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Publications


Media, Sensor networks, Recommender systems

Zlatev, Z. Middleton, S.E. Veres, G."Ordinary kriging for on-demand average wind interpolation of in-situ wind sensor data", EWEC 2009, France, March 2009
Conference URL
PDF pre-print

Kosmopoulos, D.I. Doulamis, A. Makris, A. Doulamis, N. Chatzis, S. Middleton, S.E. "Vision-Based Production of Personalized Video", Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2009
Journal URL
PDF pre-print

Choi, F. Beales, R. Hearn, J. Middleton, S.E. Addis, M. Mangos, C. "A Feature-augmented grammer for Automated Media Production", Poster and short paper, AXMEDIS conference, Nov 2006, UK
PDF pre-print

Anagnostopoulos, V. Chatzis, S. Lalos, C. Doulamis, A. Kosmopoulos, D. Varvarigou, T. Neuschied, H. Thallinger, G. Middleton, S.E. Addis, M. Bustos, E. Giorgini, F. "A Cross-Media Platform for Personalized Leisure and Entertainment : The Polymnia approach", AXMEDIS conference, Nov 2006, UK
PDF pre-print


Ontologies, Semantics, Recommender Systems

Middleton, S.E. De Roure, D.C. Shadbolt, N.R. (2008) "Ontology-based Recommender Systems", In "Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems", S. Staab, R. Studer (eds.), Springer, 2nd revision 2008

Middleton, S.E. Shadbolt, N.R. De Roure, D.C. "Ontological User Profiling in Recommender Systems", ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2004, page 54 - 88, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA
PDF pre-print, PS pre-print, HTML pre-print

Middleton, S.E. Shadbolt, N.R. De Roure, D.C. "Capturing interest through inference and visualization: ontological user profiling in recommender systems", K-CAP2003, Oct2003, Florida, USA
PDF pre-print, PS pre-print, HTML pre-print

Middleton, S.E. "Capturing knowledge of user preferences with recommender systems", Thesis, University of Southampton, May 2003
PDF version, PS version

Middleton, S.E. De Roure, D.C. Shadbolt, N.R. (2003) "Ontology-based Recommender Systems", In "Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems", S. Staab, R. Studer (eds.), Springer

"Portal Profile: Recommender Systems for a Multitasking Student", ACM MemberNet, Sept 2002

Middleton, S.E. Alani, H. Shadbolt, N.R. De Roure, D.C. "Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems", The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Semantic Web Workshop 2002, May 2002, Hawaii, USA
Winner of 'best paper' award
PDF version, PS version, HTML version, Semantic Web Workshop webpage, WWW2002 webpage

Middleton, S.E. De Roure, D.C. Shadbolt, N.R. "Capturing Knowledge of User Preferences: ontologies on recommender systems", In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001), Oct 2001, Victoria, B.C. Canada
PDF version, PS version, HTML version

"Who's Who in Recommender Systems - Non-Attendees", 2001 ACM SIGIR Workshop on Recommender Systems
PDF version, Workshop webpage

Middleton, S.E. "Interface agents: A review of the field", Technical Report Number: ECSTR-IAM01-001, ISBN: 0854327320, University of Southampton, Aug 2001
PDF version, PS version, HTML version

Middleton, S.E. "Capturing knowledge of user preferences with recommender systems", Mini-thesis, University of Southampton, July 2001
PDF version, PS version


Service Oriented Architectures, Grid, Privacy, Legal

Middleton, S.E. Surridge, M. Nasser, B.I. Yang, X. "Bipartite electronic SLA as a business framework to support cross-organization load management of real-time online applications", Real Time Online Interactive Applications on the Grid (ROIA 2009), Euro-Par 2009, August 2009
Workshop web page, PDF draft

Middleton, S.E. Surridge, M. Benkner, S. Engelbrecht, G. "Quality of Service Negotiation for Commercial Medical Grid Services", Journal of Grid Computing, Springer, 2008
PDF draft, online version

Berti, G. Lonsdale, G. Schmidt, J.G. Benkner, S. Hose, D.R. Fenner, J.W. Jones, D.M. Middleton, S.E. Wollny, G. "GRID simulation services for the medical community", International Journal of Computational Methods (IJCM), 2008
PDF pre-print, online version

