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Kenneth P. Baclawski |
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Professor Baclawski engages in research and consulting concerned with ontology based computing, including research in the Semantic Web and formal methods for software engineering.
Professor Baclawski has been involved in the development of the Semantic Web since it started. The Semantic Web is a layer above the World Wide Web that understands the meaning of information and can make valid inferences about it. He is actively involved in applying ontologies in many domains, including the health sciences, wireless networks and decision support tools.
Professor Baclawski holds 11 patents. He has authored over 80 professional articles in such journals and conferences as the National Academy of Science, Information Systems, the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, the International Semantic Web Conference and the Ontolog Community. He has served on numerous peer review panels for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Association for Computing Machinery, and has served on many program committees of research conferences. He is the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Virtual Plant Information Network of the National Center for Genome Resources. He serves as a consultant to companies and government laboratories, and has edited and written several books and research monographs.
Career Publication Highlights
K. Baclawski, J. Cigna, M.M. Kokar, P. Mager and B. Indurkhya. Knowledge Representation and Indexing Using the Unified Medical Language System. In Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, pages 490-501. (2000)
K. Baclawski, M. Kokar, P. Kogut, L. Hart, J. Smith, W. Holmes, J. Letkowski and M. Aronson. Extending UML to support ontology engineering for the Semantic Web. In Fourth International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, M. Gogolla, C. Kobryn (Ed), pages 342-360. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2185:342-360. Springer-Verlag. (October, 2001)
K. Baclawski. Ontology Development. In International Workshop on Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques, pages 3-26. Keynote address. (2003)
T. Niu, K. Baclawski, Y. Feng and H. Wang. Database Schema for Management and Storage of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism. Am. J. Human Genetics 73 (Suppl):A467. (2003)
J. Wang, D. Brady, K. Baclawski, M.M. Kokar and L. Lechowic. The Use Of Ontologies For The Self-Awareness Of Communication Nodes. In Proc. Software Defined Radio Technical Conf. SDR'03. (Distinguished Paper Award).
K. Baclawski and T. Niu. Ontologies for Bioinformatics. MIT Press. 2005.
K. Baclawski, D. Brady and M. Kokar. Achieving Dynamic Interoperability of Communication at the Data Link Layer through Ontology Based Reasoning. In Proc. Software Defined Radio Technical Conf. SDR'05.
V. Duggar and K. Baclawski. Integration of Decision Analysis in Process Life-Cycle Models. In International Workshop on Living with Uncertainties 2007.
K. Baclawski. Introduction to Probability with R. Chapman and Hall. (January 23, 2008)