Keynote Speeches

Many enterprises gather large volumes of data about their business and research activities with a view determining how they might improve their practice or identify emerging business opportunities and threats. In such cases analysts commonly search for novel patterns that can provide a clue to future research directions or strategic advantage over a competitor. However, while data mining has demonstrated considerable success, a number of substantial problems remain including those relating to the usability of the results and the tractability of the routines in the face of growing volumes of source data.
This talk with discuss the bringing together of pattern discovery and higher order mining techniques to explore the use of pattern-directed higher order mining, specifically through the use of pattern languages. In particular we believe that a hierarchically composable data mining pattern language should be able to accommodate user profiles and other knowledge structures (such as ontologies) easily and as appropriate.
The talk will also discuss a number of other topical areas in data mining including the accommodation of ontologies and the problems of latency in graph mining.

Since the late 1980s Professor Roddick has contributed to the area of conceptual modelling and intelligent databases including the development of techniques for data summarization, spatio-temporal databases, query languages, evolution and change in data and metadata management, information semantics and, data mining and knowledge discovery.

His work has resulted in contributions to the design and development of database architectures, query languages and systems that enable the semantics inherent in data to be more readily understood and manipulated, thus enabling systems to adapt. His research agenda has a particular focus on temporal, complex and large volumes of data, commonly using medical data as the application domain.

Professor Roddick has published widely, including a number of well-cited surveys. He maintains active collaborative links with a number of researchers internationally, some of whom may act as reference points in this project. He has undertaken commercial research contracts with a number of organisations in his area of expertise including the DSTO, the Royal Australasian College of Surgery, EDS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Power-Solutions (with whom he has just completed a $2M START project (currently in beta-testing) in medical data mining).

He is the founding series editor of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series and is a Fellow of both the Australian Computer Society and of the Institute of Engineers, Australia.

Today hundreds of thousands of online communities are flourishing. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world make use of social applications, such social Web sites, Internet portals, blogs, wikis, etc.
The mega sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr have shown the essential features and computing infrastructures necessary to keep gigantic online communities going. Now that we have seen that people accept online communities as a means to extend their personal networks and entertain themselves, it is time to find how other more productive areas of human endeavors, such as businesses and government agencies, may be improved by leveraging the wisdom of the online communities, and the features and computing infrastructures to support online communities.
In this paper, we will examine the status of such efforts, and discuss some of the issues to be addressed.

Won Kim is currently a lifetime professor and vice president with Kyungwon University in Seongnam, S. Korea.
He is also a senior advisor with Xener Systems, Inc. in Seoul, S. Korea. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He received a B.S. and M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is best-known as one of the pioneers of object-oriented and object-relational database technologies. He led the ORION object-oriented database systems project at MCC, Austin, Texas in the late 1980s.
He founded UniSQL and created the world¡¦s first commercial object-relational database system in the early 1990s.
On the side, he founded and served as Chair of ACM¡¦s SIGKDD data mining society, and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM¡¦s Transactions on Internet Technology journal.
He also served as Chair of ACM¡¦s SIGMOD data management society, and as Editor-in-Chief of ACM ¡¥s Transactions on Database Systems.
He is an ACM Fellow, and received such awards as ACM¡¦s Distinguished Services Award, ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Research Award, VLDB Ten Year Best Paper Award, etc.
His current research umbrella is social computing architecture, which includes such subjects as social Web sites, Internet search engine architecture, Web mining, cloud computing, networked embedded systems, and HCI usability.

Due to the rapid advances made in Nano-Bio-technology, optical control of molecular dynamics and quantum computation, there is an increasing need to understand the fundamental structure, from the systems theoretical point of view, of the control and observation of quantum mechanical systems for designing advanced sensors and actuators.
In this presentation we start with a discussion of the design, synthesis, and control of engineering problems and how the advances of technology helping to solve complex engineering problems.
We proceed to discuss the recent trends in quantum computation and quantum computer.
Then, we present the differences between the quantum control and measurement problems and the classical control and measurement problems.
We conclude with a list of recent applications of quantum phenomena to build new sensors and other systems for information acquisition.

