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Professor Liming (Luke) Chen     

Professor of Computer Science

School of Computer Science and Informatics
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
United Kingdom, U.K.

Phone:  (+44) 116 207 8490 (Office)

Email: liming.chen@dmu.ac.uk

 

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[ Short Bio ]   [ Projects ]   [ Publications ]   [ Research Team ]   [ Teaching ]   [ Software Systems]    

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NEWS

A three-year fully funded PhD studentship on complex activity recognition in pervasive smart environments, for UK or EU students starting in September/October 2014, is available - see the advertisement and the project description.  

 

A three-year partially funded PhD studentship covering tuition fees only, for UK or EU students starting in September/October 2014, is also available. For this project please contact Prof Chen to discuss the specific project.

 

Call for paper for the 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2014), Nov. 24-26, 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Call for paper for special session on Situation, Activity and Gaol Awareness in the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2014), July 13-16, 2014, Lanzhou, China.

 

Short Biography

 

Liming Chen is Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University, 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, and then a lecturer, a senior lecturer and a reader at the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster, before he took the Professorship at De Montfort University.

Liming 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.

·         Ambient Assisted Living, Smart Homes, esp., semantic enabled data/information sharing and reuse, ontology-based or logic-based activity recognition and assistance, and the associated technology infrastructure that facilitate large scale uptake and deployment of the technology-driven independent living solutions.

 

Research Projects

 

·         Personal IADL Assistant (PIA), funded by UK EPSRC through EU AAL Joint Programme, value: �1.2 million, duration: 03/2013 - 03/2015, principal investigator

·         The Fusion knowledge transfer project, funded by InterTradeIreland, Ireland, value: 43K, duration: 10/2012 – 04/2015, co-principle investigator

·         Dynamic Information Interlinking and Situation-aware Content Provisioning in Mobile Environments, funded by the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL), Northern Ireland, and the industrial partner IN2, value: approx. £80K, duration: 09/2012 - 09/2015, principal investigator.

·         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.

·         Situated Guidance for the Mobile Elderly (MobileSage), funded by EU AAL Program, value: �2.6 million, Ref: AAL-2011-3-050, duration: 07/2011-01/2014, principal investigator.

·         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.

·         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.

·         UU SERG – uLCUC joint project on ubiquitous Life Care, funded by Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, value: £6448, duration: 05/2011-04/2015, co-principal investigator.

·         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.

·         Knowledge Management and Experience Reuse in Collaborative Networked Environment, funded by SAP CEC Belfast, value: £80K, duration: 10/2007-03/2011, principal investigator.

·         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 – 06/2008, principal investigator.

·         Embedding Self and Peer Assessment and Feedback in Practice workshop, funded by Higher Education Academy, value: £1000, March 2012

·         Travel fund from Higher Education Academy, value: £1100, 2011-2012

·         FP6 ICT annual conference, Northern Ireland InvestNI networking fund, small grant 2006

·         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.

·         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:

·         Geospatial Information based Media Retrieval, 2012-2015, jointly funded by DEL and an industrial partner

·         Goal-driven Assistive Agents for Instructing and Guiding User Activities, 2012-2015

·         Recognition of Interleaved Activity within Smart Environments, 2012-2015

·         Situation-aware Personalised Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments, 2011-2014

·         Context Modelling and Management for Smart Environments, 2010 - 2013

·         Social Interaction Analysis for Enhanced Social Life, 2009-2012

·         An Agent-based Approach to Decision Support in Complex Environments, 2009-2012

·         Visualisation of Sensor Data for Monitoring within Intelligent Environments, 2009-2012

·         A Task-Based Approach to Work Experience Reuse, 2008-2011, Sponsored by SAP

·         Improving the Performance of Recommender Algorithms, 2007-2010

·         Sensor Distribution Optimisation in Smart Environments, 2007-2010

 

Recent Publications (since 2000)

 

Journal papers

·        Skillen K., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Donnelly M., Burns W. and Solheim I., Ontological User Modelling and Semantic Rule-Based Reasoning for Personalisation of Help-on-Demand Services in Pervasive Environments, Future Generation Computer Systems, accepted, 2014.

·         Lin Q., Zhang D., Chen L., Ni H.B., Zhou S. Managing Elders’Wandering Behavior Using Sensors-based Solutions: A Survey, International Journal of Gerontology, 2014, to appear.

·         Chen L., Nugent C.D. and Okeyo G., An Ontology-based Hybrid Approach to Activity Modeling for Smart Homes, IEEE Transaction on Human-Machine Systems, accepted, 2014.

