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5576
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Overview

José Barata is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and has a focused research profile centered on engineering with a strong emphasis on industrial and manufacturing engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, mechanical engineering, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's main research topics reflect a consistent engagement with advanced manufacturing and digital transformation in industry. Key thematic areas include:

  • Digital Transformation in Industry
  • Flexible and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
  • Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Smart Agriculture and AI
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

José Barata's publication record includes frequent contributions to venues that focus on engineering and applied sciences. The most common outlets for their research are:

  • IEEE Access
  • Applied Sciences
  • Crystal Research and Technology
  • Agronomy
  • Sustainability

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on Industry 4.0 advancements and their applications, including smart agriculture and emotion recognition. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Industrial Artificial Intelligence in Industry 4.0 - Systematic Review, Challenges and Outlook" (2020, IEEE Access)
  • "Characterising the Agriculture 4.0 Landscape-Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities" (2021, Agronomy)
  • "Machine Learning Applications in Agriculture: Current Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives" (2023, Agronomy)
  • "Mapping Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies into United Nations Sustainability Development Goals" (2021, Sustainability)
  • "A Systematic Review on Multimodal Emotion Recognition: Building Blocks, Current State, Applications, and Challenges" (2024, IEEE Access)

Collaborations constitute an essential part of José Barata's research activity, with multiple frequent coauthors contributing significantly to their work. Regular collaborators include:

  • Sanaz Nikghadam-Hojjati
  • Luis A. Estrada-Jimenez
  • André Dionísio Rocha
  • Ricardo Silva Peres
  • Sepideh Kalateh

The combined focus on engineering disciplines and applied technologies positions José Barata's research at the intersection of intelligent manufacturing systems and emerging digital transformation processes. Their investigations encompass both theoretical frameworks and practical implementations related to Industry 4.0, smart agriculture, and modular robotic systems.

Best Publications

  • Service-Oriented Infrastructure to Support the Deployment of Evolvable Production Systems

    G. Candido;A. W. Colombo;J. Barata;F. Jammes

  • The IDEAS project: plug & produce at shop‐floor level

    Mauro Onori;Niels Lohse;Jose Barata;Christoph Hanisch

  • SOA in reconfigurable supply chains: A research roadmap

    Gonçalo Cíndido;José Barata;Armando Walter Colombo;François Jammes

  • Evolvable assembly systems basic principles

    Mauro Onori;José Barata;Regina Frei

  • Coalitions of manufacturing components for shop floor agility - the CoBASA architecture

    Jose Barata;Luis M. Camarinha-Matos

  • Survey paper: Re-thinking diagnosis for future automation systems: An analysis of current diagnostic practices and their applicability in emerging IT based production paradigms

    Luis Ribeiro;Jose Barata

  • An Agent Based Framework to Support Plug And Produce

    André Dionísio Rocha;Giovanni Di Orio;José Barata;Nikolas Antzoulatos

  • Designing Self-Organization for Evolvable Assembly Systems

    R. Frei;G. Di Marzo Serugendo;J. Barata

  • Integration and learning in supervision of flexible assembly systems

    L.M. Camarinha-Matos;L.S. Lopes;J. Barata

  • A multiagent based control approach for evolvable assembly systems

    J. Barata;L. Camarinha-Matos;M. Onori

  • Evolvable Production Systems: An Integrated View on Recent Developments

    Luis Ribeiro;José Barata;Gonçalo Cândido;Mauro Onori

  • Evolvable Production Systems Context and Implications

    R. Frei;J. Barata;M. Onori

  • Evolvable Production Systems: Mechatronic Production Equipment with Process-Based Distributed Control

    Mauro Onori;José Barata

  • A multiagent-based control system applied to an educational shop floor

    José Barata;Luís Camarinha-Matos;Gonçalo Cíndido

  • A cooperative multi-robot team for the surveillance of shipwreck survivors at sea

    Ricardo Mendonca;Mario Monteiro Marques;Francisco Marques;Andre Lourenco

  • An architecture development approach for evolvable assembly systems

    M. Onori;H. Alsterman;J. Barata

  • Evolvable production systems:enabling research domains

    Jose Barata;Mauro Onori;Rregina Frei;P. Leitao

  • Self-organization in automation - the IDEAS pre-demonstrator

    Luis Ribeiro;Jose Barata;Mauro Onori;Christoph Hanisch

  • Sustainable Robots for Humanitarian Demining

    Pedro F. Santana;José Barata;Luís Correia

  • A Vision-based Approach to Fire Detection

    Pedro Gomes;Pedro Santana;José Barata

  • Generic management services for DPWS-enabled devices

    G. Candido;F. Jammes;J. Barata;Armando W. Colombo

Frequent Co-Authors

Armando Walter Colombo
Armando Walter Colombo University of Applied Sciences Emden Leer
Paulo P. Freitas
Paulo P. Freitas International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München

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