Professor Derek Sleeman

Professor Derek Sleeman The University of Aberdeen School of Natural & Computing Sciences Emeritus Professor work +44 (0)1224 272288 work fax On request http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc199/  pref Computing Science Department Meston Building The University ABERDEEN AB24 3FX Scotland UK

Emeritus Professor

PhD FBCS FRSE Fellow European AI Societies

Personal Details

Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272288
Fax: On request
Email: d.sleeman@abdn.ac.uk
Personal website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~csc199/ 
Address: Computing Science Department
Meston Building
The University
ABERDEEN AB24 3FX
Scotland UK
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Biography

   University of Leeds (1965-1982)

  • Computing Assistant; Lecturer (Computing Science); Associate Director, Computer Based Learning Project.

 Visiting Positions/Sabbaticals

  • University of Texas (1972-73); Rutgers (1979); Carnegie-Mellon University (1980-81 & 1991); Edinburgh (1991)

 Stanford University (1982-86)

  • Senior Research Associate; Heuristic Programming Project; Associate Professor (AI & Education).

 University of Aberdeen

  • Professor of Computing Science (1986 – 2008); Head of Department, 1986-92, 1996-9; Emeritus Professor (2008 - )

 Academic Coordinator of the EC's Network of Excellence in Machine Learning & Knowledge Acquisition  (1992-95)


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Research Interests

  

  • Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge-Base Refinement, Machine Discovery, Ontological Engineering
  • Semantic Web & Knowledge Engineering
  • Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA) of Medical Datasets

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Collaborations

  • Professor John Kinsella (Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow)
  • Dr Laura Moss (NHS, Glasgow &  School of Medicine, University of Glasgow)
  • Dr Wamberto Vasconcelos (Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)
  • Dr David Corsar (Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)

 Add List of Former Collaborators & Research students here?


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Research Grants

EPSRC AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies) Inter Disciplinary Research Collaboration. 2000-2007.  £7.6M to consortium; £1.3M to Aberdeen.     This IRC comprised of groups from Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Open University, Sheffield & Southampton.

IPAS (Integrated Products & Services)  2005-2008  Funded by the DTI & Rolls-Royce. The Consortium involved Rolls-Royce, groups from the Universities of Aberdeen, Cambridge, Sheffield & Southampton, and several specialized companies. Total grant £2.35M (£223K Aberdeen).

 


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Teaching Responsibilities

  • Undergrad projects
  • MSc Projects

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External Responsibilities

 Organizing of Conferences & Workshops

 

  • Program & Steering Committees for EKAW series of meetings (including the 2010 Lisbon Meeting)
  • Program & Steering Committees for KCAP series of meetings (including the 2011 Banff Meeting
  • Conference Chair, K CAP 2007: Whistler, Canada October 2007    www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/kcap07/
  • Co-organizer of AAAI Spring Symposium  on "Semantic Web & Knowledge Engineering"  (SWKE), Stanford, March 2008 (details)

 


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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

  • Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M. & Kinsella, J. (2010). 'Ontology-driven hypothesis generation to explain anomalous patient responses to treatment'. Knowledge-Based Systems, vol 23, no. 4, pp. 309-315.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2009.11.009
  • Sleeman, D., Moss, LE., Gyftodimos, E., Nicolson, M. & Devereux, G. (2010). 'A comparison between clinical decisions made about lung cancer patients and those inherent in the corresponding Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline'. Health Informatics Journal, vol 16, no. 4, pp. 260-273.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1177/1460458210380520
  • Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M., Sim, M. & Kinsella, J. (2009). 'Explaining Anomalous Responses to Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5651, pp. 250-254.
  • Sim, MAB., Aiken, A., Moss, L., Sleeman, D. & Kinsella, J. (2009). 'Confusion Matrices to Refine a Novel Scoring System for Cardiovascular Instability in Intensive Care'. Scottish Medical Journal, vol 54, no. 2, pp. 56-56.
  • Balduccini, M., Baral, C., Brodaric, B., Colton, S., Fox, P., Gutelius, D., Hinkelmann, K., Horswill, I., Huberman, B., Hudlicka, E., Lerman, K., Lisetti, C., McGuinness, D., Maher, ML., Musen, MA., Sahami, M., Sleeman, D., Thoenssen, B., Velasquez, J. & Ventura, D. (2008). 'Reports of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia'. AI Magazine, vol 29, no. 3, pp. 107-115.
  • Ajit, S., Sleeman, D., Fowler, DW. & Knott, D. (2008). 'Constraint capture and maintenance in engineering design'. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, vol 22, no. 4, pp. 325-343.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1017/S089006040800022X
  • Sleeman, D., Ajit, S., Fowler, D. & Knott, D. (2008). 'The role of ontologies in creating & maintaining corporate knowledge: A case study from the aero industry'. Applied Ontology, vol 3, pp. 151-172.
    [Online] AURA: p184_JoAO.pdf
  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2006). 'Reusing JessTab rules in Protégé'. Knowledge-Based Systems, vol 19, no. 5, pp. 291 - 297.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2005.11.010

Comments and Debates

  • Sleeman, D., Barker, K. & Corsar, D. (2009). 'Report on the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-2007)'. AI Magazine, vol 30, no. 1, pp. 126-127.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

  • Moss, LE., Sleeman, D. & Sim, M. (2010). 'Reasoning by Analogy in the Generation of Domain Acceptable Ontology Renements'. EKAW 2010 Proceedings 17th International Conference: Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses Springer, Berlin, pp. 534-543.
  • Sleeman, D., Aiken, AR., Moss, LE., Kinsella, J. & Sim, M. (2009). 'A system to detect inconsistencies between a Domain Expert's different Perspectives on (Classification) Tasks'. in J Koronacki, ZW Ras, ST Wierzchon & J Kacprzyk (eds), Advances in Machine Learning II: Dedicated to the memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski vol. 2, Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 263, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 293-314.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05179-1
  • Moss, LE., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M. & Kinsella, J. (2009). 'Ontology-Driven Hypothesis Generation to Explain Anomalous Patient Responses to Treatment'. in M Bramer, R Ellis & M Petridis (eds), Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVII Springer-Verlag, London, United Kingdom, pp. 63-76, 29th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI-2009), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 15/12/09.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-983-1_5
  • Fowler, D., Reul, QH. & Sleeman, D. (2008). 'IPAS Ontology development'. in S Borgo & L Lesmo (eds), Formal Ontologies Meet Industry Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 174, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 120-131, 3rd International Workshop on Formal Ontologies Meet Industry, FOMI 2008, Turin, Italy, 5/06/08.
  • Preece, AD., Gomez, M., De Mel, GR., Vasconcelos, WWMPD., Sleeman, D., Colley, S., Pearson, G., Pham, T. & La Porta, T. (2008). 'Matching sensors to missions using a knowledge-based approach'. Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2008 vol. 6981, Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE, pp. 98109-98109.
  • Lam, SC., Sleeman, D. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2005). 'ReTAX+: A cooperative taxonomy revision tool'. in A Macintosh, R Ellis & T Allen (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XII: Proceedings of AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence vol. 1, BCS Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, London, England, pp. 64-77.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/1-84628-103-2_5

