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PAOLA DI MAIO - SysEng, BA, MSc (PhD)
DMEM, University of Strathclyde,
Room 106 75 Montrose Street
Glasgow G1 1XJ
Desk: 0044 141 5494308
paola.dimaio AT gmail,
OR paola.dimaio at strath.ac.uk
MISSION:Promote Knowledge and Resources Optimization Leveraging Web based Networks (learning, operations)
PROFILE SUMMARY: Multilingual Systems Analyst, Knowledge Engineer, Process and Project Manager/Engineer, Senior Advisor, Auditor, Lecturer. I specialize in Management of Information Systems, HCI, ICT, some engineering management and operations. I am interested
in tracking how things transform and change and evolve (especially organisations). I have a multidisciplinary background in International Business Management, Linguistics, IT and worldwide experience across a variety of sectors. I am involved in some technical committee work, serve as expert, evaluator, inspector, do some reviewing. I serve as consultant for the non profit sector in sustainable and participatory project development and management worldwide, with an interest in networked operations in the humanitarian and emergency management
Personal Stuff
PROFESSIONAL GOALS: To continue to be at the leading edge of innovation, continue learning, and make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge and information science.
OTHER PROJECTS | Open Innovation Partners
EDUCATION
1995 BA Hons International Business and Modern Languages, South Bank University London, UK
2000 Msc Information Systems, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
2003 PGCertEd, South Kent College
Ongoing learning training, regular attendance to professional and personal
learning cycles
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Networked Capabilities Research
• System of Systems Engineering
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Knowledge Unification
SOME TEACHING
I have worked as a full time university lecturer from 2004 to 2008, working for international universities in Asia, and I deliver professional 'train the trainer' sessions and executive coaching. I deliver and help design learning programmes and resources to postgraduates, course syllabi and curricula. I supervise graduate student's final projects and postgrad masters theses, Deliver professional and academic training in Information Systems Design and Management to graduates, postgratudates and lecturers of non IT disciplines on a range of subjects, including:
• Introduction to IT
• Information Management for Engineers
• Operations Management
• E-commerce
• HCI
• Software Engineering
• Software Quality Management
• Project Management
PUBLICATIONS (does not include articles and reports published as Science and Technology Correspondent)
• P.Di Maio, G.Montgomery, “The Usability of Content Management Systems” May 2001 (Content-wire Publishing)
• P. Di Maio “Tsunami-Blog Developers Notes: Towards Emergency Collaboration”, Online Publication, Content-wire.com January 2005
• Di Maio "The Role of Open Source in E-Business Education and Practice" (Conference Proceedings) 4th NCEB : The Fourth International Conference on E-Business, November, 2005 - John XXIII Conference Center, Assumption University – Bangkok
• P.Di Maio “Towards an Ontology for Information Systems”, May 2005, Working Paper/Draft (not published)
• P.Di Maio “ Future Proofing Content Management’, August 2005 Cutter IT Journal (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio “Rules for the Knowledge Organization” , June 2006 , Cutter IT Journal (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio “Open Ontology for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief',
• P.Di Maio “Collaboration Principles Culture and Practice”, December 2006 Cutter IT Journal, (Peer Reviewed)
• P.Di Maio “Expertfinder for Poverty and Emergency Relief “ 1st Expertfinder Workshop co-located Knowledge Web Meeting in Berlin, 2007
• P.Di Maio “Integrating Ontology and Software Engineering” Proceedings Ecticon/Ieee 2007 Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai Thailand
• P.Di Maio “ Towards an Ontology for Disaster Recovery and Emergency Management in the Greater Mekong Region”, NREM MFU.AC.TH
• P.Di Maio “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, September 2007
• P.Di Maio Emerging Opportunities in ICT, ORBICOM.UNESCO (contributed Asian Chapter) www.orbicom.ca/projects/
dev_opport2007/2007orbicom_emerg_dev_opport.pdf
• P.Di Maio “Ontology for Business Intelligence” July 2007, Business Intelligence Advisory Service, Cutter.com
• P.Di Maio “A Social Network for Emergency and Resilient Communities in GMS”, Position Paper, JICT International Conference, Lao Dec 2007 (accepted paper)
• P.Di Maio “Piloting a Social Network for Emergency and Resilient Communities in GMS" APEID Conference, Unesco Bangkok,
December 2007 P.Di Maio "Digital Environments And Collaborative Intelligence In Practice" IEEE/DEST 2008 Pitsanulok Thailand, Workshop Presentation
• P.Di Maio " Digital Ecosystems, Collective Intelligence, Ontology and the 2nd law of thermodynamics" IEEE/DEST 2008 Pitsanulok Thailand http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2008/
• P.Di Maio, Ontologies for Crisis Management ISCRAM 2008 Washington DC
• P.Di Maio, Human Aspects of the Semantic Web, ASWC 2008, Workshop Proceedings
• P.Di Maio Shared Vocabularies for Collective Intelligence, DEST/IEEE 2009
• Toward Pragmatic Dimensions of Knowledge Reuse and Learning on the Web , i-Semantics 2009
ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENTS (PARTIAL LIST)
I sit on the board of some professional and technical committees, including:
2008
Special Session co-chair, George Washington University, Washington DC, May 2008
www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2008/SpecialSessionsCFP/ISCRAM2008_CFP120.pdf
ASWC 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
2009
Session Chair Collective Intelligence and Technical Program Committee Member DEST/IEEE Istanbul June 2009
ASWC 2009, Program Committee Member
I-Semantics Graz 2009, Program Committee
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 Stock
Di Maio, Paola | E-Mail Advisors | 17 August 2005 | Cutter IT Journal; Business Intelligence
Social Networking Resources | 01 May 2008 |
Open Ontologies for Distributed Teams
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 21 October 2008 | Business Intelligence
BI Information Interoperability: From the Database to the Data Stream
Di 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 Decade
Kain, 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 Engineering
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 March 2009 | Business Intelligence
People-Centric BI for Open Innovation
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 December 2008 | Business Intelligence
Making Sense of Collective Intelligence
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 September 2008 | Business Intelligence
Semantic Data Models
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 December 2007 | Business Intelligence
Ontology: Making the Business Case
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 July 2007 | Business Intelligence
Enhancing Collaboration in Organizations: Theories, Tools, Principles, and Practices
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 November 2006 | Business Intelligence
Rules for the Knowledge Organization
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Summaries | 01 May 2006 | Business Intelligence
The Missing Pragmatic Link in the Semantic Web
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 April 2008 | Business Intelligence
Top-Down Information Structures from the Bottom Up
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 September 2007 | Business Intelligence
Ontology-Supported BI
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 22 December 2008 | Business Intelligence
Ontology-Driven Architecture
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 July 2008 | Enterprise Architecture; Business Intelligence
Toward the Semantic Organization
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Updates | 01 October 2007 | Business Intelligence
Projects
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