Research Interests

Information and Knowledge Management
Artificial Intelligence
User Modeling
Distributed Systems and Interoperability,
Security and Trust Policies,
E-learning and Collaborative Systems

Education

• PhD, 1997, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

• Master of Science (Honors), 1988, Computer Science, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

Professional experience

• Since 2002, Simon Fraser University, Associate Professor, Interactive Arts and Technology

• 2000 – 2002, Assistant Professor, Information Technology, Technical University of BC,

• 1998 – 2000, Research Fellow, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

• 1988 – 1998, Assistant Professor, Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
  
  

Publications

Journals

• Kaviani, N., Gasevic, D., Hatala, M., Clement, D., and Wagner, D. Integration of Rules and Policies for Semantic Web Services. International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), Vol 1, No.4, 2007, pp.404-423

• Jovanovic, J., Gasevic, D., Brooks, C., Devedžic, V., Hatala, M., Eap, T., Richards, G., "Using Semantic Web Technologies for the Analysis of Learning Content," IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 5, September/October 2007 p.45-53

• Richards, G., Hatala, M. and Donkers, P. The Validation and Brokering of Competence: Issues of Trust and Technology. Journal Interactive Learning Environments (SSCI), Vol.15, No.2, Aug 2007, p107-116

• Wakkary, R., Hatala, M., "Situated Play in a Tangible Interface and Adaptive Audio Museum Guide". Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 11, Number 3, March 2007, pp. 171-191.

• Gasevic, D. and Hatala, M. Ontology mappings to improve learning resource search. British Journal of Educational Technology, Special issue: The Semantic Web for E-learning, Vol.37, No.3, May 2006, pp.375-389

• Hatala, M., Wakkary, R. and Kalantari, L. Ontologies and Rules in Support of Real-time Ubiquitous Application, Journal of Web Semantics, Special Issue on "Rules and Ontologies for Semantic Web" 3(1), Elsevier Publishers, 2005, pp. 5-22.

• Hatala, M. and Wakkary, R.: User Modeling and Semantic Technologies in Support of a Tangible Interface. Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction 15(3-4), Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 2005, pp. 339-380.

• Richards, G. and Hatala, M: Linking Learning Object Repositories. International Journal of Learning and Technology, Vol. 1, No 4, pp.398-409, 2005.

• Richards, G., McGreal, R., Hatala, M. and Friesen, N.: The evolution of Learning Object Repository Technologies: Portals for On-line Objects for learning. Journal of Distance Education 17(3), 2003, pp.67-79

• P.Mulholland, Z.Zdrahal, J.Domingue, M.Hatala and A.Bernardi (2001) A Methodological Approach to Supporting Organizational Learning. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 55(3), September, pp. 337-367

• P.Mulholland, J.Domingue, Z.Zdrahal and M.Hatala (2000). Supporting Organisational Learning: An Overview of the ENRICH Approach, Journal of Information Services and Use, 20 (1), p. 9-23

• P.Mulholland, Z.Zdrahal, J.Domingue and M.Hatala: Integrating Working and Learning: a Document Enrichment Approach. Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology, 19(3), 2000, p. 171-180

• Z.Zdrahal, P.Mulholland, J.Domingue and M.Hatala: Sharing Engineering Design Knowledge in a Distributed Environment. Journal of Behaviour and Information Technology, 19(3), 2000, p. 189-200

• T. Sabol, M. Mach, M. Hatala and J. Paralic: Environment for Solving Configuration Design Problems, AT&P journal, Nr. 4, 1995, pp. 19-22. (in Slovak)

Books and Book Chapters

• Eap, T. et al: Open Security Framework for Unleashing Semantic Web Services. In K.Khan (ed): Managing Web Services Quality: Measuring Outcomes and Effectiveness. Idea Group, 2007, (accepted)

• Ng, A. and Hatala, M.: Ontology-based Approach to Formalization of Competencies. In: M.-A. Sicilia (ed.): Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools, Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp.185-206

• Wakkary, R., Hatala, M and Newby, K.: ec(h)o: Ecologies For Designing Playful Interaction. In J.Frascara (ed.): Designing Effective Communications: Creating Contexts for Clarity and Meaning, Allworth Press, New York, 2006, pp.235-243

• Hatala, M., Richards, G., Eap, T. and Shah, A: Secure Communication Layer for Scalable Network of Learning Object Repositories. In Samuel Pierre (eds) E-Learning Networked Environments: A Knowledge Processing Perspective, Springer Book Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2006, pp. 276-305.

