IDPT(SDPS) 2008 Asia University

OUTGOING SDPS PRESIDENT RECEPTIONHONORING DR. AZAD M. MADNITuesday, June 3, 2008 7: 00 pm - 9:00 pm Room: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelSDPS Board Honors Outgoing President, Welcomes New OneINTRODUCING INCOMING PRESIDENTDr. Azad M. MadniPresidentSociety for Design and Process ScienceWe are greatful to Dr. Azad for his guidance andleadership that have helped transform the Society intoa more forward-looking community that it is today.Thank you for your long-time dedication andunconditional service to SDPS, and especially foryour involvement with the implementation oftransdisciplinary vision.MESSAGE FROM SDPS PRESIDENTDear Fellow Transdisciplinarians:Welcome to the Eleventh World Congress of Integrated Designand Process Technology (IDPT-08). Out host this year is AsiaUniversity, a young and vibrant institute of learning in “CentralTaiwan” or Taichung. Our conference theme this year, “GlobalNetwork for Transdisciplinary Collaboration” is apt for our society.Our society continues to increase its outreach to ourtransdisciplinary brethren through our conferences and our Journal.Of note are a few exciting changes. You will notice that we haveslightly modified the name of both our society and the conference.The two terms that are conspicuous by their presence are“transdisciplinary” and “systems.” By using the termtransdisciplinary explicitly we clearly convey that transdisciplinarythinking is what unites us as a society. By including “systems” weconvey our interest and commitment to introducing transdisciplinarythinking into the way we approach systems. We have also begunactivities with other international societies in terms of technicalcosponsorship of conferences. We will continue to make advancesin technical co-sponsorship to increase visibility of our society. Inkeeping with our vision to increase the frequency of interactionamong the society members, I urge you all to be proactive byproposing new transdisciplinary themes for workshops andsymposia. Colleagues, you have an unprecedented opportunity tobe pioneers in transdisciplinary science, research, and educationas transdisciplinary thinking continues to gain greater momentumin academe, government and industry. While acutely aware thattransdisciplinary problems, by their very nature, are difficult, I takeheart from the words of Winston Churchill who famously said,“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” Let us follow thesesage words. Please join me in welcoming President-electProfessor Sumit Ghosh as I pass the baton for the stewardship ofthe society to him. Professor Ghosh and I will continue to work onbehalf of our society in promoting our exciting vision, and incommunity outreach activities. And last but not the least, I wish youall a most rewarding experience at IDPT 2008 and hope that youcome away from this conference with new ideas and renewedenthusiasm to shape the future direction and growth of our society,and to rededicate our commitment to the betterment of mankindthrough transdisciplinary solutions.Dr. Sumit GhoshChairmanComputer Science DepartmentThe University of Texas at TylerReplacing Dr. Azad M. Madni as president of the SDPS is Dr. SumitGhosh who presently serves as the chair of the Computer ScienceDepartment at The University of Texas at Tyler. He is the recipient ofthe 2004 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award.He is the Principal Investigator of a proposal on "Organic SemiconductorModeling and Simulation," that has been funded by US Senateand US House of Representatives under Special Appropriationsthrough the US Army Research Lab. He received his B.Tech. degreefrom the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (India), and hisM.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA. Sumit has heldthe title of Thomas E. Hattrick Endowed Chaired Professor of InformationSystems Engineering in the ECE Department at StevensInstitute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey; served as the associatechairman for research and graduate programs in the ComputerScience and Engineering Department at Arizona State University;been on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Brown University,Providence, RI; served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell LabsResearch (Area 11) in Holmdel, NJ; and worked as Member of theTechnical Staff at Fairchild Advanced Research and DevelopmentLabs in Palo Alto, CA. He is the primary author of 5 reference books:Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles (IEEEPress); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simulation of ComplexSystems (IEEE Press); Intelligent Transportation Systems: NewPrinciples and Architectures (CRC Press); Principles of Secure NetworkSystems Design (Springer-Verlag); and Algorithm Design forNetworked Information Technology Systems: Principles and Applications(Springer-Verlag). He has co-edited the book titled, GuardingYour Business: A Management Approach to Security (Kluwer). Heis currently co-editing a book titled, "Cybercrimes," with a formerAsst. US Attorney of the US Department of Justice and is completinghis sixth reference book for Springer-Verlag that will present thediscipline of networking from an entirely new perspective and providenew research directions. He has written 95+ transactions/journalpapers and 100+ refereed conference papers. Sumit's researchfocuses on fundamental and challenging yet practical, interdisciplinaryproblems that are of potential benefit to society. His most recentinterests include radically new types of computing engines, creativityand the physiological organization of the human brain, and acomputing principles-based analytical foundation for the empiricaldisciplines of biology, business, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology,and law. Sumit's research has been funded by US Army ResearchOffice, US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, NationalScience Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,US Army Research Lab, US Air Force Research Lab (Rome, NY), USArmy Communications and Electronics Command (NJ), NationalSecurity Agency, Sandia National Labs, National Library of Medicine,MOTOROLA, INTEL, BELLCORE, NYNEX, MITRE, Electronics andTelecommunications Research Institute (Korea), IEEE Foundation,and US Congress.

CONFERENCE KEYNOTESPEAKERDr. Edgar MitchellSixth man walked on the Moon;Founder of the Institute of NoeticSciencesMonday, June 2, 2008 9: 30 am - 10:00 amRoom: A101author and/or interviewee in dozens of articles in both professionaland popular periodicals.As a lecturer, he delivers 25 to 50 addresses annually on cosmology,human potential and topics relating to the evolving future of thespecies on planet Earth. His most current lecture series discussesthe Implications of recent discoveries in science as they affect ourindividual lives in the home, the workplace and society - at - large.He is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows and hasbeen featured in several documentary films relative to his interests.Retiring from the government service in 1972, Dr. Mitchell continuesto write, speak and do research for a number of new books. Heis a consultant to a limited number of corporations and foundations.Dr. Mitchell’s honors and awards include the PresidentialMedal of Freedom, the USN Distinguished Service Medal, the NASADistinguished Service Medal and the NASA Group AchievementAwards.KEYNOTE PANEL-IScience, Spirituality, andManagement10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Monday June 2, 2008Room: A101Organizers and Chairs: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh:Dr. Jeffrey J. P. TsaiOn January 31, 1971, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, then a U.S. Navy Captain,embarked on a journey through outer space of some 500,000 milesthat resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the moon. Thathistoric journey terminated safely nine days later on February 9,1971 and was made in the company of two other men of valor -Admiral Alan Shepard and Colonel Stuart Roosa. Scientist, testpilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr.Mitchell’s extraordinary and varied career personifies humankind’seternal thrust to widen its horizons as well as explore its inner soul.His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in IndustrialManagement from Carnegie Mellon University in 1952, aBachelor of Science in Aeronautics from the U.S. Naval PostgraduateSchool in 1961 and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronauticsfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. In addition,he has received three honorary doctorates from New MexicoState University, the University of Akron and Carnegie Mellon University.In 1973, a year after retiring from the U.S. Navy and the AstronautProgram, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences. It isa foundation organized to sponsor research in the nature of consciousnessas it relates to cosmology and causality. He is also aco-founder of the Association of Space Explorers, an internationalorganization founded in 1984 for all who share the experience ofspace travel. Both organizations are educational, developed to providenew understanding of the human condition resulting from theepoch of space exploration. He is author of Psychic Exploration: AChallenge for Science, G.P. Putnam and sons, 1974, a major referencebook; and The Way of the Explorer (in publication). He is alsoDr. Raymond T. YehSDPS Lifetime Honorary MemberDr. Raymond Yeh is a senior research fellow at IC2 Institute at theUniversity of Texas at Austin, and a Chair Professor at Asia University(Taiwan). He taught at several universities for 20 years and helpedtwo Computer Science departments to achieve top ten nationalrankings. Dr. Yeh held the CDC Endowed Chair Professor at theUniversity of Minnesota in 1983, and has been an honoraryprofessor at several universities. He has published ten technicalbooks and coauthored two business books.As the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on SoftwareEngineering, and founder of the IEEE International Conference onSoftware Engineering (ICSE), he helped Software Engineeringdeveloped into a formal academic discipline.He co-founded two successful software companies and had beena management consultant to many nations, and worked withexecutives of many leading edge global companies as well as withfounders of many start-up enterprises.He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE), the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS) andwas an honorary research fellow of Fujitsu’s International Institute.Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the Pioneer in Information Technology Awardfrom the government of Taiwan, IEEE Centennial Medal, and theATLAS Gold Medal, among others.

PANEL-I KEYNOTE SPEAKERMonday, June 2, 10:30-11:00 amRoom: A101PANEL-IDISTINGUISHED PANELISTSMonday, June 2, 11:00-12:30 amRoom: A101Dr. Dipak C. JainDean, Kellogg School of Management,Northwestern University;Sandy and MortonGoldman Professor ofEntrepreneurial Studies;Professor of MarketingDean Jain is the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in EntrepreneurialStudies and a professor of marketing at the KelloggSchool, Northwestern University where he has been a member ofthe faculty since 1987. Prior to his appointment as Dean, he servedas the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for five years and workedclosely with former Kellogg School Dean Donald P. Jacobs to setthe agenda for the school’s curriculum, faculty and research activities.Dean Jain’s areas of research include the marketing of high-techproducts; market segmentation and competitive market structureanalysis; cross-cultural issues in global product diffusion; new productdiffusion; and forecasting models. He has had more than 50articles published in leading academic journals.Dean Jain teaches courses on marketing research, new productsand services, and statistical models in marketing. In 2003, he wasappointed as a foreign affairs adviser for the Prime Minister of Thailand.He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, AmericanExpress, Sony, Nissan, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Phillips and HyattInternational. He also serves as a member of the board of directorsof Hartmarx Corporation, Deere & Company, Northern Trust Corporation,and Peoples Energy. He is also a former director at UnitedAirlines.Dean Jain’s teaching honors include the Sidney Levy Award forExcellence in Teaching in 1995; the John D.C. Little Best PaperAward in 1991; Kraft research professorships in 1989-90 and 1990-91; the Beatrice research professorship in 1987-88; the OutstandingEducator Award from the State of Assam in India in 1982; theGold Medal for the Best Post-Graduate of the Year from GauhatiUniversity in India in 1978; the Gold Medal for the Best Graduate ofthe Year from Darrang College in Assam in India in 1976; the GoldMedal from Jaycees International in 1976; the Youth Merit Awardfrom Rotary International in 1976; and the Jawaharlal Nehru MeritAward, Government of India in 1976.Dean Jain has served as the departmental editor for the journalManagement Science, the area editor for Marketing Science andassociate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.He is also a former member of the editorial board of the Journalof Marketing Research.His long career in education began as a student in Tezpur (Assam),India. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in mathematicsand statistics in 1976 and his master’s degree in mathematicalstatistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India. He taught atGauhati for the next five years before leaving for Dallas to pursuehis PhD in marketing at the University of Texas. In addition to hispositions at the Kellogg School, Dean Jain has been a visitingprofessor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Graduate Instituteof Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.Bob BlockChairmanLandMark Entertainment and 3-DBusiness Tools, CARobert S. Block is a serial entrepreneur and has a long and successfulcareer in the computer software, communication and entertainmentindustries including pioneering roles in commercialand pay television and cellular telephone operating companies,and the new energy business. Block has contributed significantlyto the creation and development of entertainment and communicationtechnologies used worldwide. He has been granted morethan 150 international patents. Block holds an Honorary Doctoratedegree from the United States Sports Academy.Dr. Edgar MitchellFounder of Institute of NeoticSciencesDr. Tso-Kei PengPresident, Chung Chou Institute ofTechnology, TaiwanChairman, Global Bio-IndustryTechnology DevelopmentFoundation, TaiwanProfessor Peng received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics fromthe University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA in 1981. Currently,he is the President of Chung Chou Institute of Technology(CCIT), Chang Hwa, Taiwan. He is also the Chairman of the GlobalBio-Industry Technology Development Foundation (GBTDF), Taiwan.Dr. Peng was appointed as a Minister to the Ministry of Agriculture,Executive Yuan, Republic of China (Taiwan) from 1996 to 2000.After his ministership, he was appointed President of the NationalChung Hsing University (NCHU) and then Transworld Institute ofTechnology (TIT), respectively, from 2001 to 2003. Professor Pengwas also engaged by the Asia University as Vice President andChair Professor for four years. Professor Peng had taught in NationalChung Hsing University for over 20 years. He has served asa Director of the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, anda Dean of the College of Agriculture in National Chung Hsing University.He was a Visiting Scholar at UC, Davis from 1998-1999.Professor Peng has been actively involved in international organizations.He was the President of Sino-Germany Social EconomicAssociation, the Chairman of Land Reform Train Institute (LRTI,joint institute of US and Taiwan), the President of Food, Fertilizerand Technology Center (FFTC, member countries are Japan, Korea,Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan), ASPAC. ProfessorPeng also served as the President of the Taiwan Agricultural Infor-

mation Technology Association (TAITA), Taiwan Agricultural Association,and the National 4-H Association of Taiwan, respectively.Dr. Peng’s teaching and research areas cover Knowledge Management,Technology and Innovation Management, and ChineseIndustrial and Agricultural Development. Professor Peng has participatedin many international academic conferences and seminars,such as APO, AFITA, ASABE, etc. He has also edited manyjournals.Professor Oktay SinanogluYale UniversityEndowed Chair, Molecular BiologyProfessor Oktay Sinanoglu has been nominated twice for NobelPrize. He is a Turkish scientist of theoretical chemistry and molecularbiology. At age 28, he became the youngest person in 20th centuryat Yale University to attain status as a full professor. Sinanogluwas born in 1935 in Bari, Italy where his father served as a consulgeneral. The family returned to Turkey at the start of World War II in1939. In 1953, he attended TED Yenisehir Lisesi high school inAnkara, and after graduating won a scholarship for education ofchemistry in the United States. In 1956, he graduated from the Universityof California, Berkeley in chemical engineering with the highestrank. In only eight months, he graduated from MIT in 1957 withthe highest degree. In two years, he finished his doctorate at UCBerkeley. In 1960, Sinanoglu started working as associate professorat Yale University. He theorized the "Many-Electron Theory ofAtoms and Molecules" in 1962 by solving a mathematical theoremthat had been unsolved for 50 years. The same year, he earned theAlfred P. Sloan prize. He was appointed full professor in 1961. Hegot his second life-long chair in Yale in Molecular Biology. ProfessorSinanoglu was the first to earn the Alexander von Humboldt’s SciencePrize in 1973. In 1975, he won the award of Japan’s InternationalOutstanding Scientist. In the 1980s, he theorized a newmethod from 180 theories concerning mathematics and physics,considered revolutionary, which enables chemists to predict the waysin which chemicals combine in the laboratory and to solve othercomplex problems in chemistry using simple pictures and periodictables. Also, he took his place in the Academy of Arts & Sciences. In1993, he moved to Turkey to teach at the Yildiz Teknik Universitesi,and officially retired at the age of 67. Yet his scientific researcheshave not ceased. He received several international and local awardsconcerning his scientific and social contributions and efforts. Hehas been to many places including Asia and Latin America. He triedto establish strong communications between Japan, India and Turkey.Because of his efforts, he was given the title "Special Emissary"of Japan-Turkey. He worked for better education, purified languagein Turkey most of his life and strived to form a conscious generation.Lily YehFounder, Artists without BordersLily Yeh is an internationally celebrated artist and award-winningfounder and former executive and artistic director of the Village ofArts and Humanities. Since 1986, with the help of neighborhoodchildren and adults, Yeh has built the Village from an abandonedlot into an organization and a community. She has infused the Villagewith her own artistic sensitivity and vision, collaborating with otherartists and community residents to create a place that brings artinto both the physical space and daily rhythms of life. Expandingbeyond North Philadelphia, Yeh’s work has taken her tocommunities in other parts of the country as well as abroad.Born in Kueizhou China, Yeh studied traditional Chinese paintingin Taiwan before coming to the United States in 1963. In 1968, shebegan teaching at the University of the Arts where she becameprofessor of painting and art history. In 1998, she resigned fromher tenured position to devote all her time to her work at the Villageof Arts and Humanities. Under her leadership as founder, executivedirector and lead artist from 1968 to 2004, the Village has becomea national model of community building through the arts. In the lastfive years of her tenure there, the Village has received severalnational awards including Coming Up Taller Award from thePresident’s Committee on Arts and Culture and the NationalEndowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C. in 2000 and the goldmedal Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence from BrunerFoundation in Cambridge, MA. In 2003, the Village received aCommonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor’s Award forEnvironmental Excellence. In the same year, Yeh received theprestigious “Leadership for the Changing World” Award from theFord Foundation. In 2007, the Village is being honored withChampion in Action Award by Citizens Bank for its buildingcommunity through the arts effort.In 2004, Yeh left the Village to pursue her work internationally. Sheformed a new non-profit organization, Barefoot Artists, Inc., with themission to bring the transformative power of art to the mostimpoverished communities in the world through participatory andmultifaceted projects that foster community empowerment, improvethe physical environment, promote economic development, andpreserve indigenous art and culture. Yeh has conducted lectures,workshops and land transformation projects in many places in theworld. Her current work, the Rwanda Healing Project, includes theconstruction of the 1994 Genocide Memorial and the transformationof a survivors village in the Rugerero district in West Rwanda. Ithas won her the SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design)2006 Design Award and the Earth Movers Award from Natural HomeMagazine in 2007. Yeh’s work has impacted people and places inChina, Columbia, Ecuador, Ghana, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, theRepublic of Georgia, Rwanda and the United States.PLENARY SESSION-IDr. Gabriele BammerMonday, June 2, 2008 1: 30 pm - 2: 00 pmRoom: A101Dr. Gabriele BammerNational Centre for Epidemiology andPopulation Health, ANU College ofMedicine and Health Sciences,The Australian National UniversityDo we need a new discipline to document andtransmit problem-based learningsProfessor Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline ofIntegration and Implementation Sciences (www.anu.edu.au/iisn) toimprove the contribution universities can make to tackling complexsocietal problems. This discipline deals with a common set of issuesfaced by all problem-based research - the need to generatefresh thinking, to deal with what we do not know as effectively as

what we know, to influence decision making and change, and toappreciate that problems are embedded in wider systems. GabrieleBammer is a Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology andPopulation Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences,The Australian National University and a Research Fellow at theHauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University. Herempirical research examines integration and implementation conceptsand methods that can be exchanged between populationhealth, policing and security, environmental management and technologicalinnovation.Professor Bammer holds degrees in Biochemistry, Psychology andGeography, and a PhD in Behavioural Pharmacology. She had hadthree major career transitions - first from working on science-basedinterdisciplinary problems to working in occupational health; secondto working on illicit drug problems; and third from undertakingresearch on specific problems to developing cross-cutting theoryand methods to support others in performing more effective problem-basedresearch. She was an inaugural Fulbright New CenturyScholar in 2001-2 and the first person to be awarded a Fellowshipunder the Visiting Scholars Program, Competence Centre Environmentand Sustainability, ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyZurich) in 2007. Her current research involves collaborativeprojects on illicit drug policy, policing and security, natural resourcemanagement, and biosecurity in Australia, as well as the impact ofglobal environmental change on food systems in the Indo-GangeticPlain.DINNER SPEAKERDr. Chun-Yen ChangMonday, June 2, 2008 7: 00 pm - 9:30 pmRoom: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelDr. Chun-Yen Chang:1999 Science & EngineeringAward LaureateFounding Director of Nationalnano-Device Labs in TaiwanDr. Chun-Yen Chang was the former President of National ChiaoTung University in Taiwan. He received his BSEE degree from theNational Chenk Kung University (NCKU), and MS and Ph.D. degreesfrom the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). Due to hispioneering Ph.D. thesis in 1969, Prof. Chang became the first evergraduate student to receive the first domestic Ph.D. degree in Engineeringin Taiwan. He served as a research fellow at Bell Labs, aprofessor at NCKU, the dean of research, dean of engineering anddean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NCTUand President of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Healso was the founding Director of National Nano-Device Labs inTaiwan.In addition to his presidency at NCTU, Dr. Chang held several otherpositions and affiliations including Foreign Associate of the U.S.National Academy of Engineering, member of Academia Sinica ofthe Republic of China, National Chair Professor, National PolicyAdvisor to the Office of the President of the Republic of China, andScience and Technology Advisor to the Executive Yuan of the Republicof China. Dr. Chang has received 26 patents collectively inthe US and in Taiwan, and has published over 300 technical papers.He is the author of the book Made by Taiwan, promoting theidea of innovation and creativity for the future of Taiwan as a worldleader in technology. He has made pioneering contributions to vari-ous semiconductor devices, and is a key inventor in electronic technology.Among his major inventions, most worthy of mention are“The method of low pressure MOCVD using triethyl Gallium,” Znincorporation, boron penetration and nitridation in silicon dioxide,and modulation-doped base transistor. He has built a world-classelectronic teaching and research institute at NCTU, supervisingover 50 Ph.D.and 300 MS students who later become the leadersand backbone of the semiconductor industry in Taiwan. He is consideredas a patriarch of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry.Through his visionary leadership and hard work, Dr. Chang haspropelled the NCTU to become the leading university in the educationand research in electronics in the world. The faculty and studentsin the NCTU have consistently published the most researchpapers in IEEE since 1996.He was the recipient of Engineeringmedal of Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineers, of an academicachievement award in engineering from the Ministry of Educationand the distinguished research award of the National ScienceCouncil, Republic of China, as well as the recipient of the 1989-1990 international traveling award granted by the China Foundationto the distinguished scholars in the Republic of China, andrecipient of advancement for outstanding chair professorship, since1995.KEYNOTE PANEL-IIGlobal Network forTransdisciplinary Collaboration9:00 am - 12:30 pm Tuesday June 3, 2008Room: A101Organizers : Dr. A. Ertas, Dr. D. GibsonDr. J. Tsai, Dr. Yamaguchi, Dr. R. T. YehCo-Chairs: Dr. R. T. Yeh and Dr. M. TanikParticipating Schools and Organizations forCollaboaration:Center for Transdisciplinary Studies, Asia University, Taichung,Taiwan; ICC Institute, The University of Texas , Austin, TX; Academyof Transdisciplinary Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock,TX; College of Engineering, The Andhra University, India;Ambiencia Information Systems, Ltd, Campinas, Brazil; Universityof Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), AL; The Academy ofTransdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS).“Technology continues to shrink the world. There is nochoice other than to participate in the global community.Science and technology is too precious a resource to berestricted from drawing the world together. That is what the21 st Century is all about.”George KozmetskyFormer Chairman of the BoardSociety for Design & Process ScienceThe objective of this year’s Keynote Panel is to deliberate thestrategy and tactics of establishing a global network oftransdisciplinary centers for collaborative research and education.In this context, we will discuss the development of collaborationframework in which all stakeholders such universities, researchcenters, and corporations will benefit. This Kenote Panel will allowpartners to adopt transdisciplinary approach to various topics,and to start the transdisciplinary national and international network.

PANEL-II KEYNOTE SPEAKERTuesday, June 3, 9:00-9:30 amRoom: A101Dr. Juan M. SanchezVice President for ResearchThe University of Texas at Austin, TXDr. Juan M. Sanchez is the Vice President for Research at TheUniversity of Texas at Austin and holder of the Temple FoundationEndowed Professorship #4 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.He obtained his B.S. in Physics at the University of Cordoba,Argentina, 1971; M.S. in Materials Science, 1974; and Ph.D. in MaterialsScience, 1977 at the University of California, Los Angeles.Dr. Sanchez is the author and co-author of over 140 technical publicationson a wide range of topics in materials science and engineering.His current research interests are in the electronic, thermodynamicand structural properties of materials including intermetalliccompounds, magnetic and non-magnetic alloys, thin filmsand magnetic multilayers. His primary interest is the developmentand application of first principles computational methods for theconstruction of phase diagrams of multicomponent material systems.Other research interests include the development of lasercontrolledselective chemical vapor deposition processes for metals,alloys and ceramics.Dr. Sanchez serves on the Council of Federal Relations of the Associationof American Universities; on the Board of Directors asCouncil Vice Chair for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, andthe Texas Nanotechnology Initiative. He also serves as a Representativeto the Government-University-Industry ResearchRoundtable of the National Academies, as Trustee for the SoutheasternUniversities Research Association, Inc., as a Member ofthe Institutional Oversight Board Member for the National Partnershipfor Advanced Computing Infrastructure (NPACI, InstitutionalOversight Board Member for the National Partnership for AdvancedComputing Infrastructure (NPACI), the Board of Visitors of the USArmy War College, Member of the International Consulting Board,Advisory Board for the Texas Coalition for Capital, and the NationalScientific and Policy Advisory Council for the Hogg Foundation forMental Health.PANEL-IIDISTINGUISHED PANELISTSTuesday, June 3, 9:30 am-12:30 pmRoom: A101to work for the University of Wisconsin Madison as an IrrigationSpecialist on an agricultural project in Brazil. During the periodfrom 1975 to 1985, he taught at the University of Wyoming where hewas President of the Faculty Senate and Director of the Water ResourcesManagement master’s program in addition to his regularteaching and research duties. From 1985 to present he has taughtat Texas Tech University where he has held a variety of administrativepositions including Department Chair of Agricultural Engineering,Interim Chair of Civil Engineering, Associate Dean of Engineeringfor Academic Affairs, Interim Dean of Architecture, SeniorAssociate Dean of Engineering, and Dean of the Graduate School.Dr. Borrelli has done extensive research in irrigation and waterresources. He currently has written a manual on the water use ofcrops and evaporation from lakes that is being extensively usedthoughout the State of Texas. His recent research has been on thevegetation management of highway rights-of-way.Dr. Vicki RaineyDyersburg CommunityCollege,TNDr. Vicki Rainey is a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee. She receivedher B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Tennessee– Martin (1968), an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi(1970), a Ph.D. in Higher Education (mathematics concentration)at the University of Mississippi (1979), and an M.A. inCounseling from Amberton University (2001). Dr. Rainey began hercareer as a math teacher for the Memphis City Schools from 1969through 1975. In the Fall of 1975, she joined the mathematics staffat Shelby State Community College (consolidated as a part of SouthwestTennessee Community College) where she attained the rankof Associate Professor of Mathematics. In November of 1980, Dr.Rainey left West Tennessee to work as a software engineer for E-Systems, a small defense company in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas.In 22 years at the Texas location, including acquisition by the defensegiant Raytheon, she rose to the rank of Director, SoftwareEngineering responsible for the management and technical directionof up to 850 engineers.As Director, Software Engineering, Dr. Rainey worked with severaluniversities to aid in the coordination of industrial needs and academiccurricula. She was also active in the efforts to integrateengineering concepts into other academic areas through sponsoringof transdisciplinary education. Dr. Rainey presented herideas through publications, national presentations, internationalpresentations, and development of societies and academies tofurther these ideas. Her involvement with the theory behind the wayengineering processes blend with other subjects and the way engineersapproach problem solving, led her to pursue a degree incounseling. After completing her counseling degree and “retiring”from Raytheon to return home, Dr. Rainey was hired as an instructorof developmental mathematics at Dyersburg State CommunityCollege.Dr. John BorrelliFormer DeanGraduate SchoolTexas Tech University, TXDr. John Borrelli, former Dean of the Graduate School at TexasTech University holds a B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Engineeringfrom Colorado State University and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineeringfrom The Pennsylvania State University. From 1973 to 1975 he wentDr. Allam Appa RaoDeanCollege of EngineeringThe Andhra University, IndiaDr. Allam Appa Rao is Dean of Engineering Faculty, Andhra University,Visakhapatnam, one of the top Universities in India. He hasbeen a Professor from the year 1985. He started his career in

