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José Manuel Oliveira is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, in the Mathematics and Information Systems Group, and a Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC). He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences, a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering – Telecommunications, and a Bachelor's in Computer Science, all from the University of Porto. His research focuses on data science and business analytics, with extensive experience in R&D. He has been at the forefront of applying AI, particularly machine learning and deep learning, to industrial and socio-technical challenges. His work spans forecasting, data-driven decision-making, and AI-driven modeling, contributing to materials science, business analytics, and industrial optimization. At INESC TEC, he has led and participated in numerous funded research projects, fostering academia-industry collaborations to bridge theoretical models with real-world applications. His current work focuses on AI-driven methodologies for decision support systems, predictive modeling, and industrial optimization. He has an extensive publication record in high-impact journals, conferences, and workshops, advancing AI methodologies, forecasting techniques, and deep learning applications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
José Manuel Soares Oliveira

Citation names

  • Oliveira, José Manuel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D31E-1559-B04E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8516-6418
AuthenticusID
R-000-8PG
Google Scholar ID
R_BWA14AAAAJ
Researcher Id
AAC-7431-2020
Scopus Author Id
7202452222

Email addresses

  • jmo@fep.up.pt (Professional)
  • jmo@inesctec.pt (Professional)
  • jose.m.oliveira@inesctec.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 222094000 (Professional)
  • 225571100 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto. Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-464, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences
  • Exact Sciences - Mathematics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
English Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2005
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Ciências da Engenharia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"An Adaptation Methodology for the Presentation of Multimedia Contents in the Virtual Home Environment" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
1996
Concluded
 Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores - Ramo de Telecomunicações (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Conception of Multimedia Kiosk Systems (in Portuguese)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
1992
Concluded
 Matemática Aplicada - Ramo de Ciência de Computadores (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14 Valores
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1992/11/02 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2005/04/28 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
1995/11/13 - 2005/04/27 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
1994/01/03 - 1995/12/29 Praxis XXI MSc Grant Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2021/12/31 The Healing and Emotional Power of Music and Dance
PTDC/ART-PER/29641/2017
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/10/25 - 2027/10/24 Using Image-based AI for Insect Monitoring & Conservation (InsectAI)
COST Action CA22129
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2023/09/26 - 2027/09/25 Data-driven Applications Towards the Engineering of Functional Materials: an Open Network (DAEMON)
COST Action CA22154
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2023/09/09 - 2027/09/08 Precision Medicine in Biliary Tract Cancer (Precision-BTC-Network)
COST Action CA22125
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2024/11 - 2025/11 MatSynth: Multimodal Generative Modeling for Materials Discovery
EHPC-DEV-2024D10-076
Principal investigator
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2024/11 - 2025/11 TRAMBTC: Transformer-based Multimodal Analysis for Biliary Tract Cancer
EHPC-DEV-2024D10-014
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
 European Union's Research and Innovation
Ongoing
2019/01 - 2019/12 INESC TEC – INESC Tecnologia e Ciência
154759UID
UID/EEA/50014/2019
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/09/01 - 2014/08/31 SELF-PVP - Gestão auto-organizada de potência numa central de produção de energia fotovoltaica
CMU-PT/SIA/0005/2009
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2012/12/31 Strategic Project - LA 14 - 2011-2012
PEst-C/EEI/LA0014/2011
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/02/01 - 2012/07/31 Multicast and mobility management in heterogeneous access networks
PTDC/EEA-TEL/74471/2006
Post-doc
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009/06/01 - 2012/07/24 SITME - Serviços Integrados para Transportes Metropolitanos
SI IDT - 5590/2008
Post-doc
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2011/02 - 2012/02 MultiRadioAccess - Agregação de redes de acesso HSPA e WiFi para disponibilização de débito superior ao das redes individuais
INESCP-SERV-09/11
Researcher
Altice Labs
Concluded
2009/04/01 - 2011/12/31 Portal Douro - Portal Regional para a Região do Douro
Norte-02-0169-FEDER-000005
Post-doc
Comissao de Coordenacao e Desenvolvimento Regional do Norte
Concluded
2006/11 - 2008/12 DAIDALOS II - Designing Advanced network Interfaces for the Delivery and Administration of Location independent, Optimised personal Services (Second Phase)
FP6-2004-IST-4-026943
Post-doc
European Union's Research and Innovation
Concluded
2002 - 2003 OPIUM - Open Platform for Integration of UMTS Middleware
IST-2001-36063
Researcher
European Union's Research and Innovation
Concluded
2000 - 2001 VESPER - Virtual Home Environment for Service Personalization and Roaming Users
IST-1999-10825
Researcher
European Union's Research and Innovation
Concluded
1996 - 1999 SCREEN - Service Creation Engineering Environment
ACTS-AC227
Researcher
European Union's Research and Innovation
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. José Manuel Oliveira; Patrícia Ramos. "Cross-Learning-Based Sales Forecasting Using Deep Learning via Partial Pooling from Multi-level Data". 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-34204-2_24
Conference paper
  1. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "A Contrastive Learning Approach to Multimodal Biliary Cancer Data Integration". Paper presented in Bi-annual ENS-CCA Conference, Krakow, 2024.
