Biosketch
Wen-Chih Peng was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C in 1973. He
received the BS and MS degrees from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan,
in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C in 2001. Currently, he is
an assistant professor at the department of Computer Science, National Chiao-Tung
University, Taiwan. Prior to joining the department of Computer Science, National
Chiao-Tung University, he was mainly involved in the projects related to mobile
computing, data broadcasting and network data management. Dr. Peng serves as
PC members in IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), The
International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) and The
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). His
research interests include mobile data management, sensor data management and
data mining. He is a member of IEEE.
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1997/9-2001/9.
- M.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1995/9-1997/6.
- B.S., Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1991/9-1995/6.
Research Interests
Mobile data management, data mining, data management for sensor networks, databases
Journal Activity
Program Committee Member:
- The 13th Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009)
- The 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2009)
- The 14th Internatioanl Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009)
- The ACM International Workshop on Mobile Information Retrieval (MobIR'08)
- The 12th Pacific-Asia
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008)
- The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2008)
- The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008)
- The IEEE International
Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2008)
- The Second International Conference
on Scalable Information Systems (InfoScale 2007)
- The Joint 9th IEEE Conference
on E-Commerce Technology and the 4th IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing,
E-Commerce and E-Services, 2007
- The 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied
Computing (ACM SAC 2007)
- The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-07)
- The First IEEE
International Workshop on Data Mining and Wireless Sensor Networks (with ICDM
2006)
- The Joint 8th IEEE
Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and the 3rd IEEE Conference on
Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06), June 2006
- The IEEE International
Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2006)
- The IEEE International
Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2006)
- The Fourth International
Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2006)
- The
Fourth International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems
2006
- The 1st International
Workshop on RFID and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (with
International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous
Computing (EUC 2005))
- The International
Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks (with International Conference on
Parallel Processing 2005)
- The International
Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks 2005
- The 2004 Workshop
on Intelligent Web Technologies
Reviewer:
- IEEE transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE transactions
on Parallel and Distributed Systems
- IEEE transactions
on Mobile Computing
- IEEE transactions
on Computers
- ACM Wireless Networks
- ACM Mobile Networks
and Applications
- The Computer Journal
- IEEE Transactions
on Wireless Communications
- The 1st IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems
- Wireless Communications
and Mobile Computing (WCMC) journal
Journal papers:
- Y.-P. Chen, W.-C. Peng,
and M.-C. Jian, ``Particle swarm optimization with recombination and dynamic
linkage discovery,"
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics¡VPart B: Cybernetics.
(to appear, Impact factor=1.538)
- C.-Y. Lin, Y.-C. Tseng, T.-H.
Lai, and W.-C. Peng, ¡¨Message-efficient In-network Location Management
in a Multi-sink Wireless Sensor Network," International Journal of
Sensor Networks (to appear).
- C.-Y. Lin, W.-C. Peng,
and Y.-C. Tseng, ``Efficient In-Network Moving Object Tracking in Wireless
Sensor Networks," IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No.
8, pp. 1044-1056, August 2006.
- J.-L. Huang, W.-C. Peng
and M.-S. Chen, ``SOM: Dynamic Push-Pull Channel Allocation Framework,''
IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 974-990, August 2006.
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen,
``Shared
Data Allocation in a Mobile Computing System: Exploring Local and Global Optimization,''
IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4,
pp. 374-384, April 2005.
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen,
``Query
Processing in a Mobile Computing Environment: Exploiting the Features of Asymmetry,''
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp.
982-996, July 2005.
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen,
``Design
and Performance Studies of an Adaptive Cache Retrieval Scheme in a Mobile
Computing Environment,'' IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Vol.
3, No. 2, April 2004.
- W.-C. Peng , J.-L., Huang
and M.-S. Chen, `` Dynamic
Leveling: Adaptive Data Broadcasting in a Mobile Computing Environment,''
ACM Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 355-364,
2003.
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen,
`` Efficient
Channel Allocation Tree Generation for Data Broadcasting in a Mobile Computing
Environment,'' ACM Wireless Networks , Vol. 9 No. 2, pp.117-129,
2003.
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen,
``Developing
Data Allocation Schemes by Incremental Mining of User Moving Patterns in a
Mobile Computing System,'' IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
, Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2003.
Conference papers:
- C.-H. Lo, W.-C.
Peng and M.-F. Chiang, ``Ranking Web Pages from User Perspectives of Social
Bookmarking Sites," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 9-12, 2008. (Acceptance rate ~19% for regular papers)
- C.-H. Yu, W.-C.
Peng, and W.-C. Lee, ``Mining Community Structures in Peer-to-Peer Environments," Proceedingds of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS),
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
Dec. 8-10, 2008.
- C.-C. Hung, W.-C.
Peng, York S.-H. Tsai and W.-C. Lee, ``Exploiting Spatial and Data Correlations for Approximate Data Collection in
Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the second ACM International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (In conjunction with ACM SIGKDD), Las Vegas, USA, Aug. 24. 2008.
- P.-Y. Li, W.-C.
Peng, T.-W. Wang, W.-S. Ku and J. Xu, ``A Cloaking Algorithm based on Spatial Networks for Location Privacy," Proceedingds of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, Taichung, Taiwan, June 11-13, 2008.
- C.-H. Lo and W.-C.
Peng, ``Efficient Joint Clustering Algorithms in Optimization and Geography
Domains," Proceedingds of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008.
- C.-H. Lo, W.-C.
Peng, C.-W. Chen, T.-Y. Lin, and C.-S. Lin, ``CarWeb: A Traffic Data Collection Platform," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (Demo paper), April 27-30, Beijing, China, 2008.
- M.-F. Chiang, W.-C. Peng
and C.-H. Lo, "Discovering Popular Co-Cited Communities in Blogspaces,"
Proceedings of the first IEEE International Workshop on Data Engineering
for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0, (In conjunction with IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering), Cancun, Mexico, April
12, 2008.
- T.-Y. Fuo, W.-C. Peng and
W.-C. Lee, ``Optimizing Parallel Itineraries
for KNN Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings
of the ACM 16th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM), Lisboa, Portugal, Nov. 6-9, 2007 . (Acceptance rate ~17%, Nominee
of Best interdisciplinary paper)
- S.-P. Kuo, B.-J. Wu, W.-C.
Peng, and Y.-C. Tseng, ``Cluster-Enhanced
Techniques for Pattern-Matching Localization Systems," Proceedings
of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems
(MASS 2007), Pisa, Italy, Oct. 8-11, 2007. (Acceptance rate ~25%)
- W.-C. Peng, W.-T. Huang,
Y.-L. Chen, and P.-C. Liao, ``TagFree: Identifying
Users without Tags in Smart Home Environments," Proceedings of
the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
Montreal, Canada, Oct. 7-10, 2007.
- Y.-C. Wang, W.-C. Peng,
M.-S. Chang and Y.-C. Tseng, ``Exploring Load-Balance
to Dispatch Mobile Sensors in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings
of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
(ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii USA, Aug. 13 - 16, 2007. (Acceptance rate ~29%)
- X.-Y. Hsiao, W.-C. Peng,
C.-C. Hung and W.-C. Lee, ``Using SensorRanks
for In-Network Detection of Faulty Readings in Wireless Sensor Networks,"
Proceedings of the Sixth International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for
Wireless and Mobile Access (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2007), Beijing,
China, June 10th, 2007.
- Z.-X. Liao and W.-C. Peng,
``Exploring Lattice Structures in Mining
Multi-Domain Sequential Patterns," Proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (InfoScale),
Suzhou, China, June 6-8, 2007. (Acceptance rate ~28%)
- T.-H. You, W.-C. Peng and
W.-C. Lee, ``Protecting Moving Trajectories
with Dummies," Proceedings of the first International Workshop
on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services, (In conjunction
with the 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) ),
Mannheim, Germany, May 7 - 11, 2007.
- H.-P. Tsai, D.-N. Yang, W.-C.
Peng, M.-S. Chen, ``Exploring Group Moving
Pattern for an Energy-Constrained Object Tracking Sensor Network,"
Proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007. (Acceptance
rate ~20%)
- W.-S. Ku, R. Zimmermann, W.-C.
