Publications

Refereed Articles

  1. "Knowledge Transfer: From Maintenance to Engine Design", Sylvia C Wong, Richard M Crowder, Gary B Wills, and Nigel R Shadbolt, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (Transactions of the ASME), 8 (1). 2008, ISSN 1530-9827 eprints

  2. "Provenance-based validation of e-science experiments", Simon Miles, Sylvia C. Wong, Weijian Fang, Paul Groth, Klaus-Peter Zauner, and Luc Moreau, Journal of Web Semantics, 5 (1). 2007, pp. 28-38. eprints

  3. "Cluster Computing and Grid 2005 Works in Progress: Grimoires: A Grid Registry with a Metadata-Oriented Interface", Sylvia C. Wong, Victor Tan, Weijian Fang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau, IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 6, no. 10, 2005. http

Refereed Conference Papers -- (full paper)

  1. "Data Mining to Support Engineering Design Decision", Pooja Jadhav, Sylvia C Wong, Gary B Wills, Richard M Crowder, and Nigel R Shadbolt, Workshop on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 in Architectural, Product and Engineering Design, 11 November 2007, 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Busan, Korea. eprints

  2. "Informing Preliminary Design by Incorporating Service Knowledge", Sylvia C Wong, Richard M Crowder, Gary B Wills, Nigel R Shadbolt, 16th International Conference on Engineering Design, 28-31 August 2007, Paris. eprints

  3. "Lesson Learnt from a Large-Scale Industrial Semantic Web Application", Sylvia C Wong, Richard M Crowder, Gary B Wills, Nigel R Shadbolt, 18th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 10-12 September 2007, Manchester, UK. eprints

  4. "Knowledge Management for a Large Service-Oriented Corporation", Sylvia C Wong, Richard M Crowder, Nigel R Shadbolt, Gary B Wills, To appear in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management (PAKM), Vienna, Austria, November/December 2006. eprints

  5. "Knowledge Engineering - From Front-line Support to Preliminary Design", Sylvia C Wong, Richard M Crowder, Gary B Wills, Nigel R Shadbolt, In Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), pp 44-52, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006. eprints

  6. "Provenance-based Validation of E-Science Experiments", Sylvia C Wong, Simon Miles, Weijian Fang, Paul Groth, Luc Moreau, In Proceedings of 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Galway, Ireland, November 2005. eprints

  7. "Performance Analysis of a Semantics Enabled Service Registry", Weijian Fang, Sylvia C Wong, Victor Tan, Simon Miles and Luc Moreau, In Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) Nottingham, UK, September 2005. eprints

  8. "A security architecture for a semantic Grid registry", Victor Tan, Weijian Fang, Sylvia C Wong, Simon Miles and Luc Moreau, In Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) Nottingham, UK, September 2005. eprints

  9. "Validation of E-Science Experiments using a Provenance-based Approach", Sylvia C Wong, Simon Miles, Weijian Fang, Paul Groth, Luc Moreau, In Proceedings of 4th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM) Nottingham, UK, September 2005. eprints

  10. "A Middleware for a Large Array of Cameras", Lee Middleton, Sylvia C. Wong, Michael O. Jewell, John N. Carter, Mark S. Nixon, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp 3682 - 3687, Edmonton, Canada, August 2005. pdf

  11. "Lightweight Agent Framework for Camera Array Applications", Lee Middleton, Sylvia C. Wong, Michael O. Jewell, John N. Carter, Mark S. Nixon, In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES'05) Part IV, Melbourne, Australia, September 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol 3684, ISBN 3-540-28897-X, pp 150-156. Springer-Verlag. http

  12. "A Distributed Approach to Musical Composition", Michael O. Jewell, Lee Middleton, Mark S. Nixon, Adam Prügel-Bennett, Sylvia C. Wong, In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES'05) Part III, Melbourne, Australia, September 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol 3683, ISBN 3-540-28896-1, pp 642-648. Springer-Verlag. eprints

  13. "Recording and Using Provenance in a Protein Compressibility Experiment", Paul Groth, Simon Miles, Weijian Fang, Sylvia C. Wong, Klaus-Peter Zauner and Luc Moreau, In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, July 2005. eprints

  14. "Complete coverage by mobile robots using slice decomposition based on natural landmarks", Sylvia C. Wong and Bruce A. MacDonald, In PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, August 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3157, ISBN 3-540-22817-9, pp 683-692, Springer-Verlag. pdf

  15. "Creating Composite Images for Estimating the Effectiveness of Mobile Robot Coverage Algorithms", Sylvia C. Wong, Lee Middleton and Bruce A. MacDonald, In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA) 2003, Brisbane, Australia, 2003. pdf

  16. "A topological coverage algorithm for mobile robots", Sylvia C. Wong and Bruce A. MacDonald, In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), vol 2, pp 1685 - 1690, Las Vegas, USA, October 2003. pdf

  17. "Robot programming environments", Bruce MacDonald, David Yuen, Sylvia Wong, Evan Woo, Rowan Gronlund, Toby Collett, Félix-Étienne Trépanier, and Geoff Biggs, In ENZCon2003 10th Electronics New Zealand Conference, University of Waikato, Hamilton, 1-2 September 2003. pdf

  18. "Performance Metrics for Robot Coverage Tasks", Sylvia C. Wong, Lee Middleton and Bruce A. MacDonald, In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA) 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, 2002. pdf

  19. "A Complete Coverage Algorithm for Contact-sensing Mobile Robots", Sylvia C. Wong, Bruce A. MacDonald and George G. Coghill, In Proceedings of Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems, ANNES 2001, Dunedin, New Zealand, Nov 2001. ps

  20. "Natural Landmark Recognition using Neural Networks for Autonomous Vacuuming Robots", Sylvia C. Wong, G. G. Coghill, B. A. MacDonald, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV'00, Singapore, Dec 2000. pdf

  21. "Landmark-based world model for autonomous vacuuming robots", Sylvia Wong, George Coghill, Bruce A. MacDonald, In Proceedings of ISA'00, International ICSC Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications, Wollongong, Australia, Dec 2000. pdf

Refereed Conference Papers -- (non-full paper)

  1. "An Agile Hypertext Design Methodology", Wills, G. B., Abbas, N., Chandrasekharan, R., Crowder, R. M., Gilbert, L., Howard, Y., Millard, D. E., Wong, S. C. and Walters, R. J., 18th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 10th - 12th September 2007, Manchester, UK. eprints

  2. "On a Service-Oriented Approach for an Engineering Knowledge Desktop", Sylvia C. Wong, Richard M. Crowder and Gary B. Wills, In Poster Session, 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-26 May 2006. eprints

  3. "Grimoires: Grid Registry with Metadata Oriented Interface: Robustness, Efficiency, Security --- Work-in-Progress", Sylvia C. Wong, Victor Tan, Weijian Fang, Simon Miles and Luc Moreau, In Work in Progress Session, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Cardiff, UK, 9-12 May 2005. eprints

Theses and Reports

  1. "Qualitative Topological Coverage of Unknown Environments by Mobile Robots", Sylvia C. Wong, PhD Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. 2006. eprints