Investigadora do Centro ALGORITMI ( centro de investigação e desenvolvimento reconhecido pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), no Grupo Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (UBICOMP) da linha Computer Communications and Pervasive Media (CCPM). Os seus interesses científicos enquadram-se na área das redes e protocolos de comunicações, mais especificamente nas redes oportunistas, redes veiculares, posicionamento em espaços interiores e simulação de redes de comunicações.
António Costa, Eloy Rodrigues, Fernando Pinto, Joaquim Macedo e Maria João Nicolau, Internet - Guia Prático do Cibernauta, 269 pp, Campo das Letras - Editores, SA, Porto, 1995.
António Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, Vasco Freitas, “A New Path Probing Strategy for Inter-domain Multicast Routing”, Proceedings of the First Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks Traffic Engineering, (NGI'2005), IEEE Comm Society, Catalog Number 05EX998C, ISBN 0-7803-8901-8, Libr of Congr 2004116428, Rome, Italy, Apr 18-20, 2005.
Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Alexandre Santos e Vasco Freitas, Towards Multi-class Based Multicast Routing, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Int Conf on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC 2003), Estoril, Portugal, 23-25 de Julho de 2003, publicados nas LNCS 2720, pp. 52-61, Ed M. M. Freire et al, Spinger-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-40542-9, 2003.
António Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos e Vasco Freitas, Policy Aware QoS Inter-domain Multicast Routing, Proceedings of the 2003 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2003), Túrim, Itália, 24-28 de Junho de 2003, IEEE Comm Soc, Cat #03TH8660, ISBN 0-7803-7710-9, pp 275-280, Libr of Congr #2002114891, 2003.
Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Alexandre Santos e Vasco Freitas, Directed Trees in Multicast Routing, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks (QoS-IP 2003), Milão, Itália, 24-26 de Maio 2003, publicados nas LNCS 2601, pp 320-333, Eds M. Ajmone Marsan et al, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-00604-4, 2003.
Maria João Nicolau, António Costa e Alexandre Santos, A Framework for Multi-class-based Multicast Routing, Proceedings of the Terena Networking Conference 2002, Limerick, Ireland, 3-6 de Junho de 2002.
António Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos e Vasco Freitas, Implementação e Teste do PIM-SM no Network Simulator, 5ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC2002), Faro, Portugal, 26-27 de Setembro de 2002.
Maria João Nicolau e Joaquim Macedo, Caracterização da informação WWW na RCCN, Encontro sobre Redes, FCCN - Fundação de Cálculo Científico Nacional, Lisboa, Portugal, Março de 1997.
Joaquim Macedo, Maria João Nicolau, Miguel Rio e Vasco Freitas, Páginas amarelas de recursos Internet, Conferência Nacional WWW, Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Julho de 1995
Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo, Alexandre Santos, Class-based Multicast Routing in Inter-domain Scenarios, Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 63, n°11-12, Special Issue on Inter-Domain Routing and QoS over Heterogeneous Networks, Springer Paris, Nov-Dec 2008.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, “Efficiency of PRI and WRR DiffServ Scheduling Mechanisms for Real-Time Services on UMTS Environment”, Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2008), Tanger, Marrocos, 5-7 de Novembro de 2008, ISBN: 978-2-9532443-0-4, pp 173-178, publicados pelo IEEExplore.
António Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Joaquim Macedo, Alexandre Santos, “QoS Aware Multicast Routing Protocols Evaluation through Simulation”, Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (QoSim 2008), Marseille, France, 3 de Março de 2008, publicados na ACM Digital Library, ISBN 978-9799-20-2.
Maria João Nicolau, António Costa e Alexandre Santos, “Design and Evaluation of a Multi-Class Based Multicast Routing Protocol”, Proceedings of the 21st edition of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-2007), Estoril, Portugal, 23-25 de Janeiro de 2007, publicados nas LNCS 5200, pp 325-334, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-540-89523-7, November 2008.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, “QoS-Aware Architecture for FHMIP Micromobility”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT 2009), St. Petersburg, Russia, 12-14 de Outubro de 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3941-6; IEEE Catalog Number: CFP0963G-CD, publicados pelo IEEExplore.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, “Evaluating Rate-Estimation for a Mobility and QoS-Aware Network Architecture”, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2009), Hvar, Croatia, 24-26 de Setembro de 2009, ISBN 978-953-290-015-6, IEEE Catalog Number CFP0987A-CDR, publicados pelo IEEExplore.
