Facilitating Knowledge Management in Pervasive Health Care Systems (2010)
Hu, Bo, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Lewis, Paul, Dupplaw, David, Shadbolt, Nigel
Realising the vision of pervasive health care will generate new challenges for knowledge management and data integration. Such challenges are fundamentally different from issues and problems that we...
Supporting Multi-view Network Analysis to Understand Company Value Chains (2009)
Zuo, Landong, Salvadores, Manuel, Imtiaz, Hazzaz, Darlington, John, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel, ...
The analysis of company value chains is a fundamental task within the MBI (Market Blended Insight) project whose objective is to develop web based techniques to improve performance of UK Business to...
A Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic Media Wiki (2009)
Bao, Jie, Smart, Paul R, Shadbolt, Nigel, Braines, Dave, Jones, Gareth
Despite their potential value as collaborative knowledge editing systems, semantic wikis present a number of usability challenges for human end users. In particular, there are several mismatches...
Navigation Over a Large Ontology for Industrial Web Applications (2009)
Crowder, Richard, Wilson, Max L., Fowler, David, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary, Wong, Sylvia
Ontologies for industrial semantic web applications are often very large. This is especially true in scientific and engineering applications where there exists a large pool of technical terminology...
A Semantic Matching Approach for Distributed RDF Data Query on a Knowledge Bus (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Tao, Feng, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
During the past several years, semantic web technologies have been applied to facilitate the sharing of data in new and unexpected ways. Various heterogeneous data are assigned well-defined meaning...
Living with the Semantic Gap: Experiences and Remedies in the Context of Medical Imaging (2009)
Yannis Kalfoglou, An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract—Semantic annotation of images is a key concern for the newly emerged applications of semantic multimedia. Machine processable descriptions of images make it possible to automate a variety...
An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. This paper briefly describes the work we have undertaken in the MIAKT project to provide a generic architecture and user interface for distributed multimedia knowledge management with the...
A Study of User Profile Generation from Folksonomies (2009)
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
Recommendation systems which aim at providing relevant information to users are becoming more and more important and desirable due to the enormous amount of information available on the Web. Crucial...
Multimedia Distributed Knowledge Management in MIAKT (2009)
An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Digital media facilitates tight integration of multi-modal information and networking allows this richly textured knowledge to be shared. We present the system we have developed in the...
Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies (2009)
Noll, Michael, Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Meinel, Christoph, Shadbolt, Nigel
With a suitable algorithm for ranking the expertise of a user in a collaborative tagging system, we will be able to identify experts and discover useful and relevant resources through them. We...
Contextualising Tags in Collaborative Tagging Systems (2009)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
Collaborative tagging systems are now popular tools for organising and sharing information on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages over the use of controlled vocabularies, they...
POAF: Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments (2009)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Paul Smart, Dave Braines, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In today’s semantic web, ontology fragmentation and modularization are considered as important tasks due to the size and complexity of prime ontologies. At the same time, the ontology...
LinksB2N: Automatic Data Integration for the Semantic Web (2009)
Salvadores, Manuel, Correndo, Gianluca, Rodriguez-Castro, Benedicto, Gibbins, Nicholas, Darlington, John, Shadbolt, Nigel
The ongoing trend towards open data embraced by the Semantic Web has started to produce a large number of data sources. These data sources are published using RDF vocabularies, and it is possible to...
LinksB2N: Automatic Data Integration for the Semantic Web (2009)
Salvadores, Manuel, Correndo, Gianluca, Rodriguez-Castro, Benedicto, Gibbins, Nicholas, Darlington, John, Shadbolt, Nigel
The ongoing trend towards open data embraced by the Semantic Web has started to produce a large number of data sources. These data sources are published using RDF vocabularies, and it is possible to...
A Semantic System for Rapid Information Search and Access (2009)
Guan, Tao, Fowler, David, Crowder, Richard, Shadbolt, Nigel, Tao, Feng, Wills, Gary
How to reuse existing data to support applications is an essential issue in various domains. This paper presents semantic approaches to search and access information rapidly in engineering design...
Using Windmill Expansion for Document Retrieval (2009)
Liang, Shao, Smart, Paul, Russell, Alistair, Shadbolt, Nigel
SEMIOTIKS aims to utilise online information to support the crucial decision–making of those military and civilian agencies involved in the humanitarian removal of landmines in areas of conflict...
