王學亮 教授 （S.L. Wang）

Dear Colleagues,

It gives me true pleasure to complete the first year of the Deanship of College of Management in National University of Kaohsiung.  Again, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of your kind supports.

Looking back on our glorious achievement in College of Management last year, we have seven faculties promoted to the next ranks.  We have numerous faculties and students received NSC, MOE, NUK, and national competition awards.  We have faculties received the NUK “teacher of the year” and “mentor of the year” awards. The Department of Information Management and the College of Management both ranked number one, two years in a roll, in the NUK university-level International Exchange and Cooperation competition.  The list is endless.  But it only reflects some of our joint and diligent efforts, and deserves our full-hearted recognitions.

Like many of our colleagues, we take opportunities of summer break to travel and explore. This summer, I have two inspiring trips to share with you. Together with four faculties from the Department of Information Management (also two colleagues from National Tsing-Hwa University and National Taiwan Normal University), we traveled to University of Salamanca in Spain. Our main objectives were to present papers and introduced NUK as the host of next year’s International Conference of Knowledge Management in Organizations. But we learned more than that. The University of Salamanca is the oldest university in Spain and the third oldest in Europe, with a history of 800 years. However, it surprises me that it does not look old at all. The University not only preserves its national heritage but also equipped with modern facility. I suddenly wonder. NUK is only twelve year old. Are we aimed and ready to last for 800 years? Maybe we should.

Another trip is more fun. Like every year, I have to take my family for a short vacation. This time, under requests from my young kids and my wife, we took a sweet chocolate vacation – the Hershey Park in Pennsylvania, USA. It supposed to be just thrilling rollercoaster and water rides. But it turned out to be more than that. The free tour, provided by the company, of introducing how Hershey Company makes chocolates turn out to be more than making profits.  The tour starts with “Building a company, building a town, and building a dream”.  I thought Hershey is just a company making chocolates. Obviously, it is NOT. They have a “DREAM”.  Do we have a dream in NUK? Maybe we have.  Let’s share.

This is a new academic year with a new university president.  We have had a fruitful past year, and actually 12 years. Let’s move on and up, under the new leadership. Let’s enjoy making our dream even better.

Again, I appreciate all your trusted supports.

Leon S.L. Wang

2012.8.1

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Dear Colleagues,

It gives me great honor and pleasure to serve as the third Dean of College of Management in National University of Kaohsiung.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of your kind supports and, in particular, the two former Deans for their great establishment.

There are many mission objectives in College of Management that has been well discussed and stated before, clearly and loudly.  They exist in many forms.  However, the bottom line is “How to make us better!”  It could be a complex task or, on the other hand, it could be simplified.  I always like simple approaches.

Recently, we had a trip to visit upstate New York – Syracuse, Ithaca, and Corning area.  Built on the hilly cross-road town in middle New York State, Syracuse University has developed itself into an internationally known university, with a NCAA champion basketball team.  The conference we attended was organized by an engineering department but Whitman School of Management was chosen as the conference venue.  One simple reason is that the school of management has the best facilities to host an international conference in the University.  It is special.

The Cornell University remains its prestige and elegance, just like my first visit about 30 years ago.  It is a campus near nowhere, only next to one of the Finger Lakes – Cayuga Lake.  The first university president Andrew Dickson White was a close friend of the founder Ezra Cornell.  Together, working as a team and sharing with a dream, they built a world class top-ranked institution far from crowded New York City.  It just needs a good team work to start with.

Located in an even more remote area, Corning.  Another world class center has been built.  It is one of its kinds in the USA and the world.  They make very simple products – glasses, light bulb and space shuttle ceramics, etc.  The technology they developed greatly impact human life and recent history.  They are really special.  It doesn’t matter where they are located.

