Professional Activities

Keynote Speech and Plenary Talk in Conferences

Keynote Speech, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, Workshop on Multimedia and Virtual University (domestic workshop), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, November 29, 2000.

Keynote Speech, Software Systems for Virtual Academic Society, the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education (ICCIMADE'01), Fargo, North Dakota, USA, June 1 - 3, 2001.

Plenary Talk, A Principled Approach for Formative Web Learning Assessment and Adaptive Tutoring, Ewha International Workshop on Internet Technology and Cyber Education, Seoul, Korea, July 6, 2001.

Keynote Speech, Opportunity and Challenge of Virtual University, the 9th Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Distributed Processing Systems (DPSWS’01), sponsored by the Information Processing Society of Japan, Appi, Japan, October 24 – 26, 2001.

Plenary Talk, The 3 A’s Criteria of Distance Learning Software Systems, International Symposium for Virtual Education (ISVE'2001), Dongseo University, Busan, Korea, November 16—17, 2001.

Plenary Keynote, Opportunity and Challenge of Distance Education, the SSGRR-2002W International conference on Advances in Infrastructure for e-Business, e-Education, e-Science, and e-Medicine on the Internet, L'Aquila, Italy, January 21 – 27, 2002.

Plenary Keynote, Opportunities and Challenges of Distance Education, the Sixth Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS'2002), Durham, North Carolina, USA, March 8 – 12, 2002.

Plenary Talk, Distance Education Technologies: Current Trends and Software Systems, the 2002 International Symposium on Cyber Worlds: Theory and Practice, Tokyo, Japan, November 6-8, 2002.

Keynote Speech, Distance Education Technologies: Standards and Software Systems, the 2003 APRU Distance Learning and the Internet Conference, Singapore, December 1 - 2, 2003.

Keynote Speech, Distance Education Technologies: Standards and Software Systems, the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA 2004), Harbin, China, 8 - 11 January 2004.

Plenary Talk, Developing SCORM-Compliant Software Tools – from the Perspective of an Academic ADL Co-Lab Partner, the 2004 Taiwan PlugFest (domestic conference), Taiwan, 2004.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the 2004 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2004), Wuhan, China, September 14 - 16, 2004.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the 2005 Symposium on Application and Development of Management Information System (domestic conference), Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2005.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA 2005), Sydney, Australia, July 4 - 7, 2005.

Keynote Speech, Ubiquitous Learning with SCORM, the 4th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2005), Hong Kong, July 31 – August 3, 2005.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the Eleventh International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Banff, Canada, September 5 - 7, 2005.

Keynote Speech, Ubiquitous e-Learning with SCORM, the 2nd International Open and Distance Learning (IODL) Symposium, Eskisehir, Turkey, September 13 - 15, 2006.

Keynote Speech, Ubiquitous e-Learning with SCORM, the Fourth International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2006), Hong Kong, China, 25-27 October 2006.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the 2006 International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Technology and Applications (AMTA2006), Cheju Island, Korea, November 9-11, 2006.

Keynote Speech, Digital Inpainting, the 2007 IASTED International Conference on Graphics and Visualization in Engineering (GVE 2007), Clearwater, Florida, USA, January 3-5, 2007.

Keynote Speech, Video Inpainting, the 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE'2007), Seoul, Korea, April 26th - 28th, 2007.

Keynote Speech, Distance Education Technologies for a New Virtual University Agora, the 26 Years International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), Annual National Conference, Piraeus, Greece, May 24-26 2007.

Keynote Speech, Ubiquitous e-Learning with SCORM, the First International Symposium on Information Technologies and Applications in Education (ISITAE07), Kunming, China, November 23-28, 2007.

Keynote Speech, Video Inpainting, the Fourth Workshop on Grid Technologies and Applications (WoGTA’07) (domestic conference), Taiwan, December 13 – 14, 2007.

Keynote Speech, Video Inpainting, the Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing 2007 (VIP 2007), Tainan, Taiwan, December 15-17, 2007.

Keynote Speech, Video Inpainting, the Second International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2008), Barcelona, Spain, March 4th-7th, 2008.

