About Me

Dr. Simon Polovina is a Senior Lecturer in Business Computing within the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has eight years of industrial experience in accounting and information and communication technologies (ICT), and has published widely with over 80 learned publications to date. His interests are in the use of Smart Applications and how they can detect novel or unusual transactions that would otherwise remain as lost business opportunities or represent illicit business or criminal activity. An underlying theme of this work is Conceptual Structures (CS), which harmonises the human conceptual approach to problem solving with the formal structures that computer applications need to bring their productivity to bear. He is editor-in-chief of the forthcoming International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA) published by IGI-Global. He has technical expertise in SAP technologies, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Web technologies, Java, Object-oriented Analysis and Design, Conceptual Modelling of organisations as Multi-agent Systems, and in Interaction Design. He is a Principal Investigator for the prestigious European Commission 7th Framework Programme project CUBIST (“Combining and Unifying Business Intelligence with Semantic Technologies”), where he is applying CS and co-managing the project. CUBIST is centred on applying smart technologies (namely CS and the Semantic Web) to Business Intelligence. It is a €4m project funded under topic 4.3: Intelligent Information Management.

Simon was the General Chair for the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2007): "Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications", Program Chair for the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2011): "Conceptual Structures for Discovering Knowledge", and co-chair for a number of workshops. We look forward to the next ICCS.

In his spare time Simon enjoys Real Ale. To compensate for this indulgence somewhat, he goes walking to and from work and in the Peak District. He also exercises at Sport Hallam.

To find out more about Simon you can visit his personal Website.

Simon Polovina
17 October 2011