Alexandre Santos, Paulo de Carvalho, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Adriano Moreira, Bruno Dias, Joaquim Macedo Solange Lima, Pedro Sousa, Actas da 10ª Conferência Sobre Redes de Computadores, Universidade do Minho, Novembro 2010, ISBN: 978-989-96929-0-9
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, “A Micro-Mobility Solution for Supporting QoS in Global Mobility”, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2010), Split, Croatia, 23-25 de Setembro de 2010, ISBN 978-953-290-004-0, IEEE Catalog Number CFP1087A-CDR, publicados pelo IEEExplore.Artigos em Conferências Nacionais
Luiz Lopes, Maria João Nicolau e António Costa, Encaminhamento Inter-domínio com Qualidade de Serviço, 10ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2010), BRAGA, Portugal, 11-12 de Novembro de 2010.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, A QoS-Enable Solution for Mobile Environments, 10ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2010), BRAGA, Portugal, 11-12 de Novembro de 2010.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, A QoS-Enabled Resource Management Scheme for F-HMIPv6 Micro Mobility Approach, Journal of Telecommunication Systems, ISSN: 1572-9451, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s11235-011-9653-7, Oct 2011
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, Performance Analysis of a new Mobility/QoS-aware Architecture, 19th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2011), Split, Croatia, 15-17 de Setembro de 2011, ISBN 978-953-290-027-9, IEEE Catalogue Number CFP1187A-CDR, FESB, publicados pelo IEEExplore.
João André Silva , Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, WiFi Localization as a Network Service, Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2011), Centro Cultural de Vilaflor, Guimarães, Portugal, 21 a 23 de Setembro de 2011
Óscar Bravo, Maria João Nicolau e António Costa, Redes overlay peer-to-peer baseadas em SIP, 11ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores, CRC'2011, ISBN 975-969-96001-6-4, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 Nov, 2011
Rui Ferraz, Maria João Nicolau e António Costa, “Uma infra-estrutura virtual de nível 2 para interligação de máquinas virtuais”, 11ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores, CRC'2011, ISBN 975-969-96001-6-4, Universidade de Coimbra, 17-18 Nov, 2011
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, Evaluation of a Mobility/QoS-aware Architecture for Mobile Internet, JCOMSS - Journal of Communications Software and Systems (ISSN 1845-6421), Volume: 8 Number: 1, 2012
Helena Rodrigues, Maria João Nicolau, Rui João José e Adriano Moreira. Engaging participants for collaborative sensing of human mobility, Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 729-73. Publicados na ACM Digital Library, ISBN 978-1-4503-1224-0.
Oscar Bravo, Antonio Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Design and implementation of a hierarchical SIP-based peer-to-peer network, 20th International Conference on on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2012), University of Split, 11-13 Sep, 2012 (ISBN 978-953-290-035-4, IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1287A-CDR, Publicados pelo IEEE Xplore).
Luis Ferreira, Maria João Nicolau, Helena Rodrigues e Rui José, Scalability of Pervasive Displays Networks, The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 2012), Porto, Portugal, 4 e 5 de Junho de 2012.
Hugo Ferreira, Maria João Nicolau e António Costa, Encaminhamento Anycast em Redes IPv6: uma proposta, 12ª Conferência sobreRedes de Computadores (CRC 2012), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 15 e 16 de Novembro de 2012.
Nuno Vasco Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, A QoS-Enabled Resource Management Scheme for F-HMIPv6 Micro Mobility Approach, Telecommunication Systems, Volume 52, Issue 1, pp 341-357, January 2013
Nuno Solinho de Azevedo, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Maria João Nicolau, CONCEPT: A Service Framework for Secure Ad-Hoc Environments, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2013), Barcelona, Spain, 16–17 de Outubro de 2013, publicados nas Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Volume 129, 2014, pp 197-213.
Fábio Gonçalves, Joaquim Macedo, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, Security Architecture for Mobile E-Health Applications in Medication Control, Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2013), Split, Croatia, 18-20 de Setembro de 2013 (ISBN 978-953-290-041-5), publicados pelo IEEEXplore.
Ricardo Oliveira, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Maria João Nicolau, Bayesian based selfish aware routing on Delay Tolerant Networks, 13ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2013), Instituto Politecnico de Leiria, Portugal, 14 e 15 de Novembro de 2013.
Pedro Queirós, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, Solução Aberta para uma Rede de Sondas de QoS na RCTS,,13ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2013), Instituto Politecnico de Leiria, Portugal, 14 e 15 de Novembro de 2013.
Tiago Coelho, António Costa, Maria João Nicolau e Joaquim Macedo, Encaminhamento com QoS para Redes Ad Hoc com rotas estáveis, 13ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2013), Instituto Politecnico de Leiria, Portugal, 14 e 15 de Novembro de 2013.
Manuel Pereira, Maria João Nicolau e Helena Rodrigues, Application Synchronisation on Public Displays based on PubSubHubbub, Seminário de Informática (INForum 2013), Évora, Portugal, de 5 e 6 de Setembro de 2013.
