Biography
Rob is a Senior Research Fellow in the ADAPT research centre core research activity, focused on data management (Theme E) where he is co-PI of the large industry-collaboration (spokes) project with Ordanance Survey Ireland. Rob joined the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group at the School of Computer Science and Statistics in 2008 as part of the HEA-funded NEMBES (Networked Embedded Systems) project looking at semantic mapping applications to sensor management systems in smart buildings. From 2009-2014 he led the Home Area Networks group in the SFI-funded FAME (Federated Autonomic Management of End to End Communications Services) project. From 2014-2016 Rob created and coordinated the H2020 project ALIGNED on combined software and data engineering. His current research interests include Data Value, Data Governance, Data Quality, Linked Data, flexible distributed systems and network management.
Prior to joining TCD Rob worked in the Ericsson Network Management Research centre, a couple of networks/data-comms focused startups and Enterprise Ireland's Teltec telecommunications research centre at Dublin City University. He has extensive experience of both academic and industrial collaborative research projects and international standardization.
He is a graduate of Dublin City University (BSc in Applied Physics and PhD in Electronic Engineering) and Queens University Belfast (MSc in Computational Science).
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Trestian, R. and Celeste, E. and Xie, G. and Lohar, P. and Bendechache, M. and Brennan, R. and Ta, I., The Privacy Paradox-Investigating People's Attitude Towards Privacy in a Time of COVID-19, 2022
Basereh, M. and Caputo, A. and Brennan, R., AccTEF: A Transparency and Accountability Evaluation Framework for Ontology-Based Systems, International Journal of Semantic Computing, 16, (1), 2022, p5-27
Paul Ryan, Rob Brennan, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, DPCat: Specification for an Interoperable and Machine-Readable Data Processing Catalogue Based on GDPR, Information, 13, (5), 2022
Ryan, P. and Brennan, R., Support for Enhanced GDPR Accountability with the Common Semantic Model for ROPA (CSM-ROPA), SN Computer Science, 3, (3), 2022
McDonald N, McKenna L, Vining R, Doyle B, Liang J, Ward ME, Ulfvengren P, Geary U, Guilfoyle J, Shuhaiber A, Hernandez J, Fogarty M, Healy U, Tallon C, Brennan R., Evaluation of an Access-Risk-Knowledge (ARK) Platform for Governance of Risk and Change in Complex Socio-Technical Systems., International journal of environmental research and public health, 18, (23), 2021
Foy, M. and Martyn, D. and Daly, D. and Byrne, A. and Aguneche, C. and Brennan, R., Blockchain-based governance models for COVID-19 digital health certificates: A legal, technical, ethical and security requirements analysis, 198, 2021, pp662-669
Mazon, J.-N. and Brennan, R. and Helfert, M., Overcoming misattribution to understand open data reuse in smart cities, 2021, pp5966-5968
Trestian, R. and Xie, G. and Lohar, P. and Celeste, E. and Bendechache, M. and Brennan, R. and Tal, I., PRIVATT - A Closer Look at People's Data Privacy Attitudes in Times of COVID-19, 2021, pp174-179
Basereh, M. and Caputo, A. and Brennan, R., Fair Ontologies for Transparent and Accountable AI: A Hospital Adverse Incidents Vocabulary Case Study, 2021, pp92-97
Lohar, P. and Xie, G. and Bendechache, M. and Brennan, R. and Celeste, E. and Trestian, R. and Tal, I., Irish Attitudes Toward COVID Tracker App & Privacy: Sentiment Analysis on Twitter and Survey Data, (3469193), 2021
Hernandez, J. and McKenna, L. and Brennan, R., TIKD: A trusted integrated knowledge dataspace for sensitive healthcare data sharing, 2021, pp1855-1860
Kris McGlinn, Rob Brennan, Christophe Debruyne, Alan Meehan, Lorraine McNerney, Eamonn Clinton, Philip Kelly, Declan O'Sullivan, Publishing authoritative geospatial data to support interlinking of building information models, Automation in Construction, 124, 2021, p1 - 15
Yaman, B. and Thompson, K. and Brennan, R., A SKOS taxonomy of the UN global Geospatial information management data themes, 2977, 2021, pp89-96
Ryan, P. and Brennan, R., Demonstrating GDPR Accountability with CSM-ROPA: Extensions to the Data Privacy Vocabulary, 2, 2021, pp591-600
Xie, G. and Lohar, P. and Florea, C. and Bendechache, M. and Trestian, R. and Brennan, R. and Connolly, R. and Tal, I., Privacy in Times of COVID-19: A Pilot Study in the Republic of Ireland, (3470096), 2021
Bendechache, M. and Tal, I. and Wall, P. and Grehan, L. and Clarke, E. and Odriscoll, A. and Der Haegen, L.V. and Leong, B. and Kearns, A. and Brennan, R., AI in My Life: AI, Ethics & Privacy Workshops for 15-16-Year-Olds, 2021, pp34-39
Ryan, P. and Crane, M. and Brennan, R., GDPR Compliance Tools: Best Practice from RegTech, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 417, 2021, p905-929
Bucher, B. and Folmer, E. and Brennan, R. and Beek, W. and Hbeich, E. and WÃŒrriehausen, F. and Rowland, L. and Maturana, R.A. and Alvarado, E. and Buyle, R. and Di Donato, P., Spatial linked data in Europe: Report from spatial linked data sessions at knowledge graph in action, Official Publication - EuroSDR, 2021, (73), 2021, p1-25
