Conferences.bib

@inproceedings{Direito2022,
  author = {Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Kostis Trantzas and Christos Tranoris},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom55741.2022.9928718},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-9825-8},
  journal = {2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  month = {9},
  pages = {78-81},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {5GASP's approach to the onboarding, deployment and validation of 5G NetApps},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Lima2013,
  abstract = {Future pervasive environments will take into consideration physical and digital social relationships. Nowadays it is important to use collective intelligence, where the interpretation of context information can be harnessed as input for context-aware applications, especially for group collaboration. For collaborative applications this represents opportunities, but also new challenges in terms of using collective information for adaptability and personalization in pervasive environments. This paper presents the challenges in design and development of a context-aware framework CSCW supporting pro-behaviour capabilities in pervasive communities. © 2013 IADIS.},
  author = {Christopher Viana Lima and Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  editor = {Eva Kasparova and Nik Bessis Piet Kommers},
  isbn = {9789728939922},
  journal = {Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities and Social Media 2013, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Collaborative Technologies 2013},
  keywords = {CSCW,Cooperation,Pervasive computing,Social computing},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {11-18},
  publisher = {iadis},
  title = {A context-aware framework for CSCW applications in enterprise environments},
  url = {http://www.iadisportal.org/digital-library/a-context-aware-framework-for-cscw-applications-in-enterprise-environments},
  year = {2013}
}
@inproceedings{Fons1406:Facebook,
  abstract = {Social networks have recently emerged to become vital tools for information and content dissemination among connections. Indeed, the immense increase of the number of users of Facebook made it rise to become the largest existing social network with more than 1.2 billion active users. However, these numbers also rose the attention of hackers and attackers who aim at propagating malware and viruses for obtaining confidential information regarding social network users. In this manner, it is crucial that each Facebook user is able to easily access, control and analyse the information shared on the corresponding profile so that profile usage deviations can be more efficiently detected. However, despite the fact that Facebook allows an analysis of all user actions through the Timeline Review, this information is not comprehensively organized and there is no statistical analysis of the user generated data. In this paper, we propose a novel framework comprising a Facebook event collector, which by being provided with an authentication token for a user profile obtained through a Facebook application developed for this purpose, collects all the corresponding posted information and stores it in a relational database for a posteriori analysis. Through the graphical interface of the developed application, users can access all stored information in a comprehensible manner, according to the type of event, thus facilitating the analysis of the user's behaviour. By storing each event with the corresponding timestamp, we are able to perform an efficient and comprehensive analysis of all posted contents and compute statistical models over the obtained data. In this manner, we can create a notion of normal usage profile and detect possible deviations which may be indicative of a compromised user account.},
  author = {Hugo Fonseca and Eduardo Rocha and Paulo Salvador and Antonio Nogueira and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {Madeira, Portugal},
  doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912474},
  editor = {IEEE},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-4277-0},
  issn = {15301346},
  journal = {2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)},
  keywords = {Monitoring Framework,Profile Hijack,Social networks,User Behaviour Modelling},
  month = {6},
  note = {CORE: B,  Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A Facebook event collector framework for profile monitoring purposes},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6912474/},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Lebre2011,
  abstract = {The integration of the digital world into every aspect of our lives is becoming more and more preeminent. Nowadays, not only humans but also devices and the environments where we dwell are also able to provide their own information, through the usage of sensors. Through their interconnection over communication networks, sensors enable Ambient Intelligent scenarios achieving a true Internet of Things, and crossing the gap between computer systems and the real world. However, the different sensing devices and information generated by them, are of such disparate nature that it becomes increasingly difficult to access and make use of such heterogeneous data. In this paper, we propose a framework which not only considers a media independent information access to sensors and their supplied data, but is also flexible enough to configure and provide different means to best transport collected sensor information via wireless gateways, facilitating its deployment in different scenarios. We demonstrate its usefulness by providing a throughput efficient approach towards the collection and dissemination of sensing data, through sensing information compression and aggregation of multiple sources. © 2011 IEEE.},
  author = {Daniel Corujo and Marcelo Lebre and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Barcelona, Spain},
  doi = {10.1109/DCOSS.2011.5982210},
  isbn = {978-1-4577-0512-0},
  journal = {2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops (DCOSS)},
  keywords = {IoT,M2M,Media Independent,Sensors},
  month = {6},
  note = {Scopus: 5 citation},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A framework for flexible sensor information dissemination},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5982210/},
  year = {2011}
}
@inproceedings{CorujoSensors2011,
  abstract = {The evolution of telecommunications has allowed the coupling of networking features to an ever-increasing plethora of devices, enabling their connectivity and berthing of an Internet of Things (IoT). However, the assorted nature of such “things” implies disparate specifications, requirements and interfacing, for interaction with high-level decision modules, services and agents involved in the most distinct kind of scenarios. The joint operation of all networkable things in a truly integrated IoT vision requires a flexible framework able to facilitate interfacing with different elements and concepts. In this paper we present a framework that builds over the concept of Media Independence, further enhancing it to encompass the abstraction of different “things”, by providing the means for accessing their different interfacing procedures. We highlight the feasibility and flexibility of this framework by introducing it into an IoT scenario, enabling a flexible way for interface retrieval and control of different entities, paving the way for a truly universal and dynamic connectivity vision.},
  author = {Daniel Corujo and Marcelo Lebre and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Limerick, Ireland},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSENS.2011.6127090},
  isbn = {978-1-4244-9289-3},
  journal = {2011 IEEE SENSORS Proceedings},
  keywords = {802.21,IoT,Sensors},
  month = {10},
  pages = {643-646},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A framework for the connectivity of an Internet of things},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6127090/},
  year = {2011}
}
@inproceedings{Cunha2019,
  abstract = {The fact that most IoT solutions are provided by third parties, along with the pervasiveness of the collected data, raises privacy and security concerns. There is a need to verify which data is being sent to the third party, as well as preventing those channels from becoming an exploitation avenue. We propose to use existing API definition languages to create contracts which define the data that can be transmitted, their format and constraints. To verify the compliance with these contracts, we propose a Network Service architecture which validates REST-like API requests/responses against a Swagger schema. We deal with encrypted traffic using an Service Function Chaining (SFC)-enabled Man-in-the-Middle (MITM), allowing verifications in 'real-time.' We devised a Proof of Concept and showed that we were able to detect (and stop) contract violations.},
  author = {Vitor A. Cunha and Rui L. Aguiar and Eduardo Da Silva and Marcio B.De Carvalho and Daniel Corujo and Joao P. Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho and Carlos R.P. Dos Santos and Lisandro Z. Granville},
  doi = {10.1109/ISCC47284.2019.8969719},
  isbn = {9781728129990},
  issn = {15301346},
  journal = {Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications},
  note = {CORE: B,  Scopus: 1 citation},
  title = {A Network Service for Preventing Data Leakage from IoT Cloud-assisted Equipment},
  volume = {2019-June},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_ICT05_1,
  abstract = {Next generation communication systems aim to handle diverse types of services across different types of access technologies in a seamless way. These future mobile networks, usually denoted as 4G networks, will integrate also broadcast networks, such as the TV/Radio networks. This paper presents a future 4G network architecture, based on IPv6, capable of supporting a broad range of multicast services, including multimedia services, like Video Streaming over IP networks, in addition to traditional Internet and Voice services. This first part presents the key architectural elements. A second companion paper presents the signalling mechanisms required for the support of inherent broadcast networks in this architecture.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Emiliano Guainella and Claudio Sansone and Susana Sargento and Rui L Aguiar},
  city = {Cape Town, South Africa},
  journal = {International Conference on Telecommunications},
  month = {5},
  pages = {0},
  title = {A Next-Generation IPv6 QoS Architecture Integrating Heterogeneous Multicast and Broadcast Networks - Part 1},
  volume = {0},
  year = {2005}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_ICT05_2,
  abstract = {Next generation communication systems aim to handle diverse types of services across different types of access technologies in a seamless way. These future mobile networks, usually denoted as 4G networks, will integrate also broadcast networks, such as the TV/Radio networks. This paper presents a future 4G network architecture, based on IPv6, capable of supporting a broad range of multicast services, including multimedia services, like Video Streaming over IP networks, in addition to traditional Internet and Voice services. A architectural key first companion paper presented the elements. This paper proposes signalling scenarios for the set-up of multicast and broadcast sessions with QoS support in intra- and inter-domain scenarios, also addressing the mechanisms for the integration of current Broadcast networks in the architecture, describing a strategy that can be used to support technology.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Emiliano Guainella and Claudio Sansone and Susana Sargento and Rui L Aguiar},
  city = {Cape Town, South Africa},
  journal = {International Conference on Telecommunications},
  title = {A Next-Generation IPv6 QoS Architecture Integrating Heterogeneous Multicast and Broadcast Networks - Part 2},
  year = {2005}
}
@inproceedings{LSL_EFTA03,
  abstract = {This paper describes the architecture and current capabilities of Carl, a prototype of an intelligent service robot, designed having in mind such tasks as serving food in a reception or acting as a host in an organization. The approach that has been followed in the design of Carl is based on an explicit concern with the integration of the major dimensions of intelligence, namely communication, action, reasoning and learning. The paper focuses on the multi-modal human-robot communication capabilities of Carl, since these have been significantly improved during the last year.},
  author = {L. S. Lopes and A. J.S. Teixeira and M. Rodrigues and D. Gomes and J. Girão and C. Teìxiera and N. Sénica and L. Ferreira and P. Soares},
  city = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  doi = {10.1109/ETFA.2003.1247762},
  isbn = {0-7803-7937-3},
  issn = {19460759},
  issue = {January},
  journal = {IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA},
  month = {11},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {605-612},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A robot with natural interaction capabilities},
  volume = {1},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=1247762},
  year = {2003}
}
@inproceedings{Diogo_Gomes_104122483,
  abstract = {A general architecture for collection and processing of water resources data, in terms of quality and quantity, is presented and discussed. The proposed architecture includes the sensing of physical and chemical water parameters, data communications, and high levels of information processing, namely machine learning. The architecture adopts an Internet of Things perspective and resulted from a survey of the most commonly measured water quality parameters, processing and data acquisition computing modules, and communications hardware and software protocols. It integrates state of the art technologies in the fields of long distance communications, software containers and blockchain technologies. Geographical information is associated with the sensor data. The top layer joins data analysis and machine learning of all the gathered information. Visualization of the raw data and of the results of the data analysis and machine learning procedures is also part of the system. The integration of weather and remote sensing data, and offline biochemical information is presented in this architecture. The architecture is supported on common commercial of the shelf components and open source software.},
  author = {João Miguel Santos and Raúl Carvalho and João Carlos Martins and João Filipe Santos and Patrícia Palma and Dalmiro Maia and João Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Miguel Bergano and Domingos Barbosa and José Jasnau Caeiro},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-91421-9_6},
  journal = {International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good},
  pages = {67-79},
  title = {A Smart IoT System for Water Monitoring and Analysis},
  url = {http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91421-9_6 https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-91421-9_6},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_ICT04,
  abstract = {The increasing usage of multiple signalling mechanisms, with associated QoS extensions, creates several problems to commercial data networks. New and scalable approaches are required for the network operator to support this diversity. This paper discusses a highly flexible, scalable architecture for processing QoS Admission Control in public networks. The architecture relies on the cooperation of two different entities, an agent and a manager, with fully distributed implementation, and able to perform the required signalling, authorization, and admission control decisions. If required, the agent is capable of interfacing with different signalling mechanisms. Early implementation conclusions are also presented. This architecture is capable of operating with multiple QoS frameworks, with minimal added overhead. © Springer-Verlag 2004.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Pedro Gonçalves and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Fortaleza, Brazil},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-27824-5_145},
  editor = {José Neuman De Souza and Petre Dini and Pascal Lorenz},
  isbn = {3540225714},
  issn = {16113349},
  journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
  month = {1},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {1114-1121},
  pmid = {223151400145},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
  title = {A transsignaling strategy for QoS support in heterogeneous networks},
  volume = {3124},
  url = {http://www.springerlink.com/index/b9aucnvay7al0yla.pdf},
  year = {2004}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes2023,
  author = {Daniel Gomes and Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175469},
  isbn = {979-8-3503-9980-6},
  journal = {2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)},
  month = {6},
  pages = {296-298},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A Zero-Touch and NFV-Based Full-Mesh VPNaaS Solution - Demo},
  year = {2023}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2019,
  abstract = {With the advent of smart IoT and M2M scenarios it becomes necessary to develop autonomous systems that optimize themselves with minimal human intervention. One possible method to achieve this is through Knee/elbow point estimation. Most of the time these points represent ideal compromises for parameters, methods and algorithms. However, estimating the knee/elbow point in curves is a challenging task. Our focus is on determining the ideal number of clusters autonomously. We analyse and discuss well-known knee/elbow estimators and two extensions based on the theoretical definition. The proposed methods (named AL and S methods) were evaluated against state-of-the-art estimators. The proposed methods are a viable stable solution for knee/elbow estimation.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Henrique Aguiar and Diogo Gomes},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00061},
  isbn = {9781728128887},
  journal = {Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2019},
  keywords = {Clustering,Elbow,Knee,Optimization,Unsupervised Learning},
  month = {8},
  pages = {371-376},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {AL and S Methods: Two extensions for L-Method},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8972837/},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Barraca_tridentcom10,
  abstract = {We describe a wireless testbed composed by 24 wireless nodes that can be used to perform a broad range of studies in the area of next generation networks. This paper addresses the difficulties and constrains faced by the authors throughout the deployment process of such testbed. Flexibility and controllability were key concerns driving the testbed design. The testbed can be remotely managed through a series of remotely accessible web services performing low-level management. Validation results are presented, showing the interference levels of the testbed as well as its maximum throughput capabilities. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2011.},
  author = {João Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Berlin, Germany},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_18},
  journal = {TridentCom 2010: Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities},
  keywords = {Outdoor systems,Testbeds,Wireless network},
  note = {Scopus: 9 citations},
  pages = {219-230},
  title = {AMazING – Advanced Mobile wIreless playGrouNd},
  volume = {46},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_18},
  year = {2011}
}
@inproceedings{12247,
  abstract = {A brave new world made of interconnected smart devices will soon revolutionize the world. The application of the Internet of Things vision will foster the creation of new businesses across different industrial sectors. Communication Service Providers need to set the pace of this change if they want to lead this transformation. They need to both leverage and evolve their architectures in order to support a flexible creation of innovative services over distributed networks, linking heterogeneous sensors and actuators. This paper presents the roles of the telecoms on the upcoming machine-to-machine markets and devises an advanced architecture able to withstand the demands of a new plethora of evermore clever and useful services.},
  author = {Filipe Cabral Pinto and Paulo Chainho and Nuno Pássaro and Fernando Santiago and Daniel Corujo and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {Wuxi, China},
  journal = {Proc. 2012 International Workshop on M2M Communication Technologies and Systems},
  keywords = {M2M},
  month = {10},
  note = {Scopus: 16 citations},
  pages = {-},
  title = {An Architecture for the Future Business of Things},
  url = {http://m2m-wuxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/0/4/12049022/m2m_workshop_wuxi_program_final.pdf},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{Diogo_Gomes_119988220,
  abstract = {As 5G standards have largely matured, further enabling the radical development of 5G networks, the pressure for mobile operators to keep up with widening range of industry and contemporary use cases increases. Consequently, many approaches have emerged from the perspective of the vertical's interaction with the 5G system especially while onboarding specific vertical Network Applications (or NetApps). This work discusses an approach which reduces the complexity of this interaction by introducing a novel yet standard based vertical onboarding model. Our approach focuses on preserving interoperability and reproducibility with other systems through the exclusive utilization of data models derived by embracing well-known industry standards. Being also pragmatic, the mechanisms presented in this paper are implemented and applied in a large distributed 5G infrastructure.},
  author = {Kostis Trantzas and Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis and Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Jorge Gallego-Madrid and Ana Hermosilla and Antonio Skarmeta},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647628},
  isbn = {9781665445054},
  journal = {2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking, MeditCom 2021},
  keywords = {5G,Automated deployment and testing,Standardized data models,Unified input data model},
  month = {9},
  note = {Scopus: 6 citations},
  pages = {156-161},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {An automated CI/CD process for testing and deployment of Network Applications over 5G infrastructure},
  url = {http://doi.org/10.1109/MEDITCOM49071.2021.9647628 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9647628/},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{cunha2018sfc,
  abstract = {In this paper, we propose an architecture based on NFV and SDN which allows to balance traffic analysis techniques using a Classifier. It steers flows to the appropriate Service Function Chaining (to open traffic or not) according to network requirements (such as, effectiveness, flexibility, scalability, performance, and privacy). The SSL/TLS traffic processing is carried-out by the centerpiece of this work, the SFC-enabled MITM. A Proof-of-Concept was conducted (focusing on our SFC-enabled MITM) which showed that functionalities lost due to encryption (Content Optimization, Caching, Network Anti-virus, and Content Filter) were recovered when processing opened traffic within its Service Function Chains. We also evaluated its impact on performance. The results show that cipher suite overhead plays a role but can be mitigated, the Classifier can alleviate the performance overhead of different traffic analysis techniques, network functions have lower impact to performance, and Service Function Chaining length influences page load time.},
  author = {Vitor A. Cunha and Marcio B. de Carvalho and Daniel Corujo and Joao P. Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho and Carlos R. P. dos Santos and Lisandro Z. Granville and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Natal, Brazil},
  doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2018.8538564},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-6950-1},
  institution = {IEEE},
  journal = {2018 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC)},
  month = {6},
  note = {CORE: B,  Scopus: 5 citations},
  pages = {01013-01019},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {An SFC-enabled approach for processing SSL/TLS encrypted traffic in Future Enterprise Networks},
  volume = {2018-June},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8538564/},
  year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{Ferreira2020,
  abstract = {Reinforcement Learning has seen some interesting development over the last years, which made it very attractive to use on recommendation scenarios. In this work, we have extended the previously developed pervasive system, which is aware of the conversational context to suggest documents potentially useful to the users, with the ability to use users' click data as a way to perform better suggestions over time, through a Reinforcement Learning approach. Furthermore, to assure the real significance of these types of approaches in conversational environments, we also conducted a case study regarding the accuracy of feedback on context limited conversational systems.},
  author = {Diogo Ferreira and Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/ICHMS49158.2020.9209526},
  isbn = {9781728158716},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems, ICHMS 2020},
  keywords = {ContextAwareness,Pervasive Systems,Reinforcement Learning},
  month = {9},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Applying Reinforcement Learning in Context Limited Environments},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9209526/},
  year = {2020}
}
@inproceedings{15745,
