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 - The 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:

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

• Hoa Khanh Dam and Michael Winikoff. Supporting change propagation in UML models. The 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2010), Timisoara, Romania, September 2010 (to appear)

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

• 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). In the proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2010), Florida, USA, July 2010 (to appear).

• 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’ comments.

• 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 130 times according to Google Scholar on 26 November 2009.

• 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)

• I am Kerry Hinge's second supervisor since December 2009 (Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor).

• I am Jantima Polpinij's second supervisor since December 2009 (Aditya Ghose is the primary supervisor).

• 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 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

@University of Wollongong

@RMIT International University Vietnam

• Workshop Co-chairs, 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).
• 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).