About Me

Research Interests
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Visualization and Analytics, Big Data.
Publications
2017
SeDAn: A Plausible Reasoning Approach for Semantics-based Data Analytics in Healthcare Proceedings Article
In: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence with Application in Health, 16th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari, Italy, 2017.
Leveraging Medical Taxonomies to Improve Knowledge Management within Online Communities of Practice: The Knowledge Maps System Journal Article
In: Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 143, pp. 121-127, 2017.
2016
2015
INITIATE: An Intelligent Adaptive Alert Environment Proceedings Article
In: MEDINFO 2015: eHealth-enabled Health - Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 285–289, IOS Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-61499-563-0.
H-DRIVE: A Big Health Data Analytics Platform for Evidence-Informed Decision Making Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Congress on Big Data, New York City, NY, USA, pp. 416–423, IEEE Press, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4673-7278-7.
A Clinical Decision Support Framework to Monitor and Manage Atrial Fibrillation Patients Proceedings Article
In: 17th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research, York, UK, 2015.
2012
Modeling Clinical Workflows Using Business Process Modeling Notation Proceedings Article
In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 20-22, 2012, Rome, Italy, pp. 1–4, 2012.
2011
Detecting and Resolving Inconsistencies in Ontologies Using Contradiction Derivations Proceedings Article
In: 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference, Munich, Germany, 18-22 July 2011, pp. 556–561, 2011.
2010
A Service Oriented E-Research Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management Proceedings Article
In: 6th World Congress on Services, SERVICES 2010, Miami, Florida, USA, July 5-10, 2010, pp. 32–39, 2010.
Pediatric Pain Management Knowledge Linkages: Mapping Experiential Knowledge to Explicit Knowledge. Proceedings Article
In: Stud Health Technol Inform, pp. 1184-8, Netherlands, 2010, ISSN: 0926-9630.
A Knowledge-centric e-Research Platform for Marine Life and Oceanographic Research Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Valencia, Spain, October 25-28, 2010, pp. 363–366, 2010.
2009
Integrating Healthcare Knowledge Artifacts for Clinical Decision Support: Towards Semantic Web Based Healthcare Knowledge Morphing Proceedings Article
In: 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2009, Verona, Italy, July 18-22, 2009. , pp. 171–175, 2009.
2008
Operationalizing Prostate Cancer Clinical Pathways: An Ontological Model to Computerize, Merge and Execute Institution-Specific Clinical Pathways Proceedings Article
In: Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 1–12, 2008.
Modeling the Form and Function of Clinical Practice Guidelines: An Ontological Model to Computerize Clinical Practice Guidelines Proceedings Article
In: Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, ECAI 2008 Workshop, K4HelP 2008, Patras, Greece, July 21, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 81–91, 2008.
2007
Ontology Engineering to Model Clinical Pathways: Towards the Computerization and Execution of Clinical Pathways Proceedings Article
In: 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), 20-22 June 2007, Maribor, Slovenia, pp. 536–541, 2007.
Medical Knowledge Morphing via a Semantic Web Framework Proceedings Article
In: 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), 20-22 June 2007, Maribor, Slovenia, pp. 554–562, 2007.
Semantic Web Framework for Knowledge-Centric Clinical Decision Support Systems Proceedings Article
In: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-11, 2007, Proceedings, pp. 451–455, 2007.
Healthcare Knowledge Management: The Art of the Possible Proceedings Article
In: Knowledge Management for Health Care Procedures, From Knowledge to Global Care, AIME 2007 Workshop K4CARE 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 1–20, 2007.
2006
Healthcare Knowledge Sharing: Purpose, Practices and Prospects Book Chapter
In: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Successes, pp. 65-86, 2006.
Evaluation of a Discussion Forum for Knowledge Sharing Among Emergency Practitioners: A Social Network Approach Proceedings Article
In: Ubiquity: Technologies for Better Health in Aging Societies - Proceedings of MIE2006, The XXst International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Maastricht, The Netherlands, A, pp. 941–946, 2006.
2005
Medical Knowledge Morphing: Towards Case-Specific Integration of Heterogeneous Medical Knowledge Resources Proceedings Article
In: 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2005), 23-24 June 2005, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 208–213, 2005.
A Knowledge Creation Info-structure to Acquire and Crystallize the Tacit Knowledge of Health-care Experts Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 193–204, 2005.
Using Computerized Clinical Practice Guidelines to Generate Tailored Patient Education Materials Proceedings Article
In: 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38 2005), CD-ROM / Abstracts Proceedings, 3-6 January 2005, Big Island, HI, USA, 2005.
Towards a Collaborative Learning Environment for Children's Pain Management: Leveraging an Online Discussion Forum Journal Article
In: Health Informatics Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 19–31, 2005.
2001
Knowledge Management in Healthcare: Towards 'Knowledge-Driven' Decision-Support Services Journal Article
In: International Journal of Medical Informatics, vol. 63, no. 1-2, pp. 5–18, 2001.
A Knowledge Creation Strategy to Enrich Enterprise Information Systems with Enterprise-Specific Tacit Knowledge Proceedings Article
In: ICEIS (2), pp. 633–638, 2001.
Augmenting Medical Case Base Reasoning Systems with Clinical Knowledge Derived from Heterogeneous Electronic Patient Records Proceedings Article
In: 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2001), 26-27 July 2001, Bethesda, MD, USA, pp. 421–426, 2001.
A Case for Supplementing Evidence Base Medicine with Inductive Clinical Knowledge: Towards a Technology-Enriched Integrated Clinical Evidence System Proceedings Article
In: 14th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2001), 26-27 July 2001, Bethesda, MD, USA, pp. 5–10, 2001.