• Richards, G. and Hatala, M.: Semantic Cobblestones: An Interoperability Mechanism for Learning Object Repositories. In McGreal, R.(ed): Online Education Using Learning Objects, RoutledgeFalmer, London, 2004, pp.301-313.

• Richards, G., Hatala, M. and McGreal, R: POOL, POND and SPLASH: Portals for Online Objects for Learning. In McGreal, R.(ed): Online Education Using Learning Objects, RoutledgeFalmer, London, 2004, pp.236-243.

• J. Csonto and M. Hatala: Introduction to the World of Internet (in Slovak), Elfa Publisher, ISBN 80-88786-65-7, 1997.

• J. Csonto and M. Hatala: Introduction to the WWW on Internet (in Slovak), Elfa Publisher, ISBN 80-88786-11-8, 1996.

• P.Sincak and M. Hatala: Me, C-language and Unix (in Slovak), Elfa Publisher, ISBN 80-88786-18-5, 1995.

Conferences

2007

• Kaviani, N., Gaševic, D., Karimifar, M., Hatala, M., Sheidaei, S., "Rule Modeling to Unify Policies and Processes in Service-Oriented Health Information Systems," In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Model-Based Design of Trustworthy Health Information Systems at ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference On Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS2007), Nashville, USA, 2007

• Jovanovic, J., Gaševic, D., Brooks, C., Devedžic, V., Hatala, M., "LOCO-Analyst: a Tool for Raising Teachers' Awareness in Online Learning Environments," In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Crete, Greece, 2007, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4753), pp. 112-126

• Gaševic, D., Kaviani, N., Hatala, M., "On Metamodeling in Megamodels," ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Nashville, TN, USA, 2007 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4753), pp. 91-105

• Milanovic, M., Kaviani, N., Gasevic, G., Giurca, A., Wagner, G., Devedzic, V, and Hatala, M. Business Process Integration by using General Rule Markup Language. The 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2007), Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 15-19 October 2007. pp. 353-364

• Jovanovic, J., Rao, S., Gaševic, D., Hatala, M., Devedžic, V., "An Ontological Framework for Educational Feedback," In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web Services for Intelligent Distributed Educational Systems at the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, July 9-13, 2007, pp. 54-64

• Jovanovic, J., Gasevic, D., Brooks, C., Eap, T., Devedzic, V., Hatala, M., and Richards, G.: Leveraging the Semantic Web for Providing Educational Feedback, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Niigata, Japan, July 18-20, 2007, pp. 551-555

• Kaviani, N., Gasevic, D., Hatala, M., Wagner, G., and Eap, T.: Exchanging Policies between Web Service Entities using Rule Languages, Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Web for Services and Processes (SWSP'07), In conjunction with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2007), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007, pp. 57-64.

• Eap, T., Hatala, M., and Gasevic, D. Enabling User Control with Personal Identity Management, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, July 9-13, 2007, pp.60-67

• Kaviani, N., Gasevic, D., Hatala, M., and Wagner, D.: Web Rule Languages to Carry Policies, IEEE Policy 2007, Bologna, Italy, 13-15 June, 2007, pp. 188-192

• Rao, S., Kumar, V., Hatala, M., and Gasevic, D. Mixed-Initiative Interfaces to Recognize Regulate and Reflect Programming Styles, International Workshop on AI for Human Computing at IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India, January 6, 2007, pp. 71-78.

2006

• Rao, S., Kumar, V., Hatala, M., and Gasevic, D. MICE – Capturing Programming Styles in a Mixed-Initiative Coding Environment 3rd Annual Lornet Conference, Montreal, QC, November 7-10, 2006 (peer reviewed, CD Proceedings, 10p.)

• Eap, T., Hatala, M., and Gasevic, D. The Evaluation of Communication Protocol Infrastructures for Collaborative Learning Object Repository Networks. 3rd Annual Lornet Conference, Montreal, QC, November 7-10, 2006 (peer reviewed, CD Proceedings, 10p.)

