Catarina Maçãs
Catarina Maçãs is an invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra and a computational designer and researcher at the Computational Design and Visualization Lab. of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the same university. She holds a PhD in Information Science and Technology from the University of Coimbra and also holds a MSc and BS in Design and Multimedia from the same university.
Her main research area is Information Visualization and her interests lie on information visualization, aesthetics, computational art and design, graphic design, evolutionary computation, and bio-inspired computation. Particularly, she is interested in exploring the space between Data Visualization and Information Aesthetics, in creating and exploring new models of visualization, and in contributing for a better understanding of evolutionary mechanisms. Furthermore, she has authored and co-authored several articles on the different International Conferences and journals on Information Visualization and Artificial Intelligence and is enrolled in international projects concerning Information Visualization, Evolutionary Computation, and Data Science.
Email: cmacas@dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar: link
ResearchGate: link
Her main research area is Information Visualization and her interests lie on information visualization, aesthetics, computational art and design, graphic design, evolutionary computation, and bio-inspired computation. Particularly, she is interested in exploring the space between Data Visualization and Information Aesthetics, in creating and exploring new models of visualization, and in contributing for a better understanding of evolutionary mechanisms. Furthermore, she has authored and co-authored several articles on the different International Conferences and journals on Information Visualization and Artificial Intelligence and is enrolled in international projects concerning Information Visualization, Evolutionary Computation, and Data Science.
Email: cmacas@dei.uc.pt
ORCID: 0000-0003-2638-237X
Google Scholar: link
ResearchGate: link
Related projects
Articles
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C. Maçãs, E. Polisciuc, and P. Machado, “ATOVis – A visualisation tool for the detection of financial fraud,” Information Visualization, p. 14738716221098074, 2022.
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@article{cmacas2022a,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Evgheni Polisciuc and Penousal Machado},
title = {ATOVis – A visualisation tool for the detection of financial fraud},
journal = {Information Visualization},
volume = {0},
number = {0},
pages = {14738716221098074},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1177/14738716221098074},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716221098074},
eprint = {https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716221098074}
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C. Maçãs, N. Lourenço, and P. Machado, “Evolving visual artefacts based on consumption patterns,” International Journal of Arts and Technology, vol. 12, iss. 1, p. 60, 2020.
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@article{cmacas2020b,
doi = {10.1504/ijart.2020.107693},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1504/ijart.2020.107693},
year = {2020},
publisher = {Inderscience Publishers},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
pages = {60},
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Nuno Louren{\c{c}}o and Penousal Machado},
title = {Evolving visual artefacts based on consumption patterns},
journal = {International Journal of Arts and Technology}
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C. Maçãs, A. Rodrigues, G. Bernardes, and P. Machado, “MixMash: An Assistive Tool for Music Mashup Creation from Large Music Collections,” IJACDT, vol. 8, iss. 2, pp. 20-40, 2019.
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@article{macas2019a,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Ana Rodrigues and Gilberto Bernardes and Penousal Machado},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/ijacdt/MacasRBM19.bib},
doi = {10.4018/IJACDT.2019070102},
journal = {{IJACDT}},
number = {2},
pages = {20–40},
timestamp = {Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:25:58 +0200},
title = {MixMash: An Assistive Tool for Music Mashup Creation from Large Music Collections},
url = {https://doi.org/10.4018/IJACDT.2019070102},
volume = {8},
year = {2019}}
In Books
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C. Maçãs, E. Polisciuc, and P. Machado, “Visualization and Self-Organising Maps for the Characterisation of Bank Clients,” in Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, B. Kovalerchuk, K. Nazemi, R. Andonie, N. Datia, and E. Banissi, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 255-287.
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@inbook{cmacas2022b,
address = {Cham},
author = {Ma{\c{c}}{\~a}s, Catarina and Polisciuc, Evgheni and Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_10},
editor = {Kovalerchuk, Boris and Nazemi, Kawa and Andonie, R{\u{a}}zvan and Datia, Nuno and Banissi, Ebad},
isbn = {978-3-030-93119-3},
pages = {255–287},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
title = {Visualization and Self-Organising Maps for the Characterisation of Bank Clients},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93119-3_10},
year = {2022}}
In Collections
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C. Maçãs and P. Machado, “The Rhythm of Consumptions,” in IEEE VIS Arts Program, Baltimore, EUA: , 2016.