Surprisingly, this trip happens to reflect my personal goals for working in College of Management as well.  I would like to nourish an environment that can better host international conferences, right at College of Management.  To maintain competitiveness, I would like to vocal a simple “123” goal – one research/teaching-related project, two journal papers and three conference papers publication, from each faulty in each year.  It might be ambitious, depending on how you look at it, but together it will make a bang.

“Stay Hungary, Stay Foolish” – as Steve Jobs deliver his commencement speech in Stanford University a few years back.  We are facing budget cuts and limited resources.  Let’s work deep and hard to lay down solid foundation now.  And the dots will be connected and paid off in the future.  In fact, it just takes specialty and team works.

Again, I appreciate all your trusted supports.

Leon Wang

2011.8.1 

●國立高雄大學副校長

76. Wang, S.L., Lo, W.S., and Hong, T.P., “Discovery of Cross-Level Sequential Patterns from Transaction Databases”, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, September 2002, Crema, Italy, 683-687.

77. Hong, T.P., Chiang, M.J., and Wang, S.L., "Mining Weighted Browsing Patterns with Linguistic Minimum Supports and Confidences", Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2002, Tunisia, Volume 4.

78. Wang, S.L., Kuo, C.Y., Hong, T.P., “Mining Fuzzy Similar Sequential Patterns from Quantitative Data”, Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2002, Tunisia, Volume 7.

79. Wang, S.L., Lo, W.S., and Hong, T.P., “Discovery of Fuzzy Multiple-Level Web Browsing Patterns”, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, November 2002, Singapore, 636-640.

80. Lo, W.S., Wang, S.L., and Hong, T.P., “Discovery of Fuzzy Multiple-Level Sequential Patterns from Transaction Databases”, Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Fuzzy Theroy and Its Application, November 2002, 55.

81. Hong, T.P., Chiang, M.J., and Wang, S.L., "Mining Fuzzy Weighted Browsing Patterns from Time Durations", Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Fuzzy Theroy and Its Application, November 2002, 56.

82. Hong, T.P., Horng, C.Y., and Wang, S.L., "Improving Data Mining Efficiency by Predictive Itemsets", accepted to the 7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2002, Taiwan.

83. Hong, T.P., Lin, K.Y., and Wang, S.L., “Mining a Complete Set of Linguistic Browsing Patterns”, accepted to the 8th Conference on Systems and Information Management, November 2002, Taiwan.

84. Wang, S.L., Lo, W.S., and Hong, T.P., “Top-Down Discovery of Generalized Web Browsing Patterns”, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Management, July 2003, Taiwan, 1161-1167.

85. Lo, W.S., Hong, T.P., Wang, S.L., and Tao, Y.H., “Semantic Web and Multiple-Agents in SCM”, Proceedings of the 2003 Industrial Electronic Commerce Conference, July 2003, Taiwan, 40.

86. Wang, S.L., Lo, W.S., and Hong, T.P., “Mining of Generalized Web Browsing Patterns”, Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics, July 2003, Florida, USA, 267-271.

87. Wang, S.L., Tzou, W.C., Tzou, Lin, J.H, and Hong, T.P., “Maintenance of Discovered Functional Dependencies: Incremental Deletion”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Application, August 2003, Oklahoma, USA, 579-588.

88. Hong, T.P., Lin, C.E., Lin, J.H., and Wang, S.L., “Learning Hierarchical Attribute Values by Rough Sets”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Application, August 2003, Oklahoma, USA, 559-568.

89. Chien, B.C., Liao, S.Y., and Wang, S.L., “Generating Concept Hierarchies for Categorical Attributes usng Rough Entropy”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Application, August 2003, Oklahoma, USA, 549-558.

90. Wang, S.L., Wang, M.H., Lin, W.Y., and Hong, T.P., “Efficient Generation of Adaptive-Support Association Rules”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2003, Washington D.C., USA, 894-899.

91. Wang, S.L., Huang, K.W., Wang, T.C., and Hong, T.P., “Maintenance of Discovered Informative Rule Sets: Incremental Insertion”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2003, Washington D.C., USA, 2394-2399.

