Marek Hatala, Ph.D.
 Associate Professor
Director of Laboratory for Ontological Research School of Interactive Arts and Technology
 
Acting Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Faculty of Comunication, Art and Technology
 
Simon Fraser University
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

Publications

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

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

Supervised Students

Current

Soltani, Samaneh MSc Area: Visualization Techniques to Improve Configuration of SPLs
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
Tanenbaum, Karen
 PhD Area: User Group Modeling, Adaptivity in Ubiquitous environments
Eap, Timmy
 PhD Area: Identity and privacy

Completed

Zouaq, Amal PostDoc (2010) Area: ontology learning
Sheidaei, Shahin
 MSc (2010) Policy Conflict detection using Alloy: An Explorative Study
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 2011: IAT813-3: Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2010: IAT352-3: Knowledge Media Architetures

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

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Last updated: Monday, October 17, 2011 3:31 PM