• Kaviani, N., Gasevic, D., Hatala, M., Clement, D., and Wagner, D.: Towards Unifying Rules and Policies for Semantic Web Services, 3rd Annual Lornet Conference, Montreal, QC, November 7-10, 2006 (peer reviewed, CD Proceedings, 10p.)

• Wakkary, R. and Hatala, M. ec(h)o: Situated Play in a Tangible and Audio Museum Guide, ACM DIS 2006: The Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, PennState, State College, PA, 26-28 June, 2006, pp. 281-290

• Hatala, M., Eap, T. and Shah, A.: Unlocking Repositories: Federated Security Solution for Attribute and Policy Based Access to Repositories via Web Services, Workshop Security in E-Learning at International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2006), Vienna, Austria, April 20-22, 2006, pp. 895-902.

• Richards, G., Hatala, M. and Donkers, R. Campus Canada: Secure Validations of Competence Assertions. TENCompetence Workshop: Sofia, Bulgaria, 30 March 2006

2005

• Hatala, M., Eap, T. and Shah, A.: Secure Communication Infrastructure for Object Repositories and Web Services, 2nd Annual Lornet Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 15, 2005. (peer reviewed, CD Proceedings, 10p.)

• Gasevic, D., Hatala, M., "Searching Web resource collections using multiple ontologies," 4th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2005, Poster Track, PID-64, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005, pp.131-132.

• Choi, A. and Hatala, M.: Towards Browsing Distant Metadata with Semanitc Signatures, 4th International Semnatic Web Conference ISWC2005, Poster Track, PID-86, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005, pp.168-169.

• Gasevic, D. and Hatala, M.: Searching Web Resources Using Ontology Mappings, Workshop on Integrating Ontologies at K-CAP 2005, Banff, Canada, October 2, 2005, pp.33-40

• Choi, A. and Hatala, M.: Towards Browsing Distand Metadata Using Semantic Signature, Workshop on Integrating Ontologies at K-CAP 2005, Banff, Canada, October 2, 2005, pp.10-17

• Gasevic, D. and Hatala, M.: Searching context relevant learning resource using ontology mappings, Workshop SW-EL '05: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-learning, Banff, Canada, October 2, 2005, pp. 45-52.

• Wakkary, R., Hatala, M., Lovell, R. and Droumeva, M.: An Ambient Intelligence Platform for Physical Play, ACM Multimedia 2005, Singapore, 6-12 November, 2005, pp. 764-773.

• Hatala, M., Eap, T., Shah, A. Federated Security: Lightweight Security Infrastructure for Object Repositories and Web Services, IEEE Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'05), Seoul, Korea, August 23-27, 2005, pp. 287-298.

• Wakkary, W., Hatala, M., Lovell, R. Droumeva, M., Antle, A., Evernden, D. and Bizzochi, J.: "Socio-Ec(h)o: Ambient Intelligence and Gameplay." Digital Games Research Association's 2nd International Conference (DiGRA 2005): Changing Views: Worlds in Play. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 16-20, 2005.

2004

• Hatala, M., Richards, G., Scott, T., Merriman, J.: Closing the Interoperability Gap: Connecting Open Service Interfaces with Digital Repository Interoperability, Ed-Media 2004, June 21-26, 2004, Lugano, Switzerland, p. 78-83

• Hatala, M., Richards, G., Eap, T., Willms, J.: The Interoperability of Learning Object Repositories and Services: Standards, Implementations and Lessons Learned. 13th World Wide Web Conference, Educational Track, May 2004, New York, 19-27.

• Eap, T., Hatala, M., Richards, G. Digital Repository Interoperability: Design, Implementation and Deployment of the Protocol and Connecting Middleware, 13th World Wide Web Conference, Refereed Poster Track, May 2004, New York, pp.376-377

• Kalantari, L., Willms, J., Hatala, M. Using Semantic Web Approach in Augmented Audio Reality System for Museum Visitors, 13th World Wide Web Conference, Refereed Poster Track, May 2004, New York, pp. 386-387.

• Wakkary, R., Newby, K., Hatala, M, Evernden, D. and Droumeva. Interactive Audio Content: The Use of Audio for a Dynamic Museum Experience through Augmented Audio Reality and Adaptive Information Retrieval. D. Bearman and J.Trant, eds.:Museums and the Web 2004 Selected Papers, Arlington, Virginia, March, 2004, pp. 55-60.

