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Dr. Liming (Luke) Chen     

 

School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Ulster @ Jordanstown
Shore Road, Newtownabbey
County Antrim, BT37 0QB
Northern Ireland, U.K.

 

Email:   l.chen@ulster.ac.uk

Phone:  (+44) 28 9036 8837 (Office)

 

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NEWS:

The Second International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness (SAGAware2012) will be held in conjunction with the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp2011), in Pittsburgh, PA, USA September 5-8, 2012.

The CFP for the SAGAware2012 can be downloaded here. The Submission deadline is on 15th June 2012.

A fully funded PhD studentship in Dynamic Information Interlinking and Situation-aware Content Provisioning in Mobile Environments is now open for application. The studentship is jointly sponsored by the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) and an industrial partner with higher living expenses and extra traveling funding. The deadline is 27 April 2012.

Details of the project and application can be found here.

Please feel free to contact if you are interested in making an application.

Short Biography

Dr. Liming Chen is currently a lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematics, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster, United Kingdom. He received his B.Eng and M.Eng from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, and his Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence from De Montfort University, UK. He has worked as a senior research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, UK, before he joined the University of Ulster. He is a member of the Smart Environment Research Group.

Dr. Chen has extensive research expertise and a wide range of research interests with special emphasis being placed on problem solving for real-world applications. His research spans from curiosity-driven theoretical exploration to practical problem-motivated technology and system development in the following focal areas.

Professional Activities
  1. Executive Steering Committee Member: International Organization for Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  2. Chair: HEA Workshop on Embedding Self and Peer Assessment and Feedback in Practice - A Principles-Based and Technology-Enabled Approach, mARCH 2012
  3. Chair: International Workshop on Situation, Activity, Goal Awareness (SAGAware2011) in conjunction with the ACM UbiComp2011, 2011
  4. Guest Editor: Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier), Special Issue on ¡°Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition in Intelligent Environments¡±, 2010
  5. Guest Editor: Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence Book Series (Atlantis Press), book on ¡° Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intelligent Environments¡± 2010
  6. Co-Chair: Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, in conjunction with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT¡®10), 2010
  7. Chair: International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution in connection with the 6th International and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, 2007
  8. Invited lecture: "An Ontology-Based Framework for Activity Modelling, Recognition and Learning in Smart Homes", iCareNet Winter School, March 2012
  9. Invited seminar: ¡°Ontology-driven activity modelling, recognition and learning in smart homes ¡± at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, 2011
  10. Invited tutorial: ¡°A n introduction to ontology-based activity recognition¡± in the joint conferences of the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009), and the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2009), 2009

Program Committee Membership

Web Intelligence (WI2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012); Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST2009/2010/2011/2012); Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC2010); AAAI 2012 fall symposium on AI for Gerontechnology, The First International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 2012), The Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2011), International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS2012), International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2012), International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous2011), ICPCA2011, Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL2010/2011/2012); Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI2010/2011/2012); High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2010); Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010); Web Intelligence e-Health 2009/2010; Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009/2010/2011/2012); Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management (KSEM 2010/2011)

