Post-doctoral Professional Experience (11 years)

March 2008 - Feb. 2009	Project leader at Eurecom (French research institute in telecommunication systems). Specification of information confidentiality and privacy constraints to fulfill for the use of RFID tags in the industry. Application to the "PACA-ID Grande Distribution" project in collaboration with 7 industrial partners (IBM, France Telecom, Carrefour, ...).
Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2007	Australian Senior Lecturer at the School of ICT of Griffith Uni. Convenor+lecturer of three courses: Internet Programming 2,  Workflow Management     (online course) and Programming with Procedural Languages (online, then face-to-face); July-December 2006: research on "Cooperatively updated knowledge bases for     e-learning and research" supported by a Griffith E-Learning Fellowship     of 26,000 AUD;  convenor of IP2 and co-convenor of Programming 2.     Other tasks:  1) co-supervision of Java projects,  2) supervision of a Master student working full time on     improving the import-export functions of WebKB-2 (see below) from/to various knowledge representation     languages;  3) involvement in the first pilot project of the Text Outline Project (which the co-founder of     Wikipedia launched to organise ideas from philosophy books) and beginning of an alternative pilot project; Co-supervision of three PhD thesis: 1) "Semi-automatic and collaborative     knowledge-based indexation, structuring and sharing of textual or multimedia information     for learning or information retrieval within a knowledge server or in a semantic grid",     2) "Ontologies for the management (indexing, research, re-use, annotation) of learning objects",     3) "Belief function reasoning to decision making under incomplete information". Invited lectures at the University of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific University,     Xerox Research Center Europe and DERI Galway.
Oct. 2004 - Dec. 2004	Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA) (Trento, Italy). Beginning of an ontology of knowledge management tools which is intended as a     seed for a formally organized state of the art in "knowledge engineering".
Feb. 2004 - Aug. 2004	Invited Researcher at the School of ICT of Griffith Uni (Australia). May 12th: the Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) that WebKB-2 proposes to its users and     permits them to search and extend is voted as "candidate material" for the     standard upper ontology (SUO) by the IEEE P1600.1 SUO working group. May-June: prototyping in PHP of an hospital database accessible by patients via     mobile phones. July-August: teaching and inter-connection of workflow management tools for the     on-line course on Workflow Management provided by Griffith University.
July 2000 - Dec. 2003	Senior Research Scientist and leader of the WebKB-2 project     at the Australian's Distributed Systems Technology Center (the DSTC was the     W3C's Australian Office but closed in 2006). Design and development of WebKB-2 (over 60,000 lines of C++/HTML/Javascript,     documentation and re-used libraries not included), the only current knowledge base Web server     enabling people to store and tightly interconnect their knowledge into a unique     large consistent knowledge base without having to agree on terminology or beliefs. Winner of the 2001 Asia-Pacific Oracle Queensland IT&T Awards for Excellence     in the Research and Development category. Participation to the CGIF&KIF sub-committees of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32     and reviews for the Web Intelligence Consortium. May-June 2003: work for a DSTC proposal to the Object Management Group (OMG) in     answer to its Ontology Definition Metamodel RFP - the four proposals received by     the OMG have now been merged.
April 1998 - June 2000	Research Scientist at the School of Information Technology, Griffith University. Completion of the development of WebKB-1 (over 30,000 lines of C++/HTML/Javascript,     documentation and re-used libraries not included), a knowledge base server enabling the     storage of knowledge in Web documents and its use for indexing and then     retrieving any part of these documents. Finalist of the 1999 Asia-Pacific Oracle Queensland IT&T Awards for Excellence     in the Intelligent Technologies category. October 1999: design and teaching of a course on Web-scripting languages (as part     of Griffith Uni's "Emerging Technologies" courses). May-June 2000: research visit at the INRIA (French National Institute for     Research in Computer Science and Control) in the ACACIA project, and     design of conventions and ontologies for knowledge sharing in RDF.
1997	Postdoc at the Dept. of Computer Sciences of the University of Adelaide, Australia. Beginning of the design and development of WebKB-1.  Research funded by the Defense Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Member of the ICCS review committee from 1997 to nowadays (2008).

