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I am currently an Associate Professor with the Department
of Computing in the Division of
Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie
University.
My office is located in E6A 367.
Look at what I've been up to at the Australian
Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
Catch up with me at:
2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop 15-16 2008 to be held
with PRICAI'08 December 17-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam
If you miss me there - here's another chance
Agent
Based
Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment(ABSHLE) Workshop to
be held at
AAMAS'09 in Budapest in Hungary.
Academic Profile
Research Interests
Events of Interest/Program Committees
Publications
Software/Demos
PhD Thesis
Me
Photo Gallery
I have a Master of
Applied Science in Information Studies from Charles
Sturt University - Riverina and a Bachelor of Business majoring in
Computing and
Management Information Systems (MIS) from Charles Sturt University -
Mitchell. I completed these studies whilst working in the computer
industry since 1980 in roles ranging from operator to analyst/programmer
to manager and consultant.
My Masters Degree thesis "The Adaptation of Traditional Expert
Systems to Provide 'What-If' Processing in the Decision Support System
Style" developed an approach to changing the system style of an
existing ES from consultation mode to a more exploratory and user-controlled
mode without alteration to the domain knowledge. The approach was developed
and tested on AusVit, a viticulture (grape production) expert system which
advises vineyard managers on what course of action should be taken regarding
various pests and diseases. The study suggests that one knowledge base
can support a range of interaction styles, effectively reusing the knowledge
and making it a more valuable resource.
Under the supervision of Prof. Paul Compton at the University of New
South
Wales, my PhD research carried on from this idea by considering how
knowledge
which was captured for such purposes as consultation may be reused to to
allow alternative uses such as causal modelling, tutoring, explanation or
critiquing. More specifically I looked at how
to reuse knowledge bases(KB) built by a knowledge acquisition technique
known as Ripple Down Rules (RDR). I looked at the compaction of RDR KB to remove
repetition and improve the clarity of the KB for such tasks as explanation
and how rough sets (Pawlak 1991) may be used to verify and validate KBS
and find dependencies between attributes, values, rules and conclusions. My
main offering was the ability to automatically generate a terminological KBS
(in the form of an abstraction hierarchy) from the RDR assertional KBS using
Formal Concept Analysis (Wille 1982). Starting with
assertions and retrospectively generating an ontology avoided the problems
associated with capturing and validating models since RDR is a simple,
case-based KA technique that allows assertions to be acquired, maintained
and validated directly by domain experts.
- Knowledge Acquisition and Reuse
- Knowledge Management
- Capturing and Modelling Innovation Knowledge
- Technology in Education and Training
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Machine Learning, Data and Knowledge Mining
- Qualitative and Cognitive Modelling
- Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Interfaces
- Visualisation and Navigation of Large Lattices
Agent
Based
Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment(ABSHLE) Workshop to
be held at
AAMAS'09 in Budapest in Hungary.
2008 Pacific Rim Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop 15-16 2008 to be held
with PRICAI'08 December 17-19 in Hanoi, Vietnam
Knowledge
Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008)September 17, 2008
with KR'08 Sydney, Australia, September 16-19, 2008
Australian Ontology Workshop to be held at AI'0 December 2-5 in
Gold Coast, Australia
20th ACS Australian
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
to be held December 2-6 in Gold Coast, Australia
IE 2007: The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive
Entertainment to be held December 3-5 in Melbourne, Australia
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 21st ANZAM 2007
Conference to be held December 4-7 in Sydney, Australia
The 11th International Conference
on CSCW in Design to be held April 26-28, 2007, Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
2007 International Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems to be held May 14-18, 2007
at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
11th Australian Workshop on
Requirements Engineering to be held in conjunction
with ACIS 2006 in Adelaide in December, Saturday 9th December
6th International
Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management Nov. 30th -
Dec. 1st, 2006
The Second
International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging
(AWeSOMe'06) Montpellier, France, 29 Oct 2006, In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf
Knowledge Management Track
held at IRMA'06 in May in Washington, USA
Agent
Based
Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment(ABSHLE) Workshop held at
AAMAS'07 in May in Hawaii
You might have seen me at:
Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 21st ANZAM 2007
Conference to be held December 4-7 in Sydney, Australia
HCSNet/Hxi Workshop on Human Issues in Interaction and Interactive
Interfaces to be held September 13-14 in Sydney, Australia
2nd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and
Management to be held Novemeber 28-30 in Melbourne, Australia
8th conference of the Australasian Society for Cognitive Science
to be held July 9-12 in Adelaide, Australia
SimTecT 2007: Simulation Conference and Exhibition to be held
June 4-7 in Brisbane, Australia
The 11th International Conference
on CSCW in Design to be held April 26-28, 2007, Swinburne University
of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
2007 International Conference
on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems to be held May 14-18, 2007
at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
Agent
Based
Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment(ABSHLE) Workshop held at
AAMAS'07 in May in Hawaii.
