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Current research, Past research, Conference
Organisation, Program Committees and being a Reviewer, Research Assistants & Examination, Research resources
Research Interests
- Ubiquitous
Computing or Pervasive
Computing including the Internet
of Things (IoT), smart-devices,
smart-environments,
personalisation, spatial-awareness, pervasive games etc.
- Smarter and richer interaction between services,
devices and people including Web services, Semantic Web and MultiAgent Systems.
- Management of distributed systems including Internet of
Things, Security, safety, trust and privacy for open distributed services.
- Ubiquitous
Computing or Pervasive
Computing (related terms also include Internet
of Things, Ambient Intelligence) smart-devices
(including mobile devices), smart-environments,
context-awareness (including personalisation, mobility and
spatial-awareness)
- Smarter
and richer interaction between services, devices and people (including Web
services, Semantic Web and MultiAgent System interaction)
- Management
of distributed systems (including, scalability, security, safety or
resilience, trust and privacy issues)
Research Activities
and Projects
Current
- Program Committee chair for the 12th International Conference on
Intelligent Systems, to be held in London, 24th-16th
September, submission deadline 1st March 2016.
- Guest
editor for Informatics Special Issue on Special
Issue "Ubiquitous Computing: From Interlinking Smart Tabs, Pads and
Boards towards Interlinking Smart Skins, Dust and Clay",
submission deadline 29th February 2016.
- 2012-2015 Internet of Things: ASSET
Adaptive Security for Smart Internet of Things in eHealth project funded
by the Research Council of Norway.
- 1
new PhD student, Zixiang Ma started 2015-09
funded by the China
Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD program to work on mobility sensing,
data analytics and Geographical Information Systems. I am always looking
for further, good, CSC PhD students, other PhD students and post-docs,
please contact me.
- Best paper award for IEEE Sensors J paper 2014 on Optimum Use of Foot Force Sensors and
Mobile Phone GPS for Mobility Activity Recognition.
- QMUL Innovation Grant to study Indoor location sensing
and navigation in a library.
- Program committee for 13th International
Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM) December 2015, Brussels, Belgium
2014
- Became
visiting Researcher at the BUPT
IETLab (Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, Information and Electronic Technology Laboratory)
- Became
editor of Sensors,
Int. J. Adv.
AI.
- Two
PhD were awarded to students: Thomas Oshin, Zelun Zhang.
- Two
new PhD students, Hugh Boys, Christopher Wood, started funded by the QMUL Media Arts Technology Program
to work on smart materials and locative media.
- Program
committees: Internet of Vehicles (IoV) 2014
- Paper
reviewer for PerCom 2014 Conf., Neurocomputing J., International Journal of Pattern
Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPAI), MDPI Sensors J,
Transactions On Internet Technology (TOIS), International Journal of
Pervasive Computing and Communications
2013
- Distributed Messaging oriented Middleware:
QMUL PhD & Postdoc Projects, TRIDEC
Intelligent Information Management during Large Scale Physical
Environment Crises:
EU FP7 Project, 01-09-2010 for 36 months
- Smart Mobility, Green Computing & Social
Networking: QMUL PhD & Postdoc Projects, SUNSET
EU FP7
Project, 01-02-2011 for 36 months;
- QM
Innovation Project on Transportation Mode Profiling using Accelerometer
and GPS Mobile phone Sensors with Mudlark
- Multi-agent or distributed AI: IEEE FIPA Agent Standards
Activity European Regional-chair. A good review of the FIPA standards is here.
Here is a paper about one of the first FIPA agent platform
implementations, FIPA-OS.
- Organiser and
Program Chair: International Workshop on Adaptive Security & Privacy
Management for the Internet of Things (ASPI 2013) at UbiComp 2013.
Earlier Research Activities and Projects
- EU FP6 and FP7, IP, STREP, CS, Project Reviewer for EC
Information and Media DG, ICT for Sustainable Growth (8 projects).
- Pervasive Application Lab
(in collaboration with BT)
Previous Projects where I was Coordinator
- CRUMPET
(location-aware, personalised, map and information services for mobile
tourism), EU FP5: project coordinator, 2000-10 for 24 months. A key paper
is here.
Previous Projects where I was the Principal Investigator
- Distributed
Messaging oriented Middleware: QMUL PhD & Postdoc Projects, TRIDEC
Intelligent Information Management during Large Scale Physical Environment
Crises:
EU FP7 Project, 01-09-2010 for 36 months
- Smart
Mobility, Green Computing & Social Networking: QMUL PhD & Postdoc
Projects, SUNSET
EU FP7
Project, 01-02-2011 for 36 months;
- QM
Innovation Project on Transportation Mode Profiling using Accelerometer
and GPS Mobile phone Sensors with Mudlark
- Organiser and
Program Chair: International Workshop on Adaptive Security & Privacy
Management for the Internet of Things (ASPI 2013) at UbiComp 2013.
