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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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  • The impact of inconsistent human annotations on AI driven clinical decision making

    Sylolypavan, A., Sleeman, D., Wu, H., Sim, M.
    npj Digital Medicine, vol. 6, no. 26, 26
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pointers to earlier diagnosis of endometriosis: a nested case-control study using primary care electronic health records

    Burton, C., Iversen, L., Bhattacharya, S., Ayansina, D., Saraswat, L., Sleeman, D.
    The British Journal of General Practice, vol. 67, no. 665, pp. e816-e823
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Towards a Distributed Data-Sharing Economy

    Cauvin, S. R., Kollingbaum, M. J., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W. W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Applying Rule Extraction & Rule Refinement techniques to (Blackbox) Classifiers

    Cepukenas, J., Lin, C., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Towards Knowledge-Intensive Software Engineering

    Cauvin, S. R., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W. W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Towards a framework for ontology mapping based on description logic reasoning

    Reul, Q., Pan, J. Z., Sleeman, D.
    Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles

  • Argumentation-Logic for Explaining Anomalous Patient Responses to Treatments

    Grando, M. A., Glasspool, D., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Gilhooly, C., Kinsella, J., Moss, L.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Predicting Adverse Events: Detecting Myocardial Damage in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Patients

    Sleeman, D., Moss, L. E., Sim, M., Kinsella, J.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • A comparison between clinical decisions made about lung cancer patients and those inherent in the corresponding Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline

    Sleeman, D., Moss, L. E., Gyftodimos, E., Nicolson, M., Devereux, G.
    Health Informatics Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 260-273
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Reasoning by Analogy in the Generation of Domain Acceptable Ontology Renements

    Moss, L. E., Sleeman, D., Sim, M.
    EKAW 2010 Proceedings 17th International Conference: Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses. Springer, pp. 534-543, 10 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Ontology-driven hypothesis generation to explain anomalous patient responses to treatment

    Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M., Kinsella, J.
    Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 309-315
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A system to detect inconsistencies between a domain expert's different perspectives on (classification) tasks

    Sleeman, D., Aiken, A., Moss, L., Kinsella, J., Sim, M.
    Advances in Machine Learning II: Dedicated to the memory of Professor Ryszard S. Michalski. Koronacki, J., Ras, Z. W., Wierzchon, S. T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 293-314, 22 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Ontology-driven hypothesis generation to explain anomalous patient responses to treatment

    Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Sim, M., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M., Kinsella, J.
    Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVII. Bramer, M., Ellis, R., Petridis, M. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 63-76, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Supporting the Development of Medical Ontologies

    Corsar, D., Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Sim, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Confusion matrices to refine a novel scoring system for cardiovascular instability in intensive care

    Sim, M. A. B., Aiken, A., Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Kinsella, J.
    Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 56
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Report on the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-2007)

    Sleeman, D., Barker, K., Corsar, D.
    AI Magazine, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 126-127
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Constraint satisfaction and fixes: revisiting Sisyphus VT

    Runcie, T., Gray, P., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Explaining Anomalous Responses to Treatment in the Intensive Care Unit

    Moss, L., Sleeman, D., Booth, M., Daniel, M., Donaldson, L., Gilhooly, C., Hughes, M., Sim, M., Kinsella, J.
    Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5651, pp. 250-254
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Using Ontology Search Engines to support Users and Intelligent Systems solving a range of tasks

    Sleeman, D., Thomas, E., Aiken, A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • ACHE: an Architecture for Clinical Hypothesis Examination

    Moss, L. E., Sleeman, D., Kinsella, J., Sim, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • IPAS Ontology development

    Fowler, D., Reul, Q. H., Sleeman, D.
    Formal Ontologies Meet Industry. Borgo, S., Lesmo, L. (eds.). IOS Press, pp. 120-131, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies

    Lam, S. C., Sleeman, D., Pan, J. Z., Vasconcelos, W. W. M. P. D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Aberdeen University Ontology Reuse Stack

    Thomas, E. J., Sleeman, D., Pan, J. Z., Reul, Q. H., Lam, S. C.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Constraint capture and maintenance in engineering design

    Ajit, S., Sleeman, D., Fowler, D. W., Knott, D.
    Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 325-343
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Developing Knowledge-Based Systems using the Semantic Web

    Corsar, D., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • KBS Development on the (Semantic) Web

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

  • Matching sensors to missions using a knowledge-based approach

    Preece, A. D., Gomez, M., De Mel, G. R., Vasconcelos, W. W. M. P. D., Sleeman, D., Colley, S., Pearson, G., Pham, T., La Porta, T.
    Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2008. SPIE, pp. 98109-98109, 12 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Reports of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia

    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, M. L., Musen, M. A., Sahami, M., Sleeman, D., Thoenssen, B., Velasquez, J., Ventura, D.
    AI Magazine, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 107-115
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The role of ontologies in creating and maintaining corporate knowledge: A case study from the aero industry

    Sleeman, D., Ajit, S., Fowler, D., Knott, D.
    Applied Ontology, vol. 3, pp. 151-172
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A fine-grained approach to resolving unsatisfiable ontologies

    Lam, S. C., Pan, J. Z., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • 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

  • ReTAX+: A cooperative taxonomy revision tool

    Lam, S. C., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W. W. M. P. D.
    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. Macintosh, A., Ellis, R., Allen, T. (eds.). Springer Verlag, pp. 64-77, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Characterisation of knowledge bases

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

  • Self-Questioning & Experimentation: An Index Vocabulary of Situated Interaction

    Oehlmann, R., Edwards, P., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Informal Qualitative Models: A Systematic Approach to their Generation

    Gordon, A., Sleeman, D., Edwards, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Introspection Planning: Representing Metacognitive Experience

    Oehlmann, R., Edwards, P., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Changing Viewpoint: Case Indexing by Introspective Questioning

    Oehlmann, R., Edwards, P., Sleeman, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Scientific Discovery in a Space of Structural Models: An Example from the History of Solution Chemistry

    Gordon, A., Edwards, P., Sleeman, D., Kodratoff, Y.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • An AI Approach to the Interpretation of the NMR Spectra of Proteins

    Edwards, P., Sleeman, D., Roberts, G. C. K., Lian, L. Y.
    Artificial Intelligence & Molecular Biology. Hunter, L. (ed.). The MIT Press, pp. 396-432
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Case-Based Planning in an Exploratory Discovery System

    Oehlmann, R., Sleeman, D., Edwards, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Learning Plan Transformations From Self-Questions: A Memory-Based Approach

    Oehlmann, R., Sleeman, D., Edwards, P.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop - ML92

    Sleeman, D., Edwards, P.
    Books and Reports: Anthologies

  • A Protein NMR Assistant

    Edwards, P., Sleeman, D., Roberts, G. C. K., Lian, L. Y.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

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