Dr Taha Osman Taha Osman-Portrait

Computing and Informatics
Nottingham Trent University
Fax: +44 (0)115 848 8429
Telephone: +44 (0)115 848 8370
Email: Taha.Osman@ntu.ac.uk

Responsibilities:
Admissions tutor for BSc (Hons) Computer Science and BSc (Hons) Games Technology
Program leader for MSc Internet and Enterprise Computing

Module leader for:

· Distributed Object Computing (BSc Level 3)

· Java Network Programming (MSc)

· Enterprise Computing (MSc)

· Internet Programming(MSc)

Teaching on following modules:

· Computer Technology (BSc Level 1)

· Internet Programming (BSc Level 2)

· Systems Software (BSc Level 2)

Research interests:

· Web Services and the Semantic Web

· Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Information Retrieval

· Intelligent Agent Systems

· Wireless Computing Portals

· Fault-Tolerance of Distributed Systems

Sponsors and collaborators:
The British Council, East Midlands Devlopment Agency (EMDA), Department for Trade and Industry (DTI).
French Naval Academy, Siemens Communications UK, Empics, Skylight Media

Main projects and major grants:

· 2000-2003 "Reliable Mobile Agents for Distributed Computing".

· 2003 "Web Services Framework for Integration of Multi-Modal Transport Systems".

· 2004-2005 "Improving the Internet Navigation Experience for the Visually-Impaired".

· 2004-2006 "A Multi-Agent System for Safety Navigation of Marine Traffic"

o Funding organisation: British Council, Value of award: £8K

o Co-investigator: Thierry Huet, French Naval Academy

· 2006-2007 "Web services-based Integration Framework for CRM" (lead investigator)

o Funding organisation: EMDA, SIS - Value of award: £10K

o Collaborator: Skylight Media

· 2007 "Restructuring Digital Image Libraries using Semantic Ontologies" (lead investigator)

o Funding organisation: EMDA, Mini SIS - value of award: £5K

o Collaborator: Empics

· 2007-2009 "Intelligent Photo Indexing and Retrieval using Semantic Technologies" - (project supervisor and lead academic)

o Funding organisation: DTI, Value of award: £100K

o Collaborator: PA Photos

External activity:

· Reviewer of ESM, UKSIM, and PDCN conference papers

· Invited reviewer for the Computer Journal

· Book review "Computer Networks and Communications: A Top-Down Approach", McGraw-hill

· Chair of "Distributed Real-Time Systems" track in the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing - PDCN 2005

· Co-chair for the Web services track in AMS2007 Asia Modelling Symposium 2007

· Member of IEEE

Selected Publications (since 2001)

Book Chapters

· Osman, T., Thakker, D. and Al-Dabass, Chapter: "Web Services Hybrid Dynamic Composition Models for the Enterprise", No VIII in "Enterprise Architecture and Integration: Methods, Implementation and Technologies" Editors: Wing Lam and Venky Shankararaman, Publishers: Idea Group Inc, USA.

· Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Yanwu Yang, and Christophe Claramunt, " Spatial Web Services with Case-Based Reasoning", Book: Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISSN 0302-9743, Volume 4295/2006, ISBN 978-3-540-49466-9, Pages 247-258

Journal papers:

· Osman, T., Thakker, D. and Al-Dabass, "Utilisation of Case-Based Reasoning for Semantic Web Services Composition", Submitted to International Journal of Web and Grid Services

· Osman, T, Wagealla, W, Bargiela, A: An Approach to Rollback Recovery of Collaborating Mobile Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. Vol. 34 (2004), pp 48-57.

· Osman, T, Bargiela, A, "FADI: A Fault-Tolerant Environment for Open Distributed Computing", IEE Proceedings on Software, Vol. 147(3), pp 91-99.

Conference papers:

· W. Wagealla T. Osman, A. Bargiela, "Error Detection Algorithm for Agent-Based Distributed Applications", Second workshop on Agent-based Simulation, pp. 106-110, Passau, Germany, 2001.

