Dr. Hongxue (Harris) Wang - Associate Professor
 

Dr. Hongxue (Harris) Wang

Associate Professor - School of Computing and Information Systems

Email: harrisw@athabascau.ca

Canada/US Toll-free: 1-866-301-6337

Fax: (780) 675-6148

Education

1999 The Australian National University, Australia Ph.D., Computer Science
1988 Jilin University, China M.Sc., Computer Software
1985 Jilin University, China B.Sc., Computer Systems and Architectures

Academic Experience

2000.9 - present School of Computing and Information Systems - Athabasca University Associate Professor
1998.10 - 2000.8 School of Computing and Information Technology University of Western Sydney, Australia Research Fellow
1988 - 1994 Department of Computer Science Heilongjiang University, China Lecturer
1993 Daqing Oil Company, China Computer System Consultant

Professional Memberships

  • Member of ACM
  • Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society

Research Profile/Interests

  1. intelligent systems modelling, design and implementation
  2. universal logic (UniLog) for knowledge representation
  3. network security
  4. enabling-technology for electronic commerce
  5. agent systems including multi-agents and mobile agents
  6. object-oriented programming methodology and language
  7. enabling-technology for e-learning

Current Courses Taught

  1. Comp 266 - Introduction to Web Programming
  2. Comp 347 - Computer Networks I
  3. Comp 466 - Website Technology
  4. Comp 604 - Enterprise Computer Networks
  5. Comp 660 - Enterprise Information Security

Recent Publications/Presentations

Papers in Distance Education, intelligent agent and intelligent systems
  1. Hongxue Wang, Develop online courses with EduPalace, in proceedings of The Tenth Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE), June 205, 2006, Beijing, China
  2. Hongxue Wang, C-Frame: Constrained Frame as a General Knowledge Representation Scheme, in proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on AI?50 Years' Achievements, Future Directions and Social Impacts (ISAI'06) Aug. 1-3, 2006, Beijing, China
  3. Hongxue Wang, Running virtual schools with EduPalace, in Proceedings of ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Media, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada
  4. Hongxue Wang, Using simulation and demonstration in teaching computer networking and network programming, in Proceedings of ED-MEDIA - World Conference on Educational Media, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada
  5. Hongxue Wang, A Web-based platform for teaching programming in distance education, in proceedings of The IASTED International Conference on Education and Technology (ICET), July 5-7, Calgary, Canada
  6. James Patras and Hongxue Wang, DigOL - a system for mining learning objects from the Web for e-learning, in proceedings of the first International workshop on Advanced Technologies for e-learning and e-science (ATELS04), Beijing, September 2004
  7. Hongxue Wang, XEML - an extensible educational markup language for e-learning, in proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE04), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, August 16-18 2004
  8. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt, Developing mobile agents for Web-based distance education, in proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference, Banff, Canada, June 27-29, 2001.
  9. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt, The design of a course update mobile agent for Web-based distance education, accepted for publication at The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001), Maebashi TERRSA, and Maebashi City, Japan. October 23-26, 2001.
  10. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt, A course update mobile agent for Web-based distance education, to appear in Proceedings of Fifth IASTED International Conference, Mexico, 2002.
  11. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt, Designing an integrated system for course delivery on the World Wide Web, in Proceedings of Fifth IASTED International Conference, Mexico, 2002.
  12. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt, Security issues in Web-based distance education, accepted for WebNet'2001, Orlando, Florida, 2001.
  13. Peter Holt, Hongxue Wang, et al., A Distributed Adaptive Learning Environment, submitted for The Third International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Beijing. August 2002.
  14. Hongxue Wang, Pete Holt: The Design of an Integrated System for Web-based Distance Education. In proceedings of 2002 International conference on E-Learn. Montreal, Canada, October 15-19, 2002.
  15. Larbi Esmahi, Pete Holt, Hongxue Wang et al., An essay in e learning tools categorization, in Proceedings of the IASTED International conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education, Cancun, Mexico, May 2002.
  16. Hongxue Wang: Using Java to develop Web-based geographic information systems, in proceedings of International Conference On Computer Graphics and Spatial Information System's2002, Aug.6-8, 2002 Beijing P.R.China
  17. Hongxue Wang, Yan Lang, MSDL-A Language for Describing Scripts of CAI System in Multimedia Computing Environment, in Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics Higher Education, 1993. This decade-old paper was listed because in which I proposed an idea for teaching scripts markup in CAI systems, which is similar to that we are now using for the Web.

