Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC) in the
Context of Web Intelligence (WI)
by Professor LIU Jiming
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11 December 2006 (Monday)
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| Professor LIU Jiming Director and Professor School of Computer Science University of Windsor |
We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar. |
Abstract
Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC) is a bottom-up computing paradigm, which has been found appealing in several areas, as demonstrated and synthesized in our recent work: (1) to solve computationally hard problems, e.g. large-scale computation, distributed constraint satisfaction, and decentralized optimization, that are dynamically evolving and/or highly complex in terms of interaction and dimensionality; (2) to characterize complex phenomena or emergent behavior in natural and artificial systems that involve a large number of self-organizing, locally-interacting agents. In AOC, autonomous agents and their environment are the basic elements. Localized interactions between agents and their environment are the force that drives an AOC system to evolve towards certain desired states. Self-organization is the essential process in its working mechanism.
In this talk, Prof. Liu will outline the challenges and opportunities of AOC specifically in the context of Web Intelligence (WI) research. He will highlight some open problems as well as recent development.
Biography
Jiming Liu is presently a Professor and the Director of the School of Computer Science at University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He has also been a Professor and the Head of Computer Science Department at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he founded and directs Centre for e-Transformation Research (CTR), a government-funded centre focusing on research in Web Intelligence (WI) and Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC).
Prof. Liu holds a B.Sc. from East China Normal University, an M.A. from Concordia University, and an M.Eng. and a Ph.D. both in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. Prof. Liu's present research interests include: Web Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Autonomy-Oriented Computing Paradigm, Social Networks, Self-Organization, and Complex Systems Modeling. Prof. Liu has published over 200 scientific articles in refereed international journals, books, and conferences. In addition, he has published numerous books, among which 7 are research monographs.
Prof. Liu is the Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press), Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (World Scientific Publishing), and The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (IEEE Computer Society TCII). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE Computer Society), as well as an editor for 7 other international journals and book series.