• Hatala, M., Richards, G., Eap, T., Willms, J.: The eduSource Communication Language: Implementing an Open Network for Learning Object Repositories and Services, Special Track on Engineering e-Learning Systems held at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2004, pp. 957-962

• Hatala, M., Kalantari, L., Wakkary, R., Newby, K.: Ontology and Rule based Retrieval of Sound Objects in Augmented Audio Reality System for Museum Visitors, Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval held at ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2004, pp. 1045-1050

2003

• Richards, G. and Hatala, M. (2003) Interoperability Frameworks for Learning Object Repositories. In A. M. Vilas, J.A.M. Gonzalez and J.M. Gonzales (Eds.) Advances in Technology-Based Education: Toward a Knowledge-Based Society. Badajoz: Junta de Extremadura, Consejera de Education. Cienca y Tecnolgia (Volume 1) 366-372

• Hatala, M. and Richards, G.: Value-added Metatagging: Ontology and Rule-based Methods for Smarter Metadata. In: M.Schroeder and G.Wagner (Eds.) Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML2003), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2876, pp.65-80, 2003

• Hatala, M. and Richards, G. eduSource: Interoperable Network of Learning Object Repositories, In Proceedings of 12th International Conference of The World Wide Web Consortium (WWW2003), Budapest, May 20-24, 2003,

• Hatala, M. and Forth, S. System for Computer-aided Metadata Creation, In Proceedings of 12th International Conference of The World Wide Web Consortium (WWW2003), Budapest, May 20-24, 2003,

• Hatala, M. Semantic Web: A Medicine for eLearning Ailments? Invited Keynote presentation at 3rd Slovak-Czech Workshop on Cognition, Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence, High Tatras, Slovakia, May 15-17, 2003, pp. 1-10

• Wakkary, R., Newby, K., Hatala, M., Ec(h)o: A Model of Participation, Communicational Spaces Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, 2003

2002

• McGreal, R., Anderson, T., Friesen, N., Sosteric, M., Hewitt, K., Ring, J. MacLeod, D., Richards, G. Hatala, M. Calvert, T., Chiasson, M., Roberts, T., Carey, T., Harrigan, K., Paquette, G. and Downes, S. (2002) "eduSource: A pan-Canadian learning object repository" In Proceedings of the E-Learn 2002 Conference. Montreal: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

• Hatala, M. and Richards, G. Global vs. Community Metadata Standards: Empowering Users for Knowledge Exchange, in: I.Horrocks and J.Hendler (Eds.): International Semantic Web Conference 2002, Springer, LNCS 2342, pp. 292-306, 2002.

• M.Hatala and G.Richards. POOL, POND and SPLASH: A Canadian Infrastructure for Learning Object Repositories. 5th IASTED Int. Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2002), Cancun, Mexico, May 2002.

• G.Richards and M.Hatala. POOL, POND and SPLASH - A Peer to Peer Architecture for Learning Object Repositories. Internet 2 Conference, Workshop on Collaborative Computing in Higher Education: Peer-to-Peer and Beyond. Tampa, Arizona, January 2002

2001 and older

• M.Hatala and J. Nesbit. (2001). An evolutionary approach to Building a Learning Object Repository. In Proceedings of 4th IASTED Int. Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2001), Banff, June 27-29, p. 54-59

• Richards, G., Calvert, T., Dufresne, A., Bartram, L. and Hatala, M. "Cultivating a community of practice: Designing the TeleLearning Exchange" 6th Intl Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work in Design (CSCWID), London, July 2001, pp.506-510.

• T.Sumner, J.Domingue, Z.Zdrahal, M.Hatala, A.Millican, J.Murray, K.Hinkelmann, A.Bernardi, S.Weiss and R.Traphoner: Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning. In: Proc. of Interdisciplinary Workshop on Building, Maintaining, and Using Organizational Memories (OM-98), 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), August, 23th - 28th, 1998, Brighton, UK.

