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TEXAS STATE VITA I. Academic/Professional Background A. Name: Dr. Anne Hee Hiong Ngu Title: B. Educational Background Degree Year University Major Thesis/Dissertation PHD 1990 University of

Western Australia Computer Science

BSC 1982 University of Western Australia

Computer Science

C. University Experience Position University Dates Professor, Computer Science Texas State University. San

Marcos, TX, United States 2010 - Present

Visiting Scholar, EECS University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA, United States

August 2015 - October 2015

Associate Professor, Computer Science

Texas State University. San Marcos, TX, United States

2002 - 2010

Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering

University of New South Wales. Sydney, NSW, Australia

2003 - 2006

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering


1995 - 2000

Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Engineering


1992 - 1995

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science

University of Western Australia. Perth, WA, Australia

1986 - 1988

D. Relevant Professional Experience Position Entity Dates Distinguished Visiting Scientist

Data 61, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia

October 2015 - December 2015

Faculty Scholar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

June 2006 - August 2006





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Research Scientist Telcordia Technologies 2000 - 2001 Senior Technical Staff Microelectronics and

Computer Technology (MCC) June 2000 - July 2000

Visiting Scientist Microelectronics and Computer Technology (MCC)

February 1998 - July 1998

ITK Research Fellow Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands

January 1993 - March 1993

Associate Research Staff Institute of Systems Science, Singapore

1989 - 1992

Programmer National Semiconductor Asia Pacific, Singapore

1983 - 1985

E. Other Professional Credentials (licensure, certification, etc.)

Oracle Administration, Oracle, Sydney, Australia. (June 16, 1997 - June 20, 1997). Object-Oriented Database Design using ObjectStore, ObjectStore, Sydney, Australia. (June 17, 1996 - June 18, 1996).

II. TEACHING B. Courses Taught:

Texas State University:

CS 3354 - OBJ-ORTD DSG & PRG CS 4332 - INTRO DATABASE SYS CS 4332 - INTRO DATABASE SYSTEM CS 4354 - OBJ-ORTD DSG & IMP CS 4395 - INDEPENDENT STUDY CS 5199B - THESIS CS 5332 - DATABASE THEORY DE CS 5332 - DATABASE THEORY DESGN CS 5369A - ENTPRS APP INTGRTN CS 5369G - WEB SVC ENGINEERNG CS 5376 - ENTPRS APP INTGRTN

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CS 5395 - IND STUDY ADV CS 5399A - THESIS CS 5399B - THESIS CS 7300 - INTRO CS RESEARCH

University of New South Wales:

COMP 1021 - Computing 1B COMP 3311 - Database Systems COMP 9314 - Next-generation databases COMP 9315 - Database Systems and Implementation COMP 9804 - Database Systems with Distance Learning

University of Western Australia:

CS 100 - Prolog Programming

C. Directed Student Learning (i.e. theses, dissertations, exit committees, etc.):

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "Management of sensor data", Status: In

Progress. (September 2017 - Present). Computer Science Department, Texas State University. Student(s): Manvick Paliwal, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Fall Detection using smartwatch with Naive

Bayes Learning Algorithm", Status: In Progress. (September 2017 - Present). Computer Science Department, Texas State University. Student(s): Po-Teng Tseng, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "Verification and Testing of Fall-Detection

Applications", Status: In Progress. (January 2015 - Present). Computer Science, Texas State University. Student(s): Christopher Carpenter, Undergraduate.

Member, Dissertation, "Smart Data Integration", Status: In Progress. (2014 - Present).

Computer Science, University of Adelaide, Australia. Student(s): Xiu Sussie Fang, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "Data Collection System For PhD Jobs in

Chemistry", Status: Completed. (September 2017 - December 2017). Computer Science Department, Texas State University.

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Student(s): Kritika Karki, Graduate. Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Research Papers Annotation and Management",

Status: In Progress. (August 2017 - December 2017). Computer Science Department, Texas State University. Student(s): Jaya Naga Bhavana Kommuru, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Personal Paper Explorer", Status: Completed.

(June 2017 - August 2017). Computer Science Department, Texas State University. Student(s): Sarava Lakshmi Harika Vusirikala, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "IoT Accessors", Status: Completed. (September

2016 - August 2017). Texas State University. Student(s): Vimal Moorthy Krishnamoorthy, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Experimenting Different Startup Strategies in

Technologies", Status: Completed. (January 2017 - June 2017). Computer Science, Texas State University. Student(s): Brock Yarbrough, Undergraduate.

Member, Dissertation, "Cloud Services Discovery", Status: In Progress. (2014 - April

2017). Computer Science Department, University of Adelaide, Australia. Student(s): Abdullah Alfazi, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "GoogleFit for Sensor Data Collection",

Status: Completed. (2016). Student(s): Prathyusha Reddy Baddam.

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "GeneticEve", Status: Completed. (2015 -

2016). Student(s): Sushma Channamsetty, Master.

Member, Exit Exam, "Recommender Response to User Profile Diversity and Popularity

Bias", Status: Completed. (January 2016 - July 2016). Computer SCience, Texas State University. Student(s): Sushma Channamsetty, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Employing a scalable implementation of the cost

sensitive alternating decision tree algorithm to efficiently link person records", Status: Completed. (2015). Texas State University. Student(s): Clark Phillips, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Applied Research Project, "Real-Time Prediction of Blood Alcohol

Content Using Smartwatch Sensor Data", Status: Completed. (June 2015 - August 2015). Computer Science, Texas State University. Student(s): Mario Gutierrez, Undergraduate.

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Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Hadoop projects and Decision Tree using MapReduce", Status: Completed. (January 2015 - May 2015). Computer Science, Texas State University. Student(s): TianYi Yang, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Near Me Android Application", Status:

Completed. (2012). Texas State University. Student(s): Joseph Molin, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Semantic News Analysis and Prediction", Status:

Completed. (2011). Texas State University. Student(s): Seth R. Orell Jr., Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Collaborative Ranking of Products and

Services", Status: Completed. (2008). Texas State University. Student(s): Jared Dillard, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Experimental Study on the Use of Semantic Web

Concepts for Matching and Assembling Rich Client Composite Applications", Status: Completed. (August 2007 - May 2008). Computers Science, Texas State University. Student(s): Michael Pierre Carlson, Graduate.

Co-Supervisor, Dissertation, "Multimedia Database", Status: Completed. (2005). School

of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales. Student(s): Jialie Chen, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Dynamic Invocation of Web Services", Status:

Completed. (2005). Texas State University. Student(s): Zhitong Zhao, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Specification-based Firewall Testing", Status:

Completed. (2004). Texas State University. Student(s): Huibo Ma, Graduate.

Co-Supervisor, Dissertation, "Dynamic Web Service Composition", Status: Completed.

(2003). School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales. Student(s): LiangZhao Zeng, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "QoS Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web

Service Selection. Student gained admission to Texas A&M PhD Program", Status: Completed. (2003). Computer Science, Texas State University. Student(s): Yutu Liu, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Online Real Estate Database Management",

Status: Completed. (2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Andrew Liu, Undergraduate.

