João António Correia Lopes

João Correia Lopes is an Assistant Professor in Informatics Engineering at the Universidade do Porto and a senior researcher at INESC TEC. He has graduated in Electrical Engineering in the University of Porto in 1984 and holds a PhD in Computing Science by Glasgow University in 1997. His teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses in databases and web applications, software engineering and programming, markup languages and semantic web. He has been involved in research projects in the area of Data Management, Service-oriented architectures, e-health and e-Science. Currently his main research interests are e-Health, e-Science and Research data management.

Domains

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

Projects

DBPreserve

The project explores the application of DW technology to the preservation of complex electronic records. In more detail, the project will study: - properties that the DW must possess, according to the standards already established (like the Open Archives Initiative); - rules of transformation from operational systems into DW, adopting a process-centric but integrated view, which guarantees those properties; - a XML version of the DW, though the DW model is already very simple and thus fulfills the requirement of platform independence required by long-term preservation; - metadata needs, beyond the data in the operational database, to preserve the meaning of the processes, most often just implicit in the data but present in organizational procedures and in software development documentation; - application to the human resources system of a concrete institution, now undergoing an important reorganization; - assessment of the results obtained with the help of external experts.

Data Warehouses for the Long-term Preservation of Institutional Electronic Records and Databases

RECAP

The overall aim of the project is to improve the health, development and quality of life of children and adults born preterm (< 32 weeks) or with low weight (< 1500g). They constitute fewer than 2% of all births across Europe, but account for up to half of perinatal and infant deaths, and more than a third of the health and educational budgets for children. It will be achieved by developing a sustainable, geographically diverse and multidisciplinary platform of national and European cohorts of VPT/VLBW, over a 30-year time span. Novel methodologies and tools for data management and analysis will be developed to strengthen research on current and future VPT/VLBW cohorts.

Research on European Children and Adults born Preterm

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Publications

Guidelines for reproducible analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing data

Peres, A;Klein, V;Frankel, B;Lees, W;Polak, P;Meehan, M;Rocha, A;Lopes, JC;Yaari, G;

2024

BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Adding Space and Senses to Mobile World Exploration

Silva, MJ;Gomes, CA;Pestana, B;Lopes, JC;Marcelino, MJ;Gouveia, C;Fonseca, A;

2009

Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning

OLBS: Offline Location Based Services

Coelho, P;Aguiar, A;Lopes, JC;

2011

5th International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, NGMAST 2011, Cardiff, United Kingdom, September 14-16, 2011

ICT4Depression: service oriented architecture applied to the treatment of depression

Rocha, A;Henriques, MR;Lopes, JC;Camacho, R;Klein, M;Modena, G;Van de Ven, P;McGovern, E;Tousset, E;Gauthier, T;Warmerdam, L;

2011

2012 25TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS)

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Supervised theses

Extracting technological description of companies from text

Filippe Gustavo Correia de Sousa Reis

UP-FEP

Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.