Providing Access Control to Online Photo Albums Based on Tags and Linked Data (2009)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Kagal, Lalana, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
While photo sharing sites such as Flickr provide efficient tools for setting up an online album, users who want to maintain a certain level of privacy are usually only provided with rudimentary...
On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems (2009)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Noll, Michael, Gibbins, Nicholas, Meinel, Christoph, Shadbolt, Nigel
Collaborative tagging systems such as Delicious.com provide a new means of organizing and sharing resources. They also allow users to search for documents relevant to a particular topic or for other...
A Controlled Natural Language Interface for Semantic Media Wiki Using the Rabbit Language (2009)
Bao, Jie, Smart, Paul, Braines, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel
Despite their potential value as collaborative knowledge editing systems, semantic wikis present a number of usability challenges. One way to respond to these challenges is to develop controlled...
The evolution of the Web and implications for eResearch (2009)
Hall, Wendy, De Roure, David, Shadbolt, Nigel
The hypertext visionaries foresaw the potential of richly interlinked global information systems for advancing human knowledge. The Web provided the infrastructure to enable those ideas to become a...
Indexing Ontologies with Semantics-enhanced Keywords (2009)
Hu, Bo, Croitoru, Madalina, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Lewis, Paul, Shadbolt, Nigel
Ontologies, as a knowledge representation paradigm, rely on semantics for performing logical inference. However, in the context of ontology query and reuse, the semantics are hard to be manipulated....
Lifelogging: Privacy and Empowerment with Memories for Life (2009)
O'Hara, Kieron, Tuffield, Mischa, Shadbolt, Nigel
The growth of information acquisition, storage and retrieval capacity has led to the development of the practice of lifelogging, the undiscriminating collection of information concerning one’s life...
On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems (2009)
Man Au Yeung, Ching, Noll, Michael, Gibbins, Nicholas, Meinel, Christoph, Shadbolt, Nigel
Collaborative tagging systems such as Delicious provide a new means of organizing and sharing resources. They also allow users to search for documents relevant to a particular topic or for other...
User-induced Links in Collaborative Tagging Systems (2009)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
Collaborative tagging systems allow users to use tags to describe their favourite online documents. Two documents that are maintained in the collection of the same user and/or assigned similar sets...
Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt, Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, Nigam Shah
As more ontologies become publicly available, finding the “right ” ontologies becomes much harder. In this paper, we address the problem of ontology search: finding a collection of ontologies...
Multimedia Distributed Knowledge Management in MIAKT (2008)
An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Digital media facilitates tight integration of multi-modal information and networking allows this richly textured knowledge to be shared. We present the system we have developed in the...
A Review of the Psychological Literature on Forgetting v.3 18.12.00 (2008)
Abstract: The paper reviews a number of concepts and mature theories in the psychological literature on memory and forgetting. Six theories of forgetting are outlined. Issues are reviewed concerning...
A k-Nearest-Neighbour Method for Classifying Web Search Results with Data in Folksonomies (2008)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
Traditional Web search engines mostly adopt a keyword-based approach. When the keyword submitted by the user is ambiguous, search result usually consists of documents related to various meanings of...
Collective User Behaviour and Tag Contextualisation in Folksonomies (2008)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
Collaborative tagging systems have emerged in recent years to become popular tools for organising information on the Web. While collaborative tagging offers many advantages, they also suffer from...
Discovering and Modelling Multiple Interests of Users in Collaborative Tagging Systems (2008)
Au Yeung, Ching Man, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
We analyse data obtained from several collaborative tagging systems and discover that user interests can be very diverse. Traditional methods for representing interests of users are usually not able...
172 Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2008)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
An Approach to Cope with Ontology Changes for Ontology-based Applications (2008)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, David Dupplaw, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications because updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology...
APPROACHING SEMANTICALLY-MEDIATED ACOUSTIC DATA FUSION (2008)
Baofeng Guo, Yi Wang, Paul Smart, Nigel Shadbolt, Mark S. Nixon
Our primary hypothesis is that it should be possible to enrich data fusion by semantic processing, with wide potential application. In order to achieve our aim we need to represent the semantic data...
