Hoa Khanh Dam (*) Lecturer in Software Engineering Decision Systems Lab School of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Wollongong Northfields Av, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia Email: hoa (at) uow (dot) edu (dot) au (*) I have used Khanh Hoa Dam as my name in some of my publications before 2009   PhD in Computer Science - RMIT University, Australia M.App.Sc. in Information Technology  - RMIT University, Australia Bachelor of Computer Science - University of Melbourne, Australia

I'm interested in using new paradigms and technologies such as intelligent agents to tackle existing issues and challenges in different aspects of software engineering. More specifically, my research interests reside in the following areas:

• Software Maintenance and Evolution
• Change management & inconsistency management
• Model-driven development and evolution
• Agent-oriented software engineering
• Service-oriented engineering
• Business process management
• Software architectures

2012

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Michael Winikoff. Towards a next-generation AOSE methodology. Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier (Accepted, To appear)

• Hoa Khanh Dam and  Aditya Ghose. Dynamic change impact analysis for maintaining and evolving agent systems (extended abstract). Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2012) (To appear).

2011

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. Automated change impact analysis for agent systems. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2011), pages 33 - 42, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 2010, IEEE.

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. An agent-based framework for distributed collaborative model evolution. Proceedings of the 2011 Joint ERCIM/IWPSE Symposium on Software Evolution (the 7th ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution and the 12th International Workshop on Principles on Software Evolution), co-located with  the 19th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2011), pages 121-130, Szeged, Hungary, September 5-6, 2011, ACM 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-0848-9.

• Evan D. Morrison, Aditya K. Ghose, Hoa K. Dam, Kerry G. Hinge, and Konstantin Hoesch-Klohe. Strategic Alignment of Business Processes. The 7th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011) (Post-proceedings to appear in ICSOC  Springer LNCS).

• Tri Kurniawan, Aditya Ghose, Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam. On formalizing inter-process relationships. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Process Model Collections, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 2011.

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Michael Winikoff. An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software maintenance. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 23, issue 3 (2011), pages 384-452 doi:10.1007/s10458-010-9163-0

2010

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Michael Winikoff. Supporting change propagation in UML models. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2010) Timisoara, Romania, September 2010, pages 1 - 10, IEEE.

• Hoa Khanh Dam, Lam-Son Lê and Aditya Ghose. Supporting change propagation in the evolution of enterprise architectures. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC), Vitória, Brazil, October 2010, pages 24 - 33, IEEE.

• Lam-Son Lê, Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. On Business Services Representation – The 3 x 3 x 3 Approach, Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2010), Brisbane, Australia, December 2010, pages 1 - 10, AIS Electronic Library: Australasian (ACIS)
  Smart Services CRC award for track paper with the highest review score

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. Supporting change propagation in the maintenance and evolution of service-oriented architectures. Proceedings of the 17th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Sydney, Australia, December 2010, pages 156 - 165, IEEE Computer Society.

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. Agent-based development for business processes (Early Innovation). The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA-2010), Kolkata, India, November 2010.

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Aditya Ghose. An agent-oriented approach to service analysis and design. International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2010) held at PRIMA 2010, Kolkata, India, November 2010.

• Jantima Polpinij, Aditya K. Ghose and Hoa Khanh Dam. Business Rules Discovery from Process Design Repositories. The 2010 Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Web X.o (WebX 2010). Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), Florida, USA, July 2010, pages 614 - 620, IEEE.

2003 - 2009

• Khanh Hoa Dam. Supporting Software Evolution in Agent Systems. PhD Thesis, 2009. (PDF) (Supervisors: Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham)
  Received RMIT University's letter of commendation  for work “strongly competitive at international levels” based on the external examiners’ recommendation.

• Khanh Hoa Dam and Michael Winikoff. Cost-based BDI plan selection for change propagation. In L. Padgham, D. C. Parkes, J. P. M uller, and S. Parsons, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pages 217-224, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008

• Khanh Hoa Dam and Michael Winikoff. Evaluating an agent-oriented approach for change propagation. In Luck, M., Gomez-Sanz, J.J., eds.: Agent-Oriented Software Engineering IX (9th International Workshop, AOSE 2008 at AAMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-13, 2008 Revised Selected Papers). Volume LNCS 5386 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 159–172. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg (March 2009) .

