School of Technology and Management - Polytechnic Institute of Bragança
O Departamento de Informática e Comunicações integra 39 docentes, desenvolvendo atividades de ensino, de investigação e desenvolvimento e de prestação de serviços nas áreas científicas de: Ciências da Computação; Engenharia de Computadores; Sistemas de Informação.
Currently, the IC is coordinated by Tiago Miguel Ferreira Guimaraes Pedrosa [riftman@ipb.pt].
Isabel Lopes, Graduated in Management Informatics, received MSc Degree in Management and a PhD in Information Systems and Technologies (2012). She is currently a Professor of the Department of Computers and Communications at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) - Portugal. She teaches several courses in the area of Informatics. She published more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and proceedings, and has several communications at international scientific conferences. She serves as a member of Program Board and Organizing Committees for some Scientific Committees of International Conferences and has collaborated as a reviewer with several journals.
Her current research Interests is in Tourism Reserarch; Smart Tourism; Smart Cities; Information Security; Information Systems Security in Public Administration; Information Systems Security Policies; Higher Education; Virtual Social Networks; Portuguese Smart Cities Network; Dimensions of a Smart City; Internet of Things, Digital Transition, Digital Marketing and Social Networks.
She is a researcher: UNIAG (Applied Management Research Unit, since 2013) and researcher of ALGORITMI (ISTTOS - UM, since 2013).
PhD in Engineering and Management
José Eduardo Moreira Fernandes received his Ph.D. in Technology and Information Systems from the University of Minho, Portugal, in 2010 and his Master's degree in Information Systems from the University of Minho, Portugal, in 2003. He obtained his Licenciado degree in Informatics and Systems Engineering from the University of Minho in 1996.
Since 1999 that he is a Professor of the Communication and Informatics Department at the Technology and Management School (ESTiG) of Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB). Actually, he is the Course Director of the Master in Informatics at the School of Technology and Management of Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.
As a researcher, he collaborates with the Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics (CeDRI) at IPB and with the Software-based Information Systems Engineering and Management Group (SEMAG) of the Centro ALGORITMI at the University of Minho. His current research focuses on the software engineering area, particularly in software-based information systems, including modeling approaches for analysis and design, ontologies, process life-cycles, project management, and standards. He is the author or co-author of more than ten publications, including book chapters, journals, and proceedings.
José Luís Padrão Exposto is a Full Time Professor in the Department of Informatics and Communications of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal, and is coordinator of this department. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Minho. He has been teaching since 1996, subjects in the area of application development and systems administration. He has been a member of several research projects with national and international funding, including: Hack-it (Erasmus+), Climate Exchange: Ciencia, Ética y Sociedad (Erasmus+), INTERNOVAMARKET-FOOD (POCTEP), COMPETIC (POCTEP), MicroBloodSystems (FCT, Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology), SIRe (FCT). Led the modeling and development of several Web and Desktop platforms. He has research interests in the areas of distributed systems, crawling, software development.