Pre-doctoral Professional Experience (~ 2 years), Ph.D. and Education

1993 - 1996	Ph.D. in Software Engineering, on Knowledge Acquisition and Information Retrieval using Conceptual Graphs and Structured Documents, in the INRIA's ACACIA project. Design and development of CGKAT (over 10,000 lines of C++ and models of data/presentation,     documentation and re-used libraries not included), a knowledge acquisition tool and     precision-oriented information retrieval tool. January-March 1993: research on knowledge extraction from regulatory texts at the     Australian national research center CSIRO, Division of Information Technology.
1991 - 1992	Engineer/M.Sc. student in Information Technology (Software Engineering) at the     Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques (now part of the     Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis). M.Sc. thesis on Explanations and the KADS Knowledge Acquisition Methodology. Summer 1991: design of an object-oriented drawing editor for TRACE Pty Ltd. June 1992: degree of Engineer and D.E.A. (the French diploma necessary to begin a PhD). Summer 1992: design of a knowledge graph editor in LeLisp (4000 lines) and Aida+Masai.
1990	Computer scientist staff member of the "Conseil Régional" of Marseille, working with     OMI Pty Ltd on the management in SQL and C of subvention allocation tasks.
1988 - 1989	Student in Hardware and Software Engineering at the "Institut Supérieur d'Automatique     et de Robotique" (3rd and 4th year of university studies; this school is now part of the     "Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble" and named ESISAR for "Ecole Supérieure     d'Ingénieurs en Systèmes Industriels Avancés").   Graduation with "Distinction". Summer 1988: extension of a "minitel" server for LEM informatique Pty Ltd. Summer 1989: re-engineering of a Petri Net software for CJB Automation Pty Ltd.
1986 - 1987	Student in Software Engineering at the "Institut Universitaire de Technologie" of     Aix en Provence (1st and 2nd year of university studies). Summer 1986: internship in data reporting using Lotus + Basic at Thomson-CSF Pty Ltd.

Languages:

French (mother tongue), English (fluent;  TOEFL;  IELTS;  working in Australia from 1997 to 2007), Spanish (learnt during 4 years in high school), Italian (beginner; 2004), German (beginner; 2007)

For professional references, please email me or, if you prefer to directly contact some researchers I worked with, use this list.

Computer skills

Mastered languages	C/C++, Javascript, Lex+Yacc, PHP, SQL, HTML+CSS+AJAX, REST/SOAP
Other known languages	Java, Lisp, Perl, Prolog, Smalltalk, SML, Ada, VBscript, Fortran, COBOL
Mastered DBMS	FastDB/Gigabase (OODBMS), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Access
Knowledge modelling	Methodologies: KADS, KOD, Ontoclean Tools: WebKB, CGKAT, Ontolingua, Ontausaurus, Protégé, Jena, Sesame Notations: CGLF, CGIF, KIF, KM, RDF+OWL, N3, microformats, UML, Z    and those I designed to solve the problems of current notations
Structured document editor	Thot (and, its Web-oriented version, Amaya, the W3C browser)
Graphical libraries	Aida+Masai
Operating systems	Expert in Unix (Linux, Solaris) and Unix tools (script languages,     development tools, Apache Web server, etc.); Windows, VMS, MacOS

Publications

To access a publication, click on its "author" header. For a chronologically-sorted list of refeered publications, click here. For an overview of my main technical ideas, see the articles prefixed by a star in the list below. Most of them have been published in proceedings of ICCS conferences (hence, these articles are in the "Refereed conference articles" category below even though ICCS articles have been assimilated to journal articles by Griffith Uni and to book chapters by researchers such as Kalina Bontcheva). The normal font is used for the articles that best describe my research work and ideas.

Refereed journal articles

1. Niwattanakul S., Martin Ph., Eboueya M. & Khaimook K. (2007). Learning Object Mediation System based on an Ontology Model. E-Learning special issues of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management (IJCIM), Vol. 15, No. SP3 (pp. 28.1-28.6; ISSN: 0858-7027), Sept.-Dec. 2007.

2. Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2007). Sharing and Comparing Information about Knowledge Engineering. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 5, Volume 4 (pp. 1089-1096; ISSN: 1790-0832), May 2007.

3. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2000a). Knowledge Indexation and Retrieval and the Word Wide Web. IEEE Intelligent Systems, special issue "Knowledge Management and Knowledge Distribution over the Internet", pp. 18-25, May/June 2000.

4. * Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999b). Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents. Special issue of "Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking", Vol. 31 (Issue 11-16), pp. 1403-1419, May 17, 1999.
   

Refereed book chapters   (not "invited" book chapters)

1. Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2008). For the ultimate accessibility and re-usability. Chapter XXIX (14 pages) of the Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications and Technologies, IGI Global, ISBN: 978-1-59904-861-1, July 14, 2008.

2. Martin Ph. (2003a). Knowledge Representation, Sharing and Retrieval on the Web. Chapter 12 of a book titled "Web Intelligence" (Springer; editors: N. Zhong, J. Liu, Y. Yao; pp. 263-297; ISBN 3-540-44384-3; Web Intelligence Consortium's book), January 2003.

Refereed conference articles

1. Niwattanakul S., Martin Ph., Eboueya M. & Khaimook K. (2007). Ontology Mapping based on Similarity Measure and Fuzzy Logic. Proceedings of E-learn 2007, (pp. 6383-6387), AACE's Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Quebec City, Canada, October 15-19, 2007.

2. Martin Ph., Jo J. & Jones V. (2007). Cooperatively updated knowledge bases as an optimal medium to learn, publish, evaluate and collaborate. ICUT 2007 (Proceedings B, pp. 875-885), 1st International Conference of Ubiquitous Information Technology, Dubai, February 12-14, 2007.

3. Jones V, Jo J. & Martin Ph. (2007). Future Schools and How Technology can be used to support Millennial and Generation-Z Students. ICUT 2007 (Proceedings B, pp. 886-891), 1st International Conference of Ubiquitous Information Technology, Dubai, February 12-14, 2007.

4. Martin Ph. & Eboueya M. (2007a). Toward a Cooperatively Built Ontology of Knowledge Engineering. Electronic proceedings of CEA 2007 (Computer Engineering and Applications), WSEAS (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society) Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, January 17-19, 2007.

5. Martin Ph., Eboueya M., Blumenstein M. & Deer P. (2006). A Network of Semantically Structured Wikipedia to Bind Information. Proceedings of E-learn 2006 (pp. 1694-1702), AACE's Conference on E-learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 13-17, 2006.

6. Martin Ph., Eboueya M., Jo J. & Uden L. (2006). Between too informal and too formal. Proceedings of KMO 2006, International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations (UM FERI; editors: M. Hericko, A. ZivKovic; pp. 38-47; ISBN: 86-435-0780-6), Maribor, Slovenia, June 13-14, 2006. 

7. Eboueya M., Lillis D., Jo J., Cranitch G. & Martin Ph. (2006). Mobile Active Participative Learning Environments for the 21st Century Classroom: The MAPLE Project. Proceedings of the 2nd EUI-Net conference on "European Models of Synergy between Teaching and Research in Higher Education" (pp. 155-158; EUI-Net is the International Excellence Reserve's European University-Industry Network), Tallinn, Estonia, May 3-6, 2006.

8. * Martin Ph., Blumenstein M. & Deer P. (2005). Toward cooperatively-built knowledge repositories. Proceedings of ICCS 2005, 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 3596, pp. 411-424), Kassel, Germany, July 18-22, 2005.
   At this conference, I also organised the "Semi-formal Summaries" workshop and gave a talk at the CG_tools workshop.

9. * Martin Ph. (2003). Correction and Extension of WordNet 1.7. Proceedings of ICCS 2003, 11th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2746, pp. 160-173), Dresden, Germany, July 21-25, 2003.

