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PAOLA DI MAIO - SysEng, BAHons, MSc, PhD
DMEM University of Strathclyde, Room 106 75 Montrose Street
Glasgow G1 1XJ paola.dimaio AT gmail,
OR paola.dimaio at strath.ac.uk
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MISSION:Promote Knowledge and Resources Optimization Leveraging Web based Networks (learning, operations).
PROFILE SUMMARY: Multilingual Systems Analyst, Knowledge Engineer, Process and Project Manager, Senior Advisor, Auditor, Lecturer. I specialize in Socio Technical Systems, Architectures, Management of Information Systems, HCI, ICT, some engineering management and operations
Interested in tracking how things transform, change and evolve (especially cognition, organisations).
With a multidisciplinary background in International Business Management, Linguistics, IT and experience across a variety of sectors, I am involved in some technical committee work, serve as expert, evaluator, compliance inspector, all around general slave.
I serve as consultant for the non profit sector in sustainable and participatory project development and management worldwide, with an interest in networked operations and distributed architectures in the humanitarian and emergency management field, reviewer and evaluator.
| Personal Stuff
PROFESSIONAL GOALS: To continue to be at the leading edge of innovation, continue to learn and contribute to the advancement of knowledge and information science.
| Other Professional Projects QUALIFICATIONS
1995 BA Hons International Business and Modern Languages, South Bank University London, UK
2000 Msc Information Systems, University of Kent at Canterbury UK (Expert Systems, Knowledge Modelling)
2012 PhD Engineering Management, University of Strathclyde (Socio Technical Systems, Shared Knowledge)
(Have attended ongoing professional training through life at various international organisations)
LANGUAGES
English (native level) Italian (mother tongue) Spanish (fluent) German (advanced) French (basic) Mandarin (beginner)
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
• Research Communication, Creative Enterprises before 1996
• Science and Technology Correspondent, London 1996-2000
• Technology and Science New Media Publishing 2001-2003
• Information Systems and General Operations 2004 - current
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Distributed, Networked Research
• System of Systems Engineering
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Knowledge Unification
TEACHING
Full time university lecturer and researcher from 2004 to 2008 (MFU.ac.th and PSU.ac.th) for international universities in Asia. Curriculum development, postgraduate supervision, professional and academic training in Information Systems Design and Management to graduates, Subjects:
• Systems Science and Digital Ecosystems
• Introduction to IT
• Information Management for Engineers
• Operations Management
• E-commerce, Innovation and Social enterprise
• HCI
• Software Engineering
• Software Quality Management
• Project Management
SOME TUTORIALS AND SAMPLE TALKS
• DEST-IEEE Pitsanuloch Thailand Digital Environments and Collaboration in Practice
• Just Enough Ontology Enginering, EUSEC 2010 Sweden Systems Engineering and Innovation Tutorial, Proceedings of the ACM
• WIMS Norway 2011, Just Enough Ontology, Proceedings of ACM
• SEABICS, Edinburgh Biologically Inspired Systems
• SCONE Edinburgh 2010 Knowledge Networks
• Modelling and Analysis of Networked and Distributed Systems 2010, University of Stirling, UK Formal Analysis of Knowledge Networks
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(The list below includes peer reviewed in depth monographic studies (Executive Reports), articles in scholarly publications, academic journals, and refereed conference proceedings, and publications as London based Science and Technology Correspondent)
• P.Di Maio, G.Montgomery (2001) “The Usability of Content Management Systems”(Content-wire Publishing)
• P. Di Maio (2005) “Tsunami-Blog Developers Notes: Towards Emergency Collaboration”, Online Publication, Content-wire.com
• P.Di Maio (2005)"The Role of Open Source in E-Business Education and Practice" (Conference Proceedings) 4th NCEB : The Fourth International Conference on E-Business, - John XXIII Conference Center, Assumption University – Bangkok
• P.Di Maio (2005) “Towards an Ontology for Information Systems”, Working Paper/Draft (not published)
• P.Di Maio (2005) “ Future Proofing Content Management’, Cutter IT Journal (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio (2006) “Rules for the Knowledge Organization” , Cutter IT Journal (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio (2006) “Collaboration Principles Culture and Practice”, Cutter IT Journal, (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio (2007) “Expertfinder for Poverty and Emergency Relief “ 1st Expertfinder Workshop co-located Knowledge Web Meeting in Berlin
• P.Di Maio (2007)“Integrating Ontology and Software Engineering” Proceedings Ecticon/Ieee Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai Thailand
• P.Di Maio (2007) “ Towards an Ontology for Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management in the Greater Mekong Region”, NREM MFU.AC.TH
• P.Di Maio (2007) “SMS Alerts with Geolocation, setting up a test using the experience from Iceland Civil Defense”, Natural Disasters: Challenges for Better Forecasting and Hazard Assessment” Conference ,NREM MFU.a.th
• P.Di Maio (2007) Emerging Opportunities in ICT, ORBICOM.UNESCO (contributed Asian Chapter) www.orbicom.ca/projects/dev_opport2007/2007orbicom_emerg_dev_opport.pdf
• P.Di Maio (2007) “Ontology for Business Intelligence” Business Intelligence Advisory Service, Cutter.com
• P.Di Maio (2007) “A Social Network for Emergency and Resilient Communities in GMS”, Position Paper, JICT International Conference, Lao (accepted paper)
• P.Di Maio (2007) “Piloting a Social Network for Emergency and Resilient Communities in GMS" APEID Conference, Unesco Bangkok
