Address	School of Computing – National University of Singapore 10 Kent Ridge Crescent – Singapore 119260 Phone: +65 874 3543 Fax: +65 779 4580
Email	steph@nus.edu.sg
Biography	Dr. Stephane Bressan is a Visiting Fellow in the Computer Science Department of the National University of Singapore. He graduated from the Ecole Universitaire des Ingenieurs de Lille, France, in Electrical Engineering and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lille. From 1990 to 1996 he worked as a Researcher at the European Computer-industry Research Centre of Bull, ICL, and Siemens in Munich, Germany. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Research Associate at M.I.T's Sloan School of Management.     Dr. Bressan's main areas of research are the integration of heterogeneous information systems, the design and implementation of deductive, object-oriented, and constraint databases, and the architecture of distributed information systems. From 1994 to 1995, he was ECRC's site leader of the European Esprit project IDEA on DOOD technology. His work has been published and presented at various occasions including the 1995 G7 summit on the Information Society, the 1995 and 1997 SIGMOD conference on the management of data, and the 1996 conference on Extending database Technology.

 
 
 

 

Address	Computer Science and Information Management Program Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, THAILAND Phone: +66 2 524 6576; Fax: +66 2 524 5721
Email	ad@cs.ait.ac.th
Biography	Dr. Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. The topic of his research was combining concurrent logic programming and object oriented programming functionality into a single language model.     He subsequently worked in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, and moved to Thailand in 1997. He has taught at Prince of Songkla University and the Asian Institute of technology.     His research interests include the integration of logic programming with the Web/Internet. One major outcome of this is joint work with Seng Wai Loke on LogicWeb. The LogicWeb approach has been applied to such topics as semantic information clustering, Web security, and concurrent Web processing. Dr. Davison is also interested in software visualization and computer humor.

 
 
 

 

Address	Eindhoven University of Technology The Netherlands Phone: +31-40-2473705 Fax: +31-40-2463992
Email	dignum@win.tue.nl
Biography	Dr. Frank Dignum's main interests lay in the area of formal modeling communication and social relations. The use of several modal logics is of prime importance in this research. The results are applied in the area of electronic commerce and agent communications. Frank Dignum got his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Free University of Amsterdam. After this he set up the Computer Science department of the University of Swaziland. After one year in the AI department of the Technical University of Lisbon he is now working at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

 
 
 

 

Address	Department of Electrical Engineering Gadjah Mada University - Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62-274-510983 (office) +62-818262417 (Cellular) Fax: +62-274-902200
Email	ismail@te.ugm.ac.id
Biography	Ismail Khalil Ibrahim got his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology (Iraq) and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and Information systems from Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia). Ismail's main interests lay in the area of I-Commerce (tools for gathering, indexing, filtering, sharing or redistributing information available on the Internet), Multimedia Information Systems, Constraint Logic programming, E-Commerce and E-Business, Web-Based Applications and Services, Knowledge Sharing and Heterogeneous Database Integration, Information Systems Management and Development, Information Technology: Impact, Economic Analysis, Intelligent Agents for Information Retrieval. Currently, he is a research and teaching position at the Database and Logic Programming Group at Gadjah Mada University and Overseas Collaborator in E-commerce Lab at the National University of Singapore. He conducts research in Database Systems, Database Query Optimization, Multimedia Information Integration, Intelligent Information Agents, Logic Programming, Mediation Based Distributed Heterogeneous Database Systems. collaborates with Stephane Bressan and F. Soesianto on IKA information mediation network.project.

 

 
 
 

Address	Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, Science University of Tokyo 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Fax : +81-3-3260-4772
Email	yoshie@ap.kagu.sut.ac.jp
Biography	Education and Degrees: 1982: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree, Waseda University 1987: Doctor of Engineering Degree, Waseda University     Awards: 1985: SICE Young Author's Prize, The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers 1990: IEE Japan Academic Promotion Award - Distinguished Paper Award, The Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan 1990: The ODAIRA MEDAL, Hitachi, Ltd. 1996: SOPEJ Distinguished Paper Award, The Society of Plant Engineers Japan Memberships: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) The Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan (IEE Japan) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers The Society of Plant Engineers Japan Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence Prolog Association of Japan Contribution to Institutes and Societies: He is now a Steering Committee member of REOIST(Research and Education Organization of Information Science and Technology) in the Science University of Tokyo. He is also a member of Steering Committee of IEE Japan (Institute of Electrical Engineers Japan) and Editorial Committee of the Society of Plant Engineers Japan. He is the representative of Prolog Association of Japan. He took chairs of the 11th and the 12th International Conference on Applications of Prolog (INAP'98 and INAP'99). And he has just started his activity for next year's INAP as the program chairman. Principal Research Field: His main interests are human-computer communication, image understanding, and virtual space technologies on the Internet. Now he is constructing a platform of "virtual laboratory" in FRCCS(Frontier Research Center for Computational Sciences) of Science University of Tokyo, where an environment of parallel computation and visualization is available. In this circumstance his main task is to realize object-oriented or constraint logic based dynamic simulation and to propose a new data representation for it. On the other hand his interest is extended to more industrial one. His current projects are "IMS IRMA project" that is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality in manufacturing, and "virtual community project for plant engineers" which will be presented in IIWAS'99.

