Professor Alun Preece

Professor of Intelligent Systems Co-Director of the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute

School of Computer Science and Informatics

I am Director of the Hartree Centre | Cardiff Hub, Co-Director of Cardiff University's Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, and Director of Impact in the School of Computer Science and Informatics.

I served as the UK Academic Technical Area Lead for the US/UK Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (DAIS ITA, 2016-2021) funded by the US & UK Governments and led by IBM. Previously, I served in the same role for the Network and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (NIS ITA, 2006-2016). I currently lead multiple projects exploiting the DAIS and NIS ITA fundamental research results.

2024

Bent, G. A. et al. 2024. The transformative potential of vector symbolic architecture for cognitive processing at the network edge. Presented at: Security and Defence 2024, Edinburgh, UK, 16-20 September 2024 Presented at Bouma, H. et al. eds.Proceedings Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications II, Vol. 13206. SPIE pp. 1320612., (10.1117/12.3030949)
Bent, G. A. et al. 2024. A demonstration of vector symbolic architecture as an effective integrated technology for AI at the network edge. Presented at: Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications II, Edinburgh, UK, 17–19 September 2024 Presented at Bouma, H. et al. eds.Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications II. Vol. 132061. SPIE pp. 39-55., (10.1117/12.3030952)
Briseno, J. d. G. et al. 2024. TeamCollab: A framework for collaborative perception-cognition-communication-action. Presented at: 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), Venice, Italy, 08-11 July 20242024 27th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION). IEEE pp. 1-8., (10.23919/fusion59988.2024.10706435)
Davies, C. and Preece, A. 2024. Vector symbolic open source information discovery. Presented at: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, National Harbor, Maryland, United States, 7 June 2024Proceedings Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications VI, Vol. 13051. SPIE, (10.1117/12.3013447)
Antypas, D., Preece, A. and Camacho Collados, J. 2024. A multi-faceted NLP analysis of misinformation spreaders in Twitter. Presented at: 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis, Bangkok, Thailand, 15 August 2024 Presented at De Clercq, O. et al. eds.Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, & Social Media Analysis. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 71-83.
Roig Vilamala, M., Furby, J., de Gortari Briseno, J., Srivastava, M., Preece, A. and Fuentes Toro, C. 2024. Analysing explanation-related interactions in collaborative perception-cognition-communication-action. Presented at: RO-MAN 2024: 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Pasadena, CA, USA, 26-30 August 2024IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (2024). IEEE

2023

Barclay, I., Preece, A., Taylor, I., Radha, S. K. and Nabrzyski, J. 2023. Providing assurance and scrutability on shared data and machine learning models with verifiable credentials. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 35(18), article number: e6997. (10.1002/cpe.6997)
Davies, C., Roig Vilamala, M. and Preece, A. 2023. Knowledge from uncertainty in evidential deep learning. Presented at: 2nd KDD Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning and Quantification in Decision Making, Long Beach, CA, USA, 7 August 2023.
Roig Vilamala, M. et al. 2023. DeepProbCEP: A neuro-symbolic approach for complex event processing in adversarial settings. Expert Systems with Applications 215, article number: 119376. (10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119376)
Antypas, D., Preece, A. and Camacho Collados, J. 2023. Negativity spreads faster: A large-scale multilingual twitter analysis on the role of sentiment in political communication. Online Social Media and Networks 33, article number: 100242. (10.1016/j.osnem.2023.100242)

2022

Barclay, I. et al. 2022. Trustable service discovery for highly dynamic decentralized workflows. Future Generation Computer Systems 134, pp. 236-246. (10.1016/j.future.2022.03.035)
Rogers, D., Preece, A., Innes, M. and Spasic, I. 2022. Real-time text classification of user-generated content on social media: Systematic review. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 9(4), pp. 1154-1166. (10.1109/TCSS.2021.3120138)
Bent, G., Simpkin, C., Li, Y. and Preece, A. 2022. Energy efficient spiking neural network neuromorphic processing to enable decentralised service workflow composition in support of multi-domain operations. Presented at: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2022, Orlando, Florida, United States, 3 April - 13 June 2022 Presented at Pham, T. and Solomon, L. eds.Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications, Vol. 12113. SPIE pp. 121131M., (10.1117/12.2617362)
Ashford, J., Turner, L., Whitaker, R., Preece, A. and Felmlee, D. 2022. Understanding the characteristics of COVID-19 misinformation communities through graphlet analysis. Online Social Networks and Media 27, article number: 100178. (10.1016/j.osnem.2021.100178)
Bent, G., Simpkin, C., Li, Y. and Preece, A. 2022. Hyperdimensional computing using time-to-spike neuromorphic circuits. Presented at: 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Padova, Italy, 18-23 July 2022. IEEE

2021

Barclay, I., Taylor, H., Preece, A., Taylor, I., Verma, D. and de Mel, G. 2021. A framework for fostering transparency in shared artificial intelligence models by increasing visibility of contributions. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 33(19), article number: e6129. (10.1002/cpe.6129)
Davies, C. et al. 2021. Multi-scale user migration on Reddit. Presented at: Workshop on Cyber Social Threats at the 15th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2021), Virtual, 07 June 2021. AAAI, (10.36190/2021.13)
Vente, S., KImmig, A., Preece, A. and Cerutti, F. 2021. Increasing negotiation performance at the edge of the network. Presented at: EUMAS 2020 : 17th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, Online, 22-23 April 2020 Presented at Bassiliades, N., Chalkiadakis, G. and De Jonge, D. eds.Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies: 17th European Conference, EUMAS 2020, and 7th International Conference, AT 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 14-15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer pp. 351-365., (10.1007/978-3-030-66412-1_22)

