Shengli WU

Name： 　Shengli Wu
Title： 　Professor
Department： 　Computer Science
Research areas： 　Data base and information systems，information retrieval, machine learning, Web technology
Telephone： 　0511-88797508-405
E-mail： 　swu@ujs.edu.cn
Short Biography

In 1996, he obtained his Ph. D. degree in computer science from Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
In 1989, he obtained his Master’s degree in computer science from Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
In 1983, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
He has been doing teaching and research in the area of data base and information systems for long time. He has been involved in many research projects in China and abroad. Before he came back to China in June 2012, he had been worked in UK universities for over a decade. He has published more than 90 research papers. Some of them were published in authoritative journals in the area including “Information Processing and Management”， “Information Retrieval”, “American Journal of Information Science and Technology”, “Data and Knowledge Engineering”, etc。About 20 of them have been indexed by SCI, and over 50 by EI. According to Google Scholar, his papers have been cited for over 400 times by others. In 2012, he published a monograph “Data fusion in information retrieval” by Springer.

Research projects

1．Relational Database System NITDB, funded by Natural Science Foundation of China.
2．Object-Oriented Database System FOOD, funded by Natural Science Foundation of China and a Canadian company.
3．CIMS Application System Integration Platform, funded by National “Eight Six Three” Program-the CIMS topic.
4．Typical Application Software Integrated Platform for Chinese Petrochemical Industry, which was funded by Chinese Science Committee.
5．Federated Database System-based Workflow System, funded by Natural Science Foundation of China.
6．Query optimization in Federated Database Systems, funded by Post-doctorial Science Foundation of China.
7．Security in Federated Database Systems, funded by National Lab of Software new Technology, Nanjing University, China.
8．The Meteor workflow system, funded by the National Institute of Standard and Technology, USA.
9．Telecare: An intelligent workflow information system for community-based, shared-care management of diabetes, funded by NSTB and National University of Singapore.
10．GIMS (Genome Information Management System), funded by EPSRC, UK.
11．MIND (Resource Selection and Data Fusion for Multimedia International Digital Libraries), funded by IST, European Union.
12．The Geometric Model of Data Fusion in Information Retrieval, supported by Research Office, University of Ulster.
14．The Experiments with the Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval, supported by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.
15．Data fusion in information retrieval, Program of special professorship of Jiangsu Province.
16．Intelligent distributed information retrieval, Program of special professorship of Jiangsu University.

Professional Activities

1．2007-2009, honored professorship of Jiangsu University.
2．He gave talks in a few universities including University of Strathclyde (2002 & 2006), University of Aberdeen (2003), University of Ulster(2006, 2009) in the UK, Lugano University (2009) in Switzerland，Southeast University (2009) in China, etc.
3．Reviewer for many journals including the Journal of Computers (in Chinese)，the journal of Software (in Chinese)，Computer research and Development (in Chinese)，Journal of Computer Science and Technology, International Journal of Digital Libraries, Information Processing and Management, Knowledge and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Information Fusion，ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, etc.
4．Providing service for a number of international conferences including：
member of programming committee in IEEE International Conferences on Man, Systems, and Cybernetics (2008-2010), International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (2008-2012), and International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (2012-2013);
Session chair in IEEE International Conferences on Man, Systems, and Cybernetics (2007), International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (2009), and International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (2010) etc.

Publications

2013
1．Shengli Wu. The weighted Condorcet fusion in information retrievalOriginal. Information Processing & Management. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457312000271

2012
1. Shengli Wu: Data fusion in information retrieval (monograph), 2012, Springer.
2. Shengli Wu: Linear combination of component results in information retrieval. Data & Knowledge Engineering. 71(1): 114-126, 2012.
3. Shengli Wu: Applying the data fusion technique to blog opinion retrieval. Expert Systems with Application. 39(1): 1346-1353, 2012.
4. Shuiming Zhong, Xiaoqin Zeng, Shengli Wu, Lixin Han: Sensitivity-Based Adaptive Learning Rules for Binary Feedforward Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems. 23(3): 480-491, 2012.
5. Shengli Wu, Xiaoqin Zeng： Condorcet Fusion for Blog Opinion Retrieval. DEXA Workshops 2012 (TIR 2012), Vienna, Austria, September 2012.
6．Shengli Wu et. Al.: Adaptive data fusion methods for dynamic search environments. To be appear in Proceedings of AIRS 2012, Tianjin, China, December 2012.

