Frederick Maier
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The University of Georgia
Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, Room 516
Athens, GA 30602-7415

Office: Boyd GSRC 508
Email: fmaier AT uga.edu

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. The University of Georgia.
• Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence. The University of Georgia.
• Master of Arts in Philosophy. Tulane University.
• Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, summa cum laude. Spring Hill College.

Work Experience

• Associate Director for Academic Programs, Assistant Research Scientist, UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. 8/2024-present.
• Associate Director, Assistant Research Scientist, UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. 8/2013-8/2024.
• Lecturer, UGA Computer Science Department. 7/2012-5/2013.
• Research Fellow, Aston Business School, Aston University. 9/2011-7/2012.
• Visiting Researcher, Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University. 1/2010-10/2010.
• Part-time instructor, Fellow, UGA Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Athens, GA. 8/2008-5/2011.
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Pensacola, FL. 1/2008-1/2010

Journal Papers

• Vance, J., K. Rasheed, A. Missaoui, and F. Maier. 2023. "Data Synthesis for Alfalfa Biomass Yield Estimation" AI 4(1): 1-15. doi.org/10.3390/ai4010001
• Adke, S., Li, C., Rasheed, K. M., & Maier, F. W. (2022). Supervised and Weakly Supervised Deep Learning for Segmentation and Counting of Cotton Bolls Using Proximal Imagery. SENSORS, 22(10), 17 pages. doi:10.3390/s22103688
• Whitmire, Christopher D.; Vance, Jonathan M.; Rasheed, Hend K.; Missaoui, Ali; Rasheed, Khaled M.; Maier, Frederick W. 2021. "Using Machine Learning and Feature Selection for Alfalfa Yield Prediction" AI 2, no. 1: 71-88. https://doi.org/10.3390/ai2010006.
• Frederick Maier. Interdefinability of Defeasible Logic and Logic Programming under the Well-Founded Semantics. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 13(1): 107-142, 2013.
• Frederick Maier, Yue Ma, Pascal Hitzler. Paraconsistent OWL and Related Logics. 2012. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 4(4):395-427, 2013.
• Frederick Maier and Donald Nute. Well-founded semantics for defeasible logic. Synthese, 176(2): 243-274, 2010.
• Tarsem Purewal, Chris Bennett, and Frederick Maier. Embracing the social relevance: computing, ethics and the community. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 39 (1): 556-560. 2007.
• Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Zhiyuan Cheng, Mayukh Dass, Astrid Glende, Frederick Maier, Cy Routh, Hajime Uchiyama, Jin Wang, Sarah Witzig, Mark Twery, Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, and H. Michael Rauscher. A method for integrating multiple components in a decision support system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 49(1):44–59, 2005.
• Mark J. Twery, Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, H. Michael Rauscher, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Frederick Maier, Jin Wang, Mayukh Dass, Hajime Uchiyama, Astrid Glende, and Robin E. Hoffman. Ned-2: A decision support system for integrated forest ecosystem management. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 49(1):24–43, 2005.
• Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Frederick Maier, Jin Wang, Mark J. Twery, H. Michael Rauscher,Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, Mayukh Dass, Hajime Uchiyama, and Astrid Glende. Ned-2: an agent-based decision support system for forest ecosystem management. Environmental Modelling and Software, 19(9):831–843, 2004.
• Distributed Reasoning with EL++ Using MapReduce (with Raghava Mutharaju and Pascal Hitzler). Technical Report, Wright State University, 2010.

Book Chapters

• F.W. Maier (2016). A Primer on RDF and OWL. In P. Hitzler, A. Gangemi, K. Janowicz, K., A. Krisnadhi, V. Presutti (eds.), Ontology Engineering with Ontology Design Patterns: Foundations and Applications, 337-361. IOS Press, 2016.
• W.D. Potter, E. Drucker, P. Bettinger, F. Maier, D. Luper, M. Martin, M. Watkinson, G. Handy, and C. Hayes. Diagnosis, Configuration, Planning, and Pathfinding: Experiments in Nature–Inspired Optimization, in Natural Intelligence for Scheduling, Planning and Packing Problems, edited by R. Chiong, Springer–Verlag, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) Series, 2009.
• Distributed Reasoning with EL++ Using MapReduce (with Raghava Mutharaju and Pascal Hitzler). Technical Report, Wright State University, 2010.