  abstract = {Many organizations rely on a heterogeneous set of applications in virtual environment to deliver critical services to their customers. Different workloads utilize system resources at different levels. Depending on the resource utilization pattern some workloads may be better suited for hosting on a virtual platform. This paper discusses a framework for benchmarking the performance of Oracle database workloads, such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Web load and Email on two hypervisors, namely Xen and VMware. Further, Design of Experiments (DOE) is used to identify the significance of input parameters, and their overall effect on two hypervisors, which provides a quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis to customers with high degree of accuracy to choose the right hypervisor for their workload in datacenters.},
  author = {Devi P Bhukya and Carlos G Gonçalves and Diogo G Gomes and Rui L Aguiar and Carlos G Gonçalves and Rui L Aguiar},
  city = {Nice, France},
  journal = {IARIA International Conf. on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA},
  month = {10},
  pages = {0},
  title = {Benchmarking the Performance of Hypervisors on Different Workloads},
  volume = {0},
  url = {https://thinkmind.org/index.php?view=article&articleid=icsea_2014_23_10_10392 http://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=icsea_2014_23_10_10392&ei=eka5VPeuIsKuUaS1gsAI&usg=AFQjCNHBT6ctjdvw4ebw691ZC30Em3GdHg&sig2=UoiOhIdeu_3tP8e23GF},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{ferreira2019classy,
  abstract = {Over the last few years, pervasive systems have seen some interesting development. Nevertheless, human–human interaction can also take advantage of those systems by using their ability to perceive the surrounding environment. In this work, we have developed a pervasive system – named CLASSY – that is aware of the conversational context and suggests documents potentially useful to the users based on an Information Retrieval system, and proposed a new scoring approach that uses semantics and distance based on proximity data in order to classify the relationship between tokens.},
  author = {Diogo Ferreira and Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Basel Switzerland},
  doi = {10.3390/proceedings2019031040},
  issn = {2504-3900},
  issue = {1},
  journal = {13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient ‪Intelligence UCAmI 2019‬},
  month = {11},
  pages = {40},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  title = {CLASSY: A Conversational Aware Suggestion System},
  volume = {31},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/31/1/40},
  year = {2019}
}
@article{14438,
  author = {Rui L. Aguiar and Diogo Gomes and João Paulo Barraca and Nuno Lau},
  doi = {10.1007/s11277-014-1687-1},
  issn = {0929-6212},
  issue = {2},
  journal = {Wireless Personal Communications},
  month = {5},
  pages = {231-244},
  title = {CloudThinking as an Intelligent Infrastructure for Mobile Robotics},
  volume = {76},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11277-014-1687-1},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Antu1406:Context,
  abstract = {As the number of environmental sensors grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage, store and process all these sources of information. Several context representation schemes try to standardize this information, however none of them have been widely adopted. Instead of proposing yet another context representation scheme, we discuss efficient ways to deal with this diversity of representation schemes. We defined the basic requirements for flexible context storage systems, proposed an implementation and compared our implementation against two other approaches. Our solution provides more value than the remaining solutions without suffering a significant decrease in performance. © 2014 IEEE.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Sydney, Australia},
  doi = {10.1109/ICC.2014.6883891},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-2003-7},
  journal = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  keywords = {Internet of things,M2M,context information},
  month = {6},
  note = {Scopus: 8 citations},
  pages = {3664-3669},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Context storage for M2M scenarios},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6883891/},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Mota2010,
  abstract = {This paper presents a context-aware content distribution architecture based on both a generic context framework and a service platform composed of smart service enablers which are reused by different applications. A general description of the architecture components is presented emphasising the context framework, its main features and functionalities. To prove the proposed concepts and evaluate the architecture three applications have been developed targeting different types of content and usage scenarios in Public Smart Spaces.},
  author = {Telma Mota and Massimo Valla and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {Barcelona, Spain},
  journal = {NEM Summit},
  keywords = {adaptation,casting,content,context-aware applications have been,context-awareness,developed mainly,personalisation,pervasiveness,present the potential of,smart spaces,the proposed architecture some},
  title = {Context-Aware Content Casting},
  url = {http://nem-summit.eu/wp-content/plugins/alcyonis-event-agenda//files/context-paper-10.pdf},
  year = {2010}
}
@article{Martins2012a,
  abstract = {The Internet, and networks in general, are in many ways part of our daily life. As their usage increases, their faults and limita- tions also become more apparent, motivating network researchers to evaluate and develop new solutions anticipating future scenar- ios and overcoming the challenges identified. These challenges vary across a wide range of networking areas, from traffic opti- mization in telecom operators, to scalability in wide area networks and broadband multimedia streaming, or even to the contextualiza- tion of communications in order to optimize usage. For researchers to create reliable network solutions, able to be included in our ev- ery day life, these solutions must be carefully designed, tested, and then put into a cycle of successive refinement. Currently, there are some testbed management systems available. The core of most existent solutions can be reduced to a couple of shell scripts to operate the testbed resources, without the proper support for experiment automation. Running experiments is thus possible and flexible, but cumbersome, labor intensive, and error prone. The existent solutions lack proper graphical interfaces fa- cilitating user interaction, while centralizing the whole process of configuring experiments, reserving resources, scheduling, and col- lecting its results. Furthermore, collaboration of multiple parties is vital in the current research environment. Experiment results must be shared with a closed number of peers in order to allow a better analysis and a more solid validation inside research terms.},
  author = {João Martins and João Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {New York, New York, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/2348688.2348709},
  isbn = {9781450315272},
  journal = {Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization - WiNTECH '12},
  keywords = {and networks in general,are in many ways,as their usage increases,experimentation,network,of our daily life,omf,part,testbed,the internet,their faults and limita-,web,wireless},
  month = {8},
  pages = {89},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {Demonstrating the AMazING panel},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2348688.2348709 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2348688.2348709},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_tridentcom09,
  abstract = {In the last 3 years a medium size NGN testbed was deployed at the Instituto de Telecomunicações of Aveiro in order to support the validation of the project IST-Daidalos. This paper intends to describe not only the work done in order to setup and maintain this testbed but also to elucidate the community of some of the caveats of creating and managing such a testbed in a environment where most of the prototypes are under specification and requirements change quickly. In this paper we also present some of the methodology used in order to extract results from this testbed and an insight to what can be done in the future.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Alfredo Matos and Emanuel Fonseca and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Washington, USA},
  doi = {10.1109/TRIDENTCOM.2009.4976259},
  isbn = {9781424428472},
  journal = {2009 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities and Workshops, TridentCom 2009},
  keywords = {A4c,Adhoc,Daidalos,Integration,KMobility,Multicast,Multimedia,Qos,Testbed},
  month = {4},
  note = {CORE: B, Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Deploying and testing a NGN testbed IST-Daidalos testbed},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=4976259},
  year = {2009}
}
@inproceedings{Hermosilla2022,
  author = {Ana Hermosilla and Jorge Gallego-Madrid and Pedro Martinez-Julia and Ved Kafle and Kostis Trantzas and Christos Tranoris and Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Jordi Ortiz and Spyros Denazis and Antonio Skarmeta},
  doi = {10.1109/FNWF55208.2022.00055},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-6250-1},
  journal = {2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF)},
  month = {10},
  pages = {276-281},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Deployment of 5G Network Applications over Multidomain and Dynamic Platforms},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Carvalho2022,
  author = {Ricardo Carvalho and Mario Antunes and Joao Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/CloudNet55617.2022.9978874},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-8627-9},
  journal = {2022 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet)},
  month = {11},
  pages = {272-276},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Design and Evaluation of a Low-Latency CPC Environment for Virtual IEDs},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Duarte2019,
  abstract = {The recent expansion of metrification on a daily basis has led to the production of massive quantities of data, which in many cases correspond to time series. To streamline the discovery and sharing of meaningful information within time series, a multitude of analysis software tools were developed. However, these tools lack appropriate mechanisms to handle massive time series data sets and large quantities of simultaneous requests, as well as suitable visual representations for annotated data. We propose a distributed, scalable, secure and high-performant architecture that allows a group of researchers to curate a mutual knowledge base deployed over a network and to annotate patterns while preventing data loss from overlapping contributions or unsanctioned changes. Analysts can share annotation projects with peers over a reactive web interface with a customizable workspace. Annotations can express meaning not only over a segment of time but also over a subset of the series that coexist in the same segment. In order to reduce visual clutter and improve readability, we propose a novel visual encoding where annotations are rendered as arcs traced only over the affected curves. The performance of the prototype under different architectural approaches was benchmarked.},
  author = {Eduardo Duarte and Diogo Gomes and David Campos and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.5220/0007834700410052},
  isbn = {978-989-758-377-3},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications},
  keywords = {Annotation Systems,Annotations,Collaborative Software,Data Analysis,Data Modeling,Database Management Systems,Distributed Systems,Information Science,Information Visualization,Knowledge Management,Time Series},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {41-52},
  publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications},
  title = {Distributed and Scalable Platform for Collaborative Analysis of Massive Time Series Data Sets},
  url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0007834700410052},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Fonseca2021,
  author = {Joao Fonseca and Joao Alegria and Vitor A. Cunha and Jose Quevedo and David Santos and Diogo Gomes and Joao P. Barraca and Daniel Corujo and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/NFV-SDN53031.2021.9665037},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-3983-1},
  journal = {2021 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)},
  month = {11},
  note = {Scopus: 5 citations},
  pages = {154-160},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Dynamic Interdomain Network Slicing for Verticals in the 5Growth Project},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9665037/},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{Sargento_IST05,