He is currently a Professor in the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics and the Director of the Center for Robotics and Automation at Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
He also is the director of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
An active member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Dr. Tarn served as the President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, the Director of the IEEE Division X (Systems and Control), 1995-1996, and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, 1995-1996.
He is the first recipient of the Nakamura Prize (in recognition and appreciation of his contribution to the advancement of the technology on intelligent robots and systems over a decade) at the 10th Anniversary of IROS in Grenoble, France, 1997, the recipient of the prestigious Joseph F. Engelberger Award of the Robotic Industries Association in 1999 for contributing to the advancement of the science of robotics, the Auto Soft Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 in recognition of his pioneering and outstanding contributions to the fields of Robotics and Automation, and the Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award in 2003 from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for his technical contribution in developing and implementing nonlinear feedback control concepts for robotics and automation.
He was featured in the Special Report on Engineering of the 1998 Best Graduate School issue of US News and World Report and his recent research accomplishments were reported recently in the ¡§Washington Times¡¨, Washington D.C., the ¡§Financial Times¡¨, London, ¡§Le Monde¡¨, Paris, and the ¡§Chicago Sun-Times¡¨, Chicago, etc.
Dr. Tarn is a Fellow of IEEE.

We live in a complex world that is ever changing and filled with danger and contradiction.
Yet computer scientist and engineers have been able to develop systems that incorporate artificial intelligent paradigms that help solve problems that even the cleverest of humans sometimes find difficult to comprehend.
These systems have over a relatively short period of time become far more robust and economical than once thought possible.
The presentation will look at some of the underpinning developments that have enabled these systems to be produced and, maybe more interestingly, have a futuristic look at what might just be possible.

Andrew Ware is Professor of Computing and Head of the Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences at the University of Glamorgan in the United Kingdom.
His research interests are primarily in the use of intelligent computer systems to help solve real world problems.
The majority of his work has been carried out in collaboration with industry and commerce.
He has coordinated several European grants and has been involved in a number of international partnerships.

It is no doubt that the research & development of Science & Technology should be applied to improve the human life. For example:Edision invented light bulb, Watt invented steam engine, Franklin invented the lightning rod and Darwin developed the evolutionary theory etc. They all contributed to the humankind very much. Ubiquitous computing has been defined as computing on any devices, anywhere and anytime and how the ubiquitous computing can be developed to contribute to the human kind is not yet clearly considered or addressed very much.. The orange computing or orange technology will refer to those researches or technologies which will pay more attention on the care of the physiology (body), psychology (mind) and spirit of the human being.
Recently, Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) has become one of the IEEE Mission Statement .IEEE's core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE likes to raise their awareness of IEEE as¡§Global Association of professionals and academics who solve technological problems that positively impact humanity¡¨.IEEE will bring a more systematic approach for applying technology to solve world problems, define methodologies to addressing challenge oriented, large scale efforts and identify challenges and drive solutions that are implementable and sustainable. My key fundamental problems/challenges are what kind of roles the ¡§Ubiquitous computing¡¨ will play to positively impact humanity.. Since the color of orange gives the feeling of people warm and kind, orange technology different from green technology is presented to be a new term for the humanitarian technology.
In this talk, the following technologies will be addressed and illustrated:
  -Health/environment sensors network for humanity
  -Wearable computing for humanity
  -GPS/GIS techniques for humanity
  -Human-computer interface for humanity
  -Aware computing for humanity :
    *Context/situation/background aware computing
    *Intention/emotion/preference aware computing
    *Weakness/risk/danger aware computing
    *Safety/security aware computing

