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2014, Dec 16th: TPC member for ADHOCNOW 2015 (Athens, Greece).
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| 2014, Dec 4th: Rafael has been elevated to the IEEE Senior Member category.
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| 2014, Dec 1st: The paper "Risk-Driven Intent Assessment and Response Generation in Maritime Surveilllance Operations" has been accepted for presentation at the 2015
IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods
in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2015), Orlando, FL, USA
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| 2014, Dec 1st: The paper "Efficient Detection of Faulty Nodes with Cuckoo Search in t-Diagnosable Systems" has been accepted for publication at the Applied Soft Computing journal
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| 2014, Nov 18th:
Rafael has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 MITACS & NRC-IRAP Award for Commercialization
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| 2014, Aug 15th: The paper "Risk Management with Hard-Soft Data Fusion in Maritime Domain Awareness" has been accepted for presentation at the 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2014), Hanoi, Vietnam
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| 2014, Jun 1st: The paper "Vessel Tracking and Anomaly Detection using Level 0/1 and High-Level Information Fusion Techniques" has been accepted for presentation at the 6th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications (SOFA 2014), Timisoara, Romania
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| 2014, May 13th: Larus Technologies was awarded a 2-year R & D Mitacs Accelerate Cluster to develop "Risk-Aware Decision Support Systems for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Territorial Security"
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| 2013, Mar 5th:
TPC member for the 2013 IEEE Int'l Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF 2013),
Lausanne, Switzerland
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2013, Feb 4th:
TPC member for the 2013 Int'l Conference on Ad Hoc Networks &
Wireless (ADHOC-NOW
2013), Wroclaw, Poland
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2012, Aug 28th:
TPC member for the 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational
Intelligence (SSCI
2013), Singapore
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2012, Aug 24th:
TPC member for 22nd Int'l Conference on Computer Communications and
Networks (ICCCN 2013),
Nassau, Bahamas
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2012, Jul 14th:
Reviewer for Ad Hoc &
Sensor Wireless Networks.
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2012, Jun 7th:
The Dean's Scholarship of the
Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies of the University of
Ottawa has been awarded after completion of PhD studies.
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2012, Jun 6th:
Reviewer for Pattern
Recognition.
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2012, May 24th:
The paper "An Online Shadowed
Clustering Algorithm Applied to Risk Visualization in Territorial
Security" has been accepted for publication at the 2012
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense
Applications (CISDA 2012), Ottawa, Canada.
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2012, May 24th:
Reviewer for the Elsevier
Journal of Applied Soft Computing.
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2012, April 1st:
Associate Editor for "Ad
Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an International Journal".
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2012, March 22th:
The paper "Controlled
Straight
Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic Wireless Sensor Networks"
has been accepted for publication at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2012), Hangzhou,
China.
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2012, March 18th:
Reviewer for the 51st IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control (CDC 2012), Maui, Hawaii.
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2012, February 21th:
The paper "A Response-Aware Risk
Management Framework for Search-and-Rescue Operations" has been
accepted for publication at the 2012 IEEE Congress on
Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2012), Brisbane, Australia.
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2012, February 13th:
The doctoral dissertation entitled "Towards
Fault
Reactiveness
in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Carrier Robots" has been
successfully defended and passed with distinction. It is nominated to
the Best Thesis Award of the University of Ottawa.
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2012, February 7th:
Industrial
Research & Development Fellowship (IRDF) awarded by the Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) with Larus Technologies Corporation
as the industrial partner.
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2012, January 31st:
Reviewer for the International
Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems.
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2012, January 11th:
First Job Award by the Ontario
Centres of Excellence with Larus Technologies Corporation as the
industrial partner.
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2011, December 22nd:
Reviewer for the Elsevier Journal of Computer
Communications.
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2011, December 3rd:
TPC member for the IEEE WCCI 2012 Special Session on Computational
Intelligence for Security, Surveillance and Defence (CISSD 2012).
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2011, November 25th:
Submission Chair for the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor,
Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN
2012 - Spring) in Hangzhou, China.
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2011, November 15th:
TPC member for the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012).
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2011, November 1st:
TPC member for the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems
Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2012).
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2011, October 4th:
TPC member for the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and
Actuator Networks (WiSAAN 2012).
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2011, August 24th: Reviewer
for the European
Transactions on
Telecommunications.
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2011, August 23th:
MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship
awarded to the research project "Online
Risk-Driven
Management
Framework for Territorial Security in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks".
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2011, August 6th:
Reviewer for the International Journal of
Distributed Sensor Networks.
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2011, August 5th:
Publication Chair of the 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc
Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW
2012), Belgrade, Serbia.
