Dr Patty Kostkova

1. P. Kostkova, J. McCann. Support for Dynamic Trading and Runtime Adaptability in Mobile Environments, Chapter XI in Nandish V. Patel Ed. "Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems", Idea Group Publishing, Idea Group, Inc., Hershey, PA, USA, 2003

1. Co-Editors in Chief: R. Muttukrishnan, P. Kostkova. ICST Transactions on e-Health, ISSN# 2032-9296, since 2009
2. Editor: P. Kostkova: eHealth 2009, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 27, 2010
3. Editors: P. Kostkova and A. Adams. Health Informatics Journal, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Sage Publication, London, Vol 12(2), 2006

1. Lecky D, McNulty C, Adriaenssens N, Koprivova Heretova T, Holt J, Touboul P, Merakou K, Koncan R, Olczak-Pienkowska A, Brito Avô A, Campos J, Farrell D, Kostkova P. What are School Children in Europe being taught about hygiene and antibiotic use? Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; 2010, in press.
2. Lecky D, McNulty C, Adriaenssens N, Koprivova Heretova T, Holt J, Touboul P, Merakou K, Koncan R, Olczak-Pienkowska A, Brito Avô A, Campos J, Farrell D, Kostkova P. Development an educational resource on microbes, hygiene and prudent antibiotic use for junior and senior school children. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; 2010, in press
3. Farrell D, Kostkova P, Lazareck L, Weerasinghe D. Developing Web Games to Teach Microbiology. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; 2010, in press.
4. Farrell D, Kostkova P, Weinberg J, Lazareck L, Weerasinghe D. Can a Computer be used to Wash Hands? An Evaluation of the e-Bug Junior Game. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; 2010, in press
5. de Quincey E, Kostkova P, Jawaheer G, Farrell D, McNulty C, Weinberg J. Evaluation of e-Bug. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; 2010, in press.
6. Koprivová Herotová T, Kostková P, Beneš J. E-Bug implementation in the Czech Republic. Journal of Antibiotic Chemotherapy (JAC), 2010, in press
7. Lecky DM, McNulty CAM, Touboul P, Herotová T, Beneš J, Verlander NQ, Weinberg J., Kostkova P., Evaluation of e-Bug: an educational pack, teaching about prudent antibiotic use and hygiene, in the Czech Republic, France and England. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. (2010) doi: 10.1093/jac/dkq356 First published online: October 18, 2010
8. H Oliver, G Diallo, E de Quincey, P Kostkova, G Jawaheer, D Alexopoulou, B Habermann, R Stevens, S Jupp, K Khelif, M Schroeder, G Madle. A User-Centered Evaluation Framework for the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers. BMC BioInformatics, Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences, 2008, BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10 (Suppl 10):S14, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S10-S1
9. P. Kostkova, G. Madle: User-centred Evaluation Model for Medical Digital Libraries, D. Riaño (Ed.): K4HelP 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI Volume 5626/2009, 10.1007/978-3-642-03262-2, pages 92-103, 2009
10. Madle G., Berger A., Cognat S., Menna S., Kostkova, P.: User Information seeking behaviour: perceptions and reality. An evaluation of the WHO Labresources Internet portal. Informatics for Health and Social Care, 2009 Jan;34(1):30-8
11. Madle G, Kostkova P, Weinberg J. Bugs and drugs on the Web: changes in knowledge of users of a web-based education resource on antibiotic prescribing. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2009 Jan;63(1):221-3. Epub 2008 Oct 30
12. Roy A, Abubakar I, Yates S, Chapman A, Lipman M, Monk P, Catchpole M; National Knowledge Service TB Project Board (P Kostkova, et al). Evaluating knowledge gain from TB leaflets for prison and homeless sector staff: the National Knowledge Service TB pilot. Eur J Public Health. 2008 Dec;18(6):600-3. Epub 2008 Oct 23.
13. S. Wiseman, G. Jawaheer, P. Kostkova, G. Madle. Editorial: Specialist Digital Libraries - National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) Information overload or underload? British Journal of Infection Control 2008:9; 4, pages 4-6
14. Schroeder M, Burger A, Kostkova P, Stevens R, Habermann B, Dieng-Kuntz R. Sealife: a semantic grid browser for the life sciences applied to the study of infectious diseases.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006;120:167-78.
15. S. Wiseman, P. Kostkova, S. D'Souza, J. Mani-Saada, G. Madle. Evidence Based Infection Control - A National Resource, British Journal of Infection Control, Vol 7, Issue 3, pp. 13-14, June 2006
16. Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostkova P, Madge B, Southgate L.: Specific classification of Elibrary Resources says more about Users' Preferences, In the Proceedings of MIE 2006, Maastricht, the Netherlands, August 2006 and Stud Health Technol Inform. 2006;124:719-24.
17. Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostkova P, Madge B, Marsh A, Biniaris C. The Primary Care Electronic Library: RSS feeds using SNOMED-CT indexing for dynamic content delivery., Inform Prim Care. 2006;14(4):247-52.
18. Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostkova P, Madge B. Using UMLS to map from a library to a clinical classification: Improving the functionality of a digital library. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 2006:121;86-95.
19. Roy, P. Kostkova, E. Carson, M Catchpole. Web-based provision of information on infectious diseases: a systems study, Health Informatics J. 2006 Dec;12(4):274-92
20. G. Madle, P. Kostkova, J. Mani-Saada, A. Roy. Lessons learned from Evaluation of the Use of the National electronic Library of Infection, Health Informatics Journal, Special Issue "Healthcare Digital Libraries", 2006, 12: 137-151
21. Robinson J, de Lusignan S and Kostkova P. The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) five years on: open source evaluation of usage. Informatics in Primary Care. 2005;13(4):271-280.
22. Robinson J, de Lusignan S, Kostkova P and Southgate L. Developing a digital library: the evolution of the Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL). Acta Informatica Medica. 2005;13(4):31-37.
23. P. Williams, G. Madle, J. Weinberg, P. Kostkova, J Mani-Saada Information for the public about disease: usability issues in the development of the National Electronic Library for Communicable Diseases. Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives, Vol. 56, No 2, pages 99-103, 2004
24. Madle G, Kostkova P, Mani-Saada J, Williams P, Weinberg JR: Changing public attitudes to antimicrobial prescribing: can the Internet help? Informatics in Primary Care, Vol.12, No. 1, pages 19-26, 2004
25. P. Kostkova et al. Knowledge Management and Communities of Practice around Healthcare Digital Libraries. In "e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care", I Rudomin, J Vazquez-Salceda, J L Diaz de Leon Santiago (Eds) in Research on Computing Science Vol 5, Instituto Politecnico Nacional p. 86-99, 2003
26. G Madle, P. Kostkova, J. Mani-Saada, J.R Weinberg. Using the Internet to influence public knowledge and attitudes about health. In "e-Health: Application of Computing Science in Medicine and Health Care", I Rudomin, J Vazquez-Salceda, J L Diaz de Leon Santiago (Eds) in Research on Computing Science Vol 5, Instituto Politecnico Nacional p. 70-85, 2003
27. P. Kostkova et al. Agent-Based Up-to-date Data Management in National electronic Library for Communicable Disease. In SI: "Applications of intelligent agents in health care", J. Nealon, T. Moreno Ed, in Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies, pages 103-122, 2003

1. Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., de Quincey, E. (2010). #swineflu: Twitter Predicts Swine Flu Outbreak in 2009. In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth2010). 13th-15th December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, in press
2. Kostkova P., Szomszor, M. (2010). The FEM Wiki project: a conversion of a training resource for field epidemiologists into a collaborative Web 2.0 portal. In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth2010). 13th - 15th December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, in press
3. E de Quincey, P Kostkova, G Jawaheer. Promoting e-Health Resources: Lessons Learned, In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth2010). 13th - 15th December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, in press
4. P Kostkova, D Weerasinghe, L Lazareck, D Farrell. Evaluating of popularity of multi-lingual educational web games - do all children speak English? In: 3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth2010). 13th - 15th December 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, in press
5. G Jawaheer, M Szomszor, P Kostkova. Comparison of implicit and explicit feedback from an online music recommendation service. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems, HetRec '10, September 26, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. 2010 ACM 978-1-4503-0407-8/10/09, doi: 10.1145/1869446.1869453, pages: 47-51
6. G. Jawaheer, M Szomszor, P Kostkova. Characterisation of explicit feedback in an online music recommendation service. In the Proceedings of the ACM Recommender Systems RecSys'10, September 26-30, 2010, Barcelona, Spain. 2010 ACM 978-1-60558-906-0/10/09, doi: 10.1145/1864708.1864776, pages: 317-320
7. P Kostkova, D Farrell, E de Quincey, J Weinberg, D Lecky, C McNulty. eBug - teaching children hygiene principles using educational games. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Volume160 (2010) - MEDINFO 2010, C. Safran, S. Reti, H.F. Marin (Eds), ISBN 978-1-60750-587-7, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-600, pages 600-604
8. G Jawaheer, P Kostkova. Web crawlers on a health related portal: detection, characterisation and implications In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE '10), 6-8th September 2010, London, UK, IEEE Computer Society, in press
9. M. Szomszor, P. Kostkova, C Cattuto, W Van den Broek, A Barrat, H Alani. Providing Enhanced Social Interaction Services for Industry Exhibitors at large Medical Conferences. In the Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE '10), 6-8th September 2010, London, UK, IEEE Computer Society, in press
10. L.J. Lazareck, D. Farrell, P. Kostkova, D. Lecky, C. McNulty, "Learning by gaming - evaluation of an online game for children," In the Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE EMBS Conference, (Buenos Aires, Argentina; Aug. 31-Sept. 4, 2010) in-press.