  2. Oliveira, José Manuel; Ramos, Patrícia. "Enhancing Time Series Forecasting in Materials Science through Large Pre-Trained Models and Transfer Learning". Paper presented in Machine Learning Modalities for Materials Science (MLM4MS) Workshop, Ljubljana, 2024.
  3. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Leveraging Transformers for Accurate Sales Forecasting in Retail Businesses". Paper presented in 4th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences (ASEC 2023), online, 2023.
  4. Ramos, P.; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Sales forecasting with machine learning methods using external information for the retail supply chain". Paper presented in 42nd International Symposium on Forecasting, Oxford, 2022.
  5. Ramos, P.; Oliveira, José Manuel; Kourentzes, N.; Fildes, R.. "Comparing penalized dynamic regression with time series methods for modeling and forecasting retail product sales". Paper presented in 41st International Symposium on Forecasting, Virtual + Local Hubs, 2021.
  6. Ramos, P.; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Support vector machines framework for forecasting retail product sales". Paper presented in 40th International Symposium on Forecasting, Virtual, 2020.
  7. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel; Kourentzes, N.; Fildes, R.. "Automatic selection of predictors for ARIMA models". Paper presented in 39th International Symposium on Forecasting, Thessaloniki, 2019.
  8. Svetunkov, I.; Boylan, J.; Ramos, P.; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Forecasting intermittent data with complex patterns". Paper presented in 38th International Symposium on Forecasting, Colorado, 2018.
  9. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel; Fildes, R.; Ma, S.. "Characterizing retail demand with promotional effects for model selection". Paper presented in 37th International Symposium on Forecasting, Cairns, 2017.
  10. Pinho, JM; Oliveira, JM; Ramos, P. "Sales Forecasting in Retail Industry Based on Dynamic Regression Models". 2016.
    10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-483
  11. Ramos, P; Oliveira, JM; Rebelo, R. "Evaluating the Forecasting Accuracy of Pure Time Series Models on Retail Data". 2016.
    10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-489
  12. Ribeiro, C; Oliveira, JM; Ramos, P. "Management of Promotional Activity Supported by Forecasts Based on Assorted Information". 2016.
    10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-477
  13. Abdellatif, MM; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "Neighbors and Relative Location Identification Using RSSI in a Dense Wireless Sensor Network". 2014.
    10.1109/MedHocNet.2014.6849116
  14. Abdellatif, MM; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "The Effect of Data Aggregation on the Performance of a Wireless Sensor Network Employing a Polling Based Data Collecting Technique". 2013.
    10.1109/WD.2013.6686479
  15. Novo, N.; Gomes, A.; Neves, P.; Ricardo, M.; Oliveira, J.M.. "Video streaming over multi-radio access networks: An access aggregation approach". Paper presented in 20th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2012, 2012.
  16. Abdellatif, M.M.; Oliveira, J.M.; Ricardo, M.; Steenkiste, P.. "Impact of data collecting techniques on the performance of a wireless sensor network". Paper presented in International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2012.
    10.1109/ISWCS.2012.6328340
  17. Oliveira, L.; Rodrigues, A.; Nunes, H.; Dias, L.; Coelho, A.; Oliveira, J.M.; Carrapatoso, E.; Leitao, M.J.. "Web based geographic information platform for tourism". Paper presented in 6th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, CISTI 2011, 2011.