Research Projects
  1. Dynamic Information Interlinking and Situation-aware Content Provisioning in Mobile Environments, funded by the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) and the industral partner IN2, value: approx. £80K, duration: 09/2012 - 09/2015, principal investigator.
  2. Patient-centric model for remote management, treatment and re-habilitation of autistic children (MICHELANGELO), funded by EU FP7 ICT, value: €2.8 million, duration: 10/2011-10/2014, co-principal investigator.
  3. Situated Guidance for the Mobile Elderly (MobileSage), funded by EU AAL Program, value: €2.6 million, Ref: AAL-2011-3-050, duration: 09/2011-03/2014, principal investigator.
  4. Guidance and Awareness Services for Independent Living ( ROSETAA), funded by EU AAL Program, value: €2.3 million, Ref: AAL-2008-1-143, duration: 06/2009-05/2012, co-principal investigator.
  5. A Conceptual Model and an Open Knowledge Base on Energy in Buildings, funded by Slovene research funding agency ARRS, Slovenia,value: €150K, duration: 08/2011-08/2014, international collaborator.
  6. UU SERG ¨C uLCUC joint project on ubi quitous Life Care, funded by Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, value: £6448, duration: 05/2011-04/2015, co-principal investigator.
  7. Deployment of Sensing Technology in Connected Health Care, funded by UK NI DEL RCIF, value: £623,000, duration: 03/2009-03/2011, co-principal investigator.
  8. Knowledge Management and Experience Reuse in Collaborative Networked Environment, funded by SAP CEC Belfast, value: £80K, duration: 10/2007-03/2011, principal investigator.
  9. Towards Semantic Smart Homes: the Synergy of the Semantic Web technologies and Smart Homes, Student placement, funded by the University of Ulster, value: Approx. £12041, duration: 06/2008-04/2009, principal investigator. SemanticsAtHome: Raising Awareness within the local community of the use of the Semantic Web in Healthcare Technologies for Smart Home, funded by Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF), value: £1500, duration: 03/2008 ¨C 06/2008, principal investigator.
  10. Embedding Self and Peer Assessment and Feedback in Practice workshop, funded by Higher Education Academy, value: £1000, March 2012
  11. Travel fund from Higher Education Academy, value: £1100, 2011-2012
  12. FP6 ICT annual conference, Northern Ireland InvestNI networking fund, small grant 2006
  13. Grid-enabled Optimisation and Design Search in Engineering (GEODISE), funded by EPSRC e-Science programme, £2.7M Ref: GR/R67705/01, 10/2001-09/2004, investigator.
  14. Enabling and Supporting Provenance in Grids for Complex Problems (PROVENANCE), funded by EU FP6 IST programme, €2M, Ref. No.511085, 10/2004-09/2006 , investigator.

PHD Research Projects:

  1. Situation-aware Personalised Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments, 2011-2014
  2. Context Modelling and Management for Smart Environments, 2010 - 2013
  3. Social Interaction Analysis for Enhanced Social Life, 2009-2012
  4. An Agent-based Approach to Decision Support in Complex Environments, 2009-2012
  5. Visualisation of Sensor Data for Monitoring within Intelligent Environments, 2009-2012
  6. A Task-Based Approach to Work Experience Reuse, 2008-2011, Sponsored by SAP
  7. Improving the Performance of Recommender Algorithms, 2007-2010
  8. Sensor Distribution Optimisation in Smart Environments, 2007-2010

Recent Publications (since 2000)

Books
  1. Chen L. , Ismail Khalil, Zhiwen Yu, Christian Becker, William K. Cheung, Parisa Rashidi , Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Situation Activity & Goal Awareness(SAGAware2011), ACM New York, NY, USA, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0926-4, 2011.
  2. Chen L., Nugent CD., Biswas J., Hoey J., Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intelligent Environments, Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, Vol.4, ISBN:9789078677352, Atlantis Press, 2011
  3. Chen L., Nugent CD., Cook D., Yu Z., Knowledge-drivem Activity Recognition in Intelligent Environments, Special Issue of the International Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, ISSN:1574-1192, Elsevier, to appear in May 2011
  4. Tao X., Zhou X., Wu ST., Chen L., the proceedings of the International Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES 2010), WI-IAT, vol.3, pp.xxx, 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Toronto, Ontario Canada, August 31-September 03, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4191-4, IEEE Computer Society, doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.340, pp265-295 , 2010
  5. Chen L., Haase P., Hotho A., Ong E., Cudre Mauroux P., the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and Ontology Evolution (ESOE07)", in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007), Busan, Korea, Published on CEUR-WS, ISSN:1613-0073, 2007

