An ontology for human-machine computation workflow specification

Lately, a focus has been given to the re-usability of workflow defini-tions and to flexible and re-usable workflow components, culminating with ap-proaches that harness the benefits of the enriched semantics provided by ontol-ogies. Following this trend and the needs of multiple application domains, such as micro-task crowdsourcing and ambient assisted living, of incorporating co-operation between the efforts of human and machine entities, this paper propos-es an ontology and process for the definition, instantiation and execution of se-mantically enriched workflows.This work is partially funded by FEDER Funds and by the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) through the COMPETE Programme (operational programme for competitiveness) and by National Funds through the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) under the projects AAL4ALL (QREN13852) and FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-028980 (PTDC/EEI-SII/1386/2012)

Workflow-based Context-aware Control of Surgical Robots

Surgical assistance system such as medical robots enhanced the capabilities of medical procedures in the last decades. This work presents a new perspective on the use of workflows with surgical robots in order to improve the technical capabilities and the ease of use of such systems. This is accomplished by a 3D perception system for the supervision of the surgical operating room and a workflow-based controller, that allows to monitor the surgical process using workflow-tracking techniques