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Ana Paula Rocha is Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and Computing, and has extensive experience in supervising Master’s and PhD students. She is an associate researcher of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (LIACC) at the University of Porto. Her research activity is focused on Intelligent Systems, with particular emphasis on multi-agent systems and their social, organizational, and interaction aspects. Her work includes research on negotiation, argumentation, and computational trust in multi-agent environments, as well as on adaptive systems and computational learning. She is also interested in the application of artificial intelligence techniques to complex engineering and real-world problems. In addition to her research and teaching activities, she is involved in academic management and service activities within her institution. She is also a member of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Paula Cunha da Rocha

Citation names

  • Rocha, Ana Paula

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A610-C5DE-FEED
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8129-9758
AuthenticusID
R-000-19X
Scopus Author Id
55932128200

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics
  • Social Sciences - Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Transport Planning and Social Aspects of Transport
Education
Degree Classification
2002
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Metodologias de Negociação em Sistemas Multi-Agentes para Empresas Virtuais" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado por unanimidade
1994
Concluded
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores - Espec. em Informática Industrial (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Cooperação entre Agentes Cognitivos: Negociação e Resolução de Conflitos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com Muito Bom
1990
Concluded
 Enhgenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/07 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2002/02 - 2020/07 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
1994/07 - 2002/02 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/03/01 - 2024/08/31 Automatizar o Mapeamento de Acessibilidades Urbanas com IA
2022.09218.PTDC
Universidade do Porto Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores, Portugal

Fundação Ensino e Cultura Fernando Pessoa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2022/07/31 DARGMINTS: Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Mining from Text Sources
PTDC/CCI-COM/31460/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/02/07 - 2020/12 2. C-Roads Portugal
2016-PT-TM-0259-S
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2021/03/01 - 2023/06/30 IBPS - Intelligent Batch Processing System
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-069998
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2021/03/01 - 2023/06/30 DynamiCITY: Fostering Dynamic Adaptation of Smart Cities to Cope with Crises and Disruptions
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000073
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2020/07/01 - 2023/06/30 City Catalyst - Catalisador para cidades sustentáveis
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-046119
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2019/09/01 - 2023/02/28 IntellWheels2.0 – Cadeira de Rodas Inteligente com Interface Multimodal Flexível e Simulador Realista
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-39898
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2018/09/03 - 2020/10/02 IA.SAE - Inteligência Artificial na Segurança Alimentar e Económica
IA.SAE
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2016/01/01 - 2019/06/30 QVida+: Estimação Contínua de Qualidade de Vida para Auxílio Eficaz à Decisão Clínica
NORTE-01-0247-FEDER-003446
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2011/06/01 - 2014/12/31 SINTELNET - European Network for Social Intelligenc
286370
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded
2010/05/01 - 2012/10/31 Confiança e Reputação na Negociação de Contratos Electrónicos por Agentes em Ambientes Normativos Adaptáve
PTDC/EIA-EIA/104420/2008
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/07/01 - 2012/10/30 INTELLWHEELS - Cadeira de Rodas Inteligente com Interface Multimodal Flexível
RIPD/ADA/109636/2009
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2008 - 2012 Agreement Technologies
COST Action IC0801
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded
2005/05/28 - 2007/05/27 Instituição Electrónica incluindo Contratação Automática para Organizações Virtuais
POSC/EIA/57672/2004
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2003/10/01 - 2004/09/30 LEMAS - Aprendizagem em Sistemas Multi-Agente na Liga de Robôs com Pernas do RoboCup
POSI/ROBO/43926/2002
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; van den Herik, J. Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-031-10161-8
  2. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; van den Herik, J. Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-71158-0
  3. van den Herik, J; Rocha, AP; Steels, L. Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 2019.
