Workshop Schedule

All sessions will be held at: Room 6573 (6th Floor, via Lifts 27-28),
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

8:30 - 8:55 Light Breakfast and Registration
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome
Shing-Chi Cheung, Associate Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote (Session Chair: Carson Woo)
From Office Information Systems to Socio-Technical Systems
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada, and University of Trento, Italy
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 1: University of Toronto Period (Session Chair: Wilfred Ng)
From Text Retrieval Machines to Machines that Retrieve Text
Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Data and HCI: A Personal Retrospective
Alison Lee, Microsoft, USA
Managing Change and Evolution in Information Systems
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch: China Garden (Chinese Restaurant, G/F, HKUST)
13:00 - 15:00 Session 2: Colleagues at HKUST (Session Chair: Ke Yi)
Towards Visualizing Clusters and Classes for Real Valued High Dimensional Data Sets
Kamalakar Karlapalem, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Big Data Analytics on Big Spatial Database
Raymond Wong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
City Sensing in Big Data Era
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Accelerating Genomic Data Processing
Qiong Luo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 3: HKUST Period (Session Chair: Dik Lee)
Understanding Query Interfaces by Statistical Parsing
Weifeng Su, United International College, China
Data Extraction and Integration for the Hidden Web
Jiying Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Big Data in Xiaomi
Gang Wang, Xiaomi, China
17:00 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 18:00Session 4: Beyond HKUST and Retirement (Session Chair: Carson Woo)
LARVA: An Integrative System for Discovery of Genetic Causes of Cancer from Large-scale DNA Data
Lucas Lochovsky, Yale University, USA
Concluding Remarks
Frederick Lochovsky, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
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19:00 Dinner: Serenade Restaurant (映月樓), Cultural Center, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon Google Map of restaurant
Bus will leave HKUST Entrance Piazza (red bird) at 6:15pm; dinner starts at 7pm