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Researcher

Sancho Oliveira

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 21-01-2011
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Networks and Services
Group: Information Technology - Lx

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Address: IT Branch – ISCTE-IUL
Av.ª das Forças Armadas
Lisboa
1649-026
Tel: +351 210 464 023
Fax: +351 217964710

ORCID iD
https://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-1391-3194

SCHOLAR

Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, 01-01-2008
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
2Lecture courses
  • Programação Concorrente e Distribuída, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia Informática
  • Programação Orientada para Objectos, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lic. Engenharia Informática
19Supervision of MSc theses
As Supervisor
As Co-supervisor
1Books Chapters
  • T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, M. F. Figueiró, V.C. Costa, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Overcoming Limited Onboard Sensing in Swarm Robotics through Local Communication, Chapter in, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XX, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2015
13Papers in Journals
  • A. Aslam, O. Postolache, S. Oliveira, J. M. Dias Pereira, Securing IoT Sensors Using Sharding-Based Blockchain Network Technology Integration: A Systematic Review, Sensors, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 807 - 807, January, 2025,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • E. Cruz, S. Oliveira, A. Correia, Robotics Applications in the Hospital Domain: A Literature Review, Applied System Innovation, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 125 - 125, December, 2024 | BibTex
  • R. Ramos, S. Oliveira, S. Vieira, A. Christensen, Evolving flocking in embodied agents based on local and global application of Reynolds’ rules, PLoS ONE, Vol. 14, No. 10, pp. e0224376 - e0224376, October, 2019 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, An approach to evolve and exploit repertoires of general robot behaviours, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 265 - 283, December, 2018 | BibTex
  • C. R. Paio, F. Osório, S. Oliveira, G. M. V. Valenti, N. Guimarães, Architecture In-Play, future challenges, nexus network journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 9 - 23, January, 2018 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Repertoire-Based Control for Robots With Complex Locomotor Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 314 - 328, June, 2017 | BibTex
  • F. Silva, M. Duarte, L. C. Correia, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, OPEN ISSUES IN EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS, Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 205 - 236, June, 2016 | Full text (PDF 687 KBs) | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, V.C. Costa, J. Gomes, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Collective Behaviors for a Real Swarm of Aquatic Surface Robots, PLoS ONE, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. e0151834 - e0151834, March, 2016 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Hybrid Robotic Controllers for Complex Tasks, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 464 - 484, June, 2015 | Full text (PDF 738 KBs) | BibTex
  • A.B. Barroso, B.I.E. Ermolaev, M.G. Greco, S. Oliveira, S.I.T. Troyan, Electroweak 2 ---> 2 Amplitudes for Electron Positron Annihilation at Tev Energies, Physical Review D, Vol. 69, No. 3, pp. 034012 - 034025, February, 2004 | BibTex
  • S. Oliveira, R. S. Santos, Bounds on the mass of the b′ quark, reexamined, Physical Review D, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 093012 - 093018, November, 2003 | BibTex
  • B.I.E. Ermolaev, S. Oliveira, S.I.T. Troyan, Production of electroweak bosons in e+ e- annihilation at high-energies., Physical Review D, Vol. 66, No. 11, pp. 114018 - 114031, December, 2002 | BibTex
  • S. Oliveira, LB L. Brücher, R. S. Santos, A.B. Barroso, Electroweak corrections to the top quark decay, Physical Review D, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 017301 - 017304, May, 2001 | BibTex
29Papers in Conferences
  • M. Duarte, J. Gomes, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, EvoRBC: Evolutionary Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Arbitrary Locomotion Complexity, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf. - GECCO, Denver, United States, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2016 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, J. Gomes, V.C. Costa, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, VL Lobo, MM Marques, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Application of Swarm Robotic Systems to Marine Environmental Monitoring, IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 | Full text (PDF 548 KBs) | BibTex
  • V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, T. R. Rodrigues, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Design and Development of an Inexpensive Aquatic Swarm Robotics System, IEEE MTS Oceans Conf., Shanghai, China, Vol. 2016, pp. 1 - 8, April, 2016 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, J. Gomes, V.C. Costa, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hybrid Control for a Real Swarm Robotic System in an Intruder Detection Task, European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoStar, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 213 - 230, March, 2016 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • S. Romano, LMMN Nunes, A. Christensen, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, Genome Variations, Iberian Robotics Conference - ROBOT, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 417, pp. 309 - 319, November, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • F. J. Velez, A.K.N Nadziejko, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, T. R. Rodrigues, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, F. Silva, J. Gomes, Short Paper: Wireless Sensor and Networking Technologies for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. - VTC-Fall, Boston, MA, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • F. J. Velez, A.K.N Nadziejko, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, T. R. Rodrigues, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, F. Silva, J. Gomes, Experimental Characterization of WSNs Applied to Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 206 KBs) | BibTex
  • T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms: Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication, International Conf. on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART, lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 111 - 118, January, 2015 | BibTex
  • A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, O. Postolache, J. Oliveira, S. Sargento, P. Santana, LMMN Nunes, F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, V.C. Costa, M. Duarte, J. Gomes, T. R. Rodrigues, F. Silva, Design of Communication and Control for Swarms of Aquatic Surface Drones, INSTICC International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 548 - 555, January, 2015 | BibTex
  • T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms: Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication, INSTICC International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 111 - 118, January, 2015 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, F. Silva, T. R. Rodrigues, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, JBotEvolver: A Versatile Simulation Platform for Evolutionary Robotics, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 247 KBs) | BibTex
  • F. Silva, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, L. C. Correia, A. Christensen, The Case for Engineering the Evolution of Robot Controllers, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. n/a, pp. n/a - n/a, July, 2014 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Evolution of Hierarchical Controllers for Multirobot Systems, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 637 KBs) | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hybrid Control for Large Swarms of Aquatic Drones, International Conf. on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems - ALIFE, New York, United States, Vol. 14, pp. 1 - 8, July, 2014,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
  • T. R. Rodrigues, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, What you choose to see is what you get: an experiment with learnt sensory modulation in a robotic foraging task, European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation EvoStar, Granada, Spain, Vol. 1, pp. 789 - 801, May, 2014 | BibTex
  • J. P. R. Alves, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, NXTTour: an open source robotic system operated over the internet, Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication - OSDOC, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 18 - 23, July, 2013 | BibTex
  • B Costa, S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, Profiling Web Users Preferences with Text Mining Plan2See – dynamic formulation of conceptual groups, CISTI - Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias da Informação, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 73 - 76, June, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • C. Duque, M. Duarte, M. Ribeiro, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, N.S. Souto, Real Time Control of a Mobile Robot Using Electrooculography, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 137 - 140, May, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • P. S. Szczawinski, M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Toward Evolved Vision-based Control for a Quadrocopter, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, May, 2013,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors, International Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Odense, Denmark, Vol. 7426, pp. 249 - 258, August, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers, International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems - ERLARS, Montpellier, France, Vol. 1, pp. 49 - 56, August, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Hierarchical evolution of robotic controllers for complex tasks, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics ICDL EpiRob, San Diego, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, July, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers, International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems - ERLARS, Montpellier, France, Vol. 1, pp. 19 - 25, June, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Automatic Synthesis of Controllers for Real Robots Based on Preprogrammed Behaviors, International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour SAB, Odense, Denmark, Vol. 1, pp. 249 - 258, June, 2012 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies, Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 153 - 167, October, 2011 | BibTex
  • M. Duarte, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Towards Articial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies, Portuguese Conf. on Artificial Intelligence - EPIA, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol., pp. 153 - 167, September, 2011 | BibTex
  • S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, A. Christensen, An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots, European Conf. on Artificial Life - ECAL, Paris, France, Vol. 1, pp. 605 - 612, August, 2011 | BibTex
  • S. Oliveira, LMMN Nunes, Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning: Learning Sub-goals and State-Abstraction, Conf. Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação - CISTI, Chaves, Portugal, Vol. II, pp. 245 - 248, June, 2011,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Conillon: A Lightweight Distributed Computing Platform for Desktop Grids, Iberian Conf. on Information Systems and Technologies - CISTI, Chaves, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, June, 2011 | BibTex