·         Quinn D., Chen L., Mulvenna M., Discovering Social Behaviour Variances of Younger and Older Users through Social Interaction Analysis, International Journal of Web Science (IJWS), vol.2, no1/2, pp. 44-65, 2013.

·         Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H., An Agent-mediated Ontology-based Approach for Composite Activity Recognition in Smart Homes, Journal of Universal Computer Science, in press, 2014.

·         Ennis A., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Ioannidis G. and Stan A., High Level Geospatial Information Discovery and Fusion for Geocoded Multimedia, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, vol.9, issue 4., pp.367-382, 2013.

·         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, vol.42, no.6, pp.790-808, 2012.

·         Quinn D., Chen L., Mulvenna M., Social Network Analysis - A Survey, The International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, vol.4, no.3, pp.46-58, 2012.

·         Chen L., and Rashidi P., Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness in Ubiquitous Computing, International Journal of Pervasive computing and Communications (IJPCC), ISSN: 1742-7371, vol.8, issue.3, pp.216-224, 2012.

·         Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H. and Sterritt R., Dynamic Sensor Data Segmentation for Real time Activity Recognition, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.11.004, in press, 2012.

·         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, vol.3, pp.81-95, ISSN:2044-7388, 2012.

·         Synnott J., Chen L., Nugent C., Moore G., WiiPD: Objective Home Assessment of Parkinson's Disease using the Nintendo Wii Remote, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine (TITB), ISSN: 1089-7771, DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2215878, vol.16, no.6, pp.1304-1312, Nov. 2012.

·         Poland M., Nugent CD., Wang H., Chen L., Genetic Algorithm and Pure Random Search for Exosensor Distribution Optimisation, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 4, No. 6, pp.359–372, Oct. 2012.

·         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, published in 2011, appeared in Vol.24 No.6, pp.961-974, June 2012.  

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         Chen L., Nugent C.D., Cook D.J., Yu Z., Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition in Intelligent Environments, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 7(3): 285-286, 2011.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.557–570, 2010

·         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.

·         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.

·         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 – Technology and Healthcare, Vol.17, No.3, pp.171-182, 2009.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

 

Books

·         Chen L., Kapoor S. and Bhatia R., Intelligent Systems for Science and Information, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol.542, Springer, ISBN:978-3-319-04701-0, 2014.

·         Urzaiz G., Ochoa S.F., Bravo J., Chen L., Oliveira J., Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence: Context-Awareness and Context-Driven Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8276, 2013.

·         Mayrhofer R., Chen L., Steinbauer M., Khalil I. and Kotsis G. (eds.), the Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013), ACM ISBN: 978-1-4503-2106-8, December 2-4, 2013.

·         Chen L., Khalil I., Yu Z., Becker C., Cheung W.K. and Rashidi P., Special Issue on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness, International Journal of Pervasive computing and Communications (IJPCC), ISSN:1742-7371, vol.8, issue.3, 10.1108/17427371211262626, Emerald  2012.

·         Rashidi P., Chen L., Cheung W.K., International Workshop on Situation, Activity and Goal Awareness (SAGAware 2012), Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp12), pp.1012-1015, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1224-0, doi>10.1145/2370216.2370435, 2012.

·         Chen L. Animated Human-like Affective Agent Design for Virtual Environments, (PhD thesis) ISBN 978-3-659-24680-7, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012, Sept. 2012, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Animated-Human-like-Affective-Virtual-Environments/dp/3659246808.

·         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.

·         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.

·         Chen L., Nugent CD., Cook D., Yu Z., Knowledge-driven Activity Recognition in Intelligent Environments, Special Issue of the International Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, ISSN:1574-1192, Elsevier, Vol.7, No.3, June 2011.  

·         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.

·         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.

 

Book chapters

·        Rafferty J., Chen L., Nugent C., Ontological Goal Modelling for Proactive Assistive Living in Smart Environments, the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2013), G. Urzaiz et al. (Eds.), LNCS8276, pp. 262–269, 2013.

·        McAvoy L., Chen L. and Donnelly M., A Generic Upper-Level Ontological Model for Context-aware Applications within Smart Environments, the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2013), G. Urzaiz et al. (Eds.), LNCS8276, pp. 270–277, 2013.

·        Synnott J., Chen L., Nugent C.D. and Moore G., IE Sim – A Flexible Tool for the Simulation of Data Generated within Intelligent Environments, International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AMI 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 7683, pp.373-378, Pisa Italy, 2012.

