DR. john breslin (MIEI, MIET, MIEEE)

Lecturer

Contact Information

Phone: 353 91 492622 (Ext: 2622)
Fax: 353 91 494511
Location: Hygeia Building, Nuns Island 
Email:   john.breslinnuigalway.ie 
Webpages: http://www.johnbreslin.org/

Research Interests

Social Semantic Web and integrating the Web with electronic devices / sensor systems.

Biography

John Breslin received the BE degree with 1st class honours and the PhD degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1994 and 2002 respectively. He is currently a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering in NUI Galway. He is also an associate researcher and leader of the Social Software Unit at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway, researching semantically-enabled social networks and community portals. He is the founder of the SIOC project. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at DERI from 2004 to 2008, a lecturer at the University from 2000 to 2004, and was a research officer and postgraduate student at the Power Electronics Research Centre in NUI Galway before that. He also worked as a visiting scholar at Virginia Tech in 1996. Dr. Breslin received an award for co-authoring the best paper in the IEEE PELS Transactions in 2000. He has received a number of awards for website design, including a Golden Spider for the Irish community website boards.ie, which he co-founded in 2000. The Irish Internet Association presented him with Net Visionary awards in 2005 and 2006. He also supervised the undergraduate runner-up project in the Institution of Engineers of Ireland Siemens Young Engineer of the Year awards in 2003. Dr. Breslin is a member of Engineers Ireland, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Selected Publications

Journal

E. Lawlor, J.G. Breslin, L. Renwick, S. Foley, U. Mulkerrin, A. Kinsella, N. Turner, E. O’Callaghan, " Mental Health Literacy Among Internet Users", Early Intervention in Psychiatry, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 247-255, October 2008.

U. Bojars, J.G. Breslin, A. Finn, S. Decker, " Using the Semantic Web for Linking and Reusing Data Across Web 2.0 Communities", Special Issue on the Semantic Web and Web 2.0, Journal of Web Semantics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 21-28, February 2008.

J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, A. Harth, U. Bojars, " SIOC: An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities", The International Journal of Web-Based Communities, vol. 2, no. 2., pp. 133-142, June 2006.

U. Bojars, J.G. Breslin, A. Harth, S. Decker, " Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities", The UPGRADE European Journal for the Informatics Professional, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 35-40, December 2005.

M. Neumann, I. O'Murchu, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, D. Hogan, C. MacDonaill, " Semantic Social Network Portal for Enterprise Online Communities", Journal of European Industrial Training (Special Edition), vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 472-487, September 2005.

J.G. Breslin, W.G. Hurley, " Critical Choices in a System for Optimised Design of Arbitrary Waveform Transformers", Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 919-928, August 2004.

W.G. Hurley, E. Gath, J.G. Breslin, " Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 369-376, March 2000 (Prize Paper Award).

W.G. Hurley, W. Wölfle, J.G. Breslin, " Optimized Transformer Design: Inclusive of High Frequency Effects", IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 651-659, July 1998.

Book chapter

J.G. Breslin, "Social Semantic Information Spaces", Semantic Digital Libraries (S.R. Kruk, B. McDaniel, eds.), Springer, ISBN 3540854339, pp. 55-70, October 2008.

S. Kinsella, A. Harth, A. Troussov, M. Sogrin, J. Judge, C. Hayes, J.G. Breslin, "Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects", Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis (T. Friemel, ed.), VS Verlag, ISBN 3531163280, pp. 79-96, September 2008.

H.C. Choi, S.R. Kruk, S. Grzonkowski, K. Stankiewicz, B. Davis, J.G. Breslin, "Trust Models for Community Aware Identity Management", Trust Management in Virtual Environment (R.K. Jain B, ed.), Icfai Books, ISBN 8131412541, 2008.

I. O'Murchu, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, "Online Social and Business Networking Communities", Viral Marketing: Concepts and Cases (N. Taher, S. Gopalan, eds.), Icfai Books, ISBN 8131407667, June 2007.

I. O'Murchu, A.V. Zhdanova, J.G. Breslin, "Semantic Community Portals", The Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications (A. Tatnall, ed.), Idea Group Publishing, April 2007.

Conference

T. Groza, S. Handschuh, J.G. Breslin, "Adding Provenance and Evolution Information to Modularized Argumentation Models", Accepted for the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '08), Sydney, Australia, December 2008.

S. Choudhury, J.G. Breslin, "Using a Lightweight Multimedia Content Model for Semantic Annotation", Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT&T 2008), Galway, Ireland, October 2008.

S. Kinsella, J.G. Breslin, A. Passant, S. Decker, "Applications of Semantic Web Methodologies and Techniques to Social Networks and Social Websites", Proceedings of the Reasoning Web Summer School 2008 (RWSS 2008), LNCS vol. 5224, pp. 171–199, September 2008.

H.L. Kim, S. Scerri, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, H.G. Kim, "The State of the Art in Tag Ontologies: A Semantic Model for Tagging and Folksonomies", The 8th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, Berlin, Germany, September 2008.

H.L. Kim, A. Passant, J.G. Breslin, S. Scerri, S. Decker, "Review and Alignment of Tag Ontologies for Semantically-Linked Data in Collaborative Tagging Spaces", The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Santa Clara, USA, August 2008.

