SI Yain Whar  池英華 Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. in Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2005)
• M.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau (1997)
• B.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau (1994)

B.Sc. Courses

1. Computers in Modern Society (SFTW100)
2. Programming Science (SFTW120)
3. Algorithms and Data Structure I (SFTW111)
4. Algorithms and Data Structure II (SFTW210)
5. Information Systems Analysis and Design (SFTW351)
6. Artificial Intelligence I (SFTW360)
7. Artificial Intelligence II (SFTW461)
8. Information Security (SFTW498)

M.Sc. Courses

1. Internet Security and Cryptography (IECM009)
2. Principles and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IMSS013)
3. Advanced Topics in Computer Science I (IMSS015)
4. Computer Science Seminars (IMSS005)

Research Groups

Business Intelligence Group

Research Interests

• Business Process Management (Workflow)
• Business Process Intelligence
• Automated Negotiation
• Decision Support Systems

• "Hidden Cluster Detection and Visual Data Mining Framework for Infectious Disease Control and Quarantine Management", RG055/06-07S/SYW/FST, funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau, January 2007 - December 2007, Principal Investigator.
• "Audit Trail Data Management, Intelligent Deadline Escalation, and Exception Prediction in Workflows", RG056/06-07S/SYW/FST, funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau, January 2007 - December 2007, Principal Investigator.
• "Vdeap: Visualization, Detection and Extraction of Suspicious Physical Access Patterns", funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau, March 2005 - August 2006, Co-Principal Investigator.

Journal Papers

1. Si, Y.-W., & Lou., S.-F. (2009). Fuzzy Adaptive Agent for Supply Chain Management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems,  Vol. 7 (No. 2), pp. 173-194, IOS Press.
2. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., Dumas, M., & Chong, C. U. (2007). Strategies in Supply Chain Management for the Trading Agent Competition. Electronic Commerce Research and Application, Vol. 6 (Issue. 4), pp. 369-382, Elsevier.
3. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., Dumas, M., & ter Hofstede, A. H. M. (2007). Specification and execution of composite trading activities. Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 7 (No. 3-4), pp. 221-263, Springer Netherlands. (Extended version is available as a technical report)
4. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., & Dumas, M. (2005). Orchestrating Interrelated Trading Activities. International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), Vol.1(No.1), pp. 12-25.

