Ø Forthcoming
Scientific Interests
Multivariate
data analysis, in particular clustering methods.
Analysis of multidimensional complex data, known as
symbolic data.
Data Analysis using Galois Lattices.
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Contact
E-mail :
mpbrito at fep.up.pt
Surface
mail : Faculdade de Economia do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-464
Porto, Portugal
Fax : (+351) 225505050
Linkedin :
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paula-brito/40/970/a97/en
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Academic Degrees
1984 - BSc in Applied
Mathematics, University of Porto,
Portugal.
1989 - Master in Probability and
Statistics, University of Lisbon,
Portugal.
1991 - PhD in Mathematics,
University Paris-IX Dauphine, France.
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Publications
Papers in international scientific periodicals
Teles, P., Brito, P. (2013): "Modelling Interval Time Series with
Space-Time Processes”. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods,
(accepted for publication).
Brito, P., Duarte Silva, A. P. (2012): "Modelling Interval Data
with Normal and Skew-Normal Distributions”. Journal of Applied Statistics,
Volume 39, Issue 1, 3-20.
Noirhomme-Fraiture, M., Brito,
P. (2011): "Far Beyond the Classical Data Models: Symbolic Data Analysis”.
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Volume 4, Issue 2, 157-170.
Santos, L. D., Martins, I., Brito, P. (2007):
"Measuring Subjective Quality of Life: a Survey to Porto's
Residents". Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 2,
Nb. 1, 51-64.
Duarte
Silva, A. P. , Brito, P. (2006). "Linear
Discriminant Analysis for Interval Data".
Computational
Statistics, 21, 2, 289-308.
De Carvalho, F., Brito,
P., Bock, H.-H. (2006). "Dynamic Clustering for Interval Data Based on L2 Distance".
Computational Statistics, 21, 2, 231-250.
Silva, H. B., Brito, P.,
Costa, J. (2006) . "A Partitional
Clustering Algorithm Validated by a Clustering Tendency Index based on Graph
Theory", Pattern Recognition, 39 (5), 776-788.
Brito, P., Polaillon, G. (2005). "Structuring Probabilistic Data by
Galois Lattices", Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines - Mathematics
and Social Sciences, (43ème année) nº169, (1),
77-104.
Brito, P. (2002). "Hierarchical and Pyramidal
Clustering for Symbolic Data", Journal of the Japanese Society of
Computational Statistics, Vol. 15, 2, 231-244.
Rodriguez, O., Brito, P., Diday, E. (2001). "Algoritmos para la Classificación Piramidal Simbólica", Revista de
Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones , Vol. 7, 1/2,
23-42.
Brito, P. (1995). "Symbolic Objects :
Order Structure and Pyramidal Clustering", Annals of Operations Research,
55, 277-297.
Brito, P. (1994). "Order Structure of Symbolic Assertion
Objects", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6, 5,
830-835.
Brito, P., Chabanon, C. (1994). "Analyse de
Données Numérique et Symbolique appliquée au confort automobile", Revue de
Statistique Appliquée, Vol. XLII, 4, 39-59.
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Refereed chapters in books
Astorino, A., Bomze, I. M., Brito, P. and Gaudioso, M. (2012):
“Two-Sphere Separation Procedures via Non-Smooth Optimization”. In:
“Recent Advances in Nonlinear Optimization and Equilibrium Problems: a Tribute
to Marco D’Apuzzo”, De Simone, V., di Serafino, D. and
Toraldo, G. (Eds.), Quaderni
di Matematica, Dipartimento di Matematica della
Seconda Universita' di
Napoli, vol. 27, Aracne, ISBN 978-88-548-5687-5.
Brito, P. and Polaillon, G. (2011): "Homogeneity and Stability in
Conceptual Analysis". In: Proc. of the 8th International Conference on
Concept Lattices and Their Applications, Nancy, France, Napoli, A and Vychodil, V. (Eds.), INRIA, Nancy, 251-263.
Brito, P. (2007): "Modelling and Analysing Interval Data". In:
"Advances in Data Analysis", Decker, R., Lenz, H.-J. (Eds.), Series
"Studies in Classification, Data Analysis and Knowledge
Organization", Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New-York, 197-208.
