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The University of Aberdeen
Room G05E Meston Building
Biography
Having completed an undergraduate degree in chemistry, I then shifted my academic allegiance and completed a PhD (Leeds) which explored cooperative reasoning in distributed blackboard systems. I joined the University of Aberdeen as a postdoc in 1988, before moving into an academic position as a Lecturer in 1991. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002 and Professor in 2009.
As a researcher I have been fortunate to lead a number of major interdisciplinary efforts, first as Director of the ESRC funded PolicyGrid eSocial Science Research Node (2006-2012) and later as Director of the RCUK dot.rural Digital Economy Research Hub (2009-2015). To date, I have secured over £23M in external research funding, the majority of it from UKRI (formerly RCUK) sources.
I am currently Head of School, Natural & Computing Sciences.
I have also held numerous offices at the University of Aberdeen, most notably Head of Computing Science (2002-2005) and Head of Graduate School for the College of Physical Sciences (2005 – 2011). In addition I acted as the Director of the Northern Research Partnership Graduate School (involving Aberdeen, Dundee and Robert Gordon universities) between 2007 and 2009. I was a member of the University Senate from 2002 to 2014 (and again 2018- ), and a Senate Assessor to the University Court between 2007 and 2014; in addition, I served on the Operating Board of the University Court for six years (2008-2014).
Distributed intelligent systems, specifically autonomous software agents and the semantic web. Current work focuses on the role of provenance in the digital economy, including how to represent provenance (of processes, artefacts, agents), how social context influences provenance, novel methods for reasoning about provenance, and employing provenance to drive information quality assessment.
Research Funding and Grants
Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems EPSRC, 2019-2022
Trusted Things & Communities: Understanding & Enabling a Trusted IoT Ecosystem EPSRC, 2016-2019
Trust & Privacy in Smart City IoT Solutions Royal Society of Edinburgh - Taiwan Ministry of Science & Technology, 2017-2019
The Food Sentiment Observatory: Exploiting New Forms of Data to Help Inform Policy on Food Safety & Food Crime Risks (with Food Standards Scotland) ESRC, 2017-2018
Smart Routing Innovate UK, 2016-2017
Food Safety Assurance: Combining Provenance & The Internet of Things IT as a Utility Network+ & Food Standards Agency, 2015-2016
Social Media: Developing Understanding, Infrastructure & Engagement ESRC, 2014-2016
dot.rural Digital Economy Research Hub EPSRC (with AHRC, ESRC, MRC), 2009-2015
Trusted Tiny Things IT as a Utility Network+, 2013-2014
A Trusted Mobile Platform for Self-Management of Chronic Illness in Rural Areas EPSRC - India DST, 2011-2014
SmartTourism SFC Horizon Fund, 2011-2014
PolicyGrid II: Supporting Interdisciplinary Evidence Bases for Scientific Collaboration and Policy Making ESRC, 2009-2012
BeWEL ESRC (with BBSRC, MRC), 2009-2010
eInfrastructure for Social Sciences ESRC, 2006-2009
SwarmCloud JISC, 2008-2009
PolicyGrid: Semantic Grid Tools for Rural Policy Development & Appraisal ESRC, 2006-2009
Pilot Semantic Grid Service for Environmental Modelling ESRC, 2003-2005
An Access Control Model for Protecting Provenance Graphs
Chen, L., Edwards, P., Nelson, J. D., Norman, T. J.
2015 13th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST). Ghorbani, A., Torra, V., Hışıl, H., Miri, A., Koltuksuz, A., Zhang, J., Sensoy, M., Garcia-Alfaro, J., Zincir, I. (eds.). IEEE Press pp. 125-132, 8 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
TravelBot: Journey Disruption Alerts Utilising Social Media and Linked Data
Corsar, D., Markovic, M., Gault, P. E., Mehdi, M., Edwards, P., Nelson, J. D., Cottrill, C. D., Sripada, S.
Proceedings of the Posters and Demonstrations Track of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015). Villata, S., Pan, J. Z., Dragoni, M. (eds.). CEUR-WS. 4 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Trusted Tiny Things: Making Devices in Smart Cities More Transparent
Beran, S., Pignotti, E., Edwards, P.
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Semantics for Smarter Cities - A Workshop at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014). Omitola, T., Breslin, J., Barnaghi, P. (eds.). CEUR-WS pp. 83-95, 13 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
A digital tool to overcome the challenges of rural food SMEs in Scotland
Loo, S. v. d., Chen, L., Edwards, P., Holden, J. A., Karamperidis, S., Kollingbaum, M. J., Marqui, A. C., Nelson, J. D., Norman, T. J., Piecyk, M., Pignotti, E.
Contributions to Conferences: Papers
Lessons learnt from the deployment of a semantic virtual research environment
Edwards, P., Pignotti, E., Mellish, C., Eckhardt, A., Ponnamperuma, K., Bouttaz, T., Philip, L., Pangbourne, K., Polhill, G., Gotts, N.
Web semantics: science, services and agents on the World Wide Web, vol. 27-28, pp. 70-77
Developing SMiLE (Smart Micro-logistics for the Rural Economy): evidence from Scotland
Karamperidis, S., Nelson, J., Pignotti, E., Chen, L., Holden, J., Zeng, C., Kollingbaum, M., Norman, T., Edwards, P., Marqui, A. C.
Contributions to Conferences: Papers
Mobile Phones, Sensors & The Crowd: Lessons Learnt From Development of a Real-Time Travel Information System
Corsar, D., Edwards, P., Nelson, J. D., Papangelis, K.
