| 1. Research on content persistence in
virtual world construction. (2018-2020),
funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau.
This project is to research on how to achieve content persistence during constructing a virtual world by proposing a content level persistence maintenance model. In this project, some resource persistence theories will be explored to guide the persistence maintenance. |
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| 2. Semantically integrating information
resources of disconnected virtual worlds to build an open virtual
marketplace. (2015-2018),
funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau.
This project is to research on semantically integrating information resources of disconnected virtual worlds, dying websites, and information individuals into a peer-to-peer (P2P) computing network, called P2PNet on which an open virtual marketplace is further built to enable various business activities. |
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| 3. Cross-context e-business activity
reasoning between unknown business partners (2012-2014),
funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau.
This project is to research on the cross-context issues of activity reasoning between the unknown business partners in electronic business systems and among electronic marketplaces. It requires the reasoning to be semantically sound. |
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| 4. Integrating Virtual Worlds for Fair
Virtual Money Exchange (2011-2014),
funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau.
This project is to integrate the existing technically non-interoperable virtual worlds (such as Facebook, HI5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Yahoo! and iGoogle). Thus, the non-interoperable virtual worlds could be integrated for enabling semantic business communications. |
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| 5. Collaborative Construction of
Integrated Electronic Marketplaces (EMpNet-1) (2009-2011),
funded by the Research Committee of University of Macau.
This project aims to provide a theoretical foundation of how to build an e-marketplace based on the underlying ConexNet. It tries to answer what functionalities an e-marketplace should support and how these functions can be provided. |
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6 Semantic Integration of
Heterogeneous E-Commerce Data
(2006-2008), funded by the Research Committee of University of
Macau. This project aims to provide a theoretical foundation of how heterogeneous e-commerce data can be semantically integrated using collaboration concept and how heterogeneous vocabularies, documents and processes can co-exist in a same framework, thus having a coherent architecture. |
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7. Collaborative
Concept Exchange Network (ConexNet) - [ko'neks]. This project aims to integrate the previous projects of CONEX (Collaborative Concept Exchange), CODEX (Collaborative Document Exchange), COPEX (Collaborative Process Exchange) together. It focuses on how heterogeneous concepts including vocabularies, documents, processes and services can be semantically interoperable with each other in a generalized concept networking platform. It aims to provide a semantic communication foundation for its above electronic marketplace and virtual marketplace. It is relevant to existing studies of semantic net, standardization, ontology, semiotics, artificial intelligence, collaboration theory, etc. The first step of ConexNet will focus on the development of a new type of semantic net, which can provide the ability of semantic query of semantically consistent English and Chinese words for business vocabulary localization. The second step will focus on the design of various e-marketplace functionalities based on this new type of semantic net. |
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8 Internet Phenomena
and History Analysis Related-to E-commerce (iPHARE) This project aims to investigate on the phenomena and historical events happened around our daily e-commerce life. Through these analysis, we can understand the past, present and future of e-commerce application design principles and trends, thus better guiding our better design and implementation of e-commerce applications. Particularly, representative cases will be investigated and analyzed. It is relevant to history study and phenomenon analysis. [Case study] Boeing.com; Covisint.com; Alibaba; BossLink; TradeCard.com; Bolero.net; AliPay.com; PayPal.com; SecondLife.com; QQ.com; FaceBook.com; WorldOfWarcraft.com; ZTGame.com |
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9. Foundations of electronic Market Place (FoeMP)
- [foum p]
This project aims to investigate on what should be our critical theories behind our designing e-marketplaces, considering a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary theories like management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, international trade, sociology, ethics, laws, etc. It is relevant to the study of various technology development theories. |
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10 Common money (Coney)
- ['koni] in a virtual world or metaverse This project aims to investigate whether it is possible to design a common electronic money mechanism, which not only permits the co-existing of various types of electronic monies differently designed in existing e-marketplaces but also allows them to work together to support the formation of an integrated e-marketplace. it is relevant to the studies of e-payment systems, monetary systems, exchange rate systems, economics and international trade. |
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11. Virtual Marketplace (VMp) within a virtual world or
metaverse Virtual worlds and Metaverses are a fascinating research area. This project aims to understand what virtual world or metaverse is and how virtual inhabitants construct their societies as virtual worlds or Metaverses. Particularly, this project focuses on the construction of virtual marketplace within a virtual world or a metaverse, which is built on the virtual world regimes set by its creators and the participated virtual inhabitants. |
Research Group
Our research group mainly aims to provide the next-generation marketplace platforms that can enable both real and virtual people of a virtual world or metaverse to do business. This includes the studies of what will be the theoretical foundations of next-generation electronic and virtual marketplaces, what they should support, and how the newly discovered marketplace functions should be supported.
