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Short CV:

Dr. Yan Tang got her bachelor in computer science and technology from the department of computer science, Northwestern Polytechnical University of China of China in 2000 and her PhD in science from the department of computer science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2009 (October 20^th, 2009). She is the inventor of Semantic Decision Tables (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_decision_table) and now working as a senior researcher and post-doc at VUB STARLab (Semantic Technologies and Applications Research Laboratory). She has published about 38 papers with references, such as international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in the area of semantic decision making, semantic decision table, ontology based application architecture and business rules. Recently, she published a monograph on semantic decision tables. Yan has been working on 5 EC projects and 2 national IWT projects since 2004. She is a committee member of several international conferences and workshops.

Education background:

• 1996~2000, Northwestern Polytechnical University of China (Xi'An, Shan Xi Province, China), B.S. Computer Science & Technology.
• 2001~2002, Faculty of Applied Science, VUB (Free University of Brussels) Belgium, Postgraduate Diploma of Advanced Studies in Applied Computer Science.
• 2002~2003, Faculty of Applied Science, VUB, Belgium, Master in Applied Computer Science.
• 2003~2004, Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School, VUB Belgium, Master in Business Information Management
• 2005 ~ 2009, VUB Belgium, STARlab, PhD in Science
• 2009 ~ now, VUB Belgium, STARlab, post-doc and senior researcher

Research domain:

• Application architecture
• Ontology-based decision making
• Decision support, Decision table and semantics
• Data matching, data mining and information retrieval
• Business ontology, modeling and business rules
• Smart environment and ubiquitous computing

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Current Project:

• ITEA Diyse project. My contribution:
• apply community-based ontology creation methodology
• model smart home ontology
• validate Semantic Decision Tables (SDT) with a case of Smart Home
• develop ontology-based data matching strategies for mining online smart components
• ontology annotation algorithms and tools
• ontology-based information and document retrieval

Past Project:

• IWT Calahan project (emergency management at large industrial sites, video link). Contribution:
• applying the DOGMA methodology (article) and topical ontology management methodology (article) to create emergency management ontology based on emergency response models
• use and evaluate SDT tool sets in NoKeos emergency management scenarios
• Use SDT as the rule auditing component
• apply the evaluation methodology that is based on article
• EC PROLIX Project. My contribution:
• apply available ontology capture methodologies from STARLab to teach domain experts to build domain ontologies
• analyze the structures of the possible ontology based applications (requirement analysis)
• design algorithms for ontology-based data matching framework
• implement algorithm API (in Java) and evaluate algorithms
• IWT PoceHRmom Project. My contribution:
• construct a Profile Compiler (a tool) for ontology-based competence resource
• EC PRIME project. My contribution:
• construct an ontology capturing methodology for the Privacy domain
• EC ff POIROT project. My contribution:
• build an ontology-based tool to detect email fraud

Publications (selected publications are attached):

Book:

1. Yan Tang, Semantic Decision Tables - A New, Promising and Practical Way of Organizing Your Business Semantics with Existing Decision Making Tools , ISBN 978-3-8383-3791-3, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010.
   http://www.amazon.co.uk/Semantic-Decision-Tables-Promising-Organizing/dp/3838337913

Journal paper:

1. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, DIY-CDR: An Ontology-based, Do-it-Yourself Components Discoverer and Recommender, Theme Issue on Adaptation and Personalization for Ubiquitous Computing, journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, Z. Yu, D. Cheng, I. Khalil, J. Kay, D. Heckmann (eds.), DOI 10.1007/s00779-011-0416-y, ISSN 1617-4909, June 21, 2011, impact factor 1.554(2009).
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/m415h7qj0j6k7710/fulltext.html
2. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Use Semantic Decision Tables to Improve Meaning Evolution Support Systems, special issue of the Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), in, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yan Zhang et. al., (eds.) ISSN (Online): 1754-8640, ISSN (Print): 1754-8632, 2010, Vol. 3, No.1 pp. 92 - 109.
   http://www.springerlink.com/index/r655314r48644m31.pdf
3. Peter Spyns, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, An Ontology Engineering Methodology for DOGMA, Journal of Applied Ontology, special issue on "Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling", Giancarlo Guizzardi and Terry Halpin (eds.), Volume 3, Issue 1-2, p.13-39 (2008),
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1412421

