Publications

Catarina Helena Branco Simões da Silva catarina<at>ipleiria<dot>pt catarina<at>dei<dot>uc<dot>pt

Theses

• 1. PhD Thesis: Silva, C. ,"Inductive Inference for Large Scale Text Classification", 2009

  2. MsC Thesis: Silva, C. ,"Contribuição para a Navegação de Robots Móveis Usando Redes Neuronais Numa Abordagem Modular e Construtiva", 2000

Books

• 1. Silva, C., Ribeiro, B., "Aprendizagem Computacional para Engenheiros", ISBN:978-9892615073 , Imprensa UC, 2018.

  2. Marcelino L.,Silva, C., "Desenvolvimento em Swift para iOS", ISBN: 978-972-722-859-1, FCA, 2017

  3. Fonseca N., Reis C., Silva, C., Marcelino L., Carreira, V., "Desenvolvimento em iOS", ISBN: 978-972-722-786-0, FCA, 2012

  4. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Inductive Inference for Large Scale Text Classification: Kernel Approaches and Techniques", ISBN: 978-3-642-04533-2, Springer, 2010

Journals

• 1. Claudio A.D.Silva, Carlos Grilo, Catarina Silva, "Model Optimisation for Server Loading Forecasting with Genetic Algorithms", International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (IJCISIM), ISSN: 2150-7988, Volume 11, pp. 178 - 191, 2019.

1. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Adaptive Learning for Dynamic Environments: a Comparative Approach"; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI); IF=2.604; vol. 2 , pp. 336-345 , Editor: Elsevier; 2017

   1. Pereira, P., Rijo, R., Silva, C., Martinho, R. "Text Mining Applied to Electronic Medical Records: A Literature Review". International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC), Volume 6, Issue 3, 2015

   2. Pereira, L. Rijo, R., Silva, C., Gonçalves, D., Agostinho, M. "Decision support system to diagnosis and classification of epilepsy in children". Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 20, no. 6 (2014), 907-923.

   3. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Antunes, M. and Ribeiro, B. , "Customized Crowds and Active Learning to Improve Classification", Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier, vol. 40, pp. 7212-7219, 2013

   4. Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Chen, N. and Vieira, A. and Neves, J.C. ,"Enhanced Default Risk Models with SVM+", Expert Systems With Applications, Elsevier, vol. 39, pp. 10140-10152, 2012

   5. Silva, C. and Lotrič, U. and Ribeiro, B. and Dobnikar, A. ,"Distributed Text Classification with an Ensemble Kernel-based Learning Approach", IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Part C - Applications and Reviews, vol. 40, pp. 287-297, 2010

   6. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Towards Expanding Relevance Vector Machines to Large Scale Datasets", International Journal of Neural Systems, vol. 18, pp. 45-58, 2008

   7. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"On Text-based Mining with Active Learning and Background Knowledge using SVM", Journal of Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer Verlag, vol. 11, pp. 519-530, 2007

   8. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"RVM Ensemble for Text Classification", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, vol. 3, pp. 31-35, 2007

   9. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Rare Class Text Categorization with SVM Ensemble", Journal of Electrotechnical Review (Przeglad Elektrotechniczny), vol. 1, pp. 28-31, 2006

   10. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Navigating mobile robots with a modular neural architecture", Journal of Neural Computing & Applications, Springer-Verlag , pp. 200-211, 2003

Book Chapters

1. Martins, S., Silva, C., Marcelino, L., Mobile Games for Children, New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 276 (2) of the series Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Editors: Álvaro Rocha, Ana Maria Correia, Felix. B Tan, Karl. A Stroetmann, ISBN: 978-3-319-05947-1, pp 455-464, 2014

   1. Nogueira, A.F. and Silva, C., "ChronoFindMe: Social Networks’ Location-Based Services", in Sociotechnical Enterprise Information Systems Design and Integration, Chapter 11, IGI Global,, pp. 154-170 2013

   2. Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Sung, A.H. and Vieira, A. and Neves, J.C. and Duarte, J. and Liu, Q. ,"Learning Manifolds for Bankruptcy Analysis", in Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, vol. LNCS 5506, pp. 722-729, 2009

   3. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"A Modular Constructive Approach to Mobile Robot Navigation", in Fifth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies 2001, pp. 313-317, 2001

Conferences

• • 2018

    1. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Adaptive Learning Models Evaluation in Twitter’s Timelines", IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2018.