Trestian, R. and Xie, G. and Lohar, P. and Celeste, E. and Bendechache, M. and Brennan, R. and Jayasekera, E. and Connolly, R. and Tal, I., Privacy in a Time of COVID-19: How Concerned Are You?, IEEE Security and Privacy, 19, (5), 2021, p26-35
McKenna, L. and Liang, J. and Duda, N. and McDonald, N. and Brennan, R., ARK-Virus: An ARK Platform Extension for Mindful Risk Governance of Personal Protective Equipment Use in Healthcare, 2021, pp698-700
Hickey, D. and Brennan, R., A GDPR International Transfer Compliance Framework Based on an Extended Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 346, 2021, p161-170
Hickey, D. and Connor, R.O. and McCormack, P. and Kearney, P. and Rosti, R. and Brennan, R., The Data Quality Index: Improving Data Quality in Irish Healthcare Records, 2, 2021, pp625-636
Bendechache, M. and Lohar, P. and Xie, G. and Brennan, R. and Trestian, R. and Celeste, E. and Kapanova, K. and Jayasekera, E. and Tal, I., Public attitudes towards privacy in COVID-19 times in the Republic of Ireland: A pilot study, Information Security Journal, 30, (5), 2021, p281-293
Kris McGinn, Declan O'Sullivan, Christophe Debruyne, Eamonn Clinton, Rob Brennan., Geoff: A Linked Data Vocabulary for Describing the Form and Function of Spatial Objects , 28th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Dublin, 7th December 2020, 2771, CEUR, 2020, pp12-24
Crotti, A. and Basereh, M. and Abgaz, Y. and Liang, J. and Duda, N. and McDonald, N. and Brennan, R., The ARK platform: Enabling risk management through semantic web technologies, 2807, 2020
Ryan, P. and Pandit, H.J. and Brennan, R., A common semantic model of the GDPR register of processing activities, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 334, 2020, p251-254
Yaman, B. and Brennan, R., LinkedDataOps: Linked data operations based on quality process cycle?, 2751, 2020, pp31-35
Ryan, P. and Crane, M. and Brennan, R., Design challenges for GDPR regtech, 2, 2020, pp787-795
Yaman, B. and Thompson, K. and Brennan, R., Quality metrics to measure the standards conformance of geospatial linked data, 2721, 2020, pp109-113
Bendechache, M. and Limaye, N.S. and Brennan, R., Towards an automatic data value analysis method for relational databases, 2, 2020, pp833-840
Yaman, B. and Thompson, K. and Brennan, R., Standards conformance metrics for geospatial linked data, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 1232, 2020, p113-129
Vaidyambath, R. and Debattista, J. and Srivatsa, N. and Brennan, R., An intelligent linked data quality dashboard, 2563, 2019, pp341-352
Attard, J. and Brennan, R., DaVe: A Semantic Data Value Vocabulary to Enable Data Value Characterisation, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 363, 2019, p239-261
Brennan, R. and Attard, J. and Petkov, P. and Nagle, T. and Helfert, M., Exploring data value assessment: A survey method and investigation of the perceived relative importance of data value dimensions, 1, 2019, pp188-195
Judie Attard, Jeremy Debattista, Rob Brennan , Saffron: A Data Value Assessment Tool for Quantifying the Value of Data Assets, ISWC, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019
Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Axel Polleres, Bert Bos, Rob Brennan, Bud Bruegger, Fajar J. Ekaputra, Javier D. Fernández, Roghaiyeh Gachpaz Hamed, Elmar Kiesling, Mark Lizar, Eva Schlehahn, Simon Steyskal, Rigo Wenning, Creating a Vocabulary for Data Privacy: The First-Year Report of Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group (DPVCG), 18th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2019), Rhodes, Greece, 2019
Jeremy Debatista, Judie Attard, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Is the LOD cloud at risk of becoming a museum for datasets? Looking ahead towards a fully collaborative and sustainable LOD cloud., Linked Data on the Web and its Relationship with Distributed Ledgers, WWW '19 Companion Proceedings of The 2019 World Wide Web Conference, San Francisco, USA, 13 May 2019, ACM, 2019, pp850 - 858
Solanki, M. and BoÅŸiÄ , B. and Dirschl, C. and Brennan, R., Towards a knowledge driven framework for bridging the gap between software and data engineering, Journal of Systems and Software, 149, 2019, p476-484
Debattista, Jeremy and Clinton, Eamonn and Brennan, Rob, Assessing the Quality of Geospatial Linked Data - Experiences from Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi)., Proceedings of the Posters and Demos Track of the 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems co-located with the 14th InternationalConference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2018), Vienna, Austria,September 10-13, 2018., SEMANTiCS, 2018
Peter N Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 51, (3), 2018, p165 - 174
Brennan, R. and Bozic, B. and Gavin, O. and Solanki, M., ALIGNED metamodel overview, 2018, 79-124pp