Journal papers

  1. Chen L., Hoey J., Nugent C.D., Cook D.J., Yu Z., Sensor-Based Activity Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part C, doi: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2198883, 2012, to appear.
  2. Chen L., Davies V., Towards a Learner-centred Systematic Pedagogy for Enriching and Enhancing Effective Learning Experiences for MSc Students, Perspectives on Pedagogy and Practice, 2012, to appear.
  3. Quinn D., Chen L., Mulvenna M., Social Network Analysis - A Survey, T he International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, vol.4, no.3, 2012, to appear.
  4. Chen L ., Nugent C., OntoFarm: An Ontology-based Framework for Activity Recognition and Model Evolution, The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, ERCIM News No. 87, Special theme: Ambient Assisted Living, ERCIM EEIG, ISSN:09264981, pp.40-41, 2011.
  5. Nugent, CD , Galway L., Chen L., Donnelly M., McClean SI., Zhang S., Scotney BW. and Parr G., Managing Sensor data in Ambient Assisted Living. Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, 5 (3). pp. 237-245, 2011.
  6. Chen L., Nugent CD., Wang H., A Knowledge-Driven Approach to Activity Recognition in Smart Homes, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ISSN: 1041-434707, IEEE Computer Society, doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2011.51, 2011.  
  7. Tolstikov A., Hong X., Biswas J., Nugent C., Chen L., Parente G., Comparison of Fusion Methods Based on DST and DBN in Human Activity Recognition, Journal of Control Theory and Applications, Vol.9, No.1, pp.1-10, DOI 10.1007/s11768-011-0260-7, 2011 .
  8. Poland M.P., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Human Positioning and Tracking using Colour Pattern Matching, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Accepted, In Press, 2011
  9. Chen L., Nugent C.D., Situation Aware Cognitive Assistance in Smart Homes, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Rinton Press, ISSN1550-4646, Vol.6, No.3, pp263-280, 2010
  10. Poland M.P., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Spatial-Frequency Data Acquisition using Rotational Invariant Pattern Matching in Smart Environments, Annals of Telecommunications - Annales des Telecommunications, Vol65, No.9-10, pp.557¨C570, 2010
  11. Parente G., Nugent C.D., Hong X., Donnelly M.P., Chen L. and Vicario E., Formal Modeling Techniques for Ambient Assisted Living, Ageing International, doi:10.1007/s12126-010-9086-8, 2010
  12. Chen L., Nugent C.D., Ontology-based activity recognition in intelligent pervasive environments, International Journal of Web Information Systems, ISSN:1744-0084, Emerald publisher, vol.5, no.4, pp.410-430, 2009
  13. Poland M.P., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Development of a Smart Home Simulator for use as a Heuristic Tool for Management of Sensor Distribution, International Journal for the European Society for Engineering and Medicine ¨C Technology and Healthcare, Vol.17, No.3, pp.171-182, 2009
  14. Poland M.P., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Smart Home Research: Projects and Issues, International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, Vol.1, Issue4, pp.32-45, 2009
  15. Chen L., Nugent C D, Mulvenna MD, Finlay DD, Hong X, Poland M., A Logical Framework for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home, International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol.9, No.4, pp.20-34, 2008
  16. Chen L., Shadbolt N.R. and Goble C., A Semantic Web Based Approach to Knowledge Management for Grid Applications, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ISSN: 1041-4347, Vol.19, No.2, pp.283-296, 2007
  17. Chen L. and Jiao Z., Supporting Provenance in Service-oriented Computing Using the Semantic Web Technologies, The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, ISSN: 1727-5997, Vol.7, No.1, pp.4-11, 2006
  18. Chen L., Shadbolt N.R., Goble C., Tao F., Managing Semantic Metadata for Web/Grid Services, International Journal of Web Service Research, Idea Group Publishing, ISSN: 1545-7362, Vol.3, No.4, pp.73-94, 2006
  19. Chen L., Shadbolt N.R., Goble C., Tao F., Puleston C., Cox S.J., Semantics-assisted Problem Solving on the Semantic Grid. Journal of Computational Intelligence, Vol.21, No.2, pp.157-176, 2005
  20. Tao F., Chen L., Shadbolt N.R., Pound G., Cox S.J., Towards the Semantic Grid: Putting Knowledge to Work in Design Optimisation. Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), Vol.9, No.6, pp551-563, 2003

