Sebastião Augusto Rodrigues Figueiredo Pais (0A16-6735-D5E4)

Curriculum Vitae

Sebastião Augusto Rodrigues Figueiredo Pais

NOVA LINCS Group: Multimodal Systems. Research. Topics: Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence; Data Science. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=Otp4K5gAAAAJ. Sebastião Pais completed his PhD in Computer Science on December 6, 2013, at the University of Beira Interior. He also completed his Master in Computer Engineering on July 31, 2008, and his Bachelor in Computer Engineering in 2007, both at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Beira Interior. He also earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Real-Time Computer Science, Robotics, and Automation on December 6, 2013, from the Mines ParisTech Centre for Research in Computer Science. He is a visiting researcher at the University of Caen Normandy and an Assistant Professor at the University of Beira Interior. He has published eight articles in specialized journals. He has authored one book chapter and one book. He has organized seven events and participated in 2 events. He has supervised and co-supervised twelve master dissertations. He has supervised eight undergraduate/bachelor's degree final projects. He has received four awards and honours. He has participated as a Research Fellow in one project, a Researcher in three projects, and a Responsible Researcher in four projects. Selected Publications: - Muetunda, F., Sabry, S., Pais, S., Dias, G., Cordeiro, J. P., & Pombo, N. (2023). Improving Mental Disorder Predictions using Feature-Based Machine Learning Techniques. In 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). - Jamil, M. L., Pais, S., Cordeiro, J., Dias, G., & Pombo, N. (2023, October). An Approach for Detecting Dangerous Events from Online Text Using Transformers. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) (pp. 256-262). IEEE. - Jamil, M. L., Pais, S., Cordeiro, J., & Dias, G. (2022). Detection of extreme sentiments on social networks with BERT. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 12(1), 55. - Jha, P., Dias, G., Lechervy, A., Moreno, J. G., Jangra, A., Pais, S., & Saha, S. (2022, October). Combining vision and language representations for patch-based identification of Lexico-semantic relations. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (pp. 4406-4415). - Pais, S., Tanoli, I. K., Albardeiro, M., & Cordeiro, J. (2020, December). Unsupervised approach to detect extreme sentiments on social networks. In 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) (pp. 651-658). IEEE.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Sebastião Augusto Rodrigues Figueiredo Pais

Citation names

Pais, S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0A16-6735-D5E4
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2337-0779
AuthenticusID: R-00H-DG4
Google Scholar ID: Otp4K5gAAAAJ
Researcher Id: J-4766-2017
Scopus Author Id: 35103248500

Email addresses

sebastiao@ubi.pt (Professional)
sebastiao@di.ubi.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Fax

(351) 275319899 Ext.: 1601 (Professional)

Telephone

(351) 275242081 Ext.: 1601 (Professional)

Addresses

Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Ciências da Engenharia, Departamento de Informática. Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, 6200-001, Covilhã, Covilhã, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://www.di.ubi.pt/~sebastiao (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2008/01/01 - 2013/12/06 Concluded	Spécialité doctorale de Informatique temps réel, robotique et automatique (Doctor of Philosophy) Mines ParisTech Centre de Recherche en Informatique, France "Asymmetric Distributional Similarity Measures to Recognize Textual Entailment by Generality" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Mérito Absoluto
2008/01/01 - 2013/12/06 Concluded	Computer Science (Doutoramento) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2007/09/01 - 2008/07/31 Concluded	Computer Science and Engineering (Mestrado) Major in Computing and Intelligent Systems Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal ""Classification of Opinionated Texts by Analogy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2002 - 2007 Concluded	Computer Science and Engineering (Licenciatura) Major in Information Systems Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal	12

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/01/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal
	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/01/01 - Current	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Université de Caen Normandie, France
	Groupe de Recherche en Informatique Image Automatique et Instrumentation de Caen, France
2014/09/01 - 2016/08/31	Principal Investigator (Research)	TIMWE – Investigação & Desenvolvimento, Portugal

