Ana Paula Rocha

Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
Researcher at DAIAS (Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Agent-based Simulation Group), LIACC (Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory)

email: arocha@fe.up.pt

Research interests

• Multi-Agent Systems
• Negotiation and Argumentation
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
• Learning
• Trust and Reputation
• Agreement Technologies

Current Projects:

• ANTE (Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-enabled Environments)
• MASDIMA (Multi-Agent System for Disruption Management)

Publications

• António J.M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2014). "A New Approach for Disruption Management in Airline Operations Control", book on Studies in Computational Intelligence, V. 562, Springer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-662-43372-0.
• António J.M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2014). "Learning in Heterogeneous Environments: a Case Study", workshop on Intelligent Agent Technology for Socially Interconnected Systems (IAT4SIS), at ECAI 2014, August, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Joana Urbano, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugenio Oliveira and Ana Paula Rocha (2014). "Normative and Trust-Based Systems as Enabler Technologies for Automated Negotiation", in Negotiation and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems Fundamentals, Theories, Systems and Applications, ed. F.Lopes, H.Coelho, pp.254-307, Bentham Open, DOI: 10.2174/97816080582421140101,  ISBN: 978-1-60805-825-9.
• Francisca Teixeira, Antonio J. M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugenio Oliveira (2013). "Multi-Agent Learning in both Cooperative and Competitive Environments", Advances in Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2013 16th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp.400-411, Azores, 9-12 September 2013, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-95489-1-6.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2013), "The impact of Benevolence in Computational Trust", in Agreement Technologies, (Eds). Carlos Chesnevar, E.Onaindia, S.Ossowski, G. Vouros, AT 2013, Beijing, China, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer, V.8068, pp 210-224.
• Pedro Brandão Neto, Ana Paula Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso (2013). “Risk assessment through argumentation over contractual data”. in 5th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Applications (WISA 2013), 8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2013), pp 983-988, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2013). "Chap. 23: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective of Trust", in S. Ossowski (ed.), Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Volume 8, Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-5582-6, pp. 419-429.
• Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, António J. M. Castro, Eugénio Oliveira (2013). "Chap. 32: ANTE: Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-enabled Environments”, in S. Ossowski (ed.), Agreement Technologies, Law, Governance and Technology Series, Volume 8, Springer, ISBN 978-94-007-5582-6, pp. 549-564.
• Rui Gonçalves, Ana Paula Rocha, Fernando Lobo Pereira (2013). " High Level Architecture for Trading Agents in Betting Exchange Markets", in A. Rocha, A.M.Correia, T. Wilson,K.A. Stroetmann (eds), Advances in Information Systems and Technologies, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Series, Volume 206, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-36981-0, pp. 497-510.
• Pedro Simeão Carvalho,  Rosaldo Rossetti,  Ana Paula Rocha,  Eugénio Oliveira (2013). "Exploring unknown networks using a cooperative MAS-based approach". In: 25th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2013), Athens, Greece, Sep. 25-27, 2013. pp. 333-338
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2012). "Trust Evaluation for Reliable Electronic Transactions between Business Partners", in Agent-Based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability, (Eds.) Klaus Fisher, Jorg Muller, Renato Levy, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, V.98, pp.219-237, Springer.
• Antonio J. M. Castro, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugenio Oliveira (2012). "Towards an Autonomous and Intelligent Airline Operations Control". Proceedings of the 2012 15th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC 2012), pp. 1429-1434, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 16-19, ISBN 978-1-4673-3063-3.
• Joana Urbano, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2012). “Trust and Normative Control in Multi-Agent Systems", Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. I, No. 1, July 2012, pp. 43-52.
• Joana Urbano, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira (2012). "Trust and Normative Control in Multi-agent Systems: An Empirical Study", in Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2012, Volume 156/2012, 207-214, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_25
• Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Joana Urbano, Pedro Brandão, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira (2012). "ANTE: Agreement Negotiation in Normative and Trust-Enabled Environments", in Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, 2012, Volume 155/2012, 261-264, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28786-2_33
• Antonio J. M. Castro, António Pereira, Leonardo Fraga, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugenio Oliveira (2011). "A Negotiation Based Approach to Airline Operations Recovery". AITS@EPIA2011, Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems Track at EPIA 2011, pp. 122-136, Lisbon, Portugal, October 10-13, 2011, ISBN 978-989-95618-4-7.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2011). " Dynamic Agents’ Behavior Model for Computational Trust". L. Antunes and H.S. Pinto (Eds.): EPIA 2011, LNAI 7026, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 536–550, 2011
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2011). "A Situation-Aware Computational Trust Model for Selecting Partners". N.T. Nguyen (Ed.): Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence V, LNCS 6910, pp. 84–105, 2011, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2011), "Trust-Based Selection of Partners", C. Huemer and T. Setzer (Eds.): EC-Web 2011, LNBIP 85, pp. 221–232, 2011. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
• Nuno Fonseca, Anibal Ferreira, Ana Paula Rocha (2011). "Concatenative Singing Voice Resynthesis", 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2011, Corfu, Greece, July 6-8, 2011.
• Nuno Fonseca, Anibal Ferreira,Ana Paula Rocha (2011). "Re-síntese Concatenativa de Voz Cantada", 3º Simpósio de Informática, inForum 2011, Coimbra, Portugal, Setembro 8-9, 2011.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2011), "Extracting Trustworthiness Tendencies Using the Frequency Increase Metric", Enterprise Information Systems, LNBIP, 2011, Volume 73, Part 3, 208-221
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2010). "Trustworthiness Tendency Incremental Extraction Using Information Gain”, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto, Canada, 1-3 September, 2010, pp. 411-414.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira(2010), "In the Search of Better Deals Using Trust", workshop on Intelligent Agent Technology for Electronic Business (IAT4EB),  at ECAI 2010, July, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2010). “Refining the Trustworthiness Assessment of Suppliers through Extraction of Stereotypes", 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), Funchal, Portugal, 8-12 June 2010, pp. 85-92. BEST PAPER AWARD inTrack "Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems"
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2010). “Trust Estimation Using Contextual Fitness", 4th International KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland 23 - 25 June 2010, LNAI 6070, pp.42-51
• Agnieszka Danek, Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira(2010). “Engaging the Dynamics of Trust in Computational Trust and Reputation Systems", 4th International KES Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications, Gdynia, Poland 23 - 25 June 2010, LNAI 6070, pp. 22-31
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2009), "A Trust Aggregation Engine that Uses Contextual Information", EUMAS 2009- 7th European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, 12pp., Ayia Napa, Cyprus, December 2009.
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira (2009). "Computing Confidence Values: Does Trust Dynamics Matter?", in L. Seabra Lopes, N. Lau, P. Mariano & L. M. Rocha (eds.), Progress in Artificial Intelligence – 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-04685-8, pp.520-531, Aveiro, Portugal, October 12-15, 2009
• Joana Urbano, Ana Paula Rocha, and Eugenio Oliveira (2009) "Trust Evaluation for Reliable Electronic Transactions between Business Partners in Klaus Fischer, Jorg P. Muller, James Odell, Arne J. Berre (eds.), Proceedings of The AAMAS’09 Workshop on Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability, pp. 85-96, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2009.
• Orlando Ribas Fernandes, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2008). "Ontology Development in Home Automation Used in Automatic VE Formation", in A. Azevedo (eds.), Innovation in Manufacturing Networks, Eighth IFIP International Conference on Information Technology for Balanced Automation Systems, Porto, Portugal, June, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-387-09491-5, pp.161-168.
• Nuno Fonseca, Ana Paula Rocha (2008), Fragmentation and Frontier Evolution for Genetic Algorithms Optimization in Music Transcription, in Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence   ed. Geffner, Rui Prada, Isabel Machado Alexandre, Nuno David, V.5290, pp. 442-451, 2008.
• Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2006). "Virtual Organization Support through Electronic Institutions and Normative Multi-Agent Systems", in Jean-Philippe Rennard (ed.),Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economy and Management, Vol II, pp. 786-804, Idea Group, Inc.
• Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Andreia Malucelli, Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (2005). "Institutional Services for Dynamic Virtual Organizations", in L.M. Camarinha-Matos, H. Afsarmanesh, A. Ortiz (eds.), Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments - Sixth IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, Springer. pp. 521-528. Valencia, Spain. September 2005.
• Ana Paula Rocha, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio Oliveira (2005). "Contributions to an Electronic Institution supporting Virtual Enterprises' life cycle", in G. D. Putnik & M. M. Cunha (eds.), Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives, Idea Group Inc., ISBN 1-59140-406-1,  Ch. XI, pp. 229-246.
• Andreia Malucelli, Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira (2004). "B2B Transactions enhanced with ontology-based services", ICETE'04 - 1st International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, pp. 10-17, Portugal, August 2004.
• Ana Paula Rocha, Eugenio Oliveira (2001). "Electronic Institutions as a framework for Agents' Negotiation and mutual Commitment", in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of 10th EPIA), Eds. P.Brazdil, A.Jorge, LNAI 2258, pp.232-245,Springer, December 2001
• Eugénio Oliveira and Ana Paula Rocha (2000), "Agents advanced features for negotiation in Electronic Commerce and Virtual Organisations formation process", in Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce: The European AgentLink Perspective, F.Dignum and C.Sierra (Eds), LNAI 1991, pp.78-97, Springer Verlag, June 2000
• Ana Paula Rocha and Eugénio Oliveira (2000). "Adaptive multi-issue negotiation protocol for Electronic Commerce", in Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on The Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM 2000), Manchester, UK, 10-12 April 2000
• Ana Paula Rocha,Eugenio Oliveira (1999). "A negotiation framework for the establishment of virtual organisations", in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on CSCW in Design, Pages: 301-307, Editor(s): Barthes, JP; Lin, Z; Ramos, M.
• Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (1999). "An Electronic Market Architecture for the formation of Virtual Enterprises", in PRO-VE'99 IFIP/PRODNET Conference on Infrastructures for Industrial Virtual Enterprises, Porto, October 1999.
• Ana Paula Rocha, Eugénio Oliveira (1999). "Electronic Commerce: a technological perspective", in O Futuro da Internet (The Future of Internet), pgs.127-138, Ed. Centro Atlântico, March 1999
• Eugénio Oliveira, Ana Paula Rocha (1994). "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution in a Multi-Agent System for an Assembly Robotics Cell", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Texas, 1994
• Eugénio Oliveira, Fernando Mouta, Ana Paula Rocha (1993). "Cooperation in a Multi-Agent Community", in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems and Natural Language, Avignon, 1993
• Eugenio Oliveira, Fernando Mouta, Ana Paula Rocha (1993). "Negotiation and Conflict Resolution within a Community of Cooperative Agents", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS'93), Kawasaki, Japan 1993