  18. Almeida, F; Cruz, J; Oliveira, J. "Mitigating the Security Risks of Unified Communications". 2009.
  19. Almeida, F; Cruz, J; Oliveira, J. "A PROPOSED UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM BASED ON OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES". 2009.
  20. Del Monego, HI; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "Performance Analysis of Joint Radio Resource Management Strategies for Beyond 3G Networks". 2009.
    10.1109/ngmast.2009.70
  21. Almeida, F.; Oliveira, J.; Cruz, J.. "Unified communications: Different approaches for different types of enterprises". Paper presented in IADIS International Conference Informatics 2009, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2009, 2009.
  22. Del Monego, Hermes Irineu; Oliveira, Jose Manuel; Ricardo, Manuel. "A resource management strategy for interconnected WLAN and UMTS networks based on user mobility, call renegotiation, and call reallocation". Paper presented in 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, 2009.
    10.1109/iswcs.2009.5285348
  23. Del Monego, HI; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "Resource Management in Multi-Radio Renegotiation and Re-allocation calls.". 2008.
  24. Monego, HID; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "Gestão de recursos multi-rádio com renegociação e re-alocação de chamadas". 2008.
  25. Oliveira, JM; Carrapatoso, E. "Using telecommunications middleware to dynamically adapt multimedia services". Paper presented in 14th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing and 6th EURASIP Conference focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services, 2007.
    10.1109/iwssip.2007.4381104
  26. Vassilis Kaldanis; Renato Roque; Amardeo Sarma; Oliveira, José Manuel; Riccardo Pascotto. "Business Aspects of Federated Pervasiveness in the Daidalos Context". Paper presented in International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2007.
  27. Renato Roque; Oliveira, José Manuel; Filipe Passos Pinto; Manuel Dinis; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso. "3G Service Provision Experience Over UMTS Middleware Platforms". Paper presented in EURESCOM Summit - Evolution of Broadband Services, 2003.
  28. Oliveira, José Manuel; Renato Roque; Manuel Dinis; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso. "Provision of Mobile Multimedia over UMTS Middleware Platforms". Paper presented in IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit, 2003.
  29. Oliveira, JM; Roque, R; Carrapatoso, E; Portschy, H; Hovanyi, D; Berenyi, I. "Mobile multimedia in vesper virtual home environment". 2002.
    10.1109/icme.2002.1035895
  30. Moura, J.A.; Oliveira, J.M.; Carrapatoso, E.; Roque, R.. "Service provision & resource discovery in the VESPER VHE". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2002.
  31. Renato Roque; Oliveira, José Manuel; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso; Erwin Postmann. "Roaming in a Virtual Home Environment for 3G Services". Paper presented in EURESCOM Summit - Powerful Networks for Protifable Services, 2002.
  32. Renato Roque; Teresa Soares; Oliveira, José Manuel. "VESPER Project - Validation of VHE Concept". Paper presented in Conferência de Telecomunicações, 2001.
  33. Renato Roque; Oliveira, José Manuel; Simone Sedillot; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso. "3rd Generation Services Provision in Virtual Home Environment". Paper presented in EURESCOM Summit - 3G Technologies and Applications, 2001.
  34. Oliveira, José Manuel; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso; Moreira, Rui Silva; Eduarda Mendes. "Development of a Distributed Digital Library: From Specification to Code Generation". Paper presented in Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores, 1999.
  35. Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso; Moreira, Rui Silva; Oliveira, José Manuel; Ribeiro, Nuno Magalhães. "A Virtual Digital Library". Paper presented in Euroconference - New Technologies For Higher Education, 1998.
Conference poster
  1. Costa, Vitor; Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Training Multimodal Models for Materials Science Through Contrastive Representation Learning". Paper presented in Machine Learning Modalities for Materials Science (MLM4MS) Workshop, 2024.
  2. Casais, João; Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "A Contrastive Learning Approach to Multimodal Biliary Cancer Data Integration". Paper presented in Bi-annual ENS-CCA Conference, 2024.
  3. Moreira, Rui Silva; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso; Oliveira, José Manuel; Gordon Blair. "New Architectural Trends for Adaptive Digital Libraries". Paper presented in European Conference on Research and Advance Technology for Digital Libraries, 2000.
