Dr Alia Abdelmoty

(she/her)

BEng, MSc, PhD (Heriot-Watt Uni)

2025

• Darwish, R., Abdelmoty, A. and Turner, L. 2025. Investigating social network structures and interests on X audio spaces. Presented at: 13th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-12 Dec 2024 Presented at Cherifi, H. et al. eds.Complex Networks & Their Applications XIII. Studies in Computational Intelligence Vol. 1187. Springer pp. 397-408., (10.1007/978-3-031-82431-9_33)

2024

• Abdelmoty, A. I. and Satoti, A. 2024. A homogeneous approach to reasoning over global geographic data. Presented at: 44th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 17-19 December 2024 Presented at Bramer, M. and Stahl, F. eds.Artificial Intelligence XLI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 15446. Springer Cham pp. 285-298., (10.1007/978-3-031-77915-2_20)
• Alrayes, F. S., Abdelmoty, A. I. and El-Geresy, W. 2024. User profile visualisation for privacy awareness on Geo-Social Networks. Journal of Location Based Services (10.1080/17489725.2024.2399512)
• Abdelmoty, A. I., Muhajab, H. and Satoti, A. 2024. Spatial semantics for the evaluation of administrative geospatial ontologies. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13(8), article number: 291. (10.3390/ijgi13080291)

2023

• Muhajab, A. N., Abdelmoty, A. and Hassoulas, A. 2023. Reuse and enrichment for building an ontology for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Presented at: International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Brazil, 28 August - 1 September 2023, Vol. 360. CEUR Workshop Proceedings pp. 142-153.

2020

• Alrayes, F., Abdelmoty, A. and Theodorakopoulos, G. 2020. Modelling perceived risks to personal privacy from location disclosure on online social networks. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 34(1), pp. 150-176. (10.1080/13658816.2019.1654109)

2018

• Abdelmoty, A. 2018. Towards modelling privacy risks in geo-social networks. Presented at: The Tenth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, Rome, Italy, 25 - 29 March 2018GEOProcessing 2018: The 10th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services.

2017

• Mohamed, S. and Abdelmoty, A. 2017. Spatio-semantic user profiles in location-based social networks. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics 4(2), pp. 127-142. (10.1007/s41060-017-0059-9)
• Abdelmoty, A. and Alrayes, F. 2017. Towards understanding location privacy awareness on geo-social networks. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 6(4), pp. 109. (10.3390/ijgi6040109)

2016

• Alrayes, F. and Abdelmoty, A. 2016. Towards location privacy awareness on geo-social networks. Presented at: 2016 10th International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Security and Technologies (NGMAST), Cardiff, UK, 24-26 August 2016Next Generation Mobile Applications, Security and Technologies (NGMAST), 2016 10th International Conference on. IEEE pp. 105., (10.1109/NGMAST.2016.26)
• Abdelmoty, A. and Almuzaini, K. 2016. A computational model of place on the linked data web. International Journal on Advances in Software 9(3&4), pp. 238-247.
• Mohamed, S. and Abdelmoty, A. 2016. Computing similarity between users on location-based social networks. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems 9(3&4), pp. 542-553.
• Mohamed, S. and Abdelmoty, A. 2016. Uncovering user profiles in location-based social networks. Presented at: GEOProcessing 2016 : The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, Venice, Italy, 24-28 April 2016GEOProcessing 2016 : The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Servi. pp. 14-21.
• Abdelmoty, A. and Almuzaini, K. 2016. Reasoning with place information on the Linked Data Web. Presented at: Second International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data (Alldata 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, 21 - 25 February 2016ALLDATA 2016 : The Second International Conference on Big Data, Small Data, Linked Data and Open Data (includes KESA 20. pp. 48-53.

2014

• Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A. I. and El-Geresy, B. 2014. Spatial reasoning with place information on the semantic Web. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 23(5), article number: 1450011. (10.1142/S0218213014500110)
• Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A. and El-Geresy, B. 2014. Spatial reasoning with place information on the Semantic Web. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 23(5), article number: 1450011. (10.1142/S0218213014500110)
• ElGindy, E. and Abdelmoty, A. 2014. Enriching user profiles using geo-social place semantics in geo-folksonomies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 28(7), pp. 1439-1458. (10.1080/13658816.2014.894194)
• ElGindy, E. and Abdelmoty, A. 2014. Capturing place semantics on the GeoSocial web. Journal on Data Semantics 3(4), pp. 207-223. (10.1007/s13740-014-0034-8)
• Alrayes, F. and Abdelmoty, A. 2014. No place to hide: a study of privacy concerns due to location sharing on geo-social networks. International Journal On Advances in Security 7(3/4), pp. 62-75.
• Mohamed, S. and Abdelmoty, A. 2014. Dynamic place profiles from geo-folksonomies on the geosocial web. In: Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXXI. Springer, pp. 239-251., (10.1007/978-3-319-12069-0_18)
• Alrayes, F. and Abdelmoty, A. 2014. Privacy concerns in location-based social networks. Presented at: The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services, GEOProcessing 2014,, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 March 2014.