Brito, P. (2007) - On the Analysis of Symbolic Data. In: "Selected
Contributions in Data Analysis and Classification", Brito, P., Bertrand,
P., Cucumel, G., De Carvalho, F. (Eds.), Springer, Heidelberg, pp.13-22.
Campos,
P., Brazdil, P., Brito, P. (2006):
"Organizational Survival in Cooperation Networks: The Case of Automobile
Manufacturing". In: Proceedings of
the 7th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Volume 224, page 77-84.
Brito, P., De Carvalho, F. (2002):
"Symbolic Clustering of Constrained Probabilistic Data". In:
"Exploratory Data Analysis in Empirical Research", Opitz, O., Schvaiger, M., (Eds.),
Series "Studies in Classification, Data Analysis and Knowledge
Organization", Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 12-21.
Brito, P. (2000): "Hierarchical and Pyramidal Clustering with
Complete Symbolic Objects". In: "Analysis of Symbolic Data",
Bock, H.-H., Diday, E., (Eds.), Springer Verlag,
Berlin-Heidelberg, 312-324.
Brito, P. (1998): "Symbolic Clustering of Probabilistic Data".
In: "Advances in Data Science and Classification", Rizzi, A., Vichi,
M., Bock, H.-H. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag,
Berlin-Heidelberg,
385-390.
Brito, P. (1994): "Use of Pyramids in Symbolic Data Analysis".
In: "New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis", Diday, E.
et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 378-386.
Costa Nicolau, F., Brito, P.(1989): "Improvements in NHMEAN
Method". In: "Data Analysis, Learning Symbolic and
Numerical Knowledge", Diday, E. (Ed.), Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 109-116.
Diday, E., Brito, P.(1989): "Symbolic
Cluster Analysis". In: "Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of
Data", Opitz, O. (Ed.). Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 45-84.
Brito, P., Diday, E. (1989): "Pyramidal Representation of Symbolic
Objects". In: "Knowledge, Data and Computer-Assisted Decisions",
Schader, M., Gaul, W. (Eds.), NATO ASI Series,
Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New
York, 3-16.
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Books (editor)
Brito, P. (2008): "COMPSTAT : Proceedings in Computational Statistics
" - 18th Symposium Held in Porto,
Portugal (ISBN:
978-3-7908-2083-6), with CD-ROM.
Springer, Heidelberg,
574 pages.
Brito, P., Bertrand, P., Cucumel, G., De Carvalho, F.
(2007): "Selected Contributions in
Data Analysis and Classification" (ISBN: 978-3-540-73558-8). Series
"Studies in Classification, Data Analysis and Knowledge
Organization". Springer, Heidelberg, 634 pages.
Brito, P.,
Figueiredo, A., Sousa, F., Teles, P., Rosado, F. (2003): "Literacia e Estatística" (ISBN:
972-98619-8-6). Proc. of the X Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de
Estatística, SPE Editions, Portugal, 702 pages.
Diday,
E., Kodratoff, Y., Brito,
P., Moulet, M. (2000) :
"Induction Symbolique-Numérique à Partir de Données" (ISBN: 2.85428.502.6). Cepadues Editions, Toulouse,
France, 446 pages.
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Brito, P., Noirhomme-Fraiture, M. (2006): "Symbolic and Spatial Data Analysis: Mining Complex Data Structures". Special Issue of "Intelligent Data Analysis",
Volume 10, Number 4.
Brito, P.,
Malerba, D. (2003): "Mining Official Data". Special Issue of "Intelligent Data Analysis",
Volume 7, Number 6.
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Brito, P. and Polaillon, G. (2012): "
Classification Conceptuelle avec Généralisation par Intervalles".
In: RNTI E. 23, Proc. EGC 2012, Bordeaux, France, 113-118.
Brito, P. and Chavent, M. (2012): "Divisive Monothetic Clustering for Interval and Histogram-Valued
Data". In: Proc. ICPRAM 2012 – 1st International Conference on
Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Vilamoura,
Portugal.
Polaillon, G. and Brito, P. (2011): "Homogénéité dans
l'Analyse Conceptuelle: un Cadre Commun pour Variables Numériques, Ordinales et
Modales". In : Compte rendus des 18èmes Rencontres de la Société
Francophone de Classification, SFC 2011, Orléans, France.
Dias, S., Brito, P. (2011). "A New Linear Regression Model for Histogram-Valued
Variables". In: Proceedings of the 58th ISI World
Statistics Congress, Dublin, Ireland.
