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INESC Porto’s seven Central Units, four Associate Units and one Privileged Partner make a total of 569 collaborators, of which 193 have PhDs. These current dimensions give shape to the Associate Laboratory (LA) plan that INESC Porto aims to implement over the next five years and has submitted for recognition to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). With Associate Laboratory status since 2002, INESC Porto adopted a new organisational model in 2007 with the main objective of broadening the scope of the institution as an Associate Laboratory. The challenge revolves around the growing network that allows for scientific consolidation with new groups that maintain their administrative autonomy and therefore will open new doors to large-scale projects that are more demanding and multidisciplinary. The mission is being accomplished.
14th March 2011
In this year, so notoriously marked by the economic crisis, INESC Porto has increased its budget from 10 to 12.5 million Euros. However, this is actually one of the most conservative budgets so far: close to 90% of the predicted income has been contractually guaranteed since the beginning of the year. With his feet firmly on the ground the INESC Porto President admits that despite INESC Porto having practically doubled in size over the last five years, “this does not mean an obsession with records”. José Manuel Mendonça explains that a group effort from all of the collaborators will be necessary to maintain this sustainable growth and he recognises that guaranteeing a high level of quality while growing so rapidly will be an enormous challenge.
10th February 2011
Carlos Soares, a researcher from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) recently edited the book Data Mining for Business Applications for the IOS Press. The book is about the use of data mining principally in the areas of Economics and Management and it was edited in conjunction with Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs).
09th February 2011
The research work carried out by Alberto Pinto, Vice-Director of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), was recently highlighted in the online version of the Indian Telegraph, the highest selling newspaper in Eastern India. This report followed the researcher’s presentations at the International Congress of Mathematicians - ICM 2010, which took place in India, a worldwide mathematics congress that takes place every four years and where the "Fields" medals are awarded.
02nd November 2010
Pavel Brazdil and Carlos Soares, researchers at the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), are co-authors of a book recently published by Springer, entitled "Metalearning - Applications to Data Mining", written together with Christophe Giraud-Carrier of the Brigham Young University and Ricardo Vilalta of the University of Houston.
30th December 2009
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) is currently involved in KDUS – Knowledge Discovery from Ubiquitous Data Streams, a research project financed by FCT for 2009-2012 in the scientific areas of Data Analysis and Knowledge Extraction. The main goal with this project is to study, analyse, develop and evaluate distributed and adaptive learning algorithms, which learn from continuous flows of data generated in dynamic environments.
27th December 2009
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) and the Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS) organised the 12th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS09), simultaneously with the 20th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, which took place at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP), between 2 and 5 October 2009.
26th December 2009
Carlos Soares, researcher from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) and professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto (FEP) was one of the winners of the Merit and Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award - PremeIA. The winners were presented in a solemn session that took place on 4 July during the 25th Anniversary Session of APPIA (Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence), at the Convent of the Order of Christ, in the city of Tomar.
03rd November 2009
Luís Torgo, researcher from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), published a new book on R programming entitled A Linguagem R, programação para a análise de dados (R language, programming data analysis).
06th April 2009
The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD) is involved in the organisation of the 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data, which will take place in Paris on 28 June 2009, in the context of the ACM-SIGKDD 2009 – Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, the most important annual conference on Data Mining.
06th April 2009
INESC Porto will be participating in the development of Project Palco 3.0 – Intelligent Web System to Support the Management of a Social Network in the Music Area, which will start in January 2009 and end in December 2011.
10th February 2009
The "International Conference on Computational Statistics - COMPSTAT'2008" will take place at the Faculty of Economy from the University of Porto, from 24 to 29 August 2008. The people responsible for the organisation of this event are Maria Paula Brito, Adelaide Figueiredo, Pedro Campos and Luís Torgo from LIAAD - INESC Porto LA (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support).
20th March 2008