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Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Building E-commerce Applications", Status: Completed. (2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Alexander Kar, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Building E-commerce Applications", Status:

Completed. (2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Eddie Yin Ho Chan, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Independent Study, "Building E-commerce Applications", Status:

Completed. (2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): James Chan-Sing Ho, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Information Brokerage over Dynamic

Heterogeneous Sources``", Status: Completed. (2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): John Cleary, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Integrated Workflows", Status: Completed.

(2000). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Kim Yang, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Query Optimizer in Venus Database", Status:

Completed. (1999). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Gunawan Liem, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Workflow Design Tool", Status: Completed.

(1999). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Murali Choudary Jetti, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Information Agents", Status: Completed.

(1999). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Udin Masli, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Indexing and Retrieving in Multimedia

Databases", Status: Completed. (1999). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Welly Santosa, Undergraduate.

Co-Supervisor, Dissertation, "Query Size Estimation in Databases", Status: Completed.

(1998). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Banchong Harangsri, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Dissertation, "Modelling and Retrieving Multimedia Data Using

Spatial and Temporal Information", Status: Completed. (1998). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Mohammad Nabil, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Image Management System using Illustra",

Status: Completed. (1998). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Miladin Milic, Undergraduate.

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Supervisor / Chair, Dissertation, "A Framework for Conceptual Integration of

Heterogeneous Databases", Status: Completed. (1997). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Uma Srinivasan, Doctoral.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Dimension Reduction in Multimedia Data for

Efficient Indexing", Status: Completed. (1997). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Rong Lei, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Translation Tools for O2 to Ingres", Status:

Completed. (1995). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Eddy Siawidjaja, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "A Market-based Distributed Query

Optimizer", Status: Completed. (1995). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Hendy Hieswanto, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Honor's Thesis, "A Hypertext Approach to Querying Clinical

Multidatabases", Status: Completed. (1993). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Norman Lee, Undergraduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Data Allocation on Distributed Database Systems",

Status: Completed. (1993). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Banchong Harangsri, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Master's Thesis, "Experimentation on Maximal Subqueries for

Heterogeneous Query Optimization", Status: Completed. (1993). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Kang Hyuk Lei, Graduate.

Supervisor / Chair, Undergraduate Thesis, "Query Processing in Heterogeneous Database

Systems", Status: Completed. (1993). University of New South Wales. Student(s): Yun Tao Sun, Undergraduate.

D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development:

Distance Learning Certificate Program in Computer Science, Curriculum Development, University of New South Wales. Approved: 1995 - 2000. CS5369G, New Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2006 - 2012. CS5376, New Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2002 - 2012. COMP9804 (Distance learning version of Database Systems), New Course, University of New South Wales. Taught: 1995 - 2000. COMP9315 (Database Systems and Implementation), New Course, University of New South Wales. Taught: 1992 - 2000.

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COMP9314 (Next-generation databases), New Course, University of New South Wales. Taught: 1992. CS3354, Revise Existing Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2016. CS4354, Revise Existing Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2010 - 2016. CS4332, Revise Existing Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2002 - 2005. CS5332, Revise Existing Course, Texas State University. Taught: 2002 - 2005. COMP3311 (Database Systems), Revise Existing Course, University of New South Wales. Taught: 1990 - 1999.

E. Teaching Grants and Contracts

1. Funded External Teaching Grants and Contracts: Novoa, Clara M, Romanella, susan, Ngu, Hee Hiong, Graham, Reiko, Guirguis,

Mina S. SPARK: Increasing the Recruitment and Retention of Female Undergraduates in Engineering and Computer Science, NSF, $600,000.00. (Funded: June 2012 - June 2016). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal). Student-centered Assessment System, Australian

National Teaching Development Grant (CAUT), Federal, $36,450.00. (Funded: 1993). Grant.

3. Funded Internal Teaching Grants and Contracts:

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Enterprise System Laboratory, Academic Computing,

Texas State University, $4,800.00. (Funded: 2009). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Adapt Web-based Collaboration Software for

Collaborative Problem Solving in Undergraduates and Graduates, Instructional Technology, Texas State University, $1,200.00. (Funded: 2007). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). A post-graduate certificate course in Computer Science

Distance Education, University of New South Wales Development Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $80,000.00. (Funded: 1996). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal). Teaching infrastructure for databases, University of

New South Wales Capital Grant, Institutional (Higher Ed), $308,000.00. (Funded: 1996). Grant.

F. Other:

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Management / Executive Development, Graduate Certificate in Computer Science project, University of New South Wales. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 6. (1995 - 2000).

G. Teaching Professional Development Activities Attended

Conference Attendance, "Google HSI Faculty Summit," Google, Venice Beach, LA, United States. (October 2017). Conference Attendance, "NCWIT Summit," Tucson, AZ, United States. (May 2017). Workshop, "Cultivation: An Interactive Theater Performance on Faculty Mentoring and Diversity in the Campus Community." (April 2016). Workshop, "Impact Day- Building a Deeper Computer Science Talent Pool." (September 5, 2014). Conference Attendance, "NCWIT Summit," Chicago, IL, United States. (May 2012). Conference Attendance, "NCWIT Summit," New York City, NY, United States. (May 2011). Workshop, "Texas Environment Education Advisory Committee Meeting." (December 10, 2008).

III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE A. Works in Print (including works accepted, forthcoming, in press): 1. Books:

c. Edited Books:

Non-refereed:

Sheng, Q.Z., Li, X., Ngu, A., Qin, Y., Deng, X. (2016). Special issue on Web

of Things (vol. 18). Springer. Ngu, A., Kitsuregawa, M., Neuhold, E. (2007). Special issue on Web

Information Systems Engineering Journal of World Wide Web: Internet and Information Systems (vol. 10).

Ngu, A., Kitsuregawa, M., Neuhold, E., Chung, J.-Y., Sheng, Q. (2005). Web

Information Systems Engineering (WISE05) Proceedings. New York City, New York: Springer.

Agrawal, R., Dittrich, K., Ngu, A. (2002). Proceedings of the Eighteenth

International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2002). IEEE Computer Society Publisher.

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d. Chapters in Books: Refereed:

Ngu, A., Liu, Y., Zeng, L., Sheng, Q. (2008). Configurable QoS Computation

and Policing in Dynamic Web Service Selection. In D. Georgakopoulos & M. Papazoglou (Eds.), Service Oriented Computing (SOC). MIT Press.

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2006). A Novel Signature Technique for

Efficient Retrieval over Large Music Datasets. In D. Androutsos (Ed.), Semantic Multimedia Retrieval. CRC Press.

Ngu, A., Shen, J., Shepherd, J. (2005). Towards Semantically Meaningful

Feature Spaces for Effective Indexing. In U. Srinivasan & S. Nepal (Eds.), Large Image Databases, Managing Multimedia Semantics. IRM Press.

Srinivasan, U., Ngu, A., Gedeon, T. (1996). Concept Clustering for

Cooperation in Heterogeneous Information Systems. In R. Meersman & L. Mark (Eds.), Database Application Semantics (pp. 481-499). London: Chapman & Hall.

