Web Intelligence Consortium Brazil Research Centre

          Agent Technology
          Agent Theory and Application
          Human-Machine Interface and Agents

          Natural Language Processing
          Dialogue System
          Ontology-based Semantic Interpretation

          Bioinformatics
          Data and Text Mining Applications

          WI Systems and Applications
          Web Publishing
          E-Learningau Brèsil

Knowledge Network and Management
Electronic Library
Ontology Engineering
Semantic Web
Visualization of Information and Knowledge

Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous Learning Systems
Ubiquitous Web Access
Web-Based Cooperative Work

Web Information Retrieval
Automatic Cataloging and Indexing
Conceptual Information Extraction
Multimodal Information Retrieval
Multimedia Retrieval
Ontology-Based Information Retrieval

Web Mining
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery for WI
Text Mining
Text Categorization
Web-Content Mining

Emerging Web Technology
Peer-to-Peer Computing
Soft Computing

Universities and Institutes
	Federal University of Pernambuco - Brazil
	Federal University of Techonology of Paraná - Brazil
	Institute of Social and Economic Development of Parana - Brazil
	Institute of Technology of Paraná - Brazil
	Instituto Superior Tecnológico - Portugal
	Pontifical University of Paraná - Brazil
	University of Compiègne - France
	University of Porto - Portugal
Co-Directors
Prof. Andreia Malucelli	PUCPR	malu at ppgia.pucpr.br
Prof. Emerson Cabrera Paraiso	PUCPR	paraiso at ppgia.pucpr.br	Web Page
Researchers Brazil
Prof. Alessandro L. Koerich	PUCPR	alekoe at ppgia.pucpr.br	Web Page
Prof. Braulio C. Avila	PUCPR	avila at ppgia.pucpr.br	Web Page
Prof. Bruno de P. Campagnolo	TECPAR	campagnolo@tecpar.br
Prof. Cesar Tacla	UTFPr	tacla at dainf.cefetpr.br
Prof. Deborah Ribeiro Carvalho	IPARDES	deborah at pr.gov.br
Prof. Edson Scalabrin	PUCPR	scalabrin at ppgia.pucpr.br
Prof. Fabricio Enembreck	PUCPR	fabricio at ppgia.pucpr.br
Prof. Fred Freitas	UFPE	fred at cin.ufpe.br	Web Page
Prof. Gustavo Alberto Giménez Lugo	UTFPr	gustavo at dainf.cefetpr.br
Prof. Julio C. Nievola	PUCPR	nievola at ppgia.pucpr.br	Web Page
Dr. Milton P. Ramos	TECPAR	mpramos at tecpar.br
Prof. Paulo V. Radtke	PUCPR	radtke at ppgia.pucpr.br	Web Page
Researchers France
Prof. Jean-Paul A. Barthès	UTC	barthes at utc.fr	Web Page
Prof. Gilson Sato	UTFPr	gsato at hds.utc.fr
Reserachers Portugal
Prof..Eugenio de Oliveira	UP	eco at fe.up.pt	Web Page
Prof. Helena Sofia Pinto	IST	sofia.pinto at dei.ist.utl.pt
Students Brazil
Andre Pinz Borges	PUCPR	andre.borges at ppgia.pucpr.br
Cristian Simons (Master)	PUCPR	cristian.simons at siemens.com
Lucas Galete (Master)	PUCPR	lucasgalete@gmail.com
Luciano Rosa (Master)	PUCPR	lucianorosa at ppgia.pucpr.br

Latest Journal Articles

Malucelli, A ; Palzer, D.; Oliveira, E. Ontology-based Services to help solving the heterogeneity problem in e-commerce negotiations. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier, v. 5, n. 3, p. 29-43, 2006.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., An Intelligent Speech Interface for Personal Assistants in R&D Projects, Expert Systems with Applications, v. 31, p. 673-683, 2006.

Koerich, A. L. ; Sabourin, R. ; Suen, C. Y.. Recognition and Verification of Unconstrained Handwritten Words. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Estados Unidos, v. 27, n. 10, p. 1509-1522, 2005.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., An Intelligent Speech Interface for Personal Assistants Applied to Knowledge Management, WEB Intelligence and Agent Systems - An International Journal, Volume 3, Number 4, 2005, pp. 217 - 230.

Latest Conference Articles (2004 - 2008)

Rogal, S., Paraiso, E. C, Kaestner, C. A. A., Figueredo, M., Beckert, A., Agrupamento de Arritmias Cardíacas Utilizando ART2; in: IV Workshop em Algoritmos e Aplicações de Mineração de Dados at SBES 2008, Campinas. IV Workshop em Algoritmos e Aplicações de Mineração de Dados, 2008, (Campinas, Brazil, 2008), October/2008, (in Portuguese) (to appear).

Paraiso, E. C, Campbell, Y., Interfacing Users and CSCW Applications using a Web-Based Embodied Conversational Assistant; in CLEI - XXXIV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, (Santa Fé, Argentina, 2008), p. 1355-1364.

Rogal, S., Paraiso, E. C, Kaestner, C. A. A., Figueredo, M., Beckert, A., Detecção Automática de Arritmias Cardíacas Utilizando Redes Neurais Artificiais Auto-Organizáveis; in CLEI - XXXIV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, (Santa Fé, Argentina, 2008), p. 1090-1099.