Peng, S. Shroff, ``Privacy Protected Query Processing on Spatial Networks,"
Proceedings of the third IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Data Management, (In conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
), Istanbul, Turkey, April 15-20, 2007.
- H.-Y. Yang, W.-C. Peng
and C.-H. Lo, ``Optimizing Multiple In-Network
Aggregate Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of
the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
(DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, April 9-12, 2007. (Acceptance rate ~25%)
- Z.-X. Liao, W.-C. Peng
and X.-Y. Hu, ``Mining Multi-domain Sequential Patterns," Workshop
on Software Engineering, Databases, and Knowledge Discovery, International
Computer Symposium , Taipei, Taiwan, December 4-6, 2006.
- C.-C. Hung and W.-C. Peng,
``A Storage Management for Mining Object Moving
Patterns in Object Tracking Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings of the
First IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Wireless Sensor
Networks (In conjunction with IEEE Conference on Data Mining 2006),
Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006.
- Y.-C. Lin and W.-C. Peng
``Ranking Web Search Results from Personalized Perspective,'' Proceedings
of IEEE Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC'06) and Enterprise
Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE'06),
San Francisco, California, June
26-29, 2006.
- W.-C. Peng,
Y.-Z. Ko and W.-C. Lee, ``On Mining
Moving Patterns for Object Tracking Sensor Networks,'' Proceedings
of the 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Nara,
Japan, May 10-12, 2006
- C.-C. Hung, W.-C.
Peng and J.-L. Huang, ``Exploring
Regression for Mining User Moving Patterns in a Mobile Computing System,''
Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
(HPCC-05), Capri-Sorrento Penisular, Italy, September 21-24, 2005.
- J.-L. Huang and
W.-C. Peng, ``An Effective Broadcast Program Generation Algorithm for
Dependent Data,'' Proceedings of the 5th Emerging Information Technology
Conference (EITC-05), August 15-16, 2005.
- J.-L. Huang and
W.-C. Peng , ``An Energy-Conserved On-Demand Data Broadcasting System,''
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
Ayia Napa, Cyprus, May 9-13, 2005.
- C.-C. Hung and
W.-C. Peng, `` An Efficient Data Mining Approach for User Moving Patterns
in a Mobile Computing System,'' the 10th Mobile Computing Workshop, Taiwan,
2005.
- J.-L. Huang, M.-S. Chen and W.-C.
Peng, ``Exploring Group Mobility for Replica Allocation in a Mobile Ad-Hoc
Network," Proceedings of the ACM 12th International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2003), USA, 2003.
- J.-L. Huang, M.-S.
Chen and W.-C. Peng, `` Broadcasting
Dependent Data for Ordered Queries without Replication in a Multi-Channel
Mobile Environment ,'' Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Intern'l Conf.
on Data Engineering (ICDE-03) , March 5-8, 2003.
- W.-C. Peng
and M.-S. Chen,`` Exploring
User Moving Patterns to Improve the Allocation of Shared Data in a Mobile
Computing Environment , '' Proceedings of the Thrid International
Conference on Mobile Data Management , January 8 - 10, 2002
- J.-L. Huang, W.-C.
Peng and M.-S. Chen,`` Binary
Interpolation Search for Solution Mapping on Broadcast and On-demand Channels
in a Mobile Computing Environment ,'' Proceedings of the ACM 10th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , November
5-10, 2001.
- P.-H. Wu, W.-C.
Peng and M.-S. Chen, `` Mining
Sequential Alarm Patterns in a Telecommunication Database ,'' Workshop
on Databases in Telecommunications (VLDB 2001) , September 10, 2001.
- W.-C. Peng and
M.-S. Chen, `` Dynamic
Generation of Data Broadcasting Programs for a Broadcast Disk Array in a Mobile
Computing Environment,'' Proceedings of the ACM 9th International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , Washington, DC,
USA, November 6-11, 2000, pp. 38-45.
