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== Professional Activities ==
 
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<strong>Workshop Chair</strong>
 
<strong>Workshop Chair</strong>
* Co-chair for the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (2012): [http://knoesis.org/ssn2012/ SSN 2012]
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* Co-chair of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (2012): [http://knoesis.org/ssn2012/ SSN 2012]
 
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<strong>Standards Committee Member</strong>
 
<strong>Standards Committee Member</strong>
* Editor for the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group (SSN XG): [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn/ Final Report, 2011]
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* Editor of the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group (SSN XG): [http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/ssn/XGR-ssn/ Final Report, 2011]
 
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* Keynote Plenary Talk at the IERC AC4 Semantic Interoperability Workshop (2012): [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1721 W3C Semantic Sensor Networks: Ontologies, Applications, and Future Directions]
 
* Keynote Plenary Talk at the IERC AC4 Semantic Interoperability Workshop (2012): [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1721 W3C Semantic Sensor Networks: Ontologies, Applications, and Future Directions]
 
* Dagstuhl Seminar (2012), [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12221 Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web]: Semantics of Machine Perception ([http://www.dagstuhl.de/mat/Files/12/12221/12221.HensonCory.ExtAbstract.pdf abstract], [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1722 presentation])
 
* Dagstuhl Seminar (2012), [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12221 Cognitive Approaches for the Semantic Web]: Semantics of Machine Perception ([http://www.dagstuhl.de/mat/Files/12/12221/12221.HensonCory.ExtAbstract.pdf abstract], [http://www.knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1722 presentation])
* Dagstuhl Seminar (2010), [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=10042 Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks (2010)]: Can Sensors Play 20 Questions?
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* Dagstuhl Seminar (2010), [http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=10042 Semantic Challenges in Sensor Networks]: Can Sensors Play 20 Questions?
 
* Semantic Technology Conference (2011): [http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1548 Active Perception Over Machine and Citizen Sensing]
 
* Semantic Technology Conference (2011): [http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=1548 Active Perception Over Machine and Citizen Sensing]
 
* Semantic Technology Conference (2008): [http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=00302 Semantic Sensor Web]
 
* Semantic Technology Conference (2008): [http://knoesis.org/library/resource.php?id=00302 Semantic Sensor Web]

Revision as of 14:29, 23 November 2012

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Researcher - Kno.e.sis - Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing
Ph.D. Candidate - Wright State University, Advisor - Dr. Amit Sheth

Look at the image to the right. How quickly were you able to realize the identity of the depicted object? The activity you just engaged in is called perception; and while people are able to perceive their environment almost instantaneously, and seemingly without effort, machines continue to struggle with the task. Currently, I am investigating how people are able to perceive the world so effectively; and developing an approximation of this process that can be formalized to better enable machines to perceive. This formalization has resulted in an ontology of perception, which is now being used in several distinct projects, including a weather alert service, fire detecting robots, and health-care monitoring (cardiology).

While completing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, I also act as project lead for the Semantic Sensor Web and editor for the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group.

Research Projects

Semantic approach to Machine Perception

Currently, there are many sensors collecting information about our environment, leading to an overwhelming number of observations that must be analyzed and explained in order to achieve situation awareness. As perceptual beings, we are also constantly inundated with sensory data; yet we are able to make sense out of our environment with relative ease. This is due, in part, to the bi-directional information flow between our sensory organs and analytical brain. Drawing inspiration from cognitive models of perception, we can improve machine perception by allowing communication from processes that analyze observations to processes that generate observations. Such a perceptual system provides effective utilization of resources by decreasing the cost and number of observations needed for achieving situation awareness. Ideas such as this can be formally specified in an ontology of perception to better enable machines to perceive.

Selected Publications




Semantic Sensor Web

Millions of sensors around the globe currently collect avalanches of data about our environment. The rapid development and deployment of sensor technology involves many different types of sensors, both remote and in situ, with such diverse capabilities as range, modality, and maneuverability. It is possible today to utilize networks with multiple sensors to detect and identify objects of interest up close or from a great distance. The lack of integration and communication between these networks, however, often leaves this avalanche of data stovepiped and intensifies the existing problem of too much data and not enough knowledge. With a view to alleviating this glut, we propose that sensor data be annotated with semantic metadata to provide contextual information essential for situational awareness. In particular, we present an approach to annotating sensor data with spatial, temporal, and thematic semantic metadata. This technique builds on current standardization efforts within the W3C and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and extends them with semantic Web technologies to provide enhanced descriptions and access to sensor data. [Semantic Sensor Web]

Selected Publications


Publications

Citation Info: Google Scholar Index


2012

An Efficient Bit Vector Approach to Semantics-based Machine Perception in Resource-Constrained Devices (presentation)

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth
  • 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)

Data Driven Knowledge Acquisition Method for Domain Knowledge Enrichment in Healthcare

  • Sujan Perera, Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Suhas Nair
  • International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012)

Semantics for the Internet of Things: Early Progress and Back to the Future

  • Payam Barnaghi, Wei Wang, Cory Henson, and Kerry Taylor
  • International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS): special issue on Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, and Smart Devices, 2012

Computing Perception from Sensor Data

  • Payam Barnaghi, Frieder Ganz, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • IEEE Sensors Conference, 2012

Semantic Perception: Converting Sensory Observations to Abstractions

  • Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing, March/April 2012

The SSN Ontology of the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group

  • Michael Compton, Payam Barnaghi, Luis Bermudez, Raul Garcia-Castro, Oscar Corcho, Simon Cox, John Graybeal, Manfred Hauswirth, Cory Henson, Arthur Herzog, Vincent Huang, Krzysztof Janowicz, W. David Kelsey, Danh Le Phuoc, Laurent Lefort, Myriam Leggieri, Holger Neuhaus, Andriy Nikolov, Kevin Page, Alexandre Passant, Amit Sheth, Kerry Taylor
  • Journal of Web Semantics, 2012


2011

An Ontological Approach to Focusing Attention and Enhancing Machine Perception on the Web

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth
  • Applied Ontology, 2011.

Demonstration: SECURE: Semantics Empowered resCUe Environment

  • Pratikkumar Desai, Cory Henson, Pramod Anantharam, Amit Sheth
  • 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2011)

Demonstration: Real-Time Semantic Analysis of Sensor Streams

  • Harshal Patni, Cory Henson, Michael Cooney, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • 4th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2011)

Semantic Sensor Network XG Final Report

  • Laurent Lefort, Cory Henson, Kerry Taylor (editors)
  • W3C Incubator Group Report

Representation of Parsimonious Covering Theory in OWL-DL

  • Cory Henson, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Pascal Hitzler
  • 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2011)

From Real Time Sensor Streams to Real Time Feature Streams

  • Harshal Patni, Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, and Pramod Anantharam
  • Kno.e.sis Technical Report, 2011.


2010

Trust Model for Semantic Sensor and Social Networks: A Preliminary Report

  • Pramod Anantharam,Cory Henson,Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Amit Sheth
  • National Aerospace & Electronics Conference (NAECON 2010)

Provenance Aware Linked Sensor Data

  • Harshal Patni, Satya S. Sahoo, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 2nd Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web, 2010

Linked Sensor Data

  • Harshal Patni, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)

Some Trust Issues in Social Networks and Sensor Networks

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2010)

Sensor Discovery on Linked Data

  • Joshua Pschorr, Cory Henson, Harshal Patni, and Amit P. Sheth
  • Kno.e.sis Technical Report, 2010.


2009

SPARQL Query Re-writing for Spatial Datasets Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules

  • Prateek Jain, Peter Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)

A Survey of the Semantic Specification of Sensors

  • Michael Compton, Cory Henson, Laurent Lefort, Holger Neuhaus, and Amit Sheth
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2009)

A Local Qualitative Approach to Referral and Functional Trust

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Dharan Althuru, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-09)

An Ontological Representation of Time Series Observations on the Semantic Sensor Web

  • Cory Henson, Holger Neuhaus, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Rajkumar Buyya
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2009)

SemSOS: Semantic Sensor Observation Service

  • Cory Henson, Josh Pschorr, Amit Sheth, and Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009)

Situation Awareness via Abductive Reasoning for Semantic Sensor Data: A Preliminary Report

  • Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Cory Henson, and Amit Sheth
  • International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2009)


2008 (and earlier)

Semantic Sensor Web

  • Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, and Satya Sahoo
  • IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2008

Semantic Provenance for eScience: Managing the Deluge of Scientific Data

  • Satya Sahoo, Amit Sheth, and Cory Henson
  • IEEE Internet Computing, July/August 2008

Video on the Semantic Sensor Web

  • Cory Henson, Amit Sheth, Prateek Jain, Josh Pschorr, and Terry Rapoch
  • W3C Video on the Web Workshop, 2007

GLYDE: An Expressive XML Standard for the Representation of Glycan Structure

  • Satya Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, and William York
  • Carbohydrate Research, 2005


Professional Activities

Workshop Chair

  • Co-chair of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (2012): SSN 2012


Standards Committee Member


Invited Talks


Editorial Board Member


Tutorials


Program Committee Member

  • 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)
  • 3rd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2013)
  • 5th International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2012)
  • 23rd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference (MAICS 2012)
  • 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012)
  • 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012)
  • 2nd IEEE Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA 2012)
  • 4th International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2012)
  • 5th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2011)
  • 4rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2011)
  • 2011 Workshop on Sensor-Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA 2011)
  • 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)
  • 3rd International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing 2011)
  • 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2010)
  • 2nd Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE 2010)
  • 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
  • 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN 2009)
  • 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics (GeoS 2009)
  • 1st Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement (SWE 2009)


Education and Work Experience

Education


Work Experience