Eugénio C. Oliveira 
Full Professor at the University
of Porto, Department of Computer
Science (Informatics Engineering), Faculty
of Engineering, founder and Coordinator of the
DAIAS- Distributed Artificial
Intelligence and Agent-based Simulation Group.
Responsible for the new Informatics Engineering Department start-up
(2007 - March 2008).
Former Coordinator of the Informatics
Section
of the Electrotechnical and Computing Department at FEUP, University of
Porto.
Co-Founder and
Director (2011-2016) of LIACC-
Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory at the
University
of Porto (including different groups from the Faculties of Sciences and
Engineering).
Founder and
Director (2005-2018) of
PRODEI,
the Doctoral
Program in Informatics Engineering at FEUP.
Creator and former responsible at FEUP for the Master of Sciences
course on Artificial Intelligence and Computing (ended in 2006).
Creator and
former Director of the Master of
Sciences course on
Informatics Engineering at FEUP, University of Porto (ended in
2010).
LAST LESSON-JUBILATION Session: Power Point Presentation PPT;
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A few pictures: 1.2.3.4
Events and Program CoCHAIR of the
18th EPIA Conference in Artificial
Intelligence
Opening the EPIA 2017 Conference. A few Pictures:1,2,3,4,5,6
He was a member of AGENTLink
European
Network of Excellence and the respective SIG on Electronic Commerce
(finished 2006).
He was portuguese representative at the network "Agreement Technology"
COST Action Management Committe.
A member of the Scientific Council for Informatics Engineering Masters
course
(MIEIC).
A member of the Advisory Committee of APPIA (Poruguese Artificial
Intelligence Association)

A member of the Editorial Board of the International
Journal
Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering", InderScience

A member of the Editorial Board of the International
Journal
Progress in Artificial Intelligence
A member of the Editorial Board
of the International Journal
"Autonomous
Agents and
Multi-Agent Systems", Springer
(Until 2013).
A member of the Editorial Board of the
International Journal
"Intelligent
Decision Technologies", IOS Press.
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- most recent Oral PRESENTATIONS:
- "A
Inteligência Artificial e o seu impacto", Eugénio Oliveira, in
"Conferências de Arouca",
Círculo Cultura e Democracia, 1 de junho 2019. (in portuguese).
- "The Quest for Beneficial AI",
Eugénio Oliveira, Keynote Speaker at
2019 IEEE 23rd International
Conference on ComputerSupported Cooperative Work in Design (IEEE CSCWD
2019) May 6-8, 2019.
- "Preparemo-nos para o impacto da
Inteligência Artificial", Eugénio Oliveira, apresentação no Seminário "Evolução
e futuro da Inteligência Artificial, Repercussões Técnicas, Económicas,
Sociais e Culturais: Desafios e Riscos Éticos", Universidade do Porto,
11 de março, 2019. (in portuguese).
- "Estaremos Seguros com a Inteligência
Artificial?", Eugénio Oliveira. Invited presentation at "Debate sobre
Inteligência Artificial, Segurança, Sustentabilidade, Equidade e Educação
para a Cidadania", Rede NPEdu, January 2019, FEUP. (in
portuguese).
- "Beneficial AI: The Next Battelfield",
Eugénio Oliveira, Invited presentation at TEDx Matosinhos, December 16,
2018.
- "IA: Promessas e Ameaças / AI: Promises and Threats",
Eugénio Oliveira, Invited presentation at the Initiative "Pint
of Science Portugal", Porto, May 15, 2018.
- "The Quest for Beneficial AI",
Eugénio Oliveira, Invited Talk at
ICONE4-
Internacional Conference on Neuroethics, April 27, 2018.
- "Methodologies for
Scientific Research: just a few ideas", Eugénio Oliveira, 2nd Wokshop of
Program "New Talenos in Artificial Intelligencel", Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, March 23, 2018
- "A
Inteligência Artificial: impacto e ética", Eugénio Oliveira, 3º Encontro
de Ciência Candida Madureira, apresentado na Escola Superior de Saúde do
Vale do Ave, V.N. Famalicão, 16 de fevereiro 2018. Publicado no jornal
online VILANOVA.
- "Quem tem medo da IA", Eugénio Oliveira, Comunicação
oral na sessão "Separação entre a Consciência Humana e a Inteligência
Artificial" promovida por GAF -
Grupo de Ação Filosófica da Universidade do Porto.
Texto,
Apresentação (18 maio 2017).
Research Activities
I have been involved, for the last 40 years with research in the
following
areas: First with Logic Programming, Knowledge Based Systems,
Intelligent Robotics
and, since 1989, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Agents with Emotion-like
states, Text Mining. All these
subjects are still
active
at our Research Group DAIAS
Group
(NIADSA) .
A short power point Presentation
on former NIAD&R
work can be found
HERE
The key concept around which our efforts are now being made is Artificial
Social Intelligence. Our principal aim is to make it possible that
sophisticated problems can be solved through the intelligent
interaction
of Distributed Cooperative Agents. This objective leads to research in
Agent architectures, Tools for building multi-agent communities,
strategies
for interaction, including cooperation and conflict resolution, truth
maintenance
in open, distributed environments and applications. The Group has about
10 members (including PhD students) working in three main directions:
Distributed
AI, Intelligent Robotics and KBS Applications .
We have been involved in several Research Projects and some of
them
have descriptions available (see DAIAS-Distributed
Artificial Intelligence and Agent-based Simulation Laboratory and
the link "RESEARCH"
for more
updated details)
Brief descriptions:


