Professional Activities
  • Conferences
    1. Int'l Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD). Steering committee. 1993-1999
    2. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07), 2007. PC Chair.
    3. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2007), 2007. PC member.
    4. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2007), 2007. 10 year test-of-time award committee.
    5. 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2007), 2007. PC member.
    6. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'07), 2007. PC member
    7. 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007). 2007. PC member.
    8. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'07), 2007. PC member.
    9. Australian Database Conference (ADC'07), 2007. PC member.
    10. The Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'06). 2006. PC member.
    11. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'06), 2006. PC member.
    12. International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT'2006), Munich, 2006.
    13. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2006), Seoul, 2006. PC member.
    14. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06), Atlanta, 2006. Vice PC-Chair.
    15. International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'06), Chicago, 2006. PC member.
    16. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'2006), Singapore, 2006. Conference chair.
    17. International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'2006), Japan, 2006. PC.
    18. Australian Database Conference, 2006. PC.
    19. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2005), 2005, Demonstration chair.
    20. 12th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2005. PC
    21. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'2005), PC co-chair.
    22. Third International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2005). PC.
    23. 14th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005). PC.
    24. 21th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2005), Japan. 2005. PC member.
    25. 2005 International Conference on Web Engineering, Sydney. 2005. PC member.
    26. Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management, 2005. PC member.
    27. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Orlando. 2005. PC member.
    28. 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD05), Brazil, 2005. PC member.
    29. 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2005), Santa Barbara, 2005. PC member.
    30. International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'2005), Cyprus, 2005. PC member.
    31. Australian Database Conference, 2005. PC member.
    32. 13th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004), Washington, D.C. 2004. PC.
    33. 6th Workshop on Distributed Data and Structures (WDAS'2004), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2004. PC.
    34. The 11th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2004), 2004. PC member.
    35. International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'04), 2004. PC member.
    36. International Conference on Very Large Data Based (VLDB'04), 2004, Workshop selection PC.
    37. Int'l Conference on Asia Pacific Web (APWeb), 2004. PC member.
    38. Int'l Conference on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'2004), Greece, 2004. PC member
    39. 2nd International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P), 2004. PC Co-chair.
    40. 16th Int'l Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'2004), Greece. 2004. PC member
    41. 20th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2004), Boston, 2004. Vice PC chair
    42. 14th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Digital Government Services (RIDE-DGS'2004), Boston, 2004. PC member.
    43. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'2004), Korea, 2004. PC member.
    44. Australiasian Database Conference, 2004. PC member.
    45. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'2003), Japan, 2003. PC member.
    46. The 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2003), November 3-7, Sicily, 2003. PC member.
    47. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'2003), 2003, San Diego. PC member.
    48. International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'03), 2003, PC member
    49. Int'l Conference on Asia Pacific Web (APWeb), 2003. PC member & keynote speaker.
    50. International Conference on Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Datamining (PAKDD), 2003, Korea. PC member.
    51. The 3rd International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS, 2003, Roma. PC member.
    52. International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing, Berlin, 2003. PC member.
    53. Second International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2003), Melbourne, 2003. PC member.
    54. Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management, 2003. PC member, panelist & keynote speaker
    55. 3rd International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Singapore, Conference Chair, 2002
    56. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2002), Hong Kong, 2002. PC member
    57. 18th Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2002), San Jose, 2002. PC member
    58. The 2nd International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS, Singapore, 2002. PC member & keynote speaker.
    59. International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'02), Edmonton, Canada, PC member
    60. Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management, 2002. PC member
    61. Int'l Conference on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT'2002), Czech Republic, 2002. PC member
    62. Int'l Visual Data Base Symposium (VDB), 2002. PC member
    63. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2001), Italy, 2001. PC member
    64. 9th IFIP 2.6 WORKING CONFERENCE ON DATABASE SEMANTICS (DS-9), Hong Kong, 2001, PC member
    65. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'2001), HongKong, 2001. PC member
    66. The Ninth ACM Symposium on Geographic information Systems (ACM-GIS'2001), 2001. PC member
    67. The Eighth ACM Symposium on Geographic information Systems (ACM-GIS'2000), Denver, 2000. PC member
    68. IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'2000), San Diego, 2000. Vice PC Chair
    69. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2000) , Cairo, 2000. PC member
    70. Int'l Conference on Web-Age Information Management , Shanghai, 2000. PC member
    71. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'99) , Scotland, 1999. PC member
    72. Int'l Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD'99) , Hongkong, 1999, PC member
    73. The Seventh ACM Symposium on Geographic information Systems (ACM-GIS'99), Kansas City, 1999. PC member
    74. The Fifth Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'99), Palm Springs, 1999. PC.
    75. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'99), Taiwan, 1999. PC member
    76. Int'l Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (INTEROP'99), Zurich, 1999. PC member
    77. Asian Computer Science Conference, Phillippines, 1998. PC member
    78. The Sixth ACM Symposium on Geographic information Systems (ACM-GIS'98), Washington, 1998. PC member
    79. The Fifth Int'l Conference on Foundation of Data Organizations (FODO'98), Kyoto, 1998.
    80. IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'98), USA, 1998. Far East Coordinator
    81. Int'l Conference on Extended Data Base Technology (EDBT'98), Spain, 1998. PC member
    82. The Ninth Australianasian Database Conference (ADC'98), Perth, Australia, 1998. PC member
    83. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'97), USA, 1997. PC member
    84. Int'l Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD'97), Berlin, 1997. PC member
    85. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'97), Greece, 1997. PC member
    86. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'97), Melbourne, 1997. PC member
    87. The Seventh Australianasian Database Conference (ADC'96), Melbourne, Australia, 1996. PC member
    88. Int'l Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTA'96), Japan, 1996. PC member
    89. Int'l Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'96), India, 1996. PC member
    90. Int'l Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'95), Singapore,1995. PC member
    91. The Sixth Australianasian Database Conference (ADC'95), Adelaide, Australia, 1995. PC member
    92. VLDB Int'l Workshop on Temporal Databases (VLDB'95), Zurich, Switzerland, 1995. PC member
    93. Int'l Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD'95), Maine, USA, 1995. PC member
    94. Int'l Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases (DOOD'95), 1995. Org. comm.
    95. Int'l Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Discovery and Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, 1995. PC member
    96. The Fifth Australianasian Database Conference (ADC'94), New Zealand, 1994. PC Member
    97. ACM Int'l Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'94), USA, 1994. PC Member
    98. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'94), USA, 1994. PC member
    99. Int'l Conference on Applications of Databases (ADB'94), Sweden, 1994. PC member
    100. Far East Workshop on Geographic Information Systems, Singapore, 1993. Workshop Chair
    101. Int'l. Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMM'93), Singapore, 1993. PC Member
    102. Int'l Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD'93), Singapore, 1993. PC Chair
    103. IFIP Int'l Conference on Semantics of Heterogeneous Database, Lorne, Australia, 1992. PC member
    104. 4th Int'l. Hong Kong Comp. Soc. Database Workshop -- Database Management Horizon, Hong Kong, 1992. PC Member
    105. Singapore Conference on Geographic Information Systems, Singapore, 1992. Panel Chair
  • Editorial
    1. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2003-
    2. VLDB Journal, Springer Verlag, 2002-
    3. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (Taylor&Francis), 1994-
    4. Geoinformatica (Kluwer Academics), 1996-
    5. ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection, 2000-2003
    6. Guest editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Special issues on P2P based Data Management, July 2004