Keynote Speech, Video Forgery, the 2008 Dean’s Summit of Information Technology (local conference, title translated), Lanzhou, China, July 14th, 2008.

Keynote Speech, Video Falsifying, the International IEEE Information Technology Symposium 2008 (IEEE ITSIM’ 08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26-29, 2008.

Keynote Speech, Video Forgery, the International Congress on Pervasive Computing and Management, New Delhi, India, December 12-14, 2008.

Interviews

1. Information Technology Newsletter, the Information Management newsletter of the Information Resources Management Association, USA, 2002.

Overseas Short Courses

1. Distance Learning System Development, the University of Aizu, Japan, February 14th – 18th, 2008.

Tutorial in International Conferences

1. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Systems for Virtual University Operations, the 2000 International Conference on Computer Assisted Instruction and Internet Computing (CAIIC’2000), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, October 23 – 24, 2000.

2. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the First Pacific Asia Human.Society@Internet Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 4 – 6, 2001.

3. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the Second International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Techniques (PDCAT’2001), Taipei, Taiwan, July 9 – 11, 2001.

4. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2001), Tokyo, Japan, August 22 – 25, 2001.

5. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the 7^th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’2001), Taipei, Taiwan, September 26 – 28, 2001.

6. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the Second IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM’2001), Beijing, China, Oct. 24 – 26, 2001.

7. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, the 8th international conference on Multimedia Modelling (MMM'2001), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 5 – 7, 2001.

8. Tutorial Speaker, Methodologies and Software Systems for e-Learning, ACM Multimedia 2002, Juan les Pins, France, December 1 - 6, 2002.

9. Tutorial Speaker, Distance Learning Standards and Software Systems, the 10th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'2004), Brisbane, Australia, January 5 - 7, 2004.

10. Tutorial Speaker, Ubiquitous Distance Learning Based on SCORM, the 2005 Human.Society@Internet Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 27 - 29, 2005.

11. Tutorial Speaker, Research Issues on SCORM, GCCCE2006, Beijing, China, June 2 – 5, 2006.

12. Tutorial Speaker, Digital Inpainting, the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME’2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9 - 12, 2006.

13. Tutorial Speaker, Research Issues on SCORM, the 5th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2006), Penang, Malaysia, July 19-21, 2006.

14. Tutorial Speaker, Digital Inpainting, the 7th International Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (CVPRIP'2006), Taiwan, October 8-11, 2006.

15. Tutorial Speaker, Digital Inpainting, the 7th Annual Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM 2006), Hangzhou, China, November 2 – 4, 2006.

16. Tutorial Speaker, Digital Inpainting, the First International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Korea, 8-9 February, 2007.

17. Tutorial Speaker, Digital Inpainting, ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany, September 23 – 29, 2007.

Panel Discussion in International Conferences

1. Panelists, Panel on Multimedia in Distance Learning and Virtual University, in the Sixth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'99), University of Aizu, Japan, July 26 – 30, 1999.

2. Panel Chair, Panel on E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Entertainment, the 2000 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC’2000), the Hotel W, Chicago, USA, July 8 – 9, 2000.

3. Panelist, Panel on Virtual University, in the 24th IEEE Computer Society International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC’2000), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 25 – 27, 2000.

4. Panel Chair, Panel on Distance Computer Assisted Instruction, the 2000 International Conference on Computer Assisted Instruction and Internet Computing (CAIIC’2000), Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, October 23 – 24, 2000.

5. Panel Chair, Panel on Virtual University Software Engineering, the 2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE’2000), Taipei, Taiwan, December 11 – 13, 2000.

6. Panel Chair, composition technologies: which direction, International Workshop on Distributed Dynamic Multiservice Architectures (DDMA’2001), Phoenix, Arizona, April 16 – 19, 2001.

7. Panelist, Panel on Issues in Distance Education, the 2001 International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education (ICCIMADE'01), Fargo, North Dakota, USA, June 1 - 3, 2001.

8. Panelist, Panel on the Future of Electronic Commence, the First Pacific Asia Human.Society@Internet Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 4 – 6, 2001.

