PhD Candidate in Computer Science, with an emphasis in Cognitive Science

badams at cs.ucsb.edu

Affiliations

Spatial Cognitive Engineering (SpaCE) Lab

Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

UCSB Cognitive Science Program

Research Interests

GIScience, geospatial semantics, topic modeling, knowledge representation, organization, and reasoning, ontology engineering, cognitive modeling

Peer-reviewed papers and posters

1. B. Adams and K. Janowicz (to appear) On the Geo-Indicativeness of non-Georeferenced Text. In: Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12), AAAI Press.


2. B. Adams and G. McKenzie (to appear) Frankenplace: An Application for Similarity-Based Place Search. In: Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12), AAAI Press.


3. B. Adams and G. McKenzie (to appear) Inferring Thematic Places from Spatially Referenced Natural Language Descriptions. In: D. Sui, S. Elwood, and M. Goodchild (Eds.), Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge, Springer.


4. B. Adams and K. Janowicz (2011) Constructing Geo-Ontologies by Reification of Observation Data. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2011 (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011).


5. K. Grossner and B. Adams (2011) COSIT at Twenty: Measuring Research Trends and Interdisciplinarity. Spatial Information Theory – 10th International Conference, COSIT 2011 Poster Session.


6. M. Raubal and B. Adams (2010) The Semantic Web Needs More Cognition. Semantic Web Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 1(1-2), 69—74.


7. K. Janowicz, B. Adams, and M. Raubal (2010) Semantic Referencing – Determining Context Weights for Similarity Measurement. In: S. Fabrikant, T. Reichenbacher, M. van Kreveld, and C. Sclieder (Eds.), Geographic Information Science - Sixth International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17 2010 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6292, pp. 70-84, Springer, Berlin.


8. B. Adams, L. Li, M. Raubal, and M. Goodchild (2010) A General Framework for Conflation. Geographic Information Science - 6th International Conference, GIScience 2010, Extended Abstracts Volume. R. Purves and R. Weibel (Eds.). Zurich, Switzerland.


9. M. Brachman and B. Adams (2010) Theoretical Framework for a Mobile Emergency Decision Support and Routing Application. Sixth International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM 2010). Torino, Italy, February 2010.


10. B. Adams and M. Raubal (2009) A Metric Conceptual Space Algebra. In K. Steward Hornsby, G. Ligozat, C. Claramunt, and M. Denis (Eds.), Spatial Information Theory - 9th International Conference, COSIT 2009, Aber Wrac'h, France, September 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5756, pp. 51-68, Springer, Berlin.


11. B. Adams and M. Raubal (2009) Conceptual Space Markup Language (CSML): Towards the Cognitive Semantic Web. In Proceedings of Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp.253-260, Berkeley, CA, September 14-16, 2009.


12. J. Ventura, A. Forbes, B. Adams, S. Joshi, K. Grossner, M. Bulger, T. Hollerer, and B. S. Manjunath (2009) IssueBrowser: Knowledge Aquisition via Multimedia Data. In proceedings of The Future of Interactive Media: Workshop on Media Arts, Science, and Technology (MAST), January 29-30, 2009, Santa Barbara, CA.


13. F. Tarifa and B. Adams (2007) Who's the Sick Man of Europe? A Wavering EU Should Let Turkey In. Mediterranean Quarterly 18(1), 52-74.

Teaching (TA)

Summer 2010 - CS 40 - Foundations of Computer Science
Fall 2008 - CS 165A - Artificial Intelligence

Awards

NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Trainee in Interactive Digital Multimedia 2007-2009