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"I believe that it is our obligation not to hesitate when confronted with projects like these, not only for ourselves, but mainly for the teams we integrate, for the institution we represent...", José Luís Santos

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"What amazed me the most was USE’s ability to conquer territory. Our “armies” are taking over the building...", Miguel Heleno

Gallery of the Uncommon

One of these days, one of our beloved power systems researchers went to Brazil on a business trip. The airplane takes off from Congonhas, crosses the ceiling of clouds, all seemed normal, but suddenly… something breaks the monotony of the flight.

Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls

In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC Porto offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.

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More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

UESP researchers awarded in International Conference

UESP researchers awarded in International Conference

The Manufacturing Systems Engineering Unit (UESP) participated in PRO-VE'10 - 11th IFIP Working Conference on VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES. There, the participating members were awarded with second place in the category of “Best Papers of the Conference”. This event took place in Saint-Etienne, France, between 11 and 13 October, and it’s one of the most important conferences on Virtual Enterprises and Enterprise Networks.

Entitled “Building an Informal Ontology to Support Collaborative Network Operation: a Case Study”, the paper is authored by Carla Pereira, Cristóvão Sousa and António Lucas Soares from UESP and it was one of the best selected from 90 papers submitted to the Conference.

The theme of this Conference in the area of Collaborative Networks, namely in the component of Virtual Enterprises, was “Collaborative Networks for a Sustainable World”, and it is an opportunity to present and discuss the most recent developments and industrial practice case studies, thus guaranteeing a forum of collaboration between several countries.

Some of the past editions of the conference include PRO-VE'99 (Porto, Portugal), PRO-VE 2000 (Florianópolis, Brazil), PRO-VE'02 (Sesimbra, Portugal), PRO-VE'03 (Lugano, Switzerland), PRO-VE'04 (Toulouse, France), PRO-VE'05 (Valencia, Spain), PRO-VE'06 (Helsinki, Finland), PRO-VE'07 (Guimarães, Portugal), PRO-VE'08 (Poznan, Poland) or PRO-VE'09 (Thessaloniki, Greece).