IE 2006: The Third Australasian Conference on Interactive
Entertainment to be held December 4-6 in Perth, Australia
Pacific Rim Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop held at PRICAI'06 in August in
Guilin, China
Knowledge Management Track
held at IRMA'06 in May in Washington, USA
Agent Based
Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop held at
AAMAS'06 in May in Hakodate, Japan
Agent Based
Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL) Workshop held at
AAMAS'05 in July in Utrecht
and Ontologies for Networked
Systems Workshop held in November at WISE'04 in Brisbane
- Richards, D. and Busch, P. (2008) Finding and Growing
Innovators: Keeping ahead of the Competition, Fang Zhao (ed.) Handbook of
Research on Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Idea
Group Inc., Hershey, PA. USA (accepted January 26 2007).
- Richards, D., Editor (2008) Special issue on "Agent Based Systems
for Human Learning" of the Journal International Transactions on Systems
Science and Applications (ITTSA), Vol 4(2) (2008). ISSN 1751-1461
- Richards, D., Szilas, N., Kavakli, M., Dras, M., 2007: Impacts of
Visualisation, Interaction and Immersion on Learning with An Agent-Based
Training Simulation, Special issue on "Agent Based Systems for Human
Learning" of the Journal International Transactions on Systems Science and
Applications (ITTSA), (accepted on 19 October 2007), 1-16.
- Richards, D., Busch, P., Venkitachalam, K., (2007) Ethnicity-based
cultural differences in implicit managerial knowledge usage in three
Australian organizations Knowledge Management Research and Practice 5(3)
pp: 173-185. ISSN: 1477-8238, eISSN 1477-8246.
- Richards, D. (2007) A Call for Change in the Call Center, Special
Issue of "Interacting with Knowledge Management Systems" in Journal of
Organizational and End User Computing, 20(1): 64-75. ISSN: 1546-2234
EISSN: 1546-5012
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Valuation of a turnover management HRM policy bundle
using Monte Carlo simulated real options Urquhart, D and Richards,
D. , SimTecT 2008: Simulation Conference: Simulation - Maximising
Organisational Benefits, Melbourne Conference Centre, 12-15 May, 2008,
1-6.
- Kavakli, M., Richards, D., Dras, M., and Porte, J. (2007)
An Immersive Virtual Reality Training Simulation for Risk Management,
SimTecT 2007: Simulation Conference: Simulation - Improving Capability and
Competitiveness, 4 June - 7 June 2007, Brisbane Convention Centre, 1-6.
- Richards, D., Taylor, M and P. Busch (2008) Expertise
Recommendation: A two-way communication channel for managing knowledge,
The Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
(ICAS 2008) March 16-21, 2008 - Gosier, Guadeloupe (accepted November 20,
2007).
- Richards, D., (2008) Acquiring Knowledge As You Play, The Fourth
International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2008)
March 16-21, 2008 - Gosier, Guadeloupe (accepted November 20, 2007).
- Gray, Pamela N., Gray, Xenogene, and Richards, Deborah (2007)
Gödel, Escher, Bach and Super-expertise. Zili Zhang, Jörg H. Siekmann
(Eds.): Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, Second
International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30,
2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4798 Springer 2007,
599-604. ISBN 978-3-540-76718-3
- Fassbender, E. and Richards, D. (2007) Using a Dance Pad to
navigate through the Virtual Heritage environment of Macquarie Lighthouse,
Sydney, 14th Conference on Virtual System and MultiMedia (VSMM.07),
Brisbane.
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Vazey, M. and Richards, D. (2006) A Case-Classification-Conclusion 3Cs
Approach to Knowledge Acquisition - Applying a Classification Logic Wiki
to the Problem Solving Process. International Journal of Knowledge
Management (IJKM), Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp 72-88; article #ITJ3096, Jan-Mar
2006.
- Collaborative
Learning: Some Possibilities and Limitations for Students and
Teachers Bower, M and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of ASCILITE'2006, Sydney, December 3-6.
- Fun
and Feedback at the Press of a Button Richards,
D., Braiding, K and Vaughan, A. The Proceedings of ASCILITE'2006, Sydney,
December 3-6.
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Ad-Hoc And Personal Ontologies:A Prototyping Approach to Ontology Engineering Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
(PKAW'2006), August 7th and 8th, Guilin, China.
- Evaluation
of the FastFIX
Prototype 5Cs CARD System Vazey, M and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
(PKAW'2006), August 7th and 8th, Guilin, China.
-
Acquiring Innovation Knowledge Busch, P. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
(PKAW'2006), August 7th and 8th, Guilin, China.
- INNOVATION
KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION: The Tacit Knowledge of Novices Busch, P. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of Intelligent Information Processing
(IIP'2006), 20-22nd September 2006, Adelaide.