Computing field in the year 1969. He had his early training incomputers from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, and ICTP,Trieste, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. degree for his work in Studieson Computer Performance Evaluation. He has devoted himself topromoting computerization in India in all his endeavors for the lastthree decades. Dr. Allam Appa Rao has published extensively andreceived numerous awards for his research work and teaching.Dr. Phillip C-Y SheuEECS and Biomedical EngineeringUniversity of California, IrvineDr. Phillip C-Y. Sheu is currently a professor of EECS andBiomedical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Healso serves as the Founding Director of the Institute for SemanticComputing, an international research organization that connectsindustry, government and academia to promote semantictechnologies. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from theUniversity of California at Berkeley in Electrical Engineering andComputer Science in 1986 and 1982, respectively. From 1986 to1988, he was an assistant professor at School of ElectricalEngineering, Purdue University. From 1989 to 1993, he was anassociate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering atRutgers University.He has published two books: (1) Intelligent Robotic PlanningSystems and (2) Software Engineering and Environment - An Object-Oriented Perspective, and more than 100 papers in object-relationaldata and knowledge engineering and their applications. His currentresearch interests include semantic computing and complexbiomedical systems. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the founding editorin-Chiefof the International Journal of Semantic Computing.Dr. Fuad Gattaz SobrinhoPresident of AmbienciaInformation Systems, Ltd,Campinas, BrazilDr. Fuad G. Sobrinho is a former Executive Director of EMBRAPA,Distinguished Professor at University of Dortmund, DistinguishedResearch Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Heis the SDPS fellow and the founder of P3 Technology. Dr. Sobrinhoreceived his PhD in Computer Science and Management Sciencefrom the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland in 1984. Dr.Sobrinho is the founder and has been served the SecretaryExecutive of Board of Directors of International Institute on SystemsIntegration - IIISis, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1993-2002.Chicago. He is also a Chair Professor at National Chiao-TungUniversity, a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 at the University ofTexas at Austin, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of PublicHealth and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. He was a VisitingComputer Scientist in the U.S. Air Force Rome Laboratory in1994. His research has been supported by U.S. National ScienceFoundation, U.S. Air Forces Research Laboratory, U.S. Army ResearchLaboratory, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencyin the U.S. Department of Defense, Motorola, Fujitsu, etc. The technologyon knowledge-based software engineering developed byhim and his research team resulted the world-first complete transformationof an embedded software product in 1993 and is nowused to produce communication software systems world wide. Heis an author of 10 books and over 230 publications in the areas ofknowledge-based software engineering, software architecture, formalmodeling and verification, distributed real-time systems,bioinformatics, sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, trustworthycomputing, intrusion detection, multimedia systems, and intelligentagents. He has chaired or co-chaired over 20 IEEE-sponsoredinternational conferences including the 16th IEEE InternationalSymposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the 9th IEEEInternational Symposium on Multimedia, the 1 st IEEE InternationalConference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and TrustworthyComputing, the 3rd IFIP International Conference on UbiquitousIntelligence and Computing, and the 5th IEEE International Symposiumon Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. He also chairedthe IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing and wason the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Book Series on HealthInformatics, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of ArtificialIntelligence Tools, and is on the editorial board of InternationalJournal of Web Services Research, Journal of Ubiquitous Computingand Intelligence, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering,Wiley, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics andNatural Intelligence, International Journal of Semantic Computing,and International Journal of Software Engineering and KnowledgeEngineering. He has also served on the DARPA ISAT working groupand on the review panel for NSF and NIH. He was an IEEE DistinguishedSpeaker from 1993 to 1996. He received an EngineeringFoundation Research Award from the IEEE and the EngineeringFoundation Society in 1988, a University Scholar Award from theUniversity of Illinois Foundation in 1994, an IEEE Meritorious ServiceAward from the IEEE Computer Society in 1994, and an IEEETechnical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society in1997. He was the Founding President of Asia University and is aFellow of the AAAS, the IEEE, and the SDPS.LUNCHEON SPEAKERLily YehDr. Jeffrey J.P. TsaiFounding PresidentAsia UniversityTaichung, TaiwanJeffrey J.P. Tsai received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciencefrom Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is a Professorof Computer Science and the Director of the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois atTuesday, June 3, 2008 12: 30 pm - 1: 30 pmRoom: L011Lily YehFounder, Artists without Borders

KEYNOTE PANEL-III21st CenturyTransdisciplinarians9:00 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday June 4, 2008Room: A101Organizers: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh, SDPS LifetimeHonorary MemberCo-Chairs: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh and Dr. Sumit GhoshThe goal of this keynote panel is to envision what kinds of peopleare needed in a Flat World, a la’ Thomas Friedman, emerging inthe 21st century. How do we architect the enfoldment of this century’shistory in the new context? We believe that a new generation ofwhole person/whole mind people will emerge who are “integralthinkers” in that they are trans-culture transdisciplinarians whoexperience the world as a gift, joyfully engaged in its co-creationwith a mind set of abundance, wholeness, and interdependencefor shared prosperity. We invited panelists who are alreadytransdisciplinarians to share and to envision.PANEL-III KEYNOTE SPEAKERWednesday, June 4, 9:00-9:30 amRoom: A101Dr. C.V. RamamoorthyUniversity of California, Berkeley, CAProfessor Ramamoorthy’s distinguished career tracks back to the1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell,Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instructionsequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell’s first transistorizedsystem. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-programdigital computer designed for process monitoring and control. Inthe late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin,as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science,later becoming chair of the computer science department. At UCBerkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is anemeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science.Most recently, his research investigations have focused onservice industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationshipsbetween software and service engineering. IEEE Society hashonored Ramamoorthy’s achievements with the Taylor L. BoothEducation Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin DistinguishedService Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, andTsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE CentennialMedal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been anIEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Designand Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh DistinguishedAchievement Award in 1997. A longtime Computer Societyvolunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactionson Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editorin chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He haspublished more than 150 papers, coedited three books, and holdspatents in computer architecture, software engineering, computertesting and diagnosis and databases.He holds two undergraduatedegrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate de-grees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California atBerkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics andComputer Sciences from Harvard.PANEL-IIIDISTINGUISHED PANELISTSWednesday June 4, 9:30 am-12:30 pmRoom: A101Professor Gabriele BammerNational Centre for Epidemiology andPopulation Health, ANU College ofMedicine and Health Sciences,The Australian National UniversityDr. W.T. ChenPresident ofNational Tsing Hua University, TaiwanWT Chen is the president of the National Tsing Hua University inTaiwan. He has been with the National Tsing Hua University since1976 and is currently a Chair Professor of the Department of ComputerScience. He has served as Department Chairman, Dean ofCollege of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Directorof Science & Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education.He has consulted in various levels of Taiwan Government andserved as a member of many planning and technical review boards.For 15 years, Professor Chen has served as Co-Chairman andChairman of the Technical Evaluation Board of the Ministry of EconomicAffairs for Promoting High-Tech Products and Technologies,which is recognized as most pivotal in promoting industrial technologiesin Taiwan.Professor Chen pioneered the design of computer networks andparallel systems in early 1980s. He is currently leading a projectfor design and applications of advanced information networks. Hehas received numerous awards for his achievements incomputer networking and parallel processing, including OutstandingResearch Awards of the National Science Council,National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Technical AchievementAward of the IEEE Computer Society. ProfessorChen was the General Chair of the 2000 IEEE International Conferenceon Distributed Computing Systems and the Founding GeneralChair of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.Professor Jong-Tsun HuangPresident ofChina Medical UniversityProfessor Jong-Tsun Huang received his Ph.D. from National TaiwanUniversity in 1976. His research interests include human perception,cognitive science, and education studies. He is currentlythe President of China Medical University. He was a Visiting Scholar

at Harvard University, Carnegie-Mellon University and UCLA from1982 to 1983, a Research Fellow at Academia Sinica from 1984 to1994, Chairperson of Department of Psychology at National TaiwanUniversity from 1993 to 1995, and a University Professor ofTamkang University from 2004 to 2005.Professor Jong-Tsun Huang was appointed as Minister of Educationfrom 2002 to 2004, Executive Director of Commission for 921Earthquake Post-Disaster Recovery in the Cabinet from 2000 to2002, and Director General of Division of Humanities and SocialSciences, National Science Council, Taiwan, from 1996 to 1999. Inaddition, Professor Huang served as President of Chinese PsychologicalAssociation and President of Y.T. Lee Foundation forScience Education. He received 20 Research Awards from NationalScience Council and is a member of American PsychologicalAssociation, ARVO, NYAS, and AAAS.Development Vice President for Lucent, meanwhile, he establisheda private New Path Foundation in New Jersey in 1999 and took anearly retirement in 2000. Today, Dr. Yeh is devoting full time to NewPath foundation and he is organizing and supporting long termvolunteer services in China.PLENARY SESSION-IIDr. W. T. ChenThursday, June 5, 2008 9: 00 am - 9: 30 amRoom: A101Dr. Reverend Heng SureManaging Director of theBerkeley Budddhist MonasteryDharma Master Heng Sure was ordained as a Buddhist monk in1976. For the sake of world peace, he undertook an over six hundredmile pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, repeatedlytaking three steps and one bow to cover the entire journey. In theentire two years taken to make the pilgrimage, he observed a practiceof total silence. Rev. Heng Sure has an M.A. in Oriental Languagesfrom UC Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate TheologicalUnion in Berkeley. He serves as the Managing Director ofthe Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and teaches on the staff at theInstitute for World Religions. He lectures on the Avamtasak Sutra atthe Berkeley Monastery every Saturday evening. He is actively involvedin interfaith dialogue and in the ongoing conversation betweenspirituality and technology.Dr. W.T. ChenPresident ofNational Tsing Hua University, TaiwanKEYNOTE PANEL-IVSoftware Engineering 2.09:00 am - 12:30 pm Friday June 6, 2008Room: A101Organizer: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh, SDPS Lifetime HonoraryMemberCo-Chairs: Dr. C.V. Ramamoorthy, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CADr. Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet inHagen, GermanyDr. Randolph T. YehNew Path foundationDr. Yeh joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1978. During his career,Dr. Yeh directed various software system design and developmentfor the telecom industry including very large projects in the 5ESSswitching system where more than 20 departments and over 1000technical software and hardware developers are involved. The telephoneswitching systems were deployed throughout the UnitedStates and then globally in the 80’s and 90’s.Dr. Yeh was appointed business development vice president in1990 to help accelerate the acceptance and deployment of operationalsystems in Asia. In 1992, he took over AT&T Taiwan Telecommunicationsas CEO and turned around the company into a profitableand diversified business. AT&T-TT won the highest qualityaward in Taiwan and also recognized as the Best Foreign Businessin 1994. Dr. Yeh was appointed vice president of LucentTechnologies as well as the chairman and CEO of Lucent China in1996 where under his leadership, Lucent China also turned aroundfrom loss to profitability. In 1999, he was appointed Globalization“The technological progress of mankind in exploiting its environmentmay be divided into three main streams of activity. The firstand earliest of these relates to exploiting material resources. Thesecond major stream of activity relates to the exploitation of ourenergy resources. The third stream of technological activity relatesto the collection, transmission, and processing of information.”Claude Shannon, 1962 lecture at MIT“The super-national character of scientific concepts and scientificlanguage is due to the fact that they have been set up by the bestbrains of all countries and all times.” Albert Einstein, The commonlanguage of science, in “Out of my later years,” Citadel Press, 1956,page 113.During the last decade, the technological advances associatedwith the Hardware, Networks, abundance of memory, and SoftwareComponents elevated the service-oriented technologies to a morepractical level. With the advances in the use of service-orientedtechnologies, such Web services, it became more obvious thatcommunication theory can provide a formal foundation for softwarecomplementing previous linguistic and automata-based foundations.Remembering our great mentor Herbert Simon’s Video Speechduring our IDPT-2000 conference announcing the criticality of study-