2011
1. Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng: Using the Euclidean Distance for Retrieval Evaluation. BNCOD 2011: 83-96
2. Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng: The Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval. DEXA (2) 2011: 219-233
3. Shengli Wu: Fusing Blog Opinion Retrieval Results for Better Effectiveness. DEXA Workshops 2011: 195-199
4. Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Hui Wang, Gongde Guo: Combination of Evidence-Based Classifiers for Text Categorization. ICTAI 2011: 422-429
5. Anna Jurek, Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Chris D. Nugent: Classification by Clusters Analysis - An Ensemble Technique in a Semi-supervised Classification. ICTAI 2011: 876-878
6. Anna Jurek, Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Chris D. Nugent: Classification by Cluster Analysis: A New Meta-Learning Based Approach. MCS 2011: 259-268

2010
Anna Jurek, Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Chris D. Nugent: A Meta Learning Approach: Classification by Cluster Analysis. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (AIMSA), Varna, Bulgaria, September 8-10, 2010: 267-268 (Spring LNCS 6304).
Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu: Measuring Impact of Diversity of Classifiers on the Accuracy of Evidential Ensemble Classifiers. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems IPMU (1) Dortmund, Germany, June 28 - July 2, 2010: 238-247.
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng: Retrieval Result Presentation and Evaluation. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM), Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 1-3, 2010: 125-136.
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng: Modeling rank-probability of relevance relationship in resultant document list for data fusion. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), Chengdu, China, 20-22 Aug. 2010: 27-31 (volume 1).

2009
Shengli Wu: Applying statistical principles to data fusion in information retrieval. Expert Systtems with Applications. 36(2): 2997-3006 (2009)
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng, Lixin Han: Assigning appropriate weights for the linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval. Information Processing & Management. 45(4): 413-426 (2009)
Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Pan Xiong, Xuhui Shen: A Comparative Analysis for Detecting Seismic Anomalies in Data Sequences of Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM), Vienna, Austria, November 25-27, 2009: 285-296
Yan Jun Liu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Shuiming Zhong, Shengli Wu: A Sensitivity-Based Training Algorithm with Architecture Adjusting for Madalines. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Antonio, TX, USA, 11-14 October 2009: 4586-4591.
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, and Jun Liu: The Cubic Regression Model for Merging Results from Multiple Text Databases. Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Zhuhai, China, 12-14 Oct. 2009: 3-10.
Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi: A Comprehensive Data Management Mechanism for Workflow Systems. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations (ICISO 2009, IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference), Beijing, China, 11-12 April, 2009: 169-176.
2008
1. Xiuhong Wang, Shiguang Ju, Shengli Wu: A Survey of Chinese Text Similarity Computation. AIRS 2008: 592-597.
2. Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng, Lixin Han: The Experiments with the Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval. APWeb 2008: 432-437
3. Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Pan Xiong, Xuhui Shen: Classifier Combination Using a Class-indifferent Method. ECAI 2008: 757-758
4. Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Xuhui Shen, Pan Xiong: Combining Classifiers through Triplet-Based Belief Functions. ECML/PKDD (1) 2008: 102-116
5. Lei Lu, Xiaoqin Zeng, Shengli Wu, Shuiming Zhong: A Novel Ensemble Approach for Improving Generalization Ability of Neural Networks. IDEAL 2008: 164-171
6. Xiuhong Wang, Shiguang Ju, Shengli Wu: Challenges in Chinese Text Similarity Research. ISIP 2008: 297-302
7. Shengli Wu, Qili Zhou, Yaxin Bi, Xiaoqin Zeng: Performance Weights for the Linear Combination Data Fusion Method in Information Retrieval. ISMIS 2008: 465-470
8. Yaxin Bi, Xuhui Shen, Shengli Wu: Uncertainty Reasoning in Rough Knowledge Discovery. Interval / Probabilistic Uncertainty and Non-Classical Logics 2008: 187-200
9. Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani: Ranking Retrieval Systems with Partial Relevance Judgements. Journal of UCS 14(7): 1020-1030 (2008)
10. Chang Liu, Hui Wang, Sally McClean, Jun Liu, and Shengli Wu: Pruning dependency trees in a syntactic information retrieval model. Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing, Volumes 1 and 2, Shanghai, China, July 2008, pages 285-291.