• Khanh Hoa Dam. An agent-oriented approach to support change propagation in software evolution. In L. Padgham, D. C. Parkes, J. P. Muller, and S. Parsons, editors, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Extended Thesis Abstract for Doctoral Mentoring Program, pages 1736-1737, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008

• Khanh Hoa Dam and Michael Winikoff. Generation of repair plans for change propagation. In M. Luck and L. Padgham, editors, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VIII (8th International Workshop, AOSE 2007 at AAMAS 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected Papers), volume LNCS 4951 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 132-146. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, April 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-79487-5.

• Khanh Hoa Dam, Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham. An agent-oriented approach to change propagation in software evolution. In J. Han and M. Staples, editors, Proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2006), pages 309-318.IEEE Computer Society, 2006. ISBN 0-7695-2551-2. (PDF)
  Best research paper award.

• Khanh Hoa Dam and Michael Winikoff, Comparing Agent-Oriented Methodologies, P. Giorgini et al. (Eds.): Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS) 2003 (5th International Bi-Conference Workshop, AOIS 2003 at AAMAS 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003 and Chicago, IL, USA, October 13, 2003, Revised Selected Papers), Volume 3030 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 78–93, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. (PDF)
  Cited 150 times according to Google Scholar in March 2011.

• Khanh Hoa Dam. Evaluating and Comparing Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Methodologies. Masters thesis, 2003. (PDF) (Supervisors: Michael Winikoff and Lin Padgham)

• Xiaodong Li and Khanh Hoa Dam, Comparing Particle Swarms for Tracking Extrema in Dynamic Environments, in Proceeding of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'03), Canberra, Australia, 8th – 12th December 2003, p. 1772-1779, IEEE.. (PDF)

• Karthikeyan Ponnalagu (PhD) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].
• Gandhi Sivakumar (PhD) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].
• Tiancheng Zhang (Masters) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].
• Evan Morrison (PhD) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].
• Kerry Hinge (PhD) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].
• Jantima Polpinij (PhD) [Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor].

Completed

• Muhammad Qasim (CSCI991 Masters' project, 2010 - 2011).
• Tiancheng Zhang (Summer project, Dec. 2010 - Feb. 2011).

Note

• I've currently got a number of research projects for students who want to apply for doing Honours, Master or PhD studies. CSCI991 projects are also available for UoW Masters students. Contact me by email for further inquiries.
• Research scholarships for Vietnamese students: MOET-VIED - University of Wollongong Joint Scholarships Program for Vietnamese Doctoral Students

• 2011 - 2012: Faculty of Informatics Research Development Scheme Grant
• 2011 - 2012: UIC International Link Grants (with Aditya Ghose) - "Evidence-based innovations in services science: The challenge of service modelling and optimization"
• 2011 - 2012: URC Research Partnerships Scheme (with Aditya Ghose) - "A configurable framework for payment card compliance management".
• 2010 - 2011: Cooperative Research Center (CRC) for Smart Services (with Aditya Ghose) - "Strategic Alignment of Services".
• 2010 - 2011: Faculty of Informatics Dean’s Encouragement Grant  - "Supporting change impact analysis in the maintenance and evolution of intelligent agent systems".
• 2010 - 2011: UIC International Link Grants (with George Zhou) - "Feedback mechanisms in software testing and evolution: an investigation".

@University of Wollongong

@RMIT International University Vietnam

• Member, Organizing Committee, Australian Symposium on Services Innovation, 2011
• Deputy Program Co-chair and Local organizing co-chair, The 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2011).
• Member, Organizing Committee, The Second International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2011)
• Reviewer, Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), 2011.
• Workshop Co-chair, The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2010).
• Member, Organizing Committee, The First International Workshop on Services and Agents (ServAgents 2010)
• Member, Program Committee, The 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2010).
• Member, Program Committee, The 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2010).
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation VII (ABC:MI'10)
• Member, Program Committee, The 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science (CACS 2010)
• Reviewer, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 2010.
• Reviewer, International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering (IJCSSE), 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, The 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006), 2006.

• 2005 - 2009: Software Engineer (part-time) at Exari Systems
• 2003 - 2005: Lecturer at RMIT International University, Vietnam. 
• 2004 - 2005: Technical Architect/Project Manager (part-time) BAO Solutions Co., Ltd.
• 2001 - 2003: Software developer (part-time) at Exari Systems (SpeedLegal rebranded).