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Assessing the eligibility of kidney transplant donors
Francisco Reinaldo; Carlos Fernandes; Md. Anishur Rahman; Andreia Malucelli; Rui CamachoOrgan transplantation is a highly complex decision process that requires expert decisions. The major problem in a transplantation procedure is the possibility of the receiver's immune system attack and destroy the transplanted tissue. It is therefore of capital importance to nd a donor with the highest possible compatibility with the receiver, and thus reduce rejection. Finding a good donor is not a straightfor...
Crew and aircraft recovery through a multi-agent airline electronic market
Andreia Malucelli; António Jesus Monteiro de Castro; Eugénio da Costa OliveiraAirline companies do not collaborate when dealing with problems that arise during their own operational control plan. These problems are related with aircrafts, crew members and passengers and the actions towards the solution of these problems are usually known as operations recovery. In this paper we present a possible solution to the problem of lack of collaboration between different airlines, based on an ele...
Enriching a MAS environment with institutional services
Andreia Malucelli; Henrique Lopes Cardoso; Eugénio OliveiraMost environments for multi-agent systems limit themselves to providing message transport and white/yellow page services. While these are generic facilities, in some domains other services are necessary, which may map real-world services provided by institutions. The Electronic Institution concept represents the virtual counterpart of real-world institutions, and one of its benefits is to provide a regulated an...
Ontology-services agent to help in the structural and semantic heterogeneity
Andreia Malucelli; Eugénio OliveiraIn the Virtual Enterprises (VE) environment, interactions between distributed heterogeneous computing entities representing different enterprises, people and resources, take place. These interactions, in order to be both syntactic and semantic compatible, need to follow appropriate standards (ontologies) well understood by all the participants. Even for each domain ontology, people may store their data in diffe...