2020

Barclay, I. et al. 2020. Enabling discoverable trusted services for highly dynamic decentralized workflows. Presented at: 15th IEEE/ACM Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS 2020), Virtual, 11 November 2020.
Simpkin, C., Taylor, I., Harborne, D., Bent, G., Preece, A. and Ganti, R. K. 2020. Efficient orchestration of Node-RED IoT workflows using a vector symbolic architecture. Future Generation Computer Systems 111, pp. 117-131. (10.1016/j.future.2020.04.005)
Tomsett, R. et al. 2020. Rapid trust calibration through interpretable and uncertainty-aware AI. Patterns 1(4) (10.1016/j.patter.2020.100049)
Tomsett, R., Harborne, D., Chakraborty, S., Gurram, P. and Preece, A. D. 2020. Sanity checks for saliency metrics. Presented at: AAAI-20: 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York City, NY, USA, 7-12 February 2020.
Barclay, I., Preece, A. and Taylor, I. 2020. Certifying provenance of scientific datasets with self-sovereign identity and verifiable credentials. Presented at: 12th International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG 2020), Virtual, 10-12 June 2020.
Ashford, J., Turner, L., Whitaker, R., Preece, A. and Felmlee, D. 2020. Assessing temporal and spatial features in detecting disruptive users on Reddit. Presented at: 10th Workshop on Social Network Analysis in Applications (SNAA 2020), The Hague, Netherlands, 3 August 2020.
Tuxworth, D., Antypas, D., Espinosa-Anke, L., Camacho-Collados, J., Preece, A. and Rogers, D. 2020. Deriving disinformation insights from geolocalized Twitter callouts. Presented at: Workshop On Deriving Insights From User-Generated Text @KDD2021, 14 -18 August 2021.

2019

Ashford, J., Turner, L., Whitaker, R., Preece, A., Felmlee, D. and Towsley, D. 2019. Understanding the signature of controversial Wikipedia articles through motifs in editor revision networks. Presented at: The Web Conference 2019, San Francisco, CA, USA, 13-17 May 2019.
Barclay, I., Preece, A., Taylor, I. and Verma, D. 2019. A conceptual architecture for contractual data sharing in a decentralised environment. Presented at: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019, Baltimore, MD, United States, 15-17 April 2018 Presented at Pham, T. ed.Proceedings Volume 11006, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications;. SPIE pp. 110060G., (10.1117/12.2518644)
Barclay, I., Preece, A., Taylor, I. and Verma, D. 2019. Towards traceability in data ecosystems using a Bill of Materials model. Presented at: International Workshop on Science Gateways, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 12-14 June 2019. pp. -.
Vilamala, M. R., Hiley, L., Hicks, Y., Preece, A. and Cerutti, F. 2019. A pilot study on detecting violence in videos fusing proxy models. Presented at: 22nd International Conference on Information Fusion, Ottawa, Canada, 2-5 July 2019.
Edwards, A., Preece, A. D. and De Ribaupierre, H. 2019. Knowledge extraction from a small corpus of unstructured safeguarding reports. Presented at: 16th ESWC 2019, Portoroz, Slovenia, 2-6 June 2019.

2018

Braines, D., Preece, A. and Harborne, D. 2018. Multimodal explanations for AI-based multisensor fusion. Presented at: NATO SET-262 RSM on artificial intelligence for military multisensor fusion engines, Budapest, 05-06 November 2018.
Bannister, C. A., Halcox, J. P., Currie, C. J., Preece, A. and Spasic, I. 2018. A genetic programming approach to development of clinical prediction models: a case study in symptomatic cardiovascular disease. PLoS ONE 13(9), article number: e0202685. (10.1371/journal.pone.0202685)
Harborne, D., Braines, D., Preece, A. and Rzepka, R. 2018. Conversational control interface to facilitate situational understanding in a city surveillance setting. Presented at: The fourth Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents Workshop (LACATODA 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 13 Jul 2018.
Cerutti, F. et al. 2018. Learning and reasoning in complex coalition information environments: a critical analysis. Presented at: Fusion 2018: 21st International Conference on Information Fusion, Cambridge, UK, 10-13 July 2018.
Innes, M., Roberts, C., Preece, A. and Rogers, D. 2018. Ten 'Rs' of social reaction: using social media to analyse the 'post-event' impacts of the murder of Lee Rigby. Terrorism and Political Violence 30(3), pp. 454-474. (10.1080/09546553.2016.1180289)
Harborne, D. et al. 2018. Reasoning and learning services for coalition situational understanding. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IX (SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Conference 10635), Orlando, USA, 16-18 April 2018 Presented at Kolodny, M. A., Wiegmann, D. M. and Pham, T. eds.Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IX. SPIE, (10.1117/12.2307009)
Preece, A. D. 2018. Asking 'why' in AI: Explainability of intelligent systems - perspectives and challenges. Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management 25(2), pp. 63-72. (10.1002/isaf.1422)
Roberts, C., Innes, M., Preece, A. and Rogers, D. 2018. After Woolwich: analyzing open source communications to understand the interactive and multi-polar dynamics of the arc of conflict. British Journal of Criminology 58(2), pp. 434-454. (10.1093/bjc/azx024)
Preece, A., Spasic, I., Evans, K., Rogers, D., Webberley, W., Roberts, C. and Innes, M. 2018. Sentinel: a co-designed platform for semantic enrichment of social media streams. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 5(1), pp. 118-131. (10.1109/TCSS.2017.2763684)
Braines, D. et al. 2018. Subjective Bayesian Networks and human-in-the-loop situational understanding. Presented at: GKR 2017: 5th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 21 August 2017 Presented at Croitoru, M. et al. eds.Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: 5th International Workshop, GKR 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August 21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer pp. 29-53., (10.1007/978-3-319-78102-0_2)
Harborne, D., Willis, C., Tomsett, R. and Preece, A. D. 2018. Integrating learning and reasoning services for explainable information fusion. Presented at: ICPRAI 2018 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, 14-17 May 2018.
Tomsett, R., Braines, D., Harborne, D., Preece, A. D. and Chakraborty, S. 2018. Interpretable to whom? A role-based model for analyzing interpretable machine learning systems. Presented at: 3rd Annual Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning (WHI 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 14 July 2018.
Simpkin, C., Taylor, I., Harborne, D., Bent, G., Preece, A. and Ganti, R. k. 2018. Dynamic distributed orchestration of Node-RED IOT workflows using a vector symbolic architecture. Presented at: WORKS 2018, Dallas Texas, 11-16 November 2018.
Preece, A. D., Ashelford, R., Armstrong, H. and Braines, D. 2018. Hows and whys of artificial intelligence for public sector decisions: Explanation and evaluation. Presented at: AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings, Arlington, VA, USA, 18-20 October 2018.
Barclay, I., Preece, A. and Taylor, I. 2018. Defining the collective intelligence supply chain. Presented at: AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector, Arlington, WA, USA, 18-21 October 2018.
Preece, A., Harborne, D., Braines, D., Tomsett, R. and Chakraborty, . 2018. Stakeholders in explainable AI. Presented at: AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings, Arlington, VA, USA, 18-20 October 2018.
Kaplan, L., Cerutti, F., Sensoy, M., Preece, A. D. and Sullivan, P. 2018. Uncertainty aware AI ML: Why and how. Presented at: AAAI FSS-18: Artificial Intelligence in Government and Public Sector Proceedings, Arlington, VA, USA, 18-20 October 2018.
Preece, A., Harborne, D., Raghavendra, ., Tomsett, R. and Braines, D. 2018. Provisioning robust and interpretable AI/ML-based service bundles. Presented at: MILCOM 2018, Los Angeles, USA, October 29 - 31, 2018.