11. M. Szomszor, D. Weerasinghe, P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer, Enabling Collaborative eHealth Research using Web 2.0 Tools, In the Proceedings of the Med-e-Tel, Luxembourg, April 14-16, 2010, pages 192-196
12. D. Farrell, P. Kostkova, L. Lazareck, D. Weerasinghe, CeRC Story-Game Engine: An open source technology to power story based investigation games, In the Proceedings of the Med-e-Tel, Luxembourg, April 14-16, 2010, pages 181-185
13. Ed de Quincey, Patty Kostkova Early Warning and Outbreak Detection Using Social Networking Websites: the Potential of Twitter, 2nd International Conference on eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009. P Kostkova (Ed.): ehealth 2009, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 27, pages 21-24, 2010
14. Helen Oliver, Patty Kostkova, Ed de Quincey. Data Triangulation in a User Evaluation of the Sealife Semantic Web Browsers Electronic Healthcare. 2nd International Conference on eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009. P Kostkova (Ed.): ehealth 2009, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 27, pages 80-87, 2010
15. Anjana Roy, Patty Kostkova, Mike Catchpole, Ewart Carson Comparative Study of User Perceived and Actual Information Searching Behaviour in the National electronic Library of Infection, 2nd International Conference on eHealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009. P Kostkova (Ed.): ehealth 2009, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 27, pages 96-103, 2010
16. E. de Quincey, H. Oliver, P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer, G. Madle, G. Diallo, D. Alexopoulou, M. Schroeder, B. Habermann, K. Khelif, S. Jupp, R. Stevens. Mining for Patterns of Semantic Link Usage: Do Domain Users Actually Like Semantic Browsing? In the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, September 2009, pages 50-53
17. D. Farrell, P. Kostkova, D. Lecky and C. McNulty. Teaching Children Hygiene Using Problem Based Learning: The Story Telling Approach to Games Based Learning, In the Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG), Aachen, Germany, August 2009.
18. E de Quincey, E., P Kostkova, D Farrell Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies: eliciting attributes for recommendation and profiling systems. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization for Web 2.0 in connection with UMAP 2009, June 22-26, 2009, Trento, Italy, 2009
19. G. Madle, P. Kostkova, A. Roudsari. Impact-ED - A New Model of Digital Library Impact Evaluation. In the Proceedings of the ECDL 2008 conference, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5173/2008, 10.1007/978-3-540-87599-4, pages 100-105
20. G. Diallo, P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer, S. Jupp, R. Stevens. Process of Building a Vocabulary for the Infection Domain. 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, June 2008, Jyvaskyla, Finland, cbms, pp.308-313, 2008
21. P. Kostkova, G. Diallo, G. Jawaheer. User Profiling for Semantic Browsing in Medical Digital Libraries. In the Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08), June 2008, Tenerife, Spain, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5021/2008, 10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9_67, pages 827-831
22. P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer, E de Quincey, G Madle, S Wiseman, National Electronic Library of Infection (NeLI/NRIC) - the Best Available Evidence Online: 9 Years of Experience. In the Proceedings of the IST-Africa 2009 Conference, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3
23. P Kostkova, D Farrell, D Lecky, C McNulty. e-Bug Games for Children: Teaching Hygiene and Prudent Antibiotics Use using Web Games In the Proceedings of the IST-Africa 2009 Conference, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-905824-11-3
24. G. Diallo, Khaled Khelif, Olivier Corby, Patty Kostkova, Gemma Madle. Semantic Browsing of a Domain Related Resources: The Corese-NeLI Framework, In the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. WI'08 Conference, 9-12 December 2008, Sydney, Australia, Volume 3, 9-12 Dec. 2008 Page(s):50 - 54
25. Simon Jupp, Robert Stevens, Sean Bechhofer, Yeliz Yesilada, Patty Kostkova.
"Knowledge Representation for Web Navigation" International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2008), e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2008
26. Simon Jupp, Robert Stevens, Sean Bechhofer, Patty Kostkova, and Yeliz Yesilada.
Document Navigation: Ontology or Knowledge Organization System? In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology, NETTAB, Pisa, Italy, 2007.
27. Simon Jupp, Robert Stevens, Sean Bechhofer, Patty Kostkova, and Yeliz Yesilada.
Converting Ontologies to Knowledge Organisation Systems for Document Navigation. In Bio-ontologies SIG workshop, 2007
28. Schroeder, M., Burger, A., Kostkova, P., Stevens, R., Haberman, B. and Dieng-Kuntz, R., From a Service-based eScience Infrastructure to a Semantic Web for the Life Sciences: The Sealife Project, In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology, NETTAB 2006, Sardinia, Italy, 2006
29. Robert Stevens, Yeliz Yesilada, Michael Schroeder, Albert Burger, Patty Kostkova, Bianca Habermann, Rose Dieng-Kuntz. A Semantic Browser for a Web of Biomedicine. In Health Care and Life Sciences Workshop, Athens, Georgia, USA, 2006.