Paraiso, E. C, Campbell, Y. and Tacla, C. A., WebAnima: A Web-Based Embodied Conversational Assistant to Interface Users with Multi-Agent-Based CSCW Applications, in CSCWD 2008 - The 12th IEEE International Conference on CSCW in Design, (Xi´an, China, 2008), April/2008, pp. 337 - 342.

Paraiso, E.C., Ontology-Based Utterance Interpretation for Intelligent Conversational Interfaces , in 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (Fortaleza, Brazil, 2008), pp. 1578-1582.

Borges, H. L., Maluceli, A., Paraiso, E.C. and Moro, C., A Physical Therapy EHR Specification Based on a User-Centered Approach in the Context of Public Health, in Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, Chicago, USA, 2007.

Correia, N.; Malucelli, A ; Fidalgo, N.; Custódio, L.; Malheiro, B.. Modelação de um Mercado da Geração Dispersa através de Agentes e Serviços Web. In: XATA2006 XML: Aplicações e Tecnologias Associadas, 2006, Portalegre. XATA 2006: XML : aplicações e tecnologias associadas: Actas da 4.ª Conferência Nacional. Braga : Universidade do Minho, 2006. p. 72-83.

Koerich A. L.; Oliveira, Luiz E. S.; Brito Jr, A. S. ; Sabourin, R.. Fusing High- and Low-Level Features for Handwritten Word Recognition. In: 10th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 2006, La Baule. Proceedings of the IWFHR2006. Tampere : Suvisoft Ltd., 2006. p. 151-156.

Lara, J. R., Sotta, E. D. and Paraiso, E. P., S3I: Um Sistema Inteligente de Apoio ao Processo de Isolamento de Ilhotas de Langerhans (in Portuguese), in X Congresso Brasileiro de Informática em Saúde, (Florianópolis, Brazil, 2006). October/2006.

Malucelli, A.; CASTRO, A; Oliveira, E. Crew and Aircraft Recovery through a Multi-Agent Airline Electronic Market. In: IADIS International Conference e-Commerce 2006, 2006, Barcelona. IADIS International Conference e-Commerce, 2006. p. 51-58.

Ribeiro, R. ; Enembreck, F. ; Koerich, A. L. . A Hybrid Learning Strategy for Discovery of Policies of Action. In: International Joint Conference: X Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence Conference and XVIII Brazilian Artificial Intelligence Symposium, 2006, Ribeirão Preto. LNCS Advances in Artificial Intelligence - IBERAMIA-SBIA 2006. Berlin / Heidelberg : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006. v. 1. p. 268-277.

Lopes, C.; Malucelli, A.; Rocha, A. P.; Oliveira, E. Institutional Services for Dynamic Virtual Organizations. In: Sixth IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, 2005, Valencia. Collaborative Networks and their Breeding Environments. Nova Iorque : Springer, 2005. p. 521-528.

Malucelli, A.; Oliveira, E..Using Similarity Measures for an Efficient Business Information-Exchange. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2005, Compiègne. 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. Los Alamitos, CA : IEEE Computer Society, 2005. p. 234-237.

Malucelli, A.; Palzer, D. ; Oliveira, E. Combining Ontologies and Agents to Help in Solving the Heterogeneity Problem in E-Commerce Negotiations. In: International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce (DEEC 2005), 2005, Tóquio. Proceedings International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce. Los Alamitos, CA : IEEE Computer Society, 2005. p. 26-35.

Malucelli, A. ; Lopes Cardoso, H. ; Oliveira, E. . Enriching a MAS Environment with Institutional Services. In: The Second International Workshop on Environments for Multiagent Systems, 2005, Utrecht. Environments for Multiagent Systems II. Berlin : Springer - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005. v. 3830. p. 105-120

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., SpeechPA: An Ontology-Based Speech Interface for Personal Assistants, in IEEE/WIC/ACM IAT-2005 - The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, (Compiègne, France, 2005). September/2005.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., An Intelligent Speech Interface for Personal Assistants in R&D Projects, in CSCWD 2005 - The 9th International Conference on CSCW in Design, (Coventry, UK, 2005). IEEE, pp. 804 - 809.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., A Voice-Enabled Assistant in a Multi-Agent System for e-Government Services, in F.F. Ramos et al. (Eds.): ISSADS 2005. (Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science - 3563, pp. 495 - 503.

Malucelli, A. ; Oliveira, E. . Towards to Similarity Identification to help in the Agents Negotiation. In: XVII Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2004, 2004, São Luis do Maranhão. Advances in Artificial Intelligence - SBIA 2004. Berlin Heidelberg New York : Springer - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2004. v. 3171. p. 536-545.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., Une interface conversationnelle pour les agents assistants appliqués à des activités professionnelles (in French), in IHM 04 - Conference sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, (Namur, Belgium, 2004), ACM Press, 243-246.

Paraiso, E.C., Barthès, J.P. and Tacla, C.A., A Speech Architecture for Personal Assistants in a Knowledge Management Context, in ECAI 2004 - 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (Valencia, Spain, 2004), IOS Press, 971-972.

Paraiso, E.C. and Barthès, J.P., Architecture d’une interface conversationnelle pour les agents assistants personnels (in French), in AGENTAL - Agents et Langue, (Paris, France, 2004), 83-90.