Postal Address:
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
I am a senior lecturer of computer science in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. I received my PhD in 1992, MSc in 1985 and BSc in 1982, all in computer science. I am a member of the Knowledge and Data Engineering research cluster within the school.
Research Interests| Publications| Research Projects| Professional Activities| Research Students| Teaching
My research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence (e.g., planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty and machine learning), and its intersections with databases and Web technology. My main research areas are AI planning, data integration/Web integration, Web intelligence and intelligent interfaces, reasoning under uncertainty, and intelligent programming tutors.
Recent Publications| Publication by Areas| Full Publication List
Modelling and Managing Inconsistent Software Requirements (2006-2008), jointly funded by Royal Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
CSPT: Centre for Software Process Technologies (2002-2005), funded by EC Peace II - IRTU RTD Centre of Excellence, £732,744 (£435,650 from EU).
MISSION: Multi-agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information over the (inter)Net (2000-2003), funded by the European Commission Framework V, Information Societies Technology (IST) Programme, £137,602.
Research into Planning Graph Algorithms Based Intelligent User Interfaces and Their Implementation (2000-2002), joint project with Northeast Normal University of China, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, 120,000¥.
RECALL: Repairing Errors in Computer Assisted Language Learning (1995-1997), funded by the European Commission Framework IV Telematics programme (LE1-1615), 450,000 ECUs.
2010:
PC members of WWW 2010, APWeb 2010
2009:
PC members of BNCOD 2009, ICEIS 2009, KSEM09, ICNC'09, DTA 2009
2008:
PC members of BNCOD 2008, ICEIS 2008, DTA 2008, CIS 2008
2007:
PC members of ICEIS 2007, BNCOD 2007, KSEM'2007
2006:
Program Co-Chair of BNCOD 2006, the 23rd British National Conference on Databases, 18 - 20 July 2006, Belfast, UK.
Organizing Co-Chair of AICS 2006, the 17th Irish conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 11 - 13 September 2006, Belfast, UK.
PC Members of BNCOD 2006, AICS 2006, ICEIS 2006, P2PIM'06.
2005:
PC Members of ICEIS 2005
2004:
PC Members of ICEIS 2004
Studentships for research students are available from time to time. Any interests in one of my research areas are welcome. Informal enquiries can be made to me by email.
Qingyuan Bai: Query Reformulation for Data Integration from Multiple, Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Sources (2000-2005), now a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, China
Zhining Liao: Query Processing for Data Integration from a Multitude of Data Sources over the Internet ( 2000-2005), now a research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University.
Jin Pei: Schema Matching and Mapping for Peer to Peer Data Sharing (2005 - 2006), now software engineer, Citigroup.
ZhongTian He: Query Interface Matching for Web Data Integration (2006 - )
Daiyue Weng: Query Result Extraction for Web Data Integration (2008 - )