Jeremy Debattista, Judie Attard and Rob Brennan, Semantic Data Ingestion for Big Data Value-Driven Intelligent Analytics, 4th International Conference on Big Data Innovations and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 August 2018, IEEE, 2018, pp1 - 8
Sahil Nakul Mathur, Declan O'Sullivan, Rob Brennan, Milan: Automatic Generation of R2RML Mappings, 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2018), Dublin, Ireland, 7th December, 2018, pp1 - 12
Debattista, Jeremy and McKenna, Lucy, and Brennan, Rob, Understanding Information Professionals: A Survey on the Quality of Linked Data Sources for Digital Libraries, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences- Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE, Proceedings Part II, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences- Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, C&TC, and ODBASE, 2018, 2018, pp537--545
Judie Attard, Rob Brennan, Challenges in Value-Driven Data Governance, OTM Confederated International Conferences, Valletta, Malta, 2018, pp546-554
Rob Brennan, Judie Attard and Markus Helfurt, Management of Data Value Chains, a Value Monitoring Capability Maturity Model, 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Portugal, 21-24 MArch 2018, edited by Olivier Camp, Joaquim Filipe , 2018
Anuj Singh, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, DELTA-LD: A Change Detection Approach for Linked Datasets, MEPDAW at ESWC 2018, Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web - MEPDaW 2018 at 15th International Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018), Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 3rd June, CEUR, 2018, pp1-15
Rob Brennan, Simon Quigley, Pieter De Leenheer, and Alfredo Maldonado, Automatic Extraction of Data Governance Knowledge from Slack Chat Channels, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2018 Conferences. OTM 2018, Malta, 23-24 October 2018, edited by Panetto H., Debruyne C., Proper H., Ardagna C., Roman D., Meersman R. , 11230, Springer, Cham, 2018
Debattista, J. and Attard, J. and Brennan, R., Semantic data ingestion for intelligent, value-driven big data analytics, (8500063), 2018, pp1-8
Judie Attard, Rob Brennan, A Semantic Data Value Vocabulary Supporting Data Value Assessment and Measurement Integration, 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Portugal, 21-24 March 2018, 2018
Rob Brennan, Alan Meehan, Lorraine Mc Nerney, Eamonn Clinton, Declan O'Sullivan, Publishing Ordnance Survey Ireland's geospatial data as Linked Data, SEMANTICS 2018 - Industry Track, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 September, 2018
Anuj Singh, Rob Brennan, and Declan O'Sullivan, DELTA-LD: A Change Detection Approach for Linked Datasets, MEPDaW at ESWC 2018, Crete, Greece, 03-06-2018, 2018
Alan Meehan, Kaniz Fatema, Rob Brennan, Eamonn Clinton, Lorraine McNerney, Declan O'Sullivan, License and Template Access Control for Geospatial Linked Data, 3rd International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data at ESWC 2018, 15th International Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018), Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 3-7 June, 2110, CEUR-WS, 2018, pp22 - 33
Rob Brennan, Challenges for Value-Driven Semantic Data Quality Management, 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Portugal, 26-29th April 2017, SCITEPRESS, 2017
Ying Wang and Rob Brennan , Building High Usability Consumer-oriented Linked Data Mobile Apps , Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2017), Dublin, 5-6th Dec 2017, edited by Susan McKeever and John McAuley , 2017
Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason and Rob Brennan, Linked data schemata: fixing unsound foundations, Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 2017, p1435-2647
Ademar Crotti, Christophe Debruyne, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, An Evaluation of Uplift Mapping Languages, International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), 13, (4), 2017, p405-424
Anuj Singh, Christophe Debruyne, Rob Brennan, Alan Meehan, and Declan O'Sullivan, Extension of the M-Gov Ontology Mapping Framework for Increased Traceability, OM-2017: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Ontology Matching, ISWC: Ontology Matching 2017, Vienna, Austria, 21-10-2017, 2017, ppp.49 - p.60
Brian Walshe, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Bayes-ReCCE, a Bayesian model for detecting Restriction Class Correspondences in Linked Open Data knowledge bases, International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 12, (2), 2016, p25 - 52
Alan Meehan, Dimitris Kontokostas, Markus Freudenberg, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Validating Interlinks between Linked Data Datasets with the SUMMR Methodology, ODBASE 2016 - The 15th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics, Rhodes, Greece, 25th October, Springer Verlag, 2016
Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Bojan Bozic, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Francois, Thomas E. Currie, Stephanie Grohmann, Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank, LNCS , Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, 29th May - 2nd June, edited by Harald Sack - Eva Blomqvist - Mathieu d'Aquin - Chiara Ghidini - Simone Paolo Ponzetto - Christoph Lange , (9678), Springer, 2016, pp693 - 708
Bojan Bozic, Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Describing Reasoning Results with RVO, the Reasoning Violations Ontology, Extended Semantic Web Conference - Linked Data Quality Workshop, Heraklion, Greece, 29/5/2016-2/6/2016, Springer Verlag, 2016, pp62-69
Odhrán Gavin, Dimitris Kontokostas, Christian Dirschl, Andreas Koller, Jim Davies, Pieter Francois, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Bojan Bozic, Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Kevin Feeney and Rob Brennan, The ALIGNED Project - Aligned, Quality-centric Software and Data Engineering Driven by Semantics, Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, 3rd June, edited by Harald Sack - Eva Blomqvist - Mathieu d'Aquin - Chiara Ghidini - Simone Paolo Ponzetto - Christoph Lange , 2016
Ademar Crotti Junior, Christophe Debruyne, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, FunUL: A Method to Incorporate Functions into Uplift Mapping Languages, 18th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2016), Singapore, 28-29 November, 2016, pp40 - 48
Pieter François, Joseph Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Peter Turchin, A Macroscope for Global History Seshat Global History Databank: a methodological overview, Digital History Quaterly, 10, (4), 2016, p1-
Monika Solanki, Bojan Bozic, Markus Freudenberg, Dimitris Kontokostas, Christian Dirschl, and Rob Brennan, Enabling combined Software and Data engineering at Web-scale: The ALIGNED suite of Ontologies, International Semantic Web Conference, Kobe, Japan, Oct 17-21 2016, edited by Paul Groth, Elena Simperl, Alasdair Gray, Marta Sabou, Freddy Lecue, Markus Kroetzsch, Takahiro Kawamura, Heiko Paulheim , 9982, Springer, 2016, pp195 - 203
Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Kevin Feeney and Rob Brennan, Ontology Consistency and Instance Checking for Real World Linked Data, 2nd Workshop on Linked Data Quality, Slovenia, edited by Anisa Rula, Amrapali Zaveri, Magnus Knuth, Dimitris Kontokostas , 1376, (January), 2015, pp1-1
Alan Meehan, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, SPARQL Based Mapping Management, IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2015), Annaheim, California, USA, 7-9 February 2015, IEEE , 2015, pp456 - 459
Peter Turchin, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Daniel Hoyer, Joseph Manning, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Daniel Mullins, Alesso Palmisano, Peter Peregrine, Edward AL Turner, Harvey Whitehouse, Seshat: The Global History Databank, Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 6, (1), 2015, p77 - 107
R. Brennan, B. Walshe, D. O'Sullivan, Managed Semantic Interoperability for Federations, Journal of Network and Systems Management, 22, (3), 2014, p302 - 330
Alan Meehan, Rob Brennan, Dave Lewis, Declan O'Sullivan, Mapping Representation based on Meta-data and SPIN for Localization Workflows, ESWC 2014, Crete, Greece, 26/05/2014, edited by Marco Neumann, Sam Coppens, Karl Hammar, Magnus Knuth, Dominique Ritze, Miel Vander Sande , Vol-1240, CEUR-WS, 2014, pp33 - 41
David Lewis, Rob Brennan, Leroy Finn, Dominic Jones, Alan Meehan, Declan O'sullivan, Sebastian Hellmann, Felix Sasaki, Global Intelligent Content: Active Curation of Language Resources using Linked Data., LREC , Reykjavik, Iceland, 26-31 May 2014, 2014, pp3546 - 3549
Ruair"ı de Fr"ein , Cristian Olariu, Yuqian Song, Rob Brennan Patrick McDonagh, Adriana Hava Christina Thorpe John Murphy, Liam Murphy Paul French, Integration of QoS Metrics, Rules and Semantic Uplift for Advanced IPTV Monitoring, Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2014
Rob Brennan, Zohar Etizoni, Kevin Feeney, William Fitzgerald, Simon Foley, Declan O'Sullivan, Consumer Managed Federated Homes, IEEE Communications Magazine, 52, (6), 2014, p194 - 201
Kevin Feeney, Declan O'Sullivan, Wei Tai, Rob Brennan, Improving curated web-data quality with structured harvesting and assessment, International Journal On Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 10, (2), 2014, p33 - 60
R. Brennan, K. Feeney, Y. Song, D. O'Sullivan, Secure Federated Monitoring of Heterogeneous Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, 51, (11), 2013, p63-71
B.Meskill, S. Balasubramaniam, R. Brennan, K. Feeney, B.Jennings, Federation Lifecycle Management Incorporating Coordination of Bio-inspired Self-management Processes, Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2013, p650-676
Dave Lewis, Leroy Finn, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Alex O'Connor. , Generalizing ITS as an Interoperable Annotation Technique for Global Intelligent Content, Localisation Focus - The International Journal of Localisation, 12, (1), 2013, p27 - 40
Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, Odhrán Gavin, Publishing Social Sciences Datasets as Linked Data: a Political Violence Case Study, ENRICH 2013 at SIGIR 2013, Dublin, 1 August 2013, edited by Seamus Lawless, Maristella Agosti, Paul Clough, Owen Conlon , 2013
Brian Walshe, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Correspondence Pattern Attribute Selection for Consumption of Federated Data Sources, Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems/Network Operation and Management Symposium, Maui, Hawaii,. USA, April 16-20, 2012, 2012, pp1234 - 1240
Brian Walshe, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, A comparison of Complex Correspondence Detection Techniques, International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, MA, USA, November 11-15, 2012, 946, CEUR-WS, 2012
Hendrik Thomas, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Using the OM2R Meta-Data Model for Ontology Mapping Reuse for the Ontology Alignment Challenge - a Case Study, 7th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, 11th November 2012, 2012, pp61 - 73
Bo Fu, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, A configurable Translation-Based Cross-Lingual Ontology Mapping System to adjust Mapping Outcome, Journal of Web Semantics, 15, 2012, p15 - 36
Wei Tai, Kevin Feeney, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Manageable Dataset Curation for Linked Data , The 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2012), Galway, Ireland, 8-12 October, edited by ten Teije, A.; Völker, J.; Handschuh, S.; Stuckenschmidt, H.; d'Acquin, M.; Nikolov, A.; Aussenac-Gilles, N.; Hernandez, N. (Eds.) , 2012
Brian Walshe, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullilvan, A Comparison of Complex Correspondence Detection Techniques, 7th International Workshop on Ontology Matching, International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, 11th November 2012, 2012
K McGlinn, R Brennan, D O'Sullivan, D Lewis, The simcon generator: An interactive context simulator for rapid evaluation of smart building applications using virtual reality, Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2011
Rob Brennan, Zohar Etzioni, John Keeney, Kevin Feeney, Declan O'Sullivan, William Fitzgerald, Simon Foley, Federated Autonomic Management of HAN Services, Proceedings of 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011), 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011), Dublin, May 23-27, 2011, edited by N. Agoulmine, C. Bartolini, T. Pfeifer, D. O'Sullivan , IEEE, 2011, pp646-649
Fu B., Brennan R., O'Sullivan D., Using Pseudo Feedback to Improve Cross-Lingual Ontology Mapping, LNCS, 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Heraklion, Greece, May 29th - June 2nd, edited by Grigoris Antoniou, Marko Grobelnik, Elena Simperl, Bijan Parsia, Dimitris Plexousakis, Jeff Pan and Pieter De Leenheer , 6643, (Part 1), Springer, 2011, pp336 - 351
Hendrik Thomas, Rob Brennan, Declan O'sullivan, MooM - a Prototype Framework for Management of Ontology Mappings, 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Singapore, 22-25 March, 2011, edited by Hwee-Pink Tan, David Taniar, Minoru Uehara , IEEE, 2011, pp548 - 555
Kevin Feeney, Simon N. Foley, Rob Brennan: , A Trust Model for Capability Delegation in Federated Policy Systems., Sixth International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, Timișoara, Romania, Sept 26-28, 2011, 2011, pp47 - 54
Kris McGlinn, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Dave Lewis., An Interactive Context Simulator for Rapid Evaluation of Smart Building Applications using Virtual Reality, 8th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2011), co-located with 9th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2011), Seattle, USA, March 21 - 25, 2011, 2011
Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, Brian Walshe, Hendrik Thomas, Declan O'Sullivan, Explicit Federal Relationship Management to Support Semantic Integration, 1st IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Managing Federations and Cooperative Management, Dublin, 23rd May 2011, IEEE, 2011, pp1148-1156
Kevin Feeney, Rob Brennan, John Keeney, Hendrik Thomas, Dave Lewis, Aidan Boran, Declan O'Sullivan, Enabling decentralised management through federation, Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), 54, (16), 2010, p2825-2839
Rob Brennan, Joel Fleck II, Sven van der Meer (Eds.), Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments, 5th IEEE International workshop, MACE 2010, Proceedings, Berlin Heidelberg New York, Springer, 2010, 1 - 123pp
Zohar Etzioni, John Keeney, Rob Brennan, David Lewis, Supporting Composite Smart Home Services with Semantic Fault Management, The 5th International Symposium on Smart Home (SH 2010) at FutureTech 2010, Busan, Korea, 21-23 May 2010, 2010, pp1 - 8
Federating Autonomic Network Management Systems for Flexible Control of End to End Communications Services in, editor(s)Nazim Agoulmine and James Won-Ki Hong , Autonomic Network Management Principles, Elsevier, 2010, [Brendan Jennings, Kevin Chekov Feeney, Rob Brennan, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich and Sven van der Meer]
