Publications

Journals

Merkebe Getachew Demissie, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Titipat Sukhvibul, Francisco Antunes, Rui Gomes, Carlos Bento. Inferring Passenger Travel Demand to Improve Urban Mobility in Developing Countries Using Cell Phone Data: A Case Study of Senegal. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Jan 2016. Impact Factor: 2.38, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2016.2521830
Stefan Foell, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Gerd Kortuem, Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento. Predictability of Public Transport Usage: A Study of Bus Rides in Lisbon, Portugal. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct 2015. Impact Factor: 2.38 · DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2015.2425533
Merkebe Getachew Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Analysis of the pattern and intensity of urban activities through aggregate cellphone usage. Transportmetrica, February 2015. Impact Factor: 3.77, DOI: 10.1080/23249935.2015.1019591.
Jiang, S. and Alves, A. O. and Rodrigues, F. and Ferreira, J. and Pereira, F.C. , “Mining point-of-interest data from social networks for urban land use classification and disaggregation”, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.12.001
Alves, A.O. and Ribeiro, B. , “Consensus-based Approach for Keyword Extraction from Urban Event Collections”, Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2015 , DOI: 10.14201/ADCAIJ2015424160
Alves, A.O. and Dias, T. and Silva, D. , “A Real-Time, Distributed and Context-Aware System for Managing Solidarity Campaigns”, ADCAIJ: Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 4, 2015, DOI: 10.14201/ADCAIJ2015422540
Merkebe Getachew Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Exploring cellular network handover information for urban mobility analysis. Journal of Transport Geography, July 2013. Impact Factor: 2.54, DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.06.016.
Merkebe Getachew Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Intelligent road traffic status detection system through cellular networks handover information: An exploratory study. Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies 32:76-78 · July 2013. Impact Factor: 2.82, DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2013.03.010.
Rodrigues, F. and Alves, A.O. and Polisciuc, E. and Jiang, S. and Ferreira, J. and Pereira, F.C. , “Estimating disaggregated employment size from Points-of-Interest and census data: From mining the web to model implementation and visualization”, International Journal on Advanced Intelligent Systems, vol. 7, 2013, (PDF)
Alves, A.O., Antunes, B., Pereira, F.C., Bento, C., Semantic enrichment of places: Ontology learning from web, International Journal of Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 13, #1, pp. 19-30, IOS Press, January 2009 (PDF)

Proceedings

2016

Merkebbe Demissie, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Titipat Sukhvibul. Inferring Origin- Destination Flows Using Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study of Senegal. 13th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, June 28th – July 1st, 2016 at Chiang Mai, Thailand.

2015

Antunes, F., Fonte, C. C., Brovelli, M. A., Minghini, M., Molinari, M. & Mooney, P. (2015) Assessing OSM Road Positional Quality with Authoritative Data, in Proc. of the VIII National Conference on Cartography and Geodesy (VIII CNCG), October 29-30, Lisbon, Portugal, ISBN 978-989-8152-10-7.

Paulo Silva, Francisco Nibau Antunes, Rui Gomes, Carlos Bento. Demand Modelling for Responsive Transport Systems Using Digital Footprints. EPIA 2015, 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Coimbra, Sept 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978- 3-319-23485-4_19.

Alves, A.O. and Silva, D. , “Mobile CrowdSensing for Solidarity Campaings”, in 6th International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2015), 2015

Lopes, D. and Gomes, R. and Bento, C. , “An Intelligent Bike Sharing Prediction System”, in 18th Euro Working Group on Transportation, EWGT 2015, 14-16 July 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015

Teixeira, N. and Gomes, R. and Galvão, T. , “Definition and evaluation of flexible transport systems: the case of Vila do Conde, Portugal”, in 18th Euro Working Group on Transportation, EWGT 2015 14-16 July 2015, Delft, The Netherlands, 2015

Gomes, R. and Galvão, T. and Sousa, J.P.d. , “Contributions for Demand Responsive Transportation systems using a simheuristic approach”, in EURO 2015 – 27th European Conference on Operational Research, 2015

Chalermpong Somdulyawat, Piyawat Pongjitpak, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento. A tool for exploratory visualization of bus mobility and ridership. 2015 ACM International Joint Conference, Jan 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2800835.2800975.