92. Hong, T.P., Lin, C.E., Lin, J.H., and Wang, S.L., “Learning a Coverage Set of Multiple-Level Certain and Possible Rules by Rough Sets”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2003, Washington D.C., USA, 2605-2610.

93. Lo, W.S., Hong, T.P., and Wang, S.L., “A Top-Down Fuzzy Cross-Level Web-Mining Approach”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2003, Washington D.C., USA, 2684-2689.

94. Wang, S.L., Ito, S., and Jafari, A., “Using Unknown for Hiding Sensitive Items in Association Rule Mining”, Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, July 2004, Athens, Greece, 487-684.

95. Lo, W.S., Wang, S.L., Hong, T.P., “A Bottom Up Discovery of Generalized Web Browsing”, Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computers, July 2004, Athens, Greece, 487-540.

96. Wang, S.L., Lee, Y.H., Billis, S., and Jafari, A., “Hiding Sensitive Items in Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining”, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004, Hague, Netherlands, 3239-3244.

97. Wang, S.L., Wang, M.H., Lin, W.Y., and Hong, T.P., “Adjustable Discovery of Adaptive-Support Association Rules for Collaborative Recommendation Systems”, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004, Hague, Netherlands, 3250-3254.

98. Wang, S.L., Jafari, A., “Using Unknown for Hiding Sensitive Predictive Association Rules”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2005, Las Vegas, USA, 223-228.

99. Wang, S.L., Jafari, A., “Hiding Sensitive Predictive Association Rules”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2005, Hawaii, USA, 164-169.

100.Wang, S.L., Huang, K.W., Wang, T.C., and Hong, T.P., “Maintenance of Discovered Informative Rule Sets: Incremental Deletion”, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2005, Hawaii, USA, 170-175.

101.Wang, S.L., Maskey, R., and Jafari, A., “One Scan Sanitization of Informative Association Rule”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, September 2006, Hawaii, USA, 516-521.

102.Hong, T.P., Liou, Y.L., and Wang, S.L., “Learning with Hierarchical Quantitative Attributes by Fuzzy Rough Sets”, 9th Joint Conferences on Information Sciences, October 8-11, 2006, 1309-1312.

103.Wang, S.L., Maskey, R., Jafari, A., and Hong, T.P., “Efficient Sanitization of Informative Association Rules with Updates”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15-17, 2006, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 331-336.

104.Hong, T.P., Wu, M.T., Tung, Y.F., and Wang, S.L., “Using Escape Operations in Gene-set Genetic Algorithms”, accepted to the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2007, Montreal, Canada, 3907-3911.

105.Wang, S.L., Hong, T.P., “One-Scan Sanitization of Collaborative Recommendation Association Rules”, Proceedings of National Computer Symposium, November, 2007, Taichun, Taiwan, 170-176.

106.Wang, S.L., Stirpe, P.A., and Hong, T.P., “Modeling Optimal Security Investment of Information Centers”, The PAKDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining for Decision Making and Risk Management, May, 2008, Osaka, Japan, 293-304.

107.Wang, S.L., Chen, J.D., and Hong, T.P., “Probabilistic Modeling and Analysis of Information Center Security”, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Management, May, 2008, Taiwan, 182.

108.Hong, T.P., Tung, Y.F., Wang, S.L., Wu, M.T., and Wu, Y.L., “Extracting Membership Functions in Fuzzy Data Mining by Ant Colony Systems”, Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July, 2008, Kunming, China.

109.Wang, S.L., Lai, T.Z., Hong, T.P., Wu, Y.L., “Efficient Hiding of Collaborative Recommendation Association Rules with Updates”, Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, December, 2008, San Diego, USA.

110.Hong, T.P., Tung, Y.F., Wang, S.L., and Wu, Y.Y., “A Multi-level Ant-based Algorithm for Fuzzy Data Mining”, 28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference, June, 2009, Cincinnati, USA.

