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     Mário M. Freire
       Full Professor (Professor Catedrático)

       Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior
       Rua Marquês de Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal

       E-mail addresses: mfreire(at)computer.org or mfreire(at)acm.org or mario(at)di.ubi.pt

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Mário M. Freire Full Professor (Professor Catedrático) Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior Rua Marquês de Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal E-mail addresses: mfreire(at)computer.org or mfreire(at)acm.org or mario(at)di.ubi.pt

Concluded and In-progress Doctoral Theses and Master Dissertations Under my Supervision
"People judge you by your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."

Steve Jobs, Computer businessman, designer and inventor (1955-2011).

Concluded PhD Theses

Pedro Ricardo Morais Inácio, Thesis: " Study of the Impact of Intensive Attacks on the Self-Similarity Degree of the Network Traffic in Intra-Domain Aggregation Points", PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, December 17, 2009 (Co-supervised by Dr. Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Nokia Siemens Networks).

Nuno Manuel Garcia dos Santos, Thesis: "Architectures and Algorithms for IPv4/IPv6-Compliant Optical Burst Switching Networks", PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, November 7, 2008 (Co-supervised by Dr. Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Nokia Siemens Networks).

Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues, Thesis: "Performance Assessment of One-way Resource Reservation Protocols for IP Over Optical Burst Switched Networks", PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, July 25, 2006.

Concluded MS Dissertations

André Filipe Ferreira Esteves, Dissertation: "Detection of Encrypted Traffic Generated by Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Applications Using Deep Packet Inspection", MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, December 12, 2011.

Rui Pedro Quaresma Braz, Dissertation: "An Object-Oriented Architecture for Transmission Simulation of Image and Video with Multiple Description Coding Over High-Speed Optical Fibre Channels", MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, July 28, 2010 (Co-supervised by Dr. Manuela Pereira, UBI).

Fábio Duarte Beirão, Dissertation: "NetOdyssey: A Framework for Real-Time Windowed Analysis of Network Traffic", MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, July 22, 2010.

Marisa Raposo Quaresma, Dissertation: "Multiple Description Image and Video Coding for P2P Transmissions", MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, December 9, 2009 (Supervised by Dr. Manuela Pereira, UBI).

David Alexandre Milheiro Carvalho, Dissertation: "Towards the Detection of Encrypted Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Traffic and Peer-to-Peer TV Traffic Using Deep Packet Inspection Methods", MS in Information Systems and Technologies, University of Beira Interior, October 22, 2009.

Rui Alexandre da Rocha Gonçalves Pereira, Dissertation: "Editor para a Web Semântica Integrando Anotações Semânticas, Ontologias e RDF" (Editor for Semantic Web Integrating Semantic Annotations, Ontologies and RDF), MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Beira Interior, July 26, 2006.

In-Progress PhD Theses

João Vasco Paulo Gomes (FCT Grant), Research Topic: Classification of Peer-to-Peer Traffic by Exploring the Heterogeneity of Traffic Features Through Entropy, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, in-progress, (Co-supervised by Dr. Paulo Pereira Monteiro, Nokia Siemens Networks).

Filipe Cruz Gomes Soares (FCT Grant in Siemens SA - Healthcare Sector), Research Topic: Generalization of the Embedded Branch Process for Automatic Detection of Breast Cancer, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, in progress, (Co-supervised by Eng. João Seabra, Siemens SA - Healthcare Sector).

Ângela Cristina Marques de Oliveira (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco), Research Topic: Automatic Quantification and Classification of Breast Tissue Density in 2D Ultrasound Images, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, in progress, (Co-supervised by Dr. José Alberto Fonseca Moutinho, Faculty of Health Sciences, UBI).

Carlos David Magalhães Queiroz (Polytechnic Institute of Tomar), Research Topic: Towards Autonomic Detection of Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Traffic, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, in progress.

In-Progress MS Dissertations

Nuno Ricardo da Conceição Rosa Marques, Research Topic: Contribution for the Resilience of Computer Networks Using Cisco Packet Tracer, MS in Computer Science and Engineering, in-progress.

“One of the problems of being a pioneer is you always make mistakes and I never, never want to be a pioneer. It’s always best to come second when you can look at the mistakes the pioneers made”.

Seymour Cray, Public Lecture at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories on the introduction of the CRAY-1, 1976.

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