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2011, July 18th:
Local Arrangement Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Computational
Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA 2012), Ottawa,
Canada.
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2011, July 18th:
Reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B.
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2011, July 8th:
Enrolled at the TalentBridge
program of the Ottawa
Centre for Regional Innovation.
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2011, July 5th:
Reviewer for Elsevier
Journal of Information Sciences. |
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2011, June 27th:
Reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
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2011, June 17th:
Part-time teacher for CSI 1308A "Introduction
to Computing Concepts", Fall 2011.
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2011, June 6th:
The paper "Servicing Wireless Sensor
Networks by Mobile Robots" has been accepted for publication at
the IEEE
Communications Magazine.
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2011, June 5th:
The paper "An Evolving Risk
Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks" has been
accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Int'l Conference on
Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2011)
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2011, May 20th:
Reviewer for 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and
Sensor Systems (MASS
2011)
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2011, May 12th:
IEEE CIS "Walter Karplus"
Graduate Student Research Grant awarded to the research project "A Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Approach
to the Scalable Replacement of Damaged Sensors by a Team of Mobile
Robots"
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2011, May 12th:
Thesis proposal defended. |
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2011, May 12th:
Travel grant awarded by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral
Studies of the University of Ottawa to attend the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation (CEC)
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2011, April 30th:
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems. |
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2011, March 26th:
Reviewer for 6th International
Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad Hoc and Wireless
Sensor Networks (IST-AWSN 2011). |
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2011, March 19th:
The paper "Fault Identification with
Binary Adaptive Fireflies in Parallel and Distributed Systems"
has been accepted for presentation at the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation. |
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2010, December 10th:
The paper "Carrier-based Focused Coverage Formation in Wireless Sensor
and Robot Networks" has been accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions
on Automatic Control. |
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2010, December 9th:
The paper "Reliable Fault Detection in Diagnosable Systems with Dynamic
Mesh Optimization" has been accepted for presentation at the International
Conference on Computer Science and Informatics. |
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2010, November 27th:
Reviewer for International
Journal of Systems Science. |
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2010, November 17th:
Reviewer for Elsevier
Journal of Information Sciences. |
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2010, November 15th:
MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship awarded to the project "Risk-Driven
Coverage Formation for Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor and
Robot Networks" |
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2010, October 28th:
Reviewer for EURASIP Journal on
Wireless Communications and Networking. |
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2010, October 16th:
Proceedings Chair for the 7th International Conference on Distributed
Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011).
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2010, October 16th:
Proceedings Chair for the 7th International Conference on Distributed
Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2011).
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| 2010,
June 9th: An IEEE CIS Student Travel Grant has
been awarded for participation at the 2010 World Congress on
Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010). |
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| 2010,
April 27th: Reviewer for the 7th IEEE International Conference
on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2010). |
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| 2010,
April 9th: Reviewer for IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 Ad-Hoc and
Sensor Networking Symposium. |
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| 2010,
March 26th: Reviewer for 1st International Workshop on Semantic
Sensor Web (SSW
2010). |
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| 2010,
March 15th: The papers "A Binary Particle Swarm Optimization
Approach to Fault Diagnosis in Parallel and Distributed Systems" and
"The One-Commodity Traveling Salesman Problem with Selective Pickup and
Delivery: an Ant Colony Approach" have been accepted for presentation
at the 2010 World
Congress on Computational Intelligence. |
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| 2010,
February 25th: The paper "Carrier-based Coverage Augmentation in
Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" has been accepted for publication
at the 7th Workshop on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks 2010 (WWASN 2010).
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2010,
February 5th: Rafael was aired by CBC Radio on his participation
at the Poster Competition.
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2010,
February 4th: The poster "Artificial Ant Colonies for Coverage
Repair in Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks" deserved the 1st Prize Poster
Presentation Award for the Computer Science Department at the
Engineering Faculty Day, University of Ottawa.
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2010,
January 1st: Rafael joined IEEE and Computational Intelligence
Society (CIS) as a graduate student member.
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2009,
December 28th: Reviewer for 5th International Conference on
Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2010).
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2009,
December 21th: Rafael completed the course requirements for his
PhD degree with a GPA of 9.67 / 10.
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2009,
September 18th: Rafael passed the comprehensive examination
required for his PhD degree.
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2009, April 15th:
The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) was granted, as an international
student, for the period May 2009 - April 2010. |
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2009, April 15th:
The Excellence Scholarship from University of Ottawa was granted for
the period May 2009 - April 2010. |
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2008, September 25th: The International Tuition Fee
Scholarship from University of Ottawa was granted for the duration of
the doctoral studies. |
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