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Program Schedule Diagram

DoCEIS 2026 Schedule Timeline Graph

Room Allocations

Caparica B

A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, Y3, G1, and all Plenary sessions

Cristo-Rei

A2, B2, Posters, D2, E2, Y1, Y4, Y6

Almada

Y2, Y5, Y7

Daily Schedule Sessions

09:00 – 09:30

Opening Session (Caparica B Room)

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 1: Sustainability in Electronics (Caparica B Room)

Speaker: Elvira Fortunato, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:45

Parallel Technical Sessions (Session A)

A1 – Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Antonio Monte Pegado and Diogo Natário
Comparative Survival Analysis Using Machine Learning Models with and without Topological Data Analysis
Mavambu Diankatu, Vítor Filipe, Jorge Duque and José Braga de Vasconcelos
Machine Learning on Small Datasets under Resource Constrained: A Scoping Review
Renato Leite and Rui Esteves Araújo
Fourier Apparent Front: A Method of Generating Apparent Fronts Without a Template
Andrei Pătrăușanu, Adrian Florea, Mihai Neghină, Radu Chiș and Alina Dicoiu
WASP it Up: Estimating Parameters under Noisy Observations
Filipe Vieira and Francisco Coelho
A2 – Smart and Fair Energy Communities (Cristo-Rei Room)
Chairs: Ramon Vilanova and Sebastián Madrigal
A Deep Learning Approach to Electric Water Heater Thermal Modelling for Demand Response Applications
Francisco Januário-Silva, João Tabanêz Patrício, Rafael Menezes-Barros and Rui Amaral Lopes
Towards Scalable Demand Response Solutions for Households in Citizen Energy Communities
Pau Comas, Antoni Morell, Ramon Vilanova and Jose Lopez Vicario
Community-Focused Energy Management System with Modular Architecture
Laurențiu-Alex Mustață, Elena Helerea, Cristian-Leonard Mușuroi and Rodolfo Dufo López
Predictive Control and Optimization Strategies for Smart and Fair Operation in Energy Communities
S. Madrigal, A. Morell, J. L. Vicario, O. Arrieta and R. Vilanova
12:45 – 14:15

Lunch Break

14:15 – 16:15

Parallel Technical Sessions (Session B)

B1 – Smart Infrastructures (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: David Leiria and Daniel Ferreira
Multi-Agent Framework with Blockchain-Based Audit Trails for Securing Industrial Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure
Timileyin Abiodun, Nnamdi Nwulu and Peter Olukanmi
Graph-Based Generation of Navigable 3D Environments from Deformable Map Pieces
Diogo de Andrade and Nuno Fachada
Urban Traffic Control Enabled by Optical IoT and Deep Reinforcement Learning
Gonçalo Galvão, Manuela Vieira, Manuel Augusto Vieira, Mário Véstias and Paula Louro
Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Gunfire Deaths
Eurico Clemente, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, Filipa Ferrada
B2 – Human-centered Intelligent Systems (Cristo-Rei Room)
Chairs: Rui Estevão and Nuno Nunes
Human Robot Collaborative Creativity: Challenges and Opportunities
Zahra Babaei, Sepideh Kalateh, Sanaz Nikghadam-Hojjati, Paulo Leitão and Jose Barata
Agentic Monitoring for Industrial Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Reproducible Framework with Safety Guardrails
Miguel Afonso Beckers, Pedro João Rodrigues, Paulo Leitão, Cesar Augusto Tacla and Pedro Luiz de Paula Filho
Towards Mitchell Media Deepfake Detection Using Explainable AI
S. Rajathi, J. Hemalatha, S. Rajeswari, S. Parameswaran, D. Ramya and S. Balamurugan
Human-in-the-loop Refinement of Knowledge Graph Embeddings for Semantic Similarity
Verdiana Schena, Simona Colucci, Floriano Scioscia and Francesco Maria Donini
16:15 – 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30

Horizontal Session: Maximizing Social & Environmental Impact from Research (Caparica B Room)

Speaker: Graham Miller, NOVA SBE, Portugal

17:30 – 19:00

Technical Session C & Poster Displays

C1 – Water Management Systems (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Diogo Natário and Gonçalo Galvão
Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Leak Detection and Classification in Water Distribution Systems Using Hydrophone Sensors
Ajibola Oyedeji, Nnamdi Nwulu and Peter Olukanmi
Digital Transformation Framework for Sustainable Water-Energy-Food Nexus in South Africa
Oluwadamilola Esan, Nnamdi Nwulu and Adepoju Omoseni Oyindamola
Reconstructing Fragmented Flood Histories: A Benchmark of Imputation Methods for Flood Loss Modeling
Miguel Estêvão, Pedro A.C. Sousa, Gracinda R. Guerreiro, João P. Pimentão and Maria Isabel Gomes
Interactive Poster Session (Cristo-Rei Room)
Chairs: Manuel Vinhas and Omid Aghda
A Multi-Objective Optimization Framework for Climate-Resilient Investment Planning in Electricity Distribution Networks
Sérgio Sousa, João Martins and José Maia
Scalability and Compatibility challenges in next-generation Wi-Fi networks
David Leiria, Paulo Pinto and Luis Bernardo
19:00

