Harry Chen
Harry Chen

Alumnus, Ph.D. Alumnus

Siri, Inc.
Silicon Valley, CA , USA

Graduated in December 2004

Harry Chen is a Senior Application Engineer at a Silicon Valley startup, working on exciting new technology that will change the way people use the internet.

He holds a computer science PhD. degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He was awarded a PhD fellowship from HP Labs for his work on intelligent agents in mobile and pervasive computing.

His research interests include artificial intelligence, mobile computing and the web information systems. During his tenure as a Computer Scientist/Senior Software Engineer at Image Matters LLC. He developed gnizr, an open source project that explores the use of Semantic Web technology and folksonomy in social bookmarking.

Dr. Chen taught Social Web Technologies at UMBC. He is a founding member of the UMBC eBiquity Research Group and the eBiquity Blog (previously known as ebiquity.org). He enjoys blogging and traveling. His recent blogging adventure includes the Geospatial Semantic Web Blog, and Harry Chen’s Mobile Blog.

Harry Chen

Publications

2005

  1. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for Agents: Theory and Experiences, July 2005, 6247 downloads, 70 citations.

2004

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2004, 7599 downloads, 17 citations.
  2. L. Kagal, J. Parker, H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Security, Privacy and Trust in Mobile Computing Environments", InBook, Handbook of Mobile Computing, Editors Imad Mahgoub and Mohammad Ilyas, December 2004, 3 citations.
  3. Y. Zou, T. Finin, and H. Chen, "F-OWL: an Inference Engine for the Semantic Web", InBook, Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, November 2004, 11561 downloads, 55 citations.
  4. H. Chen, T. Finin, A. Joshi, F. Perich, D. Chakraborty, and L. Kagal, "Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces", Article, IEEE Internet Computing, November 2004, 5385 downloads, 156 citations.
  5. H. Chen, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "SOUPA: Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Applications", InProceedings, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, August 2004, 11834 downloads, 342 citations.
  6. H. Chen, F. Perich, D. Chakraborty, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2004), July 2004, 5893 downloads, 81 citations.
  7. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Pervasive Computing Ontology for User Privacy Protection in the Context Broker Architecture", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, July 2004, 4878 downloads.
  8. H. Chen and A. Joshi, "Building an Autonomous Broker Agent for Smart Meeting Rooms", InBook, Submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems, April 2004.
  9. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing", InBook, Ontologies for agents: Theory and experiences, April 2004, 1805 downloads, 70 citations.
  10. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms", Proceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Knowledge Representation and Ontology for Autonomous Systems Symposium, 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, March 2004, 9387 downloads, 65 citations.
  11. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Web in in the Context Broker Architecture", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computer and Communications, March 2004, 11285 downloads, 183 citations.

2003

  1. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems", Article, Adjunct Proceedings of Ubicomp 2003, October 2003, 4194 downloads, 3 citations.
  2. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture", InProceedings, Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile System, 5th Annual Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing, October 2003, 8388 downloads, 65 citations.
  3. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "Using Semantic web technology in Multi-Agent systems: a case study in the TAGA Trading agent environment", InProceedings, Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, September 2003, 4086 downloads, 47 citations.
  4. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Knowledge Engineering Review (Special Issue on Ontologies for Distributed Systems), September 2003, 7854 downloads, 614 citations.
  5. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "TAGA: Travel Market Framework in Agentcities (Demonstration)", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2003, 57 downloads.
  6. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments", Article, Workshop on Ontologies and Distributed Systems, August 2003, 7576 downloads, 614 citations.
  7. Y. Zou, T. Finin, L. Ding, H. Chen, and R. Pan, "TAGA: Trading Agent Competition in Agentcities", InProceedings, Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, held at 18th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence,, August 2003, 42 downloads.
  8. H. Chen, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Using OWL in a Pervasive Computing Broker", Article, Workshop on Ontologies in Agent Systems, AAMAS-2003, July 2003, 3393 downloads, 99 citations.