Tiago Filipe Meneses Magalhães Coelho, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Maria João Nicolau, Improving Stability in QoS Routing for Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2014), Rodes, Grécia, 18-19 de Agosto de 2014. Publicado nas Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) 140: AdHoc Networks, 121-133, 2014.
António Sousa, António Costa, Alexandre Santos, Filipe Meneses e Maria João Nicolau, Using DNS to establish a Localization Service}, Proceedings da 2014 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN'2014, 27-30 de Outubro, Busan, Coreia, 2014.
Alexandre Santos, Joaquim Macedo, António Costa e Maria João Nicolau, Internet of Things and Smart Objects for M-Health Monitoring and Control, Proceedings da 3rd International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, HCIst'2014, 15-17 de Outubro, Troia, Portugal, 2014.
Alexandre Santos, Maria João Nicolau, Bruno Alexandre Fernandes Dias e Pedro Queirós, Open Architecture for Quality of Service Monitoring at a National Research and Education Network, Proceedings do 29th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2014, Cracóvia, Polónia, 27-28 de Outubro, de 2014. Publicado pela Springer International Publishing, Information Sciences and Systems, pp 145-155, 2014.
Nuno Solinho de Azevedo, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Maria João Nicolau, CONCEPT: A Service Framework for Secure Ad-Hoc Environments, Proceedings da 5th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS 2013), Barcelona, Espanha, 16-17 de Outubro de 2013. Publicado nas Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) 129: AdHoc Networks, 197-213, 2014.
Adriano Moreira, Maria João Nicolau, Filipe Meneses e António Costa, Wi-Fi fingerprinting in the real world - RTLS@UM at the EvAAL competition, Proceedings da International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN'2015, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 13-16 de Outubro de 2015.
Paulo Duarte, Joaquim Macedo, António Costa, Maria João Nicolau e Alexandre Santos, A Probabilistic Interest Forwarding Protocol for Named Data Delay Tolerant Networks, Proceedings da 7th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, AdHocNets'2015, San Remo, Italy, 1-2 de Setembro de 2015. Publicado nas Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) 155: AdHoc Networks, 94-107, 2015. Este artigo obteve o "Best Student Paper Award" da AdHocNets'2015.
António Daniel Lopes, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Alexandre Santos, Encaminhamento de chamadas VoIP em redes Peer-to-Peer, 14ª Conferência sobre Redes de Computadores (CRC 2015), Universidade de Évora, Portugal, 19 e 20 de Novembro de 2015.
Adriano Moreira, Maria João Nicolau, Filipe Meneses e António Costa, Indoor tracking from multidimensional sensor data UMINHO at the IPIN 2016 Competition, Proceedings da 2016 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (Ipin), Alcala de Henares, Espanha, 4-7 de Outubro de 2016.
Bruno Ribeiro, Alexandre Santos e Maria João Nicolau, A Survey on Vehicular Communication Technologies, Proceedings do 2nd International Workshop on Future Internet and Smart Networks, FI\&SN'2016, Londres, Reino Unido, 12-13 de Setembro de 2016.
Ana Filipa Pereira, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Alexandre Santos, Named Data for Mobile Adhoc Networks, Proceedings do 2nd International Workshop on Future Internet and Smart Networks, FI\&SN'2016, Londres, Reino Unido, 12-13 de Setembro de 2016.
Xuejie Liu, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo e Alexandre Santos, A Geographic Opportunistic Forwarding Strategy for Vehicular Named Data Networking, Proceedings do International Workshop on Future Internet and Smart Networks, FI\&SN'2015, Guimarães, Portugal, 7-9 de Outubro de 2015. Publicado no Volume 616 das séries Studies in Computational Intelligence, pp 509-521, 2016.
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Antonio R. Jiménez, Stefan Knauth, Adriano Moreira, Yair Beer, Toni Fetzer, Viet-Cuong Ta, Raul Montoliu, Fernando Seco, German M. Mendoza-Silva, Oscar Belmonte, Athanasios Koukofikis, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Filipe Meneses, Frank Ebner, Frank Deinzer, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Trung-Kien Dao e Eric Castelli, The Smartphone-Based Offline Indoor Location Competition at IPIN 2016: Analysis and Future Work, Sensors 2017, no.17: 557.