Book chapters

  1. M.P. Poland, C.D. Nugent, H. Wang, L. Chen , ¡°Chapter 24: Smart Home Research: Projects and Issues,¡± Ubiquitous Developments in Ambient Computing and Intelligence: Human-Centered Applications, Ed. Kevin Curran. Hershey: IGI Global, pp. 259 ¨C 272, 2011.
  2. Chen L., Khalil I., Activity Recognition: Approaches, Practices and Trends, book chapter, in book ¡°Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intelligent Environments¡±, Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, Vol.4, ISBN:9789078677352, Atlantis Press, pp.1-32, 2011
  3. Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H., and Sterritt R., Ontology-based Learning Framework for Activity Assistance in an Adaptive Smart Home, in book ¡°Activity Recognition in Pervasive Intelligent Environments¡±, Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence, Vol.4, ISBN:9789078677352, Atlantis Press, pp.237-262, 2011
  4. Chen L., Nugent C.D., Mulvenna M.D., Finlay D.D., Hong X., Semantic Smart Homes: Towards Knowledge Rich Assisted Living Environment, in book "Intelligence on Intelligent Patient Management" ( Edited by McClean S., Millard P, El-Darzi, Nugent C), Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-00178-9, pp.279-296, 2009
  5. Chen L., Tao F., An Intelligent Recommender System for Web Resource Discovery and Selection , in book "Intelligent Decision and Policy Making Support Systems" ( Edited by Edited by Da Ruan, Frank Hardeman eds.), The Springer , ISBN978-3-540-78306-0, pp.113-140, 2008

