Nadia Nedjah, Eng., MSc., Ph.D.

Department of Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications
Faculty of Engineering
State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

E-mail: nadia@eng.uerj.br
Tel: +55 21 2334 0105 (Ext. 39)
Fax: +55 21 2334 0306

Books

N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, Co-design for System Acceleration: A Quantitative Approach, Springer (former Kluwer Academics) 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4020-5545-4
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, Implementation of Term Rewriting-Based Programming Languages, Nova Publishers 2003, ISBN: 1-5903-3645-3

Edited Books

N. Nedjah, L. S. Coelho, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems: Theory & Experiences, Springer-Verlag 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-05164-7
N. Nedjah, L. M. Mourelle, J. Kacprzyk (Eds.), Innovative Applications in Data Mining, Springer-Verlag 2009, ISBN: 978-3-540-88044-8
N. Nedjah, L. M. Mourelle, J. Kacprzyk, F. M. G. França, A. F. de Souza (Eds.), Intelligent Text Categorization and Clustering, Springer-Verlag 2009, ISBN: 978-3-540-85643-6
N. Nedjah, L. S. Coelho, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Approach, Springer-Verlag 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-49719-6
N. Nedjah, L. S. Coelho, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Quantum Inspired Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-78531-6
N. Nedjah, A. Abraham, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Computational Intelligence in Information Assurance and Security, Springer-Verlag 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-71077-6
N. Nedjah, L. M. Mourelle, M. N. Borges, N. N. de Almeida (Eds.), Intelligent Educational Machines:Methodologies and Experiences, Springer-Verlag 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-44920-1
N. Nedjah, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Systems Engineering using Particle Swarm Optimisation, Nova Science 2006, ISBN: 1-60021-119-4
N. Nedjah, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Swarm Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN: 3-54033-868-3
N. Nedjah, E. Alba, L. M. Mourelle (Eds.), Parallel Evolutionary Computation, Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN: 3-540328-378-3
N. Nedjah, A. Abraham, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Genetic Systems Programming, Springer-Verlag 2006, ISBN:3-54029-849-5
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Evolutionary Machine Design: Methodology and Applications, Nova Publishers 2005, ISBN: 1-59454-405-0
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Real-World Multi-Objective System Engineering: Methodology and Applications, Nova Publishers 2005, ISBN: 1-59454-390-9
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Fuzzy Systems Engineering: Theory and Practice, Springer 2005, ISBN: 3-54025-322-X
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Evolvable Machines: Theory and Practice, Springer 2004, ISBN: 3-54022-905-1
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Embedded Cryptographic Hardware: Design and Security, Nova Publishers 2004, ISBN: 1-59454-145-0
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Eds.), Embedded Cryptographic Hardware: Methodologies and Architectures, Nova Publishers 2004, ISBN: 1-59454-012-8

Recent Publications

N. Nedjah, R. M. da Silva, L. M. Mourelle, M. V. C. da SilvaDynamic MAC-based architecture of artificial neural networks suitable for hardware implementation on FPGAs Neurocomputing Elsevier Journal, 72((10-12):2171-2179, (2009), Elsevier, ISSN: 0925-2312.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. High-Performance Hardware of the Sliding-Window Method for Parallel Computation of Modular Exponentiations International Journal of Parallel Programming, 37(6):537-555, (2009), Springer, ISSN: 0885-7458.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Reconfigurable hardware for neural networks: binary versus stochastic Neural Computing & Applications, 16(3):249-255, (2007), Springer, ISSN: 0941-0643.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Efficient and secure cryptographic systems based on addition chains: Hardware design vs. software/hardware co-design Integration, The VLSI Journal, 40(1):0167-9260, (2007), Elsevier, ISSN: 1057-7122.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Three Hardware Architectures for the Binary Modular Exponentiation:Sequential, Parallel and Systolic. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 53(3):627-633, (2006), ISSN: 1057-7122.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Towards Minimal Addition Chains Using Ant Colony Optimisation. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms , 5(4):525-543, (2006), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISSN: 1570-1166.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. More Efficient Left-to-Right Matching for Overlapping Pattern, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Elsevier, 3(2-4):230-247, (2005), ISSN: 1570-8667.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Secure Evolvable Hardware or Public-Key Cryptosystems. New Generation Computing, Ohmsha and Springer, 23:259-275, (2005), ISSN: 0288-3635.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Software/Hardware Co-Design of Efficient and Secure Cryptographic Hardware. Journal of Universal Computer Science, Springer, 11(1):66-82, (2005), ISSN: 0948-6968.
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle. Fast Reconfigurable Systolic Hardware for Modular Multiplication and Exponentiation. Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, 49(7-9): 387-396, (2003), ISSN:1383-7621.