2014

Stefan Foell · Santi Phithakkitnukoon · Gerd Kortuem · Marco Veloso · Carlos Bento. Catch Me If You Can: Predicting Mobility Patterns of Public Transport Users. 17th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, Sept 2014. DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2014.6957997.

Merkebe Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Extracting urban activities through aggregate cellphone usage. 17th meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, At SEVILLE, SPAIN, July 2014.

Geadas, P. and Alves, A.O. and Ribeiro, B. , “Ensemble Learning for Keyword Extraction from Event Descriptions”, in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligency, 2014

Teixeira, N. and Gomes, R. and Galvão, T. , “O papel da simulação na definição e avaliação de Sistemas de Transportes Flexíveis”, in GET 2014 – 11th Annual Transports Study Group Conference, 2014

2013

Rui Chicória, João Duro, João Claro, Carlos Bento. inTime – A Crowd-sourced Approach to Urban Mobility Through Time Predictions. XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sept 2013.

Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento, Santi Phithakkitnukoon. Exploring Relationship Between Taxi Volume and Flue Gases’ Concentrations. Conference: Third International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) in conjunction with ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Sept 2013. DOI: 10.1145/2494091.2497353.

Evgheni Polisciuc, Ana Alves, Carlos Bento, Penousal Machado. Visualizing urban mobility. The 40th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Tecniques, Jul 2013. DOI: 10.1145/2503385.2503511.

Rodrigues, J. and Correia, P. and Alves, A.O. and Machado, P. and Pereira, F.C. , “Constructing Route Choice Maps from GPS Traces”, in World Conference on Transport Research (open track), Jul 2013

Merkebe Demissie, Gonçalo Correia, Carlos Bento. Traffic Volume Estimation through Cellular Networks Handover Information. 13th World Conference on Transportation Research, Jul 2013.

Merkebe Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Exploring the relationship between number of bus passengers and cellular networks information. CITTA 6th Annual conference on planning research, May 2013.

Merkebe Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento. Inferring characteristics of places from cellular network data. CITTA 6th Annual conference on planning research, May 2013.

Norberto Henriques, Carlos Bento. Integration of GPS Traces and Digital Elevation Maps for Improving Bicycle Traffic Simulation Behavior. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting 2013, Jan 2013.

2012

Marco Veloso, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Carlos Bento. Exploring Relationship between Mobile Phone Call Intensity and Taxi Volume in Urban Area. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept 2012. Impact Factor: 0.25, DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2012.6338744.

Santos, J. and Alves, A.O. and Pereira, F.C. and Pedro Henriques Abreu , “Semantic Enrichment of Places for the Portuguese Language”, in INForum2012, 2012

Rodrigues, F. and Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A.O. and Jiang, S. and Ferreira, J. , “Automatic Classification of Points-of-Interest for Land-use Analysis”, in GEOProcessing 2012 : The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, 2012

Merkebe Demissie, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Carlos Bento, Pedro Bizarro. Estimation and prediction of road traffic status with information from multiple sources. 9th Annual Transports Study Group Conference, Jan 2012.

2011
Alves, A., Rodrigues, F., Pereira, F.C., Tagging Space from Information Extraction and Popularity of Points of Interest. In proceedings of International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2011. (PDF)
Henriques, N., Bento, C., A Computational Approach for Integration of Soft Mobility and Regular Public Transports. In proceedings of 14th IEEE International Transportation Systems Conference, 2011 (PDF).
Veloso, M., Phithakkitnukoon, S., Bento, C., Sensing Urban Mobility with Taxi Flow. In proceedings of International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), ACM Digital Library, 2011 (PDF).
Veloso, M., Phithakkitnukoon, S., Bento, C., Urban Mobility Study using Taxi Traces. In proceedings of International Workshop on Trajectory Data Mining and Analysis (TDMA) in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), ACM Digital Library and UbiComp Extended Proceedings, 2011 (PDF).
Veloso, M., Phithakkitnukoon, S., Bento, C., Olivier, P., Exploratory Study of Urban Flow using Taxi Traces. First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2011 (PDF).