30. P. Kostkova, G. Diallo, G. Jawaheer. Application of User Profiling on Ontology Module Extraction for Medical portals. In the Proceedings of the MedSemWeb 2007 Workshop held in conjunction with the MedInfo 2007 Conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 2007.
31. D'Souza, P. Kostkova: Agents in Online Healthcare Digital Library Management of the National Resource for Infection Control, In the proceedings of the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 05) at ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria
32. N. Patel, P. Kostkova, Design research: The deferred actions of the design of the National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI). In the proceedings of the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 05) at ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria.
33. P. Kostkova, A. Adams. HDL 2005 - the 3rd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop - HDL 2005 , D-Lib Magazine, November 2005, Volume 11, Number 11, ISSN 1082-9873
34. G. Madle, P. Kostkova, J. Mani-Saada. Evaluating the Online Activity and Searching Behaviour of Users of a Medical Digital Library. In the proceedings of the 2nd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 04) at ECDL 2004, Bath, UK.
35. N. Patel, P. Kostkova. Deferred Action: Information seeking in the National electronic Library of Infection (DA-NeLI), In the proceedings of the 2nd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 04) at ECDL 2004, Bath, UK.
36. P. Kostkova, A. Kumar, A. Roy, J. Weinberg, G. Madle, E. Carson. Ontological Principles of Disease Management from Public Health Perspective: a Tuberculosis Case Study. In the proceedings of the 2nd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 04) at ECDL 2004, Bath, UK
37. Adams, P. Kostkova. Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop - HDL 2004 , D-Lib Magazine, October 2004, Volume 10, Number 10, ISSN 1082-9873
38. P. Kostkova et al. Quality-assured knowledge on the Internet - does it change professional practice? In the Proceedings of MedNet2003, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003.
39. G Madle, P. Kostkova, J Mani-Saada, Development of a methodology to evaluate the impact of a medical digital library on user knowledge, attitude and behaviour. In the Proceedings of MedNet2003, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003.
40. Fields, P. Kostkova, A. Adams. ECDL 2003 Workshop Report: Healthcare Digital Libraries (HDL 2003), D-Lib Magazine, September 2003, Volume 9, Number 9, ISSN 1082-9873, In Brief
41. Madle G, Kostkova P, et al Using the Internet for informing the public about antimicrobial resistance: does it make any difference? Proceedings of the HPA First Scientific Conference Warwick, UK, September 2003.
42. Kostkova P et al Informing the professional, informing the public, changing practice and changing expectations. In the Proceedings of the HPA First Scientific Conference Warwick, UK, Sep 2003.
43. P Kostkova, J Weinberg, G Madle, J Mani-Saada. User Customisation of Agent Profiles in the National electronic Library for Communicable Disease. In the Proceedings of HDL 2003, Trondheim, Norway, Aug 2003
44. Mani-Saada J, Madle G, Williams P. Initial experience with developing communities of practice around the National electronic Library for Communicable Disease. In the proceedings of the 1st Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 03) at ECDL 2003, Trondheim
28. Madle G, Kostkova P, Mani-Saada J, Weinberg J.R. Evaluating the changes in knowledge and attitudes of digital library users. In the Proceedings of the 7th ECDL 2003. Koch T, Torvik Sølveberg I eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin, Springer Verlag 2003, pages 22-40
45. P Kostkova, J Mani-Saada, G Madle, J Weinberg. Agent-based Up-to-date Data Management in National electronic Library for Communicable Disease. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Health Care Applications of Intelligent Agents, ID3, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 2003
46. P. Kostkova, J. McCann. Support for Mobile Location-Aware Applications in MAGNET. In the Proceedings of Net.ObjectDays (NODe) 2002 Web and Database-Related Workshops, Erfurt, Germany, October 2002. Revisited Papers published by A. B. Chaudhri et al eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2593, Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2003, pages 280 - 294.
47. P. Kostkova, J. Mani-Saada, J. R. Weinberg. Do you read the literature properly, and if you do how can others benefit from it. In the Proceedings of the PHLS Conf 2002, Warwick, UK, Sept 2002.
48. P. Kostkova, Mani-Saada J, Weinberg J. R. Distributed Search in National electronic Library for Health. In the Proceedings of the IEEE DCADL, ICPP 2002, Vancouver, Canada, August 2002.
49. Kostkova, J. Mani-Saada, J. Weinberg. Agent-based Up-to-date Data Management in National electronic Library for Communicable Disease. In the Proceedings of Agents applied in Health Care, 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI-2002, Lyon, France, July 2002
50. Mani-Saada J, Kostkova P, Weinberg J. R. Ethical Issues in Health Care on the Internet: Much ado about nothing?., In the Proceedings of the Nordic interdisciplinary conference and workshop at NTNU. Making Common Ground: Methodological and Ethical issues in doing Internet research, Trondheim, Norway, June 2002
51. Patty Kostkova, Julie A. McCann: MAGNET: An Architecture for Dynamic Resource Allocation. MobiDE 1999: 77-83

1. V. Prikazsky, A. Bosman, P. Kostkova, M. Szomszor. The Field Epidemiology Manual (FEM) Wiki: A Collaborative eLearning Online Portal. Abstract in the Proceedings and a poster at the ESCAIDE 2010, 11-13th November 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
2. S. Wiseman. G. Jawaheer. P. Kostkova. Evidence and Global Access: The importance of sharing resources. Abstract in the Proceedings and a poster at the ESCAIDE 2010, 11-13th November 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
3. D Farrell, P Kostkova, D Lecky, C McNulty. The e-Bug project - teaching children hygiene and antibiotic resistance using Web games. A peer-reviewed scientific demonstration at the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics MedInfo, 12-15th September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
4. E de Quincey, P Kostkova, G Jawaheer. The Potential of Twitter for Early Warning and Outbreak Detection. Poster at the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics MedInfo, 12-15th September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
5. G Jawaheer, E de Quincey, S Wiseman, P Kostkova National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - conveying guidance during the Swine Flu outbreak: an Evaluation Study Poster at the 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics MedInfo, 12-15th September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
29. D, Farrell, P. Kostkova, JR. Weinberg, L. Lazareck. Utilization of web games to teach children principles of hygiene and antibiotic resistance. Oral presentation and Abstract in the Proceedings of the Joint IPCAN/IFIC conference, 29th August - 1st September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
30. P Kostkova, S Wiseman, G Jawaheer, D Weerasinghe. Keeping patients safe through 'quick and easy' utilization of evidence based information - NRIC 5 years on. Oral presentation and Abstract in the Proceedings of the Joint IPCAN/IFIC conference, 29th August - 1st September 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
6. P. Kostkova, E. de Quincey, G. Jawaheer. The potential of Twitter for early warning and outbreak detection. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 16, Issue Supplement 2, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 April 2010
7. D. Farrell , P. Kostkova, J. Weinberg, D. Lecky,C. McNulty. Can Web games teach children hygiene and antibiotic resistance? Evaluation of the e-Bug junior games. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 16, Issue Supplement 2, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 April 2010
8. S. Wiseman, R. Gallagher, P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer. Evaluation of National Infection Prevention Week on NRIC www.nric.org.uk: a comparative study of success of the event during 2007/08/09, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 16, Issue Supplement 2, Vienna, Austria, 10-13 April 2010
9. P. Kostkova, E. de Quincey, G. Jawaheer. The potential of social networks for early warning and outbreak detection systems: The swine flu Twitter study. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US.
10. S. Wiseman, P. Kostkova, E. de Quincey, G. Jawaheer. Providing guidance during the swine flu outbreak in 2009: An evaluation study of the National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US.
11. D. Farrell, P. Kostkova, J. Weinberg, D. Lecky, C. McNulty. Online games teaching children hygiene and antibiotic resistance: Evaluation of the e-Bug games. Poster and Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Infectious Diseases (ICID), March 9-12th 2010, Miami, Florida, US,
12. E de Quincey, P Kostkova, S. Wiseman: An investigation into the potential of Web 2.0 websites to track disease outbreak. Poster and abstract in the Proceedings of the Infection 2009 conference, Birmingham, UK, 11-13th November 2009
13. E de Quincey and P Kostkova. An investigation into the potential of social networking sites to predict disease outbreak, Abstract in the Proceedings of the ESCAIDE 2009 conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 26th-28th October 2009
14. S. Wiseman, P. Kostkova, E de Quincey. National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - tackling the challenge of conveying guidance during the Swine influenza A(H1N1) outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 10th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-10th October 2009
15. E de Quincey & Kostkova, P. Using online social networking services like twitter to detect disease outbreak. Abstract in the Proceedings of the Health Protection Agency conference (HPA 2009), Warwick, UK, 14-16 September 2009
16. Farrell D. Kostkova P. McNulty C. Lecky D. e-Bug: using games to teach young children about microbes, hygiene and appropriate antibiotic use, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 15, Supplement 4, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 May 2009
17. Madle G. Wiseman S. Kostkova P. Jawaheer G. Evaluating the impact of the National Resource of Infection Control, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 15, Supplement 4, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 May 2009
18. Oliver H. Jupp S. de Quincey E. Alexopoulou D. Habermann B. Khelif K. Kostkova P. Jawaheer G. Stevens R. Ferguson G. Surendranath V. Wiseman S. Mani-Saada J. Diallo G. Dietze H. Madle G. Weinberg J. Schroeder M. Evaluating the user experience of the Sealife Semantic Web browsers, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 15, Supplement 4, Helsinki, Finland, 16-19 May 2009
19. G. Diallo, G. Madle, G. Jawaheer, P. Kostkova, D. Alexopoulou, R. Stevens, S. Jupp, K. Khelif. A User Centered Evaluation Framework for the Sealife Semantic Web Browser. International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS), 28th November 2008, Edinburgh, UK.
