Research Areas & Publications
To provide a glimpse of the research activities under the Computer Information Systems program, selected recent faculty publications are listed below according to their respected research area. A (S) indicates that the author was an UHCL student.
The natural way for graduate students to perform research is through a thesis. As seen in the selected publications, many papers are co-authored with students. Undergraduate students can involve in research by taking an independent study course. Talk to your faculty advisors to find out more details.
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Faculty: Dr. Terry Feagin, Dr. Joseph Giarratano
- Giarratano, J. and Riley G., Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Third Edition, Boston: PWS Publishing, 1998.
Bioinformatics
Faculty: Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid, Dr. Gary Boetticher
- 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 pp145-152, 2005.
- Boetticher G.D., Al-Mubaid H., Karen Fraiser-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 Computer Information Systems Education
Faculty: Dr. Husham Al-Mubaid, Dr. Gary Boetticher, Ms. Wei Ding, Dr. Sharon Hall, Dr. Dan Kim, Dr. Andrew Yang, Dr. Bun Yue
- Boetticher G.D., Teaching Financial Data Mining using Stocks and Futures Contracts, To appear in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, International Institute of Informatics and Systematics, 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.5, pp.132-144, Fall 2005.
- Boetticher G.D., 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, Issue1. pp.178-186. 2004.
- Liaw, M., and (S) 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
Faculty: Dr. Dan Kim, Dr. Andrew Yang
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Faculty: Dr. Hisham Al-Mubaid, Dr. Said Bettayeb, Dr. Gary Boetticher, Ms. Wei Ding
- Chen, P., Ding, W., & Ding, C., SenseNet: A Knowledge Representation Model for Computational Semantics, Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, July 17-19, Beiking, China.
Database and Knowledge-Based Systems
Faculty: Dr. Joseph Giarratano, Dr. Morris Liaw, Dr. Bun Yue
Distributed and Network Computing
Faculty: Dr. Said Bettayeb, Dr. Sadegh Davari, Dr. Alfredo Perez-Davila, Dr. Andrew Yang
E-Commerce and Internet Computing
Faculty: Ms. Wei Ding, Dr. Dan Kim, Dr. Bun Yue
- Yue, K., Yang, T., Ding, W., & Chen, P., A model for open content communities to support effective learning and teaching, Proceednigs of the IADIS International Conference on Web-based Communities 2004, pp. 553-536, Lison, Portugal, April 2004.
- 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 (S) Moen, C., Using an Object-oriented Database to Support a Web Application Built with Java Technologies, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 212, Issue 4, pp. 146-153, April 2006.
- Liaw, M., and (S) 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.
Fault Isolation and Diagnostics
Faculty: Dr. Terry Feagin
Graphics and Windowing Systems
Faculty: Ms. Krishani Abeysekera, Dr. Terry Feagin, Dr. Sharon Hall
Graph Theory and Algorithm
Faculty: Dr. Said Bettayeb
Information Systems
Faculty: Dr. Sharon Hall, Dr. Dan Kim, Dr. Morris Liaw
Numerical Methods
Faculty: Dr. Terry Feagin
Operating Systems
Faculty: Dr. Sadegh Davari
Performance Evaluations
Faculty: Dr. Andrew Yang
Real-Time Systems
Faculty: Dr. Sadegh Davari
Software Metrics
Faculty: Dr. Gary Boetticher
Systems Administration
Faculty: Ms. Krishani Abeysekera
VLSI Design
Faculty: Dr. Said Bettayeb
Wireless and Mobile Computing
Faculty: Dr. Andrew Yang
XML and Semi-Structured Data
Faculty: Dr. Bun Yue
- (S) McDowell, A., (S) 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.