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Committees / Reviews

Board Memberships

  • Former member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Committee representing DERI, NUI Galway

Project Funding Reviews

  • National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing Program
  • Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership

Journal, Conference and Workshop Reviews

  • IEEE Computer Magazine (2008)
  • The 1st International Workshop on Ontologies in Interactive Systems (ONTORACT '08) at the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference (HCI 2008)
  • The International Journal of Health Geographics (IJHG 2008)
  • The Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics (JOWS 2007, JOWS 2008)
  • The 16th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2007)
  • Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY 2007)
  • The 5th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2006)
  • The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)
  • The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006)
  • Knowledge Web PhD Symposium (KWEPSY 2006)
  • The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006)
  • Workshop on the Semantic Desktop (SEMDESK 2005) at the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005)
  • Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (SEMPGRID 2004) at the 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004)
  • Demonstration Session at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)
  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (IEEE PELS 2004)
  • IEEE Letters on Power Electronics (IEEE PEL 2004)
  • Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC 2003)

Conference and Workshop Chairs and Organisation

  • Steering Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks (CISWSN 2008) at the 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI ‘08)
  • Programme Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Social Data on the Web (SDOW 2008) at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)
  • Programme Chair, The 3rd International ExpertFinder Workshop (PICKME 2008) at the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008)
  • Programme Chair, The 5th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2008)
  • Workshop Organiser, The 1st BarCamp Workshop in Galway (BarCamp Galway)
  • Programme Chair, The 2nd International ExpertFinder Workshop (FEWS 2007) at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007)
  • Workshop Organiser, The 1st WebCamp Workshop on Social Networks (WebCamp SN)
  • Workshop Organiser, The 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the (Semantic) Web (FOAF Galway)
  • Organising Committee, The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC ‘00)
  • Organising Committee, The 29th Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1994)

Conference and Workshop Committees and Sessions

  • Programme Committee, The W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
  • Programme Committee, The AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on the Social Semantic Web (SSW ‘09)
  • Programme Committee, The 3rd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2009) at the 12th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2009)
  • Programme Committee, The 1st International Workshop on Community-Based Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Systems (COMBEK 2008) at the 7th On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM ‘08)
  • Programme Committee, The 1st International Workshop on Data Semantics in Social Computing Systems (DiSCo ‘08) at the 7th On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM ‘08)
  • Programme Committee, The 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC 2008)
  • Programme Committee, International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008)
  • Programme Committee, Demonstration Track at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008 Demos)
  • Programme Committee, European Web Technologies Conference (XTech 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2008) at the 11th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 2nd International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 5th International Conference on Social Software (BlogTalk 2008)
  • Programme Committee, The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007)
  • Programme Committee, The 1st International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2007)
  • Programme Committee, The 1st SABRE Conference on the Social Semantic Web (CSSW 2007)
  • Programme Committee, The 1st Workshop on Social Aspects of the Web (SAW 2007) at the 10th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2007)
  • Session Chair, Session 17, “Free Content”, The 1st International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania 2005)
  • Session Chair, Session FP 25.1: “Group Processes and Self-Organisation: Social Networks, Tribal- and Open Communities, Peace Education”, The 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities (WBC 2005)
  • Programme Committee, The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC ‘00)
  • Session Chair, Session 23: “PWM DC-DC Converters”, The 31st IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC ‘00)