Teresa Guarda received her PhD in Systems and Information Technologies in 2015 from Minho University. She is researcher in ALGORITMI Research Centre of Minho University, Portugal, (research team Intelligent Data Systems (IDS), Information Systems and Technologies (IST) R&D group); is president of AISTI - Iberian Association of Information Systems and Technologies; member and responsible for Conferences and International Relations of the interdisciplinary research group BITrum; and member and researcher of GSIS The Institute for a Global Sustainable Society. She already has relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Pervasive Systems, Marketing Intelligence, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Business Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Data Security, Information Science, Smart Destinations, Internet-of-Things, Computer Theory, Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity, Applied Social and Educational Technologies. Has also been organizer of several conferences and workshops, and reviewer of many indexed journals and conferences in these topics. She has been a professor and researcher in different academic institutions in Portugal since 1991; currently, she is Director of the CIST Research and Innovation Center, Faculty of Systems and Telecommunications, Santa Elena Provincial State University (Ecuador). Research team member of BITrum-Research Group in: the European FIRE project, "Fostering Integrative Research and Education" in which European, Ecuadorian and Mexican academic institutions participate with the purpose of developing interdisciplinary research capabilities through the development of research laboratories and social innovation; European project cycLAB, "Multidimensional development of bicycle mobility linked to scientific-technological studies, citizen movement and social welfare" in which participate academic institutions, energy agencies, private companies and Spanish and Portuguese municipalities; inter-institutional scientific collaboration glossariumBITru-UPSE, "Development of interdisciplinary glossaries as tools for the integration of knowledge in the study of information and the general study of systems" in which they participate BITrum-Research Group, the Santa Elena Peninsula State University (UPSE, Ecuador), the University of León (ULE, Spain), and the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS, Austria). Edited books: - Information Technology and Systems ICITS 2021, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Vol 1: ICITS 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68285-9 - Developments and Advances in Defense and Security MICRADS 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Vol 181 Springer, Singapore - Digital Marketing Strategies and Models for Competitive Business IGI Global http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-2963-8 - Innovation and global sustainable information society RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informacao, Open Access Volume 2020, Issue E27, March 2020 - Special Section: Intelligent fuzzy theory in engineering and science, Guest editors Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems Volume 37, Issue 5, 2019 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Applied Informatics Workshops, ICAIW 2019 - Joint AIESD 2019, WDEA 2019, EduSynergies 2019, IKIT 2019, ISTIHMR 2019, WSSC 2019, VGameEdu 2019; Madrid; Spain; 6 November 2019 through 9 November 2019; Code 153361 Volume 2486, 2019 - Innovation, Systems and Technologies RISTI - Revista Iberica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de InformacaoOpen Access Issue E15, 1 April 2018 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security, MICRADS 2018 Volume 94, 2018 Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 721, 2018 International Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS18
