Dr Chris Ling - Researcher Profile

Biography

Dr Sea (Chris) Ling works in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer.

Keywords

Computational logic and Formal languages, Frontier technologies, Mobile Web services, Mobile technologies, Ubiquitous Computing, Web technologies

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2006

PHD IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1999

MASTER OF COMPUTING

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1992

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMPUTING STUDIES

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1990

BACHELOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Institution: National University of Singapore, Singapore

Year awarded: 1988

Publications

Books

Ling, S., Schmidt, H.W., 2000, A Concept of Time in Workflow Modelling and Analysis, SCSSE Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia.

Ling, S., Schmidt, H., 1997, Using a notion of safety in petri nets to analyse real-time systems, Dept of Software Development, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Chang, C., Ling, S., Krishnaswamy, S., 2010, Research challenges in mobile web services, in Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies, eds Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu and Schahram Dustdar, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL USA, pp. 495-519.

Journal Articles

Loke, S.W., Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., Leung, E.W.T., 2011, Q-Aura: A quantitative model for managing mutual awareness of smart social artifacts, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans. [P], vol 41, issue 1, Insitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 161-168.

Draman Muda, N.A., Wilson, C.C., Ling, S., 2009, Bio-inspired audio content-based retrieval framework (B-ACRF), Proceedings of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology [P], vol 53, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Turkey, pp. 791-796.

Loke, S.W., Smanchat, S., Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., 2008, Formal mirror models: An approach to just-in-time reasoning for device ecologies, International Journal of Smart Home, vol 2, issue 1, Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Daejon Republic of Korea, pp. 15-31.

Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., Loke, S.W., 2007, RFID-based user profiling of fashion preferences: blueprint for a smart wardrobe, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, vol 2, issue 3/4, Inderscience Enterprises, United Kingdom, pp. 153-164.

Conference Proceedings

Chang, C., Srirama, S., Ling, S., 2012, An adaptive mediation framework for mobile P2P social content sharing, Service-Oriented Computing: 10th International Conference, Proceedings, 12 November 2012 to 15 November 2012, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 374-388.

Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., Enticott, C.M., Abramson, D.A., 2011, A scheduler based on resource competition for parameter sweep workflow, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science, 01 June 2011 to 03 June 2011, Elsevier, Amsterdam Netherlands, pp. 176-185.

Chang, C., Ling, S., Krishnaswamy, S., 2011, ProMWS: Proactive mobile web service provision using context-awareness, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 21 March 2011, IEEE, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 69-74.

Wibisono, W., Zaslavsky, A., Ling, S., 2010, CoMiHoC: A middleware framework for context management in MANET environment, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 20 April 2010 to 23 April 2010, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 620-627.

Wibisono, W., Ling, S., Zaslavsky, A., 2010, Collaborative context management framework for mobile ad hoc network environments, Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 22 March 2010 to 26 March 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 558-562.

Draman Muda, N.A., Wilson, C.C., Ling, S., 2010, Modified AIS-based classifier for music genre classification, Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 09 August 2010 to 13 August 2010, International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Canada, pp. 369-374.

Chang, C., Ling, S., 2010, Towards an infrastructure-less SOA for mobile web service composition, Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Services, 13 July 2010 to 15 July 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 180-185.

Wibisono, W., Ling, S., Zaslavsky, A., 2009, A context middleware framework for managing context in mobile ad hoc network environment, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, 18 May 2009 to 20 May 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 299-304.

Wibisono, W., Zaslavsky, A., Ling, S., 2009, Improving situation awareness for intelligent on-board vehicle management system using context middleware, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 03 June 2009 to 05 June 2009, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piscataway NJ USA, pp. 1109-1114.

Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., Enticott, C.M., Abramson, D.A., 2009, Scheduling multiple parameter sweep workflow instances on the grid, Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science, 09 December 2009 to 11 December 2009, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos CA USA, pp. 300-306.

Smanchat, S., Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., 2008, A survey on context-aware workflow adaptations, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, 24 November 2008 to 26 November 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 414-417.

Leung, E.W.T., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., 2008, Toward a model of service interaction enabler in mobile environment, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation, 22 April 2008, The Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 1-8.

Chang, C., Ling, S., 2008, Towards a context-aware solution for device failures in service-oriented workflow, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, 24 November 2008 to 26 November 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 77-83.

Dawson, L.L., Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., Weeding, S., Fernando, J.I.E., 2008, Towards a framework for mobile information environments: A hospital-based example, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, 24 November 2008 to 26 November 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, New York NY USA, pp. 490-494.

Wibisono, W., Zaslavsky, A., Ling, S., 2008, Towards a service-oriented approach for managing context in mobile environment, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), 1 December 2008 to 5 December 2008, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 210-224.

Loke, S.W., Ling, S., Indrawan, M.T., Kurniati, S., 2007, Adaptive workflows for smart devices: A concrete approach towards device failures, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 12 June 2007 to 16 June 2007, INSTICC, Portugal, pp. 191-197.

Kodikara Edirisinghe, K.A.P., Ling, S., Zaslavsky, A., 2007, Evaluating cross-layer context exchange in mobile ad-hoc networks with colored petri nets, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services, 15 July 2007 to 20 July 2007, IEEE Computer Society Press, The United States, pp. 173-176.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., Indrawan, M.T., 2007, Towards a model of interaction for mutual aware devices and everyday artifacts, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2007), 11 July 2007 to 13 July 2007, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Germany, pp. 184-194.