2017

Preece, A., Webberley, W., Braines, D., Zaroukian, E. G. and Bakdash, J. Z. 2017. SHERLOCK: Experimental evaluation of a conversational agent for mobile information tasks. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 47(6), pp. 1017-1028. (10.1109/THMS.2017.2700625)
Braines, D., O'Leary, N., Thomas, A., Harborne, D., Preece, A. D. and Webberley, W. M. 2017. Conversational homes: a uniform natural language approach for collaboration among humans and devices. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems 10(3/4), pp. 223-237.
Chakraborty, S., Preece, A. D., Alzantot, M., Xing, T., Braines, D. and Srivastava, M. 2017. Deep learning for situational understanding. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion, Xi'an, China, 10-13 July 2017Information Fusion (Fusion), 2017 20th International Conference on. IEEE, (10.23919/ICIF.2017.8009785)
Chakraborty, S. et al. 2017. Interpretability of deep learning models: a survey of results. Presented at: IEEE Smart World Congress 2017 Workshop: DAIS 2017 - Workshop on Distributed Analytics InfraStructure and Algorithms for Multi-Organization Federations, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-8 August 2017.
Nottle, A. et al. 2017. Distributed opportunistic sensing and fusion for traffic congestion detection. Presented at: IEEE Smart World Congress 2017 Workshop: DAIS 2017 - Workshop on Distributed Analytics InfraStructure and Algorithms for Multi-Organization Federations, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-8 August 2017.
Whitaker, R. M., Felmlee, D., Verma, D. C., Preece, A. D. and Williams, G. 2017. From evolution to revolution: understanding mutability in large and disruptive human groups. Presented at: SPIE Defense + Security Symposium: Next-Generation Analyst V, Anaheim, California, United States., 9 - 13 April 2017Next-Generation Analyst V, Vol. 10207. SPIE Proceedings Bellingham, Wa: SPIE pp. 1020703., (10.1117/12.2267996)
Zaroukian, E., Bakdash, J. Z., Preece, A. D. and Webberley, W. 2017. Automation bias with a conversational interface: user confirmation of misparsed information. Presented at: IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management, Savannah, GA, USA, 27-31 March 2017Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), 2017 IEEE Conference on. IEEE, (10.1109/COGSIMA.2017.7929605)
O'Leary, N., Braines, D., Preece, A. D. and Webberley, W. 2017. Conversational homes. Presented at: The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications, Athens, Greece, 19 - 23 February 2017ThinkMind: COGNITIVE 2017. The 9th International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications. IARIA pp. 82-89.
Preece, A. D. et al. 2017. Coalitions of things: supporting ISR tasks via Internet of Things approaches. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII, Anaheim, USA, 10 - 13 April 2017Proc. SPIE 10190, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII, Vol. 10190. SPIE pp. 101900A., (10.1117/12.2266460)
Verma, D., Desai, N., Preece, A. and Taylor, I. J. 2017. A blockchain based architecture for asset management in coalition operations. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII, Anaheim, USA, 10 - 13 April 2017Proc. SPIE 10190, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VIII, Vol. 10190. SPIE pp. 101900Y., (10.1117/12.2264911)
Preece, A. D., Cerutti, F., Braines, D., Chakraborty, S. and Srivastava, M. 2017. Cognitive computing for coalition situational understanding. Presented at: IEEE Smart World Congress 2017 Workshop: DAIS 2017 - Workshop on Distributed Analytics InfraStructure and Algorithms for Multi-Organization Federations, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7-8 August 2017.
Braines, D., Thomas, A., Kaplan, L., Sensoy, M., Ivanovska, M., Preece, A. D. and Cerutti, F. 2017. Human-in-the-loop situational understanding via subjective Bayesian networks. Presented at: The 5th International Workshop on Graph Structures for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (GKR 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 19-25 August 2017.
Preece, A. D. and Braines, D. S. 2017. Conversational services for multi-agency situational understanding. Presented at: AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium: Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications, Washington, D.C., USA, 9-11 November 2017.