2012

• Makki al-Azzawi, A. N., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2012. What can I do there? Towards the automatic discovery of place-related services and activities. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 26(2), pp. 345-364. (10.1080/13658816.2011.595954)
• ElGindy, E. and Abdelmoty, A. 2012. Enhancing the quality of place resources in geo-folksonomies. Presented at: WAIM 2011: International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Wuhan, China, 14-16 September 2011 Presented at Wang, L. et al. eds.Web-Age Information Management: WAIM 2011 International Workshops: WGIM 2011, XMLDM 2011, SNA 2011, Wuhan, China, September 14-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 7142. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer pp. 1-12., (10.1007/978-3-642-28635-3_1)
• Younis, E. E. G., Jones, C. B., Tanasescu, V. and Abdelmoty, A. 2012. Hybrid geo-spatial query methods on the semantic web with a spatially-enhanced index of DBpedia. Presented at: GIScience 2012: 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Columbus, OH, USA, 18-21 September 2012 Presented at Xiao, N. et al. eds.Geographic Information Science: 7th International Conference, GIScience 2012, Columbus, OH, USA, September 18-21, 2012. Proceedings, Vol. 7478. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer pp. 340-353., (10.1007/978-3-642-33024-7_25)

2010

• Makki al-Azzawi, A. N., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2010. An ontology of place and service types to facilitate place-affordance geographic information retrieval. Presented at: 6th ACM Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'10), Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19th February 2010 Presented at Purves, R., Clough, P. and Jones, C. B. eds.GIR '10 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19 February 2010. New York, NY: ACM, (10.1145/1722080.1722085)
• El-Geresy, B. A., Abdelmoty, A. and Ware, A. J. 2010. Deriving extensional spatial composition tables. Presented at: 29th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, England Presented at Bramer, M., Ellis, R. and Petridis, M. eds.Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXVI: Incorporating Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVII. London: Springer pp. 93-106., (10.1007/978-1-84882-983-1_7)

2009

• Reitsma, F., Laxton, J., Ballard, S., Kuhn, W. and Abdelmoty, A. 2009. Semantics, ontologies and eScience for the geosciences. Computers & Geosciences 35(4), pp. 706-709. (10.1016/j.cageo.2008.03.014)
• Abdelmoty, A., Smart, P. D., El-Geresy, B. A. and Jones, C. B. 2009. Supporting frameworks for the geospatial semantic web. Presented at: 11th international symposium, SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark, 8-10 July 2009 Presented at Mamoulis, N. et al. eds.Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 11th International Symposium, SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag pp. 355-372., (10.1007/978-3-642-02982-0_23)
• Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A. and El-Geresy, B. A. 2009. Semantic web rule languages for geospatial ontologies. In: Giurca, A., Gasevic, D. and Taveter, K. eds. Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 149-169., (10.4018/978-1-60566-402-6.ch007)

2008

• Schockaert, S., Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2008. Mining topological relations from the Web. Presented at: 28th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Turin, Italy, 1-5 September 2008 Presented at Tjoa, A. M. and Wagner, R. R. eds.DEXA 2008: 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications : proceedings, 1-5 September, 2008, Turin, Italy. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 652-656., (10.1109/DEXA.2008.15)
• Abdelmoty, A. and El-Geresy, B. A. 2008. Modeling spatial relations between places to support geographic information retrieval. Presented at: International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Zagreb, Croatia, 3-5 September 2008 Presented at Lovrek, I., Howlett, R. J. and Jain, L. C. eds.KES '08 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Part II. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag pp. 689-694.

2007

• Abdelmoty, A., Smart, P. D. and Jones, C. B. 2007. Building place ontologies for the semantic web: Issues and approaches. Presented at: GIR 2007 4th ACM Workshop On Geographic Information Retrieval, Lisbon, Portugal, 9 November 2007GIR '07 Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval. New York, NY: ACM pp. 7-12., (10.1145/1316948.1316951)
• Alazzawi, A. N., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2007. Spatio-temporal Personalised Web Search. Presented at: GISRUK 15th Annual Conference 2007, Maynooth, Ireland, 11-13 April 2007 Presented at Winstanley, A. C. ed.GISRUK 2007: Proceedings of the Geographical Information Science Research UK Conference. Maynooth, Ireland: National University of Ireland pp. 457-459.
• Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A., El-Geresy, B. A. and Jones, C. B. 2007. A framework for combining rules and geo-ontologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4524, pp. 133-147. (10.1007/978-3-540-72982-2_10)