  • 2017

• • 1. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Performance Metrics for Model Fusion in Twitter Data Drifts"; 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IBPria'17); LNCS 10255, pp. 13-21; Editor: Springer; June 2017, Algarve, Portugal

    2. Rafael Vieira, Mário Antunes, Catarina Silva, Ana Assis; "Automatic documents counterfeit classification using image processing and analysis"; 8th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IBPria'17); LNCS 10255, pp.400-407; Editor: Springer; June 2017, Algarve, Portugal

    3. Lizeth Ghandi ; Catarina Silva ; Danilo Martinez ; Tatiana Gualotuña; “ Mobile application development process: A practical experience”, 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), IEEE, 2017.

    4. F Constante, J Guevara, C Silva, D Gonçalves, L Marcelino, “Decision support system using mobile app statistics”, 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), IEEE, 2017.

    5. R Toasa, C Silva, C Silva, D Gonçalves, L Neves, L Marcelino, “Energy consumption behaviour characterization with mobile gamification”, 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), IEEE, 2017.

• • 2016

• • 1. Mário Antunes, Catarina Silva, Joaquim Barranca; "A telemedicine application using WebRTC"; International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist'16); vol. 100, pp. 414-420, Editor: Elsevier; October 2016, Porto, Portugal

    2. Rafael Vieira, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Ana Assis; "Information System for Automation of Counterfeited Documents Images Correlation"; Conference on ENTERprise Information Systems (CENTERIS'16); vol. 100, pp. 421-428, Editor: Elsevier; October 2016, Porto, Portugal

    3. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. , "Visualization of Individual Ensemble Classifier Contributions", in IPMU 2016 - International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems, LNCS, Netherlands, 2016

    4. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. , "Multiclass Ensemble of One-Against-All SVM Classifiers", in ISNN 2016 - International Symposium on Neural Networks, LNCS, Springer, S Petersburg, Russia, 2016

    5. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Choice of Best Samples for Building Ensembles in Dynamic Environments"; 17th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN'16); CCIS vol: 629; pp. 35-47, Editor: Springer; September 2016, Aberdeen, Scotland

    6. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Twitter classification: are some examples better than others?"; 22th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad'16); October 2016; Aveiro, Portugal [Best paper award]

    7. Rafael Vieira, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Ana Assis; "Pattern Recognition in Images of Counterfeited Documents"; 22th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad'16); pp.83-84; October 2016; Aveiro, Portugal

• • 2015

• • 1. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "Generating datasets with drift"; 21th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad'15); November 2015; Faro, Algarve, Portugal

    2. Joana Costa, Catarina Silva, Mário Antunes, Bernardete Ribeiro; "DOTS: Drift Oriented Tool System"; 22nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'15); LNCS vol.9492-IV, pp. 615-623, Editor: Elsevier; November 2015; Istambul, Turkey

    3. Cunha, J., Silva, C., Antunes, M., "Health Twitter Big Bata Management with Hadoop Framework"; Proceedings of International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist'2015); Editor: Elsevier; October 2015, Algarve, Portugal

    4. Madeira, J., Silva, C., Marcelino, L., Ferreira, P., "Assistive Mobile Applications for Dyslexia"; Proceedings of International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies (HCist'2015); Editor: Elsevier; October 2015, Algarve, Portugal

    5. Silva, C., Antunes, M., Costa, J., Ribeiro, B., "Active Manifold Learning with Twitter Big Data", INNS Conference on Big Data 2015 Program San Francisco, August, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 53, 2015, pp. 208–215, 2015

    6. Costa, J., Silva, C., Antunes, M., Ribeiro, B., "The Impact of Longstanding Messages in Micro-Blogging Classification"; International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'15); Editor: IEEE; July 2015; Killarney, Ireland

    7. Ribeiro, B., Lopes, N., Silva, C., "Learning the Hash Code with Generalised Regression Neural Networks for Biometric Data Retrieval"; International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'15); Editor: IEEE; July 2015; Killarney, Ireland

