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I am a researcher at CPES (Power and Energy Systems), which is a R&D Centre of the INESC-TEC.

My research focus are Artificial Intelligence, modelling and statistical analysis, renewable production, distributed energy. 

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  • Name

    Conceição Nunes Rocha
  • Role

    Assistant Researcher
  • Since

    31st January 2014
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2025

Report on the 8th Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2025) at ECIR 2025

Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, AM; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M; Cordeiro, JP; Rocha, C; Sousa, HO; Cunha, LF; Mansouri, B;

Publication
SIGIR Forum

Abstract
The Eighth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'25) was held on April 10 th , 2025, in conjunction with the 47 th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025) in Lucca, Italy. During this half-day event, more than 30 attendees engaged in discussions and presentations focused on recent advancements in narrative representation, extraction, and generation. The workshop featured a keynote address and a mix of oral presentations and poster sessions covering nineteen papers. The workshop proceedings are available online 1 . Date: 10 April 2025. Website: https://text2story25.inesctec.pt/.

2025

Resilient Agent-Based Networks in the Automotive Industry

Authors
, A; Rocha, C; Campos, P;

Publication
Machine Learning Perspectives of Agent-Based Models

Abstract
The present work is inspired by the aftermarket companies of the automotive industry. The goal is to investigate how companies react to market change, by understanding the effect of a perturbation (such as a business cessation) on the rest of the companies that are interconnected through peer-to-peer relationships. An agent-based model has been developed that simulates a multilayer network involving different types of companies: suppliers, aftermarket companies; retailers and consumers. The effect of the cessation is measured by the resilience of the multilayer network after suffering the perturbation. The multilayer network is inspired in a business model of the automobile industry’s aftermarket and each type of company has some defined characteristics. The agent-based model produces the network dynamics due to the changes in its configuration throughout time. No learning mechanism is introduced in this work. We demonstrate that the number of links, the volume of sales and the total profit of a node in the network has an impact on its survival throughout time. © 2025 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

2024

Report on the 7th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2024) at ECIR 2024

Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, AM; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M; Cordeiro, JP; Rocha, C; Sousa, HO; Mansouri, B;

Publication
SIGIR Forum

Abstract
The Seventh International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'24) was held on March 24 th , 2024, in conjunction with the 46 th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024) in Glasgow, Scotland. Over the day, more than 50 attendees engaged in discussions and presentations focused on recent advancements in narrative representation, extraction, and generation. The workshop featured two invited keynote addresses, fourteen research paper presentations, and a poster session. The workshop proceedings are available online. 1 Date : 24 March 2024. Website : https://text2story24.inesctec.pt/.

2023

Report on the 6th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2023) at ECIR 2023

Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, AM; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M; Cordeiro, JP; Rocha, C; Sousa, H; Mansouri, B;

Publication
SIGIR Forum

Abstract
The Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story'23) was held on April 2 nd , 2023, in conjunction with the 45 th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) in Dublin, Ireland. Continuing the tradition of past years, the workshop was held as a hybrid event. Online participation was allowed using the Zoom platform. During the course of the day, more than 50 attendees had the opportunity to follow up and discuss the recent advances in topics related to representation, extraction, and generation of narratives. The workshop program included two invited keynotes and nineteen paper presentations. The proceedings of the workshop are available online 1 . Date: 2 April 2023. Website: https://text2story23.inesctec.pt/.

2022

Data-Driven Anomaly Detection and Event Log Profiling of SCADA Alarms

Authors
Andrade, JR; Rocha, C; Silva, R; Viana, JP; Bessa, RJ; Gouveia, C; Almeida, B; Santos, RJ; Louro, M; Santos, PM; Ribeiro, AF;

Publication
IEEE ACCESS

Abstract
Network human operators' decision-making during grid outages requires significant attention and the ability to perceive real-time feedback from multiple information sources to minimize the number of control actions required to restore service, while maintaining the system and people safety. Data-driven event and alarm management have the potential to reduce human operator cognitive burden. However, the high complexity of events, the data semantics, and the large variety of equipment and technologies are key barriers for the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to raw SCADA data. In this context, this paper proposes a methodology to convert a large volume of alarm events into data mining terminology, creating the conditions for the application of modern AI techniques to alarm data. Moreover, this work also proposes two novel data-driven applications based on SCADA data: (i) identification of anomalous behaviors regarding the performance of the protection relays of primary substations, during circuit breaker tripping alarms in High Voltage (HV) and Medium Voltage (MV) lines; (ii) unsupervised learning to cluster similar events in HV line panels, classify new event logs based on the obtained clusters and membership grade with a control parameter that helps to identify rare events. Important aspects associated with data handling and pre-processing are also covered. The results for real data from a Distribution System Operator (DSO) showed: (i) that the proposed method can detect unexpected relay pickup events, e.g., one substation with nearly 41% of the circuit breaker alarms had an 'atypical' event in their context (revealed an overlooked problem on the electrification of a protection relay); (ii) capability to automatically detect and group issues into specific clusters, e.g., SF6 low-pressure alarms and blocks with abnormal profiles caused by event time-delay problems.