The University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) won two out of the five best paper awards at the International Conference on Digital Information Management 2012 (ICDIM 2012). The conference was organized by the Technology Management Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE TMC).

ICDIM is a multi-disciplinary conference on digital information management. It aims to address the emerging issues and solutions concerning digital information science and technology, and to serve as a platform for experts from academia, research laboratories and industries to exchange ideas and collaborate with one another. This year’s conference attracted over 208 papers from across the world, and in the end seventy-six quality papers were accepted.

The paper entitled “Trend Following with Float-encoding Genetic Algorithm”, first-authored by Dr. Si Yain Whar, and co-authored by Dr. Simon Fong and student Jiahua Luo, all of whom from the Department of Computer and information Science, FST,, won the “Best Paper Award, Researcher, Theoretical Contribution”. The paper was highly praised by the Review Committee of ICDIM. The proposed method differs from traditional forecasting methods used for stock-market speculation in that it can effectively and adaptively infer the buy/sell signals based on the real-time market trend movements.

Master’s student Tang Rui won the “Best Student Award, Master student, Theoretical Contribution”, for his two papers entitled “Wolf Search Algorithm with Ephemeral Memory” and “Integrating Nature-inspired Optimization Algorithms to K-means Clustering”. These two papers have contributed significant results in optimization theory and datamining. As a master’s student, Tang Rui demonstrated a strong analytical ability in creating a new optimization algorithm called “Wolf Search Algorithm”, which is shown to be superior to classical evolutionary algorithms like Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, and Ant-Colony Optimization in the experiment. His oral presentations were highly praised by the ICDIM organizers and committees. His master’s thesis was co-supervised by Dr. Simon Fong, Dr. Yang Xin-she from the University of Cambridge, and Prof. Suash Deb, president of the International Neural Network Society (INNS-India Chapter).

 

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