2. Articles:

a. Refereed Journal Articles: Fang, S., Ngu, A. (2017). GrandBase: Generating Actionable Knowledge From

Big Data. PSU Research Review, 6(125). Ngu, A. H., Nepal, S., Sheng, Q., Gutierrez, M., Metsis, V. (2017). IoT

Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Technologies. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Yang, T., Ngu, A. (2017). Implementation of Decision Tree Using Hadoop

MapReduce. International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining, 6(125). doi: 10.4172/2090-4924.100012

Yao, L., Sheng, Q., Ngu, A., Li, X., Gao, B., Wang, S. (2016). Multi-Label

Classification via Learning a Unified Object-Label Graph with Sparse Representation. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 19(6), 1125-1149.

Yao, L., Sheng, Q., Ngu, A., Li, X. (2016). Things of Interest Recommendation

by Leveraging Heterogeneous Relations in Internet of Things. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 16(2).

Noor, T. H., Sheng, Q., Yao, L., Dustdar, S., Ngu, A. (2016). CloudArmor:

Supporting Reputation-based Trust Management for cloud Services. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 27(2).

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Yao, L., Sheng, Q., Ngu, A., Yu, J. (2015). Unified Collaborative and Content-Based Web Services Recommendation. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 8(3), 453-466.

Noor, T. H., Sheng, Q., Ngu, A., Dustdar, S. (2014). Analysis of Web-Scale

Cloud Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 18(4). Ngu, A., Jamnagarwala, A., Chin, G., Sivaramakrishnan, G., Critchlow, T.

(2011). Kepler Scientific Workflow Design and Execution with Contexts. International Journal on Computers and their Applications, 18(3).

Ngu, A., Jamnagarwala, A., Chin, A., Sivaramakrishnan, G., Critchlow, T.

(2010). Context-Aware Scientific Workflow Systems. Journal of Business Process Management and Integration, 5(1).

Ngu, A., Carlson, M. P., Sheng, Q. Z., Paik, H. (2010). Semantic-based Mashup

of Composite Applications. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 3(1), 2-15.

Sheng, Q. Z., Benatallah, B., Maamar, Z., Ngu, A. (2009). Configurable

Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2(1), 34-49.

Zeng, L. Z., Ngu, A., Benatallah, B., Podorozhny, R., Lei, H. (2008). Dynamic

Composition and Optimization of Web Services. Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, 24(3).

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2007). An Empirical Study of Query

Effectiveness Improvement via Multiple Visual Feature Integration. International Journal on Image and Graphics (IJIG), 7(3).

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2006). Efficient Content based Retrieval with

Multiple Acoustic Feature Composition. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 8(6).

Ngu, A., Rocco, D., Critchlow, T., Buttler, D. (2005). Automatic Discovery and

Inferencing of Complex Bioinformatics Web Interfaces. Journal of World Wide Web: Internet and Information Systems, 8(4).

Ngu, A., Rocco, D., Critchlow, T., Buttler, D. (2004). QoS-Aware Middleware

for Web Services Composition. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 30(5).

Ngu, A., Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J. (2004). Query Size Estimation for Joins

using Systematic Sampling. Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, 15(3).

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Zeng, L., Benatallah, B., Lei, H., Ngu, A., Flaxer, K., Chang, H. (2003). Flexible Composition of Enterprise Web Services. International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media, 13(2).

Nodine, M., Ngu, A., Cassandra, T., Bohrer, W. (2003). Scalable Semantic

Brokering over Dynamic Heterogeneous Data Sources in InfoSleuth. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 15(5).

Medjahed, B., Benatallah, B., Bouguettaya, A., Ngu, A., Elmagarmid, A. (2003).

Business-to-Business Interactions: Issues and Enabling Technologies. The VLDB Journal, 12.

Ngu, A., Sheng, Q. Z., Huynh, D., Lei, R. (2001). Combining Multi-visual

Features for Efficient Indexing in a Large Image Database. The VLDB Journal, 9, 279-293.

Ngu, A., Nabil, M., Shepherd, J. (2001). Modeling and Retrieval of Moving

Objects. International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, 13, 35-71.

Srinivasan, U., Ngu, A., Gedeon, T. (2000). Managing Heterogeneous

Information Systems through Discovery and Retrieval of generic concepts, Journal of American Society of Information Science. Journal of American Society of Information Science, 51.

Weigand, H., Ngu, A. (1998). Flexible Specification of Interoperable

Transactions. International Journal on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 25(3).

Nabil, M., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (1996). Picture Similarity Retrieval using 2D

Projection Interval Relationships. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 8(4).

Ngu, A., Meersman, R., Weigand, H. (1994). Specification and Verification of

Communication Constraints for Interoperable Transaction. International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 3(1), 47-65.

Ngu, A. (1990). Specification and Verification of Temporal Relationships in

Transaction Modeling. Information System, 15(2), 257-267. Ngu, A. (1989). Conceptual Transaction Modeling. IEEE Transactions on

Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1, 508-518. 3. Conference Proceedings:

a. Refereed Conference Proceedings:

Ngu, A., Wu, Y., Polican, A., Zare, H., Yao, L. (2017). Fall Detection Using

Smartwatch Sensor Data with Accessor Architecture. Paper presented at

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International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH 2017), Hong Kong, June 2017. Springer.

Ngu, A. H., Fang, X. S., Sheng, Q. Z., Wang, X. (2017). Value Veracity

Estimation for Multi-Truth Objects via a Graph-Based Approach. Paper presented at 26 International World Wide Web Conference, April 3-7, 2017. Perth: ACM (Creative Commons).

Ngu, A., Feng, S., Paik, H. (2016). Social-PPM: Personal Experiences Sharing

and Recommendation. Paper presented at 2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2016), November, 2016. IEEE Computer Society Publisher.

Jing, X., Hye-Young, P., Ngu, A., Zhan, L. (2016). Aggregated Search over

Personal Process Description Graph. Paper presented at Database and Expert Systems, 27th International Conference, DEXA 2016, Portugal, September, 2016.

Gutierrez, M., Fast, M., Ngu, A., Gao, B. (2015). Real-Time Prediction of Blood

Alcohol Content Using Smartwatch Sensor Data. Paper presented at International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH 2015), Phoenix, Arizona, 2015.

Jing, X., Hye-Young, P., Ngu, A. (2015). Personal Process Description Graph for

Describing and Querying Personal Processes. Paper presented at 26th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2015), Melbourne, June, 2015.

Ngu, A., Julian, S., Ma, J., Sheng, Q. Z., Yao, L. (2014). ServiceXplorer: A

Similarity-based Web Service Search Engine. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2014 demo track), Gold Coast, Australia, July 6-11 2014.

Ngu, A., Memmi, H., Torres, J., Park, H., Hajimirsadeghi, S., Shepherd, J. (2014).

Social-PPM: Social-Aware Personal Process Management. Paper presented at The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Business Process Management (APBM 2014), Brisbane, Australia, 2014.

Yao, L., Sheng, Q. Z., Ngu, A. (2014). ThingsNavi: Finding Most Related Things

Via Multi-Dimensional Modeling Human-Things Interactions. Paper presented at 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2014), London, Great Britain, 2014.

Boman, J., Taylor, J., Ngu, A. (2014). Flexible Middleware for Integration of

Things and Applications. Paper presented at 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Things (C-IOT 2014), Miami, Florida, USA, October 22, 2014.

