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April 2012

J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira
manuelfeliz@gmx.net

Academic Degrees | Professional Activity | Teaching experience | Juries | Specialization skills | Other skillsPublications


Academic Degrees: Compulsory military service:
  • 1986: Practical School of Infantry of Mafra, course for Militia Officials of the Portuguese Army, branch of Infantry Communications.

  • 1987: Commander of platoon for Basic Military Instruction for novices in the Infantry Regiment of Porto.


Professional Activity:

1984-85: Joins the Geophysics Institute of Porto:

  • Develops data acquisition systems to record earthquakes and solar radiation.

1985: Joins Instituto Nacional de Sistemas de Computadores (INESC- Porto):

  • HIGH-FI Audio signals Digitalization to be transmitted by optical fibres in a digital network. 
  • Design and implementation of a prototype optical link for "Wave Division Multiplexing" in multi-mode optical fibres.
  • Design and implementation of a 8.048Mbit/s optical link as part of the INESC´s SIFO project (Integrated System by Optical Fibres), which was sponsored by the Portuguese PTT.
  • Design and implementation of equipment for digital communications testing, namely Pseudo-Random Sequence Generators, HDB3 interfaces, etc.
  • Organizes and presents courses on optical fibre technology and electronics.
  • Conceives and develops a novel optical system to measure dams’ horizontal displacements (project TELECOORD). The firm EDP, responsible for the power supply distribution network in Portugal, showed great interest on this system, therefore he starts working in the industry on the first TELECOORD industrial prototype.

1990: Joined the company MICROPROCESSADOR S.A. formerly connected to the Portuguese industrial group SONAE and later to EFACEC.

  • Responsible for the TELECOORD’s industrialization.
    . Conception of the mechanical structure
    . Development of electronics for control and calculus
    . Development of control software in C language
    . Supervises the building of the prototype
    . Supervises its installation in the dams CRESTUMA and PRACANA.
  • Develops software in "C" for the micro-controllers (6809 and 6303 of MOTOROLA) for other industrial projects.
  • From July 93 to September 93 was involved in the development of a supervision system of Sá Carneiro's airport of Porto, using ONSPEC running on the VMS operating system.

SEPTEMBER 93: Quits MICROPROCESSADOR and start his independent job:

  • Develops Windows program in "C" for controlling the process of temperature calibration for the laboratory of metrology of Centro de Apoio Técnico à Indústria Metalomecânica (CATIM).
  • Was responsible for the automation of a line of revision of wood plaques for JOMAR, using a PLC SIEMENS.
  • Again invited by MICROPROCESSADOR to develop a fast method to recognize shape of tires based on imaging processing and Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT). Develops Windows application for that purpose, directed at the lines of production of tires of MABOR.

JUNE 94: Invited to join Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Ópticas (CETO) of University of Porto, to develop scientific software:

  • Participation in the Summer School "Trends in Optical Fibre Metrology and Standards", in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, form June to July 1994.
  • Involved in CETO in the following projects:
  • (1) Spectrometry:
    .Calibration of Spectrometers.
    .Calibration of secondary Standards.
    .Colour Calibration.
    .Windows software to calibrate spectrometers.
  • (2) Porto Wine Colorimetric:
    .Develops Windows applications in "C" for colour calculation of wine samples, following the recommendations of CIE and OIV.

OCTOBER 1995: Starts Masters course in the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP).

  • NOVEMBER 1995 to JULY 1996: Develops Windows application dedicated to wind energy analysis for the Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica e Gestão industrial (INEGI), linked to FEUP.

NOVEMBER 1996: With a research grant, enters the Secção de Gestão e Engenharia Industrial (GEIN) of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) as researcher, being one of those responsible for its LASSIP laboratory.

  • Invited by prof. José Fernando Gonçalves to join his team of research on Operational Research.
  • Develops software in "Visual Object" to resolve mathematical system equations by the SIMPLEX method.
  • Since January 1997 dedicated to the development of object-oriented software for Simulating Warehouse systems, using Visual C++. By means of this application some industrial layouts proposed by the enterprise EFACEC have been studied and simulated, under the supervision of prof. António Carvalho Brito.
  • Attends the Dr. Sean McCarthy course of the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators, on "How to write a competitive proposal for the EC Fifth Framework Program", April 1999.
  • Writes and publishes "Computer Simulation", a technical book on the fundamentals and practice of simulation, with the collaboration of Prof. António E. S. Carvalho Brito from the same Faculty.
  • Lectures “Discrete Simulation” at the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (IPB) and “Introduction to Computers” at the Universidade Lusíada of Porto.

