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Ben K. M. Sim

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C,

Guest Editor, IEEE Systems Journal (IEEE Systems Council),

Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (Inderscience),
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IOS Press),

Editorial Advisory Board Member, System and Information Sciences Notes,

Editorial Board Member, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal,
Guest Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Wiley),
Guest Editor, International Journal of Applied Intelligence (Springer),

Guest Editor, Multiagent and Grid Systems (IOS Press),
Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C.

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(Our group can also be found in http://www.gridcomputing.com/ under "computational economy")

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Biography: Ben K.M. Sim has extensive experience serving as Editor and Guest Editor of many international journals. Currently serving his second term as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, he is also the sole Guest Editor of an upcoming special issue on Grid Resource Management in the IEEE Systems Journal, the official journal of the IEEE Systems Council (formed by 15 IEEE Societies). In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, an Editorial board member of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems and The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the System and Information Sciences Notes.

He is the Editor of five special journal issues in Grid computing and automated negotiation. As the sole Guest Editor, he single-handedly managed and coordinated the review processes for four special journal issues on (i) game-theoretic analysis and stochastic simulation of negotiation agents (IEEE Transactions on SMC, IEEE, USA), (ii) learning approaches for negotiation agents (International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Wiley, USA)), (iii) Agent-based Grid Computing, (Applied Intelligence Journal (Springer, USA)), and (iv) Grid Resource Management (IEEE Systems Journal). Additionally, he is also the Lead Editor of a special issue on negotiation agent and Grid system in the Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (IOS Press, NL).

He has initiated many funded research programs in automated negotiation, agent-based Grid computing, Grid economics, Grid Commerce, game-theoretic approaches of multi-agent systems, and evolutionary optimization (to view my (past) areas of research, visit my old website at: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~kmsim). Ben K. M. Sim is one of the earliest researchers to have adopted a negotiation mechanism for managing Grid resources, and the first researcher to have published a survey paper on Grid Resource Negotiation. He has led and provided a forum for researchers working in this area by editing the first ever special journal issue on Agent-based Grid Computing. Together with A/Prof. M. Zhang (University of Wollongong), he set up the Agent-based Grid Computing and Automated Negotiation Group (ABGC_AN). ABGC_AN recieved funding from National Funding Agencies in Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In addition to attracting many research grants, he has contributed many invited papers, frequently-cited scholarly surveys, technical papers, journal guest editorials, as well as position papers, mostly appearing in IEEE/ACM/IEE journals (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Parts A, B, & C). He is a referee for many national research grant councils, including the National Science Foundation, USA, RGC in Hong Kong, ASTAR in Singapore and NSC in Taiwan. Additionally, he has served as an external tenure and promotion reviewer for a university in USA. He is also a referee for Routledge Economics Book Series on Game Theory (Taylor & Francis) and will be a keynote speaker in the International Symposium on Electronic Commerce 2008. (download keynote slides).

Aside from being a Senior Member of IEEE, he is also a TC Member of the IEEE SMC Society's Technical Committee on Distributed Intelligent Systems, and a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications Society, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the IEEE SMC Society.

He has served as Program Vice-chair, Area Chair, Session Chair and PC member for many international conferences, and has supervised over 30 researchers/graduate students regionally. Under his active supervision many researchers and graduate students rapidly published articles in IEEE Transactions/IEE Proceedings and many of his graduate students received distinctions in their dissertations. He is also an external dissertation examiner for universities regionally.

He has international work experience in six countries spanning the continents of North America, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining HKBU, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Associate Professor at Academia Sinica (Taiwan's most prestigious research institute headed by Nobel Laureate YT Lee). Originating from Singapore, he received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Calgary (previously, home of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Knowledge Acquisition Journal), AB, Canada, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.Sc.(Hon) degree from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Journal Papers (Most of my papers can be downloaded from my old website at: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~kmsim)

1. K. M. Sim. G-Commerce, Market-driven G-Negotiation Agents and Grid Resource Management. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 36, No. 6, December 2006, pp 1381-1394. See also a position paper by Sim in 2004.

2. K. M. Sim . Grid Resource Negotiation: Survey, Analysis and New Directions. Conditionally accepted and to appear in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, 2007. See also a shorter version of this survey paper by Sim in Jan. 2006.

3. K.T. Seow and K. M. Sim. Decentralized Assignment Reasoning Using Collaborative Local Mediation. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 11, November 2006.

4. K. M. Sim. Equilibria, Prudent Compromises, and the "Waiting Game". IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 35, No. 4, Aug. 2005, pp. 712-724.

5. K. M. Sim and Y. S. Wang. Evolutionary asymmetric games for modelling systems of partially cooperative agents. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, special issue on Evolutionary Computation and Games. Vol. 9, No. 6, December 2005, pp. 603-614.

6. K.T. Seow, K. M. Sim , and Y.C. Kwek. Coalition Formation for Resource Co-allocation Using BDI Assignment Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 37, No. 4, July, 2007, pp. 682-693.