Conference Proceedings

  • Grando, MA., Moss, L., Glasspool, D., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Gilhooly, C. & Kinsella, J. (2011). 'Argumentation-Logic for Explaining Anomalous Patient Responses to Treatments'. AIME 2011 Conference Proceedings Springer, Berlin.
  • Sleeman, D., Moss, LE., Sim, M. & Kinsella, J. (2011). 'Predicting Adverse Events: Detecting Myocardial Damage in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients'. KCAP 2011 Conference Proceedings ACM Press, New York, pp. 73-79.
  • Corsar, D., Moss, LE., Sleeman, D. & Sim, M. (2009). 'Supporting the Development of Medical Ontologies'. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications: Formal Ontologies meet Industry vol. 198, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 114-125.
    [Online] DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-047-6-114
  • Lam, SC., Sleeman, D., Pan, JZ. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2008). 'A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies'. in S Spaccapietra (ed.), Journal on Data Semantics X: Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 4900, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4900, Springer, pp. 62-95.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77688-8_3
  • Runcie, T., Gray, P. & Sleeman, D. (2008). 'Constraint satisfaction and fixes: revisiting Sisyphus VT'. Resarch and development in intelligent systems XXV SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LTD, Godalming, pp. 105-118.
  • Sleeman, D., Thomas, E. & Aiken, A. (2008). 'Using Ontology Search Engines to support Users and Intelligent Systems solving a range of tasks'. Applications and innovations in intelligent systems XVI SPRINGER-VERLAG LONDON LTD, Godalming, pp. 117-130.
  • Moss, LE., Sleeman, D., Kinsella, J. & Sim, M. (2008). 'ACHE: an Architecture for Clinical Hypothesis Examination'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS vol. 21, COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS : PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL IEEE SYMPOSIUM, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, California, USA, pp. 158-160.
  • Thomas, EJ., Sleeman, D., Pan, JZ., Reul, QH. & Lam, SC. (2008). 'Aberdeen University Ontology Reuse Stack'. in D Sleeman & M Musen (eds), Symbiotic relationships between semantic web and knowledge engineering: papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium Technical report (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), vol. SS-08-07, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia, Palo Alto, United States, 26/03/08.
    [Online] AURA: p179-SWKE-EdT.pdf
  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2008). 'Developing Knowledge-Based Systems using the Semantic Web'. in E Gelenbe, S Abramsky & V Sassone (eds), AI and Semantic Web : Visions of Computer Science - BCS International Academic Conference British Computer Society, pp. 29-40, Visions of Computer Science - BCS International Academic Conference, London, United Kingdom, 22/09/08.
  • Lam, SC., Pan, JZ., Sleeman, D. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2006). 'A fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontologies'. 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, (WI 2006 Main Conference Proceedings) IEEE COMPUTER SOC, LOS ALAMITOS.
  • Zhang, Y., Vasconcelos, WWMPD. & Sleeman, D. (2005). 'OntoSearch'. in M Bramer, F Coenen & T Allen (eds), Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXI: Proceedings of AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence vol. 1a, Springer-Verlag, London, England, pp. 58-69.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1007/1-84628-102-4_5
  • Sleeman, D., Zhang, Y. & Vasconcelos, WWMPD. (2004). 'Characterisation of knowledge bases'. in M Bramer, R Ellis & A Macintosh (eds), Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XI: Proceedings of Ai2003, the Twenty-Third Sgai International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence BCS Conference Series, Springer-Verlag, pp. 235-246.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2008). 'KBS Development on the (Semantic) Web'. Paper presented at AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, California, United States, 26/03/08 - 28/03/08, pp. 35-44.
  • Corsar, D., Sleeman, D. & McKenzie, A. (2007). 'Extending Jess to Handle Uncertainty'. Paper presented at AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 10/12/07 - 12/12/07, pp. 81-93.
  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2007). 'KBS Development Through Ontology Mapping and Ontology Driven Acquisition'. Paper presented at K-CAP 2007 The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Whistler, BC, Canada, 28/10/07 - 31/08/08, pp. 23-30.
    [Online] DOI: 10.1145/1298406.1298412
  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2005). 'Reusing JessTab Rules in Protégé'. Paper presented at AI-2005, The Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 12/12/05 - 14/12/05, pp. 7-20.
  • Corsar, D. & Sleeman, D. (2005). 'Reuse of JessTab Rule Sets within the Protégé Environment'. Paper presented at 8th International Protégé Conference, Madrid, Spain, 18/07/05 - 21/07/05,.

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