URB-IOT '14 Proceedings of the First International Conference on IoT in Urban Space. Kaswar, F., Mashhadi, A., Altakrouri, B. (eds.). ICST pp. 99-101, 3 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Burnett, C., Chen, L., Edwards, P., Norman, T. J. F.
Proceedings of Twelfth Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2014. Miri, A., Hengartner, U., Huang, N., Josang, A., Garcia-Alfaro, J. (eds.). IEEE Press pp. 371-378, 8 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Baillie, C., Edwards, P., Pignotti, E., Corsar, D.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks. Corcho, O., Henson, C., Barnaghi, P. (eds.). Aachen: CEUR-WS pp. 71-76, 6 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Citizen Sensing within a Real Time Passenger Information System
Corsar, D., Edwards, P., Baillie, C., Markovic, M., Papangelis, K., Nelson, J.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (Sydney, Australia, October 22 2013). Corcho, O., Henson, C., Barnaghi, P. (eds.). Aachen: CEUR-WS pp. 77-82, 6 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Utilising Provenance to Enhance Social Computation
Markovic, M., Edwards, P., Corsar, D.
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2013. Alani, H., Kagal, L., Fokoue, A., Groth, P., Biemann, C., Parreira, J. X., Aroyo, L., Noy, N., Welty, C., Janowicz, K. (eds.). Springer pp. 440-447, 8 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Crowdsourcing the Semantic Web - CrowdSem 2013. Acosta, M., Aroyo, L., Bernstein, A., Lehmann, J., Noy, N., Simperl, E. (eds.). Aachen: CEUR-WS pp. 93-96, 3 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Developing a real time passenger information system for rural areas
Papangelis, K., Sripada, S., Corsar, D., Velaga, N., Edwards, P., Nelson, J. D.
Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction for Health, Safety, Mobility and Complex Environments. Springer, pp. 153-162, 10 pages
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
Proceedings of Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn2013). Decker, S., Hendler, J., Kirrane, S. (eds.). Aachen: CEUR-WS pp. 1-11, 11 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Integrating text and graphics to present provenance information
Bouttaz, T., Eckhardt, A., Mellish, C., Edwards, P.
Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes - 4th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2012, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 223-225, 3 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
ourSpaces – Design and Deployment of a Semantic Virtual Research Environment
Edwards, P., Pignotti, E., Eckhardt, A., Ponnamperuma Arachchi, K. A., Mellish, C. S., Bouttaz, T.
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2012. Cudre-Mauroux, P., Heflin, J., Sirin, E., Tudorache, T., Euzenat, J., Hauswirth, M., Parreira, J. X., Hendler, J., Schreiber, G., Bernstein, A. (eds.). Springer-Verlag pp. 50-65, 16 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
A Rural Passenger Information System Utilising Linked Data The Crowd
Corsar, D., Baillie, C. C., Markovic, M., Edwards, P., Nelson, J., Velaga, N., Beecroft, M., Sripada, G. S., Pan, J. Z., Papangelis, K.
Digital Futures 2012.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Enhancing Open Data with Provenance
Corsar, D., Edwards, P.
Digital Futures 2012 The Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Towards an Ecosystem for Social Computation on the Web
Edwards, P., Corsar, D., Burnett, C., Pignotti, E.
Digital Futures 2012. . 2 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Provenance and Social Machines
Markovic, M., Edwards, P., Corsar, D., Pan, J. Z.
Digital Futures 2012 The Third Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference. . 3 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
A rural real-time passenger information ecosystem
Edwards, P., Nelson, J. D., Corsar, D., Velaga, N. R., Beecroft, M. E., Sripada, G. S., Baillie, C. C., Papangelis, K., Markovic, M.
Proceedings of Mobisys 2012 Workshop on Next Generation Mobile Computing for Dynamic Personalised Travel Planning. New York: ACM Press pp. 13-14, 2 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Some Researchers Do, Some Researchers Don’t: Reflections on Interdisciplinarity and Digital Social Research
Pangbourne, K., Philip, L. J., Pignotti, E., Edwards, P.
Working Papers and Discussion Papers: Working Papers
Assessing Quality in the Web of Linked Sensor Data
Baillie, C. C., Edwards, P., Pignotti, E.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Burgard, W., Roth, D. (eds.). Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press pp. 1750-1751, 2 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Enhancing Workflow with a Semantic Description of Scientific Intent
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Gotts, N., Polhill, G.
Web semantics: science, services and agents on the World Wide Web, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 222-244
ourSpaces: Linking Provenance and Social Data in a Virtual Research Environment
Reid, R., Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Laing, A.
Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference. Rappa, M., Jones, P., Freire, J., Chakrabarti, S. (eds.). New York, NY: ACM Press pp. 1285-1288, 4 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Using the Social Semantic Web to Support eSocial Science
Edwards, P.
In Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium 2009 - Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0. Greaves, M., Ding, L., Bao, J., Bojars, U. (eds.). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press pp. 15-16, 2 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
ourSpaces - A Social Semantic Web Environment for eScience
Reid, R., Edwards, P.
Working Notes of AAAI Spring Symposium 2009 - Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0. Greaves, M., Ding, L., Bao, J., Bojars, U. (eds.). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press pp. 67-68, 2 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
A Semantic Workflow Mechanism to Realize Experimental Goals and Constraints
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, J. G., Gotts, N., Preece, A. D.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. IEEE Press pp. 1-10, 10 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
Instance Based Clustering of Semantic Web Resources
Grimnes, G. A., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D.
The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Bechhofer, S., Hauswirth, M., Hoffmann, J., Koubarakis, M. (eds.). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag pp. 303-317, 15 pages.
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings