People
Francisco Baptista Pereira
Address
Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de CoimbraDepartamento de Engenharia Informática
Polo II - Universidade de Coimbra
3030-290 Coimbra - Portugal
Member
Evolutionary and Complex SystemsResearch interests
Evolutionary Computation Combinatorial Optimisation Problems Artificial Life Complex SystemsAffiliation
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de CoimbraShort Bio
Francisco Pereira is a Professor at the Informatics Engineering Department from the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal. He is also a researcher at the Evolutionary and Complex Systems Group, a research line from the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests are bio-inspired global optimization and machine learning.He edited one book on bio-inspired approaches to the vehicle routing problem and published over 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. In the past 15 years he has given several invited talks/lectures in scientific events and academic institutions and organized seven workshops/special sessions in international conferences from the evolutionary computation area. Also, he has been a regular member from the program committee of several international conferences.
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National Projects
Past Projects
CHE: Development of New Evolutionary Computation Approaches for Applications in Theoretical Chemistry
MOSAL - Multiobjective Sequence Alignment
HPCoLSI Project - High Performance Computing over the Large-Scale Internet
EnviGP - Improving Genetic Programming for the Environment and Other Applications
COSMO - COllaborative System for Mobility Optimization
iCIS - Intelligent Computing in the Internet of Services
FCT/CAPES: Study of the energetic landscapes of atomic clusters by applying novel bio-inspired algorithms
Journal Articles
2019
(4 publications)- Pereira, G.C. and Pereira, S.P. and Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Lumini, J.A. and Pereira, C.V. and Bjork, J.A. and Magalhães, J. and Ascensão, A. and Moreno, A.J. and Wallace, K.B. and Oliveira, P.J. , "Early Cardiac Mitochondrial Molecular and Functional Responses to Acute Anthracycline Treatment in Wistar Rats", Toxicological Sciences, 2019
- Deus, C. and Pereira, S. and Cunha-Oliveira, T. and Pereira, F.B. and Oliveira, P.J. , "Mitochondrial remodeling in human skin fibroblasts from sporadic PD male patients uncovers metabolic and mitochondrial bioenergetics defects", Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease, 2019 [ DOI ]
- Simões, R. and Cunha-Oliveira, T. and Kovarova, . and Neuzil, J. and Oliveira, P.J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Early mitochondrial metabolism and dynamics changes as predictors of neurodegeneration and neuronal cell death", European Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 49, pp. 180-181, 2019
- Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno and Jesus, W. and Prudente, F.V. and Marques, J.C. , "Discovering low-energy atomic clusters with machine learning", European Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 49, pp. 41, 2019
2018
(2 publications)- Jesus, W. and Marques, J.C. and Prudente, F.V. and Pereira, F.B. , "Exploring the First- and Second-shell Structures Arising in the Microsolvation of Li+ by Rare Gases", International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2018
- Simões, R. and Cunha-Oliveira, T. and Oliveira, P.J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Optimization of experimental and computational processes to study mitochondrial trafficking and metabolic biomarkers", European Journal of Clinical Investigation, vol. 48, pp. 89, 2018
2017
(3 publications)- Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. and Llanio-Trujillo, J.L. and Abreu, P.E. , "A global optimization perspective on molecular clusters", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2017
- Rodri?guez-Ferna?ndez, R. and Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. and Marti?nez-Nu?n?ez, E. and Va?zquez, S.A. , "GAFit: a general-purpose, user-friendly program for fitting potential energy surfaces", Computer Physics Communications, 2017
- Prudente, F.V. and Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "Solvation of Li+ by argon: How important are three-body forces?", Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 2017 [ DOI ]
2016
(3 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Unveiling the properties of structured grammatical evolution", Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines , pp. 1-39, 2016 [ DOI ]
- Maryam Abbasi and Paquete, L. and Pereira, F.B. , "Heuristics for multiobjective multiple sequence alignment", BioMedical Engineering Online, vol. 15, 2016
- Cruz, S. and Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "Improved evolutionary algorithm for the global optimization of clusters with competing attractive and repulsive interactions", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 145, pp. 154109, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(2 publications)- Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "Colloidal Clusters from a Global Optimization Perspective", Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Leitão, A.P.d.A. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado , "Island Models for Cluster Geometry Optimization: How Design Options Impact Effectiveness and Diversity", Journal of Global Optimization, vol. 63, pp. 677-707, 2015 [ DOI ]
2013
(1 publication)2012
(1 publication)2011
(4 publications)- Llanio-Trujillo, J.L. and Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Global Optimization of Molecular Clusters: Application to Water, Benzene, and Cation-benzene", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011
- Abreu, P.E. and Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "Electronic Structure Calculations on the Ar-C6H12 Interaction: Application to the Microsolvation of the Chair Conformer", Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2011