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Capturing and Reusing Rationale Associated with Requirements
Engineering Process Improvement: A Case Study , Palyagar, B. and
Richards, D. in A.H. Dutoit, R. McCall, I. Mistrik, B.
Paech (eds.) Rationale Management in Software Engineering Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg, April, 2006.
-
Is Interactivity Actually Important? Richards, D. Proceedings of
the Third Australasian Conference on
Interactive Entertainment (IE'2006), 4-6 December 2006, Perth.
- Towards Improving
A Communication Protocol for Requirements Engineering Processes,
Palyagar, B. and Richards, D. Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering for Software Quality
(REFSQ.2005).
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The role of Social Networks in Tacit Knowledge Diffusion Busch, P. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the 17th IRMA International Conference, May 21-24,
2006, Washington, D. C., USA
- Construction
of Ontology for
Reuse of Concept by Formal Concept Analysis: Improvement of Precision
and Recall for Web Information Retrieval in a Narrow Domain, Cho,
W. C.
and Richards, D. Web
Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS)
-
The role of Social Networks in Tacit Knowledge Diffusion Busch, P. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the 17th IRMA International Conference, May 21-24,
2006, Washington, D. C., USA
-
Quantitative versus qualitative approaches to tacit knowledge
testing Busch, P., Richards, D. and Flax, L. The Proceedings of
the 17th IRMA International Conference, May 21-24,
2006, Washington, D. C., USA
-
Agent-Driven Knowledge Exchange in a 3D Learning Environment
Fassbender, E. and
Richards, D., Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL'2006)Workshop
at The Fifth
International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi
Agent Systems, (AAMAS'06) May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Japan.
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Human and Software Agents Learning TogetherDebbie Richards, Jason
Barles, Nicolas Szilas, Manolya Kavakli, Mark Dras, Agent Based Systems for Human Learning (ABSHL'2006) Workshop
at The Fifth International Joint
Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi
Agent Systems, (AAMAS'06) May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Japan.
-
The use of agents in human learning systems Sklar, E. and
Richards, D. The Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi
Agent Systems, (AAMAS'05) May 8-12, 2006, Hakodate, Japan.
- Training the training system, Richards, D. and Szilas, N.,
Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Intelligent User, 29
January - 1 February, 2006, Sydney, Australia.
-
Automatic construction of a concept hierarchy to assist Web document classification Cho,
W. C. and Richards, D. Proceedings 2nd International conference on Information Management and Business
(IMB2006), 13-16 February, 2006, Sydney, Australia.
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An Approach to Understand, Capture and Nurture Creativity and Innovation Knowledge
Richards, D. and Busch, P. The
Proceedings 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS2005) November 30-December 2nd, Sydney, Australia.
- The
application of Social Network Analysis to Knowledge Management
Busch, P. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS2005) November 30-December 2nd, Sydney, Australia.
-
Closing the Gap Between Different Knowledge Sources and Types
in the Call Centre Richards, D. and Vazey, M. The
Proceedings 15th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
(ACIS2005) November 30-December 2nd, Sydney, Australia.
-
Actors vs. Animation for Adult Learning Richards, D. and Barles,
In J. Yusuf Pisan (ed.) Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on
Interactive Entertainment (IE.2005), 23-25 November 2005, Sydney,
Australia, 163-166.
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The Use of Emotions to create Believable Agents in a Virtual Environment, Selvarajah, K. and Richards,
The Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi
Agent Systems, (AAMAS.05) July 24-29, 2005, Utrecht, The
Netherlands, 13-20.
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Organisation Design and Structure with regard to the Facilitation
of Tacit Knowledge Management Busch, P., Vazey, M. and Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the 16th IRMA International Conference,
May 15-18, 2005, San Diego, California, USA, 877-879.
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Intelligent Management of Call Centre Knowledge Vazey, M. and
Richards,
D. The Proceedings of the 16th IRMA International Conference,
May 15-18, 2005, San Diego, California, USA, 872-873.
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Towards Improving Requirements Engineering Processes: Prioritizing
Requirements Engineering Process Problems for Elimination
Palyagar, B. and Richards, D. (2004) The
Proceedings of the tennth Australian
Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE'2005)
- Implications
of Tacit Knowledge Research on Artificial Intelligence Busch,
P. and Richards, D. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA'2005), February
14-16, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Troubleshooting
At The Call Centre: A Knowledge-Based Approach Vazey,
M. and Richards, D. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA'2005), February
14-16, Innsbruck, Austria.
-
Using Artificial Intelligence To Assist Psychological Testing
Selvarajah, K.
and Richards, D. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA'2005), February
14-16, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Self-Paced LecturesBower, M. and Richards, D. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Web-Based Education(WBE'2005), February
21-23, Grindelwald, Switzerland.
-
A Comparison of Online Media in Computer Science EducationBower,
M.
and Richards, D. Proceedings of the SIGCSE 2005
Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, St. Louis, Missouri USA
February 23-27, 2005
- Supporting
Communities of Practice: A Ripple Down Rules Approach to Call
Centre Management Vazey, M. and Richards, D.
(2004) The Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge
Management (ICKM'04), 13-15 December 2004, Singapore.
-
Tacit Knowledge Diffusion via Technology and Human Networks
Busch, P. and Richards, D.
(2004) The Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge
Management (ICKM'04), 13-15 December 2004, Singapore.
-
Applying Social Network Analysis to Knowledge Management Busch, P.
and Richards, D.
(2004) The Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge
Management (ICKM'04), 13-15 December 2004, Singapore.
- Tacit
Knowledge and Culture Busch, P. and Richards, D.
(2004) The Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge
Management (ICKM'04), 13-15 December 2004, Singapore.
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Enhancing Application Servers with Semantics Sabou M., Oberle D., Richards D.
In Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Systems (AWESOS 2004), 14 April 2004, Melbourne,
Australia.
- BayesTH-MCRDR
Algorithm for Automatic Classification of Web Document Cho, W.
C. and Richards, D.
(2004) Proceedings of the 17th Australian Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AI'2004), December 6-10, Cairns, Australia.
- Managing
Knowledge in IT Organisations - A Solution for
Corporate Support Centres, Vazey. M. and Richards, D.
Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent
Decision Support (ACKMIDS' 2004), Melbourne, Australia, 29-30
November 2004.
- Bussler, C., Hong, S., Jun, W., Kaschek, R., Kinshuk, Krishbaswamy,
S., Loke, S., Oberle, D., Richards, D., Sharma, A., Sure. Y. and R
Thalheim, B. (2004) Proceedings of the WISE'2004 International Workshops,
Brisbane, Australia, November, 22-24, 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence LNAI 3307, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
- Improvement
of Precision and Recall for Information Retrieval in a Narrow
Domain: Reuse of Concepts by Formal Concept Analysis Cho, W.
C. and Richards, D.
(2004) Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
Intelligence (WI'2004), September 20-24, Beijing, China.
- Acquisition
of Articulable Tacit Knowledge Busch, P. and Richards, D. (2004)
Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop (PKAW'04), in conjunction with The Eighth Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 9-13, 2004, Auckland, New
Zealand, 87-101.
- Achieving
Rapid Knowledge Acquisition Vazey, M. and Richards, D. (2004)
Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop (PKAW'04), in conjunction with The Eighth Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 9-13, 2004, Auckland, New
Zealand, 74-86.
- E-Mail
Document Categorization Using BayesTH-MCRDR Algorithm Cho, W.C.
and Richards, D. (2004) Proceedings of the Pacific Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop (PKAW'04), in conjunction with The Eighth Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 9-13, 2004, Auckland, New
Zealand, 226-240.
- Modelling
Tacit Knowledge via
Questionnaire Data
Busch, P. and Richards, D. (2004)
, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 04), February 23-26, 2004, Sydney,
Australia.
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Using Concept Lattices for Requirements Reconciliation Richards, D. (2004)
, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 04), February 23-26, 2004, Sydney,
Australia.
- An
Evaluation Study of the RECOCASE Viewpoint Methodology, Debbie
Richards, Anne Britt Fure In The Proceedings of the eighth Australian
Workshop on Requirements Engineering 4-5 December, 2003, Sydney,
53-62.
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Automated Component-Based Configuration: Promises and Fallacies,
,van
Splunter, S., Wijngaards, N.J.E., Brazier, F.M.T., Richards, D. In Proceedings of the Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems workshop
at the AISB 2004 Symposium., pp. 130-135.
- An
ontology for semantic middleware: extending DAML-S beyond web-services ,
Daniel Oberle, Marta Sabou, Debbie Richards, In The Proceedings of
International Conference on Ontologies, Database and Applications of
Semantics (ODBASE'2003) 3-7 November,
2003, Catania, Sicily.
- Artificial
Intelligence: A Promised Land for Web Services, Debbie
Richards, Marta Sabou, Sander van Splunter, F.M.T. Brazier,
In The Proceedings of The 8th Australian and New Zealand
Intelligent Information Systems Conference (ANZIIS2003), 10-12
December 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 205-210.
- The
Adaptation of Agent Configurations using Web Services as
Components, Debbie
Richards, Sander van Splunter, F.M.T. Brazier, Marta Sabou,
In The Proceedings of The 8th Australian and New Zealand
Intelligent Information Systems Conference (ANZIIS2003), 10-12
December 2003, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 339-344.
- Acquiring
and Applying Contextualised Tacit Knowledge,
Richards D. and Busch, P.
Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, Vol 2 (2),
June, 2003, 179-190
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Configuring Web Services, using Structuring and
Techniques from Agent
Configuration,
Sander van Splunter, Marta
Sabou, Frances Brazier and Debbie Richards In The Proceedings of the
IEEE/Web Intelligence Conference (WI-2003) Beijing, China, October
13-17,2003.