Hyperstructure Maintenance Costs in Large-scale Wikis ABSTRACT (2008)
Philip Boulain, Nigel Shadbolt, Nicholas Gibbins
Wiki systems have developed over the past years as lightweight, community-editable, web-based hypertext systems. With the emergence of Semantic Wikis, these collections of interlinked documents have...
Semantic Modelling of User Interests based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis (2008)
Szomszor, Martin, Alani, Harith, Cantador, Ivan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
The continued increase in Web usage, in particular participation in folksonomies, reveals a trend towards a more dynamic and interactive Web where individuals can organise and share resources....
Market Blended Insight: modeling propensity to buy with the Semantic Web (2008)
Salvadores, Manuel, Zuo, Landong, Imtiaz, Hazzaz, Darlington, John, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
MBI is a project with a clear objective of making a significant performance improvement in UK business to business (B2B) marketing activities in the 5-7 year timeframe. The project plans to aggregate...
Market Blended Insight: modeling propensity to buy with the Semantic Web (2008)
Salvadores, Manuel, Zuo, Landong, Imtiaz, Hazzaz, Darlington, John, Gibbins, Nicholas, Shadbolt, Nigel
MBI is a project with a clear objective of making a significant performance improvement in UK business to business (B2B) marketing activities in the 5-7 year timeframe. The project plans to aggregate...
Shadbolt, Nigel, Berners-Lee, Tim
The relentless rise in Web pages and links is creating emergent properties, from social networks to virtual identity theft, that are transforming society. A new discipline, Web Science, aims to...
A Visual Approach to Semantic Query Design Using a Web-Based Graphical Query Designer (2008)
Smart, Paul R, Russell, Alistair, Braines, Dave, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Bao, Jie, Shadbolt, Nigel
Query formulation is a key aspect of information retrieval, contributing to both the efficiency and usability of many semantic applications. A number of query languages, such as SPARQL, have been...
The Extended Mind and Network-Enabled Cognition (2008)
Smart, Paul, Engelbrecht, Paula, Braines, Dave, Hendler, James, Shadbolt, Nigel
In thinking about the transformative potential of network technologies with respect to human cognition, it is common to see network resources as playing a largely assistive or augmentative role. In...
An Invariance Principle for Maintaining the Operating Point of a Neuron (2008)
Elliott, Terry, Kuang, Xutao, Shadbolt, Nigel, Zauner, Klaus-Peter
Sensory neurons adapt to changes in the natural statistics of their environments through processes such as gain control and firing threshold adjustment. It has been argued that neurons early in...
Understanding the Semantics of Ambiguous Tags in Folksonomies (2008)
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name...
Keith Van Rijsbergen, Nigel Shadbolt
This discussion document is part of a series of reviews of the state of the art in cognitive systems. It was prepared as background material for the Foresight Cognitive Systems Project. Series...
Semantic Web Techniques to Support Interoperability in Distributed Networked Environments (2008)
Braines, Dave, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Smart, Paul R, Bao, Jie, Shadbolt, Nigel, Hendler, James
We explore two Semantic Web techniques arising from ITA research into semantic alignment and interoperability in distributed networks. The first is POAF (Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments) which...
Knowledge-Based Repository to Support Engineering Design. (2008)
Crowder, Richard, Wong, Sylvia, Shadbolt, Nigel, Wills, Gary
Manufacturers are currently shifting their focus from selling products to providing services, hence the product’s designers must increasingly consider life-cycle requirements, in addition to...
Smart, Paul R, Mott, David, Gentle, Edward, Braines, Dave, Sieck, Winston, Poltrock, Steven, ...
As a fundamental research program, the International Technology Alliance (ITA) aims to explore innovative solutions to some of the challenges confronting US/UK coalition military forces in an era of...
A Data-Intensive Lightweight Semantic Wrapper Approach to Aid Information Integration (2008)
Braines, Dave, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Smart, Paul R, Shadbolt, Nigel, Bao, Jie
We argue for the flexible use of lightweight ontologies to aid information integration. Our proposed approach is grounded on the availability and exploitation of existing data sources in a networked...
Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry (2008)
Chandler, Peter, Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, Alani, Harith, Szomszor, Martin
The growth of data generated within thermal spraying is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this growing resource represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable asset capable of providing...
Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry (2008)
Chandler, Peter, Hall, Wendy, Shadbolt, Nigel, Alani, Harith, Szomszor, Martin
The growth of data generated within thermal spraying is, for many, a daunting business. Yet, this growing resource represents a largely untapped and potentially valuable asset capable of providing...
Lifelogging: Issues of Identity and Privacy with Memories for Life (2008)
O'Hara, Kieron, Tuffield, Mischa, Shadbolt, Nigel
The growth of information acquisition, storage and retrieval capacity has led to the development of the practice of lifelogging, the undiscriminating collection of information concerning one’s life...
POAF: Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments (2008)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Smart, Paul R, Braines, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel
In today's semantic web, ontology fragmentation and mo- dularization are considered as important tasks due to the size and co- mplexity of prime ontologies. At the same time, the ontology alignment...
The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response (2008)
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
REVIEW Memories for life: a review of the science and technology (2008)
Richard Morris, Nigel Shadbolt, Graham J. Hitch, Wendy Hall, Neil Beagrie
This paper discusses scientific, social and technological aspects of memory. Recent developments in our understanding of memory processes and mechanisms, and their digital implementation, have placed...
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt
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Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective (2008)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. Information Technology generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited...
Changing Ontology Breaks the Queries (2008)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the knowledge base, dependent ontologies and applications/services. Current research concentrates...
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt, N. Gibbins, N. Shadbolt, N. Gibbins, ...
• Freedom and flexibility • Quick adaptation to changes in vocabulary (e.g. ajax, youtube) • Convenience and serendipity • Disadvantages [Adam 2004, Wu et al. 2006] • Ambiguity (e.g. apple,...
The Semantic Web The Semantic Web Revisited (2008)
Steffen Staab, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall
In the 50 years since the term AI was coined at the Dartmouth Conference, the digital world has evolved at a prodigious rate. It has produced an information infrastructure that few would have...
of the authors, are independent of Government and do not constitute Government policy.
Nigel Shadbolt, Harith Alani, Steve Harris, Nick Gibbins, Yannis Kalfoglou, Bo Hu, ...
www.aktors.org
Mutual Contextualization in Tripartite Graphs of Folksonomies (2008)
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name...
Stevan Harnad, Nigel Shadbolt, Tim Brody, Les Carr, Stevan Harnad, Stevan Harnad
Most of this book has been about the past and the present of Open Access (OA). Let’s now take a brief glimpse at its future, for it is already within reach and almost within sight: Once the optimal...
Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology (2008)
Harith Alani, John Sheridan, John Darlington, Nigel Shadbolt, Carol Tullo
Abstract. Governments often hold very rich data and whilst much of this information is published and available for re-use by others, it is often trapped by poor data structures, locked up in legacy...
Simon Buckingham, Shum David, De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate
Grid infrastructures coupled with semantic web linkage and reasoning open up intriguing new possibilities for scientific collaboration. In this short paper, we outline the research agenda and...
The Spy in the Coffee Machine: The End of Privacy As We Know It (2008)
O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
We are entering a new state of global hypersurveillance. As we increasingly resort to technology for our work and play, our electronic activity leaves behind digital footprints that can be used to...
Hyperstructure Maintenance Costs in Large-scale Wikis (2008)
Boulain, Philip, Shadbolt, Nigel, Gibbins, Nicholas
Wiki systems have developed over the past years as lightweight, community-editable, web-based hypertext systems. With the emergence of Semantic Wikis, these collections of interlinked documents have...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2008)
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Jessica Chen-burger, Jeff Dalton, David De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools...
Stephen Potter, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Rodrigo Carvalho, ...
Making sense of the current state of an emergency and of the response to it is vital if appropriate decisions are to be made. This task involves the acquisition, interpretation and management of...
Chain ReAKTing: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Combechem Grid (2008)
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham, Jeff Dalton, David De, Roure Marc, ...
The CoAKTinG (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid) project has developed a set of integrated tools to enhance collaboration between e-Scientists. As one of three case studies,...
Living with the Semantic Gap: Experiences and Remedies in the Context of Medical Imaging (2008)
Yannis Kalfoglou, An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract—Semantic annotation of images is a key concern for the newly emerged applications of semantic multimedia. Machine processable descriptions of images make it possible to automate a variety...
