DR MARTIN DZBOR, MBA
Curriculum Vitae
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HIGHER EDUCATION
Degrees
2002-2005
MBA (Business Studies and Management), Open University Business School
1999-2002
PhD (Artificial Intelligence); Thesis: Design as Interactions of Problem
Framing and Problem Solving, The Open University, UK
1991-1996
MSc (Hons) (Electrical Engineering and Informatics), University of Technology
in Kosice, Slovakia
Awards
1997
Award of Research Excellence from the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and associated keynote to the 8th ASME DETC Conference,
California, US (research team comprising: Prof. S Fukuda, Dr Y Matsuura and
M Dzbor, all Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
1996
Chancellor’s Award of Excellence conferred on top 5 graduates in a year
Professional qualifications
1996
Certificate of Qualification for Secondary Level Teaching
1996
Microsoft Certified Professional (area: MS Windows Servers and Networks)
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APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE
2008-present Senior Research Fellow in Semantic Web and User Interaction, The Open
University
R&D in Semantic Web and Web technologies, design and development of
advanced user interfaces for semantically enriched navigation and e-learning,
application of semantic technologies in data security, access management,
and knowledge management (in co-operation with UN FAO);
Leadership and technical project management of the NeOn project and
interaction with European Commission and 14 European partners;
Technical leadership of OU contribution to the KnowledgeWeb and
climateprediction.net projects
2002-2007
Research Fellow in Semantic Web and User Interaction, The Open University
R&D in Semantic Web and Web technologies, design and development of
advanced user interfaces for semantic browsing and e-learning, computersupported collaborative services for knowledge management;
Technical and scientific management of OU contribution to KnowledgeWeb,
NeOn, and climateprediction.net projects;
1996-1999
Information Systems Analyst, University of Technology in Kosice, Slovakia
Design and management of IT systems and networks for the Faculty of
Informatics and deputizing the Director of the Computer Centre
1997-1998
Certified Tutor and Course Author, Microsoft Education Centres (elfa, s.r.o
and Lynx, s.r.o), Slovakia
Design and delivery of tailored courses for commercial operating systems and
MS Windows-based, and for Office and Production environments to a range of
commercial customers, e.g., Slovak Post, Slovak Customs Agency, Slovak
Telecom, and Slovak Gas
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1996-1997
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Martin Dzbor, PhD MBA
Visiting Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, Japan
R&D into early web-based tools for distance learning support, skill training and
enriched tutor-learner computer-supported communication
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND STUDENT SUPPORT
(c)
Contributions to staff and student support and associated activities
B120
2006-now
Introduction to Business Studies (30 points, 2 presentations/yr)
Associate Lecturer (R02), Course Monitor, Script Marker (teaching, online
support and seminar preparation for up to 26 students in each presentation)
DD303
2004
Cognitive Psychology (60 points)
Residential School Tutor and ePrime Project Adviser (supervising student
projects and advising on ePrime experiment design and analysis)
D309
1999-2003
Cognitive Psychology (60 points)
Residential School Tutor (supervising student projects in Cognitive Modelling)
(d)
Contributions to teaching outside the Open University
1996-1998
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University of Technology in Kosice, Slovakia
Lecturing and seminars in Year 3 courses “Discrete Modelling of Systems”,
“Advanced Network Interfaces and Protocols”,
Leading seminars in Year 4 course on “Languages for Artificial Intelligence”
CONTRIBUTIONS TO ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
The Open University
2005-2006
Member of OU Digital Preservation and Metadata Standards Working Group
2002-2004
KMi Internship Programme Co-ordinator
2001-now
Voluntary reader in Audio Recording Centre assisting visually impaired
students to engage in studies with the OU
1999-2002
Elected Representative at OU Research Degrees Committee
Other
2003-now
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LEA Governor and Chair of Personnel and Finance Committee at the
Coldharbour C of E School
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Research interests
A key aspect of my research is focusing on supporting an ordinary user’s perspectives on the
emerging Semantic Web technology (SWT). One substantial part of my personal research
interest concerns the aspects of interpreting and interacting with ontologies; a research line,
novel in the field of ontology engineering, I developed in the context of NeOn project, and
previously in the AKT: Advanced Knowledge Technologies, in the KnowledgeWeb project,
and generally in my Magpie research and development. In my leadership roles I am liaising
with both public bodies (e.g., Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and
European Commission) and businesses (e.g., Software AG, Atos Origin S.A., ISOCO S.A.)
The second substantial item of my research agenda concerns designing robust
infrastructures for semantically enriched web applications and tasks (such as semantic web
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navigation or contextual visualization) that are usable by and accessible to ordinary users.
This latter line of research has been particularly strong in my Magpie Semantic Web
Browser, but also in the climateprediction.net and BuddySpace Instant Messaging projects.
As a lecturer I cover the areas that are tangentially enriching technological focus – business
and technology management on one side, and introduction to business studies.
Research funding
2006
–2010
Project Title: NeOn, Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies
Funder: European Commission, IST Framework 6
Grant: €10.2M (total); €2.3M (OU share)
Role: Bid Co-Author, Co-Investigator, WP Leader, Project Manager, Researcher
NeOn is co-ordinated by Prof. Motta (OU) and involves 14 European partners. I am
the Scientific Leader of NeOn research on human-ontology interaction, ontology
visualization and customization. In my role of the Project Manager I am preparing
and managing project budgets and technical aspects of the project in general.
2004
–2008
Project Title: KnowledgeWeb, Network of Excellence
Funder: European Commission, IST Framework 6
Grant: €6.7M (total); €375k (OU share)
Role: WP Leader, Team Leader, Researcher, Software Architect
KnowledgeWeb has been a Network of Excellence, in which I led research and
development of WP on semantic architecture and platform supporting learning and
research activities; led by Prof. Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
2000
–2006
Project Title: AKT, Advanced Knowledge Technologies
Funder: EPSRC, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC)
Grant: £7.5M (total); £1.3M (OU share)
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher, Team Leader, Software Architect
I have been involved in AKT between 2003 and 2006, and the primary output of
this effort has been focusing on the Magpie platform of semantically enriched web
navigation and browsing; led by Prof. Shadbolt (University of Southampton)
2002
–2004
Project Title: climateprediction.net, Massively Distributed Climate Modelling
Funder: NERC and Dept. of Trade and Industry e-Science Programme
Grant: £400k (initial sub-total estimate); £72k (OU share)
Role: Postdoctoral Researcher, Application Designer
Climateprediction.net has been the first UK’s massively distributed project
engaging more than 100k members of general public using their PCs to run the
state of the art climate model developed in collaboration with Oxford University, UK
MetOffice and OU Earth Sciences; led by Dr Allen (Oxford University)
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POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION
2004-2008
Co-Supervisor of Mr Tom Heath (PhD student, OU)
Thesis: Information Seeking on the Web with Trusted Social Networks
Thesis Submitted: 01/2008; Degree Awarded: 11/2008
2006-2007
External Supervisor of Ms Mu Su (PhD student, Chinese Normal University)
Thesis: Semantic Web Technologies in Organizational Knowledge
Management, Case of Chinese Educational Institutions
Degree Awarded: 05/2007
2007-now
External Supervisor of Mr Jozef Vrana (PhD student, TU Kosice, Slovakia)
Thesis: Contextual Visualization of Ontological Models
2008-now
Principal Supervisor of Mr Claudio Baldassarre (p/t PhD student, OU)
Thesis: Supporting Domain Experts in Ontology Creation and Maintenance
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EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Membership or offices held in learned societies and professional bodies:
2000-now
Member of the Association for the Computing Machinery (ACM)
Membership of Government or other public committees:
2007-now
Member of the Review Panel, Joint Information Sciences Committee (JISC)
(Capital Programme on e-Infrastructures)
2007-now
Member of the Review Panel, Slovak Research and Development Agency
(APVV) (base research, centres of excellence and infrastructure programmes)
2008-now
Member of the Review Panel, Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO) (‘Vidi’ Cross-divisional Programme)
2006-now
OU Representative on W3C Standardization Committees: Semantic Web
Education and Outreach SIG and OWL 1.1 WG
Academic editorial work
2004-now
Member of the Editorial Board of Intl. J. of Knowledge and Learning
2006
Chair of ‘Semantic Web and e-learning’ workshop, ACM Hypertext’2006
2005
Chair/Editor of Proceedings of UserSWeb (User aspects of Semantic Web)
Contributions to conferences (selected)
2003-now
Member of the Programme Committee of Intl. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC)
2004-now
Member of the Programme Committee of European Conf. on Knowledge Mgt.
(EKAW) and Demonstration Chair (in 2004)
2005-now
Member of the Programme Committee of European Semantic Web Conf.
