Keynote Speaker I

Short Biography of Prof. Chi

Chi-Hung Chi is currently a professor in the School of Software, Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. After working in Philips Laboratories and in IBM Poughkeepsie, Prof. Chi returned to academia (firstly to Chinese University of Hong Kong, and then National University of Singapore and now, with Tsinghua University). His main research areas include content networking and engineering, systems and network security, software engineering, service engineering, and cloud computing. He has published about 200 papers in international conferences and journals and holds 6 U.S patents. He is the program/general chairman of WCW 2004, AWCC 2004, IEEE SOSE 2006, ICSOC 2009, SCC 2009, SIE 2010. He is also on advisory board of European Research Institute on Service Science, an associated member of European S-CUBE project and the European International Master Program on Service Engineering, editorial board of IGI's International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and Springer Heidelberg's LNCS (Lecture Note on Computer Science) Subline on Service Science. He is a popular panelist and speaker, and on PC committees of many international conferences. Technologies that he developed are also successfully transferred into industry.

Talk: Unified Decision Workplace for Service and Cloud Computing

In the past few years, several new directions have been emerging in the IT industry. They are Software Services, Service Computing, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Social Computing. While most of them claim to have high potentials and great opportunities, people are still puzzling about the ultimate values that they can actually deliver to enterprises. In this talk, we will first trace back the history of their development, starting from 1961, when the concept of processing as a utility was first proposed. Then their unique features and operational properties of services, cloud, and social media will be abstracted to formulate a perpetual streaming intelligence decision workplace and service management framework. Details of such framework will be given. Both the opportunities, challenges, and its impacts to the China software industry will be discussed in details.

Prof. Guangming Xing
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green , U.S. , KY 42101

Short Biography of Prof. Xing

Guangming Xing is an associate professor in the Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University . Prof. Xing is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in computer science and Director of Software Solution Center at Western Kentucky University . He received his B.S degree from Nankai University , Ph.D. degree from the University of Georgia , all in Computer Science. After spending three years in Athens Research Facility at Cisco Systems, he started his academic career at Western Kentucky University in 2002. His main research areas include information retrieval, Web data management, algorithm design and image processing. He has published about 40 papers in international conferences and journals.

Talk: Enterprise Search: What, how and where?

With the fast growing of electronic data from different applications, how to search the large collection of inherently related data in an enterprise setting is a challenging task. As a core component in a business intelligence system, enterprise search is far more than applying a search engine in an enterprise setting. While many approaches have been proposed and studied in research papers and implemented in different commercial/open-source systems to address the challenges in the enterprise searching, most organizations are still left with disconnected solutions. In this talk, we will talk about the necessary components to build a framework to handle enterprise searching: information fusion, information security, and multi-faceted searching. Existing works from the academia and software industry will be surveyed, and the challenges and opportunities will be discussed.

Dr Steve Thatcher
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of South Australia

Short Biography of Prof. Xing

In 1985 the University of South Australia's (UniSA) antecedent institution the South Australian Institute of Technology introduced Australasia's first tertiary award course in Aviation. This established the Aviation Discipline in the Australasian region. Steve Thatcher was a founding member of the team that introduced this award and remains the longest serving Aviation Academic in Australia. In 1990 UniSA established Australia's first University owned and operated flight training school, UniSA Aviation Academy. Steve Thatcher was a founding member of the team that established the Aviation Academy. Steve was also the founder of the Aviation Education, Research and Operations Laboratory (AERO Lab). He is currently the Founding Team Leader of AERO Lab.
Steve has qualifications in Physics, Psychology, Engineering, Education and Aviation. He has been a Jackaroo in South West Queensland, a Mechanical Engineer for British Aerospace (UK) and has lectured in Physics, Electronics and Aviation. He holds a Commercial Pilot Licence and a Grade One Instructor Rating and has trained many of the University's flight instructors. Steve has presented many keynote addresses on his research work and chaired international conferences in Australia, Philippines and India. He is on the Editorial and Review Boards of several international journals and conferences.

PhD supervisor,Professor Zeng-qiang Chen
Nankai University

Short Biography of Prof. Xing

Prof. Zeng-qiang Chen received the B.S. degree in mathematics, M.S. degree and Ph.D degrees in control theory and control engineering from the Nankai University in China, in 1987, 1990, and 1997, respectively. He has been worked at the College of Information Technology Sciences of Nankai University, where since 1999 he has been a full professor and a PhD supervisor . In 2001, he obtained the position for the head of department of automation. His main areas of research involved in complex system modelling and simulation, complex networks, multi-agent systems, intelligent control and intelligent computing, chaos theory and applications, Computer network and multimedia technology. He has been responsible for more than 15 foundation projects, include two NSFC projects and two National 863 projects. He has authored/ coauthored more than 200 journal papers, about 100 of them are SCI journal papers. In 1998, he honoured the Bao-Gang Education award (Grade One). In 2004, he won the Tianjin Natural Science award (Grade Two). The title is: “Research on Adaptive Intelligent Predictive Control Theory and Its Application”. In 2005, he entered into the the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China (NCET). His p rofessional qualification main includes: The member for Chinese system simulation academy , The member for control theory specialty association of Chinese automation academy , the member for process control specialty association of Chinese automation academy , the member for complex system and complex networks specialty of Chines industry and applied mathematics academy , the member for aviation and areospace intelligence specialty of Chines artifical intelligence academy . Also, He currently acted as the editor member for 4 national academic journals and 3 international academic journals.

Talk: Research on 3D Model Retrieval Method and Applications