Research: John Samuel

Current Position

Enseignant-Chercheur (Asst. Professor), Computer Science, CPE Lyon
Chercheur Associé (Researcher), Database Group, LIRIS

Address

CPE Lyon (École supérieure de chimie, physique, électronique de Lyon)
Campus LyonTech-la Doua - Bâtiment Hubert Curien,
43, bd du 11 novembre 1918,
69616 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France,
Email: john.samuel_(at)_cpe_(dot)_fr

Research Interests

Data Integration, Data Warehouses, Data Analysis, Big Data, Web Services, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Multidimensional Data Modeling, Description Logic, Geographical Information Systems

PhD Thesis

Feeding a Data Warehouse with Data coming from Web Services. A Mediation Approach for the DaWeS prototype (Link)

Sections

Past Positions
Journals
Conference Proceedings
Posters and Demonstrations
Talks, Tutorials and Seminars
Journal Articles Reviewed
Nominations and Prizes
Volunteering, Mentoring, Organizing and Programme Committee
Conferences, Seminars and Workshops Attended
Education
Other sites
Personal Blog

Past Positions

2017-2016

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geo-modelisation Group, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne

2015-2014

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Database Group, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne

2014-2011

PhD Researcher, LIMOS, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière

2011-2009

Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Bangalore

2009-2008

Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Bangalore

Journals

2018

UrbanCo2Fab: Comprehension Of Concurrent Viewpoints Of Urban Fabric Based On GIT, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-4/W6, 2018 13th 3D GeoInfo Conference, 1-2 October 2018, Delft, The Netherlands (Link, PDF)

2016

Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach: Open Challenges, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Special Issue on Digital Information Management, Journal on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Informatics - JADI 2016, Volume 2, No. 2, Pages 38-46 (Link)

Heterogeneous Sensor Data Exploration and Sustainable Declarative Monitoring Architecture: Application to Smart Building, Sylvie Servigne, Yann Gripay, Ozgun Pinarer, John Samuel, Atay Ozgovde, and Jacques Jay, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume III-4/W1, 2016, 1st International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, 30th UDMS, 7–9 September 2016, Split, Croatia (Link)

Conference Proceedings

2018

Documenting and preserving programming languages and software in Wikidata, John Samuel, Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) 2018, 26-28 November 2018, Bonn, Germany (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF), Video)

Analyzing and Visualizing Translation Patterns of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, CLEF 2018, Avignon, France, 10-14 September, 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11018. Springer, Cham (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF))

Datalog access to real-world web services, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Logic for Dynamic Real-World Information Workshop, UNILOG 2018 (6^th World Congress and School on Universal Logic Handbook ISBN: 978-2-9544948-1-4), Vichy, France, 25 June 2018 (Link, PDF, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF))

Towards Understanding and Improving Multilingual Collaborative Ontology Development in Wikidata, John Samuel, Wiki Workshop 2018 (held at The Web Conference 2018), Lyon, France, 24 April 2018 (Link, PDF, Open access, Slides)

2017

Collaborative Approach to Developing a Multilingual Ontology: A Case Study of Wikidata, John Samuel, Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 755. Springer, Cham (Link)

Representation and visualization of Documented Virtual Cities, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Sylvie Servigne, LDAC2017 - 5th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Dijon, France, 14 November, 2017 (Link)

2016

Visualization of Documented 3D Cities, Clément Chagnaud, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, UDMV 2016, Liège, Belgium, Decembre 8, 2016 (Link)

Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents, John Samuel, Clémentine Périnaud, Sylvie Servigne, Georges Gay, Gilles Gesquière, 14th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Genova, Italy, October 5-7, 2016 (Link)

Challenges in Integrating Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management, Porto, Portugal, September 19-21, 2016 (Link)

2014

Towards a Data Warehouse fed with Web Services, John Samuel, In The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges - 11th International Conference, ESWC PhD Symposium, Volume 8465 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 874–884. (Link)

DaWeS: Data Warehouse fed with Web Services John Samuel, Christophe Rey, In Actes du XXXIIème Congrès INFORSID, Lyon, France, 20-23 Mai 2014., pp. 329–344. (Link, PDF)

An Upper Bound on the Number of Accesses for Datalog ^{α _Last} Queries, John Samuel, Benjamin Momège, Base de Données Avancées (BDA), Autrans, Grenbole, France, 14-17 Octobre, Session Jeune Chercheur. (Link)

Posters and Demonstrations

2018

WikiProvenance: Are there enough references to every (known) fact on Wikidata?, Workshop on Open Citations, Bologna, Italy, September 3-5, 2018 (Link, PDF, Poster)

WikiProvenance, Hackathon showcase, Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 20^th May 2018 (Link)

How can I contribute to Wikidata properties? Introducing the WDProp tool. Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 20^th May, 2018 (Link, Slides)

2016

Generic Web Service Wrapper for Mediation based Data Warehousing, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS), Nîmes, France, June 13-15 (Link)

Dynamique et représentations des données patriomoniales, Gilles Gesquière, Frédéric Pedrinis, John Samuel, MuséoHub 4, Maquettes et restitutions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, April 20. Poster (Link)

2014

Mediation-based web services fed data warehouse, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Franck Martin, Lionel Peyron, In Journées francophones sur les Entrepôts de Données et l’Analyse en ligne (EDA), Vichy, Volume B-10 of RNTI, Paris, pp. 159–162. Hermann. Demonstration. (Link)

Talks, Tutorials and Seminars

2019

Thinking and Building together a Sustainable City, Database team, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, France, January 25, 2019

2017

Rethinking the command line, Capitole du Libre, Toulouse, France, November 19, 2017 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF, Video)

Representation and Visualization of Documented 3D Cities (Rehearsal), Géomod team, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, France, November 10, 2017

Introduction to Wikidata, Andra Waagmeester, Envel Le Hir, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, John Samuel, XLDB 2017 Wikidata Hackathon, Royat, France, October 12 (Additional slides)

Wikidata: Exploring more visibility and coverage of KDE Applications, John Samuel, Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, July 22 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF)

2016

A Declarative Approach to Information Extraction Using Web Service API, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), USI Lugano, Switzerland, June 7

2015

Integration and Analysis of Data from Heterogeneous Web Services, ERIC, Université de Lyon 2, Bron, France, March 23.

2007

Introduction to Linux Kernel, FOSS Meet, NIT Calicut, March 4, Calicut, India

Journal Articles Reviewed

Open Reviews

2019

Journal of Open Source Software (Link)

Single-blind Reviews

2019

Algorithms (Link)
Energies (Link)
Applied Sciences (Link)

2018

Future Internet (Link)
Data (Link)
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
Symmetry (Link)
Applied Sciences (Link)

Nominations and Prizes

2017

4^th prize, Connected Open Heritage Challenge

10^th prize, UNESCO Challenge

Swedish Book prize, Swedish National Heritage Board, UNESCO Challenge

2015

Among 12 Nominees for Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Award), Clermont Ferrand, Hôtel de Ville, Clermont Ferrand, France, March 19 (Article on La Montagne)

2014

Runner-up of Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Award) BDA

2006

2^nd rank, Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science and Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India

Volunteering, Mentoring, Organizing and Programme Committee

2018

Akademy 2018, Vienna, 11-12 August, 2018

Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 19-20 May, 2018

2017

Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, 22-23 July 2017

WikidataCon 2017 Berlin, Germany, 28-29 October 2017

Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, Vienna, Austria, 20, 21 May 2017

2012

BDA (Bases de Données Avancées), 24-26 October 2012, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2011

BPM (Business Process Modeling), August 28-September 2, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2007

FOSS Meet, NIT Calicut, 2-4 March, Calicut, India

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops Attended

2019

L'éthique et la place de l'Homme au sein de l'IA, CPE Lyon, France, 23^rd January, 2019

Journées de l'Enseignement Supérieur, CPE Lyon, France, 23^rd January, 2019

2018

SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) 2018, 26-27 November 2018, Bonn, Germany

3D GeoInfo Conference, Delft, 1-2 October 2018, The Netherlands

Workshop on Open Citations, Bologna, Italy, September 3-4, 2018

Akademy 2018, Vienna, 11-12 August, 2018

UNILOG 2018, Vichy, 24-26 June, 2018

Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 19-20 May, 2018

Wiki Workshop 2018 (held at The Web Conference 2018), Lyon, France, 24 April 2018

Enseigner autrement: Apprentissage Par Problème, Par Projet, Classe inversée, CPE Lyon, France, 29^th January, 2018

Big data, robots et intelligences artificielles! Quelle dynamique éthique pour nos nouvelles technologies numériques?, CPE Lyon, France, 24^th January, 2018