Network Intelligence

Speaker:	Professor Deyi LI
		Fellow of Chinese Academy of Engineering
		Director of Information Department of NSFC

Title:		"Network Intelligence"

Date:		Tuesday, 19 September 2006

Time:		4:30pm - 5:30pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

Network becomes the engine of scientific research activities in 21st
century. Networks interact with one another and are recursive. For
example, social networks are built upon information networks which built
upon communications networks which in turn are built on physical networks.
Moreover, this layered structure of interaction built on top of other
networks is reflected directly in the diversity of communities:
sociologists, managements, economists, biologists, chemists, physicists,
and a wide variety of engineers. Getting so many diverse groups to agree
on a common core of knowledge about networks is a significant challenge to
both cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Until 1990s we had no
alternative for describing our interlinked universe but random graphics.
Unfortunately complex real networks are unable to be viewed as pure
random. Watts and Strogatz proposed the small world model, and Barabasi
and Albert proved the topology of most complex networks may follow a
power-law degree distribution. "Small worlds" and "power law
distributions" are generic properties of networks in general. Therefore,
network intelligence and networked intelligence become very active
recently. Mining typical topologies, discovering sensitive links and
important communities from real complex networks, and making a virtual
reality of emergence phenomenon in complex systems are all important
issues in network intelligence. Some specific implementations and examples
will be given in this talk.


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Biography:

Deyi Li, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. Li received his
Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from Southeast University in 1967, and
got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Department from Heriot-Watt
University, Edinburgh, UK, in 1983. In 1999 he was elected into Chinese
Academy of Engineering and in 2003 elected as member of Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference.

Professor Li currently is a professor in Beijing Institute of Electronic
System Engineering, director of the Academic Committee of the National Key
Lab of Software Engineering, deputy director of Chinese Institute of
Electronics, and deputy director of Chinese Artificial Intelligence
Society. He recently was appointed as the director of Information
Department at National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Professor Li has been the author of two books, editor of six books and
published 170 papers. In 1985, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement
Award in Computer and Control by the IEE (International Education
Enterprises) Head Office. In 1999, he received the Outstanding Paper Award
from the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control). Professor
Li has acquired 17 National or National Defense Force awards for
scientific achievement, and has been conferred the honorable title of
Outstanding Returned Student from Overseas, and Expert of Outstanding
Contributions (Young and Middle-aged Group).