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- The 17th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education
(GCCCE 2013)
is to be held in Beijing, China, on 27-31 May 2013.
- The 7th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
(SERE 2013),
previously known as the International Conference on Secure
Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI),
is to be held in Washington, D.C., USA, on 18-20 June 2013.
- The 37th Annual International Computer
Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2013)
is to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on 22-26 July 2013.
Since 2006,
COMPSAC has been designated as
the IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Software
Technology and Applications.
- The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness
(TSE-TH 2013),
co-located with
The 13th International Conference on Quality Software
(QSIC 2013),
is to be held in Nanjing, China, on 29-30 July 2013.
- The 21st International Conference on Computers in Education
(ICCE 2013)
is to be held in Bali, Indonesia, on 18-22 November 2013.
- The 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC 2013)
is to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 2-5 December 2013.
- The 22nd International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering Conference
(ACM SIGSOFT FSE 2014)
is to be held in Hong Kong on 16-22 November 2014.
Research Interests
- Software Engineering, Software Testing,
Computers in Education, E-Commerce
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Profile
Dr. Y T Yu received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics
with First Class Honours,
and the Certificate in Education from
The University of Hong Kong.
Later, he received the Graduate Diploma and obtained First Class Honours
and First in Class in a M.Sc.(Prelim) Course before receiving
the Ph.D. degree from
The University of Melbourne,
Australia.
Prior to joining the
Department of Computer Science
of City University of Hong Kong,
Dr. Yu has taught computer courses in
The University of Melbourne,
The University of Hong Kong,
and
The Hong Kong Institute of Education.
He has substantial experience in secondary computer and mathematics
education in Hong Kong.
He has led the implementation of strategic computerisation project
of a secondary school, including in-house development of various
essential school administration software systems.
He was also the author of two textbooks for Computer Studies.
Dr Yu has been actively engaged in research work.
His publications have appeared in
many scholarly journals, including the most prestigious journals
in the field of software engineering, such as
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
and
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
To date, he has completed more than 10 research projects that were
funded by strategic and competitive earmarked research grants,
one research and development project supported by a fund from the
Innovation and Technology Commission,
and several development projects supported by
teaching development grants.
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Professional Activities
Dr Yu is the Chair of
IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter
for the years 2012-2013, after having served as the Secretary
in the years 2010-2011 and
an Executive Committee Member in the years 2006-2009.
Dr Yu was an Editorial Board Member of the
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
(IJWET) in the years 2003-2012.
Besides, he has reviewed papers for various
international academic journals, including:
-
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology
- The Computer Journal
- Empirical Software Engineering
- IEE Proceedings -- Software
- IEEE Software
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
-
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Information and Software Technology
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of General Systems
- International Journal of Software Engineering and
Knowledge Engineering
- International Journal of Web Services Research
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
- Software Practice and Experience
- Software Quality Journal
- Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
Dr Yu has actively participated in professional activities
in the research community. He is/has been a/the:
- Program Co-Chair of the
- Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
(APAQS 2001)
- International Workshop on SPECIAL
(SPECIAL 2009)
(Strategies for Practical integration of Emerging and Contemporary technologies In Assessment and Learning)
- Organizing Co-Chair of the
- 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC 2012)
- Treasurer of the
- Publicity Chair of the
- 28th Annual International Computer
Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2004)
- 29th Annual International
Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC 2005)
- Publication Chair of the
- IEEE Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Congress
(APCloudCC) 2012,
a major event of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative
- Program Committee Member of the
- Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference, designated as the
IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on
Software Technology and Applications since 2006
(COMPSAC 2001,
COMPSAC 2002,
COMPSAC 2003,
COMPSAC 2004,
COMPSAC 2005,
COMPSAC 2006,
COMPSAC 2007,
COMPSAC 2008,
COMPSAC 2009,
COMPSAC 2011,
COMPSAC 2012
and COMPSAC 2013)
- Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC 1999,
APSEC 2008,
APSEC 2009,
APSEC 2010,
APSEC 2011
and
APSEC 2013)
- First Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
(APAQS 2000),
known as the International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC) since 2003
- Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education
(GCCCE 2011,
GCCCE 2012
and
GCCCE 2013)
- International Conference on Computers in Education
(ICCE 2009,
ICCE 2010,
ICCE 2011,
ICCE 2012
and
ICCE 2013)
- International Conference on Knowledge Management in Organizations
(KMO 2006)
- International Conference on Quality Software
(QSIC 2003,
QSIC 2004,
QSIC 2005,
QSIC 2006,
QSIC 2007,
QSIC 2008,
QSIC 2009,
QSIC 2010,
QSIC 2011
and
QSIC 2012)
- International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement
(SSIRI 2008,
SSIRI 2009,
SSIRI 2010
and
SSIRI 2011),
known as the International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) since 2012
- International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing
(ICSPCC 2012)
- International Conference on Software Security and Reliability
(SERE 2012 and
SERE 2013)
- International Symposium on Quality Engineering for Embedded Systems
(QEES 2008)
- International Workshop on Services Engineering
(SEIW 2005)
- International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration
(SOAIC 2008)
- International Workshop on Service Oriented Software Engineering
(IW-SOSE 2006)
- International Workshop on Service-Oriented System Engineering
(SOSE 2007)
- Workshop on Technology Facilitated Testing and Assessment
(TFTA 2010),
held in conjunction with
The Asia-Pacific Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning 2010
(APTEL 2010)
- The Symposium on Engineering Test Harness
(TSE-TH 2013), co-located with
The 13th International Conference on Quality Software
(QSIC 2013)
In addition, he has been the reviewers of many other international
conferences and symposia, including:
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)
- ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the
Foundations of Software Engineering (SIGSOFT/FSE)
- Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS)
- Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC)
- IEEE Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Congress (APCloudCC)
- International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
- International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
- International Symposium on Software Engineering
for Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDSE)
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- P.-L. Poon and Y. T. Yu,
"Degree of Internet corporate reporting: A
research framework",
Information Research,
volume 17, number 1, paper 509, March 2012.
[Available at
http://InformationR.net/ir/17-1/paper509.html]
- Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau,
"Fault-based test suite prioritization for
specification-based testing",
Information and Software Technology,
volume 54, number 2, pages 179-202, February 2012.
- K. M. Y. Law, V. C. S. Lee and Y. T. Yu,
"Learning motivation in e-learning facilitated
computer programming courses",
Computers and Education,
volume 55, number 1, pages 218-228, August 2010.
- Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau,
"A comparison of MC/DC, MUMCUT and several other
coverage criteria for logical decisions",
Journal of Systems and Software,
volume 79, number 5, pages 577-590, May 2006.
- M. F. Lau and Y. T. Yu,
"An extended fault class hierarchy for
specification-based testing",
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology,
volume 14, number 3, pages 247-276, July 2005.
- Y. T. Yu, S. P. Ng, P.-L. Poon and T. Y. Chen,
"On the testing methods used by beginning software
testers",
Information and Software Technology,
volume 46, number 5, pages 329-335, April 2004.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"A decision-theoretic approach to the test allocation
problem in partition testing",
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics --
Part A: Systems and Humans,
volume 32, number 6, pages 733-745, November 2002.
- Y. T. Yu, P. L. Poon, S. F. Tang and T. Y. Chen,
"A study on a path-based strategy for selecting
black-box generated test cases",
International Journal of Software Engineering
and Knowledge Engineering,
volume 11, number 2, pages 113-138, April 2001.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"On the expected number of failures detected by
subdomain testing and random testing",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
volume 22, number 2, pages 109-119, February 1996.
- T. Y. Chen and Y. T. Yu,
"On the relationship between partition testing and
random testing",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
volume 20, number 12, pages 977-980, December 1994.