D. O'Byrne, R. Brennan, D.O'Sullivan, Implementing the Draft W3C Semantic Sensor Network Ontology, 7th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS), PerCom 2010, Mannheim, Germany, March 29, 12, multicon verlag and IEEE Xplore, 2010, pp49 - 54
Fu B., Brennan R., O'Sullivan D., Cross-Lingual Ontology Mapping and Its Use on the Multilingual Semantic Web, 1st Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, at the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, USA, April 27th, 2010, edited by Buitelaar P., Cimiano P., Montiel-Ponsoda E., , CEUR Vol.571, 2010, pp13 - 20
K. Feeney, J. Keeney, R. Brennan, D. O'Sullivan, An Architecture for Affective Management of Systems of Adaptive Systems, Lecture Notes Computer Science, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communication Environments (MACE 2010), CNSM 2010, Niagra Falls, Canada, October 28th, LCNS 6473, Springer, 2010, pp62 - 72
Fu B., Brennan R., O'Sullivan D., Evaluation of a Semantic-Oriented Approach to Cross-Lingual Ontology Mapping, EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-15th October 2010, CEUR-WS Vol.674, 2010, pp123-129
Brennan, R.; Feeney, K.; Keeney, J.; O'Sullivan, D.; Fleck, J.J., II; Foley, S.; van der Meer, S.; , Multidomain IT architectures for next-generation communications service providers [Next-Generation Telco IT Architectures], IEEE Communications Magazine, 48, (8), 2010, p110 - 117
Colm Conroy, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, David Lewis, User Evaluation Study of a Tagging Approach to Semantic Mapping , Lecture Notes in Computer Science, European Semantic Web Conference, Crete, Greece, June 2009, LNCS 5554/2009, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, pp623 - 637
Hendrik Thomas, Declan O'Sullivan and Rob Brennan , Ontology Mapping Representations: a Pragmatic Evaluation , International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009, Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, 2009, pp228-232
Rob Brennan, Wei Tai, Declan O'Sullivan, Muhammad S. Aslam, Susan Rea, Dirk Pesch, Open Framework Middleware for Intelligent WSN Topology Adaption in Smart Buildings, International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications & Workshops, 2009. ICUMT '09. , St Pertersburg, Russia, 12 - 14 Oct 2009, IEEE, 2009, pp1-7
Fu B., Brennan R., O'Sullivan D., Cross-lingual Ontology Mapping - An Investigation of the Impact of Machine Translation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China, 6-9 December 2009, edited by A. Gómez-Pérez, Y. Yu, and Y. Ding , 5926, (1), Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp1 - 15
Paul Mara, Rob Brennan, Declan O'Sullivan, Marcus Keane, Kris Mc Glinn, James O'Donnell, Pervasive Knowledge-Based Networking for Maintenance Inspection in Smart Buildings , multicon lecture notes, 6th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS), Barcelona, Spain, June 15th, 10, multicon verlag and ACM digital library, 2009, pp67 - 75
Hendrik Thomas, Declan O'Sullivan, Rob Brennan, Evaluation of Ontology Mapping Representations, Workshop on Matching and Meaning, AISB 2009 Convention , Edinburgh, April 9th, 2009, 2009, pp22 - 27
Brendan Jennings, Rob Brennan, William Donnelly, Simon N. Foley, Dave Lewis, Declan O'Sullivan, John Strassner, Sven van der Meer, Challenges for Federated, Autonomic Network Management in the Future Internet, 1st IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet,, New York, 5 June 2009, 2009, pp87-92
Wei Tai, Rob Brennan, John Keeney, Declan O'Sullivan, An Automatically Composable OWL Reasoner for Resource Constrained Devices, Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2009 (ICSC '09) , Berkeley, CA, USA, 14-16 September, IEEE, 2009, pp495-502
R. Brennan, D. Lewis, J. Keeney, Z. Etzioni, K. Feeney, D. O'Sullivan, J.A. Lozano, B. Jennings, Policy-based Integration of Multi-Provider Digital Home Services, IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on Digital Home Services, 23, (6), 2009, p50 - 55
Colm Conroy, Declan O'Sullivan, David Lewis, Rob Brennan, Ontology Mapping for the Masses: A Tagging Approach, IEEE Intelligent Systems , 23, (6), 2008, p77 - 79
R. Stewart, I. Arias-Rodriguez, K. Poon, A. Caro, M. Tuexen (Eds), RFC 4460: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Specification Errata and Issues, 1, 2006, -
TeleManagement Forum, TMF058 CO-OP High level Architecture, 1, 2005, -
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rob Brennan, Joeran Beel, Ruth Byrne and Jeremy Debattista, Preface: The 26th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2018), 26th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS, 2018, pp1 - 7
Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, Building and Publishing Social-Science Datasets on the Web with RDF and Linked Data , Digital & Computational Humanities - Tools & Thought, Aarhus University, 14 Nov 2013, 2013
Rob Brennan, Kevin Feeney, US Political Violence, 1.03, TCD, 2013