-
Semantic Markup for Semantic Web Tools: A DAML-S description
for Sesame,
Marta Sabou, Debbie Richards
In The Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC '03). Sanibel-Captiva Islands, Florida, October
20-24, 2003.
(postscript)
- Addressing the Ontology Acquisition Bottleneck through
Reverse Ontological
Engineering, Richards, D. Journal of Knowledge and
Information Systems
(KAIS), (2004) 6:402-427.
- Requirements
Reconciliation using a Computer Supported
Collaborative Approach, Richards, D.
Journal of Integrated Design and
Process Science, June 2003 7(2):113-129.
- An
Approach to Visualise and Reconcile Use Case Descriptions from Multiple
Viewpoints, Richards, D., Fure, A. and Aguilera, O. In Proceedings of
the
International Conference on Requirements Engineering(ICRE'03),
Monterey Bay, California, USA, September 8-12, 2003. IEEE
Press.
-
An experience report on using DAML-S.,
Marta Sabou, Debbie Richards, and Sander van Splunter
In The Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web
Conference Workshop on E-Services and the Semantic Web (ESSW '03).
Budapest, 2003.
(pdf)
-
Composing Web Services using an Agent Factory,
Debbie Richards, Sander van Splunter, Frances M.T. Brazier,
Marta Sabou,
In AAMAS
Workshop on Web Services and Agent-Based Engineering,
2003, 57-66.
- Towards Reconciling Use Cases via Controlled
Language and Graphical Models (2003). K. Boettger, R. Schwitter, D. Mollá, and
D. Richards.
In O. Bartenstein,
U. Geske, M. Hannebauer, O. Yoshie (eds.), Web-Knowledge
Management and Decision Support, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Vol. 2543, pp. 115-128, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg,
Germany.
- The
Meaning of Tacit Knowledge,
Dampney, C.G.N., Busch, P and Richards, D. Australian Journal
of Information Systems, December 2002: 3-13.
- Submit!
A Web-Based System for Automatic Program Critiquing,
Pisan, Y., Richards, D., Sloane, A, Koncek, H and Mitchell, S.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Australasian Computing Education
Conference (ACE2003) Adelaide, Australia February 2003:59-68
ISBN 0-909925-98-4
- Providing
Timely Feedback to Large Classes,
Pisan, Y., Sloane, A., Richards, D. and Dale, R. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE'02), Auckland,
New
Zealand, December 3-6, 2002. IEEE Press, 413-414.
- Helping
Teachers Implement Experience Based Learning,
Roy, J., Richards, D. and Pisan, Y. In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE'02), Auckland,
New
Zealand, December 3-6, 2002. IEEE Press, 1396-1397, ISBN:
0-7695-1509-6.
- Selected
Tacit Knowledge Observations within Two Organisations,
Busch, P., Richards D., Dampney, C.N.G and Galloway, J.,
In Proceedings of PAN-Sydney Area Workshop
on Visual Information Processing (VIP'2002 )December, 200, University
of
Sydney, Conferences in Research and Practice in Information
Technology, Volume 22, 2003, pages 5-12.
- Assisting
Decision Making in Requirements Reconciliation,
Richards, D. and Boettger, K.
Seventh International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative
Work in Design (CSCWD 2002) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 25-27,
2002.
- A
Controlled Language to Assist Conversion of Use Case
Descriptions,
Richards, D., Boettger, K and Aguilera, O.
15th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Canberra -
Australia December 2nd - 6th, 2002.
- Representing
Requirements in Natural Language as Concept
Lattices,
Richards, D. and Boettger, K.
the 22nd Annual International Conference of the
British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
(SGES), (ES2002), Cambridge, UK, December 10-12, 2002
- Reverse
Engineering Ontologies from Performance Systems,
Richards, D.
the 22nd Annual International Conference of the
British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
(SGES), (ES2002), Cambridge, UK, December 10-12, 2002
- RECOCASE-tool:
A CASE tool for RECOnciling Requirements
Viewpoints,
Richards, D., Boettger, K. and Fure, A. B.
The Seventh Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering, AWRE'2002, Melbourne, Australia, December 2-3, 2002.
- Using
RECOCASE to compare use cases from multiple sources,
Richards, D., Boettger, K. and Fure, A. B.
The Thirteenth Australasian Conference on Information Systems ACIS
2002, Melbourne, Australia, December 4-6, 2002.
- Merging Individual Conceptual Models of Requirements,
Richards, D.,
Special issue on Model-Based Requirements Engineering for the International
Journal of Requirements Engineering
- Multi-Level
Rule Discovery from Propositional Knowledge
Bases,
Richards, D. and Malik, U.
International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Multimedia and
Complex Data (KDMCD'02),
Taipei, Taiwan, May 6, 2002, 11-19.
- Ripple Down Rules: A Technique for Acquiring Knowledge,
Richards, D.