Conference Papers
- Y. T. Yu, E. Y. K. Chan and P.-L. Poon,
"On the coverage of program code by
specification-based tests",
in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference
on Quality Software (QSIC 2009),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 24-25, August 2009.
- T. H. Ng, S. C. Cheung, W. K. Chan and Y. T. Yu,
"Do maintainers utilize deployed design patterns
effectively?",
in Proceedings of the 29th International
Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2007),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 168-177, May 2007.
- T. H. Ng, S. C. Cheung, W. K. Chan and Y. T. Yu,
"Work experience versus refactoring into design
patterns: A controlled experiment",
in Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGSOFT
Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering
(ACM
SIGSOFT 2006 / FSE 14),
ACM Press, pages 12-22, November 2006.
- M. F. Lau, Y. Liu and Y. T. Yu,
"On detection conditions of double faults related
to terms in Boolean expressions",
in Proceedings of the 30th Annual International
Computer Software and Applications Conference
(COMPSAC
2006),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 403-410, September 2006.
- P.-L. Poon and Y. T. Yu,
"Procurement of enterprise resource planning systems:
Experiences with some Hong Kong companies",
in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference
on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2006),
ACM Press, pages 561-568, May 2006.
- Y. T. Yu and P.-L. Poon,
"Designing activities for learning software quality
practices",
in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference
on Quality Software
(QSIC 2005),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 333-338, September 2005.
- Y. T. Yu,
"Information technology support to the promotion of
reading -- Towards building a school-based reading sharing
community",
in Proceedings of International Conference
on Computers in Education (ICCE 2004),
pages 499-508, November-December 2004.
- B. C. Chiu and Y. T. Yu,
"Promoting the use of information technology in
education via lightweight authoring tools",
(winner of
Best Paper Award),
in Proceedings of International Conference
on Computers in Education (ICCE 2002),
IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 501-505, December 2002.
- Y. T. Yu and M. F. Lau,
"Prioritization of test cases in MUMCUT test sets:
an empirical study",
in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies (Ada-Europe 2002),
LNCS no. 2361,
Springer, pages 245-256, June 2002.
- Y. T. Yu and B. C. Chiu,
"Empowering secondary school teachers to effectively exploit
Internet resources for the enhancement of teaching and learning",
in Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in
Education and International Conference on Computer Assisted
Instruction (ICCE/ICCAI 2000),
pages 840-848, November 2000.
Books / Book Chapter
- M. F. Lau, Y. T. Yu and P.-L. Poon,
"Test Case Generation: Specification-Based",
Encyclopedia of Software Engineering,
volume 1, number 1, pages 1200-1210, November 2010.
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
New York. (DOI: 10.1081/E-ESE-120044233)
- Y. T. Yu,
Elements of Computer Studies
(with Teachers' Handbook),
Modern Educational Research Society Ltd.,
Hong Kong. (Second edition: 1997; revised edition: 1993;
first edition: 1989)
- Y. T. Yu,
Elements of Basic Programming:
A Problem Solving Approach
(with Teachers' Handbook),
Modern Educational Research Society Ltd.,
Hong Kong. (1989)
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Project Supervision
- BSCCS Final Year Project
- BSCS Final Year Project
- BSCED Guided Study
- BSCED Final Year Project
- MSC Dissertation
- MSCS Guided Study
- MSCS Dissertation
Selected Past Student Projects
- Interactive Personal Finance Learning System
- Fault-based Analysis for Conformance Testing of TCP/IP Implementation
- An Exercise System for Primary School
- An Online Grading System
- Web Publishing of Z Specifications
- CASE Tools for MPF Systems
- A Training Program for Bidding in Contract Bridge
- Tool Support for Basis Path Testing
- Checking Pre-conditions of Specifications
- An Input Domain Visualisation Tool
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Last updated on 10 May 2013
