar ontologias expressivamente ricas a sistemas de elevado desempenho e escalabilidade. [+]

29-10-2010

GECAD project awarded with a merit mention in the ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal Venture Competition

The ISCTE-IUL MIT-Portugal Venture Competition committee assigned a merit mention to AIRES - “Advanced Intelligence Risk Evaluation System” – for the innovation character and the potential to create of value from a technological base. [+]

06-10-2010

ADSYS project funded by FCT

ADSyS - Adaptive Decision Support System for Interactive Scheduling with MetaCognition and User Modelling Experience (PTDC/EME-GIN/109956/2009) project was funded by FCT. The project is coordinated by Ana Madureira and the budget is € 90.000,00. [+]

01-09-2010

ADAPT project funded by FCT

ADAPT - Adaptive Learning Management System (PTDC/CPE-CED/115175/2009) project has been funded by FCT. This project is coordinated by Viriato Marques and the budget is € 144.000,00. [+]

01-09-2010

MIT selects GECAD project

AIRES system – “Advanced Intelligence Risk Evaluation System” the main result of GECAD project IFRA “Improving Financial Risk Analysis with advanced Data-Mining tools - PTDC/70168” was selected as one of the 5 semi-finalists of the ISCTE-IUL – MIT Portugal - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative (IEI) competition in the area of Information Technology and Web (http://mitportugal-iei.org/index.php/us/component/content/article/1/40-winners). [+]

27-08-2010

Equipa do GECAD ganha Poliempreende 2010 no IPP

A equipa formada pelos investigadores do GECAD António Meireles e Carlos Filipe Freitas, também docente no Departamento de Engenharia Informática, saiu vencedora da edição de 2010 do Poliempreende no IPP. [+]

06-08-2010

Número Especial da revista IEEE Intelligent Systems

O Doutor Carlos Ramos está a coordenar mais um número especial da revista IEEE Intelligent Systems, desta vez dedicado ao tema “Artificial Intelligence in Power Systems and Energy Markets”. [+]

15-07-2010

Project World Search approved

The project World Search, led by Microsoft Portugal in partnership with ISEP, was recently approved by QREN. The project coordination in ISEP is the responsibility of Dr. Nuno Silva. [+]

12-05-2010

GECAD organizes the "International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Systems" (November 18-19)

This symposium aims to bring together experts from the field of Computational Intelligence to discuss on the state-of-the-art and to present new research findings and perspectives of future developments with respect to the symposium themes. [+]

14-09-2009

Project EVACLUE funded by FCT

EVACLUE - Evidence Accumulation in Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning: a Cluster Ensemble Approach (PTDC/EIA-CCO/103230/2008) project was funded in 88772,00 € by FCT. Ana Fred from the Institute of Telecommunications is the project leader, being Fátima Rodrigues and Fernando Duarte the leaders of GECAD group in the project. [+]

31-08-2009

Project ESHOP funded by FCT

O projecto ESHOP - Effective Solutions for Hard Optimization Problems (PTDC/EGE-GES/104482/2008) foi aprovado pela FCT. Esse projecto é coordenado por Dorabela Gamboa e envolve o orçamento de 82.616,00 €. [+]

31-08-2009

Project GIGADESSEA funded by FCT

GIGADESSEA – Group Idea Generation, Argumentation, and Decision Support considering Social and Emotional Aspects (PTDC/EGE-GES/108524/2008) project was funded in 60.105,00 € by FCT. Goreti Marreiros is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

Project AEMOS funded by FCT

AEMOS - Agent_Based Electronic Market With Ontology-Services (PTDC/EIA-EIA/104752/2008) project was funded in 108.360,00 € by FCT. Maria João Viamonte is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

Project PC-MAT funded by FCT

PC-MAT - Mathematics Collaborative Learning Platform (PTDC/CPE-CED/108339/2008) project was funded in 100.000,00 € by FCT. Luiz Faria is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