2007
1. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Result Merging Methods in Distributed Information Retrieval with Overlapping Databases. Information Retrieval, 10(3): 297-319, 2007.
2. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Several methods of ranking retrieval systems with partial relevance judgment. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Information Management, October 2007, Lyon, France.
4. Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, Sally McClean: Regression Relevance Models for Data Fusion. DEXA Workshops 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 2007, pages 264-268.
5. Chang Liu, Hui Wang, Sally McClean, Jun Liu, and Shengli Wu: Syntactic information retrieval. Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, San Jose, California, USA, November 2007: 703-707.
6. Shengli Wu, Yaxin Bi, and Sally McClean: Applying statistical principles to data fusion in information retrieval, In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE international conference on systems, man, and cybernetics, Montreal, Canada, October, 2007, pages 313-319.
7. Shengli Wu: A geometric probabilistic framework for data fusion in information retrieval. Proceedings of the 10th international conference on information fusion, Quebec, Canada, July 2007.
8. Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, and Gongde Guo: Combining Prioritized Decisions in Classification. Proceedings of 4th International conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (LNCS 4617), Kitakyushu, Japan, August 2007, pages 121-132.

2006
1. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Improving High Accuracy Retrieval by Eliminating the Uneven Correlation Effect in Data Fusion. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(14): 1962-1973, 2006.
2. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Performance Prediction of Data Fusion for Information Retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 42(4): 899-915, 2006.
3. Fabio Crestani and Shengli Wu: Testing the Cluster Hypothesis in Distributed Information Retrieval. Information Processing & Management, 42(5): 1137-1150, 2006.
4. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Evaluation of System Measures for Incomplete Relevance Judgment in IR. In Proceedings of the 7th International conference on flexible Query Answering Systems (LNCS 4027), Milano, Italy, June 2006, pages 245-256.
5. Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani and Yaxin Bi: Evaluating Score Normalization Methods in Data Fusion. Proceedings of the 3rd Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (LNCS 4182), Singapore, October 2006, pages 642-648.
6. Shengli Wu and Sally McClean: Information Retrieval Evaluation with Partial Relevance Judgment. Proceedings of the 23rd British National Conference on Databases (LNCS 4042), Belfast, UK, July 2006, pages 86-93.
7. Yaxin Bi, Shengli Wu, Xuming Huang and Gongde Guo: Combining Multiple Sets of Rules for Improving Classification Via Measuring Their Closeness. PRICAI 2006: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guilin, China, August 7-11, 2006, Proceedings. (LNCS 4099) pages 1068-1072.
8. Yaxin Bi, Qiang Zhang, Shengli Wu, and Jiwen Guan: Using Multiple Sets of Attributes for Text Categorization. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2006, Dalian, China, August 2006.

2005
1. Shengli Wu and Sally I. McClean: Data Fusion with Correlation Weights. Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on IR Research, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 2005: pages 275-286.

2004
1. Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani: Shadow document methods of results merging. Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Nicosia, Cyprus, March 2004: 1067-1072.
2. Shengli Wu and Jieyu Li: Effectiveness Evaluation and Comparison of Web Search Engines and Meta-search Engines. Advances in Web-Age Information Management: the 5th International Conference, WAIM 2004, Dalian, China, July 15-17, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3129 Springer 2004 303-314.

2003
1. Shengli Wu, Fabio Crestani, Forbes Gibb: New Methods of Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval. Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2924) Springer 2003, 84-100.
2. Shengli Wu, Forbes Gibb, and Fabio Crestani: Experiments with Document Archive Size Detection. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, pages 294-304, Pisa, Italy, April 2003.
3. Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani: Methods for Ranking Information Retrieval Systems without Relevance Judgments. Proceedings of ACM 18th Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 811-816, Florida, USA, March 2003.
4. Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani: Distributed Information Retrieval: A Multi-Objective Resource Selection Approach. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 11(Supplement-1): 83-100, 2003.
5. Stefano Berretti, Jamie Callan, Henrik Nottelmann, Xiaomang Shou, Shengli Wu: MIND: Resource Selection and Data Fusion in Multimedia Distributed Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2003, p 465.

