Hongxue (harris) Wang

Biography

before came to Canada in 2000, I worked as a research fellow in Australia for a year in the area of information security. Since I joined Athabasca University in 2000, I have spent most of my research time on computing technologies for education, or e-learning. I spent about two years on developing EduPalace, an integrated system for Web-based distance education. I have also published many papers and authored two book chapters in the area of e-learning.

Research Interest

intelligent systems modelling, design and implementation The generic intelligent system model I developed and presented at IJCAI'97 is called constrained object hierarchy (COH). In this model, an intelligent system is a binding of some agents and a world, and for the agents the world consits of some objects, which can be worlds themselves, some defined methods the agents can use to act in or upon the world, and constraints representing the relationships between objects and the methods. Further in this model, constrants are classified as identity constraints, goal constraints, and trigger constraints. Identity constraints define the identity of the world; goal constraints set the goal for the agents to achieve; and the triggering constraints tell the agents under what conditions some defined actions should be taken. universal logic (UniLog) for knowledge representation I will describe UniLog in more detail later when I have time. network security: computer viruses, firewalls, security protocols, policies and formal methods for analysing network protocols and policies enabling-technology for electronic commerce agent systems including multi-agents and mobile agents object-oriented programming methodology and language (GISMO for Generalized Intelligent System Modeller) enabling-technology for e-learning: this is the area I have been working on since I came to this university