Currently running projects1

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
ManagiDiTH : Master of Managing Digital Transformation in the Health Sector EU/DIGITAL 01-01-2023 31-12-2026

Closed Projects2

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
CORATAM Control of Aquatic Drones for Maritime Tasks FCT 01-04-2014 01-07-2015
SAAS Remote Piloted Semi-Autonomous Aerial Surveillance System Using Terrestrial Wireless Networks IT/LA 01-03-2012 01-04-2014
2Awards
  • A. Christensen, M. Duarte, V.C. Costa, T. R. Rodrigues, J. Gomes, F. Silva, S. Oliveira, AAAI Best Robot Video Award, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrkszUnms8, 01-02-2016
  • M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, A. Christensen, Paper of Excellence Award, For the paper "Hierarchical evolution of robotic controllers for complex tasks" at the IEEE ICDL EpiRob Conference, 01-08-2012
2Miscellaneous
  • F. J. Velez, S. Oliveira, S. Sargento, Seminar on Swarms of Aquatic Drones, Seminars, held on 4th July 2016 in Covilhã, Portugal (12 attendees), 01-07-2016 | Link
  • F. J. Velez, P. Sebastião, S. Sargento, A. Christensen, S. Oliveira, Workshop on Communications in Swarms of Aquatic Drones, Seminars, held on 21st July 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal (45 attendees), 01-07-2016 | Link
1Conference Committees
  • ISCTE-IUL ARCHITECTURE INPLAY: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHANGEABLE ARCHITECTURES InPlay, Conference co-chair, 2017
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