·        Skillen K., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Donnelly M., Burns W. and Solheim I., Ontological User Profile Modelling for Personalization of Context-Aware Applications, the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2012), J. Bravo, D. López-de-Ipiña, and F. Moya (Eds.), LNCS 7656, pp. 261-268, Dec. 2012, Spain.

·        Quinn D., Chen L. and Mulvenna M., Discovering the Social Interaction Patterns of Younger and Older Facebook Users, the 4th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL 2012), LNCS 7657,  pp.295-303, Dec. 2012, Spain.

·        Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H. and Sterritt R., A Knowledge-driven Approach to Composite Activity  Recognition in Smart Environments, the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAMI 2012), J. Bravo, D. López-de-Ipiña, and F. Moya (Eds.), LNCS 7656, pp. 322–329, Dec. 2012, Spain.

·        Burns W., Chen L., Nugent C., Donnelly M., Skillen K.L. and Solheim I., A Conceptual Framework for Supporting Adaptive Personalized Help-on-Demand Services, International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AMI 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.7683, pp.427-432, Pisa, Italy, Nov. 2012.

·        Quinn D., Chen L., Mulvenna M., An Examination of the Behaviour of Young and Older Users of Facebook, the 4th ICST IEEE International Conference on eHealth, In: Kostkova, P., Szomszor, M., Fowler, D. (Eds.) Electronic Healthcare, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, LNICST91, pp.9-16, ISBN 978-3-642-29261-3, Springer 2012.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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 – 272, 2011.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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.

·        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. 

 

Conference papers

·         Chen L., Nugent C.D. and Rafferty J., Ontology-based Activity Recognition Framework and Services, the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2013), Dec. 2-4, 2013, Vienna, Austria, to appear.

·         Skillen K., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Donnelly M., Burns W. and Solheim I., Using SWRL and Ontological Reasoning for the Personalization of Context-Aware Assistive Services, The 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, no.48, 2013.

·         Ennis A., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Ioannidis G. and Stan A., A System For Real-Time High-Level Geo-Information Extraction and Fusion For Geocoded Photos, the 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2013), pp.68-77, 2013.

·         Burns W., Chen L., Nugent C.D., Donnelly M., Skillen K. and Solheim I., Mining usage data for Adaptive Personalisation of Smartphone based Help-on-Demand services, The 6th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, no.39, 2013.

·         Okeyo G., Chen L., Wang H. and Sterritt R., An Ontological and Temporal Approach to Composite Activity Modelling, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2012), pp.1763-1770, 2012. (Best Paper of the Conference).

·         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.

·         Synnott J., Chen L., Nugent C.D. and Moore G., Flexible and Customizable Visualization of Data Generated within Intelligent Environments, the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC 2012), pp.5819-5822, 2012.

·         McAvoy L., Chen L. and Donnelly M., An Ontology Based Context Management System for Smart Environments, The International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2012), ISBN:978-1-61208-236-3, pp.18-23, 2012, Barcelona, Spain. 

·         Skillen K., Chen L., Nugent C.D. and Donnelly M., A User Profile Ontology Based Approach for Assisting People with Dementia in Mobile Environments, The 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC 2012), pp. 6390 – 6393, 2012.

·         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, pp.2388-2391, 2011.

·         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.

·         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 4th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, in IEEE Explore ISBN: 978-1-4244-9351-7, pp.2192-2196, 2011.

·         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.

·         Chen L., Khalil I., Yu Z., Becker C., Cheung WK. and Rashidi P., Overview for the international workshop on situation, activity and goal awareness, proceeding of The 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp2011), pp.631-632, 2011.

·         Quinn D., Chen L. , Mulvenna M., Does Age Make a Difference in the Behaviour of Online Social Network Users? In Proc. of the 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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         Hu B., Du Y., Chen L., Riss U.V. and Witschel H., Utilising Task-Patterns in Organisational Process Knowledge Sharing, In A. Gómez-Pérez, Y. Yu, and Y. Ding (Eds.), The Semantic Web . LNCS5926, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.216-230, 2009.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, 2007.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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. 

·         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.

·         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. 

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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

·         Chen L., Scullion C., An Empirical Study and Evaluation on the Cost-Effectiveness of Pay-Per-Click e-Marketing, International Conference on Management of e-Commerce and e-Government (ICMeCG09), 2009.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

·         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.

 

Research Team

 

This is a vibrant research team of innovation and creativity, full of inspiration and curiosity, and driven by professional commitment and dedication.

