Benedita Malheiro

Prof. Benedita Malheiro

Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Academic Career Length

32Years (1995-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2019 in Ocean Engineering
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Manuel F. SilvaManuel F. Silva
Manuel F. Silva
AFAnna Friebe
Anna Friebe
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro
PGPedro Guedes
Pedro Guedes
PFPaulo Ferreira
Paulo Ferreira
MWMatias Waller
Matias Waller

1 December 2021 in Information Fusion
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BVBruno Veloso
Bruno Veloso
JGJoão Gama
João Gama
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro
JVJoão Vinagre
João Vinagre

16 July 2019 in IEEE Transactions on Education
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ADAbel Duarte
Abel Duarte
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro
EAElisabet Arno
Elisabet Arno
IPIgnasi Perat
Ignasi Perat
Manuel F. SilvaManuel F. Silva
Manuel F. Silva
PFPaulo Ferreira
Paulo Ferreira
Contribution: An analysis of the extent to which sustainability is present in the syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and student final reports of the three Iberian European project semester (EPS) providers, over a five-year period. Background: EPS is a one-semester capstone project framework that adopts project-based learning and multicultural, multidisciplinary teamwork. Educating engineers for sustainable development requires fostering critical and ethical thinking and a desire for equity, solidarity and preservation of natural resources, and cultural and genetic diversity. Existing engineering capstone design programs emphasize solving real world problems, hands-on training, and soft skills, but few focus on sustainability aspects of engineering design. The three Iberian EPS providers adopt project-based learning and teamwork methodologies, promoting the development of transversal skills and addressing sustainability in a multicultural and multidisciplinary background. Intended Outcomes: To show that the three Iberian EPS providers follow these recommendations and contribute to raising students' awareness of sustainable development. Application Design: The proposed sustainability learning assessment method collects evidence from syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and final reports to extract faculty and student perspectives. The sustainability-related terms collected were processed into word cloud format, allowing a simple and intuitive interpretation of students' understanding of sustainability, and in co-occurrence network format, to understand if sustainability has a pervasive or confined presence within the reports. Findings: Iberian EPS faculty and students are aware of the social, economic, and environmental impact of their projects, in terms of quality of life, social responsibility, the use of resources, and environmentally friendly technology.

7 October 2018
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BVBruno Miguel Veloso
Bruno Miguel Veloso
João GamaJoão Gama
João Gama
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro

13 July 2020 in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
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FLFátima Leal
Fátima Leal
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro
BVBruno Miguel Veloso
Bruno Miguel Veloso
JBJuan Carlos Burguillo
Juan Carlos Burguillo
Online tourism crowdsourcing platforms, such as AirBnB, Expedia or TripAdvisor, rely on the continuous data sharing by tourists and businesses to provide free or paid value-added services. When adequately processed, these data streams can be used to explain and support businesses in the early identification of trends as well as prospective tourists in obtaining tailored recommendations, increasing the confidence in the platform and empowering further end-users. However, existing platforms still do not embrace the desired accountability, responsibility and transparency (ART) design principles, underlying to the concept of sustainable tourism. The objective of this work is to study this problem, identify the most promising techniques which follow these principles and design a novel ART-compliant processing pipeline. To this end, this work surveys: (i) real-time data stream mining techniques for recommendation and trend identification; (ii) trust and reputation (T&R) modelling of data contributors; (iii) chained-based storage of trust models as smart contracts for traceability and authenticity; and (iv) trust- and reputation-based explanations for a transparent and satisfying user experience. The proposed pipeline redesign has implications both to digital and to sustainable tourism since it advances the current processing of tourism crowdsourcing platforms and impacts on the three pillars of sustainable tourism.

1 March 2019 in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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BVBruno Miguel Veloso
Bruno Miguel Veloso
FLFatima Leal
Fatima Leal
Benedita MalheiroBenedita Malheiro
Benedita Malheiro
JBJuan Carlos Burguillo
Juan Carlos Burguillo