IFIP TC12 - Artificial Intelligence

For further information on WG12.3 “Intelligent Agents”, send an Email to: Professor Helder Coelho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Officers

Chair

Professor Helder Coelho, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Informática, Bloco C6, Piso 3, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal, EC, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Vice-Chair

Professor John Debenham, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Professor Jaime Sichman, Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Politécnica, Depto. Eng. Computação e Sistemas Digitais (PCS), Av Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 158 travessa 3, BR-05508-970 SAO PAULO Brasil, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Aim

To study and develop the theory and techniques for intelligent agents.

Scope

The scope of the Working Group’s activities includes (but is not restricted to) the following:

• Theory and agent modelingTheory and agent modeling
• Agent architectures
• Agent-based software engineering
• Coordinating, cooperation and negotiation
• Evolution, adaptation and learning
• Multiple agents
• Mobile agents
• Agent-based grid computing
• Agent-based applications

Officers

Chair

Associate Professor Laurent Mouchard (King’s College London, UK & University of Rouen, France)

Co-Chairs

Professor Costas Iliopoulos (King’s College London, UK)
Dr Maja Hadzic (DEBII, Curtin University, Australia)

Secretary

Ms Meifania Chen (DEBII, Curtin University, Australia)

Aims

To obtain a deeper understanding of the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications and help in the development of its theoretical foundations and technological underpinning, as well as its global integration from molecular analysis to clinical diagnosis.

Scope

Study of the formal and practical knowledge representation issues of the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications.
Design, evaluation and use of ontologies for the various layers we would like to integrate, including genome, proteins, molecular pathways and clinical diagnosis.
Evaluation and state of the art data mining tools for inferring new information from existing and new biological and biomedical databases.
Study of the semantics of agent and web interaction for this purpose.
Issues related to the development, design and deployment of web services particularly the impact of semantic aspects
Studies of human centred aspects specifically for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications, including discovery of early cancer stages, such as through genomic predispositions and/or functional medical imaging (PETscan and fMRI).
Study of the impact of Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications computing on organizations and society
Interoperability of data and Web Services including aspects of Trust, Security and Privacy
Content-based information and knowledge retrieval
Metadata and knowledge markup
Information extraction, automatic and semi-automatic generation of meta data.
Advanced string technology applications to Bioinformatics, Biomedical Systems and its Applications.
Mobile computing with application to biomedicine, for example cardiac arrhythmia.