Marek Hatala, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research

School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Simon Fraser University Surrey

250-102nd Avenue
Surrey, BC Canada V3T 0A3

Email: mhatala @ sfu.ca
Phone: +1 (778) 782.7431


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Research Interests

knowledge management, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, user modeling,
interoperability, security and trust policies, e-learning and collaborative systems

Projects

2009-2011
Project Title: Model-Driven Development of Families of Semantically-enabled Service-oriented Architectures
Funding: Alberta Ingenuity
Leader: Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca U.)
2007-2008
Project Title: ec(h)o-VUE : ecologies of play, learning and interaction in museums  
Funding: New Media Research and Development Initiative, Canadian Culture Online Program, Canadian Heritage
Collaborators: Ron Wakkary (leader), Jim Buddy (Carleton)
Partners: SFU, Surrey Museum and Archives, Ubiquity Interactive and Carleton University
2003-2008

Project Title: Learning Object Repositories Network (LORNET)
Theme: Interoperability of Learning Object Repositories (I was a theme leader)
Funding:
NSERC Research Network
Collaborators: Tom Calvert, Griff Richards, Vive Kumar, Rob Woodbury
Partners: SFU, Univ. of Montreal, Univ. of Waterloo, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Univ. of Ottawa

Recent projects: echo, socio-echo & tele-echo (with Ron Wakkary), LionShare, eduSource, POOL,

Recent Selected Publications [Full list]

November 2006 Wakkary, R. and Hatala, M. Situated Play in a Tangible Interface and Adaptive Audio Museum Guide. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. November 2006 (PDF, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0101-8)
May 2006
Gasevic, D. and Hatala, M. Ontology mappings to improve learning resource search. British Journal of Educational Technology, Special issue: The Semantic Web for E-learning, Vol.37, No.3, May 2006, pp.375-389 (PDF)
Aug 2005
Hatala, M. and Wakkary, R.: User Modeling and Semantic Technologies in Support of a Tangible Interface. Journal of User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction 15(3-4), Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 2005, pp. 339-380. [pre-print PDF]
June 2005
M.Hatala et al.: Secure Communication Layer for Scalable Network of Learning Object Repositories. Book chapter accepted to Samuel Pierre (eds.) E-Learning Networked Environments: A Knowledge Processing Perspective, Springer Book Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2005 [PDF]
May 2005
Hatala, M., Wakkary, R. and Kalantari, L. Ontologies and Rules in Support of Real-time Ubiquitous Application, Journal of Web Semantics, Special Issue on "Rules and ontologies for Semantic Web" 3(1), Elsevier Publishers, 2005, pp.5-22. [pre-print PDF]
May 2004
Hatala, M., Richards, G., Eap, T., Willms, J.: The Interoperability of Learning Object Repositories and Services: Standards, Implementations and Lessons Learned. 13th World Wide Web Conference, Educational Track, May 2004, New York, 19-27. [PDF]

Supervised Students

Current

Boskovic, Marko PostDoc Area: Software Engineering, business process modeling, semantics, SOA (co-supervised with Dragan Gasevic)
Ali, Liaqat PhD Area: eLearning
Asadi, Mohsen PhD Area: Software Dev. Methodologies for Semanticly enabled SOAs
Siadaty, Melody PhD Area: User modeling and learning
Mohabbati, Bardia PhD Area: Metamodeling for Software Engineering
Sheidaei, Shahin
MSc Area: Web Polices
Tanenbaum, Karen
PhD Area: User Group Modeling, Adaptivity in Ubiquitous environments
Eap, Timmy
PhD Area: Identity and privacy

Completed

Torniai, Carlo PostDoc (2007-8) Area: user feedback, tagging and ontologies
Rao, Shilpi MSc (2007) Model Tracing of Coding Styles of Programmers: A Formative Approach
Brokenshire, David MSc (2007) Discovering Causal Models of Self-Regulated Learning
Kaviani, Nima MSc (2007) Web Rules to Interchange Policies
Dr.Dragan Gasevic PostDoc
(2005-7)
No thesis. Currently Assistant professor at Athabasca University
Shah, Ashok
M.Sc. (2006) Generic framework for federated security enabled software systems
Eap, Timmy
M.Sc. (2006) The Communication Middleware for Collaborative Learning Object Repository Network
Lin, I-Ling
M.Sc. (2005) Particle Swarm Optimization for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Law, Andy
Ph.D. (2005) A Combinatorial Auction Winner Determination Algorithm Using Item Association
Choi, Andrew
M.Sc. (2005) Towards Browsing Distant Metadata With Semantic Signatures
Ng, April
M.Sc. (2005) Ontological Model for Representation of Learning Objectives
Wang, Rui
M.A.Sc. (2005) Conducting Learning Object Review by Using Iterative Model

Teaching

Spring 2010: IAT887-3: Intelligent Systems for Ubiquitous Environmnets
Fall 2009: IAT352-3: Knowledge Media Architetures

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Last updated: Sunday, October 18, 2009 3:44 PM