The following reflects the MIS Departments faculty and student publications for the calendar year 2007. MIS faculty members are in bold text.
Journal Publications
Books/Special Issues
Refereed Conference Publications/Book Chapters
Press and Media
Additional Departmental and Faculty Accomplishments
2006 Publication Listing
Journal Publications:
Li, J., Zhang, Z., Li, X., and Chen H. Kernel-based Learning for Biomedical Relation Extraction. To appear at Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
R. Schumaker, Y. Liu, M. Ginsburg, and H. Chen, "Evaluating Mass Knowledge Acquisition using the ALICE Chatterbot: The AZ-ALICE Dialog System," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Volume 64, Number 11, Pages 1132-1140, 2007.
E. Reid and H. Chen, "Mapping the Contemporary Terrorism Research Domain," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, special issue on Information Security in the Knowledge Economy, Volume 65, Pages 42-56, 2007.
J. Qin, Y. Zhou, E. Reid, G. Lai, and H. Chen, "Analyzing Terror Campaign on the Internet: Technical Sophistication, Content Richness, and Web Interactivity," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, special issue on Information Security in the Knowledge Economy, Volume 65, Pages 71-84, 2007.
M. Chau, B. Shiu, I. Chan and H. Chen, "Redips: Backlink Search and Analysis on the Web for Business Intelligence Analysis," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 58, Number 3, Pages 351-365, 2007.
J. Schroeder, J. Xu, M. Chau and H. Chen, "Automated Criminal Link Analysis Based on Domain Knowledge," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 58, Number 6, Pages 842-855, 2007.
M. Chau and H. Chen, "Incorporating Web Analysis into Neural Networks: An Example in Hopfield Net Searching," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Volume 37, Number 3, Pages 352-358, 2007.
R. Schumaker, Y Liu, M. Ginsberg, and H. Chen, "Evaluating the Efficacy of a Question Answer System," Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Number 6, Pages 74-80, July 2007.
J. Li, H. Su, H. Chen, and B. W. Futscher, "Optimal Search-Based Gene Subset Selection for Gene Array Cancer Classification," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Volume 11, Number 4, Pages 398-405, 2007.
Z. Huang, D. Zeng, and H. Chen, "Analyzing Consumer-Product Graphs: Empirical Findings and Applications in Recommendation Systems," Management Science, Volume 53, Number 7, Pages 1146-1164, July 2007.
E. Reid and H. Chen, "Internet-savvy U.S. and Middle Eastern Extremist Groups," Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review, Volume 12, Number 2, Pages 177-192, 2007.
R. Schumaker, M. Ginsburg, H. Chen, and Y. Liu, "An Evaluation of the Chat and Knowledge Discovery Components of a Low-Level Dialog System: The AZ-ALICE Experiment," Decision Support Systems, Volume 42, Number 4, Pages 2236-2246, 2007.
S. Kaza, Y. Wang, and H. Chen, "Enhancing Border Security: Mutual Information Analysis to Identify Suspect Vehicles," Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Number 1, Pages 199-210, 2007.
K. Quinones, H. Su, B. Marshall, S. Eggers, and H. Chen, "User-Centered Evaluation of Arizona BioPathway: An Information Extraction, Integration, and Visualization System," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 527-536, 2007.
D. Hu, H. Chen, and M. C. Roco, "Longitudinal Study on Patent Citations to Academic Research Articles in Nanotechnology," Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Volume 9, Pages 529-542, 2007.
G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Decision Support in Medicine," Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Number 4, Pages 1203-1206, 2007.
Z. Huang, J. Li, H. Su, G. S. Watts, and H. Chen, "Large-scale Regulatory Network Analysis from Microarray Data: Modified Bayesian Network Learning and Association Rule Mining," Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Number 4, Pages 1207-1225, 2007.
T. S. Raghu and H. Chen, "Cyberinfrastructure for Homeland Security: Advances in Information Sharing, Data Mining, and Collaboration Systems," Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Number 4, Pages 1321-1323, 2007.
R. Schumaker and H. Chen, "Leveraging Question Answer Technology to Address Terrorism Inquiry," Decision Support Systems, Volume 43, Number 4, Pages 1419-1430, 2007.
X. Li, H. Chen, Z. Huang, and M. C. Roco, "Patent Citation Network in Nanotechnology (1976-2004)," Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Volume 9, Number 3, Pages 337-352, 2007.
