Centre of Technology and Systems
Strong effort publishing in books and major journals: Journals/conferences/books/chapters (556): 105 articles in IEEE and IEE journals, as IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II and IEE Electronics Letters and in Computational Intelligence, Decision Modelling and control, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, IEEE Trans. Control Systems Technology, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems and in Collaborative Networks and Interoperability, Computers in industry, I. J. Computer Integrated Manufacturing, .and in major IEEE conferences (VLSI’2004 and in ISSCC’2006).
Journal- editorial board’s participation -44.
Conference organizing (chairs, co-chairs, scientific chair, session organizer) -95.
Graduation: PhD thesis-12 concluded and 26 ongoing; 100 MSc thesis on going (2006/7) and 23 concluded.
More than 40 international projects with a success rate larger than 30%.
Three patents submitted: Methods of ergonomic work; EP 1 473 836; A Novel Self-Calibration Technique for ADCs; Control System based on electronic pole changing.
Development of novel Integrated tools for designing, optimizing and simulating integrated circuits.
Development of state of the art circuit prototypes (8) (design, materials and processes) supported by FCT research projects (rated excellent or very good) as Optical transducer non-pixelled architecture based; a Laser Scanned p-i-n Photodiode (LSP) for Image Detection; tandem photocells for image sensing application; 10b-50MS/s Parallel Pipeline ADC; Highlights: First silicon-proved time-interleaved pipeline ADC employing low-voltage techniques. The published fastest and the most energy efficient Parallel Pipeline ADC. IEEE VLSI Circuits Conference. Proj: ADOPT (Excellent); Gaussian and Uniform High-amplitude Broadband Noise Generators. Highlights: Power dissipation of the Gaussian Noise Generator reduced by one order of magnitude when compared with the state-of-the-art for increased performance; First Practical Uniform Noise Generator reported up to date. Proj: SECA (Excellent);10b-4MS/s Parallel Pipeline ADC for fingerprint sensors. Highlights: Very low power dissipation; No special process layers used for implementing the capacitors. Project: S2A (Excellent); First fully-integrated CMOS UWB radar transceiver Project: Watermon (EU),. Highlights: Novel architecture using new fully-differential circuits for pulse generation and new receiver topology (PhD thesis). Invitation (accepted) by Springer to edit the PhD thesis as a book.
Development of novel algorithms for empirical mode decomposition, decision making, data mining, image processing, etc
Development of a framework to assist implementation of multilevel standard protocols and interoperability (PhD thesis). Introduction of semantic conformance to enhance interoperability through ontological harmonization of organizational models. Introduction of ontology-based modelmorphisms for product reference model data.
Development and successful submission of ISO standard AP236.
Elaboration of a EU study on “specific policy needs for ICT standardization”.
Development of a new 3G core model, improving significantly the handover performance for 3G/WLAN networks. Development of a first 802.11 MAC layer model, handling mixed unicast and broadcast traffic, and saturated and non-saturated networks.
Spin-offs: Launching of the spin-off Acacia Semiconductor SA, (intellectual property) and recent successful integration on S3.
Coordination and development of a comprehensive Training Programme on Interoperability. Participation on the development of a European Master Programme on IT in Construction.
Scientific research on CN: contribution to establishing CN as a new scientific discipline; progress towards a reference model for CN; a formal benefits model for collaborative networks (PhD thesis); a contract-based approach for agile manufacturing; a system architecture for the ICT infrastructure for CN; integrated service-oriented collaborative networks applied to elderly care; COBASA prototype for distributed assembly systems; negotiation wizard for CN creation.
International Awards: Outstanding Service Award from IFIP; the International William J. Conroy Standards Professional award; the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Highly Successful Completion Award; and the Best international interoperability project in Public Administration Award.