MARCH 2002: Receives a doctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), and restarts his doctoral studies in the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP):

  • Develops work in the field of computer simulation with the objective of creating a novel approach to Supply Chain modelling and simulation.
  • Contacts and stays at the CCLT of Cranfield University, UK, advised by Mr Richard Saw, an expert on Supply Chain management, where a significant part of his Doctorate is conceived.
  • Contacts and stays in Germany, for discussion of projects related to Supply Chain management, and visits to the companies BARKAWI (Supply Chain Consultancy), and the headquarters of BMW (car industry), both in München.

FEBRUARY 2004: Contacts and discussions with Dra Fatima Rateb at the University of Granada, related to the simulation of complex systems by means of Agents technology.

SEPTEMBER 2004: Simulation of a real industrial case of Supply Chain: the procurement of additives for lubricants in the Oil Refinery of Porto (Portugal), for the enterprise GALPENERGIA.

FEBRUARY 2005: Begins writing his Doctoral thesis in parallel with the co-organization of the European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2005), a EUROSIS conference to be held at his university.

  • Participation in “The 2005 Industrial Simulation Conference”, Berlin, Germany, Jun 2005, presenting an article about the simulation of the real case study of GALPENERGIA.
  • Chairs various sessions in this conference.

OCTOBER 2005: General chairman of the European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2005), held at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, 24-26 October, and the editor of the subsequent book of proceedings, together with Prof António E. S. Carvalho Brito.

NOVEMBER 2005: applies to Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) for a Post-doctoral fellowship under the title “Simulating a new principle for retrieving electric energy from the sun”, with the idea of joining his skills both in simulation and in physics.

MARCH 2006: submits doctoral thesis on “Flexible Supply Chain Simulation” to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

APRIL 2006 to OCTOBER 2006: Presents private lectures on basic informatics to a group of senior citizens under a social project of Junta de Freguesia de Póvoa de Varzim.

AUGUST 2006: the Post-doctoral fellowship of FCT was refused.

SEPTEMBER 2006: receives his Doctoral degree from the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto.

OCTOBER 2006 to DECEMBER 2006: Dedicated to his private research on renewable energy systems, mainly about wind energy and new wind turbine designs, and publishes various articles on the Internet about the subject.

JANUARY 2007: accepts the invitation from Professor Álvaro Costa, an expert on public transport systems, to join his team at the Company TRENMO, dedicated to transports and modelling, as a simulation consultant. Here conceives and develops a dynamic simulation model for the Metro Light Rail network of Porto (Metro do Porto).

APRIL 2007: as a private consultant, participates in a “Study of Simulation for Analysing the Industrial Restructure of the Enterprise CIFIAL”, of Eng Ludgero Marques, a study which would be part of a more general project planned by INESC-INEGI. In August 2007, however, decides to abandon this project due to unsustainable delays on the gathering and the treatment of the information needed for testing and developing his simulation models.

JUNE 2007: delivers the tutorial “scMod/Sim.exe, For Supply Chain Modelling and Simulation”, at the 2007 Industrial Simulation Conference, Technical University of Delft, Holland, June.

JULY 2007: produces to TRENMO the first simulation study about the operation of the Yellow Line of the Metro Light Rail network of Porto, under the title “Pensamentos Sobre a Linha Amarela II”.

AUGUST 2007: invited by Dr. Ehsan Abdi from the Electrical Engineering Division of the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, UK, to design, develop, test and assemble a convergent wind turbine for his project: developing a wind system for generating electricity. The contacts remained on standby due to some disagreement on the property rights on the turbine.

OCTOBER 2007: joins Universidade Lusófona do Porto as an invited professor, in order to chair and lecture “Introdução à Computação(Introduction to Computation) in the course of Sciences of the Communication and the Culture.

  • Presents and publishes a novel method for metro network analysis, the “Circles model”, at the European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2007), Westin Dragonara Hotel, Malta, 22-24 October 2007, under the title “Circles Model for Metro Light Rail Analysis”.

NOVEMBER 2007: produces (to TRENMO) the second simulation study about the operation of the Yellow Line of the Metro Light Rail network of Porto, under the title “Linha Amarela, comparação entre realidade e simulação”, where the reliability and the potential of his Metro simulator are confirmed.

DECEMBER 2007: ends the one-year consultancy contract with TRENMO. His software for modelling and simulation, MetroModSim.exe is ready, including the complete model of the Metro of Porto network. Version 1.0 has been offered to TRENMO. The version 2.0 of MetroModSim.exe is available at: http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz/man/simulator.html

APRIL 2008: General chairman of the European Future Business Technology Conference (FUBUTEC), held at the Faculty of Engineering of Porto, 9-11 April, and co-editor of its book of proceedings.

  • Chairs several sessions in this conference.

