Paul Lewis

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...

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....

Semantic Metrics (2009)

Hu, Bo, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Lewis, Paul

In the context of the Semantic Web, many ontology-related operations, e.g., ontology ranking, segmentation, alignment, articulation, reuse, evaluation, etc., can be boiled down to one fundamental...

Semantic spaces revisited: investigating the performance of auto-annotation and semantic retrieval using semantic spaces (2008)

Hare, Jonathan, Samangooei, Sina, Lewis, Paul, Nixon, Mark

Semantic spaces encode similarity relationships between objects as a function of position in a mathematical space. This paper discusses three different formulations for building semantic spaces which...

Secure Interaction Models for the HealthAgents System (2008)

Xiao, Liang, Lewis, Paul, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan

Distributed decision support systems designed for healthcare use can benefit from services and information available across a decentralised environment. The sophisticated nature of collaboration...

Decentralised Clinical Guidelines Modelling with Lightweight Coordination Calculus (2007)

Hu, Bo, Dasmahapatra, Srinandan, Robertson, Dave, Lewis, Paul

Background: Clinical protocols and guidelines have been considered as a major means to ensure that cost-effective services are provided at the point of care. Recently, the computerisation of clinical...

Reflections on Challenges in Supporting Faceted Semantic Browsing of Multimedia Collections (2007)

Smith, Daniel Alexander, Owens, Alisdair, Schraefel, Mc, Sinclair, Patrick, André, Paul, Wilson, Max, ...

This paper describes our experience developing a semantically-rich exploratory interface that integrates a suite of Newsfilm media sources and associated information. Indeed, the affordances for real...

Ambient Gestures (2006)

Karam, Maria, Hare, Jonathon, Lewis, Paul, Schraefel, M.c.

We present Ambient Gestures, a novel gesture-based system designed to support ubiquitous ‘in the environment’ interactions with everyday computing technology. Hand gestures and audio feedback...

iGesture: A Platform for Investigating Multimodal, Multimedia Gesture-based Interactions (2005)

Hare, Jonathon, Karam, Maria, Lewis, Paul, Schraefel, M.c.

This paper introduces the iGesture platform for investigating multimodal gesture based interactions in multimedia contexts. iGesture is a low-cost, extensible system that uses visual recognition of...

Surveying the Reality of Semantic Image Retrieval (2005)

Enser, Peter G.B., Sandom, Christine J., Lewis, Paul

An ongoing project is described which seeks to add to our understanding about the real challenge of semantic image retrieval. Consideration is given to the plurality of types of still image, a...

Automatic Annotation of Images from the Practitioner Perspective (2005)

Enser, Peter G.B., Sandom, Christine J., Lewis, Paul

This paper describes an ongoing project which seeks to contribute to a wider understanding of the realities of bridging the semantic gap in visual image retrieval. A comprehensive survey of the means...

Induction of Estrus in Anestrous Suckled Beef Cows (1998)

Fike, Karol, Day, Michael, Inskeep, Keith, Kinder, James, Lewis, Paul, Short, Robert, ...

Suckled anestrous beef cows (n=362) received either: 1) an intravaginal implant containing progesterone for 7 days plus a 1 mg injection of estradiol benzoate 24 to 30 hours after implant removal; 2)...

Rape was Weapon of Serbs, U.N. Says (1993)

Lewis, Paul

An article from the New York Times detailing the U.N.'s discovery of Serbian uses of rape. It also references Bassiouni's rape database.