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Kerry Taylor

Dr Kerry Taylor

Principal Research Scientist
e-Service Integration
Information Engineering
CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra

Visiting Fellow,
Department of Computer Science,
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology,
Australian National University

Contact Details

CSIRO ICT Centre,
Building 108, North Road, Australian National University,
Acton ACT Australia
Mail: GPO Box 664 Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
E-mail: Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au
Telephone: +61 2 6216 7038
Fax: +61 2 6216 7111

Professional Interests

Semantic Web and  Web Services
Sensor Networks and e-Research
Bioinformatics and Biodiversity Informatics
Spatial Information Systems
Description Logic and Logic Programming
Machine Learning and Inductive Logic Programming

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery

Professional Qualifications

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) Honours University of NSW 1984
Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science and I.T.) Australian National University 1996

Publications

Laurent Lefort, Kerry Taylor and David Ratcliffe (to appear 2008), An Empirical Comparison of Scalable Part-Whole Ontology Engineering Patterns. Expert Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue on Advances in Ontologies. Blackwells.

Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Zakaria Maamar, and Paul Brebner, (to appear 2008).  Research in RFID Data: Issues, Solutions, and Directions. In Yan Lu , Yan Zhang, Laurence T. Yang and Huansheng Ning,  The Internet of Things: from RFID to Pervasive Networked Systems. Taylor & Francis.

Kerry Taylor, Paul Brebner, Michael Kearney, Dana Zhang, Kelly Lam and Vladimir Tosic (2007). Towards Declarative Monitoring of Declarative Service Compositions, in 2nd International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2007) in conjunction with The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pages 315-322,  Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. IEEE. http://www.ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4400942/4400943/04401011.pdf?tp=&arnumber=4401011&isnumber=4400943

Kerry Taylor and Arun Ayyagari (2006), Research topics in semantic sensor networks: Preface to the proceedings of the semantic sensor networks workshop. In 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006): Supplemental Proceedings, Athens, Georgia, USA, November 2006. Springer.  http://www.ict.csiro.au/ssn06/

Kerry Taylor, Christine M. O'Keefe, John Colton, Rohan Baxter, Ross Sparks, Mark Cameron, Laurent Lefort, and Uma Srinivasan (2006). A data network for health e-research. In Proceedings of the European Conference on eHealth (ECEH06), volume 91 of Lecture Notes in Informatics, Proceedings, pages 215-226, Fribourg, Switzerland, October 12–-13 2006. Gesellschaft fu Informatik (GI). http://www.ioport.net/ioport2004/localSeries.do?type=lniproceedings/&volume=91

Kerry Taylor, Tim Austin, and Mark Cameron (2006). A web service architecture for revenue-earning information products. International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce, 2:76-93, 2006. http://www.igi-pub.com/articles/details.asp?id=6256

Laurent Lefort, Kerry Taylor  and David Ratcliffe (2006). Towards scalable ontology engineering patterns: Lessons learned from an experiment based on W3C's part-whole guidelines. In Advances in Ontologies 2006, Proceedings of the Second Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), volume 72 of Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, pages 31-40, Hobart, Australia, 5 December 2006. Australian Computer Society. http://crpit.com/Vol72.html

Kerry Taylor (2006). The semantics of water. In A. Orgun Mehmet and Meyer Thomas, editors, Advances in Ontologies 2005, Proceedings of the Second Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 2006), volume 72 of Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology, page 3, Hobart, Australia, 5 December 2006. ACS.  http://crpit.com/Vol72.html

Ian Naumann, Emma Lumb, Kerry Taylor, Robert Power, David Ratcliffe, and Michael Kearney (2006). The Australian Plant Pest Database: a national resource for an expert community. In Andrew Treloar, editor, Proceedings of The Twelfth Australasian World Wide Web Conference, (AusWeb06), Noosa, Australia, 30th June to 4th July 2006.  http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw06/index.html

Lefort, L. and Taylor, K., (2005),  Large scale colour ontology generation with XO, in Advances in Ontologies 2005, Proceedings of the Australasian Ontology Workshop (AOW 05), 6 December 2005, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology volume 58, Australian Computer Society. pp 47-52.  http://crpit.com/Vol58.html

Ackland, R.,  Taylor, K., Lefort, L., Cameron, M. and Rahman, J., (2005) Semantic Service Integration for Water Resource Management, in Gil, Motta, Benjamins and Musen (eds), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2005: 4th International Semantic Web Conference, Galway, Ireland, November 6-10, 2005. Proceedings.  Springer LNCS Volume 3729 / 2005.  pp. 816 - 828. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11574620_58

Cameron, M. and Taylor, K. (2005), First­-order patterns for information integration,  in Lowe and Gaedke (eds), Proceedings International Conference on Web Engineering ICWE2005,  Springer LNCS 3579, Sydney, Australia July 27-29, 2005. pp 173--184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11531371_25

Taylor, K., Austin, T. and Cameron, M. (2005), Charging for information services in service-oriented architectures, Proceedings, International Workshop on Business Services Networks (BSN 2005), Workshop of IEEE International Conference on e­Technology,e­Commerce and e­Service, Kong Kong, pp. 112--119. Awarded Best Paper. ACM Portal.