• P.Di Maio (2008) "Digital Environments And Collaborative Intelligence In Practice" IEEE/DEST Pitsanulok Thailand, Workshop Proceedings
• P.Di Maio (2008) "Digital Ecosystems, Collective Intelligence, Ontology and the 2nd law of thermodynamics" IEEE/DEST Pitsanulok Thailand http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/
• P.Di Maio (2008) Ontologies for Crisis Management ISCRAM Washington DC
• P.Di Maio (2008) Human Aspects of the Semantic Web, ASWC 2008, Workshop Proceedings
• P.Di Maio (2009) Shared Vocabularies for Collective Intelligence, DEST/IEEE 2009
• P. Di Maio (2008) People Centric Business IntelligenceCutter Bookstore
• P. Di Maio (2010) Toward Pragmatic Dimensions of Knowledge Reuse and Learning on the Web, i-Semantics
• P. Di Maio (201O) BI and Networks of Things and People (Internet of Things revisited) Cutter Bookstore
• P. Di Maio (2011) Toward a semantic vocabulary for systems engineering, WIMS 2011 Proceedings of the ACM
• P. Di Maio (2011) A Systemic Review of Open Access in Systems Engineering Research Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the ISSS
• P. Di Maio (2011) Towards a Reference Model for Open Access and Knowledge Sharing, Lessons from Systems Research
IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 8, Issue 5, No 3, September 2011 ISSN (Online): 1694-0814
• P. Di Maio (2012) "Systemic Analysis of the Costa Concordia"
EMCSR Symposium of Systems and Cybernetics, Vienna Austria
Systemic Approaches to Regional Disasters
• P. Di Maio (2012) "Knowledge Objects as Shared System Representation"
Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Palgrave Journal
Accepted for Special Issue on Knowledge Objects KMRP September 2012
• P. Di Maio (2012) "Open Access UK, Reality Check and Recommendations"
Digital Research 2012, University of Oxford
Paper
Poster
• P. Di Maio (2012) "Automating Open Access Monitoring with a Web Service"
Digital Research 2012, University of Oxford
Paper
Poster
• P. Di Maio (2012) EU/CAPS Info day Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Integreating Community Networks Knowledge
• P. Di Maio (2012) "Open Access Monitoring in Europe" European Commission, Bruxells
22 October 2012
Slides
Video
• P. Di Maio (2012) Semantic Web Ten Years from now, ISWC Boston November 2012
Workshop Page Links to Paper
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST)
Journal Reviewer and Technical Programme Committee Member and Chair:
2008 Special Session co-chair, George Washington University, Washington DC, May 2008
www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2008/SpecialSessionsCFP/ISCRAM2008_CFP120.pdfASWC 2008 Thailand, Program Committee
SWAHA Workshop to the be held at ASWC 2008, Programme Chair
http://sites.google.com/site/humanfactorsandsemanticweb/1st-workshop-human-factors-and-the-semantic-web
ISCW, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2008 Program Committee and Submissions Reviewer
SIG CHI , Florence 2008 Programme Committee and Submission Reviewer
OPEN RESEARCH SOCIETY: Program Committee
HICCS Hawaii 2008, Paper Reviewer
2009Session Chair Collective Intelligence and Technical Program Committee Member DEST/IEEE Istanbul June 2009
ASWC 2009, Program Committee Member
I-Semantics Graz 2009 and 2010, Program Committee
WIMS Web Intelligence Mining and Semantics, www.wims.org, 2011-present
Journal of Mixed Method Research, 2011-present
OTHER SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS AND CLIENTS BRIEFS
Crowdsourcing: When Does a Crowd do a Better Job?Di Maio, Paola | E-Mail Advisors | 22 October 2008 | Sourcing & Vendor Relationships
Content Management: Future-Proofing Begins with Taking StockDi Maio, Paola | E-Mail Advisors | 17 August 2005 | Cutter IT Journal; Business Intelligence Social Networking Resources | 01 May 2008 |
Open Ontologies for Distributed TeamsDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 21 October 2008 | Business Intelligence
BI Information Interoperability: From the Database to the Data StreamDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 16 June 2009 | Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Resource Center Cutter Consortium | 01 October 2008 | Business Intelligence
Cutter IT Journal: Content Management Systems: The Next DecadeKain, J. Bradford | Journals | 01 May 2005 | Business Intelligence; Cutter IT Journal
As to What Really Matters, How Does BI Stack Up?Di Maio, Paola | E-Mail Advisors | 06 May 2009 | Cutter IT Journal
Toward "Just Enough" Ontology EngineeringDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 March 2009 | Business Intelligence
People-Centric BI for Open InnovationDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 December 2008 | Business Intelligence
Making Sense of Collective IntelligenceDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 September 2008 | Business Intelligence
Semantic Data ModelsDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 December 2007 | Business Intelligence
Ontology: Making the Business CaseDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 July 2007 | Business Intelligence
Enhancing Collaboration in Organizations: Theories, Tools, Principles, and PracticesDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 November 2006 | Business Intelligence
Rules for the Knowledge OrganizationDi Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 May 2006 | Business Intelligence
The Missing Pragmatic Link in the Semantic WebDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 April 2008 | Business Intelligence
Top-Down Information Structures from the Bottom UpDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 September 2007 | Business Intelligence
Ontology-Supported BIDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 22 December 2008 | Business Intelligence
Ontology-Driven ArchitectureDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 July 2008 | Enterprise Architecture; Business Intelligence
Toward the Semantic OrganizationDi Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 October 2007 | Business Intelligence
Projects
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