Eugenio Ferreira

Eugénio Manuel de Faria Campos Ferreira

Professor Catedrático - Universidade do Minho

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103. Amaral, A.L., Mesquita, D.P., Ferreira, E.C. Distinção de fenómenos de bulking em lamas activadas por técnicas de análise de imagem. 14º ENaSB - Encontro Nacional de Saneamento Básico, SILUBESA - Simpósio Luso-Brasileiro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental – Adaptação e Sustentabilidade de Serviços de Abastecimento de Água e de Águas Residuais. 16 pgs., Porto, 26-29 Outubro de 2010.
102. Nádson M. N. Lima, Lamia Zuñiga Liñan, Flavio Manenti, Rubens Maciel Filho, Marcelo Embiruçu, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Maria R. Wolf Maciel. Modelagem e controle avançado não-linear multivariável por lógica nebulosa: aplicação para um processo de copolimerização. XVIII Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Química – COBEQ 2010, 19-22 Set 2010, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil. 6 pp., 2010.
101. Soons, Zita I.T.A.; Ferreira, E.C.; Isabel Rocha Selection of Elementary Modes for Bioprocess Control. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010), Leuven, Belgium, July 7-9, 2010 Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), 156-161, 2010.
100. Dias, Óscar; Rocha, Miguel; Ferreira, E.C.; Rocha, I. Merlin: Metabolic Models Reconstruction using Genome-Scale Information. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010), Leuven, Belgium, July 7-9, 2010 Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), 120-125, 2010.
99. Costa, Rafael; Machado, Daniel; Ferreira, E.C.; Rocha, I. Evaluating the integration of proteomic data for the prediction of intracellular fluxes after knockout experiments. Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010), Leuven, Belgium, July 7-9, 2010 Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), 114-119, 2010.
98. Machado, Daniel; Costa, Rafael; Rocha, M.; Rocha, I.; Tidor, B.; Ferreira, E.C. Model transformation of metabolic networks using a Petri net based framework. International Workshop on Biological Processes & Petri Nets (BioPPN), Braga, Portugal, 21 June, pp: 101-115, 2010.
97. Nádson M. N. Lima, Lamia Zuñiga Liñan, Flavio Manenti, Rubens Maciel Filho, Marcelo Embiruçu, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Maria R. Wolf Maciel. Multivariable Nonlinear Advanced Control of Copolymerization Processes. 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering - ESCAPE20, 6-9 June 2010, Ischia, Naples, Italy. S. Pierucci and G. Buzzi Ferraris (Editors), Elsevier, 6 pp., 2010.
96. Morais, S; Mata, TM; Ferreira, E.C. Life cycle assessment of soybean biodiesel and LPG as automotive fuels in Portugal. Chemical Engineering Transactions, Vol. 19 [4th International Conference on Safety & Environment in Process Industry - CISAP4, S.S. Buratti, Ed., 14 -17 March 2010, Florence, Italy], 267-272, 2010.
95. Costa, R.S., Machado, D., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Reconstruction of dynamic metabolic networks: challenges, limitations and alternative solutions. Jornadas de Bioinformática 2009, Lisboa 3-6 de Novembro de 2009, pp. 51-55.
94. Lourenço, I., Costa, H., Carneiro, S., Carreira, R., Rocha, M., Ferreira, E.C., Rocha, I. Combining syntactic and ontological knowledge to extract biologically relevant relations from scientific papers. 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molcular Biology & 8th European Conference on Computational Biology ISBMECCB 2009, Special Interest Group Meeting Program Materials, Stockolm, June 27 – July 2, 2009, 237-240.
93. Costa, R.S., Machado, D., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Large scale dynamic model reconstruction for the central carbon metabolism of Escherichia coli. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5518 (IWANN 2009, Part II, S. Omatu et al., Eds.) [3rd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - IWPACBB'09), Salamanca, Spain, 10th-12th June 2009], 1079-1083, 2009.
92. Evangelista, P., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C., Rocha, M. A software tool for the simulation and optimization of dynamic metabolic models. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5518 (IWANN 2009, Part II, S. Omatu et al., Eds.) [3rd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - IWPACBB'09), Salamanca, Spain, 10th-12th June 2009], 1071-1078, 2009. 
91. Lourenço, A., Carneiro, S., Ferreira, E.C., Rafael Carreira, Luis M. Rocha, Daniel Glez-Peña, José R. Méndez, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Fernando Diaz, Isabel Rocha and Miguel Rocha Biomedical Text Mining Applied To Document Retrieval and Semantic Indexing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5518 (IWANN 2009, Part II, S. Omatu et al., Eds.) [3rd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - IWPACBB'09), Salamanca, Spain, 10th-12th June 2009], 954-963, 2009.