9. Panelist, Panel on Macro University and Distance Learning, the 7^th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS’2001), Taipei, Taiwan, September 26 – 28, 2001.

10. Panelist, Panel on Chinese Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Applications: into the 21st Century, the 2002 International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC'2002), Taiwan, July 11 – 12, 2002.

11. Panelist, Panel on “What Are the Social Impacts of Ubiquitous Services?” the Second International Human.Society@Internet Conference, Seoul, Korea, June 18 - 20, 2003.

12. Panelist, Panel on “The Next Decade of Learning Technology,” Workshop on the Next Decade of Science and Technology of Learning, October 18, 2003, Taiwan.

13. Panelist, Panel on “Web 2.0 - Are there any new research problems?” the Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, Hong Kong, China, 17-19 June, 2006.

14. Panelist, Panel on “ITS research in Asia,” the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2006), Taiwan, June 26 - 30, 2006.

15. Panelist, the First ACM Workshop on Educational Multimedia and Multimedia Education (EMME 2007), September 28, 2007, Augsburg, Germany.

Invited Talk and Invited Demonstration in International Conferences

1. Guest Speaker (invited by Iwate Prefectural University), the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems (MMNS'2000), Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate, Japan, July 4 – 7, 2000.

2. Guest Speaker (invited by Academia Sinica), Multimedia Presentations in Distance Education, in the 2001 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Protection, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, May 8, 2001.

3. Invited Speaker (invited by NSC), E-conferencing and E-learning: toward a virtual academic society, the 2nd NRC-NSC Joint Workshop on Next Generation Internet Technologies and Applications, NRC, Ottawa, Canada, June 26 – 30, 2000.

4. Invited Speaker (invited by NSC), Virtual University Software Systems, the 2000 NSC-INRIA Joint Multimedia Workshop, INRIA, France, Feb. 14 – 17, 2000.

5. Invited Demonstration, Software Systems for Virtual University Operations, ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, Ont. Canada, September 30 -- October 5, 2001.

6. Invited Speaker (invited by NSC), Software Systems for Virtual Academic Society, the 2nd Sino-Franco Workshop on Multimedia, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, March 20 – 21, 2001.

7. Invited Speaker (invited by NSC), Opportunities and Challenges of Distance Education, the 3rd Sino-Franco Workshop on Multimedia and Web Technologies, Sophia Antipolis, France, March 26 – 27, 2002.

8. Invited Speaker (invited by CCIT, Taiwan), Opportunities and Challenges of Distance Education, Information Education and Network Security Workshop (translated), Taiwan, July 17 - 19, 2002.

9. Invited Speaker (invited by Ewha Womans University), SCORM and Its Supporting Systems, International Workshop on Internet Technology, Seoul, Korea, July 21, 2004.

10. Invited Speaker (invited by Macromedia, Taiwan), Ubiquitous e-Learning – A Perspective of Distance Learning in the Next Decade, Macromedia e-learning Workshop, Taipei, Taiwan, October 11, 2004.

11. Talk, Motion Picture Inpainting on Aged Films, Multimedia Workshop at MSR Asia, Beijing, China, July 24, 2005.

12. Invited Speaker, “Ubiquitous e-Learning with SCORM,” International Forum, Outlook for e-Learning Using ADL-SCORM Technologies, Mexico City, Mexico, May 23rd and 24th, 2006.

13. Invited Speaker, “e-Learning Database based on SCORM and CORDRA,” the 2006 Greater China Database Research Summit, Hong Kong, June 16-17, 2006.

14. Invited Talk, Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing (VIP06), Beijing, China, November 7-9, 2006.

15. Invited Talk, “Digital Inpainting,” Forum on Future Computing (FFC) – Transparent Computing and Active Services, Beijing, China, June 23-24, 2007.

16. Invited Talk, “Ubiquitous e-Learning with SCORM,” Special ICWL Workshop in Zhejiang Normal University, August 27-29, 2007.

