=============================================================== The HKBU-CSD First Postgraduate Research Symposium (PG Day) =============================================================== URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~pgday Date: January 10, 2005 (Monday) Time: 9:30am - 17:50pm Venue: LMC 514, LMC 512 Ho Sin Hang Campus Hong Kong Baptist University Map: www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/csd_home/contact_map.php CALL FOR PARTICIPATION In order to enhance the research atmosphere and share research ideas among the students, the Department of Computer Science starts to hold the Postgraduate Research Symposium (PG Day) from Spring 2005. The Symposium will be held biannually, i.e., in Januaries and Junes. The first PG Day will be held on January 10, 2005. The program contains five sessions of presentations from our PhD and MPhil students. It covers the following research topics: - Mobile Positing Systems - Sensor Data Management - Optical Communication Networks - Multi-Agent Systems - Knowledge Grids - Web Intelligence - Pattern Recognition - Machine Learning - Wavelet and Its Applications - Information Systems All interested academics, postgraduate or undergraduate students, and practitioners are cordially invited to join and benefit from this free, public symposium. For more details, please visit http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~pgday. ============== PG Day Program ============== 09:30-09:40 +++++++++++ Welcome: Prof. Jiming Liu, Head of Computer Science Department (LMC 514) 09:40-09:50 +++++++++++ Opening Address: Prof. Rick W. K. Wong, Dean of Science (LMC 514) 09:50-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 Session A1: Agent and Machine Learning (LMC 514) Chair: Kam Chau Chan Toward A Community of Machine Learners Through Learning Online Communities of Practice Zhili Wu Towards Characterizing Complex Behavior in a Self- Organizing Multi-Agent System Bingcheng Hu How to Win the Multi-Agent Competition in a Dynamic Environment with the Minority Game Strategies? Tingting Wang 11:30-11:45 Break 11:45-13:15 Session A2: Web Intelligence and Data Mining (LMC 514) Chair: Zhili Wu Watermarking 3D Mesh Models for Authentication Haotian Wu Towards Solving Large-scale POMDP Problems Using the Multi-Agent Approach Xin Li Learning Global Models Based on Distributed Data Abstractions Xiaofeng Zhang 13:15-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session A3: Networking (LMC 514) Chair: Man Kin Chu Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks Minji Wu Upgrading Unicast All-Optical Networks for Multicast Communication Kam Chau Chan Maintaining Temporal Consistency of Real Time Data in Broadcast Environments Chui Ying Hui 14:30-16:00 Session B3: Pattern Recognition and Information Systems (LMC512) Chair: Bingcheng Hu Worldviews Retrieval through Ontological Worldviews Model Chung Kei Yeung Corner Detection for Object Recognition by Using Wavelet Transform Lu Sun A Novel Algorithm for Improving the Generalization Capability of Kernel-based LDA Methods Jian Huang Handwriting-based Writer Identification Zhenyu He 16:00-16:20 Break 16:20-17:50 A4: Mobile Positioning Systems (LMC 514) Chair: Chui Ying Hui A New Approach for Locating Mobile Stations under the Statistical Directional Propagation Model Man Kin Chu Wireless LAN Positioning with Mobile Devices in a Library Environment Hak Lim Wong Locating Mobile Station with Ellipse Propagation Model Based on the GSM Networks Junyang Zhou