Professor Simeon Simoff

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Grants / Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Professor Simeon Simoff is currently the Dean of the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Western Sydney. Simeon was previously a Professor of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Sydney. Prior to UTS he held academic positions at the University of Sydney, the Middle East Technical University, Ecole Polytechnique - University of Nantes and Istanbul Technical University. In 2006 he was a BIT Professor at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen and the University of Trento. He is a founding Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia. Currently he is an editor of the ACS Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series in Computer Science and ICT. Prior to that he was the associate editor (Australia) of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. Currently he serves on the ASCE Technical Committees on Data and Information Management, and on Intelligent Computing.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Data mining/analytics and knowledge discovery
Visual data mining and analytics
Virtual worlds and immersive environments
Visual computing
Artificial intelligence
Human computer interactions

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Grants / Current Projects

“"It's all about me" - Anthropomorphised Trading in Believable Electronic Markets”, (Simoff, Debenham, Sierra, Wilkinson), 2008–2010, ARC Discovery Grant, $350,000.

“Smart communications network management: Delivering bundled interdependent services across internetworked heterogeneous domains.” (Debenham, Simoff, Leaney, Hunter, Pizzica and Verchere) ARC Linkage Grant, 2008–2011, $460,000.

“Visual optimisation of patient flow in Hospital Emergency Departments.” (Fitzgerald, Simoff, Sloan, Samaranayake, Johnston and Larkin) ARC Linkage Grant, 2009–2010, $75,000.

“Visual analytics methods for discovering and evaluating functional relationships between genes for paediatric cancer and diabetes sufferers”, UTS Challenge Grant, 2009-2010, $46,000.

“Applications of systems biology for personalized medicine of childhood leukaemia” (Catchpoole, Simoff, Kennedy), Cancer Institute of NSW Innovations Grant 2009-2010, $50,000.

“Engineering Self-* Virtually-Embedded Systems”, Spanish Research Council Grant, 2010-2013.

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Selected Publications

Simoff, S., Sierra, C. and de Mántaras, R. L. (2009), Mediation = Information revelation + Analogical reasoning, In Meyer, J-J. Ch. and Broersen, J. (Eds), Knowledge Representation for Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. LNAI 5605, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 145-160.

Simoff, S. J. and Galloway, J. (2008). Visual discovery of network patterns of interaction between attributes. In Simoff, S. J., Boehlen, M. H., and Mazeika, A. (Eds), Visual Data Mining: Theory, Techniques and Tools for Visual Analytics, LNCS Vol. 4404, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 172-195.

Simoff, S. J. and Biuk-Aghai, R. (2007). Supporting virtual workplace design through media mining and reverse engineering. In Petrushin, V. A. and Khan, L. (Eds), Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, London, pp. 383-403.

Simoff, S. and Sudweeks, F. (2007). The language of leaders: Identifying emergent leaders in global virtual teams, in St Amant, K. (Ed.), Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age, Idea Group, pp. 93-111.

Deray, K. and Simoff, S. J. (2009). Designing technology for visualisation of interactions on mobile devices, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, 3(4), pp. 218-237.

Debenham, J. and Simoff, S. (2009). Believable electronic trading environments on the Web, in Proceedings 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2009, Milan, Italy, 15 – 18 September, 2009, pp 631-638.

Simoff, S. J. and Debenham, J. (2002). Curious negotiator. In M. Klusch, S. Ossowski and O. Shehory (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VI, LNCS Vol. 2446, Springer, Heidelberg, pp 104-111.

Maher, M. L., Simoff, S. J. and Cicognani, A. (2000). Understanding Virtual Design Studios. Springer, London.

Simoff, S. J. and Maher, M. L. (2000) Analysing participation in collaborative design environments, Design Studies, 21(2): 119-144.

Sudweeks, F. and Simoff. S. J. (1999). Complementary explorative data analysis: The reconciliation of quantitative and qualitative principles, in Jones, S. (ed.), Doing Internet Research, Sage Publications, pp. 29-55.

For more information, contact Simeon

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