2016

Innes, M., Roberts, C., Preece, A. and Rogers, D. 2016. Of instruments and data: Social media uses, abuses and analysis. In: Fielding, N. G., Lee, R. M. and Blank, G. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods. Sage, pp. 108-124.
Preece, A. D., Webberley, W., Braines, D., Zaroukian, E. and Bakdash, J. 2016. Human computer collaboration at the edge: enhancing collective situation understanding with controlled natural language. Presented at: 21st International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, London, UK, 6-8 September 2016.
Braines, D., Bhattal, A., Preece, A. D. and de Mel, G. 2016. Agile development of ontologies through conversation. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VII, Baltimore, Maryland, 17 April 2016Proceedings SPIE 9831 Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VII, Vol. 9831. pp. 98310B., (10.1117/12.2229405)
Preece, A. D., Roberts, C., Rogers, D., Webberley, W., Innes, M. and Braines, D. 2016. From open source communications to knowledge. Presented at: Next-Generation Analyst IV, Baltimore, MD, USA, 18-19 April 2016.
Toniolo, A., Preece, A. D., Webberley, W., Norman, T. J., Sullivan, P. and Dropps, T. 2016. Conversational intelligence analysis. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Singapore, 4-7 January 2016Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking. ACM pp. 42., (10.1145/2833312.2849568)

2015

Spasic, I. et al. 2015. TRAK App Suite: A web-based intervention for delivering standard care for the rehabilitation of knee conditions. JMIR Research Protocols 4(4), article number: e122. (10.2196/resprot.4091)
Williams, L., Bannister, C., Arribas-Ayllon, M., Preece, A. and Spasic, I. 2015. The role of idioms in sentiment analysis. Expert Systems with Applications 42(21), pp. 7375-7385. (10.1016/j.eswa.2015.05.039)
Spasic, I. et al. 2015. TRAK application suite: A web-based intervention for delivering standard care for the rehabilitation of knee conditions. JMIR Research Protocols 4(4), article number: e122. (10.2196/resprot.4091)
Preece, A. D., Webberley, W. and Braines, D. 2015. Conversational sensemaking. Presented at: Next Generation Analyst III, Baltimore, MD, 20 April 2015 Presented at Broome, B. D. et al. eds.SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 9499. SPIE pp. 94990I., (10.1117/12.2179909)
Pham, T., Kolodny, M. A., Preece, A. D., Webberley, W. and Braines, D. 2015. Tasking the tweeters: obtaining actionable information from human sensors. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR VI, Baltimore, MD, 20 April 2015SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 9464. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers pp. 946402., (10.1117/12.2179910)
Braines, D., Ibbotson, J., Shaw, D. and Preece, A. D. 2015. Building a "living database" for human-machine intelligence analysis. Presented at: 18th International Conference on Information Fusion, Washington DC, USA, 6-9 July 2015.
Parizas, C., De Mel, G., Preece, A. D., Sensoy, M., Calo, S. B. and Pham, T. 2015. Interest-based negotiation for asset sharing policies. Presented at: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN 2015), 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Istanbul, Turkey, 4 May 2015.
Evans, K. et al. 2015. Dynamically reconfigurable workflows for time-critical applications. Presented at: SC15: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, New York City, NY, USA, 16-19 November 2015WORKS '15 Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. pp. 1-10., (10.1145/2822332.2822339)

2014

Iqbal, A., Woznowski, P., Cooper, A., Preece, A. D. and Van Deursen, R. W. M. 2014. Measuring continuous patient activity post-stroke using a novel sensor-based computerised system. Presented at: Welsh Stroke Conference 2014, Cardiff, UK, 4-5 June 2014. pp. -.
Bannister, C. A., Currie, C. J., Preece, A. and Spasic, I. 2014. Automatic development of clinical prediction models with genetic programming: A case study in cardiovascular disease. Value in Health 17(3), pp. A200-A201. (10.1016/j.jval.2014.03.1171)
Preece, A., Gwilliams, C., Parizas, C., Pizzocaro, D., Bakdash, J. Z. and Braines, D. 2014. Conversational sensing. Presented at: Sensing Technologies + Applications 2014 Presented at Broome, B. D., Hall, D. L. and Llinas, J. eds.Proceedings SPIE 9122, Next-Generation Analyst II, Vol. 9122. Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers pp. 91220I., (10.1117/12.2053283)
Preece, A. D., Braines, D., Pizzocaro, D. and Parizas, C. 2014. Human-machine conversations to support multi-agency missions. ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review 18(1), pp. 75-84. (10.1145/2581555.2581568)
Preece, A. D., Bakdash, J. and Pizzocaro, D. 2014. Soldier decision-making for allocation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets. Presented at: 19th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, Alexandria VA,, 16-19 June 2014.
Braines, D., Preece, A. D., de Mel, G. and Pham, T. 2014. Enabling CoIST users: D2D at the network edge. Presented at: 17th International Conference on Information Fusion, Salamanca, 7-10th July 201417th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), 2014. IEEE pp. 1-8.

2013

Spasic, I., Greenwood, M., Preece, A. D., Francis, N. A. and Elwyn, G. 2013. FlexiTerm: a flexible term recognition method. Journal of Biomedical Semantics 4, article number: 27. (10.1186/2041-1480-4-27)
Greenwood, M., Elwyn, G., Francis, N. A., Preece, A. D. and Spasic, I. 2013. Automatic extraction of personal experiences from patients' blogs: A case study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30th September - 2nd October 2013.
Chen, Y. et al. 2013. D3.4 ENVRI Reference Model V1.1. Project Report. ENVRI Project Collaboration.
Chen, Y., Hardisty, A., Preece, A. D., Martin, P., Herbert Schentz, B., Zao, Z. and Legre, Y. 2013. Analysis of common requirements for environmental science research infrastructures. Presented at: International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2013 (ISGC 2013),, Taipei, Taiwan, 17-22 March 2013.
Preece, A. D., Braines, D., Pizzocaro, D. and Parizas, C. 2013. Human-machine conversations to support mission-oriented information provision. Presented at: Mobicom 2013: The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Miami, FL., USA, 30 Sept - 4 Oct 2013MiSeNet '13: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking. ACM pp. 43-50., (10.1145/2509338.2509342)
Iqbal, A., Woznowski, P., Cooper, A., Preece, A. D. and Van Deursen, R. W. M. 2013. A new computerised system can continuously measure functional activities of patients in a stroke rehabilitation unit. Cerebrovascular Diseases -Basel- 35(supp 3), pp. 204-204.
Chen, Y. et al. 2013. A common reference model for environmental science research infrastructures. Presented at: 27th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2-4 September 2013 Presented at Page, B. et al. eds.EnviroInfo 2013: Environmental Informatics and Renewable Energies, 27th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection. Aachen: Shaker Verlag GmbH pp. 665-673.
Preece, A., Norman, T., de Mel, G., Pizzocaro, D., Sensoy, M. and Pham, T. 2013. Agilely assigning sensing assets to mission tasks in a coalition context. IEEE Intelligent Systems 28(1), pp. 57-63. (10.1109/MIS.2012.86)