- My
eDirector 2012 Personalised, more interactive. live
video content viewing, (context-driven and
personalised video streaming over fixed and mobile wireless
infrastructures) EU FP7 Project, 01-02-2008 for 37 months. A key paper is here.
- EDEN-IW
(Semantic Web and Multi-agent system to exchange water data), EU FP5:
project, Architecture WP leader, 2001-07- for 36 months. A key paper is here.
- AgentCities (global agent testbed) FP5 EU, 2001-06
for 24 months
- iTrust,
AgentLink2, Agentlink3 FP5 EU Thematic networks, 2002-08 for 36 month
- EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship with BT, EPC137831, Context-based
Information Management for Mobile Workers, 2006-06 for 42 months.
Previous Projects where I was a Co-Investigator
- GEMOM (Generic Message Oriented secure
Middleware), FP7 EU Project, 2008-01 for 30 months.
Conference Organisation, Program Committees and
being a Reviewer
- Conferences, Workshops
organised:
- Internal Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE16), International Workshop on Adaptive
Security & Privacy Management for the Internet of Things (ASPI 2013) at UbiComp 2013 - the ACM DL proceedings are here;
8th IEEE Int.
Conf. on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom-09); CASA -
Coordinating Agent Standardisation Activity TFG at EUMAS 2006. Ubiquitous
Computing / Ambient intelligence workshop at AAMAS-2002, 2004, 2005;
Mobile Tourism workshop, in adjunction with MobileHCI
(2002-4); Workshops organised: Multi-Agent Interoperability Workshop,
MAI-2002 (Aachen September, 2002); 1st European Workshop on Location
Aware Services (Via the IEE Professional Network, London, September
2002);
- Conference and Workshop Program
Committees (recent):
o 2014: Internet of Vehicles (IoV)
2014
o 2013: 21st European
Conference on Information Systems, ECIS Track on Ubiquitous and Mobile
Information Systems; 2nd IEEE,SAE,ACM,IFAC International Conference on
Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013)
o 2012: 3rd Int. Conf. on
Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC-12), May, 2012, HongKong, China;
o 2011: PerCom; Int. Conf. on Advances in Mobile
Computing and Multimedia; Adaptive 2011,
o 2010: International
Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2010 );
o 2009: International
Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications; (ICUT 2009); 1st Int. Workshop on Computational
Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems (SELFTRUST 2009)
o To be updated.
o 2014: Neurocomputing
J., International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence,
MDPI Sensors J
o 2013: International
Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, Ubicomp,
ACM Transactions
on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; European Conference on Information Systems
(ECIS), Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing
o 2012: Elsevier Mathematical
and Computer Modelling, MCM, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing; ACM Transactions
on Information Systems, TOIS; IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A Systems
and Humans (2012); Workshop on Security Tools and Techniques, SeTTIT at
BodyNets Conf. (2012); Mobility (2012);
o 2011: IEEE Pervasive
Computing and Communication, Percom, Adaptive (2011, 2009);
o 2010: Engineering
Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI 2010); Pervasive and Mobile
Computing, PMC, (2010); Conference on Human Computer Interaction, CHI(2010);
8th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing,
EUC (2010); ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI
(2010);
o Before 2010: Journal of Web
Semantics (JWS 09); Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing J (2009); 4th
International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies &
Applications, ICUT, (2009); 7th International Conference on Pervasive
Intelligence and Computing, PICOM (2009); First Workshop on Computational Trust
for Self-Adaptive Systems, SELFTRUST (2009); Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Institute (ETRI 07); Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (WIAS 05);
Knowledge Engineering Review (KER 05).
Research Income
Funded Proposals (Total research
funding, 2001 to 2015, is over 1.5 million pounds)
- QM-Innovation Project on indoor location determination,
06/2015-10/2015
- QM-Innovation Project on transport mode mobility
sensing with Mudlark, 09/2013 to 12/2013
- ASSET NR Project, 01/2012 to 09/2015
- SUNSET EU FP7 Project, 01-02-2011 to 31-04-2014
- TRIDEC, EU FP7 Project, 01-09-2010 to 28-08-2013
- My-E-Director 2012, EU FP7 Project, 01-03-2008 to
28-02-2011.
- Context-based Information Management for Mobile
Workers, EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship with BT, EPC137831, 01-06-2006
to 31-11-2009.
