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  • Name: Sara Guilherme Oliveira da Silva
  • Date of birth: 28th of July 1972
  • Place of birth: Lisbon, Portugal
  • Nationality: Portuguese
            Curriculum Vitae:
(last updated: Jun/2006)
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formal studies
professional experience
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e-mail: sara@dei.uc.pt
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formal studies                            
final work on satellite imagery classification using ART neural networks, under the supervision of Mario Caetano and J.Félix Costa
dissertation on protein secondary structure prediction using neural networks, under the supervision of J.Félix Costa and Pedro J.N. Silva


professional experience           
development of methodologies based on neural networks for classification of satellite imagery of urban areas; projects "Análise da evolução do tecido urbano do aglomerado de Lisboa" (RS/12/031/MF/SW) and "AMECIS - Abordagens Multiestratégicas para Classificação de Imagens de Satélite" (JNICT/DGOT 28/94)
development of methodologies based on neural networks and genetic algorithms for production of fire risk and fuel model maps; projects STORMS - Silvicultural Techniques Offering Risk Minimising Strategies and MODERIS "Cartografia de Risco de Ignição de Fogos Florestais - O Factor Humano nos Índices Globais de Risco" (PEAM/FF/475/95)
development of methodologies based on rules, neural networks and decision trees for burnt area mapping from satellite imagery; project "Desenvolvimento e Teste de uma Metodologia para Cartografia Global de Áreas Ardidas, usando Imagens do Satélite ERS ATSR-2" (PRAXIS/C/CTE/11090/1998)
development of a web-based infrastructure (database and query system), and biologically inspired data analysis tools, for storage, retrieval and analysis of biomedical data; projects EURIS - European Resistance Intervention Study and SAPIENS "Dynamic invariance in biological systems"


research interests                      
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Genetic Programming
  • Artificial Life
  • Real World Applications

publications                                 
  • Fayolle P-A, Silva S, Latinier G, Saffrey D, Rosenberger C, Toinard C (2006): Shape Modeling With Genetic Programming. In Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC), 235-241. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Fayolle P-A, Vincent J, Pauron G, Rosenberger C, Toinard C (2005): Evolutionary Computation Approaches for Shape Modelling and Fitting. In Bento C, Cardoso A, Dias G (eds), Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA-2005), 144-155. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Costa E (2005): Comparing Tree Depth Limits and Resource-Limited GP. In Corne D et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2005), 920-927. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Costa E (2005): Resource-Limited Genetic Programming: The Dynamic Approach. In Beyer H-G et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), 1673-1680. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Tseng Y-T (2005): Classification of Seafloor Habitats using Genetic Programming. In Rothlauf F (ed), Late Breaking Papers at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005). [Abstract and PDF]
  • Tseng Y-T, Gavrilov AN, Duncan AJ, Harwerth M, Silva S (2005): Implementation of genetic programming toward the improvement of acoustic classification performance for different seafloor habitats. In Proceedings of IEEE Oceans'05 Europe, 634-639. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Silva PJN, Costa E (2005): Resource-Limited Genetic Programming: Replacing Tree Depth Limits. In Ribeiro B et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA-2005), 243-246. [Abstract and PDF]
  • Silva S (2005): Predicting Protein Secondary Structure Using Artificial Neural Networks. Technical Report 05/01, ISSN 0874-338X, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). [Abstract and PDF]
  • Silva S, Costa E (2004): Dynamic Limits for Bloat Control - Variations on Size and Depth. In Deb K et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), 666-677. [Abstract and PDF]
  • Silva S, Almeida J (2003): GPLAB - A Genetic Programming Toolbox for MATLAB. In Gregersen L (ed), Proceedings of the Nordic MATLAB Conference (NMC-2003), 273-278. [Abstract and PDF]
  • Silva S, Almeida J (2003): Dynamic Maximum Tree Depth - A Simple Technique for Avoiding Bloat in Tree-Based GP. In Cantú-Paz E et al. (eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003), 1776-1787. [Abstract and PDF]
    Nomination for Best at GECCO Prize
  • Silva S, Gouveia-Oliveira R, Maretzek A, Carrico J, Gudnason T, Kristinsson KG, Ekdahl K, Brito-Avo A, Tomasz A, Sanches IS, de Lencastre H, Almeida J (2003). EURISWEB - Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in Day Care Centers. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 3:9. [Abstract] [HTML] [PDF]
  • Vasconcelos MJP, Silva S, Tomé M, Alvim M, Pereira JMC (2001). Spatial prediction of fire ignition probabilities: Comparing logistic regression and neural networks. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 67(1): 73-82. [Abstract]
    ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Systems (2nd place) by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Pereira JMC, Silva JMN, Silva S, Sá A (2000). Burnt area mapping from ERS2-ATSR data. In Grégoire J-M (ed), The SMOKO experiment: development and test of a multi-systems approach to burnt area mapping from optical, thermal and microwave satellite data, 37-42, Joint Research Centre.
  • Silva S (1999). Previsão da Estrutura Secundária de Proteínas Utilizando Redes Neuronais. Laboratório de Modelos e Arquitecturas Computacionais, DI/FCUL, Lisbon. [PDF (in portuguese)]
  • Vasconcelos MJP, Uva-Paúl JC, Silva S, Pereira JMC, Caetano M, Catry FX,  Oliveira T (1998). Regional Fuel Mapping Using a Knowledge Based System Approach. In Viegas DX (ed), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Forest Fire Research - 14th Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 2111-2123. [Abstract]
  • Silva S (1996). Arquitecturas de Ressonância Aplicadas na Classificação de Imagens de Satélite. Centro de Ciências da Complexidade, DI/FCUL, Lisbon.
  • Silva S, Caetano M (1996). Using artificial recurrent neural nets to identify spectral and spatial patterns for satellite imagery classification of urban areas. In Kanellopoulos I, Wilkinson GG, Roli F, Austin J (eds), Neurocomputation in Remote Sensing Data Analysis, 151-159, Springer-Verlag. [Abstract]
  • Silva S, Caetano M (1996). AccurMap: A Program for Accuracy Assessment of Land Cover Maps. CNIG, Lisbon.

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