Selected Recent Publications (from the Publication List)

Freya H. Lin, Timothy K. Shih, and Won Kim, “An Implementation of the CORDRA Architecture Enhanced for Systematic Reuse of Learning Objects,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008.

Timothy K. Shih, Nick C. Tang and Jenq-Neng Hwang, “Exemplar-based Video Inpainting without Ghost Shadow Artifacts by Maintaining Temporal Continuity,” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2008.

Qing Li, Rynson W.H. Lau, and Timothy Shih, "Internet and Related Technologies Supporting Distance Education," in Special Issue on Internet Technologies for Distance Education, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2007.

Timothy K. Shih, Te-Hua Wang, Chih-Yung Chang, Tai-Chien Kao and Douglas Hamilton, "Ubiquitous e-Learning with Multimodal Multimedia Devices," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007.

Jihoon Myung, Wonjun Lee, Jaideep Srivastava, and Timothy K. Shih, "Tag-Splitting: Adaptive Collision Arbitration Protocols for RFID Tag Identification," in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2006.

Jihoon Myung, Wonjun Lee, and Timothy K. Shih, "An Adaptive Memoryless Protocol for RFID Tag Collision Arbitration," in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2006.

Nick C. Tang, Timothy K. Shih, Joseph C. Tsai and Hsing-Ying Zhong, “Motion Extrapolation for Video Story Planning,” in the 2008 ACM Multimedia conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 27 – November 1, 2008.

Timothy K. Shih and Nick C. Tang, “Video Falsifying by Motion Interpolation and Inpainting,” in the 2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, June 24 – June 26, 2008.

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

Timothy K. Shih, Rong-Chi Chang and Yu-Ping Chen, “Motion Picture Inpainting on Aged Films,” in Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Multimedia Conference, Singapore, November 2005.

Editor-in-Chief of International Journal

Timothy K. ShihCo-Editors-in-Chief (and Founder, 2003 - 2008), the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (ISSN 1539-3100), Published by Idea Group Publishing, USA

Journal Editorial Service – Associate Editors and Area Editors

1. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Applied Systems Studies: An international journal on methodologies and applications for systems approaches, Cambridge International Science Publishing, England.

2. Timothy K. Shih, Executive Editor, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Tamkang University, 1999 – 2001.

3. Timothy K. Shih, Area Editor on Multimedia Computing, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), World Scientific Pub. Co.

4. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Journal of Computers, Taiwan, ROC.

5. Timothy K. Shih, Book Review Editor, Applied Systems Studies: An international journal on methodologies and applications for systems approaches, Cambridge International Science Publishing, England.

6. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Journal of Internet Technology, Taiwan, ROC.

7. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Operational Research, Hellenic Operational Research Society, Greek.

8. Timothy K. Shih, Area Editor, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Tamkang University.

9. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor and Asian Liaison, Information Science: An International Journal (2001-2003).

10. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Chaos & Complexity Letters: An International Journal of Complex Systems Research.

11. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Published by Idea Group Publishing, USA.

12. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia.

13. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, the International Journal of Web Services (IJWS), Published by Idea Group Publishing, USA.

14. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, the IASTED International Journal of Computers and Applications, USA.

15. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, the International Journal of Communications and Information Technology Education (IJCITE), Published by Idea Group Publishing, USA.

16. Timothy K. Shih, Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), Editorial Review Board, USA.

17. Timothy K. Shih, Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Web-based Learning and Teaching Technologies, USA.

18. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor,the Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Rinton Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

19. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC), Troubador Publishing Ltd., UK.

20. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, USA.

21. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Asian Academy of Management Journal, Malaysia (2005 – 2006).

22. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI), USA.

23. Timothy K. Shih, Advisory Board, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, USA

24. Timothy K. Shih, Far East Regional Editor, International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST), UK.

25. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, Image and Video Processing (IVP), Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

26. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), Inderscience Publishers.