AUGUST 2008: Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering Technology (IJCAET): http://www.inderscience.com/ijcaet

OCTOBER 2008: invited to chair and lecture "Computação Multimédia e Interactividade" (Multimedia Computation and Interactivity) in the course of Sciences of the Communication and the Culture, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto.

APRIL 2009: invited to chair and lecture "Introdução à Cibernética, Teoria dos Sistemas e das Redes" (Introduction to Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Networks) at Universidade Lusófona do Porto.

JULY 2009: invited to structure, chair and lecture "Física I" (Physics I) for some courses of Engineering at Universidade Lusófona do Porto.

MARCH 2010: invited to structure, chair and lecture "Física II" (Physics II) for the course of Civil Engineering of the Universidade Lusófona do Porto.

MARCH 2012: Invited to participate in the 2012 Global Small Wind Summit, ATKEPP, Shenyang, China, 30 March 2012. Participation with a remote video communication "About Wind Energy".


Teaching experience:

  • Discrete Simulation”, at the Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, 1999.
  • Introduction to Computers”, at the Universidade Lusíada of Porto, 2000-2002.
  • Introduction to Computation”, at the Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2007-8.
  • Multimedia Computation and Interactivity”, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto”, 2008-9.
  • Introduction to Cybernetics, Systems Theory and Networks”, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2008-9.
  • Computation”, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2009-10.
  • Phisics-I”, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2009-12.
  • Phisics-II”, at Universidade Lusófona do Porto, 2010-12.

Juries:

  • Masters dissertation: Alexandre Manuel da Silva, “Material Supply Concept”, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Feb 2009.
  • Masters dissertation: Nicolau Ribeiro Magalhães, “Processos de Melhoria Contínua: implementação de standards”, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Feb 2009.
  • Masters dissertation: Vinicius Mauricio Garcia Japiassú, “Controle Integrado e Optimização da Actividade de Transportes - Distribuição Primária”, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Feb 2009.

Specialization skills:

    General Physics
    Lasers and Optoelectronics
    Image processing
    C and C++ programming
    Visual and Interactive Computer Simulation
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Other skills:
    Holography
    Quantum Mechanics
    Optical Communications
    Literature
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Actual interests:
    Gravitation and Anti-gravity
    Visual and Interactive Computer Simulation

    Warehouse Simulation (consultance)
    Supply Chain Simulation (consultance)
    Renwable Energies
    Flight physics and flight systems
    Pollution
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Language skills:
Conversation: English (good), French (few) , spanish (good), italian (fair) 
Reading: English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese… 
Writing: Portuguese, English, Arabic alphabet. 
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P U B L I C A T I O N S


