| News ISL Events in 2008
ISL successful ARC Discovery Projects grants (2009 - 2011)
October 2008.
ISL has a great success in 2008 ARC Discovery Projects grant applications.
Two ARC Discovery Projects grant applications have been successful.
Dr Dongmo Zhang and Professor Yan Zhang have obtained an ARC Discovery
Projects grant. This project title is Logical Foundation and
Implementation Technology for Automated Negotiation.
Professor Yan Zhang has obtained an ARC Discovery Projects grant. The project title is
Model Update with Localisation, Constraints and Abstraction.
UWS - ISL team won the Third at 2008 TAC Market Design Game
July 2008.
UWS - ISL trading agent team, jackaroo, won the 3rd place of the Ninth International Trading Agent
Competition (TAC-08) Market Design Game, held in Chicago, USA 15-17 July 2008.
Forty-two teams from nine different countries participated in four different games of this year's TAC competition.
The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is "an international forum designed to promote and
encourage high quality research into the trading agent problem" (http://www.tradingagents.org/).
It has been held annually since 2000. Participants of the competition are required
to design and develop a computer software system, called trading agent, capable of
trading over the Internet autonomously, and compete each other for the best
market share, profit, and/or social welfare. Researches on trading agents have become a
prominent area in Artificial Intelligence because of their potential applications to
electronic commerce, and because they present stiff challenges to Business Intelligence.
ISL successful ARC Linkage Projects grant (2008 - 2011)
May 2008.
ISL members Professor Yan Zhang and Dr Dongmo Zhang with
ISL industrial partner Dr Weiyuan Wang have been successful in their ARC Linkage
Projects grant application with the project "Developing Sophisticated e-Business Automation".
The project will start from July 2008 and finish by June 2011. An APAI PhD scholarship
has been granted together with this project.
University and Dean's Medals
Sean Policarpio has received University Medal in April 2008 for the excellence of his
undergraduate and Honours studies in University of Western Sydney.
Sean currently is a PhD student of ISL.
Vernon Asuncion will receive Dean's Medal in July 2008 for the excellence of his
undergraduate study at University of Western Sydney. Vernon currently is a Honours student of ISL.
Congratualtions to Sean and Vernon!
The Best Paper Award
ISL PhD student Zhuan Q Huang has recently received the best paper award for her paper
"Image watermarking via sequencing wavelet filters" in the area of
Signal Processing at the 6th International Conference on Communications,
Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2008). The paper will also be
published as a journal paper after some re-editing later on.
Congratulations to Zhuan Qing!
ISL International Visitors
ISL recently hosted several distinguished international researchers' visits.
June - July 2008.
Dr Laurent Perrussel from University of Toulouse I, France is visiting ISL
for three weeks from 19th June to 10th July 2008. Laurent is an active
researcher in belief revision, multiagent systems, and logics in computer
science. He will give us a few talks on belief revision, reputation and
trust in the following weeks. Laurent is also Masabumi's French supervisor.
June 2008.
Dr Yuanlin Zhang from Texas Technology University
is visiting ISL from 1-16 June 2008.
Yuanlin is an outstanding researcher in the areas of
CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problems) and Constraint
Programming. During his visit, Yuanlin has worked with Yan and other ISL members on
logic programming and constraint solving.
February - March 2008.
Professor Michael Thielsher from Dresden University of Technology, Germany visited ISL
from 14 February to 15 March 2008. During his visit, Michael has presented his joint work
with Dongmo about General Game Playing and Agent Negotiation. We also had many valuable
research exchanges and discussions with Michael. Professor Michael Thielsher has visited
ISL a few times in the past, and ISL peolpe also visited his research group. We will
continue these mutual research visits in the furure.
March 2008.
Professoral Torsten Schaub from University of Potsdam, Germany visited ISL from 5 March
5 to 27 March 2008. This is the second time that Professor Schaub visited ISL. During his
visit, Torsten presented his latest work on Answer Set Programming to ISL staff and
students, and specially, he explained some detailed computational techniques he used in
clasp - a conflict-driven system for answer set programming, which is particularly useful
for our PhD students current research.
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