Francisco Souza

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 820 citations indexed

About

Francisco Souza is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francisco Souza has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 820 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francisco Souza's work include Fault Detection and Control Systems (23 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (15 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (13 papers). Francisco Souza is often cited by papers focused on Fault Detection and Control Systems (23 papers), Advanced Control Systems Optimization (15 papers) and Neural Networks and Applications (13 papers). Francisco Souza collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Netherlands and Brazil. Francisco Souza's co-authors include Rui Araújo, Jérôme Mendes, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Cristiano Premebida, Nuno Gonçalves, Jorge Landeck, João P. Barreto, Luiz H. S. C. Barreto, Grover V. Torrico-Bascopé and Urbano Nunes and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Expert Systems with Applications and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Francisco Souza

46 papers receiving 804 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Review of soft sensor methods for regression applications

2015 249 citations Francisco Souza, Rui Araújo et al. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francisco Souza Portugal	15	466	305	136	108	57	47	820
Jérôme Mendes Portugal	15	434 0.9×	280 0.9×	111 0.8×	98 0.9×	41 0.7×	53	807
Qingqiang Sun China	7	502 1.1×	285 0.9×	213 1.6×	51 0.5×	58 1.0×	17	765
Dakuo He China	19	466 1.0×	227 0.7×	308 2.3×	177 1.6×	72 1.3×	113	1.0k
Mahmud Iwan Solihin Malaysia	13	447 1.0×	140 0.5×	146 1.1×	131 1.2×	73 1.3×	81	892
Ratko Grbić Croatia	13	591 1.3×	178 0.6×	248 1.8×	62 0.6×	135 2.4×	65	1.1k
Xiangguang Chen China	15	449 1.0×	182 0.6×	173 1.3×	123 1.1×	92 1.6×	57	795
Huaiping Jin China	19	546 1.2×	237 0.8×	174 1.3×	133 1.2×	111 1.9×	56	1.0k
Zhizhong Mao China	17	334 0.7×	459 1.5×	251 1.8×	115 1.1×	58 1.0×	58	853
Gongming Wang China	12	262 0.6×	279 0.9×	58 0.4×	83 0.8×	15 0.3×	27	636
Lingjian Ye China	20	867 1.9×	260 0.9×	288 2.1×	58 0.5×	90 1.6×	103	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francisco Souza

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Miranda, Rafael de Carvalho, et al.. (2025). Optimizing hybrid systems and energy storage: Self-sufficiency and economic viability under metering policy changes. Energy. 335. 138258–138258.

Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2025). Integrating Expert and Physics Knowledge for Modeling Heat Load in District Heating Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 21(5). 3955–3965. 2 indexed citations

Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2024). Hybrid Modeling for Photovoltaic Module Operating Temperature Estimation. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 14(3). 488–496. 4 indexed citations

Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2024). BaHys—A Bayesian Modeling Framework for Long‐Term Concentration‐Discharge Hysteresis: A Case Study on Chloride. Water Resources Research. 60(6). 2 indexed citations

Mendes, Jérôme, et al.. (2024). Distilling Complex Knowledge Into Explainable T–S Fuzzy Systems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 33(3). 1037–1048. 3 indexed citations

Mendes, Jérôme, et al.. (2023). Hybrid LSTM-Fuzzy System to Model a Sulfur Recovery Unit. 281–288. 1 indexed citations

Mendes, Jérôme, et al.. (2023). Survey on Deep Fuzzy Systems in Regression Applications: A View on Interpretability. International Journal of Fuzzy Systems. 25(7). 2568–2589. 8 indexed citations

Souza, Francisco, Cristiano Premebida, & Rui Araújo. (2022). High-order conditional mutual information maximization for dealing with high-order dependencies in feature selection. Pattern Recognition. 131. 108895–108895. 24 indexed citations

Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2022). Proof of concept of Fault Detection and Identification Framework applied in Power Converter based on Digital Twins. 1–6. 10 indexed citations

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Souza, Francisco, Jérôme Mendes, & Rui Araújo. (2021). A Regularized Mixture of Linear Experts for Quality Prediction in Multimode and Multiphase Industrial Processes. Applied Sciences. 11(5). 2040–2040. 6 indexed citations

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Danishvar, Sebelan, et al.. (2021). Coarse Return Prediction in a Cement Industry’s Closed Grinding Circuit System through a Fully Connected Deep Neural Network (FCDNN) Model. Applied Sciences. 11(4). 1361–1361. 7 indexed citations

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Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2017). Semi-supervised soft sensor and feature ranking based on co-regularised least squares regression applied to a polymerization batch process. 98. 257–262. 4 indexed citations

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Premebida, Cristiano, Diego R. Faria, Francisco Souza, & Urbano Nunes. (2015). Applying probabilistic Mixture Models to semantic place classification in mobile robotics. 4265–4270. 14 indexed citations

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Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2015). On-line sequential extreme learning machine based on recursive partial least squares. Journal of Process Control. 27. 15–21. 23 indexed citations

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Souza, Francisco, Rui Araújo, & Jérôme Mendes. (2015). Review of soft sensor methods for regression applications. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. 152. 69–79. 249 indexed citations breakdown →

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Souza, Francisco, et al.. (2014). Adaptive identification and predictive control using an improved on-line sequential extreme learning machine. 1. 58–64. 4 indexed citations

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Mendes, Jérôme, Rui Araújo, & Francisco Souza. (2013). Adaptive fuzzy identification and predictive control for industrial processes. Expert Systems with Applications. 40(17). 6964–6975. 47 indexed citations

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Souza, Francisco & Rui Araújo. (2012). An online variable selection method using recursive least squares. 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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Alcalá, Symone Gomes Soares, et al.. (2011). Design and application of Soft Sensor using Ensemble Methods. 1–8. 13 indexed citations

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Torrico-Bascopé, René P., et al.. (2009). Analysis and proposal of an isolated DC/AC system using three-state switching cell. 536–543. 5 indexed citations

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