2006

• Smart, P., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. 2006. A visual editor for validating Geo-Ontologies in OWL. Presented at: GISRUK 2006: 14th Annual GIS Research UK Conference, Nottingam , UK, 5-7 April 2006 Presented at Priestnall, G. and Aplin, P. eds.Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 14th Annual Conference. pp. 222-226.
• Abdelmoty, A., Smart, P. and El-Geresy, B. A. 2006. Towards the practical use of qualitative spatial reasoning in geographic information retrieval. Presented at: 3rd International IEEE Conference "Intelligent Systems", London, UK, 4-6 September 20062006 3rd International IEEE Conference Intelligent Systems, Vol. 1. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE pp. 67-72., (10.1109/IS.2006.348396)
• Cudré-Mauroux, P. et al. 2006. Viewpoints on emergent semantics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4090, pp. 1-27. (10.1007/11803034_1)
• El-Geresy, B. A. and Abdelmoty, A. 2006. Qualitative representation and reasoning with uncertainty in space and time. Presented at: Proceedings of AI-2005, the Twenty-fifth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK December 2005, Cambridge, UK, December 2005Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXII. London: Springer pp. 345-355., (10.1007/978-1-84628-226-3_26)

2005

• Fu, G., Jones, C. B. and Abdelmoty, A. 2005. Building a geographical ontology for intelligent spatial search on the web. Presented at: The IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications - DBA 2005, Innsbruck, Austria, 14-16 February 2005 Presented at Hamza, M. H. ed.Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Databases and Applications. Anaheim, CA: ACTA Press pp. 167-172.
• Fu, G., Jones, C. B. and Abdelmoty, A. 2005. Ontology-based spatial query expansion in information retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3761, pp. 1466-1482. (10.1007/11575801_33)
• El-Geresy, B. A. and Abdelmoty, A. I. 2005. Imprecise qualitative spatial reasoning. Presented at: SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 13-15 December 2004 Presented at Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Allen, T. eds.Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXI : Proceedings of AI-2004, the Twenty-fourth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer pp. 299-312., (10.1007/b138783)

2004

• Morris, A. J., Abdelmoty, A., El-Geresy, B. A. and Jones, C. B. 2004. A filter flow visual querying language and interface for spatial databases. GeoInformatica 8(2), pp. 107-141. (10.1023/B:GEIN.0000017744.85002.4c)
• Abdelmoty, A. and El-Geresy, B. 2004. SPARQS: a Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Engine. Knowledge-Based Systems 17(2-4), pp. 89-102. (10.1016/j.knosys.2004.03.004)
• El-Geresy, B. A. and Abdelmoty, A. 2004. SPARQS: a qualitative spatial reasoning engine. Knowledge-Based Systems 17(2-4), pp. 89-102. (10.1016/j.knosys.2004.03.004)
• Jones, C. B., Abdelmoty, A., Finch, D. J., Fu, G. and Vaid, S. 2004. The SPIRIT spatial search engine: Architecture, ontologies and spatial indexing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3234, pp. 125-139. (10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_9)
• Abdelmoty, A. and El-geresy, B. A. 2004. Schema visualisation using a metadata approach for GIS. Presented at: GIS Research UK 12th annual conference GISRUK 2004, Norwich, UK, 28 -30 April 2004Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 12th Annual Conference GISRUK 2004, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 28th-30th April 2004. Norwich: University of East Anglia pp. Ch. 19.
• Smart, P. D., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2004. An evaluation of geo-ontology representation languages for supporting web retrieval of geographical information. Presented at: GIS Research UK 12th annual conference (GISRUK 2004), Norwich, UK, 28th-30th April 2004.

2002

• Abdelmoty, A. and El-Geresy, B. 2002. Towards a general theory for modelling qualitative space. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 11(3), pp. 347-367. (10.1142/S0218213002000939)
• Morris, A. J., Abdelmoty, A., Tudhope, D. S. and El-Geresy, B. A. 2002. Design and implementation of a visual query language for large spatial databases. Presented at: Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK, 10-12 July 2002Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation, 2002.. IEEE pp. 226-233., (10.1109/IV.2002.1028781)

2001

• El-Geresy, B. A. and Abdelmoty, A. 2001. Towards a general theory for qualitative space. Presented at: 13th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Dallas, TX, USA, 7-9 November 2001ICTAI 2001: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Dallas, TX, 7-9 Nov. 2001. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 111-118., (10.1109/ICTAI.2001.974455)

2000

• El-Geresy, B. A., Abdelmoty, A. and Jones, C. B. 2000. Episodes in space: qualitative representation and reasoning over spatio-temporal objects. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 9(1), article number: 131. (10.1142/S0218213000000100)

1997

• El-Geresy, B. A. and Abdelmoty, A. 1997. Order in space: a general formalism for spatial reasoning. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 6(4), pp. 423-445. (10.1142/S0218213097000232)