Welcome Reception & Ice Breaking

Kick off DoCEIS'26 in style! Our Welcome Reception happens on June 17th at 7:00 PM at the stunning TRYP Caparica Rooftop. Expect great conversations, complimentary food and beverages, and a live DJ set during the first hour to set the mood.

09:00 – 10:30

Parallel Technical Sessions (Session D)

D1 – Intelligent Energy Systems (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Omid Aghda and Gonçalo Galvão
Study of a DC-DC Buck Converter as a Class D Amplifier
José Francisco Luís and Nuno Paulino
Toward High-Fidelity Datasets for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Management Incorporating Power Converter Non-Idealities
Henar Mike O. Canilang, Yurim Cheon, Youjeong Yoon and Wansu Lim
How Machining State is Driving Energy Performances in AI-Guided Industries?
Andrea Bochicchio, Fabio Fruggiero and Francesco Mancusi
D2 – Interoperability and Collaborative Decision Making (Cristo-Rei Room)
Chairs: Zahra Babaei and Antonio Monte Pegado
Semantic Execution of a High-Level Petri Net for Opportunity-Driven Decision-Making in Collaborative Business Ecosystems
Javaneh Ramezani, Luis Gomes and Paula Graça
Support IOPT-Tools Interoperability through Import and Export PNML-compliant Format
Diogo Nuno Natário, Anikó Costa and Luis Gomes
Transforming Isolated Data Lakes into Federated Dataspaces: A Sovereign Architecture for Precision Medicine
Nuno Nunes, Pedro A. Sousa, Gracinda R.Guerreiro, João P. Pimentão and Maria Torrente
10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:45

Parallel Technical Sessions / Workshops (Session E)

E1 – Workshop on Sustainable Data Driven Business Innovation for Societal Impact (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Arianit Kurti and Bahtijar Vogel
  • Introduction
  • Data driven innovations – Arianit Kurti
  • Sustainable digitalization – Bahtijar Vogel
  • Brief discussions
  • Workshop session
  • Summary and next steps
E2 – AI in Systems Design (Cristo-Rei Room)
Chairs: Daniel Ferreira and Rui Estevão
Human-AI Agentic Approach for Industrial Software Systems Design
Antonio Monte Pegado, Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and Andre Dionisio Rocha
Digital Sovereignty in Organisational End-to-End Processes: An Early-Stage Design-Oriented Research Roadmap
Andreas Schneider, Thomas Schuster, Mario Bosslau and Lukas Waidelich
AI-driven DevSecOps to Enhance Software Quality and Security
Nuno Teixeira Gomes, João Rafael Almeida and José Luís Oliveira
Toward Agentic Privacy-by-Design: A Conceptual Framework for AI-Supported Process Compliance
Lukas Waidelich, Thomas Schuster, Andreas Schneider and Mario Bosslau
12:45 – 14:15

Lunch Break

14:15 – 15:15

Keynote 2: Industry 5.0 (Caparica B Room)

Speaker: Khaled Benkrid, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:45

Panel Session: Renewables Meet Resilience: Towards the Energy of Tomorrow (Caparica B Room)

Moderator: João Martins, FCT NOVA

● Pedro Carvalho, IST, Portugal
● Patrícia Fortes, LNEG & CENSE, Portugal
● Rui Pestana, R&D NESTER, Portugal
● João Galamba, Enline, Portugal
● Ricardo Rabelo, UFSC, Brazil
18:00 – 20:30

Bus Transfer & Site Visit

20:30 – 22:30

Conference Gala Dinner

08:45 – 09:00

Opening Session YEF-ECE

Unified initiation for the joint tracking day tracks.