2012

Iqbal, A., Woznowski, P., Cooper, A., Preece, A. D. and Van Deursen, R. W. M. 2012. Measuring functional activities of patients in a stroke unit: Comparison of a sensor based Real Time Location System with the Observational Behaviour Mapping Technique [Poster Abstract]. Presented at: UK Stroke Forum, Harrogate, UK, 4-6 December 2012Internation Journal of Stroke 2012, Vol. 7. Wiley-Blackwell pp. 48-48., (DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4930.2012.00961.x)
Elwyn, G. et al. 2012. Detecting deterioration in patients with chronic disease using telemonitoring: navigating the 'trough of disillusionment'. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 18(4), pp. 896-903. (10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01701.x)
Preece, A. D., Pizzocaro, D., Braines, D. and Mott, D. 2012. Tasking and sharing sensing assets using controlled natural language. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR III, Baltimore, ML, 23 April 2012Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). SPIE SPIE pp. 838905., (10.1117/12.918839)
Chen, F., La Porta, T., Pizzocaro, D., Preece, A. D. and Srivastava, M. B. 2012. A system architecture for exploiting mission information requirement and resource allocation. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR III, Baltimore, ML, 23 April 2012Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Vol. 8389. SPIE pp. 838908., (10.1117/12.923685)
Al-Dossari, H., Shao, J. and Preece, A. D. 2012. Improving QoS assessment over multiple attributes with asynchronous data. Computer Systems Science and Engineering 27(2), pp. 133-147.
Gwilliams, C., Preece, A. D. and Hardisty, A. 2012. Local and global knowledge to improve the quality of sensed data. International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications 2(2), pp. 164-180.
Gwilliams, C., Preece, A. D., Hardisty, A., Goossens, B. and Ambu, L. 2012. K-HAS: an architecture for using local and global knowledge in wireless sensor networks. Presented at: The International Conference on Informatics & Applications, University Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, 3-5 June 2012.

2011

Woznowski, P. and Preece, A. D. 2011. Rule-Based semantic sensing. Presented at: Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Poster Session of the 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011@IJCAI), Barcelona, Spain, 2011Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium and Poster Session of the 5th International Symposium on Rules. pp. 9-16.
Sensoy, M., Le, T., Vasconcelos, W. W., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2011. Resource determination and allocation in sensor networks: A hybrid approach. The Computer Journal 54(3), pp. 356-372. (10.1093/comjnl/bxq015)
Hardisty, A. et al. 2011. Bridging two translation gaps: a new informatics research agenda for telemonitoring of chronic disease. International Journal of Medical Informatics 80(10), pp. 734-744. (10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.07.002)
Peirce, S. C., Hardisty, A., Preece, A. D. and Elwyn, G. 2011. Designing and implementing telemonitoring for early detection of deterioration in chronic disease: defining the requirements. Health informatics journal 17(3), pp. 173-190. (10.1177/1460458211409717)
Pizzocaro, D., Preece, A. D., Chen, F., La Porta, T. and Bar-Noy, A. 2011. Demo: A distributed architecture for heterogeneous multi sensor-task allocation. Presented at: 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops (DCOSS), Barcelona, Spain, 27-29 June 20112011 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems and Workshops (DCOSS). pp. 1-2., (10.1109/DCOSS.2011.5982143)
Chen, F., Pizzocaro, D., Johnson, M. P., Bar-Noy, A., Preece, A. D. and La Porta, T. 2011. Broadcast scheduling with data bundles. Presented at: Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR II, Orlando, FL, 26 April 2011Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). SPIE pp. 80470W., (10.1117/12.886648)

2010

Johnson, M. P., Rowaihy, H., Pizzocaro, D., Bar-Noy, A., Chalmers, S., La Porta, T. F. and Preece, A. D. 2010. Sensor-mission assignment in constrained environments. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 21(11), pp. 1692-1705. (10.1109/TPDS.2010.36)
Al-Dossari, H., Shao, J. and Preece, A. D. 2010. Handling asynchronous data in assessing QoS over multiple attributes. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, Perth, Australia, 13-15 December 2010IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA) 2010 Perth, WA, 13-15 Dec. 2010. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, (10.1109/SOCA.2010.5707145)
Hopfe, C. et al. eds. 2010. Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 15th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, Cardiff, UK, June 2010, proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Information Systems and Applications Vol. 6177. Berlin: Springer.
Al-Dossari, H., Shao, J. and Preece, A. D. 2010. QoS assessment over multiple attributes. Presented at: 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), Bradford, UK2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). pp. 1456-1461., (10.1109/CIT.2010.260)

2009

Embury, S. M., Missier, P., Sampaio, S., Greenwood, R. M. and Preece, A. D. 2009. Incorporating domain-specific information quality constraints into database queries. Journal of Data and Information Quality 1(2), article number: 11. (10.1145/1577840.1577846)
Rowaihy, H., Johnson, M. P., Pizzocaro, D., Bar-noy, A., Kaplan, L., La Porta, T. and Preece, A. D. 2009. Detection and localization sensor assignment with exact and fuzzy locations. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5516, pp. 28-43. (10.1007/978-3-642-02085-8_3)
de Mel, G., Sensoy, M., Vasconcelos, W. and Preece, A. D. 2009. Flexible Resource Assignment in Sensor Networks : A Hybrid Reasoning Approach. Presented at: 1st International Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web (SemSensWeb), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2009. pp. 1-15.
Preece, A. D. et al. 2009. Knowledge-Driven Agile Sensor-Mission Assignment. Presented at: 3rd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA), University of Maryland, 2009. pp. 1-8.
Rowaihy, H., Johnson, M. P., Pizzocaro, D., Bar-noy, A., Kaplan, L., La Porta, T. and Preece, A. D. 2009. Exact and Fuzzy Sensor-Task Assignment. Presented at: Proc 3rd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA), University of Maryland, 2009. pp. 1-8.
de Mel, G., Sensoy, M., Vasconcelos, W. and Preece, A. D. 2009. Flexible resource assignment in sensor networks: a hybrid reasoning approach. Presented at: 1st SemSensWeb2009 Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web, Heraklion, Crete, 1 June 2009 Presented at Corcho, O., Hauswirth, M. and Koubarakis, M. eds.Proceedings of the 1st SemSensWeb2009 Workshop on the Semantic Sensor Web, Collocated with ESWC 2009, Heraklion, Greece, 1 June 2009, Vol. 468. CEUR Workshop Proceedings Sun SITE Central Europe