(ESWC)
2006
Member of the Programme Committee of Conf. on Artificial Intelligence:
Methods, Systems and Applications (AIMSA)
2006
Member of the Programme Committee of Conf. on Semantics and Digital
Media Technology (SAMT)
2007-now
Member of the Programme Committee of Asian Semantic Web Conf. (ASWC)
Invited lectures
Jan 2008
Keynote to 34th SofSem, Intl. Conf. on Current Trends in Computer Science:
“Best of Both: Using Semantic Web Technologies to Enrich User Interaction
with the Web”, Slovakia.
Jan 2008
Invited Tutorial at the Intl. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008):
“Semantic Web for Computer and Users”, Canary Islands.
Jan 2006
Keynote to Znalosti’2006, Czech and Slovak Conf. on Knowledge: “Evolution
of the idea of the Semantic Web and its implications on practice”, Czech Rep.
Oct 2004
Keynote to Wksp on Semantic Web technology for mobile and ubiquitous
applications (ISWC 2004): “Semantics & Ubiquity: From semantic and
presence applications to an infrastructure for ubiquity”, Japan.
Sep 2003
Invited lecture at the Annual Conf. of the Society of Archivists: “Semantic Web:
To be browsed or what?”, United Kingdom
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PUBLICATIONS
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Publications in the list below include only peer-reviewed ones that can be categorized into
chapters, journals, conferences, and in-press; with most recent ones listed first. The list does
not include technical reports, deliverables, and other written output for projects. Each
publication is accompanied with an estimated direct contribution of the applicant to the
particular printed output: [est. contribution …%].
Chapters in Books
Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2007): ‘Engineering and Customizing Ontologies The HumanComputer Challenge in Ontology Engineering’ in M Hepp, P De Leenheer, A de Moor and Y
Sure (eds.), Ontology Management: Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, and
Business Applications, Springer Verlag New York, pp.25-57, ISBN 038769899X.
[est. contribution 90%]
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Stutt, A. (2005): ‘From Knowledge Repository to Knowledge Space’
in MD Lytras and A Naeve (eds.), Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge
Intensive Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective, Information Science Publ.
Hershey PA, pp.325-344, ISBN 1591405033. [est. contribution 80%]
Domingue, J., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2004): ‘Semantic layering with Magpie’ in S Staab
and R Studer (eds.), Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, 1st Edition,
Springer Verlag Heidelberg, pp.533-554, ISBN 3540408347. [est. contribution 70%]
Articles in Refereed Journals
D’Aquin, M., Motta, E., Dzbor, M., Gridinoc, L., Heath, T. and Sabou, M. (2008):
‘Collaborative Semantic Authoring’, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol 23(3), May 2008, pp.80-83.
[est. contribution 30%]
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2007): ‘Magpie: experiences in supporting semantic
web browsing’, Journal of Web Semantics: Science, services and agents on the World Wide
Web, Vol 5(3), August 2007, pp.204-222. [est. contribution 90%]
Dzbor, M., Stutt, A. and Motta, E. and Collins, T. (2007): ‘Representations for semantic
learning webs: Semantic Web technology in learning support’, Journal of Computer Assisted
Learning, Vol 23(1), July 2007, pp.69-82. [est. contribution 70%]
Diederich, J., Dzbor, M. and Maynard, D. (2007): ‘REASE – The repository for learning units
about the Semantic Web’, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol 13(2), January
2007, pp.211-237. [est. contribution 35%]
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Stutt, A. (2005): ‘Achieving Higher-level Learning Through
Adaptable Semantic Web Applications’, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning,
Vol 1(1/2), January 2005, pp.25-44. [est. contribution 85%]
Conference Papers (peer-refereed)
Dzbor, M. (2008): ‘Best of Both: Using Semantic Web Technologies to Enrich User
Interaction with the Web’, In: Proc. of the 34th SofSem, Intl. Conf. on Current Trends in
Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Slovakia, pp. 34-49. [est. contribution 100%]
Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2007): ‘Semantic web technology to support learning about the
semantic web’, In: Artificial Intelligence in Education – building technology rich learning
contexts that work. IOS Press, ISBN 1-58603-764-1, pp.25-32. [est. contribution 90%]
Vrana, J., Dzbor, M. and Machova, K. (2008): ‘Software Means for the Support of Semantic
Web’, In: 6th Intl. Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence, Slovakia, pp. 147-150. [est.
contribution 20%]
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Dzbor, M., Motta, E., Aranda, C., Gomez, J., Goerlitz, O. and Lewer, H. (2006): ‘Developing
ontologies in OWL: An observational study’, In: OWL: Experiences and Directions, Athens,
Georgia, US, http://oro.open.ac.uk/6241. [est. contribution 80%]
Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2006): ‘Study on Integrating Semantic Applications with Magpie’, In:
15th Conf. on AI Methodology, Systems & Applications (AIMSA), Varna, Bulgaria, eds.
