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Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems

Focus Leader

The area of Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems aims at innovative research on developing efficient and effective software systems that provide valuable information from raw data, learn useful knowledge from obtained information and use learned knowledge for achieving goals in various applications. Knowledge and Data Intensive Systems embrace expertise in database, intelligent agent and other technologies.

Current Focus Group Research Themes

Advanced query processing and web data management

  • Keyword search on structured data
  • Query processing on uncertain data
  • XML views and query rewriting
  • XML and RDF query relaxation
  • RDF databases and data web
  • Data provenance
  • Cloud data management

Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems

  • Agent-based service aggregation
  • Agent-based negotiation
  • Agent argumentation
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Agent-based software engineering
  • Smart grid

Service computing and workflow management

  • Autonomic service composition
  • Transactional support for web services
  • Distributed resource allocation and workflow resource planning
  • Artefact-centric business process management
  • Process views and collaborative business management

Evolutionary computation

  • Particle swarm optimisation and self organising swarms
  • Discrete multi-objective constraint optimisation and extremal optimisation
  • Enhanced neural structures for data modelling/analysis
  • Evolving complex software
  • Behaviour of AI techniques on dynamic problems approaching criticality
  • AI enhanced data winnowing techniques

Data analysis and knowledge discovery

  • Complex network analysis, visualisation and community discovery
  • Data summarisation
  • Database testing
  • Intelligent transport systems and intelligent sensor networks
  • Knowledge network for word sense disambiguation

Primary Members

  • Prof. Chengfei Liu
  • Prof. Leon Sterling
  • Prof Ryszard Kowalczyk
  • Prof Tim Hendtlass
  • Dr Irene Moser
  • Dr Bao Vo

Associate Members

  • Dr Alan Colman
  • Dr Clinton Woodward
  • Dr Edmonds Lau
  • Dr Jinjun Chen
  • Dr Wei Lai
  • Prof Yun Yang