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Manage comfort preferences conflicts using a multi-agent system in an adaptive environment system

Publication . Oliveira, Pedro Filipe; Novais, Paulo; Matos, Paulo

Managing comfort preferences conficts of the di erent users and locals on an IoT adaptive system is a actual problem, this paper proposes a protocol and hierarchical rules to develop a multi-agent system to achieve a Adaptive Environment System that solves the management of conficts in an autonomous way for the users and interdependent of the user schedules and routines.

2021Conference paper

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Assuring data privacy with PRIVAS - a tool for data publishers

Publication . Miguel, Joana; Pereira, Maria João; Henriques, Pedro; Berón, Mario

The technology of nowadays allows to easily extract, store, process and use information about individuals and organizations. The increase of the amount of data collected and its value to our society was, at first, a great advance that could be used to optimize processes, find solutions and support decisions but also brought new problems related with lack of privacy and malicious attacks to confidential information. In this paper, a tool to anonymize databases is presented. It can be used by data publishers to protect information from attacks controlling the desired privacy level and the data usefulness. In order to specify these requirements a DSL (PrivasL) is used and the automatization of repository transformation, that is based on language processing techniques, is the novelty of this work.

2019Journal article

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The 4 dimensions of the GDPR framework: an institutional theory perspective

Publication . Lopes, Isabel Maria; Guarda, Teresa; Oliveira, Pedro

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. The regulation will fundamentally reshape the way in which data is handled across every sector. The organizations had two years to implement it. Despite this, it has been observed that, in several sectors of activity, the number of organizations having adopted that control is low. This study aimed to identify the factors which condition the adoption the GDPR by organizations. Methodologically, the study involved interviewing the officials in charge of information systems in 18 health clinics in Portugal. The factors facilitating and inhibiting the implementation of GDPR are presented and discussed. Based on these factors, a set of recommendations are made to enhance the adoption of the measures proposed by the regulation. The study used Institutional Theory as a theoretical framework. The results are discussed in light of the data collected in the survey and possible future works are identified.

2020Conference paper

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