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Yao, L., Sheng, Q. Z., Gao, B., Ngu, A. (2013). A Model for Discovering Correlations of Ubiquitous Things. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on data Mining, Dallas, Texas, December 2013.

Noor, T. H., Sheng, Q. Z., Ngu, A. (2013). Cloud Armor: A Platform for

Credibility-Based Trust Management of Cloud Services. Paper presented at ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), California, USA, 2013.

Noor, T. H., Sheng, Q. Z., Alfazi, A., Law, J., Ngu, A. (2013). CSCE: A Crawler

Engine for Cloud Services Discovery on the World Wide Web. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2013), Santa Clara, USA, 2013.

Ma, J., Sheng, Q. Z., Lao, K., Zhang, Y., Ngu, A. (2012). WS-Finder: A

Framework for Similarity Search of Web Services. Paper presented at tenth International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, Shanghai, China, November 2012.

Hicks, C., Scheffer, M., Ngu, A., Sheng, Q. Z. (2012). Discovery and Cataloging

of Deep Web Sources. Paper presented at IEEE International Workshop on Data Integration and Mining (DIM-2012), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2012.

Chin, G., Srinivasan, G., Critchlow, T., Schuchardt, K., Ngu, A. (2011). Scientist-

Centered Workflow Abstractions via Generic Actors, Workflow Templates and Context-Awareness for Groundwater Modelling and Analysis. Paper presented at IEEE 2011 Fifth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows, Washington D.C., USA, July 2011.

Hoang, D. T., Paik, H. Y., Ngu, A. (2010). Spreadsheet as a Generic Purpose

Mashup Development Environment. Paper presented at International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC10), San Francisco, California, USA, December 2010.

Sheng, Q. Z., Pholenz, S., Yu, J., Wong, H. S., Ngu, A., Maamar, Z. (2009).

ContextServ: A Platform for Rapid and Flexible Development of Context-Aware Web Services. Paper presented at 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24 2009.

Sheng, Q. Z., Maamar, Z., Yu, J., Ngu, A. (2009). Robust Web Services

Provisioning Through On-Demand Replication. Paper presented at The 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and Its Applications (ISTA 2009), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24 2009.

Yildiz, U., Guabtni, A., Ngu, A. (2009). Towards Scientific Workflow Patterns.

Paper presented at The Fourth Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (in conjunction with SC 2009), Portland, Oregon, November 16, 2009.

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Yildiz, U., Guabtni, A., Ngu, A. (2009). Business verses scientific workflows: A

comparative study. Paper presented at IEEE 2009 Third International Workshop on Scientific Workflows, Los Angeles, California, USA, July 6-10 2009.

Carlson, M. P., Ngu, A., Podorozhny, R., Zeng, L. Z. (2008). Automatic Mash Up

of Composite Applications. Paper presented at International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC08), Sydney, Australia, December 2008.

Ngu, A., Bowers, S., Haasch, N., McPhillips, T., Critchlow, T. (2008). Flexible

Scientific Workflow Modeling using Frames, Templates and Dynamic Embedding. Paper presented at 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBMS08), Hong Kong, China, July 9-11 2008.

Ngu, A., Sheng, Q. Z. (2007). A Novel Approach for Robust Web Services

Provisioning. Paper presented at The 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS07), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16 2007.

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2006). InMAF: Indexing music databases via

multiple acoustic features. Paper presented at ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2006.

Zhao, Z., Sheng, Q. Z., Ngu, A. (2006). On-Demand Invocation of web Services.

Paper presented at The IASTED Conference on Web Technologies, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, July 17-19 2006.

Podorozhny, R., Ngu, A., Georgakopoulos, D. (2006). Business Process Learning

for Real Time Enterprise. Paper presented at First International Workshop on Business Intelligence for Real Time Enterprise (BIRTE), Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006.

Bowers, S., Ludaescher, B., Ngu, A., Critchlow, T. (2006). Enabling Scientific

Workflow Reuse through Structured Composition of Dataflow and Control-Flow. Paper presented at IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow2006), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 2006.

Ngu, A., Buttler, D., Critchlow, T. (2005). Automatic Generation of Service Class

Description for Automatic Classification of Web Sources. Paper presented at 2nd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2005), San Diego, CA, USA, July 2005.

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2005). On Efficient Genre Music Classification.

Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2005), Beijing, China, April 2005.

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Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (2005). Semantic-Sensitive Classification for Large Image Libraries```. Paper presented at The Eleventh International Multi-Media Modeling Conference (MMM2005)``, Melbourne, Australia, January 2005.

Shen, J., Benatallah, B., Maamar, Z., Dumas, M., Ngu, A. (2004). Enabling

Personalized Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services. Paper presented at 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering - CAiSE2004, Latvia, June 7-11 2004.

Shen, J., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A., Huynh, D. (2004). Improving Query Effectiveness

for Large Image Databases with Multiple Visual Feature Combination. Paper presented at 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2004), Korea, March 17-19 2004.

Shen, J., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (2004). Integrating Heterogeneous Features for

Efficient Content Based Music Retrieval. Paper presented at 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management-CIKM2004, Washington D.C., USA, November 8-13, 2004.

Liu, A., Gouda, G. M., Ma, H., Ngu, A. (2004). Ngu AHH., Firewall Queries.

Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS-04), Grenoble, France, 2004.

Liu, A., Gouda, G. M., Ma, H., Ngu, A., Gouda, G.M. (2004). Non-Intrusive

Testing of Firewalls. Invited Talk:Non-Intrusive Testing of Firewalls. Paper presented at 1st International Computer Engineering Conference: New Technologies for the Information Society (ICENCO’2004), Cairo, Egypt, 2004.

Liu, Y., Zeng, L. Z., Ngu, A. (2004). Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web

Service Selection. Paper presented at 13th International Conference on World Wide Web (alternate track), New York City, New York, USA, May 2004.

Shen, J., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J., Huynh, D., Sheng, Q. Z. (2003). CMVF: A Novel

Dimension Reduction Scheme for Efficient Indexing in A Large Image Database (a demo paper). Paper presented at ACM Special Interest Group on Data Management, SIGMOD2003, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2003.

Ngu, A., Georgakopoulos, D., Baker, D., Cichocki, A. (2002). Advanced Process-

based Component Integration in Telcordia's Cable OSS, (a demo paper). Paper presented at 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2002), February 2002.

Benatallah, B., Dumas, M., Sheng, Q. Z., Ngu, A. (2002). Declarative

Composition and Peer-to-Peer Provisioning of Dynamic Web Services. Paper presented at 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2002), February 2002.

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Zeng, L. Z., Ngu, A., Benatallah, B. (2001). Agent-based Service Discovery for Workflow Integration, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering. Paper presented at ISE 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2001.

Zeng, L. Z., Benatallah, B., Ngu, A. (2001). AgFlow: Agent-based Cross-

Enterprise Workflow Management System (a demo paper). Paper presented at 27th International Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB2001, Rome, Italy, September 11-14, 2001.

Zeng, L. Z., Ngu, A., Benatallah, B. (2001). On Demand Business-to-Business

Integration. Paper presented at Ninth International Conference on Cooperative Information System (CoopIS), Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001.