2008/01/01 - 2014/07/31	Researcher (Research)	Mines ParisTech, France

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/09/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2021/09/01	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Portugal

2016/09/01 - 2021/08/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

2018/03/01 - 2019/01/31	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Europeia, Portugal

2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal

2007/09/01 - 2014/07/31	Tutor (University Teacher)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2008/11 - 2012/04	Ubiquitous Web Access for Visually Impaired People (VIP-ACCESS) grant.Provided by PTCRIS: 72142	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - Current	ATTRACT DIH (Digital Innovation Hub for ArTificial InTelligence and High-PeRformAnce CompuTing @ Portugal) https://attract.inesctec.pt/ Principal investigator Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	Horizon 2020 Ongoing
2022/06/01 - 2023/06/30	HORUS 360º iOMS inteligente Offender Management System CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-113066 Researcher	Concluded
2021/06/01 - 2023/06/30	PAM4WELLNESS POCI-01-0246-FEDER-181319 Researcher Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	Ongoing
2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30	Virtual Monitoring of Crowds in Smart Cities PTDC/EEI-AUT/28918/2017 Principal investigator Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2018/12/01 - 2020/11/30	HULTIG-C - Computational Linguistic Services Platform C4_WP2.3 \| Computacional Linguistic Services Platform Principal investigator Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	Concluded
2014/09/01 - 2015/07/31	AMBRO 33779 QREN Researcher TIMWE – Investigação & Desenvolvimento, Portugal	Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2023/03/01 - Current	PHArA-ON \| Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing 857188 Principal investigator Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	Representação Permanente de Portugal junto da União Europeia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Machado, David; Barbosa, Tiago; Pais, Sebastião; Martins, Bruno; Dias, Gaël. "Universal Mobile Information Retrieval". In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments, 345-354. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-02710-9_38
Conference paper	Giovana Voltoline; Sebastião Pais; Bruno Silva; Joao Cordeiro. "Understanding Massive Text Visualization". 2023. 10.1145/3625007.3627482 M. Luqman Jamil; Sebastiao Pais; João Cordeiro; Gaël Dias; Nuno Pombo. "An Approach for Detecting Dangerous Events from Online Text Using Transformers". Paper presented in In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2023. Published • 10.1109/wi-iat59888.2023.00040 Muetunda, Faustino; Jamil, M. Luqman; Pais, Sebastião; Sabry, Soumaya; Dias, Gaël; Pombo, Nuno; Cordeiro, João. "Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health". Paper presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023. Published • 10.1109/icdmw60847.2023.00166 Muetunda, Faustino; Pais, Sebastião; Sabry, Soumaya; Dias, Gaël; Pombo, Nuno; Cordeiro, João. "Improving Mental Disorder Predictions using Feature-Based Machine Learning Techninques". Paper presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023. Published • 10.1109/icdmw60847.2023.00165 Jamil, M. Luqman; Pais, Sebastião; Pombo, Nuno; Cordeiro, João; Neves, Pedro. "Challenges of Profiling Offenders for Recidivism Risk". Paper presented in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2023. Published • 10.1109/icdmw60847.2023.00036 Silvano, Maria da Purificação; Cordeiro, João; Leal, António; Pais, S.. "DRIPPS: a Corpus with Discourse Relations in Perfect Participial Sentences.". Paper presented in Language, Data and Knowledge 2023 (LDK 2023), 2023. Published Jha, Prince; Dias, Gaël; Lechervy, Alexis; Moreno, Jose G.; Jangra, Anubhav; Pais, Sebastião; Saha, Sriparna. "Combining Vision and Language Representations for Patch-based Identification of Lexico-Semantic Relations". Paper presented in 30th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2022. Published • 10.1145/3503161.3548299 Pais, Sebastiao; Tanoli, Irfan Khan; Albardeiro, Miguel; Cordeiro, Joao. "Unsupervised Approach to Detect Extreme Sentiments on Social Networks". Paper presented in 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2020. Published • 10.1109/asonam49781.2020.9381420 Pais, S.; Irfan Tanoli; Miguel Albardeiro; João Paulo Cordeiro. "A Lexicon Based Approach to Detect Extreme Sentiments". Paper presented in The Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection ICIMP 2020, Lisboa, 2020. Published Pais, S.; Irfan Tanoli; Miguel Albardeiro; João Paulo Cordeiro. "Language-Independent Approaches to Detect Extremism and Collective Radicalisation Online". Paper presented in The Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection ICIMP 2020, Lisboa, 2020. Published Irfan Tanoli; Pais, S.. "Modeling Natural Language Policies into