Professor Dillon is internationally recognized for his research on Semantic Web, Web services, knowledge discovery, and data mining, neural networks, intelligent systems, object-oriented systems, communications, fault tolerant systems, and distributed protocol engineering.
He is Chair of the IFIP Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence TC12, head of the IFIP International Working Group on WG2.12/24 on Semantic Web and Web Semantics, and the previous chair of the IEEE/IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics. He is Editor-in Chief of three International Journals.
He has published 12 books, over 700 research papers as book chapters, journal articles, and refereed conference papers. His research has received over 4,500 citations with a Hurst index of 31 (Google scholar). Research interests include Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Web of Things; Semantic Web, Ontologies, XML Systems, Bioinformatics, Expert and Intelligent systems; Knowledge discovery and Data Mining; Neural networks; Computer communications; Fault tolerant computing, etc. His research has made significant contributions to many application areas including logistics, banking and finance, electrical power systems, telecommunications and management.
