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Rui Chibante

Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP)
R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal.
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Simulated Annealing, Theory with Applications


Edited by: Rui Chibante
ISBN 978-953-307-134-3, Hard cover, 292 pages
Publisher: Sciyo
Publication date: August 2010
Subject: Global Optimization

The book contains 15 chapters presenting recent contributions of top researchers working with Simulated Annealing (SA). Although it represents a small sample of the research activity on SA, the book will certainly serve as a valuable tool for researchers interested in getting involved in this multidisciplinary field. In fact, one of the salient features is that the book is highly multidisciplinary in terms of application areas since it assembles experts from the fields of Biology, Telecommunications, Geology, Electronics and Medicine.


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Rui Chibante is currently a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers, at School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/IPP).
He received in 1999 the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University (FEUP). In 2006 received the Ph.D degree in Science Engineering from FEUP.
He is member of LEMA group.

His research interests are:
  • modelling of power electronic devices
  • simulation of power electronic systems
  • heuristic optimization techniques (Particle Swarm Optimization, Simulated Annealing)
  • modelling of fuel cells


Selected publications:


Chibante, R. e Carvalho, F., Thyristor Circuits Modelling for Fast Simulation of Controlled Rectifiers, International Review on Modelling and Simulations (IREMOS), vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 214-225, 2022, doi: 10.15866/iremos.v15i4.22120.

Chibante, R. e Carvalho, F., An effective modelling approach for simulation of thyristor rectifiers, Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE), 29 June - 1 July, Coimbra, Portugal, 2022, 10.1109/EAEEIE54893.2022.9820148.

Chibante, R., Vaz de Carvalho, C., Ferreira, P., A simulation tool to promote active learning of controlled rectifiers, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 688-699, 2018, doi:10.1002/cae.21923.
Link to -> THYCIS - Thyristor Circuit Simulator <-

Colaço, C., Caldas, P., Del Villar, I., Chibante, R., Rego, G., Arc-Induced Long-Period Fiber Gratings in the Dispersion Turning Points, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 34, no. 19, pp. 4584-4590, 2016, doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2540678.

Colaço, C., Caldas, P., Chibante, R., Rego, G., Arc-induced gratings in the turning points, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, vol. 9634, pp. 96346K-4, 28 Set, Curitiba, Brasil, 2015, doi:10.1117/12.2194274.

Chibante, R. , Teresa Outeiro, Adriano Carvalho, Simulated Annealing as a method to support parameters identification for power electronics systems, Book chapter Advances in Mathematics Research, Volume 11, Chapter 1, pp. 1-27, Edited by Albert R. Baswell, Nova Science Publishers, USA, 2010, ISBN: 978-1-60876-970-4.

Chibante, R., Campos D., An Experimentally Optimized PEM Fuel Cell Model using PSO Algorithm, IEEE Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'10), pp. 2281-2285, 4-7 Jul, Bari, Italy, 2010.

Chibante, R., Araújo, A. e Carvalho, A., Finite Element Modeling and Optimization-Based Parameter Extraction Algorithm for NPT-IGBTs, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 1417-1427, 2009, doi:10.1109/TPEL.2009.2012388.

Outeiro, M. T., Chibante, R., Carvalho, A. S. e Almeida, A. T., A New Parameter Extraction Method for Accurate Modeling of PEM fuel cells, International Journal of Energy Research, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 978-988, 2009, doi:10.1002/er.1525.

Chibante, R., Araújo, A. e Carvalho, A., Finite Element Power Diode Model Optimized Through Experiment Based Parameter Extraction, International Journal of Numerical Modeling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 351-367, 2009, doi:10.1002/jnm.708.

Chibante, R., Araújo, A. e Carvalho, A., A new approach for physical-based modelling of bipolar power semiconductor devices, Solid-State Electronics, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 1766-1772, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.sse.2008.07.006.

Outeiro, M. T., Chibante, R., Carvalho, A. S. e Almeida, A. T., A Parameter Optimized Model of a PEM Fuel Cell Including Temperature Effects, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 185, no. 2, pp. 952-960, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2008.08.019.


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