20. P. Kostkova, et al, e-Bug online Games for Children: Educational Games Teaching Microbes, Hand and Respiratory Hygiene and Prudent Antibiotics across Europe, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 2008 European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE 2008), Berlin, Germany, 19-21 November 2008
21. P. Kostkova. Building Internet Digital Libraries for Patients and Professionals - Do they have an Impact?, E Pena, R. Uribe, C. Bonacic (Ed), Jornadas Chjilenas de Computacion 2008, ISBN 978-956-319-507-1, page 14,
22. P Kostkova, G Madle, S Wiseman, G Jawaheer National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) www.nric.org.uk Digital Libraries - just another survival tool or a learning experience? Poster & Abstract at the Proceedings at the 9th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Santiago, Chile, 14-17th October 2008
23. Madle G, Kostkova P, Wiseman S, Jawaheer G. Evaluation of the Impact of the National Resource for Infection control. Report for the DH. October 2008
24. G Madle, S Wiseman, P Kostkova, G Jawaheer. National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) Evaluation - Digital Libraries: High Impact or Irrelevant? Poster at the Infection Prevention conference 2008, Harrogate, UK, 22-24th September, 2008
25. S. Wiseman, P. Kostkova, G. Jawaheer. Specialist Digital Libraries - help or hindrance?, Poster at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) conference 2008, September 2008, Warwick, UK
26. Hansraj F. Roy A. Jawaheer G. Kostkova P. Freed J. Catchpole M. Wiseman S. What is the impact of a Tuberculosis National Knowledge Week?, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 14, Supplement 7, Barcelona, Spain, 19-22 April 2008
27. Wiseman S. Hansraj F. Kostkova P. Jawaheer G. Catchpole M. Roy A. Freed J. Information overload or under load! How national knowledge weeks can help busy professionals. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 14, Supplement 7, Barcelona, Spain, 19-22 April 2008
28. Farrell D. Kostkova P. Lecky D.M. McNulty C.A.M. Lai N. Beveridge S. Designing online, educational games about microbes, hand and respiratory hygiene and prudent antibiotics use for junior pupils across Europe. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 14, Supplement 7, Barcelona, Spain, 19-22 April 2008
29. David Farrell, Donna M Lecky, Patty Kostkova, Cliodna A.M. McNulty. Public European campaigns on hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and antibiotic use, Abstract at the Proceedings of the Federation of Infection Societies Conference (FIS), Cardiff, UK, November 2007
30. Donna M. Lecky, David Farrell, Patty Kostkova, Cliodna A.M. McNulty, School education in Europe in relation to antibiotic use and hygiene, Abstract at the Proceedings of the Federation of Infection Societies Conference (FIS), Cardiff, UK, November 2007
31. S Wiseman, P Kostkova, F Hansraj. Do Internet resources influence policy development, practise and subsequent clinical outcomes? Abstract in the Proceedings at the 8th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Budapest, Hungary, 18-21st October 2007
32. S Wiseman, P Kostkova, F Hansraj. National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) - is it meeting a need? www.nric.org.uk Abstract in the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Infection Control Conference (ICNA), Brighton, UK, 24-26th September 2007
33. D Lecky, D Farrell, P Kostkova, C McNulty. E-Bug: A DG SANCO funded Pan-European School Health Education Resource: Research findings. Poster at the Health Protection Agency (HPA) conference 2007, 17-19th September 2007, Warwick, UK
34. Wiseman S. Kostkova P. Hansraj F. National Resource for Infection Control (www.nric.org.uk): meeting a need? Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 13, Supplement 1, Munich, Germany, April 2007
35. Cliodna AM McNulty, Donna M Lecky, David Farrell, Patty Kostkova: e-Bug: A Pan European Educational Resource. Poster presented at the European Corner at the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Munich, Germany, April 2007
36. Lecky D.M. Kostkova P. McNulty for the e-Bug Working Group C.A.M. School education in Europe: what are children being taught about antibiotic use and hygiene?, Abstract in the Proceedings of the 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 13, Supplement 1, Munich, Germany, April 2007
37. S Wiseman, S D'Souza, P Kostkova, G Madle. How are we doing - a year on? National Resource for Infection Control (www.nric.org.uk). Abstract in the Proceedings of the 36th Annual Infection Control Conference (ICNA), Brighton, UK, 25-27th September 2006
38. D'Souza S.S., Wiseman S., Kostkova P., Mani-Saada J. National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). Abstract in the Proceedings of the 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 12, Supplement 4, Nice, France, April 1-4 2006
39. Kostkova P. D'Souza S. Madle G. Mani-Saada J. Wiseman S. Roy A. Weinberg J. NeLI and NRIC survey: information needs of infectious disease professionals. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 12, Supplement 4, Nice, France, April 1-4 2006
40. D'Souza S. Kostkova P. Cooke F. Holmes A. Training in infection. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 16th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 12, Supplement 4, Nice, France, April 1-4 2006
41. S D'Souza, S Wiseman, P Kostkova, J Mani-Saada. National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC). In the Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC), Istanbul, Turkey, 13-16th October 2005
42. P. Kostkova. G. Madle, J. Weinberg, J. Mani-Saada. National electronic Library of Infection in the UK - can it change clinical practice? Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 10, Supplement 3, 2004, Prague, May 2004
43. Madle G, P. Kostkova, J. Weinberg. The path of least resistance: the value of educating patients and professionals about antimicrobial resistance. Abstract in the Proceedings of the 14th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 10, Supplement 3, 2004, Prague, May 2004
44. P. Kostkova, J. Weinberg, J Mani-Saada, NeLCD Data Representation, Abstract in the Proceedings of the e-health: Futurescope 2001 conference, London, May 2001

• Keynote Speaker: KlinIKT 2012: A knowledge-based health services in ICT as a tool. Hamar, Norway, 11-12 April 2012
• Keynote Speaker: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technology Applications for Health and Medicine, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (September 2009)
• Keynote Speaker: Personalisation for ehealth Workshop - held in conjunction with AIME 2009, Verona, Italy (July 2009)
• Keynote Speaker: K4HelP "Knowledge Management for Healthcare Processes" Workshop - held in conjunction with ECAI 2008, Patras, Greece (2008)

• Telefónica I+D center, Barcelona, Spain, February 2012
• World Health Organization, Innovation, Information, Evidence and Research (IER), Geneva, Switzerland, January 2012
• Global Infection Control portal: the latest evidence for infection professionals, IPCAN 2011, November 2011
• 'Transforming Health' Seminar Series, Centre for Better Managed Health and Social Care, CASS Business School, City University, London, October 2011
• Centre for e-Research, King's College, London, July 2011
• "Idea Champion" at BMJ Panel: I was invited by BMJ as the "Idea Champion" presenting the future of social networks in healthcare at a theme session seeking to find "The idea most likely to make the biggest impact on healthcare by 2020" (the NHS Innovation Expo 2011, Excel, London, March 2011).
• Epidemic Intelligence Experts Meeting, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden (September 2010)
• Education Development Unit (EDU), SC&HS, City University, London (June 2010)
• Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK (May 2010)
• European Centre European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden (November 2009)
• Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey (September 2009)
• EC Joint Research Centre, Italy (July 2009)
• SCCC conference, Punta Arenas, Chile (November 2008)
• Yahoo! Research Lab, Barcelona (2008)
• Fondation Merieux, Lyon, France (2008)
• University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (2007)
• European Centre European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden (2006)
• Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), London Branch, Savoy Place Section, London, UK (2006)
• Charles University, 2nd Medical Faculty, Prague, Czech Republic (2005)
• SACAR committee meetings on public education and professional education campaigns, London (2005)
• Euromise Centre, Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic (2004)
• NHS Direct Online, Hedge End, UK (2004)
• BCAS, SACAR & APUA International Workshop on "What can professionals and the public do about Antimicrobial resistance and prescribing?", London, UK (2004).
• Speaker at a Workshop On Educational Campaigns Regarding Antibiotic Resistance, organized by European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC), Brussels, Belgium (2004)
• Invited speaker and a member of the discussion panel at First European Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Biomedicine, Hungary (2004)
• Health Protection Agency, UK (2004)
• East of England Clinical Virology Forum, Newmarket, UK (2004)
• KTL, Helsinki, Finland (2003)
• Cancer Research, London, UK (2002)
• Health Canada, Canada (2002)

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm - scientific member of the Knowledge Management Working Group, AB member since 2005
• ACM, since 1996
• IEEE, since 2008
• Advisory Board member, the Genesis project (Generic European Sustainable Information Space for Environment), FP7 ICT-2007.6.3, grant agreement: 223996, AB member since 2009
• AgentLink III Working Group on Health Care, 2003-5
• Member of the committee for awarding the "Peter Reichertz Memorial Prize for Young Researchers", Medical Informatics Europe (MIE 2003), St. Malo, France, May 2003.
