Research

Dr Wei Liu received her PhD degree from the University of Newcastle (Australia) in August 2003. She is now a member of the academic staff in the school of computer science and software engineering at the University of Western Australia. Dr Liu’s research strength lies in knowledge engineering for distributed environments, with a focus on agent technologies and the semantic Web. She also works on semi-automatic ontology learning through large text-corpus analysis, which is a crutial stepping stone for revolutionising the current human-friendly Web to a machine-friendly Web.

With the support of a recent UWA university research grant and the faculty suppliment,  Dr Liu has acquired 6 Sony AIBO Robots in total to carry out research in various areas including Agent (Robot) Autonomy, Robotic Symbol Grounding, Rational Robots and Natural Language Processing.  For more details about the activities the AIBOs carried out, please refer to the UWArriors Web Site.

Projects and Funding

1. Scientific Visit to China Award (Australia-China Exchange Program 2008/09), Australian Academy of Science.
2. Engineering a Self-Organising Service-Oriented Pervasive Computing Space, UWA Research Grnat 2008, $7,600; Pricinpal Chief Investigator
3. Vocabulary Extension for Autonomous Robots via Semantic Web Services, UWA Research Grant 2006, $18,000 – Principal Chief Investigator
4. Australia-China Autonomous Entertainment Robot Service Grid, NCGP – DEST China Fund 2006, with Prof. Mary-Anne Williams (UTS), Prof. Xiaoping Chen (China), $32,500 – Chief Investigator
5. Bootstraping Semantic Web in Australia, UWA Research Grant 2004, Principal CI
6. Description, Composition, Discovery and Deployment of Intelligent Agent Services, EU Fund (2004-2006), Innovation Access Program (IAccP), DEST, with RMIT, Reseacher
7. Flexible and Robust Protocol-Based Interaction between Agents in Open Systems, Large ARC Linkage (2002-2004), with RMIT, CI.

Research Students (PhD)

• Alison Anderson (alisona<at>ichr.uwa.edu.au), Starting Feb 2008 (with Asso. Prof. Michael Wise)
• Peter Dreisiger (Peter.Dreisiger<at>dsto.defence.gov.au), Starting Feb 2008 (with Dr Cara MachNish)
• Wilson Wong (winner of International Postgraduate Research Scholarship) enrolled on 31 March (with Prof. Mohammad Bennamoun)

Past Honors Students and Their Thesis

• Miss Husniza Husni: Applying AI Planning in Automated Web Service Composition (completed in July 2005)
• Mr Yuan Yi Darren Chok: Team-oriented Model for composite Web Services Failure Recovery (completed in October 2005)
• Mr Cher Min Gabriel Foo: Enhancing Information-Centric Web Services Through Query Expansion (completed in October 2005)
• Mr Kenneth Karta: An Investigation on Personalized Collaborative Filtering for Web Service Selection (completed in October 2005)
• Mr Yee Sern Wei: Autonomous and Rational Behavior of Sony AIBO Robot (completed in October 2005)

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