Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
Jerry has 30 years' experience in telecommunications research and development. His research interests include personalised interactive networked video, media services and distribution architectures.
The services addressed include the video processing for distribution; end-user profiling; brokerage platforms for commercial media brokerage (specifically agent-based architectures); metadata and media workflow processes; production tools adaptation of media for personalisation and interaction.
His interests lie in the commercial applications and implementations of these services, especially in the fields of education, entertainment and advertising.
He is also interested in virtual environments and their applications to construction, especially for building information modelling, and application to learning environments.
IBC2012 Conference Literature:
IBC2012 Poster Personalisation of Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); IBC2012, Amsterdam, September 2012
Personalisation of Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); EuroITV, Berlin, Germany, July 2012
Personalised Placement in Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); MutliA-Pro, Lyon, France, March 2012
Negotiation Platform for Personalised Advertising (L V de Sousa, B Malheiro, J D Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2012
Dynamic Personalisation of Media Content (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), Vigo, Spain, December 2011
Previous Publications:
Learning in Virtual Environments: The Issues for Mixed Reality Multi-National Universities (J.D.Foss); Education Media 2010, Birmingham UK; due September 2010
Object-Based Media – Quantum Information (J.D.Foss); article in publication “The New Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow's World & What It Means To Us”, (ed K Cooper) for the 2010 British Science Festival; due September 2010
A Proposal for Media Brokerage (J.D.Foss, M.B.Malheiro); The proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on the Use of Modern Information and Communication Technologies- ECUMICT 2010, ISBN 9-78908082-553-6.ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium; March 2010
Lessons From Learning In Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); British Journal of Educational Technology (Wiley / Blackwell), Vol 40 No 3, p556-560; May 2009
LiVE – Learning in Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2008.
Dynamic Intelligent Intermediaries (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, December 2005
Beyond MultiPlay (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, February 2005
From Triple Play To The Global Jukebox (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, July 2004
Service Brokerage, Dynamic Virtual ASP's and the Info-Climate (J.D.Foss); Networks2000, Toronto, September 2000.
Brokerage In An Information Economy (J.D.Foss, Kulwinder Garcha, Phil Turner, Nick Jennings); INET2000, Yokohama, Japan; July 2000.