Conference Papers

• Alkhoshi, E. E., Rasheed, K., Arabnia, H., Maier, F., & Gay, J. (2022). Comparisons of machine learning methods for human activity recognition using pseudo-free-living data. In 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence.
• Vance, Jonathan M.; Whitmire, Christopher D.; Rasheed, Hend K.; Adkins, Christian; Missaoui, Ali; Rasheed, Khaled M.; Maier, Frederick W. Comparing Machine Learning Techniques for Alfalfa Biomass Yield Prediction. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2021.
• Sam Sanders, Chris Barrick, Frederick W. Maier, Khaled Rasheed (2017). Solar Radiation Prediction Improvement Using Weather Forecasts. ICMLA 2017: 499-504.
• Niazi A, Yazdansepas D, Gay JL, Maier F, Ramaswamy L, Rasheed K, Buman M. Statistical analysis of window sizes and sampling rates in human activity recognition. In 10th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2017), Porto, Portugal, 21 Feb 2017 - 23 Mar 2017. Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF 2017. 319-319. 2017.
• Niazi, A., Yazdansepas, D., Gay, J. L., Maier, F., Ramaswamy, L., Rasheed, K., & Buman, M. (2016). A Hierarchical Meta-Classifier for Human Activity Recognition. In 15th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2016). (pp. 81-86). Anaheim, CA.
• Hamilton CR, Maier FW, Potter WD. Hourly Solar Radiation Forecasting Through Model Averaged Neural Networks and Alternating Model Trees. In International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2016), Morioka, Japan, 02 Aug 2016 - 04 Aug 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 9799. 737-750.
• Yazdansepas, D., Niazi, A. H., Gay, J. L., Maier, F. W., Ramaswamy, L., Rasheed, K., & Buma, M. P. (2016). A Multi-Featured Approach for Wearable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition. In 2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS (ICHI 2016) (pp. 423-431). Chicago, IL: IEEE.
• Matthias Knorr, Pascal Hitzler, Frederick Maier. Reconciling OWL and Non-monotonic Rules for the Semantic Web. 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France, August 27-31, 2012. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 242, 474-479. IOS Press, 2012.
• Matthias Knorr, David Carral Martínez, Pascal Hitzler, Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Frederick Maier, Cong Wang: Recent Advances in Integrating OWL and Rules (Technical Communication). 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2012), Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2012. LNCS vol. 7497, 225-228. Springer, 2012.
• Markus Krötzsch, Frederick Maier, Adila A. Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler. A Better Uncle for OWL: Nominal Schemas for Integrating Rules and Ontologies. WWW 2011, to appear, 2011.
• Frederick Maier. Extending Paraconsistent SROIQ. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010). Volume 6333 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 118-132. Springer, 2010.
• Frederick Maier and Donald Nute. Ambiguity propagating defeasible logic and the well-founded semantics. In Michael Fisher, Wiebe van der Hoek, Boris Konev, and Alexei Lisitsa, editors, JELIA 2006, volume 4160 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 306–318. Springer, 2006.
• Frederick Maier, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Jin Wang, Mayukh Dass, Hajime Uchiyama, Mark J. Twery, Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, and H. Michael Rauscher. Efficient integration of prolog and relational databases in the ned intelligent information system. In Hamid R. Arabnia, editor, IKE 2003, pages 364–369. CSREA Press, 2003.
• Frederick Maier, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Jin Wang, Mark J. Twery, H. Michael Rauscher,Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, Mayukh Dass, and Hajime Uchiyama. Prolog/rdbms integration in the ned intelligent information system. In Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari, editors, CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE, volume 2519 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 528. Springer, 2002.
• Walter D. Potter, Donald Nute, Jin Wang, Frederick Maier, Mark J. Twery, H. Michael Rauscher, Peter Knopp, Scott Thomasma, Mayukh Dass, and Hajime Uchiyama. The ned iis project - forest ecosystem management. In Mark A. Musen, Bernd Neumann, and Rudi Studer, editors, Intelligent Information Processing, volume 221 of IFIP Conference Proceedings, pages 293–296. Kluwer, 2002.
• Distributed Reasoning with EL++ Using MapReduce (with Raghava Mutharaju and Pascal Hitzler). Technical Report, Wright State University, 2010.