ing software engineering, it is time to review the foundations aswell as the impact of these software technologies on society – Thisis the nature of Software 2.0 Workshop. The face of software, whichis fundamentally an abstract design, is permanently changing, togetherwith the processes of software development and engineering.More than four decades passed since Shannon’s MIT talk and almosta decade passed since the great mentor Herb Simon’s SDPS-IDPT talk. It is much clear today that “collection, transmission, andprocessing of information” is the most fundamental scientific problemwith far reaching consequences into physical and biologicalsciences and engineering. Furthermore, as Herb Simon indicatessoftware development and engineering sits at the heart of that problem.Central techniques and methods of software engineering allowus to design and build very small-scale as well as very largescalesystems all the way to the “engineering of enterprises” of thefuture. Furthermore, deeper understanding of the fundamentalmechanisms of abstract software and algorithm construction allowsus to conceive and build spatially small but computationallyintensive nano-technology and potentially even quantum devices.In doing so, we are redefining the boundaries of classical engineeringand introducing far more levels of abstraction into the humanactivity called “engineering.” The key technology redefiningengineering is software technology and the engineering of it issoftware engineering. That is why; we like to call software engineeringthe discipline of 21 st century and the first transdiscipline.You are all invited to join to celebrate the successes of this abstracthuman activity called “software” and it is far reaching consequences.PANEL-IV KEYNOTE SPEAKERFriday, June 6, 9:00-9:30 amRoom: A101Friday, June 6, 2008 9: 00 am - 9: 30 amRoom: Conference CenterDr. Jeffrey J.P. TsaiFounding PresidentAsia UniversityTaichung, TaiwanPANEL-IVDISTINGUISHED PANELISTSFroday June 6, 9:30 am-12:30 pmRoom: A101Dr. Peter ChenFoster DistinguishedChair ProfessorLSU, Baton Rouge, LA, USAholds the position of M. J. Foster Distinguished Chair Professor ofComputer Science since 1983. Prof. Peter Chen received his Ph.D.from Harvard University and has held regular and visiting facultyappointments at MIT, UCLA and Harvard. He is the originator of theEntity-Relationship Model (ER Model), which serves as the foundationof many systems analysis and design methodologies, computer-aidedsoftware engineering (CASE) tools, and repository systemsincluding IBM’s Repository Manager/MVS and DEC’s CDD/Plus.Dr. Chen’s work is a cornerstone of software engineering, in particularComputer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE). In the late80’s and early 90’s, IBM’s Application Development Cycle (AD/Cycle)framework and DB2 repository (RM/MVS) were based on the ERmodel. Other vendors’ repository systems such as Digital’s CDD+were also based on the ER model. Prof. Chen has made significantimpact on the CASE industry by his research work and by hislecturing around the world on structured system development methodologies.Most of the major CASE tools including Computer Associates’ERWIN, Oracle’s Designer/2000, and Sybase’sPowerDesigner (and even a general drawing tool like Microsoft’sVISIO) are influenced by the ER model.Dr. Kane KimDirector, Dream LaboratoryUniversity of California, IrvineCA, USAK. H. (Kane) Kim is Professor of Computer Engineering and ComputerScience at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He receivedan M.A. degree from the Computer Science Department atthe University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and a Ph.D. degree fromthe Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley,in 1974. He has been building up a research laboratorynamed the DREAM (Distributed Real-Time Ever-AvailableMicrocomputing) Lab during the past twenty two years (http://dream.eng.uci.edu ).He is the principal originator of the TMO (time-triggered messagetriggeredobject, also called RTO.k) programming scheme, theDistributed Recovery Block (DRB) scheme, and several other fundamentaldependable computing approaches. Dr. Kim is a recipientof the 1998 IEEE Computer Society¡¯s Technical AchievementAward and the 2004 IEEE Computer Society¡¯s Tsutomu KanaiAward for his contributions to the scientific foundation of both realtimefault-tolerant computing and real-time object-/component-orienteddistributed computing. In 2007, he received the Korean OverseasCompatriots Award in the area of Science & Technology fromthe Korean Broadcasting System.Dr. Kim is a fellow of IEEE (elected in Fall 1988), a fellow of SDPSand a member of the IFIPWG 10.4 on Dependable Computing. Heserved as the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society¡¯s TechnicalCommittee on Distributed Processing during 1984-86 andhosted several IEEE conferences. He also served as a member ofthe founding editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Paralleland Distributed Systems during 1989¡©1994. In 1983, he was oneof the two co-founders of KOCSEA (Korean Computer Scientists &Engineers Association in America) and during 2005 - 2006, heserved as the president of KSEA (Korean-American Scientists &Engineers Association).

Dr. Allam Appa RaoDeanCollege of EngineeringThe Andhra University, IndiaDr. Jyh-Sheng KeSenior Fellow and Board MemberThe Institute for InformationIndustry, TaiwanDr. Jyh-Sheng Ke is currently the Senior Fellow and Board Memberof the Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan, and was thePresident/CEO of III from 2003 to 2006. In his twenty-five yearscareer at III, Dr. Ke first was responsible for the Chinese computerdevelopment, and then has directed the research and developmentof a wide spectrum of advanced technologies for computer andcommunications products, led pioneering work in softwareengineering environment development, multimediacommunications technology development, as well as assisted thegovernment in the promotion and development of the NationalInformation Infrastructure and bridging the digital divide.In 2005 and 2006, he also served as the Chairman of the ChineseInstitute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan. In 2007, he was electedas the Chairman of IT-enabled Service Management Association,Taiwan.Dr. Ke obtained a B.S. Degree in Computer Science and ControlEngineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan and,later, his Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universityof Nebraska and University of Illinois, respectively. In 2004, Dr. Kewas elected as a Fellow of Chinese Society for Management ofTechnology, Taiwan. In 2007, he was awarded as an outstandingalumnus by National Chiao-Tung University.Engineering Technology (SEK) research group at SMU. Dr. Tanik isco-founder of the interdisciplinary and international society, Societyfor Design and Process Science. His publications include coauthoringsix books, co-editing eight collected works, and morethan 100 journal papers, conference papers, book chapters, andreports funded by various government agencies and corporations.Under his direction, 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 20 M.S. theseshave been completed. Dr. Tanik’s research interests include softwaresystems engineering, embedded and intelligent softwaresystems, wireless and time-critical software support, collaborativecomputing for domain specific applications, and integrated systemsdesign and process engineering. Current Research Sponsoredprojects include E-Business application design for Sports-Medicine, Multi-lifecycle Engineering software systems for environmentalprotection, Time-critical systems for Super Conducting SuperCollider,Intelligent cost-estimation systems software, Intelligenttime-and-space critical systems, Intelligent digital switchmaintenance systems, Intelligent user-interfaces for factory andlaboratory automation. Current and recent sponsors include DoD,Army, NATO, Texas Instruments, AT&T, E-Systems, Lockheed, CTI-Brazil, EMBRAPA-Brazil, Super Conducting SuperCollider, State ofNew Jersey, Northern Telecom, IRS, DEC, Abbott Laboratories,Merle-Collins foundation, and Texacone Inc.Dr. Murat M. TanikUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham,Birmingham, AlabamaDr. Tanik joined the UAB School of Engineering in 1998 as a professor.Prior to joining the UAB faculty, he was an associate professorand the director of Electronic Enterprise Engineering at NJITand the director of Software Systems Engineering Institute (SSEI)at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director and chiefscientist of Process Sciences Laboratory, a think-tank of processcenteredknowledge integration. Dr. Tanik has worked on relatedprojects for NASA, Arthur A. Collins (developer of Apollo moon missions’tracking and communications systems), and ISSI. He wasan associate professor and the director of the Software Systems

WORKSHOP-I On Integration:What Can We Learn from Chemistry and its EngineeringSponsored by GEMSAN-Istanbul-TurkeyTuesday June 3, 2008 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmRoom: A101Transdiscipline: Integrating Science and Engineering PrinciplesWorkshop Organizers:Adem Unal, GEMSAN-Istanbul-Turkey; Murat M. Tanik, UAB,USA; Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands;Tolga Tuncer, MD, Fellow, SJHMC-Barrow Neurological Institute,AZ, USA; I. Ozkarahan, Troy University Montgomery, AL, USA.WORKSHOP KEYNOTE SPEAKERTuesday, June 3, 1:30-2:00 pmRoom: A101Workshop Co-Chairs:Murat M. Tanik, UAB, USA, Mehmet Aksit, University ofTwente, The NetherlandsDescription:This year we are dedicating our “Intergation” workshop to SDPS-IDPT Opening address speaker Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee. Dr. Y.T. Lee’s work transformed our understanding of nature with hisdesign of molecular beam devices, so that we can view chemicalreactions. Chemistry studies the composition, structure, properties,and reactions of matter as atomic and molecular systems.Traditionally chemistry divided into areas such as analytical, inorganic,organic, and physical. Chemistry and its engineering haveplayed a fundamental role in the society affecting almost everythingwe do such as biology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, forensics,and environment. In this context, we will discuss transdisciplinarynature of chemistry and it’s engineering. We wish to use this workshopas a vehicle to link researchers, educators and learners inways that will influence transdisciplinary education and researchat all levels. Previous “Integration” workshops were dedicated toErnst Mayr and Ilya Prigogine respectively.During June 2005 we have dedicated our first “integration” workshopto Eminent Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr. We had discussedtopics associated with the last book of Dr. Mayr “What makes biologyunique? in which he states “biology actually consists of tworather different fields, mechanistic (functional) biology and historicalbiology.” He recognizes the lack of “programmatic” aspect ininanimate world. However, considerations in information theory andcomputing provide a “programmatic” aspect to physics and chemistryand indirectly to Biology. In 2006, we dedicated our IntegrationWorkshop to the memory of Ilya Prigogine, Regental Professor ofPhysics and Chemical Engineering and director of the Ilya PrigogineCenter for Studies in Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systemsat The University of Texas at Austin who passed away in 2003. Hegreatly enhanced our understanding of irreversible processes insystems that are far from equilibrium, particularly in chemical andbiological systems. It has been known that irreversible behavior isactually observed in chemical, hydrodynamic, and biological systems,which remain one of the great mysteries of science. Ilya’sapproach was to study the “complexity” in general. The study of“complexity” intrigued Prigogine; and he and Dr. Kozmetsky hadmany long discussions on this matter. In 2007, we incorporatedour Integration Workshop with the traditional “TransdisciplinaryEducation Workshop” in which we discussed the ideas related to“transformative Research” as NSF defined it “research driven byideas that stand a reasonable chance of radically changing ourunderstanding of an important existing scientific concept or leadingto the creation of a new paradigm or field of science.Professor Oktay SinanogluYale UniversityEndowed Chair, Molecular BiologyProfessor Oktay Sinanoglu has been nominated twice for NobelPrize. He is a Turkish scientist of theoretical chemistry and molecularbiology. At age 28, he became the youngest person in 20th centuryat Yale University to attain status as a full professor. Sinanogluwas born in 1935 in Bari, Italy where his father served as a consulgeneral. The family returned to Turkey at the start of World War II in1939. In 1953, he attended TED Yenisehir Lisesi high school inAnkara, and after graduating won a scholarship for education ofchemistry in the United States. In 1956, he graduated from the Universityof California, Berkeley in chemical engineering with the highestrank. In only eight months, he graduated from MIT in 1957 withthe highest degree. In two years, he finished his doctorate at UCBerkeley. In 1960, Sinanoglu started working as associate professorat Yale University. He theorized the "Many-Electron Theory ofAtoms and Molecules" in 1962 by solving a mathematical theoremthat had been unsolved for 50 years. The same year, he earned theAlfred P. Sloan prize. He was appointed full professor in 1961. Hegot his second life-long chair in Yale in Molecular Biology. ProfessorSinanoglu was the first to earn the Alexander von Humboldt’s SciencePrize in 1973. In 1975, he won the award of Japan’s InternationalOutstanding Scientist. In the 1980s, he theorized a newmethod from 180 theories concerning mathematics and physics,considered revolutionary, which enables chemists to predict the waysin which chemicals combine in the laboratory and to solve othercomplex problems in chemistry using simple pictures and periodictables. Also, he took his place in the Academy of Arts & Sciences. In1993, he moved to Turkey to teach at the Yildiz Teknik Universitesi,and officially retired at the age of 67. Yet his scientific researcheshave not ceased. He received several international and local awardsconcerning his scientific and social contributions and efforts. Hehas been to many places including Asia and Latin America. He triedto establish strong communications between Japan, India and Turkey.Because of his efforts, he was given the title "Special Emissary"of Japan-Turkey. He worked for better education, purified languagein Turkey most of his life and strived to form a conscious generation.

WORKSHOP-II OnTranscultural Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & PracticeSponsored by Texas A&M University at QatarWednesday June 4, 2008 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmRoom: A101How the World is Coming Together:No Boundaries for Engineering Education & PracticeWorkshop Coordinators:Dr. Alan Barhorst, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M Universityat Qatar.Dr. Patrick Linke, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M Universityat Qatar.Dr. Zohreh Eslami, Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University at Qatar.Dr. Hassan Moghbelli, Science, Texas A&M University at Qatar.WORKSHOP KEYNOTE SPEAKERWednesday June 4, 1:30-5:30 pmRoom: A101Description:During this workshop, multicultural researchers, practitioners, andeducators will share their experiences and thoughts concerningthe impact diverse cultural backgrounds have on engineering. Morespecifically, the impact on design, process, and development thatarises from cultural variations will be a major theme. Our hope is toidentify parameters to quantify the range of cultural behaviors andthe commensurate need to understand the cultural and humanimpactglobal engineering enterprise may entail.Workshop Session Topics:1. Integrating East and West in the Middle for engineering objectives:a. Understanding and appreciating different perceptionstoward innovation, research, product development, and processdesign, b. Acquiring technology vs. in house development, c.Response to new inputs or products developed elsewhere, d.consideration of environmental and other regulations.2. Synergy between Western Education Ideals and Emerging Cultureof International Collaboration: a. Obstacles to overcome forthe education mission, b. Establishing viability in graduate/professionaleducation and research.3. Implementation of a Company Plan in Emerging Culture of InternationalCollaboration: a. Personnel, b. Purchasing, c. Marketing,d. Research and Development.4. Intercultural Communicative Competence in Engineering: WorkingEffectively with People from Different Cultures: a. BusinessNegotiations across Cultures, b. Addressee Terms across Cultures,c. Making Requests across Cultures, d. Apologizing acrossCultures, e. Practical and Teaching Implications.5. Summary Discussion and Topical Session Planning for IDPTConference in Doha, May/June 2009.Dr. Jim C. HolsteAssociate Dean for ResearchTexas A&M University of QatarEstablishing an A&M University Branch Campus to TeachEngineering in the Middle EastDr. Jim Holste is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studiesat Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). He assumed thisposition in February, 2007, after serving as Associate Dean for AcademicAffairs at TAMUQ since its founding in 2003.Before moving to Qatar nearly four years ago, he served on theTexas A&M University home campus for nearly thirty years as Professorof Chemical Engineering. He also has served in a variety ofadministrative positions at Texas A&M, including:1987–1990: Associate Department Head, Chemical Engineering.1992–1995: Associate Director, Office of Graduate Studies.1995–1997: Assistant Director of Research for the Texas EngineeringExperiment Station and Assistant Dean of the Collegeof Engineering.1997–2003: Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and InternationalPrograms in the College of Science.Jim received his Ph.D. in physics from Iowa State University in1973 and spent two years with the U.S. National Institute of Standardsand Technology as a postdoctoral research associate beforejoining Texas A&M University in 1975.Jim has published more than 130 refereed publications and holds10 U.S. Patents. His principle research interests are in the areasof physical properties of fluids, with emphasis on experimentalmeasurement, equations of state, and methods for measuring fluidflows.

