I am interested in
developing semantic technologies in information management, integration,
discovery, and presentation. One of the specific problems I have been
working on is to discover, capture, and represent semantics for database schemas. The
key is using conceptual models and semantic mappings from schemas to conceptual
models including ontologies.
As a result, I developed solutions to discovering mappings from schemas to
conceptual models, mappings between
conceptual models, and mappings between schemas using
conceptual models. I developed the MAPONTO
semantic mapping tool in the past. Currently, I am interested in the database
usability issues in healthcare information systems. In particular, I am working
with colleagues from Drexel College of Nursing and College of Medicine on
developing solutions to some interesting problems such as how to design a
database by adopting existing ones, how to rapidly gather and search healthcare
data using structured databases, etc. Here is a list of topics summarizing my
research interests:
Information Modeling
and Integration
Healthcare information gathering,
presentation, integration, and analysis
Requirements
Analysis and Engineering for Healthcare Information Systems
Program Committee for 1st International Workshop on Model-Driven Service
Engineering and Data Quality and Security (MoSEDQS-2009) collocated with
CIKM 2009.
Program Committee for The Fourth International Workshop on Ontology
Matching (OM-2009) collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web
Conference ISWC-2009 .
Program Committee for: 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC09)
Program Committee for the Second International Symposium on Data,
Privacy, and E-Commerce
Program Committee for: CIKM 2009
Program Committee Member for: IEEE BIBM'09
Program Committee Member for Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Engineering and
Ontology Development - (KEOD 2009)
Program Committee Member and Local Arrangements Chair for 4th
International Conference on Design Science and Research in Information
Systems and Technology (DESRIST'09)
Program Committee Member for
Sixth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009)
Reviewer for: Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software
Program Committee for: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC08).
Program Committee Member and Local Arrangements Chair for: IEEE BIBM'08
Program Committee for: 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society,
Greece, 2008.
Program Committee for: DAWAK'08 (10th International Conference on Data
Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery)
Program Committee for: CIKM 2008 (the track on Semantic Web/RDF Models,
Algorithms and Ranking)
Program Committee for: International Journal of Business Intelligence
and Data Mining Special Issue on OLAP intelligence