M. Mora, G. Forgionne, J.
Gupta (eds.) Decision Making Support Systems: Achievements and
Challenges for the Next Decade,
Idea Group Publishing Inc.
- Knowledge in Action: Blurring the Distinction Between
Explicit and Tacit Knowledge,
Busch, P. and Richards, D.
Journal of Decision Systems, Editions Hermes (accepted April 2002).
- Multi-Level Knowledge Discovery in Rule Bases,
Richards, D. and Malik, U.
Applied Artificial
Intelligence, Taylor and Francis Ltd, March 2003, 17(3):181-205
- Tacit Knowledge Management,
Busch, P. and Richards, D.
Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent
Decision Support (ACKMIDS' 2001), Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 December 2001.
- Acquiring
and Applying Contextualised Tacit Knowledge,
Richards D. and Busch, P.
Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent
Decision Support (ACKMIDS' 2001), Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 December 2001.
- Knowledge
Based System
Explanation: The Ripple Down Rules Alternative,
Richards D.
International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems,
Springer Verlag.
-
Design Ontology in Context: A Situated Cognition Approach to
Conceptual Modelling,
Richards D. and Simoff, S.
Special Issue on Conceptual Modelling in Design Computing in the
International Journal of Artifial Intelligence in Engineering 15 (2001)
121-136.
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Mining Social Network Analysis Data,
Richards D. and Higgins, P. In Proceeding of the 11th
Australasian
Conference on Information Systems,
December 5-7, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 527-536.
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Mapping Tacit Knowledge Flows in Organisation X,
Busch, P., Richards D. and Dampney, C.N.G. In Proceeding of the
11th Australasian
Conference on Information Systems,
December 5-7, Coffs Harbour, Australia, 85- 94
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Combining Cases and Rules to Provide Contextualised Knowledge
Based Systems,
Richards D. Third International Conference on Modeling
and Using Context (CONTEXT'01), Dundee, Scotland, July 27-30,
2001, LNAI 2116, Springer Verlag.
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Layered Earth Inversion Visual Toolkit: A Scientific Visualisation Case
Study,
Donohoo, A. and Richards D.,
In Proceedings of PAN-Sydney Area Workshop
on Visual Information Processing (VIP'2001)December 5, 2001, University of
Sydney.
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Visual Mapping of Articulable Tacit Knowledge,
Busch, P. and Richards D.,
In P. Eades and T. Pattison (eds.) Proceedings of Australian Symposium on
Information
Visualisation (InVis'2001)December 3-4, 2001, Sydney, 37-47.
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Reconciling Use Cases via Controlled Language and Graphical Models,
,
Boettger, K., Schwitter, R., Richards D., Aguilera, O. and
Molla D., INAP'2001, The Proceedings of the 14th International
Conference on Applications of Prolog, 20-22 October, 2001,
University of Tokyo, Japan, 186-195.
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Formalising tacit knowledge within organisation X ,
Busch, P., Richards D. and Dampney, C.N.G.,, European CSCW
2001 Workshop on Managing Tacit Knowledge September 16th. Bonn
Germany.
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Graphically Defining Articulable Tacit Knowledge
,
Busch, P. and Richards D.,
In Proceedings of PAN-Sydney Area Workshop
on Visual Information Processing (VIP'2000)December 1, 2000, University of
Sydney.
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Intelligent Visualisation of Social Network Analysis Data
,
Higgins, P., Richards D. and McGrath, M.,
In Proceedings of PAN-Sydney Area Workshop
on Visual Information Processing (VIP'2000)December 1, 2000, University of
Sydney.
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Triangulated Measurement of
Articulable Tacit Knowledge using Formal Concept Analysis,
Busch, P. and Richards D.,
In Proceeding of the 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,
December 6-8, Brisbane.
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A Process Model for Requirements Elicitation,
Richards D.,
In Proceeding of the 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,
December 6-8, Brisbane.
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Negotiating a Shared Conceptual Model using Groupware,
Richards D.,
In Proceeding of the 11th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,
December 6-8, Brisbane.
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Measuring , Formalising and Modelling
Tacit Knowledge,
Richards D. and Busch P.,
International Congress on Intelligent Systems and
Applications (ISA'2000) December 12-15, 2000.
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A Software Visualisation
Approach to a Knowledge Engineering Problem ,
Liong, B., Richards D., and Zhang, K.,
12th International Conference
on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE2000) July 6-8,
Chicago, USA.
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Extending Ripple-Down Rules,
Compton, P. and Richards D.,
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering
and Knowledge Managements (EKAW'2000) October 2-6, 2000, Juan-les-Pins,
France.
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Reconciling Conflicting Sources of Expertise: A
Framework and an Illustration ,
Richards D.,
Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Knowledge
Acquisition Workshop (PKAW'2000), December 11-14, 2000, Sydney.
