myresearch

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- A. Einstein

"Computer Science is more fundamental than we think."
- Anonymous

Current Research Interests

Intelligent Software Agents

inter-agent interaction and communication
information agents
mobile agents
agents in mobile devices and appliances
intelligent kitchen - who has the smartest kitchen?;

links: counter intelligence, smart kitchens, Philips, who will do the cooking?

Pervasive Computing

agent-mediated physical marketplaces

E-Communities

location-based e-communities
E-services (data mining e-services and semantic m-services)

Broad Visions of Interest

Invisible computing: the benefits of technology without the pain
Agent technology: ultimate agentness for software behaviour
The Semantic Internet (Web) with logic programming based behaviour: constructable, machine-readable yet human-understandable Internet (Web) of knowledge
E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Service, M-Commerce, M-Business, M-Service: the new e-way
Easy Internet searching: find what you want when you need it in the burgeoning search space

Current and Past Research Student Projects

Project Involvement Period

LE-Auction: Location Based Electronic Reverse Auctions Supervised RMIT CS summer students: Toan Phung, Budi Halim and Jonathan Yu summer vacation 2001/2002 (completed)

DAME: Delivering Cost-Efficient Data Mining Services over the Internet Co-supervised with A/Prof Arkady Zaslavsky Monash PhD: Shonali Krishnaswamy current

Pubster: Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Research Publications Supervised RMIT Honours: Johan Iskandar 2001 (completed)

ITAG - Mobile Agent Itinerary Scripting Language Co-supervised with Arkady Zaslavsky two DSTC summer vacation scholars:
Brian Yap, Joseph Fonseka summer vacation 2000/2001 (completed)

Talking to Your Mobile Agents Supervised DSTC summer vacation scholar: Kar-Chew Lim summer vacation 1999/2000 (completed)

Other Current Project Involvements

Flexible and Robust Protocol-Based Interaction between Agents in Open Systems (ARC Linkage)
e-hermes: Context-Rich Mobile Agent Technologies to Support Information Needs of Financial Institutions (ARC Linkage where I'm named as a co-Chief Investigator)

Other Past Project Involvements

M3 @ DSTC

Some Potential Project Ideas for Students

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I have worked on integrating logic programming with the Web, information agents, mobile code security, mobile agents, interorganziational workflow, mobile computing middleware, data mining service provisioning, peer-to-peer computing, multiagent based services for wireless virtual communities, and the Bird-Meerten's formalism for parallel computing. For more details, have a look at
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Areas of Expertise/Capability Statement

(to come)

@Created on April 2002 by Seng Wai Loke

Project	Involvement	Period
LE-Auction: Location Based Electronic Reverse Auctions	Supervised RMIT CS summer students: Toan Phung, Budi Halim and Jonathan Yu	summer vacation 2001/2002 (completed)
DAME: Delivering Cost-Efficient Data Mining Services over the Internet	Co-supervised with A/Prof Arkady Zaslavsky Monash PhD: Shonali Krishnaswamy	current
Pubster: Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Research Publications	Supervised RMIT Honours: Johan Iskandar	2001 (completed)
ITAG - Mobile Agent Itinerary Scripting Language	Co-supervised with Arkady Zaslavsky two DSTC summer vacation scholars: Brian Yap, Joseph Fonseka	summer vacation 2000/2001 (completed)
Talking to Your Mobile Agents	Supervised DSTC summer vacation scholar: Kar-Chew Lim	summer vacation 1999/2000 (completed)