  abstract = {This paper describes the QoS architecture and the corresponding QoS signalling protocols to be developed inside the IST project Daidalos. We address the main results achieved in terms of the definition of the QoS components and its interfaces, the description of the application and network services, definition of the signalling scenarios for the integration of the QoS signalling with the application signalling and with mobility approaches, and specification of the intra- and inter- domain QoS control approaches. We also describe the QoS management of the system, through the Policy--based Management System, and a Real-time Network Monitoring system able to aid in admission control with the results of active and passive measurements. All the elements, interfaces and functionalities take into account multicast services and inherent broadcast networks.},
  author = {Susana Sargento and Rui Prior and Filipe Sousa and Pedro Gonçalves and Janusz Gozdecki and Diogo Gomes and Emiliano Guainella and Antonio Cuevas and Wojciech Dziunikowski and Francisco Fontes},
  city = {Dresden, Germany},
  journal = {IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit},
  note = {Google Scholar: 11 citations},
  title = {End-to-end QoS Architecture for 4G Scenarios},
  url = {http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Ext/IST05/papers/527.pdf},
  year = {2005}
}
@inproceedings{Goncalves_ict09,
  abstract = {The 3GPP consortium proposed in the release 7 of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) a Diameter interface for the resource admission communication process replacing the previous COPS solution. Although both academic and industry communities have deeply debate the advantages and disadvantages of each protocol, its impact in NGN may have not been thoroughly quantified. This paper compares both protocols in terms of messages exchanged between network entities, and of bandwidth requirements during the admission control process. Based on general network operator environment characteristics, we present several exploitation scenarios where it is analyzed the scalability and adequacy of each protocol. © 2009 IEEE.},
  author = {Pedro Goncalves and Ricardo Azevedo and Diogo Gomes and Jose Luis Oliveira and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Marrakech, Morocco},
  doi = {10.1109/ICTEL.2009.5158633},
  isbn = {978-1-4244-2936-3},
  journal = {2009 International Conference on Telecommunications},
  keywords = {3GPP IMS,COPS,Diameter,Network management},
  month = {5},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {137-142},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Evaluation of policy-based admission control mechanisms in NGN},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5158633/},
  year = {2009}
}
@inproceedings{Martins2012,
  abstract = {Experimental testbeds for evaluating solutions in computer net- works, are today required as a complement to simulation and emu- lation. As these testbeds become larger, and accessible to a broader universe of the research community, dedicated management tools become mandatory. These tools ease the complex management of the testbed specific resources, while providing an environment for researchers to define their experiments with large flexibility. While there are currently several management tools, the research commu- nity is still lacking tools that smooth the experimentation workflow. These were key aspects that we considered when developing the management infrastructure for our wireless testbed[4] (AMazING). We developed a experimentation support framework supported by an attractive GUI, automation and scripting capabilities, as well as experiment versioning and integrated result gathering and analysis.},
  author = {João Martins and João Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui Luis Aguiar},
  city = {New York, New York, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/2348688.2348693},
  isbn = {9781450315272},
  journal = {Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization - WiNTECH '12},
  keywords = {experimentation,network,omf,orbit,testbed,web,wireless},
  month = {8},
  pages = {11},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  title = {Experimentation made easy with the AMazING panel},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2348688.2348693 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2348688.2348693},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{Jesus2017,
  abstract = {The increasing number of small, cheap devices full of sensing capabilities lead to an untapped source of information that can be explored to improve and optimize several systems. Yet, as this number grows it becomes increasingly difficult to manage and organize all this new information. The lack of a standard context representation scheme is one of the main difficulties in this research area (Antunes et al., 2016b). With this in mind we propose a stream characterization model which aims to provide the foundations of a new stream similarity metric. Complementing previous work on context organization, we aim to provide an automatic organizational model without enforcing specific representations.},
  author = {Ricardo Jesus and Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.5220/0006373804190423},
  isbn = {9789897582455},
  journal = {IoTBDS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security},
  keywords = {Context awareness,IoT,M2M,Machine learning,Stream mining},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {419-423},
  publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications},
  title = {Extracting knowledge from stream behavioural patterns},
  url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0006373804190423},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{Antonio_IST04,
  abstract = {This article presents results of an IP-based architecture for heterogeneous environments, covering UMTS-like TD-CDMA wireless access technology, wireless and wired LANs, that has been developed under},
  author = {Antonio Cuevas and Pablor Serrano and Carlos Jesus Bernardos and Jose Ignacio Moreno and Jurgen Jaehnert and H W Kim and Jie Zhou and Diogo Gomes and Pedro Gonçalves and Rui L Aguiar},
  city = {Lion, France},
  journal = {IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit},
  month = {6},
  note = {Google Scholar: 10 citations},
  title = {Field Evaluation of a 4G True-IP network},
  url = {http://www.it.uc3m.es/~netcom/publications/2004/cuevas_IST2004.pdf},
  year = {2004}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_WWRF15,
  abstract = {In a globally connected world filled with rich multimedia services, mobility means making the kind of services utilized independent of the access technology used. The current dependence of Technologies and Services acts as a barrier for the penetration of new markets with new products and services. Broadcast technologies such as DVB and DMB are being deployed over the world. New mobile terminals that carry two interfaces are now able to additionally connect to a broadcast network. Though these broadcast networks provide TV-like services, they lack flexibility and personalization. This paper shows how the Daidalos project has taken up these trends in terms of Mobility and Services Provisioning in a Heterogeneous Network Operator Environment towards a solution that integrates mobility and broadcast.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Rui L Aguiar and Amardeo Sarma and Karl Jonas},
  city = {Paris, France},
  journal = {Wwrf15},
  title = {Flexible Multicast Service Provision for 4G},
  year = {2005}
}
@inproceedings{Corujo2012a,
  abstract = {The utilization of Media Independent Handover (MIH) mechanisms, such as the ones provided by the IEEE802.21 standard, allow the abstraction of control and information querying primitives of different wireless access technologies, using a common interface. This not only simplifies the design of high-level entities interfacing with said technologies, but by providing a transport protocol for that interface, such primitives can be used to extend controlling mechanisms towards remote entities. However, the standard only employs such flexible and abstraction capabilities towards handover optimization and facilitation scenarios. In this paper, we take advantage of the flexible design of the MIH mechanisms, and propose evolutions over their base design, allowing their integration into the areas of Internet Multimedia Optimization and the Internet of Things. © 2012 IEEE.},
  author = {D. Corujo and M. Lebre and D. Gomes and R. L. Aguiar},
  city = {Ottawa, Canada},
  doi = {10.1109/ICC.2012.6364743},
  isbn = {9781457720529},
  issn = {15503607},
  journal = {IEEE International Conference on Communications},
  keywords = {IEEE802.21,Internet of Things,Sensors,Video},
  month = {6},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {6845-6849},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Furthering media independence mechanisms for Future Internet enablement},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6364743},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{RuiPrior_HICSS05_acm,
  abstract = {Next generation wireless communication systems aim to handle diverse types of services across different types of access technologies in a seamless way. This paper proposes a next generation network architecture and evaluates possible associated signaling strategies, focusing in network-level QoS support aspects. The scenarios handled cover terminal-initiated signaling, network controlled signaling, and application-provider controlled signaling. Possible message sequence charts associated with these scenarios are presented and discussed. The paper compares the relative merits of each approach and concludes that the optimum QoS signaling solution depends on the QoS models that will be used, which are directly related to the business models chosen by the operators.},
  author = {Rui Prior and S. Sargento and D. Gomes and R.L. Aguiar},
  city = {Big Island, Hawaii},
  doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2005.293},
  isbn = {0-7695-2268-8},
  issn = {15301605},
  journal = {Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
  note = {Google Scholar: 26 citations; Scopus: 5 citations},
  pages = {305c-305c},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Heterogeneous Signaling Framework for End-to-End QoS Support in Next Generation Networks},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1385870/},
  year = {2005}
}
@inproceedings{Trantzas2022,
  author = {Kostis Trantzas and Christos Tranoris and Spyros Denazis and Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Jorge Gallego-Madrid and Ana Hermosilla and Antonio Skarmeta},
  doi = {10.1109/MeditCom55741.2022.9928721},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-9825-8},
  journal = {2022 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)},
  month = {9},
  pages = {261-267},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Implementing a holistic approach to facilitate the onboarding, deployment and validation of NetApps},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2022,
  author = {Mario Antunes and Jose Quevedo and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud57274.2022.00038},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-9350-5},
  journal = {2022 9th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)},
  month = {8},
  pages = {227-233},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Improve Contextual IoT service discovery with semantic models},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9910528/},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2017,
  abstract = {The increasing number of small, cheap devices full of sensing capabilities lead to an untapped source of information that can be explored to improve and optimize several systems. Yet, as this number grows it becomes increasingly difficult to manage and organize all this new information. The lack of a standard context representation scheme is one of the main difficulties in this research area. With this in mind we propose a tailored generative stream model, with two main uses: Stream similarity and generation. Sensor data can be organized based on pattern similarity, that can be estimated using the proposed model. The proposed stream model will be used in conjunction with our context organization model, in which we aim to provide an automatic organizational model without enforcing specific representations. Moreover, the model can be used to generate streams in a controlled environment. Useful for validating, evaluating and testing any platform that deals with IoT/M2M devices.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Ricardo Jesus and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2017.33},
  isbn = {9781538620748},
  journal = {Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2017},
  keywords = {Context awareness,IoT,M2M,Machine learning,Stream Mining},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {105-111},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Improve IoT/M2M data organization based on stream patterns},
  volume = {2017-Janua},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8114470/},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_PIMRC07,
  abstract = {Multimedia group communication over IP is an advanced service gaining growing interest from broadcast, fixed and mobile network operators. Next Generation Networks (NGN) will require that IP based multimedia services to be efficiently delivered to groups over heterogeneous networks with QoS. Although being acknowledged as the most efficient way of delivering group communication in packet switched networks, IP multicast still faces some problems associated with QoS that have limited its success in the past. Furthermore the nonexistence of true multicast in wireless technologies has led to an inefficient mapping between the IP and wireless layers. This paper proposes a technique for efficient dynamic mapping of IP Multicast, optimizing its usage for NGN. This technique is evaluated by a prototype on a WiFi environment. © 2007 IEEE.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Athens, Greece},
  doi = {10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394125},
  isbn = {978-1-4244-1143-6},
  institution = {IEEE Commun Soc; Natl Tech Univ Athens},
  journal = {2007 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications},
  keywords = {IP networks,mobile radio,multimedia communication,packet switching,quality of service,switching networks,wireless LAN},
  month = {9},
  note = {CORE: B. Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {1-5},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {IP Multicast Dynamic Mapping in Heterogeneous Environments},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4394125/},
  year = {2007}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2018a,
  abstract = {Estimating the knee/elbow point in error curves is a challenging task. However, most of the time these points represent ideal compromises or ideal parameters for several tasks, methods and algorithms. Our focus is determining the ideal number of clusters autonomously. In this paper, we formalize the notion of knee/elbow point, discuss known methods to determine it and propose our own method. Contrary to most methods, ours is resilient to long tails in the error curve. This behaviour is especially important when considering autonomous methods. The proposed method outperformed the competition on five datasets from UCI Machine Learning Repository.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/BigDataService.2018.00042},
  isbn = {9781538651193},
  journal = {Proceedings - IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, BigDataService 2018},
  keywords = {Clustering,Knee,Unsupervised Learning},
  month = {3},
  note = {Scopus: 21 citations},
  pages = {237-240},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Knee/Elbow estimation based on first derivative threshold},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8405717/},
  year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2018,
  abstract = {Estimating the knee/elbow point in curves is a challenging task. However, most of the time these points represent ideal compromises for parameters, methods and algorithms. Nowadays several IoT and M2M scenarios require autonomous systems that optimize themselves with minimal human intervention. Thus, knee/elbow estimation has become an important research area. Our focus is determining the ideal number of clusters autonomously. In this paper, we formalize the notion of knee/elbow point based on continuous curvature function and propose two theoretical methods based on the same function. We analyse and discuss well-known knee/elbow estimators and propose our own method. Contrary to most methods, ours is resilient to long tails in the curve. We also propose an iterative refinement method to increase the resilience to long heads. All the previously mentioned methods were implemented (and are publicly available) and evaluated against eight datasets. The proposed method is a viable stable solution for knee/elbow estimation.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Joana Ribeiro and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Barcelona, Spain},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2018.00066},
  isbn = {9781538675038},
  journal = {Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2018},
  keywords = {Clustering,Elbow,Knee,Optimization,Unsupervised Learning},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {413-419},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Knee/Elbow Point Estimation through Thresholding},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8458043/},
  year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2016b,
  abstract = {In recent years the technological world has grown by incorporating billions of small sensing devices, collecting and sharing real-world information. As the number of such devices grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage all these new information sources. There is no uniform way to share, process and understand context information. It is our personal belief that IoT and M2M scenarios will only achieve their full potential when all the devices will work and learn together without human interaction. In this paper we review the most relevant semantic metrics and propose a new unsupervised model that minimizes sense-conflation problem. Our solution was evaluated against Miller-Charles dataset, outperforming our previous work in every metric.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2016.46},
  isbn = {978-1-5090-4052-0},
  journal = {2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)},
  keywords = {Context information,IoT,M2M,Semantic similarity},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 4 citations},
  pages = {270-275},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Learning Semantic Features from Web Services},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7575874/},
  year = {2016}
}
@inproceedings{GoncalvesICC2012,
  abstract = {As personal information and context sharing applications gain traction more attention is drawn to the associated privacy issues. These applications address privacy using an unsatisfactory 'whitelist' approach, similar to social networks 'friends'. Some of them also link location publishing with user interaction which is also a form of privacy control - the user has to explicitly say where he is. There are a few automatic location based-services (LBS) that track the user, but without more adequate privacy protection mechanisms they enable even bigger threats to the user. On previous work, an XMPP-based Context Distribution Architecture was defined, more suitable for the distribution of frequently changing context than other systems because it is based on the publish-subscribe pattern. In this paper the authors present an extension to this architecture that allows for the introduction of a complex degree of access control in context distribution. The devised changes enable the system to consider a number of interesting context privacy settings for context distribution control. Also, this control must be enforced in a way that it doesn't interfere with the real-time nature of the distribution process. After describing the enhancements to the architecture, a prototype of the system is presented. Finally, the delivery latency and additional processing introduced by the access control components is estimated by testing it against the existing system. © 2012 IEEE.},
  author = {Joao M. Goncalves and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Ottawa, Canada},
  doi = {10.1109/ICC.2012.6364027},
  isbn = {978-1-4577-2053-6},
  issn = {15503607},
  journal = {2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
  keywords = {access contol,context,latency,privacy},
  month = {6},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citations},
  pages = {1917-1922},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Low-latency privacy-enabled Context Distribution Architecture},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6364027/},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{Escaleira2022,
  author = {Pedro Escaleira and Miguel Mota and Diogo Gomes and Joao P. Barraca and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.23919/CNSM55787.2022.9964650},
  isbn = {978-3-903176-51-5},
  journal = {2022 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM)},
  month = {10},
  pages = {177-183},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Multi-access Edge Computing as a Service},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Alegria2022,
  author = {Joao Alegria and Rafael Direito and Daniel Gomes and Daniel Corujo and Diogo Gomes},
  doi = {10.1109/NFV-SDN56302.2022.9974655},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-7334-7},
  journal = {2022 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN)},
  month = {11},
  pages = {130-136},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {NetOr: An Inter-domain Vertical Service Orchestrator for 5G Networks},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_globecom06,
  abstract = {The wireless digital lifestyle comes to the expense of less privacy and security. This environment is prone to be monitored by rogue users, eager to learn from our lifestyle habits and use them for their own profit. The IP protocol provides very few mechanisms, in order to safeguard user privacy and impair efficient data-mining of user habits. This paper will address an identity architecture that makes use of both data (L2) and network (L3) layer identifiers in order to provide a pseudonimization function, based on virtual hoarding concepts. Our proposal is especially interesting when able to exploit the broadcast and promiscuous nature of wireless communications that usually is regarded as a security concern. A prototype implementation has been developed and tested. ©2006 IEEE.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {San Francisco, USA},
  doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.322},
  isbn = {1-4244-0357-X},
  issn = {1930-529X},
  journal = {IEEE Globecom 2006},
  keywords = {Anonimity,Privacy,Wireless networks},
  month = {11},
  note = {CORE: B, Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {NXG01-5: Privacy through Virtual Hording},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4150952/},
  year = {2006}
}
@inproceedings{Cunh1811:Orchestrating,
  abstract = {The heterogeneity of 5G requirements commands more complex network architectures, imposing the need for network orchestration. ETSI NFV MANO is the standard which defines a common framework for vendors and operators to integrate their orchestration efforts. In this paper, we evaluated how an ETSI NFV MANO compliant orchestrator (OSM) fares while orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS encrypted traffic processing architecture, which supports both edge and cloud deployments. A quantitative evaluation was carried-out, which assessed the responsiveness and overheads of OSM, as well as the actual functionality of our SSL/TLS processing architecture (with edge computing components). A qualitative evaluation was also carried-out, providing insight into the maturity of the current OSM release, what works well, what requires workarounds, and the actual limitations. A demonstration of the architecture evaluated in this work was accepted as a contribution to the ETSI OSM PoC Framework.},
  author = {Eduardo Sousa and Vitor A. Cunha and Marcio B. De Carvalho and Daniel Corujo and Joao P. Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho and Carlos R.P. Dos Santos and Lisandro Z. Granville and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Verona, Italy},
  doi = {10.1109/NFV-SDN.2018.8725675},
  isbn = {9781538682814},
  journal = {2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2018},
  month = {11},
  note = {Scopus: 4 citations},
  pages = {1-7},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Orchestrating an SFC-enabled SSL/TLS traffic processing architecture using MANO},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8725675/},
  year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{Ferr1709:PASMO,
  abstract = {PASMO is a regional project aiming to bridge the gap between research and practice in the area of urban mobility support. It covers key access roads to the seaside villages of the Aveiro/Ilhavo region, in the center of Portugal, providing vehicular communications, regular WiFi access, and a myriad of useful mobility services (parking, bikes, jams, weather) under the umbrella of a smart region infrastructure dedicated to simplify the involvement of industry in testing and developing new services. The infrastructure is currently being deployed, and the services will be operational by mid 2018.},
  author = {Joaquim Ferreira and Jose Fonseca and Diogo Gomes and Joao Barraca and Bruno Fernandes and Joao Rufino and Joao Almeida and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Wuxi, P.R. China},
  doi = {10.1109/ISC2.2017.8090866},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-2524-8},
  journal = {2017 International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)},
  keywords = {Cooperative intelligent transport systems,living lab,open innovation,smart cities,vehicular communications},
  month = {9},
  note = {Scopus: 12 citations},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {PASMO: An open living lab for cooperative ITS and smart regions},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090866/},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{LimaPercom2012,
  abstract = {Future pervasive environments will take into consideration not only individual users' interest, but also social relationships. In today's scenarios, the trend is to make use of collective intelligence, where the interpretation of context information can be harnessed as input for pervasive systems. Therefore, social CSCW applications represent new challenges and possibilities in terms of use of group context information for adaptability and personalization in pervasive computing. The objective of this paper is to present two enterprise scenarios that support collaboration and adaption capabilities through pervasive communities combined with social computing. Collaborative applications integrated with pervasive communities can increase the activity's quality of the end user in a wide variety of tasks. © 2012 IEEE.},
  author = {Christopher Lima and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Lugano, Switzerland},
  doi = {10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197462},
  isbn = {9781467309073},
  journal = {2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2012},
  keywords = {Communities,context-aware groups,enterprise 2.0,pervasive computing,social network},
  month = {3},
  note = {CORE: A; Scopus: 5 citations},
  pages = {118-123},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Pervasive CSCW for smart spaces communities},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6197462},
  year = {2012}
}
@inproceedings{santiago2019predictive,
  abstract = {Heating appliances such as HVAC systems consume around 48% of the energy power spent on household appliances every year. With this in mind, it is relevant to increase the efficiency of those solutions. Moreover, a malfunctioning device can increase this value even further. Thus, there is a need to develop methods that allow the identification of eventual failures before they occur. This is only achievable when services capable of analyzing data, interpret it and obtaining knowledge from it, are created. This paper presents an infrastructure that supports the inspection of failure detection in boilers, making viable to forecast faults and errors. A major part of the work is data analysis and the creation of procedures that can process it. The main goal is creating an efficient system able to identify, predict and notify the occurrence of failure events. Our fundamental contribution is the possibility to scale the system to others datasets, being able to resolve different Big Data issues.},
  author = {Ana Rita Santiago and Mario Antunes and Joao Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Newark, CA, USA},
  doi = {10.1109/BigDataService.2019.00019},
  isbn = {9781728100593},
  institution = {IEEE},
  journal = {Proceedings - 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications, BigDataService 2019, Workshop on Big Data in Water Resources, Environment, and Hydraulic Engineering and Workshop on Medical, Healthcare, Using Big Data Technologies},
  keywords = {Big Data applications,Big Data services,Data Analysis,Data processing,HVAC,Infrastructure,Machine Learning,Predictive Maintenance},
  month = {4},
  pages = {93-98},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Predictive maintenance system for efficiency improvement of heating equipment},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8848208/},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Miloucheva_ICT06,
  abstract = {With the rapid advances in multimedia content delivery technologies and deployment of user-centric broadband infrastructures, there is an increasing challenge for efficient usage of the Internet resources and enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) support based on multicast. This paper discusses an architectural approach for provision of multicast services for content delivery on demand in the framework of converged fixed / mobile / broadcast infrastructures based on heterogeneous mobile IPv6 environment. Addressed issues include support of multicast transport protocols and mechanisms at access routers for different application requirements (reliable, streaming and real-time) considering asynchronous service requests and caching, QoS management of multicast transport for content delivery, seamless handover and selection of optimal access routers for multicast services. The concepts are based on the current state and possible enhancements of the mobile architecture developed in the European Community (EU) IST project DAIDALOS.},
  author = {Ilka Miloucheva and Hans J Einsiedler and Diogo Gomes and Karl Jonas},
  city = {Madeira, Portugal},
  journal = {International Conference on Telecommunications},
  keywords = {Mobile communication,transport protocols},
  month = {6},
  note = {Google Scholar: 8 citations},
  pages = {4},
  title = {QoS based multicast architecture for heterogeneous mobile IPv6 environment},
  volume = {N/A},
  year = {2006}
}
@inproceedings{Sargento_IST06,
  abstract = {II NTRODUCTION Next generation wireless communication systems will handle diverse types of services, across different types of access technologies. This trend, already present in 3G networks and in the current explosion of},
  author = {Susana Sargento and Diogo Gomes and Alfredo Matos and Rui L Aguiar},
  city = {Mykonos, Greece},
  journal = {IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit},
  month = {6},
  note = {Google Scholar: 3 citations},
  pages = {0},
  title = {QoS Signalling in 4G Scenarios},
  volume = {0},
  url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243962625_QoS_Signalling_in_4G_Scenarios},
  year = {2006}
}
@inproceedings{2586,
  author = {D G Gomes and R Aguiar},
  journal = {International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT},
  month = {8},
  pages = {1},
  title = {QoS Transignaling for heterogeneous networks},
  volume = {1},
  year = {2004}
}
@inproceedings{Canastro2021,
  abstract = {Network Softwarization, the process by which net- work equipment’s are being replaced by software running in a cloud environment, is playing an important role in the trans- formation of next-generation networks starting with 5G. In this environment, the use of AI/ML aided network automation to perform management tasks is vital to provide a more reliable and cost-effective network. An aspect in which AI/ML can play an important role is on the quick diagnose and track of root causes of anomalies. In this paper, we propose a system capable of automating root cause analysis in a cellular network scenario. By collecting log files from negative-impacting events occurring throughout the whole network levels, we are able to find the correlation between them according to a series of defined rules and track down the root cause using a graph-based approach to dependencies.},
  author = {Dinis Canastro and Ricardo Rocha and Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud49777.2021.00039},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-2574-2},
  journal = {2021 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {217-224},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Root Cause Analysis in 5G/6G Networks},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9590411/},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{cunha2019safeguarding,
  abstract = {The fact that most IoT solutions are provided by 3rd-parties, along with the pervasiveness of the collected data, raises privacy and security concerns. There is a need to verify which data is being sent to the 3rd-party, as well as preventing those channels from becoming an exploitation avenue. We propose to use existing API definition languages to create contracts which define the data that can be transmitted, in what format, and with which constraints. To verify the compliance with these contracts, we propose a converging "Multi-Access Edge Computing" architecture which validates RESTalike API requests/responses against a Swagger schema. We deal with encrypted traffic using an SFC-enabled Man-in-the-Middle, allowing us to do verifications in "real-time". We devised a Proof of Concept and shown that we were able to detect (and stop) contract violations.},
  author = {Vitor A. Cunha and Eduardo Da Silva and Marcio B. De Carvalho and Daniel Corujo and Joao P. Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Alberto E. Schaeffer-Filho and Carlos R.P. Dos Santos and Lisandro Z. Granville and Rui L. Aguiar},
  isbn = {9783903176157},
  institution = {IEEE},
  journal = {2019 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management, IM 2019},
  pages = {599-603},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Safeguarding from abuse by IoT vendors: Edge messages verification of cloud-assisted equipment},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2014,
  abstract = {In recent years the Internet has grown by incorporating billions of small devices, collecting real-world information and distributing it though various systems. As the number of such devices grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage all these new information sources. Several context representation schemes have tried to standardize this information, however none of them have been widely adopted. Instead of proposing yet another context representation scheme, we discuss an efficient way to deal with this diversity of representation schemes. We define the basic requirements for context storage systems, analyse context organizations models and propose a new context storage solution. Our solution implements an organizational model that improves scalability, semantic extraction and minimizes semantic ambiguity.},
  author = {Mario Luis Pinto Antunes and Diogo Nuno Pereira Gomes and Rui Luis Andrade Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2014.33},
  isbn = {9781479943586},
  journal = {Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2014},
  keywords = {Internet of things,M2M,context information},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {152-158},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Scalable semantic aware context storage},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6984189},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Santiago2019,
  abstract = {Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are becoming very popular since everything can now be processed through a technological service. Currently, data is digital information, creating the need to design platforms and services that fill the gap between data sensors and processing frameworks. IoT Platforms are responsible for attaching data sources with the remaining processing architecture. This paper presents a Machine to Machine (M2M) platform able to monitor data acquisition, processing, and visualization. The use of SCoTv2 allows users to integrate several sources and obtain relevant information only by connecting their sensors with the platform. As our preeminent goal is creating a large scale platform useful for several scenarios, a significant part of the study is related to software challenges, and the connection between technologies. Therefore, our principal contribution is the definition of effective architecture able to reply to different use cases.},
  author = {Ana Rita Santiago and Mario Antunes and Joao Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2019.00053},
  isbn = {9781728128887},
  journal = {Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2019},
  keywords = {Big data applications,Data acquisition,Data processing,Data visualization,Information systems,Infrastructure, Telecommunication services},
  note = {Scopus: 5 citations},
  pages = {318-323},
  title = {SCoTv2: Large scale data acquisition, processing, and visualization platform},
  year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Santos2017,
  abstract = {Despite many Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructures having been implemented in recent years, none of them is truly prepared for a global deployment, where failure tolerance and scalability are an essential requirement. This article presents an alternative concept for IoT Infrastructures, which focuses on enhancing the traditional centralized architecture, usually operated by a single entity, into a decentralized architecture featuring multiple business roles. We propose a dynamic and self-configurable infrastructure on top of a structured Peer-to-Peer network. In addition, a set of communication protocols are provided in order to support heterogeneous devices, as well as data access, streaming and persistence. It is also an important focus of our proposal to have mechanisms that guarantee the privacy and security of the information flow and storage.},
  author = {Vasco Santos and Joao Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {Porto, Portugal},
  doi = {10.1109/WD.2017.7918137},
  isbn = {978-1-5090-5856-3},
  journal = {2017 Wireless Days},
  keywords = {Infrastructures,IoT,P2P,Privacy,Security},
  month = {3},
  note = {Scopus: 4 citations},
  pages = {173-175},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Secure decentralized IoT Infrastructure},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7918137/},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{AntunesGomes2015,