Thesis, books and chapters:
  • (e-book) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira et al., “Collection of Articles - Book I”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, May 2010.
  • (book chapter) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “Holistic Metrics, a Trial on Interpreting Complex Systems”, in Cyrille Bertelle, Gérard H. E. Duchamp, Hakima Kadri-Dahmani (eds.) “Complex Systems and Self-organization Modelling”, Springer, 2009
  • (proceedings) - António E. S. Carvalho Brito, J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, (eds.) “Proceedings of the 2008 ECEC-FUBUTEC Conference” Faculty of Engineering of Porto, Portugal, April 9-11, 2008
  • (Doctoral thesis) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Flexible Supply Chain Simulation”, Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, Porto, Portugal, March 01, 2006
  • (proceedings) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, (eds.) “Proceedings of the 2005 European Simulation and Modelling Conference” ESM2005, Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, Porto, Portugal, Oct 24-26, 2005
  • (book) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, "Simulação por Computador", Publindústria Editor, Porto, Portugal, 2001
  • (Masters thesis) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, "Simulação Visual de Armazéns Automáticos", LASSIP, GEIN, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Outubro 1997
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Articles and communications:
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Could Electricity be a Gravitational Effect?”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, March 2012
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “The Perfect Time for the Perfect Democracy?”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, March 2012
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Authored & no-patent”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, January 2012
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Concept: Arc-in-tension Bridge”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, August 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “The Geometric Law of Motion”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, 25 July 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Apparently Deriving Fictitious Forces”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, June 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “In Defence of the Centrifugal Force and the Geometric Law of Motion”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, June 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Home Noise and Electric Grid Induced Ultrasounds”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, June 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Some Facts and Comments on the Strange Clouds People Around the World Call “Chemtrails”, and Their Probable Relation to the HAARP System”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, April 2011
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “”Solar-­dam”: for Retrieving Energy from the Sun”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, May 2010
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Deducing Kepler and Newton from Avicenna (ابن سینا), Huygens and Descartes”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, April 2010
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Almost a Flying Saucer”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, September 2009
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Wind-Splash-Turbine”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, July 2009
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “HyperTurbine: a Wind Machine From Another World”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, and YouTube, June 2009
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “SuperbWind: An artistic Wind System Praising the Wind Energy Mindset”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, September 8, 2008
  • (refereed) - António E. S. Carvalho Brito, J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Holistic Metrics Applied to a Practical Supply Chain Study”, ECEC-FUBUTEC Conference, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal, April 9-11, 2008
  • (internal report) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Linha Amarela, comparação entre realidade e simulação” (confidential), Porto, Portugal: TRENMO - Transportes, engenharia, modelação, October/November 2007
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Circles Model for Metro Light Rail Analysis”, The European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM'2008), Westin Dragonara Hotel, Malta, October 22-24, 2007
  • (internal report) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Pensamentos Sobre a Linha Amarela II” (confidential), Porto, Portugal: TRENMO - Transportes, engenharia, modelação, Julho 2007
  • (tutorial) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “scMod/Sim.exe, For Supply Chain Modelling and Simulation”, The Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC’2007), Delft University of Technology, Delft, Holland, June 11-13, 2007
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “ Bicycle Wheel: A Surprising Wind Turbine”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, December 26, 2006
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Double Convergent Wind Turbine: To Follow the Wind Direction”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, November 26, 2006
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Low-cost Convergent Turbine for Wind Power Usage”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, November 26, 2006
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “Holistic Metrics, a Trial on Interpreting Complex Systems”, The 2006 European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2006), LAAS, Toulouse, France, October 23-25, 2006
  • (online) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “Roda-de-Vento, a Proposal for an Ex-libris”, first published at http://www.fe.up.pt/~feliz, August 26, 2006
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, “HiperJanela, an Upper Dimension for the Society of Information”, International Middle Eastern Multi-conference on Simulation and Modelling (MESM'2006), Alexandria, Egypt, August 28-30, 2006. In YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABm96DqSeVw.
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “Comparing a Standard and a Naïve Stock Refill Policies by Means of Simulation”, the 2005 European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM2005), Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, Porto, Portugal, Oct 24-26, 2005
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “Using Simulation to Analyse the Procurement of Additives for Lubricants in the Oil Refinery of Porto, Portugal”, the Industrial Simulation Conference 2005, Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, Germany, Jun 09-11, 2005
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “On Measuring the Supply Chain Flexibility”, the 2004 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, UNESCO, Paris, France, Oct 25-27, 2004
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, Richard Saw, “Distributed Application for Supply Chain Management Training”, the Industrial Simulation Conference 2004, Malaga, Spain, Jun 07-09, 2004
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz-Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, “An Approach for Dynamic Supply Chain Simulation”, The 2003 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Naples, Italy, October 27-29, 2003
  • (refereed) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, "Visual C++ software for warehouse simulation (an overview)", 11th European Simulation Symposium, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 24-27 of October 1999
  • (article) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, "Introduction to a warehouse visual simulator", 1º Congresso Luso Africano de Engenharia, Maputo, August 1999
  • (article) - António E. S. Carvalho Brito, J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, "Warehouse visual simulation applied to a practical layout (Iran)", LASSIP, GEIN, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, September 1998
  • (article) - António E. S. Carvalho Brito, J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, "Warehouse visual simulation applied to a practical layout (Brasil)", LASSIP, GEIN, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, July 1998
  • (article) - J. Manuel Feliz Teixeira, António E. S. Carvalho Brito, "Introdução a um Simulador Visual de Armazéns Automáticos", LASSIP, GEIN, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, 1ª Jornadas do Colégio de Engenharia Mecânica, Março 1998
  • (private publication) - O.D.D.Soares, C.Vinhais, F.Teixeira, "Calibração Rastreada de Espectrocolorímetros", CETO, Junho 1995
  • (article) - J. M. Feliz Teixeira, José C. Marques dos Santos, A. Pereira Leite, Joaquim Torres, "Sistema Automático para Monitorização dos Deslocamentos Horizontais da Estrutura de uma Barragem", ENDIEL 91, Lisboa 29 Maio - 2 Junho 1991
  • (article) - M. Jorge Leitão, J. M. Feliz Teixeira, José Manuel Cabral, Rui A. Castro, Eurico M. Inocencio, Pedro B. Cardoso, "Transmission of HiFi Digital Audio in the Public Network", ENDIEL 89, Porto 11-16 Abril 1989
  • (article) - Henrique M.C.F. Salgado, Jorge C.S. e Castro, Paulo M.R.S. Moreira, António A.S. Maia, Abel J.A. Costa, J.M. Feliz Teixeira, António M.P. Leite, Artur Pimenta Alves, João M.C. Ferreira, "Sistemas de Transmissão por Fibra Óptica", ENDIEL 89, Porto 11-16 Abril 1989
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