Hongtao Ren
Guest Research Scholar
Integrated Assessment and Climate Change Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
Biography
Hongtao Ren joined the IME project in April 2007 as a research scholar to develop diverse Web-based applications for the integrated modeling environment.Dr. Ren received his bachelor's degree (1999) in industrial engineering and master's degree (2004) in systems engineering, both from the Dalian University of Technology, China. He received his PhD (2007) in knowledge science from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST).
In 2004 he received the Monbukagakusho scholarship offered by the Japanese Government and joined the Knowledge School of JAIST, where he has been participating in various activities of the Center of Excellence at JAIST, and in particular has developed Creative Environments for supporting scientific research.
His scientific interests include integrated modeling environment, computerized support for knowledge creation, integrated system for scientific creativities, knowledge engineering, semantic web, and text mining.
Last update: 28 MAR 2011
Publications
Makowski, M. , Granat, J., & Ren, H. (2009). User Guide to MCA: Multiple Criteria Analysis of Discrete Alternatives with a Simple Preference Specification. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-09-022
Makowski, M. , Granat, J., Ren, H., Schenler, W., & Hirschberg, S. (2009). Requirement Analysis and Implementation of Multicriteria Analysis in the NEEDS Project. IIASA Interim Report. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: IR-09-009
Ren, Q., Zheng, X., Lutz, W. , & Scherbov, S. (2009). China's grave demographic challenges in coming decades. China Economist 3 92-103.
Ren, Q., Zheng, X., Lutz, W. , & Scherbov, S. (2009). Uncertain population dynamics and HIV/AIDS in China. In: Gender Policy and HIV in China: Catalyzing Policy Change. Eds. Tucker, J., Poston, D.L., Ren, Q., Gu, B., Zheng, X., & Russell, C., Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-1-4020-9899-4 10.1007/978-1-4020-9900-7_2.
Lutz, W. , Scherbov, S. , Cao, G.-Y., Ren, Q., & Zheng, X.-Y. (2007). China's uncertain demographic present and future. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. pp. 37-59 Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 10.1553/populationyearbook2007s37.