Project FIGURE funded by FCT

FIGURE – Flexible and Intelligent Grids for Intensive Use of Renewable Energy Sources (PTDC/SEN-ENR/099844/2008) project was funded in 148.000,00 € by FCT. Zita Vale is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

Project ID-MAP funded by FCT

ID-MAP - Intelligent Decision Support for Electricity Market Players (PTDC/EEA-EEL/099832/2008) project was funded in 137.172,00 € by FCT. Zita Vale is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

Project CITOPSY funded by FCT

CITOPSY - Cyber-Ambient Intelligent Training of Operators in Power Systems Control Centres (PTDC/EEA-EEL/099575/2008) project was funded in 105.408,00 € by FCT. Carlos Ramos is the project leader. [+]

31-08-2009

GECAD has 8 new R&D projects

Eight research projects from GECAD were funded by FCT in the recent call for projects in all scientific areas. [+]

31-08-2009

Cecília Reis and José Tenreiro Machado won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computers

The paper Circuit Synthesis through Combination of Evolutionary and Swarm Algorithms, from GECAD researchers Cecília Reis and José Tenreiro Machado, was distinguished with the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computers held in Rhodes (Greece) in July 2009.

06-08-2009

E-Learning 3.0 project supported by QREN

The project e-Learning 3.0 envisages the creation of a new business area using current technologies like LMS and CMS platforms, other for training and education, contents and knowledge management. These technologies will be integrated with other like mobile devices, and digital TV. [+]

23-07-2009

GECAD in YouTube

GECAD has a video in Youtube. It was produced by Joaquim Teixeira, Rui Eusébio, and Flávio Oliveira and can be seen in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkHfKUyfPIY

21-07-2009

Real-World Applications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Carlos Ramos was the guest editor of a special issue of the “IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies”, dedicated to the topic of “Real World Applications of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS)”. [+]

21-07-2009

Sérgio Ramos won a prize

The MSc Thesis of Sérgio Ramos was honoured in the aims of the prestigious REN Prize. [+]

21-07-2009

Sair+ a new spin-off

After the success of FlyMaster Aviation SA, GECAD launches another spin-off. Sair+ is chaired by GECAD researchers Armando Vieira. [+]

21-07-2009

Four first MSc Thesis on Informatics – Knowledge & Decision Technologies

The 4 first MSc Thesis Examinations on Informatics – Knowledge & Decision Technologies area will take place at ISEP/IPP. [+]

27-11-2008

Nuno Silva’s work in the media

Nuno Silva’s work on Semantic Web receved a large attention from the media. [+]

27-11-2008

GECAD in first position in everything

GECAD was ranked in the first position in all 5 criteria for evaluating the research at ISEP/IPP. [+]

27-11-2008

Goreti Marreiros highlighted in Woman&Carreer section of Máxima magazine

GECAD researcher Goreti Marreiros was selected to appear in the Woman&Carreer section of Maxima magazine, October issue. [+]

10-09-2008

Filipe Azevedo’s work widely referred in the press

The work of GECAD researcher Filipe Azevedo concerning the Electricity Price forecast in the Markets received lots of attention in our press. [+]

10-09-2008

Hot water at low cost

Students from the BSc program on Electrical Engineering – Power Systems from ISEP built low cost systems to obtain hot water from low cost systems. [+]

10-07-2008

Smart Container team classified in the 4th place in the Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition World Finals

Smart Container team, supervised by GECAD researcher João Barroso, was ranked in the 4th place in the MicroSoft’s Imagine Cup competition World finals held in Paris, July 3 to 8. [+]

10-07-2008

Armando Vieira’ interview to the Vida Económica

In the Vida Económca edition of June 13, there is a 1-page interview with Armando Vieira. [+]

04-07-2008

Andrew Ortony visit published in the press

Andrew Ortony visit to GECAD deserved the highlights of several Portuguese media press. [+]

04-07-2008

GECAD opens 14 grants for students’ research integration

GECAD opened 14 grants for students’ research integration. [+]

