Invited Speeches for ICIS 2010
 Prof. T. Y. Chen |
 Dr.Yong Shi |
 Dr. Shouyang Wang |
 Dr. Jian Zhang |
T. Y. Chen got his BSc and MPhil from The University of Hong Kong, MSc and DIC from the Imperial College, The University of London, and PhD from The University of Melbourne. He is currently holding a Professorship of Software Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is also the Director of the Centre for Software Analysis and Testing at Swinburne. Prior to joining Swinburne, he has taught at The University of Hong Kong and The University of Melbourne. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Software Testing, Verification & Reliability.
Prof. Chen’s main research interest is on software testing. Some of his major research results on this area include (a) an understanding how the selection of test cases will affect the failure-detection capabilities of partition testing strategies; (b) the development of the technique of adaptive random testing, which is an innovative enhancement of random test case selection strategy; and (c) the development of the technique of metamorphic testing to alleviate the oracle problem.
Title:
Fundamentals of Test Case Selection: Diversity, Diversity, Diversity
Abstract:
Our recent investigations in software testing reveal that diversity constitutes the underlying foundation in many test case selection strategies. This talk attempts to provide an overview of the concept of diversity in test case selection through two families of test case selection strategies, namely, random testing and partition testing. We also present some areas of software testing where the application of data mining techniques shows great potential in identifying key aspects of diversity in various forms.
Dr. Kwok-Yan Lam holds a professorship at the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He was previously an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He founded the Centre for Systems Security, NUS in 1997; and is currently the principle investigator of the multi-million dollar NSTB Strategic Research Programme on Computer Security.
Dr. Lam was a visiting scientist at the European Institute for System Security, Karlsruhe, Germany in 1991 and 1992; and was an invited scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University. He has been a contributing editor of the Journal of Computer and Communications Security Review, Cambridge (UK) since 1992. Dr. Lam received the Education Foundation Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in information security in Singapore. Dr. Lam finished his doctorate degree in the Cambridge University, and obtained his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London. He has been holding an adjunct position at the HKUST for the past few years.
Dr. Shi's research interests include business intelligence, data mining, and multiple criteria decision making. He has published more than 15 books, over 150 papers in various journals and numerous conferences/proceedings papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (SCI), and a member of Editorial Board for a number of academic journals. Dr. Shi has received many distinguished awards including the Georg Cantor Award of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM), 2009; Fudan Prize of Distinguished Contribution in Management, Fudan Premium Fund of Management, China, 2009;
Outstanding Young Scientist Award, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2001; and Speaker of Distinguished Visitors Program (DVP) for 1997-2000, IEEE Computer Society. He has consulted or worked on business projects for a number of international companies in data mining and knowledge management.
His research at present concentrates on Forecasting Methods, Financial Risk Management, Integrated Logistics, Game Theory and Conflict Analysis. He has published over 150 journal articles in leading journals including Decision Support Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Group Decision and Negotiations, and IIE Transactions.
He is on the editorial boards of 12 journals, including Information and Management, Journal of Management Systems, Human Systems Management, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Pacific Journal of Optimization, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems. He also served as a guest editor of an issue/volume of 9 leading journals including Annals of Operations research, and European Journal of Operational Research.
BIO:
Jian Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994. He is currently an assistant director and research professor of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS). His research interests include automated reasoning, program analysis and software testing. He has been a PC member for more than 30 conferences, including APLAS, COMPSAC, ICFEM, ICSE, QSIC, SAT, VSTTE. He is on the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Computers, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Frontiers of Computer Science in China. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Title: How to find bugs and generate software test data
Speaker: Jian Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Abstract:
A challenging problem in software engineering and computer security is to find bugs in software systems. This can be done through software testing or source code analysis. In this talk, I will present a survey to the recent research progress in some projects on related topics, with an emphasis on the works done by Chinese researchers. This talk will also cover some specific research problems such as, how to find a small set of test cases so as to achieve certain coverage criteria; how to find certain bugs like buffer overflow, memory leak and infinite looping, without running the program. I will also introduce some underlying techniques such as model checking, symbolic execution and constraint solving.
- Dr. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
- Dr. Duane P. Truex III (Georgia State University, USA)
- Dr. Rajiv Kishore (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
- Dr. Sungwon Sohn (ETRI, Korea)
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 Dr. Ngoc Thanh Nguyen |  Dr. Duane P. Truex III |  Dr. Rajiv Kishore |
Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Invited talk title:Advanced Aspects of Knowledge Inconsistency Processing
Summary:
Inconsistent Knowledge Processing deals with methods not for removing inconsistency, but for reconciling inconsistent content of knowledge from different autonomous sources. The aspects of Knowledge Inconsistency may be considered on two levels: syntactic and semantic. On the syntactic level inconsistency is treated in the same way as for contradictory of logic formulas. On the semantic level, on the other hand, inconsistency appears when these formulas are interpreted in some concrete real world. For solving a large number of conflicts, and especially, for resolving inconsistency of knowledge on semantic level, consensus methods have been shown to be useful. The integration process in case of inconsistency often needs conflict resolution. For realizing this task we define first a set of postulates which are intuitive conditions for integration, next we analyze the postulates referring to their dependencies and independencies and work out the algorithms for integration process. In this talk the following elements will be presented: Measures for knowledge inconsistency; Consensus theory as a tool for conflict resolution; Syntactic & semantic levels of inconsistency; A model for knowledge integration; Expert knowledge integration and finally the practical aspects and applications.
