Juan Ye

Biography

Research Interests:

• category theory
• lattice theory
• location-aware computing
• ontology
• Pervasive computing
• semantics

General

Name and Title: 

Dr. Juan Ye Ph.D.

Position: 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Supervisor: 

Simon Dobson

Research Group: 

CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies

Phone: 

+353 1 7162629

Email: 

Personal Website: 

http://sites.google.com/site/juanyeresearch/

• Biography
• Professional
• Publications
• Research

Biography

Education Background

• 2005 Sep - 2009 Mar. Ph.D. in computer science, University College Dublin, Ireland

• 2002 Sep - 2005 Jul. M.Sc in computer science, Wuhan University, China

• 1998 Sep - 2002 Jul. B.Sc in computer science, Wuhan University, China

Professional

Reviewing

• The 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: UbiComp 2007
• Revue d’intelligence Artificiell Journal on a special issue “modelling and reasoning on context”

Publications

Journals

1. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2008). Representing and Manipulating Situation Hierarchies using Situation Lattices. Journal of Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle 22(5), 2008.

2. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). Ontology-based Models in Pervasive Computing Systems. Knowledge Engineering Review 22 (04), pages 315-347. (Impact factor = 1.312)

3. Zhiyong Peng, Yanxiang He, Hui Luo, Mingxia Zhao, Yi Luo and Juan Ye (2002). Integrating various multi-databases based on object deputy model. Journal of Computer Science, 29(8), pages 256-258. August 2002.

Book Chapter

1. Juan Ye, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2008). An overview of pervasive computing systems. In Augmented materials and smart objects, Kieran Delaney (ed). Volume 18 of Microsystems. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-46293-9.

Main Conferences

1. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson (2009). Using Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence for Situation InferenceIn Proceedings of The 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC' 09). LNCS. Springer Verlag. Guidford, UK. 2009.

2. Juan Ye and Simon Dobson (2009). Human-Behaviour Study within Situation Lattices. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2009). TX, USA. 11-15 Oct, 2009.

3. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2009). Using Situation Lattices in Sensor Analysis. Percom 09: the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. To appear. (Acceptance rate: 34/199=17%)

4. Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, and Simon Dobson (2008). Resolving Uncertainty in Context Integration and Abstraction. International Conference of Pervasive Services (ICPS' 08). Sorrento, Italy. (Acceptance rate: 21%)

5. Juan Ye (2008). Using Situation Lattices to Model and Reason on Situations. Doctoral Colloquiumof Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia.

6. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2009). A context quality model to support transparent reasoning with uncertain context. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon' 09). LNCS. Springer Verlag. Stuttgart, DE. 2009.

7. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2008). A Multilayered Uncertainty Model for Context Aware Systems. Late Breaking Result of Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. 

8. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). A Unified Semantics Space Model. LoCA 2007, pages 103-120. Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Springer-Verlag. (Acceptance rate: 17/55=31%)

9. Juan Ye and Zhiyong Peng (2004). A Squeak-based Educational Software – Happy Learning. In proceedings of the conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing. Japan.

10. Zhiyong Peng, Kai Huang and Juan Ye (2003). Development of Smalltalk in China. In proceedings of the conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing. Japan.

Minor Conferences and Workshops

1. Juan Ye, Adrian Clear, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2009). On using temporal semantics to create more accurate human-activity classifiers. Proceedings of 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2009), pages 274-283. Dublin, Ireland. August 19-21, 2009.

2. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson. A context quality model to support transparent reasoning with uncertain context. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon' 09). LNCS. Springer Verlag. Stuttgart, DE. 2009.

3. O'Grady, M.J., O'Hare, G.M.P., Dobson, S., Tynan, R., Muldoon, C., Ye, J (2009). Implicit Interaction: A Prerequisite for Practical AmI. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Instinctive Computing, Pittsburgh, USA. 2009. (in press).

4. Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Stephen Knox, Matthew Stabeler, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2009). Gathering Datasets for Activity Identification. Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behaviour Datasets to Advance HCI and Uniquitous Computing Research at CHI 2009.

5. Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Emerson Loureiro, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). A Proposed Approach to Evaluate the Accuracy of Tag-based Location Systems. In proceedings of the workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation. Innsbruck, Austria.

6. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007). Using Situation Lattices to Model and Reason about Context. In proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2007). Roskilde, Denmark.

7. Adrian K. Clear, Stephen Knox, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006). Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Environment. In proceedings of the workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. Riva Del Garda, Italy.

8. Simon Dobson and Juan Ye (2006). Using Fibrations for Situation Identification. In proceedings of Pervasive 2006 workshops. Dublin, Ireland.

9. Juan Ye, Zhiyong Peng, Hui Zhang and Kun Jin (2003). The Design and Implementation of Object Deputy Model in Smalltalk. In proceedings of the China National Computer Conference.

10. Juan Ye, Zhen Wang and Zhiyong Peng (2003). Extension of ODMG with Deputy Class. In proceedings of the China National Computer Conference.

Thesis

1. Juan Ye (2009). Exploiting Semantics with Situation Lattices in Pervasive Computing. PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland. 

2. Juan Ye (2005). Research on Software Reuse Technology Based on Object Deputy Mechanism in Squeak Environment. Master Thesis, State key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China.

 

Research

I currently hold a Clarity funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UCD. My research interests include pervasive and ubiquitous computing, context- and especially location-aware systems, activity recognition, situation management, ontologies, lattice theory, and category theories.