Books
2001(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Rodrigues, R. , "Classificação e Complexidade de Problemas",  vol. 30, 2001

Journal Articles
2019(1 publication)
[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. , "Hotel booking demand datasets", Data in Brief,  vol. 22,  pp. 41-49, 2019

2018(3 publications)
[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. and Batista, F. and Ribeiro, R. , "Hotel online reviews: different languages, different opinions", Information Technology & Tourism, 2018

[publication]Santos, F. and , K.K. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Eloy, S. and Taborda, B. , "Alternative shaper: a model for automatic design generation", Formal Aspects of Computing, 2018

[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. and Batista, F. and Ribeiro, R. , "Hotel online reviews: creating a multi-source aggregated index",  International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2018

2017(1 publication)
[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. , "Predicting hotel booking cancellations to decrease uncertainty and increase revenue", Tourism & Management Studies,  vol. 13,  pp. 25-39, 2017

2016(1 publication)
[publication]Salgueiro, R. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Oliveira, O. , "New genetic algorithm approach for the min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree", European Journal of Operational Research,  vol. 258,  pp. 877-886, 2016
[citation][year=2017]A. Loukdache, M. A. E. Majdouli, S. Bougrine and A. A. E. Imrani, "A clonal selection algorithm for the electro encephalography signals reconstruction," 2017 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT), Rabat, 2017, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/EITech.2017.8255304

2015(1 publication)
[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Analysis of Trends in Seasonal Electrical Energy Consumption via Non-negative Tensor Factorization,", Neurocomputing, Elsevier,  vol. 170,  pp. 318-327, 2015
[citation][year=2016]Yuankai Wua, Huachun Tana,Yong Lib, Feng Lic, Hongwen Hea. Robust tensor decomposition based on Cauchy distribution and its application, Neurocomputing, Volume 223(5): 107–117, 2017 (to appear)

2014(2 publications)
[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Electrical signal source separation via non-negative tensor factorization using on-site measurements in a smart home", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement,  vol. 63,  pp. 364-373, 2014
[citation][year=2016]He, Kanghang, et al. "Non-intrusive load disaggregation using graph signal processing." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (2016).
[citation][year=2016]Pöchacker, Manfred, Dominik Egarter, and Wilfried Elmenreich. "Proficiency of Power Values for Load Disaggregation." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 65.1 (2016): 46-55.
[citation][year=2015]M Pöchacker, D Egarter, W Elmenreich; "Proficiency of Power Values for Load Disaggregation" - arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.08081, 2015.
[citation][year=2015]Egarter, D. ; Bhuvana, V.P. ; Elmenreich, W. PALDi: Online Load Disaggregation via Particle Filtering. Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on, Volume:64(2), pp. 467 - 477, 2015 (On-line since 21 August 2014).
[citation][year=2015]A. Cominolaa, M. Giuliania, D. Pigab, A. Castellettia, c, , , A.E. Rizzolid. Benefits and challenges of using smart meters for advancing residential water demand modeling and management: A review. Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol. 72, (2015), pp. 198–214, doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.012.
[citation][year=2015]Bonfigli, R.; Squartini, S.; Fagiani, M. ; Piazza, F. Unsupervised algorithms for non-intrusive load monitoring: An up-to-date overview. Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC), 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on, pp. 1175 - 1180  (2015).
[citation][year=2014]Peng, Shi ; Yunqing, Qu ; Hongshuo, Liang. "Personalized Image Tag Recommendation Algorithm for Web2.0 Platform Utilizing Tensor Factorization". IEEE Proc. Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Engineering Applications (ISDEA), pp. 718 - 721 (2014)
[citation][year=2014]Toth-Laufer, E and; Varkonyi-Koczy, A.R., "A Soft Computing-Based Hierarchical Sport Activity Risk Level Calculation Model for Supporting Home Exercises",  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, VOL. 63, NO. 6, pp.1400-1411, 2014.

[publication]Garrido, R. and Bastos, A. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Elvas, J.P. , "Prediction of Road Accident Severity Using the Ordered Probit Model", Transportation Research Procedia,  vol. 3,  pp. 214-223, 2014
[citation][year=2018]Dimitris Potoglou, Fabio Carlucci, Andrea Cira, Marialuisa Restaino."Factors associated with urban non-fatal road-accident severity",  International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 5:1-8, 2018.
[DOI: 10.1080/17457300.2018.1431945]
[citation][year=2018]Ma, Z., Lu, X., Chien, S.I.J. and Hu, D. (2018). "Investigating factors influencing pedestrian injury severity at intersections", Traffic Injury Prevention, 19(2), pp. 159-164.
[citation][year=2018]Alkhlaifi, A., Galadari, A. (2018). Identifying the risk factors affecting crash severity at intersections with considering crash characteristics and signal configuration using an ordered logistic model, Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET 2018, pp. 1-7
[citation][year=2017]Alkheder, S., Taamneh, M., Taamneh, S. (2017). Severity Prediction of Traffic Accident Using an Artificial Neural Network, Journal of Forecasting, 36(1), pp. 100-108.

2012(2 publications)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Souza, M. and Martins, P.C. , "Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem: Complexity, properties and formulations", ITOR International transactions in Operational Research,  vol. 19,  pp. 323-352, 2012
[citation][year=2016]Mashreghi, A., Zarei, A., "When Diameter Matters: Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Bounded Diameter Minimum Steiner Tree Problem",  Theory of Computing Systems 58 (2), pp. 287-303.
[citation][year=2016]da Cunha, A.S., Simonetti, L., Lucena, A. "A strong symmetric formulation for the Min-degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem", Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 52, pp. 237-244.
[citation][year=2015]Ali Mashreghi , Alireza Zarei . "When Diameter Matters: Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Bounded Diameter Minimum Steiner Tree Problem". Theory of Computing Systems (Fev. 2016), Vol. 58, Issue 2, pp 287-303. (available online: 24 March 2015)
[citation][year=2014]L. Gouveia, P. Moura, M. Ruthmair, A. Sousa. "Spanning Trees with variable degree bounds", Tech. Report TR–186–1–14–02, UT WIEN
Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen, January, 2014.
[citation][year=2014]Leonardo Conegundes Martinez , Alexandre Salles da Cunha, "The min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: Formulations and Branch-and-cut algorithm", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 164(1):210–224, 2014.
[citation][year=2014]L. Gouveia, P. Moura, M. Ruthmair, A. Sousa, Spanning trees with variable degree bounds, European Journal of Operational Research, Available online 1 June 2014, ISSN 0377-2217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.05.034
[citation][year=2013]JAVAD AKBARI TORKESTANI,  "A LEARNING AUTOMATA-BASED ALGORITHM TO THE STOCHASTIC MIN-DEGREE CONSTRAINED MINIMUM SPANNING TREE PROBLEM", International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, April 2013, Vol. 24, No. 03 : pp. 329-348 (doi: 10.1142/S012905411350007X)
[citation][year=2013]Ruiz y Ruiz, H., The capacitated minimum spanning tree problem, PhD thesis, Dep. Matemática, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunha, 2013.
[citation][year=2013]Akbari Torkestani, Javad, "Mobility-Based Backbone Formation in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks", Wireless Personal Communications, 71(4):563-2586, Springer US, doi=10.1007/s11277-012-0955-1
[citation][year=2013]Gouveia, L., Moura P., de Sousa, A., Spanning Trees with variable degree bounds, CIO ? Working Paper 1/2013, Universidade de Lisboa, 2013.
[citation][year=2013]Francesco Carrabs, Raffaele Cerulli, Manlio Gaudioso, Monica Gentili,
Lower and upper bounds for the spanning tree with minimum branch vertices,
Computational Optimization and Applications, 1-34, April 2013, Springer US
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10589-013-9556-5
[citation][year=2012]Martinez, L. and da Cunha, A., ”A Parallel Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for the Min- Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem”, Combinatorial Optimization, 7422:237- 248, Springer US, 2012. 
[citation][year=2011]Martinez, L. and da Cunha, A."The min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: Formulations and Branch-and-cut algorithm", Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 164, Part 1, 2014, Pages 210–224
[citation][year=2010]Martinez, L., da Cunha, A.,"Finding min-degree constrained spanning trees faster with a Branch-and-cut algorithm", Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 36, 1 August 2010, Pages 311–318