In Proceedings
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P. Silva, C. Maçãs, J. Correia, P. Machado, and E. Polisciuc, “ANTENNA: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Urban Mobility based on Cell Phone Data,” in Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications – IVAPP, 2022, pp. 88-100.
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@inproceedings{silva2022antenna,
author = {Pedro Silva and Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Jo{\~{a}}o Correia and Penousal Machado and Evgheni Polisciuc},
title = {ANTENNA: A Tool for Visual Analysis of Urban Mobility based on Cell Phone Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications – IVAPP},
year = {2022},
pages = {88-100},
publisher = {SciTePress},
organization = {INSTICC},
doi = {10.5220/0010902200003124},
isbn = {978-989-758-555-5}
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P. Silva, C. Maçãs, E. Polisciuc, and P. Machado, “Visualisation Tool to Support Fraud Detection,” in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), 2021.
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@inproceedings{silva2021fraud,
Author = {Pedro Silva and Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Evgheni Polisciuc and Penousal Machado},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)},
DOI = {10.1109/IV53921.2021.00022},
Title = {Visualisation Tool to Support Fraud Detection},
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C. Maçãs, E. Polisciuc, and P. Machado, “GlyphSOMe: Using SOM with Data Glyphs for Customer Profiling,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2020, Volume 3: IVAPP, Valletta, Malta, February 27-29, 2020, 2020, pp. 301-308.
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@inproceedings{macas2020a,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Evgheni Polisciuc and
Penousal Machado},
title = {GlyphSOMe: Using {SOM} with Data Glyphs for Customer Profiling},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer
Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, {VISIGRAPP}
2020, Volume 3: IVAPP, Valletta, Malta, February 27-29, 2020},
pages = {301–308},
year = {2020},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/grapp/2020ivapp},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5220/0009178803010308},
doi = {10.5220/0009178803010308},
timestamp = {Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:03:30 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/grapp/MacasPM20.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
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C. Maçãs, E. Polisciuc, and P. Machado, “VaBank: Visual Analytics for Banking Transactions,” in 24th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2020, Melbourne, Australia, September 7-11, 2020, 2020, pp. 336-343.
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@inproceedings{macas2020d,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Evgheni Polisciuc and
Penousal Machado},
title = {VaBank: Visual Analytics for Banking Transactions},
booktitle = {24th International Conference Information Visualisation, {IV} 2020,
Melbourne, Australia, September 7-11, 2020},
pages = {336-343},
year = {2020},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IV51561.2020.00062},
doi = {10.1109/IV51561.2020.00062}
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C. Maçãs, D. Palma, and A. Rebelo, “TypEm: A Generative Typeface That Represents the Emotion of the Text,” in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
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@inproceedings{macas2019b,
author = {Ma\c{c}\~{a}s, Catarina and Palma, David and Rebelo, Artur},
title = {TypEm: A Generative Typeface That Represents the Emotion of the Text},
year = {2019},
isbn = {9781450372503},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3359852.3359874},
doi = {10.1145/3359852.3359874},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts},
articleno = {Article 5},
numpages = {10},
keywords = {Visual representation, Generative typography, Emotion extraction},
location = {Braga, Portugal},
series = {ARTECH 2019}
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C. Maçãs, A. Rodrigues, G. Bernardes, and P. Machado, “MixMash: A Visualisation System for Musical Mashup Creation,” in 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2018, Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018, 2018, pp. 471-477.
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@inproceedings{macas2018c,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Ana Rodrigues and
Gilberto Bernardes and
Penousal Machado},
title = {MixMash: A Visualisation System for Musical Mashup Creation},
booktitle = {22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, {IV} 2018,
Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018},
pages = {471–477},
year = {2018},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iv/2018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00088},
doi = {10.1109/iV.2018.00088},
timestamp = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:53 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/iv/MacasRBM18.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
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C. Maçãs, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “Consumption as a Rhythm: A Multimodal Experiment on the Representation of Time-Series,” in 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2018, Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018, 2018, pp. 504-509.
