Briefly
My main research interests are Process Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. I have worked on related theoretical foundations and modeling techniques. I tend to find applications to my Academic research in Business Information Systems. [read more below]
Research Interests
Currently, I hold a Research Fellow position at the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Centre (GRCTC) hosted by the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University College Cork - Ireland. My applied research focuses on the use of Semantic Technologies in Complex Information Systems and particularly for Governance, Risk and Compliance in Financial Services. In this role, I lead a multidisciplinary research team in designing and building an SBVR-based Semantic Repository and several ontologies for Regulatory and GRC spaces. I am an active member of the Object Management Group Financial Domain Task Force, the SMART Regulation Initiative (joint effort by OMG and the Data Transparency Coalition) and a voting member of the SBVR 1.2 RTF. I support the Enterprise Data Management Council efforts for data standards in Financial Services and in particular the Financial Services Business Ontology (FIBO). I also engage in related research on the use of Semantic Technologies to support a swap dealer activities in collaboration with a major financial services organization. My theoretical research, with Dr. Tom Butler, draws on Institutional Theory, Mechanisms and Sense Making to study Change in the Financial Services Industry. These activities are sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland under the technology centres program.
My previous research work, as a postdoc, focused on the study of Knowledge acquisition in epistemic transactions over the web, with Dr. Eddie Soulier. I analysed, from a veridistic social epistemology perspective, the major factors impacting on the adoption (or rejection) of a belief in the context of a question-answer interaction. The application of this study resulted in the specification of an epistemic service that qualifies a given discussion thread (within an electronic forum for instance) in terms of epistemic gain or loss. This work was sponsored by the French National Research Agency as part of the ISICIL national project.
In an earlier research work, during my PhD thesis preparation, I studied the design and the development of Information Systems in a distributed environment based on dynamic service composition. My main contributions were 1) a model for an enterprise ecosystem that promotes service sharing and service composition taking into account the non-functional properties of services and 2) a stochastic simulation environment that uses a genetic algorithm to estimate the success rates of both application composition (is it possible to compose the application using available services) and application execution (will the composed application execute successfully before the services go offline). [Read more: Thesis in French (pdf) or English title, abstract & keywords]
My previous research work, as a postdoc, focused on the study of Knowledge acquisition in epistemic transactions over the web, with Dr. Eddie Soulier. I analysed, from a veridistic social epistemology perspective, the major factors impacting on the adoption (or rejection) of a belief in the context of a question-answer interaction. The application of this study resulted in the specification of an epistemic service that qualifies a given discussion thread (within an electronic forum for instance) in terms of epistemic gain or loss. This work was sponsored by the French National Research Agency as part of the ISICIL national project.
In an earlier research work, during my PhD thesis preparation, I studied the design and the development of Information Systems in a distributed environment based on dynamic service composition. My main contributions were 1) a model for an enterprise ecosystem that promotes service sharing and service composition taking into account the non-functional properties of services and 2) a stochastic simulation environment that uses a genetic algorithm to estimate the success rates of both application composition (is it possible to compose the application using available services) and application execution (will the composed application execute successfully before the services go offline). [Read more: Thesis in French (pdf) or English title, abstract & keywords]