2010

Alves, A., Pereira, F.C., Rodrigues, F., Oliveirinha, J., Place in Perspective: Extracting Online Information about Points of Interest. In proceedings of International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 61–72, 2010. (PDF)
Jiang, S., Rodrigues, F., Alves, A., Pereira, F.C., Ferreira, J., Towards an activity-based approach for estimating travel destinations. In proceedings of 12th World Conference on Transportation Research, 2010. (PDF)
Oliveirinha, J., Pereira, F.C., & Alves, A.O. Acquiring semantic context for events from online resources. Tokyo, Japan, 2010. (PDF)
Phithakkitnukoon, S., Veloso, M., Bento, C., Biderman, A., Ratti, C., Taxi-Aware Map: Identifying and predicting vacant taxis in the city. International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2010 (PDF).

2009

Pereira, F.C., Alves, A., Oliveirinha, J., & Biderman, A.. Perspectives on Semantics of the Place from Online Resources (pp. 215-220). Berkeley, CA, USA: IEEE, 2009. (PDF)
Vaccari, A., Liu, L., Biderman, A., Ratti, C., Pereira, F., Oliveirinha, J., Gerber, A., A holistic framework for the study of urban traces and the profiling of urban processes and dynamics (pp. 1-6). St. Louis, 2009. (PDF)
Alves, A. O., Pereira, F.C., Biderman, A., Ratti, C.,”Place Enrichment by Mining the Web”. In proceedings of 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, November 2009 (PDF)
A Amey, L Liu, F Pereira, C Zegras, M Veloso, C Bento, A Biderman. “State of the Practice Overview of Transportation Data Fusion: Technical and Institutional Considerations”. MIT Portugal, Transportation Systems, Working Paper Series (Paper# ITS-CM-09-01), January, 2009.

2008

Zegras, C., Pereira, F., Amey, A., Veloso, M., Liu, L., Bento, C., Biderman, A., Data Fusion for Travel Demand Management: State of the Practice & Prospects. 4th International Symposium on Travel Demand Management, 2008 (PDF).

2007

C Bento, T Soares, M Veloso, B Baptista. “A Study on the Suitability of GSM Signatures for Indoor Location”. Proceedings The European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, 7-11 de Novembro, 2007, pp. 108-123.

2005

C Bento, M Veloso, J Peixoto. “A Case-Based Approach for Indoor Location”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development – Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2005, Chicago, IL, USA, 23-26 de Agosto, 2005. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 3-540-28174-6, pp. 78-91.

Book Chapters

Antunes, F., O’Sullivan, A., Rodrigues, F., & Pereira, F., (2017) A review of heteroscedasticity treatment with Gaussian Processes and Quantile Regression Meta-models, in Seeing Cities Through Big Data, Chapter 9, pp. 141-160, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-40900-9.
Alves, A.O. and Pereira, F.C. , “Semantic enrichment of places: From public places descriptions to linked data”, in Perspectives of Ontology Learning (ISBN: 978-1-61499-378-0), vol. 1, pp. 201-218, 2014

Workshops

Polisciuc, E. and Alves, A.O. and Machado, P. , “Understanding Urban Land Use through the Visualization of Points of Interest”, in Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language (VL’15), part of 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP15), 2015
Antunes, F., O’Sullivan, A., Rodrigues, F. & Pereira, F., (2014) Accounting for Heteroscedasticity in Big Data, in the Proc. of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshops on Big Data and Urban Informatics, August 11-12, Chicago, USA.
Stefan Foell, Marco Veloso, Gerd Kortuem, Carlos Bento, Reza Rawassizadeh, Santi Phithakkitnukoon. Mining Temporal Patterns of Transport Behaviour for Predicting Future Transport Usage. Conference: Third International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) in conjunction with ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Sept 2013. DOI: 10.1145/2494091.2497354.
Sourav Bhattacharya, Arto Klami, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Marco Veloso, Petteri Nurmi, Carlos Bento. Gaussian Process-Based Predictive Modeling for Bus Ridership. Conference: Third International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) in conjunction with ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Sept 2013. DOI: 10.1145/2494091.2497349.
Alves, A.O. and Pereira, F.C. , “Making Sense of Location Context”, in 1st International Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining part of the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2012
Oliveirinha, J. and Pereira, F.C. and Alves, A.O. , “Acquiring semantic context for events from online resources”, in 3rd International Workshop on Location and the Web, 2011
Biderman, A., Pereira, F.C., Alves, A. O., “Fusion of Semantic Data for Mobility Information-Prospects and Opportunities”, InMotion: Workshop on Improved Mobility and Transportation, Pervasive 2009, Nara, Japan (PDF)