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@inproceedings{macas2018d,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Pedro Martins and
Penousal Machado},
title = {Consumption as a Rhythm: A Multimodal Experiment on the Representation
of Time-Series},
booktitle = {22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, {IV} 2018,
Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018},
pages = {504–509},
year = {2018},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iv/2018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00093},
doi = {10.1109/iV.2018.00093},
timestamp = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:53 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/iv/Macas0M18.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
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C. Maçãs and P. Machado, “Radial Calendar of Consumption,” in 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2018, Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018, 2018, pp. 96-102.
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@inproceedings{macas2018b,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Penousal Machado},
title = {Radial Calendar of Consumption},
booktitle = {22nd International Conference Information Visualisation, {IV} 2018,
Fisciano, Italy, July 10-13, 2018},
pages = {96–102},
year = {2018},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/iv/2018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2018.00027},
doi = {10.1109/iV.2018.00027},
timestamp = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:53 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/iv/MacasM18.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
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C. Maçãs, N. Lourenço, and P. Machado, “Interactive Evolution of Swarms for the Visualisation of Consumptions,” in Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation – 7th EAI International Conference, ArtsIT 2018, and 3rd EAI International Conference, DLI 2018, ICTCC 2018, Braga, Portugal, October 24-26, 2018, Proceedings, 2018, pp. 101-110.
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@inproceedings{macas2018a,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Nuno Louren{\c{c}}o and
Penousal Machado},
title = {Interactive Evolution of Swarms for the Visualisation of Consumptions},
booktitle = {Interactivity, Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation – 7th
{EAI} International Conference, ArtsIT 2018, and 3rd {EAI} International
Conference, {DLI} 2018, {ICTCC} 2018, Braga, Portugal, October 24-26,
2018, Proceedings},
pages = {101–110},
year = {2018},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/artsit/2018},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0\_11},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-06134-0\_11},
timestamp = {Wed, 25 Sep 2019 18:17:16 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/artsit/Macas0M18.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
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N. Lourenço, F. Assunção, C. Maçãs, and P. Machado, “EvoFashion: Customising Fashion Through Evolution,” in International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music and Art, 2017.
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@inproceedings{lourenco2017evofashion,
title = {EvoFashion: Customising Fashion Through Evolution},
author = {Louren{\c{c}}o, Nuno and Assun\c{c}\~{a}o, Filipe and Ma\c{c}\~{a}s, Catarina and Machado, Penousal},
booktitle = {International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music and Art},
year = {2017},
organization = {Springer International Publishing}
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E. Polisciuc, P. Cruz, C. Maçãs, H. Amaro, and P. Machado, “Flow Map of Products Transported among Warehouses and Supermarkets,” in Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2016, pp. 177-186.
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@inproceedings{polisciuc2016a,
author = {Evgheni Polisciuc and Pedro Cruz and Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and Hugo Amaro and Penousal Machado},
editor = {Jos{\'{e}} Braz and Andreas Kerren and Lars Linsen},
title = {Flow Map of Products Transported among Warehouses and Supermarkets},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications},
volume = {2},
pages = {177–186},
publisher = {SciTePress},
year = {2016}
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C. Maçãs and P. Machado, “The Rhythm of Consumptions,” in Expressive 2016 – Proceedings of the Joint Symposium Expressive 2016, co-located with the Eurographics 2016, 2016.
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E. Polisciuc, C. Maçãs, F. Assunção, and P. Machado, “Hexagonal Gridded Maps and Information Layers: A Novel Approach for the Exploration and Analysis of Retail Data,” in SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Symposium on Visualization, New York, NY, USA, 2016, p. 6:1–6:8.
