Scholarly and Professional Activities
Executive Committee Member:2006 |
The IEEE EDOC “Enterprise Computing,” IEEE Computer Society and Communication Society, USA |
2003 |
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing (TSC-SC), USA |
External Thesis Committee Member:
| 2009 | Invited to examine Master Theses on “Adaptive Bidding Strategies for Combinatorial Auctions” and “Ontology Learning from Folksonomies” by Prof. Ho-Fung Leung, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| 2009 | Invited to examine a Ph.D. Thesis on “Trust Computing” supervised by Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
2008 |
Invited to examine a Ph.D. Thesis on Trust Computing supervised by Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
2007 |
Mr. Ming Gong (Supervisor: Prof. Hassan Naser), "Link-Disjoint Shortest-Delay Path-Pair Computation Algorithms for Shared Mesh Restoration Networks," Master Thesis, Department of Software Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. |
| 2007 | Ms. Julian Sungsuk Jang (Supervisor: Prof. Alan Fekete), "Building Reliable And Robust Service-based Systems for Automated Business Processes," Ph.D. Thesis, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| 2007 | Mr. Sarath Indrakanti (Supervisor: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan), "On Engineering Authorization Systems for Web Services based Service-Oriented Architecture," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| 2004 | Capt. Jason Furlong (Supervisor: Prof. Scott Knight), "Using Aspect-Oriented Software Development to build a Scenario Based Access Control Reference Monitor," Master's Thesis Oral Examination, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
Keynote Speaker :
| 2009 | "How Practical is Zero Tolerance of System Failures?" in the 2009 Canadian Conference on IT Audit Governance and Security, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 6-7, 2009 |
| 2007 | "Privacy Issues in Middleware for Service-oriented Applications," in the 2007 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2007) Workshop, in conjunction with the 11th International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) "The Enterprise Computing Conference", Annapolis, Maryland, October 15-19, 2007 |
| 2006 | "Web Service Composition for E-Commerce: A Security Perspective," the International Summer School: "Track 4 – Technology Platforms for the Extended Enterprise," Ostuni, Italy |
| 2006 | "Web Services Composition for E-Commerce: A Security Perspective," in the Joint Workshop on Cyber Security: Computer Forensics, Wireless Security, e-Commerce Security and Security Infrastructure Development in the Academic and Business Environment (Supported by NSF, FBI, Erie Community College), University at Buffalo, New York, USA, March 31, 2006 |
| 2005 | "An Introduction of Web Services Privacy Issues," Ph.D. course on Business Process Integration, Tilburg University, Enschede, The Netherlands |
Research Proposal Reviewer:
| 2007 | Proposal Reviewer: NSF, NSERC and Research Grants Council (Hong Kong) 2005 Academic Research Project (ARP) - Department of National Defence (DND), Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| 2000 | Panelist and Reviewer: The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA |
Visiting Ph.D. Student Position:
| 1998 | RSA Laboratories West, San Mateo, California, USA (hosted by Dr. James W. Gray. III) |
| 1998 | Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (hosted by Yahiko Kambayashi) |