    10.1007/978-3-030-37494-5 • Editor
  4. van den Herik, J; Rocha, AP; Filipe, J. Agents and Artificial Intelligence. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-93581-2
  5. Bajo, J; Vale, Z; Hallenborg, K; Rocha, AP; Mathieu, P; Pawlewski, P; Del Val, E; et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems. 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1
Book chapter
  1. Iohan Sardinha; Mariam Afonso; Jadna Cruz; Rosaldo Rossetti; Ana Paula Rocha. "Towards Dynamic Population Synthesis Through the Use of Machine Learning". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-91782-0_32
  2. Iohan Sardinha; Ana Paula Rocha; Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti. "Comparing Aggregated and Separate Models for Crowd Density Forecasting". 2025.
    10.1007/978-3-031-73497-7_31
  3. Lopes Cardoso, H; Urbano, J; Rocha, AP; Castro, AJM; Oliveira, E. "ANTE: A Framework Integrating Negotiation, Norms and Trust". 2016.
    10.1007/978-3-319-33570-4_3
  4. Urbano, J; Paula Rocha, A; Oliveira, E. "A socio-cognitive perspective of trust". 2013.
    10.1007/978-94-007-5583-3_23
  5. Cardoso, HL; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Virtual Organization Support through Electronic Institutions and Normative Multi-Agent Systems". 2008.
    10.4018/978-1-59904-941-0.ch094
  6. Rocha, AP; Cardoso, HL; Oliveira, E. "Contributions to an electronic institution supporting virtual enterprises' life cycle". 2005.
    10.4018/978-1-59140-405-7.ch011
Conference paper
  1. Reis, FP; Ferreira, HV; Rocha, AP. "Framework to Predict Energy Prices and Trades in the Wholesale Market of PowerTAC". 2022.
    10.5220/0010898000003116
  2. Pereira, E; Reis, J; Goncalves, G; Reis, LP; Rocha, AP. "Dutch Auction Based Approach for Task/Resource Allocation". 2022.
    10.1007/978-3-030-79168-1_30
  3. Gonçalves, R; Pereira, FL; Ribeiro, VM; Rocha, AP. "Roll Padding and WaveNet for Multivariate Time Series in Human Activity Recognition". 2021.
    10.1007/978-3-030-72657-7_23
  4. "A QUBO Model to the Tail Assignment Problem". 2021.
    10.5220/0010259608990906
  5. Teixeira, M; Rocha, AP; Castro, AJM. "Quantum Reinforcement Learning Applied to Board Games". 2021.
    10.1145/3486622.3493944
  6. Santos, T; Silva, DC; Rocha, AP; Cardoso, HL; Reis, LP; Caldeira, C; Oliveira, A. "Online Geocoding of Millions of Economic Operators". 2020.
    10.1007/978-3-030-45688-7_44
  7. "Filling Missing Values in Spatial-temporal Data Collected from Traffic Sensors". 2020.
    10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239016
  8. Reis, L.; Rocha, A.P.; Castro, A.J.M.. "An agent-based electronic market to help airlines to recover from delays". 2018.
    10.5220/0006582401760183
  9. Reis, L.; Rocha, A.P.; Castro, A.J.M.. "An electronic marketplace for airlines". 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-94779-2_6
  10. Sarcevic, T; Rocha, APC; Castro, AJM. "Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Solving the Flight Disruption Problem". 2018.
  11. Nogueira, P; Urbano, J; Reis, LP; Cardoso, HL; Silva, D; Rocha, AP. "A Review Between Consumer and Medical-Grade Biofeedback Devices for Quality of Life Studies". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-56538-5_29
  12. Lima, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Castro, A.J.M.. "Argumentation in the re-accommodation of airline passengers using mobile devices". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1_2
  13. Urbano, J.; Nogueira, P.; Rocha, A.P.; Cardoso, H.L.. "Analysis of data science tools for sensor-based assessment of quality of life in health care". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_45
  14. Castro, A.J.M.; Rocha, A.P.. "Managing disruptions with a multi-agent system for airline operations control". 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-59930-4_26
  15. Castro, Antonio J.M.; Rocha, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Eugénio; Castro, AJM; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Towards an Organisation of Computers for Managing Airline Operations". Paper presented in 31st International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), Las Vegas, 2016.