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Home Electrical Signal Disaggregation for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) Systems", Neurocomputing, Elsevier,  vol. 96,  pp. 66-73, 2012
[citation][year=2018]Buddhahaia, B., Wongsereeb, W. and Rakkwamsuka, P., A non-intrusive load monitoring system using multi-label classification approach. Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 39, Pages 621-630, 2018.
[citation][year=2018]Kwak, Y.; Hwang, J.; Lee, T. Load Disaggregation via Pattern Recognition: A Feasibility Study of a Novel Method in Residential Building. Energies 2018, 11, 1008
[citation][year=2018]Xue, Y.L., Lin, W. nd Liu, Z.Y., "Admittance-based load signature construction for non-intrusive appliance load monitoring",
Energy and Buildings, Volume 171, pp. 209-219, 2018.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.04.049
[citation][year=2017]N. Henao, K. Agbossou, S. Kelouwani, Y. Dubé and M. Fournier, "Approach in Nonintrusive Type I Load Monitoring Using Subtractive Clustering," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 812-821, March 2017.
[citation][year=2017]S. M. Tabatabaei, S. Dick and W. Xu, "Toward Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring via Multi-Label Classification," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 26-40, Jan. 2017.
[citation][year=2017]A. A. Munshi; Y. A. R. I. Mohamed, "Extracting and Defining Flexibility of Residential Electrical Vehicle Charging Loads," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1
[citation][year=2017]Andre L.L. Aquino, Heitor S. Ramos, Alejandro C. Frery, Leonardo P. Viana, Tamer S.G. Cavalcante, Osvaldo A. Rosso, Characterization of electric load with Information Theory quantifiers, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 465, 2017, Pages 277-284
[citation][year=2017]D. Ponce de Leon Barido, S. Suffian, J. Rosa, E. Brewer, and D. M. Kammen. 2017. Enabling Micro-level Demand-Side Grid Flexiblity in Resource Constrained Environments. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 233-245.
[citation][year=2017]Trung Kien Nguyen, Eric Dekneuvel, Gilles Jacquemod, Benjamin Nicolle, Olivier Zammit, Van Cuong Nguyen, Development of a real-time non-intrusive appliance load monitoring system: An application level model, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, Volume 90, 2017, Pages 168-180
[citation][year=2017]Wang Sen and Yang Dongsheng and Guo Chuchen and Du Shengxian, Non-intrusive Load Disaggregation Based on Kernel Density Estimation, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 199 -1, pp. 012078.
[citation][year=2017]Azaza, M., Wallin, F. "Evaluation of classification methodologies and Features selection from smart meter data ". Energy Procedia, vol 142, pp. 2250 - 2256, 2017.
[citation][year=2017]Ma, M., Lin, W., Zhang, J., Wang, P., Zhou, Y. and Liang, X. ."Toward Energy-Awareness Smart Building: Discover the Fingerprint of Your Electrical Appliances", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, pp: 1458 - 1468, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2017.2776300
[citation][year=2016]Juan Diego Silva Guedes; Danton Diego Ferreira; Bruno Henrique Groenner Barbosa; Carlos Augusto Duque; Augusto Santiago Cerqueira. Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Identification Based on Higher-Order Statistics.
IEEE Latin America Transactions 10/2015; 13(10):3343-3349. DOI:10.1109/TLA.2015.7387241
[citation][year=2016]Richthammer, H., Reif, S.  "Intrusion detection in the smart grid based on an analogue technique", LNCS 9591, pp. 56-67.
[citation][year=2016]Borin, V.P., Barriquello, C.H., Da Silva Martins, M.L., Campos, A., "A novel approach for home appliances identification using Vector Projection Length and Stockwell Transform ",  IEEE 13th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 1st Southern Power Electronics Conference, COBEP/SPEC 2016 7420171
[citation][year=2016]JDS Guedes, DD Ferreira, BHG Barbosa. "A non-intrusive approach to classify electrical appliances based on higher-order statistics and genetic algorithm: a smart grid perspective", Electric Power Systems Research (Available online 15 July 2016)
[citation][year=2016]Esa, Nur Farahin, Md Pauzi Abdullah, and Mohammad Yusri Hassan. "A review disaggregation method in Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 66 (2016): 163-173.
[citation][year=2016]Koutitas, George C., and Leandros Tassiulas. "Low cost disaggregation of smart meter sensor data." IEEE Sensors Journal 16.6 (2016): 1665-1673.
[citation][year=2016]Shaloudegi, Kiarash, et al. "SDP Relaxation with Randomized Rounding for Energy Disaggregation." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2016.
[citation][year=2016]Kozlovskiy, Ilya; Sodenkamp, Mariya; Hopf, Konstantin; and Staake, Thorsten, "ENERGY INFORMATICS FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIETAL SUSTAINABILITY: A CASE OF THE LARGE-SCALE DETECTION OF
HOUSEHOLDS WITH OLD HEATING SYSTEMS" (2016). Research Papers. Paper 37. "AIS Electronic Library (AISeL)." ENERGY (2016)
[citation][year=2016]Barido, Diego Ponce de Leon, et al. "Enabling Micro-level Demand-Side Grid Flexiblity in Resource Constrained Environments." arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.08622 (2016).
[citation][year=2016]Yang, Jiajia, et al. "Mining the big data of residential appliances in the smart grid environment." Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2016. IEEE, 2016.
[citation][year=2016]Li, Ding, and Scott Dick. "Whole-house Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring via multi-label classification." Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2016 International Joint Conference on. IEEE, 2016.
[citation][year=2016]Ferrández-Pastor, F. J., et al. "Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data using reconfigurable hardware and hidden Markov models." Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing: 1-15.
[citation][year=2016]Hoyo-Montaýo, Josý Antonio, et al. "Overview of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring: A way to energy wise consumption." Power Electronics (CIEP), 2016 13th International Conference on. IEEE, 2016.
[citation][year=2016]I. Vassileva, J. Campillo. Consumers' Perspective on Full-Scale Adoption of Smart Meters: A Case Study in Västerås, Sweden. Resources 2016, 5(1), 3; doi:10.3390/resources5010003
[citation][year=2015]H.Ahmadi, J.Marti. Load Decomposition at Smart Meters Level Using Eigenloads Approach. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS Volume:PP ,  Issue: 99 (accepted for publication; DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2388193)
[citation][year=2015]M.Singh, S. Kumar, S. Semwal,, R. S. Prasad. "Residential Load Signature Analysis for Their Segregation Using Wavelet—SVM".  Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 326, pp 863-871 (2015) (on-line since 20 Nov 2014)
[citation][year=2015]Rafsanjani, Hamed Nabizadeh; Ahn, Changbum R.; Alahmad, Mahmoud. A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings,  Energies, Volume: 8   Issue: 10   Pages: 10996-11029  OCT 2015
[citation][year=2015]Makonin, Stephen; Popowich, Fred. Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) performance evaluation
ENERGY EFFICIENCY   Volume: 8   Issue: 4   Pages: 809-814  JUL 2015
[citation][year=2015]Bonfigli, R., Squartini, S., Fagiani, M., Piazza, F.  Unsupervised algorithms for non-intrusive load monitoring: An up-to-date overview  Proc. 2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, EEEIC 2015 pp. 1175-1180
[citation][year=2015]MAITRE, J.; GLON, G.; GABOURY, S.; BOUCHARD, B.; BOUZOUANE, A.. Efficient Appliances Recognition in Smart Homes Based on Active and Reactive Power, Fast Fourier Transform and Decision Trees. AAAI Workshops, North America, apr. 2015.
[citation][year=2015]S Lee, B Song, Y Kwon, J Kim. Non-intrusive Load Monitoring for Home Energy Usage with Multiple Power States Recognition. Advanced Science and Technology Letters, Vol.111 (COMCOMS 2015), pp.282-289 http://dx.doi.org/10.14257/astl.2015.111.54.
[citation][year=2015]Xu, Y., Milanovi?, J.V. Artificial-intelligence-based methodology for load disaggregation at bulk supply point. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 30(2): 795 - 803, 2015.
[citation][year=2014]M. D. Gillman. "Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data through non-intrusive load monitoring." PhD diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2014)
[citation][year=2014]Yizheng Xu, and J. V. Milanovic. "Estimation of Percentage of Controllable Load in Total Demand at Bulk Supply Point". Proc. Mediterranean Conference on Power Generation, Transmission Distribution and Energy Conversion (MEDPOWER), Greece (2014)
[citation][year=2014]Sunil Semwal, R S Prasad, Pradeep Juneja."Identifying Appliances using NIALM with Minimum Features". International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 909-922, (2014)
[citation][year=2014]N.Iksan, N.; S.H. Supangkat."Adaptive non-intrusive Load Monitoring model using Bayesian learning".  Proc. , 2014 International Conference on ICT For Smart Society (ICISS), pp.232 - 235, 2014.
[citation][year=2014]Marinel Temneanu. "Appliance Characterization Based on Spectral Components Analysis". IEEE Proc. 2014 International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE 2014), pp. 16-18, Romania (2014)
[citation][year=2014]Xu, Yizheng, and J. V. Milanovic. "Accuracy of ANN Based Methodology for Load Composition Forecasting at Bulk Supply Buses". IEEE Proc. International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), pp. 1-6 (2014)
[citation][year=2014]F-J Ferrández-Pastor, J_M García-Chamizo, M. Nieto-Hidalgo, V. Romacho-Agud, F. Flórez-Revuelta. "Using Wavelet Transform to Disaggregate Electrical Power Consumption into the Major End-Uses".  Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8867, pp 272-279 (2014)
[citation][year=2014]Xu, Yizheng, and J. V. Milanovic. "Artificial-Intelligence-Based Methodology for Load Disaggregation at Bulk Supply Point."  IEEE Transactions on  Power Systems, pp( 99):1-9 (2014).
[citation][year=2014]S.Makonin, F.Popowich, "Nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) performance evaluation", Energy Efficiency, (on-line since:  31 Oct 2014).
[citation][year=2014]M. Singh, S.Kumar, S. Semwal, R. S. Prasad, "Residential Load Signature Analysis for Their Segregation Using Wavelet—SVM", Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Volume 326, 2015, pp 863-871, (on-line since 20 Nov 2014)
[citation][year=2014]Piotr BILSKI, Krzysztof LISZEWSKI, Wieslaw WINIECKI, "Review and prospects of artificial intelligence applications in non-invasive identification of its electricity", Politechnika Warszawska, Instytut Radioelektroniki, ISSN 0033-2097, R. 90 NR 11/2014 , doi:10.12915/pe.2014.11.03
[citation][year=2014]Ridi, A.; Gisler, C.; Hennebert, J., "Appliance and state recognition using Hidden Markov Models," Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2014 International Conference on, pp.270-276. 2014.
[citation][year=2014]Gillman, M.D. and Donnal, J.S. and Paris, J. and Leeb, S.B. and El Sayed, M.A.H. and Wertz, K. and Schertz, S., "Energy Accountability Using Nonintrusive Load Monitoring", Sensors Journal, IEEE, 14(6):1923-1931, 2014, doi=10.1109/JSEN.2014.2305911
[citation][year=2014]Lanzisera, S. and Weber, A.R. and Liao, A. and Pajak, D. and Meier, A.K., "Communicating Power Supplies: Bringing the Internet to the Ubiquitous Energy Gateways of Electronic Devices", Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, 1(2):153-160, 2014, doi=10.1109/JIOT.2014.2307077
[citation][year=2014]Ducange, P. and Marcelloni, F. and Antonelli, M., "A Novel Approach Based on Finite-State Machines with Fuzzy Transitions for Nonintrusive Home Appliance Monitoring", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 10(2):1185-1197, 2014, doi=10.1109/TII.2014.2304781
[citation][year=2014]Seyed Mostafa Tabatabaei, "Decomposition Techniques for Non-intrusive Home Appliance Load Monitoring",
Master Thesis in, Energy Systems-Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Spring 2014, University of Alberta, Canada.
[citation][year=2014]Bilski, P., Liszewski, K., Winiecki, W. Przegl?d i perspektywy zastosowa? sztucznej inteligencji w nieinwazyjnej identyfikacji odbiorników energii elektrycznej. Przegl?d Elektrotechniczny, 90(11):11-15, 2014 (in Polish)
[citation][year=2013]On the Regularization Parameter Selection for Sparse Code Learning in Electrical Source Separation
M Figueiredo, B Ribeiro, AM de Almeida - Adaptive and Natural …, 2013 - Springer
[citation][year=2013]Sungnam Lee and Mengliev, S. and Yohan Chon and Rhan Ha and Hojung Cha, "Autonomous Construction of a Mountain Terrain Map Using Low-Cost Sensors and Group Information", Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2013 - 2013 IEEE, Nov, 328-333, 2013, doi=0.1109/MILCOM.2013.64
[citation][year=2013]Semwal, S.; Joshi, D.; Prasad, R. S.; Raveendhra, D.; "The practicability of ICA in home appliances load profile separation using current signature: A preliminary study," Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Power, Energy and Control (ICPEC), 2013, pp.756-759, 2013