111.Wang, S.L., Lai, T.Z., Hong, T.P., Wu, Y.L., “Hiding Predictive Association Rules on Horizontally Distributed Data”, Proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, June, 2009, Tainan, Taiwan, 133-141.

112.Wang, S.L., Chen, J.D., Hong, T.P., Stirpe, P.A., “Probabilistic Analysis of Information Center Insecurity”, Opportunities and Challenges for Next- Generation Applied Intelligence, Springer Verlag, pp. 175 - 180, June, 2009.

113.Hong, T.P., Lee, C.H., and Wang, S.L., “Mining High Average-Utility Itemsets”, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2009, San Antonio, USA.

114.Hong, T.P., Lee, C.H., and Wang, S.L., “An Incremental Mining Algorithm for High Average-Utility Itemsets”, 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, December 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

115.Wang, S.L., Hong, T.P., Tsai, Y.C., Kao, Y.H., “Hiding Sensitive Association Rules on Stars”, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, August 2010, San Jose, USA.

116.Hong, T.P., Yang, K.T., Lin, C.W., and Wang, S.L., “Evolutionary Privacy-Preserving Data Mining”, World Automation Congress, September 2010, Kobe, Japan.

117.Wang, S.L., Hong, T.P., Tsai, Y.C., Kao, H.Y., “Multi-table Association Rules Hiding”, The Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), November 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

118.Wang, S.L., Tsai, Y.C., Kao, H.Y., Hong, T.P., “Anonymizing Set-valued Social Data”, The 2010 International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking (SocialNet’10), December 2010, Hangzhou, China. (Best Paper Award)

119.Wang, S.L., Tsai, Z.Z., Hong, T.P., Ting, I.H., “Anonymizing Shortest Paths on Social Network Graphs”, The Third Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS). April, 2011, Daegu, Korea. (Best Paper Award)

120.Hong, T.P., Lin, C.W., Yang, K.T., and Wang, S.L., “A Heuristic Data-Sanitization Approach Based on TF-IDF”, accepted to IEA/AIE 2011, June, 2011, Syracuse, USA 

C Book Chpaters:

1. Chen, Y.M., Wang, S.L., "An Efficient Numerical Method for Determination of Shapes, Sizes and Orientation of Flaws for Nondestructive Evaluation", in Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation: 4A, Plenum Press, 1985, 543-549.

2. Wang, S.L., Tsai, Y.J., “Fuzzy Queries with Compound Fuzzy Attributes”, in A New Paradigm of Knowledge Engineering by Soft Computing, edited by Liya Ding, Vol. 5, FLSI Soft Computing Series, World Scientific, 2001, 149-162.

3. Wang, S.L., “Fuzzy Database Systems”, chapter 13 in Fuzzy Theory and Applications, Chinese Fuzzy System Association-Taiwan, 2002. (In Chinese)

4. Hong, T.P., Lin, K.Y., and Wang, S.L., “A Time-Completeness Tradeoff on Fuzzy Web-Browsing Mining”, Fuzzy Logic and the Internet, V. Loia, M. Nikravesh and L. A. Zadeh (Eds.), Physica-Verlag, Springer, 2004, pp. 117 - 134.

5. Wang, S.L., Lo, W.S., and Hong, T.P, "Discovery of Fuzzy Multiple-Level Browsing Patterns", in Classification and Clustering for Knowledge Discovery, eds. S.K. Halgamuge, L.P. Wang, Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-26073-0, 251-266.

6. Wang, S.L., Shen, J.W. & Hong, T.P., Incremental Discovery of Fuzzy Functional Dependencies. In Galindo, J. (Ed.) Handbook of Research on Fuzzy Information Processing in Databases. Vol. II, pp. 615-633, 2008, Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference (http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=7568).

7. Wang, S.L., Shen, J.W., Hong, T.P. Dynamic Discovery of Fuzzy Functional Dependencies Using Partitions. Intelligent Soft Computation and Evolving Data Mining: Integrating Advanced Technology. 2010, Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference. 