Indrawan, M.T., Loke, S.W., Ling, S., Samara, F., 2007, Unobtrusive user profiling: the use of RFID to create a smart wardrobe, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges IWRT 2007, 12 June 2007, INSTICC Press, Portugal, pp. 3-13.

Smanchat, S., Indrawan, M.T., Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2005, Asynchronous and synchronous communications in Petri nets for run-time analysis of a device ecology, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services, 19/9/2005 to 21/9/2005, Austrian Computer Society, Vienna Austria, pp. 1113-1123.

Loke, S.W., Ling, S., Butler, G., Gillick, B.J., 2005, Levels of abstraction in programming device ecology workflows, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 25 May 2005 to 28 May 2005, INSTICC Press, Setubal Portugal, pp. 137-144.

Shiang, C.W., Loke, S.W., Krishnaswamy, S., Ling, S., 2004, Adding flexibility to a room booking system using argumentation-inspired negotiations as mediated by mobile agents, Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 20 September 2004 to 24 September 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 401-404.

Vaile, S., Ling, S., Zaslavsky, A., 2004, SoundHunter: towards a context-aware mobile agent system, Proceedings of the 3rd Asian International Mobile Computing Conference, 26 May 2004 to 28 May 2004, Kasetsart University, Bangkok Thailand, pp. 84-88.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2003, A component-based approach to modelling interaction protocols for multiagent systems, Proceedings of the Seventh World Conference on Integrated & Process Technology, 03 December 2003 to 06 December 2003, Society for Design and Process Science, USA, pp. 1161-1167.

Ling, S., Poernomo, I.H., Schmidt, H.W., 2003, Describing web service architectures through design-by-contract, Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2003), 3 November 2003 to 5 November 2003, Springer-Verlag, NY USA, pp. 1008-1018.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2003, Engineering multiagent systems based on interaction protocols: a compositional Petri net approach, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 23 April 2003 to 26 April 2003, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setubal, Portugal, pp. 42-48.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2003, MIP-nets: a compositional model of multiagent interaction, Proceedings of the 3rd International Central and Eastern European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (CEEMAS 2003): Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III, 16 June 2003 to 18 June 2003, Springer-Verlag, NY USA, pp. 61-72.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2002, Advanced petri nets for modelling mobile agent enabled interorganizational workflows, Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 08 April 2002 to 11 April 2002, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 245-252.

Ling, S., Loke, S.W., 2001, Verfication of itineraries for mobile agent enabled Interorganizational Workflow, Proceedings of the12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 03 September 2001 to 07 September 2001, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 582-586.

Loke, S., Ling, S., 2000, Mobile Agent Itineraries and Workflow Nets for Analysis and Enactment of Distributed Business Processes, Proceedings of the International ICSC Symposium on Multi-Agents and Mobile Agents in Virtual Organizations and E-Commerce (MAMA '2000), Wollongong NSW Australia, 11-15 December 2000, ICSC Academic Press, Wetaskiwin Canada, pp. 459-466.

Ling, S., Schmidt, H., Fletcher, R., 1999, Constructing Interoperable Components in Distributed Systems, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS 32), Melbourne AUSTRALIA, November 22-25, 1999, IEEE, Inc., New Jersey USA, pp. 274-284.

Ling, S., Schmidt, H., 1997, Using a safety notion in petri nets to analyse real-time systems, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Software Engineering, San Fransisco, 2-4 November, IASTED, Anaheim USA, pp. 344-350.

Other

Butler, G., Ling, S., Mingins, C.A., 2002, A Formalization of the Common Type System and CLS Rules of ECMA Standard 335: "Common Language Infrastructure", SCSSE Monash University, Vic Australia, pp. 1-159.

Loke, S.W., Ling, S., 2001, Itinerary-Centred Programming of Mobile Agent Applications, SCSSE Monash University, Vic Australia, pp. 1-19.

Teaching Commitment

Dr Chris Ling is the Chief Examiner for the following unit/s in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT2034 - Computer programming 2
• FIT5042 - Enterprise application for web development
• FIT5170 - Programming for distributed, paralllel and mobile systems

Chris teaches the following units in the Faculty of IT;

• FIT2034 - Computer programming 2

Activities

Education

Course Director
Master of Applied Information Technology (MAIT)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Course Director
Master of Information Technology (MIT)
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University

Faculty academic committee

Member
Graduate Programs Committee
Monash

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Rule-based context-aware solution for user preference in smart environments.

Supervisors:

Ling, S (Main), Krishnaswamy, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Fan, Y.

Program of Study:

User Acceptance Model Driven Design. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Ling, S (Joint), Srinivasan, B (Joint-Co).

Student:

Smanchat, S.

Program of Study:

Scheduling parameter sweep workflow in the grid. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Indrawan, M (Joint), Ling, S (Joint-Co).

Student:

Wibisono, W.

Program of Study:

Context management and situation reasoning for ubiquitous applications in mobile peer-to-peer environments. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ling, S (Joint-Co), Zaslavsky, A (Joint).

Student:

Xia, N.

Program of Study:

Towards a Real-Time System Test Specification based on the UML 2.0 Testing Profile. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Ling, S (Main), Ramakrishnan, S (Associate).