Book chapter:

1. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman and Jan Vanthienen, Adding Semantics to Decision Tables: a New Approach to Data and Knowledge Engineering? Chapter 11 in "Applied Semantic Web Technologies: Using Semantics in Intelligent Information Processing",Vijayan Sugumaran and Jon Atle Gulla(eds.), ISBN: 978-1-4398-0156-7, chapter 11, pp. 299-323, Taylor and Francis, 2012.
   http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Semantic-Technologies-Vijayan-Sugumaran/dp/1439801568
2. Roelands M., Plomp, J., Mansilla, D.C., Velasco, J.R., Salhi, I., Lee, G. M., Crespi, N., Santos, F. V., Vachaudez, J., Bettens, F., Hanqc, J., Valderrama, C., Menezes, N., Girardi, A., Ricco, X., Ramos, M. L., Martinez, J. F., Hernandez, V., Roeck, D. D., van Nimwegen, C., Bastida, L., Escalante, M., Alonso, J., Reul, Q., Tang, Y. and Meersman, R.: The DiY Smart Experiences Project, chapter 13 in "Architecting the Internet of Things", Dieter Uckelmann et al. (eds.), Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-19156-5, April 2011
   http://www.springer.com/engineering/production+eng/book/978-3-642-19156-5
3. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, SDRule Markup Language: Towards Modeling and Interchanging Ontological Commitments for Semantic Decision Making, Chapter V (Section I) in Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies: Open Solutions and Approaches, IGI Publishing, ISBN: 1-60566-402-2, USA, 2009, abstract
   http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?TitleId=35856
4. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Building Semantic Decision Tables with Domain Ontologies, Chapter 4 (Part A) in "Challenges in Information Technology Management", Man-Chung Chan, Ronnie Cheung & James N K Liu (eds.), ISBN 978-981-281-906-2, 981-281-906-1, World Scientific, 2008, paper, abstract, acceptance ratio: 17% (30/175), .
   http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789812819079/9789812819079_0004.html

International conference paper:

1. Yan Tang and Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu,Semantic Decision Support Models for Energy Efficiency in Smart-Metered Homes, in Proc. of 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012) to be held in Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012, forthcoming, acceptance ratio: < 30%
2. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Directly Applied Ontological Constrains in a Semantic Decision Table, in proc. of 5th International Symposium, RuleML 2011, Springer LNCS 7018, pp. 193-207, Frank Olken, Monica Palmirani, Davide Sottara (eds.), Nov. 3-5, 2011, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/6324u18562pqq671/, presentation
3. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman and Jan Demey, A Self-Configuring Semantic Decision Table for Monitoring an Ontology-based Data Matching Strategy, in proc. of fifth IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS'2011), ISBN 978-1-4244-8671-7, May 19-21 2011, Guadeloupe - French West Indies, France
   http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/rcis/index.html
4. Yan Tang, Towards Evaluating GRASIM for Ontology-based Data Matching, in proc. of the 9th international conference on ontologies, databases, and applications for semantics (ODBASE'2010), Springer Verlag, LNCS 6427, p. 1009 ff, Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, Oct 26-28, 2010
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1926164
5. Yan Tang, Christophe Debruyne, Johan Criel, Onto-DIY: A Flexible and Idea Inspiring Ontology-based Do-It-Yourself Architecture for Managing Data Semantics and Semantic Data, in proc. of the 9th international conference on ontologies, databases, and applications for semantics (ODBASE'2010), Springer Verlag, LNCS 6427, p. 1036 ff. Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, Oct 26-28, 2010
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1926167
6. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman, Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Ellen Leenarts and Kevin Pudney, Towards Evaluating Ontology Based Data Matching Strategies, in proc. of fourth IEEE Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS) 10, Peri Loucopoulos and Jean Louis Cavarero (eds.), pp: 137 - 146,ISSN: 2151-1349,E-ISBN: 978-1-4244-4840-1,ISBN: 978-1-4244-4839-5 DOI: 10.1109/RCIS.2010.5507373, Nice, France, May 19 - 21, 2010, acceptance ratio: 36%(52/144).
   http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5507373
7. Yan Tang, Gang Zhao, Peter De Baer and Robert Meersman, Towards Freely and Correctly Adjusted Dijkstra's Algorithm with Semantic Decision Tables for Ontology Based Data Matching, in Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering "ICCAE 2010", V. Mahadevan, J. Zhou (eds.), IEEE (Category number: CFP1096F-ART, CFP1096F-PRT), EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI Proceeding (ISTP), ISBN: 978-1-4244-5586-7, 978-1-4244-5585-0), Suntec City, Singapore, February 26 - 28, 2010.
   http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5445099/5451211/05451213.pdf
8. Yan Tang, Robert Meersman and Jan Vanthienen, Semantic Decision Tables: Self-Organizing and Reorganizable Decision Tables, in proc. of DEXA'08 (19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications), Springer, LNCS 5181, Sourav S. Bhwmich, Josef Kung, Roland Wagner (Eds.), Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008, acceptance ratio: 18.75% (39/208)
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1430456.1430508 
9. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Use Semantic Decision Tables to Improve Meaning Evolution Support Systems, proc. of UIC'08 (The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing), Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces, Springer Verlag, LNCS, in, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yan Zhang, Chunming Rong, Laurence T. Yang and Jiahua Ma (eds.), Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008, acceptance ratio: 26% (27/102)
   http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1709881  
10. Yan Tang, Stijn Christiaens, Koen Kerremans and Robert Meersman, PROFILE COMPILER: Ontology-Based, Community-Grounded, Multilingual Online Services to Support Collaborative Decision Making, in proc. of RCIS'08 (IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science), IEEE catalog:CFP0840D-PRT, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1677-6, Marrakech, Morocco, June 3-6, 2008, .
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4632117
11. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Organizing Meaning Evolution Supporting Systems Using Semantic Decision Tables, In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information System (CoopIS'07), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007, Part I, pp: 272 - 284, Springer Verlag. LNCS 4803, Robert Meersman and Zahir Tari (eds.), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2007, acceptance ratio: 22.8% (21/92).
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1784631
12. Yan Tang, Peter Spyns and Robert Meersman, Towards Semantically Grounded Decision Rules Using ORM+, Proc. of International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML'07), in, Adrian Paschke and Yevgen Biletskiy (eds.), Springer Verlag, LNCS 4824, pp.78-91,October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida, acceptance ratio: 21.95% (9/41).
    http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1785393
13. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, On Constructing Semantic Decision Tables, in proc. of 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'2007), LNCS 4653, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, September 3-7, 2007, in, R. Wagner, N. Revell, and G. Pernul (Eds.), Regensburg, Germany, p.34-44 (2007), acceptance ratio : 32% (86/267)
    http://www.springerlink.com/index/303t0j2l03040274.pdf
14. Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards building semantic decision table with domain ontologies, In Proceedings of International Conference of information Technology and Management (ICITM2007), January 3-5, 2007, in, C. Man-chung, J.N.K. Liu, R. Cheung, J. Zhou, (eds.) ISM Press, ISBN 988-97311-5-0, pp. 14-21, acceptance ratio: 37.7% (66/175).
    http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789812819079/9789812819079_0004.html
15. Damien Trog, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Ontological Commitments with O-RIDL Markup Language, Proc. of International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML'07), in, Adrian Paschke and Yevgen Biletskiy (eds.), LNCS 4824, Springer Verlag.
    http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1785394&type=pdf
16. Edgard Nyssen, Horatiu Patrascu, Yan Tang, Marek Suliga and Rudi Deklerck, Active Images - a Tool for Interactive and Participative Web-Based Learning, Proc. of IASTED international conference on WEB-BASED EDUCATION – WBE 2004 (Feb.2004 Innsbruck, Austria), ACTA Press, ISBN: 0-88986-406-3, pp 416-832,.
    http://www.mendeley.com/research/active-images-a-tool-for-interactive-and-participative-webbased-learning/

International workshop paper:

1. Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Evaluating an Ontology-based Data Matching Strategy for Retrieval and Recommendation of Security Annotations for Business Process Models, in Proc. of the Second International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Anlysis (SIMPDA'12), IFIP working group 2.6 and 2.12, in print
2. Yan Tang, Directly Applied ORM Constraints for Validating and Verifying Semantic Decision Tables, in proc. of ORM workshop 2011, OTM Workshops 2011, pp. 350-359, LNCS, Vol7046/2011, isbn 978-3-642-25125-2, Robert Meersman, Tharam S. Dillon and Pilar Herrero (eds.), Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011.
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/0g02919877722275/
3. Yan Tang, Onto-Ann: An Automatic and Semantically Rich Annotation Component for Do-It-Yourself Assemblage. OTM Workshops 2011: pp. 424-433, LNCS, Vol7046/2011, isbn 978-3-642-25125-2, Robert Meersman, Tharam S. Dillon and Pilar Herrero (eds.), Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011.
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/gu7q83wvw2626vk2/
4. Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, Towards Retrieving and Recommending Security Annotations for Business Process Models Using an Ontology-based Data Matching Strategy, in Proc. of the First International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Anlysis (SIMPDA'11), IFIP working group 2.6 and 2.12, ISBN 978-88-903120-2-1, vol. 1, pp. 71-81, Campion d'Italia, Italy, June 29th - July 1st, 2011
5. Yan Tang, Towards Using Semantic Decision Tables to Organize Data Semantics, the 6th international workshop on fact-oriented modeling (ORM'2010), proc. of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 workshops, Springer, LNCS 6428, p. 494 ff., Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, Oct. 24-28, 2010,
   http://www.springerlink.com/index/R6W6G71T173136W2.pdf
6. Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Yan Tang, A Personalized and Collaborative eLearning Materials Recommendation Scenario using Ontology-based Data Matching Strategies, in proc. of 5th International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N’2010), special track of “Semantic & Decision Support” (SeDeS’2010), On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 workshops, Springer, LNCS 6428, p. 575 ff, Hersonissou, Crete, Greece, Oct. 24-28, 2010.
   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16961-8_81
7. Yan Tang, Peter De Baer, Gang Zhao and Robert Meersman, On Conducting, Grouping and Using Topical Ontology for Semantic Matching, the 5th international IFIP workshop on Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS’09), proc. of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: (OTM) 2009 Workshops, Springer, LNCS 5872, ISBN -978-3-642-05289-7, pp 816-825, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 - Nov. 6, 2009.
   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_100
8. Peter De Baer, Yan Tang, and Pieter De Leenheer (2009): An Ontology-based Data Matching Framework: Case study for Comptency-based HRM. In Proc. of the 4th International ISWC Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM 2009), CEUR
   http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-551/om2009_poster4.pdf
9. Yan Tang, Peter De Baer, Gang Zhao, Robert Meersman and Kevin Pudney, Towards a Pattern-Driven Topical Ontology Modeling Methodology in Elderly Care Homes, the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Content (OntoContent'09 Workshop), Special tracks on Business, Human Resources, eHealth, Web 3.0, OTM’09 workshops, Springer, international OntoContent’09 workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Springer, Heidelberg, LNCS 5872, ISBN 978-3-642-05289-7, pp. 514—523, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 - 6, 2009.
   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_65
10. Peter De Baer, Yan Tang and Robert Meersman, An Ontology-based Data Matching Framework: Use Case Competency-based HRM, the fourth international workshop on ontology matching (OM’09), international OntoContent’09 workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2009 Workshops, Springer, Heidelberg, LNCS 5872, ISBN 978-3-642-05289-7, pp. 514—523, Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 - 6, 2009Vilamoura, Portugal, Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 6, 2009.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-05289-7/#section=609231&page=1
11. Yan Tang and Damien Trog, Model Ontological Commitments Using ORM+ in T-Lex, in proc. of ORM workshop, OTM 2008, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-88874-1, Volume 5333/2008, pp. 787-796, 9-14 Oct. 2008.
    http://www.springerlink.com/content/u377342150707751/
12. Yan Tang, On Conducting a Decision Group to Construct Semantic Decision Tables, in proc. of OntoContent Workshop, On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 workshops, Part I, pp: 534 - 543, Robert Meersman, Zahir Tari and Pilar Herrero (eds.), Springer, LNCS 4805, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, acceptance ratio: 38% (6/16), .
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76888-3_76
    