D Book Editing:

1. Wang, S.L., Hong, T.P., Intelligent Soft Computation and Evolving Data Mining: Integrating Advanced Technology. Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference, 2010, ISBN 978-1-61520-757-2. (http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=37288)

2. Ting, I.H., Hong, T.P., Wang, S.L., Social Network Mining, Analysis and Research Trends: Techniques and Applications. (in progress) Hershey, PA, USA: Information Science Reference.

2. OFFICES HELD IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

1. Vice Chairman of Artificial Intelligence Group, Long Island section of IEEE, 1988 - 1994.

2. Secretary of Computer Society, Long Island Section of IEEE, 1991 – 1993.

3. Officer of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, Jan. 1988 to Dec. 1988.

4. Vice President of Publication, Chinese American Scholars Association, May 1989 to May 1993.

5. Member of Board of Kaohsiung Association for Information Development, August 1998-1999.

6. Member of Board of OOTSIG, Chinese Computer Association, January 2000-2001.

7. Member of Board of Chinese Fuzzy System Association, January 2000-2003.

8. Member of Board of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, USA, 2007 – 2009.

9. Member of Board of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, USA, 2009 – 2012.

3. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICE

1. Member of Mathematics Speaking Program for high school students, University of New Haven, Sept. 1985 to May 1987.

2. Member of curriculum committee, School of Arts and Science, University of New Haven, Sept. 1986 to May 1987.

3. Member of Faculty Senate, University of New Haven, May 1987 to August 1988.

4. Session Chairman for the Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Chicago, IL June 21-23, 1990.

5. Program Committee of the 1991, 1992, 1993 Long Island Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics.

6. Program Committee of the 1994 Academic and Professional Conference on Information Systems, August 1994, Flushing, New York.

7. Session Chair, 1997 Multimedia Technology and Application Symposium, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

8. Session Chair, the 3rd Local Business Case Study Conference, 1998, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

9. Chairman of Program Committee, the Ninth Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology and Applications, September 1998, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

10. Session Chair, the Sixth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 1998, Taiwan.

11. Member of Personnel Committee, I-Shou University, September 1998-2001.

12. Session Chair, the Eighth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, August 1999, Taipei, Taiwan.

13. Session Chair, the 3rd International Conferecne on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, August 1999, Adelaide, Australia.

14. Session Chair, Conference on Management Development, National PinDong Polytechnical University, November 1999, PinDong, Taiwan.

15. Session Chair, the 4th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 1999, ChungHwa, Taiwan.

16. Session Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, May 2000, San Antonio, USA.

17. Session Organizer, the IEEE International Conference on System Man and Cybernetics, October 2000, Nashville, USA

18. Session Chair, the 5th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2000, Taipei, Taiwan.

19. Session Organizer, the Nineth International Fuzzy Systems Association World Congress, July 2001, Vancouver, Canada.

20. Co-Chairman of Program Committee, the Nineth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2001, Chung-Li, Taiwan.

21. Member of Personnel Review Committee, I-Shou University, August 2001- July 2002.

22. Program Committee, The Tenth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2002, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.

23. Session Chair, in the 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, November 2002, Singapore.

24. Session chair, Hardware and Software Engineering for Reuse, of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 15 – 17, 2005, Las Vegas, USA. (http://www.cs.fiu.edu/IRI05/).

25. International program committee of 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, December 2 – 5, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (http://taai2005.nuk.edu.tw).

26. International program committee of 2nd International Conference on Information and Automation, December 15 – 17, 2006, Colombo, Sri Lanka (http://www.icia2006.org/).

27. Vice President, 2007 Annual Convention of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, New York, USA, 2007.(http://www.caaps.us/)

28. Program Committee, the 12th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2007, Yunlin, Taiwan.

29. Program Committee, the 2007 National Computer Symposium, December 2007, Taichun, Taiwan.

30. Co-organizor of Machine Learning Application Invited Session, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July 2008, Kumin, China.

