A planetary orbit.
Aliens!   tjkopena

tjkopena at cs.drexel.edu
http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/people/tjkopena/

Department of Computer Science
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 19104


work.

grants/
  • Scalable Knowledge-based Middleware for Networked and Mobile Systems. Boon Thau Loo, Joseph B. Kopena, William C. Regli. National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Communication Foundations, Software for Real-World Systems (SRS) program. $500k/3yrs: UPenn award, Drexel award, original call.
publications/
     Selected few follow; full list here.

Joseph B. Kopena, William C. Regli, and Boon Thau Loo. Message Models and Aggregation in Knowledge Based Middleware for Rich Sensor Systems. In Proceedings of VLDB Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN), 2009.

William Regli, Michael Grauer, David Wilkie, Joseph Kopena, Martin Piecyk, and Jordan Osecki. Archiving the Semantics of Digital Engineering Artifacts in CIBER-U. In Proceedings of AAAI Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2009.

William Regli, Israel Mayk, Christopher Dugan, Joseph Kopena, Evan Sultanik, and Robert Lass. Development and Specification of a Reference Model for Agent-Based Systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. (): to appear, pgs. .

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Joseph B. Kopena, Evan A. Sultanik, Robert N. Lass, Duc N. Nguyen, Christopher J. Dugan, Pragnesh J. Modi, and William C. Regli. Distributed Coordination of First Responders. IEEE Internet Computing, Special Issue on Crisis Management, vol. 12(1): 2008, pgs. 45--47.

Michael Gruninger and Joseph B. Kopena. Semantic Integration Through Invariants. AAAI AI Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Integration, vol. 26(1): 2005, pgs. 11--20. (invited)

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Joseph B. Kopena and William C. Regli. Functional Modeling of Engineering Designs for the Semantic Web. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, vol. 26(4): 2003, pgs. 55--62. (invited)

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Joseph B. Kopena and William C. Regli. DAMLJessKB: A Tool for Reasoning with the Semantic Web. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference, 2003.


laboratories/
  • swat---cs/ece laboratory@Drexel with a focus on mobile ad-hoc networks, agent-based computing, and security in which I have been working recently.
  • gicl---cs laboratory@Drexel with a focus on engineering design, knowledge representation, and computational geometry in which I have worked for many years.
  • msid---manufacturing systems integration division of the manufacturing engineering laboratory at NIST, in which I spent several summers.
  • itcsl---cs laboratory@Drexel with a focus on robotics and decision making under uncertainty of which I was a member for a number of years.
organizations/
  • asme ded sac---asme design engineering division student affairs committee.

stuff.

projects/
  • ns-3---a new network simulator for the people; my particular interests: the statistical framework, visualization, bug hunting
  • owljesskb---sound but incomplete, production system based reasoners for OWL and DAML, including XSL Datatypes support: OWLJessKB; DAMLJessKB.
  • kr brunch---a reading group for knowledge representation and logic.
  • xp100---reverse engineered linux software for the Visioneer XP100 sheetfed USB scanner.

play.

organizations/
  • dftc---the Drexel cycling team, greatest herd of two-wheeled cats in the world.
  • eccc---the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. what else could it be?
  • dusers---the first Apple Macintosh club in the world. I killed it.
webreading/
  • animals---animals have problems too!
  • dinosaurs---tyrannosaurs like to think as they stomp.
  • fuzzy---real cats make me not breath.
  • wikipedia---it's usually more or less right...
content/
  • tj wiki---notes and random tidbits; some tech, some misc, some etc.

joe kopena
july 2008