10. * Martin Ph. (2002). Knowledge representation in CGLF, CGIF, KIF, Frame-CG and Formalized-English. Proceedings of ICCS 2002, 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2393, pp. 77-91), Borovets, Bulgaria, July 15-19, 2002.

11. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2002). Manageable Approaches to the Semantic Web. "Practice & Experience" alternate track of WWW 2002, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 7-11, 2002.

12. * Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2001). Large-scale cooperatively-built heterogeneous KBs. Proceedings of ICCS 2001, 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 2120, pp. 231-244; electronically published on 21/1/2008), Stanford University, California, USA, July 30 to August 3, 2001.

13. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (2000). Conventions for Knowledge Representation via RDF. Proceedings of WebNet 2000 (AACE, isbn:1-880094-40-1), San Antonio, Texas, November 2000.

14. Martin Ph. (2000). Conventions and Notations for Knowledge Representation and Retrieval. Proceedings of ICCS 2000, 8th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1867, pp. 41-54; electronically published on 1/1/2007), Darmstadt, Germany, August 14-18, 2000.

15. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999). Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents: CGs versus XML-based Metadata Languages. Proceedings of ICCS 1999, 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1640, pp. 230-246), Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999.

16. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999a). WebKB and the Sisyphus-I problem. Proceedings of ICCS 1999 (Springer, LNAI 1640, pp. 315-333), Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, July 12-15, 1999.

17. * Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999b). Embedding Knowledge in Web Documents. proceedings of WWW8 (pp. 324-341), 8th International World Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999.   This article has also been published as a journal article and hence is also listed above.

18. Eklund P. & Martin Ph. (1998). WWW Indexation and Document Navigation Using Conceptual Structures. Proceedings of ICIPS 1998, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems (IEEE Press, pp. 217-221) Australia, August 4-7, 1998.

19. Martin Ph. (1997). The WebKB set of tools: a common scheme for shared WWW Annotations, shared knowledge bases and information retrieval. Proceedings of ICCS 1997, 5th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1257, pp. 585-588), Seattle, USA, August 4-8, 1997.

20. Martin Ph. (1997a). CGKAT: a Knowledge Acquisition Tool and an Information Retrieval Tool Using Structured Documents and Ontologies. Proceedings of ICCS 1997 (Springer, LNAI 1257, pp. 581-584), Seattle, USA, August 4-8, 1997.

21. * Martin Ph. & Alpay L. (1996). Conceptual Structures and Structured Documents. Proceedings of ICCS 1996, 4th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 1115, pp. 145-159), Sydney, Australia, August 19-22, 1996.

22. Martin Ph. (1995a). Links between Electronic Documents and a Knowledge Base of Conceptual Graphs. Supplementary proceedings of ICCS 1995, 3rd International Conference on Conceptual Structures (Springer, LNAI 954, pp. 112-125), University of California, Santa Cruz, August 14-18, 1995.

23. * Martin Ph. (1993). A KADS refinement for Explanatory Knowledge Extraction and Modelling. Proceedings of AI 1993, 6th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (edited by "World Scientific, Singapore"), Melbourne, Australia, November 16-19, 1993.

24. Martin Ph. (1993a). Adaptation de KADS pour la construction de Systèmes à Base de Connaissances explicatifs. Proceedings of JAC 1993, 4th "Journées Acquisition des Connaissances", Saint-Raphaël, France, March 1993.

Refeered workshop articles

1. Martin Ph. (2002a). How WebKB could contribute to PORT. Proceedings of PORT 2002, 2nd PORT workshop, first day of ICCS 2002.

2. Eklund P., Becker P. & Martin Ph. (1999). Update Semantics for Cooperative Ontologies. Position statement at SWWS 1999 (Semantic Web Workshop).

3. Martin Ph. & Eklund P. (1999c). A Key for Enhanced Hypertext Functionality and Virtual Documents: Knowledge. Proceedings of the Workshop "Virtual Documents, Hypertext Functionality and the Web" (technical report UBLCS-99-10, pp. 35-40) at WWW8, May 11, 1999.