90. Machado, D., Costa, R.S., Rocha, M., Isabel Rocha, Bruce Tidor, E.C. Ferreira A critical review on modelling formalisms and simulation tools in Computational Biosystems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5518 (IWANN 2009, Part II, S. Omatu et al., Eds.) [3rd International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics - IWPACBB'09), Salamanca, Spain, 10th-12th June 2009], 1063-1070, 2009.
89. Maia, P., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C., Rocha, M. Evaluating evolutionary multiobjective algorithms for the in silico optimization of mutant strains. 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (IEEE BIBE 2008), Athens, Greece, 6 pp., 8-10 October 2008.  
88. Anália Lourenço, Rafael Carreira, Sónia Carneiro, Paulo Maia, Daniel Glez-Peña, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Isabel Rocha, Miguel Rocha. A framework for the development of biomedical text mining software tools. 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (IEEE BIBE 2008), Athens, Greece, 6 pp., 8-10 October 2008.  
87. Rui Mendes, Anália Lourenço, Sónia Carneiro, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Isabel Rocha, Miguel Rocha, A Framework for the Integrated Analysis of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks. 8th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (IEEE BIBE 2008), Athens, Greece, 6 pp., 8-10 October 2008.  
86. Mesquita, D.P., Dias, O, Amaral, A.L., Ferreira, E.C. Relationship between sludge volume index and biomass structure within activated sludge systems. Anais do XVII COBEQ – Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Química (CD-ROM), Recife, Brasil, 14-17 Setembro de 2008, 7 pp.  
85. Costa, J.C., Alves, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. A chemometric tool to monitor high-rate anaerobic granular sludge reactors during load and toxic disturbances. Proceedings of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, E.C. Ferreira and M. Mota (Eds.), Braga, Portugal, September 4-6, 2008, pp. 406-411 (ISBN: 978-972-97810-3-2).  
84. Mesquita, D.P., Dias, O., Amaral, A.L., Ferreira, E.C. Bright field versus phase contrast microscopy in activated sludge image acquisition methodologies. Proceedings of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, E.C. Ferreira and M. Mota (Eds.), Braga, Portugal, September 4-6, 2008, pp. 1778-1783 (ISBN: 978-972-97810-3-2).  
83. Costa, R., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Mathematical modeling of recombinant Escherichia coli aerobic batch fermentations. Proceedings of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, E.C. Ferreira and M. Mota (Eds.), Braga, Portugal, September 4-6, 2008, pp. 1995-2000 (ISBN: 978-972-97810-3-2).  
82. Neri, D.F.M., Balcão, V.M., Costa, R.S., Ferreira, E.C., Torres, D.P.M., Rodrigues, L.R., Carvalho Jr, L.B., Teixeira, J.A. β-Galactosidase from Aspergillus oryzae immobilized onto different magnetic supports: A comparative experimental and modelling study of the galactooligosaccharides production. Proceedings of the 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference - CHEMPOR 2008, E.C. Ferreira and M. Mota (Eds.), Braga, Portugal, September 4-6, 2008, pp. 1036-1041 (ISBN: 978-972-97810-3-2).  
81. Lourenço, Anália, Sónia Carneiro, Rafael Carreira, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Isabel Rocha, Miguel Rocha. A tool for the automatic and manual annotation of biomedical documents. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine – SMBM 2008. Turku, Finland, 8 pp., 1-3 September, 2008, 97-104.
80. Rocha, I., Veloso, A.C.A., Carneiro, S., Costa, R., Ferreira, E.C. Implementation of a specific rate controller in a fed-batch E. coli fermentation. Proceedings of the 17th IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) World Congress, July 6-11, 2008, Seoul, Korea (Chung, M.J., Misra, P., Shim, H., Eds.), 15565-15570. 
79. Mesquita, D.P., Dias, O., Dias, A.M.A., Amaral, A.L., Ferreira, E.C. Correlation between sludge settleability and image analysis information using Partial Least Squares. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Chemometrics in Analytical Chemistry - CAC2008, Montpellier, France, 30 June - 4 July, 2008, Vol. 4, 175-179.  
78. Costa, J.C., Alves, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Predicting effects of Toxic Events to Anaerobic Granular Sludge with Quantitative Image Analysis and Principal Component Analysis. Proceedings CD of the International Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering - SIDISA 08, Florence, Italy, 24-27 Junho, 2008, 8 pp.