WORKSHOP-III OnTransdisciplinary Fundamentals: Impact on engineering CurriculaThursday June 5, 2008 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Room: A101Workshop Organizers : Dr. C.V. Ramamoorthy, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CA, Dr. M. Tanik, University of Alabama atBirmingham, AL, USA; Dr. A. Ertas, Texas Tech University,Lubbock, TX, USA., Dr. Fuad Gattaz Sobrinho, Director ofInternational Institute on Systems Integration - IIISis, Campinas,Sao Paulo, BrazilWorkshop Chairperson: Dr. Vicki Rainey, DyersburgCommunity College,TN.Description:Two decades ago we realized the necessity of extensive introductionof the design courses into engineering curricula. Successeswe achieved with the introduction of design into the curricula areundisputable. At the same time, we realize that we need to do morealong the lines of introduction of design; for example introductionof processes and systems. Transdisciplinary entanglements ofengineering artifact design and development requires a fresh lookto identify transdisciplinary fundamentals for curriculum enhancementpurposes. This workshop should be about identifying thesefundamentals.In the 21st century, due to our advances in classical engineering, ithas become possible to apply unprecedented analysis techniquesto natural processes. These include our ability to investigate verysmall processes such as atomic processes and very large-scaleprocesses such as weather patterns and cosmic objects. Theseadvances also opened up the application of quantitative and engineeringtechniques to all facets of human life. In the 21st century, itis time to capitalize on this collective experience in science andengineering. Transdisciplinary approaches, provided by computa-tional means, which we call “meta-fusion,” have the potential tolocate and integrate these disparate knowledge pieces into a cohesivewhole. This is the new process of knowledge generation.On the dissemination side, we also need a new approach. Currenteducational systems, due to their massive administrative structureand reductionism are not fully responsive to the needs of 21stcentury. For example, Dr. Robert Ronstadt in his novel book “TheTuition Travesty” addresses an aspect called the “financial string”for a college education. During 1995 when we were developingSDPS emblem we had come up with the notion of three “E”s: Ethics-Weshould be human, Economics-We should survive, and Environment-Weshould let others survive. We had debated whetherwe should have the fourth E-Education in the emblem. We decidedthat the fourth E-Education is really at the center of these abovethree “E,” without it we could not achieve any of these “three E” s.This means formal and informal dissemination of knowledge justlike computation is an integral part of the Transdisciplinary activity.We owe to the next generations a set of fundamental notions inwhich there will be a balance between holism and reductionism sothat they will enjoy an intellectual control in designing and developingadvanced integrated engineering artifacts. Future engineers orsystems integrators, in this framework of meta-fusion, will developfunctional artifacts and services by taking into consideration economical,environmental, and ethical aspects of human awareness.One of the key benefits of this workshop will be to discussdeveloping a generic transdisciplinary fundamentals coursewhich can be used in the transdisciplinary programs such asHealth care Engineering, Business Engineering, IntegratedSystems Engineering.WORKSHOP-IV OnKnowledge Transfer Through Social NetworksThursday June 5, 2008 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Room: A101Organizers and Chairs:Dr. Jörn Altmann, Seoul National University and Intl.University of Bruchsal, GermanyDr. Aurelie Bechina, University Collegei Buskerud, NorwayDr. Bernd Kraemer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, GermanyDr. J. Altmann Dr. A. Bechina Dr. B. KraemerParticipant: Inge HermanrudHedmark University College, NorwayNetworks, ICT, and Coordination in Distributed OrganisationsThe continuously growing role of the Internet and its exorbitantnumber of information resources leads to a new notion ofinformation that is trusted though unknown. We observe anincreasing use of unverified intransparent information andknowledge from unknown sources. Web 2.0, also called theparticipative Web, seems to accelerate this development. Webelieve, however, that social networking and social softwareenabling rich forms of symbolic interaction in networkedcommunities of practice oppose to this trend because:- the community defines boundaries within which knowledge isproduced and shared primarily;- the members of a community share common interests, whichmake it more likely that information fitting a persons needs isowned by a peer in the community rather than by anyone elsebeyond the community’s boundary;- a certain degree of trust is an inherent element of a community;- social software provides commodity tools to knowledgemanagement that are more usable than traditional knowledgemanagement approaches.This workshop will address these issues from differentperspectives: Aurélie Bechina will approach the theme from herlong-term expertise in knowledge management. Jörn Altmann, whohas pioneered social networking software and is an expert in socialnetwork analysis, will represent both a technical and theoreticaldimension, and Bernd Krämer will approach the theme from anapplication point of view, especially reuse and sharing of learningcontent and codified learning and teaching expertise. Two or threeshort presentations will set the scene and raise a few hypothesesthat will be subject to a hopefully lively debate in the audience.

University, Statesboro, GA , and SUNIL R. DAS, School of InformationTechnology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,Canada, and Department of Computer and Information Science,Troy University, Montgomery, AL.Power Variations and Test Scheduling for Embedded MemoryArrays by YUAN ZHU, WEN-BEN JONE, Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University ofCincinnati, Cincinnati, OH., and SUNIL R. DAS, School of InformationTechnology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ONK1N 6N5, Canada, and Department of Computer and InformationScience, Troy University, Montgomery, AL.Testing Cores-Based System-on-Chips Using ModelSim VerificationTool by SUNIL R. DAS, School of Information Technologyand Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, and Departmentof Computer and Information Science, Troy Univ., Montgomery,AL., JUNFENG LI, ALTAF HOSSAIN, AMIYA R. NAYAK, EMILM. PETRIU, School of Information Technology and Engineering,University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON , Canada, S. N. BISWAS, Departmentof Electrical Engineering Technology, Georgia Southern University,Statesboro, GA ., MANSOUR H. ASSAF, Department of Communicationsand Information Technology, University of Trinidad andTobago, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, and WEN-BEN JONE,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and ComputerScience, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.Knowledge-Based Trip Advisor: From Theory to Practice in DataMining by Sang C. Suh, Archana Chada, Department of ComputerScience, Texas A&M University - Commerce, Commerce, TX.SESSION-7 Room:L008Tuesday, June 3, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmCLINIC INFORMATION SYSTEMSSession Organizer and Chair: CHING SONG D. WEI,City University of New York, NYC, NY, USA, PETER A.NG, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX,USA .Data Cube Visualization for Decision Support by XUSHENG WANG,Department of Computer Science and Quantitative MethodsWinthrop University Rock Hill, SC, PING-SING TSAI, Department ofComputer Science, The University of Texas ¨C Pan American,Edinburg, TX, USA, SONG XING, Department of Information Systems,California State University, Las Angeles Los Angeles, CA.On Solving Some Problems of Heterogeneous Healthcare InformationExchange and Interoperability (HIEI) by CHING-SONG D.WEI, Department of Computer Information Systems BMCC, CityUniversity of New York New York, NY, USA, SIMON J. DOONG, Departmentof Information Management, China University of Technology,Taipei, Taiwan, SAM Y. SUNG, Department of Computer Science,South Texas College, McAllen, TX, USA, PETER A. NG, Departmentof Computer Science, University of Texas-Pan American,Edinburg, TX.A Software Engineering Approach to Designing Computer Gamesby JOSE A. GUTIERREZ, Department of Computer Science, Universityof Texas ¨C Pan American, Edinburg, TX.Intelligent National Medical Networks: Design and PerformanceAnalysis by LIN W. LEUNG, CHING-SONG D. WEI, CHIGURUPATIS. RANI, YAN CHEN Department of Computer Information Systems,BMCC, City University of New York, New York, NY.A Methodology to Analyze Programs for Program Understandingby *Chia-Chu Chiang and ‡ Tong-Seing Lee † Department ofComputer Science University of Arkansas at Little Roc, Arkansas,*Department of Information Management Chien Kuo TechnologyUniversity, Taiwan, ROC.SESSION- 8 Room: L009Tuesday, June 3, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmINTELLIGENT AGENTS AND ONTOLOGYSession Organizer and Chair: ALAN LIU, ChungChouInstitute of Technology, Taiwan.Dynamic Reconfigurable Mechanism for Delivering ATIS Servicesby JONATHAN LEE, HSI-MIN CHEN and SHIN-JIE LEE, NationalCentral University, Taiwan.Declarative Development of Agent Communication by Y.F. LIN,C.H. LIU, J.Y. CHEN, National Central University, Taiwan.Towards Negoation of Intelligent Agent in Selecting Vehicle Priorityby JONG YIH KUO, FRANK HSIEH, HE JHIH LIN, NationalTaipei University of Technology, Taiwan.Designing intelligent agents for traffic delay compensation byCHIUNG-HON LEON LEE, KEN YEN-RU CHENG, and ALAN LIU,ChungChou Institute of Technology, Taiwan.SESSION-9 Room: L011Tuesday, June 3, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmSOFTWARE APPLICATIONSSession Organizer and Chair: A. DOGRU. METU,Ankara, Turkey.A Historical View on Software Development Standards by K.BURAK CODUR, Turkish Military Academy, Defense Sciences Institute, Ankara TurkeyAn Integration Model for Domain Specific Kits by SEMIH CETIN,Cybersoft Information Technologies, Ankara, Turkey and N.ILKERALTINTAS, Cybersoft Information Technologies, Atasehir Bulvari,Istanbul, Turkey.Correspondence Analysis for Supporting Document Re-Use inDevelopment Processes by ANNE-THÉRÈSE KÖRTGEN, STEFANHEUKAMP, Department of Computer Science, Aachen University,Aachen, Germany.An Experiment with Modeling Tools in the Analysis of FunctionalRequirements: a Transdisciplinary approach by G.V. KAMADIA 1 ,M.M. TANIK 1 , G.J. GRIMES 1 , M.N.TANJU 2 1 Department of Electricaland Computer Engineering, 2 Department of Accounting and InformationSystem, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham,AL.Issues with Calculating Conant’s Decomposition TransmissionParameters for High Entropy Variables by STANLEY C.THOMPSON, YALCIN TUNCER, AND MURAT M.TANIK, Departmentof Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama atBirmingham, Birmingham, AL.Entropy-based Software Measures by O. AKTUNC 1 AND M. M.TANIK 2 1 Vision Science Research Center, UAB, Birmingham, Alabama,USA 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,UAB, Birmingham, AL.SESSION-10 Room:L008Wednesday, June 4, 4:00 pm - 5:40 pmPERVASIVE HEALTHCARESession Organizer and Chair: RADMILA JURIC, Universityof Westminster, School of Informatics, London, UK,IVO DUKIC, Department of Urology, Royal Blackburn Hospital,Blackburn, UK, PETER MILLIGAN, Enterprise Architecture,DCSIT, GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford, UK.Ontology Based Access Control Derived from Dynamic RBAC andits Context Constraints by A. MACFIE, P. KATARIA, N.KOAY,H.DAGDEVIREN, R. JURIC, K.MADANI, University of Westminster,School of Informatics, London, UK.