2002
1. Shengli Wu, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Zongwei Luo: Authorization and Access Control of Application Data in Workflow Systems. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 18(1): 71-94, 2002.
2. Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani: Multi-objective resource selection in distributed information retrieval. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, pages 1171-1178, Annecy, France, July 2002.
3. Shengli Wu and Fabio Crestani: Data Fusion with estimated weights. Proceedings of ACM 17th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 648-651, Mclean, Virginia, USA, November 2002.

2001
1. Mike Cornell, Norman W. Paton, Shengli Wu, et al.: GIMS - A Data Warehouse for Storage and Analysis of Genome Sequence and Functional Data. Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Pages 15-22, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, November 4-5, 2001.

Before 2000
1. Shengli Wu. Hua Zhong, Tao Huang, Hongyan Sun and Haijiang Yu: The Design and Implementation of a Federated Database System IS_Global. The Journal of Software 10(8):877-882, 1999. (in Chinese)
2. Shengli Wu: Error-Limited Histogram. Chinese Journal of Computers, 21(8), 1998. (in Chinese)
3. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Estimation of Query cost in Object_Oriented Databases. The Journal of Computer Research and Development 35(1), 1998. (in Chinese)
4. Shengli Wu and Tao Huang: The Structure and Design of the Global Information System in CIMS. The Journal of Tsinghua University, 1998(3). (in Chinese)
5. Shengli Wu: Several Histogram Methods for estimation of Query Result Sizes. The Journal of Software, 9(4):285-289, 1998. (in Chinese)
6. Jianhua Yang, Yushun Fan, Shengli Wu, Tao Huang: The Structure of Application Programming Interface of CIMS Appliation Intergation Platform，Computer Integrated manufacturing System－CIMS, 1998, 4(2): 17-22. (in Chinese)
7．Shengli Wu: Object_Oriented Database. A book chapter to “Introduction to Object Technology", Yuling Fang et, al. Published by the Science publisher of China, Beijing, 1998. (in Chinese)
8. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Optimization of "Associate_Select" Operation in OODBS. The Journal of Software, 8(12), 1997. (in Chinese)
9. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Directed Graph-Based Association Algebra in Object_Oriented Database. The Journal of Computers, 20(1): 58-67, 1997. (in Chinese)
10. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Query Optimizaiton in Object_Oriented Databases. The Journal of Software, 8(2), 1997. (in Chinese)
11．Shengli Wu, Hua Zhong, and XiaoPeng Wu: Histogram Method in Size Estimation of Query Result, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, Beijing, China. Oct. 1997.
12．XiaoPeng Wu, Tao Huang, Tao Feng and Shengli Wu: An Integrating Framework for Multi-paradigm Software Process Modelling. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, Beijing, China. Oct. 1997.
13．Shengli Wu. and Nengbin Wang: Association-Based Algebra for Object-Oriented Databases. Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology of Object-oriented Language and Systems (TOOLS) ASIA’97, Beijing, China, Sept. 1997.
14. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: A Method for Semantic Discrepancy in Heterogeneous Distributed Database Systems, Chinese Journal of Computers, 19(5):363-368,1996. (in Chinese)
15. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: A Hybrid Method for Object Physical Aggregation. The Journal of Software, 7(6): 371-378, 1996. (in Chinese)
16. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Some Issues in Nested Relational Databases. The Journal of Southeast University, 25(6): 131-138, 1996. (in Chinese)
17. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Expansion of basic domain in database systems. Computer Research of Development, 1995, 32(1): 11-13. (in Chinese)
18. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: An effective method of supporting relationship among objects. Computer Research of Development, 1995, 32(5): 8-12. (in Chinese)
19. Shengli Wu and Nengbin Wang: Mapping from Relational Schema to Object-Oriented Schema. Computer Science, 1995(1). (in Chinese)
20. Shengli Wu: Object View and Foreign Schema. Computer Research of Development, 1994, 31(8). (in Chinese)
21. Shengli Wu: Join Operation in Object-Oriented Databases. Journal of Jiangsu Institute of Technology, 1991(1). (in Chinese)
22. Nengbin Wang, Shengli Wu: The Data Model of SEOD. Computer Research and Development, 1990, 27(8):8-15. (in Chinese)

 

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