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António Lucas Soares é investigador no INESCTEC e Professor Associado no Departamento de Engenharia Informática da FEUP.

A sua área de especialização é Sistemas de Informação em aplicações a redes colaborativas e gestão da informação e conhecimento, particularmente em organizações industriais. O seus interesses de investigação incluem sistemas sócio-técnicos, representação do conhecimento, plataformas digitais para colaboração, design science research.

É atualmente coordenador do Centro de Engenharia de Sistemas Empresariais e também do Cluster Indústria e Inovação do INESCTEC.

Na Universidade do Porto é o diretor do Mestrado em CiÊncia da Informação (FEUP/FLUP). É membro da comissão executiva do ramo europeu da organização iSchools (Information Schools) e foi membro fundador do capítulo português da Association for Information Systems.

Publica regularmente em revistas científicas nas áreas de gestão da informação e gestão do conhecimento.

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Detalhes

Detalhes

  • Nome

    António Lucas Soares
  • Cargo

    Coordenador de Centro
  • Desde

    01 outubro 1993
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Publicações

2026

Socio-Technical AI Maturity in Supply Chains: Insights from the Pulp and Paper Sector

Autores
Freitas, F; Zimmermann, R; Freires, G; Couto, F; Fontes, C; Soares, AL; Dalmarco, G; Rhodes, D; Gomes, J;

Publicação
HYBRID HUMAN-AI COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, PRO-VE 2025, PT I

Abstract
The integration of AI in supply chains offers opportunities to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and decision-making. However, effective implementation requires attention to both technical and socio-technical aspects. This study examines AI maturity in the pulp and paper sector using the SC-STAI profiling tool, assessing AI integration across technical, social, human, and organizational domains. Based on nine case studies from Brazil and Portugal, the research identifies key areas for improvement and highlights uneven AI adoption. Findings show that performance and resilience are most impacted, while job role adoption remains the lowest. The study emphasizes the importance of Socio-Technical AI Maturity Models in guiding responsible AI adoption and improving socio-technical alignment in supply chains, contributing to a better understanding of AI readiness in traditional industries and demonstrating the SC-STAI tool's applicability for strategic AI planning.

2026

Generative AI as a Catalyst for Collaborative Knowledge Management: Impacts Across Individual, Intra, and Inter-organizational Levels

Autores
Silva, RR; Silva, HD; Soares, AL;

Publicação
HYBRID HUMAN-AI COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, PRO-VE 2025, PT II

Abstract
As organizations navigate through complex and collaborative digital environments, Generative AI (GenAI) emerges as a transformative force for Knowledge Management (KM) processes. This paper highlights how GenAI technologies impact collaborative KM processes across individual, intraorganizational, and inter-organizational levels within the evolving paradigm of Industry 5.0 (i5.0). Through a literature review, the study explores how GenAI augments human cognition, enhances knowledge creation and sharing, and fosters organizational adaptability and innovation. The findings highlight GenAI's potential as cognitive partner, streamlining information flows, and improving decision-making across collaborative networks. However, challenges such as over-reliance, ethical risks, and the decline of critical human skills are also discussed. Furthermore, the paper identifies the evolution and gaps in current literature on Collaborative Networks (CNs) regarding the integration of AI technologies. It contributes to the ongoing discussion towards a socio-technical transformation while also providing an overview for rethinking collaboration and social strategies in the GenAI era.

2026

A Human-Centric Agent Architecture for Hybrid Industrial Collaboration in Industry 5.0

Autores
Sousa, J; Oliveira, F; Carneiro, D; Soares, A; Silva, B;

Publicação
HYBRID HUMAN-AI COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, PRO-VE 2025, PT II

Abstract
The integration of AI into organizational settings leads to a growing need for hybrid human-AI collaborative approaches, necessary due to the increasing autonomy, impact and responsibility AI-based solutions have. Moreover, to ensure a sustainable integration into existing processes, such approaches must be context-aware, transparent, and human-centric. In line with the Industry 5.0 paradigm, this paper presents a novel Multi-Agent System architecture that enables meaningful collaboration between human and artificial agents through a socio-technical design approach. The proposed architecture is grounded in a structured, real-time context stream derived from organizational data sources, which semantically describe human actors, processes, and industrial resources. Central to this system is a set of four core LLM-based agents, each responsible for orchestrating hybrid human-AI tasks along distinct dimensions of timing, role selection, resource allocation, and execution sequencing. To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the architecture, we report on an early-stage validation conducted within a representative industrial use case in the automotive sector, focused on information retrieval. In this use case, the architecture was tasked with answering a set of representative, domain-specific questions by dynamically interacting with distributed industrial databases. Results demonstrate the architecture's ability to coordinate relevant human and artificial agents, retrieve semantically-relevant data, and present explainable outputs, showcasing its potential for supporting decision-making processes in hybrid collaborative networks.

2026

Collaborating with Algorithms: AI for Collaborative Supply Chain Management

Autores
Couto, F; Malta, MC; Soares, AL;

Publicação
HYBRID HUMAN-AI COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS, PRO-VE 2025, PT I

Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration in supply chain systems is growing, and with it grows its potential impact on inter-organisational collaborative networks. We review existing literature on how different AI archetypes (Reflexive, Anticipatory, Supervisory, Prescriptive) could support Collaborative Supply Chain Management (CSCM) activities, and how they impact information sharing, collaborative decision-making, and trust among supply chain partners at different integration levels. Adopting a sociotechnical perspective, we synthesise existing literature and map the archetypes along four levels of AI integration, varying in scope and decision autonomy. The results are conceptual frameworks demonstrating how AI impacts collaboration dynamics as it evolves from a decision-support tool to an autonomous coordination agent. Findings show differentiated effects along archetypes and integration levels, with implications for CSCM governance, transparency, and resilience. We contribute to the discussion on human-AI collaboration in CSCM and offer a baseline for research on the human-centric values of Industry 5.0.

2026

Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks

Autores
Camarinha-Matos, LM; Ortiz, A; Boucher, X; Lucas Soares, A;

Publicação
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Abstract