2010(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Figueiredo, M. , "A particular approach for the 3-Dimensional Packing Problem with additional Constraints", Computers and Operations Research,  vol. 37,  pp. 1968-1976, 2010
[citation][year=2017]Li, T.-H.S, Liu, C.-Y., Kuo, P.-H., Fang, N.-C., Li, C.-H., Cheng, C.-W., Hsieh, C.-Y., Wu, L.-F., Liang, J.-J., Chen, C.-Y. A Three-Dimensional Adaptive PSO-Based Packing Algorithm for an IoT-Based Automated e-Fulfillment Packaging System. IEEE ACCESS, Volume 5, pp 9188-9205, 2017
[citation][year=2016]Ran Wang , Trung Thanh Nguyen, Shayan Kavakeb, Zaili Yang, Changhe Li, "Benchmarking Dynamic Three-Dimensional Bin Packing Problems Using Discrete-Event Simulation", Applications of Evolutionary Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 9598, pp 266-279, 2016
[citation][year=2016]Zhao, X., Bennell, J.A., Bekta?, T., Dowsland, K., "A comparative review of 3D container loading algorithms",    International Transactions in Operational Research, 23 (1-2), pp. 287-320.
[citation][year=2016]Wang, R., Nguyen, T.T., Kavakeb, S., Yang, Z., Li, C. , "Benchmarking dynamic three-dimensional bin packing problems using discrete-event simulation", LNCS - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics,
9598, pp. 266-279.
[citation][year=2016]Huang, Y.-H., Hwang, F.J., Lu, H.-C., "An effective placement method for the single container loading problem",  Computers and Industrial Engineering 97, pp. 212-221.
[citation][year=2016]Paquay, Célia, Michael Schyns, and Sabine Limbourg. "A mixed integer programming formulation for the three?dimensional bin packing problem deriving from an air cargo application." International Transactions in Operational Research 23.1-2 (2016): 187-213.
[citation][year=2015]Ahire, Sanjay L.; Malhotra, Manoj K.; Jensen, John B.Carton-mix optimization for Walmart.com distribution centers.  Interfaces 45 (4), pp. 341-357 JUL-AUG 2015
[citation][year=2015]Li, X., Zhang, K. A hybrid differential evolution algorithm for multiple container loading problem with heterogeneous containers 2015  Computers and Industrial Engineering 90, pp. 305-313
[citation][year=2015]Tsai, J.-F., Wang, P.-C., Lin, M.-H. A global optimization approach for solving three-dimensional open dimension rectangular packing problems  2015 Optimization 64 (12), pp. 2601-2618
[citation][year=2014]C. M. Schenekemberg; D. V. Kurpe; C. T. Scarpin. MODELO DE PROGRAMAÇÃO LINEAR INTEIRA PARA O PROBLEMA DE CARREGAMENTO DE MÚLTIPLOS  CONTÊINERES COM RESTRIÇÕES DE CARREGAMENTO COMPLETO DE GRUPO DE ITENS E DE ESTABILIDADE VERTICAL. CNMAI - Congresso Nacional de Matemática Aplicada à Indústria,18-21 novembro 2014, Caldas Novas, G0, Brazil
[citation][year=2014]Zhao, X., Bennell, J. A., Bektas, T., Dowsland, K. "A comparative review of 3D container loading algorithms", International Transactions in Operational Research, Vol. 23, Issue 1-2 (2016), pp. 287–320.
[citation][year=2014]Paquay, C. and Schyns, M. and Limbourg, S., "A mixed integer programming formulation for the three-dimensional bin packing problem deriving from an air cargo application", International Transactions in Operational Research, Vo. 23, Issue 1-2
(2016), pp. 187–213, DOI:10.1111/itor.12111 (Published online: 30 July 2014).
[citation][year=2013]Tlili, T.;  Faiz, S.;  Krichen, S.; "A particle swarm optimization for solving the one dimensional container loading problem," Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), pp.1,4, 2013
[citation][year=2013]Bortfeldt, A.; Wäscher, G.; "Constraints in container loading – A state-of-the-art review", European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 229, Issue 1, pp 1-20, 2013
[citation][year=2013]Lacomme, P.;  Toussaint, H.;  Duhamel, C. ``A GRASP×ELS for the vehicle routing problem with basic three-dimensional loading constraints'', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Available online 24 May 2013,
[citation][year=2013]Ceschia, Sara. Local search algorithms for integrated logistics. AI Communications, 2013, 26.3: 325-326.
[citation][year=2012]Hu, N.-Z.; Li, H.-L.;  Tsai, J.-F.;  ``Solving Packing Problems by a Distributed Global Optimization Algorithm,'' Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2012, Article ID 931092, 2012.
[citation][year=2012]Wang-sheng, L.;  Hua-yi, Y.;  Mao-qing, L. ``The Heuristic Algorithm of Stacking Layer for the Three-Dimensional Packing of Fixed-Size Cargoes'', Green Communications and Networks, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 113: 453-460, 2012

Wang-sheng, L.;  Hua-yi, Y.;  Mao-qing, L. ``The Heuristic Algorithm of Stacking Layer for the Three-Dimensional Packing of Fixed-Size Cargoes'', Computer, Informatics, Cybernetics and Applications, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 107: 605-612, 2012
[citation][year=2012]Sara Ceschia, "Local Search Algorithms for Integrated Logistics", PhD Thesis in Research in Industrial and Information Engineering, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica, Universita degli Studi di Udine, Italia, 2012
[citation][year=2011]Wu, K.; Liu, L.; Liu, J.; Li, W.;  Xie,  G.; Tong, X.; Lin, Y. ``Researches on Grid Security Authentication Algorithm in Cloud Computing'',  Journal of Networks, Vol 6, No 11 (2011), 1639–1646, 2011.
[citation][year=2011]Duhamel,C.; Lacomme, P.; Toussaint, H.  ”A GRASPxELS for the vehicle routing problem with three-dimensional loading constraints”, Research Report LIMOS / RR-11-01, 2011.
[citation][year=2009]Armentano, V.; de Araújo,O. ; ``Carregamento de contêiner com restrições de múltiplos destinos'',  XLII SBPO, Brasil, 2009.

2003(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Rodrigues, R. , "Trees, slices and wheels: on the floorplan area minimization problem", Networks,  vol. 41,  pp. 235-244, 2003
[citation][year=2016]Balachandran, S., Koroth, S. "Subclasses of baxter permutations based on pattern avoidance".  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 9691, pp. 192-206.

2000(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Rodrigues, R. , "Sobre a questão do algoritmo para o problema do caixeiro viajante", Gazeta de Matemática,  vol. 138,  pp. 29-39, 2000
[citation][year=2004]Barreto, S., "Análise e modelização de problemas de localização-distribuição", PhD Thesis in Industrial Management, University of Aveiro, 2004.
[citation][year=2001]Relações de Ordem Parcial e Aplicações
DM Cardoso - Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Aveiro, 2001
[citation][year=2001]Conjuntos Parcialmente Ordenados: Resultados e Aplicações
DM Cardoso - Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Aveiro, 2001

1998(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Martins, E.Q.V. and Rodrigues, R. , "Optimal cutting directions and rectangle orientation algorithm", European Journal of Operational Research,  vol. 109,  pp. 600-671, 1998
[citation][year=2015]C Shih, M Huang, Z Liang. An Color Interference Checking Chip Dicing Plan for Multiple Project Wafer. Intelligent Systems and Applications, Proc. of the International Computer Symposium (ICS), Taichung, Taiwan, December 2014, pp. 321-331 (2015).
[citation][year=2003]Complexity and approximability results for slicing floorplan designs,
VG Deneko, GJ Woeginger, European Journal of Operational Research, 2003
[citation][year=2003]Ernesto de Queirós Vieira Martins (1945-2000): An appreciation by Mário S. Rosa
Mário S. Rosa, Networks, Volume 41, Issue 4 , Pages 181 - 183, 2003
[citation][year=2000]Stephen Lau Wong :"Cutting board machine computer aided nesting software system implementation","Computer Application" 2000-S1, China.

Conference Articles
2018(3 publications)
[publication]Taborda, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Santos, F. and Eloy, S. and , K.K. , "Shaper-GA: Automatic shape generation for modular house design", in GECCO-The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2018, 2018

[publication]Pascoal, R. and Alturas, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Sofia, R. , "A survey of augmented reality: Making technology acceptable in outdoor environments", in 2018 13th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2018

[publication]Rhongo, D. and Ana Maria de Almeida and David, N. , "eGovernment in Mozambique: Past, Future and New Prospects", in IST-Africa 2018, 2018

2017(4 publications)
[publication]Roza, V. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Postolache, O. , "Design of an Artificial Neural Network and Feature Extraction to Identify Arrhythmias from ECG", in 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), 2017

[publication]Pascoal, R. and Ribeiro, R. and Batista, F. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Adapting Speech Recognition in Augmented Reality for Mobile Devices in Outdoor Environments", in SLATE'17 Symposium on Languages Applications and Technologies, 2017

[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. , "Predicting Hotel Bookings Cancellation With a Machine Learning Classification Model", in 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2017

[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. , " Enabling bookings cancellation prediction with data science", in 4th World Research Summit for Tourism and Hospitality , 2017

2016(3 publications)
[publication]António, N. and Nunes, L. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Predicting hotel booking cancellations to decrease uncertainty and increase revenue", in TMS Algarve 2016 - Tourism and Management Studies International Conference , 2016

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Taborda, B. and Santos, F. and , K.K. and Eloy, S. , "A genetic algorithm application for automatic layout design of modular residential homes", in  IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2016 , 2016
[citation][year=2017]Mali, Amol D. and Nan Yang. "On Automated Generation of Keyboard Layout to Reduce Finger-Travel Distance." IJMSTR 5.2 (2017): 29-43. Web. 25 Aug. 2017.