Zeng, L. Z., Ngu, A., Benatallah, B., O'Dell, M. (2001). Agent-based Service

Discovery for Workflow Integration, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering. Paper presented at Twelfth Australasian Database Conference (ADC2001), Bond University, Queensland, Australia, February 2001.

Nodine, M., Bohrer, W., Ngu, A. (1999). Semantic Brokering over Dynamic

Heterogeneous Data Sources in InfoSleuth. Paper presented at 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE99), Sydney, Australia, March 23-26, 1999.

Ngu, A. (1999). Specification of Cooperative Constraints in Virtual Enterprise

Workflow. Paper presented at Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Virtual Enterprise, RIDEVE’ 99, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.

Ngu, A. (1999). Specification of Cooperative Constraints in Virtual Enterprise

Workflow. Paper presented at Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Virtual Enterprise, RIDEVE’ 99, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.

Ngu, A., Nabil, N. (1998). An Image Retrieval System for Distributed

Environments. Paper presented at Eighth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Continuous-Media Databases and Applications, RIDE’98, Orlando, Florida, February 1998.

Ngu, A., Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J. (1997). Selectivity Estimation for Joins

Using Systematic Sampling. Paper presented at 8th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA97), Toulouse, France, September 1-5, 1997. IEEE Computer Society Press.

Ngu, A., Lei, R. (1997). Indexing Multi-Visual Feature in Image Database. Paper

presented at Fifteenth British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD15, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 1997.

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Harangsri, B., Matsushima, S., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1997). Handling Missing Values in Database Systems using a Naive Bayesian Classifier. Paper presented at ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Tucson, Arizona, May 11, 1997.

Nabil, N., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (1997). Modeling Moving Objects in Multimedia

Databases Fifth International Conference on database Systems for Advanced Application. Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on database Systems for Advanced Application, DASFAA’97, Melbourne Australia, April, 1997.

Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1997). Query Size Estimation Using

Machine Learning (II). Paper presented at Proceeding of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’97), Melbourne Australia, April, 1997.

Lei, R., Ngu, A., Jin, J. (1997). Reducing Dimensions of Multiple Visual Features

for Indexing in Multimedia Databases. Paper presented at The Second International Conference on Multimedia Information System, ICMIS 97, Schaumburg, Illinois, April, 1997. (pp. 42-49).

Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1996). Query Size Estimation using

Machine Learning (I). Paper presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (TAAI-96), National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan R.O.C., December 1996.

Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1996). Query Size Estimation using

Systematic Sampling. Paper presented at International Symposium on Cooperative Database Systems for Advanced Applications,, Heian Shrine, Kyoto, Japan, December 1996.

Ngu, A., Duong, T., Srinivasan, U. (1996). Workflow Modeling using Tasks and

Transactions (extended version). Paper presented at 7th International Conference and Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1996.

Ngu, A., Duong, T., Srinivasan, U. (1996). Workflow Modeling using Tasks and

Transactions. Paper presented at Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 1996.

Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1996). Query Optimization in Multidatabase

Systems using Query Classification. Paper presented at 11th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’ 96), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, February 1996.

Harangsri, B., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1996). Query Classification in

Multidatabase Systems. Paper presented at Seventh Australasian Database Conference Proceedings, Melbourne, Australia, January 1996.

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Srinivasan, U., Ngu, A., Borges, M., Ketabchi, M., Krishnamurthy, R. (1995).

Information Re-engineering for Cooperative Clinical Information Systems. 2nd International Conference on Application of Databases. Paper presented at Conference on Application of Databases, Santa Clara, USA, December 1995. (pp. 107-119).

Gedeon, T. D., Koczy, L. T., Ngu, A., Bustos, R. A., Shepherd, J. A. (1995).

Learning Fuzzy Measure Functions for Information Retrieval. Paper presented at Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and the 2nd International Fuzzy Engineering Symposium (FUZZ-IEEE/IFES’95), Yokohama, Japan, 1995.

Nabil, M., Shepherd, J., Ngu, A. (1995). 2D Projection Interval Relationships: A

Symbolic Representation of Spatial Relationships. Paper presented at Fourth International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases, SSD’95, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August, 1995.

Shepherd, J., Harangsri, B., Chen, H. L., Ngu, A. (1995). A Two-Phase Approach

to Data Allocation in Distributed Databases. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA’95, Singapore, April, 1995.

Ngu, A., Meersman, R., Weigand, H. (1994). Specification and Verification of

Communication Constraints for Interoperable Transaction. Paper presented at 2nd International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Toronto, Canada, 1994.

Nabil, M., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (1994). A Unified Representation of Spatial and

Temporal Information in Multimedia Database. Paper presented at Third International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, November 1994.

Ngu, A., Gedeon, T., Shepherd, J. (1994). Discovering Indexing Parameters for

Information Filtering. Paper presented at Second Singapore International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Singapore, November 1994.

Srinivasan, U., Ngu, A., Gedeon, T. (1994). Discovery of Generic Concepts from

Heterogeneous Clinical Information Systems. Paper presented at Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Singapore, November 1994.

Nabil, M., Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (1994). Modeling of Spatio-temporal

Relationships in Multimedia Databases. Paper presented at IEEE workshop on Spatial and Temporal Interaction: Representation and Reasoning, Singapore, November 1994.

Lee, N., Ngu, A., Srinivasan, U. (1994). A Hypertext Approach to Querying

Clinical Multidatabases. Paper presented at 5th International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, Hong Kong, China, February 1994.

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Ngu, A., Shepherd, J. (1993). How to deal with 10,000 news items per day: an

Intelligent Assistant for Newsreading. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Inaugural Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, Perth, Australia, December 1993.

Dijkstra, J. M., Ngu, A. (1993). Ariadne: A Standard Compliant and Integrated

Electronic Document Delivery System. Paper presented at 17th International Online Information Meeting, London, England, December 1993.

Duong, T., Hiller, J., Ngu, A. (1993). Contracting Mechanism: Dynamic and

Flexible Way to Integrate Information. Paper presented at 1st International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 12-14, 1993.

Ngu, A., Yan, L., Wong, L. (1993). Heterogeneous Query Optimization using

Maximal Subqueries. Paper presented at The Third International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Daejon, Korea, 1993.

Ngu, A., Gedeon, T. (1993). Index Generation is Better than Extraction. Paper

presented at Proceedings of the International Conference on Non-linear Theory, Hawaii, 1993.

Duong, T., Hiller, J., Ngu, A. (1993). Information Integration through Contract.

Paper presented at The Third International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Daejon, Korea, April, 1993.

Ngu, A., Wong, L. (1993). PINOL: Persistent Object Oriented Database

Programming Language. Paper presented at The Third International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Daejon, Korea, 1993.

Harangsri, B., Ngu, A. (1993). A New Heuristic for Data Allocation. Paper

presented at Proceedings of the International Symposium on Next Generation Database Systems and Their Applications, Japan, September 1993.

Ngu, A., Wong, L., Widjojo, S. (1991). On Canonical and Non-Canonical

Classifications. Paper presented at The 2nd International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, DOOD91, Munich, Germany, 1991. Springer-Verlag.

Ngu, A. (1989). Transaction Modeling. Paper presented at 5th International

Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1989. Ngu, A. (1987). Data Modelling through Quasi-natural Language. Paper

presented at Proceedings of the 10th Australian Computer Science Conference, Victoria, Australia, 1987. (pp. 57-67).