Silva, H. B., Brito, P., Costa, J. (2007):
"Classification avec des Multigraphes.
Application à la classification de données décrites par des variables de
différents types". In : Compte rendus des 14èmes Rencontres de la
Société Francophone de Classification, Hudry, O., Charon, I., Hébrail, G. (Eds.), Paris, France, 35-38.
Teles, P., Brito, P. (2005): "Modeling Interval Time Series Data”. Proc.
3rd IASC World Conference on Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Limassol, Chyprus.
Brito, P., Sousa, F., Tavares Pinto, S. (2005):
"Modèles VL en Classification Non-Hiérarchique". In : Compte
rendus des 12èmes Rencontres de la Société Francophone de Classification, Makarenkov, V., Cucumel, G., Lapointe, J.-F. (Eds.), Montréal, Canadá, 88-91.
Brito, P., De Carvalho, F., Polaillon, G. (2004):
"Analyse de données probabilistes: Treillis de concepts et
classification". Compte rendus des 11èmes Rencontres de la Société
Francophone de Classification, Bordeaux, France.
De Carvalho, F., Brito, P., Bock, H.-H. (2003): "Une
Méthode type Nuées Dynamiques pour des Données Symboliques Quantitatives".
In: "Méthodes et Perspectives en Classification", Compte rendus des
10èmes Rencontres de la Société Francophone de Classification, Dodge, Y., Melfi, G. (Eds.), Presses Académiques Neuchâtel, Switzerland,
79-82.
Santos, L.
Delfim, Martins, I., Brito, P. (2003): "A Qualidade de Vida na Cidade do
Porto: Percepções e Aspirações". In: Proc. X Encontro Nacional da
Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional, Évora, Portugal.
Silva, H.,
Brito, P., Costa, J. (2003): "Um Método de Classificação não Hierárquica
Validado por um Índice de Classificabilidade, Baseados em Teoria de
Grafos". In : Proc. X Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD
2003, Aveiro, Portugal, 149-154.
Marcelo, C., Brito, P. (2003): "Symbolic Data
Analysis for Official Statistics. The SODAS
Software". In : Proc. X Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados,
JOCLAD 2003, Aveiro, Portugal, 182-188.
Brito, P., Malerba, D. (2000): "Symbolic Data
Analysis and Machine Learning : Bridging the
Gap". Long Abstract, Proc. Workshop "Dealing with Structured Data in
Machine Learning and Statistics", European Conference on Machine Learning
(ECML-2000), Barcelona, 30-32.
Brito, P., De Carvalho, F.
(1999): "Symbolic Clustering in the Presence of Hierarchical Rules".
In: Proc. of KESDA’98 - Conference on Knowledge Extraction and Symbolic Data
Analysis, Volume in Series "Studies and Research", Eurostat, European Commission, Luxembourg, 119-128.
Brito, P. (1997): "Symbolic Pyramidal
Clustering". In: Proc. of the Indo-French Workshop on Symbolic Data
Analysis and its Applications, Diday, E., Gowda, K. C. (Eds.), Paris, France,
Vol. II, 304-310.
Diday, E., Brito, P. (1996): "Pyramides et Treillis
d’Objets Probabilistes Basés sur des Capacités". In: Proc. des XXVIII Journées de Statistique, Université de Laval,
Québec, Canada, Genest, C., Massé, J. C. (Eds.),
316-319.
Brito, P., Chabanon, C.
(1994) : "Analyse de Données Numérique et Symbolique Appliquée au
Confort Automobile". In: Actes des XXVI Journées de Statistique de l´ASU,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Dodge,
Y. (Ed.), 157-160.
Diday, E., Brito, P., Mfoumoune, E. (1993): "Modelling Probabilistic
Data by Conceptual Pyramidal Clustering". Proc. 4th International Workshop
on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 213-218.
Brito, P., Mennessier, M.
O., Boughaleb, H. (1992): "Comparing Numerical
and Symbolic Clustering: Application to Pseudoperiodic
Light Curves of Stars". Proc. 10th Symposium on
Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Dodge, Y.,
Whittaker, J. (Eds.). Vol. 1, 215-220.
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Santos Silva,
A. ; Brito, P. ; Santos, H. ; Abreu, P. (2001): "As Práticas e os Gostos:
Uma Sondagem do Lado das Procuras de Cultura e Lazer". In:, “O Projecto e
a Circunstância”, Santos Silva, A., Fortuna, C. (Eds.), Vol. VII, editado no
âmbito do projecto "A sociedade portuguesa perante os desafios da
globalização", coord. Boaventura Sousa Santos, Afrontamento, Porto,
109-162.
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Ø
Brito, P. “Taking Variability in Data into Account: Symbolic Data
Analysis”. Complex World Tutorials, TU Delft, 21st
June 2012.
Ø Brito, P. “ Au delà des résumés d'observations individuelles:
analyse de distributions”. Workshop in honour of Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture,
Namur, Belgium, May 16th 2012.
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Ø Brito, P. “Multivariate Parametric Analysis of Interval
Data”. SIS 2013 International Meeting, Brescia, Italy, June 19th-21st
2013.
Ø Brito, P. and Polaillon,
G. “Conceptual Clustering with Interval Representation“. IFCS 2013, Tilburg, The Netherlands, July 15th-17th 2013.
Ø Brito, P. “Analyzing Survey Data by
Symbolic Data Analysis”. 5th Conference of the European Survey
Research Association (ESRA 2013), Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 15th-19th
July.
Ø Brito, P.
“Multivariate Analysis of Distributional Data”. Joint Meeting of IASC Satellite
and IASC-ARS, Seoul, Korea, August 22nd-23rd 2013.
Ø Brito, P. Duarte
Silva A.P., Dias, J.G. “Identifying Special Structures in Interval-Data via
Model-Base Clustering”. 59th ISI World Statistics Congress, Hong
Kong, August 25th-30th 2013.
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Ø Brito, P. “Introduction to Symbolic Data Analysis : Data representation and analysis issues”.
Workshop on Symbolic Data Analysis, National Taiwan University of Science and
Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, December 13th 2012.
Ø Brito, P. “Analyzing distributional data
: clustering and regression approaches”. Workshop on Symbolic Data
Analysis, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan,
December 13th 2012.
Ø Dias, S. and Brito,
P. “New Developments in Linear Regression Models with Histogram-Valued
Variables”. Third Workshop on Symbolic Data
Analysis, Madrid, Spain, November 7th to 9th, 2012.
Ø Duarte Silva, A.P. and Brito,
P. “Discriminant Analysis of Interval Data: Parametric Versus
Distance-Based Approaches”. Third Workshop on Symbolic Data Analysis, Madrid,
Spain, November 7th to 9th, 2012.
Ø Giordano, G., Brito, P. “Analysing Social Networks
\protect \linebreak with Symbolic Data Analysis”.
Third Workshop on Symbolic Data Analysis, Madrid, Spain, November 7th
to 9th, 2012.
Ø Noirhomme-Fariture, M., Teh, A., Brito, P., “Two Quantile Visualisation Methods
for Symbolic Data”. Third Workshop on Symbolic Data Analysis, Madrid, Spain,
November 7th to 9th, 2012.
Ø Brito, P., Chavent, M. “Classificação Divisiva
para Dados de Valores Intervalo e Histograma". XX Annual Conference of the Portuguese Statistical Society, Porto, Portugal, September 26th
to 29th, 2012.
Ø Giordano, G., Brito, P. “Network
Data as Complex Data Objects: An Approach using Symbolic Data Analysis”.
Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in Behavioural
and Social Sciences - Joint meeting of Japanese and Italian Classification
Societies. Anacapri, Capri Island, Italy, September 3rd
to 4th, 2012.
Ø Noirhomme-Fariture, M., Teh, A., Brito, P. “Quantile visualisation for complex data analysis”. COMPSTAT
2012, Limassol, Cyprus, August 27th to 31st,
2012.
Ø Dias, S. and Brito,
P. “Linear regression models in data frameworks with variability”. COMPSTAT
2012, Limassol, Cyprus, August 27th to 31st,
2012.
Ø Ichino, M. and Brito,
P. “The data accumulation PCA to analyze periodically summarized multiple data
tables. COMPSTAT 2012, Limassol, Cyprus, August 27th
to 31st, 2012.
Ø Brito, P., Grilo, F.,
"From Micro to Macro Data : Analyzing
Unemployment by Symbolic Data Analysis". V European Congress of Methodology,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 17th-20th,
2012.
