ARTIST - Advanced Real-Time Systems
Local coordinator: Luís Almeida
Funding entity: IST-FP5
Period covered: April 2002 - March 2005

Real-Time Systems; component-based design and development;
adaptive real-time systems for Quality of
Service (QoS)management

INFOGENMED - A virtual laboratory for accessing and integrating genetic and medical information for health applications
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. A. Sousa Pereira
Funding entity: IST FP5
Period covered: Sep.2002 / Sep.2004

Bioinformatics; medical informatics; ontologies; intelligent information retrieval

CIDER - Communication Infrastructure for Dependable Evolvable Real-Time Systems
Locar Coordinator: Dr. Luis Almeida
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: November 2000 /May 2003

Real-Time; Dependability; Ethernet; Scheduling Algorithms

DISCO - Distributed Embeddable Systems for Control Applications
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. José Alberto Fonseca
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: September 2000 /August 2003

Distributed Systems; Control; Real-Time; Communications

HEART 3D - Measurement of the Heart Geometry from Ultrasound Images
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Paulo Ferreira
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: September 2000 / August 2003

Image Analysis; 3D Reconstruction; Echocardiography; Medical Imaging

Methodology and Tools for World-best Teamwork in Hospitals - (TEAM-HOS)
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. José Vale Serrano
Funding entity: IST FP5
Period covered: January 2000 / December 2002

Teamwork; IT in hospitals; Methodology; Modelling

Portuguese Parliamentary Records
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins / Dr. Joaquim Sousa Pinto
Funding entity: Portuguese Parliament
Period covered: May 2000-November 2002

Digital Library; e-government

ICAVIP – Independent Components Analysis in Visual Information Processing
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Ana Tomé
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: October 2000 / September 2002

General Advancement Of Knowledge; Human Visual System; Face Recognition; Sparse Coding

Functional and Morphologic Data Fusion for Epileptogenic Foci Localization in Severe Epilepsies: Development and validation
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. João Paulo Cunha
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: October 1999 - August 2001

Epilepsy; Data fusion; EEG; Inverse problem; Brain medical imaging; Epilepsy surgery

CARL - Communication, Action, Reasoning and Learning in Robotics
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Luís Filipe Seabra Lopes
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: June 1999 - May 2001

Skill acquisition; Decision-making; Human-robot Interfaces; Machine learning

Tools for a synthesis-based design environment for reconfigurable systems
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. António Ferrari Almeida
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: June 1999 - May 2001

Reconfigurable Digital Systems; FPGAs; Synthesis of Digital Systems

MINERVA - Intranet of the Judicial Court of Aveiro
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins
Funding entity: Programa AVEIRO DIGITAL
Period covered: March 1999 - February 2000

Court decisions; Web; Database

SAUDE.NET - Network for Health Services integration
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. António Sousa Pereira
Funding entity: Programa AVEIRO DIGITAL
Period covered: May 1999 - September 2000

Healthcare; Telematics; Telemedicine

Robust signal and image representations: algorithms and applications
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Paulo Jorge Gonçalves Ferreira
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: May 1999 - April 2000

Robust Representation; Frames; Transmission with Graceful Degradation; Numerical Stability

Articulatory Synthesis of Portuguese
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Francisco Vaz
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: May 1999 - April 2000

Voice Processing; Articulatory synthesis; Nasal vowels; Inverse problem

India’s Route
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins
Funding entity: FCT - Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Period covered: March 1999 - February 2000

Electronics kiosks; Electronic commerce; Electronic payments; Students

Memory of Africa
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins
Funding entity: Fundação Portugal África
Period Covered: 1997 - 2000

PALOP; Web database; Publications

Multimedia Virtual Campus
Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Arnaldo Martins
Funding entity: PRAXIS XXI
Period covered: January 1996 - December 1997

Open and distance learning; Multimedia authoring; CSCW; Digital library