13. Yan Tang, Judicial Support Systems: Ideas for a Privacy Ontology-based Case Analyzer, in Proc. of OTM 05 PHD Symposium, in Meersman R., Zahir T., Herrero P. et al.,(eds.), LNCS 3762, Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-29739-1, pp. 800-807, 2005.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11575863_100
14. Koen Kerremans, Yan Tang, Rita Temmerman and Gang Zhao, Towards ontology-based email fraud detection, in Proc. of EPIA 2005 BAOSW Workshop of 12th Portuguese Conference on AI, (Dec.2005 Covilha, Portugal), C. Bento, A. Cardoso and G. Dias, (eds.) IEEE, ISBN 0-7803-9365-1, IEEE Catalog Number 05EX1157, pp. 106 - 111, 05-08 Dec. 2005.
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4145934

Other publications

1. Ernesto Damiani, Elizabeth Chang, Patrizia Grifoni, Fernando Ferri, Irina Kondratova, Arianna D'Ulizia, Yan Tang, Jan Vanthienen: SWWS 2011, MONET 2011 and SeDeS 2011 PC Co-chairs' Message. OTM Workshops 2011: 380-381
2. Ioana-Georgiana Ciuciu, Yan Tang, Robert Meersman (2010): Collaborative Semantic Annotation of Anatomical Data: An Ongoing Case Study for E-learning, Reference: 2nd, issue 3D Anatomical Human Summer School, France

See also

• DBLP record
• VUB R&D Record
• STARLab bib record

Other research activities:

• Workshop organization:

• Second OTM Semantics & Decision Support Workshop (SeDeS'11), Springer, Crete, Greece
• ITEA DIYSE Ontology Special Interests Group (SIG) Workshop, April 12, 2011
• First Workshop on Industrial and Business Applications of Semantic Web Technologies (INBAST'11), Springer, Crete, Greece
• First OTM Semantic & Decision Support Workshop (SeDeS'10), Springer Verlag, LNCS 6428, Crete, Greece, Oct 26-27, 2010, selection rate: 25% (3/12)
• ITEA DIYSE Ontology Tutorial Workshop, May 6, 2010

• Paper review
• International Journal of Future Internet, MDPI, 2012
• International Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science, Springer, 2012
• International Journal on Electronic Government (EG), Special Issue on "Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government, 2012
• 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2011
• Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer), Special Issue on Adaptation and Personalization for Ubiquitous Computing, 2011
• 44th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44), 2010
• Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, special issue on "Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition in Intelligent Environments", Elsevier, 2010
• book "Applied Semantic Technologies: Using Semantics in Intelligent Information Processing",Vijayan Sugumaran and Jon Atle Gulla(eds.),Taylor and Francis, 2011 
• Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer), Special Issue on Context-Aware Middleware and Applications, Yu, Z.W., Zhang, D.Q., Indulska, J., and Becker, C. (eds.), 2010
• International Editorial Board (IEB) of Special Issue of Cybemetics and Systems (Taylor & Francis),   Yu, Z.W., Nugent, C., Hussain, S., Ma, J.H. and Pianesi, F. (eds.), 2009
• Conference program committee
• 6th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2012), 11-13 July 2012, Madrid, Spain
• INBAST'11 workshop, Vienna University of Technology (AT), Crete (Greece), 19/10/2011, co-organizer
• SeDeS'11 workshop, Crete (Greece), 20/10/2011, organizer
• 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies - EC-Web'11, Toulous, France, Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2011
• The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, Banff, Canada, 2011
• The first Semantic & Decision Support Workshop (OTM'2010 workshops), 2010 - the organizer
• The 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing --- Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces, Xi'an, China, 2010
• Standards
• ISO standards on fact based modeling and exchange conceptual data models, working group member, Oct. 2010 - present
• Visit and Stay
• Visiting Researcher: Decision Support Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, supported by exchange schema of Greek Interoperability Centre, 15/03/2010-20/03/2010,11/10/2010-7/11/2010
• School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Feb. 25, 2010
• School of computer science and engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, May 2009
• School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 16 May 2008
• Students
• Yan Gu (2009)
• Sizhe Xi (07/2010-07/2011)