[publication], K.K. and Santos, F. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Taborda, B. and Eloy, S. , "Wood Mass-Customized Housing: A dual computer implementation design strategy", in 34th eCAADe Conference - Complexity & Simplicity , 2016

2015(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "Non-negative Matrix Factorization using posrank-based approximation decompositions", in EUROCON 2015 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), IEEE, 2015

2014(4 publications)
[publication]Rhongo, D. and Ana Maria de Almeida and David, N. , "MOBILE GOVERNMENT COMO ALTERNATIVA PARA INCLUSÃO DIGITAL E REFORÇO DA DISSEMINAÇÃO DO E-GOVERNMENT E E-GOVERNANCE EM MOÇAMBIQUE", in 7º Congresso Luso - Moçambicano de Engenharia, 2014

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Exploring the Performance of Non-negative Multi-way Factorization for Household Electrical Seasonal Consumption Disaggregation", in IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) , 2014

[publication]Bastos, A. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Garrido, R. and Elvas, J.P. , "Prediction of road accident severity using the ordered probit model", in Euro Working Group on Transportation 2014, 2014
[citation][year=2016]Alkheder, Sharaf, Madhar Taamneh, and Salah Taamneh. "Severity Prediction of Traffic Accident Using an Artificial Neural Network." Journal of Forecasting (2016).
[citation][year=2016]Shibani, Abdussalam, and Most Shamim Ara Pervin. "Analysis of traffic accident severity on Great Britain roadways and junctions." International Journal of the Built Environment and Asset Management 2.1 (2016): 37-66.

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "On the Optimization of Appliance Loads Inferred by Probabilistic Models", in NILM Workshop 2014, 2014

2013(4 publications)
[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "On the regularization parameter selection for sparse code learning in electrical source separation", in Proc. Intl. Conf. on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms,  pp. 277-286, LNCS 7824, 2013
[citation][year=2016]Piga, Dario; Cominola, Andrea; Giuliani, Matteo; Castelletti , Andrea; Rizzoli, Emilio, "Sparse Optimization for Automated Energy End Use Disaggregation", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY,   Volume 24,   Issue: 3,  Pages: 1044-1051 .
[citation][year=2016]Tang, Guoming; Wu, Kui; Lei, Jingsheng; Tang, Jiuyang , "A simple and robust approach to energy disaggregation in the presence of outliers",  SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING-INFORMATICS & SYSTEMS ,  Volume 9   Pages 8-19.
[citation][year=2016]Tang, Guoming, Kui Wu, and Jingsheng Lei. "A Distributed and Scalable Approach to Semi-Intrusive Load Monitoring." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 27.6 (2016): 1553-1565.
[citation][year=2016]Guoming Tanga, Kui Wua, Jingsheng Leib, Jiuyang Tang. A Simple and Robust Approach to Energy Disaggregation in the Presence of Outliers. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Available online 16 January 2016). doi:10.1016/j.suscom.2016.01.004
[citation][year=2015]Guoming Tang, Kui Wu, Jingsheng Lei. A Distributed and Scalable Approach to Semi-Intrusive Load Monitoring, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 01/2015; 27(6). DOI:10.1109/TPDS.2015.2470238
[citation][year=2015]Oliver Kramer, Thole Klingenberg, Michael Sonnenschein, and Olaf Wilken. "Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring with bagging classifiers", Logic Jnl IGPL (Available online April 2, 2015)(doi:10.1093/jigpal/jzv016)
[citation][year=2015]DARIO PIGA,  ANDREA COMINOLA, MATTEO GIULIANI, ANDREA CASTELLETTI,  ANDREA EMILIO 
RIZZOL. A CONVEX OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR AUTOMATED WATER AND ENERGY END USE DISAGGREGATION. E-proceedings of the 36th IAHR World Congress, 2015.
[citation][year=2014]G. Tang, K. Wu, J. Lei, "Semi-Intrusive Load Monitoring for Large-Scale Appliances," International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM 2014), Austin, TX, USA, Jun. 2014

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Forecasting the Usage of Home Appliances with Denoised Signal Patterns", in 19th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition., 2013

[publication]Ilharco, A. and Bastos, A. and Elvas, J.P. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Generation of road accident risk maps", in CITTA 6th Annual Conference on Planning Research, 2013

[publication]Rhongo, D. and David, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Métodos de Implementação de e-Government em Países em vias de desenvolvimento", in 3ª Conferência Nacional sobre Ciência e Tecnologia, 2013

2012(3 publications)
[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Another perspective on NILM systems for informed energy consumer behavior", in International Workshop on Energy Efficiency for a More Sustainable World, September, 2012, 2012

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Figueiredo, M. and Ribeiro, B. , "Non Intrusive Load Monitoring Revisited", in PCEEE Portugal em Conferencia para uma Europa Energeticamente Inteligente, Portugal, Junho 2012, 2012
[citation][year=2015]Martina Z. Huber, Lorenz M. Hilty. "Gamification and Sustainable Consumption: Overcoming the Limitations of Persuasive Technologies". ICT Innovations for Sustainability-Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing,  Lorenz M. Hilty and Bernard Aebischer Eds., Vol. 310, pp 367-385, Springer International Publishing (2015)

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Salgueiro, R. and Oliveira, O. , "Min-Degree Constrained MST Problem: an evolutionary approach", in International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications, 2012