On Natural Statistics in Multisensory Integration (2008)
Elliott, Terry, Kuang, Xutao, Shadbolt, Nigel, Zauner, Klaus-Peter
Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective (2008)
O'Hara, Kieron, Alani, Harith, Kalfoglou, Yannis, Shadbolt, Nigel
There are certain features that that distinguish killer apps from other ordinary applications. This chapter examines those features in the context of the semantic web, in the hope that a better...
Building a Pragmatic Semantic Web (2008)
Alani, Harith, Hall, Wendy, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel, Chandler, Peter, Szomszor, Martin
One of the great benefits that Semantic Web (SW) technology offers is facilitating large scale integration and sharing of distributed data sources. Transferring this technology from the lab...
Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web (2008)
Hendler, James, Shadbolt, Nigel, Hall, Wendy, Berners-Lee, Tim, Weitzner, Daniel
Despite the Web’s great success as a technology and the significant amount of computing infrastructure on which it is built, it remains, as an entity, surprisingly unstudied. Here, we look at some...
POAF: Portable Ontology Aligned Fragments (2008)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Paul Smart, Dave Braines, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In today’s semantic web, ontology fragmentation and modularization are considered as important tasks due to the size and complexity of prime ontologies. At the same time, the ontology...
Ho-fung Leung b and Jimmy Ho-man Lee b (2007)
Xudong Luo A, Nigel Shadbolt, Hang Kang, P. R. China
This paper develops a fuzzy constraint based model for bilateral multi-issue negotiation in trading environments. In particular, we are concerned with the principled negotiation approach in which...
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt
This paper develops a fuzzy constraint based model for bilateral multi-issue negotiation in trading environments. In particular, we are concerned with the principled negotiation approach in which...
CoAKTinG: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid (2007)
Simon Buckingham, Shum David, De Roure, Marc Eisenstadt, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate
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Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris, Yannis Kalfoglou, ...
Abstract. The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses signicant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent...
Reflections on a Medical Ontology (2007)
Hu, Bo, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Dupplaw, David, Lewis, Paul, Shadbolt, Nigel
NASA/TP—2007–214554 Automating CapCom Using Mobile Agents and Robotic Assistants (2007)
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Richard L. Alena, Jeffrey S. Graham, Kim S. Tyree, Robert L. Hirsh, ...
Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated to the advancement of aeronautics and space science. The NASA scientific and technical
Tag meaning disambiguation through analysis of tripartite structure of folksonomies (2007)
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
Collaborative tagging systems are becoming very popular recently. Web users use freely-chosen tags to describe shared resources, resulting in a folksonomy. One problem of folksonomies is that tags...
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (2007)
Supervisor Prof, Nigel Shadbolt, Yongjian Huang, Yongjian Huang
A mini-thesis submitted for transfer from MPhil to PhD
Understanding the semantics of ambiguous tags in folksonomies (2007)
Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. The use of tags to describe Web resources in a collaborative manner has experienced rising popularity among Web users in recent years. The product of such activity is given the name...
Public engagement: Making a difference (2007)
After 30 years in and around the science, technology and application of computing I am still astounded by how our subject has changed the world and the rate at which it is continuing to do so. Ours...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Enabling traceable ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable (2006)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les, Harnad, Stevan
Further development of GNU EPrints and Citebase, together with the growing webwide database of Open Access (OA) articles, and the data we will collect and analyse from it, will allow us to do several...
The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable (2006)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les, Harnad, Stevan
Further development of GNU EPrints and Citebase, together with the growing webwide database of Open Access (OA) articles, and the data we will collect and analyse from it, will allow us to do several...
Memory, Reasoning and Learning (2006)
O'Hara, Kieron, Hall, Wendy, Van Rijsbergen, Keith, Shadbolt, Nigel
In this chapter we project probable research directions in computer science, with respect to memory, reasoning and learning. We discuss potential synergies with cognitive neuroscience and related...
Memory, Reasoning and Learning (2006)
O'Hara, Kieron, Hall, Wendy, Van Rijsbergen, Keith, Shadbolt, Nigel
In this chapter we project probable research directions in computer science, with respect to memory, reasoning and learning. We discuss potential synergies with cognitive neuroscience and related...