S. Kinsella, U. Bojars, A. Harth, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, "An Interactive Map of Semantic Web Ontology Usage", The International Symposium of Visualisation of the Semantic Web at the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, United Kingdom, pp. 179-184, July 2008.

U. Bojars, J.G. Breslin, A. Passant, "Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF", The European Web Technologies Conference (XTech 2008), Dublin, Ireland, May 2008.

H.L. Kim, J.G. Breslin, S.K. Yang, H.G. Kim, "int.ere.st: Building a Tag Sharing Service with the SCOT Ontology", The AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, Stanford University, California, March 2008.

H.L. Kim, J.G. Breslin, S.K. Yang, H.G. Kim, "Social Semantic Cloud of Tags: A Semantic Model for Social Tagging", The 2nd KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications, LNAI vol. 4953, pp. 83-92, Korea, March 2008.

H.L. Kim, S.K. Yang, J.G. Breslin, H.G. Kim, "Simple Algorithms for the SCOT Exporters Using Tag Frequency and Cooccurrence", The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Silicon Valley, USA, November 2007.

S. Kinsella, A. Harth, A. Troussov, M. Sogrin, J. Judge, C. Hayes, J.G. Breslin, "Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects", The 4th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007), University of Zurich, Switzerland, September 2007.

S. Kinsella, A. Harth, J.G. Breslin, "Network Analysis of Semantic Connections in Heterogeneous Social Spaces", The UK Social Network Conference, University of London, United Kingdom, July 2007.

B. Aleman-Meza, U. Bojars, H. Boley, J.G. Breslin, M. Mochol, L.J.B. Nixon, A. Polleres, A.V. Zhdanova, "Combining RDF Vocabularies for Expert Finding", Proceedings of the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '07), Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007.

J.G. Breslin, R. Kass, U. Bojars, "The Boardscape: Creating a Super Social Network of Message Boards", Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Boulder, Colorado, March 2007.

J.G. Breslin, S. Grzonkowski, A. Gzella, S.R. Kruk, T. Woroniecki, "Sharing Information Across Community Portals with FOAFRealm", Proceedings of the 4th IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities (WBC 2007), Salamanca, Spain, February 2007.

E. Oren, M. Völkel, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, "Semantic Wikis for Personal Knowledge Management", Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006), Krakow, Poland, September 2006.
 
K. Möller, U. Bojars, J.G. Breslin, "Using Semantics to Enhance the Blogging Experience", Proceedings of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '06), LNCS vol. 4011, pp. 679-696, Budva, Montenegro, June 2006.

E. Oren, S. Decker, J.G. Breslin, "How Semantics Make Better Wikis", Poster at the 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006.

A. Hogan, A. Harth, J.G. Breslin, "Podcast Pinpointer: A Multimedia Semantic Web Application", The 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT 2005), London, United Kingdom, November 2005.

B. Sapkota, L. Ludwig, X. Zhou, J.G. Breslin, "SiFo-Peers: A Social FOAF Based Peer-to-Peer Network", Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Information Management Association Conference (IIMA 2005), Dublin, Ireland, September 2005.

K. Möller, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, "semiBlog - Semantic Publishing of Desktop Data", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2005), Karlstad, Sweden, August 2005.

A. Harth, H. Gassert, I. O'Murchu, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, "WikiOnt: An Ontology for Describing and Exchanging Wiki Articles", Proceedings of the 1st International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania 2005), Frankfurt, Germany, August 2005.

J.G. Breslin, A. Harth, U. Bojars, S. Decker, "Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities", Proceedings of the 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '05), LNCS vol. 3532, pp. 500-514, Heraklion, Greece, May 2005.

J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, A. Harth, "An Approach to Connect Web-Based Communities", Proceedings of the 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities (WBC 2005), pp. 272-275, Carvoeiro, Portugal, February 2005.

I. O'Murchu, J.G. Breslin, S. Decker, M. Neumann, "Sneachta and the PUII: The Semantic Social Network Portal", Poster at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004), Hiroshima, Japan, November 2004.

S. Coughlan, J.G. Breslin, "The Application of Modern PDA Technology for Effective Handheld Solutions in the Retail Industry", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT '03), Maribor, Slovenia, pp. 411-415, December 2003.

J.G. Breslin, W.G. Hurley, "A Web-Based System for Transformer Design", 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2003), LNCS vol. 2773, pp. 715-721, University of Oxford, September 2003.

W.G. Hurley, E. Gath, J.G. Breslin, "Optimizing the AC Resistance of Multilayer Transformer Windings with Arbitrary Current Waveforms", Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC '99), Charleston, South Carolina, June 1999.

J.G. Breslin, W.G. Hurley, "Derivation of Optimum Winding Thickness for Duty Cycle Modulated Current Waveshapes", Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC '97), St. Louis, Missouri, pp. 655-661, June 1997.

J.G. Breslin, W.G. Hurley, "A Novel Optimisation Scheme for Designing High Frequency Transformer Windings", Proceedings of the 31st Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1996), Crete, vol. 1, pp. 465-468, September 1996.

J.G. Breslin, W.G. Hurley, "Design of Magnetic Components Using a Graphical Interface: Inclusive of High Frequency Effects", Proceedings of the 30th Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1995), University of Greenwich, vol. 1, pp. 347-350, September 1995.

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