Funded Research Grants and the Like

International Research Grants

1. Principal Investigator, Specification and Implementation of Virtual University Software, 672,000 Yen, University of Aizu, Japan, June 1, 1999 - September 30, 1999.

2. Overseas Research Collaborator, Learning Communities Using Virtual Reality Environment Media, 11.3 Million Yen, Japanese Ministry of Education, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B (Developmental Research), Contract No. 12558012, Japan, 2000 to 2002.

3. Principal Investigator, Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, travel grant for joint research, HK$6,500 funded by HKU External Relations Office Chain Affairs Unit 2000/2001 Taipei Trade Centre Exchange Scheme, the University of Hong Kong, 2001.

4. Co-Principal Investigator, An E-Learning Infrastructure for Mobile Virtual University (#NSC 90-2218-E032-017), NT 250,150, funded by the NSC-NRC Collaborative Research Program (Taiwan—Canada), Aug. 1, 2001 to July 31, 2004.

5. External Collaborator, Indexing, Matching, and Retrieval of 3D Models, funded by National University of Singapore, 2002.

6. Visiting Researcher, Human-Centered Collaborative Knowledge Sharing Systems, funded by the Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan, 2004 – 2006.

Domestic Research Grants

1. Principal Investigator, Visualization of Logic Specification Programs (#NSC 84-2213-E032-015), NT 216,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Feb. 2, 1995 to July 31, 1995.

2. Principal Investigator, An Intelligent Multimedia Presentation System - First Year: Intelligent Presentations (#NSC 85-2213-E032-011), NT 491,400 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1995 to July 31, 1996.

3. Co-Principal Investigator, The File Structure Refinement and Version Control of Object-Oriented CASE Tools under OLE, COM, and CORBA, NT 712,800 funded by III, Taiwan, July 1, 1995 to Apr. 30, 1996.

4. Principal Investigator, An Intelligent Multimedia Presentation System - Second Year: Multimedia Databases (#NSC 86-2213-E032-009), NT 320,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1996 to July 31, 1997.

5. Advisor, The Design and Implementation of a Multimedia Lecture-on-Demand System (#NSC 87-2815-C-032-022-E), NT 30,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Jul. 1, 1997 to Feb. 28, 1998.

6. Co-Principal Investigator, The Design and Implementation of a Computer Supported Cooperative Work System. (#NSC 87-2213-E-032-005), NT 254,400 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1997 to July 31, 1998.

7. Co-Principal Investigator, Object-Oriented Software Testing and Metrics Based on a Class Hierarchy Decomposition Mechanism (#NSC 87-2213-E-032-004), NT 472,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1997 to July 31, 1998.

8. Principal Investigator, A Multimedia Petri Net Machine and It’s Applications. (#NSC 87-2213-E-032-019), NT 438,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1997 to July 31, 1998.

9. Principal Investigator, On Automatic Generation of Schedule and Layout of Multimedia Presentations (#NSC 88-2213-E-032-012), NT 447,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1998 to July 31, 1999.

10. Advisor, The Design and Implementation of a WWW Document Database (#NSC-88-2815-C032-001-E ), NT 39,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, November 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999.

11. Principal Investigator, A CSCW Multimedia Virtual Course Development Environment on Broadband Networks, (#NSC-89-2213-E-032-021), NT 925,300 funded by NSC, Taiwan, August 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000.

12. Co-Principal Investigator, Agent Evolution Computing over Internet, (#NSC-89-2213-E-032-004), NT 402,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000.

13. Co-Principal Investigator, Multimedia Instruction on Demand Database Management System, (#NSC-89-2213-E-032-003), NT 402,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000.

14. Co-Principal Investigator, A Personal Information Agent on the Object Web, (#NSC-89-2213-E-032-005), NT 376,800 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 1999 to July 31, 2000.

15. Advisor, Theory and Application of a Mobile Agent Computing Algorithm, (#NSC-89-2815-C032-003-E), NT 39,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, November 1, 1999 to June 30, 2000.

16. Principal Investigator, A Content-Based Retrieval System Using Color, Shape, and Spatial Relations, (#NSC-89-2218-E-032-013), NT 856,400 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001.

17. Co-Principal Investigator, A Web Course Development and TQM System (1^st Year), (#NSC 89-2511-S-032-012-X3), NT 911,600 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2000 to July 31, 2001.

18. Co-Principal Investigator, A Web Course Development and TQM System (2^nd Year), (#NSC 90-2520-S-032-011-X3), NT 950,400 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2001 to July 31, 2002.