• J.Sarnovsky, P.Sincak, M.Mach, M.Hatala (eds): Proceedings of the Scientific Conference Artificial Intelligence in Industry, High Tatras, 1998, Slovakia, ISBN 80-88786-83-5

• J.Paralic, T.Sabol, M.Mach, M.Hatala and M.Dzbor: Intelligent Development Tool for Constraint Satisfaction, In. Proc. of the Scientific Conference Artificial Intelligence in Industry, High Tatras, 1998, Slovakia, ISBN 80-88786-83-5, pp. 231-236.

• M.Hatala: Modelling User Behaviour for Calculation of User Model Values. Proceedings of The 119th PAMM Conference, November 1997, Herlany, Slovakia, pp.33-36

• J.Paralic, T.Sabol, M.Mach, M.Hatala and M.Dzbor: Constraint satisfaction engine for the Encode workbench. in. Proc. of the 8th Int. DAAAM Symposium "Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation", Dubrovnik, October 1997.

• M.Hatala, T.Sabol, M.Mach and J.Paralic: Visual debugging for knowledge based system for design. In: Proceedings of 8th Symposium on Information Systems IS'97, Varazdin, Croatia, September 1997.

• M. Hatala, M. Mach, J. Paralic and T. Sabol: Intelligent Visualisation of Inner Behaviour for Encode. In: Proc. of the 7th Int. DAAAM Symposium "Product & Manufacturing: Flexibility, Integration, Intelligence", Vienna, October 1996

• M. Hatala and P.Sincak: Exploitation of User Model in the Planning system for Image Analysis, In: Proc. of 12th International Conference on Systems Science, Wroclaw, Poland, 1995.

Keynote and Invited presentations, Panels:

• Hatala, M. and Kumar, V. : Advanced Tools & Inference Engines for the Semantic Web. Half-day workshop organized at 2nd Annual Lornet Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 15, 2005.

• Hatala, M., Kumar, V. and Leonard, M: Building Ontologies. Half-day workshop organized at 2nd Annual Lornet Conference, Vancouver, BC, November 15, 2005.

• Hatala, M. Organized panel Federated Web-services Security: Lightweight Security Infrastructure for Object Repositories and Web Services, Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 19-22, 2005.

• Hatala, M. Invited to panel: LionShare: A Hybrid Secure Network for Academic Collaboration, Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 19-22, 2005.

• Hatala, M. Invited to panel: "Learning Objects: Who Uses Them?" organized at Ed-Media 2004, June 21-26, 2004, Lugano, Switzerland

• Hatala, M. Invited to panel "On Culture in a Worldwide Information Society: on line archives issues and achievements" organized at World Wide Web Conference 2004, 17 - 22 May New York Sheraton, New York NJ - USA

• Hatala, M. Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, Invited as keynote for DLF Developers Forum. New Orleans, April 19-21, 2004

• Hatala, M.: eduSource: An Open Network, Panel co-organizer at MERLOT 2003 conference, Vancouver, August 5-8, 2003

• Hatala, M. Learning Object Networks: Breeding Places for Communities. Invited presentation in Panel on Distributed learning Objects at 12th International Conference of The World Wide Web Consortium (WWW2003), Budapest, May 20-24, 2003

• Hatala, M. Semantic Web: A Medicine for eLearning Ailments? Invited Keynote presentation at 3rd Slovak-Czech Workshop on Cognition, Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence, High Tatras, Slovakia, May 15-17, 2003

• Hatala, M. A Confluence of Perspectives: An Ontology Powered Community-Building Website Around the Delgam'Uukw Trial Transcripts. Invited presentation on in panel on State-of-the-Art Digital Libraries at Research, Collaboration and the Digital Library: Visions for 2010, UBC, Vancouver, November 14-15, 2002

Selected Research/Project Funding

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2005-2010, NSERC, $75,000, Principal Investigator

• Learning Object Repositories Network (LORNET), NSERC, 2003-2008, $1,042,866, Theme Leader, Principal Investigator

• SFU Endowed Research Fellowship, 2006-2007, $5,000, Principal Investigator

• President's Research Grant, 2005 – 2007. Simon Fraser University, $10,000, Principal Investigator

• MediaLightPaths, 2005 – 2006, Canarie Inc, $499,462, Joint Investigator

• Am-I-able Network: Mobile and Responsive Environments, 2004 – 2005, Canadian Heritage: New Media Research Networks Fund, $523,049, Joint Investigator