Ø Duarte Silva, A.P. and Brito,
P. “MAINT.Data-Parametric Modelling and
Analyzing Interval Data in R”. 1ères Rencontres R, Bordeaux,
France, July 2nd-3rd, 2012.
Ø Noirhomme-Fraiture, M., Amouh, T., Brito, P. “Visualisation des Quantiles pour des Données
Symboliques”. Journées Big Data Mining and Visualization,
Tours, France, June 18th-19th,
2012.
Ø Brito, P. “Beyond
summaries of individual data: analyzing distributions”. Symposium on Learning
and Data Science, Florence, Italy, May 7th- 9th, 2012.
Ø Grilo, F. and
Brito, P. “Analyzing Unemployment Data by Symbolic Data Analysis”. Workshop on
Data Mining in Official Statistics, held as part of the SIAM 2012 Data Mining
Conference, Anaheim, California, April, 26th-28th, 2012.
Ø Brito, P. and Polaillon, G.
“Classificação Conceptual com Generalização de Intervalos”. XIX Journeys of Classification and Data Analysis
(JOCLAD2012), Tomar, Portugal, March 2012.
Ø Brito, P. and
Chavent, M. “Divisive Monothetic Clustering for Interval and Histogram-Valued
Data”. ICPRAM 2012 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Applications and Methods, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 6th-8 th, 2012.
Ø Brito, P. and
Polaillon, G. “Classification Conceptuelle avec Généralisation par
Intervalles”. EGC 2012, 12ème Conférence Internationale Francophone
sur l'Extraction et la Gestion de Connaissance, Bordeaux, France, January 31st to February
3rd, 2012.
Ø Brito, P. and
Ichino, M. “Conceptual Clustering of Symbolic Data Using a Quantile
Representation: Discrete and Continuous Approaches”. Invited talk in the
session on Symbolic Data Analysis, 4th International Conference of
the ERCIM WG on COMPUTING & STATISTICS, (ERCIM'11), University of London,
UK, December 17th-19 th,
2011.
Ø Dias, S. and Brito, P. “Distribution and
Symmetric Distribution - Model - A linear regression model for histogram-valued
variables”. Invited talk in the session on Symbolic Data Analysis, 4th
International Conference of the ERCIM WG on COMPUTING & STATISTICS,
(ERCIM'11), University of London, UK, December 17th-19 th, 2011.
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Ø Brito, P. “Representation and Analysis of Multivariate Distributional
Data: an Approach by Symbolic Data Analysis”. University of Moravia, Olomouc,
May 6th, 2013.
Ø Brito,
P. “Taking Variability in Data into Account: Symbolic Data Analysis”. TH Wien, May
8th, 2013.
Ø Brito,
P. “Symbolic Data Analysis in Survey Studiess., Instituto Superior de
Psicologia Aplicada (ISPA), Lisbon, April 8th, 2013.
Ø Brito,
P. “Taking Variability in Data into Account: Symbolic Data Analysis”. Dep.
Mathematics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, April
5th, 2013.
Ø Brito,
P. “Taking Variability in Data into Account: Symbolic Data Analysis”. DEI
Lecture Series, Fac. Engineering, University of Porto. Thursday, March 21st
2013.
Ø “Hierarchical
and Pyramidal Clustering for Symbolic Data”, Institute of Statistical
Mathematics (ISM), Tokyo, Japan, November 1st, 2011.
Ø “Multivariate
Statistical Analysis of Interval Data”, CEREMADE, University Paris Dauphine,
June 1st, 2011.
Ø “Concept Lattices and Conceptual Clustering for Symbolic Data”
1st
part : École Centrale de Paris, May 16th,
2011
2nd
part : INRIA, Rocquencourt (Projet AXIS), June 1st 2011.
Ø “Introduction
to Symbolic Data Analysis. An interaction movement between statistics and data
processing” – Lecture at the Computer Science Department, Hokkaido University,
Japan, on the framework of the ERATO project: http://www-erato.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/index-e.html,
February 7th, 2011.
Ø "Análise
de Dados Simbólicos. O caso particular de Dados Intervalares". University of Évora, Portugal,
October 28th, 2010.