2008

Stead, D. A. et al. 2008. Information quality in proteomics. Briefings in Bioinformatics 9(2), pp. 174-188. (10.1093/bib/bbn004)
Preece, A. D., Missier, P., Embury, S. M., Jin, B. and Greenwood, M. 2008. An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-Science. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 20(3), pp. 253-264. (10.1002/cpe.1195)
Preece, A. D., Chalmers, S., McKenzie, C., Pan, J. Z. and Gray, P. M. D. 2008. A semantic web approach to handling soft constraints in virtual organisations. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 7(3), pp. 264-273. (10.1016/j.elerap.2008.03.002)
Preece, A. D. et al. 2008. Reasoning and Resource Allocation for Sensor-Mission Assignment in a Coalition Context. Presented at: Military Communications Conference, 2008. MILCOM 2008. IEEE, San Diego, CA, 16-19 Nov. 2008. pp. 1-7., (10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753114)
Pizzocaro, D., Johnson, M. P., Rowaihy, H., Chalmers, S., Preece, A. D., Bar-Noy, A. and La Porta, T. 2008. A knapsack approach to sensor-mission assignment with uncertain demands. Presented at: Unmanned/unattended sensors and sensor networks V, Cardiff, UK, 16-18 September 2008 Presented at Carapezza, E. M. ed.Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks V, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, 16–18 September 2008. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7112. Bellingham, WA: SPIE pp. 711205., (10.1117/12.799859)
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Polhill, G., Gotts, N. and Preece, A. D. 2008. A semantic workflow mechanism to realise experimental goals and constraints. Presented at: 3rd Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, Austin, TX, USA, 17 November 2008Third Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science, 2008 (WORKS 2008), Austin, TX, 17 November 2008. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, (10.1109/WORKS.2008.4723962)
Rowaihy, H. et al. 2008. Utility-based joint sensor selection and congestion control for task-oriented WSNs. Presented at: 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 26-29 October 2008 Presented at Matthews, M. B. ed.Conference record of the 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers October 26-29, 2008, Pacific Grove, California. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 1165-1169., (10.1109/ACSSC.2008.5074598)
Gomez, M. et al. 2008. An Ontology-Centric Approach to Sensor-Mission Assignment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5268, pp. 347-363. (10.1007/978-3-540-87696-0_30)
Preece, A. D. et al. 2008. Matching sensors to missions using a knowledge-based approach. Presented at: Defense transformation and net-centric systems 2008, Orlando, FL, USA, 18-20 March 2008 Presented at Suresh, R. ed.Defense Transformation and Net-Centric Systems 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA, 18–20 March 2008. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6981. Bellingham, WA: SPIE pp. 698109., (10.1117/12.782648)
Johnson, M. P., Rowaihy, H., Pizzocaro, D., Bar-Noy, A., Chalmers, S., Porta, T. and Preece, A. D. 2008. Frugal Sensor Assignment. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5067, pp. 219-236. (10.1007/978-3-540-69170-9_15)
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D., Gotts, N. and Polhill, G. 2008. Enhancing workflow with a semantic description of scientific intent. Presented at: 5th European Semantic Web Conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 1-5 June 2008 Presented at Bechhofer, S. et al. eds.The Semantic Web: research and applications: 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008: proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 5021. New York: Springer-Verlag pp. 644-658.
Preece, A. D., Jackson, M., Pearson, G. and Pham, T. 2008. Sensor-mission assignment: a scenario-driven walkthrough. Presented at: 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA) 2008, London, UK, 16-18 September 2008.
Pizzocaro, D., Johnson, M., Rowaihy, H., Chalmers, S., Preece, A. D., Bar-Noy, A. and La Porta, T. F. 2008. Maximizing utility of sensor-mission assignment with uncertain demands. Presented at: 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA) 2008, London, UK, 16-18 September 2008.
Smart, P. R. et al. 2008. Holistan revisited: demonstrating agent- and knowledge-based capabilities for future coalition military operations. Presented at: 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA) 2008, London, UK, 16-18 September 2008.
Pizzocaro, D., Chalmers, S. and Preece, A. D. 2008. Sensor assignment in virtual environments using constraint programming. Presented at: 27th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 10-12 December 2007 Presented at Ellis, R., Allen, T. and Petridis, M. eds.Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer pp. 333-338., (10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_27)
Masato, D., Chalmers, S. and Preece, A. D. 2008. Player collaboration in virtual environments using hierarchical task network planning. Presented at: AI-2007: 27th SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, December 2007, Cambridge, UK, 10-12 December 2007Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artifcial Intelligence. London: Springer pp. 203-216., (10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_15)