List of papers available through DBLP Server

Journal Special Issues and Proceedings

N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Neurocomputing, Neural Networks in Intelligent Systems Design, Vol. 72, No. 10-12, 2009
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers , Reconfigurable Hardware, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2009
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Journal of Universal Computer Science , Evolutionary Optimization for Intelligent Systems Design, Vol. 14, No. 15, 2008
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Integration, The VLSI Journal, Embedded Cryptographic Hardware, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2007
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Journal of Universal Computer Science, Evolvable Hardware, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2006
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle (Guest Eds.), Informatica, Special Issue on Ant Colony & Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2005

A. Bouchachia, N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, W. Pedrycz (Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of the Intenational Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS09
L. Mourelle, N. Nedjah, J. Kacprzyk, A. Abraham(Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of the Intenational Conference on Intelligent Systems Design - ISDA07
S. Latifi, N. Nedjah, L. Mourelle, et al. (Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of the Intenational Conference on Information Technology: New Generation - ITNG06
H. Selvaraj, N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, et al. (Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of the Intenationa Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing - ITCC05
N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, M. Vellasco, A. Abraham, M. Köppen (Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS05
S. Latifi, N. Nedjah, L.M. Mourelle, et al. (Eds.), IEEE Proceedings of IEEE Proceedings of the Intenationa Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing - ITCC04

Long and Short Term Activities

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Editor-in-chief of International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, Published by InderScience Publishers, Switzerland [download Leaflet]
Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Innovative Computiong and Applications, Published by InderScience Publishers, Switzerland [download Leaflet]
Editor-in-chief of Intelligent Systems Engineering Book Series - ISE Book Series, Published by Nova Science, USA and Springer, Berlin
Editor of International VLSI Journal - Integration, Published by Elsevier, Netherlands
Editor of Journal of Universal Computer Science - J.UCS, Published by TU, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Editor of International Journal of Computing and Informatics - Informatica, Published by ACM Slovenia
Editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research - IJCIR, Published by Research India Publications
Editor of Journal of Information Assurance and Security - JIAS, Published by Dynamic Publishers, USA

Guest Editor of Journal of Systems Architecture , on Embedded Software Design for 3D Graphics Visualization, 2010
Guest Editor of Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers , on Hardware Architectures for Genetic, Neural and Fuzzy Systems, 2009
Guest Editor of International Journal of Electronics , on Evolutionary Synthesis of Network-on-Chip Based Systems, 2009
Guest Editor of LNCS Transactions on Computational Science , on Adaptive Evolutionary Computing, 2009
Guest Editor of Neurocomputing , on Adaptive Incremental Learning in Neural Networks, 2009
Guest Editor of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems , on Self-Adaptive Systems: Models and Algorithms, 2009
Guest Editor of Applied Soft Computing , on Soft Computing for Information System Security, 2009

Programme Chair of The IEEE International Conference of Intelligent Systems - IS 2010, July 7-9, 2010, London, UK
PC member of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design - DSD'10, August 27-29, 2010, Lille, France
General Chair of the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'10, September 24-26, 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria

Research Interest

Hardware
- Embedded Systems - SoCs
- Embedded Networks - NoCs
- High Performance Architectures
- Hardware Implementation of Neural Networks
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuits - ASICs
Software
- Evolutionary Computation
- Genetic Programming
- Fuzzy control
- Neural Networks
- Multi-objective Optimisation
- Swarm Intelligence
Hardware/Software
- Hardware/Software Co-Design
- Silicon Compilers
- Evolvable Hardware

Graduate Courses

Sequential Digital Systems [Portuguese]
Digital Computers [Portuguese]

Post-Graduate Course

Embedded Systems [Portuguese]

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form!

Albert Einstein

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