Employment

• Dec 2009 - present, Research Fellow in School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, UK.
  

• Mar 2009 - Nov 2009, Postdoctoral Researcher in Clarity, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Professional Activities

Reviewing

1. Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 2011.
   

2. ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. 2010.

3. Knowledge Engineering Review. 2010.

4. Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications. 2010.

5. The 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing: UbiComp 2007

6. Revue d’intelligence Artificiell Journal on a special issue “modeling and reasoning on context”

Journals

1. Juan Ye, Simon Dobson, and Susan McKeever (2011). Situation identification techniques in pervasive computing: a review. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 2011.
   

2. Juan Ye, Graeme Stevenson and Simon Dobson (2011). A top-level ontology for smart environments. Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 7 (2011): 359-378.

3. Juan Ye and Simon Dobson (2010). Exploring Semantics Using Context Lattices. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 2(4): 389-407. 2010.

4. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson (2010). Activity reasoning using temporal evidence theory. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environment, 2(3): 253-269. 2010.
   

5. Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, and Simon Dobson (2010). Loc8: A transparently Extensible Framework for Programming with Location. IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, 9(1):28-37. March 2010.

6. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2008). Representing and Manipulating Situation Hierarchies using Situation Lattices. Journal of Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle 22(5), 2008.

7. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). Ontology-based Models in Pervasive Computing Systems. Knowledge Engineering Review 22 (04), pages 315-347. (Impact factor = 1.312)

8. Zhiyong Peng, Yanxiang He, Hui Luo, Mingxia Zhao, Yi Luo and Juan Ye (2002). Integrating various multi-databases based on object deputy model. Journal of Computer Science, 29(8), pages 256-258. August 2002.

Book Chapter

1. Juan Ye, Adrian Clear, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2010). On Using Temporal Features to Create More Accurate Human-Activity Classifiers. In Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 6206,  Lorcan Coyle and Jill Freyne (ed), pp.273-282. Springer, 2010. (20th Irish Conference, AICS 2009, Dublin, Ireland, August 19-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers).

2. M.J. O'Grady, Juan Ye, G.M.P. O'Hare, Simon Dobson, R. Tynan, R.Collier, and C.Muldoon (2010). Implicit Interaction. In Instinctive Computing, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), LNAI 5897, pages:143-161, Yang Cai (ed). Springer, 2010.

3. Juan Ye, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2008). An overview of pervasive computing systems. In Augmented materials and smart objects, Kieran Delaney (ed). Volume 18 of Microsystems. Springer Verlag. 2008. ISBN 978-0-387-46293-9.

Main Conferences

1. Juan Ye, Graeme Stevenson, Simon Dobson, Michael O'Grady and Gregory O'Hare (2011). PI: perceiver and interpreter of smart home datasets. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2011). Dublin, IE. May 2011. Nominated for Best Paper.

2. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson (2009). Using Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence for Situation Inference. In Proceedings of The 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC' 09). LNCS. Springer Verlag. Guidford, UK. 2009.

3. Juan Ye and Simon Dobson (2009). Human-Behaviour Study within Situation Lattices. 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). TX, USA. 11-15 Oct, 2009.

4. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2009). Using Situation Lattices in Sensor Analysis. Percom 09: the 7th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.  (Acceptance rate: 32/202=15.8%)

5. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle and Simon Dobson (2009). A context quality model to support transparent reasoning with uncertain context. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon' 09). LNCS. Springer Verlag. Stuttgart, DE. 2009. 

6. Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Lorcan Coyle, Steve Neely, and Simon Dobson (2008). Resolving Uncertainty in Context Integration and Abstraction. International Conference of Pervasive Services (ICPS' 08). Sorrento, Italy. (Acceptance rate: 21%)

7. Juan Ye (2008). Using Situation Lattices to Model and Reason on Situations. Doctoral Colloquiumof Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia.

8. Susan McKeever, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2008). A Multilayered Uncertainty Model for Context Aware Systems. Late Breaking Result of Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. 

9. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). A Unified Semantics Space Model. LoCA 2007, pages 103-120. Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Springer-Verlag. (Acceptance rate: 17/55=31%)

10. Juan Ye and Zhiyong Peng (2004). A Squeak-based Educational Software – Happy Learning. In proceedings of the conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing. Japan.

11. Zhiyong Peng, Kai Huang and Juan Ye (2003). Development of Smalltalk in China. In proceedings of the conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing. Japan.

Minor Conferences and Workshops

1. Alberto Rosi, Simon Dobson, Marco Mamei, Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye and Franco Zambonelli (2011). Social sensors and pervasive services: approaches and perspectives. In Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol 2011). IEEE Press. Seattle, WA. 2011. To appear.

2. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Susan McKeever, and Simon Dobson (2010). Dealing with activities with diffuse boundaries. Proceedings of Pervasive 2010 workshop on How to do good activity recognition research? Experimental methodologies, evaluation metrics, and reproducibility issues . Helsinki, Finland. May 17-21, 2010.
   

3. Graeme Stevenson, Juan Ye, and Simon Dobson (2010). On the Impact of the Temporal Features of Sensed Data on the Development of Pervasive Systems. Proceedings of Pervasive 2010 workshop on Programming Methods for Mobile and Pervasive Systems (PMMPS). Helsinki, Finland. May 17-21, 2010.
   

4. Juan Ye, Adrian Clear, Lorcan Coyle, and Simon Dobson (2009). On using temporal semantics to create more accurate human-activity classifiers. Proceedings of 20th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, pages 274-283. Dublin, Ireland. August 19-21, 2009.
   

5. Michael O'Grady, Juan Ye, G.M.P. O'Hare, Simon Dobson, Richard Tynan and Connor Muldoon (2010). Implicit Interaction. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Instinctive Computing. Volume 5987 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag. Pittsburgh, PA. 2010.

6. Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Susan McKeever, Stephen Knox, Matthew Stabeler, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2009). Gathering Datasets for Activity Identification. Workshop on Developing Shared Home Behaviour Datasets to Advance HCI and Uniquitous Computing Research at CHI 2009. 

7. Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Emerson Loureiro, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson, and Paddy Nixon (2007). A Proposed Approach to Evaluate the Accuracy of Tag-based Location Systems. In proceedings of the workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation. Innsbruck, Austria.

8. Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2007). Using Situation Lattices to Model and Reason about Context. In proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Modeling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2007). Roskilde, Denmark.

9. Adrian K. Clear, Stephen Knox, Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon (2006). Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Environment. In proceedings of the workshop on Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications. Riva Del Garda, Italy. 

10. Simon Dobson and Juan Ye (2006). Using Fibrations for Situation Identification. In proceedings of Pervasive 2006 workshops. Dublin, Ireland.

11. Juan Ye, Zhiyong Peng, Hui Zhang and Kun Jin (2003). The Design and Implementation of Object Deputy Model in Smalltalk. In proceedings of the China National Computer Conference.

12. Juan Ye, Zhen Wang and Zhiyong Peng (2003). Extension of ODMG with Deputy Class. In proceedings of the China National Computer Conference.

Magazine

Thesis

1. Juan Ye (2009). Exploiting Semantics with Situation Lattices in Pervasive Computing. PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland. 

2. Juan Ye (2005). Research on Software Reuse Technology Based on Object Deputy Mechanism in Squeak Environment. Master Thesis, State key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China.

1. Simon Dobson and Juan Ye (2011). Sensor and sense-ability: building systems in the face of uncertainty. Edinburgh, UK. Invited talk for the Edinburgh Branch of the British Computer Society.
2. Simon Dobson and Juan Ye (2010). Sensor and sense-abilty: building systems in the face of uncertainty. Invited talk to the School of Computing, University of Dundee UK.
3. Simon Dobson and Juan Ye (2006). A simple semantic model for adaptive pervasive systems. 2006. Invited talk to the Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester UK.