Mário Luís Pinto Antunes

Mário Antunes

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	01-09-2011
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Telecommunications and Networking – Av

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Address: IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 234 377 900
Fax: +351 234 377 901

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http://www.cienciavitae.pt/5A12-C626-EC54

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-6504-9441

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 06-12-2018

Affiliations

Universidade de Aveiro, 01-01-2023, Professor
Instituto de Telecomunicações, 15-09-2011, Professor

Academic Activities

1Supervision of PhD theses

As Co-supervisor

Transfer learning to Forecast Faults based on Knowledge from Existing Network, PhD Student, Noorud Din, Expected conclusion 07-2026

6Supervision of MSc theses

As Co-supervisor

Gestão Autónoma de redes 5G, MSc Student, Ana Isabel Gonçalves Pereira, Expected conclusion 12-2025
Development and Dynamic Deployment of a Programming Teaching Platform, MSc Student, Hugo Miguel Teixeira Gonçalves, Expected conclusion 12-2025
Machine Learning as a Service for Renewable Energy Communities, MSc Student, Rafael Fernandes Gonçalves, Expected conclusion 12-2025
Smart Interactive Code Teaching Platform, MSc Student, Daniela Filipa Pinto Dias, Concluded 12-2024
Localização de Ativos com Sistemas Definidos por Software, MSc Student, Pedro Miguel Ferreira Marques, Concluded 12-2023
Segurança e otimização de processos de distribuição, MSc Student, Borys Chystov, Concluded 12-2021

