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... Vasco Nuno da Gama de Jesus Soares

Researcher

Vasco Soares

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Networks and Services
Group: Network Architectures and Protocols – Cv

Email: Send Email
Address: IT Branch – Covilhã
Faculdade de Engenharia
Covilhã
6201-001
Tel: 275329953
Fax: 275329972

Alternative Personal Web Page


Bio

Vasco N. G. J. Soares is a Professor and Cisco Instructor at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal. He is a Co-founder of the startup InspiringSci, Lda.
He received a five-year B.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal.
He has authored or co-authored over 90 papers in refereed journals, book chapters, and conferences, and 2 patents.
He is an editorial board member and reviewer for various international journals and guest editor of special issues. He regularly serves as an organizer, technical program committee member and reviewer for international conferences and workshops.
He has participated in national and European research projects related to vehicular networks and Internet of things.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
His research interests include vehicular networks, delay/disruption tolerant networks, Internet of things, smart cities, and smart farming.


Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Universidade da Beira Interior, 29-02-2012
  • Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 10-10-2002
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2008, Senior Member
  • Superior School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 01-01-2003,
  • Delay Tolerant Networks
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Internet of Things
  • Smart Cities
  • Smart Farming
As Supervisor
  • P. M. F. D. O. G. Gaspar, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, JMLPC Caldeira, ICT-Enabled Agri-Food Systems, Chapter in, Environment and Climate-smart Food Production, Charis M. Galanakis, Springer, Cham, -, 2022 | Full text (PDF 739 KBs)
  • Y. Azzoug, A. Boukra, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, Hybrid Swarm-Based Geographic VDTN Routing, Chapter in, Intelligent Technologies for Internet of Vehicles. Internet of Things (Technology, Communications and Computing), N. Magaia, G. Mastorakis, C. Mavromoustakis, E. Pallis, and E. K. Markakis, Springer, Cham, -, 2021
  • V. N. G. J. S. Soares, J. R. Rodrigues, Vehicular delay-tolerant networks (VDTNs), Chapter in, Advances in Delay-tolerant Networks (DTNs): Architecture and Enhanced Performance, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, Woodhead Publishing, 2014
  • J. R. Rodrigues, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, An Introduction to Delay and Disruption-Tolerant
Networks (DTNs), Chapter in, Advances in Delay-tolerant Networks (DTNs): Architecture and Enhanced Performance, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Woodhead Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2014
  • V. N. G. J. S. Soares, J. R. Rodrigues, Cooperation in DTN-Based Network Architectures, Chapter in, Cooperative Networking, M. S. Obaidat and S. Misra, John Wiley & Sons, 2011
  • J. R. Rodrigues, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, F. F. Farahmand, Stationary Relay Nodes Deployment on Vehicular Opportunistic Networks, Chapter in, Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, Mieso K. Denko, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2011

Closed Projects2

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
VDTN Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks EU/FP7 01-03-2010 01-02-2011
VDTN@Lab Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks IT/LA 01-01-2009 01-12-2010
  • P. D. G. Gaspar, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, JMLPC Caldeira, L. P. A. Andrade, C. D. Domingues, Excellent Paper Award, 2015 International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering (ICFAE 2015), Warsaw, Poland, May 12-13, 2015., 01-05-2015
  • V. N. G. J. S. Soares, Instructor Excellence Award, Cisco Networking Academy, 01-12-2013
  • V. N. G. J. S. Soares, Web Chair – Outstanding Service Award, 15th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2013), Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-12, 2013, 01-10-2013
  • V. N. G. J. S. Soares, M. P. Proença, J. R. Rodrigues, Best Student Paper Award - SoftCOM 2010, Paper “Impact of Content Storage and Retrieval Mechanisms on the Performance of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks”, presented at the 18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2010), Split – Adriatic Islands, Croatia, September 23-25, 2010., 01-09-2010
  • J. R. Rodrigues, V. N. G. J. S. Soares, F. F. Farahmand, Conference Best Paper Award - CTRQ 2009, Paper “Evaluating the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks”, presented at The Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), Colmar, France, July 20 - 25, 2009, IEEE Computer Society, 01-06-2009
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • International Conference on Science in Information Technology ICSITech, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • AISTI - Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies - CISTI, Sessions Chairman, 2018
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • International Conference on Computer Intelligent Systems & Networking ICCISN, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
  • International Conference on Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering ICTEC, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications - VEHICULAR, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Systems and Networks Communications - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • World Symposium on Computer Applications & Research WSCAR, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
  • ICATSE International Conference on INformation Science and Security ICISS, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - Nets4Cars-Fall, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology GSCIT, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts), Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IEEE Communications Society IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Technology - ICMWT, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Conference on Food and Agricultural Engineering ICFAE, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
  • International Conference on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation INTGAST, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • ICATSE International Conference on INformation Science and Security ICISS, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Conference on Telecommunication, Electronic and Computer Engineering ICTEC, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - Nets4Cars-Fall, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Conf. on IT Convergence and Security - ICITCS, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Technology - ICMWT, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • Global Summit on Computer & Information Technology GSCIT, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts), Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • International Conference on Information Science and Applications ICISA, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
  • ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • International Conf. on IT Convergence and Security - ICITCS, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • International Conf. on Mobile and Wireless Technology - ICMWT, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - (Nets4Cars / Nets4Trains / Nets4Aircrafts), Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles - Nets4Cars-Fall, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • Springer International Conf. on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless - ADHOC-NOW, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
  • ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • Escola Regional de Informática da Região Norte - ERIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Future Internet - AFIN, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing - SEMAPRO, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services - MOPAS, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • International Conf. on Emerging Research Areas - AICERA, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
  • ACM and IEEE International Conf. on Connected Vehicles & Expo - ICCVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IARIA International Conf. on Models and Ontology-based Design of Protocols, Architectures and Services - MOPAS, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IARIA International Conf. on Networking and Services - ICNS, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IEEE International Conf. on ITS Telecommunications - ITST, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IEEE International Symp. on Communications Software for Intelligent Transport Systems - CSITS, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2011
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2010
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2010
  • IARIA International Conf. on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications - ADAPTIVE, Technical Programme Committee, 2009
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2009
  • IARIA International Conf. on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service - CTRQ, Technical Programme Committee, 2008
  • Editorial Board, Telkomnika (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control), 01-09-2020 - 30-11-2025
  • Editorial Board, Information (Switzerland), 01-12-2018 - 31-12-2025
  • Member, Editorial Board, Intrnl. Journal on Advances in Internet Technology - IARIA, 01-01-2012 - today
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems - IARIA, 01-01-2012 - today
  • Sensors
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • Computer Networks
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • International Journal of Communication Systems
    2014, 2 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems - IARIA
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • Academia Journal of Educational Research
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • Vehicular Communications
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Trans. on Emerging Topics in Computing
    2014, 1 review(s);