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Ngu, A., Morris, J. (1983). An Experiment in Program Generation. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 6th Australian Computer Science Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1983.

b. Non-refereed:

Ngu, A. (1999). Role of Multibrokers in Electronic Commerce. Paper presented at

Second International Workshop on Technological Challenges of Electronic Commerce, Beijing, China, May 17-23 1999.

Ngu, A., Shepherd, J., Yamamoto, T. (1994). A Fuzzy Model for Information

Retrieval. Neural Nets and Soft Computing. Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Logic, August, 1994.

Gedeon, T., Hiller, J., Ngu, A. (1993). Storage and Visualization of Medical

Images - From Scanner to Database to Display. Paper presented at Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Science Congress, Perth, Australia, 1993.

4. Abstracts:

Chow, T. E., Ngu, A., Lin, Y., Phillips, C., Thornhill, S. (2012). Record Linkage of Web

Demographics as a GeoComputation Challenge. Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science: Quality and Credibility, GIScience 2012.

Ngu, A., Chin, G., Critchlow, T. (2011). Context-Aware Actors. Ngu, A., West, S. (2009). Kepler-Discovery: An open source cyber-learning resource for

AP Environmental Science. Junction, Texas:. Ngu, A., Haasch, N., Critchlow, T., Bowers, S., McPhillips, T., Ludaescher, B. (2007).

Flexible Scientific Workflow through Dynamic Embedding. Ngu, A., Shepherd, J., Magin, D. (1995). Engineering Peers: Computer-Assisted

Approach to the development of Peer Assessment System. Anderson, L., Ngu, A., al, e. (1994). Testing the Limits of Autonomy: The Participant-led

Workshop. 5. Reports:

Ngu, A., Gu, Q., Peng, Q., Roberts, M. (2009). ActionItem: Collaboration through

Commitment and Social Tasking, Department of Computer Science. Ngu, A., Haasch, N., Critchlow, T., Bowers, S., McPhillips, T., Ludaescher, B. (2007).

Flexible Scientific Workflows Using Frames and Dynamic Embedding. Ngu, A., Rocco, D., Critchlow, T., Buttler, D. (2003). Automatic Discovery and

Inferencing of Complex Bioinformatics Web Interfaces.

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Ngu, A., Ooi, B. C., Wong, L. S. (1990). Types and Classes as Distinct Modelling

Concepts in an Object Oriented Data Model (pp. 1-31). Lim, J., Ngu, A., Ooi, B. C. (1990). Visual Programmatic Interface to Object (pp. 1-24). Ngu, A. (1989). An Integrated Data and Transactions Modeling Environment (pp. 1-21).

6. Book Reviews:

(2006). [Review of the book Web Services: Principles and Technology, by AHH Ngu

(Ed.)]. Pearson, Prentice Hall. B. Works Not in Print: 1. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

Ngu, A., Chin, G., Critchlow, T., Ninth Biennial Ptolemy Mini-conference, "Context-

Aware Actors," Berkeley, CA, United States. (February 2011). Ngu, A., "Fall Detection using Smartwatch Sensor Data with Accessor Architecture,"

International Conference on Smart Health (iCSH 2017), Hong Kong City University, Hong Kong, China. (June 2017).

Ngu, A., "Social-PPM: Personal Experience Sharing and Recommendation," The Second

IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, Pittsburg, Pittsburg, United States. (November 2016).

Noor, T., Sheng, q., Alfazi, A., Law, J., Ngu, A., "A Crawler Engine for Cloud Services

Discovery on the World Wide Web," IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS2013), Santa Clara, CA, United States. (2013).

Noor, T., Sheng, Q., Ngu, A., ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge

Management (CIKM 2013), "Cloud Armor: A Platform for Credibility-Based Trust Management of Cloud Services," ACM. (2013).

Hoang, D. T., Paik, H. Y., Ngu, A., International Conference on Service Oriented

Computing (ICSOC10),, "Spreadsheet as a Generic Purpose Mashup Development Environment," San Francisco, CA, United States. (December 2010).

2. Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations:

Ngu, A., "Overview of the Computer Science PhD Program," Computer Science, Comal

Building Rm 212. (December 2017). Ngu, A., "Computer Science Program Presentation to MGO," University Advancement

Monthly MGO Meeting, JCK. (September 2017).

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Ngu, A., "Overview of the Computer Science PhD Proposal," Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Team Visit, Computer Science Department. (February 2017).

Ngu, A., "Multidisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates in Internet of

Things (poster)," NSF Pan-REU Workshop, Holiday Inn, Washington D.C., United States. (April 2016).

Ngu, A., "Computer Science PhD Proposal," University Curriculum, Computer Science

Department. (March 2016). Ngu, A., "Context-Aware IoT Middleware and Applications," Royal Melbourne Institute

of Technology, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia. (December 2015). Ngu, A., "Context-Aware IoT Middleware and Applications," The Australian E-Health

Research Center, AEHRC, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia. (November 2015). Ngu, A., "Why REU?," CS Major Welcome Day, Computer Science Department. (2014). Ngu, A., SPARK Scholar Orientation Day, "Challenges and Opportunities in Computer

Science," SPARK. (2013). Ngu, A., "Research preparation for successful REU," NSF REU Site 2013 Meeting, NSF.

(March 2013). Ngu, A., "REU-IR Program," Computer Science Department EXE Society, Texas State

University. (2012). Ngu, A., "Context-aware scientific workflow," School of Computing, National University

of Singapore, Singapore. (January 2011). Ngu, A., "Context-aware scientific workflow," Computer Science Industry Advisory

Board Meeting, Texas State University. (November 2010). Ngu, A., "Context-Annotation," PNNL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,

Richland, WA, United States. (July 2010). 3. Consultancies:

For Profit Organization, GeneticEve, Austin, TX, United States. (June 2015 - August

2017). For Profit Organization, Innovit Technologies Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. (September

1999 - June 2000). For Profit Organization, JustWin Technology Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. (January 1999 -

June 2000). C. Scholarly / Creative Grants and Contracts:

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1. Funded External Grants and Contracts: Yang, Guowei (Principal), Percent Contribution: 50%, Ngu, Anne H. (Co-

Principal), Percent Contribution: 50%. REU SITE: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Systems and Analysis, NSF-CISE, Federal. (Funded: January 2017 - February 2020). Grant.

