Prof. Aditya K. Ghose

Professor

Director, Decision Systems Lab


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


Co-Director of the Centre for Oncology Informatics (with Prof. Andrew Miller).

Co-Leader of the University of Wollongong Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative (jointly with A/Prof. Helen Hasan and Prof. Trevor Spedding).

Research Leader ("Strategic Alignment of Services") in the Cooperative Research Center (CRC) for Smart Services.

Co-Coordinator (with A/Prof. Helen Hasan) of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) NSW SIG on Green IT

Vice-President, Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (2010-2011, 2011-2012)

Member, Advisory Council, Association of Certified Green Technology Auditors

Ph.D. in Computing Science
Dept. of Computing Science , University of Alberta

M.Sc. in Computing Science
Dept. of Computing Science , University of Alberta

B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata India .

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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 (Artificial Intelligence Journal, 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 has 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 and the Science Foundation of Ireland. Professor Ghose is a Research Leader in the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Services, Co-Director of the Centre for Oncology Informatics at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, Co-Leader of the University of Wollongong Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative and Co-Convenor of the Australian Computer Society NSW SIG on Green ICT. He is also Vice-President of CORE, Australia's apex body for computing academics.

Awards

Jeffrey Sampson Award (University of Alberta, 1990)

Innovation Awards:

Professional Service Activities

Recent work:

Earlier work:

Research Interests


(NEW: Our latest research on Green BPM at www.greenprocess.org)
(NEW: The University of Wollongong Carbon-Centric Computing Initiative)
I work on services, software engineering and business process management on the one hand and AI on the other. 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 services and 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) "services" and "software engineering" banner includes the following problems:
  • Services engineering, including service optimization, service lifecycle management and compliance issues.
    • I am spending part of my 2010 sabbatical working with services researchers at IBM Research in Bangalore, India.
    • I presented a tutorial on Enterprise Service Architectures (jointly with my student George Koliadis) at IEEE SCC-2008/2008 IEEE Services Congress (where we are also running the SOPOSE workshop jointly with colleagues from Infosys).
    • I was an invited speaker at the 2004 Orkestrate Application Integration and Web Services Conference
    • I am involved with the new CRC for Smart Services (as a key researcher) which has received $62 million in funding.
  • 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
  • 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. Current post-doctoral fellow: Dr. Lam-Son Le.

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

Invited Talks

Contact details

A whimsical bio-sketch

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