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@inproceedings{pol2016siggraph,
author = {Polisciuc, Evgheni and Ma\c{c}\~{a}s, Catarina and Assun\c{c}\~{a}o, Filipe and Machado, Penousal},
title = {Hexagonal Gridded Maps and Information Layers: A Novel Approach for the Exploration and Analysis of Retail Data},
booktitle = {SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Symposium on Visualization},
series = {SA ’16},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4547-7},
location = {Macau},
pages = {6:1–6:8},
articleno = {6},
numpages = {8},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3002151.3002160},
doi = {10.1145/3002151.3002160},
acmid = {3002160},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {design studies, geospatial visualization, hexagonal binning, semantic zoom, voronoi diagram},
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C. Maçãs, P. Cruz, E. Polisciuc, H. Amaro, and P. Machado, “Iso-edges for the Geovisualization of Consumptions,” in IVAPP 2016 – Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 2016, pp. 220-227.
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@inproceedings{visCM2016,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Pedro Cruz and
Evgheni Polisciuc and
Hugo Amaro and
Penousal Machado},
editor = {Jos{\'{e}} Braz and
Andreas Kerren and
Lars Linsen},
title = {Iso-edges for the Geovisualization of Consumptions},
booktitle = {IVAPP 2016 – Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications},
volume = {2},
pages = {220–227},
publisher = {SciTePress},
year = {2016}
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C. Maçãs, P. Cruz, H. Amaro, E. Polisciuc, T. Carvalho, F. Santos, and P. Machado, “Time-series Application on Big Data – Visualization of Consumption in Supermarkets,” in IVAPP 2015 – Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Berlin, Germany, 11-14 March, 2015., 2015, pp. 239-246.
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@inproceedings{vis2015b,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Pedro Cruz and
Hugo Amaro and
Evgheni Polisciuc and
Tiago Carvalho and
Frederico Santos and
Penousal Machado},
editor = {Jos{\'{e}} Braz and
Andreas Kerren and
Lars Linsen},
title = {Time-series Application on Big Data – Visualization of Consumption
in Supermarkets},
booktitle = {{IVAPP} 2015 – Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Berlin, Germany,
11-14 March, 2015.},
pages = {239–246},
publisher = {SciTePress},
year = {2015},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005307702390246},
doi = {10.5220/0005307702390246},
timestamp = {Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:27:15 +0200},
biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/grapp/MacasCAPCSM15},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
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E. Polisciuc, P. Cruz, H. Amaro, C. Maçãs, T. Carvalho, F. Santos, and P. Machado, “Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets,” in IVAPP 2015 – Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Berlin, Germany, 11-14 March, 2015., 2015, pp. 300-306.
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@inproceedings{vis2015a,
author = {Evgheni Polisciuc and
Pedro Cruz and
Hugo Amaro and
Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Tiago Carvalho and
Frederico Santos and
Penousal Machado},
editor = {Jos{\'{e}} Braz and
Andreas Kerren and
Lars Linsen},
title = {Arc and Swarm-based Representations of Customer’s Flows among Supermarkets},
booktitle = {{IVAPP} 2015 – Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on
Information Visualization Theory and Applications, Berlin, Germany,
11-14 March, 2015.},
pages = {300–306},
publisher = {SciTePress},
year = {2015},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005316503000306},
doi = {10.5220/0005316503000306},
timestamp = {Fri, 07 Aug 2015 13:27:15 +0200},
biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/grapp/PolisciucCAMCSM15},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
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C. Maçãs, P. Cruz, P. Martins, and P. Machado, “Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-31, 2015, 2015, pp. 2466-2472.
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@inproceedings{ijcai15b,
author = {Catarina Ma{\c{c}}{\~{a}}s and
Pedro Cruz and
Pedro Martins and
Penousal Machado},
editor = {Qiang Yang and
Michael Wooldridge},
title = {Swarm Systems in the Visualization of Consumption Patterns},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI} 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July
25-31, 2015},
pages = {2466–2472},
publisher = {{AAAI} Press},
year = {2015},
url = {http://ijcai.org/papers15/Abstracts/IJCAI15-349.html},
timestamp = {Mon, 20 Jul 2015 19:12:40 +0200},
biburl = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/conf/ijcai/MacasCMM15},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org}
}