  abstract = {In recent years the technological world has grown by incorporating billions of small sensing devices, collecting and sharing real-world information. As the number of such devices grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage all these new information sources. There is no uniform way to share, process and understand context information. In previous publications we discussed efficient ways to organize context information that is independent of structure and representation. However, our previous solution suffers from semantic sensitivity. In this paper we review semantic methods that can be used to minimize this issue, and propose an unsupervised semantic similarity solution that combines distributional profiles with public web services. Our solution was evaluated against Miller-Charles dataset, achieving a correlation of 0.6.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2015.103},
  isbn = {978-1-4673-8103-1},
  journal = {2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud},
  keywords = {Internet of things,M2M,context information},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 10 citations},
  pages = {87-92},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Semantic Features for Context Organization},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=7300802 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7300802/},
  year = {2015}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2021,
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/FiCloud49777.2021.00044},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-2574-2},
  journal = {2021 8th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)},
  month = {8},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {256-261},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Semantic similarity on constraints datasets: A latent approach},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9590245/},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2014a,
  abstract = {The number of connected devices is expected to soar in the coming years, each one of them collects and distributes real-world information though various systems. As the number of such connected devices grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to store and share all these new sources of information. Several context representation schemes try to standardize this information, however none of them have been widely adopted. Publish/subscribe paradigm has proven to be an adequate abstraction for large scale information dissemination, but none of current variations is well suited for context information. In a previous publication we addressed these challenges, however our solution has some drawbacks: poor scalability and semantic extraction. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we discuss an efficient way to deal with representation schemes diversity and propose a d-dimensional context organization model. Second, we propose a semantic-based publish/subscribe system that is well suited for M2M scenarios. Our evaluation shows that d-dimensional organization model outperforms our previous solution in both speed and space requirements.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/CyberC.2014.53},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-6236-5},
  journal = {2014 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery},
  keywords = {Internet of things,M2M,context information},
  month = {10},
  note = {Scopus: 4 citations},
  pages = {256-263},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Semantic-Based Publish/Subscribe for M2M},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6984316/},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{CorujoPIMRC2011,
  abstract = {The wide deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) we are witnessing today increases connectivity opportunities for mobile terminal devices, such as smartphones. However, continuous scanning for WLAN points of attachment can be a power exhausting mechanism for such battery-powered devices. These mobile devices, besides being equipped with different wireless access interfaces, are also coupled with sensors such as accelerometer, GPS, luminance and magnetic compass. In fact, sensors are increasingly being coupled into different devices and environments and are able to convey sensing information through networks into decision entities able to optimize different processes. In this paper we propose a framework where media independent sensing information is used to enhance wireless link management towards energy-efficiency. This framework enables the dissemination of sensing information towards local and remote decision entities, enhancing other processes (e.g. mobility) with sensing information in order to provide true Ambient Intelligence scenarios. We introduce this framework into a wireless management scenario able to provide energy-efficient optimal network connectivity. © 2011 IEEE.},
  author = {Daniel Corujo and Marcelo Lebre and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Toronto, Canada},
  doi = {10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6139648},
  isbn = {9781457713484},
  journal = {IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC},
  keywords = {Ambient Intelligence,Energy-Efficient,IoT,Sensors,Wireless Activation,Wireless Local Area Networks},
  month = {9},
  note = {CORE: B, Scopus: 4 citations},
  pages = {1010-1014},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Sensor context information for energy-efficient optimization of wireless procedures},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6139648},
  year = {2011}
}
@inproceedings{chris2013,
  abstract = {Future pervasive environments will take into consideration physical and digital social relations. Nowadays it is important use to collective intelligence, where the interpretation of context information can be harnessed as input for context-aware applications, especially for group collaboration. The use of collective intelligence represents new possibilities but also new challenges in terms of collective information for adaptability and personalization in intelligent environments. This paper presents a collaborative context-aware framework focusing on social matching capabilities for session formation in collaborative activities.},
  author = {Christopher V Lima and Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Luis Aguiar},
  city = {Athens, Greece},
  doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-286-8-110},
  journal = {Workshop Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments},
  pages = {110-115},
  publisher = {IOS Press},
  title = {Social Awareness in Pervasive Communities for Collaborative Work},
  url = {http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/33854},
  year = {2013}
}
@inproceedings{Silva_2022,
  author = {Mário Silva and Daniel Gomes and Leandro Silva and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3544538.3544637},
  isbn = {9781450397384},
  journal = {11 Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems},
  month = {6},
  pages = {1-8},
  publisher = {ACM},
  title = {Socializing in Higher Education through an MMORPG},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3544538.3544637 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544538.3544637},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{jesus2019stream,
  abstract = {The increasing number of small, cheap devices full of sensing capabilities lead to an untapped source of information that can be explored to improve and optimize several systems. Yet, hand in hand with this growth goes the increasing difficulty to manage and organize all this new information. In fact, it becomes increasingly difficult to properly evaluate IoT and M2M context-aware platforms. Currently, these platforms use advanced machine learning algorithms to improve and optimize several processes. Having the ability to test them for a long time in a controlled environment is extremely important. In this paper, we discuss two distinct methods to generate a data stream from a small real-world dataset. The first model relies on first order Markov chains, while the second is based on GANs. Our preliminiar evalution shows that both achieve sufficient resolution for most real-world scenarios.},
  author = {Ricardo Jesus and Mário Antunes and Pétia Georgieva and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.5220/0007766501770184},
  isbn = {9789897583698},
  journal = {IoTBDS 2019 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security},
  keywords = {Context Awareness,IoT,M2M,Machine Learning,Stream Mining,Time Series},
  pages = {177-184},
  publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications},
  title = {Stream generation: Markov chains vs GANs},
  url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0007766501770184},
  year = {2019}
}
@book_section{Wozniak_ETM10,
  abstract = {This paper analyzes the applicability of context-based multicast content distribution (CBMCD) on the example of realistic push- and video-based mobile advertising services at a shopping centre. The technical results of the simulation of the service scenario show that CBMCD significantly reduces the number of unicast streams and the total volume of traffic in the network. The results of the financial analysis show that these technical benefits can be translated into considerable financial benefits due to costs savings. Taken together, these results suggest that CBMCD can be an efficient, cost-saving network traffic management approach and the basis for lucrative push services. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},
  author = {Thomas Wozniak and Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva and Diogo Gomes and Hans D. Schotten},
  city = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15485-0_11},
  editor = {Stiller Burkhard},
  isbn = {3642154840},
  issn = {03029743},
  journal = {International Workshop on Economic Traffic Management},
  keywords = {Context Awareness,IP Multicast,Multicast Content Delivery},
  note = {Google Scholar: 2 citations},
  pages = {101-108},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg ©2010},
  title = {The Applicability of Context-Based Multicast - A Shopping Centre Scenario},
  volume = {6236 LNCS},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-642-15485-0_11},
  year = {2010}
}
@inproceedings{antunes2018impact,
  abstract = {The evergrowing number of small devices with sensing capabilities produce massive amounts of diverse data. However, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage all these new data sources. Currently, there is no single way to represent, share, and understand IoT data, leading to information silos that hinder the realization of complex IoT/M2M scenarios. IoT/M2M scenarios will only achieve their full potential when the devices become intelligent: communicate, work and learn together with minimal human intervention. Pursuing these goals, we developed methods to estimate semantic similarity based on distributional profiles. Cluster algorithms were used to learn semantic categories and improve the model accuracy. In this paper, we discuss the impact of the clustering algorithm and respective heuristic to estimate input parameters for the task of learning semantic categories. Our evaluation has shown that K-means combined with silhouette methods achieved the higher result.},
  author = {Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.5220/0006813603200327},
  isbn = {9789897582967},
  journal = {IoTBDS 2018 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security},
  keywords = {Clustering,Context Awareness,IoT,M2M,Machine Learning,Text Mining},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {320-327},
  publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications},
  title = {The impact of clustering for learning semantic categories},
  volume = {2018-March},
  url = {http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0006813603200327},
  year = {2018}
}
@inproceedings{Diogo_Gomes_119988219,
  abstract = {5G technologies provide several advancements regarding low latency and high bandwidth network scenarios, thus enabling new vertical use cases. Nonetheless, the lack of testing and validation mechanisms for NFV-based services poses a severe challenge in reducing their time to market. In this work we showcase a service to automate the validation of 5G NetApps, thus striving towards reducing the time to market of these applications, and introducing a new layer of trust in their reliability and availability.},
  author = {Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/NetSoft54395.2022.9844037},
  isbn = {978-1-6654-0694-9},
  journal = {2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)},
  keywords = {5G,5GASP,Automation,NFV,NetApp,Validation},
  month = {6},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {231-233},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Towards a Fully Automated System for Testing and Validating NetApps},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9844037/},
  year = {2022}
}
@inproceedings{Direito2023,
  author = {Rafael Direito and Diogo Gomes},
