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Dr. Seng W. Loke

Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University,
Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
(Melbourne)
Tel: +61 3 9479 3145
Email: s.loke@latrobe.edu.au
Office Location: Beth Gleeson Building, BG 137

BRIEF BIO

I am a Reader and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in La Trobe University. I lead the Pervasive Computing Group at La Trobe, and have authored 'Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications' published by Auerbach (CRC Press), Dec 2006.

I have (co-)authored more than 210 research publications including 34 journal papers, 10 book chapters, and over 150 conference/workshop papers, with numerous work on context-aware computing, and mobile and pervasive computing. I have been on the program committee of numerous conferences/workshops in the area, including Pervasive'08 and Percom'10 (and 2011). My research has been published in journals such as IEEE Pervasive, Knowledge Engineering Review, Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, IEEE Transactions on SMC, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, MONET, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Network and Computer Applications and Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. I have also published in leading conferences in the pervasive, middleware, and services computing areas including Percom (ERA ranking: A), International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) (ERA ranking: A), Mobiquitous (ERA ranking A), HICSS (ERA ranking: A), and Middleware (ERA ranking: A). In December 2011, using Harzing's PoP (Publish or Perish) software, my h-index is 21, with over 1800 citations to my work.

I completed my PhD in 1998 at the University of Melbourne, and the BSc (Hons) in 1994 at the Australian National University winning a University Medal in Computer Science. I am an Honorary Associate of the Center for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University.

RESEARCH

Current Research Interests, Projects and PhD Supervision:

human activity recognition and stream reasoning (which I call human activity reasoning):

Neha Maheshwari (PhD - La Trobe University), TBD, co-supervise with Fei Liu, my role (30%)

Do Manh Thang (PhD - La Trobe University), Semantic Stream Reasoning using Answer Set Programming for Context-Aware Applications, co-supervise with Fei Liu, my role (50%)

mobile cloud computing:

Niroshinie Thotage (PhD - La Trobe University), Context-Aware Mobile Cloudlet Computing, co-supervise with Wenny Rahayu, my role (principal)

Javeria Samad (PhD - La Trobe University), Mobile Cloud Computing, co-supervise with Karl Reed, my role (principal)

context-aware computing – software engineering and applications:

Alaa Almagrabi (PhD - La Trobe University), Context-Aware Addressing and Messaging for Emergency Management, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (principal)

Ahmad Alzahrani (PhD - La Trobe University), A Context-Aware Physical Annotation System, co-supervise with Hongen Lu, my role (principal)

Osama M. Barzaiq (PhD - La Trobe University), Context-Aware Advertising, co-supervise with Hongen Lu, my role (principal)

Compositional and Incremental Development in Software Engineering for Context-Aware Pervasive Systems

pervasive large-scale distributed systems:

Prajakta Aniruddha Desai (PhD - La Trobe University), A Context-Aware Approach to Vehicular Congestion Management, co-supervise with Jack Singh, my role (30%)

Harsh Trivedi (PhD - La Trobe University), Context-Aware Reliable Inter-Vehicle Communication, co-supervise with Prakash Veeraraghavan, Jack Singh, my role (20%)

sensor-based human computer interaction and task computing:

Chuong Cong Vo (PhD - La Trobe University), A Task-Oriented Context-Aware Framework for Smart Spaces, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (50%)

Completing PhD Students:

Anh-Tuan Nguyen (PhD - La Trobe University), Place-Based Virtual Communities for Context-Aware Applications, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (principal, 50%, submitted)

Kutila Gunasekera (PhD - Monash University), On Capabilities for Context-Aware Software Agents, co-supervise with Arkady Zaslavsky, my role (minor, 10%, submitted)

I am also interested in mobile education & health, green computing, and new forms of HCI (using sensors)

PUBLICATIONS

View my publications as a list; in DBLP under the names of either
Seng Wai Loke or Seng W. Loke (just union the results from both); in Google Scholar

   If you are wondering what pervasive computing is,

    you can look up "youtube university" by watching videos on

        pervasive computing,

        ubiquitous computing,

        ambient intelligence, and

        context-aware computing.

or   buy my book!

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Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications

You can get it now from Amazon in the UK,

or Amazon in the US (look inside the book here!),

or Amazon in Japan,

or Amazon in Canada,

or Amazon in Germany.

[More Information | My current schedule |

Slides for my recent departmental talk (30th July 2010)

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Last updated, Loke, S.W., December 2011.