Research Expertise
| Faculty Name | Areas of Expertise |
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Hesham Ali |
Over the last several years, the College of Information Science & Technology (IS&T) has developed considerable expertise in the emerging discipline of bioinformatics. In addition to faculty and student resources, the College has invested heavily in the development of a robust computer infrastructure to support its programs in this area. A number of research projects conducted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) in the area of Bioinformatics has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). The majority of these projects are collaborative projects between the UNO Bioinformatics Research Group and various units from the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Ali has published many articles in the areas of algorithmic graph theory, scheduling, parallel computing and fault-tolerant networks. Other areas of research include the development of graph analysis and generation tools and the application of graph theory in parallel computing and VLSI design. |
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Ashwathy Ashokan |
Text mining, data mining, information retrieval, search engines |
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Azad Azadmanesh |
Software Reliability, Wireless Communication, Distributed Agreement/Computing, Reliability Modeling of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems |
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Dhundy Bastola |
Research area of interest include Mitochondrial Biology, Public Health Genomics and Pharmacognosy. |
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Sanjukta Bhowmick |
My research area is in high performance computing, and the synergy between combinatorial and numerical algorithms. My current projects involve designing adaptive algorithms for analyzing the properties of large, dynamic, noisy networks in the context of biological, software and social networks. |
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Zhengxin Chen |
Various issues in Artificial intelligence , Database management systems, Intelligent information retrieval, and others , Recent interest also includes database search and data mining in bioinformatics. |
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Parvathi Chundi |
Replicated and distributed databases, data mining, bioinformatics. |
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Kathryn Cooper |
biomedical "big" data, dynamic network modeling and analysis, precision wellness, public health informatics |
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Christopher Daniels |
Intrusion Detection Analysis |
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Prithviraj Dasgupta |
Multi-agent/multi-robot systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Game theory and computational economics |
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Kathryn Cooper |
biomedical "big" data, network modeling and analysis, precision medicine, bioterrorism prevention, disaster preparedness |
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Douglas Derrick |
human-agent interactions, intelligent agents, human-machine trust, decision support systems, and persuasive technology |
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Kenneth Dick |
Data communications Network Management Wireless Information Security Ethics Cryptography IT Innovation |
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Donna Dufner |
Her professional and research interests include Project Management, Service-Learning, and Private and Public Sector Information Technology. Dr. Dufner's research has been published in a variety of scholarly journals including the Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation, the Journal of Organizational Computing, Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS), and Public Productivity and Management Review (PPMR). She served as an Associate Editor for CAIS and as a Senior Referee for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. In May, 2007 Dr. Dufner was elevated to Senior Member in the IEEE the first woman in Omaha, NE to receive the honor of being elevated to Senior Member Status in the IEEE. |
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Ann Fruhling |
Dr. Fruhling's research areas include: user interface design and usability studies, system design strategies for medical emergency response systems, e-health applications, health informatics, agile system development, implementation and management strategies. She has published several research articles in the areas of agile system development, emergency response systems, and user interface usability. Her research studies have appeared in publications including Journal Management Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Health Care, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and the Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. She also has book chapters in Value Based Software Engineering, Patient-Centered E-Health, and Advances in Management Information Systems and numerous conference papers. Fossum, M., Fruhling, A., Moe, C., Thompson, C., (forthcoming). “Crossing Borders: An Online Interdisciplinary Course in Health Informatics for Students from Two Countries”, Computers, Informatics, Nursing. Kettelhut, V., Van Schooneveld,¬¬ T., McClay, J., Mercer, D., Fruhling, A., Meza, J., (forthcoming). Empirical Study on the Impact of a Tactical Biosurveillance Information Visualization on Users' Situational Awareness, Military Medicine. Kettelhut, V., Van Schooneveld, T., McClay, J., Fruhling, A., Dempsey, K., (2016). The Utility of Electronic Health Record-Based Hygiene Notes for Chlorhexidine Bathing Practice Evaluation, Journal of Infection Prevention, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1177/1757177416667288. McGrath, S., Coleman, J., Najjar, L., Fruhl¬ing, A., Bastola, D. K., (2016). Comprehension and Data Sharing Behavior of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Test Customers. Public Health Genomics. 19:116-124. Doi: 10.1159/000444477. Johnsen, H., Fossum, M., Vivekananda-Schmidt, P., Fruhling, A., Slettebø, A., (2016). Teaching clinical reasoning and decision-making skills to nursing students: Design, development, and usability evaluation of a serious game, International Journal of Medical Informatics Vol. 94, p 39–48. Published online: June 24, 2016 - 54 downloads in one month. Coleman-Miller, S., Ward, W., Fruhling, A., Cooper, K. (2016). “Social Media Policies in the Department of Defense-Do they address the risk?” Journal of Information Privacy and Security, pp. 93-102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15536548.2016.11880942. Johnson, H., Fruhling, A., Fossum, M., (2016). “Application of The Work System Framework to Healthcare Services: An evaluation of a case study of health information exchange”, Communications of the AIS, Vol. 39. Ward, W., Coleman-Miller, S., Cooper, K., Fruhling, A., (2016). “Is Social Media a Threat or Can It Be a Trusted Agent?”, Journal of Information Warfare Volume 15, Issue 1. McGrath, S., Fruhling, A., Bastola, D. K., (2016). Comprehension and data sharing behavior of Direct-To-Consumer genetic test customers. Public Health Genomics. 2016;19(2):116-24. doi: 10.1159/000444477. Epub 2016 Mar 8. Fruhling, A., Petter, S., (2015). “Developing a Method to Evaluate Emergency Response Medical Information Systems” special issue Annals of IS on Healthcare Informatics, Springer. Tarrell, A., Grabenbauer, L., Mc Clay, J., Windle, J., Fruhling, A., (2014). "Toward Improved Heuristic Evaluation of EHRs", Health Systems. 10.1057/hs.2014.19. Fossum, M., Ehnfors, M., Fruhling, A., Ehrenberg, A., (2011). "An Evaluation of the Usability of a Computerized Decision Support System for Nursing Homes", Applied Clinical Informatics, ACI 2011 2 4: 420-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.4338/ACI-2011-07-RA-0043. Petter, S., Fruhling, A., (2011). "Evaluating the Success of Emergency Response Medical Information Systems", International Journal of Medical Informatics, Jul; 80(7):480-9. Epub 2011 Apr 17. Fruhling, Ann, (2010). “STATPack – An Emergency Response System for Microbiology Laboratory Diagnostics and Consultation”, Advances in Management Information Systems monograph series Editor-in-Chief: Vladimir Zwass, Volume: Information Systems for Emergency Management, edited by Bartel Van de Walle, Murray Turroff, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Publisher, 50% acceptance rate. Djamasbi, S., Fruhling, A., Loiacono, Eleanor T., (2009). “The Influence of Affect, Attitude and Usefulness in the Acceptance of Healthcare Information Systems”, Journal of Information Technology and Theory Application, Vol. 10 No. 1. Fruhling, A. Tarrell, A., (2007), “Best Practices for Implementing Agile Methods: A Guide for DOD Software Developers”, IBM Center for the Business of Government. Acceptance rate was 5 out of 183. http://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/BestPracticesReport.pdf Fruhling, Ann, Siau, Keng, (2007), “Assessing Organizational Innovation Capability and Its Effect on E-Commerce Initiatives”, Journal of Computer Information Systems, 47(4), pp. 91-104. Fruhling, Ann, (2006), “Examining the Critical Requirements, Design Approaches and Evaluation Methods for a Public Health Emergency Response System”, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 18, pp. 431-450. Fruhling, Ann, de Vreede, G. J., (2006), “Field Experiences with eXtreme Programming: Developing an Emergency Response System”, Journal of Management Information Systems, Spring (22, 4). Fruhling, Ann, Lee, Sang, (2006), “The Influence of User Interface Usability on Rural Consumers’ Trust of e-Health Services,” International Journal of Electronic Health Care, Vol. 2, Issue 4, pp. 305-321, ISSN Print: 1741-8453, ISSN: 1741-8461. de Vreede, G.J., Koneri, P.G., Dean, D.L., Fruhling, A.L., Wolcott, P., (2006), “A Collaborative Software Code Inspection: The Design and Evaluation of a Repeatable Collaboration Process in the Field, International Journal of Cooperative information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 2, June, pp. 205-228. Fruhling, A., Digman, L., (2000), "The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Business-Level Strategies", Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2000, ISSN 15266133, www.csulb.web.edu/journals/jecr, February. |
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Robin Gandhi |