77. Mesquita, D.P., Dias, O., A.L. Amaral, E.C. Ferreira, Evaluation of activated sludge systems by image analysis procedures. Proceedings CD of the International Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering - SIDISA 08, Florence, Italy, 24-27 Junho, 2008, 8 pp.

76. Dias, O., D.P. Mesquita, A.L. Amaral, E.C. Ferreira, Dilution effects on aggregates and filaments contents in automated image analysis methodologies. Proceedings CD of the International Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering - SIDISA 08, Florence, Italy, 24-27 Junho, 2008, 8 pp.

75. Paulo, A., A.M.A. Dias, M.C. Sarraguça, J.A. Lopes, M.M. Alves, E.C. Ferreira. Surveying an Activated Sludge Reactor using Online UV-Visible and NIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics Proceedings. CD of the International Symposium on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering - SIDISA 08, Florence, Italy, 24-27 Junho, 2008, 7 pp.

74. Mesquita, D.P., R.R. Ribeiro, D. Teixeira, E.C. Ferreira, M.A.Z. Coelho, SBR performance for synthetic and fishery wastewater treatment. Proceedings of the 4th IWA Specialised Conference on Sequencing Batch Reactor Conference SBR4 – Poster Presentations, 7-10 April 2008, Rome, p. 21-24.

73. Lourenço, A., Simões, A., Almeida, J.J., Rocha, M., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. An Ontology-Based Approach To Systems Biology Literature Retrieval and Processing. New Trends in Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 13th Portuguese Conference in Artificial Intelligence - EPIA 2007 (J. Neves, M.F. Santos, J.M. Machado, eds.), Dec 3-7, 2007, p. 541-552.

