Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Computing for Business and Organizational Advancements

Sasaki, Hideyasu · Chiu, Dickson K.W. · Kapetanios, Epaminondas · Hung, Patrick C.K. · Andres, Frederic · Leung, Ho-fung · Chbeir, Richard

May 2012 · IGI Global

About this ebook

As organizations, businesses, and other institutions work to move forward during a new era of ubiquitous modern technology, new computing and technology implementation strategies are necessary to harness the shared knowledge of individuals to advance their organizations as a whole.

Intelligent and Knowledge-Based Computing for Business and Organizational Advancements examines the emerging computing paradigm of Collective Intelligence (CI). The global contributions contained in this publication will prove to be essential to both researchers and practitioners in the computer and information science communities as these populations move toward a new period of fully technology-integrated business.

About the author

Hideyasu Sasaki is the founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), IRMA, NJ, United States. He is active in several international program committees including IEEE SMC 2011 Part B Human-Machine Systems. Prof. Sasaki is a Fellow member of IARIA and has been awarded best paper awards for his presentations twice consecutively, and the 4th Annual Excellence in Research Journal Award from IRMA for his co-authored journal article in IJSSOE about a steganography technique using artificial neural networks in 2010. Dr. Sasaki has been awarded the competitive Japan Society for Science Promotion (JSPS) grants over the past six years from the very beginning of his tenured professorship. He received the Microsoft Research Grant in 2005. Dr. Sasaki is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. He has been tenured there since 2005. Prof. Sasaki received his BA, LLB from the University of Tokyo, Japan, LLM from University of Chicago Law School, MS (Hons) and PhD (Highest Hons) in Computer and Information Sciences in 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001, and 2003, respectively. In his graduate research, he won the title of Keio Engineering Society Fellow (2001). He has experience as a lawyer and in litigation as an Attorney-at-Law in New York since 1999.

Dickson K.W. Chiu received the BSc (Hons.) degree in Computer Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received the MSc (1994) and the PhD (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He started his own computer company while studying part-time. He has also taught at several universities in Hong Kong. His research interest is in service computing with a cross-disciplinary approach, involving workflows, software engineering, information technologies, agents, information system management, security, and databases. The results have been widely published in over 120 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (most of them have been indexed by SCI, SCI-E, EI, and SSCI), including many practical master and undergraduate project results. He received a best paper award in the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2004. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering and serves in the editorial boards of several international journals. He co-founded several international workshops and co-edited several journal special issues. He also served as a program committee member for over 70 international conferences and workshops. He is a Senior Member of both the ACM and the IEEE, and a life member of the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Epaminondas Kapetanios was born in Athens, Hellas, where he studied Statistics and Informatics at the University of Athens. Subsequently, he received his M.Sc. degree at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, Faculty of Computer Science, Institute for Program Structures and Data Organisation, while focusing on the development of Information Systems and Database Technologies. He received his Ph.D. degree at the Institute of Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, where he designed and contributed in the implementation of an ontology driven, high-level query language (MDDQL). Epaminondas has published more than 60 articles in journals and conferences. He is currently holding a position as a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK. He has been General Chair of the NLDB 2008 conference, Programme Committee Co-Chair of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital Ecosystems (MEDES) 2009, Workshop Co-Chair of ICDIM 2009.

Patrick C. K. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in UOIT and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in University of Waterloo. Patrick is currently collaborating with Boeing Phantom Works (Seattle, USA) and Bell Canada on security- and privacy-related research projects, and he has filed two US patent applications on "Mobile Network Dynamic Workflow Exception Handling System." In addition, Patrick is also cooperating on Web services composition research projects with Southeast University in China. Patrick has been serving as a panelist of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the States since 2000. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing, a steering member of EDOC “Enterprise Computing,” and an associate editor/editorial board member/guest editor in several international journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), International journal of Business Process and Integration Management (IJBPIM), and the International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering.

Frederic Andres , Dr. Habilitation, is an accomplished researcher and professor in the field of computer science and informatics. He currently holds several distinguished positions, including Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Andres has an extensive educational background, having obtained his Dr. Habilitation from the Université de Nantes in 2000, and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI, also known as Pierre and Marie Curie University, in 1993. His doctoral research focused on developing a multi-environment cost evaluator for parallel database management systems. With a career spanning over three decades, Dr. Andres has held various visiting researcher and scientist positions at prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Institut Supérieur d'Informatique de Modélisation et de leurs Applications in France, the Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer in Brazil, and Kasetsart University in Thailand, among others. Dr. Andres' research interests are diverse, encompassing areas such as semantic computing, collective intelligence, AI ethics, brain-computer interfaces, and digital content and media sciences. He has actively contributed to several international standards organizations, including ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 43 on Brain-Computer Interfaces, and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 on Artificial Intelligence, serving as an editor and co-editor for various standards. In addition to his academic and research pursuits, Dr. Andres has been involved in numerous professional activities, including serving as a board member of the IEEE Semantic Computing Committee and participating in various committees and working groups related to his areas of expertise. Dr. Andres' contributions to the field have been recognized through various awards and grants, such as the IEEE COMPSAC2018/IEEE Brain Data Bank Hackathon First Prize, the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, and the Nissan Scientific Foundation Grant, among others. With over 360 publications, an impressive research interest score of 1379, and over 124,982 reads and 1231 citations, Dr. Frederic Andres has established himself as a prominent figure in the field of computer science and informatics, making significant contributions to both academic research and industry applications.

Ho-Fung Leung is currently a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. He has been active in research on intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, game theory, and semantic web, and has published more than 160 papers in these areas. Professor Leung has served on the program committees and as chair or vice chair of many conferences. Professor Leung is a senior member of ACM and the IEEE, and a chartered fellow of the BCS. He is a chartered engineer registered by the ECUK, and is awarded the designation of chartered scientist by the Science Council, UK. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal on Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering. Professor Leung received his B.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his Ph.D. degree in Computing from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London.

Richard Chbeir received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of INSA, France, in 2001, and then his accreditation to lead research (HDR) in 2010 from the University of Bourgogne, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department in Dijon, France. His research interests are in the areas of multimedia information retrieval, XML and RSS similarity, access control models, multimedia document annotation. Richard Chbeir has published in international journals, books, and conferences, and has served on the program committees of several international conferences. He is currently the Chair of the French Chapter ACM SIGAPP and the Vice-Chair of ACM SIGAPP. [Editor]