Dr. LING Tok Wang

Professor

Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
Computing 1 (COM1)
Singapore 117590

Email: lingtw@comp.nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516-2734
Fax: (65) 6779-4580
Office: COM1-03-14

Dr LING Tok Wang is a professor of the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore.

He was the Head of IT Division, Deputy Head of the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, and Vice Dean of the School of Computing of the University. Before joining the University as a lecturer in 1979, he was a scientific staff at Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada.

He received his Ph.D. and M.Math., both in Computer Science, from Waterloo University (Canada) and B.Sc.(1st Hons) in Mathematics from Nanyang University (Singapore).

His research interests include Data Modeling, Entity-Relationship Approach, Object-Oriented Data Model, Normalization Theory, Logic and Database, Integrity Constraint Checking, Semi-Structured Data Model, Data Warehouse.

Professional Activities

He organized and served as a program committee co-chair of 5 international database conferences, namely

  1. 4th Int Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, (DASFAA'95), Singapore, April 11-14, 1995.
  2. 4th Int Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, (DOOD'95). Singapore, Dec 1995.
  3. 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'98), Singapore, Nov 16 - 20, 1998
  4. 3rd International Conference On Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'02), Singapore, Dec 12-14, 2002.
  5. 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'03) Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 2003
He organized and served as a conference/workshop co-chair of the following conference/workshops:
  1. DOOD'95 Post-Conference Workshops on Integration of Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Object-Oriented Databases, and Temporal Reasoning in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases. National University of Singapore, 8 Dec 1995.
  2. The 8th International Parallel Computing Workshop, Singapore, 7-8 Sept 1998.
  3. NSF-NSTB sponsored workshop on Internet and Databases, in conjunction with ER'98.
  4. The first International Conference on Human.Society@Internet, July 4-6, 2001, Seoul, Korea.
  5. The Second International Conference on Human.Society@Internet, June 18-20, 2003, Seoul, Korea.
  6. 5th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, (WAIM'04), July 15-17, 2004, Dalian, China
  7. 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'04), November 8-12, 2004, Shanghai, China
  8. The 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'05) April 18-20, 2005, Friendship Hotel, Beijing, China
  9. The Third International Conference on Human.Society@Internet (HSI'05) Tokyo, Japan, July 2005
  10. Honorary Chair of The 11th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'06) April 12-15, 2006, Hilton Hotel, Singapore
  11. The Fourth International Conference on Human.Society@Internet (HSI'06) July 5-6, 2006, Seoul, Korea.
  12. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07) June 11-14, 2007, Beijing, China.
He served on the steering committees of 4 international conferences:
  1. He is a member of the steering committee of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER Conference), previously called International Conference on Entity Relationship Approach. He was the Vice Chair and Chair of the ER Conference for the periods from 1998 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2002, respectively.
  2. He is the chair of the steering committee of the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA),
  3. He is a steering committee member of the International Conference on Human.Society@Internet (HSI).
  4. He was a steering committee member of the International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD).
He serves/served on the program committee of more than 130 international database conferences

He is an editor of the below international journal

  1. Data & Knowledge Engineering
  2. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
  3. Journal of Database Management
  4. Journal of Data Semantics
  5. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems.

He is a senior member of IEEE and Singapore Computer Society, and a member of ACM.

  • Selected Journal and Conference Papers

  • Papers on Object-Relationship-Attribute Model for Semistructured Data (ORA-SS), Schema Integration, XML Query Processing, etc

  • List of my publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server

    Teaching

  • IC52C1: Distributed and Parallel Database Systems

  • CS4221: Database Design

  • CS2102S: Database Systems
    Some information on Database Conferences and Bibliography Servers

  • List of Computer Science Conferences & Workshops

  • International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER)

  • International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)

  • International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD)

  • 3rd International Conference On Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2002) 12-14th Dec 2002, Singapore

  • DBLP - Computer Science Bibliography Server

  • ACM SIGMOD Antholog

  • NUS