The Doctoral Programme in Electrical and Computer Engineering (PDEEC) is offered at FEUP by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC). The programme has close relations with INESC-Porto, ISR-Porto and INEB. Joint programmes also exist between DEEC and MIT, Carnegie-Mellow University and the University of Texas at Austin.

The Symposium on Electrical and Computer Engineering is included in the programme of the 1st Doctoral Congress in Engineering. This multi-disciplinary event is hosted at FEUP and will gather several areas of engineering to under the general topic of The role of PhDs in society: contributions and integration.

PDEEC will support the costs of any student from FEUP who registers for the Symposia in Electrical and Computer Engineering (authors and participants). Dinner is not included in the costs supported by PDEEC, nor are the workshops. To begin the fee payment process, please contact: Isidro Pereira, isidro@fe.up.pt.

Presentation Guide

Oral Sessions

All oral presentations will be given in a single track at FEUP, room B030.
The duration of oral presentations is 20 minutes including 5 minutes for discussions, comments, questions and answers.

The rooms for the parallel sessions (Symposia) are equipped with a computer and a projection system. Slides should be prepared in the aspect ratio of 4:3. Authors have to bring their presentations in a USB pen. Authors who bring the presentations in their laptops must go to the reception – at least 30 min before the beginning of the session - and request support.

Authors of selected papers presented in the oral sessions will be invited to submit an extend version to the U.Porto Journal in Engineering. A selection committee will recommend the papers to be selected.

Poster Sessions

The poster session will be held in the corridor of B-building, on June 12, from 10.30 to 17:00. Presenters are expected to be present at their poster during the period 16:30 – 17:00.

Authors should bring their posters printed. We will provide push pins to attach

the poster to the placards. The maximum size a poster panel: 84,1 cm width × 118,9 cm height. Texts and figures should be large enough to be read clearly at a distance of approximately 2 meters.

A poster presenter must deliver a 1 minute snapshot presentation before the poster session. Prepare a one-page slide in pptx format with 4:3 aspect ratio. Embed all fonts and movies. Each slide will be switched automatically to the next one when the time passes. The one slide pptx file should be sent to the poster chair (anibal@fe.up.pt), before June 5th, 2015.

Program Details

General Information

  • 2 Invited talks
  • 37 Presentations (17 oral + 20 poster)
  • 4 Oral sessions
    • Session 1 (ECE 1): June 11, 11:00-13:00
    • Session 2 (ECE 2): June 11, 14:30-16:30
    • Session 3 (ECE 3): June 11, 11:30-12:45
    • Session 4 (ECE 4): June 11, 14:30-16:15
  • 1 Poster Session: June 12 10:30-17:00
  • 2 One minute snapshot poster presentations:
    • Snapshot session 1: June 12, 12:50-13:00
    • Snapshot session 2: June 12, 16:20-16:30

Find a detailed session schedule here.

The abstract book is now available!