04-07-2008

Andrew Ortony visits GECAD

Andrew Ortony, Professor of the Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois) visited GECAD last June, 12, to see the work developed by Goreti Marreiros. [+]

04-07-2008

João Barroso supervised the winner team of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Software National Contest, software design category

GECAD researcher João Barroso was the mentor and supervisor of the Smart Containers team, winner of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Software National Contest, in the software design category. [+]

04-06-2008

Owen Gilson and Nuno Silva won the Best Paper Award from Eurographics/IEEE EuroVis’2008

GECAD researcher Nuno Silva, and Owen Gilson, that worked in GECAD, won the Best Paper Award from Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis'08) held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [+]

04-06-2008

Filipe Azevedo won PhD Competition Prize from EEM’2008

GECAD researcher Filipe Azevedo, won the “PhD Competition Prize” from the “EEM 08 - 5th International Conference on the European Electricity Market”, held in Lisbon, Portugal. [+]

04-06-2008

Visit of the President of Republic to GECAD projects announced in several newspapers, TVs, and radios

The visit of the Portuguese President of Republic to ISEP, observing some GECAD on-going projects, took the attention of several journals (Expresso, Público, Jornal de Notícias, Diário de Notícias, Primeiro de Janeiro), TVs (RTP, SIC, TVI) and radios (Antena 1). [+]

27-05-2008

Carlos Ramos invited by the President of the Republic

Carlos Ramos, Director of GECAD, was invited by the Portuguese President of the Republic for a lunch with more than 30 participants, including the directors of R&D centres and companies in the area of Information and Communications Technologies. See photo at http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=26&idi=16297

27-05-2008

GECAD is a Good Example according to the Portuguese President of the Republic

In the Portuguese Presidency of Republic site, in http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=85&idi=16200&idt=29, GECAD was considered as one of the Good Examples in the area of Information and Communications Technologies. [+]

27-05-2008

Owen Gilson presents His work at ISEP

Owen Gilson from the Swansea University (United Kingdom) hás made a presentation titled "From Web Data to Visualization via Ontology Mapping" on May, 13, in the aims of the course of Ontologies and Semantic Web of the Informatics Engineering Master of ISEP. Owen Gilson has been two other times at GECAD with the supervision of Nuno Silva.

16-05-2008

Ning Chen hired by GECAD

Ning Chen is the third of the 3 post-Doc researchers hired by GECAD in the aims of the 1000 post-Doc initiative for the Portuguese R&D units. She is integrated in the Knowledge&Learning Technologies group.

16-05-2008

GECAD with 46 PhD researchers

With the integration of new PhD members and the conclusion of several PhD Thesis, GECAD has now 46 PhD researchers, 4 of them are “agregados” (the top career maturity proof in Portugal).

16-05-2008

GreenLight Award from European Comission for the GECAD building

As a result of a project coordinated by a GECAD researcher, the GECAD building received the GreenLight certification in 2007 and was selected to receive the GreenLight Award from European Comission, a prestigious prize for the energy efficiency. Previous Portuguese winners of this prize were Futebol Clube do Porto, with the Dragão Stadium illumination project, EDP, and Vodafone.

16-05-2008

Visit of the President of the Republic to ISEP/IPP to see GECAD projects

The President of the Repúblic of Portugal, Professor Aníbal Cavaco e Silva, will visit ISEP/IPP at May, 20, in the aims of the Science Tour dedicated to the Information & Communications Technologies. [+]

16-05-2008

Paragliding World Record with the help of GECAD Spin-off product

The new paragliding distance world record, 461,8 Km, was obtainend by a team of the Brazilian Marcelo Prieto, using the FlyMaster Flight Assistant from FlyMaster Avionics SA, a spin-off of GECAD.