2007

Chorley, A., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D. and Farrington, J. 2007. Tools for tracing evidence in social science. Presented at: 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 7-9 October 2007.
Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2007. Subjective logic and arguing with evidence. Artificial Intelligence 171(10-15), pp. 838-854. (10.1016/j.artint.2007.04.006)
Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2007. Evidential reasoning in bipolar argumentation frameworks. Presented at: Fourth International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2007), Honolulu, HI, USA, 15 May 2007.
Preece, A. D., Chalmers, S. and McKenzie, C. 2007. A reusable commitment management service using Semantic Web technology. Knowledge-based systems 20(2), pp. 143-151. (10.1016/j.knosys.2006.11.011)
Polhill, J. G., Pignotti, E., Gotts, N. M., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. D. 2007. A semantic grid service for experimentation with an agent-based model of land-use change. JASSS - The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 10(2), article number: 2.
Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2007. Argumentation based contract monitoring in uncertain domains. Presented at: 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), Hyderabad, India, 6-12 January 2007Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07). Palo Alto, CA: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) pp. 1434-1439.
Missier, P., Embury, S. M., Greenwood, M., Preece, A. D. and Jin, B. 2007. Managing information quality in e-science: the qurator workbench. Presented at: ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, 11-14 June 2007SIGMOD '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data. New York: ACM pp. 1150-1152., (10.1145/1247480.1247638)
Preece, A. D., Gomez, M., de Mel, G., Vasconcelos, W., Sleeman, D., Colley, S. and La Porta, T. 2007. An ontology-based approach to sensor-mission assignment. Presented at: 1st Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA 2007), Maryland, USA, 25-27 September 2007.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D. and Polhill, G. 2007. Semantic workflow management for e-social science. Presented at: The 3rd International Conference on E-Social Science, Ann Arbor. MI, 7-9 October 2007.
Potter, S. et al. 2007. The application of advanced knowledge technologies for emergency response. Presented at: th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2007), Delft, The Netherlands, 13-16 May 2007 Presented at Van de Walle, B., Burghardt, P. and Nieuwenhuis, C. eds.Proceedings of the 4th International ISCRAM Conference. ISCRAM pp. 361-368.
Edwards, P., Chorley, A., Hielkema, F., Pignotti, E., Preece, A. D. and Mellish, C. 2007. Using the grid to support evidence-based policy assessment in social science. Presented at: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007, Nottingham, UK, 10-13 September 2007 Presented at Cox, S. J. ed.Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007. Scotland, UK: National e-Science centre pp. 345-352.
Allen, J., Mowshowitz, A., Norman, T., Parsons, S. and Preece, A. D. 2007. Managing collaboration in hybrid-agent teams. Presented at: 1st Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA 2007), Maryland, USA, 25-27 September 2007.
Sukthankar, G., Sycara, K. P., Giampapa, J. A., Burnett, C. and Preece, A. D. 2007. Towards a model of agent-assisted team search. Presented at: 1st Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA 2007), Maryland, USA, 25-27 September 2007.
McKenzie, C., Preece, A. D. and Gray, P. 2007. A Semantic Web Blackboard System. Presented at: AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 December 2006 Presented at Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Tuson, A. eds.Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII: Proceedings of AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer pp. 275-288., (10.1007/978-1-84628-663-6_20)
Oren, N., Preece, A. D. and Norman, T. J. 2007. Argument Based Contract Enforcement. Presented at: AI-2006: The Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, UK, 11-13 December 2006 Presented at Bramer, M., Coenen, F. and Tuson, A. eds.Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII: Proceedings of AI-2006, the Twenty-sixth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer pp. 145-158., (10.1007/978-1-84628-663-6_11)

2006

Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2006. Arguing with Confidential Information. Presented at: ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Riva del Garda, Italy, 29 August - 1 September 2006 Presented at Brewka, G. et al. eds.ECAI 2006: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2006): proceedings, Vol. 141. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Amsterdam: IOS Press pp. 280-284.
Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2006. A utility and information based heuristic for argumentation. Presented at: CMNA 06: 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28-29 August 2006.
Kollingbaum, M. J., Norman, T. J., Preece, A. D. and Sleeman, D. 2006. Norm refinement: Informing the re-negotiation of contracts. Presented at: Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems - COIN @ ECAI '06, Riva del Garda, Italy, 28 August 2006.
Preece, A. D., Jin, B., Missier, P., Embury, S., Stead, D. and Brown, A. 2006. Towards the Management of Information Quality in Proteomics. Presented at: 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems: CBMS 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 22-23 June 2006 Presented at Lee, D. J. et al. eds.19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems: CBMS 2006 - Proceedings. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE pp. 936-940., (10.1109/CBMS.2006.160)
McKenzie, C., Preece, A. and Gray, P. D. 2006. Implementing a Semantic Web Blackboard System using Jena. Presented at: JUC2006: the Jena User Conference, Bristol, UK, 10-11 May 2006.
Oren, N., Norman, T. J. and Preece, A. D. 2006. Loose Lips Sink Ships: a Heuristic for Argumentation. Presented at: Third International Workshop on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2006), Hakodate, Japan, 8 May 2006.
Nguyen, D. et al. 2006. Delivering services by building and running virtual organisations. BT Technology Journal 24(1), pp. 141-152. (10.1007/s10550-006-0029-6)
Stead, D., Preece, A. D. and Brown, A. J. P. 2006. Universal metrics for quality assessment of protein identifications by mass spectrometry. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 5(7), pp. 1205-1211. (10.1074/mcp.M500426-MCP200)
Preece, A. D., Jin, B., Pignotti, E., Missier, P., Embury, S., Stead, D. and Brown, A. 2006. Managing information quality in e-Science using Semantic Web technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4011, pp. 472-486. (10.1007/11762256_35)
McKenzie, C., Preece, A. D. and Gray, P. 2006. Semantic Web Reasoning Using a Blackboard System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4187, pp. 204-218. (10.1007/11853107_15)
Preece, A. D., Chalmers, S., McKenzie, C., Pan, J. Z. and Gray, P. 2006. Handling soft constraints in the Semantic Web architecture. Presented at: RoW2006 Reasoning on the Web. 15th International World Wide Web conference, Edinburgh, UK, 22 May 2006.
Oren, N., Preece, A. D. and Norman, T. J. 2006. A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4149, pp. 347-359. (10.1007/11839354_25)
Missier, P., Embury, S., Greenwood, M., Preece, A. D. and Jin, B. 2006. Quality views: capturing and exploiting the user perspective on data quality. Presented at: 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Seoul, Korea, 12-15 September 2006 Presented at Dayal, U. ed.VLDB '06: Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases. NewYork, NY: Association for Computing Machinery pp. 977-988.

