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@inproceedings{Dinis201086,

title = {Telemedicine as a tool for Europe-Africa cooperation: A practical experience},

author = {M. Dinis and F. Santiago and L. Silva and R. Ferreira and J. Machado and E. Castela},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84885889845&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-12701-4_10&partnerID=40&md5=7045360e5a496cdc6c8a7f9500059d84},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-12701-4_10},

issn = {18678211},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering},

volume = {38 LNICST},

pages = {86-94},

address = {Maputo},

abstract = {This paper presents the experience of an Europe-Africa telemedicine network, focused on the pediatric area, and involving hospitals located in Luanda (Angola), Benguela (Angola), Praia (Cape Verde) and Coimbra (Portugal). In the scope of this network, the cooperation between these hospitals goes beyond the teleconsultation sessions. Tele-training, clinical experience exchange, patient transfer agreements and health staff training to local development of new medical capabilities are some of the involved activities. It is therefore agreed that this kind of technical and knowledge network could also be expanded to other African countries with clear benefits to the local citizens, overcoming the digital-divide and improving the cooperation between developed and developing countries. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2010.},

note = {cited By 3; Conference of 1st International ICST Conference on E-Infrastructures and E-Services on Developing Countries, AFRICOMM 2009 ; Conference Date: 3 December 2009 Through 4 December 2009; Conference Code:86156},

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@inproceedings{Ribeiro201057,

title = {Integrating incomplete information into the relational data model},

author = {J. Ribeiro and J. Machado and A. Abelha and M. Fernandéz-Delgado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79959817090&partnerID=40&md5=3febf9654879ef592dea6810494b22c1},

isbn = {9789881701299},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {WCE 2010 - World Congress on Engineering 2010},

volume = {1},

pages = {57-62},

address = {London},

abstract = {Knowledge and belief are generally incomplete, contradictory, or even error sensitive, being desirable to use formal tools to deal with the problems that arise from the use of partial, contradictory, ambiguous, imperfect, nebulous, or missing information. Historically, uncertain reasoning has been associated with probability theory. However, qualitative models and qualitative reasoning have been around in database theory and Artificial Intelligence research for some time, in particular due to the growing need to offer user support in decision making processes. In this paper, and under the umbrella of the Multi-valued Extended Logic Programming formalism to knowledge representation and reasoning we present an evaluative perspective of such an approach, in order to select the best theories (or logic programs) that model the universe of discourse to solve a problem, in terms of a process of quantification of the quality-of- information that stems out from those theories. Additionally, we present a novel approach to integrate incomplete information into the relational data model, making possible the use of the relational algebra operators and the potential inherent to the Structured Query Languages to present solutions to a particular problem and to measure their degree of self-reliance.},

note = {cited By 2; Conference of World Congress on Engineering 2010, WCE 2010 ; Conference Date: 30 June 2010 Through 2 July 2010; Conference Code:85243},

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@inproceedings{Ribeiro2010,

title = {Handling incomplete information in an evolutionary environment},

author = {J. Ribeiro and J. Machado and A. Abelha and M. Fernandéz-Delgado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79959483071&doi=10.1109%2fCEC.2010.5586079&partnerID=40&md5=e5abc9913bad1da5263f98012d26110e},

doi = {10.1109/CEC.2010.5586079},

isbn = {9781424469109},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010},

address = {Barcelona},

abstract = {In this paper we address the problem of modeling creativity in Artificial Intelligence using a Genetic or Evolutionary based approach to computing, where the universe of discourse is represented as theories or programs in an extension to the Logic Programming language, which makes possible to handle incomplete or even contradictory information in an evolutionary environment. Indeed, we present a new insight for the construction of evolutive systems that combines the potential of the knowledge representation and reasoning mechanisms, present in the logic programming languages. Here, in an evolutionary setting, the candidate solutions to model the universe of discourse are seen as evolutionary logic programs or theories, being the test whether a solution is optimal based on a measure of the quality-of-information carried by those logical theories or programs. From a point of view of the process, the quality-of-information of the universe of discourse is assessed on the fly, being therefore possible to select the best logical theory or program that models it, in terms of the same time line. © 2010 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 2; Conference of 2010 6th IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010 ; Conference Date: 18 July 2010 Through 23 July 2010; Conference Code:85187},

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@inproceedings{Duarte2010201,

title = {Data quality evaluation of electronic health records in the hospital admission process},

author = {J. Duarte and M. Salazar and C. Quintas and M. Santos and J. Neves and A. Abelha and J. Machado},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78649311213&doi=10.1109%2fICIS.2010.97&partnerID=40&md5=39a72e5691605095d85a94bfad5f005f},

doi = {10.1109/ICIS.2010.97},

isbn = {9780769541471},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010},

pages = {201-206},

address = {Yamagata},

abstract = {Data Quality Evaluation is a critical problem, specially in Healthcare, where people may take decisions based on confident, acceptable and secure information. In this paper we show how data quality can be evaluated from electronic health records, in particular in a hospital setting. We construct a dynamic virtual world of complex entities or agents, driven by one criterion alone, intelligence, for the provision of healthcare. This virtual world will witness the emergence and will be based on a versatile and powerful paradigm, where the candidate solutions (here understood as agents) are seen as evolutionary logic programs or theories, being the test if a solution is optimal based on a measure of the quality-of-information that stems from them. © 2010 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 23; Conference of 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010 ; Conference Date: 18 August 2010 Through 20 August 2010; Conference Code:82351},

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@inproceedings{Portela2010195,

title = {Electronic health records in the emergency room},

author = {F. Portela and M. Vilas-Boas and M. F. Santos and A. Abelha and J. Machado and A. Cabral and I. Aragão},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78649286974&doi=10.1109%2fICIS.2010.98&partnerID=40&md5=8b270837c1a63ade85711ba28ee2276d},

doi = {10.1109/ICIS.2010.98},

isbn = {9780769541471},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010},

pages = {195-200},

address = {Yamagata},

abstract = {In an Emergency Room setting there is the pressure to make rapid, often critical decisions with incomplete information and this has a significant impact on care. However, it is difficult to provide high-quality, maximally safe, and efficient care in the Emergency Room. Information technology has the great potential for transforming the health care system, improving quality of care by providing the right information at the right time, to the right persons. This paper focuses on the expected impact of Information Systems and technology on the Emergency Room of Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Hospital de Santo António, Portugal. © 2010 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 9; Conference of 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010 ; Conference Date: 18 August 2010 Through 20 August 2010; Conference Code:82351},

