Alia I. Abdelmoty | Academic Website

Qualitative Spatial Reasoning & Place Modelling

Qualitative GIS, Qualitative Spatial Reasoning, Place Ontologies, Linked Geospatial Data, Place Knowledge Graphs, Digital Gazetteers, Geographic Question Answering

Geo-Semantic User Profiling & Privacy

Place Affordance, Geo-Folksonomies, Spatiotemporal User Modelling, Location-Based Social Networks, Location Privacy Awareness, Privacy Threat Models

Ontologies & Knowledge Representation

Biomedical Ontologies, Mental Health Informatics, Ontology Reuse Patterns, Knowledge Graphs, Cross-Domain Applications

Human-Centred AI & Social Computing

Audio-based Social Media Analytics, Assistive Technology for Elderly Care, Algorithmic Fairness, Bias in Recommender Systems

News & Updates

[Aug 2026] 🎉 Awarded H-IAA funding to work with WISERD and ADR on the project: Spatial Reasoning for Understanding Welsh Places, starting Autumn 2026.
[Aug 2026] 📢 Co-chairing the Special Issue on Accessible Knowledge-Enhanced Web Intelligence. See Call for Papers above.
[Jul 2026] 📄 Roba Darwish's paper accepted in Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM): From Intended Topics to Emergent Discourse: A Duration-Weighted Framework for Quantifying Conversational Drift in X Spaces. To be presented at ASONAM 2026.
[May 2026] 🎓 Abdurauf Satoti successfully passed his PhD viva: Qualitative Representation and Management of Place in GIS: A Multi-Hierarchical Framework.
[2026] 🧬 The OCD Ontology is now published on BioPortal with a w3id persistent identifier.