- W.-C. Peng
and M.-S. Chen, `` Exploiting
the Features of Asymmetry for Query Processing in a Mobile Computing Environment,
'' Proceedings of Fifth IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information
Systems (CoopIS'2000) , Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000, pp. 263-274.
- W.-C. Peng
and M.-S. Chen, `` Mining
User Moving Patterns for Personal Data Allocation in a Mobile Computing System
,'' Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Parallel Processing
(ICPP-2000) , Toronto, Canada, August 21-24, 2000, pp. 573-580.
- W.-C. Peng
and M.-S. Chen, `` Dynamic
and Adaptive Cache Retrieval Scheme for Mobile Computing Systems ,'' Proceedings
of Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98) ,
New York, USA, August 20-22, 1998, pp. 251-258.
- G -C. Chen, S.
-Y. Lee and W. -C. Peng ,"Performance Analysis of Concurrency
Control Strategies in Mobile Environments", 4th Mobile Computing
Workshop , Hsinchu, Taiwan, pp. 117-124, 1998.
- G. -C. Chen, W.
-C. Peng and S. -Y. Lee, "A Queueing Scheme for Mobile Transactions",
third Workshop on Mobile Computing , Hsinchu, Taiwan, pp. 89-96,
1997.
Patents:
- W.-C. Peng and M.-S. Chen, ``A
Method to Mine User Moving Patterns in a Mobile Computing System,'' ( No.
90109081, April 2001, filed to R.O.C. Patent office.).
Thesis:
- W.-C. Peng, ``
Data
Management in a Mobile Computing Environment ,'' Ph.D Thesis, Department
of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, R.O.C., 2001.
- W.-C. Peng, ``A
Queue-limit Scheme for Mobile Transactions,'' Master Thesis, Department of
Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao-Tung University,
R.O.C., 1997.
- Design and Implementation
of Mining User Moving Patterns in a Mobile Computing Environment (NSC92-2211-E009-068),
Principal Investigator, 2003.09.01-2004.07.31, NSC.
- Design and Implementation
of an Intelligent Location Mediator, CO-PI, 2004/1/1-2004/12/31, III.
- Design and Implementation
of Data Management in Secure Wireless Sensor Networks (93WFA0600275), PI,
2004/8/1-2005/7/31, NSC.
- Intelligent Reach
Me, CO-PI, 2005/3/1-2005/12/31, III.
- Design and Implementation
of an Object Tracking Management in Wireless Sensor Networks (93WFA0605290),
PI, 2005/8/1-2006/7/31, NSC.
- Design and Implementation
of an Efficient Service Discovery Method for Ambient Networks (93WFA0605458),
PI, 2005/8/1-2006/7/31, NSC.
Courses Taught
- Data mining and its applications
(Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2005)
- Data structures (Fall 2003, Fall
2005)
- Introduction to computer science
(Spring 2004)
- Sensor Data Management (short
course at the workshop of sensor networks, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2005)
- Mining User Moving Patterns in
a Mobile Computing Environment ( talk at the 2005 ROCLING Workshop on Mining
for Enhanced Web Search, Academic Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 2005)
Students
Graduated
Masters'
Theses
- Chih-Chien Hung,
"Exploring Regression for Mining User Moving Patterns in a Mobile Computing
System," M. S. Thesis, Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao-Tung University,
R.O.C., 2005.
- Xing-Yuan Hu, "Multi-domain
Simultaneous Sequential Pattern Mining," M. S. Thesis, Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao-Tung University,
R.O.C., 2005.
- Yu-Jen Ko, "On
Mining Moving Patterns for Object Tracking Sensor Networks, " M.
S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
at National Chiao-Tung University, R.O.C., 2005.
- Chih-Peng Hsiao,
"MobiSemiNet: An Efficient Mobile Service Discovery for Ambient Networks,"
M. S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
at National Chiao-Tung University, R.O.C., 2005.
- Yu-Chin Lin, "PPR:
Personalized PageRank for Web Search,"M. S. Thesis, Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao-Tung University,
R.O.C., 2005.
- Hsio-Wei Chang,
"Collaborative Cache Replacement in Mobile Environments," M.
S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
at National Chiao-Tung University, R.O.C., 2005.