31. Program Committee, the 8th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application, November 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

32. Program Committee, the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, November 2008, I-Lan, Taiwan.

33. Program Committee, the Twenty Second International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, September 2009, Tainan, Taiwan.

34. Session Chair, Taiwan Academic Network Conference 2008, October 2008, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

35. Workshop Committee, “Computational Intelligence Approaches for Ontology-based Knowledge Discovery”, workshop in the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence, Intelligent Agent Technology, September 2009, Milan, Italy.

36. Honary Workshop Chair, “Ubiquitous e-Service and Business Process Orchestration”, workshop in the 2009 IEEE International Conference on NISS.

37. International Program Committee, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application, November 2009, Pita, Italy

38. Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2009) during December 09-11, 2009 in Coimbatore, India.

39. Program Committee, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), December 04-07, 2009, Malacca, Malaysia.

40. Program Committee, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking, December 12-14, 2009, ChengDu, China.

41. Program Committee, The Seventeenth National Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Its Application, December 2009, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

42. Keynote speaker, Second Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, March 2010, Hue City, Vietnam.

43. Program Committee, the 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, July 2010, Qingdao, Shangdong, China.

44. Workshop Co-chair, the Second International Workshop on Mining Social Networks for Decision Support, August 2010, Odense, Denmark.

45. Session chair, the 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, August 2010, Odense, Denmark.

46. Program Committee 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC), Aug 14-16, 2010, Silicon Valley, California, USA.

47. Program Committee, the Second International Symposium on Aware Computing (ISAC 2010), November 1-4, 2010, Tainan, Taiwan.

48. International Program Committee, the 10th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), November 29 – December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.

49. Program Committee, 2010 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2010), November 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

50. Program Committee, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking (SocialNet’10), Decmber 18-20, 2010, Hangzhou, China.

51. Program Committee, 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010), December 4-6, 2010, Singapore.

52. Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT 2011), March 2011, Bali, Indonesia.

53. Program Committee, 2011 Natioanl Conference on Web Intelligence and Applications (NCWIA), April 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

54. International Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), July 2011, Ostrava, Czech Republic.

55. Program Committee, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), July 10 – 13, 2011, Guilin, China.

56. General chair, the 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), July 25 – 27, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

57. Program Committee of Databases and Data Mining track, 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS2011), September 2011, Tirana, Albania.

58. Program Committee, the Third IEEE International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2011), Sep.27-30, 2011, Dalina, China.

59. Program Committee (cybernetic track), the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 9-12, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

60. Program Chair, the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, November 8 – 10, 2011, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

61. Program Committee, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Application (ISDA), November 22 – 24, 2011, Cordoba, Spain.

62. Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2011), December 2011, Malacca, Malaysia.

4. Invited Speech

1. Invited speech, Annual Convention of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, August 2008, New York, USA.

2. Invited speech, Department of Applied Mathematics, Natioanl Chung Hsing University, Novenber, 2008, Taichung, Taiwan

3. Invited speech, Department of Computer Science, Long Island University, October 2009, New York, USA.

4. Invited speech, Department of International Business, National Kaohskung University of Applied Sciences, March 2010, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

5. Keynote speech, The Second Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems. March 24 – 26, 2010, Hue City, Vietnam. (http://aciids2010.hueuni.edu.vn/)

6. Invited speech, Department of Information Management, National Taitung Junior College, May 2010, Taitung, Taiwan.

7. Invited speech, Annual Convention of Chinese American Academic and Professional Society, August 2010, New York, USA.

8. Invited speech, Department of Multimedia Design, National Taichung Institute of Technology, December 2010, Taichung, Taiwan.

9. Panelist, The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPScom), Decmber 2010, Hangzhou, China.

10. Invited speech, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, December 2010, Tainan, Taiwan.