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José Valente de Oliveira
José Valente de Oliveira
Universidade do Algarve, Faro
Regular Member
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Short Biography
José Valente de Oliveira received the Ph.D. (1996), M.Sc. (1992), and the "Licenciado" degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, all from the IST, Technical University of Lisbon. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Algarve with research interests in the area of computational intelligence (biologically and linguistically inspired computational paradigms emphasizing connectionist, evolutionary, fuzzy, hybrid, and agent based intelligent systems), machine learning, data mining, and optimization. José Valente de Oliveira is an Associated Editor of theJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, and co-editor of the books Advances in Fuzzy Clustering and Its Applications, Wiley 2007; and Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective, Springer, 2012. 
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years

M Zacarias, JV de Oliveira (edt), Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective, Springer, 2012

P Fazendeiro, JV de Oliveira,  Semantic Driven Fuzzy Clustering for Human-Centric Information Processing Application  in Human-Centric Information Processing Through Granular Modelling Springer, (2009) 119-151 

W Pedrycz, J Valente de Oliveira, A development of fuzzy encoding and decoding through fuzzy clusteringInstrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on 57 (4), (2008), 829-837 

P Fazendeiro, JV de Oliveira, W Pedrycz, A multiobjective design of a patient and anaesthetist-friendly neuromuscular blockade controllerBiomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on 54 (9), 2007, 1667-1678 

JV de Oliveira, W Pedrycz (edt),  Advances in fuzzy clustering and its applications,  Wiley 2007

List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
Co-publication chair of IFSA World Congress  International Fuzzy Systems Association,
Lisbon, July 2009.

Local Organizing Chair of OTM 2007 - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems,
Vilamoura, Novembro 25-30, 2007.

Member of the IPC of several conferences