RADU SERBAN

Research projects:

BRIDGE, All4Green, Adapt4EE

Research topics:

I am primarily interested in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Computing Principles, Modeling and Simulation: Multi-Agent Simulation, Mobile Agents, Collaborative Decision Support, Evolutionary Computing, Bio-inspired Computing Models.

Other topics of interest:

> Process Modelling&Simulation: Business Workflows, Modal Logics, Graph Theory, Petri Nets, Process Calculi

> Knowledge Extraction and Data Analysis: Data&Text Mining, Inductive Learning

> Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Semantic Web Services, Enterprise Architecture

Keywords:

> Multi-Agent Systems, Distributed Computing, Agent/Process Simulation, Evolutionary Computing, Semantic Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, Knowledge Extraction&Mining

Biography:

Radu Serban has a Bachelor of Computer Science, Major in Software for Applications, at the Polytechnical University of Timisoara, Romania. He has a PhD in Information Management & Software Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on Personal Assistants for Security&Privacy in Electronic Transactions.

Radu worked as postdoc researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Knowledge Representation Group – European Project PROTOCURE2, and in the Agent Research Group – Agent Coordination Strategies for Cybernetic Incident Management (CIM Project) and Adaptive Software Components (ForceVision).

Further, he has several years of commercial experience as Software Developer and IT Architect (Service-Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture) with IBM in The Netherlands.

Links:

LinkedIn profile

Teaching and Practical Work Supervision:

"Knowledge Bases in Cyberspace"
"Artificial Intelligence Caleidoscope"
"Facets of Artificial Intelligence"

Publications:

Perry Groot, Arjen Hommersom, Peter J.F. Lucas, Robbert-Jan Merk, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Radu Serban. Using model checking for critiquing based on clinical guidelines. In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, May 2009 (Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 19-36).

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije. Exploiting thesauri knowledge in medical guideline formalization. In: Journal of Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 48, issue 5, 2009.

Tibor Bosse, Mark Hoogendoorn, Radu Serban, Jan Treur. A Specification Language for Coordination in Agent Systems. In: Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2007), pp 252-256, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA.

P.Groot, A.Hommersom, P.J. F. Lucas, R.Serban, A. ten Teije, F. van Harmelen. The Role of Model Checking in Critiquing Based on Clinical Guidelines. In: Proc. of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Conference (AIME), 2007, pp 411-420.

A. Seyfang, B.Martinez, R.Serban, J.Wittenberg, S. Miksch, M. Marcos, A. ten Teije, K. Rosenbrand. Maintaining Formal Models of Living Guidelines Efficiently. In: Proc. of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Conference (AIME), 2007, pp 441-445.

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo-Conde. Extraction and use of linguistic patterns for modelling clinical guidelines. Special Issue of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIIM-J Vol. 39), pp. 137-149, 2007.

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije. Formalization of medical guidelines exploiting medical thesauri. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Foundations of Clinical Terminologies and Classifications (FCTC 2006), Timisoara, Romania

Radu Serban, Anna Puig-Centelles, Annette ten Teije. Incremental guideline formalization with tool support. In: Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2006), Athens, Greece, pp. 106-118.

Peter Mika, Michel Klein, Radu Serban. Semantics-based Publication Management using RSS and FOAF. In: Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2005), Galway, Ireland.

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo. Ontology-driven extraction of linguistic patterns for modelling clinical guidelines. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05), Aberdeen, Scotland, July 24-27, 2005, Springer.

Radu Serban, Annette ten Teije, Mar Marcos, Cristina Polo, Kitty Rosenbrand, Joyce van Croonenborg, Jolanda Wittenberg. Design patterns for modelling medical guidelines. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05), Aberdeen, Scotland, July 24-27, 2005, Springer.

Marjolein van Gendt, Annette ten Teije, Radu Serban, Frank van Harmelen. Formalising medical quality indicators to improve guidelines. In: Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05), Aberdeen, Scotland, LNAI 3581, pp. 201-210, Springer-Verlag.

Radu Serban. The Private Cyberspace: Modeling Electronic Environments inhabited by Privacy-concerned Agents, PhD Thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2002, SIKS-theses series.

Radu Serban, Reind van de Riet. Enforcing policies with privacy guardians - In: Proceedings 1st Workshop on Security of Mobile Agent Systems (SEMAS2001), Autonomous Agents Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001, pp. 69-77, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science vol.63/2001, Elsevier.

Radu Serban. An architecture for data and application security (panel contribution at the 14th IFIP WG11.3 Workshop on Database Security, Schoorl, The Netherlands, August 23, 2000)

Radu Serban, Reind van de Riet. Hiding in a group: who is responsible? In: Proceedings of the 4th workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, Autonomous Agents Conference, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000, pp. 91-102.

Reind van de Riet, Wouter Janssen, Martin Olivier, Radu Serban. A comparison of two architectures for implementing Security and Privacy in Cyberspace. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2000), London, LNCS 1873, Springer-Verlag, pp. 287-301.

Radu Serban, Reind van de Riet. Trusted Environments for Privacy Protection in Online Transactions. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Deception Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, Autonomous Agents Conference, Seattle, 1999, USA, pp. 107-116.