No picture	Boldur Barbat: Email: bbarbat@rdslink.ro “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu: 4 Emil Cioran Street, 2400 Sibiu, Romania, Phone: +40-69-216062/ext461, Fax: +40-69-212716, Phone (home): +40-69-212523 Full Professor – Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science and Automation Visiting Professor – Faculty of Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics/Informatics Education: M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, “Polytechnic Institute” Bucharest, Faculty of Electronics and Tele-com--munications (section: Radio-communications) (1959). Postgraduate specialising in Programming, Cen-tral Institute of Management and Informatics, Bucharest (1982). Ph.D. in Digital Computers, “Politehnica” University Bucharest, Faculty of Automation and Computers (1995).
Recent research Human-computer interaction (mainly, anthropocentric interfaces); agent-oriented architectures (focusing on interface agents and on search agents for web-based applications); captology; real-time software engine-er-ing; uncert-ain know-ledge processing; synergy of advanced application development paradigms (mainly holonic, concurrent, and multi-agent systems). Books, monographs (published in Romania): two (one first author, one second author). Papers, articles (presented or published in Romania or abroad): 20.
Network & Affiliation IEEE Computer Society IMIA (International Medical Informatics Associat-ion – through the Romanian Society for Medical Informatics) ACM-SIGCHI Romania Working group for the RD programme “Tech-no--logies for the In-for-ma-tio-na-l Socie-ty”, coordinated by the Ministry for Education and Research
Recent Paper Barbat, B. (2001). Pathematic Agents for Medical In-form-at-ics. In Pro-ceed-ings of the Inter-nat-ional NAISO Con-gress on In-form--at-ion Science Innovations ISI’2001 (M.F. Sebaaly, Ed.), Symp. on Engine-er-ing of Natural and Artificial Intelligent Sys-tems (ENAIS'2001), 647-653, ICSC Academic Press Canada/The Netherlands. Barbat, B., C.B. Zam-firescu (2001). Polymorphic Agents for Modelling E-Business Users. In Pro-ceedings of the Inter-nat-ional NAISO Con-gress on In-form--at-ion Science Innovations ISI’2001 (M.F. Sebaaly, Ed.), Symp. on E-Business And Beyond (EBB'2001), 1018-1024, ICSC Academic Press Canada/The Netherlands. Barbat, B. (2001). Captological Agents in Therapy, Be-tween Intentions and Behav-iour. In MEDIN-FO 2001. Pro-ceed-ings of the10thWorld Congress on Medical In-formatics (V.L. Patel, R. Rogers, R. Haux, Eds.), 571, IOS Press, Amsterdam. Barbat, B. (2001). BDI Agents in Captology. Architecture and Mechanisms. Acta Universitatis Cibin-iensis, XLIII, Technical Se-ri-es E. Computer Science and Au-to-matic Control, 17-22, Sibiu. Barbat, B. (2001). Hippocratic Agents. Rationale and Design Space”. MIE Special Topic Conference 2001 “Health-care Telematics Support in Transition Countries” (in print). Barbat, B. (2002). Emotions and Time in Captological Agents. Accepted for the ICSC-NAISO Con-ference on Engine-er-ing of Intelligent Systems, EIS 2002, Málaga, in September.
Interest in Cost269 Narrowing the gap between humanists (“humies”) and technologists (“techies”) in considering user aspects (means: promoting interdisciplinary approaches and work). Narrowing the gap between the “I” and the “C” perspectives (means: explaining the IT point of view regarding user aspects; promoting a coherent communication paradigm). Boosting the role of the user (means: promoting anthropocentric user interfaces; preparing for the obvious convergence between the “laptop” and the “phone”).