  doi = {10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175473},
  isbn = {979-8-3503-9980-6},
  journal = {2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft)},
  month = {6},
  pages = {342-345},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Towards a Fully-Fledged Validation of 5G NetApps},
  year = {2023}
}
@inproceedings{LSL_Eurospeech03,
  abstract = {The development of robots capable of accepting instructions in terms of familiar concepts to the user is still a challenge. For these robots to emerge it?s essential the development of natural language interfaces, since this is regarded as the only interface acceptable for a machine which expected to have a high level of interactivity with Man. Our group has been involved for several years in the development of a mobile intelligent robot, named Carl, designed having in mind such tasks as serving food in a reception or acting as a host in an organization. The approach that has been followed in the design of Carl is based on an explicit concern with the integration of the major dimensions of intelligence, namely Communication, Action, Reasoning and Learning. This paper focuses on the multi-modal human-robot language communication capabilities of Carl, since these have been significantly improved during the last year.},
  author = {L. Seabra Lopes and Antonio Teixeira and M. Rodrigues and D. Gomes and C. Teixeira and L. Ferreira and P. Soares and J. Girao and N. Senica},
  city = {ISCA},
  doi = {10.21437/Eurospeech.2003-618},
  journal = {8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2003)},
  month = {9},
  note = {Scopus: 8 citations},
  pages = {2205-2208},
  publisher = {ISCA},
  title = {Towards a personal robot with language interface},
  url = {https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/eurospeech_2003/lopes03_eurospeech.html},
  year = {2003}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2013,
  abstract = {Smart environments are physical places that are richly and invisibly populated with sensors, actuators and computational elements. The objective of such environments is to adapt themselves to its users in order to increase their comfort and usefulness. This paper proposes a platform, named APOLLO, capable of inferring behaviour rules from a smart environment and apply them to provide an intelligent space. The APOLLO platform is built upon a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), in which collected context information is used to infer behaviour rules though statistical and machine learning techniques. The proposed platform is to be deployed in a home automation scenario. © 2013 IEEE.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1109/CFIC.2013.6566324},
  isbn = {9781479900596},
  journal = {Proceeding of the 2013 Conference on Future Internet Communications, CFIC 2013},
  keywords = {SOA,Smart environments,knowledge extraction,machine learning},
  month = {5},
  note = {Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {1-8},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Towards behaviour inference in smart environments},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6566324},
  year = {2013}
}
@article{23740,
  abstract = {The technological world has grown by incorporating billions of small sensing devices, collecting and sharing huge amounts of diversified data. As the number of such devices grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage all these new data sources. Currently there is no uniform way to represent, share, and understand IoT data, leading to information silos that hinder the realization of complex IoT/M2M scenarios. IoT/M2M scenarios will only achieve their full potential when the devices work and learn together with minimal human intervention. In this paper we discuss the limitations of current storage and analytical solutions, point the advantages of semantic approaches for context organization and extend our unsupervised model to learn word categories automatically. Our solution was evaluated against Miller–Charles dataset and a IoT semantic dataset extracted from a popular IoT platform, achieving a correlation of 0.63.},
  author = {Mário Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1016/j.future.2017.11.045},
  issn = {0167739X},
  issue = {0},
  journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
  month = {12},
  pages = {0},
  title = {Towards IoT data classification through semantic features},
  volume = {0},
  url = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0167739X17327553},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{Antunes2014b,
  abstract = {Although many environments are powered by M2M solutions, users do not have a simple way to gather their collective knowledge and program devices’ behaviour. Also, Telco providers still lack proper components for enabling integrated services over their networks. We present the final architecture of the APOLLO project, which delivers a enhanced M2M platform encompassing sensors, management and applications platform for a major Telco provider. APOLLO builds on top of ETSI M2M specifications and rich service execution environments providing easy orchestration of services to end-users.},
  author = {Mário Antunes and João Paulo Barraca and Diogo Gomes and Paulo Oliveira and Rui L. Aguiar},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_71},
  journal = {UCAmI 2014: Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services},
  keywords = {IoS,IoT,M2M,Service Orchestration,Telco},
  note = {Scopus: 3 citations},
  pages = {436-443},
  title = {Unified Platform for M2M Telco Providers},
  volume = {8867},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-13102-3_71},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes2014,
  abstract = {The proliferation of user-owned connected devices has brought value to mobile application developers, which can make use of locally-available sensors and capabilities and send their information to the web, centralizing the data flows. A more distributed approach would have device capabilities offered directly on the network as services hosted by the user. These pervasive user-hosted services could be made discoverable and available over a public federated service infrastructure. The infrastructure would provide transport over an identity layer, where endpoints are addressed by their identities instead of network identifiers, and on top of which services can be exposed to be consumed by trusted friends or anonymous users, as the hosting user prefers. The work presented in this paper explores the possibility of implementing such a distributed social Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) over Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This SOA, which would expose re-usable coarse-grained software components in a service ecosystem, differs from traditional SOA because it attempts to counter the centralization existing services, in favour of a fully-distributed service ecosystem where each peer can behave both as service consumer and provider. Finally, an analysis is done on how suitable XMPP is to serve as a base protocol for such infrastructure.},
  author = {João M. Gonçalves and Diogo Gomes},
  city = {Madeira, Portugal},
  doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912538},
  isbn = {9781479942787},
  issn = {15301346},
  journal = {Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications},
  keywords = {Distributed computing,Middleware,Software architecture,Web services},
  month = {6},
  note = {CORE: B,  Scopus: 10 citations},
  pages = {1-6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {User-hosted SOA infrastructure over XMPP},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6912538/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=6912538},
  year = {2014}
}
@inproceedings{Diogo_Gomes_119988044,
  abstract = {NILM or Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring is the task of disag-gregating the energy consumed by a building in the energy con-sumed by its constituent appliances. With the increase in energy demand, governments started searching for solutions to reduce energy wastage on the demand side, and the deployment of smart meters was one of them. Their purpose was to give users information about the aggregated energy consumed in a given household at any given time. Since the smart meters collect the aggregated readings, the interest in NILM grew, as researchers could focus their attention on the disaggregation algorithm. Regarding the disaggre-gation algorithms, deep learning models have shown remarkable results surpassing the previous state-of-the-art models. With this in mind, this paper proposes three different deep learning models: a convolutional neural network with residual blocks, a recurrent neural network, and a multilayer perceptron that uses discrete wavelet transform as features. These models are trained on the UK-DALE and REFIT datasets and compared with the state-of-the-art models present in NILMTK-Contrib. The models are evaluated on their generalization and transfer learning ability, as these are two critical factors for a broad NILM deployment. Our models have shown competitive results compared to the state-of-the-art, achieving lower errors than 2 out of the three models used, getting closer to the performance of the third. The main advantage of our models is the ability to do real-time disaggregation, while the best model has a 30 min delay.},
  author = {Rafael Teixeira and Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes},
  doi = {10.1109/ICWAPR54887.2021.9736149},
  isbn = {9781665466110},
  issn = {21585709},
  journal = {International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition},
  keywords = {CNN,MLP,NIALM,NILM,RNN,Transfer Learning},
  month = {12},
  note = {Scopus: 1 citation},
  pages = {1-7},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Using Deep Learning and Knowledge Transfer to Disaggregate Energy Consumption},
  volume = {2021-Decem},
  url = {http://doi.org/10.1109/ICWAPR54887.2021.9736149 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9736149/},
  year = {2021}
}
@inproceedings{Antu1709:Vehicular,
  abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) is a very promising concept that by connecting numerous devices to the internet and extracting large sums of information (BigData) can enable the realisation of various futuristic scenarios. In order to develop and assess future applications and services, it is necessary the availability of datasets that can be used to train, test and cross validate. Project SCoT (Smart Cloud of Things) has developed an M2M platform capable of collecting information from heterogeneous devices and collide that information in a large data repository. During its pilot phase, the project made the assessment of the road conditions in the region of Aveiro, Portugal. In this work we make the dataset used on the previous mentioned pilot publicly available. With this dataset our road assessment algorithm reached 80% accuracy in the task of pothole detection, other scenarios (that take into account vehicular speed, position and acceleration) can also be explored. The dataset was not pre-processed in anyway, the only transformation was made to protect the identity of the volunteers.},
  author = {Mario Antunes and Diogo Gomes and Joao Paulo Barraca and Rui L. Aguiar},
  city = {Wuxi, P.R. China},
  doi = {10.1109/ISC2.2017.8090867},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-2524-8},
  journal = {2017 International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)},
  keywords = {Dataset,IoT,M2M,Machine Learning},
  month = {9},
  note = {Scopus: 2 citations},
  pages = {1-4},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {Vehicular dataset for road assessment conditions},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8090867/},
  year = {2017}
}
@inproceedings{Gomes_globecom10,
  abstract = {In recent years several authors and projects have addressed the need for an architecture for collecting and managing context information. Most of the approaches have either been purely based in middlewares unable to address the heterogeneity of components and services platforms, or have been built around Web based technologies that are unable to cope with the realtime and reactiveness requirements that many context-aware use cases have. In this paper the authors propose a new Context Management Architecture able to solve these problems. Furthermore, this architecture, exploring the XMPP protocol, can be used as the basis for new developments in this area. ©2010 IEEE.},
  author = {Diogo Gomes and João M. Gonçalves and Ricardo Otero Santos and Rui Aguiar},
  city = {Miami, Florida, USA},
  doi = {10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700163},
  isbn = {9781424488650},
  journal = {2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC'10},
  keywords = {Architecture,Context Awareness,Service,Service Oriented,XMPP},
  month = {12},
  note = {CORE: B, Scopus: 10 citations},
  pages = {1372-1377},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {XMPP based context management architecture},
  url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=5700163},
  year = {2010}
}