 

Get a glimpse of some of these researchers here, photo1, photo2.

Research associates

·         Jun Qi, EU AAL  Personal IADL Assistant (PIA) project.

·         Sotorios Raptis, EU FP7 ICT Patient-centric model for remote management, treatment and rehabilitation of autistic children (Michelangelo) project.

·         William Burns, EU AAL Situated Guidance for the Mobile Elderly (MobileSage) project. 

Current PhD students

·         Andrew Ennis, Geospatial Information based Media Retrieval, 2012-2015, jointly funded by DEL and the industrial partner IN2

·         Joseph Rafferty, Goal-driven Assistive Agents for Instructing and Guiding User Activities, 2012-2015

·         Phillip Hartin, Recognition of Interleaved Activity within Smart Environments, 2012-2015

·         Kerry-Louise Skillen, Situation-aware Personalised Service Provisioning in Mobile Environments, 2011-2014

·         Laura McAvoy, Context Modelling and Management for Smart Environments, 2010 - 2013

Previous PhD students (all successfully graduated)

·         Darren Qinn, Social Interaction Analysis for Enhanced Social Life, 2009-2012 [photo1, photo2] 

·         George Okeyo, An Agent-based Approach to Decision Support in Complex Environments, 2009-2012 [photo1, photo2] 

·         Jonathan Synnott, Visualisation of Sensor Data for Monitoring within Intelligent Environments, 2009-2012 [photo1, photo2]  

·         Ying Du, A Task-Based Approach to Work Experience Reuse, 2008-2011, Sponsored by SAP

·         Jennifer Redpath, Improving the Performance of Recommender Algorithms, 2007-2010

·         Michael Poland, Sensor Distribution Optimisation in Smart Environments, 2007-2010

MSc students

·         Ying Du (2007, Distinction, with SAP)

·         Veer Bhadra Pratap Singh (2007, in India)

·         Craig Roberts (2008, with a local company)

·         Connor Scullion (2008, Distinction, with InvestNI)

·         Ahmad Al-Bashrawi (2009, Distinction, in Saudi Arabia)

·         Ryan Goldblatt (2010, Distinction, with IBM)

·         Joseph Rafferty (2011, Distinction, PhD candidate)

·         Ryan Pearson (2013, Distinction, PhD candidate)

·         Susan Quinn (2013, Distinction, PhD candidate)

Advice and useful resources for students and researchers

·         Be disciplined, honest and creative

·         Be dedicated, committed and hard-working 

 

·         Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research by H.T. Kung.

·         Advice on how to succeed in graduate school by Marie desJardins

·         Letter to research students by Duane Bailey

·         Advice for students starting into research work by André DeHon

·         Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology by Michael J. Hanson

·         Advice for PhD students by Alan Bundy

·         How to choose a good topic for a thesis by Serge Abiteboul

·         How to write technical papers by Jennifer Widom

·         How to give a great research talk by Simon Peyton Jones

·         How to review papers from CHI 2005

 

Teaching (Last 5 Years)


Teaching

·         BSc, Year 4, Interactive Web Computing module, Computer Science and Software Engineering courses, from 2013 -

·         BSc, Year 4, Advanced Interactive Programming module, Interactive Multimedia Design course, from 2006 to2013

·         MSc, Advanced Web Technologies module, MSc in Computing (with specialisms in Web Technologies) , from 2008 onwards

·         BSc, Year 1, Small Group Tutoria (SAG), Interactive Multimedia Design course, since 2010

·         BSc, Year 2, Interactive Programming module, Interactive Multimedia Design course, during 2008

·         Undergraduate final-year projects and MSc postgraduate dissertation

·         Studies advice for ICT year 2

 

Membership

·         CHEP Fellow for pedagogy study and research, in particular, on research-led/informed teaching and learning, peer assessment

·         BSc IMD course committee

·         BSc Computer Science and Software Engineering  course committee

·         MSc WIS course committee

·         Computing and Engineering Faculty ethics filter committee

·         Computing and Engineering  Faculty Board

·         Faculty student recruitment & marketing representative in Team China of the University

Teaching Related Activities

·         Chair: Workshop on Embedding Self and Peer Assessment and Feedback in Practice: A Principle-based and Technology-Enabled Approach, Sponsored by UK Higher Education Academy (HEA), March 2012.

·         Teaching mobility visit to European University of Madrid, Spain, sponsored by EU ERASMUS programme, March 2012.

 

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 usage 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. The following is a number of PhD research projects for your consideration.

 

 

Last Updated: 20 January 2014