X. Li, Y. Lin, H. Chen, Z. Huang, and M. C. Roco, "Worldwide Nanotechnology Development: A Comparative Study of USPTO, EPO, and JPO Patents (1976-2004)," Journal of Nanoparticle Research, Volume 9, Number 6, Pages 977-1002, 2007.
P. Yan, H. Chen and D. Zeng, "Syndromic Surveillance Systems," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Volume 41, Pages 425-495, 2007.
X. Li, H. Chen, Z. Huang, H. Su, and J. Martinez, "Global Mapping of Gene/Protein Interactions in PubMed Abstracts: A Framework and an Experiment with P53 Interactions," Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), Volume 40, Number 5, Pages 453-464, 2007.
David Pingry, "Managing the Knowledge Supply Chain: An Organizational Learning Model of Information Technology Offshore Outsourcing" (with Hoon S. Cha and Matt E. Thatcher), forthcoming, Management Information Systems Quarterly.
David Pingry, "What Determines IT Spending Priorities" (with Hoon S. Cha and Matt E. Thatcher), forthcoming, Communications of the ACM.
David Pingry, "Software Patents - The Good, the Bad, and the Messy" (with Matt E. Thatcher), Communications of the ACM, Volume 50, Issue 10, October 2007, Pages 47 - 52.
David Pingry, "Modeling the IT Value Paradox," (with Matt E. Thatcher), Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50 Issue 8, Aug 2007, Pages 41-45.
Sudha Ram, Huimin Zhaoz, "Combining schema and instance information for integrating heterogeneous data sources". Data Knowl. Eng. 61(2): 281-303 (2007)
Rafik Bouaziz, Salem Chakhar, Vincent Mousseau, Sudha Ram, Abdelkader Telmoud, "Database design and querying within the fuzzy semantic model". Inf. Sci. 177(21): 4598-4620 (2007)
Sudha Ram, "Conceptually Modeling Windows and Bounds for Space and Time in Database Constraints", forthcoming, Communications of the ACM, 2007 (with F. Currim). "Defining, Eliciting and Using Data Semantics for Emerging Domains", forthcoming, Journal of Database Management", pp. 1-3 2007 (with V. Khatri).
Sudha Ram, "A Comprehensive Framework Towards Information Sharing Among Government Agencies",forthcoming, International Journal of E-Government Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, April-June 2007, pp. 29-44 (with A. Bajaj).
Z. Huang, D. Zeng, and H. Chen, "A Comparative Study of Collaborative-Filtering Recommendation Algorithms for E-Commerce," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume 22, Number 5, Pages 68-78, 2007
P. J-H. Hu, D. Zeng, H. Chen, C. Larson, W. Chang, C. Tseng, and J. Ma, "A System for Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis: Design and Evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Volume 11, Number 4, Pages 483-492, 2007.
Wang, F.-Y., Carley, K., Zeng, D., and Mao, W. (2007). “Social Computing: From Social Informatics to Social Intelligence,'' IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 79-83, March/April.
Zeng, D., Cox, J., and Dror, M. (2007). ``Coordination of Purchasing and Bidding Activities Across Posted Offer and Auction Markets,'' Journal of Information Systems and e-Business Management, Vol. 5, pp. 25-46.
Zeng, D., Carley, K., and Wang, F.-Y. (2007). "Social Computing," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, No. 5, September/October.
Zeng, D., Chawathe, S., Huang, H., and Wang, F.-Y. (2007). "Protecting Transportation Infrastructure," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 22, No. 5, September/October.
J. Leon Zhao, Mohan Tanniru, and Liang-Jie Zhang, "Services computing as the foundation of enterprise agility: Overview of recent advances and introduction to the special issue," Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 9, Number 1 / March, 2007, Pages 1-8.
Surendra Sarnikar and J. Leon Zhao, “Pattern-Based Knowledge Workflow Automation: Concepts and Issues,” Information Systems and e-Business Management, (Accepted, October 2007).
Zhang, Z. Mining Relational Data from Text: from Strictly-Supervised to Weakly-Supervised Learning. Information Systems, Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 300-314, 2007.
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Books/Special Issues:
H. Chen, L. Brandt, V. Gregg, R. Traunmuller, A. McIntosh, S. Dawes, E. Hovy, and C. A. Larson (Eds.), "Digital Government: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation," Springer, 2007.
