Prof. Aditya K. Ghose

Professor

Director, Decision Systems Lab

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

Ph.D. in Computing Science (1995)
Dept. of Computing Science , University of Alberta

M.Sc. in Computing Science (1991)
Dept. of Computing Science , University of Alberta

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering (1989)
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta India .

Consulting Hours

Brief Bio

Professor Ghose holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computing Science from the University of Alberta, Canada (he also spent parts of his PhD candidature at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Tokyo) and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. While at the University of Alberta, he received the Jeffrey Sampson Memorial Award. . His research is (or has been) funded by the Australian Research Council, the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Japanese Institute for Advanced Information Technology (AITEC) and various Australian government agencies as well as companies such as Bluescope Steel, CSC, Holocentric and Pillar Administration. His research has been published in the top venues in service-oriented computing (SCC and ICSOC), software modelling (ER), software evolution (IWSSD, IWPSE) and AI (AAAI, AAMAS and ECAI). He has been an invited speaker at the Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar Series in Germany and the Banff International Research Station in Canada. He also been a keynote speaker at several conferences, and program/general chair of several others. He is a senior technical advisor to several companies in the areas of constraint programming and business process management, both in Australia and Canada. He reviews for well-regarded journals such as Artificial Intelligence, the IBM Systems Journal and the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, serves as assessor (Ozreader) for the Australian Research Council and as an external reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

Professional Service Activities

Recent work:

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Research Interests


(NEW: I am looking for several research assistants)
I work both in software engineering and AI. My work in both areas are closely inter-linked. In both areas, my works spans the spectrum from the very formal to the very applied. Some of the work I do in software engineering crosses over into what might be properly described as management, involving issues such as business process management, strategy and strategic alignment. Some of this research could also be characterized as information systems research. Some of the research I do in AI crosses over into operations research, while some other portions intersect with philosophy and cognitive science. Currently, my work under the (very loosely defined and broad) "software engineering" banner includes the following problems:
  • Requirements engineering
  • Model management systems: We're looking at how we might manage large collections of multi-perspective, multi-stakeholder models in a diversity of notations. Some of this work is being done in collaboration with Holocentric, a well-known vendor of modeling and model management tools.
  • Agent-oriented conceptual modeling (particularly in the context of i* and TROPOS). Some of my recent work addresses question relating to how agent-oriented conceptual models co-evolve.
    • NEW:We will be looking at ontology-based re-use in agent-oriented methodologies in an Australian Research Council Discovery project ($350,000 over 3 years). The project will involve my UoW colleague Ghassan Beydoun, as well as Graham Low from UNSW and Brian Henderson-Sellers from UTS.
  • Business process management - in particular managing process lifecycles, regulatory and legislative compliance, business rules and related issues.
    • I presented a keynote address at the Second IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems on "Actor Eco-systems" which explores the dynamics of cross-organizational value chains and how these might be decomposed to obtain cross-organizational process models.
    I've also given recent talks on these topics at:
    • Infosys SETLabs, Bangalore, India (on process change management)
    • IBM Research (on compliance management)
    • Recent talks also at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, the School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China and the School of Computing, National University of Singapore
  • Service-oriented software engineering, including lifecycle management and compliance issues.
  • Rapid Model Discovery (our recent ER-2007 paper describes some of this)
My work in AI includes:
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning, including belief revision, belief merging, default reasoning (including anytime techniques for default reasoning and incrementally learning default theories) and the integration of non-monotonic reasoning and constraint programming techniques.
    • I spoke on a novel twist to the belief merging problem at the Dagstuhl Workshop on belief revision in 2005.
    • I spoke on the Metric Semiring CSP framework at the Banff International Research Station Workshop on the integration of belief revision, constraint programming and operations research.
  • Agent-based systems, specifically constraint-based agent programming languages and extensions to AgentSpeak.
    • My recent invited position paper at the AAMAS-2008 special sessions on the "Future of Software Engineering and Multi-Agent Systems" can be accessed here.
    • I was Program Co-Chair of PRIMA-2007 (it grew large enough to become a conference as opposed to a workshop) and am General Co-Chair of the 2008 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Constraint programming, where a lot my recent work hhas involved:
    • Distributed CSP algorithms, in particular the SBDS algorithm.
    • Semiring CSPs, where we are trying to build a comprehensive suite of solvers.
My research on supply chain management and optimization brings many of these themes together. I'm involved in several projects with Bluescope Steel and other organizations - this is a link to one of these (an older one): Industry collaborative project with BHP-IT(CSC) (ARC SPIRT project). We have completed another ARC Linkage project with Bluescope Steel's Coated Products division, and are engaged in another ARC Linkage project with Bluescope Steel's Hot Strip Mill.

Current Students

Students who are about to graduate

Students who have graduated

Post-Doctoral Fellow

I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Thomas Meyer, Dr. Sergiy Vilkomir and Dr. Richard Booth, who have all been post-docs with me at various points in time.

Teaching Interests

Artificial intelligence, software engineering, supply chain technologies and management, databases.
Autumn 2004 CSCI 370/941 webpage(Advanced AI)
Spring 2003 CSCI 323 webpage(Undergraduate final year AI course)
Autumn 2001 BUSS 315 webpage(Undergraduate final year AI course)
Autumn 1999 BUSS 925 webpage(Coursework Masters AI course)
Spring 2000 BUSS 212 webpage(Undergraduate second year database course)
Spring 2001 BUSS 907 webpage(Postgraduate electronic commerce course)

Publications

Some journal special issues that I have guest-edited:

Recent funding

Some places where I've recently given talks.

Contact details

A whimsical bio-sketch

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