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Giving Experts Ownership and Control over their
Knowledge ,
Richards D.,
Proceedings of OzCHI2000: Interfacing Reality in the New
Millenium December 4-8, 2000, University of Technology, Sydney.
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The Visualisation of Multiple Views to Support
Knowledge Reuse ,
Richards D.,
Intelligent Information Processing Conference (IIP'2000)
In conjunction with the 16th IFIP World Computer Congress WCC2000, August
21-25, 2000, Beijing, China.
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User-Centered
and Driven Knowledge-Based Systems for Clinical Support using Ripple-Down
Rules,
Richards D., 33rd Hawaiian International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS'33)(Minitrack on Clinical Support Systems), 4-7
January, 2000, IEEE
Publications.
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A
Situated Cognition Approach to Conceptual Modelling,
Richards D., 33rd Hawaiian International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS'33)(Minitrack on Knowledge Intensive
Processes), 4-7 January, 2000, IEEE Publications.
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The
Reuse of Knowledge: A User-Centered Approach,
Richards D., International Journal of Human Computer
Studies, 2000.
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Visualising
Knowledge Based Systems Richards D. Proceedings of the
Third Workshop on Software Visualisation (SoftVis'99) December
3-4, 1999, University of
Technology, Sydney.
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Maintaining
and Comparing Requirements Richards D. and
Zowghi, D.Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on
Requirements Engineering ACRE'99, 29-30 September, 1999, Macquarie
University, Sydney, 115-130
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The
Reuse of Knowledge: A Summary of Research, Issues, and the Ripple-Down
Rules Approach Richards D. ,Proceedings
of the Fourth Australian Knowledge
Acquistion Workshop AKAW99 in conjunction with AI99, December5-6, 1999, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Extending
Ripple-Down Rules Compton, P. and Richards,
D.,Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Knowledge
Acquistion Workshop AKAW99 in conjunction with AI99, December
5-6, 1999, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
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SISYPHUS I Revisited: An Incremental Approach to Resource
Allocation using Ripple Down Rules,
Richards D. and Compton, P., 12th Workshop on Knowledge
Acquisition, Modeling
and Management, SRDG Publications, Banff, Canada, 16th-21st October, 1999.
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The
Automatic Compression of Multiple Classification Ripple Down Rules
Knowledge Based Systems: Preliminary Experiments,
Suryanto, H., Richards D. and Compton. P., Third International
Conference on
Knowledge Based Intelligent Information Engineering System (KES'99),
August 31st - September 1st, Adelaide.
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An
Alternative Verification and Validation Technique for an
Alternative Knowledge Representation and Acquisition Technique:,
Richards D. and Compton. P., Journal of Knowledge Based Systems,
12 (1999) 55-73.
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A Comparison of Personal Construct Psychology and Ripple-Down Rules with Formal Concept Analysis:,
Richards D., 11th Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, SRDG Publications, Banff, Canada, 18th-23rd April, 1998.
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Extending the SISYPHUS III Experiment from a Knowledge Engineering to a Requirements Engineering Task,
Richards D., Menzies, T., Task 11th Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, SRDG Publications, Departments of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Banff, Canada, 18th-23rd April, 1998.
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Using AI to Resolve the Republican Debate,
Richards D., Poster Proceedings of Eleventh Australian Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Conference AI'98, 13-17 July 1998, Griffith University, Nathan Campus,
Brisbane, Australia, 121-133.
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An
Evaluation of the Formal Concept Analysis Line Diagram,
Richards D., Poster Proceesings of Eleventh Australian Joint
Artificial Intelligence
Conference AI'98, 13-17 July 1998, Griffith University, Nathan Campus,
Brisbane, Australia, 109-120.
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Taking Up the Situated Cognition Challenge with Ripple Down Rules,
Richards D., Compton P., International Journal of Human Computer
Studies, Special Issue on Situated Cognition, 1998 (49) 895-926.
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A New Look at Knowledge-Based System Explanation,
Richards D., Compton P., Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
(PKAW’98), Singapres, November 22nd, 1998.
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Assisting Political Decision Making,
Richards D., Workshop on Intelligent Decision Support and
Knowledge Management, University of New South Wales, 29th September, 1998,
Monash University Press, 59-71.
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Providing Multiple Interfaces to Support Multiple Uses in Knowledge Based Systems using Ripple Down Rules,
Richards D., Poster Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 22-27 November 1998, National
University of Singapore, Singapore
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Reverse Requirements Engineering with Multiple Models,
Richards D., Proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Workshop
on Intelligent Software Engineering , 23 November 1998, National
University of Singapore, Singapore
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Combining
Formal Concept Analysis and Ripple Down Rules to Support Reuse,
Richards, D., Compton, P., Software Engineering Knowledge Engineering SEKE'97, Springer Verlag, Madrid, 18-20th June 1997.
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Uncovering
the conceptual models in ripple-down rules,
Richards, D. , Compton, P., International Conference on Conceptual Structures ICCS'97, Springer Verlag, Seattle, 4th-8th August 1997.