Ontologies Change and Queries Break: Towards a Solution (2006)
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Keeping track of ontology changes is becoming a critical issue for ontology-based applications. Updating an ontology that is in use may result in inconsistencies between the ontology and the...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank (2006)
Harith Alani, Christopher Brewster, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology search and reuse is becoming increasingly important as the quest for methods to reduce the cost of constructing such knowledge structures continues. A number of ontology libraries...
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt, Communicated E. Motta
A wide range of algorithms have been developed for various types of negotiating agents. In developing such algorithms the main focus has been on their efficiency and their effectiveness. However,...
N.Shadbolt. Semantic Metrics (2006)
Bo Hu, Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g. ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, can reduced to one fundamental...
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt, Communicated E. Motta
A wide range of algorithms have been developed for various types of negotiating agents. In developing such algorithms the main focus has been on their efficiency and their effectiveness. However,...
Public engagement: A professional responsibility (2006)
After 30 years in and around the science, technology and application of computing I am still astounded by how our subject has changed the world and the rate at which it is continuing to do so. Ours...
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Hu, Bo, Reynolds, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel
n October of 2004, the \underline{University of Southampton} and \underline{Hewlett Packard Laboratories at Bristol} joined forces to work on a collaborated project, CROSI, in order to investigate...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
Berners-Lee, Tim, De Roure, Dave, Harnad, Stevan, Law, Derek, Murray-Rust, Peter, Oppenheim, Charles, ...
The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded...
Liang, Yaozhong, Alani, Harith, Shadbolt, Nigel
Successful Semantic Web-based applications not only need large amounts of underlying well-organised and well-interrelated ontologies to support their infrastructures, but also need to provide the...
Semantic Integration Technonolgies Survey (2005)
Kalfoglou, Yannis, Hu, Bo, Reynolds, Dave, Shadbolt, Nigel
The \underline{University of Southampton} and \underline{Hewlett Packard Laboratories at Bristol} are collaborating in a joint project, CROSI, to investigate semantic integration. \textbf{CROSI},...
Ontology Versioning and Evolution for Semantic Web-Based Applications (2005)
Yaozhong Liang, Supervised Prof, Nigel Shadbolt, Dr. Harith Alani
A nine-month progress report submitted as per the requirements for the continuation of study for the degree of MPhil/PhD
Ontology Change Management in Protege (2005)
Yaozhong Liang, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Ontology schemas tend to change and evolve over time to meet new requirements. This change may invalidate dependent applications if there is no dynamic adaptation to the changes made to...
Towards a killer app for the semantic web (2005)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to...
Towards a killer app for the semantic web (2005)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Killer apps are highly transformative technologies that create new markets and widespread patterns of behaviour. IT generally, and the Web in particular, has benefited from killer apps to...
Towards Ontology Mapping: DL View or Graph View? (2005)
Yongjian Huang, Nigel Shadbolt
Ontology is important in sharing and reusing knowledge. It also plays a crucial role in the development of Semantic Web. The paper discusses the DL(Description Logic) and graph view on ontology....
Monitoring research collaborations using semantic web technologies (2005)
Harith Alani, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Stephen Harris, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In the current research environment, funding agencies are increasingly required to demonstrate that the projects they fund represent value for money. When funds are disbursed in a...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Glaser, Hugh, Alani, Harith, Carr, Les, Chapman, Sam, Ciravegna, Fabio, Dingli, Alexei, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Advanced Knowledge Technologies at the Midterm: Tools and Methods for the Semantic Web (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, Ciravegna, Fabio, Domingue, John, Hall, Wendy, Motta, Enrico, O'Hara, Kieron, ...
The Use of Ontologies for Knowledge Acquisition (2004)
Shadbolt, Nigel, O'Hara, Kieron, Cottam, Hugh
Ontologies are explicit conceptualisations of subject domains, and this chapter examines the use and value of ontologies for knowledge acquistion. It takes three approaches to the exploitation of...
Semantic web based content enrichment and knowledge reuse in e-science (2004)
Feng Tao, Liming Chen, Nigel Shadbolt, Fenglian Xu, Simon Cox, Colin Puleston, ...
Abstract We address the life cycle of semantic web based knowledge management from ontology modelling to instance generation and reuse. We illustrate through a semantic web based knowledge management...
