Gong Zhiguo  鞏志國 Associate Professor Head of Department of Computer and Information Science

• Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, China (1998)
• M,S. in Department of Mathematics, Peking University, China (1988)
• B.S. in Department of Mathematics, Hebei Normal University, China (1983)

B.Sc. Courses

1. Database Systems I (SFTW370)
2. Database Systems II (SFTW371)

1. Current Development in Database (IMSS004)
2. Distributed Database Management (IECM003)
3. Data Warehousing (IECM006)

Research Interests

• Distributed Database Systems
• Multimedia Database Systems
• Digital Library
• Web Information Retrieval
• Web Mining

Current Research Projects

• Information Retrievals over Multiple Sources (April 2002 to April 2004), founded by University Research Committee (RG027/02-03S/GZG/FST)
• WWW Multimedia Resource Discovery and Retrieval (April 2003 to December 2005), founded by University Research Committee (RG064/02-03S/GZG/FST and RG010/04-05S/C63/GZG/FST)
• Web Mining (April 2005 to Dec 2007), founded by University Research Committee (RG084/04-05S/GZG/FST)
• Business Information Retrieval System for the Region of Big China (January 2007 to December 2008), founded by Science and Technology Development Found of Macao Government (044/2006/A)
• Automatic Web Document Classification, (January 2008 to December 2009) founded by University Research Committee (RG066/07-08S/GZG/FST)

Graduates Supervised

• Ao Ieong U, Clustering Users from User Profiles in the Digital Library, graduated in 2002.
• Ho Cheuk Wai, Automatically Organizing Information Resources in WWW, graduated in 2002.
• Zhang Siqi, Knowledge Discovery in Medical Diagnosis Data, graduated in 2005.
• Lei Lin, Intelligent Human Resource Management System, graduated in 2005.
• Li Yong, Topic-Based Segmentation of Web Pages, graduated in 2005.
• Zheng Xin, The Office Automatic System Research Based on Workflow Technology, graduated in 2005.
• U Leong Hou, Web Image Clustering and Retrieval, graduated in 2005.
• Cheang Chan Wa, Web Query Expansion by WordNet, graduated in 2005.
• Chan Mei Pou, iQA: Intelligent Question Answering from the Web, graduated in 2005.
• Liu Qian, Mining the Web to Support Web Image Retrieval and Image Annotation, graduated in 2007.
• Zhang Jingbai, Automatic Hidden-Web Database Classification, graduated in 2007.
• Ngok Man Chan, Log Mining to Support Web Query Expansions, graduated in 2008.
• Lam Man I, Business Information Extraction from Web, graduated in 2008.
• Wang Yi, Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages, 2009.
• Xiao Guangyi, Personalized Scheduling Search Advertisement by Mining the History Behaviors of Users, 2009.
• Yang Yiyang, PAT-Tree and Local Statistical Information Based Chinese Phrase Extraction, 2009.
• Leong Soi Kin, Finding the Item Associations from Daily Transactions of a Campus Canteen, 2009.