  16. Calabria, FA; Saraiva, JT; Rocha, AP. "A design and simulation of a Brazilian Bid Based Short-Term Electricity Market". 2016.
    10.1109/eem.2016.7521263
  17. Castro, A.; Rocha, A.P.. "A distributed approach to integrated and dynamic disruption management in airline operations control". 2015.
    10.1145/2639475.2639480
  18. Calabria, FA; Saraiva, JT; Rocha, AP. "A new electricity market design for power systems with large share of hydro: Improving flexibility and ensuring efficiency and security in the Brazilian case". 2015.
    10.1109/ptc.2015.7232314
  19. Calabria, FA; Saraiva, JT; Rocha, AP. "A Virtual Reservoir Electricity Market Design Applied to the Brazilian System Using an Agent Based Model". 2015.
    10.1109/eem.2015.7216617
  20. Rúbio, TRPM; Queiroz, J; Cardoso, HL; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, EC. "TugaTAC Broker: A Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Reasoning Agent for Energy Trading". 2015.
    10.1007/978-3-319-33509-4_16
  21. Castro, AJM; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Learning in heterogeneous environments: A case study". 2014.
    10.1145/2655985.2655986
  22. Oliveira, E; Cardoso, H; Urbano, J; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, EC; Cardoso, HL. "Trustworthy Agents for B2B operations under Normative Environment". 2014.
    10.1109/icsai.2014.7009295
  23. Oliveira, E.; Cardoso, H.L.; Urbano, M.J.; Rocha, A.P.. "Normative monitoring of agents to build trust in an environment for B2B". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-662-44654-6_17
  24. Castro, AJM; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, EC. "A New Approach for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control". 2014.
    10.1007/978-3-662-43373-7
  25. Teixeira, Francisca; Castro, Antonio J.M.; Rocha, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Eugénio. "Multi-Agent Learning in both Cooperative and Competitive Environments". Paper presented in EPIA16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Azores, 2013.
    Published
  26. Neto, PB; Rocha, AP; Cardoso, HL. "Risk assessment through argumentation over contractual data". 2013.
  27. Carvalho, PS; Rossetti, RJF; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, EC. "Exploring unkown networks using a cooperative mas-based approach". 2013.
  28. Castro, Antonio J.M.; Pereira, Antonio; Fraga, Leonardo; Rocha, Ana Paula; Oliveira, Eugénio. "A Negotiation Based Approach to Airline Operations Recovery". Paper presented in Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems Track at EPIA 2011, Lisboa, 2011.
    Published
  29. Cardoso, HL; Malucelli, A; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Institutional services for dynamic virtual organizations". 2005.
    10.1007/0-387-29360-4_55
  30. Malucelli, A; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "B2B Transactions Enhanced with Ontology-Based Services". 2004.
  31. Oliveira, E; Rocha, AP. "Agents Advanced Features for Negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations Formation Processes". 2001.
    10.1007/3-540-44682-6_5
  32. Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "A negotiation framework for the establishment of virtual organisations". 1999.
  33. Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "An electronic market architecture for the formation of virtual enterprises". 1999.
  34. Oliveira, E; Mouta, F; Rocha, AP. "Negotiation and conflict resolution within a community of cooperative agents". 1993.
    10.1109/ISADS.1993.262674
Edited book
  1. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 15th International Conference, ICAART 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023, Revised Selected Papers. 2024.
    Editor
  2. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2024, Volume 3, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2024. 2024.
  3. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2024, Volume 2, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2024. 2024.
  4. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2024, Volume 1, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2024. 2024.
  5. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2023, Volume 2, Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023. 2023.
  6. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2023, Volume 3, Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023. 2023.
  7. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2023, Volume 1, Lisbon, Portugal, February 22-24, 2023. 2023.
  8. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2022, Volume 2, Online Streaming, February 3-5, 2022. 2022.