7. B. An. K. M. Sim et al. A Continuous Time Negotiation Mechanism for Software Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 36, No. 6, Dec., 2006.

8. K. M. Sim and C.Y. Choi. Agents that React to Changing Market Situations. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp 188-201, April 2003.

9. K. M. Sim and S.Y. Wang. Flexible Negotiation Agent with Relaxed Decision Rules. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, Vol. 34, No. 3., pp. 1602- 1608, Jun., 2004.

10. K. M. Sim and E. Wong. Towards Market-driven Agents for Electronic Auction. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 31, No.6, pp 474-484, Nov. 2001.

11. K. M. Sim and W.H. Sun. Ant Colony Optimization for Routing & Load-Balancing: Survey and New Directions. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 33, No. 5, Sep. 2003. Special Issue on Collective Intelligence, pp 560-572.

12. K. M. Sim and P.T. Wong. Towards Agency and Ontology for Web-based Information Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2004, pp. 1-13.

13. K. M. Sim and R. Chan. A Brokering Protocol for Agent-based Electronic Commerce. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp 1-11, Nov. 2000.

14. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Game-theoretic Analysis and Stochastic Simulation of Negotiation Agents. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 36, No. 1, Feb. 2006.

15. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Grid Resource Management. IEEE Systems Journal, to appear 2008.

16. K. Ma and K. M. Sim. Loose-Strain Loop-Free Conditions for Multiple Paths IP Routing. IEE Proceedings Communications, Vol. 151, No. 3, Jun. 2004, pp. 243-250.

17. K.M. Sim. Negotiation Agents that make prudent compromises and are slightly flexible in reaching consensus. In Computational Intelligence, Special issue on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, Nov. 2004, pp. 643-662.

18. K. M. Sim. A Market-driven Model for Designing Negotiation Agents. In Computational Intelligence, Special issue in Agent Technology for E-commerce, vol. 18, no. 4, 2002.

19. K. M. Sim. and K. F. Ng. Relaxed-criteria Negotiation for G-commerce. Invited Paper in International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol 3, No 2, July 2007, pp 105-117.

20. B. An. K. M. Sim et al. Decision Making of Negotiation Agents Using Markov Chains. Accepted and to appear in the Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal journal, vol. 1, 2008.

21. K. M. Sim. Relaxed-criteria G-negotiation for Grid Resource Co-allocation. ACM SIGECOM: E-commerce Exchanges, Vol. 6, No. 2, December, 2006.

22. K. M. Sim. A Survey of Bargaining Models for Grid Resource Allocation. ACM SIGECOM: E-commerce Exchanges, Vol. 5, No. 5, January, 2006, pp. 22-32.

23. K. M. Sim. From Market-driven Agents to Market-Oriented Grids. ACM SIGECOM: E-commerce Exchanges, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 2004, Pages 45–53.

24. K. M. Sim. Equilibrium Analysis of Market-driven Agents. ACM SIGECOM: E-commerce Exchanges, vol. 4.2, Summer, 2003, pp. 32-40.

25. K. M. Sim, Y. S. Wang, and H. Wu. Convergence, Steady State, and Global Gains of Agent-Based Coalition Formation in E-markets. ACM SIGeCOM Exchanges, Vol. 5, No. 1, July Issue, 2004, pp 24-33.

26. K. M. Sim. Toward an Ontology-enhanced Information Filtering Agent. ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol 33, No. 1, March 2004, pp. 95-100.

27. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Learning Approaches for Negotiation Agents and Automated Negotiation. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 21, Jan. 2006. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/36062

28. K. M. Sim. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Agent-based Grid Computing. Applied Intelligence, slated for publication in the Vol. 25, No. 2, October 2006.

29. K.M. Sim, M. Zhang & T. Ito. Guest Editorial: Special issue on negotiation mechanisms for multiagent and Grid resource management system. To appear in Multiagent and Grid Systems Journal (IOS Press), vol. 1, 2008.

30. C.K. Chau and K. M. Sim. The Price of Anarchy for Non-atomic Congestion Games with Symmetric Cost Maps and Elastic Demands. Operations Research Letters, No. 31, pp 327-334 Sep. 2003.

31. C.K. Chau and K. M. Sim. Analyzing the Impact of Selfish Behaviors of Internet Users and Operators. IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 7, No. 9, Sep. 2003.

32. K.M. Sim. Reasoning Tractably About Explicit Belief: A Model-theoretic Approach. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 9, Sep 2000, pp 811-848. Accepted without revision.

33. K.M. Sim. Epistemic Logic and Logical Omniscience II: A Unifying Framework. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, Feb 2000, pp 129-152. Accepted without revision.

34. K.M. Sim. Epistemic Logic and Logical Omniscience: A Survey. International Journal of Intelligent Systems. Vol. 12, No. 1, Jan. 1997, pp 57 - 81. Accepted without revision.

35. K.M. Sim. Bilattices and Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence: Concepts and Foundations. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 15, Issue 3, May 2001, pp 219-240. Accepted without revision.