Este documento, gratuito, apresenta a compilação dos artigos publicados durante a Conferência Portuguesa de Reconhecimento de Padrões, na Academia Militar, 27 de Outubro de 2017.
Bernardete Ribeiro is Professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, from where she received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, speciality of Informatics. She is Director of the Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC). Her research interests are in the areas of Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Financial Engineering, Signal Processing and their applications to a broad range of fields. She is Founder and Leader of the Laboratory of Artificial Neural Networks (LARN) since 1997. She authored or co-authored many publications including books, journals and international and national conferences. She acted as Coordinator of the B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering for three terms 2011/13, 2013/15 and 2015/17 and as Coordinator of the M.Sc. in Informatics Engineering in 2007/09 and 2009/11.