Decision Support Laboratory

Date: Friday, 30 July 2010
Time: 10:00 am onwards
Title: On Non-Intrusive Workload-Aware Database Replication
Speaker: Dr. Vaide Narvaez
Venue: PC302, Graduate Building, Mae Khao Campus

In the coming DSL seminar, Dr. Vaide Narvaez will give a talk on ‘On Non-Intrusive Workload-Aware Database Replication’.

Abstract: Performance and high-availability are the crucial factors in the development of nowadays distributed database systems. Both of these challenges are commonly addressed by means of the same technique, database replication. The overall throughput of the system is increased by leveraging parallel computation on different sites, and in case of replica failures, availability is improved by redirecting requests to operational replicas. However, providing transparent database replication is not an easy task. Although database replicas should be as independent of each other as possible for performance and availability reasons, some synchronization is required to provide data consistency.

This talk will present a short introduction to database replication with a particular interest on non-intrusive (or middleware) database replication protocols. More specifically, this talk will be on the development of practical replication protocols that use off-the-shelf database engines, take advantage of group communication primitives, cope with failures of system components, behave correctly, and, by exploiting the specific characteristics of the application, achieve high performance.

Date: Friday, 14 May 2010
Time: 1:00 pm onwards
Title: Child IT Professional
Speaker: Aj. Thoranin Intarajak
Venue: PC302, Graduate Building, Mae Khao Campus

In the coming DSL seminar, Aj. Thoranin will give a talk on ‘Child IT Professional in Rural Area’. He will discuss about a children in rural area, IT in rural area and research works in details. The talk will be based on the following topics.

1.) Artificial Intelligence (AI): Agent Technology, Belief Revision,
2.) Data Mining, Decision Support Systems (DSS)
3.) Management in IT: Knowledge Management (KM), ICT Governance, IT Project Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM)
4.) Open Innovation: Creative Thinking Techniques and Skills

Speaker’s Bio:
Thoranin Intarajak (M.Sc., King Mongkut’s University of Technology North
Bangkok) is a lecturer in the department of Computer Information Systems, Faculty of Science at Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
His recent works include a rural clinical decision support system and breast cancer diagnosis. He is interested in the following research areas:
- Decision Support Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Graphics/Image Processing

In the coming DSL seminar, Dr. Seung Hwan Kang will give a talk on ‘Research at DSL’. He will discuss about a research group briefly, and research works in details.

• Date: Friday, 12th February 2010
• Time: 12:00 pm onwards
• Title: Research @ DSL
• Speaker: Dr. Seung Hwan Kang (Computer Information Systems)

We all congratulate Thai Personal Health Record System (TPHR-S) project team. The team has been working on a TPHR-S. The team submitted a project proposal to the ITPRINCESSAWARD competition on 30th October 2009. Their project is successfully qualified for the first roundup of the competition among the top competing national teams by 15th January 2010. The team is now working for the next roundup of the competition in Bangkok on Saturday, 20th February 2010.

We are happy to inform you that your paper entitled 0002 :
INFORMATION SHARING AND REUSE IN E-KM USING THE SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY, submitted to iNCEB2009, has been accepted for inclusion in the proceedings.

Your paper has been accepted as Oral [presentation]

For oral presentation, the author is required to be presented in the
scheduled session.The presentation is about 20 mins.

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INFORMATION SHARING AND REUSE IN E-KM USING THE SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY

¹Seung Hwan Kang, ²Jira Yammeesri, ³Sim Kim Lau

Computer Information Systems, Payap University, Chiang Mai, 50000, Thailand
School of Accountancy, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand
School of Information Systems and Technology, University of Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
¹seung_h@payap.ac.th, ²jira_yam@utcc.ac.th, ³simlau@uow.edu.au

ABSTRACT

e-KM is the electronic knowledge management system that enables sharing of corporate knowledge in an organization. Due to globalization, organization often faces with sharing of corporate knowledge in different locations. It is not an easy task to maintain and update distributed knowledge in a timely manner in a rapidly changing environment. This paper proposes the application of the Semantic Web technology, in particular the use of ontology, as a means for knowledge representation that allows standardization of concepts and terms used by community of users in the e-KM environment. This way human users as well as software agents can communicate with each other based on a standardized list of vocabularies.

The 8th International Conference on e-Business 2009 (iNCEB2009)

http://inceb2009.su.ac.th/index.php

We are glad to inform you that your paper:

Paper ID: 3
Paper Title: To Provide Guidelines for Designing New Mediation Tools and Identifying Matching Technique – A Classification Framework Approach
Authors: Nelson Leung, Sim Kim Lau, Joshua Fan, Seung Hwan Kang and Nicole Tsang

has been accepted as a full paper at the 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009).

You should refer to the comments of the reviewers, which will be sent in a separate email shortly, to assist you in preparing the final version of your paper for publication.

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM with the ISBN 978-1-60558-660-1 and will be available during the conference. Selected papers will be further considered for publication in five special issues of international journals.

The acceptance of your paper at iiWAS2009 is a big achievement since we got a large number of submissions this year most are of a high quality. This year acceptance rate for full papers is 32%.

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Thank you and congratulations for your contribution to iiWAS2009 !

See you in Kuala Lumpur in December,

David Taniar and Eric Pardede
on behalf of the program committee
Ismail Khalil
on behalf of the steering committee

The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2009)

http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2009/index.php

The workshop on “Intellectual Property Management for Innovative Business” organized by the National Innovation Agency (NIA) from the Ministry of Science and Technology with the Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Chiang Mai on 26 March 2009. Talks include the issues on innovation, research and development, intellectual property assets, the Innovation Development Fund (the agenda in Thai). Thoranin Intarajak (right), Dr. Seung Hwan Kang, Prakarang Sa-ngamatong, Kedwajee Rungson, (left) attended it as a part of the GCCD project activity – Photo.

The paper entitled “Ontology Matching Techniques: a 3-tier classification framework” and “Breast Cancer Decision Support System for Rural People” were accepted for the International Conference on IT 2009. It will be published in Special Issue of the International Journal of the Computer, the Internet and Management (IJCIM), visit the conference website at http://www.charm09.com.

The paper entitled “Towards Sustainable e-Tourism: Using ICT, KM and CG” was accepted for the International Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management 2009. It will be published as part of the conference proceedings. For more information on the conference, visit the conference website at http://www.tourism.mju.ac.th/index.html.

Date: Friday, 19th December 2008
Time: 12:30 pm onwards
Title: Rural Clinical Decision Support System
Speaker: Thoranin Intarajak
Venue: Training Room on the 2nd floor of Library building, Payap University – Mae Khao Campus

The Decision Support Laboratory (DSL) invites you to the DSL seminar series involving talks by invited speakers followed by informal discussion.

In the coming DSL Seminar, Thoranin Intarajak will present his research works on Rural Clinical Decision Support System.

Dr. Seung Hwan Kang also briefly gives a talk on his paper presented in the 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT2008). They will report the Green Computer Case Design (GCCD) project presented for the final round of the IT Princess Award competition in Bangkok on 22nd Nov. 2008.