Objectives
The Computer Science and Technologies (CST) R&D line is promoted by researchers of the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho. It also includes researchers from several Polytechnic Institutes. In cooperation with the Department, researchers are also involved with several post-graduation programs, namely the Master in Informatics Engineering, the Master in Law and Informatics, and the Doctoral programs in Informatics and in Biomedical Engineering.
The research activities cover a wide range of fundamental and applied research topics related to computer science and technology. The strategic vision of the CST R&D line focuses in advanced computing technologies and applications. Indeed, the research relies on a set of core scientific areas that provide advanced computing technologies as a means to contribute to the resolution of complex problems in many areas of knowledge and to address important societal challenges. There are four key scientific areas providing computing technologies:
1 – Artificial Intelligence,
2 – High Performance Computing,
3 – Language Processing, and
4 – Computer Graphics.
This strategic vision lays upon several successful cases of applied computing research efforts, crossing these computing related scientific areas with several other domains of knowledge spanning most of the scientific and technological areas. These efforts are mainly visible within the Biomedical Informatics arena, with important efforts in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics research. There are also other fruitful collaborations in Computational Sciences and Engineering in Computational Linguistics, in The Law, in Civil Protection, in Digital Preservation and Digital Libraries, among others. These lines of research are supported by interdisciplinary teams involving CST members, working closely with researchers from several other research units from the University of Minho, but also from other national and international institutions. In the period of 2015-2020, CST R&D line will be formally organized into several research groups to focus the research efforts into specific strategic topics of advanced computing technologies and applications: Intelligent Systems, High Performance Graphics, Language Processing, and Biomedical Informatics.
Main Achievements
The period of 2008 to 2012 has been very fertile in terms of research activities and measurable results.
The following list of achievements illustrate the success of the researchers of the CST R&D Line during the period under assessment:
– It has been possible to attract a significant amount of competitive funding to support the research activities, totaling more than 1,2 MEUR, with more than 190 KEUR from non-FCT sources such as European Union and other competitive programs;
– the researchers have been involved in a significant number of research projects, some of them in collaboration with other institutions from Portugal and abroad;
– the researchers published more than 230 indexed papers (ISI and/or SCUPOS), in journals, books and conference proceedings, with an average ratio of more than 3 indexed papers/integrated researcher/year; a significant number of these publications have been co-authored by researchers from other international and national research teams, illustrating the level of cooperation between the researchers and other research groups;
– many of the integrated members have been invited to review papers submitted to top-level international journals (IEEE, Springer, …), illustrating the recognition from the work being done;
– many of the members have been involved in the organization of many international conferences and other similar events (more than 10); they have also participated in a huge number of Technical Program Committees or Scientific Committees of major international conferences; There has been also a significant involvement in editorial activities;
– members of the CST R&D line have supported several doctoral programs, namely the doctoral program in Informatics and the doctoral program in Biomedical Engineering.
CST Coordinator: Paulo Jorge Freitas de Oliveira Novais
CST Links:
Recent CST Publications:
- A Case Base Approach to Cardiovascular Diseases using Chest X-ray Image Analysis
Faria, R.; Alves, V.; Ferraz, F.; Neves, J.; Vicente, H.
Icaart: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Vol 2, 2017
- Tackling variability: A multicenter study to provide a gold-standard network approach for frontotemporal dementia
Sede\~no, L.; Piguet, O.; Abrevaya, S.; Desmaras, H.; Garc\'ia-Cordero, I.; Baez&am
Human Brain Mapping, 2017
- Erratum to: Processing Time Reduction: an Application in Living Human High-Resolution Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data (Journal of Medical Systems, (2016), 40, 11&co
Lori, N.F.; Iba\~nez, A.; Lavrador, R.; Fonseca, L.; Santos, C.; Travasso,
Journal of Medical Systems, 2017
- Automatizing ontology population to drive the navigation on Virtual Learning Spaces
Araujo, C.; Henriques, P.R.; Martini, R.G.
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI, 2017
- Characterize a human-robot interaction: Robot personal assistance
Dur\~aes, D.; Bajo, J.; Novais, P.
Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 2018
- Representing decision-makers using styles of behavior: An approach designed for group decision support systems
Carneiro, J.; Saraiva, P.; Martinho, D.; Marreiros, G.; Novais, P.
Cognitive Systems Research, 2018
- Annotated documents and expanded CIDOC-CRM ontology in the automatic construction of a virtual museum
Ara\'ujo, C.; Martini, R.G.; Henriques, P.R.; Almeida, J.J.
Studies in Computational Intelligence, 2018
- Program analysis for clustering programmers' profile
Novais, D.J.F.; Pereira, M.J.V.; Henriques, P.R.
Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2017, 2017
- RODA-in: A generic tool for the mass creation of submission information packages
Ramalho, J.C.; Pereira, A.; Ferreira, M.; Faria, L.
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI, 2017
- GParticles: A flexible GPU-based particle library
Dinis, T.; Fernandes, A.R.
2016 23 Encontro Portugues de Computacao Grafica e Interacao, EPCGI 2016, 2017
- Kidney care—a personal assistant assessment
Martins, B.; Rei, J.; Braga, M.; Abelha, A.; Vicente, H.; Neves, J.; Neves&
Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 2018
- Applying attribute grammars to teach linguistic rules
Barros, P.A.; Pereira, M.J.V.; Henriques, P.R.
OpenAccess Series in Informatics, 2017
- Automatic atlas-based segmentation of brain white matter in neonates at risk for neurodevelopmental disorders
Fonseca, L.; van Pul, C.; Lori, N.; van den Boom, R.; Andriessen, P.; Buijs, J.&
Mathematics and Visualization, 2017
- Visualization of ontology evolution using ontodi graph
Lara, A.; Henriques, P.R.; Gan?arski, A.L.
OpenAccess Series in Informatics, 2017
- The role of ontologies and decision frameworks in computer-interpretable guideline execution
Novais, P.; Oliveira, T.; Satoh, K.; Neves, J.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018
- Real-time safe-return-home system for Continental Portugal | Sistema de safe-return-home em tempo real para Portugal continental
Malheiro, T.; Henriques, P.R.; Gancarski, A.L.
Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI, 2017
- Diagnosis of Alzheimer disease through an artificial neural network based system
Ramalhosa, I.; Mateus, P.; Alves, V.; Vicente, H.; Ferraz, F.; Neves, J.; N
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018
- Introducing dynamism in emotional agent societies
Rincon, J.A.; Costa, A.; Villarrubia, G.; Julian, V.; Carrascosa, C.
Neurocomputing, 2018
- Parallel kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of Al<inf>3</inf>Sc precipitation
Moura, A.; Esteves, A.
Ciencia e Tecnologia dos Materiais, 2017
- Assess and Enhancing Attention in Learning Activities
Dur\~aes, D.; Bajo, J.; Novais, P.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018
