Publication List

  Ph.D. Thesis

Liu, Bing., Reinforcement Planning for Resource Allocation and Constraint 
   Satisfaction, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Artificial Intelligence, 
   University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1989. 

Journal Papers 

Liu, Bing., "Scheduling via reinforcement," International Journal for Al in 
   Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1988), pp. 76-85. (United Kingdom)
Liu, Bing, & Ku, Yuen-Wah., "ConstraintLisp: An Object-Oriented Constraint 
   Programming Language," SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 27 No. 11, pp. 17-26, 1992, 
   (United States).
Liu, Bing., "A Comparison of Charme, Pecos and ConstraintLisp," Information 
   Technology: Singapore Computer Society Journal, Feature Issue on Scheduling 
   and Resource Allocation, Vol. 5, No. 2,  pp. 27-36, 1993. (Singapore).
Liu, Bing., "Problem Acquisition in Scheduling Domains," Expert Systems with 
   Applications: An International Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1993), pp. 257-265. 
   (United States)
Liu, Bing., "Knowledge-Based Factory Scheduling," Expert Systems with 
   Applications: An International Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1993), pp. 349-359. 
   (United States)
Liu, Bing., "Specific Constraint Handling in Constraint Satisfaction 
   Problems," International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 3, 
   No. 1, (1994), pp. 79-96. 
Liu, Bing, et al, "Finding the Shourtest Route Using Cases, Knowledge, and 
   Dijkstra's Algorithm," IEEE Expert, Vol. 9 No. 5 (1994), pp. 7-11. (The 
   paper was selected as one of the 4 best papers from IEEE CAIA-94 for 
   appearing in IEEE Expert).  
Liu, Bing, "An Unified Framework for Consistency Check," International 
   Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 10 No. 8, pp. 691-714, 1995, 

2 more papers under review. 

Conference Papers

Liu, Bing., "A Reinforcement Approach to Scheduling," Proceeding of the 8th 
   European Conference on Artificial Intelligence(ECAI), pp. 580-585, Germany,
   1988.
Liu, Bing. & Looi, C. K., "Relaxed Constraint Satisfaction," Proceedings of 
   4th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 210-216, 
   Mexico, 1991.
Liu, Bing., "Resource Allocation and Constraint Satisfaction in Production 
   Scheduling," Proceedings of 1st World Congress on Expert Systems, pp. 
   2091-2099, United States, 1991.
Liu, Bing. & Looi, C. K., "Towards a Language for Constrained Heuristic 
   Search: ConstraintLisp," Proceeding of 2nd Pacific Rim Conference on 
   Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), pp. 347-353, South Korea, 1992.
Liu, Bing, "Using Constraint Programming Languages to Solve Scheduling 
   Problems," Proceedings of the Intelligent Scheduling Systems Symposium, 
   pp. 210-216, United States, 1992.
Liu, Bing., "Controlling Backtracking in Constraint Programming Languages," 
   Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, 
   Mexico, 1993.
Liu, Bing., & Wong, Siew-Churn., "Scheduling, Constraint Satisfaction 
   Problems and Constraint Programming Languages," Proceedings of 2nd 
   World Congress on Expert Systems, pp. 250-256, Portugal, 1994.
Liu, Bing., "Practical Consistency Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction 
   Problems," Proceedings of Japan and Korean Joint Conference on Expert 
   Systems, pp. 295-298, Japan, 1994.
Liu, Bing., et al, "Integrating Knowledge-based Approach, Case-Based 
   Reasoning and Dijkstra Algorithm for Routing Finding," Proceedings of 
   The Tenth IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications 
   (CAIA-94), pp. 149-155, United States, 1994.
Liu, Bing., "A General Framework For Arc Consistency and Its Related 
   Techniques," Proceedings of the 3rd Pacific Rim International Conference 
   on Artifficial Intelligence(PRICAI), August 16-18, 1994, Beijing, China, 
   1994.
Liu, Bing., "Integrating Rules and Constraints," Proceedings of the 6th IEEE 
   International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence(TAI), 
   November 6-9, 1994, New Orleans, United States, 1994.
Liu, Bing and Tay, Jimmy., "Using Knowledge about the Road Network for Route 
   Finding," Proceedings of The Eleventh IEEE Conference on Artificial 
   Intelligence for Applications (CAIA-95), LA, United States, 1995. 
Liu, Bing., "A Refinement Approach to Search and Constraint Satisfaction," 
   in Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on 
   Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and 
   Expert Systems (IEA95), Melbourne, Australia, June 5-9, 1995. 
Liu, Bing., "Intelligent Air Travel and Tourist Information Systems," 
   Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Industrial 
   and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems 
   (IEA95), Melbourne, Australia, June 5-9, 1995.
Liu, Bing., "Increasing Functional Constraints Need to be Checked Only," 
   in Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial 
   Intelligence (IJCAI-95), pp. 586-591, 1995. 
Liu, Bing., "Using Knowledge To Isolate Search in Route Finding," in 
   Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
   (IJCAI-95), pp. 119-124, 1995. 

2  more papers under review. 

Technical Reports

Liu, Bing., Knowledge-Based Scheduling, DAI Discussion Paper No 11, 
   Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, United 
   Kingdom, 1987. 
Liu, Bing., Technical Report on ConstraintLisp, Technical Report, Information 
   Technology Institute, National Computer Board, Singapore, 1992. 
Liu, Bing., Practical Consistency Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction 
   Problems, Technical Report, DISCS Publication No. TRB9/93, National 
   University of Singapore, September, 1993.