09:00 – 10:30

Parallel Tracking (DoCEIS Session F / YEF-ECE Tracks Y1-Y2)

F1 – Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Systems (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Agnieszka Kowalska-Styczeń, Aneta Michalak and Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek
Analysis of Environmental Profiles of Logistics Companies in Estonia to Enhance Technology Choice
Rene Maas, Eduard Shevtshenko, Hendrik Laanemets, Tatjana Karaulova and Rõõt Laigu
Smart Governance for Better Living: Empirical Analysis of Public Services and Digital Transformation Impact on Urban Quality of Live
Sara Rupacz, Izabela Jonek-Kowalska and Aneta Michalak
Using Digital Participatory Platforms for Deliberation Aimed at Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
Kamila Rożnowska and Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek
Y1 – Circuits, Sensing and Hardware Design (Cristo-Rei Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Paula Louro and João Pedro Oliveira
A Reconfigurable LiDAR Scanning Platform for Emulating and Evaluating Fixed-Resolution Time-of-Flight Sensors in Electronic Travel Aids
Nuno Bezelga, Joel Paulo, Alessandro Fantoni
Authentication block for AMBA Advanced Peripheral Bus
João Ramos, Luis Oliveira, Jean Mousinho
Automated Sizing of Cascode Compensated Amplifiers via Adaptive Genetic Algorithms
Guilherme Pacheco Faias, Joao Balancho, Rui Tavares
Carrier-Depletion-Controlled 2×2 Optical Switch Using Weakly Coupled Shallow-Rib Strip Directional Couplers in Standard 0.22 × 0.50 μm a-Si:H Waveguides
Ernesto Velazquez, Alessandro Fantoni, Paulo Lourenço
Design and Simulation-Based Characterization of a Portable 16-bit Optoelectronic Acquisition System for Luminescence Detection in Resource-Limited Environments
Cristiano Barata, Aniko Costa
Y2 – Large Language Models, Agents and AI-Driven Applications (Almada Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Mário Vestas and Pedro Mato-Carvalho
A Hybrid ML-LLM Cascade System for Cost-Efficient Phishing Webpage Detection
Yusuf Özaslan, M. Fatih Adak
Large Language Model-Assisted Natural-Language-to-SQL Pipeline for Project Management in Aviation Certification
Ana Venda, Ruben Costa, Bruno Rega, Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves
From Model to Agent: A Modular LLM-Based Agent Framework for Multi-Agent Systems
Tomás Loureiro, Filipa Ferrada, Thais Baldissera
Prototyping an LLM-Based AI Agent for Operator Support in Augmented Reality Industrial Quality Inspection
Martim Latas, Gabriel Marques, Rui Neves Madeira, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Patrícia Macedo
A Scalable Lakehouse Architecture for AI-Driven Cybersecurity Intelligence
Nastaran Farhadighalati, Alex Di Giulio, Alessandro Lusci, Riccardo Valentini, Jose Barata
10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:45

YEF-ECE Tracking Sessions (Y3, Y4, Y5)

Y3 – Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Real-World Applications (Caparica B Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Rogério Campos-Rebelo and Afonso Fernandes Oliveira
Can We Grow Data? A Hybrid Pipeline for Synthetic Agricultural Data Generation
Narciso Manjor, Rui Porfírio, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Rui Neves Madeira
Energy-Efficient Micro-Defect Detection in Printed Circuit Boards with Cross-Domain Generalization via Multi-Head Scalable Attention
Jinsu An, Tao Peng, Byeong Woo Kim
Evaluating Open-Text 3D Segmentation from 3D Reconstructed Point Clouds
Paulo Cortesão, Helder Araújo
YOLO-Based Architectures for Grapevine Disease Detection
Vasco Marmelo, João Pedro Matos-Carvalho, Sérgio Correia
Smart Window 2030: Integration of Electrochromic Glass and Machine Learning Technologies
Ricardo Jorge, Joana Vaz Pinto, Rui M. Tavares
Analyzing the Effect of Identity in Static Facial Expression Recognition
Rui Guimarães, Helder Araujo
Analysis of suspended sediments in water using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence
Miguel Paiva, João Pedro Matos-Carvalho, Filipe Moutinho
Y4 – Intelligent Automation and Decision Support for Industry and Smart Cities (Cristo-Rei Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Luis Oliveira and Paulo Lourenço
Decentralized Traffic Signal Control Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Visible Light Communication
Astride Morais, Gonçalo Galvão, Manuel Vieira, Mário Véstias, Manuela Vieira, Paula Louro
An Experimental Framework for Networked Control Systems
Tiago Leite Barreiros, Luís Brito Palma
Partner Selection in Consortia Creation: A Hybrid DSS Integrating MCDM, Blockchain, and GA
Alexandre Ferreira, Ana Inês Oliveira
On-Device Real-Time License Plate Identification for Surveillance Systems
Sebastião Ferreira, Mário Véstias
A BPMN Language Management System for the Integration of Industrial Business Processes
Joana Serrano, A. Luís Osório, Paula Graça
Adaptive Urban Traffic Control Multimodal with AI and Visible Light Communication (VLC)
João Matos, Manuela Vieira, Gonçalo Galvão, Mário Véstias, Manuel Vieira, Paula Louro
Augmented Reality Inspection Assistant Design for Quality Operator Support in Industry 5.0
André Branco, Gabriel Marques, Rui Neves Madeira, Pedro Albuquerque Santos, Patrícia Macedo
Y5 – IoT, Edge Computing, and Cloud Systems (Almada Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Thais Baldissera and Alessandro Fantoni
Survey On the Design of CubeSat Ground Stations – Architectures and Communication Trade-Offs
Erica Alves, Rui Duarte
A Unified Validation Framework for Heterogeneous IoT Data Models
João Rocha, Matilde Pato, Nuno Datia
A Layered Secure Messaging Architecture for Cross-Organizational Manufacturing-as-a-Service
Marina Case, Ruben Costa, Luis Lourenco, Ricardo Gonçalves
A Dual-Tier Edge-Cloud Architecture for Real-Time Basketball Activity Recognition and Fatigue Monitoring
Ricardo Monteiro, Aniko Costa
Performance Analysis of DevOps Processes in Modern Cloud Platforms
Caner Şermet, Muhammed Fatih Adak
A Modular Low-Cost Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand
David Matos Furtado, Luís Brito Palma, Rui Azevedo Antunes
12:45 – 14:15

