ICICSE08 Conference Program

Keynote Talks

Title: Exploring Emergent Properties in Internet Computing Systems
Dr. Zhiwei Xu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract: Traditional computing systems have benefited significantly from the observation and formulation of a few fundamental properties, such as work set and locality. As Internet is becoming a main computing platform, a fundamental research question is: are there nice emergent properties in such distributed and decentralized computing systems (i.e., Internet computing systems)? The Vega Grid research team at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been studying for several years this issue. The speaker will present several findings, which indicate that Internet computing systems could exhibit desirable emergent properties.

徐志伟1987年获美国南加州大学博士学位。现任中国科学院计算技术研究所研究员、总工程师， IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal of Computer Science and Technology 等学术期刊编委。主要研究方向是高性能计算机体系结构、网格计算与分布式系统软件，著有关于电脑创新发展史的《电脑启示录》（清华大学出版社出版）一书，含上、中、下三篇。

Zhiwei Xu received his PhD degree from University of Southern California, USA, in 1987. He is a professor and CTO of the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research areas include grid computing, operating systems, and high-performance computer architecture. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Computers and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Title: SemreX: a Semantic Association based Scientific Literature Retrieving System
Dr. Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Abstract: Abstract: It is very important for researchers to retrieve scientific literature efficiently and easily. Currently, there are many literature retrieval systems available, however, those systems are generally literature centered and based on little explicit relationship among literature, and their retrieval methods are usually limited to keyword-based searching. Those resulted in losing large amount of relevant information implied in search result and unfriendly user interface. This talk presents a semantic association based scientific literature retrieving system - SemreX. The concept of Semantic Association is proposed to reveal explicit or implicit relationships among literature entities, such as authors, papers, publications, so as to facilitate users retrieving semantically relevant information, as well as context of literature entities. Since there exists association among any entities, SemreX is not only literature centered, but also literature entity centered. To reach the goal, firstly, SemreX automatically extracts and provides metadata and their explicit association from literatures. Moreover, SemreX also mines implicit relationship of literature entities, which implied in content and format of paper. Those explicit and implicit relationships are used to evaluate and cluster literature entities. Evaluated entities and their relationships are important criterions to match query term and rank search result. Therefore, the efficiency and accuracy of search are improved. Since the search results contain large amount of entities, their evaluation and relationships, it is important to present those information in a friendly manner. The system introduces visualization technique to facilitate researchers browsing search results, as well as context relationships which can capture user's current search intentions and narrow user’s next search.

Hai Jin is a professor of computer science and engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He is now Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology at HUST. Jin received his PhD in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service fellowship to visit the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. Jin worked at The University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He was awarded Excellent Youth Award from the National Science Foundation of China in 2001. Jin is the chief scientist of ChinaGrid, the largest grid computing project in China. Jin is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Jin is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). He has co-authored 15 books and published over 300 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, virtualization technology, cluster computing and grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, and network security. Jin is the steering committee chair of International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC). Jin is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), and the International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC)

. (His Web site can be found at http://grid.hust.edu.cn/hjin/)

金海，博士，华中科技大学教授、博士生导师、华中科技大学计算机学院院长，华中科技大学“服务计算技术与系统”教育部重点实验室、“集群与网格计算”湖北省重点实验室主任。国务院特殊津贴专家、中国计算机学会常务理事、中国计算机学会对外联络部副主任、中国计算机学会高性能计算专委会委员和普适计算专委会委员。973计划“计算系统虚拟化基础理论与方法研究”首席科学家、教育部重大专项“中国教育科研网格计划ChinaGrid”专家组组长、863计划信息技术领域（高效能计算机及网格服务环境）重大/重点项目总体专家组成员、中国网格论坛执行委员及体系结构工作小组主席，教育部“长江学者和创新团队发展计划”创新团队学术带头人、湖北省自然科学基金创新团队学术带头人。金海是国家杰出青年基金获得者、霍英东高等院校青年教师基金获得者、首批新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选。2003年获留学回国人员成就奖，2004年获中国软件行业十大杰出青年称号，第五届湖北省青年科技奖获得者，湖北省第六届十大杰出青年获得者。获国家发明二等奖1项、教育部科技进步/技术发明一等奖3项、湖北省科技进步/技术发明一等奖2项、国家自然科学四等奖1项。金海在国内外正式发表学术论文300余篇，其中被SCI、EI等权威检索刊物收录160余篇次。获国家发明专利14项，申报国家发明专利32项，申报美国发明专利1项，获国家软件著作版权39项。主持了一批重大科研项目，包括973项目、教育部重大专项、国家杰出青年基金项目、国家自然科学基金重大/重点项目、863重点项目、CNGI项目、霍英东高等院校青年教师基金项目、国际合作项目等。　金海1994年获华中理工大学计算机系统结构专业博士学位，1996年获德国DAAD交换学者奖学金并赴德国Chemnitz大学从事科研合作，1998年至2000年先后赴香港大学、美国南加州大学从事博士后研究。金海是IEEE及IEEE计算机学会高级会员、ACM会员，全球网格论坛指导委员会（GFSG）委员，是多个国际学术期刊的编委。先后40余次担任国际学术会议/程序委员会主席/副主席、190余次担任国际学术会议学术委员会委员，并50余次在国际/国内学术会议上作大会主题演讲或特邀报告。