Wanita Sherchan

Wanita Sherchan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Contact

Tel: 61 2 6216 7085
Fax: 61 2 6216 7111
Email

Themes

  • Service Oriented Systems (SoSy)

Projects

  • SOA Framework

Science Area

  • Services computing
  • Web services

Academic Qualifications

2009   PhD (Computer Science), Monash University, Australia,
2003  BE (Computer Engineering) , Nepal Engineering College, Pokhara University, Nepal,

Achievements & Awards

2006 Awarded the NICTA sponsored “Most Promising Research paper” award at the Middleware for Web Services (MWS2006) workshop in conjunction with IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC’06)
2006 Google Australia Anita Borg Scholarship
2005-2008 PhD Scholarships: MIPRS (Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship) and FITRS (Faculty of Information Technology Research Scholarship), Monash University, Australia
2005 Mahendra Vidhya Bhushan Gold Medal, National academic excellence award for outstanding academic achievement in Bachelor of Computer Engineering, conferred by His Majesty the King of Nepal in February 2005
2004 Aishwarya Vidhya Padak, conferred by Her Majesty the Queen of Nepal in November 2004

Science Citizenship

Journal peer review  
2009- 2010  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
2009-2010  International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)
2008-2009 Springer Journal on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)
PC member  
2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2010)
2010 International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB 2010)
2010 Managing Data Quality in Collaborative Information Systems (MCIS) workshop in conjunction with DASFAA 2010
2009 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2009)
2007-2010 ACM SAC Trust, Reputation, Evidence and other Collaboration Know-how (TRECK) track
External reviewer  
2010 CMS (International Workshop on Conceptual Modelling of Services)
2009-2010 ICSOC, APWeb, ICWS, ICWE, DASFAA, ICDE, CEC, DEXA
2008-2009 HICSS Decision Technologies and Service Sciences- the Service Oriented Enterprise track

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
W. Sherchan, S. W. Loke, S. Krishnaswamy. Explanation-Aware Service Selection: Rationale and Reputation. Service Oriented Computing and Applications 2(4). London: Springer-Verlag, 203-218, 2008.
A. Bouguettaya, S. Nepal, W. Sherchan, X. Zhou, L. Li, J. Wu, S. Chen, D. Liu, H. Wang. End-to-End Service Support for Mashups. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Press, 2010.
W. Sherchan, S. Nepal, J. Hunklinger, A. Bouguettaya. A trust ontology for service oriented environments. (accepted) IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2010), 4-10 July 2010, Miami, Florida, USA.
S. Nepal, W. Sherchan, J. Hunklinger, A. Bouguettaya. A Fuzzy Trust Management Framework for Service Web. (accepted for publication) IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2010), 4-10 July 2010, Miami, Florida, USA.
W. Sherchan, S. Krishnaswamy, S. W. Loke. EADRM: Explanation- Aware Distributed Reputation Management for Web Services. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC’08). Yilan, Taiwan: IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
W. Sherchan, S. Krishnaswamy, S. W. Loke. Explaining Reputation for Informed Web Services Selection. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’08). Beijing, China: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 805-806, 2008.
W. Sherchan, S. W. Loke, S. Krishnaswamy. (2006). Towards Explanation- Aware Selection in Internet-Scale Infrastructures: Generating Rationale for Web Services Ratings and Reputation. In: Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC’06) Middleware for Web Services Workshop (MWS06). Hong Kong, China: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 8-17, 2006.

Awarded the "most promising research paper" award sponsored by NICTA (National ICT Australia).

W. Sherchan, S.W. Loke, S. Krishnaswamy. A Fuzzy Model for Reasoning about Reputation in Web Services. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-First ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC’06) - Trust, Recommendations, Evidence, and other Collaborative Know-how (TRECK) track. Dijon, France: ACM, pp. 1886-1892, 2006.
W. Sherchan, S. Krishnaswamy, S. W. Loke. Relevant Past Performance for Selecting Web Services. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC’05). Melbourne, Australia: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 439-445, 2005.

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