Conference papers

  1. Okeyo G., Chen L. , Wang H. and Sterritt R ., An Ontological and Temporal Approach to Compsite Activity Modelling, T he 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2012), 25-27 June 2012, to appear.
  2. Chen L., McCloy F., Nicholl P., Towards a Principle-Based Technology-Enabled Approach to Supporting and Facilitating Self and Peer Assessment and Feedback, In Proceedings of the STEM Annual Conference 2012, 12-12 April 2012.
  3. Synnott J., Chen L. , Nugent C.D., Moore G., WiiPD - An Approach for the Objective Home Assessment of Parkinson's Disease, The Proc. of the 33rd International IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBS, Boston, USA, ISBN: 978-1-4244-4121-1, 2011, pp.2388-2391, DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090666
  4. Chen L., Towards Research-led Learning Pedagogy: A Case Study, in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences, ISBN 978-0-9565220-6-1, paper No.15, August 2011. Published by Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for Information & Computer System
  5. Quinn D., Chen L. , Mulvenna M., An Examination of the Behaviour of Young and Older Users of Facebook, Acccepted by t he 4th ICST IEEE International Conference on eHealth , Spain, Nov. 2011. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, LNICST91, pp.9-16.
  6. Chen L., Okeyo G., Wang H., Sterritt R., Nugent C., A Systematic Approach to Adaptive Activity Modeling and Discovery in Smart Homes, Proceedings of the The 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics , in IEEE Explore ISBN: 978-1-4244-9351-7, 2011 , pp.2192-2196.
  7. Okeyo G., Chen L. , Wang H. and Sterritt R., Time Handling for Real-time Progressive Activity Recognition , International Workshop on Situation, Activity, Goal Awareness in conjunction with UbiComp201, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0926-4, ACM Digital Library, pp37-44, doi:10.1145/2030045.2030056 .
  8. Quinn D., Chen L. , Mulvenna M., Does Age Make a Difference in the Behaviour of Online Social Network Users? In Proc. of t he 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing, pp.266-272, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4580-6/11, IEEE Computer Society, DOI 10.1109/iThings/CPSCom.2011.86, 2011.
  9. Synnott J., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Moore G., Remote Monitoring and Visualisation of Parkinson's Disease Tremor, in Proc. of the Microscopical Society of Ireland and the Northern Ireland Biomedical Engineering Society Joint Annual Symposium, N. Ireland, 2010
  10. Redpath J., Glass D., McClean S., Chen L., User-based Collaborative Filtering: Sparsity and Performance, STAIRS-2010: The fifth European Starting AI Researcher Symposium, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2010
  11. Chen L., Nugent C.D., Engineering Knowledge for Assistive Living, the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management ( KSEM 2010 ), LNAI6291, pp.609-614, 2010
  12. Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H. and Sterritt R., Ontology-Enabled Activity Learning and Model Evolution in Smart Homes, the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2010), LNCS6406, 2010, pp67-82, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16355-5, 2010
  13. Synnott J., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Moore G., Assessment and Visualization of Parkinson's Disease Tremor, in the 10 th IEEE Int. Conf. On Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine (ITAB2010), pp.1-4, doi: 10.1109/ITAB.2010.5687746, 2010
  14. Du Y., Chen L., Hu B., Patterson D., Wang H., Facilitating experience reuse: towards a task_based approach, the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering & Management (KSEM2010), LNCS6291, pp.494-505, 2010
  15. Biswas J., Baumgarten M., Tolstikov A., Phyo WAI A.A., Nugent C.D., Chen L., Donnelly M., Requirements for the Deployment of Sensor Based Recognition Systems for Ambient Assistive Living, Aging Friendly Technology for Health and Independence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume6159, pp.218-221, 2010
  16. Poland M.P., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Stopping Criterion impact on Pure Random Search Optimisation for Intelligent Device Distribution, Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, pp.249-254, 2010
  17. Redpath J., Glass D., McClean S., Chen L., Collaborative Filtering: The Aim of Recommender Systems and the Significance of User Ratings, The 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Advances in Information Retrieval, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume5993, pp.394-406, 2010
  18. Hu B., Du Y., Chen L., Riss U.V. and Witschel H., Utilising Task-Patterns in Organisational Process Knowledge Sharing, In A. G¨®mez-P¨¦rez, Y. Yu, and Y. Ding (Eds.), The Semantic Web . LNCS5926, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.216-230, 2009
  19. Du Y., Riss U.V., Chen L., Ong E., Taylor P., Patterson D., Wang H., Work Experience Reuse in Pattern Based Task Management, In: I-KNOW'09 Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Knowledge Management, Graz, Austria, pp.149-158, 2009
  20. Chen L., Nugent C.D., Semantic Data Management for Situation-aware Assistance in Ambient Assisted Living, the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009), ACM ISBN:978-1-60558-660-1, pp. 296-303, 2009
  21. Poland, M.P., Nugent, C.D., Wang, H., Chen L., Smart Home Sensor Distribution using Chromatic Pattern Matching and Shape Analysis, Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland 14 th Annual Conference and Scientific Symposium, 2009.
  22. Poland M.P., Gueldenring D., Nugent C.D., Wang H., Chen L., Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition Modalities for Smart Home Inhabitant Movement Behavioural Analysis, Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST09), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS5597, pp.294-298, 2009
  23. Chen L., Stankovski V., Shi, Z, Watson P., Semantic-Enabled and Agent-based Environment Aware Agile Service Utilities, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, pp.261-264, 2008
  24. Redpath J., Glass D., McClean S., Chen L., A Study of Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Algorithms, In Proceedings of the 19th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, pp.163--172, 2008
  25. Chen L., Nugent C D, Mulvenna MD, Finlay DD, Hong X, Poland M., Using Event Calculus for Behaviour Reasoning and Assistance in a Smart Home, Proceedings of The 6th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics, Springer, ISBN 0302-9743, pp.81-91, 2008