Short bio:
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (Ph.D., D.Sc.) currently works as a professor of Computer Science at Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. His scientific interests consist of knowledge integration methods, intelligent technologies for conflict resolution, inconsistent knowledge processing, multi-agent systems, collective intelligence and E-learning methods. He has edited 10 special issues in international journals, two books and three conference proceedings. He is the author of 4 monographs and about 130 other publications. His latest monograph entitled "Advanced Methods for Inconsistent Knowledge Management" has been published by Springer this year. He serves as Co-editor of book series "Computational Intelligence and its Applications (COMIA)" for IGI Global Publishers. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Associate Editor of International Journal of Computer Science & Applications; Journal of Information Knowledge System Management and KES Journal and a member of Editorial Boards of several other prestigious international journals such as Journal of Applied Intelligence and Journal of Universal Computer Science. He has been a General Chair, Program Chair, Program Co-chair for several international conferences in Artificial Intelligence. He is the Chair of KES symposium series on Agent and Multi-agent Systems. He is the Chair of Ph.D. Committee of the Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology. He is a Member of Ph.D. Thesis Examiners Register of University of South Australia. He is a Member of the Interdisciplinary Committee for Preparatory FP7 Grants in Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He is a Senior Member of ACM, a Member of IFIP WG 7.2 and several other international scientific societies.
For details please visit his homepage:
http://www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/~nguyen/eng_index.html
Computer Information Systems,J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, USA
Dropping Your Tools: the Diversification of the Research Agenda in understanding the Impact of the
Convergence of Information Technology in Organizations
Summary:The debate between protagonists of different theoretical approaches continues in the Information Systems
field, with little prospect of resolution.
The debate is typically characterized by tendentious arguments as advocates from each approach offer a
somewhat one-sided condemnation of other approaches.
A recent debate in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) illustrates the manner in which IS
researchers are polarized into opposing camps, each tending to view the other as inferior. Ironically further
polarization is occurring in the manner various groups of IS scholars are simultaneously calling for order,
discipline and clearer notions of the "core of the discipline" while other scholars call for greater
research diversity. In order to overcome this polarization we advocate a strategy recommended by Weick
(1996): Drop your tools, hold your concepts lightly and update them frequently.
Three reasons for dropping our theoretical tools are suggested as a means for moving forward, both for
individual researchers as well as for the research community as a whole.
Short bio: Duane Truex is interested in the social impacts of ISD especially the impact on workers and how emergent properties of organizations may be reflected in emergent ISD. Truex is active in the IFIP 8.2 community. He is an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal, has co-edited two special issues of The Database for Advances in Information Systems and is on the on the editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Communication, Information Technology & Work and the Online Journal of International Case Analysis.
An Associate Professor in the Computer Information Systems (CIS) department the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, USA, he has held visiting international posts as a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the United Kingdom at the University of Salford, England and a visiting Full Research Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Nantes, France. In the United States he has held posts at Binghamton University, Florida International University, and Cornell University.
His work has been published in the Communications of the ACM, Accounting Management and Information Technologies, The Database for Advances in Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), le journal de la Societ®¶ d°ØInformation et Management (SIM), the Information Systems Journal (ISJ), the Journal of Arts Management and Law, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and forty assorted IFIP transactions and edited books and conference proceedings. In July 2004 he published an edited book entitled "Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice" published by Kluwer Academic Press.
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
Impacts and Implications of the Global Collaboration Platform on Global Outsourcing
By Rajiv Kishore, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
The beginning of the confluence of the telecommunication technologies and information technologies occurred sometime in the early 1960s when the seeds of the Internet were first sown. This merger of the two technologies continued strengthening and achieved a major milestone in the 1990s with the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the web browser, and the connection of the now ubiquitous PC to the Internet. Further convergence occurred with the development of a wide variety of new technologies and software applications, including e-mail, file sharing, workflow, search engines, instant messaging, voice over IP (VOIP), Internet video conferencing, etc., and it spawned the first truly global platform with vastly superior capabilities for communication and collaboration than ever before. The rapid growth in global outsourcing of IT and IT-enabled services, also termed as offshoring, that we have seen in the last decade has been propelled in no small measure by this global collaboration platform. In my presentation, I will examine how this coalescing of communication and information technologies has shaped the global outsourcing phenomenon. I will also discuss some implications of the global collaboration platform for the global outsourcing field and those who work in it. I will also explore the new capabilities that client and vendor organizations may need to develop to use this convergence to the fullest extent to their advantage.
Short bio:
Rajiv Kishore
State University of New York at Buffalo
325N Jacobs Management Center
Buffalo, New York 14260-4000, USA
Ph.D. (Computer Information Systems), Georgia State University
M.S. (Computer Information Systems), Georgia State University
M.T. (Technical), IIT Madras, India
B.E. (Industrial Engineering), University of Roorkee, India
Dr. Kishore's primary research interest is in improving organizational and IT performance through the effective management of global IT and business process outsourcing projects, agile methods for business process analysis and integration, and technology and innovation management. He received a multi-year research grant as a co-principal investigator from the National Science Foundation for conducting research in the IT outsourcing area. Dr. Kishore has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and refereed proceedings and has presented his research at various international, national, and regional conferences. He has also consulted with a number of large companies including BellSouth, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Clearnet Communications (Canada), Dun and Bradstreet Software, IBM, and Pioneer-Standard Electronics. He continues to regularly consult and speak to industry and professional groups. Dr. Kishore is also the co-editor-in-chief of JITTA (www.jitta.org), a scholarly information systems journal.