Rob Brennan, Ontologies in a Federated World, TM Forum Management World convention, Dublin, May 2012, 2012, TMF
Rob Brennan, FAME Scenario E, Home Area Networks , HOMEWORK annual plenary workshop, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, 10 Jan 2011, 2011, HOMEWORK project
Research Expertise
Description
Data value and quality, data curation, semantic mapping, distributed systems, network and service managementProjects
- Title
- Intelligent Data Quality Centric Recommender System
- Summary
- Data quality impacts data's fitness for use for the application at hand. There are a wide range of quality indicators that can be used to quantify quality. However, it is a challenge for consumers to identify the most appropriate quality indicators for choosing a dataset for a specific task. This problem stems from the fact that different domains require different quality indicators to demonstrate fitness for use. Whilst a number of quality assessment frameworks exist, none of these tackle the fundamental challenge of indicator selection. The novelty of this project is that it provides an intelligent recommender system that builds on top of existing quality frameworks in order to assist data consumers by automatically suggesting quality indicators for the task at hand. These quality indicators will then facilitate the task dependent appraisal of datasets on the Web of Data. The goal is to support data consumers and enhance their productivity by finding fit for use data sources for their tasks.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 1 Oct 2017
- Date To
- 30 Sept 2019
- Title
- Ordnance Survey Ireland ADAPT Spoke III
- Summary
- Investigating methods and tools to publish OSi's reference geospatial data for Ireland as Linked Data.
- Funding Agency
- OSi/SFI
- Date From
- 1/1/2017
- Date To
- 20/1/2018
- Title
- ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology
- Summary
- Funded Collaborator in SFI research centre focused on digital data management, quality and interoperability (Theme E within the research centre).
- Funding Agency
- SFI
- Date From
- 1/1/2015
- Date To
- 31/12/2020
- Title
- ALIGNED, quality-centric software and data engineering
- Summary
- The rapid growth of web data creates demand for software engineering methods which can build and maintain applications that extract, process and publish web data. However, converting Big Data sources into high-quality, structured knowledge for use in business processes is usually considered data engineering. ALIGNED will develop models, methods and tools for engineering information systems based on co-evolving software and web data. Tools for model-driven software evolution based on Linked Data sources, runtime data quality analytics, human data curation and process integration will aid more efficient governance, increased agility and higher productivity. The opportunities for web data have recently led to intense research and innovation, but most efforts are siloed in the software or data spaces. Past integration of data and software engineering used formal ontologies rather than Linked Data. ALIGNED will provide lightweight methods for European data and software engineering industries to exploit the new opportunities in web data. Information companies like Wolters Kluwer need better ways to extract web data and build applications on top of it. Public bodies like the UK National Health Service (NHS) need evolving systems for data collection and re-use. Web data publishers like DBpedia need new methods to improve data quality. Scientific publications, industry workshops, training programs, open source tools and engaging the OMG, W3C and ISO standards bodies will transfer ALIGNED outputs.ALIGNED combines world class researchers in model driven software engineering (Oxford are transforming NHS systems), Linked Data quality (Leipzig and Trinity College have published foundational papers) and web systems (Leipzig are co-creators of DBpedia) with innovative enterprises (Wolters Kluwer have Linked Data in production systems, Semantic Web Company lead the world in enterprise Linked Data) and pioneering expert-curated data publishers (Oxford Anthropology and Posnan).
- Funding Agency
- European Commission
- Date From
- 1/2/2015
- Date To
- 31/1/2018
- Title
- ValueData ICT16 Co-ordinator support
- Summary
- This project funds my development of the ValueDate H2020 proposal for value-driven data governance. It includes writing support, consortium meetings and buy-out of my regular research responsibilities so that I can focus on proposal development.
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 1/1/2017
- Date To
- 25/4/2017
- Title
- FAME, Federated Autonomic Management of End to End Communications Services
- Summary
- Next-generation network management systems with an emphasis on telco solutions. The TCD focus is on adding semantics and rules to the modelling of management information and federating management systems to enable dynamic, end to end management across domains. Rob leads the Home Area Networks (HAN) scenario (working team) within the project.