Courses I teach (untill 2018)
MIEIC- Master
in
Computing and Informatics Engineering (5 Years course):
Artificial
Intelligence
Agents and
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Logic
Programming
ProDEI-
Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering (FEUP):
Multi-Agent
Systems (also in
)
Methodologies for
Scientific Research
Research
Planning
Technologies
for Electronic Business
Robotics
MAP-Tele:- Doctoral Program in
Telecommunications (Univ. Minho, Aveiro, Porto):
MAPI:- Doctoral Program in Informatics
(CS)
(Univ. Minho, Aveiro, Porto):
Autonomous
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS/MAP-I)
Projects
(some
Student
Projects: includes ERASMUS internships)

Short Biography
Eugenio Oliveira graduated in 1972 in Electronics and immediately
went
to Switzerland where he was a R&D Engineer at Brown Bovery (now
ABB)
Electronics Lab. In 1975 he joined University of Porto and, between
1980
and 1984 he was with the AI group at the New University of Lisbon where
he got his PhD. He developed, at that time the first real-size,
real-life
Prolog Expert System which was sold to the portuguese government. The
aim
was to help on territory management by giving advice mainly based on
ecological
and biophysical descriptors. He was awarded, together with his
supervisor L.M.Pereira, the Gulbenkian Prize for
Science
and Technology. In 1985 he was "guest Academic" at IBM/International
Education
Center in La Hulpe, Belgium where he was testing a new VM Prolog and
developing
a small project on Expert System Shells. Since 1986 he is teaching AI
and
Intelligent Robotics, both at the graduate and post- graduate level, at
University of Porto in Portugal, where he coordinates DAIAS (former
DAI&R), a
Research
Group on Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Agent-based Simulation
(former "and Intelligent Robotics").
He belongs to the Coordination Board of LIACC and was
Director (2008-09).
He was creator and Director of the
Doctoral
Program in Informatics Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering (2005-2018),
University of Porto. He was also Director of the Masters course on
Artificial Intelligence
and Intelligent Systems at the University of Porto. He was Area
Chairman
(Enabling
Technologies and Systems, Robotics) for ECAI (European Conference on
Artificial
Intelligence) in 92 and 94. He was a member of the Editorial Board of
the Journal "Agents and
Multi-Agent
Systems" (ed. by Springer) and "Agent Oriented Software Engineering"
(Inderscience). He, and his group, were a full partner for
the European project on DAI applications (ARCHON) which aimed at
developing
an Architecture for Cooperative Heterogeneous on-line Systems. He is
also
responsible for bilateral projects, one with QMWC/Univ. London (Dr. N.
Jennings) on Conflict Resolution for Multi-Agent Systems and others in the H2020
Program. He was responsible by several bilateral projects. He also was the coordinator of an
ALFA
Project including research groups from France, UK and Brasil. He
and his group, DAIAS (former DAI&R), belonged to AGENTLink
European Network of Excellence and the respective SIG on Electronic
Commerce.
He was portuguese representative in the Management Committe of
"Agreement Technologies"
COST Action (ended October 2012). Eugenio
Oliveira is supervising several PhD theses on MAS- Multi Agent Systems and Text
Mining related subjects.
He was Director and responsible for the start-up of the
Informatics Engineering (Computer
Science and Engineering) Department at the Engineering Faculty,
University of Porto.He belongs to the Scientific Board of Gulbenkian
Foundation for the New Talents in AI.
Last Updated: February 2019