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@inproceedings{Ribeiro2010183,

title = {The inference process with quality evaluation in healthcare environments},

author = {J. Ribeiro and A. Abelha and J. Machado and A. Marques and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78649268622&doi=10.1109%2fICIS.2010.160&partnerID=40&md5=ea6e75d4229d65da60c4f998202906a8},

doi = {10.1109/ICIS.2010.160},

isbn = {9780769541471},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010},

pages = {183-188},

address = {Yamagata},

abstract = {Intelligent Systems require the ability to reason with incomplete information, because in the real world complete information is hard to obtain, even in the most controlled situation. In recent years, many formalisms have been proposed tacking the matter of uncertain, incomplete in logic programs and databases. However, qualitative models and qualitative reasoning have been around in Artificial Intelligence research for some time, in particular due the growing need to offer support in decision-making processes. The evaluation of knowledge that stems out from logic programs becomes a point of research. The Quality-of-Information concept demonstrated their applicability in many dynamic environments and for decision making purposes. In this paper we present an illustrative example of the inference process in decisions in healthcare environments. Under the Extended Logic Programming paradigm to knowledge representation and reasoning, we present the evolutive perspective of the inference process to achieve logical programs (or theories) corresponding to the best theorems to solve a problem or take a decision. For the evaluation of the best theories we use a quantification of the quality-of-information that stems out from a logic program. © 2010 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 1; Conference of 9th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2010 ; Conference Date: 18 August 2010 Through 20 August 2010; Conference Code:82351},

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@inproceedings{Miranda201095,

title = {Modelling intelligent behaviours in multi-agent based HL7 services},

author = {M. Miranda and G. Pontes and P. Gonçalves and H. Peixoto and M. Santos and A. Abelha and J. MacHado},

editor = {Ishii N. Matsuo T. Lee R.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957310898&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-15405-8_9&partnerID=40&md5=f66c0e974ed2a0c26a29113a1c2d9de2},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15405-8_9},

issn = {1860949X},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},

volume = {317},

pages = {95-106},

abstract = {With the dissemination of Health Information Systems and the greater relevance of interoperability towards the quality of the information available to the clinical personnel, distinct architectures and methodologies have been devised in order to improve the existing platforms in the healthcare environment. However, most of them are based on HL7, an international standard for healthcare interoperability, which depending on the implementation as any technology has its advantages and limitations. This paper details the architecture and methodologies of a multi-agent based HL7 interoperation service. The mentioned system is incorporated in an integration platform, which is implemented in several healthcare institutions and uses Multi-Agent Systems to control and enable the flow of data and information within them. The log registry and extracted statistics of several years of interoperation in one institution are used to analyse the development of prediction models to imbue intelligent behaviour in the existing platform. The resulting models are studied and embedded into a validation HL7 server agent. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},

note = {cited By 11},

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@inproceedings{MacHado2010191,

title = {Morality in group decision support systems in medicine},

author = {J. MacHado and M. Miranda and G. Pontes and A. Abelha and J. Neves},

editor = {Badica C. Malgeri M. Essaaidi M.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957265223&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-15211-5_20&partnerID=40&md5=fd6d2e4eabd4ee7083420f329463e60f},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15211-5_20},

issn = {1860949X},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},

volume = {315},

pages = {191-200},

abstract = {In this paper we intend to address the morality and behavior problems when using multi-agent systems as a methodology for problem solving when applied to Group Decision Support Systems in Medicine, where the universe of discourse is modeled in terms of a Multi-valued Extended Logic Program (MuvELP) language. It is also presented a formal method to assess moral decisions and moral behavior, accepted as a process of quantification of the Morally Preferable Relation (MPR), measured as the quantity of Quality-of-Information that stems from the logic programs that make the extension of MPR. On the other hand, it was also presented a process to qualify an extension of a logic program as a relational database, therefore taking advantage of the power of relational algebra for problem solving purposes, i.e to set the reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},

note = {cited By 3},

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@inproceedings{Marques2010305,

title = {Archetype-based semantic interoperability in healthcare},

author = {A. Marques and A. Correia and L. Cerqueira and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77956355835&partnerID=40&md5=76b2fe6a21ce9376a62c94b2eb0d1c78},

isbn = {9789896740221; 9789896740221},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {ICAART 2010 - 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings},

volume = {2},

pages = {305-308},

address = {Valencia},

abstract = {Advances in new Methodologies for Problem Solving and Information Technology enable a fundamental redesign of health care processes based on the use and integration of data and/or knowledge at all levels, in a healthcare environment. Indeed, new communication technologies may support a transition from institution centric to patient-centric based applications, i.e., the health care system is faced with a series of challenges, namely those concerning quality-of-information and the cost-effectiveness of such processes. The distribution of cost-effective health care allowing the patient to take active part in the caring process, provision of evidence-based care on all levels in the system and effective use and reuse of information are key issues for the health care organization. The information and communication technology infrastructure should therefore reflect the view of the health care system as a seamless system where information can flow across organizational and professional borders. Therefore, in this work it will be address key principles that must be at the center of patient-centered technologies for disease management and prevention, namely those referred to above.},

note = {cited By 1; Conference of 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART 2010 ; Conference Date: 22 January 2010 Through 24 January 2010; Conference Code:81591},

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@inproceedings{Miranda201027,

title = {A step towards medical ethics modeling},

author = {M. Miranda and J. Machado and A. Abelha and G. Pontes and J. Neves},

editor = {Takeda H. Takeda H. Takeda H.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84921749103&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-15515-4_4&partnerID=40&md5=4aa78bb8c56a99fc5c8175f2f1920925},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15515-4_4},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {335},

pages = {27-36},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

abstract = {Modeling of ethical reasoning has been a matter of discussion and research among distinct scientific fields, however no definite model has demonstrated undeniable global superiority over the others. However, the context of application of moral reasoning can require one methodology over the other. In areas such as medicine where quality of life and the life itself of a patient may be at stake, the ability to make the reasoning process understandable to staff and to change is of a paramount importance. In this paper we present some of the modeling lines of ethical reasoning applied to medicine, and defend that continuous logic programming presents potential for the development of trustworthy morally aware decision support systems. It is also presented a model of moral decision in two situations that emerge recurrently at the Intensive Care Units, a service where the moral complexity of regular decisions is a motivation for the analyze and development of moral decision support methodologies. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2010.},

note = {cited By 0; Conference of 1st IMIA/IFIP Joint Symposium on E-Health, 2010 held as part of World Computer Congress, WCC 2010 ; Conference Date: 20 September 2010 Through 23 September 2010; Conference Code:112909},

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@inproceedings{Peixoto2010236,

title = {Semantic interoperability and health records},

author = {H. Peixoto and J. Machado and J. Neves and A. Abelha},

editor = {Takeda H. Takeda H. Takeda H.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898958907&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-15515-4_30&partnerID=40&md5=a5010e69798b69d08a47288bc65a3a66},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-15515-4_30},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {335},

pages = {236-237},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

abstract = {Systems Interoperability and Electronic Health Records are responsible for an exponential number of visits in electronic repository, either in terms of medical professionals or related staff. This is paramount for a better and sustainable quality-of-care in clinical assistance and of great potential to medical research. Following these lines of though, we present an agency for the diffusion, integration and archiving of medical information, and show how semantic web can enforce the use of electronic documents in order to envisage free-paper hospitals. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2010.},

note = {cited By 10; Conference of 1st IMIA/IFIP Joint Symposium on E-Health, 2010 held as part of World Computer Congress, WCC 2010 ; Conference Date: 20 September 2010 Through 23 September 2010; Conference Code:112909},

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@inproceedings{Alves2010266,

title = {Interoperability performance in a healthcare environment},

author = {F. Alves and A. Abelha and J. Machado and J. Neves and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898661870&partnerID=40&md5=8d16768c682caf8c3fc2c87ae7ace186},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2010 - 2010 European Simulation and Modelling Conference},

pages = {266-270},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Hasselt},

abstract = {HL7(Health Level 7) provides interoperability standards that improve patient treatment, optimize the work flow, reduce the ambiguity and improve the knowledge transfer between healthcare facilities, governmental agencies and the provider community, i.e., all these processes must be handled with scientific accuracy and technical ability, with compromising transparency, responsibility and practicability. Indeed, any healthcare application need to communicate with its peers, once their added value is based on integration. In order to accomplish this goal we will consider performance studies of HL7 messages on a client-server architecture built on Mirth Connect and tested with client and server running on localhost, client and server on separate machines but in the same network and client and server on different machines and different networks.},

note = {cited By 0; Conference of 24th Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2010 ; Conference Date: 25 October 2010 Through 27 October 2010; Conference Code:104375},

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@inproceedings{Miranda2010261,

title = {Interoperabity in healthcare},

author = {M. Miranda and J. Duarte and A. Abelha and J. Machado and J. Neves and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898614025&partnerID=40&md5=d2ac4cd52e1664aa63e3d66b04a3b331},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2010 - 2010 European Simulation and Modelling Conference},

pages = {261-265},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Hasselt},

abstract = {Hospital Information Systems need to communicate in order to share information and to make it available at anyplace at whatever time. Indeed, these systems have to go along with the fundamentals of ubiquity and quality-of-care, being embedded in some forms of intelligent mechanisms in order to be useful for medical, clinical and administrative staff. In fact, to fulfill this goal, the information available must be judge in terms of its quality, acquired via a process of quantification of the extensions of the predicates that make their realm, i.e., speaking for a high degree of confidence on it on the part of the users. Admittedly, centralized systems are not a solution, they speak for themselves. The answer, once one must be able to exchange and make use of information, is interoperability.},

note = {cited By 7; Conference of 24th Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2010 ; Conference Date: 25 October 2010 Through 27 October 2010; Conference Code:104375},

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@inproceedings{Machado201067,

title = {AIDATrace - Interoperation platform for active monitoring in healthcare environments},

author = {J. Machado and M. Miranda and P. Gonçalves and A. Abelha and J. Neves and A. Marques},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898481898&partnerID=40&md5=2f89cf34582d929f0e5b7caefe647d31},

year  = {2010},

date = {2010-01-01},

journal = {8th International Industrial Simulation Conference 2010, ISC 2010},

pages = {67-71},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Budapest},

abstract = {The introduction of monitoring systems may have a great potential to introduce Ambient Intelligence based monitoring techniques in healthcare environments. On the other hand, current research being sponsored by the European Union presents interoperability issues as a considerable obstacle to implement and fully explore the capabilities of such a technology. Therefore, and in order to contribute to overcome this drawback, in this paper we address the different methodologies put into operation in the healthcare sector, supported by a putative architecture which has been used in different healthcare institutions to suport RFID monitoring systems.},

note = {cited By 6; Conference of 2010 8th International Industrial Simulation Conference, ISC 2010 ; Conference Date: 7 June 2010 Through 9 June 2010; Conference Code:104331},

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@inproceedings{Costa2009138,

title = {VirtualECare: Intelligent assisted living},

author = {R. Costa and P. Novais and L. Lima and D. Carneiro and D. Samico and J. Oliveira and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84885886293&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-00413-1_17&partnerID=40&md5=c95a485703b42027cd0737104d7255e0},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_17},

issn = {18678211},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering},

volume = {1 LNICST},

pages = {138-144},

address = {London},

abstract = {Innovative healthcare projects are arising in today's society, normally presenting as major advantage the reduction of care provider's costs. Being these advantage a legitimate one, we are trying to take it a step forward through the use of proactiveness, decision making techniques, idea generation, argumentation and quality, not only of the in transit information, but also of the provided service as well. With these objectives in mind, the VirtualECare project was born. In this paper we are going to briefly present the project and make a position of the actual developments in this first year of work. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2009.},

note = {cited By 18; Conference of 1st International Conference on Electronic Healthcare, eHealth 2008 ; Conference Date: 8 September 2008 Through 9 September 2008; Conference Code:85965},

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@inproceedings{Miranda2009114,

title = {A group decision support system for staging of cancer},

author = {M. Miranda and A. Abelha and M. Santos and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84870914962&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-00413-1_14&partnerID=40&md5=49bac329715400e5bec9a926be3ae06b},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-00413-1_14},

issn = {18678211},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering},

volume = {1 LNICST},

pages = {114-121},

address = {London},

abstract = {The TNM classification system was developed as a tool for physicians to stage different types of cancer based on standard criteria, according to a common language of cancer staging. Staging reports are usually performed by oncologists but sometimes are also done by physicians not specialized in this area. In this paper, it is presented a multi-agent system to support group decision that helps meeting participants to reach and to justify a solution. With the increasing use of web applications to perform the Electronic Medical Record on healthcare facilities, this system has the potential to be easily integrated in order to support the medical and clinical e-learning and to improve patient assistance. In fact, the usual need for documentation and specific information by the medical staff can be easily provided by these systems, making a new steep towards a paper free healthcare system. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2009.},

note = {cited By 16; Conference of 1st International Conference on Electronic Healthcare, eHealth 2008 ; Conference Date: 8 September 2008 Through 9 September 2008; Conference Code:85965},

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@inproceedings{Duarte2009115,

title = {Agent-based group decision support in medicine},

author = {J. Duarte and M. Miranda and A. Abelha and M. Santos and J. Machado and J. Neves and C. Alberto and M. Salazar and C. Quintas and A. Ferreira and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957293677&partnerID=40&md5=6d7d94cef7bf789231dbb1e484549eb0},

isbn = {9781601321091},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2009},

volume = {1},

pages = {115-121},

address = {Las Vegas, NV},

abstract = {Cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of cancer. This is important, once in a good cancer staging system, the stage of disease helps to determine prognosis and assists in selecting therapies. A combination of physical examination, blood tests, and medical imaging is used to determine the clinical stage; if tissue is obtained via biopsy or surgery, examination of the tissue under a microscope can provide pathologic staging. On the other hand, good patient education may help to reduce health service costs and improve the quality of life of people with chronic or terminal conditions. In this paper it is endorsed a theoretical based model to support the provision of computer based information on cancer patients, and the computational techniques used to implement it. One's goal is to develop an interactive agent based computational system which may provide physicians with the right information, on time, that is adapted to the situation and process-based aspects of the patients's illness and treatment.},

note = {cited By 2; Conference of 2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI 2009 ; Conference Date: 13 July 2009 Through 16 July 2009; Conference Code:92509},

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@inproceedings{Costa200986,

title = {Ambient assisted living},

author = {R. Costa and D. Carneiro and P. Novais and L. Lima and J. Machado and A. Marques and J. Neves},

editor = {Bravo J. Corchado J.M.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-58149140077&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-540-85867-6_10&partnerID=40&md5=19f0ad4d87ed2b4284216dee1f8a4a9f},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85867-6_10},

issn = {16153871},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {Advances in Soft Computing},

volume = {51},

pages = {86-94},

abstract = {The quality of care practice is difficult to judge. Indeed, support and care provision is very personal, i.e., assessments are individual and lead to specific care packages, involving social services, health workers, care agencies. We expect privacy in our own affairs and confidentially from those to whom we disclose them. Therefore, we are in an urgent need for new, technological and formal approaches to problem solving, as the increase of population with special care requirements. Following this line of thought, it is one's goal to present the VirtualECare framework, an intelligent multi-agent system able to monitor, interact and serve its customers, which are in need of care services, based in open standards, expecting not only to fulfil the objectives referred to above, but also to overcome the problems induced by the use of new technologies and formalisms. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},

note = {cited By 41},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Miranda2009205,

title = {Interoperability and healthcare},

author = {M. Miranda and J. Duarte and A. Abelha and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898619959&partnerID=40&md5=f7989a0ae6b9affd1048f8f792cbbb61},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2009 - 2009 European Simulation and Modelling Conference: Modelling and Simulation 2009},

pages = {205-212},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Leicester},

abstract = {In our research group work is being conducted on how to develop self organised Engineered Information Systems (EIS), which could enable researchers to create programs with significantly improved functionalities, leading to a more efficient and faster computation. These EIS are based on an original DNA origami which may be designed to serve as a scaffold for electronic workers (or software agents), going beyond existing technology either in terms of Socialization, Interoperability or the process of quantification of the Quality-of-Information (Qol) being exploited.},

note = {cited By 8; Conference of 23rd European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2009 ; Conference Date: 26 October 2009 Through 28 October 2009; Conference Code:104370},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Belo2009203,

title = {Quality of service in transplantation via the electronic medical record},

author = {D. Belo and M. Miranda and A. Abelha and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898461542&partnerID=40&md5=9db98f63e2a945c38373d2d2fe757d27},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {7th International Industrial Simulation Conference 2009, ISC 2009},

pages = {203-208},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Loughborough},

abstract = {Medical Informatics may sets itself as a new area of research open to share its practices, but with a predisposition to consider different but complementary computational paradigms and new methodologies for problem solving. Indeed, healthcare providers, namely the institutions on the public sector, with its physicians, nurses, administrative staff and patients present the right universe to consider and study. It is in this context that the use of Electronic Health Records changed the workflow of facilities which use heterogeneous, scheduled and unstructured methods of recording, in order to solve patient problems and to improve medical and clinical research and education. In this paper the Electronic Health Record of the Centro Hospitalar do Porto (one of the major Portuguese healthcare facilities in the public sector) is presented. The focus is made on the integration and recording of different processes, being studied the case of the hepatic transplantation surgery department.},

note = {cited By 0; Conference of 2009 7th International Industrial Simulation Conference, ISC 2009 ; Conference Date: 1 June 2009 Through 3 June 2009; Conference Code:104329},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Machado2009112,

title = {Modeling Medical Ethics through Intelligent Agents},

author = {J. Machado and M. Miranda and A. Abelha and J. Neves and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84882958807&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-04280-5_10&partnerID=40&md5=be83e457231c9884632a49dc3f413ccd},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-04280-5_10},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {305},

pages = {112-122},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

address = {Nancy},

abstract = {The amount of research using health information has increased dramatically over the last past years. Indeed, a significative number of healthcare institutions have extensive Electronic Health Records (EHR), collected over several years for clinical and teaching purposes, but are uncertain as to the proper circumstances in which to use them to improve the delivery of care to the ones in need. Research Ethics Boards in Portugal and elsewhere in the world are grappling with these issues, but lack clear guidance regarding their role in the creation of and access to EHRs. However, we feel we have an effective way to handle Medical Ethics if we look to the problem under a structured and more rational way. Indeed, we felt that physicians were not aware of the relevance of the subject in their pre-clinical years, but their interest increase when they were exposed to patients. On the other hand, once EHRs are stored in machines, we also felt that we had to find a way to ensure that the behavior of machines toward human users, and perhaps other machines as well, is ethically acceptable. Therefore, in this article we discuss the importance of machine ethics and the need for machines that represent ethical principles explicitly. It is also shown how a machine may abstract an ethical principle from a logical representation of ethical judgments and use that principle to guide its own behavior. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2009.},

note = {cited By 6; Conference of 9th IFIP WG 6.1 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2009 ; Conference Date: 23 September 2009 Through 25 September 2009; Conference Code:98939},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Miranda2009313,

title = {An agent-based architecture for cancer staging},

author = {M. Miranda and A. Abelha and M. Santos and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-74549205928&doi=10.5220%2f0001863503130316&partnerID=40&md5=0a0e694e2a6f23cab3c5503c39d39170},

doi = {10.5220/0001863503130316},

isbn = {9789898111845},

year  = {2009},

date = {2009-01-01},

journal = {ICEIS 2009 - 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings},

volume = {AIDSS},

pages = {313-316},

publisher = {INSTICC Press},

address = {Milan},

abstract = {Cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of cancer. This is important, once in a good cancer staging system, the stage of disease helps to determine prognosis and assists in selecting ther apies. A combination of physical examination, blood tests, and medical imaging is used to determine the clinical stage; if tissue is obtained via biopsy or surgery, examination of the tissue under a microscope can provide pathologic staging. On the other hand, good patient education may help to reduce health service costs and improve the quality of life of people with chronic or terminal conditions. In this paper it is endorsed a theoretical based model to support the provision of computer based information on cancer patients, and the computational techniques used to implement it. One's goal is to develop an interactive agent based computa-tional system which may provide physicians with the right information, on time, that is adapted to the situation and process-based aspects of the patients's illness and treatment.},

note = {cited By 0; Conference of ICEIS 2009 - 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems ; Conference Date: 6 May 2009 Through 10 May 2009; Conference Code:79065},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Analide200835,

title = {An agent based approach to the selection dilemma in CBR},

author = {C. Analide and A. Abelha and J. Machado and J. Neves},

editor = {Mangioni G. M. Burdescu D.D.B. Badica C.B.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-51849141863&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-540-85257-5_4&partnerID=40&md5=398ba95e64599f60c5c14c224a99ce0b},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_4},

issn = {1860949X},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},

volume = {162},

pages = {35-44},

abstract = {It is our understanding that a selection algorithm in Case Based Reasoning (CBR) must not only apply the principles of evolution found in nature, to the predicament of finding an optimal solution, but to be assisted by a methodology for problem solving based on the concept of agent. On the other hand, a drawback of any evolutionary algorithm is that a solution is better only in comparison to other(s), presently known solutions; such an algorithm actually has no concept of an optimal solution, or any way to test whether a solution is optimal. In this paper it is addressed the problem of The Selection Dilemma in CBR, where the candidate solutions are seen as evolutionary logic programs or theories, here understood as making the core of computational entities or agents, being the test whether a solution is optimal based on a measure of the quality-of-information that stems out of them. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},

note = {cited By 6},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Andrade2008389,

title = {Software agents in virtual organizations: Good faith and trust},

author = {F. Andrade and P. Novais and J. Machado and J. Neves},

editor = {Picard W. P. Camarinha-Matos L.M.C.-M.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-51149085006&doi=10.1007%2f978-0-387-84837-2_40&partnerID=40&md5=c3ecde63df22a56fcea18494e9c0ad12},

doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-84837-2_40},

issn = {15715736},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing},

volume = {283},

pages = {389-396},

abstract = {Virtual organizations tend to play an ever more part in electronic commerce, as well as software agents, here understood as the building blocks of the methodology for problem solving that is being subscribed. Indeed, one of the issues that have to be addressed is the capability of such entities to rationally and autonomously "think" and decide. The behavior of these agents may go more and more unpredictable; they will choose their own strategies and define their own planning where are faced to a problem, being possible that they may act with good faith or with bad faith. This leads us to the absolute need of considering the major issue of trust in software agent's environments. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.},

note = {cited By 0},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Novais2008353,

title = {Group support in collaborative networks organizations for ambient assisted living},

author = {P. Novais and R. Costa and D. Carneiro and J. Machado and L. Lima and J. Neves},

editor = {Yasunobu C. Y. Uda R.U. Oya M.O.},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-50249131432&doi=10.1007%2f978-0-387-85691-9_30&partnerID=40&md5=e00e3112ea1c07a159456309ac0d9aaf},

doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-85691-9_30},

issn = {15715736},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {IFIP International Federation for Information Processing},

volume = {286},

pages = {353-362},

abstract = {Collaborative Work plays an important role in today's organizations and normally in areas where decisions must be made. However, any decision that involves a collective or group of decision makers is, by itself, complex. In this work we present the VirtualECare project, built in terms of an intelligent multi-agent system able to monitor, interact and serve its customers, which are, normally, in need of care services, and assisted with tools based on open standards, like OSGi an R-OSGi. © 2008 International Federation for Information Processing.},

note = {cited By 7},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Carneiro2008175,

title = {Simulating and monitoring ambient assisted living},

author = {D. Carneiro and R. Costa and P. Novais and J. Neves and J. Machado and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898929059&partnerID=40&md5=96556202044eb174de5b77651e55cff9},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2008 - 2008 European Simulation and Modelling Conference: Modelling and Simulation 2008},

pages = {175-182},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Le Havre},

abstract = {Researchers are giving special attention to innovative healthcare projects in order to reduce medical service costs and to deal with the population ageing. The virtual e-care was born taking those goals in mind. An intelligent and proactive system has been prototyped, supporting group decision making techniques, idea generation, argumentation and the quantification of the quality of information. In this paper it is simulated a virtual assisted living environment, based in a solid agent-based architecture. Special attention is given to the monitoring system. © 2008 EUROSIS-ETI.},

note = {cited By 23; Conference of 22nd Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2008 ; Conference Date: 27 October 2008 Through 29 October 2008; Conference Code:104367},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Machado2008291,

title = {Quality of service in healthcare units},

author = {J. Machado and A. Abelha and P. Novais and J. Neves and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957277590&partnerID=40&md5=e430ede4a811409da273642f44627a87},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2008 - 2008 European Simulation and Modelling Conference: Modelling and Simulation 2008},

pages = {291-298},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Le Havre},

abstract = {Heathcare systems have to be understood in terms of a wide variety of heterogeneous, distributed and ubiquitous systems, speaking different languages, integrating medical equipment and being customized by different companies, which in turn were developed by people aiming at different goals. An architecture has been envisaged to support the medical applications in terms of an agency for integration, diffusion and archiving of medical information and the Electronic Medical Record, a form of a web spider of an intelligent information processing system, its major subsystems, their functional roles, and the flow of information and control among them, with adjustable autonomy. With such web based simulated systems, quality of service will be improved (e.g., the available knowledge may be used for educational and training purposes). © 2008 EUROSIS-ETI.},

note = {cited By 55; Conference of 22nd Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2008 ; Conference Date: 27 October 2008 Through 29 October 2008; Conference Code:104367},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Rigor2008264,

title = {A web-based system to reduce the nosocomial infection impact in healtcare units},

author = {H. Rigor and J. Machado and A. Abelha and J. Neves and C. Alberto},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-58049169298&partnerID=40&md5=de3d7876b35defa00c5b4e3fc1e485f7},

isbn = {9789898111265},

year  = {2008},

date = {2008-01-01},

journal = {WEBIST 2008 - 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, Proceedings},

volume = {1},

pages = {264-268},

address = {Funchal, Madeira},

abstract = {The nosocomial infection has a critical impact on the mortality and morbidity of the patients in healthcare units, especially in intensive care units, and has been studied in order to be mitigated. The registration of information about this phenomenon in databases is, more and more, a reality, turning viable the representation of this information through mathematical formalisms that, conjugated with the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques, will allow the discovery of knowledge related with the critical factors, processes and infectious agents. The ultimate goal has been to construct a web-based computational tool to automate the registration process to support the clinical body work, monitoring the performance and identifying the procedures that can be implemented in order to reduce the impact of the infections.},

note = {cited By 10; Conference of WEBIST 2008 - 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies ; Conference Date: 4 May 2008 Through 7 May 2008; Conference Code:74937},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Machado2007548,

title = {Formal models in Web based contracting},

author = {J. Machado and F. Andrade and J. Neves and P. Novais and C. Analide},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-34250776977&doi=10.1109%2fWI-IATW.2006.74&partnerID=40&md5=74d0aeb2f8a60e1810267059ac5f6e81},

doi = {10.1109/WI-IATW.2006.74},

isbn = {0769527493; 9780769527499},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings - 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2006 Workshops Proceedings)},

pages = {548-551},

address = {Hong Kong},

abstract = {Legal principles have some difficulty to deal with software agents celebrating contracts and operating in e-commerce environments without direct human intervention. Autonomous intelligent agents have a control on their own actions and states, supporting or taking effective decisions. Therefore, some qualitative parameters such as trust, reputation and quality of information have to be taken under consideration to evaluate, certify and justify such decisions. Indeed, this paper shows how to construct a dynamic virtual world of complex and interacting entities or agents, organized in terms of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), that compete against one another in order to solve a particular problem, according to a rigorous selection regime in which its fitness is judged by one criterion alone, a measure of the quality of information of the agent or agents, here understood as evolutionary logic theories. This virtual world could witness the emergence of our first learning, thinking machines, that may cater for some issues on the evolution of formal models of the world in general, and on what is concerned with the objectives set to this work, in contracting, and foray into a vast, untapped technological market. © 2006 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 3; Conference of 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology ; Conference Date: 18 December 2006 Through 22 December 2006; Conference Code:69803},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Costa2007200,

title = {Inter-organization cooperation for care of the elderly},

author = {R. Costa and P. Novais and J. Machado and C. Alberto and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902327473&doi=10.1007%2f978-0-387-75494-9_25&partnerID=40&md5=94d878cda32dc7ff26eed5e8ae30ef28},

doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-75494-9_25},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {252 VOLUME 2},

pages = {200-208},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

address = {Wuhan},

abstract = {With the growing numbers of the elderly population, the society is face to face with a set of new problems, namely the lack of resources to assist their living in a noble mode. Nevertheless, with the use of new computational technologies and novel methodologies for problem solving, some solutions to these problems are emerging (e.g., remote sensing/assistance/supervision). Therefore, it is our goal to show that under such scenarios, it is possible to bring into play different interconnected virtual organizations, through which will be provided to the population, in general, and the elderly, in particular, a number of services (e.g., healthcare, entertainment, learning), without derealization or messing up with their routine. © 2007 by International Federation for Information Processing.},

note = {cited By 12; Conference of 7th IFIP International Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2007 ; Conference Date: 10 October 2007 Through 12 October 2007; Conference Code:105471},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Marreiros2007394,

title = {Modelling group decision simulation through argumentation},

author = {G. Marreiros and P. Novais and J. MacHado and C. Ramos and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898430569&partnerID=40&md5=b4c3fe69cde9c209961008037eb0eb9e},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2007 - 2007 European Simulation and Modelling Conference: Modelling and Simulation 2007},

pages = {394-401},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {St. Julians},

