8h30

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09h30-09h45

Opening Session


Prof. Vasco Teixeira
Pró-Rector

Prof. Paulo Pereira
Dean of the School of Engineering

Prof. Madalena Araújo
Scientific Committee Chair
Interdisciplinary Centre for Production Technology and Energy

Prof. Fernando Nunes Ferreira
Centre for Textile Science and Technology

Prof. João Luís Marques Pereira Monteiro
ALGORITMI Centre

9h45-11h15

Session A: Decision Support Systems
Moderator: Madalena Araújo

Micro enterprise individual program the factors determining to accession: an empirical study in the Valley of San Francisco, Brazil
João Nascimento, Ana Santos, Adriana Silva, Juliana Reis and Francisco Ricardo

Sustainable business models for Web 3.0
Leonor Gaudêncio, Fernando Almeida and José Oliveira

Project portfolio selection and monitoring – A case study
António Amaral and Madalena Araújo

Technological extension program pilot project implemented in the capital goods sector in São Paulo - Brazil: promoting technological innovation
Dorotéa Bueno, Fernando Romero and Filipa Vieira

Technology evaluation and licensing: a literature review and an assessment of the Portuguese University technology transfer practices
António Rocha and Fernando Romero

11h15-11h30

Coffee Break

11h30-13h00

Plenary Session
Moderator: Eddie O’Kelly

Strategic markets for textile innovations – going smart & green
Hélder Rosendo

Benchmarking for sustainability - an environmental performance perspective
Richard Keegan

Methodological requisites for impact evaluation from an ex-ante perspective
Nicola Raede

13h00-14h30

Lunch Break

14h30-16h00

Session B: Tools and Methods for Project Evaluation
Moderator: André Luis da Silva Leite

On the multi-mode, multi-skill resource constrained project scheduling problem – computational results
Mónica A. Santos and Anabela Tereso

Addressing sustainability: comprehensive frameworks for evaluating new product development
Shantesh Hede, Paula Ferreira, Manuel Nunes and Luís Rocha

Inter-firm cost management in high-tech product development projects in the plastics processing industry
Carlos Nuno Barbosa, Paulo Afonso and Manuel Nunes

Cost analysis for the economic evaluation of health care services
Carla Duarte and Paulo Afonso

An activity-based costing model for strategic decisions in transportation on demand projects
Vítor Oliveira, Paulo Afonso and José Telhada

16h00-16h30

Coffee Break

16h30-18h00

Session C: Energy Decision Making
Moderator: Isabel Soares

Strategy for electricity supply of steel and mining sector firms
Armindo Bredariol Junior, André Luis da Silva Leite and Nivalde Castro

The role of energy planning on new hydropower plants investments
Nivalde Castro, Guilherme Dantas and Raul Timponi

Optimization models to support sustainable electricity planning decisions
Sérgio Pereira, Paula Ferreira andIsmael Vaz

Policy and legislation for a new energy paradigm: the case of the Portuguese legal framework for microgeneration
José Gonçalves, Paula Ferreira and Paulo Afonso

The electricity business: investment, risk and regulation
Isabel Soares, Paula Ferreira and Madalena Araújo

18h30-19h30

Social Programme

20h00

Gala Dinner

09h30-11h00

Session D: Investment Appraisal
Moderator: Luiz Ozorio

Decision-making process in investment projects
Nuno Moutinho

Project financing and verticalization in infrastructure project evaluation. A case study of Abengoa
Luiz Ozorio, Roberto Brandão and Nivalde Castro

Real options theory in comparison to other project evaluation techniques
Bartolomeu Fernandes, Jorge Cunha and Paula Ferreira

Evidence on the investment-cash flow sensitivity for a panel of Portuguese manufacturing firms
Jorge Cunha and António Paisana

Which project characteristics are important? What are the project success factors?
Nuno Moutinho and Helena Mouta

11h00-11h30

Coffee Break

11h30-13h00

Session E: Cost/Benefit Analysis
Moderator: Lígia Pinto

The cost/benefit analysis in the scope of the neoclassical economics
Humberto Rito Ribeiro, José Manuel Pereira and Edson Luiz Riccio

The evaluation of biomass power projects
Patrícia Carneiro and Paula Ferreira

A cost-benefit analysis of an intelligence and demand-driven public transport system for elderly and disabled
Vitor Oliveira, Paula Ferreira and José Telhada

Development of a cost-benefit model for micro CHP systems
Ana Ferreira, Luís Martins, Manuel Nunes and Senhorinha Teixeira

Cost-benefit analysis in occupational health and safety
Delfina Ramos, Paulo Afonso and Pedro Arezes

13h00-14h30

Lunch Break

14h30 - 16h00

Session F: Social and Environmental Impact Assessment
Moderator: Enrique Ares

Social and environmental impact assessment - theoretical contributions
Nuno Moutinho and Helena Mouta

Economic evaluation of a demand responsive transport in rural area: a case study
Ana Dias, José Telhada and Sameiro Carvalho

On the social return of R+D projects and support programmes
Olalla Barreiro, Paula Ferreira and Enrique Ares

Using expert interviews to create electricity scenarios and to assess social impacts
Fernando Ribeiro, Paula Ferreira and Madalena Araújo

The need for a new sustainable economic model
Humberto Ribeiro

Social impact on project assessment: an integrated methodology for the assessment of investment projects in Research and Development (R&D) at a society level
Ana Fernández, Jorge Cunha and Enrique Ares

16h00

Closing Session


Prof. Madalena Araújo
Scientific Committee Chair
Interdisciplinary Centre for Production Technology and Energy