Short-term electricity prices forecasting in a competetive market by a hybrid Pso-Anfis approach

In this paper, a novel hybrid approach is proposed for electricity prices forecasting in a competitive market, considering a time horizon of 1 week. The proposed approach is based on the combination of particle swarm optimization and adaptive-network based fuzzy inference system. Results from a case study based on the electricity market of mainland Spain are presented. A thorough comparison is carried out, taking into account the results of previous publications, to demonstrate its effectiveness regarding forecasting accuracy and computation time. Finally, conclusions are duly drawn.

Influence of constraining and confinement in the molecular mobility of low molecular weight materials

Dissertation presented to obtain a Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Physics

Estratégias de aprendizagem ao longo da vida na União Europeia: análise crítica e comparativa das estratégias de aprendizagem ao longo da vida de cinco estados-membros

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Ciências da Educação/Educação e Desenvolvimento pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Factorization by invariant embedding of elliptic problems: circular and star-shaped domains

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Doutor em Matemática na especialidade de Equações Diferenciais, pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

High-performance flexible hybrid field-effect transistors based on cellulose fiber paper

IEEE Electron Device Letters, VOL. 29, NO. 9,

Protein folding, metal ions and conformational states: the case of a di-cluster ferredoxin

Dissertation presented to obtain the PhD degree in Biochemistry at the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Integrated ecological-economic modelling and assessment aproach for coastal ecosystem management

Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Sciences

Two distinct arabinofuranosidases contribute to arabino-oligosaccharide degradation in Bacillus subtilis.

Microbiology 154 (2008) 2719-2729

Characterization of the abn2(yxiA) encoding a Bacillus subtilis GH43 arabinanase, Abn2, and its role in arabino-polysaccharides degradation.

Journal of Bacteriology (Junho 2008) 4272-4280

Overproduction, crystallization and preliminary X-ray characterization of Abn2, an endo-1,5-alpha-arabinanase from Bacillus subtilis.

Acta Crystallographica F64 (2008) 636-638

trans-Acting factors and cis elements involved in glucose repression of arabinan degradation in Bacillus subtilis.

Journal of Bacteriology (Nov 2007) 8371-8376

Probing key DNA contacts in AraR-mediated transcriptional repression of the Bacillus subtilis arabinose regulon.

Nucleic Acid Research (2007) Vol.37 N. 14 4755-4766

Functional domains of Bacillus subtilis transcription factor AraR and identification of aminoacids important for nucleoprotein complex assembly and effector-binding.

Journal of Bacteriology (Apr 2006) 3024-3036

Developing Libraries Using Software Transactional Memory

Software transactional memory is a promising programming model that adapts many concepts borrowed from the databases world to control concurrent accesses to main memory (RAM) locations. This paper discusses how to support apparently irreversible operations, such as memory allocation and deallocation, within software libraries that will be used in (software memory) transactional contexts, and propose a generic and elegant approach based on a handler system, which provide the means to create and execute compensation actions at key moments during the life-time of a transaction.

Ecologia da alga agarófita Gelidium sesquipedale. Modelação matemática da produtividade e dinâmica populacional

Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do Grau de Doutor em Ciências do Ambiente pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia