Thursday, 9/28/2017
Paulo Novais and João Carneiro, researchers from
ALGORITMI, awarded for paper in co-authorship with Goreti Marreiros and Luís
Conceição, researchers from ISEP.
UMinho’s work in collaboration with Instituto Superior de Engenharia do
Porto (ISEP – Polytechnic Engineering School) was granted the “Best Application paper” award at the prestigious EPIA
- International Conference in Artificial Intelligence, held in Porto, from the
5th to the 8th September. The event brought together
about 200 international experts who discussed topics related to Artificial
Intelligence.
The received award is the result of several
years’ work on many projects, carried out in collaboration of ALGORITMI/ISlab
led by Paulo Novais and GECAD (Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and
Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development) led by Goreti Marreiros, also
counting on the researchers João Carneiro (student from the doctoral programme
in Informatics MAP-I of the EEUM and Luís Conceição (researcher at ISEP-GECAD).
In the awarded project,
the researchers proposed a Web-based Group Decision Support System capable of
supporting group decision-making processes in ubiquitous contexts. Target
decision-makers are members of large organisations, often occupying positions
as top executives and managers, and that traditionally have very busy
schedules.
The proposed system
consists of a SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and was specifically defined
to deal with multicriteria problems. It allows decision-makers to configure
their preferences (over alternatives and criteria), and their objectives and
intentions (considering aspects such as credibility, expertise level and styles
of behaviour) regarding the problem. It consists of a consensus-based approach
that intends to achieve consensus through an iterative process. For that, a
Multicriteria Decision Analysis method that proposes a possible solution
according to the preferences configured by each decision-maker is used.
Finally, in order to potentiate the user experience, an algorithm capable of
adapting the information reported to decision-makers according to their
specific interests (expertise level, level of interest in the process and available
time) is also used.
“The Best Application
paper award aims at honouring the scientific paper presenting the best research
with a practical and concrete application to a certain domain. In this
particular case, the group decision support system in ubiquitous contexts was awarded”,
Paulo Novais refers. The distinction is the result of a cooperation project
which has been carried out for several years between researchers from the EEUM
and ISEP, aiming at designing environments which enable group decisions, using
the most recent methodologies and technologies in Artificial Intelligence. The
researcher adds: “For the last few years, ISLab-ALGORITMI has been working on
Decision, as well as on issues and procedures within this scope, in several
application areas. This award is a further step in reaching a broader goal,
which is the development of (more) intelligent, trustworthy and sensible
systems”.
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info: https://web.fe.up.pt/~epia2017/best-application-paper-award/
