INVITED SPEAKER SEMINAR - Design Architectural Healthcare Systems

Date: Tuesday, February 13, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM 
Location: EV11.119  

Abstract

Nowadays, the ubiquitous IoT healthcare model is reshaping research in the medical domain due to its potential to concurrently overcome the challenges encountered in traditional healthcare systems. Prediction of exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is considered an incurable disease and the fourth most difficult problem in the medical field. Many issues face researchers in the medical domain, such as modeling and representation of patient context (risk factors), uncertainty, accuracy of decision-making, and preventing exacerbations. These issues have been addressed in many research projects. However, healthcare systems for COPD need to represent the complexity of medical factors and design rules to increase accuracy. Traditional treatment plans and non-fully automatic applications are still used and have many issues, such as accuracy and performance. The goal of this research is to build reliable mechanisms to improve the quality of life of COPD patients and protect them against risk factors, as well as to assist physicians by providing recommendations. In this talk, I will present a COPD healthcare architectural model including context modeling, context representation, and rule-based recommendations.

Biography

Professor Hamid Mcheick is a full professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has over 25 years of experience in both academic and industrial areas. He earned his PhD in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is currently working on designing and adapting smart software applications, designing healthcare frameworks for the medical domain, and designing smart Internet of Things and edge frameworks for smart cities. He has supervised numerous post-doctorate, PhD, master's, and bachelor's students. He has authored nine book chapters, over 60 research papers in international journals, and more than 150 research papers in international/national conference and workshop proceedings. Dr. Mcheick has delivered many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area and has received numerous grants from governments, industry, and academia. He serves as a chief editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, and member in many organizations worldwide, including IEEE, ACM, Springer, Elsevier, and Inderscience.