• • 2014

• • 1. Costa, J., Silva, C., Antunes, M., Ribeiro, B., "Concept Drift Awareness in Twitter Streams"; 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'14); pp.294-299; December 2014;

    2. Costa, J., Silva, C., Antunes, M., Ribeiro, B., "Learning with Drift in Twitter"; 20th edition of the Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad'2014); November 2014; Covilha, Portugal

    3. Martins, S. and Silva, C. and Marcelino, L. , "Mobile Games for Children", in 2nd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WCIST'14), 2014

    4. Guerra, A., Tereso, B., Brites, J., Silva, C., Marcelino, L. , "Patinhas - Serviços de localização para animais desaparecidos", in 9ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação, 2014

    5. Domingos, J., Simões, N., Pereira, P., Marcelino, L., Silva, C., "Database Synchronization Model for Mobile Devices", in 9ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação, 2014

• • 2013

• • 1. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Antunes, M. and Ribeiro, B. , "Defining Semantic Meta-Hashtags for Twitter Classification", in M. Tomassini et al. (Eds.): ICANNGA 2013, LNCS 7824, pp. 226--235. Springer, Heidelberg (2013), 2013

    2. Pereira, L. ,Rijo, R., Silva, C.,Agostinho, M., "ICD9-based Text Mining Approach to Children Epilepsy Classification", Procedia Technology, Volume 9, 2013, Pages 1351-1360, ISSN 2212-0173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.protcy.2013.12.152.

    3. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Antunes, M. , "CrowdTargeting: Making Crowds More Personal", in Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) , 2013

    4. Pereira, L., Rijo, R., Silva, C., Agostinho, M., "Using Text Mining to Diagnose and Classify Epilepsy in Children", IEEE 16th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services, IEEE HealthCom 2013

    5. Costa, R., Silva, C., Marcelino, M., "Profile-based System for Nutritional Information Management", IEEE 16th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services, IEEE HealthCom 2013

    6. Monteiro, F., Moreira, L., Ferreira, P., Marcelino, M., Silva, C., "Mobile Access to Real Time Tracking of Public Transports", Interação 2013, 5th National Conference on Interaction

• • 2011

• • 1. Silva, C. and Antunes, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Correia, M. ,"A hybrid AIS-SVM ensemble approach for Text Classification", in Proc Int Conf on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms, pp. , Part II, LNCS 6594, 2011, 2011

    2. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"On Using Crowdsourcing and Active Learning to Improve Classification Performance", in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2011), IEEE; pp. 469-474; November, Cordoba, Spain (DOI:10.1109/ISDA.2011.6121700), 2011

    3. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Get Your Jokes Right: Ask The Crowd", in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2011), Lecture Notes Computer Science; Vol. 6918, pp. 178-185, Springer, September, Óbidos, Portugal (DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-24443-8_20), 2011

    4. Costa, J. and Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"The Importance of Precision in humour Classification", in "; Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intellingent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2011),Lecture Notes Computer Science, Vol. 6936, pp.271-278, Springer, September, Norwich, UK (10.1007/978-3-642-23878-9_33), 2011

    5. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. , "Purging False Negatives in Cancer Diagnosis Using Incremental Active Learning", in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intellingent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2011),Lecture Notes Computer Science, Vol. 6936, pp.394-402, Springer, September, Norwich, UK (10.1007/978-3-642-23878-9_33), 2011

• • 2010

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Noel Lopes ,"Improving Recall Values in Breast Cancer Diagnosis with Incremental Background Knowledge", in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), pp. 2353-2358, 2010

    2. Ribeiro, B. and Noel Lopes and Silva, C. ,"High-Performance Bankruptcy Prediction Model using Graphics Processing Units", in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), 2010

    3. Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Vieira, A. and Neves, J.C. ,"Financial Distress Prediction using SVM+", in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), Barcelona, Spain, July 2010, 2010

    4. Silva, C. and Antunes, M. and Ribeiro, B. and Correia, M. ,"On using an ensemble approach of AIS and SVM for Text Classification", in WACI’10, 5th Workshop on Applications of Computational Intelligence, December, 2010