  9. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2022, Volume 3, Online Streaming, February 3-5, 2022. 2022.
  10. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 13th International Conference, ICAART 2021, Virtual Event, February 4-6, 2021, Revised Selected Papers. 2022.
  11. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 14th International Conference, ICAART 2022, Virtual Event, February 3-5, 2022, Revised Selected Papers. 2022.
  12. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2022, Volume 1, Online Streaming, February 3-5, 2022. 2022.
  13. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2021, Volume 1, Online Streaming, February 4-6, 2021. 2021.
  14. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 12th International Conference, ICAART 2020, Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. 2021.
  15. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2021, Volume 2, Online Streaming, February 4-6, 2021. 2021.
  16. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2020, Volume 2, Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020. 2020.
  17. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2020, Volume 1, Valletta, Malta, February 22-24, 2020. 2020.
  18. den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP; Steels, L, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 11th International Conference, ICAART 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-21, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. 2019.
  19. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2019, Volume 2, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-21, 2019. 2019.
  20. Rocha, AP; Steels, L; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2019, Volume 1, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19-21, 2019. 2019.
  21. den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 10th International Conference, ICAART 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 16-18, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. 2019.
  22. Rocha, AP; den Herik, Jv, ed. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2018, Volume 1, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 16-18, 2018. 2018.
  23. den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP; Filipe, J, ed. Agents and Artificial Intelligence - 9th International Conference, ICAART 2017, Porto, Portugal, February 24-26, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. 2018.
  24. Rocha, AP; den Herik, HJv, ed. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2018, Volume 2, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January 16-18, 2018. 2018.
  25. Nguyen, NT; Kowalczyk, R; den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP; Filipe, J; van den Herik, J, ed. Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXVIII. 2018.
    10.1007/978-3-319-78301-7
  26. Bajo, Javier; Vale, ZitaA.; Hallenborg, Kasper; Rocha, AnaPaula; Mathieu, Philippe; Pawlewski, Pawel; Val, Elenadel; et al, ed. Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems - International Workshops of PAAMS 2017, Porto, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017, Proceedings. 2017.
  27. den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP; Filipe, J, ed. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2017, Volume 2, Porto, Portugal, February 24-26, 2017. 2017.
  28. den Herik, HJv; Rocha, AP; Filipe, J, ed. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2017, Volume 1, Porto, Portugal, February 24-26, 2017. 2017.
  29. Cranefield, S; Mahmoud, S; Padget, JA; Rocha, AP, ed. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII - COIN 2016 International Workshops, COIN@AAMAS, Singapore, Singapore, May 9, 2016, COIN@ECAI, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 30, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. 2017.
Journal article
  1. Goncalves, R; Ribeiro, VM; Pereira, FL; Rocha, AP. "Deep learning in exchange markets". INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY (2019):
    10.1016/j.infoecopol.2019.05.002
  2. Calabria, FA; Saraiva, JT; Rocha, AP. "Improving the Brazilian electricity market: how to replace the centralized dispatch by decentralized market-based bidding". JOURNAL OF ENERGY MARKETS (2018):
    10.21314/jem.2018.173
  3. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "An approach to computational social trust". AI Communications 27 2 (2014): 113-131. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84900437376&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3233/AIC-130587
  4. Gonçalves, R.; Rocha, A.P.; Pereira, F.L.. "High level architecture for trading agents in betting exchange markets". Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 206 AISC (2013): 497-510. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876246675&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-36981-0_46
  5. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "The impact of benevolence in computational trust". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 8068 LNAI (2013): 210-224. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84881176176&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-39860-5_16
  6. Brandao, C.; Reis, L.P.; Rocha, A.P.. "Evaluation of embodied conversational agents". Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84887940354&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  7. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.; Urbano, J; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Trust evaluation for reliable electronic transactions between business partners". Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 98 LNBIP (2012): 219-237. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84858258968&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-28563-9_12