  26. Chen L., Roberts C., Semantic Tagging for Large-scale Content Management, Proceedings of The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society, pp.478-481, DOI: 10.1109/WI.2007.119, 2007
  27. Du Y., Chen L., Using Personalized Knowledge Portal for Information and Knowledge Integrating and Sharing, Proceedings of The third International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), Xian, China, October 29-31, 2007, IEEE Computer Society, accepted and in press, 2007
  28. Tao F., Millard D., Zalfan M., Chen L., Davis H., Knowledge based Learning Experience Management on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of IADIS International Conference of e-Learning, Lisbon, Portugal, July 6-8, 2007
  29. Chen L., Du Y. and Wang H., Towards a Bottom-up Approach to Data and Knowledge Modeling and Fusion, Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, the 20 th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, 2007
  30. Augusto J.C., Liu J. and Chen L., Using Ambient Intelligence for Disaster Management, the 10th International Conference on Knowledge-Based, Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES2006), 2006.
  31. Chen L., Yang X., Tao F., A Semantic Web Service Based Approach for Augmented Provenance, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, ISBN:0-7695-2747-7 doi:10.1109/WI.2006.25, pp.594-600, 2006.
  32. Chen L., Jiao Z., Cox S.J., On the Use of Semantic Annotations for Supporting Provenance in Grids, Proceedings of European Conference on Parallel Computing (EUROPAR2006), Lecture Notes Computer Science, LNCS4128, Edited by W.E. Nagel, W.V. Walter and W. Lehner, Springer-Verlag, pp.371-380, 2006
  33. Chen L., Yang X., Applying AI Planning to Semantic Web Services for Workflow Generation, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid , ISBN: 0-7695-2534-2, doi: 10.1109/SKG.2005.44, pp.65, 2005.
  34. Chen L., Tan V., Xu F., Biller A., Groth P., Miles S., Ibbotson J. and Moreau L, A Proof of Concept: Provenance in a Service Oriented Architecture, Proceedings of The forth UK e-Science all-hands meeting (AHM05), (Edited by Cox, S.J., Walker, D.), ISBN:1-904425-53-4, 2005
  35. Chen L., Shadbolt, N.R., Goble, C., Tao, F., Cox, S.J., Puleston C., Managing Semantic Metadata for the Semantic Grid, In Proceedings of the workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence in conjunction with the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), pp.131-140, 2004
  36. Tao, F., Shadbolt, N., Chen L., Xu, F. and Cox, S., Semantic Web based Content Enrichment and Knowledge Reuse in e-Science, In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume3290, pp.654-669, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30468-5_42, 2004
  37. Chen L., Cox, S.J., Tao, F., Shadbolt, N.R., Goble, C., Puleston C., Empowering Resource Providers to Build the Semantic Grid. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'04), pp.271-278, 2004
  38. Tao, F., Cox, S., Chen L., Shadbolt, N., Xu, F., Puleston, C., Goble, C., Applying the Semantic Web to Manage Knowledge on the Grid, In Proceedings of UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004, pp.508-515, 2004
  39. Chen L., Shadbolt, N.R., Goble, C., Tao, F., Cox, S.J., Puleston C., Smart P.R., Towards a Knowledge-based Approach to Semantic Service Composition, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS2870, pp.319-334, 2003
  40. Chen L., Shadbolt N.R., Tao F., Puleston C., Goble C., Cox S.J., Exploiting Semantics for e-Science on the Semantic Grid, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2003) workshop on Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence, pp.122-132, 2003
  41. Tao F., Chen L., Cox S.J., Shadbolt N.R., Puleston C. and Goble C., Semantic Support for Grid-Enabled Design Search in Engineering, in the First GGF Semantic Grid Workshop, the Ninth Global Grid Forum, http://www.semanticgrid.org/GGF/ggf9/simon/, 2003
  42. Tao F., Cox S., Chen L., Shadbolt N., Xu F., Puleston C., Goble C. and Song, W., Towards the Semantic Grid: Enriching Content for Management and Reuse. In Proceedings of Delivering e-Science, UK e-Science All-hand Conference, pp.695-702, 2003
  43. Chen L., Cox, S.J., Goble, C., Keane, A.J., Roberts, A., Shadbolt, N.R., Smart, P., Tao, F., Engineering Knowledge for Engineering Grid Applications, in Proceedings of Euroweb 2002 Conference, The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business, pp.12-25, 2002
  44. Chen L., Cox S.J., Goble C., Keane A.J., Roberts A., Shadbolt N.R., Smart P., Tao F., Knowledge Services for Distributed Service Integration UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 2002 
  45. Cox S.J, Boardman R.P, Chen L.,  Duta M., Eres M.H., Fairman M.J., Jiao Z., Giles M., Goble C.A.,  Pound G.E.,  Keane A.J., Scott C.M., Shadbolt N.R.,  Tao F.,  Wason J.L., Xue G., Grid Services in Action: Grid Enabled Optimisation and Design Search, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC-11, pp.413, 2002
  46. Cox S.J, Chen L., Campobasso S., Duta M.H., Eres M.H., Giles M.B., Goble C., Jiao Z., Keane A.K., Pound G.E., Roberts A., Shadbolt N.R., Tao F., Wason J.L., Xu F., Grid Enabled Optimisation and Design Search (Geodise), UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, Sheffield, September 2002 
  47. Chen L., Bechkoum K. and Clapworhty G., Equipping a Lifelike Animated Agent with a Mind, in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp.72-85, 2001
  48. Chen L., Bechkoum K. and Clapworhty G., A Logical Approach to High-Level Agent Control, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp.1-8, 2001
  49. Chen L., Bechkoum K. and Clapworhty G., Reconciling Autonomy with Narratives in the Event Calculus, AAAI2001 Spring Symposium Series, AAAI Technical Report SS-01-02, pp.20-24, 2001
  50. Chen L., Bechkoum K. and Clapworhty G., An Animated Human-like Interface Agent for Virtual Environments, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Artificial Intelligence, pp.29-39, 2000
  51. Chen L. and Bechkoum K., An Interactive Graphical Environment for Modelling and Simulation of Hybrid Systems, in Proceedings of the 13th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM99), Modelling and Simulation: A Tool for The Next Millennium, Volume II, pp42-46, 1999
  52. Chen L., Xia K. and Luker P., A Conceptual Framework for Modelling and Simulation of Variable Structure Hybrid Systems, AAAI 1999 Spring Symposium Series, AAAI Technical Report SS-99-05, pp.35-41, 1999

Technical reports

  1. Chen L., Scullion C., An Empirical Study and Evaluation on the Cost-Effectiveness of Pay-Per-Click e-Marketing, submitted to International Conference on Management of e-Commerce and e-Government (ICMeCG09), 2009
  2. Hong X., Nugent C.D., Finlay D., Chen L., Davies R., Wang H.Y., Donnelly M., Zheng H., Mulvenna M., Hallberg J., Synnes K., Open Home: Approaches to Constructing Sharable Datasets within Smart Homes, CHI 2009 Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behavior Datasets to Advance HCI and Ubiquitous Computing Research , Boston, MA, 2009
  3. Chen L., Biswas J., Tutorial: an introduction to ontology-based activity recognition, the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2009), ACM ISBN: 978-1-60558-659-5, pp.7, 2009
  4. Al-Bashrawi A. and Chen L., The SMART Assistive Software System, Project Report and System Manuals, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, 2009
  5. Chen L., Wang J., Wang X., Survey of International Cooperation on Information Society, Project Report, for the EU-China Information Society Project, China, pp.1-106, 2007

Students (Last 5 Years)

Current PhD students

  1. Kerry-Louise Skillen, Situation-aware Personalised Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments, 2011-2014
  2. Laura McAvoy, Context Modelling and Management for Smart Environments, 2010 - 2013
  3. Darren Qinn, Social Interaction Analysis for Enhanced Social Life, 2009-2012
  4. George Okeyo, An Agent-based Approach to Decision Support in Complex Environments, 2009-2012
  5. Jonathan Synnott, Visualisation of Sensor Data for Monitoring within Intelligent Environments, 2009-2012

Previous PhD students (all successfully graduated)

  1. Ying Du, A Task-Based Approach to Work Experience Reuse, 2008-2011, Sponsored by SAP
  2. Jennifer Redpath, Improving the Performance of Recommender Algorithms, 2007-2010
  3. Michael Poland, Sensor Distribution Optimisation in Smart Environments, 2007-2010

MSc students

  1. Ying Du (Distinction, with SAP)
  2. Veer Bhadra Pratap Singh (in India)
  3. Craig Roberts (with a local company)
  4. Connor Scullion (Distinction, with InvestNI)
  5. Ahmad Al-Bashrawi (Distinction, in Saudi Arabia)
  6. Ryan Goldblatt (Distinction, with IBM)

Teaching (Last 5 Years)

Teaching
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Software Systems

We have developed an Ontology-based Knowledge-driven Intelligent System for Cognitive Assistive Living, dubbed SMART, which can collect sensor data through wireless communication in smart environments, perform real-time activity recognition via semantic inference and provide just-in-time assistance. The system is implemented using semantic technologies, including semantic modelling, representation and reasoning for context, activities, assistance provisioning.

The system prototype and the technical manuals about system installation and useage can be downloaded.

Positions for Ph.D. Students

Highly motivated, passionate students interested in PhD study in relevant research areas are always welcome to contact me to discuss your ambition and aspiration.

Last Updated: 2 April 2012