2005

Polhill, G., Pignotto, E., Gotts, N., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. D. 2005. An ontology for experimentation with a social simulation of land use change. Presented at: ESSA 2005: The third annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association, Koblenz, Germany, 5-9 September 2005.
Edwards, P., Preece, A. D., Pignotti, E., Polhill, G. and Gotts, N. 2005. Lessons learned from deployment of a social simulation tool to the Semantic Grid. Presented at: First International Conference on eSocial Science, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2005.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D., Polhill, G. and Gotts, N. 2005. Providing ontology support for social simulation. Presented at: First International Conference on eSocial Science, Manchester, UK, 22-24 June 2005.
Preece, A. D. et al. 2005. Managing Virtual Organisations on the Grid using agent technology. AgentLink News 17, pp. 14-17.
Patel, J. et al. 2005. Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid. Presented at: AAMAS '05 - Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25-29 2005, Utrecht, Netherlands, 25-29 July 2005AAMAS '05 Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems. pp. 1151-1152., (10.1145/1082473.1082668)
Patel, J. et al. 2005. Monitoring, policing and trust for gridbBased virtual organisations. Presented at: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005, Nottingham, UK, 19-22 September 2005Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005. EPSRC pp. 891-898.
Missier, P., Preece, A. D., Embury, S., Jin, B., Greenwood, M., Stead, D. and Brown, A. 2005. Managing information quality in e-Science: A case study in Proteomics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3770, pp. 423-432. (10.1007/11568346_45)
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D., Polhill, G. and Gotts, N. 2005. Semantic support for computational land-use modelling. Presented at: International Conference on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Cardiff, UK, 9-12 May 2005Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2005. CCGrid 2005. IEEE International Symposium on, Vol. 2. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pp. 840-847., (10.1109/CCGRID.2005.1558649)
Chen-Burger, Y., Hui, K., Preece, A. D., Gray, P. M. D. and Tate, A. 2005. Workflow collaboration with constraint solving capabilities. Expert Update 8(1), pp. 48-60.
Patel, J. et al. 2005. Agent-based virtual organisations for the Grid. Multiagent and Grid Systems - Smart Grid Technologies & Market Models 1(4), pp. 237-249.
Oren, N., Preece, A. D. and Norman, T. 2005. Service level agreements for Semantic Web Agents. Presented at: AAAI Fall Symposium on Agents and the Semantic Web, Arlington, VA, USA, 3-6 November 2005. pp. 47-54.

2004

Oren, N., Norman, T., Preece, A. D. and Chalmers, S. 2004. Policing virtual organizations. Presented at: Second European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 16-17 December 2004.
Pignotti, E., Edwards, P., Preece, A. D., Gottsy, N. and Polhill, G. 2004. FEARLUS-G: A semantic grid service for land-use modelling. Presented at: ECAI 2004 Workshop on Semantic Intelligent Middleware for the Web and the Grid, Valencia, Spain, 23-27 August 2004.
Norman, T. J. et al. 2004. Agent-based formation of virtual organisations. Knowledge-based systems 17(2-4), pp. 103-111. (10.1016/j.knosys.2004.03.005)
Norman, T. J. et al. 2004. CONOISE: Agent-based formation of virtual organisations. Presented at: 23rd SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of AI (AI-2003), Cambridge, UK, 15-17 December 2003 Presented at Coenen, F., Preece, A. D. and Macintosh, A. eds.Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XX : Proceedings of AI2003, the Twenty-Third SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence /. BCS Conference Series London: Springer pp. 353-366.
Shao, J. et al. 2004. Supporting formation and operation of virtual organisations in a grid environment. Presented at: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004 (AHM2004), Nottingham, UK, 31 August – 3 September 2004 Presented at Cox, S. J. ed.Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2004. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) pp. 376-383.
Grimnes, G. A., Edwards, P. and Preece, A. D. 2004. Learning meta-descriptions of the FOAF network. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3298, pp. 152-165. (10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_12)
McKenzie, C., Gray, P. and Preece, A. D. 2004. Extending SWRL to express fully-quantified constraints. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3323, pp. 139-154. (10.1007/978-3-540-30504-0_11)
Chen-Burger, Y., Hui, K., Preece, A. D., Gray, P. M. D. and Tate, A. 2004. Supporting collaboration through semantic-based workflow and constraint solving. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3257, pp. 487-488. (10.1007/978-3-540-30202-5_40)
Grimnes, G. A., Preece, A. D. and Edwards, P. 2004. Learning from semantic flora & fauna. Presented at: AAAI-04 Semantic Web Personalisation Workshop, San Jose, CA, 25–26 July 2004.
Chalmers, S., Preece, A. D., Norman, T. J. and Gray, P. M. D. 2004. Commitment management through constraint reification. Presented at: Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems ( AAMAS 2004 ), New York City, NY, USA, 19-23 July 2004 Presented at Jennings, N. R. et al. eds.Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems : AAMAS 2004 : New York City, New York, USA : July 19-23, 2004. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society pp. 430-437.

2001

Preece, A. D., Hui, K., Gray, W. A., Marti, P., Bench-Capon, T., Cui, Z. and Jones, D. 2001. KRAFT: an agent architecture for knowledge fusion. International journal of cooperative information systems 10(1 - 2), pp. 171-195. (10.1142/S0218843001000308)
Preece, A. D., Hui, K., Gray, W. A. and Marti, P. 2001. Designing for scalability in a knowledge fusion system. Knowledge-based Systems 14(3-4), pp. 173-179. (10.1016/S0950-7051(01)00112-5)

2000

Preece, A. D., Hui, K., Gray, W. A., Marti, P., Bench-Capon, T., Jones, D. and Cui, Z. 2000. The KRAFT architecture for knowledge fusion and transformation. Knowledge-Based Systems 13(2-3), pp. 113-120. (10.1016/S0950-7051(00)00052-6)

I obtained my BSc and PhD in computer science from Swansea, after which I spent five post-doctoral years in Canada (at Concordia University, Montréal) and France (at the University of Savoie, Chambéry). Returning to the UK in 1994, I spent 13 years at the University of Aberdeen in Computing Science. In December 2007 I joined Cardiff University as Professor of Intelligent Systems and Director of Research in the School of Computer Science and Informatics.

My research focuses on techniques for information provisioning and decision-support in complex environments centred on human-computer collaboration and human-machine teams.

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