Papers in International Journals

• Roque, D.; Falcão, A.P.; Perissin, D.; Amado, Conceição; Lemos, J.V.; Fonseca, A. (2023)  SARClust—A New Tool to Analyze InSAR Displacement Time Series for Structure Monitoring . Sustainability.

• Santos, K.; Silva, Nuno M. ; Dias, J. P.; Amado, Conceição (2023)  A methodology for crash investigation of motorcycle-cars collisions combining accident reconstruction, finite elements, and experimental tests . Engineering Failure Analysis.

• Santos, K.; Firme, B.; Dias, J. P.; Amado, Conceição (2023)  Accident Injury Severity and Performance Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms . Transportation Research Record.

• Santos, K; Dias, J P; Amado, Conceição (2022)  A literature review of machine learning algorithms for crash injury severity prediction . Journal of Safety Research: 80, 254-269.

• Farinha, M; Amado, Conceição; Morgado, P; Cabral, J  (2022)  Increased excursions to functional networks in schizophrenia in the absence of task . Frontiers in Neuroscience: 16.

• Silva, Maria Almeida; Amado, Conceição; Ribeiro, A; Loureiro, D (2022)  Uncertainty evaluation in time-dependent measurements . Measurement: 196, 15.

• Santos, K; Dias, J P; Amado, Conceição; Sousa, J; Francisco, P (2021)  Risk factors associated with the increase of injury severity of powered two wheelers road accidents victims in Portugal . Traffic Injury Prevention: 22:8, 646-650.

• Silva, Maria Almeida; Loureiro, D; Amado, Conceição; Arregui, Francisco J. (2021)  Analysis of household telemetry consumption data for helping in the assessment of apparent and real losses in water distribution systems . Ingeniería del agua: 25.

• Furlan, P; Pfister, M; Matos. J; Amado, Conceição; Schleiss, A J (2021)  Blockage Probability Modeling of Large Wood at Reservoir Spillways With Piers . Water Resources Research: 57, e2021WR029722.

• Furlan, P; Pfister, M; Matos. J; Amado, Conceição; Schleiss, A J (2020)  Statistical accuracy for estimations of large wood blockage in a reservoir environment . Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 1-14.

• Furlan, P; Pfister, M; Matos, J; Amado, Conceição (2019)  Experimental repetitions and blockage of large stems at ogee crested spillways with piers . Journal of Hydraulic Research: 57(2), 250-262.

• Sutherland, L.S.; Amado, Conceição; Soares, C.G. (2019)  Statistical analyses of the effects of bonding parameters and fabrication robustness on the strength of adhesive T-joints . Composites Part B: Engineering: 175, 107063,.

• Cabral, M; Loureiro, D; Amado, Conceição; Mamade, A; Covas, D (2019)  Demand scenario planning approach using regression techniques and application to network sectors in Portugal . Water Policy: 21, 394-411.

• Silva, MA; Amado, Conceição; Loureiro, D (2018)  Propagation of uncertainty in the water balance calculation in urban water supply systems - A new approach based on high-density regions . MEASUREMENT: 126, 356-368.

• Silva, Maria Almeida; Amado, Conceição; Loureiro, Dália (2018)  Propagation of uncertainty in the water balance calculation in urban water supply systems – A new approach based on high-density regions . Measurement: 126, 356–368.

• Carvalho, G; Amado, Conceição; Coelho, ST; Leitão, JP (2018)  Analysing the importance of variables for sewer failure prediction . Urban Water Journal: 15 (4), 338-345.

• Carrasquinha, E; Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (2018)  Image reconstruction based on circulant matrices . Signal Processing: Image Communication: 63, 72-80.

• Barrela, Rui; Amado, Conceição; Loureiro, Dalia; Mamade, Aisha (2017)  Data reconstruction of flow time series in water distribution systems - a new method that accommodates multiple seasonality . JOURNAL OF HYDROINFORMATICS: 19 (2).

• Santos, P.; Leitão, J. P.; Coelho, S.; Amado, Conceição (2017)  Stochastic data mining tools for pipe blockage failure prediction . Urban Water Journal: 14 (4), 343-353.

• Sutherland, L. S.; Amado, Conceição; Guedes Soares, C. (2017)  Statistical experimental design techniques to investigate the strength of adhesively bonded T-joints . COMPOSITE STRUCTURES: 159.