Research Issues in Access Control for Pervasive Healthcare byA. MACFIE, R. JURIC, K. MADANI, University of Westminster, Schoolof Informatics, London, UKOntology for Supporting Context-aware Applications for the IntelligentHospital Ward by P. KATARIA, A. MACFIE, R. JURIC, K.MADANI, University of Westminster, School of Informatics, London,UK.A Conceptual Framework for Personalized and Mobile Health Careby J. WILLIG 1 , R. S. SADASIVAM 2, 3 , and M. M. TANIK 2,3 1 Departmentof Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 2 Division of ContinuingMedical Education, 3 Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL.SESSION-11 Room:L008Wednesday, June 4, 5:40 pm - 6:30 pmTRANSDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS OFMULTI-AGENT SYSTEMSSession Organizer and Chair: SHAMIMABIPAUROBALLY, School of Informatics, University ofWestminster, London, UK, REZA SHOJANOORI, Schoolof Informatics, University of Westminster, London, UK,MINGHUA HE, Computer Science, School of Engineeringand Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.An Auctioning protocol for Facilitating VOS by S. PAUROBALLYUniversity of Westminster, London, U.K.Axiomatization of Von Wright’s Preference Logic by H. LIU, W.XIONG, Institute of Logic and Cognition; Sun Yat-sen University;Guangzhou, China X. LUO, School of Computer Science, The Universityof Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.Neutral Density Filter Controller Design Using TransdisciplinarySystem Development Life Cycle Model by A. YILDIRIM, S.GATCHEL, *B. GUMUS, F. GUNGOR, and A. ERTAS, Texas TechUniversity, Mechanical Engineering Department, Lubbock, TX,*TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.SESSION-12 Room: L009Wednesday, June 4, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmBIOINFORMATIC SYSTEMSSession Organizer and Chair: ROUH-MEI HU, AsiaUniversity, Taiwan.Functional Correlation Of Protein Functions by WALTER GUI,CHIEN-HUNG HUANG, KA-LOK NG, Asia University, Tawan.IHCread: An Automatic Immunohistochemistry Image AnalysisTool by CHAO-YEN HSU, ROUH-MEI HU, RONG-MING CHEN,JONG-WAYE OU, and JEFFREY J.P. Tsai, Asia University, Tawan.A Systematic Gene Expression Explorer Tool For Multiple AndPaired Chips by JONG-WAYE OU, RONG-MING CHEN, ROUH-MEIHU, CHAO-YEN HSU, and JEFFREY J.P. TSAI, National Universityof Tainan, Tawan.Sharing Cancer-Related Genes Research Resources On Peer-To-Peer Network by CHIH-CHUNG WU, RONG-MING CHEN,JEFFREY J.P. TSAI, National University of Tainan, Tawan.A Survey of SpikeClassification Techniques for Neural Prosthesisby A. YILDIRIM 1 , A. ERTAS 2 , M. M. TANIK 3 1 Vision Science ResearchCenter, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2 Departmentof Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 3 Department ofElectrical and Computer, Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham,AL.SESSION-13 Room: L011Wednesday, June 4, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmSYSTEM APPLICATIONSSession Organizers and Chairs: TAD GONSALVES, Departmentof Information and Communication Sciences,Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan . Y. ZENG, Concordia Institutefor Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University,Quebec, Canada.Service Systems Performance Ontology by TAD GONSALVES,TERUHIRO TAGOMORI AND KIYOSHI ITOH, Department of Informationand Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo,Japan .Security Requirements for Collaborative Product DevelopmentSystem Design by T.A. NGUYEN and Y. ZENG, Concordia Institutefor Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Quebec,Canada.Fault Avoidance for Mission Critical Systems by OZGUR KAYA 1 ,LEVENT ALKISLAR 2 , REYHAN ERGUN 2 , CENGIZ TOGAY 1,3 , ALI H.DOGRU 1 1 COMPUTER Engineering Department, METU, Ankara,Turkey, 2 ASELSAN, Macunkoy, Ankara, Turkey, 3 Computer EngineeringDepartment, COMU, Canakkale, Turkey.Service Oriented System Design Through Process Decompositionby E. K. AKBIYIK 1 , S. SULOGLU 2 , C. TOGAY 2,3 , A. H. DOGRU 21ASELSAN, Macunkoy, Ankara, Turkey, 2 Department of ComputerEngineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 3 Departmentof Computer Engineering, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University,Canakkale, Turkey.Integrated Optimal Design for Low Grade Heat Utilization in TotalProcess System of Refinery by HUA BEN WU HAO, The Key Labon Enhanced Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation, Ministry ofEducation, China, School of Chemical and Energy Engineering,South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.SESSION-14 Room: L008Thursday, June 5, 9:30 am - 10:30 amDECENTRALIZEDS SYSTEM AND SELFORGANISATION-ISession Organizer and Chair: HERWIG UNGER,FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany.Randomized Algorithms for Distributed Control: A Survey by T.BERNARD, A. BUI, Dept. of SysCom., CReSTIC University, Reims,France.Emergent Communication in Repeated Binary Common PayoffGames by T. B¨OHME and J. SCHREYER Technische Universit ¨at Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany, H. UNGER, FernUniversit-Hagen,Lehrgebiet Kommunikationsnetze, Universit, Hagen, Germany.SESSION-15 Room: L009Thursday, June 5, 9:30 am - 10:30 amINTEROPERABILITYSession Organizer and Chair: R. JURIC and H.DAGDEVIREN, University of Westminster, School ofInformaticsLondon, UK.EJB Application for Enabling Data Sharing in the UK Higher EducationAdmission Process by F. J. ALI, Transport for London, London,UK, S. WILLIAMS, Friends Provident plc, Dorking, UK.A Study of Multi-Node Mechanism for Interoperability Issue by E.RONCHIERI and C. VISTOLI, CERN,Geneva, Switzerland, MARC-ELIAN BEGIN INFN CNAF Viale Berti Pichat 6/2, Bologna, Italy.Generation of Ontologies from Relational Databases: anExperience by R. SHOJANOORI, P. NEMITSAS, and A.KRISHNAMURTHY, University of Westminster, School ofInformatics, London, UK.

SESSION-16 Room: L011Thursday, June 5, 9:30 am - 10:30 amMANAGEMENT AND BUSINESSSession Organizer and Chair: LICINIU-ALEXANDRUKOVÁCS, Faculty of Business, “Babes-Bolyai” University,Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaA Design Perspective of Quality Management: Case Study by *YUBING HU, **FAYI ZHOU, *YONG ZENG, *Concordia Institute for InformationSystems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and ComputerScience, Concordia University, Quebec, Canada, **DrainageServices, City of Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.Electronic Commerce in Romania Theoretical and ApplicativeResearch Project by LICINIU-ALEXANDRU KOVÁCS, Faculty ofBusiness, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,ZOLTÁN ÉLTHES, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration,“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.SESSION- 17 Room: L008Thursday, June 5, 11:00 am - 12:30 pmDECENTRALIZEDS SYSTEM AND SELFORGANISATION-IISession Organizer and Chair: HERWIG UNGER,FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany.About a New Kind of Autonomous Self-adapting Agents and theLibrary Game Environment by D. BERG, H. UNGER,FernUniversitaet, Hagen, Germany.Analysis of the P2P paradigms in an application of workflowmanagement systems in business processes for an “e-manufactory”by COSKUN AKINALP, HERWIG UNGER, Fernuniversitätin Hagen, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Hagen, Germany.Social Support and Social Networks: Experiences from SocialSupport Communities, Serious Gaming and Crisis ResponseManagement by U. LECHNER, UniBw München, Germany.SESSION-18 Room: L009Thursday, June 5, 11:00 am - 12:30 pmCOLLABORATIVE DESIGN IN PARALLEL ANDDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSSession Organizer and Chair: SHIAN-SHYONG TSENG,*YUH YAW, ANTHONY Y. H. LIAO, Asia University, Taiwan,*National Chengchi University.Collaborative Systems Optimization Using ACO by TADGONSALVES, KEI YAMAGISHI AND KIYOSHI ITOH, Department ofInformation and Communication Sciences, Sophia University, Tokyo,Japan .Dynamic Virtual Enterprise Collaborative Workflow FormationBased on Petri Nets by FU-SHIUNG HSIEH, SHAN-YU CHEN, Dept.of Computer Science and Information, EngineeringChaoyang Universityof Technology, Taiwan.Information Extraction from Distributed Sources on the Web byS. GANGULY, M. M. TANIK, A. ERTAS, Texas Tech University MechanicalEngineering Department, Lubbock, TX.A web-based oil and gas exploration game for geoscience students– lessons learned from system development and futureprospects by S. BRANDE 1 , P. GAURE 2 , M. M. TANIK 2 1 Dept. of Chemistry,2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universityof Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.EVENTS AND ACTIVITIESCOFFEE BREAKSMonday June 2, 200810:00 am-10:30 am; 3:30 pm- 4:00 pmJune 3 - June 6, 200810:30 am -11:30 am; 3:30 pm - 4:00 pmCONFERENCE OPENING RECEPTIONSunday, June 1, 2008, 5:30-7:00 pmRoom: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelCONFERENCE DINNERMonday, June 2, 2008, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pmRoom: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelCONFERENCE LUNCHEONTuesday, June 3, 2008, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pmRoom: L011OUTGOING SDPS PRESIDENTRECEPTIONTuesday, June 3, 2008 7: 00 pm - 9:00 pmRoom: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelTOURThe Sun Moon LakeFriday, June 6, 2008, 1:30 pmExact Number of Elementary Siphons by DANIEL Y. CHAO, NationalCheng Chi University, Taiwan.SESSION-19 Room: L011Thursday, June 5, 11:00 am - 12:30 pmWEB APPLICATIONSSession Organizer and Chair: S. GANGULY, Texas TechUniversity, Lubbock, TX 79409.Fast Event Based Web Programming Model by S. GANGULY, M. M.TANIK, A. ERTAS, Texas Tech University Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, Lubbock, TX.FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:A. ErtasTexas Tech UniversityMechanical Engineering DepartmentLubbock, Texas 79409-1021Phone: (806) 742-3563, Ext:236Fax: (806) 742-3540email: (aertas@coe.ttu.edu)

2008 SDPS/IDPTPROGRAM SCHEDULEOpening Reception, Sunday, June 1, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm, Room: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelDr. Horng-Jinh Chang, President, Asia University, , Taichung, TaiwanMONDAY, JUNE 2, 2008Opening Address, 9:00 am - 9:30 am, Room: A101Dr. Yuan T. Lee, Nobel LaureateConference Ketnote Speaker, 9:30 am - 10:00 am, Room: A101Dr. Edgar Mitcell, Founder of the Institute of Noetic SciencesKeynote Panel-I, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm, Room: A101Science, Spirituality, and ManagementPlenary Session-I, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, Room: A101Dr. Gabriele Bammer, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Australian National UniversityConference Dinner Speaker, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, Room: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelDr. Chun-Yen Chang, Founding Director of National nano-Device Labs in TaiwanRoom: L008 Room: L009 Room: L011SESSION- 12:00 pm - 3:30 pmENTREPRENEURSHIPSESSION-22:00 pm - 3:30 pmINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INE-LEARNING--ISESSION-32:00 pm - 3:30 pmFAULT TOLERANCE IN MODERNSYSTEMS DESIGN AND PROCESSSCIENCE – ISSUES ANDAPPROACHES--ISESSION-44:00 pm - 6:30 pmCOGNITIVE AND AGENTENGINEERINGSESSION-54:00 pm - 6:30 pmINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INE-LEARNING--IITUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2008SESSION-64:00 pm - 6:30 pmFAULT TOLERANCE IN MODERNSYSTEMS DESIGN AND PROCESSSCIENCE – ISSUES AND AP-PROACHES--IIKeynote Panel-II, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room: A101Global Network for Transdisciplinary CollaborationConference Luncheon Speaker, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, Room: L011Lily Yeh, Founder, Artists without BordersWorkshop-I, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Room: A101What Can We Learn from Chemistry and its Engineering7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Room: Splendor II, 13F, Splendor HotelOutgoing President Reception Honoring Dr. Azad M. Madni

Room: L008 Room: L009 Room: L011SESSION-74:00 pm - 6:00 pmCLINIC INFORMATIONSYSTEMSRoom: B4:00 pm - 6:00 pmINTELLIGENT AGENTS ANDONTOLOGYSESSION-94:00 pm - 6:00 pmSOFTWARE APPLICATIONSWEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2008Keynote Panel-III, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room: A10121st Century TransdisciplinariansWorkshop-II, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Room: A101Transcultural Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & PracticeRoom: L008 Room: L009 Room: L011SESSION-104:00 pm - 5:20 pmPERVASIVE HEALTHCARESESSION 11- 5:20 pm - 6:30 pmTRANSDISCIPLINARY APPLICA-TIONS OF MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMSSESSION-124, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmBIOINFORMATIC SYSTEMSSESSION-134, 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmSYSTEM APPLICATIONSTHURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008Plenary Session-II, 9:00 am - 9:30 am, Room: A101Dr. W. T. Chen, President of National Tsing Hua University, TaiwanRoom: L008 Room: L009 Room: L011SESSION-149:30 am - 10:30 amDECENTRALIZED SYSTEM ANDSELF ORGANISATION-ISESSION-159:30 am - 10:30 amINTEROPERABILITYSESSION-169:30 am - 10:30 amMANAGEMENT AND BUSINESSSESSION- 1711:00 am - 12:30 pmDECENTRALIZED SYSTEM ANDSELF ORGANISATION-IISESSION-1811:00 am - 12:30 pmCOLLABORATIVE DESIGN INPARALLEL ANDDISTRIBUTED SYSTEMSSESSION-1911:00 am - 12:30 pmWEB APPLICATIONSWorkshop-III, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Room: A101Transdisciplinary Fundamentals: Impact on engineering CurriculaWorkshop-IV, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Room: A101Knowledge Transfer Through Social NetworksFRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2008Keynote Panel-IV, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room: A101Software Engineering 2.0

