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04 sep
05 sep
06 sep
08.30 – 09.00

Hall

REGISTRATION

Accreditation and Registration 

09.00 – 09.30

auditorium

Opening Session

 

EPIA OPENING CEREMONY
Luís Paulo Rodrigues (Pro-President of the IPVC)
Pedro Arezes (Dean of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho)
Luís Nobre (Mayor of the Viana do Castelo City Council)
Pedro Moreira (Local Organization)
Manuel Filipe Santos (Organization)
Goreti Marreiros (Chair of APPIA)

09.30 – 10.30

Room Sessions

GAI – 01

ROOM 1
Chair: José MAchado

  • Detection and Classification of Spam in Social Media Comments using Artificial Intelligence – a Case Study
    Jorge Ribeiro and Vasco Alves

  • A Comparative Study of Continual Backprop
    Jacopo Silvestrin, Francisco S. Melo and Manuel Lopes
  • Time Series Data Augmentation as an Imbalanced Learning Problem
    Vitor Cerqueira, Nuno Moniz, Ricardo Inácio and Carlos Soares
AIoTA – 01

ROOM 2
Chair: Francisco Oliveira

  • Pruning End-Effectors – State Of The Art Review
    Francisco Oliveira, Vítor Tinoco, António Valente, Tatiana Pinho, José Boaventura Cunha and Filipe N. Santos

  • An apple counting system robust to multiple intermittent occlusions
    Gonçalo Matos, Tiago G. Oliveira, Filipe Silva, Carlos Santiago, Francisco Martinho, Miguel Leão, Filipe Fonseca, José Silvestre, Ricardo Saldanha and Ernesto M. Morgado

  • Data-Driven Digital Twin Based Energy Flexibility Investigation for Commercial Greenhouse Production Process
    Daniel Howard, Magnus Værbak, Zhipeng Ma, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen and Zheng Ma

AMIA – 01

ROOM 3
Chair: Goreti Marreiros

  • Data-Driven Academic Performance Evaluation: A Smart Platform Approach
    Yeray Mezquita, Javier Parra, Ricardo S. Alonso and Javier Prieto

  • Bridging Fashion and Technology: Synthetic Human Models for an Enhanced E-commerce Experience
    Ana Rita Duarte and Luís Conceição

    A Multi-Agent System Approach with Generative AI for Improved Elderly Daily Living
    Vítor Crista, Diogo Martinho and Goreti Marreiros

10.30 – 11.00

Hall

COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 12.00

Room Sessions

GAI – 02

ROOM 1
Chair: Paulo Cortez

  • Domain reductions after preprocessing: Effects on dynamic variable ordering in constraint satisfaction search
    Richard Wallace

  • Efficient Image Search and Retrieval System in Cloud Platforms
    Francisco Izquierdo, Cesar Analide and Nuno Silva

  • Unveiling Cetacean Voices: Entropy-Powered Spectrogram Denoising for Deep Learning Applications
    Francisco Bicudo, Sofia Cavaco, Luís Freitas, Philippe Verborgh, Ruth Esteban, Pauline Gauffier and Joaquim Silva

AIoTA – 02

ROOM 2
Chair: Francisco Oliveira

  • Towards a Conversational AI Chatbot to Assist Farmers in Disease Detection
    Vinuri Piyathilake, Thuthi Dilni, Randil Pushpananda, Lasanthi De Silva and Yumna Zaheed

  • The Impact of the EU’s AI Act and Data Act on Digital Farming Technologies
    Lucas Ramon Ciutat

AMIA – 02

ROOM 3
Chair: Peter Mikulecky

  • Predictive Analytics in Education: A comparative analysis of machine learning models for predicting student performance
    Dalila Durães, Beatriz Lacerda, Rita Bezerra and Paulo Novais

  • Smart Cities as Affective Environments
    Patrik Urbanik and Peter Mikulecky

SSAI – 01

ROOM 4
Chair: Pedro Moreira

  • Bayesian Causal Inference in Deep Spiking Neural Networks
    Dylan Perdigão 

  • Telemedicine and AI devices for the optimization of hospital processes, a methodology for the introduction of new technology from a legal perspective and a process optimization perspective
    Marinella Quaranta 

  • Predictive Justice: New Horizons? An Investigation into the Possibility of the Prediction Application to Cases concerning Personal Rights
    Marianna Molinari

  • An agent-based methodological approach to geospatial AI for disruption management
    Jadna Cruz

12.00 – 13.00

Room Sessions

KEYNOTE

ADITORIUM
Chair: José Machado

Virginia Dignum
Beyond the AI hype: Balancing Innovation and  Social Responsibility

