Context Mediation among Knowledge Discovery Components




Universal Publishers
ISBN 1-581-12228-4
214 Pages

Northern Ireland Knowledge Engineering Laboratory

- Associated Research Fellow -

The Northern Ireland Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (NIKEL) is a research and technology transfer organisation hosted in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Ulster. The main objectives of NIKEL to continue to produce high quality research in AI and to help companies in Northern Ireland and beyond gain competitive advantage through the application of advanced software technology. For further information see nikel.ulster.ac.uk.

Research Interests

Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Heterogeneous Database Systems, Semantic Heterogeneity, Collective Data Mining, Ubiquitous Computing, Object-Oriented Database Systems, Localisation, Internationalisation, Context, Mediaton, Sequence Discovery.

Accolades

2004 Invited Talk "Personalised E-Learning Opportunities – Call for a Pedagogical Domain Knowledge Model", 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'04), Zaragoza, Spain
2000 Invited Talk "Data Mining and XML: Current and Future Issues", 1st Intl'l. Conf. on Web Information Systems Engineering, Hong Kong
1999 ACM Best Paper Award, 9th International Database Conference, Hong Kong
1999 Best PhD Transfer, Faculty of Informatics, University of Ulster
1993 Distinction PG Diploma Software Engineering, Dundee Institute of Technology
1991 Runner-up Best Degree Berufsakademie Mannheim, Germany

Activities

2005 Program Committee, PC, 2rd Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, Lodz, Poland
2004 Program Committee, PC, 2nd Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, Cancun, Mexico
2003 Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Workshop WEBKDD (Washington, DC)
2002 Program Committee, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Hong Kong)
2002 Reviewer, Springer Verlag: LNAI WEBKDD 2002: Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles; Editors: Brij Masand, Myra Spiliopoulou, Jaideep Srivastava, Osmar R. Zaļane
2002 Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Workshop WEBKDD (Alberta)
2001 Program Committee, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Vienna, Austria)
2001 Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Workshop WEBKDD (San Francisco)
2001 Program Committee, 5th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Workshop "Data Mining in Marketing", (Freiburg, Germany)
2001 Program Committee, IJCAI Workshop Intelligent Techniques Web Personalization (Seattle)
2000- Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
2000 Program Committee, ACM SIGKDD Workshop WEBKDD (Boston)
2000 Program Committee, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Seoul, Korea)
1999- Reviewer, Computers in Industry, Elsevier Science
1999 Program Committee, ACM SIGIR'99 Workshop on Customized Information Delivery
1998- Reviewer, Artech House Publishers
1998 Session Chair, 11th Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, (Chicago, IL)

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKGG)