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Professor Hans W. Guesgen
Chair of Computer Science

School of Engineering and Advanced Technology
Massey University
Private Bag 11222
Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand

Room 3.90, Ag/Hort Building
Turitea Campus

T +64 (6) 356 9099 extn 7364
F +64 (6) 350 2259
h.w.guesgen@massey.ac.nz

Research Interests

My main research interests are in the areas of smart environments, ambient computing and intelligence, knowledge representation and inference, constraint satisfaction, and spatio-temporal reasoning. Most of my publications are in these areas.

More information about my research can be found on the Web:

I am an honorary research associate at the Computer Science Department of the University of Auckland.

MSc and PhD Topics

If you are interested in research related to smart environments, contact me for potential research topics. Depending on your preferences, you can either pursue a more theoretical thesis or a more practical one. Topic areas include methods for reasoning about human behaviour, formalisms to utilise spatio-temporal context information, interaction with ambient intelligence systems, and many more.

Book on Human Behavior Recognition

Stephen Marsland and I are co-editing a book that aims at covering the computational aspects, the primary applications, and the social, ethical, and legal implications of human behaviour recognition. The deadline for chapter proposals is 11 January 2011. Details about the book can be found in the Call for Chapters

Special Journal Issues

Mehul Bhatt, Stefan Woelfl, Shyamanta Hazarika, and I are co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation on Emerging Applications of Spatial and Temporal Reasoning. The special issue has been conceived with the aim to build on the results of thematically complementing events organised in 2009 (see below). All papers will undergo the review procedures of the journal and will have to meet the publication guidelines. Details about the special issue can be found in the Call for Papers.

In addition to this, there will be a special issue of the Journal of Universal Computer Science on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Reasoning, co-edited by Mehul Bhatt and me. For this issue we invite original contributions reporting new theoretical advances related to spatial and temporal reasoning, e.g., construction of new spatial calculi that serve application-specific needs, the formal modeling of dynamically varying spatial knowledge, the role of commonsense reasoning and non-monotonic forms of inference in a spatial context, and techniques and tools that are consistent with standard results within the community from an ontological and computational viewpoint. Details about the special issue can be found in the Call for Papers.

Recent Service Contributions

Member of the editorial boards for the International Journal of Applied Intelligence and the Journal of Universal Computer Science
Program co-chair of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Chair of the Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning at the 20th International FLAIRS Conference
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at the 22nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Special tracks coordinator and co-chair of the Special Track on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning at the 21st International FLAIRS Conference
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning and co-presenter of the Tutorial on Ambient Intelligence at the 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Program co-chair of the 22nd International FLAIRS Conference
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning at the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatial and Temporal Reasoning for Ambient Intelligence Systems at the 9th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory
Co-chair of the Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Dynamics at the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence