Alumni Member
Martin Dzbor (Alumni) 
Senior Research Fellow
I worked on the <b>NeOn</b> project (http://neon-project.org) - as a senior research scientist and technical manager. NeOn is a flagship project of IST FP6 and investigates aspects of evolution, collaboration, contextualization and human-ontology interaction in the environment of large-scale networked ontologies.
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Before NeOn I managed OU contribution to the <b>KnowledgeWeb</b> project (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/kweb), and previously, I have worked in the <b>climate<i>prediction</i>.net</b> (http://www.climateprediction.net) project - a large-scale climate modelling and distributed computing project (similar to SETI@Home). The motivation for KMi in both projects was the application of our cutting-edge tools and technologies developed around Magpie and BuddySpace, and to make a contribution to the Semantic Web vision. I delivered a tool that can be called a 'Semantic Web browser'.
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The Magpie plug-in of MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, which is one of my main designs and implementations, supports ontology-based interpretation, sense-making and exploration of web resources. Find out more on the <b>Magpie</b> project web page (http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/magpie)...
Keys: Magpie, NeOn, climate<em>prediction</em>.net, Semantic Web, Jabber, BuddySpace, Knowledge Management, Knowledge modelling, Reflection and Framing
Projects
Technologies
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Publications
Vogiazou, Y., Dzbor, M., Komzak, J. and Eisenstadt, M. (2003). Buddyspace: Large-Scale Presence for Communities at Work and Play. Tech Report KMi-03-14, The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/106018/.
Džbor, M. (2002). Design as interactions of problem framing and problem solving: a formal and empirical basis for problem framing in design. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/59371/.
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2002). Modelling design interpretation as interplay of problem specification and problem solving. In: ASME 2002 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, 29 Sep - 2 Oct 2002, Montreal, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23821/.
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2002). Modelling design interpretation as intercation of problem framing and problem solving. In: ASME 2002 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, 29 Sep - 2 Oct 2002, Montreal, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23818/.
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2001). Towards a framework for acquisition of design knowledge. In: ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, 2-6 Sep 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23823/.
Dzbor, M. and Zdrahal, Z. (2001). Towards logical framework for sequential design. In: ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conferences (DETC'01), 9-12 Sep 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23822/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005). Uses of contextual information to support online tasks. In: 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium, 14-16 Jun 2005, Milton Keynes, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23665/.
Heath, T., Motta, E. and Dzbor, M. (2005). Context as foundation for a semantic desktop. In: 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), 6-10 Nov 2005, Galway, Ireland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23654/.
Heath, T., Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2005). Supporting user tasks and context: challenges for Semantic Web research. In: UserSWeb: Workshop on End User Aspects of the Semantic Web, 29 May - 1 Jun 2005, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23669/.
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Stutt, A. (2005). From knowledge repository to knowledge space. In: Lytras, Miltiadis D. and Naeve, Ambjörn eds. Intelligent Learning Infrastructure for Knowledge Intensive Organizations: A Semantic Web Perspective. Hershey PA: Information Science Publishing, pp. 325–344. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23659/.
Dzbor, M., Motta, E., Studer, R., Sure, Y., Haase, P., Gómez-Pérez, A., Benjamins, R. and Waterfeld, W. (2005). Neon - lifecycle support for networked ontologies (overview and objectives). Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, 2005. EWIMT 2005 pp. 451–452. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23652/.
d'Aquin, M., Sabou, M., Dzbor, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S. and Motta, E. (2007). WATSON: a gateway for the semantic web. In: The 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), 3-7 Jun 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23561/.
d'Aquin, M., Motta, E., Dzbor, M., Gridinoc, L., Heath, T. and Sabou, M. (2008). Collaborative semantic authoring. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(3), pp. 80–83. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23499/.
Dzbor, M., Motta, E., Uren, V., Lei, Y. and Domingue, J. (2004). Reflection on the future of knowledge portals. SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 1(2), pp. 32–36. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23223/.
Dzbor, M., Domingue, J. and Motta, E. (2004). Magpie: customizing users' experiences when browsing on the semantic web. In: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 13-16 Jan 2004, Island of Madeira, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23250/.
Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2006). Study on integrating semantic applications with Magpie. In: 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Methodology, Systems, and Applications, 13-15 Sep 2006, Varna, BULGARIA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/16009/.
Dzbor, M. and Motta, E. (2007). Semantic web technology to support learning about the semantic web. In: Luckin, Rosemary; Koedinger, Kenneth R. and Greer, Jim eds. Artificial Intelligence in education - building technology rich learning contexts that work. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 158. IOS Press, pp. 25–32. https://oro.open.ac.uk/8998/.
Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2007). Magpie: experiences in supporting semantic web browsing. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 5(3), pp. 204–222. https://oro.open.ac.uk/8999/.
Vogiazou, Y., Eisenstadt, M., Dzbor, M. and Komzak, J. (2005). From Buddyspace to CitiTag: Large-scale Symbolic Presence for Community Building and Spontaneous Play. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 13-17 Mar 2005, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6203/.
Dzbor, M., Stutt, A., Motta, E. and Collins, T. (2007). Representations for semantic learning webs: Semantic Web technology in learning support. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 23(1), pp. 69–82. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6237/.
Tech Reports
From Buddyspace to CitiTag: Large-scale Symbolic Presence for Community Building and Spontaneous Play
Techreport ID: kmi-04-25
Date: 2004
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou, Marc Eisenstadt, Martin Dzbor and Jiri Komzak
Buddyspace: Large-Scale Presence for Communities at Work and Play
Techreport ID: kmi-03-14
Date: 2003
Author(s): Yanna Vogiazou, Martin Dzbor, Jiri Komzak and Marc Eisenstadt
Semantic Layering with Magpie
Techreport ID: kmi-03-01
Date: 2003
Author(s): John Domingue, Martin Dzbor, Enrico Motta
