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Centre for Intelligent Systems

Faculty of Sciences and Technology
University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 FARO
Portugal

Tel: +351 289 800912
Fax: +351 289 819403
E-mail: csi@ualg.pt

Objectives

The Centre for Intelligent Systems (CSI) is a multidisciplinary Research and Development Unit created on September 10, 2001 in the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Algarve, Portugal.

Its main objective is to promote fundamental and applied research in Computational Intelligence and supporting technologies, in particular in the areas of computing and information systems, control, optimisation, biomedical signal processing, cognitive neuroscience, and economics.

CSI is a multidisciplinary centre. Advances in the common theme of Computational Intelligence arise mainly as a combination of different methodologies and expertise, and this is provided by the intersection of the different research backgrounds within CSI. Additionally, as researchers within CSI target different applications, multilateral cooperation among CSI members represents an added value for each application area.

In what concerns fundamental research, CSI will focus on neural networks, fuzzy sets and systems, evolutionary computation and other meta-heuristics, spectral estimation, statistical modelling and inference, pattern recognition, biomedical simulation, signal processing and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, and their interrelationships.

In what concerns applications, CSI will target real-time control systems, resource allocation and scheduling problems, data mining, pedagogical training, medical rehabilitation and diagnosis.

The above applications require the development of appropriate systems to support them. This motivates research in re-configurable, high-performance, computing systems based on homogeneous, heterogeneous, and distributed architectures.

CSI will promote collaboration with other research and development Institutions, industry and services, foster advanced research training, and disseminate the research results at the highest international level.

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Academic Staff

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Forthcoming Events

Cooperation

International Cooperation

National Cooperation

Selected Member Publications (1999 - 2001)

A. Zalzala, C. Fonseca, J.-H. Kim, A. Smith and X. Yao (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2000), Piscataway (NJ): IEEE Press, 2000.

V. Hernandez, A. E. Ruano, Guest Editors for the Special Session in AARTC'00, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2001, pp. 393-4.

M. G. Ruano (Ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Portuguese Conference on Biomedical Engineering, University of Algarve, 11-12 June 2001.

G. Schütz, F. M. Pires, A. E. Ruano, "Estudo das rotas de recolha de resíduos sólidos na região rural de Faro", in Casos de Investigação Operacional, C. Henggeler Antunes e L. Valadares Tavares (Eds.), McGraw-Hill Portugal, 2000, pp. 148-167.

A. Leva, C. Cox, A. E. Ruano, "PID Auto-Tuning", IFAC Professional Brief, accepted and in preparation.

A. Castro-Caldas, P. Miranda, I. Carmo, A. Reis, F. Leote, C. Ribeiro, E. Ducla-Soares, "Influence of learning to read and write on the
morphology of the Corpus Callosum", European Journal of Neurology, Vol. 6, 1999, pp. 23-28.

H. Daniel, A. E. Ruano, "Performance comparison of parallel architectures for real-time control", Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 23, 1999, pp. 325-336.

M. M. Madeira, S. Bellis, L. Beltran, J. Solano Gonzalez, F. García-Nocetti, W. Marnane, M. O. Tokhi, M. G. Ruano, "High-performance computing for real-time spectral estimation", Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 7, 1999, pp. 679-686.

K. M. Petersson, A. Reis, A. Castro-Caldas, M. Ingvar, "Effective auditory-verbal encoding activates the left prefrontal and the medial temporal lobes: A generalization to illiterate subjects", NeuroImage, Vol. 10, 1999, pp. 45-54.

A. E. Ruano, A. B. Azevedo, "B-Splines neural networks assisted PID autotuning", International Journal of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1999, pp. 291-307.

C. Silva, R. Almeida, T. Oostendorp, E. Ducla-Soares, J. P. Foreid, T. Pimentel, "Interictal Spike Localisation using a Standard Realistic Head Model: Simulations and analysis of clinical data", Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 110, 1999, pp. 846-855.

C. Silva, I. R. Pimentel, A. Andrade, J. P. Foreid, E. Ducla-Soares, "Correlation Dimension Maps of EEG from Epileptic Absences", Brain Topography, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1999, pp. 201-209.

J. Solano, D. F. Garcia Nocetti, M. G. Ruano, "High performance parallel-DSP computing in model-based spectral estimation", Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 23, 1999, pp. 337-344.

A. Castro-Caldas, A. Reis, "Neurobiological substrates of illiteracy", The Neuroscientist, Vol. 6, No. 6, 2000, pp. 475-482.

J. B. Cunha, C. Couto, A. E. Ruano, "A greenhouse climate multivariable predictive controller", Acta Horticulturae, ISHS, No. 534, 2000, pp. 269-276.

P. M. Ferreira, E. A. Faria, A. E. Ruano, "Design and implementation of a real-time data acquisition system for the identification of dynamic temperature models in a hydroponic greenhouse", Acta Horticulturae, ISHS, No. 519, 2000, pp. 191-199.

J. M. Lima, A. E. Ruano, "Neuro-genetic PID autotuning: Time invariant case", IMACS Journal of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 51, 2000, pp. 287-300.

M. M. Madeira, M. O. Tokhi, M. G. Ruano, "Real-time implementation of a Doppler signal spectral estimator using sequential and parallel processing techniques", Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2000, pp. 153-167.

K. M. Petersson, A. Reis, S. Askelöf, A. Castro-Caldas, M. Ingvar, "Differences in verbal repetition in literate and illiterate subjects: A network analysis", Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 12, No.3, 2000, pp. 364-382.

K. M. Petersson, A. Reis, M. Ingvar, "Cognitive processing in literate and illiterate subjects: some recent behavioral and functional neuroimaging data", Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Vol. 42, 2001, pp. 251-267.

A. Reis, K. M. Petersson, A. Castro-Caldas, M. Ingvar, "The modulatory influence of formal schooling on visual naming skills", Brain and Cognition, 2001.

P. M. Ferreira, E. A. Faria, A. E. Ruano, "Neural Network Models in Greenhouse Environmental Control", Neurocomputing, Special Issue on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Vol. 43, No. 1-4, 2001, pp 51-75.

M. G. Ruano, "Numerical techniques for modelling Doppler ultrasound systems," Journal of Computational Acoustics (in press).

V. Grunert da Fonseca, C. M. Fonseca, "A Link Between the Multivariate Cumulative Distribution Function and the Hitting Function for Random Closed Sets," Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 57, No. 2, 2002, pp. 179-182.