Controlled Natural Language: A Twitter Case Study". Paper presented in The Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection ICIMP 2020, Lisboa, 2020. Published Pais, S.; Cordeiro, J.. "SocialNetCrawler - Online Social Network Crawler". Paper presented in The 11th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'19), Limassol, 2019. Published • 10.1145/3297662.3365805 Pais, S.; Dias, G.; Moraliyski, R.; Cordeiro, J.; Sebastião Pais; Gaël Dias; Rumen Moraliyski; João Cordeiro. "Unsupervised and Language-Independent Method to Recognize Textual Entailment by Generality". Paper presented in Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria 2014, Sofia, 2014. Published • 10.13140/RG.2.1.1897.3603 Dias, G.; Pais, S.; Wegrzyn-Wolska, K.; Mahl, R.. "Recognizing Textual Entailment by Generality Using Informative Asymmetric Measures and Multiword Unit Identification to Summarize Ephemeral Clusters". Paper presented in 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), Lyon, France, 2011. Published • 10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.122 Dias, G.; Pais, S.; Wegrzyn-Wolska, K.; Mahl, R.; Jouvelot, P.. "Textual Entailment by Generality". Paper presented in 12th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2011), Kuala Lumpur, 2011. Published • 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.606 Dias, G.; Pais, S.; Cunha, F.; Costa, H.; Machado, D.; Barbosa, T.; Martins, B.. "Hierarchical Soft Clustering and Automatic Text Summarization for Accessing the Web on Mobile Devices for Visually Impaired People". Paper presented in Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference Twenty-Second International FLAIRS Conference, Florida, 2009. Published • 10.1.1.510.732 Machado, D.; Barbosa, T.; Pais, S.; Martins, B.; Dias, G.. "Universal Mobile Information Retrieval". Paper presented in 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI International, San Diego, 2009. Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-02710-9_38
Journal article	Sebastião Pais; João Cordeiro; M. Luqman Jamil. "NLP-based platform as a service: a brief review". Journal of Big Data 9 54 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-022-00603-5. Open access • Published • 10.1186/s40537-022-00603-5 M. Luqman Jamil; Sebastião Pais; João Cordeiro; Gaël Dias. "Detection of extreme sentiments on social networks with BERT". Social Network Analysis and Mining 12 55 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-022-00882-z. Published • 10.1007/s13278-022-00882-z M. Luqman Jamil; Sebastião Pais; João Cordeiro. "Detection of dangerous events on social media: a critical review". Social Network Analysis and Mining 12 154 (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-022-00980-y. Published • 10.1007/s13278-022-00980-y Pais, S.; Abolohom, Abdullatif; Omar, Nazlia; Pais, Sebastião; Cordeiro, João. "A Comparative Study of Linguistic and Computational Features Based on a Machine Learning for Arabic Anaphora Resolution". Procedia Computer Science 189 (2021): 37-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.068. Published • 10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.068 Pais, Sebastião; Dias, Gaël. "Asymmetric Attributional Word Similarity Measures to Detect the Relations of Textual Generality". Computers 9 4 (2020): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/computers9040081. Open access • Published • 10.3390/computers9040081 Pais, S.; Casal. J.; Ponciano, R.; Lourenço, S.. "Unsupervised Assistive and Adaptive Intelligent Agent in Smart Environment". World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Science Index, Computer and Information Engineering 2 1 (2015): 1067-1074. Published Ponciano, R.; Pais, S.; Casal. J.. "Using Accuracy Analysis to Find the Best Classifier for Intelligent Personal Assistants". Procedia Computer Science 52 1 (2015): 310-317. Published • 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.090 Lambov, D.; Pais, S.; Dias, G.. "Merged Agreement Algorithms for Domain Independent Sentiment Analysis". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 27 1 (2011): 248-257. Published • 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.10.605
Preprint	Sebastião Pais; João Cordeiro; Muhammad Jamil. "HULTIG-C: NLP Corpus and Services in the Cloud". 2023. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-696114/v3. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-696114/v3 Irfan Tanoli; Sebastião Pais; João Cordeiro; Muhammad Luqman Jamil. "Detection of Radicalisation and Extremism Online: A Survey". 2022. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1185415/v1. 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1185415/v1
Thesis / Dissertation	Pais, S.. "Asymmetric Distributional Similarity Measures to Recognize Textual Entailment by Generality". PhD, Mines ParisTech, 2013. https://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00962176. Pais, Sebastião. "Classification of opinionated texts by analogy". Master, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/3714.

