Given the global growth and pervasiveness of social media, the Unit for Social Semantics (USS) at NUI Galway was set up to look at social media from a unique standpoint: building the technologies to analyse and improve social systems, but also developing an understanding of how people/organisations are using social media to collaborate around shared goals and collectively drive social change and innovation. The Unit provides a focussed hub for Social Semantic Web research, such that it can be referred to nationally and internationally as a contact point for those interested in both the technologies and the understanding of social media. The fusion of technology-oriented research along with the social science and information systems research at NUI Galway provides the necessary combination of intellectual capital and diverse research environments that are required for social media research activities. The Unit works with many international partners and is a leader of and/or member of various working groups that enable it to stay abreast of and involved in emerging activities. USS is the longest established research group within the Institute, set up as the Social Software Subcluster in 2005.
http://socialsemantics.org/
Areas of work:
Agtech, Blockchain, Industrial applications, Iot, Linked data, Multiagent systems, Natural language processing, Privacy, Recommender systems, Security, Semantic web, Social media, Social semantics,
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Publications:

The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA2020)

The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA2020)

2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain

IEEE PES POWERCON 2020

2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering,

S.Thakur, S. Ara, J.G. Breslin
IDCS 2019, October 10 – 12, in Naples, Italy

IDCS 2019, October 10 – 12, in Naples, Italy

Barry Patrick Hayes, Subhasis Thakur and John G Breslin
International Journal Of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

Subhasis Thakur and John G Breslin
In The 1st International Congress on Blockchain and Applications (BLOCKCHAIN '19)

Subhasis Thakur and John G Breslin.
The 1st International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE 2019), May 2019.

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018)

Guerra, Francesco and Velegrakis, Yannis and Cardoso, Jorge and Breslin, John G
Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources

Guerra, Francesco and Velegrakis, Yannis and Cardoso, Jorge and Breslin, John G
Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structured Data Sources

Subhasis Thakur and John G. Breslin
The 5th International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV) 2018

Subhasis Thakur and Barry Hayes and John G Breslin
Distributed double auction for peer to peer energy trade using blockchains

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2017)

Ara, Safina Showkat and Thakur, Subhasis and Breslin, John G
The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2017)

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2017)

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017)

Safina Showkat Ara , Subhasis Thakur, John G. Breslin
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2017

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016)

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016)

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 12th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS 2016)

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 24th Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016)


Molli, Pascal and Breslin, John G and Vidal, Maria-Esther
Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces

Molli, Pascal and Breslin, John G and Vidal, Maria-Esther
Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces

Piao, Guangyuan and Breslin, John G
The 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016)

Barnaghi, Peiman and Ghaffari, Parsa and Breslin, John G
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications (BigDataService 2016)

Piao, Guangyuan and Ara, Safina Showkat and Breslin, John G
The 5th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference (JIST 2015)

Crowley, David N and Breslin, John G and Curry, Edward
The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2015)

Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G
The 10th International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI 2015)

Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G
The 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2015)

Porwol, Lukasz and Hassan, Islam and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 7th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (ePart 2015)

Leggieri, Myriam and Davis, Brian and Breslin, John G
The 11th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2015)

Leggieri, Myriam and von der Weth, Christian and Breslin, John G
The 10th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2015)

Vickey, Theodore A and Breslin, John G
The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining

Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 6th IFIP International Conference on eParticipation (ePart 2014)

Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 15th International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2014)

Crowley, David N and Curry, Edward and Breslin, John G
Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments

Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 7th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2013)

Dabrowski, Maciej and Griffin, Keith and Breslin, John G
The 14th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE 2013)

Sacco, Owen and Collina, Matteo and Schiele, Gregor and Corazza, Giovanni E and Breslin, John G and Hauswirth, Manfred
The 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013)

Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G
The 5th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2013)

Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 2nd Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective and International Conference on Electronic Democracy (EGOVIS '13, EDEM '13)

Crowley, David N and Dabrowski, Maciej and Breslin, John G
The 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013)

Crowley, David N and Curry, Edward and Breslin, John G
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST 2013)

Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom '13)

Porwol, Lukasz and Ojo, Adegboyega and Breslin, John G
The 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (d.go 2013)

Porwol, Lukasz and O'Donoghue, Padraic and Breslin, John G and Coughlan, Chris and Mulligan, Brendan
The 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2012)

Sacco, Owen and Dabrowski, Maciej and Breslin, John G
The 4th IEEE International Games Innovation Conference

Crowley, David N and Breslin, John G and Corcoran, Peter and Young, Karen
The 4th IEEE International Games Innovation Conference

Orlandi, Fabrizio and Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre
The 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2012)

Sacco, Owen and Breslin, John G
The 8th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2012)

Vickey, Theodore A and Breslin, John G and Williams, Antonio
The Third International Conference on Sport and Society (ICSS 2012)