DCE 2015 - Symposium on ECE - June 11-12, 2015
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June 11   Session 1 - Chairs: Aurélio Campilho, Nuno Paulino
Time ID Authors Title
11:00 120 Pedro Santos, Jose C. Alves and João Canas Ferreira A Custom Computing Machine for Cellular Genetic Algorithms 
11:20 14 João Monteiro and Jaime Cardoso A framework for face recognition in occlusion scenarios
11:40 12 Kelwin Fernandes, Jaime Cardoso and Jessica Fernandes Temporal Segmentation and Quality Assessment of Digital Colposcopies
12:00 87 Ana F. Sequeira, Pedro M. Ferreira, Ana Rebelo and Jaime S. Cardoso A Method for Fingerprint Segmentation based on Fuzzy C-Means
12:20 127 Bruno Bispo and Diamantino Freitas Acoustic Feedback Cancellation in Public Address Systems and Recent Methods based on Cepstral Analysis
12:40 36 Luis Costa, Luis Almeida and Alisson Brito An environment for designing multi-robot systems with federated co-simulation 
13:00   Lunch  
June 11   Session 2 - Chairs: José Machado da Silva, Pedro Santos
Time ID Authors Title
14:30   Invited talk 1: Carlos Azeredo-Leme The Internet of Things - Latest Trends and Future Perspectives
15:15 30 Zahid Iqbal and Luis Almeida Hierarchical Server Design for Networks
15:35 111 Rui Fernandes and M. T. Andrade Multimedia content classification metrics for content adaptation
15:55 118 Eduardo Marques, Lucian Ciobanu and Jaime Cardoso Social Descriptor for Individual Profiling and Group Behaviour Analysis
16:30   Coffee break  
June 12   Session 3 - Chairs: João Tomé Saraiva, Rui Filipe Pinto
Time ID Authors Title
11:00 110  Phillipe Gomes, João Saraiva, Bruno Dias and Ivo Júnior Comparative Analysis of Constructive Heuristic Algorithms for Transmission Expansion Planning
11:20 114 Pedro Melo and Rui Araújo An initial study on SRM losses characterization for electric vehicle applications
11:40 126 Carlos Pereira, António Pinto and Ana Aguiar Improvement of battery efficiency of smartphones as M2M GWs by using buffers
12:00 99 João Moutinho, Diamantino Freitas and Rui Esteves Araújo Indoor localization using barely perceptible audio signals
12:20 4 Chen Wang, Ricardo Morla and Hyong Kim QoE Driven Server Selection for VoD in the Cloud
13:00   Lunch  
June 12   Session 4 - Chairs: Manuel Ricardo, Carlos Pereira
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14:30   Invited talk 2: Luís M. Correia A Perspective on Virtual Radio Access Networks
15:15 62 José Oliveira, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo Novel Ad-hoc Networking Approach for Efficient and Reliable inter-UAV Communications
15:35 86 Filipe Teixeira, Pedro Freitas, Luís Pessoa, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo Simulation and Experimental Evaluation of IEEE 802.11 Underwater Networks 
15:55 84 Sérgio Conceição, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo A Network Simulator for Wireless Underground Sensor Networks
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June 12   Poster Session - Chairs: Aníbal Matos, Nuno Abreu
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12:45 124 João Silva, Leonel Carvalho and Vladimiro Miranda Assets Management in Power Systems
12:45 113 Nuno Abreu and Aníbal Matos Online planning of automatic minehunting operations
12:45 77 Bruno Laranjo Dos Santos and Rui Esteves Araújo Fault Detection and Isolation Method for Multi-Motor Electric Vehicle
12:45 56 António Lopes and Rui Araujo Revision study of the ground vehicle model for non-linear control application
12:45 98 César Carpinteiro, Xuanle Ren, José Machado Silva and Ronald D. Blanton A statistical learning in chip-based test and diagnostics methodology
12:45 228 José Abreu and Marcelo Caetano Musical Orchestration Using Biological Principals
12:45 83 Eduardo Nuno Almeida, José Oliveira, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo Topology Control of Flying Backhaul Networks
12:45 90 Francisco P. Torres, Xuanle Ren, Vítor Grade Tavares and R. D. Shawn Blanton Learning System for IC Security
12:45 70 Bernardo Cardoso, Vítor Grade Tavares and Xin Li Algorithm and Hardware Design for Image Restoration and Classification
12:45 72 João Martins, Vítor Grade Tavares and Xin Li Compressive sensing for image compression and recovery
16:15 89 Helder Fontes, Rui Campos and Manuel Ricardo A New Methodology for Performance Evaluation of Network Protocols
16:15 60 Oluyomi Aboderin, Luís Pessoa, Mário Pereira and Henrique Salgado Theoretical Analysis of a Rectangular Shaped Planar Monopole Antenna 
16:15 67 Muhammad Ajmal Azad and Ricardo Morla COSDS: Identifying Spammers through Service Provider Collaboration
16:15 78 Tiago Esteves, Ângela Carvalho, Fernando Jorge Monteiro and Pedro Quelhas Detection and removal of periodic background patterns for improving of cell tracking analysis
16:15 85 Alexandre Clément, Rui Rodrigues and Rui Penha Tools and Template development for Live Networked Musical Performance System
16:15 23 Daniel C. Ramos, Luis Almeida and Ubirajara Moreno Cooperative control strategy based on consensus with MANET protocols and topology control
16:15 27 Pedro Saleiro, Rui Penha and Ana Rebelo Optimization methods for validation of syntactic and semantic rules in musical scores
16:15 59 Tiago Cardoso, Helder Fontes and Manuel Ricardo Improving ns-3 Emulation Performance for Fast Prototyping
16:15 46 Pedro Kretschmann, Matthew E. P. Davies and Rui Penha A real-time interactive music remixing app
16:15 45 José Pedro Santos, Filipe Borges Teixeira and Manuel Pereira Ricardo Evaluation of IEEE 802.11a/g/p Transceiver for SDR 

Invited Speakers

Carlos Azeredo Leme

Carlos Azeredo-Leme has been a senior staff engineer for the DesignWare Analog IP Department at Synopsys since 2009. Prior to joining Synopsys, he was co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Chipidea Microelectronics, where, since 1993, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer.
During that time, was responsible for complete mixed-signal solutions, analog front-ends and RF. He worked in the areas of audio, power management, cellular and wireless communications and RF transceivers. Since 1994, he has held a teaching position at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL-IST), in Portugal.
His research interests are in analog, mixed-signal and RF design, focusing on low-power and low-voltage. Carlos holds a MSEE from the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL-IST) and a Ph.D. from ETH-Zurich.

Presentation title: The Internet of Things - Latest Trends and Future Perspectives Abstract: The Internet of Things is an exciting and disrupting new technology that is creating immense opportunities for innovation and research.
This talk presents the enabling technologies that have made possible the success of the IoT and describes the technical challenges ahead. Technologies such as ultra-low-power wireless communications, nanometer CMOS processes, integrated sensors, energy harvesting and micro-batteries are discussed covering their perspectives for future development.