Benkner, S. Engelbrecht, G. Middleton, S.E. Brandic, I. Schmidt, R. "End-to-End QoS Support for a Medical Grid Service Infrastructure", Journal of New Generation Computing, Computing Paradigms and Computational Intelligence, 2007
PDF pre-print

Middleton, S.E. Herveg, J.A.M. Crazzolara, F. Marvin, D. Poullet, Y. "GEMSS: Privacy and security for a Medical Grid", Methods of Information in Medicine, Issue 2, 2005
online version, PDF draft

Benkner, S. Brandic, I. Engelbrecht, G. Middleton, S.E. Schmidt, R. "Application-Level QoS Support for a Medical Grid Infrastructure", Grid Computing in Life Sciences, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Life Science Grid, LSGrid 2005, Eds, T.W. Tan, P. Arzberger and A Konagaya, ISBN 981-270-378-0, 2006 World Scientific Publishing Co.

Benkner, S. Engelbrecht, Backfrieder, G.W. Berti, G. Fingberg, J. Kohring, G. Schmidt, J.G. Middleton, S.E. Jones, D. Fenner, J. "Numerical Simulation for eHealth: Grid-enabled Medical Simulation Services", PARCO2003, Parallel Computing 2003, Sept 2003, Dresden, Germany. In G.R. Joubert, W.E. Nagel, F.J. Peters, W.V. Walter (Eds.) Parallel Computing: Software Technology, Algorithms, Architectures and Applications, included in series: Advances in Parallel Computing Elsevier,The Netherland, 2004.
PDF pre-print, PS pre-print, HTML pre-print

Benkner, S. Berti, G. Engelbrecht, G. Fingberg, J. Kohring, G. Middleton, S.E. Schmidt, R. "GEMSS: Grid-infrastructure for Medical Service Provision", HealthGRID 2004, 29th-30th January 2004, Clermont-Ferrand, France
PDF pre-print, PS pre-print

Herveg, J.A.M. Crazzolara, F. Middleton, S.E. Marvin, D. Poullet, Y. "GEMSS: Privacy and security for a Medical Grid", HealthGRID 2004, 29th-30th January 2004, Clermont-Ferrand, France
PDF pre-print, PS pre-print

Berti, G. Benkner, S. Fenner, J.W. Fingberg, J. Lonsdale, G. Middleton, S.E. Surridge, M. "Medical Simulation Services via the Grid", Health Grid Workshop, April 2003, Lyon, France
PDF version


Presentations, Posters, Press articles

Middleton, S.E."Adding Value to Geospatial Data with SensorSA Fusion Services", Powerpoint presentation, Final SANY Event, Linz, 19 November 2009
Event web page, PDF, Powerpoint presentation

Middleton, S.E."Dynamic SLA, QoS and invoicing for ROIA in edutain@grid", Powerpoint presentation, ROIA workshop tutorial, GECON 2009, Delft
Event web page, Powerpoint presentation

Barras, C. "Gamers teach search engines how to see", New Scientist Tech, 2008
New scientist article

Middleton, S.E. Beales, R. "Polymnia: an intelligent cross-media platform for personalised leisure and entertainment in thematic parks or venues", FLASH presentation, 1st public prototype, 2005
FLASH presentation, HTML final results

Middleton, S.E. "Ontological User Profiling in Recommender Systems", Seminar, University of Southampton, Oct 2002
Powerpoint presentation

Middleton, S.E. "Foxtrot Demonstration", Demonstration, University of Southampton, Oct 2002
Powerpoint presentation

Middleton, S.E. "Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems", The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Semantic Web Workshop 2002 presentation, May 2002, Hawaii, USA
Powerpoint presentation, Flash presentation

Middleton, S.E. De Roure, D.C. Shadbolt, N.R. "Foxtrot Recommender System: User profiling, Ontologies and the World Wide Web", Poster, The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), May 2002, Hawaii, USA
HTML poster, WWW2002 webpage

Middleton, S.E. "Capturing Knowledge of User Preferences with Recommender Systems", Seminar, University of Southampton, Jan 2002
Powerpoint presentation

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