Pang, C., Taylor, K., Zhang, X. and Cameron, M. (2004), Generating multidimensional schemata from relational aggregation queries, in Zhou, Su, Papazoglou, Orlowska and Jeffery (eds), The Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE04, November 22--24, 2004, Brisbane, Australia, Springer, LNCS 3306, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 584--589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b103344

Cameron, M., Taylor, K. and Baxter, R. (2004), Web service composition and record linking, VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, IIWeb 2004, Toronto, Canada. http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiwebfinalproceedings/31.pdf

Taylor, K. and Gretton, C. (2004), Ants caught in the semantic web: a study in the application of description logic to animal systematics, 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management SSDBMS04 21--23 June 2004. Proceedings., IEEE, Santorini Island, Greece, pp. 441-442. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ssdbm/2004/2146/00/2146toc.htm

Taylor, K., O'Keefe, C., Colton, J., Baxter, R., Sparks, R., Srinivasan, U., Cameron, M. and Lefort, L. (2004), A service oriented architecture for a health research data network, 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management SSDBMS04. Proceedings, IEEE, Santorini Island, Greece, pp. 443--444. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ssdbm/2004/2146/00/2146toc.htm

Taylor, K. and Murty, J. (2003), Implementing role based access control for federated information systems on the web, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology: Proc. Australasian Information Security Workshop, Adelaide, Australia, Vol. 21. http://crpit.com/Vol21.html

Cameron, M., Croke, B., Taylor, K., Walker, G. and Watson, B. (2002), Regional integrated management information system, Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Integrated Assessment and Decision Support, Lugano, Switzerland, pp. 198--203. http://www.iemss.org/iemss2002/proceedings/pdf/volume%20uno/304_cameron.pdf

Willmore, A., Churches, T., Murty, J. and Taylor, K. (2002), Accessing distributed geographically­referenced population health information via the web, GeoHealth2002: Supporting decision making in health, Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/SIRC05/conferences/2002_GeoHealth/29_willmore.pdf

Cameron, M., Taylor, K. and Abel, D. (2001), The internet marketplace template: An architecture for inter­enterprise information systems, in C. Batini, F. Giunchiglia, P. Giorgini and M. Mecella (eds), Cooperative Information Systems, 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy, Proceedings, number 2172 in LNCS, Springer, Berlin, Germany, pp. 329--343. http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2172/21720329.htm

Leow, R. and Taylor, K. (2000), Efficient web access to distributed biological collections using a taxonomy browser, in O. Gunther and H.­J. Lenz (eds), 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, IEEE Computer Society, Berlin, Germany, pp. 25--38. ACM Portal.

Taylor, K. (1999). Generalization by Absorption of Definite Clauses. Journal of Logic Programming. 40(2-3):127-157. August 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0743-1066(99)00016-3

Newton, P. W., Taylor, K. L., Trinidad, G. S., Ackland, R.G., and Abel, D. J. (1999). GIS networks and the marketplace. Guest editorial, Transactions in GIS, 3(2):91-95. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-9671.00009

Abel, D. J., Taylor, K. L., Walker, G. C., and Williams, G. (1999). The design of decision support systems as federated information systems. In Kersten, G., Mikolajuk, Z.  and Yeh, A. (eds), Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development: A Resource Book of Methods and Applications. IDRC Books

Taylor, K., Walker, G., and Abel, D. (1999). A Framework for Model Integration in Spatial Decision Support Systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 13(6):533-555. 1999. Taylor & Francis.

Abel, D. J., Gaede, V. J., Taylor, K. L., and Zhou, X. (1999). SMART: Towards spatial Internet marketplaces. Geoinformatica, 3(2):141-163. June 1999. ACM Portal.

Taylor, K., Cameron, M., and Haines, J. (1998). An integrated information system on the Web for catchment management. In R. Laurini, K Makki, N. Pissinou (eds), ACM-GIS 98:  Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. Washington DC, USA, November 1998. pp 8-13. ACM Press. ACM Portal.

Abel, D. J., Taylor, K., Ackland, R., and Hungerford, S. (1998). An exploration of GIS architectures for Internet environments. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 22(1):7-23.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0198-9715(98)00016-7

Kuo, D., Gaede, V., and Taylor, K. (1998). Using constraints to manage long duration transactions in spatial information systems. In Halper, M. (ed) Proceedings of the 3rd IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS '98). New York, USA. pp. 384-395. IEEE Computer Society. IEEE Xplore.

Taylor, K., Ackland, R., Walker, G., and Jackson, D. (1997). WWW delivery of spatio-temporal modelling results for catchment management: A case study.  In A. D. McDonald and M. McAleer (eds), Proceedings of MODSIM 97, International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Physical, Biological and Socio-Economic Systems. The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia. Hobart. pp. 1574-1579.

Abel, D., Taylor, K., and Kuo, D. (1997). Integrating modelling systems for environmental management information systems. ACM SIGMOD Record, 26(1):5-10. ACM Portal

Gaede, V., Taylor, K. L. and Zhou, X.: 1997, A request specification language for spatial internet marketplaces, International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, NCGIA, NSF and OpenGIS.

Taylor, K. (1996). Autonomous Learning by Incremental Induction and Revision. PhD thesis, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.  

Taylor, K. (1993). Inverse resolution of normal clauses. In Muggleton, S., editor, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming ILP-93, Slovenia. Josef Stefan Institute. gzip,ps

Useful Links

Scientific Community

Programme Committee member for

Reviewer for conferences and workshops

  • Australian Database Conference (many)
  • ICWS 2009
  • Infoscale 2006
  • Web Information Systems Engineering 2004
  • VLDB workshop on Technologies for E-Services 2003
  • Web-Age Information Management 2003
  • Spatio-Temporal Data Models Workshop 1999
  • IEEE ICIPS 1998

 Reviewer for Journals

  • Expert Systems
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence
  • Transactions on Services Computing
  • Database Management
  • Software and Systems
  • Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews
  • Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Information Technology & Decision Making
  • Environmental  Modelling and Software
  • Geographical Information Science
  • Business Process Integration and Management
  • Cooperative Information Systems

Organising Committee for

  • Australasian Computer Science Week 2000

 

 

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