Organizing Committee

Adjunct Professor at the Business School at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal. She received PhD in Applied Mathematics at University of Aveiro with the dissertation thesis “Optimal Control and Numerical Optimization Applied to Epidemiological Models”. Her main research interests are optimal control, epidemiological models, numerical optimization and modelling.  

Website: https://www.ipvc.pt/persons/person?id=sofiarodrigues

E-mail: sofiarodrigues@esce.ipvc.pt

Adjunct Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC). He is also a researcher at INESC TEC and ADiT-LAB. He received PhD in Informatics Engineering at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto with a thesis entitled "Requirements Change Management based on Web Usage Mining".His research interests are in the field of software engineering, web usage mining, requirements management, innovation systems and applications in business.

Website: https://www.ipvc.pt/persons/person?id=jorgegarcia

E-mail: jorgegarcia@esce.ipvc.pt

Ângela Silva, PhD, is Adjunct Professor at the Business School at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering of Production and Systems from School of Engineering, University of Minho. She develops her research work in the ADiT-LAB, in Operations Management and Logistics and Modelling and Optimization of Energy Systems. At the University of Minho, she is a researcher at the ALGORITMI Research Center in the “Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM)” research line, group of “Ergonomics and Human Factors (EHF)”. Currently, she supervises several MSc projects in these areas, being a co-author of several scientific papers published in International Journals and Conferences. The author can be contacted at angela.a@esce.ipvc.pt.  

Website: https://www.ipvc.pt/persons/person?id=angelasilva

E-mail: angela.a@esce.ipvc.pt