72. Herrera, E, Ramírez, J., Castillo, B., Ferreira, E.C. Modelo Exacto Difuso de un Proceso Fermentativo Conmutado. Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, AMCA 2007. Monterrey Nuevo León, 24 - 26 Oct 2007, 6 pp., (ISBN 978-970-32-5089-9). 
71. Costa, J.C., Alves, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Integration of morphological and physiological data through Principal Component Analysis to identify the effect of organic overloads on anaerobic granular sludge. Proceedings of the 11th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 23-27 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia, 6 pp.
70. Costa, J.C., Moita, I., Ferreira, E.C., Alves, M.M. Morphology and physiology of anaerobic granular sludge exposed to organic solvents. Proceedings of the 11th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, 23-27 September 2007, Brisbane, Australia, 6 pp.
69. Espírito Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. An Augmented Lagrangian Pattern Search Method for Optimal WWTP Designs. Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering (ICOSSSE ’07), Nov 21-23, 2007 Venice, Italy, p. 313-318. [ISBN: 978-960-6766-14-5; ISSN: 1790-5117].
68. Espírito Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Cost Minimization of a WWTP Using an Augmented Lagrangian Pattern Search Based Solver. Proceedings of the 10th IWA Specialised Conference on Design, Operation and Economics of Large Wastewater Treatment Plants, September 9-13, 2007, Vienna, Austria, p. 17-20.
67. Dias, A.M.A., Alves, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Application of computational intelligence techniques for monitoring and prediction of biological wastewater treatment systems. Proceedings on CD-ROM of the 3rd International IWA Conference on Automation in Water Quality Monitoring - AutMoNet2007, September 5-7, 2007, Gent, Belgium, 8 pp.
66. Dias, A.M.A., Moita, I., Pascôa, R., Alves, M.M., Lopes, J.A., Ferreira, E.C. Activated sludge process monitoring through in-situ NIR spectral analysis. Proceedings on CD-ROM of the 3rd International IWA Conference on Automation in Water Quality Monitoring - AutMoNet2007, September 5-7, 2007, Gent, Belgium, 8 pp.
65. Ginoris Y.P., Amaral A.L., Ferreira, E.C., Coelho M.A.Z, Nicolau A. Aplicação de técnicas de análise de imagem e de estatística multivariável no reconhecimento de protozoários e metazoários típicos de sistemas por lodos ativados. 24º Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, ABES – Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 2 a 7 de Setembro de 2007, 8 pp. (cd-rom)
64.  Herrera, E., Castillo, B., Ramírez, J., Ferreira, E.C. Exact Fuzzy Observer for a Baker’s Yeast Fed-Batch Fermentation Process. FUZZ-IEEE 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, London, UK, 23-26 July 2007, pp. 1-6, 2007 (DOI: 10.1109/FUZZY.2007.4295502).
63. Veloso, A.C.A., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Estimation of biomass concentration using interval observers in an E. coli fed-batch fermentation. Preprints – Vol 1 of the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications on Biotechnology, Cancún, México, June 4-6, 2007, 99-104, 2007.
62. Herrera, E., Castillo, B., Ramírez, J., Ferreira, E.C. Exact Fuzzy Observer for a Baker’s Yeast Fermentation Process. Preprints – Vol 1 of the 10th International IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications on Biotechnology, Cancún, México, June 4-6, 2007, 309-314, 2007.
61. Herrera, E., Castillo, B., Ramírez, J., Ferreira, E.C. Takagi-Sugeno Multiple-Model controller for a continuous baking yeast fermentation process. Proceedings of the ICINCO 2007, Fourth international conference on informatics in control, automation and robotics. Angers France, May 9-12, 2007. (ISBN 978-972-8865-82-5), pp. 436-439, 2007.
60. Rocha, M., Pinto, J.P., Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Optimization of Bacterial Strains with Variable-Sized Evolutionary Algorithms. Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, (ISBN: 1-4244-0698-6), CD-ROM, pp. 331-337, 2007.
59. Espírito-Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Contribution of a Simple Sludge Treatment in a WWTP Optimization Procedure. Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on System Science and Simulation in Engineering, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 16-18, 2006, pp. 54-59, 2006.
58. Vaz, A.I.F., Ferreira, E.C., Mota, A.M.T., Optimal trajectory approximation by cubic splines on fed-batch control problems. Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on System Science and Simulation in Engineering, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, December 16-18, 2006, pp. 130-135.