H. Chen, T. S. Raghu, R. Ramesh, A. Vinze, and D. Zeng (Eds.), "Handbooks in Information Systems -- National Security," Elsevier Scientific, 2007.
Sudha Ram, "Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling", LNCS 4512. Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 17-29 (with J. Liu).
D. Zeng, I. Gotham, K. Komatsu, C. Lynch, M. Thurmond, D. Madigan, B. Lober, J. Kvach, and H. Chen, (Eds.), Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Proceedings the Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4506), Springer-Verlag, 2007.
C. Yang, D. Zeng, M. Chau, K. Chang, Q. Yang, X. Cheng, J. Wang, F. Wang, and H. Chen. (Eds.), Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings the Pacific-Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4430), Springer-Verlag, 2007.
J. Leon Zhao, Decision Support Systems, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Information Technology and Systems in the Internet-Era" for the 2005 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, with Taedong Han and Carson Woo, Completed in 2007.
J. Leon Zhao, Information Technology and Management Special Issue on "Exploring New Patterns and Mechanisms for Advanced Information Technology and Systems in the Internet-Era" for the 2005 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, with Taedong Han and Carson Woo, Completed in 2007.
J. Leon Zhao, Mohan Tanniru, and Liang-Jie Zhang (Editors.), Special Issue on Services computing, Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 9, Number 1 / March, 2007.
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Refereed Conference Publications/Book Chapters:
Y. Zhou, J. Qin, G. Lai, and H. Chen, "Collection of U.S. Extremist Online Forums," HICSS 2007, Hawaii.
A. Abbasi and H. Chen, "Categorization and Analysis of Text in Computer-Mediated Communication Archives using Visualization," Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23, 2007, IEEE Press.
X. Li, H. Chen, Z. Zhang, and J. Li, "Automatic Patent Classification using Citation Network Information: An Experimental Study in Nanotechnology," Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23, 2007, IEEE Press.
M. Thurmond, A. Perez, C. Tseng, H. Chen, and D. Zeng, "Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Surveillance Using BioPortal," Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Proceedings of the Second Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4506), Springer-Verlag.
Y. Chen, C. Tseng, C. C. King, T. Wu, and H. Chen, "Incorporating Geographical Contacts into Social Network Analysis for Contact Tracing in Epidemiology: A Study on Taiwan SARS Data," Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Proceedings of the Second Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4506), Springer-Verlag.
H. Lu, D. Zeng, and H. Chen, "Medical Ontology-enhanced Text Processing for Infectious Disease Informatics," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.
T. Fu, A. Abbasi and H. Chen, "Interaction Coherence for Dark Web Forums," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.
A. Abbasi and H. Chen, "Affect Intensity Analysis of Dark Web Forums," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.
S. Kaza, D. Hu, and H. Chen, "Dynamic Social Network Analysis of a Dark Network: Identifying Significant Facilitators," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.
G. Wang, S. Kaza, S. Joshi, K. Chang, C. Tseng, H. Atabakhsh, and H. Chen, "The Arizona IDMatcher: A Probabilistic Identity Matching System," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007.
S. Kaza, D. Hu, H. Atabakhsh, and H. Chen, "Predicting Criminal Relationships using Multivariate Survival Analysis," Proceedings of the 8TH Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, DG.O 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007.
G. Wang, S. Kaza, S. Joshi, K. Chang, C. Tseng, H. Atabakhsh, and H. Chen, "The Arizona IDMatcher: Developing an Identity Matching Tool for Law Enforcement," Proceedings of the 8TH Annual International Digital Government Research Conference, DG.O 2007, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2007.
H. Chen, "Exploring Extremism and Terrorism on the Web: The Dark Web Project," Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings the Pacific-Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4430), Springer-Verlag.
C. Yang, T. Ng, J. Wang, C. Wei, and H. Chen, "Analyzing and Visualizing Gray Web Forum Structure," Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings the Pacific-Asia Workshop, PAISI 2007, Chengdu, China, April 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4430),Springer-Verlag.
Sudha Ram, "RFID Data: A Case of and for Types and Instances" (with Faiz Currim), WITS 2007.
Wang, H.J., Zhao, J. Leon, and Cheng, H.K. "Web Services Enabled E-Market Access Control Model," in: Modern Technologies in Web Services Research, L.J. Zhang (ed.), Idea Group Pub 2007 (forthcoming).
