CIS Research

Research Areas & Publications - Computer Information Systems - Computer Sciences

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems:

Giarratano, G. and Riley G., Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Third Edition, Boston: PWS Publishing, 1998.

Bioinformatics:

Al-Mubaid H. and Hoa A. Nguyen. "Measuring Semantic Similarity between Concepts within Multiple Ontologies in the Biomedical Domain". IEEE Trans. SMC-C, Vol.39, No.4, pp. 389-398, July 2009. Link: http://sce.uhcl.edu/almubaid/tsmcc-al-mubaid.pdf.
Al-Mubaid H., Rajit K. Singh. "A Text-Mining Technique for Extracting Gene-Disease Associations from the Biomedical Literature". International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Vol. 6, No.3, 2010 pp. 270 - 286.
Al-Mubaid H., W. Ding, P. Chen, H.and M. Pomplun "A Gaze-Controlled Interface to Virtual Reality Applications for Motor- and Speech-Impaired Users", HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, 2009. Link: http://sce.uhcl.edu/almubaid/HCII_09.pdf.
Al-Mubaid H. and R. Singh., A new text mining approach for finding protein-to-disease associations, American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology AJBB, Vol.1, No.3 pp.145 - 152, 2005.
Boetticher G., Al-Mubaid H., Karen Frasier-Scott, A Recursive Application of a Support Vector Machine for Protein Spot Detection in 2-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis, Journal of Computer Science, 1(3): 355-362, 2005.
Al-Mubaid H., Context-Based Technique for Biomedical Term Classification, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC-2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp.5726-5733, July 2006.

Computer Science and Information Systems Education:

Liaw, M & Jones, M. "Developing Three Tier Web Applications with an Object-Oriented Database and Java Technology", Information Society of Computer and Applications – 2007 Software Engineering and Data Engineering Conference (ISCA-SEDE 2007), Las Vegas, NV, July 07-10, 2007.
Liaw, M & Slaughter, E, "Financial Enterprise Websites: A Comparison of Components and Technologies", Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences – A Referred Publication of The American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2009 Issue.
Yue, K., Experience on Mashup Development with End User Programming Environment, Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), Volume 21, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp111-119.
Yue, K., De Silva, D., Kim, D., Aktepe, M., Nagle, S., Boerger, C., Jain, A., Verma, S., Building Real World Domain-Specific Social Network Websites as Capstone Projects, Journal of Information Systems Education (JISE), Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2009, pp67-76.
Boetticher G., Teaching Financial Data Mining using Stocks and Futures Contracts, To appear in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2006.
Al-Mubaid H.. and Elden E., Teacher as Researcher: Examples of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), Southern Business Administration Journal SBAJ Vol.5, No.2, pp.132-144, Fall 2005.
Boetticher G.., Ding, W., C. Moen, and Yue, K., Using a pre-assessment exam to construct an effective concept-based genetic program for predicting course success, Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE'05), pp. 500 – 504, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Feb. 2005.
Yue, K., Yang T., Ding, W. & Chen, P., Open courseware and computer science education, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 20, Issue 1. pp. 178-186. 2004.
Liaw, M. and Moen C. A Web Database Development Course and a Unique Problem-Solving Project, ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2005.

Computer Security and Trust:

Dan J. Kim, Yong Il Song, Sviatoslav B. Braynov, & H. Raghav Rao, A Multi-dimensional Trust Formation Model in B-to-C E-Commerce: A conceptual Framework and Content Analyses of Academia/Practitioner Perspective, Decision Support Systems, 2005, Vol. 40, Issue 2, pp 143-165 (The ScienceDirect.com selected this article as the most downloaded article among the top 25 within the journal, October, 2005).
N. Sivasailam, Dan J. Kim, & H. R. Rao, What Companies Are(n't ) Doing about Web Site Assurance, May/June 2002, 4 (3) pp.33-40 IEEE IT Professional. (Quoted in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY July 6, 2002; Associated Press News Release, July 17, 2002; Washington Post, July 17, 2002, Buffalo News, July 21, 2002, Houston Chronicle, July 20, 2002, Canadian NewsWire, July 19, 2002).
Dan J. Kim, Cognition-based versus Affect-based Trust Determinants: A Cross-culture Comparison Study, ICIS 2005, Las Vegas, NV, December 11-14, 2005

Data Mining and Machine Learning:

Boetticher G, Improving Credibility of Machine Learner Models in Software Engineering, Advanced Machine Learner Applications in Software Engineering, Series on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Du Zhang (California State University, USA) & Jeffrey J P Tsai (University of Illinois, Chicago) Eds., Idea Group Publishing Hershey, PA, USA, ISBN 1591409411, 2007.
Boetticher G., K. Kaminsky, The Assessment and Application of Lineage Information in Genetic Programs for Producing Better Models, IEEE Information Reuse and Integration Conference 2006 (IRI), September, 2006.
Boetticher G., Lokhandwala, N., James C. Helm, Understanding the Human Estimator, Second International Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop co-located at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Philadelphia, PA, September, 2006.
Boetticher G, Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Better Software Prediction, Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop co-located at the 27th International Conference in Software Engineering (ICSE), St. Louis, May, 2005.
Kaminsky, K., Boetticher G., Better Software Defect Prediction Using Equalized Learning with Machine Learners, The IASTED International Conference on Knowledge Sharing and Collaborative Engineering, US Virgin Islands, 2004.
Kaminsky, K., Boetticher G., How to Predict More with Less, Defect Prediction Using Machine Learners in an Implicitly Data Starved Domain, The 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Fla., 2004. Best Paper Award.
Kaminsky, K., Boetticher G., Building a Genetically Engineerable Evolvable Program (GEEP) Using Breadth-Based Explicit Knowledge for Predicting Software Defects, The 23rd International Conference of NAFIPS, the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society: 'Fuzzy Sets in the Heart of Canadian Rockies', Banff, Canada, 2004.
Boetticher G, When Will it Be Done? The 300 Billion Dollar Question, Machine Learner Answers, IEEE Intelligent Systems, June 2003.

E-Commerce and Internet Computing:

Dan J. Kim, N. Sivasailam, and H. R. Rao, Information Assurance in B2C Websites for Information Goods/Services, Electronic Market, 2004, Vol. 14, No 4, pp 344-359
Yue, K., Yang T., Ding, W. & Chen, P., A model for open content communities to support effective learning and teaching, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Web-based Communities 2004, pp 533-536, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2004.
Dan J. Kim, Manish Agrawal, B. Jayaraman & H. Raghav Rao, A Comparison of Business-to-Business E-Service Solutions, Communications of the ACM, December 2003, Vol. 46, No. 12Ve, pp. 317-324
Yue, K.& Ding, W., Design and evolution of an undergraduate course on web application development, Proceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ACM ITiCSE'04), pp. 22-26, Leeds, UK, June, 2004.
Liaw, M. and Moen C., Using an Object-oriented Database to Support a Web Application Built with Java Technologies, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 21 , Issue 4, pp146-153, April 2006.
Liaw, M. and Moen C. The Online Grade Book — A Case Study in Learning about Object-Oriented Database Technology, ACET Journal of Computer Education and Research, Volume 2, Number 1, Summer 2004.

Information Systems:

Jayhun Goo, Dan J. Kim, and Bongsoon Cho, Structure of Service Level Agreements (SLA) in IT Outsourcing: The Construct and Its Measurement, 2006 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico August 4-6, 2006

Parallel and Distributed Computing:

S. Bettayeb, The Genus of Complete Multipartite Graphs and Complete Multi-Layered Graphs, (with Q. Nguyen), Proc. of the 2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, May16-19, 2010 in Hammamet, Tunisia
S. Bettayeb, Stack and Queue Layouts for Toruses and Extended Hypercubes (with Hussain Heydari, Linda Morales, Hal Sudborough), Proc. Of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan. 2010 (HICSS 10).
S. Bettayeb, Upper and Lower Bounds of the Genus of the Pancake Graphs, (with Quan Nguyen), Proc. Of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 09, July 2009.
S. Bettayeb, Upper and Lower Bounds on the Pagenumber of the Book Embedding of the k-ary hypercube, (with David Hoelzeman), Journal of Digital Information Management, Vol. 7 Issue 1, Feb. 2009, pp. 31-35.

Security, Wireless Communications, and VLSI Design:

S. Bettayeb, On the Genus of the Pancake Network, (with Quan Nguyen), the International Journal of Information Technology Vol. 7, No. 3, July 2010.
S. Bettayeb, Efficient Algorithms for Secure Multicast Key Managemen, (with E. Khabiri), Proc. of the 31st. IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2006, pp. 787-792.
S. Bettayeb, Genuses of Permutation Networks, (with Quan Nguyen), presented at the 15th Annual Research & Creative Arts Students Conference, UHCL, April 22-23, 2009.

Wireless and Mobile Computing:

Myeong-Cheol Park, Dan J. Kim, and, Sangwoo Lee, Demand for number portability in Korean Mobile Telecommunication Market: Contingent Valuation Approach, Journal of Global Information Management, 2007, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp 43-64.
Abhishek Patil, Dan J. Kim, & Lionel Ni, A Study of Frequency Interference and Indoor Location Sensing with 802.11b and Bluetooth Technologies, International Journal of Mobile Communications, 2006, Vol. 4, No 6, pp 621-644.
Dan J. Kim and Yujong Hwang, A Study of Mobile Internet Usage from Utilitarian and Hedonic User Tendency Perspectives, 2006 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico August 4-6, 2006.
Constantinos K. Coursaris and Dan J. Kim, A Qualitative Review of Empirical Mobile Usability Studies, 2006 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico August 4-6, 2006

XML and Semi-Structured Data:

McDowell, A., Schmidt, C. &Yue, K., Analysis and Metrics of XML Schema, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Las Vegas, June 21st - 24th, 2004.