  8. Urbano, J.; Cardoso, H.L.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Trust and normative control in multi-agent systems: An empirical study". Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 156 AISC (2012): 207-214. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84863971233&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_25
  9. Cardoso, H.L.; Urbano, J.; Brandão, P.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "ANTE: Agreement negotiation in normative and trust-enabled environments". Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 155 AISC (2012): 261-264. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84864251842&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-28786-2_33
  10. Castro, A.J.M.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Towards an autonomous and intelligent airline operations control". IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC (2012): 1429-1434. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84871231013&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ITSC.2012.6338858
  11. Fonseca, N.; Ferreira, A.; Rocha, A.P.; Fonseca, N; Ferreira, A; Rocha, AP. "Concatenative singing voice resynthesis". 17th DSP 2011 International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Proceedings (2011): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80053161087&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/ICDSP.2011.6004986
  12. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "A dynamic agents' behavior model for computational trust". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 7026 LNAI (2011): 536-550. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80054819486&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-24769-9_39
  13. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Trust-based selection of partners". Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 85 LNBIP (2011): 221-232. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052913232&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-23014-1_19
  14. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "A situation-aware computational trust model for selecting partners". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6910 (2011): 84-105. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80455158372&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-24016-4_5
  15. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Extracting trustworthiness tendencies using the frequency increase metric". Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 73 LNBIP (2011): 208-221. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84876229725&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-19802-1_15
  16. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Trust estimation using contextual fitness". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6070 LNAI PART 1 (2010): 42-51. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77954588092&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-13480-7_6
  17. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.; Urbano, J; Rocha, AP; Oliveira, E. "Trustworthiness tendency incremental extraction using information gain". Proceedings - 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2010 2 (2010): 411-414. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78649877214&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.151
  18. Danek, A.; Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Engaging the dynamics of trust in computational trust and reputation systems". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 6070 LNAI PART 1 (2010): 22-31. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77954619598&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-13480-7_4
  19. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Refining the trustworthiness assessment of suppliers through extraction of stereotypes". ICEIS 2010 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2 AIDSS (2010): 85-92. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78649850876&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  20. Urbano, J.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Computing confidence values: Does trust dynamics matter?". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 5816 LNAI (2009): 520-531. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-71049161795&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-04686-5_43
  21. Fernandes, O.R.; Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Ontology development in home automation used in automatic VE formation". IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 266 (2008): 161-168. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-44649119275&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-0-387-09492-2_17
  22. Fonseca, N.; Rocha, A.P.. "Fragmentation and frontier evolution for genetic algorithms optimization in music transcription". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 5290 LNAI (2008): 442-451. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70350616338&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_45
  23. Rocha, A.P.; Oliveira, E.. "Electronic institutions as a framework for agents' negotiation and mutual commitment". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2258 LNAI (2001): 232-245. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-33847012969&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/3-540-45329-6_24
  24. Oliveira, Eugenio; Rocha, Ana Paula. "Negotiation and conflict resolution in a multi-agent system for an assembly robotics cell". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 1 (1994): 605-611. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0028739621&partnerID=MN8TOARS.

Other

Other output
  1. A Review of Commercial and Medical-Grade Physiological Monitoring Devices for Biofeedback-Assisted Quality of Life Improvement Studies. 2018. Nogueira, P; Urbano, J; Reis, LP; Cardoso, HL; Silva, DC; Rocha, AP; Goncalves, J; Faria, BM.