- Funding Agency
- SFI
- Date From
- 1/1/2009
- Date To
- 30/6/2014
- Title
- CNGL, the centre for global intelligent content
- Summary
- CNGL is a collaborative academia-industry research centre dedicated to delivering disruptive innovations in digital intelligent content, and to revolutionising the global content value chain for enterprises, communities and individuals.
- Funding Agency
- SFI
- Date From
- March 2012
- Date To
- Sept 2015
- Title
- User Community for Power Consumption Data Collection
- Summary
- This project created a social space on the web for users to share information about the power consumption of devices in their home. It then used semantic techniques to automatically categorise and rank data entries for dynamic presentation to users.
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 1 Sept 2007
- Date To
- 31 Mar 2008
- Title
- Automated Harvesting of Web Intelligence
- Summary
- A critical source of business intelligence is product data-sheets published on the web in HTML or PDF formats. This work explored new techniques to harvest these specifications and to convert them into a structured knowledge model that can, if necessary, be re-published on the web either as directed advertising or for consumption by linked data mashup applications.
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 1st July 2010
- Date To
- 1st June 2011
- Title
- NEMBES, Networked Embedded Systems
- Summary
- The next phase of embedded systems research is networked embedded systems (NES) where embedded systems communicate to form networks of distributed intelligence from the local scale, e.g. responsive buildings, to massively networked systems, e.g. environmental monitoring. This is a unique project addressing the issue of networked embedded systems (e.g. sensors) in a holistic way across the stack from chip design, networking, middleware, and service management. This project is being undertaken with a cross-disciplinary team in conjunction with groups in CIT, UCC, UCD and TCD's DSG. In this project, KDEG is furthering its research in semantic interoperability, semantic driven information routing and declarative means for adapting behaviour of individual devices and their co-ordination within a network.
- Funding Agency
- HEA
- Date From
- Oct 1 2007
- Date To
- Sept 30 2011
- Title
- ALIGNED Project Proposal Preparation
- Summary
- This project supported the development of an EU H2020 project called ALIGNED co-ordinated by Rob Brennan as PI. It was originally to be called SEDICE but changed to ALIGNED during the preparation process.
- Funding Agency
- Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 17 Jan 2014
- Date To
- 17 Sept 2014
- Title
- GANDALF: Monitoring and self-tuning of Radio Resource Managment parameters in a multi-system network
- Summary
- Third generation mobile systems are driving a multi-system network landscape. Network management is crucial to guarantee optimum cooperation between network sub-systems. The aim of the GANDALF project is to use large scale network monitoring, advanced RRM rules and appropriate quality of service evaluation in order to achieve automation of network management tasks in a multi-system environment (GSM, GPRS, UMTS and WLAN). The GANDALF project will contribute to the following areas: Optimisation of the use of the available radio resources Provision of seamless services Monitoring and evaluation of Global user-perceived QoS for multi-system networks including WLAN Enhancement of global user perceived QoS Automated network management The project will develop appropriate techniques to collect and process network data on a large scale in order to produce key performance indicators allowing identifying malfunctions and / or to dynamically propose and perform healing actions. To optimise QoS delivery and overall systems performance in a multi-system environment, the project will propose new radio resource management algorithms together with methods for self-tuning. The project will demonstrate through network simulations the feasibility of the multi-system self-tuning concept. Finally, hardware demonstrations will also prove the viability of the ARRM and auto-tuning concepts developed in the project.
- Funding Agency
- CELTIC/Enterprise Ireland
- Date From
- 2005
- Date To
- 2006
- Title
- MARINER, Multi-Agent system for Intelligent Load Control
- Summary
- Using a market-based approach with co-operative intelligent agents to control load in telecoms signalling networks.
- Funding Agency
- EC
- Date From
- 1998
- Date To
- 2001
Recognition
Representations
Created the Trinity Access Program (TAP) course in computer science ("Wikipedia") and have presented this course at the TAP summer school each year since. Ireland.
External Examiner, National College of Ireland, BSc in Computing, BSc in Business Information Systems, Ireland
Editorial Board (Computer Science and Communications area), Scientific World Journal (Impact factor 1.219), Hindawi Publishing, China.
Review panel member, Waterford Institute of Technology MSc in Computing (Communications Software)
Review panel member, Dublin City University BEng in Digital Media Engineering degree.
Scientific Evaluator, Enterprise Ireland competitive feasibility fund for SMEs
Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine (Impact factor 3.661), USA
Reviewer, The Scientific World Journal (Impact factor 1.219), Hindawi publishing corporation, China
Reviewer, Journal of Network and Systems Management, MDPI Sensors (Impact factor 1.953), Switzerland
Reviewer, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer, Germany
Awards and Honours
Enterprise Ireland Champion of EU Research
ADAPT Centre Director's Award for EU Research Leadership
Elected Senior Research Fellow by Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics
Excellence Award for the GANDALF Project for outstanding achievements in the CELTIC research program.
High Perfromance Employee, Ericsson