Vojislav B. Misic and J. Leon Zhao, "E-Business Reference Models, in Reference Modeling for Business Systems Analysis", Idea Group Publishing, 2007, pp. 241-265.
J. Leon Zhao, Cheng Hsu, Hemant K. Jain, Jim Spohrer, Mohan Tanniru, “Bridging Service Computing and Service Management: How MIS Contributes to Service Orientation?” (Panel Synopsis) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, Canada, December 9-12, 2007.
Daning Hu, Surendra Sarnikar, and J. Leon Zhao, “Towards a Process-driven Intelligent Forum System for Efficient Organizational Knowledge Transfer,” (RIP) the International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal, Canada, December 9-12, 2007.
Surendra Sarnikar and J. Leon Zhao, “On Statechart based Modeling of Knowledge Workflows,” Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on E-Business, Montreal, Canada, December 9, 2007.
Jiexun Li, Harry J. Wang, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Mining Business Policy Texts for Discovering Process Models: A Framework and Some Initial Results”, Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on E-business, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007. (Nominated for Best Paper Award - 4 nominations out of 90 accepted papers).
J. Leon Zhao, Michael Goul, Sandeep Purao, Tony Shan, Mohan Tanniru, "Impact of Service-Centric Computing on Business and Education (Panel Synopsis)," Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
Padmal Vitharana, Kumar Bhaskaran, Hemant Jain, Harry J. Wang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Service-Oriented Enterprises and Architectures: State of the Art and Research Opportunities" Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
Manlu Liu, Harry J. Wang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Achieving Flexibility via Service-Centric Community Source: The Case of Kuali," Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 9-12, 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA.
Surendra Sarnikar and J. Leon Zhao, "Automating Knowledge Flows by Integrating Workflow and Knowledge Discovery Techniques," The 2007 Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, February 22-24, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Dan Zhu, Qiang Meng, J. Leon Zhao, "Outsourcing Resource Selection: A Rough Set Approach," Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii.
Surendra Sarnikar, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao, "Predicting Query Performance in Domain-Specific Corpora", Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2007, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii.
P. Hu, D. Zeng, H. Chen, C. Larson, and C. Tseng, "A Web-based System for Infectious Disease Data Integration and Sharing: Evaluating Outcome, Task Performance Efficiency, User Information Satisfaction, and Usability," Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Proceedings of the Second Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4506), Springer-Verlag.
H. Lu, C. C. King, T. Wu, F. Shih, J. Hsiao, D. Zeng, and H. Chen, "Chinese Chief Complaint Classification for Syndromic Surveillance," Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance, Proceedings of the Second Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, May 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 4506), Springer-Verlag.
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Press and Media:
Hsinchun Chen, "New tool automates analysis of Jihad sites," (Associated Press) Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Dark Web project designed to find Internet's most dangerous," (Associated Press) AZ Central, November 12, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Arizona team's tool could help law enforcement link online postings and track down terrorists," (Associated Press) International Herald Tribune, November 12, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Dark Web tool seeks online terrorists," (Associated Press) Business Week, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) Forbes, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) Chicago Tribune, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) Miami Herald, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) Newsweek, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) ABC News, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," (Associated Press) Washington Post, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Researchers say tool could help trace online posts to terrorists," (Associated Press) USA Today, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Project seeks to track terror web posts," Associated Press, November 11, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "University of Arizona tool could help fight terrorism," ACC:15.com, November 5, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Germany in the crosshairs of terrorism - tracking down extremists," Second German Television (ZDF), October 23, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Dark Web project takes on cyber-terrorism," Fox News, October 12, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "UA effort sifting web for terror-threat data," Arizona Daily Star, September 24, 2007.
Hsinchun Chen, "Mathematicians work to help targeting terrorists over the web," National Public Radio, September 14, 2007.
Alexandra Durcikova, A mention in the Eller Times: MIS Graduate Students Develop IT Solutions for Local Firms, for her teaching in MIS 513 - Business Foundations for IT, 2007.
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Additional Department and Faculty Accomplishments (this link will take you to another page within this site).
2006 Research Publications
The following list provides the research publications of MIS faculty members at The University of Arizona in the calendar year 2006.
The list is organized by the first author from the UA MIS faculty. 2006 MIS Publications List
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