Lu, Y, Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal), Gao, Byron, Chen, X, Qsaem, A. II-NEW:

Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF CISE CRI Program, Federal, $375,756.00. (Funded: 2013 - 2019). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal), Gao, B. REU SITE: Multidisciplinary Research

Experiences for Undergraduates in Internet of Things, NSF-CISE, Federal, $323,481.00. (Funded: March 1, 2014 - February 18, 2019). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal), Gao, B. RET Supplements to REU Site Award:

Multidisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Internet of Things, NSF-CISE, Federal, $20,000.00. (Funded: March 1, 2016 - February 18, 2018). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H (Principal). Pilot Implementation of System for Innovation in

Personalized Health Monitoring, GeneticEve LLC, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $20,715.00. (Funded: 2015 - 2017). Contract.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal), Gao, Byron. REU Site: Research Experiences in New

Paradigms of Information Retrieval from Diverse Data, NSF-OCI, Federal, $359,827.00. (Funded: March 1, 2011 - February 28, 2014). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award,

AT&T, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $5,000.00. (Funded: 2013). Gift. Lu, Yijuan (Principal), Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal), Gao, B. II-NEW: Shared

High Performance Data Center, NSF-CISE CRI., Federal, $50,000.00. (Funded: February 1, 2011 - January 1, 2013). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Context-Aware Generic Actors, Pacific Northwest

National Laboratory, Federal, $80,000.00. (Funded: 2008 - 2010). Contract. Sheng, Q Z, Ngu, Anne H. (Other). Australian Research Council Discovery

Grant, Australian Research Council, Federal, $216,354.00. (Funded: 2007). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Large Australian Research Council SPIRT Grant,

SPIRT, Federal, $244,900.00. (Funded: 2001). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Large Australian Research Council SPIRT Grant,

SPIRT, Federal, $262,560.00. (Funded: 2000). Grant.

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Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Small Australian Research Council Grant, Federal, $15,000.00. (Funded: 1998). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal). Small Australian Research Council Grant, Federal,

$30,000.00. (Funded: 1997 - 1998). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Small Australian Research Council Grant, Federal,

$15,000.00. (Funded: 1995). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal). Australian Telecommunication & Electronic Board

(ATERB) Grant, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $11,000.00. (Funded: 1994). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal). Small Australian Research Council Grant, Federal,

$13,000.00. (Funded: 1994). Grant. 2. Submitted, but not Funded, External Grants and Contracts:

Gao, Byron (Principal), Ngu, Anne (Anne) (Co-Principal). NRT-IGE: Applied

Research in Big Data Management and Analysis Training Pilot, NSF, Federal, $494,588.00. (Submitted: October 2017). Grant.

Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Co-Principal), Ngu, Hee Hiong. Quantified Self and

Wearable Tech for Improving Health at Senior Residence Facilities.”, PCORI, Communication and Dissemination Program, $200,000.00. (Submitted: 2016). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H (Co-Principal). Royal Society of New Zealand Catalyst Seeding

Grant, Texas State University, Other, $80,000.00. (Submitted: 2016). Grant. 3. Funded Internal Grants and Contracts:

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Research Enhancement Program, Texas State

University, $8,000.00. (Funded: 2002). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Special Research Grant, University of New South

Wales, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8,000.00. (Funded: 1996). Grant. Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). Infrastructure Grant, University of New South Wales,

Institutional (Higher Ed), $35,000.00. (Funded: 1994). Grant. 4. Submitted, but not Funded, Internal Grants and Contracts:

Ngu, Anne H. (Principal). A light-weight Software Platform for Internet of Things

(IoT) Services, Texas State University, $8,000.00. (Submitted: 2017). Sponsored Research.

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Ngu, Anne H (Principal). A light-weight Programming Model for Internet of Things, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8,000.00. (Submitted: 2016). Grant.

Ngu, Anne H (Principal), Roundtree, Aimee (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution:

50%. Wearable Tech for Improving Health at Senior Residence Facilities, Texas State University, $2,500.00. (Funded: 2016). Grant.

D. Scholarly / Creative Fellowships, Awards, Honors:

Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, Texas State University.

2010 Award / Honor Recipient: Special Developmental Leave Award, Texas State University.

2008 Award / Honor Recipient: College Runner Up for Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, Texas State University.

2006 2004

Fellowship Recipient: ITK Research Fellow, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

1993 Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.

1989 Award / Honor Recipient: University Research Studentship, University of Western Australia.

1986 Award / Honor Recipient: E.M. Russell prize- for academic achievement, St. Catherine College, Perth, Australia.

1982 E. Scholarly / Creative Professional Development Activities Attended:

Workshop, "Health Scholar Showcase," Texas State University, San Marcos, United States. (2017). Workshop, "Speed Networking for Researchers Event," Texas State University, San Marcos, United States. (2016). Conference Attendance, "ACM SIGMOD Conference," ACM, San Francisco, CA, United States. (June 2016). Workshop, "PhD Proposal Writing," Texas State University. (January 2013).

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Workshop, "Fullbright Program Workshop," Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States. (2012). Workshop, "Texas Research Exchange Fest at Texas A&M," Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States. (September 2008). Workshop, "NSF Grant Workshop," Texas State University- College of Science, San Marcos, TX, United States. (August 2006).

IV. SERVICE A. Institutional

1. University:

Organizer, External Computer Science PhD Proposal Review Team Site Visit. (June 2015). Panel member, Mentoring Workshop, Academic Development and Assessment Program. (2014). Member, Library Committee- Texas State University. (2009 - 2014). Member, Asian Studies Board of Advisors- Texas State University. (2006 - 2010). Member, RRHEC Incentives Committee- Texas State University. (2004 - 2005).

2. College:

Member, Graduate Council- Texas State University. (2017 - Present). Member, Dean Summative Review Group. (2014 - 2015). Member, College Review Group. (2012 - 2015). Member, Women in Science and Engineering Planning Committee (WISE). (2010 - 2012). Member, College of Science REP Committee- Texas State University. (2007 - 2009). Member, School of Electrical Engineering Recruitment Committee- University of New South Wales. (1999). Member, Engineering Faculty Information Technology Committee- University of New South Wales. (1998 - 1999).

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Member, Engineering Faculty International Committee- University of New South Wales. (1996 - 1999). Member, Engineering Faculty Promotion Committee- University of New South Wales. (1996 - 1999). Member, School of Civil Engineering Recruitment Committee- University of New South Wales. (1998). Member, Engineering Faculty Tenure Committee- University of New South Wales. (1996). Participant, Engineering Faculty UNIPREP program for female engineers- UNSW. (1996). Participant, Women in Research Network at UNSW. (1996).

3. Department/School:

Chair, PhD Program Committee. (September 2017 - Present). Graduate Advisor, Computer Science Ph.D. Program. (May 2017 - Present). Member, Space Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2012 - Present). Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2011 - Present). Member, Personnel Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2005 - Present). Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2004 - Present). Participant, Graduate Comprehensive Examination, Texas State University. (2003 - Present). Director, Computer Science NSF REU Site Program. (2011 - 2017). Chair, PhD Proposal Development Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2012 - April 2017). Member, Policy and Procedure Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2007 - 2016). Chair, CS Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2011 - 2015).

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Chair, Library Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2011 - 2012). Chair, Policy and Procedure Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2011 - 2012). Chair, Space Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2011 - 2012). Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2009 - 2011). Seminar Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2003 - 2008). Member, Academic Honesty Committee, Computer Science Department, Texas State University. (2006 - 2007). Member, Chair Search Committee, Computer Science Department, Texas State University. (2005 - 2006). Member, PhD Proposal Committee, Department of Computer Science, Texas State University. (2004 - 2006). Member, CS Department Self-Review Committee. (2002 - 2003). Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, UNSW. (2000). Member, School of Computer Science and Engineering Graduate Curriculum Committee, UNSW. (1996 - 1998). Member, School of Computer Science and Engineering Grant Review Committee, UNSW. (1996 - 1998). Member, School of Computer Science and Engineering Space Committee, UNSW. (1996 - 1998). Acting Head, Department of Information Science, UNSW. (February 1996 - July 1996). Seminar Coordinator, School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW. (1993 - 1994). Member, School of Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, UNSW. (1993).