· Taha Osman and Evtim Peytchev, "An Agent-Based Approach to Open-Access Transportation Telematics Applications", Conference Proceedings of the UK Simulation Society - UKSIM 2003, pp. 225-230. Cambridge, UK. April 2003.

· Thierry Huet, Taha Osman, and Cyril Ray. "Modelling Traffic Navigation with a Multi-Agent Platform", Proceedings 17th European Simulation Multi-conference - SCS Europe, pp. 111-117, Nottingham, UK, June 2003.

· Zhi, S., Osman, T., Peytchev, E., Al-Dabass, D.: A Review of Communication and Java Technologies in the ATTAIN Project. IEEE Int. Conf. On Networking, Sensing and Control, Taipei, Taiwan (2004) 1400-1405.

· Osman, T., Upchurch, S., Peytchev, E.: A J2ME Wireless Portal To Provide Access To Real-Time Traffic Information. Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce (TaMoCO) - MKWI 2004, Essen, Germany (2004) 249-260.

· Esther Boal, Taha Osman, and David Al-Dabass: "Distributed Data Models Using XML-Based Client Server Communication And SOAP", In the proceedings of UKSIM 2004, Oxford, UK (2004) pp 95-104.

· Taha Osman, Matthieu Serra, Olivier Delode, Evtim Peytchev, and Thierry Huet : "An Integrative Framework for Traffic Telematics Web Services", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2005), Feb. 2005, pp 456-181.

· Thakker D., Osman T., Al-Dabass D., "Web Services Composition: A Pragmatic View Of The Present And The Future", in the proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation - ECMS 2005, June 2005, pp. 826-832.

· Thakker, D., Osman, T., and Al-Dabass, D., "Private UDDI registry models for B2B Web Services", In the Proceedings of the Eighth United Kingdom Simulation Society (UKSIM) Conference, 6-8 April, 2005, Oxford, UK.

· Thakker, D., Osman, T., Al-Dabass, D., "Web Services Hybrid Dynamic Composition Models for Ubiquitous Computing Networks", IEEE 8th Int. Conf. on Advanced Communication Technology, Phoenix Park, Korea, 22-24 Feb 2006, paper No. 02D-3, pp274-280, ISSN 1738-9445, ISBN 89-5519-130-8

· Thakker, D., Osman, T., and Al-Dabass, D., "Semantics based automatic assignment in Web services composition", In the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation Conference, 4-6 April, 2006, Oxford, UK. p 67-72.

· Thakker, D., Osman, T., and Al-Dabass, D., "S-CBR: Semantic Case Based Reasoner for Web services discovery and matchmaking" Accepted for the 20th European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS 2006), Bonn, Germany, 28-31 May 2006.

· Osman, T., Thakker, D., Al-Dabass, D., Lazer, D., and Deleplanque, G., "Semantic-Driven Matchmaking of Web services using Case-Based Reasoning" Accepted for the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), to be held on September 18-22, 2006, Chicago, USA.

· Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Gerald Schaefer, Maxime Leroy, Alaine Fourmier, "Semantic Annotation And Retrieval Of Image Collections", In proceeding of the 21st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation

· Osman, T., Thakker, D., Schaefer, G., Leroy, M., and Fournier, A., "Semantic Annotation And Retrieval Of Image Collections", In the proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, June 4-6, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 324-329

· Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Gerald Schaefer, and Phil Lakin, "An Integrative Semantic Framework for Image Annotation and Retrieval", The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Nov 2007 in Silicon Valley, USA, pages 366-373.

· Dhavalkumar Thakker, Taha Osman, David Al-Dabass, "Semantic-Driven Matchmaking and Composition of Web Services Using Case-Based Reasoning", The 5th IEEE European Conference on Web Services -ECOWS 2007, to be held in Halle, Germany 26-28 November 2007, pages 67-76.

· Taha Osman, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Gerald Schaefer, Thomas Geslin, Philippe Kiffer, “Semantic-based Expansion of Image Retrieval Queries”, OntoImage 2008: 2nd Workshop on Language Resources for Content-Based Image Retrieval in the 6th Conference on Language Resource & Evaluation (LREC 2008), Marrakech, pages 12-18.