57. Amaral, A.L., Mota, M., Ferreira, E.C., Crispim, A., Image analysis methodology to study the evolution of chromium penetration in chromium tannage. Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications, Coimbra, CD-ROM, 4 pp, 2006.
56. Mesquita, D.P., Coelho, M.A.Z., Ferreira, E.C. Efeito do sal no desempenho de um reator batelada sequencial. XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Química - COBEQ2006, Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Química, CD-ROM, 7 pp., Santos, Brasil, 24-27 Setembro de 2006.
55. Espírito-Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Optimization and simulation of secondary settler models. 6th WSEAS International Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Optimization, A. Madureira (Ed.), (ISSN: 1790-5117, ISBN: 960-8457-53-X), CD-ROM, 240-245, Lisboa, Setembro de 2006.
54. Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Specific growth rate regulation in a simulated fed-batch E. coli fermentation. CONTROLO2006 – 7th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Associação Portuguesa de Controlo Automático e Instituto Superior Técnico (Proceedings in CD-ROM, ISBN 978-972-97025-2-5), Lisboa, 11-13 de Setembro, 6 pp., 2006.
53. Mendes, R., Rocha, I., E.C. Ferreira, Rocha, M.A Comparison of algorithms for the optimization of fermentation processes. 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation: Proceedings, Vancouver (ISBN: 0-7803-9487-9), IEEE Press, 7371-7378, 2006.
52. Vaz, A.I.F., Ferreira, E.C. Optimal control of fed-batch processes with particle swarm optimization. Contribuciones a la Estadística y a la Investigación Operativa (Actas del XXIX Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa), Sícilia et al. (eds.), La Laguna, Tenerife, 972-986, 2006 (em CD-ROM, ISBN 84-690-8552-X).
51. Rocha, I., Veloso, A.C.A., Ferreira, E.C. Design of estimators for specific growth rate control in a fed-batch E. coli fermentation. Proceedings 5th MATHMOD Vienna – 5th Vienna Symposium on Mathematical Modelling, Volume 2: Full Papers CD (I. Troch, F. Breitenecker, Eds.), Vienna University of Technology, Austria, February 8-10, 2006, ARGESIM - Verlag, Vienna, 1.1-1.9, 2006 (ISBN 3-901608-30-3).
50. Araya Kroff, P., Amaral, A.L., Mota, M. Ferreira, E.C., Alves, M.M. Análisis de imagen para la cuantificación de cambios morfológicos en biomasa granular, inducidos por la presencia de nitrato en reactores EGSB. XVI Congreso de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental Aidis – Chile, II Simposio Latinoamericano de Lodos y Biosólidos, Viña del Mar, 23-26 de Outubro, 6 pp., 2005.
49. Vivanco, E, Puñal, A., Pizarro, C., Ferreira, E.C., Alves M. M., Chamy, R. Effect of addition of an ammonium source in UASB and EGSB reactors when treating low concentrated wastewater: granules morphology. VIII Latin American Workshop and Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion. Montevideo, Punta del Este, Uruguay. 2 - 5 October 2005, 4 pp., 2005.
48. Carneiro, S., Veloso, A.C.A., Amaral, A.L., Rocha, I., E.C. Ferreira. Image analysis as a tool for viability and recombinant protein production assessment during E. coli fermentations. CHEMPOR 2005 - 9th International Chemical Engineering Conference – Full Papers in CD-ROM (ISBN: 972-8055-13-7), Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Coimbra, 6 pp., 2005.
47. Veloso, A.C.A., Rocha, I., E.C. Ferreira. Design of Interval Observers for an E. coli Fed-Batch Fermentation with Uncertain Inputs. CHEMPOR 2005 - 9th International Chemical Engineering Conference – Full Papers in CD-ROM (ISBN: 972-8055-13-7), Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Coimbra, 6 pp., 2005.
46. Amaral, A.L, Rocha, O., Gonçalves, C., Ferreira, A.A., E.C. Ferreira. Development of Image Analysis Methods to Evaluate Barley / Malt Grain Size. CHEMPOR 2005 - 9th International Chemical Engineering Conference – Full Papers in CD-ROM (ISBN: 972-8055-13-7), Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Coimbra, 6 pp., 2005.
45. Vidigueira, F., E.C. Ferreira. Estratégias de Minimização de Efluentes na Síntese e Integração de Processos. CHEMPOR 2005 - 9th International Chemical Engineering Conference – Full Papers in CD-ROM (ISBN: 972-8055-13-7), Departamento de Engenharia Química da Universidade de Coimbra, 6 pp., 2005.
44. Rocha, M., Rocha, I., E.C. Ferreira A New Representation in Evolutionary Algorithms for the Optimization of Bioprocesses. 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation: Proceedings (ISBN: 0-7803-9363-5), IEEE Press, 484-490, 2005.