19. Co-Principal Investigator, An Integrated Virtual Classroom System for French Literature Education (translated), NT 500,000 funded by Ministry of Education, Taiwan, February 1, 2001 to October 31, 2001.

20. Principal Investigator, Virtual Classroom for French-based Distance Learning, NT 1,080,000 funded by Ministry of Education, special program for the promotion of fundamental university education, Taiwan, September 1, 2001 to August 31, 2002.

21. Advisor, The Implementation of a Mobile Media Server (#NSC-90-2815-C-032-016-E), NT 39,000 funded by NSC, Taiwan, July 1, 2001 to February 28, 2002.

22. Co-Principal Investigator, A Web-based Automatic Publishing System (#NSC 90-2213-E-032-004), NT 563,700, funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2001 to July 31, 2002.

23. Principal Investigator, Negotiation with Intelligent Software Agent in Electronic Commerce, (#NSC 90-2218-E032-017), NT 740,850 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2001 to July 31, 2002.

24. Co-Principal Investigator, Distance Learning Courseware Designs based on Influence Diagrams, (#NSC 91-2520-S-032-011), NT 547,600 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003.

25. Principal Investigator, Interactive Negotiation Agent based on MAUT in E-Commerce, (#NSC 91-2213-E-032-020), NT 612,400 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2002 to July 31, 2003.

26. Co-Principal Investigator, Progressive Image Transmission by Adaptive Interpolation, (#NSC 92-2213-E-032-025), NT 447,200 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2003 to July 31, 2004.

27. Principal Investigator, Multi-resolution Image Inpainting, (#NSC 92-2213-E-032-030), NT 681,600 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2003 to July 31, 2004.

28. Co-Principal Investigator, Courseware Diagram Measurement System Based on SCORM, (#NSC 92-2511-S-032-003), NT 589,600 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2003 to July 31, 2004.

29. Co-Principal Investigator, A Petri Nets-based Approach to Modeling SCORM Sequence, (#NSC 93-2213-E-149-006), NT 454,300 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2004 to July 31, 2005.

30. Co-Principal Investigator, A Sharable Distance Learning Assessment and Analysis Mechanism Based on SCORM, (#NSC93-2213-E-149-001), NT 601,200 funded by NSC, Taiwan, Aug. 1, 2004 to July 31, 2005.

31. Principal Investigator, Hard SCORM, funded by NSC, Taiwan, (#93-2524-S-032-002-), NT 1,273,600, May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005; NT 1,171,500, May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2006; NT 1,205,600, May 1, 2006 to April 30, 2007.

32. Principal Investigator, Supporting Self-Regulated e/m-Learning via a Wireless Hyper-Interaction Platform, funded by NSC, Taiwan, (#93-2524-S-032-001-), NT 655,600, May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005; NT 1,029,600, May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2006; NT 875,600, May 1, 2006 to April 30, 2007.

33. Principal Investigator, Photo Defect Detection and Inpainting, funded by NSC, Taiwan, (NSC 94-2213-E-032 -017), NT 398,000, Aug. 1, 2005 to July 31, 2006.

Patents

P1. Chin-Chen Chang, Timothy K. Shih, and I. C. Lin, A Progressive Image Transmission Method Based on Guessing Neighbors (patent number 199178), Taiwan, R.O.C., July 22, 2004.

P2. Timothy K. Shih, Hung Lin, and Rong-Chi Chang, Progressive Image Transmission by Adaptive Interpolation, under examining, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Column Articles

A5. Timothy K. Shih, “Aspects of Distance Education Technologies – The Chronobot Project,” in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Vol. 3, No 3, 2005.

A4. Won Kim and Timothy K. Shih, “On Reusability and Interoperability for Distance Learning,” in Journal of Object Technology, Vol. 3, No. 9, September-October 2004.

A3. Timothy K. Shih, C. Y. Chang, K. P. Shih, T. C. Kao, G. J. Yu, and T. S. Chen, "Hard SCORM," in the IEEE Learning Technology newsletter, Vol. 6 Issue 2, April 2004.

A2. Won Kim and Timothy K. Shih, “Distance Education: The Status and Challenges,” in Journal of Object Technology, Vol. 2, No. 6, November-December 2003.

A1. Timothy K. Shih, “Aspects of Distance Education Technologies – The Sharable Content Object Reference Model,” in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Vol. 1, No 4, 2003.

Video Demonstrations

V1. Timothy K. Shih, Nick C. Tang, Wei-Sung Yeh, and Ta-Jen Chen, "Video Inpainting and Implant via Diversified Temporal Continuations," ACM Multimedia 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 23-27, 2006.