J Euzenat and J Domingue, Springer Verlag, pp.66-76. [est. contribution 90%]
Vogiazou, Y., Eisenstadt, M., Dzbor, M. and Komzak, J. (2005): ‘From Buddyspace to
CitiTag: Large scale Symbolic Presence for Community Building and Spontaneous Play’, In:
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, New Mexico, USA. [est.
contribution 25%]
Uren, V., Motta, E., Dzbor, M. and Cimiano, P. (2005): ‘Browsing for information by
highlighting automatically generated annotations: a user study and evaluation’, In: 3rd Intl.
Conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada. [est. contribution 25%]
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2004). ‘Opening up Magpie via semantic services’,
In: 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 635-649. [est.
contribution 90%]
Domingue, J., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2004): ‘Collaborative semantic web browsing with
Magpie’. In: 1st European Semantic Web Symposium (ESWS), Heraklion, Greece. [est.
contribution 75%]
Domingue, J., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2004): ‘Magpie: supporting browsing and navigating
on the semantic web’, In: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Madeira,
Portugal. [est. contribution 80%]
Dzbor, M., Domingue, J. and Motta, E. (2003): ‘Magpie: towards a semantic web browser’,
In: 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), Sanibel Island, Florida USA,
pp. 690-705. [est. contribution 90%]
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2002): ‘Design as interactions of problem framing and problem
solving’, In: 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Lyon, France,
pp.210-214. [est. contribution 80%]
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2002): ‘Modelling design interpretation as interplay of problem
specification and problem solving’, In: 14th ASME DETC Conf. on Design Theory and
Methodology, Montreal, Canada. [est. contribution 90%]
Dzbor, M. (2001): ‘Knowledge Reformulation in Design’, In: 5th IEEE Conference on
Knowledge based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies, Osaka, Japan.
[est. contribution 90%]
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2001): ‘Towards Logical Framework for Sequential Design’, In:
13th ASME DETC Conf. on Design Theory & Methodology, Pittsburgh, USA. [est.
contribution 80%]
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2001): ‘Towards a Framework for Acquisition of Design
Knowledge’, In: 27th ASME DETC Design Automation Conference, Pittsburgh, USA. [est.
contribution 80%]
Dzbor, M., Paralic, J. and Paralic, M. (2000): ‘Knowledge Management in a Distributed
Organisation’, In: 4th IEEE/IFIP Conference on IT for Balanced Automation Systems, Berlin,
Germany. [est. contribution 60%]
Dzbor, M. (2000): ‘Explication of Design Requirements Through Reflection on Solutions’, In:
4th IEEE Conf. on Knowledge-based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies,
Brighton, UK. [est. contribution 100%]
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Paralic, J. and Dzbor, M. (2000): ‘Knowledge discovery for knowledge management’, In: 4th
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems (INES), Slovenia. [est. contribution
30%]
Fukuda, S., Matsuura, Y. and Dzbor, M. (1998): ‘Internet-Based Motion Skill Learning’, In:
EUROMEDIA 98 (APTEC), Leicester, UK. [est. contribution 30%]
Fukuda, S., Matsuura, Y. and Dzbor, M. (1997): ‘A Client-Server Approach to Motional Skill
Transfer’, In: Design for Manufacturing Symposium (part of Design Engineering Technical
Conferences), California, USA. [est. contribution 30%]
Matsuura, Y., Fukuda, S. and Dzbor, M. (1997): ‘Internet based motion skill learning’, In: 4th
International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, CE 97, Rochester, USA. [est.
contribution 20%]
Fukuda, S., Matsuura, Y. and Dzbor, M. (1997): ‘Transfer of Motional Skill - Towards Its
Intelligent Coding’, In: Concurrent Engineering Europe CEE97, Erlangen – Nuremberg,
Germany. [est. contribution 20%]
Chapters in Books and Articles in Refereed Journals (in press)
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Gridinoc, L. (2008): ‘Browsing and Navigation in Semantically Rich
Spaces: Experiences with Magpie Applications’ in S Staab and R Studer (eds.), Handbook
on Ontologies in Information Systems, 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag Heidelberg, in press.
[est. contribution 75%]
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