27-02-2008

ISSIW Project approved by FCT

ISSIW - Intelligence for a Sustainable, Safe, and Inclusive World is a project envisaging the use of Intelligent Systems to deal with the great challenges for the Society in the 21st century. [+]

27-02-2008

Hoon Ko hired by GECAD

Hoon Ko is the second of the 3 post-Doc researchers hired by GECAD in the aims of the 1000 post-Doc initiative for the Portuguese R&D units. He is integrated in the Ambient Intelligence & Decision Support group.

27-02-2008

GECAD with 40 PhD researchers

Recently, Filipe Azevedo, Teresa Nogueira and Goreti Marreiros got their PhD degrees. GECAD has now 40 PhD researchers. It is already considered the Portuguese R&D institution growing more on the last years. At the end of 2003 GECAD had about 10 PhD researchers, now GECAD has four times more, just in 4 years!

28-01-2008

Gustavo Santos accepted in Carnegie Mellon University

Gustavo Santos has been accepted in Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to take part in the CMU-Portugal dual degree doctoral program. [+]

07-12-2007

FCT Evaluation Panel visited GECAD

On November 21st the FCT Evaluation Panel visited GECAD. [+]

23-11-2007

Hussein Khodr hired by GECAD

Hussen Khodr is the first of the 3 post-Doc researchers hired by GECAD in the aims of the 1000 post-Doc initiative for the Portuguese R&D units. He is integrated in the Intelligent Energy Systems group.

23-11-2007

35 PhD researchers in GECAD

With the PhDs of Isabel Jesus, Ricardo Puga, António Silva, Judite Ferreira and Cecília Reis, GECAD hás now 35 PhD members. 45 is the estimated number of GECAD PhD members for the 2008 first semester.

24-10-2007

SmartVision Project approved

And there is another! The GECAD group in UTAD is involved in the consortium of project SmartVision - active vision for the blind (PTDC/EIA/73633/2006) approved by FCT in the area of Informatics. [+]

24-10-2007

8 new projects approved

The new tree projects recently approved in the area of Informatics lead to a total amount of 8 projects approved and involving GECAD in the last 2006 Call for Projects of FCT. They represent a total budget close to 800000,00 €, from which 550000,00 € for GECAD.

20-08-2007

Project Coalesce approved

The project Coalesce - Collaboration-based Information and Recommendation Retrieval Systems (PTDC/EIA/74417/2006) was approved by FCT. This Project is coordinated by Nuno Silva and the budget is 117.984,00 €.

20-08-2007

Project TOURS PLAN approved

The project TOURS PLAN - TOURS PLANning Support system (PTDC/EIA/74310/2006) was approved by FCT. This Project is coordinated by Ana Almeida and the budget is 95.000,00 €. CENTRIA/UNL is also partner of this project.

20-08-2007

Project COPSRO approved

The project COPSRO - Computational Approach to Ontology Profiling of Scientific Research Organisations (PTDC/EIA/69988/2006) was approved by FCT. This Project is coordinated by Susana Nascimento from CENTRIA/UNL, and involves GECAD, by means of Fátima Rodrigues. The total budget is 146837,00 €, 40924,00 € for GECAD.

20-08-2007

Project IFRA approved

The project IFRA - Improving Financial Risk Analysis with advanced Data-Mining tools (PTDC/GES/70168/2006), coordinated by João Neves from CISEF/ISEG/UTL was approved by FCT. This Project involves also GECAD, University of Coimbra and University of Minho. The GECAD part is coordinated by Armando Vieira.

20-08-2007

Diego Morais returns to Brazil

Diego Morais has finished in August his 1-year stay at GECAD for the development of his PhD work on Electrical Equipment Diagnosis using Computational Intelligence techniques and Agents. Now he will finish his PhD work at the Santa Catarina Federal University, in Brazil.

20-08-2007

FLYMASTER in the TV

On August 13, in a special RTP1 TV program about the Portugal Cycling Tour, crossing that day São João da Madeira, it was presented the FlyMaster project. Notice that this project was in the origin of a GECAD spin-off, FlyMaster Avionics S.A., commercializing an innovative product for free-flight pilots.