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Adriano Moreira, Stefan Knauth, Rafael Berkvens, Raul Montoliu, Oscar Belmonte, Sergio Trilles, Maria João Nicolau, Filipe Meneses, António Costa, Athanasios Koukofikis, Maarten Weyn e Herbert Peremans, A realistic evaluation of indoor positioning systems based on Wi-Fi fingerprinting: The 2015 EvAAL–ETRI competition, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 263-279, 2017
Fábio Gonçalves, Alexandre Santos, António Costa, Bruno Dias, Bruno Ribeiro, Joaquim Macedo, Maria João Nicolau, Susana Sousa, Óscar Gama, Sara Barros e Vadym Hapanchak, Hybrid Model for Secure Communications and Identity Management in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Proceedings do 9th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT'2017), Munich, Germany, 6-9 de Novembro de 2017.
Adriano Moreira, Ivo Silva, Filipe Meneses, Maria João Nicolau, Cristiano Pendão e Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Multiple simultaneous Wi-Fi measurements in fingerprinting indoor positioning, Proceedings da 2017 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Sapporo, Japão, 18-21 de Setembro de 2017.
Susana Sousa, Alexandre Santos, António Costa, Bruno Dias, Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Joaquim Macedo, Maria João Nicolau e Óscar Gama, A New Approach on Communications Architectures for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings da 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communication (FNC-2017), Leuven, Bélgica, 24-26 de Julho de 2017.
Óscar Gama, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Alexandre Santos, Joaquim Macedo e Bruno Dias, Evaluation of Message Dissemination Methods in VANETs using a Cooperative Traffic Efficiency Application, Proceedings da 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2017), Valência, Espanha, 26-30 de Junho de 2017.
Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Alexandre Santos, Maria João Nicolau, Bruno Dias, Joaquim Macedo e António Costa, Simulation and Testing of a Platooning Management Protocol Implementation, Proceedings da 15th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2017), São Petersburgo, Rússia, 21-23 de Junho de 2017.
Bruno Dias, Alexandre Santos, António Costa, Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Joaquim Macedo, Maria João Nicolau, Óscar Gama e Susana Sousa, Agnostic and Modular Architecture for the Development of Cooperative ITS Applications, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS (ISSN 1845-6421), Vol.14, No.3, pp 218-227, September, 2018
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Antonio R. Jiménez, Adriano Moreira, Tomás Lungenstrass, Wei-Chung Lu, Stefan Knauth, Germán M. Mendoza-Silva, Fernando Seco, Antoni Pérez-Navarro, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Filipe Meneses, Joaquín Farina, Juan P. Morales, Wen-Chen Lu; Ho-Ti Cheng, Shi-Shen Yang, Fang, Shih-Hau Fang, Ying-Ren Chien e Yu Tsao, Off-Line Evaluation of Mobile-Centric Indoor Positioning Systems: The Experiences from the 2017 IPIN Competition, Sensors 2018, no. 2: 487.
Vadym Hapanchak, António Costa, Joaquim Macedo, Bruno Dias, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Óscar Gama e Paulo Araújo, Simulation and Testing of a Platooning Cooperative Longitudinal Controller, INTSYS 2018 - 2nd EAI International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems, Guimarães, Portugal, 21-23 de Novembro de 2018.
Fábio Gonçalves, Bruno Ribeiro, Vadym Hapanchak, Sara Barros, Óscar Gama, Paulo Araújo, Maria João Nicolau, Bruno Dias, Joaquim Macedo, António Costa e Alexandre Santos, Secure Management of Autonomous Vehicle Platooning, 14th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet'2018), Montreal, Canadá, 28 de Outubro - 2 de Novembro de 2018.
Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Vadym Hapanchak, Óscar Gama, Sara Barros, Paulo Araújo, António Costa,Maria João Nicolau, Bruno Dias, Joaquim Macedo e Alexandre Santos, PlaSA - Platooning Service Architecture, 8th ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet'18), Montreal, Canadá, 28 de Outubro - 2 de Novembro de 2018.
Óscar Gama, António Costa, Maria João Nicolau, Alexandre Santos, Joaquim Macedo, Bruno Dias, Bruno Ribeiro, Fábio Gonçalves, Vadym Hapanchak e Sara Barros, Performance Evaluation of an Emergency Vehicle in a Simulated Traffic Scenario, Proceedings da 16th International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems Telecommunications (ITST'2018), Lisboa, Portugal, 15-17 de Outubro de 2018.
Capítulos de Livros
Filipe Meneses, Adriano Moreira, António Costa e Maria João Nicolau, Radio Maps for Fingerprinting in Indoor Positioning, capítulo do livro “Geographical and Fingerprinting Data for Positioning and Navigation Systems - Challenges, Experiences and Technology Roadmap”, editors: Jordi Conesa Antoni Pérez-Navarro Joaquin Torres-Sospedra Raul Montoliu. Paperback ISBN: 9780128131893. Data da publicação: 14 de Setembor de 2018. Elsevier.