Luis M. Correia

Luis M. Correia was born in Portugal, in 1958. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 1991, where he is currently a Professor in Telecommunications, with his work focused in Wireless/Mobile Communications in the areas of propagation, channel characterisation, radio networks, traffic, and applications, with the research activities developed in the INOV-INESC institute.
He has acted as a consultant for Portuguese mobile communications operators and the telecommunications regulator, besides other public and private entities, and he has been in the Board of Directors of a telecommunications company.

Besides being responsible for research projects at the national level, he has participated in 31 projects within the European frameworks of COST, RACE, ACTS, IST, ICT and H2020, where he also served as evaluator and auditor, having coordinated 4 of them and taken leadership responsibilities at various levels in many others. He has supervised more than 160 M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, having edited 6 books, contribute to European strategic documents, and authored more than 400 papers in international and national journals and conferences, for which he has served also as a reviewer, editor, and board member.
At the international level, he has been part of 27 Ph.D. juries, and evaluated research projects and institutions for funding agencies in 8 countries and the European Commission. He has been the Chairman of the Technical Programme Committee and a member and chair of the Steering Committee of several major conferences. He was a National Delegate to the COST Domain Committee on ICT. He was active in the European Net!Works platform, by being an elected member of its Expert Advisory Group and of its Steering Board, and the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications, and was also elected to the European 5G PPP Association.

Presentation Title: A Perspective on Virtual Radio Access Networks Abstract: The talk addresses the concept of virtualisation of Radio Access Networks (RANs). One starts by giving the motivation for the virtualisation of networks. The architecture of virtual RAN enables it to serve multiple Virtual Network Operators (VNOs) by sharing the resources among them. The models and algorithms for managing virtual radio resources are presented.
Some reference scenarios are put forward, upon which some results are presented. According to numeric results, the implementation of Virtual Base Stations (VBSs) may improve up to 46% the serving data rate. It is also shown that allocation of resources should be done according to the type services, and their classes on quality of service. Conclusions are presented at the end.

Abstract submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dce15

Papers can be submitted by either Master's or PhD students. The spectrum of topics covered by the PDEEC programme are vast. As such, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Power Electronics
  • Electrical Power Systems
  • Systems and Control
  • Communications and Networks
  • Signal Processing
  • Image Recognition
  • Machine Learning
  • Microelectronics
  • Robotics
  • Operations Research
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bio-engineering
  • Multimedia
  • Real-Time Systems
  • Other Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Symposium Committee

Program Committee:

  • Professor Aurélio Campilho | FEUP
  • Professor José Machado Silva | FEUP
  • Professor João Saraiva | FEUP
  • Professor Aníbal Matos | FEUP

Scientific Committee:

  • Professor Ana Maria Mendonça | FEUP
  • Professor Adriano Carvalho | FEUP
  • Professor Armando Jorge Sousa | FEUP
  • Professor Diamantino Freitas | FEUP
  • Professor João Peças Lopes | FEUP
  • Professor Paula Rocha Malonek | FEUP
  • Professor Paulo Costa | FEUP
  • Professor Paulo Portugal | FEUP
  • Professor Ricardo Morla | FEUP

Reviewers:

  • Ana Aguiar | FEUP
  • Ana Mendonça | FEUP
  • Ana Rebelo | FEUP
  • Aníbal Ferreira | FEUP
  • Aníbal Matos | FEUP
  • Armando Sousa | FEUP
  • Artur Moura | FEUP
  • Aurélio Campilho | FEUP
  • Bruno Ferreira | FEUP
  • Diamantino Freitas | FEUP
  • Eurico Carrapatoso | FEUP
  • Fernando A. C. C. Fontes | FEUP
  • Hélder Leite | FEUP
  • Hélder Oliveira | FEUP
  • Hélio Mendonca | FEUP
  • Henrique Salgado | FEUP
  • Jaime Cardoso | FEUP
  • João Canas Ferreira | FEUP
  • João Peças Lopes | FEUP
  • Jorge Correia Pereira | FEUP
  • Jorge Silva | FEUP
  • José Carlos Alves | FEUP
  • José Machado Da Silva | FEUP
  • José Nuno Fidalgo | FEUP
  • José Rouco | FEUP
  • Luís Almeida | FEUP
  • Luís Oliveira | FEUP
  • Luís Teixeira | FEUP
  • Manuel Matos | FEUP
  • Manuel Ricardo | FEUP
  • Matthew Davies | FEUP
  • Miguel Correia | FEUP
  • Nuno Paulino | FEUP
  • Nuno T. Almeida | FEUP
  • Paulo Costa | FEUP
  • Paulo Portugal | FEUP
  • Pedro Aguiar | FEUP
  • Ricardo Morla | FEUP
  • Rosaldo Rossetti | FEUP
  • Tânia Calçada | FEUP
  • Vítor Tavares | FEUP
 
 
 

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