Vickey, Theodore A and Breslin, John G
The AAAI 2012 Spring Symposium on Self-Tracking and Collective Intelligence for Personal Wellness

Boulos, Maged N Kamel and Resch, Bernd and Crowley, David N and Breslin, John G and Sohn, Gunho and Burtner, Russ and Pike, William A and Jezierski, Eduardo and Chang, Kuo-Yu Slayer
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Vickey, Theodore A and Tsai, Nancey Trevanian and Breslin, John G
The 8th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2011)

Kinsella, Sheila and Wang, Mengjiao and Breslin, John G and Hayes, Conor
The 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '11)

Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre and Vrandecic, Denny
The Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies

Kinsella, Sheila and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G
The 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011)

Schneider, Jodi and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G
The 26th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2011)

Passant, Alexandre and Kinsella, Sheila and Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena

Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software

Choudhury, Smitashree and Breslin, John G
The 4th International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2010)

Schneider, Jodi and Passant, Alexandre and Groza, Tudor and Breslin, John G
The 3rd International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2010)

Kinsella, Sheila and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G
The 6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2010)

Choudhury, Smitashree and Breslin, John G
The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2010)

Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 10th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2010)

Passant, Alexandre and Zimmerman, Antoine and Schneider, Jodi and Breslin, John G
The International Conference on Intelligent Semantic Web, Services and Applications (ISWSA 2010)

Letierce, Julie and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The Web Science Conference 2010 (WebSci '10)

Passant, Alexandre and Laublet, Philippe and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 5th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2009)

Choudhury, Smitashree and Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre
The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Kim, Hong-Gee
The Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends

Kim, Hak-Lae and Scerri, Simon and Breslin, John G
The AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0

Passant, Alexandre and Samwald, Matthias and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The Web Science Conference 2009 (WebSci '09)

Groza, Tudor and Handschuh, Siegfried and Breslin, John G
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI '08)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G
Web 2.0: The Business Model


Choudhury, Smitashree and Breslin, John G
The 8th Annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT\&T 2008)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Scerri, Simon and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Kim, Hong-Gee
The 8th International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC 2008)

Kinsella, Sheila and Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre and Decker, Stefan
The Reasoning Web Summer School 2008 (RWSS 2008)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Passant, Alexandre and Breslin, John G and Scerri, Simon and Decker, Stefan
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008)

Kinsella, Sheila and Boj\=ars, Uldis and Harth, Andreas and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV '08)

Choi, Hee-Chul and Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard and Grzonkowski, S\lawomir and Stankiewicz, Katarzyna and Davis, Brian and Breslin, John G
Trust Management in Virtual Environment

Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre
The European Web Technologies Conference (XTech 2008)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Yang, Sung-Kwon and Song, Seung-Jae and Kim, Hong-Gee
The AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing (SIP 2008)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Breslin, John G and Yang, Sung-Kwon and Kim, Hong-Gee
The 2nd KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES AMSTA 2008)

Kim, Hak-Lae and Yang, Sung-Kwon and Breslin, John G and Kim, Hong-Gee
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT '07)

Kinsella, Sheila and Harth, Andreas and Breslin, John G
The UK Social Network Conference

O'Murchu, Ina and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
Viral Marketing: Concepts and Cases

Aleman-Meza, Boanerges and Boj\=ars, Uldis and Boley, Harold and Breslin, John G and Mochol, Malgorzata and Nixon, Lyndon J B and Polleres, Axel and Zhdanova, Anna V
The 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '07)

O'Murchu, Ina and Zhdanova, Anna V and Breslin, John G
The Encyclopaedia of Portal Technology and Applications

Breslin, John G and Kass, Ron and Boj\=ars, Uldis
The International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007)

Subhasis Thakur, Guido Governatori, Vineet Padmanabhan, and Jenny Eriksson Lundstrm.
Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G and Passant, Alexandre
BlogTalks Reloaded: Social Software - Research and Cases

Oren, Eyal and V\"olkel, Max and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006)

M\"oller, Knud and Boj\=ars, Uldis and Breslin, John G
The 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '06)

Sapkota, Brahmananda and Ludwig, Lars and Zhou, Xuan and Breslin, John G
The 16th Annual International Information Management Association Conference (IIMA 2005)

Harth, Andreas and Gassert, Hannes and O'Murchu, Ina and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 1st International Wikimedia Conference (Wikimania 2005)

M\"oller, Knud and Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan
The 14th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2005)

Breslin, John G and Decker, Stefan and Harth, Andreas
The 2nd IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities (WBC 2005)

Coughlan, Sean and Breslin, John G
The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT '03)

Breslin, John G and Hurley, W Gerard
The 7th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2003)

Breslin, John G and Hurley, W Gerard
The 28th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC '97)

Breslin, John G and Hurley, W Gerard
The 31st Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1996)

Breslin, John G and Hurley, W Gerard
The 30th Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC 1995)