20-08-2007

SANSKI in the newspaper JN magazine

On August 5, in the Sunday edition of the Jornal de Notícias newspaper, project SANSKI was described in a 3-page new where João Rocha and Nuno Silva were interviewed.

20-08-2007

Owen Gilson returns to Scotland

Owen Gilson, from Swansea University (UK), developed part of his PhD in GECAD. The two months fellowship (May/July 2007) is the follow up of his previous stay in GECAD (January/July 2006). [+]

20-08-2007

ViP-DiGEM Project approved

ViP-DiGEM project (PTDC/ENR/72889/2006 - VIrtual power Producers and DIstributed Generation trading in Energy Markets) was approved with the funding of € 120000,00. This Project is coordinated by Zita Vale, involving GECAD/ISEP and ISEL. [+]

25-06-2007

FLYMASTER news in RTP1 Television

Using http://multimedia.rtp.pt/index.php?vid=1 it is possible to see a RTP1 new, exhibited on “Jornal da Tarde” 21st June, about FLYMASTER, a Free Flight Pilot Navigation Assintant developed in a GECAD R&D Project and originating a Spin-off, FlyMaster Avionics S.A.

25-06-2007

Informal Meeting on Semantic Web involved about 50 researchers

The Second Informal Meeting on Artificial Intelligence (TeIA) from the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA) were organized by GECAD and the Department of Informatics (DEI) of ISEP, have being involved in the initiative Wednesday Afternoons on DEI (QTDEI), last June 20. Semantic Web was the selected topic. [+]

25-06-2007

PSiS Project approved

PSiS project (PTDC/TRA/72152/2006 - Personalized Sightseing Planning System) was approved with the funding of € 99312,00. This project is coordinated by Ana Almeida. [+]

25-06-2007

GECAD with 33 PhD researchers

After the validation phase of PhD researchers in R&D unities, GECAD has 33 PhD members.

22-06-2007

RiMaCEM Project approved

RiMaCEM project (PTDC/EEA-ENE/69102/2006 - Risk Management in Competitive Electricity Markets Considering Price Forecasting and Technical Constraints) was approved with the funding of € 80000,00. This project is coordinated by Zita Vale. [+]

22-06-2007

Innovation and Creativity Prize for GECAD

The Innovation and Creativity ANIMEE Prize, with the main support of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, was awarded to Nuno Gomes, researcher of GECAD. [+]

16-05-2007

1000 new PhD researchers to hire - GECAD has 3

In the sequence of the previous selection of R&D scientific institutions for hiring new PhD researchers (known as the initiative to hire 1000 PhD researchers), GECAD will receive 3 new PhD researchers (75% of the places assigned to ISEP and to all Polytechnic system in Portugal).

24-04-2007

GECAD in the Portugal – Fraunhofer Collaboration

The Memorandum of Understanding between the representants of the Fraunhofer Institutes of Germany (Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft) and the Portuguese Government was signed on last April 18th. GECAD is referred as one of the Portuguese R&D centers with more scientific competence in the areas to be covered by the Fraunhofer Institute to be created in Portugal. [+]

24-04-2007

GECAD in the Portugal – CMU Collaboration

GECAD is now involved in the Portugal - Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) collaboration in the area of Public Policies for Energy Grids. In the aims of this collaboration, Prof. Marija Ilic from CMU was visiting GECAD on April 18th, where she observed some on-going GECAD R&D projects in the area of Intelligent Energy Systems.