Managing Patient Record Instances Using DL-Enabled Formal Concept Analysis (2004)
Bo Hu, An Dasmahapatra, Paul Lewis, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract In this paper we describe a general logic-enabled Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) approach to manage patient record instances. In particular, the conceptual model of the domain is represented...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
MIAKT: Combining Grid and Web Services for Collaborative Medical Decision Making (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Paul Lewis, An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Hugh Lewis
Providing semantic web technologies in a medical domain has its obvious advantages. Having distributed services using shared domain vocabularies provides a great impetus for the integration of...
Applying the Semantic Web to Manage Knowledge on the Grid. Accepted to the e-Science 2004 (2004)
Feng Tao, Colin Puleston, Carole Goble, Nigel Shadbolt, Liming Chen, Fenglian Xu, ...
Abstract: Geodise [2] uses a toolbox of Grid enabled Matlab functions as building blocks on which higher-level problem solving workflows can be built. The aim is to help domain engineers utilize the...
MIAKT: Combining Grid and Web Services for Collaborative Medical Decision Making (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Paul Lewis, An Dasmahapatra, Bo Hu, Hugh Lewis
Providing semantic web technologies in a medical domain has its obvious advantages. Having distributed services using shared domain vocabularies provides a great impetus for the integration of...
Collaborative Tools in the Semantic Grid (2004)
Michelle Bachler Simon, Simon Buckingham Shum, Marc Eisenstadt, Jiri Komzak, Jessica Chen-burger, Jeff Dalton, ...
The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science. The project is integrating several knowledge based and hypertext tools into...
CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application (2004)
Hugh Glaser, Harith Alani, Sam Chapman, Alexiei Dingli, Nicholas Gibbins, Stephen Harris, ...
In this paper we reflect on the lessons learned from deploying the award winning [1] Semantic Web application, CS AKTiveSpace. We look at issues in service orientation and modularisation, harvesting,...
Trust strategies for the semantic web (2004)
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. Enabling trust on the Semantic Web to ensure more efficient agent interaction is an important research topic. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models,...
munication,s m Statistics - Theo*'y and Methods (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Fabio Ciravegna, John Domingue, Wendy Hall, Enrico Motta, David Robertson, ...
In a celebrated essay on the new electronic media, Marshall McLuhan wrote in 1962: Our private senses are not closed systems but are endlessly translated into each other in that experience which we...
Collaboration in the Semantic Grid: a Basis for e-Learning (2004)
Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Jessica Chen-burger, Jeff Dalton, David De Roure, Jiri Komzak, ...
Abstract. The CoAKTinG project aims to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for the Semantic Grid. This paper presents an overview of the hypertext and knowledge based tools...
CS AKTive Space, or how we learned to stop worrying and love the semantic Web (2004)
Nigel Shadbolt, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Stephen Harris, M. C. Schraefel
(AKT) project is to investigate how to operationalise the knowledge management mantra of “getting the right content to the right place at the right time and in the right form. ” A significant...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Alani, Harith, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, O'Hara, Kieron, Shadbolt, Nigel
Communities of practice—groups of individuals interested in a particular job, procedure, or work domain—informally swap insights on work-related tasks, often through quick chats by the water...
Visualising a DL Knowledge Base with DeLogViz, in (2003)
Ontologies are more than an elaborate approach to the definition and classification of information. They play a vital role in various web-oriented applications that makes a correct ontology one of...
Knowledge Management (KM) is not only about Knowledge Technology. The organisational debris from failed attempts to impose new technical infrastructures that are either inappropriate to their work...
Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis (2003)
Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nigel Shadbolt
Ontocopi, a tool for identifying communities of practice by analyzing ontologies of relevant working domains. Ontocopi spots patterns in ontological formal relations, traversing the ontology from...
Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from (2003)
David Millard, Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, Mark Weal, Paul Lewis, Wendy Hall, ...
Accessing and extracting knowledge from online documents is crucial for the realisation of the Semantic Web and the provision of advanced knowledge services. The Artequakt project is an ongoing...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Paul H. Lewis, Wendy Hall, ...
A large amount of digital information available is written as text documents in the form of web pages, reports, papers, emails, etc. Extracting the knowledge of interest from such documents from...
Towards the Semantic Grid: Enriching Content for (2003)
Management And Reuse, Feng Tao, Simon Cox, Liming Chen, Nigel Shadbolt, Fenglian Xu, ...