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Multimodal Mental Health Retrieval Supervisor of Faustino Muetunda	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2023 - Current	Temporal Mental Health Retrieval Supervisor of Luqman Jamil	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2023 - Current	Text Markers for the Prognosis of Mental Disorders Supervisor of Ramos Pedro	Engenharia Informática (PhD) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2023 - Current	Massive Text Visualization Supervisor of Giovana Voltoline	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Knowledge Base for MENTAL AI, in Data Science Context Supervisor of Faustino Paulo Muetunda	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022 - 2022	Event Detection and Tracking Detection of Dangerous Events on Social Media Supervisor of Muhammad Luqman Jamil	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/07/01 - 2021/07/31	Scientific supervisor of the post-doctoral research conducted by Abdullatif A. Abolohom (PhD researcher) within the HULTIG-C Scientific Research Project. Supervisor of Abdullatif A. Abolohom	Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2019/08/01 - 2021/01/31	Scientific supervisor of the post-doctoral research carried out by Irfan Tanoli (PhD, researcher), framed within the MOVES Scientific Research Project. Supervisor of Irfan Tanoli	Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/07/21	Collection of Sports Events Information Using Data Mining Techniques: Research, Design, and Implementation of a Cloud-Based Web Solution Co-supervisor of Fábio Mota	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020 - 2020	Unsupervised and Language Independent Approach to Extremism and Collective Radicalization Understanding Supervisor of Miguel Ângelo Serra Albardeiro	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/03/01 - 2019/07/31	New Decisions Models for Decision Support System in the Context of Business Management Supervisor of Marco Raposo	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30	Design of a Crawler for Online Social Networks Sentiment Analysis Supervisor of Ricardo Martins	Informática Web (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2018/07/31	Unsupervised and Language-Agnostic Adaptability in Mobile Applications Supervisor of Gonçalo Lopes	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/03/01 - 2018/07/31	Ubiquitous, Interoperative, and Scalable Interface for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform on Big Data Supervisor of João Carvalho	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Ubiquitous, Interoperative, and Scalable Interface for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform on Big Data Supervisor of Fátima Joana Dantas Gonçalves Chitongua	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018 - 2018	Unsupervised Language-Agnostic Adaptability to User Linguistic Profile Supervisor of Ramos Eduardo Pedro	Engenharia Informática (Master) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2017/07/31	Ubiquitous Platform for Monitoring Psychiatric Patients in Post-Discharge Situations Supervisor of Bruna Silva	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2017/07/31	Indoor Location-Based Content Supervisor of Fábio Barata	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2017/02/01 - 2017/06/30	Mobile Educational Search Engine Supervisor of Joana Quadrado	Engenharia Informática (Degree) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011/07/31	EMRS - Emergency Medical Notification System Supervisor of Paulo Santos	Computação Móvel (Master) Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/10/28 - 2022/10/30	ICEUBI22 - International Congress on Engineering (2022/10/28 - 2022/10/30) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09/08 - 2022/09/09	INForum 2022 - Simpósio de Informática (2022/09/08 - 2022/09/09) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
2022/07/14 - 2022/07/15	SLATE 2022 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (2022/07/14 - 2022/07/15) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/11	Classification and Data Analysis Conference (JOCLAD) - The main objectives of this annual conference, aimed at teachers, researchers, students, and users who share interests in the field of Classification and Data Analysis, are Promoting, supporting, developing, and disseminating scientific research in the field of data science; Promoting scientific collaboration and exchange in the field of data science among researchers, companies, and other organizations; Providing training in the field of data science. (2021/12/09 - 2021/12/11) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10	INForum 2021 - Simpósio de Informática (2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
2005/12/05 - 2005/12/08	EPIA2005 - 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2005/12/05 - 2005/12/08) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2017/04/21 - 2017/04/21	Version Control Workshop	Computer Engineering Conference - 2017 Edition Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, do Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
2010/04/30 - 2010/04/30	Emergency Medical Notification System Meeting	III Conference on Technology and Health Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022/12/01 - Current	Association for Computing Machinery	ACM Professional Member
2006/01/01 - Current	HULTIG - Centre For Human Language Technology And Bioinformatics	Research
2008/01/01 - 2014/07/31	CRI - Centre de recherche en informatique, MINES ParisTech	Investigador Cientifico

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2022/07/25 - 2022/07/28	18th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA 22)	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2021/10/08 - 2021/10/11	2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)	Haia, Holanda
2021/07/26 - 2021/07/29	17th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA 21)	Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2020/11/01 - 2020/11/30	The 2021 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing	Gwangju, Korea
2020/09/27 - 2020/10/01	The Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection	Lisboa
2019/09/03 - 2019/09/06	EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence	Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
2018/03/26 - 2018/03/29	European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'18)	Grenoble, França

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2020/01/01 - Current	Expert evaluator of applications for the System of Incentives for Research and Technological Development (SII&DT), for research projects under a service contract between UBI and the National Innovation Agency. Evaluator	Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2019/02/08 - 2019/02/11	90 Seconds of Science	"MOVES Project Uses Social Networks to Predict Crowd Concentration"

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/01/01 - Current	Future Internet (1999-5903)	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
2021/01/01 - Current	Linguamática (1647-0818)	Universidade do Minho
2020/10/01 - Current	International Journal of Applied Intelligence (1573-7497)	Springer-Verlag
2020/10/01 - Current	Data (2306-5729)	MDPI
2020/09/01 - Current	Springer Nature Computer Science (2661-8907)	Springer-Verlag
2020/09/01 - Current	International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering (2666-3074)	Elsevier
2020/09/01 - Current	AI Open (2666-6510)	Elsevier
2020/09/01 - Current	Journal Of Big Data (2196-1115)	Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
2020/08/01 - Current	Artificial Intelligence Review (1573-7462)	Springer-Verlag
2020/08/01 - Current	Algorithms ( 1999-4893)	MDPI
2020/06/01 - Current	Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning	Institute For Engineering Research and Publication
2020/05/01 - Current	Electronics (2079-9292)	MDPI
2020/04/01 - Current	Applied Sciences (2076-3417)	MDPI
2020/02/01 - Current	Information (2078-2489)	MDPI
2020/01/01 - Current	International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2364-4168)	Springer-Verlag
2019/11/20 - Current	IEEE Access (2169-3536)	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2019/10/13 - Current	International Journal of Data Mining Modelling and Management (1759-1171)	Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
2019/01/01 - Current	Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2191-4281)	Springer-Verlag
2017/06/01 - Current	Journal of Information Science (0165-5515)	SAGE Publications