Papers in E-Commerce, Internet and Information Security
  1. Hongxue Wang, An Access Control Scheme for Web-Based E-Learning Systems, in proceedings of the 7th international conference on information technology based higher education and training, July 10-13, 2006, Sydney, Australia
  2. Hongxue Wang, Vijay Varadharajan, A new approach to reasoning about accountability in cryptographic protocols for E-Commerce, in Proceedings of first workshop on security and privacy in E-Commerce, Athens, November 2000.
  3. Hongxue Wang, On Mobile Agent Based Schemes for E-commerce on the Internet, in Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, IFIP, 2000.
  4. Hongxue Wang, Vijay Varadharajan, A generic logic for the specification of security policies in distributed computing environment, in Proceedings of SEC2000: International Conference on Information Security, IFIP, 2000.
  5. Hongxue Wang, Vijay Varadharajan, Yan Zhang, Towards a unified logic for analysing cryptographic protocols, in Workshop Proceedings of The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE Computer Society, April 2000.
  6. Hongxue Wang, Vijay Varadharajan, Yan Zhang, Reasoning about Accountabilities in Cryptographic Protocols for E-commerce using a Generic Belief Logic, in Proceedings of First CollECTeR (USA) - Conference on Electronic Commerce, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, April, 2000.
  7. Hongxue Wang and Yan Zhang, Two facets of Internet security, in Proceedings of Asian-Pacific Web Conference, 27-30, Sept., Hong Kong, US CSREA publisher, 1999.
  8. Hongxue Wang, Yan Zhang and Vijay Varadharajan, A secure communication scheme for multi-agent systems, in Proceedings of The First Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents, pp.174-186, Springer, 1999.
  9. Hongxue Wang, Using Dynamic navigation panel to enhance the quality of Web page browsing, in Proceedings of International Conference on Internet Computing, US CSREA Publishers, 2000.
  10. Hongxue Wang, The Design of an Intelligent Agent for Collecting Information over the World Wide Web, in Proceedings of Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb98), International Academic Publishers, 1998.
  11. Hongxue Wang, an Investigation into the Mechanisms of Multiple Infection of Marijuana Virus, Journal of Microelectronics, No.7, 1993. This paper is listed because it represents my early work in network security.

Papers in Object-Oriented Design, Modelling and Programming
  1. Hongxue Wang, Vijay Varadharajan, John Slaney, Towards Perfect Objects, in proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Technology of Object Oriented Languages & Systems (TOOLS-32 Pacific'99), IEEE Computer Society, 1999.
  2. Hongxue Wang, John Slaney, GISMO: a language for modelling and developing agent-based intelligent systems, in Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1998.
  3. Hongxue Wang, extended first order logic for quantitative reasoning, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.
  4. Hongxue Wang and John Slaney, Towards Knowledge Encapsulation, in Proceedings of the 21st Australasia Computer Science Conference, pp.193-204, Springer, 1998.
  5. Hongxue Wang, Constraint Resolution within Object Hierarchies, in Proceedings of the Eleventh Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Springer, 1998.
  6. Hongxue Wang, Constrained Object Hierarchies - an architecture for intelligent systems, Doctoral Consortium Abstract, in Proceedings of the twenty-six International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997.
  7. Hongxue Wang, John Slaney, Distributed Scheduling with Constrained Object Hierarchies, in Proceedings of International Symposium on Operations Research and its Applications (ISORA'98), World Publishing Cooperation, 1998.

Existing/Proposed Projects

  1. Topic map discovery and management
  2. Automatic learning object discovery
  3. Learning objective based course authoring
  4. Intelligent course authoring system
  5. Comprehensive student assessment with EduPalace
  6. Knowledge representation with constrained frames
  7. Develop software agents with constrained frames
  8. User authentication for multi-role and multi-module Web-based systems

Recently Completed Projects

  1. EduPalace - an integrated system for Web-based distance education
  2. DigOL - data mining algorithms and techniques for discovering learning objects on the Web

Other Interests

I like to fix things. If you have something broken please don't hesitate to bring it to me. I also like to read WuXia novels especially those by Jin Yong (..). As for sports, jogging, cycling and table tennis are my favourite.