B. Professional:

Co-Chair, NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award Committee. (2015 - 2018).

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Member, ICSOC17 - The 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Malaga, Spain. (2017). Member, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, San Jose, United States. (2017). Member, The First International Workshop on Mobile and Pervasive Internet of Things (PerIoT), Hawaii, United States. (2016 - 2017). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering. (2008 - 2017). Editor, Special issue on Web of Things in the Journal of Information Systems Frontiers by Springer. (2016). Reviewer / Referee, Future Generation Computer (Elsevier). (2016). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. (2010 - 2015). Co-Chair, International Workshop on Internet of Things, (C-IOT 2014), Miami, FL, United States. (2014). Member, 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud (CollabCloud 2014). (2014). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. (2014). Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. (2014). Co-Chair, International Workshop on Internet of Things, (C-IOT 2013), Austin, TX, United States. (2013). Member, WAIM2013- The International Conference on Web Age Information Management. (2013). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. (2013). Workshop Co-Chair, 9th IEEE International Conference Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2013), Austin, TX, United States. (2013). Member, WISE- The International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. (2007 - 2013). Member, ENASE. International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. (2009 - 2012). Reviewer / Referee, ACM Transactions on Services Computing. (2008 - 2012).

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Member, BPSC2012 – Business Process and Service Computing, Lithuania. (May 2012). Member, USECA2011– The First International Workshop on User-focused Service Engineering, Sydney, Australia. (2011). Member, 3rd Women in Science and Engineering Conference- Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States. (2010 - 2011). Member, CollaborateCom- The International Conference on Collaborative Computing. (2007 - 2011). Member, ODBASE2010– The 9th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, Greece. (2010). Reviewer / Referee, Bioinformatics, Oxford Journals. (2010). Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Information Systems (Elsevier). (2010). Member, ICEBE 2010 – The Seventh International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China. (November 2010). Member, Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC 2010), Leipzig, Germany. (September 2010). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), InderScience Publishers. (2009). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (Springer). (2009). Reviewer / Referee, Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer. (2009). Member, ICEBE 2009 – The Sixth International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Macau, China. (October 2009). Member, WDPP09 – First International Workshop on Data and Process Provenance, Brisbane, Australia. (April 2009). Member, CSSSIA2008 - The International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation, Beijing, China. (2008). Member, ICEBE 2008 – The Fifth International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Xi'an, China. (2008). Member, ICSOC08 - The Sixth International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Sydney, Australia. (2008).

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Member, PDCAT2008 - The 9th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies, Dunedin, New Zealand. (2008). Member, WAIM2008 - The 9th International Conference on Web Age Information Management, Zhangjijie, China. (2008). Reviewer / Referee, Bioinformatics, Oxford Journals. (2008). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. (2008). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. (2008). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (Springer). (2008). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. (2007). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences (IJICIS). (2007). Member, APWeb2006 - The Eight Asia-Pacific Web Conference. (2006). Reviewer / Referee, ACM Transactions on Information Technology (TOIT). (2006). Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE). (2006). Co-Chair, WISE2005 - 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. (2005). Member, APWeb2005 - The Seventh Asia-Pacific Web Conference. (2005). Member, BPM-2005 - The 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management. (2005). Member, ICSOC05 - The 3rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing. (2005). Reviewer / Referee, ACM Transactions on Information Systems. (2005). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer). (2005). Member, RIDE-WS-ECEG 2004 - 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering. (2004). Member, SCC2004 - IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. (2004). Member, WEC2004 - IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Contracting. (2004).

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Member, WISE2004 - Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. (2004). Member, WSABE-2004 - International Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering. (2004). Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Extending Database Technology. (2004). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier Journal). (2004). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (Kluwer Academic Publishers). (1999 - 2004). Member, VLDB-TES2003 - International Conference on Very Large Data Bases. (2003). Member, WISE2003 - Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering. (2003). Member, WSABE-2003 - International Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering. (2003). Reviewer / Referee, IJCAI-2003 -Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (2003). Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE. (2003). Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (World Scientific). (2003). Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Information Systems (Elsevier). (2003). Reviewer / Referee, Journal of World Wide Web, Internet and Web Information Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers). (2003). Reviewer / Referee, M-services in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Journal. (2003). Proceedings Chair, ICDE2002 - 18th International Conference on Data Engineering. (2002). Reviewer / Referee, International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB. (2002). Member, Australasian Database Conferences-ADC. (2001). Member, CIKM2001 - Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (2001).

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Member, RIDE-VE1999 - 9th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering - VirtualEnterprise. (1999). Organization Chair, ICDE1999 - 15th International Conference on Data Engineering. (1999). Reviewer / Referee, IEEE Transaction on Data and Knowledge Engineering. (1999). Member, EDBT-WFM1998 - International Workshop on Workflow Management. (1998). Session Chair, ICDE1998 - 14th International Conference on Data Engineering. (1998). Chair, UNSW Symposium on Next-Generation Data Management Systems. (1997). Reviewer / Referee, ACM Transactions on Information System, ACM TOIS. (1997). Reviewer / Referee, The VLDB Journal. (1997). Member, Australasian Database Conferences-ADC. (1995). Member, IFIP-DS6 (1995) - International Federation of Information Processing (Data Semantics). (1995). Member, OOER-1995 - International Conference on Object-Oriented and Entity-Relationship Modeling. (1995). Member, CoopIS- International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems. (1994 - 1995). Member, Australasian Database Conferences-ADC. (1994).

C. Community:

Sunday school teacher, Austin Chinese Church, Austin, TX. (2007 - Present). Faculty Mentor, LSAMP Program at Texas State. (2016 - 2017). Faculty Mentor, SPARK Program at Texas State. (2012 - 2017). Panelist, NSF Panel. (2009 - 2017). Speaker, St. Stephen Episcopal School, Austin, TX. (March 2017). Reviewer, NCWIT ACM-W Seed Fund Startup. (2016). Reviewer, Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper Scholarships. (2015).

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Member, STEM Academy at Stony Point High School Advisory Committee, Austin, TX. (2012). Judge, Harmony School of Science, Austin, TX. (2011). Panelist, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, San Marcos, TX. (October 2008). Examiner, University of Western Sydney- Dissertation Committee, Sydney. (February 2008). External Reviewer, Israel National Science Foundation. (2004). Examiner, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland. (May 2000). External Reviewer, Australian Research Council. (1999). External Reviewer, Cooperative Information Systems Center- Queensland University, Brisbane, Queensland. (November 1999). Examiner, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales. (January 1998). Examiner, Australian National University, Canberra. (January 1995).

D. Organization Memberships:

IEEE. (1997 - Present). Association for Computing Machinery. (1988 - Present). The Girl Scouts of Central Texas. (2004 - 2012).

E. Service Honors and Awards:

Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Services, Texas State University.

2017 Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Services, Texas State University.

2014 Award / Honor Recipient: Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) & AT&T.

2013 G. Service Professional Development Activities Attended:

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Workshop, "17th Annual Central Texas Women Profiles in Power and Women of Influence Event." (July 14, 2011).

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