Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes

The AI Data Governance Framework: A Five-Stage Control System for the Data Boundary in AI Systems

An institution asked whether a particular item of data may be inside a particular AI system usually answers from recollection. Someone remembers which extract the training set came from, someone else remembers that the extract excluded a restricted field, and a third person remem...

Portuguese coaches’ and scouts’ perspectives on scouting processes in soccer: Psychological attributes and observation practices

Talent identification and development in soccer is a multifaceted process that requires the evaluation of players across a range of attributes. This study compared the perspectives of Portuguese coaches and scouts regarding scouting practices and examined their observation and ev...

The AI Incident Response Protocol: Six Stages, and the Evidence a Reconstruction Requires

An institution asked to explain an AI failure discovers, at that moment and not before, what it wrote down. The discovery is unrecoverable. Evidence is a property of the moment a decision was taken, and an institution that did not capture it then is left assembling an account fro...

The AI Incident Response Protocol: Six Stages, and the Evidence a Reconstruction Requires

An institution asked to explain an AI failure discovers, at that moment and not before, what it wrote down. The discovery is unrecoverable. Evidence is a property of the moment a decision was taken, and an institution that did not capture it then is left assembling an account fro...

The Sharia AI Compliance Framework: A Dual-Authority Governance Architecture for Islamic Finance

Two clauses accompany this framework everywhere, and they are stated before anything else. No Shariah Supervisory Board has reviewed or endorsed this specification. It is an engineering proposal for how binding Shariah authority can be integrated into AI lifecycle governance, off...

PEVG: Planner, Executor, Verifier, Generator. Four Contracts That Make a Failure Attributable to One Role

No trademark is claimed on PEVG, on the name of any of the four roles, or on anything else in this document. The construct is offered for use, teaching, assessment, extension and criticism by anyone, with attribution, under CC BY 4.0. A mark on a design pattern suppresses the cit...

AVRF: AI Vendor Risk Framework. The AI Vendor Due-Diligence Questionnaire

This instrument is published to be taken and used. Any institution may issue this questionnaire, any vendor may answer it, and anyone may reproduce, translate, extend or embed it, including in commercial products, under CC BY 4.0 with attribution and without asking permission. Th...

The Five-Gate Deployment Model: A Deployment Discipline for AI Systems

An institution can be asked two questions about an AI system in production. The first is whether it works. The second is how it got there, and who said it could. The second question is the one a supervisor, an auditor or a board asks after something has gone wrong, and it is the...

PARA: Perception, Action, Reasoning, Adaptation. Four Faculties an Institution Can Revoke

The fourth faculty is Adaptation. Any source rendering it as Reflection is in error, including sources by this author, and the distinction is not cosmetic: reflection is a private act with no external consequence, while adaptation writes to institutional memory, which is why it n...

The Five-Gate Deployment Model: A Deployment Discipline for AI Systems

An institution can be asked two questions about an AI system in production. The first is whether it works. The second is how it got there, and who said it could. The second question is the one a supervisor, an auditor or a board asks after something has gone wrong, and it is the...

PARA: Perception, Action, Reasoning, Adaptation. Four Faculties an Institution Can Revoke

The fourth faculty is Adaptation. Any source rendering it as Reflection is in error, including sources by this author, and the distinction is not cosmetic: reflection is a private act with no external consequence, while adaptation writes to institutional memory, which is why it n...

The Defensible AI Framework Registry: Definitions and Relationships for the Governed Production AI Discipline

A body of frameworks that shares an author does not thereby share an architecture. Nine frameworks for governing artificial intelligence in regulated institutions were developed and published separately, each answering a question a supervisor or a board had asked. Read together t...

The MESA Framework: A Four-Altitude Diagnostic Model for Institutional AI Governance

Institutional AI governance is commonly assessed as a single capability and reported as a single grade. That treatment obscures the failure that matters most: an institution can hold current policies, a chartered committee and a complete documentation set while the systems those...