Diverse Perspectives and State-of-the-Art Approaches to the Utilization of Data-Driven Clinical Decision Support Systems

Prof. Thomas M. Connolly spent 15 years in the software industry as a manager at Logica and a Director at SEMA. He has been a professor for the last 30 years. He developed the first commercial relational database system in the world and went on to write the bestselling textbook Database Systems that has sold more than 2 million copies. He became Head of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Paisley (now University of the West of Scotland) and then Head of the Creative Technologies department. He led the computing research submission for both REF2008 and REF2014. In terms of research and commercialization, Professor Connolly was Director of the Institute for Creative Technologies and Applied Computing (ICTAC), Director of the Clinical Decision Support Research Institute and Director of the Scottish Centre for Enabling Technologies (SCET). Professor Connolly has 25 PhD completions and over 300 peer-reviewed publications. He is editor of the International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) and peer reviews for many prestigious journals. In the last 15 years, he has completed over 650 national and international research and commercial projects. Prof. Petros Papadopoulos is an enthusiastic and highly motivated researcher in the field of self-organising large distributed autonomous systems. He is passionate in innovation, usually through the mixture of existing and new technologies and/or methodologies, agile and aligned to business and user requirements. In 2007, Prof. Papadopoulos received a full scholarship to complete a PhD in the field of self-organising systems. In the last few years, he has had the opportunity to work hard in a diverse range of cross-disciplinary projects that helped him further develop a wide range of skills to achieve his career goals and aspirations. Prof. Mario Soflano is a lecturer in Applied Computer Games department at The School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment at GCU. Prior to the current position, he was a lecturer in Computer Games programmes at University of the West of Scotland. Additionally, he was involved in a number of collaborative projects in Serious Games for professional trainings and in adaptive systems to improve operational process for SME clients. He was also involved in projects for public sectors such as Glasgow City Council, Scottish Social Service Council and NHS. His research interests include 1) Serious Games to teach hard skills in various subject areas, such as STEM, Software Engineering, Languages and Health, and also to enhance soft skills such as motivations, leadership and teamwork / collaboration, 2) Data analysis and Visualisation for Serious Games, eLearning, eCommerce and Software Engineering, 3) Immersive technology and 4) Clinical Decision Support particularly in the use of Machine Learning.