Active Media Technology

Dr. Jiming Liu is the Head of Computer Science Department at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He leads the AAMAS/AOC Research Group (i.e., Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems / Autonomy-Oriented Computing) at HKBU. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics from East China Normal University in Shanghai, an M.A. degree in Educational Technology from Concordia University in Montreal, and an M.Eng. and a Ph.D. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. In Feb.-July 1999, Dr. Liu was an invited Visiting Scholar in Computer Science Department, Stanford University, where he was associated with the AI & Robotics Laboratory and taught advanced graduate classes on topics related to Robot Learning, Neural Robots, and Evolutionary Robotics. He is Guest Professor at University of Science and Technology of China, East China Normal University (Software Engineering Institute), and Beijing University of Technology, as well as Adjunct Fellow at E-Business Technology Institute (ETI - a joint partnership institute between IBM and University of Hong Kong). Dr. Liu is the co-founder of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), an international organization dedicated to promoting world-wide scientific research and industrial development in the era of Web and agent Intelligence. He has founded andserved, or is serving, as Program, Conference, Workshop, and General Chairs for several international conferences and workshops, including The IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) series and The IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT) series, and is presently serving as the Senior Program Committee Member, Program Committee Member, and Steering/Planning Committee Member for many major international conferences.

Keynote Presentations.- Intelligent Adaptive Interface.- Digital City: Bridging Technologies and Humans.- Detection, Recognition, and Expression Analysis of Human Faces.- Digital Interactivity: Human-Centered Robotics, Haptics, and Simulation.- Smart Digital Media.- Smart Media: Empower Media with Active Data Hiding.- Congestion Prospect of Network Traffics by Fluctuation of Internet Transmission Time.- Naturalistic Human-Robot Collaboration Mediated by Shared Communicational Modality in Teleoperation System.- Web Personalization.- Web Personalization Techniques for E-commerce.- A Shopping Negotiation Agent That Adapts to User Preferences.- Combining Meta-level and Logic-Based Constructs in Web Personalization.- Web Personalisation - An Overview.- Business-Oriented Web Personalization: A Decision-Making Approach.- A Personalized Interface Agent with Feedback Evaluation.- Active Interfaces.- VHML - Directing a Talking Head.- Believable and Interactive Talking Heads for Websites: MetaFace and MPEG-4.- Building Multi-modal Personal Sales Agents as Interfaces to E-commerce Applications.- Feature vs. Model Based Vocal Tract Length Normalization for a Speech Recognition-Based Interactive Toy.- A Genetic Algorithm Based Approach to the Synthesis of Three Dimensional Morphing Sequences.- Autonomous Agent Approaches.- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ANT-BASED OPTIMIZATION FOR DYNAMIC ROUTING.- What Kind of Cooperation Is Required by Situated Agents? The Principle of Situated Cooperation.- A Fault-Tolerant Scheme of Multi-agent System for Worker Agents.- Decentralized Control of Multi-agent Systems Based on Modal Logics and Extended Higher Order Petri Nets.- Facial Image Processing.- An Improved Foreground Extraction Approach.- Object Detection Simulating Visual Attention.- Fast Face Detection Using Neural Networks and Image Decomposition.- Modeling of Facial Expressions Using NURBS Curves.- AMT-Supported Commerce,Business,Learning,and Health Care.- Evolutionary Negotiation in Agent-Mediated Commerce.- Optimizing Agent-Based Negotiations with Branch-and-Bound.- Engineering Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction Agents for Multi-user Timetable Scheduling.- An XML-Based Distance Learning System Capable of Conveying Information on "LECTURE EVENT".- An Authoring Tool for Building Adaptive Learning Guidance Systems on the Web.- A Framework of Caring Interaction by a Network Model of Client's Concepts Based on a Nursing Theory and Naive Psychological Approaches.- Tools and Techniques.- Parallel Design Based on Neural Network.- Fair Play Protocol.- Collaborative Filtering Methods for Binary Market Basket Data Analysis.- An Implementation and Design of COMOR System for OOM Reuse.- Automatic Aircraft Recognition Using Maximum Likelihood Ratio Test.- Algorithms.- A Machine Learning Algorithm Based on Supervised Clustering and Classification.- Visualization of a Parallel Genetic Algorithm in Real Time.- The Rise and Fall of Napster - An Evolutionary Approach.- On the Elaboration of Hand-Drawn Sketches.- The Introduction of Three Methods Generating Stereoscopic Image1.- Kansei-Oriented Image Retrieval.- ICSPACE - An Internet Cultural Space.