Xiaofang Zhou - Professional Activities
Steering Committee Member Asia
Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb) (Chair, 2000-2009)
Executive Committee Member, Web
Information Systems Engineering Society
Editorial Board Member
- VLDB Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- World Wide
Web Journal (published by Springer)
- Journal of Information Processing (published
by Information Processing Society of Japan)
- Encyclopedia
of Database Systems (published in 2008 publication by
Springer)
- Information
Processing Letters (2009-2010, published by Elservier)
- International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and
Management (IJMDEM)
- WISE Book Series, published by
Springer
- Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, an international
journal, Taiwan
- International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS)
- International Journal of Social
Network Mining
Keynote and Plenary Speeches
-
"Location
Significance Ranking from Quality Enhanced Trajectory Data", X. Zhou,
Joint Conference of the Sixth International Conference on Embedded and
Multimedia Computing and the 4th International Conference on
Human-Centric Computing (HumanCom/EMC 2011), August 2011, Enshi, China
- "Data
Management in Open Environment", Taobao Tech Festival, July 2011,
hangzhou, China.
- "Making
Sense of Trajectory Data", X. Zhou, 1st IEEE International Conference
on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services, June 2011,
Fuzhou, China.
- "Fuzzy
Nearest Neighbour Query Processing", X. Zhou and K. Zheng, National
Database Conference of China (NDBC 2010), Beijing, China.
- "Building
the World from Views", X. Zhou and H. Koehler, WAIM 2010, Chengdu,
China
- "Data Quality in Web Information Systems", The 9th International
Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), Sept
2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
- "Content-Based Video Search: is there a need, and is it possible?",
the First International Workshop on Information-explosion and Next
Generation Search (INGS), April 2008, Shenyang, China.
- "Data Quality - The Key Success Factor for Data Driven Engineering",
IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Frontier of Data-Driven Engineering
(FDDE 2007), in conjunction with IFIP International Conference on
Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007), 17-18 September 2007, Dalian,
China.
- "Spatial Databases and their Applications"2001 SIGMOD Japan Annual
Conference, November 2001, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Adding a Spatial dimension to WWW", the 3rd Asia Pacific Web
Conference, October 2000, Xi'an, China.
- "Spatial Internet Marketplaces", the 1st Asian Pacific Web Conference
(APWeb98), September
1998, Beijing, China.
Conference Chairs
- No longer updated since 2009
- [Vice Program Committee Chair] The 25th International Conference on
Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March 2009, Shanghai, China.
- [General Chair] The Joint Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web
Age Information Management (WAIM) Conference, Suzhou, China, 1-3 April,
2009.
- [Tutorial Chair] The 6h International Conference on Service Oriented
Computing (ICSOC 2008), 1-5 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
- [General Chair] The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data
Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008), Chengdu, China, 29-31 July, 2008.
- [Tutorial Chair] The 34th International Conference on Very Large
Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
- [Workshop and Tutorial Chair] The 9th International Conference on Web
Information Systems Engineering (WISE
2008),>Sept 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
- [Workshop Chair] The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering
(ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb
2006), 16 - 18 January, 2006, Harbin, China.
- [General Chair] The First International Conference on Advanced Data
Mining and Applications (ADMA
2005), Wuhan, China, 22 - 24 July, 2005.
- [General Chair, Oceania] Human.Society@Internet
2005 Conference, 27 - 29 July, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
- [Demo Chair] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
(ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 5th International Conference on Web
Information Systems Engineering (WISE
2004),November 2004, Brisbane, Australia.
- [Tutorial Chair] The 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2004),
14-17 April 2004, Hangzhou, China.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 5th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb
2003), 23-25 April 2003, Xi'an, China.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 14th Australasian Database Conference (ADC
2003), 4-7 February 2003, Adelaide, Australia.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 13th Australasian Database Conference (ADC
2002), January 2002, Melbourne, Australia.
- [Tutorial Chair] The 3rd International Conference on Web Information
System Engineering (WISE 2002), December 2002, Singapore.
- [Program Committee Chair] The 6th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on
Visual Database Systems (VDB6),
May 2002, Brisbane.
- [Workshop Chair] The 1st International Conference on Web Information
Systems Engineering (WISE 2000), June 2000, Hong Kong.
Program Committee Membership
- No longer updated since 2009
- The 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009),
24-28 August 2009, Lyons, France.
- The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24
April 2009, Madrid, Spain.
- The 29th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
(SIGMOD 2009), June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.
- The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008),
24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
- The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
(SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada.
- The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25
April 2008, Beijing, China.
- The 27th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD
2007), June 2007, Beijing, China.
- The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007),
April 17-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
- The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006),
April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
- The15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006), May
23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.
- The 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology
(EDBT 2006), 27-31 March, 2006, Munich, Germany.
- The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS 2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
- The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005),
April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Lecturer
- No longer updated since 2009
- VLDB Database School
(China), 2002
- Ewha Womans University (Korea), July 2004
- Tamkang University (Taiwan), May 2006
- Renmin University (China), December 2006
- Nanjing University (China), July 2008
Guest Editor
- Journal of Applied System Studies: Special Issue on "Web Information
Systems Applications", Vol.3, ,No. 2, 2002.
- World Wide Web Journal
Special Issue on "Multimedia information and retrieval", Vol. 6, No.2,
May 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers (with Pearl Pu and Qing Li).
Tutorial Presenter
- (with S. Sadiq and K. Deng) "Research and Practice in Data Quality",
APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China.
- (with H. T. Shen) "Video Sequence Indexing and Retrieval", DASFAA
2006, Singapore
Panelist
- WAIM 2004, April 2004, Hangzhou, China
- ADMA 2005, August 2005, Wuhan, China
- DASFAA 2006, April 2006, Singapore
Visitorship
- 2007 - 2010, Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University, CHina
- 2007 - 2010, Guest Professor, Renmin University, China
- November 2008 - January 2009, Visiting Professor, Nagoya University,
Japan (Host, Prof Yoshiharu Ishikawa)
- December 2007 - January 2008, Distinguished Visiting Professor,
Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
(Host: Prof Mingshu Li and Prof Zhiming Ding)
- May 2006, Visiting Researcher, Wuhan University, China (Host: Prof
Zhiyong Peng)
- Jan - June 2006, Visiting Senior Fellow, School of Computer Systems
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Hosts: A/Prof
Ee Peng Lim) - on sabbatical from UQ
- December 2004, Visiting Professor, Microsoft Research Asia (Host: Dr
Wei-Ying Ma)
- August 2002, Visiting Scholar, Department of System Engineering and
Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Host: Prof
Jeffrey Yu)
- July - December 2002, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Computer
Science, National University of Singapore (Hosts: Prof Beng Chin Ooi and
A/Prof Kian Lee Tan) - on sabbatical from UQ
- August - November 2001, TAO Research Fellow, Institute of Industrial
Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Host: Prof Masaru Kitsuregawa)
- December 2000 - January 2001, Visiting Researcher, The National Key
Lab for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, China (Host:
Prof Guihai Chen)
Other Activities
- November 2004: Microsoft Research Education Summit, Beijing,
China
- June 2006: The Greater China Database Summit, Hong Kong, China
Reviewer
- Australian Research Council (Large Grants) since 1995
- External Ph.D. and MSc. theses reviewer for many Universities in
Australia and overseas
- Regular reviewers for a number of Australian and international
journals, conferences and publishers