Knowledge and Semantic Web technologies are evolving the Grid towards the Semantic Grid [18] to facilitate knowledge reuse and collaboration within a community of practice. In the Geodise project we...
Knowledge-Based Acquisition of Tradeoff Preferences for Negotiating Agents (2003)
Xudong Luo, Nicholas R. Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt
A wide range of algorithms have been developed for various types of automated negotiation. In developing such algorithms the main focus has been on their eciency and their eectiveness. However, this...
Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation (2003)
Harith Alani, Sanghee Kim, David E. Millard, Mark J. Weal, Wendy Hall, Paul H. Lewis, ...
The Web is probably the largest and richest information repository available today. Search engines are the common access routes to this valuable source. However, the role of these search engines is...
From Lexicon to Mammographic Ontology: Experiences and Lessons (2003)
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, An Dasmahapatra, Nigel Shadbolt
In this paper we describe our work on representing and constructing ontologies for breast mammography, which is part of planned set of comprehensive breast imaging and pathology ontologies designed...
Towards The Semantic Grid: Putting Knowledge To Work (2003)
Feng Tao, Liming Chen, Nigel Shadbolt, Graeme Pound, Simon Cox
Abstract: Modern computational Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) become more and more complex and knowledge intensive in terms of their integrated toolsets, in particular for engineering design...
Abstract: Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and...
Initiating Organizational Memories using Ontology Network Analysis (2002)
Yannis Kalfoglou, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt
Abstract. One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right...
Harith Alani, Yannis Kalfoglou, Nigel Shadbolt
An important problem for many kinds of knowledge systems is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in such systems, and the right information is also a...
Ontocopi: Methods and tools for identifying communities of practice (2002)
Abstract: The paper describes ONTOCOPI, a tool for identifying communities of practice (COPs) by analysing ontologies of the relevant working domain. COP identification is currently a resource-heavy...
Managing reference: Ensuring referential integrity of ontologies for the semantic web (2002)
Harith Alani, An Dasmahapatra, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris, Yannis Kalfoglou, ...
Abstract. The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent...
Future eScience Infrastructure (2001)
David De Roure, David De Roure, David De Roure, Nicholas Jennings, Nicholas Jennings, Nicholas Jennings, ...
for comment with limited circulation to the UK Research Councils e-Science
Ontology Assisted Process Knowledge Acquisition (1999)
This paper explains how ontologies can be used in order to assist process oriented knowledge acquisition (KA). It explains what ontologies are and how they can be applied within the context of...
CommonKADS Models for Knowledge Based Planning (1996)
John Kingston, Nigel Shadbolt, Austin Tate, South Bridge
The CommonKADS methodology is a collection of structured methods for building knowledge based systems. A key component of CommonKADS is the library of generic inference models which can be applied to...
Avoiding Omnidoxasticity in Logics of Belief: A Reply to MacPherson (1995)
Abstract In recent work MacPherson argues that the standard method of modeling belief logically, as a necessity operator in a modal logic, is doomed to fail. The problem with normal modal logics as...
Knowledge level planning in the search and rescue domain (1995)
Hugh Cottam, Nigel Shadbolt, John Kingston
The increased use of intelligent decision support systems has created a demand for efficient acquisition, implementation and maintenance of the knowledge required by such systems. The field of...
Knowledge Level Planning in the Search and Rescue Domain (1995)
Version Hugh, Hugh Cottam, Nigel Shadbolt, John Kingston
The increased use of intelligent decision support systems has created a demand for efficient acquisition, implementation and maintenance of the knowledge required by such systems. The field of...
A hybrid approach to the automatic planning of textual structures (1994)
Over the last decade, the research goals in natural language generation have shi fred fi'om the gen-eration of isolated sentences to the production of coher-ent multi-sentence paragraphs. Two...
Grounding GDMs: A Structured Case Study (1994)
Enrico Motta, Nigel Shadbolt, Walton Hall, Mk Aa
In this paper a solution to the Sisyphus room allocation problem is discussed,which uses the generalised directive model (GDM) methodology developed in the ACKnowledge project, together with the...
A system of referential description is presented that attempts to represent crucial aspects of the process of performing and understanding referential acts. It is suggested that traditional logical...
A system of referential description is presented that attempts to represent crucial aspects of the process of performing and understanding referential acts. It is suggested that traditional logical...