Publications, News, Current research, Past
research, Conference Organisation, Program
Committees and being a Reviewer, Research
Assistants & Examination, Research
resources
Research Interests
Publications
News
Research
Activities and Projects
Current (2014)
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
- 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
- EDEN-IW
(Semantic Web and Multi-agent system to exchange water data), EU FP5:
project, Architecture WP leader, 2001-07- for 36 months
- 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.
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
Projects where I was a
Co-Investigator
ˇ
GEMOM
(Generic Message Oriented secure Middleware), FP7 EU Project, 2008-01 for 30
months.
Previous 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)
Conference
Organisation, Program Committees and being a Reviewer
- Workshops organised: 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):
- 2013: 21st European Conference
on Information Systems, ECIS Track on Ubiquitous and Mobile Information
Systems (2013)
- 2012: 3rd Int. Conf. on
Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing (MUSIC-12), May, 2012, HongKong, China;
- 2011: PerCom; Int. Conf. on Advances
in Mobile Computing and Multimedia; Adaptive
2011,
- 2010: International
Conferences on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2010 );
- 2009: International Conference
on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications; (ICUT 2009); 1st Int. Workshop on
Computational Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems (SELFTRUST
2009)
- Publication reviewer:
o ACM Transactions on Information Systems, TOIS, (2012);
o
IEEE Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics-Part A Systems and Humans (2012);
o
Workshop on Security Tools and Techniques,
SeTTIT at BodyNets Conf. (2012); Mobility (2010-12);
o
IEEE Pervasive Computing and
Communication, Percom, (2011); Adaptive (2011, 2009);
o
Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence (EAAI 2010);
o
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, PMC,
(2010);
o
Conference on Human Computer
Interaction (CHI 10);
o
8th IEEE/IFIP International
Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC (2010);
o
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems CHI (2010);
o
Journal of Web Semantics (JWS 09);
o
Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile
Computing J (2009);
o
4th International Conference on
Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications, ICUT, (2009);
o
7th International Conference on
Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, PICOM (2009);
o
First Workshop on Computational
Trust for Self-Adaptive Systems, SELFTRUST (2009),
o
Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Institute (ETRI 07),
o
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
(WIAS 05);
o
Knowledge Engineering Review (KER
05).
Research
Income
Funded Proposals (Total research
funding, 2001 to 2013, is about 1.5 million pounds)
- ASSET NR Project 01/2012 to
07/2015
- 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
- Ran Tao (2013) Middleware for
handling large-scale data exchange during physical environment crises
- Zelun Zhang(2013) Management of MOM for the Internet of
Things
- Thomas Oshin
(2014) User-Centred Context-Aware Management Of The Internet Of Things
- Xinyue Zhang (2014) Social and Mobility Context-Awareness of
Physical Crises
Current
Post-doc Research Assistants
- Dr. Zhenchen Wang (2012-2013)
- Dr. Haibo Mei
(2012-2013)
- Dr.
Siamak Tavakoli (2011-2013)
- Dr. Dr XiaoHua
Wu (2013), visiting from University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China
Past PhD Students and
Research Assistants
- 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).
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 Java programming language
- Others to be added
I am indebted to their developers,
support staff and the organisations that provide the resources to make these
freely available.