Filipe Portela

Carlos Filipe Portela went to the University of Minho in Guimarães, where he studied information system and obtained his degree in 2007 (Lic), 2009 (MSc) and 2013 (PhD). He holds a PhD in Information Systems and Technologies in 2013. He belongs to the Research Centre ALGORITMI where he is developing his post-doctoral research work in the topic "Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems". His research was started in the INTCare R&D project (Intensive Medicine area) being then extended to education and public administration areas. He already has relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Intelligent Systems, Pervasive Data, Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He has also been co-organizer of several workshops and reviewer of many indexed journals and conferences in these topics. Currently he also is an Invited Assistant Professor of the Information Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, where he has been supervising several master students in the areas above mentioned and a Guest Lecturer in Porto Polytechnic - ESMAD. He is always in a continuing looking for opportunities to research and innovation in the society.

Publications

A Primer on Gamification Standardization
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queiros, Mário Pinto, Alberto Simões, Carlos Filipe Portela. © 2023. 13 pages.
Computer science education has always been a challenging topic for both sides of the trench: educators and learners. Nowadays, with the pandemic state that we are facing, these...
Next-Generation Applications and Implementations of Gamification Systems
Next-Generation Applications and Implementations of Gamification Systems
Filipe Portela, Ricardo Queirós. © 2022. 281 pages.
Gamification is being used everywhere; despite its apparent plethora of benefits, the unbalanced use of its main mechanics can end up in catastrophic results for a company or...
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
A Primer on Gamification Standardization
Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queiros, Mário Pinto, Alberto Simões, Carlos Filipe Portela. © 2022. 13 pages.
Computer science education has always been a challenging topic for both sides of the trench: educators and learners. Nowadays, with the pandemic state that we are facing, these...
An Overview of the Use of Gamification on Enterprises to Motivate Human Resources
An Overview of the Use of Gamification on Enterprises to Motivate Human Resources
Igor Fernandes, Pedro Branco, Carlos Filipe Portela. © 2022. 14 pages.
Organizations are concerned about how they can increase the motivation and engagement of their employees. Gamification arises in this context as an opportunity to address this...
A Framework to Evaluate Big Data Fabric Tools
A Framework to Evaluate Big Data Fabric Tools
Ângela Alpoim, João Lopes, Tiago André Saraiva Guimarães, Carlos Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos. © 2021. 12 pages.
A huge growth in data and information needs has led organizations to search for the most appropriate data integration tools for different types of business. The management of a...
Categorize Readmitted Patients in Intensive Medicine by Means of Clustering Data Mining
Categorize Readmitted Patients in Intensive Medicine by Means of Clustering Data Mining
Rui Veloso, Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Machado, António da Silva Abelha, Fernando Rua, Álvaro Silva. © 2020. 16 pages.
With a constant increasing in the health expenses and the aggravation of the global economic situation, managing costs and resources in healthcare is nowadays an essential point...
Bring Your Own Device in Healthcare
Bring Your Own Device in Healthcare
Ailton Moreira, Carlos Filipe da Silva Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos. © 2019. 13 pages.
Bring your own device (BYOD) policies have become a very popular topic in information technology, as this approach allows employees to bring their devices into their...
Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions
Next-Generation Mobile and Pervasive Healthcare Solutions
Jose Machado, António Abelha, Manuel Filipe Santos, Filipe Portela. © 2018. 286 pages.
Technology is changing the practice of healthcare by the ways medical information is stored, shared, and accessed. With mobile innovations, new strategies are unfolding to...
Benefits of Bring Your Own Device in Healthcare
Benefits of Bring Your Own Device in Healthcare
Filipe Portela, Ailton Moreira da Veiga, Manuel Filipe Santos. © 2018. 14 pages.
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become very popular topic in information technology because this approach allows the employees to bring their personal devices into organization...
Pervasive Computing in Supporting Pediatric and Neonatology Care Unit Decision Process
Pervasive Computing in Supporting Pediatric and Neonatology Care Unit Decision Process
Bia Martins, Tiago André Saraiva Guimarães, Mariana Santos, Simão Frutuoso, Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos. © 2018. 10 pages.
Neonatal units, and especially the sections devoted to intensive care require an individualized medical prescription, based on body weight and gestational age making them among...
Pre-Triage Decision Support Improvement in Maternity Care by Means of Data Mining
Pre-Triage Decision Support Improvement in Maternity Care by Means of Data Mining
Eliana Pereira, Andreia Brandão, Maria Salazar, Carlos Filipe Portela, Manuel Filipe Santos, José Machado, António Abelha, Jorge Braga. © 2015. 18 pages.
A triage system aims to make a correct characterization of the condition of patients. Because conventional triage systems like Manchester Triage System (MTS) are not suitable for...
Knowledge Acquisition Process for Intelligent Decision Support in Critical Health Care
Knowledge Acquisition Process for Intelligent Decision Support in Critical Health Care
Filipe Portela, Alexandra Cabral, António Abelha, Maria Salazar, César Quintas, José Machado, José Neves, Manuel Filipe Santos. © 2013. 14 pages.
An efficient triage system is a good way to avoid some future problems and benefit the patient. However, a limitation still exists. The triage system is general and not specific...