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. , "PSO-CGO: A Particle Swarm Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization", International Journal of Natural Computing Research, 2011
- Almeida, M.M. and Prudente, F.V. and Fellows, C.E. and Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "Direct Fit of Spectroscopic Data of Diatomic Molecules by using Genetic Algorithms: II. The Ground State of RbCs", Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, 2011
2010
(2 publications)- Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. , "An evolutionary algorithm for global minimum search of binary atomic clusters", Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 485, pp. 211-216, 2010
- Marques, J.C. and Llanio-Trujillo, J.L. and Abreu, P.E. and Pereira, F.B. , "How Different Are Two Chemical Structures?", Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2010
2009
(1 publication)2008
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Multidimensional Knapsack Problem: A Fitness Landscape Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, vol. 38, pp. 604-616, 2008
- Marques, J.C. and Prudente, F.V. and Pereira, F.B. and Almeida, M.M. and Maniero, A.M. and Fellows, C.E. , "A New Genetic Algorithm to be Used in the Direct Fit of Potential Energy Curves to ab initio and Spectroscopic Data", Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, vol. 41, 2008
- Marques, J.C. and Pereira, F.B. and Leitão, T. , "On the Use of Different Potential Energy Functions in Rare-gas Cluster Optimization by Genetic Algorithms: Application to Argon Clusters", Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 112, pp. 6079-6089, 2008
Conference Articles
2017
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Ferrer, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "A Comparative Study of Different Grammar-Based Genetic Programming Approaches", in EuroGP, 2017 [ DOI ]
- João R. Campos and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Extracting Knowledge from Data to Predict Mitochondrial Toxicity Indexes for Pharmacological Compounds (Poster Presentation)", in MitoPorto International Symposium, Porto, Portugal, 2017, 2017
2016
(1 publication)- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "An Evolutionary Approach to the Full Optimization of the Traveling Thief Problem", in EvoCOP, 2016 [ DOI ]
2015
(3 publications)- Maryam Abbasi and Paquete, L. and Pereira, F.B. , "Local search for multiobjective multiple sequence alignment", in 3th Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2015), LNCS 9044, 175-182, Springer, 2015 [ DOI ]
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Optimization Ability of Evolved Strategies", in 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2015), 2015
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "SGE: A Structured Representation for Grammatical Evolution", in Artificial Evolution 2015, 2015
2014
(2 publications)- Leonor Melo and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Effective Multi-caste Ant Colony System for Large Dynamic Traveling Salesperson Problems", in Artificial Evolution (EA-2013), 2014 [ DOI ]
- Leonor Melo and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Extended experiments with Ant Colony Optimization with heterogeneous ants for Large Dynamic Traveling Salesperson Problems", in ICCSA14: The 14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2014 [ DOI ]
2013
(3 publications)- Leonor Melo and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Multi-caste ant colony algorithm for the dynamic traveling salesperson problem", in M. Tomassini et al. (Eds.): ICANNGA 2013, LNCS 7824, pp. 226--235. Springer, Heidelberg (2013), April 2013, 2013 [ DOI ]
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Importance of the Learning Conditions in Hyper-Heuristics", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), 2013
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Learning Selection Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms", in Artificial Evolution (EA-2013), 2013
2012
(4 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Automatic Design of Ant Algorithms with Grammatical Evolution ", in 15th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP-2012), 2012
- Leitão, A.P.d.A. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado , "Enhancing Cluster Geometry Optimization with Island Models", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2012), 2012
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. , "DACCO: A Discrete Ant Colony Algorithm to Cluster Geometry Optimization", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), 2012
- Lourenço, Nuno and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Evolving Evolutionary Algorithms", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), 2012
2011
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Designing Pheromone Update Strategies with Strongly Typed Genetic Programming", in 14th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2011), 2011
- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Towards the development of self-ant systems", in 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2011
- Leonor Melo and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Multi-caste Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms", in 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011
2010
(2 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. , "Evolving Strategies for Updating Pheromone Trails: a Case Study with the TSP", 2010
- Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. , "Towards an Effective Evolutionary Approach for Binary Lennard-Jones Clusters", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2010), 2010
2009
(1 publication)- Leonor Melo and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "MC-ANT: a Multi-colony Ant Algorithm", in Artificial Evolution (EA '09), 2009 [ DOI ]
2008
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Golomb Rulers: a Fitness Landscape Analysis", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2008
- Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. , "A Self-Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization", in Eight International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), 2008
- Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. , "A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Cluster Geometry Optimization: the importance of structural elitism", in Eight International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS-2008), 2008
2007
(1 publication)2006
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Role of Representation on the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem by means of Fitness Landscape Analysis", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2006
- Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. and Leitão, T. and Tavares, J. , "Analysis of Locality in Hybrid Evolutionary Cluster Optimization", in IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2006
- Carmo, L. and Gomes, A. and Pereira, F.B. and Antonio Jose Mendes , "Learning styles and problem solving strategies", in 3rd E-Learning Conference - Computer Science Education, 2006
2005
(2 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Golomb Rulers: Experiments with Marks Representation", in 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), 2005
- Tavares, J. and Leitão, T. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Evolving Segments Length in Golomb Rulers", in 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA05), 2005
2004
(4 publications)- Tavares, J. and Penousal Machado and Amilcar Cardoso and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "On the Evolution of Evolutionary Algorithms", in 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming, 2004
- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Understanding the Role of Insertion and Correction in the Evolution of Golomb Rulers", in Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2004
- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Evolving Golomb Rulers", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), 2004
- Penousal Machado and Tavares, J. and Amilcar Cardoso and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Evolving Creativity", in Computational Creativity Workshop, 7th European Conference in Case Based Reasoning, 2004
2003
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. , "On the Influence of GVR in Vehicle Routing", 2003
- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. , "Crossover and Diversity: A Study about GVR", in a bird-of-a-feather workshop at the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), 2003
- Pereira, F.B. and Tavares, J. and Costa, E. , "Golomb Rulers: The Advantage of Evolution", in Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Algorithms (ALEAâ??03), 2003
2002
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. , "GVR Delivers It On Time", 2002
- Pereira, F.B. and Tavares, J. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. , "GVR: a New Genetic Representation for the Vehicle Routing Problem", 2002
- Penousal Machado and Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Vehicle Routing Problem: Doing it the Evolutionary Way", in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-02, 2002
2001
(3 publications)- Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Understanding the Role of Learning in the Evolution of Busy Beavers: a Comparison Between the Baldwin Effect and a Lamarckian Strategy", 2001
- Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Influence of Learning in the Evolution of Busy Beavers", 2001
- Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "How Learning Improves the Performance of Evolutionary Agents: a Case Study with an Information Retrieval System for a Distributed Environment", 2001
2000
(4 publications)- Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "How Adaptive Agents Learn to Deal with Incomplete Queries in Distributed Environments", 2000
- Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. and Amilcar Cardoso and Ochoa-Rodriguez, A. and Santana, R. and Soto, M. , "Too Busy to Learn", 2000
- Santana, R. and Ochoa-Rodriguez, A. and Soto, M. and Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Probabilistic Evolution and the Busy Beaver Problem", 2000
- Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "The Influence of Learning in the Behavior of Information Retrieval Adaptive Agents", 2000
1999
(4 publications)- Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Busy Beaver: an Evolutionary Approach", 1999
- Pereira, F.B. and Penousal Machado and Costa, E. and Amilcar Cardoso , "Graph-Based Crossover: A Case Study with the Busy Beaver Problem", 1999
- Penousal Machado and Pereira, F.B. and Amilcar Cardoso and Costa, E. , "Busy Beaver - The Influence of Representation", in European Workshop on Genetic Programming, EuroGP\'99, 1999
- Barreiros, J. and Costa, E. and Pereira, F.B. , "LamBaDa: An Artificial Environment to Study the", in In the Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 99), 1999
1998
(1 publication)1997
(2 publications)Edited Books
2015
(1 publication)2009
(1 publication)Book Chapters
2018
(2 publications)- Lourenço, Nuno and Assunção, F. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. and Penousal Machado , "Structured Grammatical Evolution: A Dynamic Approach", in Handbook of Grammatical Evolution, vol. 1, pp. 1-24, 2018
- Marques, J.C. and Jesus, W. and Prudente, F.V. and Pereira, F.B. and Lourenço, Nuno , "Revealing Energy Landscapes of Atomic Clusters by Applying Adaptive Bioinspired Algorithms", in Physical Chemistry for Chemists and Chemical Engineers: Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives, vol. 1, pp. 49-70, 2018
2010
(1 publication)2007
(1 publication)2004
(1 publication)PhD Theses
2002
(1 publication)MSc Theses
1995
(1 publication)Tech Report
2007
(3 publications)- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Multidimensional Knapsack Problem: The Influence of Representation", 2007
- Leitão, T. and Pereira, F.B. and Marques, J.C. and Tavares, J. and Costa, E. , "Niching Techniques: a Study on the Cluster Geometry Optimization Problem", 2007
- Tavares, J. and Pereira, F.B. and Costa, E. , "Golomb Rulers: the Influence of Representation and Heuristics", 2007