• Marchionni, V. ; Cabral, M.; Amado, Conceição; Covas, D. (2016)  Estimating water supply infrastructure cost using regression techniques . Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management: 142(4).

• Cabral, M. ; Mamade, A. ; Loureiro, D.; Amado, Conceição; Covas, D. (2016)  Modeling the effect of weather conditions on urban water demand in multiple network areas: a practical approach to improve monthly and seasonal operation . Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - Aqua: 65(8), 612-625.

• Loureiro, D. ; Mamade, A. ; Cabral, M. ; Amado, Conceição; Covas, D.  (2016)  A Comprehensive Approach for Spatial and Temporal Water Demand Profiling to Improve Management in Network Areas . Water Resources Management: 30(10), 3443–3457.

• Loureiro, D.; Amado, Conceição; Martins, A.; Vitorino, D; Coelho, ST (2016)  Water distribution systems flow monitoring and anomalous event detection: a practical approach . Urban Water Journal: 13 (3), 242-252.

• Amado, Conceição; Bianco, Ana M.; Boente, Graciela; Pires, Ana M. (2014)  Robust Bootstrap: An Alternative to Bootstrapping Robust Estimators . REVSTAT – Statistical Journal: 12(2), 169-197.

• Martins, Andre; Leitao, Joao Paulo; Amado, Conceição (2013)  Comparative Study of Three Stochastic Models for Prediction of Pipe Failures in Water Supply Systems . Journal of Infrastructure Systems: 19(4), 442-450.

• Pires, Ana M.; Amado, Conceição (2008)  Interval Estimators for a Binomial Proportion: Comparison of Twenty Methods . Revstat-Statistical Journal: 6(2), 165-197.

• Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (2004)  Robust bootstrap with non-random weights based on the influence function . Communications in Statistics, Simulation and Computation: 33, 2, 377-396.

Books

• Amado, Conceição; Nunes, Cláudia; Sardinha, Alberto (2019)  Análise estatística de dados financeiros . SPE (183p): ISBN: 978-972-8890-43-8.

Papers or Chapters in Edited Books

• Pacheco, Mafalda ; Falcão, Ana Paula ; Amado, Conceição; Almeida, Joana ; Garcia, João ; Portela, Manuel ; Morais de Sá, Ana ; Afonso, Nuno  (2022)  A Tool for Assessing Public Space Occupation as Applied to a Historical District: Alfama, Lisbon (Portugal) . In: Vujicic, M.D., Kasim, A., Kostopoulou, S., Chica Olmo, J., Aslam, M. (eds) Cultural Sustainable Tourism. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham.

• Sousa, R; Amado, Conceição; Henriques, R (2021)  AutoMTS: Fully Autonomous Processing of Multivariate Time Series Data from Heterogeneous Sensor Networks . In: Wu X., Wu K., Wang C. (eds) Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems. QShine 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering: vol 381, Springer, Cham.

• Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (1999)  A utilização da função de influência para melhorar o desempenho do método de reamostragem bootstrap . Afirmar a Estatística, um desafio para o século XXI. Carlos Daniel Paulino, António Pacheco, Ana Pires e Ferreira da Cunha(eds.). Edições SPE, Lisboa., 91-99.

• Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (1998)  Uso de técnicas de reamostragem para selecção de variáveis em análise discriminante. . Estatística: a diversidade na unidade. M. Souto de Miranda e I. Pereira (eds.). Novas Tecnologias/Estatística, Edições Salamandra, Lisboa., 247-253.

Communications in Conference Proceedings

• Silva, Maria Almeida; Loureiro, Dália; Amado, Conceição; Ribeiro, Álvaro S. (2019)  Factors influencing the quality of flow measurements in drinking water systems - lessons learned . Flomeko 2019, Lisbon.

• Silva, Maria Almeida; Loureiro, Dália; Amado, Conceição; Arregui, Francisco (2019)  Análise de dados de telemedição domiciliária para aferição de perdas aparentes e reais em sistemas de distribuição de água . SEREA 2019, Lisbon.

• Roque, D; Perissin, D; Falcão, AP; Amado, Conceição; Lemos, JV; Fonseca, AM (2018)  Analysis of InSAR displacements for the slopes around Odelouca reservoir . Procedia Computer Science: 138, 338-345.