2002

  1. H. Chen, "An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Context-Aware Systems", TechReport, PhD Dissertation Proposal, December 2002, 10176 downloads.
  2. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R. S. Cost, "Intelligent Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices", Article, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, December 2002, 3863 downloads, 17 citations.
  3. T. Finin, A. Joshi, L. Kagal, O. V. Ratsimor, S. Avancha, V. Korolev, H. Chen, F. Perich, and R. S. Cost, "Intelligent agents for mobile and embedded devices", Article, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, September 2002, 1558 downloads.
  4. H. Chen and T. Finin, "Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing", Article, Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile Devices, AAMAS-2002, July 2002, 3256 downloads, 9 citations.
  5. H. Chen, S. Tolia, C. Sayers, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Creating Context-Aware Software Agents", InProceedings, Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, First International Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts, January 2002, 3656 downloads, 30 citations.
  6. L. Kagal, F. Perich, H. Chen, S. Tolia, Y. Zou, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. S. Cost, C. Nicholas, and T. Finin, "Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC): Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2002, 4773 downloads, 9 citations.
  7. S. Avancha, D. Chakraborty, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Issues in Data Management for Pervasive Environments", InProceedings, NSF Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Database Management, January 2002, 4246 downloads, 2 citations.
  8. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, I. Soboroff, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITtalks: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML+OIL", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue, January 2002, 4548 downloads, 66 citations.

2001

  1. F. Perich, R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, H. Chen, L. Kagal, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITTALKS: An Application of Agents in the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2001), December 2001, 4703 downloads, 5 citations.
  2. H. Chen and S. Tolia, "Steps Towards Creating a Context-Aware Agent System", TechReport, September 2001, 3044 downloads, 21 citations.
  3. R. S. Cost, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, C. Nicholas, H. Chen, L. Kagal, F. Perich, Y. Zou, and S. Tolia, "ITTALKS: A Case Study in the Semantic Web and DAML", InProceedings, International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS 2001), July 2001, 4239 downloads, 18 citations.
  4. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Centaurus : A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment", InProceedings, International Workshop of Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing at the 21st International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems, April 2001, 6133 downloads, 57 citations.
  5. H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether", Article, Cluster Computing, February 2001, 3851 downloads, 69 citations.

2000

  1. L. Kagal, V. Korolev, H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Project Centaurus: A Framework for Indoor Mobile Services", TechReport, UMBC, November 2000, 17 downloads.
  2. H. Chen, T. Finin, A. Joshi, D. Chakraborty, and L. Xu, "Service Discovery in the Future Electronic Market", Article, Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets, AAAI-2000, July 2000, 2739 downloads, 30 citations.

1999

  1. H. Chen, "Developing a Dynamic Distributed Intelligent Agent Framework Based on the Jini Architecture", TechReport, Master's thesis, December 1999, 30 citations.
  2. D. Chakraborty and H. Chen, "Service Discovery in The Future for Mobile Commerce", Article, ACM Crossroads, November 1999, 3266 downloads, 47 citations.
  3. Y. Peng, T. Finin, H. Chen, L. Wang, Y. K. Labrou, R. S. Cost, B. Chu, V. Cross, M. Russell, W. Tolone, A. Boughannam, and J. McCobb, "An Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and The 5th. Int'l Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (SCI'99/ISAS'99), August 1999, 2988 downloads, 5 citations.

Assertions

  1. (Person) Harry Chen attended (Event) My Experience in Building Ontology-driven Applications. (Harry is the speaker of this presentation)
  2. (Photo) Man vs. Machine shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  3. (Photo) Harry Chen and Bill Strachan (IBM) shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  4. (Photo) Intel's Proactive Display Demo (UbiComp 2003) shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  5. (Person) Harry Chen attended (Conference) UbiComp 2003. (Harry Chen presented a paper at the AIMS 2003 workshop and a poster at UbiComp 03.)
  6. (Project) Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) has developer (Person) Harry Chen.
  7. (Project) Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) has principal investigator (Person) Harry Chen
  8. (Project) Agents2Go has developer (Person) Harry Chen.
  9. (Project) Centaurus has developer (Person) Harry Chen.
  10. (Photo) Harry Chen at AAAI Spring Symposium shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  11. (Photo) Harry Chen at the 2004 AAAI SPring Symposium. shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  12. (Person) Harry Chen took (Photo) Tim Finin -- SWIG Meeting Apr. 07, 2004.
  13. (Person) Harry Chen attended (Event) Agent approaches to Security, Trust and Privacy in Pervasive Computing.
  14. (Photo) Harry at Mobiquitious '04 shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  15. (Photo) Harry defends shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  16. (Photo) Dr. Finin and Harry shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  17. (Person) Harry Chen attended (Event) PhD Defense: An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems. (Harry Chen defended his PhD dissertation at this event.)
  18. (Person) Harry Chen took (Photo) Dr. Chen and Dr. Kagal's PhD dipolmas.
  19. (Person) Harry Chen took (Photo) Dr. Finin is getting ready for the Winter 2004 commencement.
  20. (Photo) Dr. Chen is hooded shows (Person) Harry Chen.
  21. (Person) Harry Chen attended (Event) Mashups Beyond Google Maps. (Harry was invited to give this presentation at the Networking Geospatial Information Technology workshop, NSF, VA (2006))