Publications

29Papers in Journals

R. Gonçalves, D.Gomes Gomes, M. Antunes, Intelligent Management of Renewable Energy Communities: An MLaaS Framework with RL-Based Decision Making, Energies, Vol. 18, No. 13, pp. 3477 - 3477, July, 2025 | BibTex
p.s.r. Rodrigues, J. Corona, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Optimising ML Pipeline Execution via Smart Task Placement, Electronics, Vol. 14, No. 13, pp. 2555 - 2555, June, 2025 | Full text (PDF 996 KBs) | BibTex
L. A. Almeida, R. Teixeira, G.B. Baldoni, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Federated Learning for a Dynamic Edge: A Modular and Resilient Approach, Sensors, Vol. 25, No. 12, pp. 3812 - 3812, June, 2025 | BibTex
R. Teixeira, L. A. Almeida, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Efficient training: Federated learning cost analysis, Big Data Research, Vol. 40, No., pp. 100510 - 100510, May, 2025 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
M. Antunes, T. Estro,, P. Bhandari, A. Gandhi, G. Kuenning, Y. Liu, C. Waldspurger, A. Wildani, E. Zadok, Kneeliverse: A universal knee-detection library for performance curves, SoftwareX, Vol. 30, No., pp. 102161 - 102161, May, 2025,
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R. Teixeira, G.B. Baldoni, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Leveraging decentralized communication for privacy-preserving federated learning in 6G Networks, Computer Communications, Vol. 233, No., pp. 108072 - 108072, March, 2025 | Full text (PDF 990 KBs) | BibTex
R. Gonçalves, D. M. Magalhães, R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Accelerating Energy Forecasting with Data Dimensionality Reduction in a Residential Environment, Energies, Vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 1637 - 1637, March, 2025,
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R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Rethinking security: the resilience of shallow ML models, international journal of data science and analytics, Vol., No., pp. -, October, 2024,
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R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Comparison of Semantic Similarity Models on Constrained Scenarios, Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 1307 - 1330, August, 2024 | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
T. Estro,, M. Antunes, P. Bhandari, A. Gandhi, G. Kuenning, Y. Liu, C. Waldspurger, A. Wildani, E. Zadok, Accelerating multi-tier storage cache simulations using knee detection, Performance Evaluation, Vol. 164, No. 0, pp. 102410 - 102410, May, 2024 | BibTex
P.S André, M.R. Ferreira, S Correia, L Fu, M. Antunes, P. Georgieva, Predicting the efficiency of luminescent solar concentrators for solar energy harvesting using machine learning, Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 4160 - 4160, February, 2024 | BibTex
M.R. Ferreira, S Correia, L Fu, P. Georgieva, M. Antunes, P.S André, A comprehensive dataset of photonic features on spectral converters for energy harvesting, Scientific data, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1 - 13, January, 2024 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
J. Cação, M. Antunes, J. Santos Santos, D.Gomes Gomes, Intelligent Assistant for Smart Factory Power Management, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 232, No., pp. 966 - 979, 2024 | BibTex
G.B. Baldoni, R. Teixeira, C. Guimarães, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, A.C. Corsaro, A Dataflow-Oriented Approach for Machine-Learning-Powered Internet of Things Applications, Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 18, pp. 3940 - 3940, September, 2023,
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J. Meira, G. Matos, A. Perdigão, J. Cação, C. Resende, W. Moreira Moreira, M. Antunes, J. Quevedo, R. Moutinho, J. Oliveira, P. Rendeiro, P. Oliveira, A. Olveira-Jr, J. S. Santos, R. Aguiar, Industrial Internet of Things over 5G: A Practical Implementation, Sensors, Vol. 23, No. 11, pp. 5199 - 5199, May, 2023,
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M. Santos, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Home Comfort Dataset: Acquired from SGH, Data, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 58 - 58, March, 2023 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
LM Contreras, M. Antunes, Modular architecture providing convergent and ubiquitous intelligent connectivity for networks beyond 2030, itu journal: ict discoveries, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 693 - 709, December, 2022 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
P. Gonçalves, M. Antunes, W. Xavier, A. Monteiro, Flock Nocturnal Activity: Is There a Rotative Guard?, Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 22, pp. 11563 - 11563, November, 2022,
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S. F. Fernandes, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Misalignment problem in matrix decomposition with missing values, Machine Learning, Vol. 110, No. 11, pp. 3157 - 3175, December, 2021 | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
M. Antunes, A. Santiago, S Manso, DDR Regateiro, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Building an IoT Platform Based on Service Containerisation, Sensors, Vol. 21, No. 19, pp. 6688 - 6688, October, 2021 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
L. Nóbrega, P. Gonçalves, M. Antunes, D. Corujo, Assessing sheep behaviour through low-power microcontrollers in smart agriculture scenarios, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol. 173, No. 105444, pp. 1 - 11, June, 2020 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
C. Fernandes, M. Antunes, A. Santiago, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Forecasting Appliances Failures: A Machine-Learning Approach to Predictive Maintenance, Information, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 208 - 208, April, 2020,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Towards IoT data classification through semantic features, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, March, 2018,
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R. Jesus, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Modelling patterns in continuous streams of data, Open Journal of Big Data, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2017,
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M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Smart Cloud of Things: An Evolved IoT Platform for Telco Providers, Journal of Ambient Wireless Communications and Smart Environments, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 24, July, 2016,
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J. Quevedo, M. Antunes, D. Corujo, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, On the application of contextual IoT service discovery in Information Centric Networks, Computer Communications, Vol. 89-90, No. 1, pp. 117 - 127, March, 2016,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Scalable Semantic Aware Context Storage, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 675 - 683, March, 2016,
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JP Barraca, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, P. O. Oliveira, R. Aguiar, Smart Cloud of Things: an evolved IoT platform for Telco providers, Journal of Ambient Wireless Communications and Smart Environments, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 30, January, 2015 | BibTex
Christopher Lima Lima, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, T. Mota, A Context-Aware Framework for Collaborative Activities in Pervasive Communities, International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 31 - 43, July, 2014,
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42Papers in Conferences