My long-term career goal is to improve the utility of regulatory and standards compliance towards analyzing and measuring security risk as well as guiding engineering decisions. The goal of my research is to develop theories and tools for designing dependable software systems. My research interests are in the areas of information and software assurance, requirements engineering, knowledge-intensive software systems, Certification and Accreditation (C&A), software metrics and measures, and risk assessment. The government, defense, and private sectors spend billions of dollars every year to gain assurance in software systems that support their critical missions/businesses. A large portion of this money is also allocated for C&A activities because of the growing number of regulatory requirements (e.g. DITSCAP, HIPPA, SOX) and the dire consequences of not complying with them. However, the complexity of software systems, numerous regulatory requirements, and the diversity of socio-technical environments, significantly challenge current approaches to understand and assess software dependability. To address these issues, my research builds a foundational theory for understanding dependability requirements and associated operational risks. My work contributes to a multi-dimensional understanding of dependability requirements by taking into account the nexus of constraints, and causal chains in a socio-technical environment where a software system is expected to operate. From the early stages of software development, such understanding produces a reasoned, auditable argument for software assurance supported by meaningful evidence from the C&A and risk assessment processes. |
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Raymond Germonprez |
Design Science Open Source Projects Open Online Project Health Citizen Science Open Data Management |
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Dario Ghersi |
Cancer Genomics, Structural Bioinformatics, Small Molecule Bioinformatics |
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Martina Greiner |
E-Business, Business Model in the Digital Age, Organizational and Management Theories, Social Networks, Blockchain |
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George Grispos |
Digital Forensics, Information Assurance, Cybersecurity and Mobile Forensics |
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Haifeng Guo |
Computational Logic and Artificial Intelligence, Optimization and Implementation of Programming Languages, Parallel and Distributed Processing, Formal Methods and Software Engineering, Software testing |
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Christian Haas |
My research interests include (Big) Data Analytics, evolutionary optimization and learning, Computational Economics, data-driven decision making, and agent-based modeling. |
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Matthew Hale |
Hybrid Mobile Application Security Cloud-based Web Services Compliance certification |
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Margeret Hall |
Computational Social Science, Social Computing, HCI, Text Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Data Mining |
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Dwight Haworth |
His research interests are information assurance and systems development and performance. |
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Deepak Khazanchi |
Virtual project management, virtual teams, mutual knowledge, project management best practices, B2B assurance services and Risk analysis in extended enterprise environments, application of philosophy of science in the Information Systems/Technology discipline, M&A IT Risk Assessment |
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Yuliya Lierler |
My research interests are in the field of artificial intelligence, especially in the area of knowledge representation, automated reasoning, declarative problem solving, and natural language understanding. |
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William Mahoney |
Intrusion detection, reverse engineering, code obfuscation, embedded systems. |
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Briana Morrison |
My main area of research is in Computer Science Education where I study how to reduce cognitive load while learning to program. I am also interested in Broadening Participation in Computing, and Growing and Preparing High School Computing Teachers. |
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Lotfollah Najjar |
Quality Information Systems (Data Quality) , Business Process Reengineering & IT, Analytics, Software Quality and Reliability, System Quality, and Total Quality Management (TQM) & IT in both service and manufacturing industries. |
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Mark Pauley |
Bioinformatics; Bioinformatics Education |
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Leah Pietron |
Distance Education, Pedagogy in Information Security and Systems Development |
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Sajda Qureshi |