• Rita Alves; Pedro Galvão; Adélio Silva; Pedro Póvoa ; Dídia Covas ; Amado, Conceição (2017)  DECISION-MAKING SUPPLY PLANS BY PROVISION OF CONSUMPTIONS IN SUPPLY SYSTEMS (in Portuguese) . In ENEG 2017, Encontro Nacional de Entidades Gestoras de Água e Saneamento, held in Évora, on 21-24 November 2017..

• Pereira, Susana; Heitor, Teresa; Costa, Nuno; Amado, Conceição (2017)  Caminhabilidade: uma questão de escala. . In PLURIS 2018 - 8º Congresso Luso-Brasileiro para o Planeamento Urbano, Regional, Integrado e Sustentável, Coimbra, Portugal, October 24--26, 2018.

• Cabral, M.; Loureiro, D. ; Silva, M. ; Mamade, A.; Amado, Conceição (2016)  An automated approach for flow time-series classification in water distribution systems . Proceedings 14th International CCWI Conference (Computing and Control for the Water Industry), 7-9 November 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands..

• Almeida, S.; Correia, T.; Casimiro, R.; Amado, Conceição; Lança, R. ; Caetano, J.; Covas, D.; Silvestre, I. (2016)  Avaliação da condição estrutural do sistema de drenagem de águas residuais com base em análise de risco e inspeção CCTV . 17º Encontro de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental (ENASB), 14-16 September 2016, Guimarães, Portugal.

• Cabral, M.; Loureiro, D.; Silva, Maria Almeida; Mamade, A.; Amado, Conceição (2016)  An automated approach for flow time-series classification in water distribution systems . Proceedings CCWI 2016, Netherlands.

• Almeida, S.; Amado, Conceição; Caetano, J.; Casimiro, R.; Correia, T.; Covas, D.; Silvestre, I. (2016)  Condition assessment of wastewater drainage systems: Cluster analysis and random Forest . Proceedings 14th International CCWI Conference (Computing and Control for the Water Industry), 7-9 November 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Valentina Marchionni; Marta Cabral ; Amado, Conceição; Dídia Covas (2015)  Water Supply Infrastructure Cost Modelling . Procedia Engineering: 119, 168 – 173.

• Vitorino, D.; Coelho, S.; Sheets, S.; Jurkovac, B.; Santos, P.; Amado, Conceição (2014)  A Random Forest algorithm applied to condition based wastewater deterioration modeling and forecasting . Procedia Engineering (Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Water Distribution System Analysis (WDSA 2014), 14 - 17 July, Bari, Italy): 89, 401–410.

• Carrasquinha, E.; Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (2014)  Robust bootstrap confidence intervals: an application study for denoising images . Proceedings of the 14-th International Conference of Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2014), June 30 - July 3, Guimarães, 181-185.

• Mamade, A.; Loureiro, D; Covas, D; Coelho, S; Amado, Conceição (2014)  Spatial and Temporal Forecasting of Water Consumption at the DMA Level Using Extensive Measurements . Procedia Engineering. Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Computing and Control for the Water Industry, CCWI2013: 70, 1063–1073.

• Souto de Miranda, M.; Amado, Conceição; Silva, M. (2014)  Robust profiling of Site Index . Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Statistics (COMPSTAT 2014), Geneva, Switzerland.

• Loureiro, D.; Borba, R; Rebelo, M.; Alegre, H.; Coelho, S.; Covas, D.; Amado, Conceição; Pacheco, António; Pina, A. (2009)  Analysis of household night consumption . Proceedings of the CCWI 2009 conference, Integrating Water Systems, CRC Press, Londres, Reino Unido: ISBN 978-0-415-54851-9, 557-56.

• Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (2000)  Robust bootstrapping using influence functions . In Jansen, W. e Bethlehem, J. G. (editores) Proceedings in Computational Statistics 2000: Short Communications and Posters, Statistics Netherlands, Voorburg,, 83-84.

Thesis

• Amado, Conceição (2004)  Robust Bootstrap based on influence function. (In Portuguese). Bootstrap Robusto com base na Função de Influência . PhD Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, UTL, Lisboa. Supervisor: Ana M. Pires.

• Amado, Conceição (1994)  Sequenciamento das ordens de corte de papel: Modelo matemático e heurísticas . Master Thesis, Faculdade de Ciências , UL, Lisboa. Supervisor: J. M. Pinto Paixão.