• National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI): lead, Project Board Member, Advisory Board Member since 2000
• National Resource of Infection Control (NRIC): lead, Advisory Board Member, since 2005
• Training in Infection (TII): lead, Project Board Member, since 2004
• Bugs and Drugs on the Web: Project Board Member, 2003-5
• SACAR UK, public education sub-committee: member (2004-8)
• SACAR UK, professional education sub-committee: member (2004-7)
• NHS National Knowledge Service TB Pilot project: Advisory Board member, since 2005
• ECDC FEM wiki - lead and Advisory Board member, since 2008

• General and Scientific Co-Chair: 4th ehealth 2011, Malaga, Spain, November 2011
• Scientific Co-Chair and Steering Committee Member: 3rd ehealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, December 2010
• General and Scientific Chair: 2nd ehealth 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009
• Chair of the Congress Track/Theme and Member of the Local Arrangements Committee: 3rd International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE '10), Theme 5: e-Health and e-Medicine, 6-8th September 2010, London, UK

• Co-Editors in Chief: R. Muttukrishnan, P. Kostkova. Springer Verlag ICST Transactions on e-Health, ISSN# 2032-9296, since 2010
• Editor: M Szomszor, P Kostkova (Eds.): Electric healthcare 2010, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 69, 2011
• Editor: P. Kostkova: Electric healthcare 2009, Springer Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering LNICST 27, 2010
• Editors: P. Kostkova and A. Adams. Health Informatics Journal, Special Issue on Digital Libraries, Sage Publication, London, Vol 12(2), 2006

• Medical Education, Wiley-Blackwell, Print ISSN: 0308-0110, Online ISSN: 1365-2923, since 2011
• ICST Transactions on e-Health, ISSN# 2032-9296, since 2009
• Health Informatics Journal - regular member of the Editorial Board, since 2005
• Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, Oxford Journals, since 2009
• User Modelling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI), Special Issue on Personalization for e-Health, (An international journal published by Springer Verlag), December 2009
• Journal of Web Semantics, Special Issue On Semantic Web For The Life Sciences, Elsevier, 2006

• Global Health: City University Interdisciplinary Half Day on Research, co-chair, June 2011
• MedSemWeb 2007 Workshop, "What Semantics Do We Need for A Semantic Web for Medicine?" held in conjunction with MedInfo 2007, Brisbane, Australia, August 2007
• 1st Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 2005) held in conjunction with ECDC 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 2005
• 2nd City e-health Workshop, City University, May 2004
• 2nd Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 2004) held in conjunction with ECDC 2004, Bath UK, September 2004
• 1st Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop (HDL 2003) held in conjunction with ECDC 2003, Trondheim, Norway, August 2003
• 1st City e-health Workshop, City University, December 2002

• IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2012), e-Health 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-19 July, 2012
• 5th International Workshop on Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth'12) + 4th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Health Care (KRH4C), Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2012
• 25th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), June 20-22, 2012, Rome, Italy
• 7th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC 2012) at AAMAS-2012, June 2012, Valencia, Spain
• 4th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS), London, UK, December 2011
• USAB 2011: Information Quality in eHealth, 7th Conference of the Austrian Computer Society
Workgroup: Human-Computer Interaction, Graz, Austria, November 2011
• 4th ICST ehealth 2011 conference, Malaga, Spain, November 2011
• ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, October 2011
• 3rd International workshop Knowledge Representation for Health-Care (KR4HC) held in conjunction with AIME 2011, Bled, Slovenia, July 2011
• 3rd ICST ehealth 2010 conference, Casablanca, Morocco, December 2010
• 3rd International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE '10), 6-8th September 2010, London, UK
• 6th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care (A2HC), to be held in conjunction with ECAI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal (August 2010) - cancelled to be run in conjunction with 3rd ehealth 2010 conference, Casablanca, Morocco, December 2010
• 2nd Workshop "Knowledge Representation for Healthcare Processes" (KR4HC) - held in conjunction with ECAI 2010, Lisbon, Portugal (August 2010)
• International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2010), Track 7: Systems for Biological and Medical Applications, Krakow, Poland, (February 2010)
• 2nd ICST ehealth 2009 conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2009
• Personalisation for ehealth Workshop - held in conjunction with AIME 2009, Verona, Italy (July 2009)
• K4HelP Workshop "Knowledge Management for Healthcare Processes" - held in conjunction with AIME 2009, Verona, Italy (July 2009), Springer LNAI 5626
• AAMAS 2008: Workshop on "Agents applied in Healthcare", Estoril, Portugal (May 2008)
• IEEE CMBS 2008 Special Track on Personalisation for e-Health (Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2008)
• UM 2007 Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health (Greece, 2007)
• AAMAS 2006, Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Hakodate, Japan (May 2006)
• UM 2005 Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health (Edinburgh, UK, July 2005)
• AAMAS 2005 Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems for Medicine, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 2005)
• Agentlink III TGF "Agents applied in Healthcare", Rome, Italy (July 2004)