43. Pires, O.C., Palma, C., Moita, I., Costa, J.C., M.M. Alves, E.C. Ferreira, A Fuzzy-Logic Based Expert System for Diagnosis and Control of an Integrated Wastewater Treatment. Proceedings of the 2nd Mercosur Congress on Chemical Engineering – ENPROMER and 4th Mercosur Congress on Process Systems Engineering (ISBN: 85-7650-043-4). Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 8 págs. (em CD-ROM), 2005.

42. Veloso, A.C.A., I. Rocha, E.C. Ferreira, On-Line Estimation of Biomass in an E. coli Fed-Batch Fermentation. Proceedings of the 2nd Mercosur Congress on Chemical Engineering – ENPROMER and 4th Mercosur Congress on Process Systems Engineering (ISBN: 85-7650-043-4). Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 10 págs. (em CD-ROM), 2005.

41. Amaral, A.L., Alves, M., Mota, M., Ferreira, E.C., Aplicações de Técnicas de Processamento e Análise de Imagem em Processos Biotecnológicos. Anais do XV Simpósio Nacional de Bioprocessos – SINAFERM 2005. Recife, Brasil, 2005, 7 págs. (em CD-ROM).

40. Amaral, A.L., Ricardo Pinto, Joana Carvalho, Eugénio Campos Ferreira, Miguel Gama, Determinação da Concentração de CBD-FITC Adsorvidos em Fibras por Análise de Imagem. Anais do XV Simpósio Nacional de Bioprocessos – SINAFERM 2005. Recife, Brasil, 2005, 7 págs. (em CD-ROM).

39. da Motta Sobrinho, Maurício A., Marie-Noelle Pons, Valdinete Lins da Silva, Aline Clemente de Andrade, António Luis Amaral, Eugénio C. Ferreira, Utilização do Processamento Digital de Imagens no Monitoramento de Estações de Tratamento de Efluentes. Anais do XV Simpósio Nacional de Bioprocessos – SINAFERM 2005. Recife, Brasil, 2005, 7 págs. (em CD-ROM).

38. Pacifico, D.G.P., Eugénio C. Ferreira, Beatriz Vahan Kilikian, Influência da velocidade específica de crescimento de Monascus purpureus ATCC36928 na produção de pigmentos vermelhos. Anais do XV Simpósio Nacional de Bioprocessos – SINAFERM 2005. Recife, Brasil, 2005, 7 págs. (em CD-ROM).

37. Veloso, A., Rocha, I., E. C. Ferreira, Design of on-line state estimators for a recombinant E. coli fed-batch fermentation. Preprints of the 16th IFAC World Congress (Horacek, P., Simandl, M., Zitek, P., eds.), 4-8 de Julho de 2005, Praga, República Checa, 6 págs. (em CD-ROM).

36. Espírito-Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Biological Process Optimal Design in a Wastewater Treatment Plant. 6th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Rio de Janeiro, 8 pp., 30 Maio a 3 de Junho 2005.

35. O. C. Pires, C. Palma, J. C. Costa, I. Moita, M. M. Alves, Ferreira, E.C. Knowledge-based fuzzy system for diagnosis and control of an integrated biological wastewater treatment process. Proceedings of the 2nd IWA Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation, Busan, Korea, May 29 - June 2, Vol. 1, 247-255, 2005.

34. Vaz, A.I.F., Ferreira, E.C. Air Pollution Control with Semi-Infinite Programming. Actas del Congreso XXVIII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO), Cádiz, 14 pp., 2004. (em CD-ROM, ISBN 84-609-0438-5).

33. Espírito-Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M., Ferreira, E.C. Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Processes. Actas del Congreso XXVIII Congreso Nacional de Estadística e Investigación Operativa (SEIO), Cádiz, 20 pp., 2004. (em CD-ROM, ISBN 84-609-0438-5).

32. Vaz, A.I.F., Ferreira, E.C. Optimização e Controlo da Poluição Atmosférica. 8ª Conferência Nacional de Ambiente, Lisboa, 27-29 de Outubro, 15 pp, 2004.

31. Espírito-Santo, I.A.C.P., Fernandes, E.M.G.P., Araújo, M.M., Ferreira, E.C. Optimização de um Processo Biológico de Tratamento de Águas Residuais. 8ª Conferência Nacional de Ambiente, Lisboa, 27-29 de Outubro, 11 pp, 2004.

30. M.M. Alves, M.A. Pereira, A.L. Amaral, M.-N. Pons, M. Mota, Ferreira, E.C. Image Analysis as a Tool to Predict Washout in Sludge Bed Reactors Through the Quantification of Microbial Filamentous Structures. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Montreal, vol. I, 420-425, 2004.

29. Araya-Kroff, P., Amaral, A.L., Ferreira, E.C., Silva, P., Mota, M., Alves, M.M. Monitoring granular stability in an industrial UASB reactor treating brewery wastewater. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Montreal, vol. 4, 2309-2312, 2004.

28. Araya-Kroff, P., Amaral, A.L., Mota, M.,  Ferreira, E.C., Alves, M. Image analysis to quantify morphological changes in granular sludge induced by nitrate in EGSB reactors. Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Montreal, vol. 4, 1907-1911, 2004.

27. Ferreira, E.C. Blended Learning in Bioprocess Systems Engineering Education: Issues, Methods, and Applications. ESCAPE-14: European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering. Lisboa, 16-19 Maio, 6 pp., 2004.

