Gary B. Wills
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» 2008 «
Longpradit, Panchit, Hall, Wendy, Walters, Robert J., Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin and Wills, Gary B. (2008): An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 14 (1) pp. 33-55
“The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open Hypermedia addresses this by instead storing them in separate link databases. Meanwhile, the Adaptive Hypermedia approach seeks to enhance a user's experience by inserting personalised additional content and links on the web page. However, these techniques do not offer the user any control over the adaptation. In this paper, we propose the concept of a multi-dimensional linkbase for adaptive links presentation. Links are created and stored in a single, multi-dimensional, linkbase that provides presentation links based on the user's preferences and profile. We present a web-based system Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System that implements this multi-dimensional concept for controlling its personalisation of hyperlinks. We give the results of our evaluation, which confirm that user-controlled adaptation is a satisfactory approach to providing users with control over personalisation, and can alleviate the link overload problem.”
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» 2007 «
Wong, Sylvia C., Crowder, Richard M., Wills, Gary B. and Shadbolt, Nigel (2007): Lesson learnt from a large-scale industrial semantic web application. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2007. pp. 21-30. Available online
“The design and maintenance of an aero-engine generates a significant amount of documentation. When designing new engines, engineers must obtain knowledge gained from maintenance of existing engines to identify possible areas of concern. We developed a Semantic Web based document repository for transferring front-line maintenance knowledge to design. The Semantic Web is an ideal candidate for this application because of the size and distributed nature of an aerospace manufacturer's operation. The Semantic Web allows us to dynamically cross reference documents with the use of an ontology. However, during the design and implementation of this project, we found deficiencies in the W3C recommended Semantic Web query language SPARQL. It is difficult to answer questions our users sought from the document repository using SPARQL. The problem is that SPARQL is designed for handling textual queries. In industrial applications, many common textual and semantic questions also contain a numerical element, be it data summarization or arithmetic operations. In this paper, we generalize the problems we found with SPARQL, and extend it to cover web applications in non-aerospace domains. Based on this analysis, we recommend that SQL-styled grouping, aggregation and variable operations be added to SPARQL, as they are necessary for industrial applications of the Semantic Web. At the moment, to answer the non-textual questions we identified with an RDF store, custom written software is needed to process the results returned by SPARQL. We incorporated the suggested numerical functionalities from SQL for an example query, and achieved a 21.7% improvement to the speed of execution. More importantly, we eliminate the need of extra processing in software, and thus make it easier and quicker to develop Semantic Web applications.”
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Wills, Gary B., Abbas, Noura, Chandrasekharan, Rakhi, Crowder, Richard M., Gilbert, Lester, Howard, Yvonne M., Millard, David E., Wong, Sylvia C. and Walters, Robert J. (2007): An agile hypertext design methodology. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia 2007. pp. 181-184. Available online
“Customers are driving down lead times for software, especially for Web applications, to only a few months. While a number of hypertext design models exist, they do not address the issue of the requirements and analysis process that normally feeds the design process. In this paper we present an agile approach to developing hypertext applications, which focuses on the requirements and analysis stages, something that is largely ignored in current methodologies.”
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Millard, David E., Fill, Karen, Gilbert, Lester, Howard, Yvonne Margaret, Sinclair, Patrick A. S., Senbanjo, Damilola O. and Wills, Gary B. (2007): Towards a Canonical View of Peer Assessment. In: Spector, J. Michael, Sampson, Demetrios G., Okamoto, Toshio, Cerri, Stefano A., Ueno, Maomi and Kashihara, Akihiro (eds.) ICALT 2007 - Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies July 18-20, 2007, Niigata, Japan. pp. 793-797. Available online
» 2006 «
Wong, Sylvia C., Crowder, Richard M. and Wills, Gary B. (2006): On a service-oriented approach for an engineering knowledge desktop. In: Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on the World Wide Web 2006. pp. 977-978. Available online
“Increasingly, manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to providing services. As a result, when designing new products, engineers must increasingly consider the life cycle costs in addition to any design requirements. To identify possible areas of concern, designers are required to consult existing maintenance information from identical products. However, in a large engineering company, the amount of information available is significant and in wide range of formats. This paper presents a prototype knowledge desktop suitable for the design engineer. The Engineering Knowledge Desktop analyses and suggests relevant information from ontologically marked-up heterogeneous web resources. It is designed using a Service-Oriented Architecture, with an ontology to mediate between Web Services. It has been delivered to the user community for evaluation.”
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» 2005 «
Maneewatthana, Thanyalak, Wills, Gary B. and Hall, Wendy (2005): Adaptive personal information environment based on the semantic web. In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext 2005. pp. 214-216. Available online
“In order to support knowledge workers throughout their task of searching, locating and manipulating information, a system that provides information suitable for a particular user's needs, and that is able to facilitate the sharing and reuse of knowledge is essential. This paper presents Adaptive Personal Information Environment (a-PIE); a service-oriented framework using Open Hypermedia and Semantic Web technologies to provide an adaptive Web-based system. a-PIE models the information structures (data and links), context and behaviour as Fundamental Open Hypermedia Model (FOHM) structures which are manipulated by using the Auld Linky contextual link service. a-PIE provides an information environment that enables users to search an information space based on ontologically defined domain concepts. The users can add and manipulate (delete, comment, etc.) information of interests or part of an information structure in their information space, leaving the original published data or information structures unchanged. The a-PIE environment facilitates the shareability and reusability of knowledge according to users' requirements.”
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Wills, Gary B., Gilbert, Lester, Gee, Quintin, Davis, Hugh C., Miles-Board, Timothy, Millard, David E., Carr, Les, Hall, Wendy and Grange, Simon (2005): Towards Grid Services for a Virtual Research Environment. In: ICALT 2005 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 05-08 July, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. pp. 863-867. Available online
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