1. Zhiguo Gong, Maybin Muyeba and Jingzhi Guo. Business information Query Expansion through Semantic Network. To appear in Enterprise Information Systems, Taylor & Francis.
2. Zhiguo Gong and Qian Liu. Improving Keyword Based Web Image Search with Visual Feature Distribution and Term Expansion. Knowledge and Information Systems,(2009) 21(1):113-132 . Springer-Verlag London. (pdf).
3. Guangyi Xiao, Zhiguo Gong, Jingzhi Guo. Personalized Scheduling Search Advertisement by Mining the History Behaviours of Users. In: Proc. of 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009) (October 21-23 Macau). (pdf)
4. Yi Wang, Zhiguo Gong and Jingzhi Guo. Hierarchical Classification of Business Information on the Web Using Incremental Learning. In: Proc. of 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009) (October 21-23 Macau). (pdf)
5. Jingzhi Guo, Angelina Chow, Zhiguo Gong and Chengzheng Sun. Virtual Wealth Realization in Virtual and Real Worlds. In: Proc. of 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2009) (October 21-23 Macau).
6. Man I Lam, Zhiguo Gong and Jingzhi Guo. Extracting Company Information from the Web. In: Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2009). October 11-14, 2009, Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas, USA. (pdf)
7. Chin-Pang Che, Jingzhi Guo and Zhiguo Gong. Inference on heterogeneous e-marketplace activities. In: Proc. of 2009 IEEE Int'l Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2009) (October 11-14 San Antonio, Texas, USA).
8. Zhiguo Gong, Qian Liu and Jingzhi Guo. Deriving Semantic Terms for Images by Mining the Web. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2009), August 12-15, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. ACM Press, pp. 323-328. (pdf)
9. Jingzhi Guo, Zhuo Hu and Zhiguo Gong. Technical Construction Methods for E-Marketplace. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2009), August 12-15, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan. ACM Press, pp.366-369.
10. Patrick Ngok and Zhiguo Gong. Log Mining to Support Web Query Expansions. In: Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation. June 22 -25, 2009, Zhuhai/Macau, China. pp.375-379.
11. Guangyi Xiao and Zhiguo Gong. Personalized Delivery of On-Line Search Advertisement Based on User Interests. In: Proceedings of the Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2-4 April, 2009, Suzhou, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2009 (pdf).
12. Man I Lam, Zhiguo Gong, and Maybin Muyeba. A Method for Web Information Extraction. In: Proceedings of the 10^th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China, April 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4976, Springer 2008. pp. 383-394. (pdf)
13. Yi Wang and Zhiguo Gong. Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages Using Support Vector Machine. In: Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008, Bali, Indonesia, December 2-5, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5362 Springer 2008. pp. 12-21. (pdf)
14. Zhiguo Gong, Jingbai Zhang, and Qian Liu. Automatic Hidden Database Classification. In: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4702, Springer 2007. pp. 454-461 (pdf).
15. Zhiguo Gong, Jingbai Zhang, and Qian Liu. Hidden-Web Database Exploration. In: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications. October 16-18, 2006. Jinan, China. IEEE Computer Society.
16. Zhiguo Gong, Qian Liu, and Jingbai Zhang. Automatic Image Annotation by Mining the Web. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak 2006). Krakow, Poland, September 4-8, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4081, Springer-Verlag 2006. pp.449-458. (pdf)
17. Zhiguo Gong, Chan Wa Cheang, and Leong Hou U. Mult-Term Web Query Expansion Using WordNet. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006), Krakow, Poland, September 4-8, 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4080, Springer-Verlag 2006. pp.379-388 (pdf).
18. Zhiguo Gong, Qian Liu, and Jingbai Zhang. Web Image Retrieval Refinement by Visual Content. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Web-Aged Information Management. Hong Kong, China, June 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlage. 134-145 (pdf).
19. Zhiguo Gong, Leong Hou U, and Chan Wa Cheang. Web Image Indexing by Using Associated Texts. Knowledge and Information Systems, (2006)10(2): 243-265. Springer-Verlag London. (pdf).
20. Muyeba, M; Sulaiman Khan, M. and Gong, Z. 2006. On Clustering Attribute-oriented Induction. Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII 2006, Springer-Verlag, Bramer, M.; et al (Eds.), pp 403-407.
21. Zhiguo Gong and Mei Pou Chan. iQA: An Intelligent Question Answering System. In: Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Asian Digital Library (ICADL 2005), 12-15 Dec 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer (pdf).
22. Zhiguo Gong, Leong Hou U, and Chan Wa Cheang. Web Image Semantic Clustering. In: Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Ontologies, Database and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2005), Agia, Napa, Cyprus, Oct 31-Nov 4, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer 2005 (pdf).
23. Zhiguo Gong, Chan Wa Cheang, and Leong Hou U. Web Query Expansion by WordNet. In: Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005), Copenhagen, Demark, August 22-26, 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3588, Springer 2005. pp.166-175.(pdf)
24. Man I Lam and Zhiguo Gong. Web Information Extraction. In: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition, June 27- July 3, Hong Kong and Macau, China, IEEE Press. pp.596-601.