abstract = {Group decision making plays an important role in today's organisations. The impact of decision making is so high and complex, that rarely the decision making process is made individually. In Group Decision Argumentation, there is a set of participants, with different profiles and expertise levels, that exchange ideas or engage in a process of argumentation and counter- argumentation, negotiate, cooperate, collaborate or even discuss techniques and/or methodologies for problem solving. In this paper, it is proposed a Multi-Agent simulator for the behaviour representation of group members in a decision making process. Agents behave depending on rational and emotional intelligence and use persuasive argumentation to convince and make alternative choices.},

note = {cited By 0; Conference of 21st Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2007 ; Conference Date: 22 October 2007 Through 24 October 2007; Conference Code:104354},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Costa2007323,

title = {Intelligent mixed reality for the creation of ambient assisted living},

author = {R. Costa and J. Neves and P. Novais and J. Machado and L. Lima and C. Alberto},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-38349054346&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-540-77002-2_27&partnerID=40&md5=c898b11a127b0edf983079732f8279b2},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-77002-2_27},

issn = {03029743},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},

volume = {4874 LNAI},

pages = {323-331},

publisher = {Springer Verlag},

address = {Guimaraes},

abstract = {Demographical and social changes have an enormous effect on health care, emergency and welfare services. Indeed, as the average age continues to rise, it is set the mood to an exponential growth in assistance and care, resulting in higher service costs, a decrease in quality of service, or even both. On the other hand, as part of the evolution of traditional Virtual Reality Environments (or Intelligent Mixed Reality), a striving expression for Ambient Intelligence (Ami) it is possible to outline the role of AmI in healthcare, by focusing on its technological, logical (relational) and common sense nature. Our goal is to have in place an electronically-based monitoring system. This would reduce response time to adverse events, improve analytics and reporting, and will provide caregivers with the information they need to positively impact the care of individual patients. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.},

note = {cited By 20; Conference of 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007 Workshops ; Conference Date: 3 December 2007 Through 7 December 2007; Conference Code:71232},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Neves2007160,

title = {The halt condition in genetic programming},

author = {J. Neves and J. Machado and C. Analide and A. Abelha and L. Brito},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-38349047757&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-540-77002-2_14&partnerID=40&md5=78704ec4b5e25b26ee349c86514b2cf3},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-77002-2_14},

issn = {03029743},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},

volume = {4874 LNAI},

pages = {160-169},

publisher = {Springer Verlag},

address = {Guimaraes},

abstract = {In this paper we address the role of divergence and convergence in creative processes, and argue about the need to consider them in Computational Creativity research in the Genetic or Evolutionary Programming paradigm, being one's goal the problem of the Halt Condition in Genetic Programming. Here the candidate solutions are seen as evolutionary logic programs or theories, being the test whether a solution is optimal based on a measure of the quality-of-information carried out by those logical theories or programs. Furthermore, we present Conceptual Blending Theory as being a promising framework for implementing convergence methods within creativity programs, in terms of the logic programming framework. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.},

note = {cited By 80; Conference of 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007 Workshops ; Conference Date: 3 December 2007 Through 7 December 2007; Conference Code:71232},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Marreiros2007309,

title = {Argumentation-based decision making in ambient intelligence environments},

author = {G. Marreiros and R. Santos and P. Novais and J. Machado and C. Ramos and J. Neves and J. Bula-Cruz},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-38349032855&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-540-77002-2_26&partnerID=40&md5=abf9815010f8a6bea34919d2a1971707},

doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-77002-2_26},

issn = {03029743},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},

volume = {4874 LNAI},

pages = {309-322},

publisher = {Springer Verlag},

address = {Guimaraes},

abstract = {In Group Decision Making argumentation has a crucial role; we have a set of participants, with different points of view that exchange ideas or engage in a process of argumentation and counter-argumentation, negotiate, cooperate, collaborate or even discuss techniques and/or methodologies for problem solving. In this paper we propose an argumentation-based system, where intelligent agents simulates the behaviour of individuals as members of a group in a decision making process. Our agents operate in ambience intelligent environments and behave depending on rational and emotional factors. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.},

note = {cited By 9; Conference of 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2007 Workshops ; Conference Date: 3 December 2007 Through 7 December 2007; Conference Code:71232},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Marreiros2006263,

title = {An agent-based approach to group decision simulation using argumentation},

author = {G. Marreiros and P. Novais and J. Machado and C. Ramos and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-83755172034&partnerID=40&md5=5460bc0d65b19e9889dd2c57db2698df},

year  = {2006},

date = {2006-01-01},

journal = {Proceedings of the International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, IMCSIT},

volume = {1},

pages = {263-270},

address = {Wisla},

abstract = {Group decision making simulation allows for the creation of virtual group decision scenarios. The use of a group decision simulator enhances user competences in this area, to test different argumentation strategies and to validate "what if" useful real world scenarios. In this paper, it is proposed a multi-agent model to simulate group decision making tasks. Agents are designed with emotional properties, reason with incomplete information and use persuasive argumentation to convince the other group elements about the best alternative choice. © 2006 PIPS.},

note = {cited By 8; Conference of 1st International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, IMCSIT 2006. Part of 22nd Autumn Meeting of Polish Information Processing Society, PIPS ; Conference Date: 6 November 2006 Through 10 November 2006; Conference Code:87733},

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@inproceedings{Machado200694,

title = {Ambient intelligence in medicine},

author = {J. Machado and A. Abelha and J. Neves and M. Santos},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-52949086819&doi=10.1109%2fBIOCAS.2006.4600316&partnerID=40&md5=51e7b7118fc18cf6ef71eb64d03a7c8f},

doi = {10.1109/BIOCAS.2006.4600316},

isbn = {1424404371; 9781424404377},

year  = {2006},

date = {2006-01-01},

journal = {IEEE 2006 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference Healthcare Technology, BioCAS 2006},

pages = {94-97},

address = {London},

abstract = {The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is a core application which covers horizontally the health care unit and makes possible a transverse analysis of medical records along the services, units or treated pathologies, bringing to the healthcare arena new methodologies for problem solving, computational models, technologies and tools. One aims to develop a comprehensive, structured approach to EMR development and analysis. Indeed, this paper will thrash out the inner features of intelligent agents to be used in the EMR, in the context of the Telemedical Information Society, a step in the direction of Intelligent Health Care Units. © 2006 IEEE.},