13.00 – 14.30

RESTAURANT

LUNCH
14.30 – 16.00

Room Sessions

AITS

ROOM 1
Chair: Alberto Fernandez

  • Fuel Efficiency Analysis of the Public Transportation System Based on the Gaussian Mixture Model Clustering
    Zhipeng Ma, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen and Zheng Grace Ma

  • Multi-Agent Based Simulation for Decentralized Electric Vehicle Charging Strategies and their Impacts
    Kristoffer Christensen, Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen and Zheng Grace Ma

  • Bi-LSTM Neural Networks for Traffic Flow Prediction: a comprehensive analysis
    Bernardo Alves, Tânia Fontes and Rosaldo Rossetti

  • Imbalance management on free-floating VSS: a multi-agent model approach
    Marcelo Javier Karanik, Alicia Pina Zapata and Sara García Rodríguez

GenAI

ROOM 3
CHAIR: JOSÉ MACHADO

  • Large Language Model for Querying Databases in Portuguese
    Lourenço Figueiredo, Paulo Pinheiro, Luís Cavique and Nuno Marques

  • A Novel Integration of Federated Learning and LSTM for Synthetic Time Series Generation
    Gurjot Singh, Pritika Sharma and Jatin Bedi

  • Assessment on the Effectiveness of GitHub Copilot as a Code Assistance Tool: An Empirical Study
    Carlos Gonçalves and Célia Talma Gonçalves

  • AICIS: A System for Identifying AI Contribution in Textual Content
    Ahmad Hashemi and Wei Shi

SSAI – 02

ROOM 4
CHAIR: PAULO NOVAIS

  • Using Machine Learning to Leverage Dynamic Population Synthesis
    Iohan Sardinha 

  • Towards An Agent-Based Decision Support System for Quality Assurance in Smart Education
    Marzie Sadat Kasaii 

  • Sustainability by Design in Socio-Technical Systems
    Mariam Afonso 

  • The Meaning of Being Underage In The Digital Era
    Beatrice Balzola

  • Future-Proof Regulatory Frameworks for Genome Editing in Agriculture
    Lucas Ramon Ciutat

16.00 – 17.00

Room Sessions

COFFEE BREAK
SSAI POSTERS
17.00 – 17.30

DISPLACEMENT

Displacement to Biblioteca Municipal de Viana do Castelo

Library Map Location

Transportation to the library will be provided for participants who need a means of transport.
This service will be available for one-way trips only.

17.30 – 18.30

Room Sessions
External

AI ROUND TABLE

Biblioteca Municipal,
Room Couto Viana

Inteligência Artificial na Sociedade: Oportunidades e Desafios

Table Speakers
João Gama FEP / LIAAD
Paulo Novais EEUM / LASI
Luís Paulo Reis FEUP / LIACC
Goreti Marreiros APPIA

Pedro Pereira IPVC – Moderator

18.30 – 19.00
Welcome Session

followed by the serving of a Vinho Verde of honor.

Biblioteca Municipal, Room Couto Viana

The welcome session will include the participation of the Mayor of the Viana do Castelo City Council, Luís Nobre, the Pro-President of the IPVC, Luís Paulo Rodrigues and the vice-Rector of the University of Minho, Eugénio Campos Ferreira.

08.30 – 09.00

Hall

REGISTRATION

Accreditation and Registration 

09.00 – 10.30

Room Sessions

AI4IS – 01

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Filipe Portela

  • Exploration of Computer Vision Systems in the Recognition of Characteristics in Parts in an Industrial Environment
    Jorge Ribeiro and João Rodrigues

  • Approximate Nash Equilibrium Learning for n-Player Markov Games in Dynamic Pricing
    Larkin Liu

  • Data Mining Models to predict order with delays: a textile case study
    Rita Miranda and Filipe Portela

  • Comparing Aggregated and Separate Models for Crowd Density Forecasting
    Iohan Sardinha, Ana Paula Rocha and Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti

AIPES – 01

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Zita Vale

  • A Review of Intelligent Technologies in District Heating Systems
    Zheng Ma and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen

  • Intelligent Data Mining on Power Systems: Examples from Case Studies
    Sérgio Ramos, João Soares, José Almeida and Zita Vale

  • Application of a genetic algorithm for optimising the location of electric vehicle charging stations
    João Pinto, Mario Andres Mejia Alzate, Leonardo H. Macedo, Vítor Filipe and Tiago Pinto

  • Retrieval-augmented generation based assistant: a smart home case study
    Bruno Ribeiro, Luis Gomes and Zita Vale