X. Zhang, M. Antunes, T. Estro,, E. Zadok, K. Mueller, Smart Starts: Accelerating Convergence through Uncommon Region Exploration, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO, Malága, Spain, Vol., pp. -, July, 2025,
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J. Corona, R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Towards cost estimation of DRL for task scheduling and placement, IEEE Eurocon, Gdynia, Poland, June, 2025 | BibTex
R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Towards Understanding Device Impact in Heterogeneous Federated Learning, IEEE Latin American Conference on Internet of Things, FORTALEZA, Brazil, Vol., pp. -, April, 2025 | Full text (PDF 177 KBs) | BibTex
R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Rethinking Security: The Resilience of Shallow ML Models (Extended Abstract), IEEE IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics DSAA, San Diego, United States, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024,
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H. Sousa, R. Gonçalves, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, Privacy-Preserving Energy Optimisation in Home Automation Systems, FiCloud International Conference on AI, Big Data and Blockchain ABB, Vienna, Austria, August, 2024,
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L. A. Almeida, P. Rodrigues, R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Privacy-Preserving Defense: Intrusion Detection in IoT using Federated Learning, IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, June, 2024 | BibTex
J. Cação, M. Antunes, J. S. Santos, D.Gomes Gomes, Intelligent Assistant for Smart Factory Power Management, International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing ISM, Lisbon, Poland, November, 2023,
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R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, R. Sobral, J. Martins, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Exploring the Intricacies of Neural Network Optimization, International Conference on Discovery Science DS, Porto, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023 | BibTex
J. Corona, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Eco-Friendly Intrusion Detection: Evaluating Energy Costs of Learning, IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things WF-IoT, Aveiro, Portugal, October, 2023 | BibTex
T. Estro,, M. Antunes, P. Bhandari, A. Gandhi, G. Kuenning, Y. Liu, C. Waldspurger, A. Wildani, E. Zadok, Guiding Simulations of Multi-Tier Storage Caches Using Knee Detection, IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems MASCOTS, New York, United States, Vol., pp. -, October, 2023,
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J. Corona, M. Antunes, J. Quevedo, R. Aguiar, Towards cost estimation of DRL for task scheduling and placement, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Porto, Portugal, September, 2023,
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R. Teixeira, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, The learning costs of Federated Learning in constrained scenarios, International Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud - FiCloud, Marrakesh, Morocco, Vol., pp. -, August, 2023,
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R. S. Santos, R. Alexandre, P. Marques, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, J. Silva, N. Ferreira, Towards improved indoor location with unmodified RFID systems, INSTICC International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol., pp. -, February, 2023,
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R. Carvalho, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Design and Evaluation of a Low-Latency CPC Environment for Virtual IEDs, IEEE International Conf. on Cloud Networking - CloudNet, Paris, France, Vol., pp. -, November, 2022 | BibTex
M. Antunes, J. Quevedo, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Improve Contextual IoT service discovery with semantic models, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Rome, Italy, Vol., pp. -, August, 2022 | BibTex
D. Castro, R. Rocha Rocha, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Root Cause Analysis in 5G/6G Networks, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Conference online, August, 2021 | BibTex
M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Semantic similarity on constraints datasets: A latent approach, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, August, 2021 | BibTex
E. KilinÇ, S. F. Fernandes, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Using ML to increase the efficiency of solar energy usage in HVAC, Societal Automation International Conference on Societal Automation SA, Conference online, Vol., pp. -, May, 2021 | BibTex
D. Ferreira, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Applying Reinforcement Learning in Context Limited Environments, IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Rome, Italy, September, 2020 | BibTex
M. Antunes, H. A. Aguiar, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, AL and S Methods: Two Extensions for L-Method, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2019 | BibTex
A. Santiago, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, SCoTv2: Large Scale Data Acquisition, Processing, and Visualization Platform, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2019 | BibTex
D.Gomes Gomes, R. Jesus, M. Antunes, P. Georgieva, R. Aguiar, Stream Generation: Markov Chains vs GANs, International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security IoTDBS, Crete, Greece, June, 2019,
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JP Barraca, A. Santiago, M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Predictive Maintenance System for Efficiency Improvement of Heating Equipment, IEEE BigDataService, Newark, United States, April, 2019,
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D.Gomes Gomes, J. Ribeiro, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Outlier identification in multivariate time series: boilers case study, International Conference on Time Series and Forecasting (ITISE), Granada, Spain, September, 2018,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, J. Ribeiro, Knee/Elbow point estimation through thresholding, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2018,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Knee/Elbow estimation based on first derivative threshold, IEEE BigDataService, Bamberg, Germany, March, 2018,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, The Impact of Clustering for Learning Semantic Categories, INSTICC Int. Conf. on Internet of Things and Big Data IoTBD, Santa Cruz, Portugal, March, 2018,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, JP Barraca, R. Aguiar, Vehicular dataset for road assessment conditions, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference ISC2, Wuxi, China, September, 2017,
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M. Antunes, R. Jesus, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Improve IoT/M2M data organization based on stream patterns, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2017,
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R. Jesus, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Extracting Knowledge from Stream Behavioural Patterns, INSTICC Int. Conf. on Internet of Things and Big Data IoTBD, Porto, Portugal, April, 2017,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Learning Semantic Features from Web Services, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Vienna, Austria, August, 2016,
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A. Vilaça, M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, TVPulse: detecting TV highlights in Social Networks, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. NA, pp. NA - NA, September, 2015 | BibTex
M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Semantic Features for Context Organization, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Rome, Italy, August, 2015,
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M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, P. O. Oliveira, R. Aguiar, Unified platform for M2M Telco Providers, International Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambiente Intelligence, Belfast, United Kingdom, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2014 | BibTex
M. Antunes, JP Barraca, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Unified Platform for M2M Telco Providers, Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services UCAmI, Belfast, United Kingdom, December, 2014,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Semantic-Based Publish/Subscribe for M2M, IEEE International Conference on Cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery CyberC 2017, Shanghai, China, October, 2014,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Scalable Semantic Aware Context Storage, IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud FICLOUD, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2014,
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M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Context Storage for M2M Scenarios, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Sidney, Australia, July, 2014,
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Christopher Lima Lima, D.Gomes Gomes, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, A Context- Aware Framework for CSCW Applications in Enterprise Environments, IADIS International Conf. Collaborative Technologies - CT, Prague, Czech Republic, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2013 | BibTex
Christopher Lima Lima, D.Gomes Gomes, M. Antunes, R. Aguiar, Social Awareness in Pervasive Communities for Collaborative Work, International Workshop on Applications of Affective Computing in Intelligent Environments - ACIE, Athens, Greece, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2013 | BibTex
M. Antunes, D.Gomes Gomes, R. Aguiar, Towards behaviour inference in smart environments, The Conf. on Future Internet Communications - CFIC, Coimbra, Portugal, May, 2013,
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Gustavo Pires Pires, M. Antunes, D. Corujo, D.Gomes Gomes, JP Barraca, R. Aguiar, Architecture for orchestration of M2M services, Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2012 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects4