    10.1007/s10916-018-0946-1
  2. JADE, TraSMAPI and SUMO: A tool-chain for simulating traffic light control. 2016. Azevedo, T; Araújo, PJMd; Rossetti, RJF; Rocha, APC.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2025 - 2025 Reducing Labelling Effort for Image Classification Through Active Learning: A Case Study on Cork Stoppers
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Explainability in Machine Learning Models: A Shap-Driven Framework for Misclassification Analysis and Feature Selection
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Empirical Evaluation of Prediction Models of People Density
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 DynamiCITY Sim: simulation-based network assignment for sustainable cities
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Node embedding and machine learning towards road network feature prediction
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Replanning Flight Schedules Using Quantum Computing
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Inferring User Preferences by Analyzing their Behavior on Streaming Platforms Using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Classifying galaxy morphology on cluster galaxies using machine learning
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Sales Forecasting for SaaS
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Empirical Evaluation of Prediction Models for Smart City Applications
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012 - 2021/07 Multivariate Time Series Analysis with Deep Learning
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Informatics, University of Aveiro, Minho and Porto (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2021/02 Deep learning approaches to sales forecasting of retail healthcare and wellness products
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Recommender System with Explanations
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Quantum Reinforcement Learning applied to Games
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Knowledge Graph-Based Recipe Recommendation System
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Predictive Analysis of Flight Times
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Improving markdown decisions in non-food retail - a retailer´s case study
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Applying Quantum Annealing to the Tail Assignment Problem
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020 - 2020 Group Recommender System for Tourism
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Industry 4.0 - Shop-Floor Negotiation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Recomendação de conteúdos multimédia em ambientes de entretenimento interativo
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Hybrid Strategies for Open Smart Parking with Agent Process Modelling Simulation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Automatic Group Formation
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Uso de argumentação em negociação automática
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Sistema de Recomendação para Notícias Online
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Crew and Aircraft Electronic Market
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012 - 2016/04/05 Enhancing Flexibility and Ensuring Efficiency and Security: Improving the Electricity Market in Brazil Using a Virtual Reservoir Model
Co-supervisor
 Programa Doutoral em Sistemas Sustentáveis de Energia (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Agente de Notícias personalizado
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Argumentation In The Resolution Of Passenger Problems using Mobile Devices
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 Evolutionary Computation methods applied to Operational Control Centers
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2015 - 2015 An argumentation model for deliberation in heterogeneous multiagent systems
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014 - 2014 A Trading Agent Framework Using Plain Strategies & Machine Learning
Supervisor
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012 - 2013/07/19 Human-in-the-Loop e Aprendizagem na Negociação Automática: Aplicação num Centro de Controlo Operacional Aéreo
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2012 - 2013/07/19 Aprender com o Passado: Apoio à Negociação Automática nos Centros de Controlo Operacionais
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2009 - 2013/06 A Situation-aware and Social Computational Trust Model
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011 - 2012/10/15 Avaliação de Agentes de Conversação: A influência de elementos Multimédia
Co-supervisor
 Mestrado em Multimédia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011 - 2012/07/12 Formação Automática de Grupos para Projetos Estudantis
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2008 - 2012/05 Singing Voice Resynthesis using Concatenative-based Techniques
Co-supervisor
 Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2008 - 2009/07/15 Agendamento de Protocolos de Tratamento
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2007 - 2008/07/15 Desenvolvimento de um Portal B2C - Módulo de Catálogo de Produtos
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2007 - 2008/07/15 Desenho e Implementação da Plataforma ICS
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2007 - 2008/07/15 SIP Web Client: Comunicações Convergentes
Supervisor
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Informática e Computação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2026 - 2026 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2026 - 18th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2026/03/05 - 2026/03/07)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2025 - 2025 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2025 - 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2025/02/23 - 2025/02/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2024 - 2024 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2024 - 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2024/02/24 - 2024/02/26)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023 - 2023 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2023 - 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2023/02/22 - 2023/02/24)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022 - 2022 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2022 - 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2022/02/03 - 2022/02/05)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021 - 2021 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2021 - 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2021/02/04 - 2021/02/06)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2020 - 2020 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2020 - 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2020/02/22 - 2020/02/24)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2019 - 2019 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2019 - 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2019/02/19 - 2019/02/21)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2018 - 2018 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2018 - 10th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2018/01/16 - 2018/01/18)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2017 - 2017 Program chair da conferência ICAART 2017 - 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (2017/02/24 - 2017/02/26)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Distinctions

Award

2016 Scientific Recognition Award, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
2016 Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2016 , Tese Mestrado, 3ºlugar, (orientador)