KDBI – 01

ROOM 3
CHAIR: João Gama

  • Extensible Data Ingestion System for Industry 4.0
    Bruno Oliveira, Óscar Oliveira, Teresa Peixoto, Carla Pereira and Fillipe Ribeiro

  • Next Location Prediction with Time-Evolving Markov Models over Data Streams
    Thiago Andrade and João Gama

  • Improving Fraud Detection with 1D-Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks through Bayesian Optimization
    Dylan Perdigão, Francisco Antunes, Catarina Silva and Bernardete Ribeiro

  • A Benchmark of Automated Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Tools for Smart Cities
    Pedro Pereira, Nuno Costa, Pedro Mestre and Paulo Cortez

10.30 – 11.00

Hall

COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 12.30

Room Sessions

AI4IS – 02

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Filipe Portela

  • Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Fire Risk Assessment from Satellite Imagery
    Joao Carlos N. Bittencourt, Daniel G. Costa, Paulo Portugal and Francisco Vasques

  • Geometrically-Informed Tool Recommendation in High-Speed Machining
    Jonathan Guerne, Hatem Ghorbel, Célien Donzé, Valérie Briquez, Damien Lüthi, Pierre Falbriard and Thibaut Nicoulin

  • A Reinforcement Learning based Recommender System Framework for Web Apps: Radio and Game aggregators scenarios
    André Batista, José Manuel Torres, Pedro Sobral, Rui Moreira, Christophe Soares and Ivo Pereira

AIPES – 02

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Tiago Pinto

  • Dynamic online parameter configuration of genetic algorithms using reinforcement learning
    Vitor Oliveira, Tiago Pinto and Carlos Ramos

  • Assessing Advanced Computer Vision Techniques in Aerial Imagery: A Case Study on Transmission Tower Identification
    Daniela Lopes Freire, Andre C. P. L. F. de Carvalho, Augusto José Peterlevitz, Mateus Antonio Chinelatto, Ricardo Dutra da Silva and Juan Fernando Rojas Perea

  • Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthetic Meteorological Data Generation
    Diogo Viana, Rita Teixeira, Tiago Soares, José Baptista and Tiago Pinto

KDBI – 02

ROOM 3
CHAIR: PAULO CORTEZ

  • A Data Drift Approach to Update Deployed Energy Prediction Machine Learning Models
    Hélder Teixeira, Arthur Matta, Andre Pilastri, Luís Ferreira, Pedro Pereira, Carlos Gonçalves and Paulo Cortez

  • Optimising Dialogue Flow Discovery
    David Ressurreição, Patrícia Ferreira, Ana Alves and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

  • BI-Enabled Web Visualization of In-Place Inclinometer Data for Geotechnical Applications
    João Palma, Nuno Marques and Ricardo Santos

  • An Empirical Evaluation of DeepAR for Univariate Time Series Forecasting
    Ricardo Gomes, Carlos Soares and Luis Paulo Reis

12.30 – 13.30

auditorium

KEYNOTE

auditorium
Chair: AMilcar Cardoso

FRANÇOIS PACHET
AI and music: is the problem solved?

13.30 – 15.00

RESTAURANT

LUNCH
15.00 – 16.30

ROOM SESSION

APPIA Meeting
16.30 – 18.45

Social Session

Social Event

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19.30 – 23.30

RESTAURANT

Conference Banquet

BEST PAPER Session

See more information here

08.30 – 09.00

Hall

REGISTRATION

Accreditation and Registration 

09.00 – 10.30

Room Sessions

AIM – 01

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Manuel santos

  • Synthetic Data for Robust Identification of Typical and Atypical Serotonergic Neurons using Convolutional Neural Networks
    Daniele Corradetti, Alessandro Bernardi and Renato Corradetti

  • Profiling Atopic Dermatitis Patients Using Decision Tree Classifiers to Anticipate Dupilumab Response
    Ana Duarte and Orlando Belo

  • Modeling Temporal Dynamics in Irregular ICU Data Using MWTA-LSTM
    Mamadou Ben Hamidou Cissoko, Vincent Castelain and Nicolas Lachiche

  • Evaluating Asthma in Equines with Video Recordings
    Carolina Gomes, Paula Tilley and Luísa Coheur

AIL – 01

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Pedro Freitas

  • The Introduction of AI in Healthcare: a Multi-Layered Issue
    Marinella Quaranta, Ilaria Angela Amantea and Marianna Molinari
  • Segmentation Model for Judgments of the Portuguese Supreme Court of Justice
    Martim Zanatti, Ricardo Ribeiro and H. Sofia Pinto
  • Digital Justice in the EU: Integration of BPMN and AI into ODR Processes
    Marta Ribeiro, Davide Carneiro and Lurdes Mesquita
  • Transparency vs Explanation: Perspectives from Recent Legal Proceedings
    Uchenna Nnawuchi, Carlisle George and Florian Kammueller
NLP TeMA – 01