Journal article
  1. Ricardo Caetano; José Manuel Oliveira; Patrícia Ramos. "Transformer-Based Models for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Explanatory Variables". Mathematics (2025): https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202502.0009.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202502.0009.v1
  2. Vitor Costa; José Manuel Oliveira; Patrícia Ramos. "Deep Learning-Driven Integration of Multimodal Data for Material Property Predictions". Applied Sciences (2025): https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202501.2073.v1.
    10.20944/preprints202501.2073.v1
  3. Mariana Teixeira; José Manuel Oliveira; Patrícia Ramos. "Enhancing Hierarchical Sales Forecasting with Promotional Data: A Comparative Study Using ARIMA and Deep Neural Networks". Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/make6040128.
    10.3390/make6040128
  4. José Manuel Oliveira; Patrícia Ramos. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Time Series Transformers for Demand Forecasting in Retail". Mathematics (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/math12172728.
    10.3390/math12172728
  5. Patrícia Ramos; José Manuel Oliveira. "Robust Sales forecasting Using Deep Learning with Static and Dynamic Covariates". Applied System Innovation (2023): https://doi.org/10.3390/asi6050085.
    10.3390/asi6050085
  6. Oliveira, JM; Ramos, P. "Investigating the Accuracy of Autoregressive Recurrent Networks Using Hierarchical Aggregation Structure-Based Data Partitioning". BIG DATA AND COGNITIVE COMPUTING (2023):
    10.3390/bdcc7020100
  7. Patrícia Ramos; José Manuel Oliveira; Nikolaos Kourentzes; Robert Fildes. "Forecasting Seasonal Sales with Many Drivers: Shrinkage or Dimensionality Reduction?". Applied System Innovation (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/asi6010003.
    10.3390/asi6010003
  8. Oliveira, J.M.; Patricia Ramos. "Assessing the Performance of Hierarchical Forecasting Methods on the Retail Sector". Entropy (2019): https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/4/436.
    10.3390/e21040436
  9. Oliveira, José. "A Procedure for Identification of Appropriate State Space and ARIMA Models Based on Time-Series Cross-Validation". Algorithms (2016): http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/9/4/76.
    10.3390/a9040076
  10. Abdellatif, MM; Oliveira, JM; Ricardo, M. "The self-configuration of nodes using RSSI in a dense wireless sensor network". TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (2016):
    10.1007/s11235-015-0105-7
  11. Del Monego, H.; Carneiro, G.; Oliveira, J.M.; Ricardo, M.. "An ns-3 architecture for simulating joint radio resource management strategies in interconnected WLAN and UMTS networks". European Transactions on Telecommunications 23 6 (2012): 537-549. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867300412&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1002/ett.2508
  12. Almeida, F; Oliveira, J; Cruz, J. "Open Standards And Open Source: Enabling Interoperability". International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (2010): https://www.authenticus.pt/P-00K-9SD.
    10.5121/ijsea.2011.2101
  13. Oliveira, J.M.; Carrapatoso, E.M.. "Evaluating the adaptation of multimedia services using a constraints-based approach". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 5960 LNCS (2010): 70-88. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77952008149&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-642-12349-8_5
  14. Almeida, FFL; Oliveira, JM; Cruz, JM. "Paths to Innovate Business Models in an Economic Downturn". International Journal of Business and Management (2009):
    10.5539/ijbm.v4n11p29
  15. Oliveira, J.M.; Carrapatoso, E.. "Dynamic generation of SMIL-based multimedia interfaces". Journal of Multimedia 3 4 (2008): 14-25. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-78651536771&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. Santos, F.; Oliveira, J.M.; Roque, R.; Korthals, I.; Pascotto, R.. "Business exploitation cases for providing pervasiveness services". Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, iiWAS 2008 (2008): 609-612. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70349109079&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1145/1497308.1497423
  17. Oliveira, J.M.; Carrapatoso, E.M.. "Using context information for tailoring multimedia services to user's resources". Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4787 LNCS (2007): 138-148. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-38149056453&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/978-3-540-75869-3_12
  18. Oliveira, José Manuel; Prof. Eurico Manuel Elias Carrapatoso. "A Constraint-Based Approach to Dynamically Adapt Multimedia Interfaces". Journal of Mobile Multimedia 3 2 (2007): 179-196.
