It has ended yesterday another edition of Science and Technology Summit, an event that promotes debates in the most varied areas of science, and also, allows an interaction between researchers, companies and the visiting public.
We were present in another edition with the exhibition of demos from several INESC-ID research groups: GAIPS, L2F, and VIMMI.
We are proud to announce that our researcher Ana Paiva, from the research group Intelligent Agents and Synthetic Characters (GAIPS), was elected EurAI Fellow by the EurAI Fellows committee 2019.
The
The doctoral thesis «From Runtime Failures to Patches: Study of Patch Generation in Production» of our researcher Thomas Durieux
The
The INESC-ID researcher Rui Prada is one of the members of the Socio-Cognitive Systems Journal board editorial.
This new journal will be officially launched early in 2020 but they are already accepting submissions in their website. Also, an editorial talking about the topic will be released in Online First very soon.
INESC-ID has been present in Keep in Touch 2019 with the ‘IoT Board for Agriculture Applications’ demo, presented by the researcher João Tagaio.
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows the connection of different devices to the internet. Therefore, is possible to obtain a series of data and from them, extract useful information to the final user. However, some challenges emerge in the communication area, in terms of protocols used and in the electronics area, where is necessary to develop chips that present a very low current consumption.
In this presentation, it was presented a Real Time Clock (RTC), developed by SiliconGate startup, with consumption in the order of nano ampere. Because of this, the chip is ideal for IoT systems where is necessary to wake up the microcontroller from a sleep state.
The Clock when generating an alarm wakes up the microcontroller which in turn reads the sensors data and communicate them through the radio frequency module. The thesis presented also consists of the development of an IoT system to precision agriculture where an RTC is used to wake up the system. The intention is to achieve very low current consumption levels in a way that the system could work with just one battery charge for years.
INESC-ID is one of the ten partners of Qualichain, a European project focused on the assessment of the implications at technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural levels of Blockchain technology for verifying education and employment qualifications. Also, QualiChain specifies in the “impact – in terms of benefits and risks – of the prescribed solution’s utilization”.
QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments.
INESC-ID is in charge of designing some of the components of the platform and participates in one of the pilots. This research project is coordinated at INESC-ID by Miguel Pupo Correia.
For more information: https://qualichain-project.eu
Fernando Pedro, a former student from GAIPS won the Victor Lesser distinguished dissertation award with the these ‘Reputation Dynamics and the Self-organization of Cooperation’, at AAMAS 2019.
Moreover, six members of GAIPS Team, led by the researcher Ana Paiva, presented their work at the international conference, in Montreal, Canada and one of them got nominated for the best paper award.
INESC-ID is one of the ten partners of Qualichain, a European project focused on the assessment of the implications at technical, political, socio-economic, legal and cultural levels of Blockchain technology for verifying education and employment qualifications. Also, QualiChain specifies in the “impact – in terms of benefits and risks – of the prescribed solution’s utilization”.
QualiChain targets the creation, piloting and evaluation of a decentralised platform for storing, sharing and verifying education and employment qualifications and focuses on the assessment of the potential of blockchain technology, algorithmic techniques and computational intelligence for disrupting the domain of public education, as well as its interfaces with private education, the labour market, public sector administrative procedures and the wider socio-economic developments.
INESC-ID is in charge of designing some of the components of the platform and participates in one of the pilots. This research project is coordinated at INESC-ID by Miguel Pupo Correia.
For more information: https://qualichain-project.eu
The research team led by INESC-ID Researcher António Menezes de Leitão received last week two awards during the CAADRIA conference, Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award.
The paper From Visual Input to Visual Output in Textual Programming co-authored by Maria João Sammer, António Leitão and Inês Caetano won the best paper award. The work approaches Algorithmic Design that uses algorithms to generate designs. These algorithms are built using either a Visual Programming Language (VPL) or a Textual Programming Language (TPL). In architecture, there is a clear propensity to the use of VPLs, e.g., Grasshopper or Dynamo, over the use of TPLs, e.g., Python or AutoLisp. In addition to all the user-friendly and interactive features that make VPLs more appealing to architects, most of them already integrate components for textual programming. In contrast, TPLs have not been as successful in incorporating visual features. Given the user-friendliness of VPLs and the relevance of TPLs for large-scale and complex designs, we discuss Visual Input Mechanisms (VIMs) in the context of TPLs. In this paper, we extend previous research in this area by exploring and implementing the most valuable VIMs in a TPL adapted for architectural design.
Researcher Renata Castelo Branco was awarded best presentation paper
for the publication Game of Renders: The Use of Game Engines for Architectural Visualization. The paper shows that Good visualization mechanisms offer architects, and their clients, a better grasp of how their designs are going to turn out when built, and the experience one might have inside the constructions. This also helps the architect orient the design in a more informed manner. However, typically used modeling tools do not offer satisfactory visualization solutions. The operations available to view and navigate through the 3D space are flawed in terms of speed, interactivity, and real-time rendering quality. To solve this issue, we propose the coupling of a portable algorithmic design framework with a Game Engine (GE) to support interactive visualization of architectural models and increase the rendering performance of the framework. We explain in detail this integration, and we evaluate this workflow by implementing a case study and comparing the performance of the GE to architectural modeling tools.
The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia under the theme ” ‘Informed & Intelligent” took place in New-Zeland between 15th and 18th of April and within the coverage of the call lied a broad spectrum of approaches ranging from speculative, informal investigations to conventional scientific research.
