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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 Director of the Centre for Digital Ecosystems.

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 International Conference on AI and regularly for the Australian Document Computing Symposium, Semantic Web and other international AI and Web conferences. Recent projects have driven Peter's work into Digital Libraries and SMART Transport systems. Peter is currently CI on an ARC Network (HCSNet) and ARC Linkage projects.

For a more uptodate resource of papers, software and activity, see the http://www.academic.edu/PeterEklund

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