1/31/2017 - 2/26/2017
Habilitation Exams: Manuel Filipe Vieira Torres dos Santos (DSI)
18th and 19th January
2017, Largo do Paço, Braga
Manuel Filipe
Vieira Torres dos Santos, professor at the Department of Information Systems (DSI)
of the EEUM and a member of the ALGORITMI Research Centre of the EEUM, obtained
in January the academic degree of habilitation, approved by unanimity of the
jury members.
The habilitation
exams took place over two days, beginning with the presentation of the
candidate’s curriculum to the jury members – Ernesto Jorge Fernandes Costa
(University of Coimbra), António Maria Palma dos Reis (University of Lisbon),
Mário Jorge Costa Gaspar da Silva (University of Lisbon), José Júlio Alves
Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), João Álvaro Brandão Soares de Carvalho
(University of Minho), Ricardo Jorge Silvério Magalhães Machado (University of Minho),
Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez (University of Salamanca, Spain) – followed by an
analysis and discussion of a report that addresses the goals, learning results,
learning outcomes, programme, content and teaching methods related to the curricular
unit in Knowledge Based Systems within the scope of the Information Systems educational
offer at the University of Minho.
On the second part of the exam, Manuel Filipe Vieira Torres dos Santos presented the seminar entitled “Application of
Semiautomatic Knowledge Acquisition Techniques Based on Automatic Learning”.
The habilitation
degree is granted to professors to whom a high merit professional curriculum
demonstrating relevant research activity, advanced training or supervision is
recognised, along with the authorship of high quality scientific papers after
obtaining a doctoral degree.