2011(8 publications)
[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "An Experimental Study on Electrical Signature Identification of non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) systems", in Proc Intl Conf on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, pp 31-40, Part II, LNCS 6594, 2011
[citation][year=2018]Wang, Huijuan and Yang, Wenrong. "An Iterative Load Disaggregation Approach Based on Appliance Consumption Pattern", Applied Sciences, 8(4), 542, 2018
[citation][year=2018]de Paiva Penha, D., Castro, A.R.G., HOME APPLIANCE IDENTIFICATION FOR NILM SYSTEMS BASED ON DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Applications (IJAIA), Vol.9, No.2, 2018.
[citation][year=2017]N. Sadeghianpourhamami, , J. Ruyssinck , D. Deschrijver , T. Dhaene , C. Develder. "Comprehensive Feature Selection for Appliance Classification in NILM", Energy and Buildings, 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.06.042 (In Press- Available online 23 June 2017)
[citation][year=2017]Maher Azazaa, Fredrik Wallin."Evaluation of classification methodologies and Features selection from smart meter data", Energy Procedia, Volume 142,Pages 2250–2256. 2017.[DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.626]
[citation][year=2017]Yang, C. C., Soh, C. S., Yap, V. V. A systematic approach in appliance disaggregation using k-nearest neighbours and naive Bayes classifiers for energy efficiency. Energy Efficiency, (Online: 21 August 2017; doi: 10.1007/s12053-017-9561-0)
[citation][year=2016]Chinthaka D., Pramuditha P., Roshan .G, MervynE.1, Janaka E., Non-intrusive load monitoring based on low frequency active power measurements, AIMS Energy, 2016, 4(3): 414-443.
[citation][year=2016]Paradiso, Francesca, et al. "Context-Based Energy Disaggregation in Smart Homes." Future Internet 8.1 (2016): 4.
[citation][year=2016]I. Vassileva, J. Campillo. Consumers' Perspective on Full-Scale Adoption of Smart Meters: A Case Study in Västerås, Sweden. Resources 2016, 5(1), 3; doi:10.3390/resources5010003 [edit]
[citation][year=2015]Ding Li, Sawyer, K., Dick, S.  Disaggregating household loads via semi-supervised multi-label classification IEEE Proc Annual Conference of the North American on Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS) 17-19 Aug. 2015 DOI: 10.1109/NAFIPS-WConSC.2015.7284144
[citation][year=2015]Adabi, A. ; Baskin ; Mantey, P. ; Holmegaard, E. ; Kjaergaard, M.B. Status and challenges of residential and industrial non-intrusive load monitoring. Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), 2015 IEEE Conference on, pp. 181 - 188, 10.1109/SusTech.2015.7314344
[citation][year=2015]Chuan Choong Yang, Chit Siang Soh, Vooi Voon Yap. A systematic approach to ON-OFF event detection and clustering analysis of non-intrusive appliance load monitoring. Frontiers in Energy, Springer. DOI 10.1007/s11708-015-0358-6
[citation][year=2014]Tabatabaei, Seyed Mostafa. Decomposition Techniques for Non-intrusive Home Appliance Load Monitoring. Master Diss. University of Alberta, Canada, (2014).
[citation][year=2014]F. Koufogiannis, Shuo Han, and George J. Pappas. "Computation of privacy-preserving prices in smart grids." IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Los Angeles, CA, USA. (2014)
[citation][year=2014]V Debusschere, K Basu, S Bacha, Identification et prédiction non intrusive de l'état des charges dans les bâtiments résidentiels à partir de mesures compteur à échantillonnage réduit,  Symposium de Génie Électrique 2014.
[citation][year=2014]Naghibi, B., Deilami, S. "Non-intrusive load monitoring and supplementary techniques for home energy management ". IEEE Proc 2014 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, pp. 1-5, (AUPEC), (2014)
[citation][year=2014]H. S. Kolahi, K. R. Milani, " A Novel Power Tariff Model for the Future Smart Homes". CIRED Workshop, Rome, June 2014, Paper 0373 (6p)
[citation][year=2014]Kolahi, H.S., Milani, K.R., Nasiri, A., A Novel Power Tariff Model for the Future Smart Homes in Iran, Proceedings of the 2nd Iranian Regional CIRED, Tehran, Iran, No. 14-E-AAA-000, 2014.
[citation][year=2013]Wong, Y. F.; Ahmet Sekercioglu, Y.; Drummond, T.; Wong, V. S., "Recent approaches to non-intrusive load monitoring techniques in residential settings,"  IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart Grid, 2013, pp.73-79, 2013, doi: 10.1109/CIASG.2013.6611501
[citation][year=2013]Chou, Po-An and Chang, Ray-I, "Unsupervised Adaptive Non-intrusive Load Monitoring System", Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, (Oct) pp. 3180-3185, 2013. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2013.542
[citation][year=2013]Basu, K., Debusschere, V. ; Bacha, S., "Residential appliance identification and future usage prediction from smart meter", Proc. Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE, 4994-4999, 2013, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699944
[citation][year=2012]Po-An Chou; Chi-Cheng Chuang; Ray-I Chang, "Automatic appliance classification for non-intrusive load monitoring," Power System Technology (POWERCON), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,6, Oct. 30 2012-Nov. 2 2012
doi: 10.1109/PowerCon.2012.6401409
[citation][year=2012]Ahmed Zoha; Alexander Gluhak; Muhammad A. Imran; Sutharshan Rajasegarar;  "Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Approaches for Disaggregated Energy Sensing: A Survey." Sensors, vol. 12, no. 12, pp: 16838-16866, 2012.
[citation][year=2012]Basu, K. ; Debusschere, V. ; Bacha, S.; " Load identification from power recordings at meter panel in residential households", IEEEXplore: Electrical Machines (ICEM), 2012 XXth International Conference on, 2098 - 2104, 2012.
[citation][year=2011]Oliver Parson, "Using Hidden Markov Models for Non-intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring". 
Tech. Report, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Physical and Applied Science, Univ. of Southampton, 2011.

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Non-intrusive Residential Electrical Consumption Traces", in  Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications - 2nd International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, (ISAmI2011), Springer, Vol. 92,pp. 51-58, 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19937-0_7), 2011
[citation][year=2014]Huber, M.Z., Hilty, L.M., Hilty, L.M.  (2014). Gamification and sustainable consumption: Overcoming the limitations of persuasive technologies, In: Hilty, L.M., Aebischer, B. (eds.) ICT Innovations for Sustainability. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 310:367-386. Springer International Publishing.
[citation][year=2012]Jegundo, Rafael. Development and monetization of an energy data and analytics platform. Masters Dissertation, University of Coimbra, Portugal. (2012)

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "About Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: on the posrank approximation", in Proc Intl Conf on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, Part II, LNCS 6594, 2011, 2011
[citation][year=2012]Tadeusz KACZOREK, "FACTORIZATION OF NONNEGATIVE MATRICES BY THE USE OF ELEMENTARY OPERATION", acta mechanica et automatica, vol.6 no.4, 15-18, 2012
[citation][year=2011]“The optimal approximation solution associated with a nonnegative definite constraint matrix
equation”, Dong-Xiu Xie Juan Zeng, Proc. of the International Conference on Machine
Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2011.

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Wavelet Decomposition and Singular Spectrum Analysis for Electrical Signal Denoising", in Proc of the IEEE Intl Conf on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC2011), pp.3329-3334, 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084183), 2011
[citation][year=2018]Weichao, P.L., Bingo, K: Y. and Ling, W-K. "Grouping and Selecting Singular Spectrum Analysis Components for Denoising Via Empirical Mode Decomposition Approach". Circuits Systems and Signal Processing, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s00034-018-0861-1
[citation][year=2015]IQing-Zhen Liang, Xing-Ming Guo, Wen-Ying Zhang, Wan-Di Dai, Xing-Hua Zhu, "Identification of Heart Sounds with Arrhythmia based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis and Kolmogorov Entropy",  IEEE Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering (March 2015)
[citation][year=2015]Mona Ibrahim, Samir Jemeib, Geneviève Wimmera, Nadia Yousfi Steinerb, Célestin C. Kokonendjia, Daniel Hisselb. Selection of mother wavelet and decomposition level for energy management in electrical vehicles including a fuel cell. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. (Available online 7 July 2015)
[citation][year=2014]Lara-Santillán, Pedro M., et al. "A Comparative Study of Electric Load Curve Changes in an Urban Low-Voltage Substation in Spain during the Economic Crisis (2008–2013)." The Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014).
[citation][year=2014]Dalen, Anders, and Christof Weinhardt. "Evaluating the impact of data sample-rate on appliance disaggregation." Energy Conference (ENERGYCON), 2014 IEEE International. IEEE, 2014.
[citation][year=2013]Gomez-Luna,E.;  Aponte Mayor, G.;  Gonzalez-Garcia, C.; Pleite Guerra, J.; ``Current status and future trends in frequency-response analysis with a transformer in service'' IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 28 number: 2, 2013, pp, 1024-1031.

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Smart Home: A Novel Model for Denoising an Electrical Signal", in Proc of Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2011) pp.784-789, 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121752), 2011
[citation][year=2014]Belley, C.; Gaboury, S.; Bouchard, B.; Bouzouane, A.;
"An efficient and inexpensive method for activity recognition within a smart home based on load signatures of appliances", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vo. 12, June 2014, Pages 58–78  (available on-line since March 2013)
[citation][year=2013]Belley, C.; Gaboury, S.; Bouchard, B.; Bouzouane, A.;
"An efficient and inexpensive method for activity recognition within a smart home based on load signatures of appliances", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2013 (available on-line March 2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2013.02.002
[citation][year=2013]Wong, Y.F., Ahmet Sekercioglu, Y., Drummond, T., Wong, V.S., "Recent approaches to non-intrusive load monitoring techniques in residential settings", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart Grid (CIASG), 2013, DOI: 10.1109/CIASG.2013.6611501
[citation][year=2013]Wong, V.S., Wong, Y.F, Drummond, T., Ahmet Sekercioglu, Y., "A fast multiple appliance detection algorithm for non-int 10.1109/CIASG.2013.6611502rusive load monitoring", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart Grid (CIASG), 2013, DOI:

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. , "Impact of Temporal Window-size on Pattern Denoising of a Smart Home Electrical Signal", in 17th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2011