2008 AWARDS RECIPIENTSACADEMY AWARDSThe Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies(TheATLAS) is pleased to present an award “the Academy Gold Medalof Honor” for distinguished contribution to the advancement of Transdisciplinary Foundational ideas and activities. The award comeswith Honorary lifetime Membership in the Academy. The Academy Gold Medal of Honor recognizes unusual accomplishment intransdisciplinary education and research, public service, and other allied pursuits beneficial to design and processscience. Award ceremony will be during the Conference Dinner on June 2, 2008.2008 Academy Gold Medal of Honor RecipientDr. Chun-Yen Changmolecular beam devices sent streams of intensely packedmolecules into each other at supersonic speeds. Scientists werethen able to view chemical reactions and discover how and whythey take place. This knowledge has contributed to today’s powerfullasers used by many researchers from diverse disciplines.2008 Academy Gold Medal of Honor RecipientDr. Edgar MitchellDr. Chun-Yen Chang was the former President of National ChiaoTung University in Taiwan. He received his BSEE degree from theNational Chenk Kung University (NCKU), and MS and Ph.D. degreesfrom the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). Due to hispioneering Ph.D. thesis in 1969, Prof. Chang became the first evergraduate student to receive the first domestic Ph.D. degree in Engineeringin Taiwan. He served as a research fellow at Bell Labs, aprofessor at NCKU, the dean of research, dean of engineering anddean of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NCTUand President of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Healso was the founding Director of National Nano-Device Labs inTaiwan. In addition to his presidency at NCTU, Dr. Chang heldseveral other positions and affiliations including Foreign Associateof the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, member of AcademiaSinica of the Republic of China, National Chair Professor, NationalPolicy Advisor to the Office of the President of the Republic of China,and Science and Technology Advisor to the Executive Yuan of theRepublic of China.2008 Academy Gold Medal of Honor RecipientDr. Yuan T. Lee, Nobel LaureateOn January 31, 1971, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, then a U.S. Navy Captain,embarked on a journey through outer space of some 500,000 milesthat resulted in becoming the sixth man to walk on the moon. Thathistoric journey terminated safely nine days later on February 9,1971 and was made in the company of two other men of valor -Admiral Alan Shepard and Colonel Stuart Roosa. Scientist, testpilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr.Mitchell’s extraordinary and varied career personifies humankind’seternal thrust to widen its horizons as well as explore its inner soul.His academic background includes a Bachelor of Science in IndustrialManagement from Carnegie Mellon University in 1952, aBachelor of Science in Aeronautics from the U.S. Naval PostgraduateSchool in 1961 and a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronauticsfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. In addition,he has received three honorary doctorates from New MexicoState University, the University of Akron and Carnegie Mellon University.2008 Academy Gold Medal of Honor RecipientDr. Ali NayfehYuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese born chemist best known for his NobelPrize winning work in the field of crossed molecular beam research.In 1986 he received the Nobel Prize, along with Herschbach andCanadian scientist John C. Polanyi for their joint work in crossedbeam molecular research, or more particularly, “for theircontributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementaryprocesses.” Their groundbreaking work made it possible to analyzemuch larger and more complex chemical molecules than thosepreviously studied. Many years after Charles Townes won a Nobelfor his research laying the groundwork for the laser, Yuan Lee tookthat work steps further. Lee’s designs and experiments withProfessor Ali Nayfeh is a University Distinguished Professor at VirginiaTech, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics.He earned three academic degrees (BS, MS, and Ph.D.) in four anda half years in engineering science and aeronautics and astronauticsfrom Stanford University. He is one of the most prolific engi-

neering scholars in the world — his 10 books, 32 book chapters,over 400 journal papers, over 500 conference papers, and over120 invited lectures represent his wide-ranging and penetratingcontributions to the engineering literature. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chiefof Nonlinear Dynamics and Journal of Vibration andControl. Professor Nayfeh advanced the-state-of-the-art in all fieldsof engineering, including fluid mechanics, structural interaction,structural control, biomedical, and ship and submarine dynamics.He extended his work to power systems and power electronics.His method of multiple scales is the method of choice for treatingnonlinear vibration problems. His work has been cited by almosteveryone working in the area of applied mechanics and every graduatestudent should begin his work by studying Professor Nayfeh’sbooks. It is amazing that his citation exceeds 15,000. ProfessorNayfeh supervised over 75 doctoral and postdoctoral students.Nayfeh was awarded the Gold Medal of Kuwait Prize in basic sciencesin 1981. He is the recipient of the AIAA Pendray AerospaceLiterature Award for his seminal contributions to the aerospacecommunity (1995). In 1996 he received the ASME J. P. Den HartogAward in recognition of lifetime contributions to the teaching andpractice of vibration engineering, and in 2005 he received the ASMELyapunov Award for life long contributions to nonlinear dynamics.He is the first recipient of the newly established Lyapunov Award. In2005 he received Virginia’s Lifetime Achievement in Science Award,presented by the Science Museum of Virginia. His academic careerand pioneering research work have earned him Fellow membershipsin many societies. He received Honorary Doctorates fromoverseas universities, such as Marine Technical University of St.Petersburg in Russia, the Technical University of Munich in Germany,and Politechnika Szczecinska of Poland.Professor Bammer holds degrees in Biochemistry, Psychology andGeography, and a PhD in Behavioural Pharmacology. She had hadthree major career transitions - first from working on science-basedinterdisciplinary problems to working in occupational health; secondto working on illicit drug problems; and third from undertakingresearch on specific problems to developing cross-cutting theoryand methods to support others in performing more effective problem-basedresearch. She was an inaugural Fulbright New CenturyScholar in 2001-2 and the first person to be awarded a Fellowshipunder the Visiting Scholars Program, Competence Centre Environmentand Sustainability, ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of TechnologyZurich) in 2007. Her current research involves collaborativeprojects on illicit drug policy, policing and security, natural resourcemanagement, and biosecurity in Australia, as well as the impact ofglobal environmental change on food systems in the Indo-GangeticPlain.George Kozmetsky Distinguished AchievementAward Recipient Dr. Chang-Hai TsaiIn recognition of distinguished and meritorious achievement inTransdisciplinary education and research as evidenced by managementeffectiveness, motivational skill, use of creative and innovativemethods, and outstanding leadershipSDPS AWARDSErtas Transdisciplinary Scientists and EngineersAward Recipient Dr. Gabriele BammerIn recognition of distinguished achievement in transdisciplinaryscience and/or engineering as evidenced by contributions totransdisciplinary education and/or research with the use of creativeand innovative methods and visionary leadershipProfessor Gabriele Bammer is developing the new discipline ofIntegration and Implementation Sciences (www.anu.edu.au/iisn) toimprove the contribution universities can make to tackling complexsocietal problems. This discipline deals with a common set of issuesfaced by all problem-based research - the need to generatefresh thinking, to deal with what we do not know as effectively aswhat we know, to influence decision making and change, and toappreciate that problems are embedded in wider systems. GabrieleBammer is a Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology andPopulation Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences,The Australian National University and a Research Fellow at theHauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University. Herempirical research examines integration and implementation conceptsand methods that can be exchanged between populationhealth, policing and security, environmental management and technologicalinnovation.Dr. Tsai received his doctor of medicine from Teikyo University, Japan.He has been involved in research, teaching, and practicemedicine at China Medical University in Taichung , Taiwan. Whilehis research has been well regarded, he became famous duringthe 2003-2004 SARS epidemics as the Commander of Mid-TaiwanSARS Control and Medical Resources Integration CommandingCenter for his outstanding achievement in the prevention ofSARS spreading. For which, he has received a special high honoraward from the Executive Yuan of Taiwan government.Dr. Tsai is currently the Chairman of board of China medical universitywhich has the 3 rd largest hospital under its management. Underhis leadership, both the university and the hospital is expandingrapidly both in academic research and teaching as well asworking with global partners such as building the largest cancerresearch center with M. D. Anderson hospital in Taiwan.Dr. Tsai has always a passion for education. He is the founder andchairman of the Asia University in Taichung, Taiwan. Although it isbarely six year old, it has achieved some spectacular landmarks inthe higher education system of Taiwan.For his work both as a physician, an educator, and social entrepreneur,Dr. Tsai received many awards. He is also an advisor to nationalpolicy in President’s office.CONFERENCE LUNCHEONTuesday, June 2, 2008, 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Raymond T. Yeh Life-Time AchievementAward Recipient Dr. Fuad Gattaz SobrinhoIn recognition of long term preeminent achievement in research,innovation, or education.K. T. Li AwardRecipient Dr. Master Sheng YenThis award acknowledges outstanding achievements in design excellence ofeconomic/social systems.Dr. Fuad G. Sobrinho is a former Executive Director of EMBRAPA,Distinguished Professor at University of Dortmund, DistinguishedResearch Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Heis the SDPS fellow and the founder of P3 Technology. Dr. Sobrinhoreceived his PhD in Computer Science and Management Sciencefrom the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland in 1984. Dr.Sobrinho is the founder and has been served the SecretaryExecutive of Board of in 1993-2002.C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished ScholarAward Recepient Dr. W. T. ChenRecognizing individuals who have demonstrated significant academicachievement through research in the field of design and process science.WT Chen is the president of the National Tsing Hua University inTaiwan. He has been with the National Tsing Hua University since1976 and is currently a Chair Professor of the Department of ComputerScience. He has served as Department Chairman, Dean ofCollege of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Directorof Science & Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education.He has consulted in various levels of Taiwan Government andserved as a member of many planning and technical review boards.For 15 years, Professor Chen has served as Co-Chairman andChairman of the Technical Evaluation Board of the Ministry of EconomicAffairs for Promoting High-Tech Products and Technologies,which is recognized as most pivotal in promoting industrial technologiesin Taiwan.Professor Chen pioneered the design of computer networks andparallel systems in early 1980s. He is currently leading a projectfor design and applications of advanced information networks. Hehas received numerous awards for his achievements incomputer networking and parallel processing, including OutstandingResearch Awards of the National Science Council,National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Technical AchievementAward of the IEEE Computer Society. ProfessorChen was the General Chair of the 2000 IEEE International Conferenceon Distributed Computing Systems and the Founding GeneralChair of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.Born near Shanghai in l931, Master Sheng-yen became a monk ofGuang Jiao Monastery in the Wolf Hills of Nantung at age thirteen.Later on he studied at the Buddhist Academy at Ching-an Monasteryin Shanghai. Years later, Master Sheng-yen went to Japan forhis postgraduate education and received his master’s degree anddoctorate in Buddhist literature from Rissho University there.Master Sheng Yen has made tremendous social impacts throughoutthe world as a consequence of his life long devotion “to raisethe quality of human beings and to establish pure land on earth” inorder to establish a spiritually rich world. He believes that spiritualpoverty is the real source of wars and conflicts between peoples. Inorder to help people to achieve spiritually rich life, the Master suggeststhat we need to protect our spiritual, social, living, and naturalenvironments. These four kinds of environmentalism, in hisopinion, collectively raises our awareness of how our actions influencethe world we live in. As always his practice, he developed theFivefold Spiritual Renaissance guidelines to help each individualto become a full fledged environmentalist.More recently, Master Sheng Yen called for global ethics as thefoundation for peace, happiness and well-being in human societies.Consistent with his practical approach, he developed the SixEthics of the Mind as a practical guide to foster ethics in the realmsof family, living, schools, nature, the workplace, and ethnic groups.He emphasized stability of life comes through benefiting others,through sharing resources with others; one will ultimately enjoybenefits to oneself. Social tensions arise because of self-orientedcompetition for Earth’s limited resources.K. T. Li AwardRecipient Master Cheng YenThis award acknowledges outstanding achievements in design excellence ofeconomic/social systems.Master Cheng Yen was born in 1937 in a small town in centralTaiwan. When she was 25 years old, the sudden death of her fatherprompted her to become a Buddhist nun in order to find the truth oflife. In 1963, the most venerable Master Yin Shun accepted her ashis disciple and instructed her to be committed for Buddhism andall living beings. In 1966, the Master established the BuddhistCompassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation and has since then carriedout worldly affairs with an otherworldly spirit.

Abiding by the conviction of “humanizing Buddhism and bringingbodhisattvas into this world,” the Master has been promoting fourmajor missions of charity, medicine, education, and culture since1966. Since then, many people have been inspired to mindfullybenefit others in order to bring purity and harmony to the world.Since its establishment 41 years ago, the Tzu Chi Foundation hasbeen growing steadily under the Master’s guidance. Starting withjust 30 members, Tzu Chi has now recruited millions of volunteersin 320 offices across 45 countries. Every day close to 100,000volunteers carry out the Master’s instruction to help the poor andspread love to every dark corner of the world.The Master has many publications. The following are in English:Still Thoughts (2 Vols.); Three Ways to the Pure Land; The ThirtysevenPrinciples of Enlightenment; Still Thoughts, Wisdom, andLove; Twenty Challenges to Enlightenment; The Sutra of theBodhisattvas’ Eight Realizations; The Master Tells Stories (2 Vols.);Cycle of Beauty. The Master has received numerous awards forpeace and service from different parts of the world throughout herlife.SDPS FELLOW AWARDSA Fellow, a membership grade of distinction in SDPS related professions,is elected by the Board of Directors based upon a candidatewho has demonstrated significant achievements or truly outstandingcontributions in at least one of the following categories:1. Integration of disciplines, theories and methodologies, 2. Developmentscientific principles and methods for design and processscience as applied to traditional disciplines of engineering, 3. Industrialleadership and innovation, 4. Educational leadership andcreativity.2008 SDPS Fellowship RecipientsBob BlockChairmanLandMark Entertainment and 3-DBusiness Tools, CARobert S. Block is a serial entrepreneur and has a long and successfulcareer in the computer software, communication and entertainmentindustries including pioneering roles in commercialand pay television and cellular telephone operating companies,and the new energy business. Block has contributed significantlyto the creation and development of entertainment and communicationtechnologies used worldwide. He has been granted morethan 150 international patents. Block holds an Honorary Doctoratedegree from the United States Sports Academy.He is the Principal Investigator of a proposal on "Organic SemiconductorModeling and Simulation," that has been funded by US Senateand US House of Representatives under Special Appropriationsthrough the US Army Research Lab. He received his B.Tech. degreefrom the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (India), and hisM.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, CA. Sumit has heldthe title of Thomas E. Hattrick Endowed Chaired Professor of InformationSystems Engineering in the ECE Department at StevensInstitute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey; served as the associatechairman for research and graduate programs in the ComputerScience and Engineering Department at Arizona State University;been on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Brown University,Providence, RI; served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell LabsResearch (Area 11) in Holmdel, NJ; and worked as Member of theTechnical Staff at Fairchild Advanced Research and DevelopmentLabs in Palo Alto, CA. He is the primary author of 5 reference books:Hardware Description Languages: Concepts and Principles (IEEEPress); Modeling and Asynchronous Distributed Simulation of ComplexSystems (IEEE Press); Intelligent Transportation Systems: NewPrinciples and Architectures (CRC Press); Principles of Secure NetworkSystems Design (Springer-Verlag); and Algorithm Design forNetworked Information Technology Systems: Principles and Applications(Springer-Verlag). He has co-edited the book titled, GuardingYour Business: A Management Approach to Security (Kluwer). Heis currently co-editing a book titled, "Cybercrimes," with a formerAsst. US Attorney of the US Department of Justice and is completinghis sixth reference book for Springer-Verlag that will present the disciplineof networking from an entirely new perspective and providenew research directions. He has written 95+ transactions/journalpapers and 100+ refereed conference papers.Sumit's research focuses on fundamental and challenging yet practical,interdisciplinary problems that are of potential benefit to society.His most recent interests include radically new types of computingengines, creativity and the physiological organization of the humanbrain, and a computing principles-based analytical foundationfor the empirical disciplines of biology, business, chemistry, medicine,pharmacology, and law. Inspired and guided by Emeritus Prof.C.V. Ramamoorthy of UC Berkeley and others, Sumit is developingthe foundation of an entirely new educational infrastructure, groundedin creativity and humbleness, that will enable future citizens to threadthrough their multiple careers in vastly different professional disciplinesthroughout their very long working lives as they grow fromyoung adults into their 80s, 90s, and even 100s, still in sound mentaland physical health, all the while actively contributing toward theprogress of society. Sumit's research has been funded by US ArmyResearch Office, US Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, NationalScience Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,US Army Research Lab, US Air Force Research Lab (Rome, NY), USArmy Communications and Electronics Command (NJ), NationalSecurity Agency, Sandia National Labs, National Library of Medicine,MOTOROLA, INTEL, BELLCORE, NYNEX, MITRE, Electronics andTelecommunications Research Institute (Korea), IEEE Foundation,and US Congress.Dr. Sumit GhoshChairmanComputer Science DepartmentThe University of Texas at TylerSumit Ghosh presently serves as the chair of the Computer ScienceDepartment at The University of Texas at Tyler. He is the recipient ofthe 2004 IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award.Dr. Radmila JuricDepartment of Information Systems,School of informatics, University ofWestminster, London, United Kingdom.Dr Radmila Juric is a Principal Lecturer at the Department of InformationSystems, School of informatics, University of Westminster,London, United Kingdom. She obtained her first degree, Dipl. Ing.