 
 
 

 

Address	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne 3001, Australia Phone: +61 3 9925 2544(office) : +61 3 9561 9793(home) Fax: +61 3 9662 1617
Email	rama@cs.rmit.edu.au
Biography	Dr. Ramakrishna obtained M.E. from Indian Institute of Science, M.Math and Ph.D. in computer science from University of Waterloo, Canada. He is at the Department of Computer Science, RMIT since 1994 and will be moving to Monash University, Melbourne from January 2000. Earlier he was working at the Michigan State University, USA.     His present research is concerned with image and multimedia databases and file structures. He is working on modeling, querying and indexing of image databases, join algorithms, high dimensional indexing. His earlier work on hashing and file structures is well recognized.     He has published over 30 technical papers in ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, Comm. of ACM etc. journals, and ACM SIGMOD, ACM PODS, IEEE ICDE etc. Conferences. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Database Management. He has been on program committees of VLDB Conference(1995), IEEE Data Engineering Conference(1990,91,93), International Conference on Foundations of Data Organisation(1993).

 

 

Address	Computer Science and Information Management Programs School of Advanced Technology, Asian Institute of Technology P.O Box 4, Klong Luang 12120, Thailand Phone : (66-2) 524-5702, 524-5785, 524-5906(H), Fax: (66-2) 524-5721
Email	sada@cs.ait.ac.th, sada@ait.ac.th, r.sadanada@ieee.org
Biography	Pr. Ramakoti Sadananda is Professor of Computer Science at the School of Advanced Technologies, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India.     After a M.E and B.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roorkee, India, in 1969 and from the The University of Mysore, Surathkal, India, in 1967, respectively, he obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1977.     Ramakoti Sadananda was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U.S.A, in 1978-79. He taught and conducted research in various institutions including the Indian Institute of Technology (1969-74), the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, (1974), the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (1974-85), the National Institute for Science, Technology and Development Studies at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India (1984), and the Thammasat University, Thailand, (1996).     He was a visiting academic at the Laboratory for Information Systems, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, (1991), Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, (1992), the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (1997), and the Curtin University, Western Australia (1997), the University of Paris VI, France (1997).     He joined the School of Advanced Technologies at the Asian Institute of Technology in 1988. From 1988 to 1990 he was Chief Technical Advisor and Trainer (UNDP) of the project (RAS/88/002) on Computing for the Least Developed Countries. He occasionally works on short contracts for ESCAP, UNESCO, and UNIDO.     Prof. Ramakoti Sadananda’s research interest cover many areas of computer science and, in particular, Artificial Intelligence: evolutionary computing, relationships between symbolic AI and neural networks, multi-agent paradigms, self-organisation schemes, software re-use, genetic algorithms, epistemology of computer science, blackboard architectures and mechanical proof procedures. He is also more generally interested in the strategies, and policies for the transfer and deployment of information technologies in industry, tele-medicine, curriculum development in Computer Science, and education in developing countries.     Prof. Ramakoti Sadananda is the author and co-author of more than 100 articles in international journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books and proceedings. Finally he gave numerous invited lectures and keynote speeches at international events around the world.     Prof. Ramakoti Sadananda is a member or committee member of several national and international professional societies such as the International Neural Network Society, the Association for Computing machinery (ACM), or the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.     He is a member of the organising committee of the HUMUS Workshop on Software Tools for Land Management, (2000), the IFIP WG 9.4, Working Conference on Implementation and Evaluation of Information Systems in Developing Countries (1998), the International Working Conference on Restructuring Strategies for Information Industry –Advances in Technology, Emerging Markets and Investment Opportunities (1995), the Second International Conference on Expert Systems for Development (1994), the International Conference on Expert System for Development, (1989). In addition to his contribution to numerous national events, he is a member of the program committees of several major international conferences such as the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the IEEE Conference on Multimedia Systems, or the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

 
 
 

 

Address	Department of Electrical Engineering Gadjah Mada University - Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone : +62-274-510983 (office) +62-274-560295 (home) Fax: +62-274-902200
Email	Insap79@te.ugm.ac.id, Insap61@yogya.wasantara.net.id
Biography	Born on January 8th, 1961, in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia, earned his undergraduate degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, Gadjah Mada University in 1984, and his master degree in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991. Mr. Insap authored some books in computer programming and data structure as well as computer graphics and user interface design. His research interests includ user interface design, web-based applications, computer graphics, and programming languages.

 

 

Address	Department of Electrical Engineering Gadjah Mada University - Yogyakarta, Indonesia Phone: +62-274-510983 (office) +62-274-560295 (home) Fax: +62-274-902200
Email	fsoes@te.ugm.ac.id
Biography	Born in May 11, 1940, educated at Gadjah Mada University (Chemical Engineering, 1958 – 1960, Electrical Engineering, 1965 - 1967), UCLA department of Engineering (1961 - 1965), and university of Essex, UK (1987 – 1991), where he received his Ph.D. degree in numerical computing. Research interests include system studies (modeling, optimization and control) and information system development. He is the Director of the Electrical Engineering Graduate studies in Gadjah Mada University(since 1995).

 
 
 

 
 
 

Address	Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering University of Melbourne - Parkville, Vic., 3052 Office: L.1.03, 221, Bouverie Street, Australia Phone: +61 3 9344-9100, Fax: +61 3 9348 1184
Email	leon@cs.mu.oz.au
Biography	Prof. Leon Sterling is Professor of Computer Science in the Department Of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He also directs the Intelligent Agent Laboratory. He previously spent 10 years at Case Western Reserve University in the USA, serving as Director of the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research for 2 years. His research interests encompass Logic Programming, Software Engineering, especially Agent Technology, and Artificial Intelligence.