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "On an optimization model for Approximate Nonnegative Matrix Factorization", in ISCIES - International Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering System, 2011
[citation][year=2015]Ecem Edisa, Inês Flores-Colenb, Jorge de Brito. "Quasi-quantitative infrared thermographic detection of moisture variation in facades with adhered ceramic cladding using principal component analysis".  Building and Environment, Volume 94, Part 1, December 2015, Pages 97–108. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.07.027
[citation][year=2015]A. M. Tomé , R. Schachtner, V. Vigneron, C. G. Puntonet, E. W. LangA logistic non-negative matrix factorization approach to binary data sets. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, January 2015, Volume 26, Issue 1, pp 125-143. (First online: 25 June 2013)
[citation][year=2015]Ecem Edis , Inês Flores-Colen, Jorge De Brito. Time-Dependent Passive Building Thermography for Detecting Delamination of Adhered Ceramic Cladding. Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation (Available on-line: July 2015).
[citation][year=2013] Torkestani, J.A., International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, ”A Learning Automata-based algorithm to the Stochastic Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem”. 24(03):329-348, 2013.(DOI: 10.1142/S012905411350007X)
[citation][year=2012]Torlestani, J.L., ”Mobility-based Backbone Formation in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”. Wireless Personal Communications, Springer US, 2012, 7422:237-248, 2012.(DOI: 10.1007/s1277-012-0955-1)
[citation][year=2012] L. C. Martinez e A. S. da Cunha, ”A Parallel Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for the Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem”. Combinatorial Optimization, 7422:237-248, 2012.

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Ben-Akiva, M. and Pereira, F.C. and Ghauche, A. and Guevara, C.A. and Niza, S. and Zegras, C. , "The virtual city with real decisions: iTEAM", in 7VCT, 7th Virtual Cities and Territories,, 2011

2010(3 publications)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Souza, M. and Martins, P.C. , "The md-MST Problem is NP-hard for d >= 3", in ISCO 2010 International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization, , Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 36:9-15, 2010, 2010
[citation][year=2016]Mashreghi, A., Zarei, A., "When Diameter Matters: Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Bounded Diameter Minimum Steiner Tree Problem",    Theory of Computing Systems 58 (2), pp. 287-303.
[citation][year=2016]Cunha, A.S., Simonetti, L., Lucena, A., "A strong symmetric formulation for the Min-degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem",  Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 52, pp. 237-244.
[citation][year=2015]Ali Mashreghi , Alireza Zarei . "When Diameter Matters: Parameterized Approximation Algorithms for Bounded Diameter Minimum Steiner Tree Problem". Theory of Computing Systems (Fev. 2016), Vol. 58, Issue 2, pp 287-303. (available online: 24 March 2015)
[citation][year=2014]Chun-Chao Yeh and Ying-Che Chien, "A PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION-LIKE ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRAINED MINIMAL SPANNING TREE PROBLEM", Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 341-351 (2014 ) 341 DOI: 10.6119/JMST-013-1119-2
[citation][year=2014]Leonardo Conegundes Martinez , Alexandre Salles da Cunha, "The min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: Formulations and Branch-and-cut algorithm", Discrete Applied Mathematics, 164(1): 210–224, 2014.
[citation][year=2013]Torkestani, J.A., ”A Learning Automata-based algorithm to the Stochastic Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem”. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 24(03):329-348, 2013.(DOI: 10.1142/S012905411350007X)
[citation][year=2013]V. Venkata Ramana Murthy, Alok Singh, "An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem",  Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 8298, 2013, pp 85-94.
[citation][year=2012]Torkestani, J.L.,”Mobility-based Backbone Formation in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”.  Wireless Personal Communications, Springer US, 2012, 7422:237-248, 2012.(DOI: 10.1007/s1277-012-0955-1)
[citation][year=2012]L. C. Martinez e A. S. da Cunha, ”A Parallel Lagrangian Relaxation Algorithm for the Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem”. Combinatorial Optimization, 7422:237-248, 2012.
[citation][year=2011]Leonardo Conegundes Martinez, Alexandre Salles da Cunha, The min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: Formulations and Branch-and-cut algorithm, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Available online 13 September 2011, ISSN 0166-218X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.08.008.

[publication]Figueiredo, M. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Ribeiro, B. and Martins, A. , "Extracting features from an electrical signal of a non-intrusive load monitoring system", in Proc Int Conf on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, pp 210-217, LNCS 6283, 2010
[citation][year=2016]Abubakar, I. , Khalid, S.N. , Mustafa, M.W.  Recent approaches and applications of non-intrusive load monitoring 
ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 7, April 2016, pp. 4609-4618
[citation][year=2013]Wong, Y. F.; Ahmet Sekercioglu, Y.; Drummond, T.; Wong, V. S., ``Recent approaches to non-intrusive load monitoring techniques in residential settings,'' IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart Grid, 2013, pp.73-79, 2013, doi: 10.1109/CIASG.2013.6611501
[citation][year=2013]Wong, V. S.; Wong, Y. F.; Drummond, T.; Ahmet Sekercioglu, Y., ``A fast multiple appliance detection algorithm for non-intrusive load monitoring'', IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications In Smart Grid, 2013, pp.80,86, 2013, doi: 10.1109/CIASG.2013.6611502
[citation][year=2012]S. Rahimi. "Usage Monitoring of Electrical Devices in a Smart Home." Masters Dissertation, Carleton University, Canada (2012)
[citation][year=2011]Chee X. M.;  Le, C. V.; Zhang, D. H.; Luo, M.; Pang, C. K.;  ``Intelligent identification of manufacturing operations using in-situ energy measurement in industrial injection moulding machines,'' Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , pp.4284-4289, 2011

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Figueiredo, M. , "On the three-dimensional bin packing using rotations", in EngOpt - International Conference on Engineering Optimization, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 36:9-15, 2010, 2010

2009(3 publications)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Fernandes, J. and Pascoal, M.M.B. and Pereira, S.S. , "Experimental learning in Sciences: getting the lab inside the classroom using the Web", in ICALT 2009, the 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Júdice, J. and Fernandes, L. and Patrício, J. , "On the computation of a nonnegative matrix factorization and its application in telecommunications,", in Conftele 2009, The 7th Conference on Telecommunications, 2009
[citation][year=2009]”Knowledge extraction with non-negative matrix factorization for text classification”, C.
Silva e B. Ribeiro, Proc Iof the 10th international conference on Intelligent data engineering
and automated learning , pp. 300–3086, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009

[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Ben-Akiva, M. and Pereira, F.C. and Ghauche, A. and Guevara, C.A. and Niza, S. and Zegras, C. , "A Framework for Integrated Modeling of Urban Systems", in ISOCARP 2009, 2009
[citation][year=2015]C.A. Guevara. The Case against Road Congestion Pricing: Full Internalization of Congestion Externalities Is Not Enough, Acta XV Chileno de Ingeniería de Transporte, 2011
[citation][year=2014]Mostafavi, Nariman, et al. "Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT)." Urban Policy and Research 32.1 (2014): 53-69.
[citation][year=2014]Shaoqing Chena, Bin Chena, Brian D. Fath. Urban ecosystem modeling and global change: Potential for rational urban management and emissions mitigation. Environmental Pollution, Vol. 190, July 2014, pp. 139–149, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2014.03.032
[citation][year=2013]Mostafavi, Nariman and Farzinmoghadam, Mohamad and Hoque, Simi and Weil, Benjamin, "Integrated Urban Metabolism Analysis Tool (IUMAT)", Urban Policy and Research, 1--17, 2013. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2013.826578
[citation][year=2013]Dugundji, E. R. "Socio-dynamic discrete choice: Theory and application." PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam (2013).
[citation][year=2012]Using Activity?Based Modeling to Simulate Urban Resource Demands at High Spatial and Temporal Resolutions
Aruna  Sivakumar, James  Keirstead, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2012, 16(6).
[citation][year=2012]Chingcuanco, F. and Miller, E.J.:"A Microsimulation Model of Urban Energy Use: Modelling Residential Space Heating Demand in ILUTE ", Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 186–194, 2012.

