Prof Eklund graduated from the University of Wollongong with a Bachelor of
Mathematics (Hons) in 1985. Prof Eklund studied in the UK as a research Masters student
at University of Brighton (1986-1988) and earned his PhD from Linköping University in
Sweden, 1991. Prof Eklund was a postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at Hosei
University, Japan before establishing an academic career in Australia where he has held
chairs in Computer Science at the University of Queensland, Information Technology at
Griffith University along with roles at The University of Adelaide and overseas again as
Visiting Professor at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France Returning to his alma mater in
2003, Professor Eklund has worked in several leadership roles and is now the Director,
Centre for Digital Ecosystems 

Field of Study: Applied Lattice Theory, Digital Resource Management, Semantic Web:
including application of Formal Concept Analysis to knowledge and information
organisation problems, most recently in digital libraries used in cultural heritage and
the GLAM sector 

Professional Activities and Affiliations: • Elected Fellow the Australian Computer
Society • Member of HISA - Health Informatics Society of Australia • Winner, Inaugural
Smart Infrastructure Research Award from the Federal Department of Transport,
Infrastructure and Local Government (2010) • Professor, Sydney Business School including
Executive MBA class (Dubai) (2007-2010) • Chair of the Queensland Studies Authority
Subject Advisory Committee for Computer Studies (2003) • Research Leader in DSTC
(Distributed Systems Technology Centre) CRC, 1999-2003 • Consultant to the Australian and
US Department's of Defence (1995-2002) • Foundation Board member of the Semantic Web
Science Foundation (2000) • Serves on the Editorial Boards of the International
Conference on Formal Concept Analysis and Australian Journal of Intelligent Information
Systems • Program Chair of the Concept Lattices and Applications in 2007 and the
International Conference on Conceptual Structures in 2008 • Steering committee of CLA:
Concept Lattices and their Applications • Served on the program committees of: •
Knowledge Representation Conference • ACM MEDES - International Conference on Management
of Emergent Digital EcoSystems • International Conference on Conceptual Structures •
International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis • Joint ODBIS and SWDB workshop on
Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases • Semantic Web and other international AI and Web
conferences • Chief Investigator on an ARC Network (HCSNet) and ARC Linkage projects 

Current Research Students: • Peter Goodall : Ontology Evolution For End-User Communities
• Timothy Wray : Collection Web: An Exploration of a Semantic Web Framework for
Generating Museum Websites and Digital Libraries within a Social Media Context • Vu Tran
: Developing Innovative Intelligent Transport System to Provide Real Time Information for
Public Transport • Edward Dou : Capturing Passenger Trips in a non-Ticketed
Transportation Network.

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A Digital Ecosystem For Optimizing Service Reliability In Public Transport (with Vu The Tran and Chris Cook), PACIS 2012 Proceedings (2012)

Automatic vehicle location (AVL) and automatic passenger counting (APC) systems can generate a huge quantity...

 
Concept similarity and related categories in information retrieval using formal concept analysis (with Jon R. Ducrou and F Dau), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)

The application of formal concept analysis to the problem of information retrieval has been shown...

 
Design, information organisation and the evaluation of the Virtual Museum of the Pacific digital ecosystem (with Timothy Wray, Peter Goodall, and Amanda Lawson), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)

This paper reports on the design, organisation and evaluation of a Semantic Web application designed...

 
Exploring the information space of cultural collections using formal concept analysis (with Timothy Wray), SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers (2011)

Within the cultural informatics community, there is a strongdesire to mine and understand relationships within...

 
Extending formal concept analysis with a second ordering relationship on concepts: a software engineering case study (with Jonas Poelmans, Guido Dedene, Stijin Viaene, Monique Snoeck, and Sergeu Kuznetsov), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2011)
 

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