2 PhD Positions at Process: Knowledge and Decisions (PKD) lab

One position concerns development of process-learning algorithms and tools that would be used to study the variations in execution for chronic care processes and their resulting outcomes, and propose clinical guideline improvements for specific patient contexts.

These algorithms would extend the work done by researchers from the University of Haifa on learning process model (LPM), which was developed for the domain of business processes; the extension to the domain of chronic disease management would need to adapt LPM for processes where there is no definitive goal at which the process terminates.

The second position concerns development of an ontology of patient context (including not only clinical context but also socio-demographic and technological context, and quality of data) and their effect on clinical decision-making. The research will also develop and evaluate a methodology for eliciting such information based on clinical guidelines.