Professor Derek Sleeman

Professor Derek Sleeman
Professor Derek Sleeman
Professor Derek Sleeman

PhD FBCS FRSE Fellow European AI Societies

Emeritus Professor

About
Email Address
d.sleeman@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
Computing Science Department Meston Building The University ABERDEEN AB24 3FX Scotland UK
School/Department
School of Natural and Computing Sciences

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)

External Memberships

 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)

 

Research

Research Overview

  

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

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?

Funding and 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).

 

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Undergrad projects
  • MSc Projects
Publications

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  • Extending Jess to Handle Uncertainty

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D., McKenzie, A.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • KBS Development Through Ontology Mapping and Ontology Driven Acquisition

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • ONTOSEARCH2: Searching ontologies semantically

    Thomas, E., Pan, J. Z., Sleeman, D.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles
  • Norm Conflicts and Inconsistencies in Virtual Organisations

    Kollingbaum, M. J., Norman, T. J., Preece, A., Sleeman, D.
    Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems II: AAMAS 2006 and ECAI 2006 International Workshops, COIN 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28, 2006 Revised Selected Papers. Noriega, P., Vázquez-Salceda, J., Boella, G., Boissier, O., Dignum, V., Fornara, N., Matson, E. (eds.). Springer, pp. 245-258, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Reusing JessTab rules in Protégé

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D.
    Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 291 - 297
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • A fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontologies

    Lam, S. C., Pan, J. Z., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W. W. M. P. D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Norm Refinement: Informing the Re-negotiation of Contracts

    Kollingbaum, M. J., Norman, T. J., Preece, A., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Reuse of JessTab Rule Sets within the Protégé Environment

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • Reusing JessTab Rules in Protégé

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers
  • OntoSearch

    Zhang, Y., Vasconcelos, W. W. M. P. D., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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