Papers from Workshops and other Meetings

• Krishnan, G., Maier, F., & Ramyaa, R. Learning Rules with Stratified Negation in Differentiable ILP. Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems Workshop. 2021.
• Shi, Y., Renwick, M., & Maier, F. (2019). Improved Vowel Labeling for Prenasal Merger Using Customized Forced Alignment. Poster session presented at the meeting of 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5137272
• Akram Farhadi; Joshua J. Chern; Daniel Hirsh; Tod Davis; Joe Ming; Jennifer L. Wheelus; Frederick Maier; Khaled Rasheed. Predicting Intracranial Pressure (ICP) in Children Using Regression. Southern Data Science Conference, April 13-14 2018.
• Markus Krötzsch, Frederick Maier, Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Pascal Hitzler: Nominal Schemas for Integrating Rules and Description Logics. 2011 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2011). Barcelona, Spain, July 13-16, 2011.
• Adila Krisnadhi, Frederick Maier, Pascal Hitzler. OWL and Rules. Reasoning Web: Semantic Technologies for the Web of Data - 7th International Summer School. Galway, Ireland, August 23-27, 2011.
• Raghava Mutharaju, Frederick Maier, Pascal Hitzler. A MapReduce Algorithm for EL+. 2010 International Workshop on Description Logics (DL2010). Waterloo, Canada, May 4--7, 2010.
• Frederick Maier and Donald Nute. Soundness and Completeness Results for the Defeasible Logic NDL. 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy. Laramie WY, May 13-17, 2008.
• Frederick Maier and Donald Nute. Relating defeasible logic to the well-founded semantics for normal logic programs. In Jurgen Dix and Anthony Hunter, editors, Proceedings of NMR’06: Eleventh International Workshop on Non-monotonic Reasoning, Windermere, UK, pages 295–302. IfI Technical Report Series, Clausthal University, June 2006.
• John Dewey, Frederick Maier, H. Michael Rauscher, Mark Twery, Walter D. Potter, and Donald Nute. Prescriptive treatment optimization using a genetic algorithm: a tool for forest management. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Burlington, USA, July 2006.
• Mark J. Twery, Peter D. Knopp, Scott A. Thomasma, H. Michael Rauscher, Donald E. Nute, Walter D. Potter, Frederick Maier, Jin Wang, Mayukh Dass, Hajime Uchiyama, Astrid Glende, and Robin E. Hoffman. Ned-2: an integrated forest ecosystem management decision support system. In Decision Support for Multiple Purpose Forestry, April 23-25, 2003, Vienna, Austria. University of Natural Resources and Applied Life. CD-ROM, 2003.
• Donald Nute, Walter D Potter, Frederick Maier, Jin Wang, Mark Twery, H Michael Rauscher, Pete Knopp, Scott Thomasma, Mayukh Dass, and Hajime Uchiyama. Intelligent model management in a forest ecosystem management decision support system. pages 396–401. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Lugano, Switzerland, June 2002.
• Jin Wang, Walter D. Potter, Donald Nute, Frederick Maier, H. Michael Rauscher, Mark Twery, and Scott Thomasma. An intelligent information system for forest management: Ned/fvs integration. In Nicholas L. Crookston and Robert N. Havis, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd FVS Conference; 2002 February 12-14; Fort Collins, CO. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-P-25. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, pages 189–195, 2002.
• Distributed Reasoning with EL++ Using MapReduce (with Raghava Mutharaju and Pascal Hitzler). Technical Report, Wright State University, 2010.

Other Papers

• Distributed Reasoning with EL++ Using MapReduce (with Raghava Mutharaju and Pascal Hitzler). Technical Report, Wright State University, 2010.