I won a paper award at the Annual Conference of the British Computer Society
Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence in 2010 for the paper I
co-authored with Paul Healy
[Bridge & Healy 2010].
I won a best paper prize at the International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
in 2010 for the paper I co-authored with Walid Trabelsi,
Nic Wilson and
Francesco Ricci
[Trabelsi et al. 2010b].
I was Programme Co-chair of the Second WebCBR Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2010.
I won a best paper prize at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
in 2009 for the paper I co-authored with Lisa Cummins
[Cummins and Bridge 2009].
I was Programme Co-chair of the First WebCBR Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2009.
I was Programme Co-chair of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
in 2008.
I was Programme Co-chair of the Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science in 2008.
I was Programme Co-chair of the Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning
at the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning in 2007.
I won a best paper prize at the European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
in 2006 for the paper I co-authored with Ross Nicholson and
Nic Wilson
[Nicholson et al. 2006].
I was one of the keynote invited speakers at the Sixth
International Conference on Case-Based
Reasoning in 2005
(PDF Abstract;
Powerpoint slides;
PDF slides).
I won a paper award at the Annual Conference of the British Computer Society
Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence in 2005 for the paper I
co-authored with Pat du Boucher-Ryan
[du Boucher-Ryan & Bridge 2005].
I won a best paper prize at the European Conference
on Case-Based Reasoning in 2004 for the paper I co-authored with
Dónal Doyle,
Pádraig Cunningham
and Yusof Rahman
[Doyle et al 2004].
I won a best presentation prize at the Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science in 2004 for my presentation of
[Tarrant & Bridge 2004].
I was Programme Co-chair of the International Conference on Case-Based
Reasoning in 2003.
I was Programme Co-chair of the Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science in 1998.
Examining and Reviewing
Lists! Lists! Lists! The world is now run by miserable-minded managerialists.
They love lists. For normal people, there is nothing of interest here....
I have been an examiner of the following research dissertations:
Juan Antonio Recio García: jCOLIBRI: Una platforma multi-nivel
para la construcción y generación de sistemas de Razonamiento Basado
en Casis, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Sutanu Chakraborti: Introspective Knowledge Acquisition for Case Retrieval Networks
in Textual Case-Based Reasoning, Ph.D., Robert Gordon University.
Paulo Gomes: A Case-Based Approach to Software Design, Ph.D., Universidade de
Coimbra.
Mark Mullins: Case-Base Visualization, M.Sc., University College Dublin
M.Sc., Trinity College Dublin.
Andy Dearden: The Use of Formal Methods in the Design of Interactive Case Memory
Systems, Ph.D., University of York.
Chris Roast: Executing Models in Human-Computer Interaction,
Ph.D., University of York.
Tim Blanchard: An Efficient Database Language, Ph.D.
University of York.
I have reviewed papers for the following journals:
Artificial Intelligence,
Journal of Artificial Intelligence,
Artificial Intelligence Review,
Computing and Informatics,
Int J. of Pattern Recognition, and
Int. J. of Man-Machine Studies (now called Int. J. of Human-Computer Studies).
For the following journals, I have reviewed papers for special issues on
recommender systems: IEEE Intelligent Systems, Int. J. of Electronic Commerce,
Artificial Intelligence Review, ACM Transactions on the Web and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.
I have reviewed papers for the following conferences:
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys: 2007-2011),
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI: 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011),
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI: 1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2010),
International and European Conferences on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR/ECCBR: 2001-2011),
European Conference on Machine Learning (2006),
Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS: 1997-2011),
Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP: 1999),
Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI: 1999),
Computer/Human Interaction (CHI: 1992), and
British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD: 1990).
I have reviewed for the following workshops:
UK Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (UKCBR: 1997, 2005-2006, 2008-2010),
Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization &
Recommender Systems (ITWP: 2008 at AAAI, 2009 & 2011 at IJCAI),
Workshop on Recommender Systems at ECAI (2006, 2008),
Workshop on Textual Case-Based Reasoning at ICCBR (2007),
AAAI Workshop on Explanation-Aware Computing (EXACT: 2005, 2007),
Workshop on Explanation at ECCBR (2004),
Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning at ECCBR (MI-CBR: 2002), and
Workshop on Recommendation and Personalization in E-Commerce at
International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive
Web Based Systems (RPEC: 2002),
Computer Cooking Contest at ECCBR (2008),
Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences at IJCAI (2009),
Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web at ICCBR (2009, 2010).
I have reviewed papers for the following edited volume:
Recommender Systems Handbook,
P.B. Kantor, F. Ricci, L. Rokach & B. Shapira (eds.), Springer, 2010.
I have reviewed research proposals for funding agencies in Ireland, Italy and France.