Department of Computing Science
The University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
I welcome applications for doctoral study and post-doctoral visitors in areas relevant to my research interests.
Semantic Web
Ontology Reasoning
Semantic Search
Knowledge Representation
Description Logics
Query Answering
Rule Languages
Software Engineering
Healthcare
Semantic Advertising
Multimedia
Standardisation Efforts
Advisory Committee Representative, W3C
Primary Member Representative, Object Management Group (OMG)
Co-cordinator of the OWL Task Force on Uncertainty
OW 2 (OWL 2 Profile Checker)
OWL 2 Reasoners and their test results
W3C SPARQL WG
Co-Chair of W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group
Invited expert of W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
Member of the RuleML steering committee
Co-coordinator, Software Engineering Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group
Co-coordinator, Multimedia Annotation on the Semantic Web Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Working Group
Co-Chair of Fuzzy RuleML Technical Group
W3C RDB2RDF WG
W3C Provenance XG
W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group
Co-author of RDFS(FA), OWL-E and OWL-Eu
Research
Publications
My profile at Google Scholar
Presentations [CSD Seminars]
PhD studentships are available here
Advice for PhD students (By Alan Bundy)
How to choose a good topic for a thesis (By Serge Abiteboul)
How to do research (Edited by David Chapman)
How to write technical papers (By Jennifer Widom)
How to give a great research talk (By Simon Peyton Jones et al.)
How to create attractive posters (By Regev et al.)
How to review papers (from CHI 2005)
How NOT to review papers (from Graham Cormode)
Local guide on how to review papers
Recent Events and Links
Royal Society Event on Web science: A new frontier
The next Scottish Linked Data Meetup in Aberdeen
UK Open Government License (Why it is good and what it means)
Related articles
- Community Challenge: The Semantic Web in 140 Characters (semanticweb.com)
- Introducing SemanticWeb.com “Innovation Spotlight” Series with Pingar (semanticweb.com)
- Google Just Hi-jacked the Semantic Web Vocabulary (semanticweb.com)
- SMX Advanced 2012 – Catching up with the Semantic Web (slideshare.net)
- Thinking outside the book (montagueinstitute.wordpress.com)
- Has Google hi-jacked the Semantic Web? (semantic-web.at)
- Is Content Curation An Essential Part of “Semantic Web?” (contentcurationmarketing.com)
- Wiring the semantic web by means of linked data (storify.com)
- Google’s Knowledge Graph: Yeah, that’s the Semantic Web (sort of) (blogs.gartner.com)
- The Semantic Web, In a Format You Can Tolerate (nickbmartin.com)