- BT Short-term-fellowship. Multi-lateral Knowledge-based
Models to Support Converged Local-loop Services and Engineers, 01-09-2006
to 15-01-2007.
- EDEN-IW: Environmental Data Network for Inland Water,
EU FP5 Project, IST-1999-11014, 01/07/2001- 30/06/2004.
- AgentCities.
RTD, Global agent test-bed, EU FP5 Project, IST-2000-28385,
01-07-2002-3-/06-2003. This project was short-listed for the prestigious
EU Descartes prize in 2004.
- U.S. Office of Naval Research, subcontracted via
Compendium Technologies, Inc., Analysis and review of multi-agent
security, 11/2001-03/2002.
- Motorola: multi-agent security, completed November 2001
- EU IST-2001-34910, ITrust):
thematic network on Trust Management in Dynamic Open Systems, thematic
network project, 01/09/2002-30/08/2004.
Research
Assistants & Examination
Current Pre-doc Research Assistants / PhD Students
- Christopher Wood (2018) The Performance of Location:
Locative Media and Site-Specific Interaction Design
- Hugh Boys (2018) Design and Applications of a
Multi-fingertip Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Tactile Display
- Zixiang
Ma (2019) Title to be determined
Current Post-doc Research
Assistants
- N/A
Past Post-doc Research Assistants
- Dr. XiaoHua Wu (2013), visiting from University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Dr.
Zhenchen Wang (2012-2013),
left to work at TCPlifesystems, UK
- Dr. Haibo Mei (2012-2013), left to work at www.securus-software.com
- Dr. Siamak
Tavakoli (2011-2013), left to work at
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Past PhD Students and Research Assistants
- Ran
Tao (2015) QoS Aware Load Balancing Framework for Federated Topic Based
Publish/Subscribe Message Oriented Middleware
- Xinyue Zhang (2015) Real-time Content Identification for
Events and Sub-Events from Microblogs
- Zelun
Zhang(2013) User Mobility Context Awareness using Wearable Sensors and
Mobile Phone
- Thomas Oshin (2014) Energy-Efficient Location
Determination for Human Mobility Analysis and Monitoring Using Smart
Mobile Devices
- Bob Chew (2013) Modelling Message-Oriented-Middleware
Brokers using Autoregressive Models for Bottleneck Prediction
- Dejian Meng(2011) Dynamic
Context-aware Adaptation and its Application to Spatial Routing for Mobile
Users
- Zekeng Liang (2011) Spatial-aware Personalised Maps for
Mobile Users: : thesis corrections.
- Zhenchen Wang (2011) Interactive Personalisation for
Multiple Video Content and Metadata Streams
- Javesh
Boodnah (2010) A Trust Framework for
Peer-to-Peer Interaction in Ad Hoc Networks.
- Kraisak Kesorn (2010) Cross-Linked
Multi-Semantic Multi-Mode Annotations for Image Retrieval
- Xuan Huang (2007) Semantic
Agent Support for Managed Open Information Retrieval Services
- Landong Zuo (2006) A
Semantic and Agent-based Approach to Support Information Retrieval,
Interoperability and Multi-lateral Viewpoints for Heterogeneous
Environmental Databases.
- Leonid Titkov (2006) Agent-Based
Framework to Support Location-Aware Services and Manage Privacy for
Nomadic Users.
- Jim Juan Tan (2005) Adaptive
Management and Interoperability for Secure Semantic Open Services.
- Theirry
Delaitre (2001, University of Westminster). The
topic concerns an investigation of the performance of parallel
applications during the parallel software development life-cycle, Thesis
abstract
Past MPhil Students
- Ioannis Barakos (2011)
Ubiquitous Knowledge-based Management of ICT Services in the Home
Experience as PhD Examiner
- Imperial College (2002), University Automata Barcelona
(2002), University of Helsinki (2002), University College Dublin (2003),
Royal Holloway (2003), Oxford Brookes (2004), University of Westminster
(2004), University College London (2006), University College Dublin
(2010), Queen Mary University of London (2010), Royal Holloway (2011), Birkbeck (2011), Cardiff University (2012), La Trobe
University, Australia (2013), Kings College London (2015).
Research Resources
Much of this research has heavily relied on the following high-quality
open-source resources
- Standford's Protégé Ontology Deveopment Environment
- TILab's
JADE FIPA Agent Development Toolkit
- Sun's now Oracle's Java
programming language
- Google Android OS
- Others to be added
I am indebted to their developers, support staff and the organisations
that provide the resources to make these freely available.