Prof. Jhing-fa Wang is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). He got his bachelor and master degree from NCKU in Taiwan and Ph. D. from Stevens Institute of Technology USA in 1973, 1979 and 1983 respectively. He is now also the chairman of Tainan Section, IEEE. He was elected as IEEE Fellow in 1999 for his contribution on:¡¨Hardware and Software Co-design on Speech Signal Processing¡¨.
He received Outstanding Research Awards and Outstanding Researcher Award from National Science Council in 1990, 1995, 1997, and 2006 respectively. He also received Outstanding Industrial Awards from ACER and Institute of Information Industry and the Outstanding Professor Award from Chinese Engineer Association, Taiwan in 1991 and 1996 respectively. He also received the culture service award from Ministry of Education, Taiwan in 2008 and Distinguished Scholar Award of KT Li from NCKU in 2009.
Prof. Wang was also invited to give the Keynote Speeches in PACLIC 12 in Singapore, 1998, UWN 2005 in Taipei , WirlessCom 2005 in Hawaii,IIH-MSP2006 in Pasadena,USA , ISM2007 in Taichung and PCM 2008 in Tainan respectively. He also served as an associate editor on IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and IEEE Transactions on VLSI System and Editor in Chief on International Journal of Chinese Engineering from 1995 to 2000.
He is now leading a research team sponsored by Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) for the research on advanced multimedia technology on human-centric digital life at the grant about one million USA dollars.

The integration of virtual reality and computer aided design technologies is a revolution in the history of design. Virtual environment provides more information and feedback to designers than the traditional desktop system can.
The virtual environment is in general rather intuitive and inspiring to the designers, resulting in globally enhanced insights, creativity and productivity. Moreover, virtual reality technology excels at the visualization of complex scene and information, which is particularly difficult in desktop systems.
In this speech, we present our newest research attainments on 1. Conceptual design and scheme innovation in virtual environment; 2. Surface design and shape innovation in virtual environment; 3. Visual computing of complex engineering information; and 4. Demonstrations and Examples.

Prof. Jianrong Tan is an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering. He obtained his master¡¦s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China and his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University, China, respectively.
He is currently a professor of Zhejiang University, the dean of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University and a vice director of State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, China.
His research interests mainly include virtual reality and its applications in product design, digital design and manufacture, visual computing.
He received the support of National Outstanding Young Scientists Foundation of NSFC in 1995 and has completed 25 important research projects, published 142 academic papers and 8 research monographs. He Won 2 items of second prizes of National Award for Science and Technology Progress of China in 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) is a method for optimizing target systems based on human knowledge, experiences, preference, intuition, and/or KANSE in general. There are many systems that it is hard or impossible to design fitness functions for the optimization and therefore we cannot apply conventional optimization methods including conventional evolutionary computation (EC) framework.

We first overview IEC research mainly consisting of two directions: expanding IEC applications in a wide variety of areas and reducing IEC user fatigue. The IEC application areas include artistic areas, engineering areas, and others. The research on reducing IEC user fatigue includes improving IEC user interface, accelerating EC search, predicting IEC user evaluation characteristics, and others.

Next, we explain some recent IEC research topics. One is to use IEC as a tool for human science. As IEC optimizes target systems based on human psychology or physiology, we may obtain unknown knowledge on human science by analyzing the optimized target system or human-EC interaction process. Second is extended IEC that optimizes target systems based on human physiological feedback. The third is new type of IEC such as interactive PSO or interactive Differential Evolution.

He received the degrees of Bachelor, Master, Doctorate Degrees in 1979, 1981, and 1991. He worked for the Central Research Laboratories of Panasonic in 1981-1995, and is an Associate Professor of Kyushu Institute of Design since 1995 and now works for Kyushu University after two universities merged in 2003. He was a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley in 1991-1993.

He is interested in Computational Intelligence (CI), especially cooperation of several CI techniques and human. Currently, his interest focuses on Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) that aims the cooperation of human and EC. He is one of the most active researchers in IEC research community as shown in his publication, organizing sessions at conferences, giving invited talks and lectures, receiving paper awards, and other academic activities. He received eight academic awards.

He is the Vice President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, a registered lecturer of the SMCS Distinguish Lecturer Program in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, the Chair of SMCS Technical Committee on Soft Computing, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on SMC Part B.

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