24-04-2007

GECAD's Web Site has a new version for mobile devices

It is now online the GECAD's Web Site version for mobile devices. [+]

27-03-2007

Aprovado projecto AutoDynAgents

Foi aprovado o projecto AutoDynAgents (PTDC/EME-GIN/66848/2006 - Autonomic Agents with Self-Managing Capabilities for Dynamic Scheduling Support in a Cooperative Manufacturing System) com o financiamento de € 80000,00. Este projecto é coordenado por Ana Madureira e além do GECAD envolve também o CENTRIA. [+]

15-02-2007

GECAD supported 4 new MSc programs in the Polytechnic system

GECAD supported scientifically 4 in 16 MSc programs proposed by IPP (Polytechnic of Porto). [+]

07-02-2007

José Marinho doutora-se com Tese sobre Sistemas Inteligentes de Apoio à Decisão com capacidades de Justificação de Soluções e Identificação da Intenção do Utilizador

Decorreu no dia 6 de Dezembro de 2006 o doutoramento de José Avelino Marinho, que teve lugar na Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. A Tese é intitulada “Sistemas Inteligentes de Apoio à Decisão com capacidades de Justificação de Soluções e Identificação da Intenção do Utilizador”. Com mais este doutoramento o GECAD termina 2006 com 27 doutorados.

31-12-2006

GECAD reequipment

GECAD used financial support from FCT and IPP to the reequipment of their Laboratories. [+]

31-12-2006

GECAD has a new building floor

GECAD will have new instalations in January 2007. They will be settled in the top floor of building I of ISEP. Five laboratories with 70m2 each and another room for the direction will be installed. [+]

31-12-2006

Election of João Rocha as President of ISEP

João Rocha, researcher of GECAD, was elected as President of ISEP. The winner candidate, List A, involves the vice-presidents José Carlos Oliveira and Joana Sampaio. They received 214 votes (about 66%) against 112 of List B. The election was for the period 2007-2009.

31-12-2006

Goreti Marreiros recebe prémio de mérito do IIASSRC

Goreti Marreiros recebeu o prémio de mérito do International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics pelo trabalho desenvolvido e pela apresentação que efectuou na Conferência organizada pelo IIASSRC.

13-10-2006

Diego Morais desenvolve parte do Doutoramento no GECAD

Diego Morais, investigador da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, encontra-se a desenvolver parte do seu trabalho de Doutoramento no GECAD, onde irá permanecer durante 1 ano. O trabalho em desenvolvimento está relacionado com a utilização de Sistemas Multi-Agente para o diagnóstico de avarias em Transformadores.

13-10-2006

Innovation Agency supports project PFA: Fly Master – Personal Flight Assistant

Inovation Agency (AdI) has approved and supported the project PFA: Fly Master – Personal Flight Assistant, proposed by Nuno Gomes. This project is related with the Neotec Initiative promoted by UMIC – Knowledge Society. [+]

04-09-2006

AAAI selected “AI–50Years” for the AI History

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.aaai.org/) is the main AI organization worldwide. In AAAI site the AI Topics (http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/welcome.html) was created for helping students, professors, journalists, and all people interested in know what AI scientists are doing. The topic “History” (http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/history.html) is one of the most consulted. In this topic it was placed a reference to the following article: How Portugal Celebrated AI's 50th Anniversary. By Carlos Ramos. IEEE Intelligent Systems 21(4): July/August 2006, 86-88.

04-09-2006

Paper about the Exhibition “Artificial Intelligence– 50 Years” published in the main AI Magazine worldwide

Carlos Ramos published an article in the IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine (vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 86-88, Jul/Aug, 2006) titled "How Portugal Celebrated AI's 50th Anniversary" referring the AI Hystory in Portugal, the AI 50th Anniversary Celebration Day organized in ISEP, the Exhibition “Artificial Intelligence – 50 Years”, and the Future of AI in Portugal.

04-09-2006

COGNOMA Associated Laboratory Proposal involves CENTRIA and GECAD

Considering the scientific policy of the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and Ministery (MCTES) for the network operation of the Portuguese scientific community, and taking into account the oportunity to apply for new Associated Laboratories, GECAD accepted the invitation of Professor Luís Moniz Pereira to join CENTRIA (Artificial Intelligence Center of the New University of Lisbon) in a proposal of Associated Laboratory involving both centers. This new Associated Laboratory, named COGNOMA (Cognition in Man and Machine), was formalized in July, 21st 2006.