26. Coutinho, J.A.P., Coelho, M.A.Z., Ferreira, E.C., Belo, I. Determination and modeling of yeast viability under stress conditions. ESCAPE-14: European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering. Lisboa, 16-19 Maio, 6 pp., 2004.

25. Rocha, I., Ferreira, E.C. Yield and kinetic parameters estimation and model reduction in a recombinant E. coli fermentation. ESCAPE-14: European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering. Lisboa, 16-19 Maio, 6 pp., 2004.

24. V. Lyubenova, I. Rocha, Ferreira, E.C. Estimation of Biomass Concentration and Multiple Specific Growth Rates of Fed-Batch Fermentation of Recombinant E. coli. Proceedings of International Conference Automatics and Informatics’03, Vol 1 (Sendov, B., Boyanov, K., Sgurev, V., Eds.), 6-8 October 2003, Sofia, Bulgaria, 211-214, 2003.

23. Araya-Kroff, P., Amaral, A.L., Neves, L., Ferreira, E.C., Alves, M.M., Mota, M. Image analysis as a tool to recognize anaerobic granulation time. Proceedings of the VII Latin American Workshop and Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion (Oral Papers), IWA, Mérida, Mexico, 31-38, 2002

22. Amaral, A.L., S. Rodrigues, M. Mota, E.C. Ferreira, Morphological Characterisation of Biomass in Wastewater Treatment using Partial Least Squares. Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (J.J. Villanueva, Ed.), Málaga, Espanha, 9-12 Setembro 2002, Acta Press, Anaheim, 300-305, 2002. ISBN: 0-88986-354-3

21. Da Motta M., Amaral L.P., Neves L., Araya P., E.C. Ferreira, Alves M.M., Mota M., Roche N., Vivier H., Pons M.N. Efeito da Diluição na Caracterização da Biomassa de Sistemas de Tratamentos de Efluentes por Análise de Imagem. COBEQ 2002 - XIV Congresso Brasileiro de Engenharia Quimica, Natal (Brasil), 9 pp., 2002.

20. Rocha, I., E.C. Ferreira, Model-Based Adaptive Control of Acetate Concentration During the Production of Recombinant Proteins with E. coli. Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Volume Q: Modeling and Control of Agricultural, Biological and Chemical Systems, (E.F. Camacho, L. Basañez, J.A. de la Puente, Eds.), Barcelona, Spain, July 21-26, 2002, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 461-466, 2003.

19. I. Rocha, E.C. Ferreira, Optimisation Methods for Improving Fed-Batch Cultivation of E. coli Producing Recombinant Proteins. Proceedings of the 10th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED2002), Lisbon, Portugal, Julho 9-12, 6p. (CD-ROM), 2002.

18. Pereira, M.A., Roest, K., Stams, A.J.M., Akkermans, A.D.L., Amaral, A.L., Pons, M.-N., E.C. Ferreira, Mota, M., Alves, M.M. Image Analysis, Methanogenic Activity Measurements and Molecular Biological Techniques to Monitor Granular Sludge from an EGSB Reactor Fed With Oleic Acid. International Specialised Conference on Biofilm Monitoring, IWA., 343-346, March 17-20 2002, Porto, Portugal.

17. Amaral, A.L., M. da Motta, M.N. Pons, H. Vivier, M. Mota, E.C. Ferreira. Survey of a Wastewater Treatment Plant Microfauna by Image Analysis. 8th International Chemical Engineering – CHEMPOR’2001, F. Ramôa Ribeiro, J.J.C. Cruz Pinto (Eds.), Universidade de Aveiro, Vol. 2, 1137-1144, Aveiro, Portugal 2001 (ISBN: 972-789-041-5).

16. Amaral, A.L., Pereira, M.A., Neves, L., da Motta, M., Pons M.-N., Vivier, H., Mota, M., E.C. Ferreira, Alves, M.M. Characterisation by image analysis of anaerobic sludge from two EGSB reactors treating oleic acid: automatic detection of granules disintegration. 9th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Proceedings Part 1, Technological Instituut, Antwerpen, Belgium, September 2-5, 89-94, 2001.

15. da Motta, M., Pons, M.N., Vivier, H., Amaral, A.L., E.C. Ferreira, Mota, M. Study of Protozoa Population in Wastewater Treatment Plants by Image Analysis. CD-ROM do XIX Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering/XIV Brazilian Congress of Chemical Engineering, Águas de São Pedro, Brazil, 24-27 de Setembro, 2000.

14. Lubenova, V., Ferreira, E.C. Adaptive Algorithms for Estimation of Multiple Biomass Growth Rates and Biomass Concentration in a Class of Bioprocesses. Proceedings of CONTROLO'2000: 4th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, 289-294, 2000.

13. da Motta, M., Pons, M.N., Roche, N., Amaral, A.L., Ferreira, E.C., Alves, M., Mota, M. Automated Monitoring of Activated Sludge Using Image Analysis. Texts of Posters of the 1st World Congress of the International Water Association, 3-7 July 2000, Paris, France (edição em CD-ROM).

12. Alves, MM, Cavaleiro, A.J., E.C. Ferreira, Amaral, A.L., Mota, M., da Motta, M., Vivier, H., Pons, M.-N. Characterization by Image Analysis of Anaerobic Microbial Aggregates under Shock Conditions. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnology (10-12 April 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands). S. Hartmans, P. Lens, Eds., 127-130, 2000.

11. Baeza, J., Ferreira, E.C., J. Lafuente, Knowledge-based supervision and control of WWTP: A real-time implementation. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Biotechnology (10-12 April 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands). S. Hartmans, P. Lens, Eds., 79-82, 2000.

10. da Motta, M., Pons, M.-N., Roche, N., Amaral, A.L., E.C. Ferreira, Mota, M. Analyse des Flocs Bactériens et de la Microfaune des Boues Activées para Analyse d'Image. GRUTTEE - 3e Congrès Internatonal L'Eau et sa Réutilisation, 3rd International Research Conference Water Reuse - Water Treatment Plants Operation, Toulouse, 321-326, 1999.

9. Amaral, A.L., Mota, M., E.C. Ferreira, Aplicações de Técnicas de Análise de Imagem em Microbiologia Ambiental. Actas da 6º Conferência Nacional sobre a Qualidade do Ambiente, 2º Volume, Lisboa, 29-38, 1999.

8. Baeza, J., Ferreira, E.C., Lafuente, J. A Knowledge-Based Distributed System for Supervision and Control of Wastewater Treatment Processes. Water Quality International '98 (Preprints from the 19th Biennial Conference of the International Association on Water Quality), Vancouver, Canada, 21-26 June 1998.

7. Amaral, A.L., Alves, M.M., Mota, M., Ferreira, E.C. Morphological Characterization of Microbial Aggregates by Image Analysis. RECPAD'97 - 9th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, (APRP, Eds.), 95-100, Coimbra, 1997.

6. Rocha, C., Ferreira, E.C. Identification of yield coefficients in a baker’s yeast model - An optimal design experimental approach. Comunicaciones del III Congresso Ibérico de Biotecnologia - BIOTEC’96, (Fernández-Polanco, F., Benito, G.G., Encina, P.A.G., Miranda, M.M.P., Eds.), Universidad de Valladolid, 93-96, 1996.

5. Ferreira, E.C., Feyo de Azevedo, S. A New Adaptive Scheme for the Adaptive Linearizing Control of Bioprocesses. Proceedings of the 2nd Portuguese Control Conference on Automatic Control - CONTROLO 96, Porto, Vol. I, 153-157, 1996.

4. Ferreira, E.C., Feyo de Azevedo, S. Adaptive Linearizing Control of Bioreactors. UKACC International Conference on CONTROL'96, Exeter, IEE Conference Conference Publication No. 427, Vol. II, 1184-1189, 1996.

3. R. Oliveira, Ferreira, E.C., F. Oliveira, Feyo de Azevedo, S. A Study on the Convergence of Observer-Based Kinetics Estimators in Stirred Tank Bioreactors. Proc. 5th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, Kyongju, Korea, 1994, (E.S. Yoon, ed. Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers), vol. I, pp. 683-687.

2. Oliveira, F., Ferreira, E.C., Feyo de Azevedo, S. Requisitos e realização de uma instalação experimental para estudos de modelação e controlo em processos de fermentação. 1º Encontro Português de Controlo Automático - CONTROLO 94, vol. II, pp. 71-76, Lisboa, 1994.

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