• • 2009

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Improving Text Classification Performance with Incremental Background Knowledge", ICANN, Springer, 2009

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Improving Visualization, Scalability and Performance of Multiclass Problems with SVM Manifold Learning", ICANNGA, Springer, 2009

    3. Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Vieira, A. and Neves, J.C. ,"Extracting Discriminative Features Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization in Financial Distress Data", ICANNGA, Springer, 2009

• • 2008

• • 1. Ferreira, R. and Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Liu, Q. and Sung, A.H. ,"Building Resilient Classifiers for LSB Matching Steganography", in IEEE WCCI 2008, 2008

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Lotrič, U. and Dobnikar, A. ,"Distributed Ensemble Learning in Text Classification", in ICEIS 2008, 2008

    3. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Text Classification on Embedded Manifolds", in IBERAMIA 2008, 2008

    4. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Selecting Examples in Manifold Reduced Feature Space for Active Learning", in IEEE ICMLA 2008, 2008

    5. Ribeiro, B. and Vieira, A. and Duarte, J. and Silva, C. and Neves, J.C. and Liu, Q. and Sung, A.H. ,"Bankruptcy Analysis for Credit Risk using Manifold Learning", in International Conference on Neural Information Processing, 2008

• • 2007

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Sung, A.H. ,"Boosting RVM Classifiers for Large Data Sets", in ICANNGA 2007, 2007

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Combining Active Learning and Relevance Vector Machines for Text Classification", in IEEE ICMLA 2007, 2007

• • 2006

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Lotrič, U. ,"Fast-Decision SVM Ensemble Text Classifier Using Cluster Computing", in ICNPSC\'06, 2006

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Scaling Text Classification with Relevance Vector Machines", in IEEE SMC06, 2006

    3. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Expanding Working Set Approaches to RVM for Text Classification", in Summer School on Neural Networks - Poster Presentation, 2006

    4. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Automated Learning of RVM for Large Scale Text Sets: Divide to Conquer", in IDEAL 2006, 2006

    5. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Two-level hierarchical hybrid SVM-RVM classification model", in IEEE ICMLA 2006, 2006

    6. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"RVM Ensemble for Text Classification", in ICONIP 2006 - 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (Poster presentation), 2006

• • 2005

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Text Classification from Partially Labeled Distributed Data", in ICANNGA 2005, 2005

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Lotrič, U. ,"Speeding-up Text Classification In a GRID Computing Environment", in ICMLA 2005, 2005

    3. Lotrič, U. and Ribeiro, B. and Silva, C. and Dobnikar, A. ,"Modeling Execution Times of Data Mining Problems in Grid Environments", in ERK 2005, 2005

• • 2004

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Labeled and Unlabeled Data in Text Categorization", in IJCNN 2004, 2004

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"Margin-based Active Learning and Background Knowledge in Text Mining", in HIS 2004, 2004

• • 2003

• • 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"The Importance of Stop Word Removal on Recall Values in Text Categorization", in IJCNN 2003, vol. 3, 2003

    2. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"On the Evaluation of Text Processing in Text Categorization", in ICMLA 2003, 2003

    3. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. ,"An Inductive Inference Approach to Large Scale Text Categorisation", in ICANNGA 2003, 2003

• • 2001

• • 1. Silva, C., Crisóstomo, M., Ribeiro, B. ,"Angular Memory and Supervisory Modules in a Neural Architecture for Navigating NOMAD", in ICANNGA 2001, 2001

• • 2000

• • 1. Silva, C., Crisóstomo, M., Ribeiro, B. ,"A Neural Modular Architecture for Navigating Mobile Robots", in CONTROLO 2000, 2000

    2. Silva, C., Crisóstomo, M., Ribeiro, B. ,"MONODA: A Neural Modular Architecture for Obstacle Avoidance Without Knowledge of the Environment", in IJCNN 2000, 2000

    3. Silva, C., Crisóstomo, M., Ribeiro, B. ,"A Modular Neural Architecture for Navigating NOMAD Mobile Robot", in IPMU 2000, 2000

Tech reports

• 1. Silva, C. and Ribeiro, B. and Lotrič, U. and Dobnikar, A. ,"Intelligent Data Mining in the GRID Environment - Report 10/2005", 2005