27. Timothy K. Shih, General Editor, International Journal of Software Effectiveness and Efficiency (IJSEE), Korea.

28. Timothy K. Shih, General Editor, International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (IJMUE) , Korea.

29. Timothy K. Shih, Editorial Review Board, Advances in Distance Education Technologies Book Series, USA.

30. Timothy K. Shih, Editorial Advisory Board, the Advances in Web-based Learning (AWBL) Book Series, IGP, USA.

31. Timothy K. Shih, Editorial Board, the International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2007.

32. Timothy K. Shih, Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Journal Editorial Service – Guest Editors

1. Timothy K. Shih and Kazuo Sugihara, Guest Editors, International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Special Issue on "Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval", Vol. 10, No.6, December 1999.

2. Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editor, Journal of Applied Systems Studies: Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches, Special Issue on "Distributed Multimedia Systems with Applications", 2000.

3. Timothy K. Shih and Jianhua Ma, Guest Editors, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (IJCPOL), Special Issue on Virtual University, World Scientific Pub. Co.

4. Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editor, Journal of Computers, Special Issue on “Distance Learning,” 2001.

5. Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editor, Information Science: an International Journal, Special Issue on “Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking,” 2001.

6. Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editor, Journal of Internet Technology, Special Issue on "Internet Multimedia Information Systems", 2001.

7. Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editor, Information Science: an International Journal, Special Issue on “Interactive Virtual Environment and Distance Education,” 2001.

8. Yoshitaka Shibata and Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editors, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on “Distributed Multimedia Systems for Virtual Society,” 2002.

9. Timothy K. Shih and Jianhua Ma, Guest Editors, International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Special Issue on “Web and WAP Oriental Languages Multimedia Computing,” 2002.

10. Yi-Ping Hung, Timothy K. Shih, and Jiung-Yao Huang, Guest Editors, International Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Special Issue on “Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality”, Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2003.

11. Timothy K. Shih, Qing Li, and Hong Va Leong, Guest Editor, Information Science: an International Journal, Special Issue on “Multimedia and Mobile Agents,” 2003.

12. Jason Chi-Shun Hung and Timothy K. Shih, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Special Issue on “Distance Education”, 2004.

13. Leonard Barolli, Timothy K. Shih, and Jianhua Ma, Guest Editors, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Specia Issue on Multimedia Networking and Application Systems, December 1, 2003.

14. Shu-Ching Chen, Jianhua Ma, Shi-Kuo Chang, Yi Deng, and Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editors, the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Special Issue on Multimedia Networking and Wireless Communications, Inderscience Publishers, 2004.

15. Jianhua Ma, Makoto Takizawa, and Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editors, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Special Issue on Advanced Networking and Applications for New Computing Paradigm, Inderscience Publishers, 2005.

16. Charalampos Z. Patrikakis and Timothy K. Shih, Guest Editors, Journal of Internet Technology, Special Issue on “Real time media delivery over the Internet”, 2005.

17. Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa, and Timothy K. Shih, GuestEditors, Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), Special Issue on Advanced Information Networking: P2P Systems and Distributed Applications, 2005.

18. Qing Li, Rynson W.H. Lau, Dennis McLeod and Timothy Shih, Guest Editors, Special Issue on “Internet Technologies for Distance Education,” ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

19. Hui-Huang Hsu, Marios C. Angelides, and Timothy K. Shih, Special Issue on “Mobile Multimedia Networking and Context-Aware Computing,” Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 2006.

20. Irfan Awan, Timothy K. Shih, and Arjan Durresi, Special Issue on “Advances in Modelling and Evaluation of Communication Systems,” Journal of Telecommunication Systems.

Book Editorial Service

1. Multimedia Computing and Networking, in the series of Advances in Computer Cybernetics, Vol. IV, George E. Lasker and Timothy K. Shih, Editors, the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (ISBN 0-921836-54-6, QA75.5.A38), 1998.

2. Advances in Software Engineering and Multimedia Applications, Vol. I, Timothy K. Shih and George E. Lasker, Editors, the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 1999.

3. Distributed Multimedia Databases: Techniques and Applications, Timothy K. Shih, Editor, the Idea Group Publishing, USA, December 2001, (ISBN 1-930708-29-7, QA 76.9.D3 S547 2001).