note = {cited By 25; Conference of IEEE 2006 Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference Healthcare Technology, BioCAS 2006 ; Conference Date: 29 November 2006 Through 1 December 2006; Conference Code:73754},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@inproceedings{Marreiros2006310,

title = {Emotions on agent based simulators for group formation},

author = {G. Marreiros and P. Novais and J. Machado and C. Ramos and J. Neves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898403365&partnerID=40&md5=06d13be1aedd3763d8f9442f26c1a190},

year  = {2006},

date = {2006-01-01},

journal = {ESM 2006 - 2006 European Simulation and Modelling Conference: Modelling and Simulation 2006},

pages = {310-314},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Toulouse},

abstract = {Time and space consuming are key factors in a meeting, and therefore must be object of consideration in any process of socialization. So, group decision simulation could be a valuable training tool, through which it will be possible to create and test virtual group decision scenarios. In this work we propose a multi-agent simulator of group decision making that models the participant cortex by considering its emotional states and the exchange of arguments among them.},

note = {cited By 3; Conference of 20th European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2006 ; Conference Date: 23 October 2006 Through 25 October 2006; Conference Code:104353},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@inproceedings{Andrade2005503,

title = {Legal security and credibility in agent based virtual enterprises},

author = {F. Andrade and J. Neves and P. Novais and J. Machado and A. Abelha},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902774867&doi=10.1007%2f0-387-29360-4_53&partnerID=40&md5=f5002c3862c1cc16529edd766fddb829},

doi = {10.1007/0-387-29360-4_53},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {186},

pages = {503-512},

publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media, LLC},

address = {Valencia},

abstract = {Recent trends in the field of Artificial Intelligence, brought along new ways of formalizing and expressing wills and declarations. Its application to Virtual Enterprises requires an analysis of the interactions among agents, frameworks and users, as well as technical and legal analysis, in order to discover the rules to be applied, to solve a particular problem under a prospective scenario. Credibility, trust and security issues must be taken under consideration, especially concerning authenticity, confidentiality, integrity and nonrepudiation. In order to increase the use of agents in Virtual Enterprises, besides the analysis and research of legal solutions in the commercial arena, it is essential to assure that agents will meet requirements of credibility and trust, insuring a transparent and secure way for their commercial acting, now capable of generating legal relations. This paper shows how to construct a dynamic virtual world of complex and interacting entities or agents, in which fitness is judged by a quality of information criterion. © 2005 by International Federation for Information Processing.},

note = {cited By 19; Conference of IFIP TC5 WG 5.5 6th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2005 ; Conference Date: 26 September 2005 Through 28 September 2005; Conference Code:105830},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@inproceedings{Machado2005199,

title = {Web-based simulation in medicine},

author = {J. Machado and V. Alves},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898486575&partnerID=40&md5=2da0464605f7eb857b74ff08e42a4773},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

journal = {2005 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2005 - Proceedings},

pages = {199-201},

publisher = {EUROSIS},

address = {Porto},

abstract = {This paper describes some particularities of an e-learning system that is being developed to simulate conversational dialogue in the area of Medicine, that enables the integration of highly heterogeneous sources of information into a coherent knowledge base, either from the tutor's point of view or the development of the discipline in itself, i.e. the system's content is created automatically by the physicians as their daily work goes on. This will encourage students to articulate lengthier answers that exhibit deep reasoning, rather than to deliver straight tips of shallow knowledge. The goal is to take advantage of the normal functioning of health care units to build on the fly a knowledge base of cases and data for teaching and research purposes.},

note = {cited By 5; Conference of 19th Annual European Simulation and Modelling Conference, ESM 2005 ; Conference Date: 24 October 2005 Through 26 October 2005; Conference Code:104352},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Andrade2004123,

title = {Software agents as legal persons},

author = {F. Andrade and J. Neves and P. Novais and J. Machado},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902474435&doi=10.1007%2f1-4020-8139-1_14&partnerID=40&md5=d6a2dc67a3a371fc5c1d4f8a09c5ea68},

doi = {10.1007/1-4020-8139-1_14},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2004},

date = {2004-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {149},

pages = {123-131},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

address = {Toulouse},

abstract = {The Law has long been recognizing that, besides natural persons, other entities socially engaged must also be subject of rights and obligations. Western laws usually recognize Corporate Bodies as having legal personality and capacity for every right and obligation needed or convenient to the prosecution of its social goals. But can we foresee a similar attribution of such a regime to software agents? In other words, are intelligent software agents capable of being personified? One of the main characteristics of a personality is the existence of a physical being or organization provided with its own will. In that sense, intelligent software agents are quite close to human beings. Indeed, they have a physical existence, and they have the capability of learning and of having a will of their own. © 2004 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc.},

note = {cited By 6; Conference of IFIP TC5/WG5.5 5th Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2004 ; Conference Date: 22 August 2004 Through 27 August 2004; Conference Code:105745},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}

@inproceedings{Novais2003703,

title = {Argumentative procedures in e-commerce environments},

author = {P. Novais and J. Neves and L. Brito and J. Machado},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904245828&partnerID=40&md5=004f5c300f3aa77a530321ba2950390b},

issn = {18684238},

year  = {2003},

date = {2003-01-01},

journal = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},

volume = {105},

pages = {703-716},

publisher = {Springer New York LLC},

address = {Lisbon},

abstract = {The use of agent's technology in electronic commerce environments leads to the necessity to introduce some sort of formal attitude in the processes of software development and analysis. Logic programming and specially extended logic programming provides a powerful tool for achieving such goal; i.e., besides being mathematically correct it makes the prototyping phase easier. However, although no simple methodology had yet been stated to address the complexity present in this approach, it not only addresses problems of architecture development and analysis, but also looks at problems of knowledge representation and reasoning, and machine learning. Such a framework will follow the Experience-Based Mediator agent paradigm particularly suited to take into account the argumentation schemes that are inherent to any electronic commerce deal. © 2003 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.},

note = {cited By 1; Conference of 2nd IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Government, 13E 2002 ; Conference Date: 7 October 2002 Through 9 October 2002; Conference Code:106294},

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