1. Leong, I.-F., Si, Y.-W., Fong, S., & Biuk-Aghai, R. P. (2009). Critical Path Based Approach for Predicting Temporal Exceptions in Resource Constrained Concurrent Workflows. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Applications of Information Management and Integration in Digital Ecosystems (AIIDE 2009), held in conjunction with The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Accepted.
2. Chan., V.-I., & Si, Y.-W. (2009). Development of an Archival Management Workflow: the Macau Case. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2009), Singapore, Accepted.
3. Pun., K.-I., Si, Y.-W., & Pao, K.-C. (2009). Audit Trail Analysis for Traffic Intensive Web Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence (SOKMBI 2009), held in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, ICEBE '09, pp 577-582, Macau, China, IEEE Press.
4. Leong, I.-F., & Si, Y.-W. (2009). Temporal Exception Prediction for Loops in Resource Constrained Concurrent Workflows. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009), pp. 310-315, Macau, China, IEEE Press.
5. Chan, K.-L., Si, Y.-W., & Dumas, M. (2009). Simulation-based Evaluation of Workflow Escalation Strategies. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009), pp. 75-82, Macau, China, IEEE Press.
6. Fong, S., Si, Y.-W., & Biuk-Aghai, R. P. (2009). Applying a Hybrid Model of Neural Network and Decision Tree Classifier for Predicting University Admission. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information, Communication, and Signal Processing (ICICS2009), Macau, China, Accepted.
7. Si, Y.-W., Leong, K.I., Biuk-Aghai, R. P., & Fong, S. (2009). Hidden Cluster Detection for Infectious Disease Control and Quarantine Management, in Mao Lin Huang, Quang Vinh Nguyen and Kang Zhang (eds.), Visual Information Communication, chapter 10, pp. 159-172, Springer.
8. Biuk-Aghai, R. P., Tang, L. V.-S., Fong, S., & Si, Y.-W. (2009). Wikis As Digital Ecosystems: An Analysis Based on Authorship. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST2009), pp. 228-233, Istanbul, Turkey, IEEE Press.
9. Hang, Y., Fong, S., Si, Y.-W., & Biuk-Aghai, R. P., (2009). Simulating Competition Schemes in Agent-mediated Supply Chain Ecosystems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST2009), pp. 216-221, Istanbul, Turkey, IEEE Press.
10. Leong, K.I., Si, Y.-W., Biuk-Aghai, R. P., & Fong, S., (2009). Contact Tracing in Healthcare Digital Ecosystems for Infectious Disease Control and Quarantine Management. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST2009), pp. 210-215, Istanbul, Turkey, IEEE Press.
11. Pun., K.-I., & Si, Y.-W. (2008). Modelling Support for Simulating Traffic Intensive Web Applications. Proceedings of the International Workshop on E-Commerce, Business, and Services (ECBS 2008), pp. 512-516, Sydney, Australia, IEEE Press.
12. Biuk-Aghai, R. P., Fong, S., & Si, Y.-W. (2008). Design of a Recommender System for Mobile Tourism Multimedia Selection. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet Multimedia Services Architecture and Applications (IMSSA-08), Bangalore, India (ISBN 978-1-4244-2685-0).
13. Si, Y.-W, Yang, Y.-Y., Leong, W.-L., Leong, S.-M., & Wong, C.-I. (2008). Event-driven Elevator Testing, Control, Monitoring, and Maintenance. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), pp. 3564-3569, Singapore, IEEE Press.
14. Yang, Y.-Y., Si, Y.-W, & Leong, W. L. (2008). Data Warehousing Massive Real-time Elevator Signals and Maintenance Records. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2008), Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
15. Pau, K.-C., Si, Y.-W., & Dumas, M. (2007). Data Warehouse Model for Audit Trail Analysis in Workflows. Proceedings of the Student Workshop of 2007 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2007), Hong Kong, China.
16. Yan, P., Biuk-Aghai, R. P., Fong, S., & Si, Y.-W. (2007). Detection of Suspicious Patterns in Secure Physical Environments. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2007), Harbin, China, pp. 40-45, Macquarie Scientific Publishing, Sydney, Australia, (ISBN 0-9803-2671-0).
17. Oliveira, F., & Si, Y.-W. (2006) Strategic Issues in Trading Agent Competition: TAC-Classic. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications (MASeB'06), pp. 518-522, Hong Kong, China, IEEE Press.
18. Lou., S.-F., & Si, Y.-W. (2006). Fuzzy Adaptive Agent for Supply Chain Management. Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06), pp. 313-320, Hong Kong, China, IEEE Press.
19. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., & Dumas, M. & Chong, C. U. (2005). Specification of Composite Trading Activities in Supply Chain Management. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on E-Technology, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE 2005), Hong Kong, China, pp. 315-322, IEEE Press. (Best Student Paper Award)
20. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., & Dumas, M. (2003). Property Propagation Rules for Prioritizing and Synchronizing Trading Activities. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce (CEC 2003), Newport Beach, California, USA, pp. 246-255, IEEE Press.
21. Si, Y.-W., Edmond, D., ter Hofstede, A. H. M., & Dumas, M. (2003). A Model for the Configurable Composition and Synchronization of Complex Trading Activities. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Melbourne, Florida, USA, pp. 595-602, ACM Press.
22. S. Y. Whar and O. Babka. (1998). Neural network supported adaptation in case-based reasoning. Proceeding of the International ICSC/IFAC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC98), Vienna, Austria, pp. 931-936, ISBN 3-906454-14-2.
23. O. Babka, M.I. Vai, and L. Si. (1998). Remote Detection of Solid Objects. Proceedings of Ninth Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (MELCON98), Tel-Aviv, Israel, pp. 449-453, IEEE Press.
24. O. Babka and S. Y. Whar. (1997). Case-based reasoning and decision support systems. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on intelligent Processing Systems (ICIPS97), Beijing, China, pp. 1532-1536, IEEE press.

Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau
Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa,
Macau, China

Room: N404
Telephone: (853) 8397-4454
Fax: (853) 28838314
Email: fstasp
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