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Finding
Conceptual Models to Assist Validation,
Richards, D., Compton, P., AAAI'97 Verification and Validation of Knowledge-Based Systems Workshop, Rhode Island, 27th -31st July 1997.
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Knowledge Acquisition First, Modelling Later,
Richards D., Compton P.J., Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management, Springer Verlag, 1997.
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Extending Knowledge Engineering to Requirements Engineering from Multiple Perspectives,
Richards, D., Menzies, T., of 3rd Australian Knowledge Acquisition Workshop AKAW’97 in conjunction with AI’97, University of Western Australia, Perth Australia, 30th November, 1997, pp3.1-3.16.
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Building Adaptable, Reflective Knowledge Based Systems that Address the Problems of First Generation Expert Systems,
Richards, D., Compton, P., 10th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Perth, Australia 30th November - 4th December \, 1997, pp50-55.
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Situated Expert Systems,
Richards D., Compton P., Fourth Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, September 26th-28th, 1997.
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Building Knowledge Based Systems that Match the Decision Situation,
Richards D, Compton, P, Workshop on Intelligent Decision Support IDS'96, Monash University Melbourne, Monash University, Melbourne, 9th September 1996.
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The Reuse of Ripple Down Rule Knowledge Bases: Using Machine Learning to Remove Repetition,
Richards, D., Chellen V., Compton, P., Pacific Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, University of New South Wales, October 23-25 1996, Coogee Sydney, pp293-312.
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Using Rough Set Theory to Verify Production Rules and Support Reuse,
Richards, D., Gambetta, W., Compton, P., Verification, Validation and Refinement of KBS Workshop at Pacific Rim Int. Conf. on AI '96, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, Cairns, Australi, 26-30th August 1996, pp57-66.
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Bridging the ES - DSS gap - Adapting and Reusing an Existing ES,
Richards, D. and McDonald, C., 6th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, September 27-29, 1995.
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Adapting Expert Systems to Behave Like Decision Support Systems,
Richards, D and McDonald, C., AI'95 - Workshop on Intelligent Decision Support Systems, University College, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy, ADFA, Canberra, 13-17 November, 1995, pp36-45.
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Bridging the ES - DSS Gap: Reuse of Knowledge in an Existing ES,
Richards, D. and McDonald, C., AI'95 Poster Proceedings, ADFA, Canberra, ACT, 13-17 November, 1995.
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Changing the System Style of Expert Systems,
Richards, D. and McDonald, C., AI'95 - Workshop on AI and the Environment, University College, University of NSW, Austrlaian Defence Force Academy, ADFA, Canberra, 13-17 November, 1995, pp33-40.
- The RECOCASE Requirements Engineering Reconciliation Tool,
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Whole
Thesis,
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Preliminary Section,
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Chapter One - The Need to Reuse Knowledge,
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Chapter Two - Approaches to Knowledge Reuse,
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Chapter Three - Reusing Knowledge in Ripple-Down Rules KBS,
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Chapter Four - The Removal of Redundancies and Off-Line Verification of RDR KBS,
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Chapter
Five - Building Conceptual Hierarchies from MCRDR KBS,
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Chapter Six - Requirements Engineering,
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Chapter Seven - Activity Reuses,
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Chapter Eight - Evaluating the System,
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Chapter Nine - Thesis Conclusion,
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Bibliography,
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Appendix A - A Triadic Diagram,
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Appendix B - Survey for the Evaluation of the Line Diagram,
- I am a Christian. If you're on Macquarie campus I recommend Christian Union. It's
a great way to stay focused on the important things in life.
- I
enjoy languages. I have studied German, Indonesian and Dutch. I practised
my Dutch a bit while on sabbatical but it was harder than I thought.
Research consumed more of my energy. I was mad about horseriding until a
bad fall took the pleasure or excitment out of it. I like to play squash
but have got more involved in gym classes like Pilates, Body Attack, Step
and Yoga. I like reading, particularly when it's not compulsory.
Historical novels and books about relationships are my favourite. I get
satisfaction out of doing my own home renovations but have hung up my
tools for the moment. I've given up the guitar again as no one at home
seems to
appreciate my playing. I love to go on holidays with my three beautiful
children or spend time with my wonderful husband.
Me at AAMAS'05 Reception in Utrecht with Shanghua Sun
Me in Grindelwald Switzerland
Peter in Strassbourg
(not so) recent photos from sabbatical (2003)
The kids at Marmaris in Turkey
Me in Florence
Sal and me (and you know who) in Venice for Carnevale
Older photos
Debbie Richards
Associate Professor
Department of Computing
School of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University,
Sydney 2109, AUSTRALIA
Email: richards@ics.mq.edu.au
Telephone: +61 2 9850 9567
Facsimile: +61 2 9850 9551
E-mail me: richards@ics.mq.edu.au