Paulo Novais

 Editor and author of collective book “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Resolution”, IGI-Global, 2016 (on the causes of diverse conflicts, novel disputes, and technologies associated therein, which provides multifaceted solutions to the myriad of potential arguments and disagreements that arise as part of the human condition); “Conflict Resolution and its Context. From the Analysis of Behavioural Patterns to Efficient Decision-Making”, with Carneiro D./Neves J.,  Springer-Verlag, 2014 (authors use AI techniques to build a service environment for conflict resolution, describing the approach taken and the experiments performed in the Intelligent Systems Lab of UMinho, and showing the potential advantages of the use of Intelligent Environments, as a way to implement better conflict resolution procedures, in which all the participants have access to more and better information and are able to take better informed decisions); “A new Emotional Robot Assistant that facilitates human interaction and persuasion”, with Rincon J. et. al., Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, Springer, 2018 (authors explore the interaction between humans and sociable robots, which main goal is to provide assistance to older people in carrying out their daily activities – through suggestions or reminders –, displaying human identifiable emotions in order to express empathy (a prototype of the robot is being tested in a daycare center in the northern area of Portugal); “AI and regulating algorithms”, with Freitas P., Report Dialogues between EU and Brazil, Brazilian Federal Government and European Commission, Brasília and Brussels, 30/5/2018 (http://www.sectordialogues.org/publicacao/inteligencia-artificial-e-regulacao-de-algoritmos).