Introduction of researcher

As for July 2005       
 
[Name]  BINTI ABDULLAH; Nik Nailah
[Date of birth] 
1978/03/14
[Doctoral degrees] 
PhD Computer Science
[Affiliation] 
Honiden Laboratory, Intelligent Systems Research Division
[Room]  1204
[Telephone]  +81-3-4212-2678
[Facsimile]  +81-3-3556-1928
[E-mail]  bintiabd@nii.ac.jp
[Personal home page]  Click here
[Research fields] 
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science


<> Outline of current research
<> Educational history
<> Career history
<> Academic activities
<> Refeered publications, Published books
<> Reviewed papers and published books
<> Speeches and oral presentations


[Outline of current research] 

My research work is a continuation from my PhD research topic. The research was centered on observing actual computer scientists communications on the web via social tools (instant messaging and video conferencing) in the context of a joint project. The objective has been to understand how learning and communication mutually influence one another; allowing people to infer each other's communicative behavior, at the same time understanding how intentions arise when people are speaking and doing activities. First, actual conversations have been recorded and observed (about 50,000 words exchanges). Then those conversations have been manually translated into formalized agent messages. The analysis of those formalized messages, and the comprehension of the communicative scenarios has required the extensive application of existing theories; (i) situated cognition; (ii) logical theories of learning and communication; and (iii) activity theory. However, during this analytical process, an innovative theoretical framework has emerged that has been called Activity States. It provides guidelines on how to convert the actual conversations into agent communication language (having equivalent semantics). The Activity State framework also attempts to explain and understand how the activity of reading, and comprehending the text that one reads, is in relationship to that person's activity on the web. All of this influences how people formulate his/her intentions.

The aim of the research work is to establish a method for analyzing communications on the Web where actual data meets formal model.

Keywords: Hierarchy of learning and communications, Situated cognition, Activity theory, Human Computer Interaction, Memory, Web communications

[Educational history] 

January 2006 PhD Computer Science, University Montpellier II, France
September 2002 MSc. Computer Science, University Montpellier II, France
September 2000 BSc. Computer Science, University Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
[Career history] 

Research Assistant AISDEL (Artificial Intelligence System for Development Laboratory-HITACHI), SIRIM, Malaysia. (1999.01-1999.06)
Research Assistant Program for Research Into Intelligent Systems, National University of Singapore. (2002.01-2002.06)
Part time researcher Neurology Laboratory, National University Hospital, Malaysia. (2006.06-2006.09)
Project researcher Honiden Laboratory, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. (2006.12-Present)
[Academic activities] 

Organizing committee for the 1st Proceedings on the 1st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Industry, Malaysia. (1999)
Organizer of the social informatics seminar at the CNRS-LIRMM II, Montpellier, France (2003.02-2003.06) (
Program committee for ALCAA 2004, Colloque Agents Logiciels, Cooperation, Appresentissage, Activite Humaine Conference, Montpellier. (2004.06)
Program committee for the IEEE Special Issues on Intelligent Systems on Web Mining. (2004)
Volunteer for the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'05), Utrecht University, Netherlands. (2005)(
Program committee for the ICWi WWWW/Internet 2006, IADIS (International Association for Development of Information Society) International Conference (2006)
[Refeered publications] 

  1. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Honiden, S. (in-press). Analysis of BuddySpace chat activities in a scientific collaboration. Ubiquitous and Multiple Interaction Workshop. 28-31 March 2007. Aarhus, Denmark. (2004)
  2. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Cerri, S.A. (2005). Analysis and Synthesis of Agent Communicative Behavior. Towards the Learning GRID: advances in Human learning services. (Eds) P.Ritrovato et al. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Taylor and Francis.19(9-10): 1015-1041
  3. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Cerri, S.A. (2005). Some preliminary results on: The induction of communication protocols. CogSci'05: Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting on Cognitive Science. 21-23 July. 2005. Stresa, Italy.
  4. Binti Abdullah, N.N (2005). The induction of communication protocols. AAMAS'05: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on autonomous Agents and multiagent systems pg. 1381-1381. ACM Press. New York, USA. 25-29 July, 2005. Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  5. Binti Abdullah, N.N, Liquiere, M., & Cerri, S.A. (2004). GRID Services as Learning Agents: Steps towards the induction of communication protocols. ITS'04 1st International Workshop on GRID Learning Services Proceedings. pg. 64-77. 30 August - 3 September. Maceio, Brazil.
  6. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Cerri, S.A. (2004). Conversion steps of human conversations into agent language. Oral paper. CLIN'04: The 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistic in the Netherlands. 17 December, 2004. Leiden University, The Netherlands.
  7. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Cerri, S.A. (2003). GAsRule for Knowledge Discovery. Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal. (Eds) S.Zhang, C.Zhang, and Q.Yang. 17(5:6), pg.339-417. Taylor and Francis New York. USA.
  8. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Cerri, S.A. (2003). Discovering Propositionalised Rules via GAsRule. GECCO'03: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Late Breaking Papers. Edited by Bart Rylander. Pg.31-38. 12-16 July, Chicago. USA. br/>
  9. Binti Abdullah, N.N, & Liquiere. (2003). Genetics Algorithms for Rule Extraction. DCAP. IEEE 1st International Workshop on Data Cleaning and Preprocessing. Mabeshi City, Japan.
  10. Ahmad, and N.Nailah (2000). User Authentication via Neural Network. AIMSA'02. 9th International Conference Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. vol. 1904. pg.310-332. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, London. UK.
[Reviewed papers] 

  1. Reviewer for the IEEE Special Issues on Intelligent Systems (2004)
  2. Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2005)
  4. Reviewer for the ICWi WWWW/Internet 2006, IADIS (International Association for Development of Information Society) International Conference (2006)
  5. Reviewer for the 2nd European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece. (2007)
[Speeches and oral presentations] 

  1. 27.09.2004. GRID Learning Agents: Steps towards the Induction of communication protocols. Invited by Professor Marc Eisenstadt, Chief Scientist and Founder of the Knowledge Media Institute. Open University, Milton Keynes. UK.

  2. 15.12.2004. Induction of communication protocols, some preliminary results. Invited by Professor Christian Bessiere, CNRS-LIRMM for the Coconut Seminar, Montpellier, France.