2008(4 publications)
[publication]Pacheco, A.I.N.d.B.d.A. and Gomes, A. and Henriques, J.G. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Antonio Jose Mendes , "Mathematics and Programming: Some studies", in International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech08,  vol. 374, 2008
[citation][year=2017]R. Matthews, Hew Sh., A. C. Koo. Empirical Study of Multimedia Learning Object to Enhance Introductory Programming Learning. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Information Technology, Pages 212-217 , 2017.
doi:10.1145/3176653.3176691
[citation][year=2015]B Love, A Hodge, C Corritore, DC Ernst. Inquiry-Based Learning and the Flipped Classroom Model PRIMUS, 2015 pages 745-762
[citation][year=2015]Reginamary Matthewsa, Hew Soon Hinb, Koo Ah Chooc. Practical use of review question and content object as advanced organizer for computer programming lessons. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 172 (2015), pp. 215 – 222.
[citation][year=2015]Qahmash, A., Joy, M., Boddison, A., To What Extent Mathematics Correlates With Programming: Statistical Analysis, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science Education Innovation & Technology (CSEIT), pp. 69-73, Singapore.
[citation][year=2013]Riaza Mohd Rias, Halimah B. Zaman, "Individual Differences in Multimedia Learning: An
Application in a Computer Science Domain", Int. J. on Recent Trends in Engineering and Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan 2013
[citation][year=2013]RM Rias, HB Zaman, Understanding the role of prior knowledge in a multimedia learning application. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology,  29(4):537-548 , 2013
[citation][year=2012]Ojanpera, T., Enhancing student motivation by means os software programming projects. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, pp. 245-251, Turku, Finlandia, Julho de 2012.
[citation][year=2011]Le, N. e Pinkwart, N., INCOM: a web-based homework coaching system for logic programming. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Novembro de 2011.
[citation][year=2011]Urboniene, J. e Juskeviviene, A., Web 2.0 technologiju adaptuojamumo programavimo mokymui galimybiu tyrimas. In Proceedings of Republic Scientific Practical Conference, Lituania, pp. 161-170, Março de 2011.
[citation][year=2011]Kordaki, M. e Siempos, H., A collaborative and adaptive design pattern of the Jigsaw method within learning design-based e-learning systems. In Daradoumis, T., Caballé, S., Juan, A. e Xhafa, F. (eds.) Technology-Enhanced Systems and Tools for Collaborative Learning Scaffolding, pp. 239-255, Springer, 2011.

[citation][year=2010]Theodorou, C. e Kordaki, M., Super Mario: A collaborative game for the learning of variables in programming. International Journal of Academic Research, 2(4), pp. 111-118, Julho de 2010.
[citation][year=2010]Kordaki, M., A drawing and multi-representational computer environment for beginners' learning of programming using C: Design and pilot formative evaluation. Computers & Education, 54 (1), Janeiro de 2010.
[citation][year=2009]Matthews, R., Hin, H. e Choo, K., Multimedia learning object to build cognitive understanding in learning introductory programming. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, pp. 396-400, Kuala Lumpur, Malásia, Dezembro de 2009.

[publication]Pacheco, A.I.N.d.B.d.A. and Gomes, A. and Henriques, J.G. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Antonio Jose Mendes , "A study on basic mathematics knowledge for the enhancement of programming learning skills", in Informatics Education Europe III - IEEIII08, 2008
[citation][year=2010]”Studies and proposals about initial programming learning”, A. Gomes e A.J. Mendes, Proceedings IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, pp. S3F-1–S3F-6, 2010.
[citation][year=2010]”A study on student performance in first year CS courses”, A. Gomes e A.J. Mendes, Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in compu- ter science education, ACM, Ankara, Turquia, pp. 113–117, 2010.
[citation][year=2010]Anabela Jesus Gomes and António José Mendes. 2010. A study on student performance in first year CS courses. In Proceedings of the fifteenth annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 113-117. DOI=10.1145/1822090.1822123 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1822090.1822123

[publication]Pereira, S.S. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Marcelino, M.J.P. , "Teaching Mathematics supported by  a web-based project and real data", in E_Learn 2008 World Conference in E-Learning in Corporate Government, Health Care, & Higher Education, 2008

[publication]Pereira, S.S. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Fernandes, J. and Marcelino, M.J.P. , "STUDYING THE SUN IN THE CLASSROOM USING A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH", in EDMEDIA08 â?? World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications,, 2008

Book Chapters
2016(1 publication)
[publication]António, N. and Ana Maria de Almeida and Nunes, L. , "Using Data Science to Predict Hotel Booking Cancellations", in Handbook of Research on Holistic Optimization Techniques in the Hospitality, Tourism, and Travel Industry,  vol. 1,  pp. 141-167, 2016

2013(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "On an optimization model for Approximate Nonnegative Matrix Factorization", in Computational Intelligence and Decision Making: Trends and Applications, Eds: A.Madureira, C.Reis, and V. Marques,  vol. 61,  pp. 249-257, 2013
[citation][year=2013]Tomé, A.M. and Schachtner, R. and Vigneron, V. and Puntonet, C.G. and Lang, E.W., "A logistic non-negative matrix factorization approach to binary data sets", Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 1-19, 2013, Springer US. 
DOI: 10.1007/s11045-013-0240-9

PhD Theses
2004(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "Uma digressão em NP: como avaliar a complexidade de uma instância", 2004

MSc Theses
1994(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "Uma abordagem particular ao estudo de alguns problemas NP-completos", 1994

Tech Report
2015(1 publication)
[publication]Salgueiro, R. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Recovering a labeling algorithm for the disjoint-set problem to improve Kruskal's efficiency on dense graphs", 2015

2009(1 publication)
[publication]Agra, A. and Santos, J.L.E. and Ana Maria de Almeida , "Management of Stock Surplus ", 2009

2006(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida and Martins, P.C. and Souza, M. , "Min-Degree Constrained Minimum Spanning Tree Problem: Complexity, proprieties and formulations", 2006
[citation][year=2013]M. Campelo, R.C.de Andrade, F.C.S. Dias, C.P. de Sousa,"Problema da árvore geradora mínima com restrição de grau mínimo e centrais fixos", Proc. Simpósio Brasileiro de Pesquisa Operacional, Natal, Brasil, 2013.
[citation][year=2012]Javad Akbari Torkestani, Mobility-Based Backbone Formation in Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks,
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer New York,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0955-1
[citation][year=2012]L. C. Martinez e A. S. da Cunha, ”A parallel lagragian relaxation algorithm for the min-degree constrained spanning tree pro- blem”.  In Porc. 2cd. Intl. Conf. Combinatorial Optimiza- tion, 237-248, Springer Berlin, 2012. (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4 22)
[citation][year=2011]Leonardo Conegundes Martinez and Alexandre Salles da Cunha: "The min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: Formulations and Branch-and-cut algorithm". Discrete Applied Mathematics, Available online 13 September 2011 (in print).
[citation][year=2010]”Finding min-degree constrained spanning trees faster with a Branch-and-cut algorithm”, L.
C. Martinez e A. S. da Cunha, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 36(1): 311-318,
2010.
[citation][year=2010] “Min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem: New formulation via Miller-
Tucker-Zemlin constraints”, I. Akgun and B. Tansel, Computers & Operations Research,
37(1): 72-82, 2010.
[citation][year=2009]"VNS and second order heuristics for the min-degree constrained minimum spanning tree problem", Pedro Martins and Mauricio C. de Souza, Computers and Operations Research, November 2009
[citation][year=2009]”Problema da ´arvore de suporte de custo m´?nimo com restric¸ ˜ao de grau e custos associados aos nodos”, P.M. Moura , Tese de doutoramento, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, 2009.

2002(1 publication)
[publication]Ana Maria de Almeida , "Aproximação e Complexidade de problemas de Procura local", 2002