Nguyễn Ngọc Thành, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Vietnamese informatician at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and is the head of Knowledge Management Systems Department in the Faculty of Computer Science.
1981-1986: M.Sc. studies in Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management. Specialization: Information Systems. He finished the studies with the first class honors.
1986-1989: Ph.D. studies in Wroclaw University of Technology. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is: "Methods of choice of set representation". Received the degree of Ph.D. granted by Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1989.
2002: Received the habilitation degree (D.Sc.) of Computer Science granted by Faculty of Electronics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.
2009: Received the Title of Professor in Computer Science granted by the President of Poland.
2009: Received the Titles “Distinguished Scientist” nominated by ACM, IEEE Distinguished Visitor, and ACM Distinguished Speaker.
1990-1991: Teaching Assistant - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
1992-2002: Assistant Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
2002-2006: Associate Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
2006 - 2009: Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
2009 - now: Full Professor - Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Com-puter Science and Management.
2003 - now: Full Professor – The State Higher Vocational School in Nesse, Institute of Informatics.
2008 - now: Head of the Division of Knowledge Management Systems, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.
2008 - now: Head of Agent and Multi-agent Group, KES International (UK) and Chair of international symposium series on Agent and Multi-agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA)
2010 – now: Chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Colletive Intelligence
2008 – now: Vice-president of International Society of Applied Intelligence (USA)
2007 – now: Associate Chair of KES International (UK)
Editor-in-Chief of Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (Springer)
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems (Inderscience Publishers)
Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Applied Intelligence Technologies (Book Series, IGI Global Publishers)
Editor-in-Chief of Computational Intelligence and its Applications – COMIA (Book Series, IGI Global Publishers)
computational collective intelligence
methods for knowledge integration
inconsistent knowledge processing
information retrieval
methods for solving conflicts in distributed systems
multi-agent systems
Publications and citations
monographs: 5
edited books and volumes: 54
book chapters: 15
journal articles and conference papers: over 200.
book reviews: 3; paper reviews: 15 (published in ACM Computing Reviews).
technical reports: 15
number of publications indexed by Science Citation Index (ISI): 110
Editor-in-Chief of LNCS Transactions of Computational Collective Intelligence (Springer)
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
(indexed by EI, published by Inderscience Publishers)
Editor-in-Chief of Book Series Advanced in Applied Intelligence Technologies – AAIT
(IGI Global, USA)
Co-Editor-in-Chief of Book Series Computational Intelligence and its Applications – COMIA
(IGI Global, USA)
Area Editor of International Journal of Software and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific, from 2011)
Associate Editor of
- Neurocomputing, (Elsevier, indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2007)
- International Journal of Innovative Computing & Information Control (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2008)
- International Journal of Computer Science & Applications (indexed by EI, 2003-2007)
- International Journal of Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, (indexed by EI, from 2005)
- Journal of Information Knowledge Systems Management, (indexed by EI, from 2005)
Editorial Reviewer Board Member of
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2011)
- Journal of Universal Computer Science (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2004)
- International Journal of Applied Intelligence (indexed by ISI, SCI, from 2003)
- Journal of Universal Science and Technology of Learning (from 2006)
- International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (indexed by ISI, SCIE, from 2006)
- International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Soft Data Paradigms (from 2006)
- ACM Computing Reviews
Guest editor of 25 special issues in journals:
The leader of the more 15 conferences (to 2011)
PC member of over 120 international conferences
• 2003: Rector prize for achievements in scientific research
• 2006: Rector prize for achievements in didactic activities and scientific research
• 2007: Senior academic scholarship from DAAD (Germany)
• 2008: Rector prize for achievements in scientific research
• 2008: Brown Merit Cross given by the President of Poland
• 2009: Received the Title “Distinguished Scientist” nominated by ACM.
• 2010: Rector prize for achievements in didactic activities and scientific research
• A note about my profile is included in: Polish Gold Book of Economic, Legal and Formal Sciences 2005 and Who is Who in the World