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DT4MOB	Digital Twins for Mobility	Next generation EU - Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência (PRR) - Componente 19 – Transição Digital da Administração Pública– Capacitação, Digitalização, Interoperabilidade e Cibersegurança	09-05-2025	30-06-2026
inMotion	inMotion		01-07-2025	30-06-2027
RIGOUROUS	Secure Design and Deployment of Trustworthy Continuum Computing 6G Services	EU	01-01-2023	31-12-2026
Route25	Route 25: Agenda for Autonomous, Intelligent, Interoperable and Inclusive Mobility	IAPMEI	01-10-2022	30-09-2025

Closed Projects9

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
5GCONTACT	CONText-Aware Communications opTimization	FCT	04-10-2018	03-02-2021
5Growth	5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries	EU/H2020	01-06-2019	31-12-2021
NetEdge	SI I&DT Copromoção Nr. 069977 - NETEDGE - EDgE computing for end-users of optical Networks	P2020	01-12-2020	30-06-2023
SCALE	Statistical Characterization of Telecommunications Traffic	FCT/POSI	01-01-2001	31-07-2001
SCALE	SI I&DT - Projetos em Copromoção Nr. 047210 - Scalable Centralized Grid Protection, Automation and Control	P2020	01-01-2021	30-06-2023
SCoT	Smart Cloud of Things	IP Beja	01-01-2015	01-04-2015
SDRT	SI I&DT Copromoção Nr. 070192 - SDRT Health - Software Defined Real-Time Health	P2020	04-04-2021	30-06-2023
SGF	Sistema de Gestão de Frotas	PT Inovação	01-12-2009	01-12-2010
TWIN	SI I&DT Copromoção Nr. 069557 - Twin: Plataforma híbrida de aprovisionamento de serviços e comunicações orquestradas para aplicações stateful com requisitos de latência e jitter	P2020	31-01-2021	30-06-2023