Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Sebastião Augusto Rodrigues Figueiredo Pais
Citation names
- Pais, S.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 0A16-6735-D5E4
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2337-0779
- AuthenticusID
- R-00H-DG4
- Google Scholar ID
- Otp4K5gAAAAJ
- Researcher Id
- J-4766-2017
- Scopus Author Id
- 35103248500
Email addresses
- sebastiao@ubi.pt (Professional)
- sebastiao@di.ubi.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Fax
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- (351) 275319899 Ext.: 1601 (Professional)
- Telephone
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- (351) 275242081 Ext.: 1601 (Professional)
Addresses
- Universidade da Beira Interior, Faculdade de Ciências da Engenharia, Departamento de Informática. Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, 6200-001, Covilhã, Covilhã, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- http://www.di.ubi.pt/~sebastiao (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
French | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2008/01/01 - 2013/12/06
Concluded
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Spécialité doctorale de Informatique temps réel, robotique et automatique (Doctor of Philosophy)
Mines ParisTech Centre de Recherche en Informatique, France
"Asymmetric Distributional Similarity Measures to Recognize Textual Entailment by Generality" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Mérito Absoluto |
2008/01/01 - 2013/12/06
Concluded
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Computer Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2007/09/01 - 2008/07/31
Concluded
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Computer Science and Engineering (Mestrado)
Major in Computing and Intelligent Systems
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal
""Classification of Opinionated Texts by Analogy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
2002 - 2007
Concluded
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Computer Science and Engineering (Licenciatura)
Major in Information Systems
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal
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12 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/01/01 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal |
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal | ||
2020/01/01 - Current | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Université de Caen Normandie, France |
Groupe de Recherche en Informatique Image Automatique et Instrumentation de Caen, France | ||
2014/09/01 - 2016/08/31 | Principal Investigator (Research) | TIMWE – Investigação & Desenvolvimento, Portugal |
2008/01/01 - 2014/07/31 | Researcher (Research) | Mines ParisTech, France |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/09/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal | ||
2019/02/01 - 2021/09/01 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Portugal |
2016/09/01 - 2021/08/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
2018/03/01 - 2019/01/31 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Europeia, Portugal |
2016/09/01 - 2017/07/31 | Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal |
2007/09/01 - 2014/07/31 | Tutor (University Teacher) | Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2008/11 - 2012/04 | Ubiquitous Web Access for Visually Impaired People (VIP-ACCESS) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/03/01 - Current | ATTRACT DIH (Digital Innovation Hub for ArTificial InTelligence and High-PeRformAnce CompuTing @ Portugal)
Principal investigator
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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2024/08/01 - 2025/07/31 | Exploring LLMs for Mental Health Aiding Systems
2024.06986.CPCA
Principal investigator
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2022/06/01 - 2023/06/30 | HORUS 360º iOMS inteligente Offender Management System
CENTRO-01-0247-FEDER-113066
Researcher
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Concluded
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2021/06/01 - 2023/06/30 | PAM4WELLNESS
POCI-01-0246-FEDER-181319
Researcher
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2018/07/01 - 2022/06/30 | Virtual Monitoring of Crowds in Smart Cities
PTDC/EEI-AUT/28918/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior Departamento de Informática, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2018/12/01 - 2020/11/30 | HULTIG-C - Computational Linguistic Services Platform
Principal investigator
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Concluded
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2014/09/01 - 2015/07/31 | AMBRO
Researcher
TIMWE – Investigação & Desenvolvimento, Portugal
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Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023/03/01 - Current | PHArA-ON | Pilots for Healthy and Active Ageing
Principal investigator
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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Representação Permanente de Portugal junto da União Europeia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Preprint |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2023 - Current | Multimodal Mental Health Retrieval
Supervisor of Faustino Muetunda
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Engenharia Informática (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2023 - Current | Temporal Mental Health Retrieval
Supervisor of Luqman Jamil
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Engenharia Informática (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2023 - Current | Text Markers for the Prognosis of Mental Disorders
Supervisor of Ramos Pedro
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Engenharia Informática (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2023 - Current | Massive Text Visualization
Supervisor of Giovana Voltoline
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Knowledge Base for MENTAL AI, in Data Science Context
Supervisor of Faustino Paulo Muetunda
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2022 - 2022 | Event Detection and Tracking Detection of Dangerous Events on Social Media
Supervisor of Muhammad Luqman Jamil
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2019/07/01 - 2021/07/31 | Scientific supervisor of the post-doctoral research conducted by Abdullatif A. Abolohom (PhD researcher) within the HULTIG-C
Scientific Research Project.
Supervisor of Abdullatif A. Abolohom
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Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2019/08/01 - 2021/01/31 | Scientific supervisor of the post-doctoral research carried out by Irfan Tanoli (PhD, researcher), framed within the MOVES
Scientific Research Project.
Supervisor of Irfan Tanoli
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Universidade da Beira Interior Centro de Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana e Bioinformática, Portugal
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2019/09/01 - 2020/07/21 | Collection of Sports Events Information Using Data Mining Techniques: Research, Design, and Implementation of a Cloud-Based
Web Solution
Co-supervisor of Fábio Mota
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2020 - 2020 | Unsupervised and Language Independent Approach to Extremism and Collective Radicalization Understanding
Supervisor of Miguel Ângelo Serra Albardeiro
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2019/03/01 - 2019/07/31 | New Decisions Models for Decision Support System in the Context of Business Management
Supervisor of Marco Raposo
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2019/02/01 - 2019/06/30 | Design of a Crawler for Online Social Networks Sentiment Analysis
Supervisor of Ricardo Martins
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Informática Web (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2018/03/01 - 2018/07/31 | Unsupervised and Language-Agnostic Adaptability in Mobile Applications
Supervisor of Gonçalo Lopes
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2018/03/01 - 2018/07/31 | Ubiquitous, Interoperative, and Scalable Interface for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform on Big Data
Supervisor of João Carvalho
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Ubiquitous, Interoperative, and Scalable Interface for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) Platform on Big Data
Supervisor of Fátima Joana Dantas Gonçalves Chitongua
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2018 - 2018 | Unsupervised Language-Agnostic Adaptability to User Linguistic Profile
Supervisor of Ramos Eduardo Pedro
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2017/03/01 - 2017/07/31 | Ubiquitous Platform for Monitoring Psychiatric Patients in Post-Discharge Situations
Supervisor of Bruna Silva
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2017/03/01 - 2017/07/31 | Indoor Location-Based Content
Supervisor of Fábio Barata
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2017/02/01 - 2017/06/30 | Mobile Educational Search Engine
Supervisor of Joana Quadrado
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Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
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2010/09/01 - 2011/07/31 | EMRS - Emergency Medical Notification System
Supervisor of Paulo Santos
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Computação Móvel (Master)
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2022/10/28 - 2022/10/30 | ICEUBI22 - International Congress on Engineering (2022/10/28 - 2022/10/30)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
2022/09/08 - 2022/09/09 | INForum 2022 - Simpósio de Informática (2022/09/08 - 2022/09/09)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal |
2022/07/14 - 2022/07/15 | SLATE 2022 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (2022/07/14 - 2022/07/15)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/11 | Classification and Data Analysis Conference (JOCLAD) - The main objectives of this annual conference, aimed at teachers, researchers,
students, and users who share interests in the field of Classification and Data Analysis, are Promoting, supporting, developing,
and disseminating scientific research in the field of data science; Promoting scientific collaboration and exchange in the
field of data science among researchers, companies, and other organizations; Providing training in the field of data science. (2021/12/09 - 2021/12/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10 | INForum 2021 - Simpósio de Informática (2021/09/09 - 2021/09/10)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal |
2005/12/05 - 2005/12/08 | EPIA2005 - 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2005/12/05 - 2005/12/08)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2017/04/21 - 2017/04/21 | Version Control
Workshop
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Computer Engineering Conference - 2017 Edition
Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, do Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
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2010/04/30 - 2010/04/30 | Emergency Medical Notification System
Meeting
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III Conference on Technology and Health
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2022/12/01 - Current | Association for Computing Machinery | ACM Professional Member |
2006/01/01 - Current | HULTIG - Centre For Human Language Technology And Bioinformatics | Research |
2008/01/01 - 2014/07/31 | CRI - Centre de recherche en informatique, MINES ParisTech | Investigador Cientifico |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2022/07/25 - 2022/07/28 | 18th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA 22) | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
2021/10/08 - 2021/10/11 | 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) | Haia, Holanda |
2021/07/26 - 2021/07/29 | 17th International Conference on Data Science (ICDATA 21) | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
2020/11/01 - 2020/11/30 | The 2021 ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing | Gwangju, Korea |
2020/09/27 - 2020/10/01 | The Fifteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection | Lisboa |
2019/09/03 - 2019/09/06 | EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro |
2018/03/26 - 2018/03/29 | European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'18) | Grenoble, França |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2020/01/01 - Current | Expert evaluator of applications for the System of Incentives for Research and Technological Development (SII&DT), for research
projects under a service contract between UBI and the National Innovation Agency.
Evaluator
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Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal | Agência Nacional de Inovação SA |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2019/02/08 - 2019/02/11 | 90 Seconds of Science | "MOVES Project Uses Social Networks to Predict Crowd Concentration" |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2021/01/01 - Current | Future Internet (1999-5903) | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
2021/01/01 - Current | Linguamática (1647-0818) | Universidade do Minho |
2020/10/01 - Current | International Journal of Applied Intelligence (1573-7497) | Springer-Verlag |
2020/10/01 - Current | Data (2306-5729) | MDPI |
2020/09/01 - Current | Springer Nature Computer Science (2661-8907) | Springer-Verlag |
2020/09/01 - Current | International Journal of Cognitive Computing in Engineering (2666-3074) | Elsevier |
2020/09/01 - Current | AI Open (2666-6510) | Elsevier |
2020/09/01 - Current | Journal Of Big Data (2196-1115) | Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.) |
2020/08/01 - Current | Artificial Intelligence Review (1573-7462) | Springer-Verlag |
2020/08/01 - Current | Algorithms ( 1999-4893) | MDPI |
2020/06/01 - Current | Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning | Institute For Engineering Research and Publication |
2020/05/01 - Current | Electronics (2079-9292) | MDPI |
2020/04/01 - Current | Applied Sciences (2076-3417) | MDPI |
2020/02/01 - Current | Information (2078-2489) | MDPI |
2020/01/01 - Current | International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (2364-4168) | Springer-Verlag |
2019/11/20 - Current | IEEE Access (2169-3536) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
2019/10/13 - Current | International Journal of Data Mining Modelling and Management (1759-1171) | Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. |
2019/01/01 - Current | Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (2191-4281) | Springer-Verlag |
2017/06/01 - Current | Journal of Information Science (0165-5515) | SAGE Publications |