• LionShare: Connecting and Extending Peer-to-Peer Networks, A.W. Mellon Foundation, 2003-2005, US$150,784, Principal Investigator

• ec(h)o: gesture based interaction system, 2003 – 2004, CANARIE – ARIM, $200,000, Joint Investigator

• NSERC Discovery Grant, 2001-2005, $48,000, Principal Investigator

• eduSource: , Canarie Inc, 2002-2003, $600,000, Joint Investigator

• Prototype Development Project, SFU University Industry Liason Office/ASI, 2003, $24,746, Joint Investigator

• TechBC Corporation/Prototype Development Program, 2001-2002, $13670, Principal Investigator

• POOL: Portal for Online Objects in Learning, Canarie Inc., 2000-2002, $1,600,000, Joint Investigator

• Internal Research Grant, 2000 – 2001, Technical University of British Columbia, $35,000, Principal Investigator

• Internal Research Grant, 2000, Technical University of British Columbia, $20,000, Principal Investigator

• ENRICH: Enriching Representations of Work to Support Organisational Learning, EU Commission, 1998-2000, European Commission, 1,000,000 ECU, Joint Investigator

• ENCODE: Environment for Configuration DEsign, EU Commission, 1995-1998, European Commission, 420,000 ECU, Joint Investigator

• Decent: Development of Centres for Continuing Education, EU Commission, 1995-1998, European Commission, 300,000 ECU, Joint Investigator

Active Service to the Academic Community

Project Reviewer

• Project Reviewer contracted by EU Commission, European Commission, Framework 6, IST Programme Directorate, Integrated Project “iClass”, 2007

• Project Reviewer contracted by EU Commission, European Commission, Framework 6, IST Programme Directorate, Project “Calibrate”, 2006-2007

Grant Evaluator

• NSERC, SSHRC

• Grant Evaluator, EU Commission, Framework Program 7-ICT objective 4.1 "Digital Libraries and Technology-enhanced Learning", 2007

Program Committee

• Hypertext 2008 (HT08) - The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 19th - 21st June 2008

• 4th Annual E-learning Conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR 2007), Montreal, Quebec, November 4-7, 2007

• First International Workshop on Learning Object Discovery & Exchange (LODE 2007), in conjunction with the 2nd European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL07), Crete, Greece, September 17-20, 2007

• International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007.

• International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, CATE 2007, Beijing, China, October 8-10, 2007.

• Second European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 17-20 September 2007, Greece

• Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: personalized access to digital resources (CAMA 2007), ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 17-23, 2007

• Scientific Committee of the Web Based Communities Conference 2007, Salamanca, Spain, 18 to 20 February 2007

• Conference "Znalosti 2007", Czech Republic

• 3rd Annual E-learning Conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories (I2LOR 2006) November 9 - 10, 2006 in Montreal, Quebec

• International ACM Workshop on Contextualized Attention Metadata: Collecting, Managing and Exploiting of Rich Usage Information, CAMA 2006, November 11, 2006, Arlington, VA, USA

• Conference "Znalosti 2006", Czech Republic

• Workshop on Interoperability of Web-Based Educational Systems in conjunction with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference Chiba, Japan, May 10, 2005

• World Wide Web 2004, Alternative Track on Education, May 2004, New York

• Computers and Advance Technology in Education (CATE 2003), Rhodes, Greece, 2003

• 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Management: Industry meets Science (I KNOW '03), Graz, Austria, 2003

• Computers and Advance Technology in Education (CATE 2001), Banff, Canada, June 2001

Organizing Committee

• Proceedings Chair, 2nd Annual Lornet Conference, Vancouver, Canada

• Artificial Intelligence in Industry Conference (AIII’98), High Tatras, Slovakia, 1998

Journal Editorial Board Member

• 2006 - Current International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

Journal Reviewer

• June 2006 - October 2006 Reviewer, Computing and Informatics (currented journal)

• June 2005 - December 2005 Reviewer, Special Issue on Interoperability of Educational Systems, Educational Technology and Society Journal

Standardization Bodies

• 2004 - 2005 IMS Global, Query Services Committee

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Computer Society (since 2004)

• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) (since 2001)

• Canadian Professional Information Society (CIPS) (since 2000)

• Canadian Society for Computational Study of Intelligence (CSCSI) (since 2000)
  
  

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