4. Martin Ph. (1995). Using the WordNet Concept Catalog and a Relation Hierarchy for Knowledge Acquisition. Proceedings of Peirce 1995, 4th International Workshop on Peirce (pp. 36-47), University of California, Santa Cruz, August 18, 1995.

5. Martin Ph. (1995b). Knowledge Acquisition Using Documents, Conceptual Graphs and a Semantically Structured Dictionary. Proceedings of KAW 1995, 9th International Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop (pp. 1-19), Banff, Canada, February 26 - March 2, 1995.

6. Dieng R., Labidi S., Lapalut S. & Martin Ph. (1994). Comparaison de graphes conceptuels dans le cadre de l'acquisition des connaissances à partir de multiples experts. Proceedings of GC 1994, LIRMM, Montpellier, France, March 1994.

PhD thesis

1. Martin Ph. (1996). Exploitation de graphes conceptuels et de documents structurés et hypertextes pour l'acquisition de connaissances et la recherche d'informations. Ph.D. thesis (378 pages), University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France, October 14, 1996.

Publications accepted as materials for standards

1. Raymond K., Martin Ph. & Colomb B. (2003). Ontology Definition MetaModel. OMG document ad/03-08-01 (DSTC Initial Submission to the Ontology Definition Metamodel RFP of the Object Management Group), August 18, 2003.
   The four proposals received by the OMG have been merged into:
   Colomb R., Chang D., Kendall E., Boger M., Emery P., Raymond K., Martin Ph., Ye Y., Dutra M., Frankel D., Hart L., Hayes P., McGuinness D. & Garshol L.M. (2005). Ontology Definition Metamodel. Third Revised Submission to OMG/RFP_ad/2003-03-40, August 22, 2005.

2. Martin Ph. (2004). The Multi-Source Ontology (MSO) of WebKB-2. (A summary and pointers to its content are at http://www.webkb.org/doc/MSO.html). Voted "candidate material for a standard" by the IEEE P1600.1 SUO group on May 12th 2004 (http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg12552.html).

Technical reports

1. Flater D., Martin Ph. & Crane M. (2007). Rendering UML Activity Diagrams as Human-Readable Text. NISTIR report 7469, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2007.

2. Matta N. & Martin Ph. (1998). CGKAT: The User's Reference Manual. INRIA technical report RT-0220 (116 pages), May 1998.

3. Martin Ph. (1994). La méthodologie d'acquisition de connaissances KADS et les explications. INRIA research report RR 2179 (107 pages), January 1994.

Other interesting Web documents

1. Martin Ph. (2007). Supporting Non-automatic But Scalable Knowledge Representation, Sharing and Retrieval. http://www.webkb.org/doc/slides/x/myWorks.html
   Presented to the University of Hawaii, the Hawaii Pacific University, Xerox Research Center Europe and DERI Galway.

2. Martin Ph. (2007a). Knowledge Representation/Translation in RDF+OWL, N3, KIF, UML and the WebKB-2 languages (For-Links, Frame-CG, Formalized English). http://www.webkb.org/doc/model/comparisons.html

3. Martin Ph. (2006). Documents related to my Griffith E-Learning Fellowship for Semester 2, 2006. http://www.webkb.org/doc/papers/GEL06/

4. Martin Ph. (2006b). Structured discussions & Semantic classification of some resources. http://www.webkb.org/kb/it/

5. Martin Ph. (2006c). The WebKB languages. http://www.webkb.org/doc/languages/

6. Martin Ph. (2005). Services on the Sunshine Coast. http://www.webkb.org/kb/SC/

7. Martin Ph. (2004b). Discussion on recommendations to increase knowledge re-use. http://www.webkb.org/doc/conventions.html

8. Martin Ph. (2003b). Integration of WordNet 1.7 in WebKB-2. http://www.webkb.org/doc/wn/

9. Martin Ph. (2002b). Examples of Executable Knowledge Files. http://www.webkb.org/kb/