  19. Oliveira, J; Roque, R; Sedillot, S; Carrapatoso, E. "Creation of 3(rd) generation services in the context of Virtual Home Environment". Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2093 (2001): 27-36. https://www.authenticus.pt/P-000-XJF.
    10.1007/3-540-47728-4_3
Journal issue
  1. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Special Issue "Advancements in Deep Learning and Its Applications"". Applied System Innovation (ISSN 2571-5577) (2025): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/asi/special_issues/I282281W83.
    Published
  2. Ramos, Patrícia (5E16-0270-BC7F; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Special Issue "Advancements in Deep Learning and Its Applications"". Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) (2025): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/6RIW1DX0I6.
    Published • Editor
  3. Li Xiao; Zhu Meng; Zichun Yan; Minling Zhu; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Big Data Analytics and Edge Computing: Recent Trends and Future". Big Data and Cognitive Computing (ISSN 2504-2289) (2024): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/BDCC/special_issues/M338788745.
    Published • Editor
  4. Oliveira, José Manuel; Ramos, Patrícia. "Special Issue "Supply Chain Forecasting with Machine Learning Approaches"". Forecasting (ISSN 2571-9394) (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forecasting/special_issues/688G9N2SB4.
    Published
  5. Ramos, Patrícia; Oliveira, José Manuel. "Advanced Machine Learning Techniques, Applications and Developments". Applied System Innovation (ISSN 2571-5577) (2021): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/asi/special_issues/machine.
    Editor
Report
  1. Oliveira, José Manuel; Sá, G.; Fontes, H.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.. 2012. SITMe - Relatório Técnico-Científico final.
  2. Novo, N.; Ricardo, M.; Oliveira, José Manuel; Gomes, A.; Neves, P.. 2012. MRA - Multi-Radio Access.
  3. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, J.P.; Ricardo, M.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.. 2012. SITMe - Relatório com Resultados dos Testes ao Sistema de Comunicações.
  4. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, B.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Ricardo, M.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.. 2012. SITMe - Relatório de estratégia de divulgação comercial e de marketing.
  5. Oliveira, José Manuel; Sá, G.; Fontes, H.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.. 2012. SITMe - 2º Relatório Técnico-Científico.
  6. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, B.; Fontes, H.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.; Sousa, V.. 2011. SITMe - 1º Relatório Técnico-Científico.
  7. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, J.P.; Ricardo, M.; Macedo, S.; Calçada, T.. 2011. SITMe - Relatório do estudo de mercado e dos modelos de negócio para difusão de conteúdos e acesso à Internet em transportes públicos.
  8. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, B.; Pereira, F.; Romão, F.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Abdellatif, M.; Barbedo, R.; et al. 2010. SITMe - Relatório da Especificação da Arquitectura do Sistema Xarepoint Mobile.
  9. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, B.; Pereira, F.; Romão, F.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Abdellatif, M.; Barbedo, R.; et al. 2010. SITMe - Relatório da Especificação dos serviços interactivos.
  10. Oliveira, José Manuel; Rodrigues, B.; Pereira, F.; Romão, F.; Rodrigues, J.P.; Abdellatif, M.; Barbedo, R.; et al. 2010. SITMe - Relatório da avaliação económica dos sistemas audiovisuais embarcados e das tecnologias de acesso.
  11. Oliveira, José Manuel; Isabelle Korthals; Fernando Santos; Vasilis Kaldanis; Renato Roque; Fransisco Fontes; António Romero. 2008. Daidalos II Business Scenarios and Exploitation Report.
  12. Almeida, F.; Oliveira, José Manuel. 2008. An Open Source Business Roles Models for IMS-based Converged Services.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "An Adaptation Methodology for the Presentation of Multimedia Contents in the Virtual Home Environment". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2005.
  2. "Concepção de Sistemas Quiosque Multimédia". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 1996.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2009/09/09 A Resource Management Strategy for Interconnected WLAN and UMTS Networks based on User Mobility, Call Renegotiation, and Call Reallocation 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
(Sienna, Italy)
2007/06/29 Using Telecommunications Middleware to Dynamically Adapt Multimedia Services 14th International Workshop on Systems, Signals and Image Processing and 6th EURASIP Conference focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services
(Maribor, Slovenia)
2002/08/28 Mobile multimedia in VESPER virtual home environment IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
(Lausanne, Switzerland)
1999/10/28 Development of a Distributed Digital Library: From Specification to Code Generation Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores – JETC’99
(Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/10 - 2025/10 Applying Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Time Series Forecasting for Business
Co-supervisor of Alexandre Rafael Seabra Bento
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/10 - 2025/10 Gestão de Memória em Data Warehouses: Clustering de Dados e Previsão de Utilização em BW
Co-supervisor of Gonçalo Casanova Brito
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/10 - 2025/10 Desenvolvimento de uma Plataforma de BI para o Setor da Distribuição
Co-supervisor of João Diogo Dias Costa
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/10 - 2025/10 Implementação de Solução de Business Intelligence na Oneshop
Co-supervisor of Mafalda Alçada Aguiar Branco
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/10 - 2025/10 Multimodal Deep Learning for Structure-Property Prediction in Materials Science
Co-supervisor of António Francesco Peixoto Pugnali
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10 Hierarchical Time Series Forecasting with Deep Learning in Retail
Co-supervisor of José Carlos Guedes Gomes
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10 Transformer-Based Deep Learning Models for Retail Forecasting
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Jorge Teixeira Caetano
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10 Multimodal Data Integration in Oncology: A Case Study of LIHC
Co-supervisor of João Pedro Miranda Casais
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10 Machine Learning for Single-Modality and Multi-Modality Data Integration in the Materials Industry
Co-supervisor of Vítor José Figueiredo Costa
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2023/10 - 2024/10 Transfer Learning Approaches for Business Forecasting
Co-supervisor of Fábio Miguel Reis de Azevedo
 Inteligência e Análise para o Negócio (Master)
Instituto Politécnico do Porto Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto, Portugal
2024/04 - 2024/07 Using global forecasting to predict sales at community pharmacies
Co-supervisor of André Rodrigues Vicente
 Gestão e Economia de Serviços de Saúde (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/04 - 2022/09 Previsão de Vendas na Cadeia de Abastecimento no Setor do Retalho Integrando Atividade Promocional
Supervisor of Mariana Cardoso Teixeira
 Economia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2018/07 - 2018/12 Impacte de informação promocional na previsão de procura intermitente no setor do retalho
Supervisor of Marta Filipa Martins Ramos
 Economia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2018/07 - 2018/12 Previsão hierárquica de vendas no setor do retalho
Supervisor of Filipa Sá Couto de Oliveira Fernandes
 Economia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2017/09 - 2018/02 Wi-Fi Long Distance Maritime Communications Data Analytics
Supervisor of José Eduardo da Silva Timóteo de Carvalho
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014/09 - 2015/11 Previsão de Vendas no Setor do Retalho sob o efeito de Ações Promocionais
Supervisor of José Manuel Rocha dos Santos Pinho
 Economia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2014/09 - 2015/11 Gestão da Atividade Promocional Baseada em Previsões Suportadas por Informação Competitiva Diversa
Supervisor of Cátia Sofia Pinto Ribeiro
 Economia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2009/11 - 2015/09 A Scalable, Self-organising Communications System for Very Large Wireless Sensor Networks
Supervisor of Mohammad Mahmoud A. Abdellatif
 Telecomunicações (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2013/09 - 2014/07 Transmissão de Vídeo Sobre Redes Emalhadas
Co-supervisor of Hugo Melchior Silva De Gouveia E Silva
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011/09 - 2012/11 Análise da Adoção do Open Source nos Municípios Portugueses
Supervisor of Paulo Filipe Ferreira da Rocha
 Economia e Gestão da Inovação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2011/03 - 2012/02 Agregação de acessos em redes multi-rádio
Co-supervisor of Nuno Filipe dos Santos Novo
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2006/10 - 2011/07 Radio Resource Management in 4G Networks: A Strategy Based on Mobility Tendency and Packet Length Sensibility
Supervisor of Hermes Irineu Del Monego
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2006/10 - 2010/03 Creation of Value with Open Source Software in the Telecommunications Field
Supervisor of Fernando Luis Ferreira de Almeida
 Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores (PhD)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/02/03 - 2025/02/05 General Meeting of COST Action Data-driven Applications towards the Engineering of Functional Materials: an Open Network. INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal. (2025/02/03 - 2025/02/05)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 European Union, Belgium
2007/06/21 - 2007/06/23 Chaired the P.4.3 – "Knowledge Management And Decision Support Systems" session of the 2ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação – CISTI 2007, Porto, Portugal. (2007/06/21 - 2007/06/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/02/03 - 2025/02/05 General Meeting of COST Action Data-driven Applications towards the Engineering of Functional Materials: an Open Network. INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal.
Meeting
 COST Action CA22154
European Union, Belgium
2024/08/28 - 2024/08/30 Core Group + WG1 + WG2 + WG5 Meeting of COST Action Data-driven Applications towards the Engineering of functional Materials: an Open Network. TU Delft The Hague, Netherlands.
Meeting
 COST Action CA22154
European Union, Belgium
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/02 General Meeting of COST Action PRECISION-BTC-NETWORK and bi-annual ENS-CCA conference, Jagiellonian University, Didactic Centre of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Krakow, Poland.
Meeting
 COST Action CA22125
European Union, Belgium
2024/05/13 - 2024/05/17 Machine Learning Modalities for Materials Science (MLM4MS) Workshop and Training School, Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Workshop
 COST Action CA22154
European Union, Belgium
2024/02/05 - 2024/02/06 General Meeting of COST Action Data-driven Applications towards the Engineering of functional Materials: an Open Network. Binario F from Facebook, Rome, Italy.
Meeting
 COST Action CA22154
European Union, Belgium
2023/06/14 - 2023/06/17 24th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks - EANN 2023, León, Spain
Conference
2009/09/07 - 2009/09/10 6th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems - ISWCS 2009, Siena, Italy.
Conference
2007/06/27 - 2007/06/30 14th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing - IWSSIP 2007 and 6th EURASIP Conference Focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services - EC-SIPMCS 2007, Maribor, Slovenia.
Conference
2007/06/21 - 2007/06/23 2ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação – CISTI 2007, Porto, Portugal.
Conference
2002/08/26 - 2002/08/29 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Conference
1999/10/27 - 1999/10/29 Jornadas de Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Computadores – JETC’99, Lisbon, Portugal.
Conference
1998/09/21 - 1998/09/23 Second European Conference in Digital Libraries with the 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Crete, Greece.
Conference
1998/04 - 1998/04 Workshop on Service Creation, promoted by SCREEN and TOSCA projects. Porto, Portugal.
Workshop
 SCREEN – Service Creation Engineering Environment (ACTS – AC227)
European Union, Belgium
1997/07 - 1997/07 Workshop on Targeting, promoted by SCREEN project, Paris, France.
Workshop
 SCREEN – Service Creation Engineering Environment (ACTS – AC227)
European Union, Belgium
1993/04/01 - 1993/04/03 Conferência Multimédia 93, Porto, Portugal.
Conference

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Topical Advisory Panel of Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal (ISSN: 2504-2289)
Member
 MDPI AG, Switzerland
2022 - Current Editorial Board of Forecasting (ISSN 2571-9394)
Member
 MDPI AG, Switzerland

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2012 - 2015 International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health (pHealth)
2006 - 2015 Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (CISTI)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2006 - 2008 Comissão Técnica 157 - Telemática dos Transportes e Tráfego Rodoviário. Organismo de Normalização Sectorial (ONS). EP Estradas de Portugal EPE, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Applied Sciences (2076-3417) MDPI
2023 - Current Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (2504-4990) MDPI
2022 - Current Big Data and Cognitive Computing (2504-2289) MDPI
2022 - Current Forecasting (2571-9394) MDPI
2022 - Current Animals (2076-2615) MDPI
2020 - Current Applied System Innovation (2571-5577) MDPI
2016 - 2016 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2161-3915) John Wiley & Sons
2008 - 2016 IEEE Communications Magazine (1558-1896) IEEE
2009 - 2013 Journal of Network and Computer Application (1084-8045) Elsevier
2012 - 2012 IEEE Communications Letters (1558-2558) IEEE
2010 - 2010 IEEE Wireless Communications (1558-0687) IEEE

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2010 - 2010 DOUROMEDIA'2010 - International Contest on Multimedia Content for Douro Region
Distinctions

Award

2023 Best Paper Award - 24th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN), León (Spain), 14-17 June.