Publications

Journal Papers

1. •Tamás Kifor, László Varga, Sergio Álvarez, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Steven Willmott. "Privacy Issues of Provenance in Electronic Healthcare Record Systems". (accepted in the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ISSN: 1556-6587).
   

2. •Tamás Kifor, László Z. Varga, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Sergio Álvarez, Steven Willmott, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau. "Provenance in Agent-mediated Healthcare Systems". IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 38-46, Nov/Dec, 2006. ISSN 1541-1672.
   

Book Chapters

1. •J. Vázquez-Salceda, S. Alvarez, T. Kifor, L. Z. Varga, S. Miles, L. Moreau, S. Willmott "EU PROVENANCE Project: An Open Provenance Archicecture for Distributed Applications". In R. Annicchiarico, U. Cortés, C. Urdiales (eds.) Agent Technology and E-Health. Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. Birkhäuser Verlag AG, Switzerland, December 2007. ISBN 978-3-7643-85546-0.
   

Conference and Workshop Papers

2010

1. •Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Huib Aldewereld, Javier Vázquez-Salceda and Frank Dignum. “Normative Monitoring: Semantics and Implementation” Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms  (COIN@MALLOW 2010), Lyon, France, August 2010. [pdf]
   

2. •Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Fernando Koch, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià and Javier Vázquez-Salceda. “CONCIENS: Organizational Awareness in Real-Time Strategy Games”. In René Alquézar, Antonio Moreno, Josep Aguilar (eds). Artificial Intelligence Research and Development - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Vol. 220, pp. 69-78. IOS Press, 2010.  ISBN 978-1-60750-642-3. [pdf]
   

3. •Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Fernando Koch, Ignasi Gómez-Sebastià and Javier Vázquez-Salceda. “Making games ALIVE: an organisational approach” (accepted in the AGS‘2010 workshop held at AAMAS‘2010) [pdf]
   

4. •H. Aldewereld, S. Álvarez-Napagao, F. Dignum, J. Vázquez-Salceda. "Making Norms Concrete". (accepted in the AAMAS‘2010 conference) [pdf]
   

2009

1. •H. Aldewereld, S. Álvarez-Napagao, F. Dignum, J. Vázquez-Salceda. "Engineering Social Reality with Inheritance Relations". (accepted in the workshop "Engineering Societies in the Agents' World" ESAW-09, Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 2009) [pdf]
   

2. •Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Owen Cliffe, Javier Vázquez-Salceda and Julian Padget. "Norms, Organisations and Semantic Web Services: The ALIVE approach". Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms (COIN@MALLOW09), Torino, Italy, September 2009. Published in "Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations. Second International Federated Workshops, MALLOW’009, Workshops proceedings", pp. 114-115, 2009 [pdf]
   

3. •João Sousa Lopes, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, and Javier Vázquez-Salceda. "USE: a concept-based recommendation system to support creative search". Workshop "Intelligent Web Interaction 2009" at 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Italy, September 2009. Published in "IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology", vol. 3, pp.17-21. ISBN 978-0-7695-3801-3. [link]
   

4. •Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Roberto Confalonieri, Ignasi Gomez, Patrick Storms, Nick Kuijpers, Sofia Panagiotidi and Sergio Alvarez. "Modelling Contractually-Bounded Interactions in the Car Insurance Domain". Proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Digital Business -DIGIBIZ 2009-, London, June 2009. ISBN: 978-963-9799-56-1.
   

2008

1. •J. Vázquez-Salceda, S. Álvarez-Napagao. "Using SOA Provenance to Implement Norm Enforcement in e-Institutions". (accepted in the Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms -COIN@AAAI08-)
   

2. •R. Confalonieri, S. Álvarez-Napagao, S. Panagiotidi, J. Vázquez Salceda and S. Willmott. "A Middleware for building Contract-Aware Agent-Based Services". (accepted in the International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering -SOCASE'08-).
   

3. •S. Panagiotidi, J. Vázquez-Salceda, S.Álvarez-Napagao, S. Ortega-Martorell, S. Willmott, R. Confalonieri and P. Storms. "Intelligent Contracting Agents Language". (accepted in the Symposium on Behaviour Regulation in Multi-Agent Systems -SBRMS'08-).
   

4. •S. Álvarez-Napagao and J. Vázquez-Salceda. "Using Provenance to implement a Norm Enforcement Mechanism for Agent-Mediated Healthcare Systems". (accepted in the Fifth Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care at AAMAS'08).
   

2006

1. •Tamás Kifor, László Varga, Sergio Álvarez, Javier Vázquez-Salceda, Steven Willmott. "Privacy Issues of Provenance in Electronic Healthcare Record Systems". First International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Agent-based Collaborative Environments (PSACE2006), Hakodata, Japan, May 2006.
   

2. •Sergio Álvarez, Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Tamás Kifor, László Z. Varga, Steven Willmott. "Applying Provenance in Distributed Organ Transplant Management". International Provenance and Annotation workshop (IPAW 2006), 3-5 May 2006, Chicago, USA.
   

Reports

1. •LSI-09-21-R. P. João Sousa Lopes, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Javier Vazquez-Salceda "Word sense ranking based on semantic similarity and graph entropy". June 2009. [link]
   

2. •LSI-09-20-R. P. João Sousa Lopes, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Roberto Confalonieri, Javier Vazquez-Salceda "USE: a Multi-Agent User-Driven Recommendation System for Semantic Knowledge Extraction". June 2009. [link]
   

3. •LSI-09-12-R. P. João Sousa Lopes, Sergio Alvarez-Napagao, Susana Reis, Javier Vazquez-Salceda "Reasoning about abductive inferences in BDI agents". April 2009. [link]