Universidade do Minho – GET Research Team

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Profile

The GET (Grupo de Engenharia de Telecomputação, http://get.dsi.uminho.pt) research group at the University of Minho investigates new methodologies and platforms for application development in pervasive computing environments. We seek to study the development of non-conventional information systems, i.e. systems that are supported by a multitude of heterogeneous devices and are able to produce contextualised information for assisting mobile users while on their daily life activities, with particular focus on the design of software architectures to support the use of location in mobile applications. We have participated in several funded research projects which are related to this proposal: AROUND – Supporting Location-based Internet Services, VADE project – Value Added Environments for Dynamic Support to Location-Based
Services in UMTS Networks, two nationally funded Portuguese research projects, and the HYPERGEO project – Easy and Friendly Access of Geographic Information for Mobile Users, an European funded R&D project (IST-1999-11641). As a result of our active involvement in these joint research activities, GET has established a significant number of relevant research links with other research groups in several countries, both in academia and in industry, and has gained considerable expertise in the development of mobile location-based applications.

Role in the Project

The GET research team will mainly focus on the research work for WP5 and will lead the Validation work package. Research activities will focus on a generic, open platform to facilitate the deployment, integration, discovery and binding of e-government services (e.g Report, Police, Emergency and Medical services) that are associated with the physical environment (local services) to mobile users, both citizens and public sector employees.

Key personnel

Helena Rodrigues who did her undergraduate studies and received her "Mestrado" degree (MSc) in Computer Science at Universidade do Minho, Portugal and received her PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent, UK, in 1998. Since 1998 she is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Her current research interests are in Distributed Systems, Distributed Applications, Object-oriented Technology and Mobile Computing.

Adriano Moreira who did his undergraduate studies in Electronics Engineering at the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, and received his “Doutoramento” degree (PhD) in Electronics Engineering from the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, in 1997. Since 1996 he is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. His current research interests are in Local Area Wireless Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, people and objects location systems for indoor use, industrial telemetry and navigation systems.

Rui José who did his undergraduate studies and received his "Mestrado" degree (MSc) in Informatics, on the speciality in "Distributed Systems, Computer Communications and Computer Architectures", at Universidade do Minho, Portugal and received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Lancaster, UK, in 2001. He is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department of the Universidade do Minho, Portugal. His current research interests are in Data communications, Mobile Computing and Distributed Systems.

Ricardo J. Machado who holds a PhD (doutoramento) and a MSc (mestrado) degrees in "Informatics and Computer Engineering" both from the University of Minho (2001 and 1996, respectively), and a DEng degree (licenciatura) in "Electronics and Computer Engineering" from the University of Porto (1994). Presently, he is an Assistant Professor (professor auxiliar) of the Information Systems Department at School of Engineering - University of Minho. His current research interests are in co-design methodologies, system-level modelling and specification of hybrid systems, and non-conventional information systems design.

Pedro Coutinho who did his undergraduate studies and received his "Mestrado" degree (MSc) in Informatics, on the speciality in "Information Systems", at Universidade do Minho, Portugal. He is in the final year of his PhD in Computer Science at the Mixed Reality Lab, the University of Nottingham, UK. He is a lecturer in the Information Systems Department at School of Engineering - University of Minho, Portugal. His current research interests are in ubiquitous collaborative systems.

The team members are (co-)author of several scientific publications with peer revision on national and international conferences, journals and chapters of books, edited by IEEE Computer Society Press, ACM Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer-Verlag, and Chapman & Hall, in the respective areas of interest.