Central Concerns and Questions

We are interested in decision support tools and analytics that enable users to visually understand and interact with large amounts of information simultaneously so as to obtain deep insights that directly support assessment, planning and decision making.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

Interactivity and decentralisation plays a key role in our pursuit. We are interested in extending the frontiers of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) research for supporting emerging applications such as collaborative service design and delivery, commodity trading, and interactive B2B supply chain collaboration. We are also interested in interactive game platform and tools for training in emergency response.

Selected Publications

[1] L. Agussurja and H. C. Lau. The Price of Stability in Selfish Scheduling Games. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal , 9:4, 2009.

[2] S. F. Cheng and Yee Pin Lim. An agent-based commodity trading simulation , Twenty-First Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-09) , pages 72-78, Pasadena, CA, July 2009.

[3] S. F. Cheng . Designing the market game for a commodity trading simulation , IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-07) , pages 445-449, San Jose , CA , November 2007.

[4] S. Halim, R. Yap and H. C. Lau.   Explaining local search behavior using Viz: The local search visual analysis suite . Proc. 19 th   Annual ACM Symposium on   U ser   I nterface   S oftware and   T echnology   (UIST) 2006. Montreux , Switzerland . October 2006.

[5] Ori SASSON, Loong M. S., and Singh C . Handheld Field Simulation System (HFSS) .   Proc. Simulation Conference and Exhibition (SimTecT)   2006, Melbourne Australia , 2006.

Projects, Presentations and Posters

1. Leong Thin Yin, Michelle Cheong Lee Fong, Business Modeling with Spreadsheets(poster)
2. Ori Sasson, Goldenspear Wargame (presentation)
3. Lau Hoong Chuin, The Viz demo system and toolkit (project website)
4. Shih-Fen Cheng, An agent-based commodity trading simulation, Demo presentation at Eighth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-09) , Budapest, Hungary, May 2009.  

Collaborations and Industry Linkages

1. Singapore Ministry of Defense
2. International Enterprise Singapore
3. SMU International Trading Institute
4. Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at SMU