Ø “Model-Based
Analysis of Interval Data”. Kolloquium des Instituts für Statistik und Decision
Support Systems, University of Vienna, Austria, June 2009.
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Ø Co-organization,
with M. Noirhomme-Fraiture (Univ. Namur, Belgium), of the Workshop “Symbolic Data Analysis, SDA11”,
Namur, Belgium, June 2011. Organizers. Participants.
Ø Co-organization,
with M. Noirhomme-Fraiture (Univ. Namur, Belgium), of the Workshop “Symbolic
Data Analysis”, Wienerwaldhof, Vienna, Austria, October 2009. Participants.
Ø Co-organization
of the “Workshop on Data Analysis and Classification”,
in honor if Edwin Diday, Paris, France, 2007
Ø Co-organization
of the track on “Symbolic and Structured Data Analysis” in the framework of the
3rd World Conference on Computational Statistics
and Data Analysis, Limassol, Cyprus, 2005.
Ø Co-organization,
with M. Noirhomme-Fraiture (Univ. Namur, Belgium), of the Workshop “Symbolic
and Structured Data Analysis”, in the framework of the 15th European Conference
on Machine Learning (ECML 2004) and 8th European Conference on Principles and
Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'04), Pisa, Italy, 2004.
Ø Chair
of the Organizing Committee, and member of the Program Committee of the 10th
Conference of the Portuguese Statistical Society, Porto, 2002 (about 250
participants).
Ø Co-organization,
with D. Malerba (Univ. Bari, Italy), of the Workshop “Mining Official Data”, in
the framework of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2002)
and 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery
in Databases (PKDD'02), Helsinki, August, 2002.
Ø Co-organization,
with R. Verde (II Univ. Naples, Italy) and F. De Carvalho (Univ. Fed.
Pernambuco, Brazil), of the Workshop “Symbolic Data Analysis”, in the framework
of the 8th Conference of the International Federation of the Classification
Societies, IFCS-2002, Krakow, July 2002.
Ø Co-organization,
with J. Costa (Univ. Porto) and D. Malerba (Univ. Bari, Italy), of the Workshop
“Dealing with Structured Data in Machine Learning and Statistics”, in the
framework of the European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML-2000, Barcelone,
May 2000.
Ø Chair
of the Organizing Committee of the 5th Meeting of the Portuguese
Association for Classification and Data Analysis, Porto, 1997 (about 120
participants).
Ø
Program
Committee of the following international conferences and workshops:
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Ø Project
oRANKI - Detection of outliers with limited resources. FCT R& D
Projects, PTDC/EIA/68322/2006. 2007-2009.
Ø European
IST Project: ASSO
"Analysis System of Symbolic Official Data", project IST-2000-25161,
2001-2003.
Ø European
Project: SODAS - "Symbolic Objects Data Analysis", project DOSIS
Nº20821, 1996-1999.
Ø Franco-Portuguese
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Program: "Statistic Models for
Data Mining".- Project ICCTI – French Embassy in Portugal, 2001-2003-2005.
Ø Franco-Portuguese
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Program: "Validation of
Classification Structures, Extensions of Hierarchical Methods"- Project
ICCTI – French Embassy in Portugal, 1998-2000.
Ø ECO
(Praxis XXI): "Knowledge Extraction from Databases and Symbolic
Learning", 1997-1999.
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Ø
Portuguese
– Mother tongue
Ø English
– Oral and Written Understanding, Speaking, Redaction – Excellent.
§ “First Certificate in English”, British
Institute at Porto, Portugal, 1978, grade “Very Good”.
§ “Certificate of Proficiency in English”, British
Institute at Porto, Portugal, 1981, grade “Good”.
Ø French
- Oral and Written Understanding, Speaking, Redaction – Excellent.
Ø German
- Oral and Written Understanding - Excellent; Speaking – Good; Redaction –
Reasonable.
§ “Zertifikat
Deutsch als Fremdsprache”, Goethe Institute at Porto, Portugal, 1982, grade “Good”.
§ “Deutscher Mittelstuffe Prüfung”, Goethe
Institute at Porto, Portugal, 1985, grade “Good”.
Ø Spanish
- Oral and Written Understanding - Excellent; Speaking – Very Good; Redaction -
Reasonable.
Ø Italian
- Oral and Written Understanding - Very Good; Speaking – Good; Redaction -
Reasonable.
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