(MEng) in Mathematics from the Department of Applied Mathematics,University of Zagreb, Croatia; MSc in Information Systems andDatabases from Birkbeck College, University of London and PhDin Computing from Brunel University, West London, UK. She workedin the computing industry as a software engineer until 1989 whenshe joined The South Bank University Business School in Londonas lecturer in Business Information Systems. Dr Juric is currentlyleading postgraduate courses in Information Systems at Universityof Westminster; she is a member of the academic standardsgroup and leader of the Software Interoperability research group.She is also a program committee member of a few internationalconferences and a member of the specialist group on HealthcareInformatics at the British Computer Society.Dr Juric’s major research interest is the field of SoftwareInteroperability, with emphasis on software engineering disciplines,including interoperability frameworks, component based architecturesand service technologies, in solving the problem of heterogeneitiesof hardware/software platforms and software applicationsacross problem domains. Her research also includes MedicalInformatics and Ubiquitous Computing in Healthcare systems,particularly for the UK National Health Service. She has worked onbuilding ontologies for sharing information and knowledge in pervasiveand intelligent healthcare systems and in creating genericsoftware solutions for automating marketing authorisations in thepharmaceutical industry across regulatory authorities. Dr Juric isinterested in modelling behaviour of ambient intelligent systems;security models in medical databases and service oriented solutionsfor context aware software applications in ambient assistedliving. Dr Juric is also interested in Commercial-off-the-Shelf andOpen Source Software products and systems, the development,marketing and selection of COTS/OSS components and their impacton software development, software architectures and softwareinteroperability in general.Xuedong ZhangVice Secretary General of theChinese Academy of PublicAdministrationE-Picture theory’s contribution to humanity and art. In Sptember2006, he was accredited the Outstanding Contributor Title forComprehensive Construction of a Prime Prosperous Society at thehonoring ceremony and working experience conference for theComprehensive Construction of a Prime Prosperous Society inChina.Dr. Barbara SorensenUnited States Air ForceResearch Laboratory, Mesa, AZ.Dr. H. Barbara Sorensen has over 25 years of experience inadvanced technology development spanning multiple disciplines.She earned her doctorate and master’s degrees at the Universityof Iowa while performing research and teaching in amultidisciplinary program. She is currently a program managerand strategic advisor to the Warfighter Readiness commander forthe design and development of basic, exploratory and appliedresearch and development programs in advanced aircrew,command & control, and space training; as well as simulation andinteroperability research. She manages programs and integratesapplications of state-of-the-art features to design technologicallyadvanced biomedical, survivability and space-based capabilitiesto support information dominance, air superiority, mission rehearsal,distributed mission operations, situational awareness, andmodeling and simulation. She also designs and developseducational courseware and web accessible applications to supporttraining and readiness environments for space operators,warfighters, and support personnel in performing more efficientlyand effectively through high fidelity, multi-role, interactive trainingmission rehearsal, and weapon system integration, and to advancethe concept of operations. Dr. Sorensen is a focal point for AirForce Research Laboratory (AFRL) advanced training, readinessand simulation research for worldwide integration.ZHANG, Xuedong was born in Qixian County, Shanxi Province, inSeptember 9th(Chinese Lunar Calendar) 1962. He is the ViceSecretary General of the Chinese Academy of Public Administrationand directing its Enterprise Development Department. He is alsothe Secretary General of China’s National County PublicAdministration as well as a member of Central Committee of theSeptember 3rd Society. He is the Executive Director of the ResearchCentre of E-Picture Thinking and Future Government at BeijingUniversity.Zhang is well known in China for his transdisciplinary work as theauthor of “E-Picture Thinking—A Comprehensive Awakening onNature, Man and Society” with Chinese Postal Service Issued aspecial Postage volume on “the Art of E-Picture—Zhang Xuedong’sArt of Soul”. Based on his pioneering work, there is about 10 bookspublished applying E-picture philosophy to Life, Arts, Media, FashionDesign, etc.In June 2006 he won the prestigious George Kozmetsky award forOutstanding Achievement in Transdicplinary Innovation at WorldCongress on Innovation of the Society for Design and ProcessScience (SDPS),in San Diego, USA. In August, 2006, was honoredwith Awards from Nevada and California State Governments for the

CALL FOR PAPERSTHE ELEVENTHSDPS TRANSDISCIPLINARYCONFERENCE ONINTEGRATED SYSTEMS,DESIGN,&PROCESS SCIENCEASIA UNIVERSITYTAICHUNG, TAIWANJune 1-6, 2008CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES ANDPOLICIES$495 For SDPS Members who register before May 9, 2008$550 For SDPS Members who register after May 9, 2008$550 For Non-Members who register before May 9, 2008$600 For Non-Members who register after May 9, 2008Cancellations must be submitted in writing and received by SDPSbefore May 10, 2008. After this date, there will be a $150 processingfee that will be charged. After May 10, no refunds can be made.Registration Fee includes: IDPT Welcome Reception --- IDPT ConferenceDinner --- IDPT Conference Luncheon --- Coffee Breaks --Every day Lunch---IDPT Conference proceedings --- tour to Sun-Moon-Lake --- and surprises!!!!!TECHNICAL PAPER PUBLICATIONAccepted papers will be published in the conference “Proceedingsof Integrated Systems, Design, and Process Science”. Furthermore,competitively selected papers will be reviewed for publicationin the SDPS Transactions: Journal of Integrated Systems,Design and Process Science.Transactions of the SDPS:Transdisciplinary Journal ofIntegrated Systems,Design & Process ScienceThe concepts of design and process cut across multipledisciplines. The application of abstract notions of design andprocess to engineering problem solving is beginning to redefineand expand the notion of engineering in the 21st century. ThisJournal of the Society of Design and Process Science strives tobe the repository of human knowledge covering transdisciplinarynotions of design and process in a rigorous fashion. For moreInformation see www.sdpsnet.org.Moreover, The Academy of Learning & Advanced Studies(TheATLAS) will publish an annual book (with ISBN) including alljournal articles of the year. For more information seewww.theatlas.org.CONFERENCE REGISTRATIONPlease register for conference before the deadline through mainpage of SDPS WEB (www.sdpsnet.org).HOTEL RESERVATIONPlease make hotel reservation by using attached hotel reservationform. Make sure that hotel management will email you confirmationnumber.AWARDSSome of the following SDPS Awards will be presented during theconference dinner:Herbert A. Simon Gold Medal Award, George Kozmetsky DistinguishedAchievement Award, Carl Adam P. Petri Distinguished TechnicalAchievement Award, K.T.Li Award for Outstanding Design ofEconomical/Social systems, C. V. Ramamoorthy DistinguishedScholarAward, Raymond T. Yeh Lifetime Achievement Award, ErtasTransdisciplinary Scientists and Engineers Award, Rudolf ChristianKarl Diesel Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards, DistinguishedService Award and SDPS Fellowship.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEEHonorary ChairmanSteering Committee ChairmenMehmet AksitUniversity of TwenteThe NetherlandsJeffrey TsaiUniversity of IllinoisChicago, USAStephen YangNational Central UniversityTaiwanR. JuricUniversity of WestminsterUKChang-Hai TsaiChina Medical UniversityTaiwanConference ChairmenProgram ChairmenProgram Co-chairmenPROGRAM COMMITTEERong-Ming Chen, National Univeristy of Tainan, TaiwanAlan Liu, National Chung Cheng Univeristy, TaiwanAnthony Y. H. Liao, Asia University, TaiwanShian-Shyong Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, TaiwanH. B. Sorensen, AFRL, USAJ. Ring, Innovation Management, USAA. Moini, Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., USAJames SmithTexas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, USABernd KraemerFernUniversitaetHagen, GermanyH. Barbara SorensenUS Air Force Research LaboratoryMesa, AZ, USAJörn AltmannSeoul National UniversitySeoul, South-Korea &International Universityof Bruchsal, GermanyA. ErtasTexas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, USAK. ItohSophia UniversityTokyo, JapanA. BarhorstTexas A&M Univ. at QatarDoha, QatarFinance ChairmanRong-Ming Chen, National University of Tainan, TaiwanLocal Arrangement ChairmanAnthony Y. H. Liao, Asia University, TaiwanRegistration ChairmanHan-Wen Hsiao, Asia University, TaiwanHONORARY ADVISORY COMMITTEEDr. Appa Rao, India; E.M. Burlingame, CA; Dr. W. T. ChenTaiwan; S. Gatchel, TX; Dr. S. Ghosh, TX; Dr. Reiner W.Hartenstein, Germany; Dr. Luqi, CA; Dr. P. A. Ng, TX; Dr. R.Paul; Dr. P. Sheu, CA; Dr. F. G. Sobrinho, Brazil; Dr. H.Yamaguchi, Japan; Dr. B. Wei, CA; Dr. B. Zho, China.G. Friedman, University of Southern California, USAR. Steeb, Rand Corporation, USAA. M. Madni, Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., USAM. Stelling, Raytheon, USAD. Zarnow, Raytheon, USAF. G. Sobrinho, IIISIS, BrazilA. Dogru, METU, TurkeyI. I. Esat, Brunel University, Middlesex, UKA. Suenbuel, Kestrel Institute, Palo Alto, USAT. Kikuno, Osaka Univ., JapanB. Kraemer, FernUniversitaet, Hagen, GermanyD. Gibson, ICC Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USAS. R. Das, University of Ottawa, CanadaB. Hua, South China University of Technology, ChinaY. Tuncer, Ankara University, Tandogan, TurkeyS. Kumagai, Musashi Institute of Technology, JapanR. Sterritt, University of Ulster, Northern IrelandK.Mori,Tokyo Institute of Tech., JapanK.Itoh, Sophia University, JapanT. Hirota, Kyushu Sangyo University, JapanR. Kawabata, Sophia University, JapanT. Gonsalves, Sophia University, JapanT.T. Maxwell, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USAM. M. Tanik, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAY. Zeng, Concordia University, USAS. Ekwaro-Osire, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USAD. Tate, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USAM.F. Smith, M.F. Smith LLC, Califon, USAP. A. Ng, The University of Texas-Pan American, USAJ. Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAU. Gurler, Bilkent University, Ankara, TurkeyB. Unhelkar, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaM. Hinchey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USAD. Marghitu, Auburn University, Auburn, USAG. Abbott, UAB School of Education, Birmingham, USAI. Konuk, Canada Oil & Gas, CanadaH. El-Rewini, SMU, USAK. H. (Kane) Kim, University ofCalifornia, USAF. J. Kurfess, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis, USAR. Paul, Department of Defense, OASD/C3I, USAS. Watanabe, Sojo University, Kumamoto, JAPANH. R. Hamidzadeh, Tennessee State University, USAH. Yamaguchi,NEC Soft, Ltd., JapanA. Megatali, Kozmetsky Global Collaboratory, ICC Institute, University ofTexas at Austin, USAJ. Walker, Information Architect, EIA Associates, Birmingham, USAM. Tanju, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAE. Orhun, Troy University Montgomery, Montgomery, USAR. Seker, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, USAD.E. Retzer, XSP (tm), Birmingham, USAS. Mills, T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, USAB. R. Bryant, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAS. Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USAM. M. Naini, Universal Vision & Research, Delray Beach, USAW. Rossak, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, GermanyJ. Kulick, Professor, University of Alabama at Huntsville, USAS. Dogru, Management Consultant, PE&D IT Center, USAS. McClellan, Hewlett-Packard Company, USAL. Jololian, City University, Nj, USAJ. A. Neto,Department of Production Engineering at the University of SãoPaulo-USP, Brazil.S. C. Suh, Texas A&M University - Commerce, Commerce, USAJ. Rasty, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USAM. Sahinoglu, Troy State University Montgomery, Montgomery, USAT. M. Witten, Virginia Commonwealth University, USAI. Ozkarahan, Troy University Montgomery, AL, USAA.B. Arnzten, University College i Buskerud, Norway

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