4. Intelligent Virtual World, Timothy K. Shih and Paul P. Wang, Editors, World Scientific Publishing Co. Inc., 2003.

5. Future Directions in Distance Learning and Communication Technologies, Timothy K. Shih and Jason C. Hung, Editors, the Idea Group Publishing, USA, 2006.

6. Advances in Web Based Learning – ICWL 2008, Frederick Li, Jianmin Zhao, Timothy K. Shih, Rynson Lau, Qing Li, Dennis McLeod (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5145, 2008.

Board of Directors, Member of Steering Committee and Society Members

Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.

IEEE Senior Member (Computer Society)

ACM Member

SPIE Member

Life Member of IICM, Taiwan

Life Member of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan

Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, and the Society for Applied Systems Research, Germany, since 1996.

Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Intelligence Machinery (AIM), U.S.A., since 1998.

Member of the IEEE Task Force on YUFORIC (Youth Forum in Computer Science and Engineering), since 1998.

Member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Multimedia Computing, since 1999.

Member of the IEEE Technical Committees on Distributed Processing, since 1999.

Member of the IEEE Technical Councils on Software Engineering (TCSE) - Software Engineering as a Profession, since 1999.

Member of the Governing Board, Chinese Language Computer Society (CLCS), USA, 2000 -- 2003.

Member of Advisory Board, the 2000 Workshop at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) on Metrics for Intelligence, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, August 2000.

Member of Steering Committee, International Workshop on Multimedia Network Systems and Applications (MNSA), since 1999.

Member of Steering Committee (2001 Chair), International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN), since 2000.

Member of Steering Committee, International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM), since 2001.

Member of Steering Committee, International Conference on Web-based Learning (CWLearn), since 2001.

Member of the Educational Activities Board, the IEEE Computer Society (Winter 2004 – Summer 2006).

Member of the e-Learning Committee, the IEEE Computer Society (2006).

Member of Advisory/Steering Committee, the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 27-30, 2005.

Member of Advisory/Steering Committee, the AIS Special Interest Group on IS in Asia Pacific (SIG-ISAP).

Executive Committee Member, the Global Chinese Society of Computers in Education (GCSCE), 2006 – 2010.

Advisory Board, the Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce (EMCC).

International Reviewer and Examiner

Book Reviewer, The MIT Press, 1999.

Book Reviewer, The Idea Group Publishing, USA, 2000.

Book Reviewer, The Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001.

External Assessor (Reviewer) of the University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, 1997.

External Thesis Examiner, Master Program of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2001.

External Thesis Examiner, Ph.D. Program of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Center (DAIC), Department of Mathematical and Computer Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, AUSTRALIA, 1998.

External Thesis Examiner, Ph.D. Program of the Gippsland School of Computing and IT, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3842, 1998.

External Thesis Examiner, Ph.D. Program of the Branden University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A., 1998.

External Thesis Examiner, Ph.D. Program of the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007.

External Referee of the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, 1999.

External Referee of the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, 2003.

External Referee of the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, 2004.

External Referee of the Research Committee, City University of Hong Kong, 2000.

External Referee of the Research Committee, City University of Hong Kong, 2002.

External Referee of the Research Committee, City University of Hong Kong, 2003.

Reviewer, IEEE Multimedia

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Reviewer, Information Science: An International Journal

Reviewer, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Reviewer, Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Reviewer, Image and Vision Computing Journal

Reviewer, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Reviewer, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Baltzer Science Publishers

Reviewer, The Computer Journal, UK.

Reviewer, Journal of Real Time System, Kluwer Academic Publisher

Reviewer, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS): An International Journal, USA

Reviewer, Communication of the ACM, USA

Reviewer, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, USA

Reviewer, Journal of Systems and Software, North-Holland

Reviewer, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, USA

Reviewer, IJLT

Reviewer, IEEE Communications Magazine

Reviewer, Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Reviewer, the International Journal Computer Standards & Interfaces (CS&I)

Reviewer, the special issue for Multimedia Tools and Applications

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Reviewer, Educational Technology & Society Journal

Reviewer, ETRI Journal

Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on CSVT