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Peter Eklund is Professor of Information Systems and Technology at the UoW. In 2007 Peter was on industry secondment to Objective Corporation - an ASX listed Enterprise Content Management company - as Principal Research Scientist.

Peter is founder of the Knowledge, Visualization and Ordering Laboratory and an ACS Fellow. Before joining The University Wollongong (his alma mater), Peter was variously Chair of the Queensland Studies Authority Subject Advisory Committee for Computer Studies, Research Leader in EDST CRC, Foundation Chair of Information Technology at Griffith University, and consultant to the Australian and US Department's of Defence. Peter has held Visiting Professorial appointments at INRIA's Acacia Group in France and Hosei University in Japan.   Peter was a graduate student at IDA in Linköping, Sweden where he completed his PhD in 1991.

Peter was a foundation Board member of the Semantic Web Science Foundation, serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis and Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Systems and was Program Chair of the Concept Lattices and Applications in 2007 and the International Conference on Conceptual Structures in 2008. Peter has also served on the program committees of the Knowledge Representation Conference, the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, the Joint ODBIS and SWDB workshop on Semantic Web, Ontologies and Databases, the 12th International Conference on AI and regularly for the Australian Document Computing Symposium, Semantic Web and other international AI conferences.

Peter's interests are in the practical application of Formal Concept Analysis to Knowledge Management problems. Peter is currently CI on an ARC Network (HCSNet) and ARC Linkage projects and a member of the UoW's Centre for Health Services Development.

For a more serious scientific resource of papers and software, see the KVOCENTRAL

Related Sites and Links:

• KVOCENTRAL -- Knowledge, Visualization and Ordering Laboratory research publications and software
• Centre for Health Services Development