ROOM 3
CHAIR: Joaquim Silva

  • Meta-prompting Optimized Retrieval-augmented Generation
    João Rodrigues and António Branco
  • Pseudo-Semantic Graphs for Generating Paraphrases
    Afonso Sousa and Henrique Lopes Cardoso
  • Compositionality and Ambiguity in Multiword Expressions: A Dataset for the Evaluation of Language Models in Galician
    Laura Castro, Anna Temerko and Marcos Garcia
  • Bypassing the Nuances of Portuguese Covert Hate Speech through Contextual Analysis
    Gil Ramos, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Pedro Fialho, Sérgio Moro, António Fonseca, Rita Guerra, Paula Carvalho, Catarina Marques and Cláudia Silva
10.30 – 11.00

Hall

COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 12.00

Room Sessions

AIM – 02

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Manuel Santos

  • Predicting Surgical Site Infections: a Time to Event Approach
    Tiago Lopes, Júlio Duarte, Tiago Guimarães, Sara Cardoso, João Miranda and Manuel Santos

  • A Study on Automatic Analysis of Handwriting Alterations due to Parkinson’s Disease
    Alberto Casademunt, Alvaro Barreiro-Garrido, A. Belen Moreno, Jose F. Velez and Angel Sanchez

  • Cervical Cancer Detection in Pap Smear Images
    Pedro Didier Maranhão, Tsang Ing Ren and George Darmiton da Cunha Cavalcanti

AIL – 02

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Pedro Freitas

  • Detection of potentially non-compliant clauses in online ToS in Portuguese
    Matheus Tocchini, Igor M. Rocha, Raphael M. de Barros, Jéssica O. Silva, Ananda F. Garcia, Juliano S. A. Maranhão and Jaime S. Sichman

  • Towards transparent AI: how AI Act shape the future Nídia Andrade Moreira, Pedro Miguel Freitas and Paulo Novais 

  • Anthropocentric AI for EU Consumer Lending: ‘Hacking’ Opacity and Discrimination ‘Sins’ Powered by Creditworthiness Machines
    Diogo Morgado Rebelo, Francisco Pacheco de Andrade and Paulo Novais

NLP TeMA – 02

ROOM 3
CHAIR: Pablo GAMALLO

  • Sequence Labeling for Pun Location and Detection in Portuguese
    Patrícia Gameiro, Marcio Lima Inácio, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Ana Alves

  • Open Sentence Embeddings for Portuguese with the Serafim PT* encoders family
    Luís Gomes, António Branco, João Silva, João Rodrigues and Rodrigo Santos

  • WordNet expansion with bilingual word embeddings and neural machine translation
    Marta Vázquez Abuín and Marcos Garcia

AIC – 01

ROOM 4
CHAIR: Pedro Martins

  • MI-CCy Quantifier: A Framework for Quantifying Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity in Human-AI Collaborations
    Solange Margarido, Licinio Roque, Penousal Machado and Pedro Martins
  • Automated Detection System for Portuguese Musical Instruments
    Luis Augusto Silva, Héctor Sánchez San Blas, André Sales Mendes, Álvaro Lozano Murciego and Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo
  • Leveraging LLMs for On-the-fly Instruction Guided Image Editing
    Rodrigo Santos, João Silva and António Branco
12.00 – 13.00

auditorium

KEYNOTE

auditorium
Chair: Paulo Novais

Francisco Herrera
Explainable AI: A road still to travel

13.00 – 14.30

RESTAURANT

LUNCH
14.30 – 16.15

Room Sessions

AIM – 03

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Filipe Portela

  • Automating the Clock Drawing Test with Deep Learning and Saliency Maps
    Violet Mayne, Harry Rogers, Saber Sami and Beatriz de la Iglesia

  • Acute Pancreatitis Mortality Prediction With Federated Learning
    Pedro Vieira, Eva Maia and Isabel Praça

  • Predictive Modeling for Medication Administration in Intensive Medicine: A Data-Driven Approach
    João Fontes, Tiago Guimarães, Maria Manuel Salazar, César Quintas, Júlio Duarte and Manuel Santos

AIL – 03

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Paulo Novais

  • HIRS: A Hybrid information retrieval system for legislative documents
    José Antônio Pedro Dos Santos, Ellen Souza, Carmelo J. A. Bastos Filho, Hidelberg O. Albuquerque, Douglas Vitório, Danilo Carlos Gouveia de Lucena, Nádia Silva and Andre de Carvalho 
  • Protection of Copyrights in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence Roberto Novaes and Francesca Ferraz
NLP TeMA – 03

