Tetherless World Constellation

Joanne S. Luciano
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Email	jluciano@cs.rpi.edu
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Homepage	http://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/JoanneLuciano
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Project PI Move:

	Health on the Web Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness and Joanne S. Luciano Description: The Tetherless World Constellation's Health on the Web's primary goal is to explore the next generation web technology needed to improve health.
	Semantic Water Quality Portal (SemantAQUA) Research Areas: Knowledge Provenance, Semantic eScience Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness and Joanne S. Luciano Description: We present a semantic technology-based approach to emerging environmental information systems. We used our linked data approach in the Tetherless World Constellation Semantic Water Quality Portal (TWC-SWQP). Our integration scheme uses a core domain ontology and integrates water data from different authoritative sources along with multiple regulation ontologies to enable pollution detection and monitoring. An OWL-based reasoning scheme identifies pollution events relative to user chosen regulations. Our approach also captures and leverages provenance to improve transparency. In addition, semantic water quality portal features provenance-based facet generation, query answering and data validation over the integrated data via SPARQL. We introduce the approach and the water portal, and highlight some of its potential impacts for the future of environmental monitoring systems. Concepts: Semantic eScience, Provenance
	Semantically Enabled Modeling of Major Depressive Disorder (SEMMDD) Research Areas: Semantic eScience, Data Science, Ontology Engineering Environments Principal Investigator: Joanne S. Luciano Description: In this project, we study the effects of how different antidepressant treatments, including non-pharmacological treatments, affect the underlying brain regions, clinical symptoms, and behaviors. We use mathematical modeling and computer simulation to combine clinical research with neuroscience research. Concepts: Semantic eScience, Data Science

Project Collaborator Move:

	Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Research Areas: Inference And Trust, Knowledge Provenance, Data Frameworks Principal Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness Sponsor: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Description: Technical emergence refers to the process whereby innovative ideas, capabilities, applications, and even entirely new fields of study arise, are tested, mature, and, if conditions are favorable, demonstrate feasibility and impact. IARPA’s Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) Program is sponsoring advanced research and development (R&D) to develop automated systems that aid in the systematic, continuous, and comprehensive assessment of technical emergence using information derived from the published scientific, technical, and patent literature. Concepts: Provenance, Semantic Web
	Neon Educational System for Data Access and Analysis (NESDAA) Principal Investigator: Dennis Ward Sponsor: National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. Description: To enable advanced undergraduate students and facilitator to have access to learning materials and associated artefacts like data, code, workflows [e.g. Taverna], scientific literature, and more. Concepts: eScience
	Semantic eScience Framework (SeSF) Research Areas: Data Science, Semantic eScience, Data Frameworks Principal Investigator: Peter Fox Co Investigator: Deborah L. McGuinness Sponsor: National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure Description: The goals of this effort is to design and implement a configurable and extensible semantic eScience framework. Concepts: eScience

EMPWR: Computational Exploration of Molecules in the Context of Biological Pathway Networks
Joanne Luciano | Principal Investigator

Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
For two years prior to the creation of the W3C Health Care and Life Science SIG I worked behind the scenes to persuade the W3C to consider creating the SIG. I presented the work on BioPAX and contributed to the BioDASH demo and worked with John Wilbanks (then W3C Fellow, now at Science Commons) to create the first workshop meeting. I also made the case to several pharmaceutical companies through my consulting practice.

Translational Medicine Ontology
I am currently actively involved in the creation of an ontology for Translational Medicine.

Influena Ontology (InfluenzO) Infectious Disease Ontology
I am leading the coordination of and co-developing an extension to the Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) for Influenza Research and Surveillance. The Influenza Ontology work in being undertaken at the MITRE Corporation (www.mitre.org) in collaboration with BioHealthBase and Gemina projects.

BIOPAX
Core Group Member involved in intimating the creation of a data exchange format for biological pathway databases. Procured partial support from the DOE and got it doubled in the second year. Represents BIOPAX at international conferences and workshops and coordinate development with the BioPathways Consortium and its constituents. (Since August 2002)

BioPathways Consortium
Co-organizer and Steering Committee. The mission of the BioPathways Consortium is to catalyze the emergence and development of computational pathways biology, by building up a strong and coherent scientific community, sharing knowledge, facilitating collaborations, and fostering the development of methods and tools of wide interest to the community.