Members of the Research Group
| Research Period | Name | Specific Research Tasks | DEMO | |
| Jingzhi GUO | Principal Investigator of Research Group | |||
| 2020.01 - Present |
Weiming Tan (PhD Cand.) |
A Research on Text to Scence | Link to | |
| 2019.01 - 2022.08 |
Yu Tong (PhD) |
An Approach to Achieving Accuracy and Efficiency in Semantic Input Method | Link to | |
| 2017.09 - 2022.02 | Peng Qin (PhD) | Semantic inference between n-dimensional documents | Link to | |
| 2014.09 - 2021 | Bin Wang (PhD cand.) | A Novel Research on Virtual Natural World Generation based on Virtual Value | Link to | |
| 2012.01 - 2019.08 |
Bingqing SHEN (PhD) |
Constructing Persistent and Distributed Virtual World through a Node-to-Node Network | Link to | |
| 2013.09 - 2017.12 | Shuo YANG (PhD) | Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Business through a Novel Cross-Context Semantic Document Exchange Approach | Link to | |
| 2009.09 - 2015.08 |
Guangyi XIAO (PhD) |
A Semantic Study on Electronic Business Document Representation and Communication | Link to | |
| 2012.06 - 2014.06 | Ran AN | An Empirical Research on E-Marketplace Function Types and Classification for Different E-Marketplace Business Models | Link to | |
| 2012.06 - 2015.12 | Chenglin LI | Sign-based semantic interoperability for Semantic Web Services | Link to | |
| 2010.07 - 2013.08 | Meilan XIE | Acquiring Fair Virtual Money Exchange Rates Across Virtual Worlds | Link to | |
| 2010.07 - 2011.12 | Haoyuan HOU | Cross-domain Secure Messaging Method for E-Payment | Link to | |
| 2010.07 - 2011.12 | Chong Pak WONG | Integrating Heterogeneous Virtual Worlds | Link to | |
| 2010.07 - 2011.12 | Zhihao JIANG | A Theory on E-Marketplace Technical Construction | Link to | |
| 2009.02 - 2011.09 | Ying LI | An Approach to Online Anonymous Electronic Cash | Link to | |
| 2006.01 - 2010.02 | Iok Ham LAM | Do Mechanism of Collaborative Concept Editing Systems | Link to | |
| 2007.09 - 2009.08 | Angelina CHOW | Virtual Money Exchange Rate Systems | Link to | |
| 2008.01 - 2009.12 | Zhuo HU | Heterogeneous Vocabulary and Document Integration (Textile E-Marketplace) | Link to | |
| 2008.09 - 2009.07 | Chin-Pang CHE | Inference on heterogeneous e-marketplace activities | Link to | |
| 2007.01 - 2008.12 | Yufeng LUO | Heterogeneous Hotel Information Systems Integration | Link to | |
| 2006.01 - 2008.06 | Xin GUAN | Context-based Multilingual Business Concepts Translation | Link to |
Supervised Postgraduate Students for Thesis
Ongoing (Active PhD Cadidates): Weiming TAN
Finished (PhD): Yu TONG (2022), Peng QIN (2022), Bingqing Shen (2019), Shuo Yang (2017), Guangyi Xiao (2015)
Finished (master): Sifan ZHANG (2023), Im Heng WONG (2023), Qianyi YAN (2023), Shanhan WU (2022), Xinxin WEN (2022), Siyu CHEN (2022), Heng LI (2022), Yichen CAI (2022), Yingchen YANG (2022), Haiming WANG (2022), Weiming TAN (2022), Jia FU (2022), Tingnan HE (2021), Shuyi CHEN (2021), Mengping ZHANG (2021), Guanlai ZHU (2021), Qian TANG (2021), Chengcheng XING (2020), Zeyu YAO (2019), Zitian SHENG (2019), Yuqing MA (2019), Sok Fong SOU (2018), Jingxiao MA (2018), Longqi Wang (2018), Yiting Qin (2017), Yao Yang (2017), Ran Huang (2017), She Rui (2017), Rui Fang (2017), Yudong Guo (2017), Feng Lu (2017), Zhencang Lu (2017), Minghao Shi (2016), Meng Io Tong (2016), Haoyuan Hou (2016), Pengcheng Wang (2016), Hio Lam Leong (2015), Chenglin Li (2015), Ran An (2014), Meilan XIE (2013), Ka Ieong CHAN (2013), Wai Lin Wong (2011), Ying LI (2011), Iok Ham LAM (2010), Chong Wan WONG (2010), Zhuo HU (2009), Angelina Chow (2009), Chin-Pang Che (2009); Xin Guan (2008); Yufeng LUO (2008)
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