25. Miguel Gomes da Costa Junior and Zhiguo Gong. Web Structure Mining: An Introduction. In: Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition, June 27- July 3, Hong Kong and Macau, China, IEEE Press. pp.590-595.
26. Yong Li, Zhiguo Gong, and Ke Qi. Detecting the Content Related Parts of Web Pages. In: Proceedings of IEEE 2005 International Conference on Service Systems and Services Management, June 13-15, 2005, Chongqing, China, IEEE Press. pp.1071-1074.
27. Zhiguo Gong, Leong Hou U, and Chan Wa Cheang. An Implementation of Web Image Search Engines. In: Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Asian Digital Library (ICADL 2004), Shanghai China, December 13-17, 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3334 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-24030-6. pp.355-367.(pdf)
28. Zhiguo Gong, Leong Hou U, and Chan Wa Cheang. Web Image Semantic Extractions from its Associated Texts. In: Proceedings of the 8^th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems, Hawaii, USA, August 16-18, 2004, Acta Press.
29. Zhang Siqi, Zhou Shuwen, Gong Zhiguo, and Dong Mingchui. Knowledge Discovery in Medical Diagnosis Data. Journal of Shenyang University, Vol.16 No.4, 2004. pp.31-34.
30. Zhang Siqi, Gong Zhiguo, and Dong Mingchui. Data Mining for Medical Data Diagnosis. In: Proceedings of 2004 Symposium on Applied Science and Technology in Macau, Nov. 27, 2004, Macau. Pp.178-183.
31. Zhiguo Gong, Jia Zhang. Layered Semantic Architecture of Multimedia Data. In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2003), August 13-15, 2003, Honolulu, USA. ACTA Press. pp.275-280.
32. Zhiguo Gong, Jia Zhang. Global Query Optimizations in a Dynamic Multidatabase Environment. In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2003), August 13-15, 2003, Honolulu, USA. ACTA Press. pp.392-398.
33. Zhiguo Gong, Jia Zhang. Internet Image Indexing and Searching. In: proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 27-30, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA.
34. Jia Zhang, Carl K. Chang, Zhiguo Gong. Analysis of Recent CSCW Work. In: Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, July 27-30, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA.
35. Jia Zhang, Carl K. Chang, Kai H. Zhang, Zhiguo Gong. Computer Supported Cooperative Work Oriented Architecture. In Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP’03), June 23—26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Volume 1. CSREA Press 2003, ISBN 1-932415-19-X. pp.358-364.
36. Jia Zhang, Carl K. Chang, Fancis K.H. Quek, Zhiguo Gong. Formal Collaborative Production Environment. In: Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP’03), June 23—26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Volume 1. CSREA Press 2003, ISBN 1-932415-19-X. pp.305-311.
37.  Jia Zhang, Konstantin Läufer, Zhiguo Gong. Mockup Supporting Web Requirements Engineering. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Computing (IC’03), June 23-26, 2003, Volume 2. CSREA Press 2003, ISBN 1-932415-01-7,Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. pp.684-687.
38. Zhiguo Gong, Longxiang Zhou. Implementing Multimedia Synchronizations with an Agent Model.In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conferences on Applied Modeling and Simulation, November 4—6, 2002, Cambridge, USA, Acta Press. pp.271-276.
39. Ho Cheuk Wai, Gong Zhiguo. Automatically Organizing Information Resources in WWW. In: Proceedings of the 13th Chinese Process Control Conference, July 29-Aug 2, 2002, Macau and Zhuhai, China.pp815-818.
40. Gong Zhiguo, Sio hok Lam, and Io Peng Cheong, Development Environment of Macao E-Ticketing System, In: Proceedings of Macau IT Congress 2002.
41. Gong Zhiguo and Zhou Longxiang, A Dynamic Solution for Document Redundancies in Mutiple Sources, New Technology of Library and Information Service, Vol. 93, 2002. pp. 129-133.
42. Gong Zhiguo, Zhou Longxiang, and Dong Shuzhen, Content-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Objects Related to Domains, Chinese Journal of Computers, Vol.25 No.1, 2002. pp.63-72.
43. Zhiguo Gong, Modeling Electronic Tickets for Events. In:Proceedings of 2001 National Automation and Its Applications Conference, Dec 12—19, 2001, Macao. pp.138-146.
44. Ao Ieong U, Gong Zhiguo. Clustering Users by User Profiles in the Digital Library. In: Proceedings of 2001 National Automation and Its Applications Conference, Dec 12—19, 2001, Macao.  pp.147-151.
45. Gong Zhiguo, Zhou Longxiang, and Dong Shuzhen, Distributed Multimedia Database Systems, Journal of Software, Vol.11, No.1, 2000. pp40-48.
46. Gong Zhiguo, Distributed Database Systems with WWW Assistance, Macau IT'99, 1999.
47. Dong Shuzhen and Gong Zhiguo, Schema Selection of Multimedia Database Systems, Computer Science, Vol.25,No.5, 1998. pp84-85.
48. Gong Zhiguo, Zhou Longxiang and Dong Shuzhen, An Architecture of Multimedia Database Systems, Computer Science, Vol.25, No.6, 1998. pp78-85.
49. Gong Zhiguo and Zhou Longxiang, An Agent Model for Integration of Multimedia Objects Presentation, Journal of Software, No. 1, 1999, pp35-42.
50. Gong Zhiguo and Zhou Longxiang, Analysis and Study of Multimedia Database, In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Future Software Technology, XiaMen, China, 1997.
51. Gong Zhiguo and Zhou Longxiang, Study and Analysis of the Stream Media Database System by Hierarchical Architecture, Advance in Database Research in 1997, In: Proceedings of the 14^th National Conference on Database, 1997, pp710-718.