Lunch Break

14:15 – 15:15

Keynote 3: Engineering the Socio-Technical Future (Caparica B Room)

Speaker: Tal Soffer, Tel Aviv University, Israel

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:30

DoCEIS Session G1 & YEF-ECE Sessions Y6-Y7

G1 – AI in Biomedical Systems (Caparica B Room)
Chairs: Manuel Vinhas and Nuno Nunes
A Review on Technological Requirements for Ultrasound Image-Guided Neuromodulation Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
Diogo Dias, Tiago Costa and João Goes
CancerCareTech: A Pilot Study on a Digital Platform for Multimodal Clinical Data Integration in Pediatric Oncology
Pedro Correia, Joana Dias, Alexandra Morais, Amets Sagarribay, Ana Ferreira, Ana Rita Londral, Carla Quintão, Catarina Santos, Mafalda Pires, Patrícia Santos, Paula Agulheiro and Cláudia Quaresma
Stability of Electrophysiological Signals: Findings from Preliminary Measurements in Different Clinical Environments
Ana Isabel Ferreira, Cláudia Quaresma and Carla Quintão
A Supervised Modular LLM Architecture for Personalized Management of Non-Communicable Diseases: A Proof-of-Concept Study
Ana Martins, Luís Velez Lapão, Isabel L. Nunes and Ana Londral
Y6 – Speech, Audio and AI-Assisted Healthcare (Cristo-Rei Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Ruben Costa and Miguel Fernandes
Blood Type Classification Using DINOv2 Embeddings and Logistic Regression: A Preliminary Study with Quantization Analysis
Bruno Silva, Enmanuel Abilheira, Afonso Pinheiro, Ljilijana Dukanovic, Vitor Carvalho
Efficient Deep Neural Networks for Embedded Animal Sound Classification
Ezequiel Silva, Rui Jesus, Mário Véstias
A Preliminary Study on AI-Based Three-Class Classification of Syphilis’ RPR Test Reactions
Enmanuel Abilheira, Bruno Silva, Ljilijana Dukanovic, Afonso Pinheiro, Vitor Carvalho
A comparative study of acoustic speech feature performance in vocal fold pathology detection
Verónica Silva, Gonçalo Marques, Carlos Meneses
Evaluating Open-Weight Large Language Models for a Local Clinical Assistant
Maria Joana Pires, Mário Véstias
Analysis-by-synthesis for predictive coding of speech signals
André Dias, Carlos Meneses
Y7 – Power Systems, Drives and Energy Conversion (Almada Room)
YEF-ECE Chairs: Manuela Vieira and Anabela Pronto
Converting a Traditional Bicycle to Electric: Development of a Motor Controller and a Battery Charger
Francisco Machado, Rodrigo Pereira, Joao Afonso, Vitor Monteiro
Design and Implementation of a Dual Active Bridge DC–DC Converter for Photovoltaic Integration in a DC Microgrid
Cristiano Botelho, José Silva, Rui Esteves Araújo
Field-Weakening Control of a Synchronous Reluctance Machine Using FW and MTPV Trajectories and Single Supply DVSI
Luis Fernandes, Armando Pires, Vitor Pires
Deterministic and Probabilistic Assessment for Hosting Capacity in Distribution Networks
Nuno Bonacho, Francisco Silva Reis
Study of Power-over-Fiber Receiver Topologies for Multiple Optical Sources and Low-Power Devices
Rodrigo Costa, Daniel Graça, João Casaleiro, Carlos Carvalho
17:30 – 18:15

Closing Session and Awards Ceremony (Caparica B Room)