Dr. Michael Sheng 


   School of Computer Science

   Faculty of Engineering Computer & Mathematical Sciences
   The University of Adelaide  (founded in 1874)
   Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

   Office: Room 2068, Plaza Building
   Phone: +61 8 8303 4197
   Fax: +61 8  8303 4366
   Email: qsheng[AT]cs[DOT]adelaide[DOT]edu[DOT]au

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Michael Sheng is currently a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Michael holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and did his post-doc as a research scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre. From 1999 to 2001, Sheng also worked at UNSW as a visiting research fellow. Prior to that, he spent 6 years as a senior software engineer in industries.

Sheng has edited four books and published more than 50 refereed technical papers in journals and conferences including VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Computer, IEEE Internet Computing, Communications of the ACM, VLDB, ICDE, ICSE, and CAiSE. He has been invited to serve on organizing and program committees for dozens of international conferences including WWW, ACM SAC, WISE, ICSOC, IEEE ICPADS. He is the program co-chair of IEEE SITIS08, publication chair of WISE05, PDCAT07, and publicity co-chair of ICSOC05, WISE07.  Sheng is the recipient of the Microsoft Research Fellowship (2003-2004) and CSC Fellowship (1999-2000). He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Dr. Sheng welcomes applications from potential Hons/PhD students in his research areas. If you are good (average > 85) and love to do research, please contact him with your resume.  Here is the information for admission and scholarships. Currently, he is supervising a number of research students.

Dr. Michael Sheng is the Chief Investigator of two ARC Discovery Projects: ContextServ and PeerTrack. A PhD topup scholarship is avaliable.

 

 Research Interests

Web services, Business process integration, Service-oriented computing, Data integration, Pervasive computing, Sensor networks

 Selected Publications

  1. Configurable Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Anne H.H. Ngu. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 2 No 1. pp 34-49. January-March 2009 [PDF].
  2. ContextServ: A Platform for Rapid and Flexible Development of Context-Aware Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Sam Pohlenz, Jian Yu, Hoi Sim Wong, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Zakaria Maamar. The 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), May 16-24, 2009, Vancouver, Canada. [PDF, PPT]
  3. RFID Infrastructure Design: A Case Study of Two Australian RFID Projects. John P.T. Mo, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 13 No 1. pp 14-21. Jan/Feb 2009. [PDF]
  4. Enabling Next-Generation RFID Applications: Solutions and Challenges. Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Computer, Vol 41 No 9. pp 21-28. September 2008. [PDF]
  5. User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar. Communications of the ACM (CACM), November, 2008, Vol 51 No 11. pp 130-135.
  6. ContextUML: A UML-Based Modeling Language for Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Web Services, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah.  The 4th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05), IEEE Computer Society. July 11-13 2005, Sydney, Australia. [TALK, PDF]
  7. Enabling Personalized Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Marlon Dumas, and Anne H.H. Ngu. The 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'04), pp 322-337. June 7-11 2004, Riga, Latvia. [TALK, PDF]
  8. The Self-Serv Environment for Web Services Composition, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Marlon Dumas. Jan/Feb, 2003, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 7 No 1, pp 40-48. [PDF]
  9. Declarative Composition and Peer-to-Peer Provisioning of Dynamic Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'02), pp 297-308, San Jose, California, USA, Feb, 2002.  [PDF]
  10. SELF-SERV: A Platform for Rapid Composition of Web Services in a Peer-to-Peer Environment, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Eileen Oi-Yan Mak. The 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'02), Aug 20-23, Hong Kong, China, 2002.    [PPT, PDF]
  11. Combining Multi-Visual Features for Efficient Indexing in A Large Image Database, Anne H.H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Huynh, Ron Lei.  VLDB Journal, Vol 9, No 4, pp 279-293, March 2001.   [PDF]

 Completed list from        My entry at DBLP        Partial citations of my papers in

Teaching

  • COMP SCI 3015A/B: Software Engineering Group Project (Semester 01, 02 2009)
  • COMP SCI 3002/7006: Programming Techniques (Semester 01 2007)
  • COMP SCI 3006/7015: Software Engineering and Project  (Semester 02 2009)
  • COMP SCI 7036: Software Engineering in Industry (Semester 02 2009)
  • COMP SCI 2002: Database and Information Systems (Semester 01 2009)
  • COMP/DEF SCI 7092: Mobile and Wireless Networks (Semester 02 2009)

Recent Professional Services

  • PC member, The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010). Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010
  • PC member, The 21st Australasian Database Conference (ADC'10). Brisbane, Australia, 18-22 January, 2010
  • Guest Editor in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, special issue on "RFID Technology, Systems, and Applications", with Sherali Zeadally, Katerina Mitrokotsa, and Zakaria Maamar, 2010
  • PC member, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE'09). Macau, China, October 21-23, 2009
  • Workshop Co-Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT'09). In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09). Milan, Italy, May 6-7, 2009 [CFP]
  • PC member, The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'09). Bradford, UK, 26-29 May, 2009
  • Program Co-Chair, Web-Based Information Technologies & Distributed Systems (WITDS), The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2008). Bali, Indonesia, Nov 30 - Dec 03 2008
  • PC member, The 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC'08). Sydney, Australia, December 01-05, 2008

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