ALGORITMI Research Center

Publications

Publication . Fernandes, Ana; Figueiredo, Margarida; Ávidos, Liliana; Ribeiro, Jorge; Vicente, Dinis; Neves, José; Vicente, Henrique

A number of guidelines for Psychosocial Risk Management in organizations have been proposed in recent decades; however, some reviews on the subject also highlights that the terms Stress and Psychosocial Risks (PRs) are not mentioned explicitly in most pieces of legislation, leading to lack of clarity on the terminology used. To improve the way of dealing with this type of vulnerability and to allow organizations to successfully manage PRs, this work proposes and characterizes a workable problem-solving method in which the PRs can be evaluated for the entropy they generate within the organization. The analysis and development of such a system is based on a series of logical formalisms for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning that are grounded on Logic Programming, complemented with an Artificial Neural Network approach to computing.

2020Conference paper

Open access

A Thermodynamic Assessment of the Cyber Security Risk in Healthcare Facilities

Publication . Fernandes, Filipe; Alves, Victor; Machado, Joana; Miranda, Filipe; Vicente, Dinis; Ribeiro, Jorge; Vicente, Henrique; Neves, José

Over the last decades a number of guidelines have been proposed for best practices, frameworks, and cyber risk assessment in present computational environments. In order to improve cyber security vulnerability, in this work it is proposed and characterized a feasible methodology for problem solving that allows for the evaluation of cyber security in terms of an estimation of its entropic state, i.e., a predictive evaluation of its risk and vulnerabilities, or in other words, the cyber security level of such ecosystem. The analysis and development of such a model is based on a line of logical formalisms for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, consistent with an Artificial Neural Networks approach to computing, a model that considers the cause behind the action.

2020-05-18Conference paper

Open access

Keywords

Information Systems, Computing Technologies,Electronics, Energy, Robotics,Operational Research, Industrial Eng & Management,Computer Networks, Pervasive Computing, Exact sciences

Funding agency

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Funding programme

Concurso de avaliação no âmbito do Programa Plurianual de Financiamento de Unidades de I&D (2017/2018) - Financiamento Base

Funding Award Number

UIDB/00319/2020