Posters

Veloso, M., Perceiving City Dynamics Resorting to Data Fusion Mechanisms. MIT Portugal Program’s 1st Annual Conference, 2009 (Poster presentation).
M Veloso, C Bento. “Predição da localização no interior de edifícios baseada em sinais de radiofrequência”. Proceedings of the Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems, CSMU 2006, Guimarães, Portugal, Junho, 2006. ISBN: 972-8692-29-3, (Poster Presentation) pp. 199-202.
M Veloso, C Bento, B Batista. “Indoor Location Based on GSM Fingerprinting”. AILab – Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Winter Workshop, 2006 (Poster Presentation).
M Veloso, C Bento. “Indoor Location Based on GSM Footprints”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2005, Tóquio, Japão, 11-14 de Setembro, 2005. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN: 3-540-28760-4, (Poster Presentation).

Theses

M Veloso. “Analysis of Taxi Data for Understanding Urban Dynamics”. Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências e Tecnologia da Informação, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Setembro, 2016.
Polisciuc, E., “Visual Tools for the Study of Urban Mobility”, Tese de Mestrado em Design e Multimédia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Jul 2013.
Alves, A.O. , “Semantic Enrichment of Places – Understanding the Meaning of Public Places from Natural Language Texts”. Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências e Tecnologia da Informação, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Jul 2012.
Oliveirinha, João. Semantics in place and time, 2010 (PDF)
Rodrigues, Filipe. POI Mining and Generation, 2010 (PDF)
M Veloso. “Mapping Urban Mobility for Heterogeneous Data Fusion”. Proposta de tese de Doutoramento em Ciências e Tecnologia da Informação, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Outubro, 2009.
Veloso, Marco, Localização no Interior de Edifícios Recorrendo a Assinaturas GSM, 2007 (PDF)
M Veloso. “Locality awareness supported on base station info and user local annotations”. Proposta de Dissertação de Mestrado em Informática e Sistemas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra, Julho, 2006.

Technical Reports

M Veloso. “Analysis of Taxi Service and Exhaust Gases in Porto, Portugal”. Ambient Intelligence Lab., Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Maio, 2016.
M Veloso. “Taxi as a Probe to Monitor Environmental Changes in Urban Areas”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Setembro, 2014.
M Veloso. “Taxi Driver Assistant – A Proposal for a Recommendation System”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Janeiro, 2013.
M Veloso. “Taxi Driver Assistant Framework”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Outubro, 2012.
M Veloso. “Study of taxi demand and the use of GSM network”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Junho, 2012.
M Veloso. “Impact of area type characterized by POIs to the taxi service”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Fevereiro, 2012.
M Veloso. “Study of average taxi speed on urban areas”. Ambient Intelligence Laboratory, Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Julho, 2011.
M Veloso. “Exploratory study of taxi trajectories and taxi driver behavior”. Ambient Intelligence Lab., Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Maio, 2011.
Veloso, M., S., Bento, C., Pereira, F., Multi-Sensor Data Fusion on Intelligent Transport System. MIT Portugal, Transportation Systems, Working Paper Series (Paper# ITS-CM-09-02), 2009 (PDF).
Amey, A., Liu, L., Pereira, F., Zegras, C., Veloso, M., Bento, C., Biderman, A., State of the Practice Overview of Transportation Data Fusion: Technical and Institutional Considerations. MIT Portugal, Transportation Systems, Working Paper Series (Paper# ITS-CM-09-01), 2009 (PDF).

Complete Books of Proceedings

Complete books of proceedings are available for AmIlab members at ftp://ftp-amilab@ubiquo.dei.uc.pt

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