ROOM 3
CHAIR: Alípio Jorge

  • A Galician-Portuguese Generative Model
    Pablo Gamallo, Pablo Rodríguez Fernández, Daniel Santos, Susana Sotelo, Nuno Miquelina, Silvia Paniagua, Daniela Schmidt, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Paulo Quaresma, Daniel Bardanca, José Ramom Pichel, Vítor Nogueira and Senén Barro

  • Assessing the Trustworthiness of Large Language Models on domain-specific questions
    Sandra Mitrovic, Jerome Guzzi, Roberto Larcher, Matteo Mazzola and Marco Piazzola

AIC – 02

ROOM 4
CHAIR: Pedro Martins

  • Distributing Creative Responsibility Between a Knowledge-Based Content Determiner and a Neural Text Realizer
    Pablo Gervás and Gonzalo Mendez

  • ScanType: Evolutionary Letter Finding
    João Cristóvão, Alexandra Oliveira, Tiago Martins, Sérgio Rebelo and Pedro Martins
  • Mixed-initiative Worldbuilding in Speculative Design Experimental Practices.
    Alberto Calleo and Virginia Vignali
  • Expanding Design Horizons: Evolutionary Tool for Parametric Design Exploration with Interactive and CLIP-Based Evaluation
    Ricardo Sacadura, Luís Gonçalo, Tiago Martins and Penousal Machado
  • Evaluation of Lyrics Extraction from Folk Music Sheets Using Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
    André Sales Mendes, Álvaro Lozano-Murciego, Luis Augusto Silva, Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo, María Navarro-Cáceres and Gilberto Bernardes
16.15 – 16.30

Hall

COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.00

Room Sessions

IROBOT

ROOM 1
CHAIR: Luís Paulo Reis

  • AIMSM – A Mechanism to Optimize Systems with Multiple AI Models: A Case Study in Computer Vision for Autonomous Mobile Robots
    Bruno Georgevich Ferreira, Armando Jorge Sousa, Luis Paulo Reis, António Augusto Sousa, Rui Pedro Amaral Rodrigues and Rosaldo José Fernandes Rossetti
  • Defect detection in the painting of combustion device covers using the deflectometry method and YOLOv8
    João Silva, José Santos, Nuno Lau, Rodrigo Rito, Paulo Antunes, Luís Rino, Ângela Semitela, António Completo, Diogo Costa and José Oliveira
  • Information-Oriented and Energy-Aware Path Planning for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    José Bento, Meysam Basiri and Rodrigo Ventura
  • Pollinationbots – A swarm robotic system for tree pollination
    João Castro, Isabel Pinheiro, Miguel Marques, Pedro Moura and Filipe Santos
DCenAI

ROOM 2
CHAIR: Miriam Santos

  • Lag Selection for Univariate Time Series Forecasting using Deep Learning: An Empirical Study
    José Leites, Vitor Cerqueira and Carlos Soares
  • Chatbot Decision Support with Intent-Rich Structures in the Hospitality Industry
    Eduardo Machado and Rui Henriques
  • Meta TadGAN: Time Series Anomaly Detection Using TADGAN with Meta-Features
    Inês Oliveira E Silva, Carlos Soares, Vitor Cerqueira, Arlete Rodrigues and Pedro Bastardo
  • Context-aware Deep Forecasting: Principles for the Nation-wide Management of Blood Products
    Miguel D. Barros, Rui Henriques and Pedro Monteiro
ERAI

ROOM 3
Chair: Catarina Silva

  • GASTeNv2: Generative Adversarial Stress Testing Networks with Gaussian Loss
    Cátia Teixeira, Inês Gomes, Luís Cunha, Carlos Soares and Jan N. van Rijn

  • A Multidimensional Taxonomy for Recent Trends in Explainable Artificial Intelligence
    Isabel Carvalho, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Catarina Silva

  • Explainability of fMRI decoding models can unveil insights into neural mechanisms related to emotions
    Daniel Agostinho, Davide Borra, Miguel Castelo-Branco and Marco Simões

  • Dynamics of Fisheries in the Azores Islands: A Network Analysis Approach
    Brenda Nogueira, Ana Torres, Nuno Moniz and Gui Menezes

18.00 – 18.30

ROOM SESSIONS

Closing Session

Rita Pinheiro, (Vice-Director of the ESTG)
Pedro Castro (Local Organization)
Manuel Filipe Santos (Organization)
Goreti Marreiros (Chair of APPIA)

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