Papers in National Scientific Journals

• Amado, Conceição (2017)  Estatística: espelho meu, espelho meu que futuro terei eu? . Bulletin of the Portuguese Statistical Society: Autumn issue.

• Amado, Conceição; Pires, Ana M. (2010)  Gráficos em R - uma breve introdução . Bulletin of the Portuguese Statistical Society: Spring issue: 1, 52-62.

• Pires, Ana M.; Amado, Conceição (2010)  Analistas de dados seduzidos pelas potencialidades do R . Bulletin of the Portuguese Statistical Society: Autumn issue: 2, 56-58.

Supervising Experience:

• PhD: 3 (concluded); 2 (in progress)
• MSc: 58 (concluded); 5 (in progress)
   

Seminars and Communications in Scientific Meetings with no associated publication (since 2018)

• A robust alternative to the Poisson hurdle model. C. Amado and M. Souto de Miranda. 15th ERCIM Conference, London, UK, 17-19 December 2022.
• Text analytics to improve telecommunication customers service management from unstructured data. M.Oliva, C. Amado, P. Soares, B.Oliveira. Virtual ISI World Statistics Congress, 11–16 July, 2021.
• Model-based approach for uncertainty evaluation of time-dependent measurements. M. A. Silva, C. Amado, D. Loureiro, A. Ribeiro. Virtual ISI World Statistics Congress, 11–16 July, 2021.
• Combining data clustering and stratified sampling for selecting customer’s location for smart meter installation in drinking water distribution systems. M. A. Silva, C. Amado, D. Loureiro. 5th International Conference on Water Economics Statistics and Finance, Porto, Portugal. 22–24 September, 2021.
• Understand time series uncertainty: A first approach. M. A. Silva, C. Amado, D. Loureiro, A. Ribeiro. Virtual XXVI Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Classification and Data Analysis. Virtual , 22–24 October, 2020.
• STE - A Survival Tree Ensemble: Application to the Prediction of Pipe Failures in Water Supply Systems. I. Oliveira, C. Amado, M. Azeitona. National Meeting of the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE), Amarante, Portugal, November 6–9, 2019.
• Evaluation of uncertainty in flow time series: a first approach with ARMA models. (Avaliação da incerteza em séries temporais de caudal: uma primeira abordagem com modelos ARMA). M. Silva, C. Amado, D. Loureiro. National National Meeting of the Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE), Amarante, Portugal,November 6–9, 2019.
• Touristic Routes in theHistoricNeighbourhoods: Amonitoring approach to the Alfama neighbourhood (Lisbon, Portugal). M. Pacheco, A.P. Falcão, C. Amado, J. Almeida, J. Garcia, M. Portela, A. Morais de Sá. 12th International Space Syntax Symposium, Beijing, China, 8–13 July 2019
• lustering and symbolic aggregation for outlier detection in many time series - application to water consumption. DSSV2018 – Data Science Statistics & Visualisation, Wien, Austria, July 9-11 (joint work with M. Silva and D. Loureiro)
• Robust confidence intervals - a minimum distance approach. International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS 2018) Leuven, Belgium, July 2-6, 2018. Poster. (joint work with T. Risso and A.M. Pires)
• Robustness in neural networks. XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2018, Almada, Portugal, 5-7 April, 2018 (joint work with J. A. Branco, A. M. Pires)

Organization of conferences (desde 2016)

• XXVI Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2019, Viseu, Portugal, 11-13 April, 2019. (Chair of the Scientific Committee).  http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2019/pt/joclad2019/organizacao
• XXV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2018, Almada, Portugal, 5-7 April, 2018. (Member of the Scientific Committee).  http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2018/pt/joclad2018/organizacao
• DSSV2017-Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation, Lisbon, 12-14 July 2017. (Member of the Organizing Committee). http://iasc-isi.org/dssv2017/committees/local-organizing-committee/
• XXIII Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística, Lisboa, Portugal, 18-21 October, 2017. (Member of the Scientific Committee).  http://spe2017.iscte-iul.pt/
• XXIV Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2017, Porto, Portugal, 20-22 April, 2017. (Member of the Scientific Committee).  http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2017/pt/joclad2017/organizacao
• XXIII Jornadas de Classificação e Análise de Dados, JOCLAD2016, Évora, Portugal, 31 March-2 April, 2016. (Member of the Scientific Committee).  http://www.joclad.ipt.pt/joclad2017/pt/joclad2017/organizacao