04-09-2006

Dia Comemorativo dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial atrai 130 pessoas ao ISEP

No dia 31 de Maio de 2006 foi organizado pelo GECAD o Dia Comemorativo dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial. [+]

14-06-2006

Homenagem aos Professores Luís Moniz Pereira e Helder Coelho na sequência das comemorações dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial

Luís Moniz Pereira, Professor Catedrático da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, foi homenageado na sequência do Dia Comemorativo dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial, realizado esta semana no Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. Refira-se que Luís Moniz Pereira recebeu recentemente o Doutoramento Honoris Causa pela Universidade Técnica de Dresden na Alemanha. A placa oferecida, de elevado valor simbólico, refere o texto “Homenagem ao Professor Luís Moniz Pereira, fundador da área científica da Inteligência Artificial em Portugal”. Também Helder Coelho, Professor Catedrático da Faculdade de Ciências, foi homenageado com uma placa com o seguinte texto “Homenagem ao Professor Helder Coelho, pelo seu contributo ímpar na divulgação da Inteligência Artificial em Portugal”.

14-06-2006

Dia Comemorativo dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial decorrerá no ISEP a 31 de Maio de 2006

A participação nas sessões do “Dia Comemorativo dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial” é livre, devendo apenas ser enviado um email de confirmação de presença, dirigido a Carlos Ramos ao dia 26 de Maio. O convite à participação é também dirigido aos alunos. [+]

23-05-2006

ICKEDS’2008 será no Algarve

Após a organização do ICKEDS’2006 – Second International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support que decorreu em Lisboa entre 9 e 11 de Maio de 2006, com a apresentação de 52 comunicações, a terceira edição do evento (ICKEDS’2008) foi agendada para o Algarve, em Maio de 2008.

23-05-2006

Exposição Comemorativa dos 50 Anos da Inteligência Artificial será realizada no ISEP

De modo a comemorar os 50 anos da Inteligência Artificial será realizada uma exposição no ISEP sobre o tema, numa iniciativa que será organizada cientificamente pelo GECAD. Essa exposição decorrerá entre os finais de Maio e Outubro do presente ano, tendo lugar na Sala do Museu do ISEP. [+]

31-01-2006

Abertura de candidaturas a Bolsas de Investigação

Está aberto o concurso para candidaturas a várias Bolsas de Investigação no âmbito do GECAD e de alguns projectos em curso. [+]

06-01-2006

Factores de Impacto de 2004 das revistas científicas referidas no ISI Web of Knowledge

Os factores de impacto de 2004 das revistas científicas podem ser consultados na ISI Web of Knowledge http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/jcr?Init=Yes&SID=Z29DaMJp1IbI6bhiK3l . Nesse site podem aceder aos factores de impacto das revistas científicas por categoria temática (por exemplo COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE). O GECAD tem definido como uma das suas prioridades a publicação em revistas científicas citadas na lista do ISI.

24-10-2005

Sessão de Trabalho sobre o o 7º Programa Quadro

No próximo dia 2 de Novembro de 2005 irá decorrer nas instalações do INETI no Fórum Tecnológico Lispolis, em Lisboa, uma Sessão de Trabalho sobre o 7º Programa Quadro de Investigação, Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Demonstração da Comunidade Europeia (http://www.cordis.lu/fp7/), onde estará presente o Senhor Ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Professor Mariano Gago. Carlos Ramos foi convidado a estar presente nessa Sessão de Trabalho, com vista a ajudar a definir os aspectos prioritários na área temática das Tecnologias da Sociedade de Informação.

24-10-2005

Cerca de uma centena de publicações dos investigadores do GECAD em 2004

Durante 2004, os investigadores do GECAD efectuaram 94 publicações. Nestas, encontram-se 2 livros, 3 Teses de Doutoramento e 1 de Mestrado, 6 publicações/capítulos em livros, 24 publicações em revistas científicas e 58 publicações em Actas de Conferências.

14-09-2005

GECAD terá novas instalações

O GECAD terá em breve novas instalações cuja construção arrancará em breve. Nessas novas instalações o GECAD irá dispor de mais espaço, o que será benéfico para um ainda maior sucesso da I&D em curso no GECAD.

13-09-2005

Sucesso do GECAD nas candidaturas a projectos da FCT

O GECAD está envolvido em 7 novos projectos de I&D aprovados pela FCT e relativos ao concurso de 2004. [+]

13-09-2005

ICKEDS’2006 é em Maio em Lisboa

A segunda edição do ICKEDS – International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support decorrerá entre 9 e 12 de Maio de 2006, em Lisboa. Os deadlines para submissão de resumos estendidos e de artigos correspondem aos dias 11 de Novembro e 9 de Dezembro de 2005 respectivamente. Mais informações podem ser obtidas em /ICKEDS06.

13-09-2005

GECAD Candidata-se a Laboratório Associado

O GECAD foi a única unidade do Ensino Superior Politécnico que concorreu a Laboratório Associado, o nível de excelência existente na FCT. A candidatura foi apresentada em Outubro de 2004, aguardando-se os resultados da avaliação. O GECAD propôs-se na área prioritária de Energia e Transportes. Se for aprovado o GECAD passará a ser também o primeiro Laboratório Associado predominantemente ligado à área de Inteligência Artificial e Sistemas Inteligentes.

13-09-2005

GECAD ultrapassa os 20 doutores

Com os doutoramentos recentes dos investigadores Maria João Viamonte, Nuno Silva, Isabel Praça, Ramiro Barbosa, Nuno Malheiro, Lino Figueiredo, Manuel Silva e Nuno Gomes, o GECAD atinge o número de 21 doutorados. As previsões apontam para que em inícios de 2007 o GECAD ultrapasse os 30 doutorados. O GECAD é a unidade financiada pela FCT com mais doutores de entre as do Ensino Superior Politécnico.

13-09-2005

Grupo de Reflexão sobre Sistemas Estruturais Inteligentes reúne-se em Lisboa

Os Sistemas Estruturais Inteligentes são um tema emergente e de elevada prioridade em termos europeus e mundiais. Com vista a dinamizar as áreas onde Portugal obteve excelência em termos internacionais, quer em termos científicos e tecnológicos quer em termos económicos, irá realizar-se em Lisboa, no dia 29 de Setembro de 2005, uma Reunião Nacional de Reflexão que visa apresentar uma proposta de Plano de Acção em Sistemas Estruturais Inteligentes. Essa reunião contará com a presença de Carlos Ramos e de mais alguns especialistas académicos e empresariais que irão sugerir os instrumentos de financiamento, prioridades temáticas e processos de avaliação e selecção.

09-09-2005

GECAD faz apresentações para alunos de Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Engenharia Informática

Na Semana de Engenharia Técnica do ISEP, organizada pela Associação de Estudantes do ISEP, o GECAD fará apresentações para os alunos de Engenharia Electrotécnica. Para o curso de Electrónica e Computadores a apresentação terá lugar na manhã do dia 18 de Outubro de 2005 enquanto que para os alunos de Sistemas Eléctricos de Energia a apresentação será na tarde do dia 20 de Outubro de 2005. Para os alunos de Engenharia Informática a apresentação decorrerá no âmbito das comemorações do 20º Aniversário do Departamento de Engenharia Informática.

09-09-2005

Nuno Gomes doutora-se com Tese sobre Escalonamento da Manutenção em Sistemas Eléctricos de Energia com tecnologias de restrições

Decorre no dia 16 de Setembro de 2005, a partir das 10:00, o doutoramento de Nuno Gomes, que terá lugar na Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. A Tese é intitulada “Escalonamento Inteligente de Tarefas de Manutenção em Sistemas Eléctricos de Energia”.

09-09-2005

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