Research

 

2019:

Marco Rocha, Pedro D. Almeida, Pedro D. Silva, Luís C. Pires: Shale OIl – Present and future. Proceedings of the International Congress on Engineering, ICEUBI2019, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, November 2019.

Marco Rocha, Luís C. Pires, Pedro D. Silva, Pedro D. Almeida: Development and construction of a photovoltaic didactic bench. Proceedings of the International Congress on Engineering, ICEUBI2019, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, November 2019.

Nuno C. Godinho, Luís C. Pires, Pedro D. Silva, Pedro D. Almeida: Greenhouse heating and cooling by means of an earth-to-air heat exchanger. Proceedings of the International Congress on Engineering, ICEUBI2019, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, November 2019.

 

2018:

Almeida, P., Fazendeiro, P. and Inácio, P.: Societal risks of the end of physical cash. Futures, Volume 104, Pages 47-60, December 2018.

   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717302884

 

2014:

Almeida, P.: Shale Oil Production in the US: The Hype and the Reality. Book chapter in Handbook on Oil Production Research, Nova Science Publishers, 2014.

               Abstract
               Link to the publisher’s page about this book:
               https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23_65_752&products_id=51304
 

2012:

Azevedo, J., Almeida, R. and Almeida, P.: Using Data Mining with Time Series Data in Short-Term Stocks Prediction: A Literature Review. International Journal of Intelligence Science, 2, 176-180, 2012.

               http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?paperID=24192

 

2011:

Almeida, P. and Silva, P.: Timing and future consequences of the peak of oil production. Futures, 43, 1044-1055, 2011.

               http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2011.07.004
 

2010:

Almeida, P.: A knowledge-based approach to the iris segmentation problem.  Image and Vision Computing, 28 (2), 238-245, 2010.

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2009.07.003

 

2009:

Almeida, P. and Silva, P.: The peak of oil production - Timings and market recognition. Energy Policy, 37 (4), 1267-1276, 2009.

               http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.11.016

 

2008:

The patent for an "Aquatic System for Energy Storage in the Form of Compressed Air" went on progressing slowly. The Portuguese patent application was filled in 2007/08/22, and the international PTC application was filled in 2008/08/20.

Inventors: Pedro de Almeida and Pedro D. Silva.

 

My participation on the "Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation – Part I" (NICE.I) finished in 3rd place.

(Contest web page: http://nice1.di.ubi.pt/)

In result of this classification, I have submitted the (invited) paper "A knowledge-based approach to the iris segmentation problem" to the journal Image and Vision Computing.

 

2007:

Zhang, Q., Chandramouli, K., Damnjanovic, U.,  Piatrik, T., Izquierdo, E., Corvaglia, M., Adami, N., Leonardi, R., Yakin, G., Aksoy, S., Naci, U., Hanjalic, A., Vrochidis, S., Moumtzidou, A., Nikolopoulos, S., Mezaris, V., Makris, L., Kompatsiaris, I., Mansencal, B., Benois-Pineau, J., Esen, E., Alatan, A., Spyrou, E., Kapsalas, P., Tolias, G., Mylonas, P., Avrithis, Y., Reljin, B., Zajic, G., Pinheiro A., Alexandre, L., Almeida, P., Jarina, R., Kuba, M., Aginako, N., and Goya, J.: The COST292 experimental framework for TRECVID 2007. Proceedings of the TRECVID 2007 - 5th TRECVID Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2007.

 

Matias, J., Silva, P. and Almeida, P.: Prospective Energy Scenarios: Interactive Model Proposal. Presented in the conference Engenharia' 2007 - Inovação e Desenvolvimento. UBI, Covilhã, Portugal, Nov 2007.

 

Almeida, P. and Silva, P.: Peak Oil Production - A Markets Perspective. Proceedings of the 3rd International Energy, Exergy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-3). Évora, Portugal, July 2007.

 

Silva, P., Matias, J. and Almeida, P.: Dynamic Methodology for Energy Scenarios. Proceedings of the 3rd International Energy, Exergy and Environment Symposium (IEEES-3). Évora, Portugal, July 2007.

 

Almeida, P.: Peak Oil: O Pico Mundial da Produção de Petróleo. Invited presentation in the Venture Capital IT 2007 (VCIT 2007), Taguspark, Oeiras, Portugal, May 2007.

(PPS presentation, in Portuguese)

A longer keynote talk with the same title was presented in the seminar “A Factura da Energia” in the Portuguese “Assembleia da Republica”, in May 2007.

 

Tomé, A. and Almeida, P.: Usefulness of NAO Index for Forecast of Monthly Rainfall in Lisbon. Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 9, 02991, 2007.

 

2006:

Almeida, P. and Gomes, A.: Advanced Strategic Browser-Based Massive Multiplayer Online Game: A Game Suggestion. Proceedings of the International Digital Games Conference (iDiG 2006), Portalegre, Portugal, September 2006.

(PDF version available)

 

Gomes, A. and Almeida, P.: CorkFlyer: An Engine for Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Proceedings of the International Digital Games Conference (iDiG 2006), Portalegre, Portugal, September 2006.

 

Almeida, P., Tomé, A. and Espírito-Santo, F.: Utilização de métodos automáticos de descoberta de conhecimento para a previsão mensal da precipitação em Lisboa. Proceedings of the 5ª Asamblea Hispano Portuguesa de Geodesia y Geofísica. Sevilla, Spain, January-February 2006.

(PDF version of the presentation poster available)

 

2005:

Almeida, P. and Silva, P.: Peak Oil and the Nymex Futures Market: Do Investors Believe in Physical Realities? Proceedings of the IV International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion - Aspo Lisbon Meeting. Lisbon, Portugal, May 2005.

(PDF version available)

 

Almeida, P. and Silva, P.: Practical Advantages of the Use of Tracking Systems in Power Applications of Photovoltaic Solar Panels. Proceedings of the International Congress of Energy and Environment Engineering and Management - ICIIEM2005. Portalegre, Portugal, May 2005.

(PDF version available)

      

2003:

Almeida, P: Previsão do Comportamento de Séries Temporais Financeiras com Apoio de Conhecimento Sobre o Domínio. Ph.D. Thesis (in Portuguese), Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal, 2003.

(Word version available on request)

 

2001:

Almeida, P. and Torgo, L.: The Use of Domain Knowledge in Feature Construction for Financial Time Series Prediction. In Brazdil, P. and Jorge, A. (eds.): Proceedings of the 10th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2001). LNAI, 2258, Springer (2001)

(PDF version available)

 

Almeida, P.: Direct Domain Knowledge Inclusion in the PA3 Rule Induction Algorithm. In Cheung, D., Williams, G. and Li, Q. (eds.): Proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2001). LNAI, 2035, Springer (2001)

(PDF version available)

 

2000:

Almeida, P. and Bento, C.: Sequential Cover Rule Induction with PA3. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI-2000), Kuwait, November 18-21 (2000)

(PDF version available)