Assessing growth through Information and Communications Technology Adoption in Micro-Enterprises. Health Information Technology for Development and Meaningful use practices. Technology to support Knowledge Activation to improve health care provision. Some of her publications include: Noteboom, C. and S. Qureshi (2014). “Adaptations of electronic health records to activate physicians’ knowledge: how can patient centered care be improved through technology?” Health and Technology, Springer. March 2014 10.1007/s12553-013-0072-5. Qureshi, S. (2017). The Forgotten Awaken: ICT’s Evolving Role in the Roots of Mass Discontent. Information Technology for Development, 23:1. 1-18. Qureshi, S. (2016) Creating a Better World with Information and Communication Technologies: Health Equity, Information Technology for Development, 22:1, 1-14.To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2015.1121585 Quresh, S. (2015) Are we making a Better World with Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) Research? Findings from the Field and Theory Building, Information Technology for Development, 21:4, 511-522 Qureshi, S. (2014) “Theory to Inform Practice to Build Theory: Are Emerging Economies in a Cyclical Relationship with their Information and Communication Technologies?”, Information Technology for Development, 20:4, 293-295, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2014.96293 Qureshi, S. (2014), “Overcoming Technological Determinism in Understanding the Digital Divide: Where Do We Go From Here?”, Information Technology for Development, 20:3, 215-217, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2014.93098 Qureshi, S “Lessons from the Age of Nelson Mandela: Information and Communication Technology in the Quest for Equality, Freedom and Justice.” Information Technology for Development. Vol. 20, Iss. 1, 2014 Qureshi, S. “In the Age of Popular Uprisings, what is the Role of Public Access Computing and Social Media on Development?” Information Technology for Development. Vol. 19, Iss. 4, 2013 Qureshi, S. Information and Communication Technologies in the Midst of Global Change: How do we Know When Development Takes Place?” Information Technology for Development. Vol. 19, Iss. 3, 2013 Qureshi, S. “Networks of change, shifting power from institutions to people: How are innovations in the use of Information and Communication Technology transforming Development?” Information Technology for Development. Vol. 19, Iss. 2, 2013. Qureshi, S., Kamal, M., and P. Wolcott “Information Technology Therapy for Competitiveness in Micro-Enterprises.” International Journal of E-Business Research. Idea Group International. Vol. 5, Issue 1. January 2009. Wolcott, P., Kamal, M. and S. Qureshi ”Meeting the Challenges of ICT Adoption by Micro-enterprises“. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. Emerald. Volume 21, Issue 6. 2008. Qureshi, S., Briggs, B. and V. Hlupic. “Value Creation from Intellectual Capital: Convergence of Knowledge Management and Collaboration in the Intellectual Bandwidth Model”. Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol 15, No 3. Pp:197-220. 2006. Qureshi, S., Liu, M. and D. Vogel, "The Effects of Electronic Collaboration in Distributed Project Management". Group Decision and Negotiation. Vol 15, No1. Pp55-75 2006. Qureshi, S. and P. Keen. “Activating Knowledge through Electronic Collaboration: Vanquishing the Knowledge Paradox”. IEEE Transactions in Professional Communication. Vol 48, Issue 1. Pp: 40- 54 2005. Qureshi, S and Zigurs, I. "Paradoxes and Prerogatives in Global Virtual Collaboration" Communications of the ACM special section on Global Applications of Groupware. 44(12). December 2001. Qureshi, S. and D. Vogel. "Organizational Adaptiveness in Virtual Teams". Group Decision and Negotiation. 10(1) pp 27-46 2001. |
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George Royce |
My research parallels my teaching interests |
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Ryan Schuetzler |
Human-computer interaction, privacy and security behaviors, deception |
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Laura Sherwin |
Project Management methods and best practices |
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Yong Shi |
Big Data Data Mining and Data Warehousing Information Intrusion Detection and Prediction Intelligent Knowledge Management |
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Harvey Siy |
Empirical studies of software engineering Mining software repositories Software product lines Knowledge management in software engineering Software evolution Software assurance, reliability, and performance |
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Myoungkyu Song |
Software engineering, program analysis, software evolution and maintenance. I am broadly interested in software engineering and programming languages, and particularly in how software engineers can construct, maintain, and evolve high-quality, real-world applications. My primary research focus has been on analysis of software modification and automated program transformation. |
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Mahadevan Subramaniam |
Formal approaches and tools such as model checkers, SMT solvers, and theorem provers have recently achieved impressive successes in validation and verification of complex hardware and software systems. This has created promising avenues to develop new methods towards the application of this technology to several other challenging facets of software engineering such as maintenance, re-engineering, and evolution. The main thrust of my research is to develop new approaches, algorithms, and push-button tools to aid software engineers to model, simulate, test, evolve, and maintain complex hardware and software applications. Some of my work in this area has focused on — formal change impact analysis, analyzing and selecting test descriptions with provable guarantees, change guided automatic repair strategies, and evolution based on logical theory changes. I am also interested in the use of temporal data analyses techniques to obtain historical evolution information that can then be used to perform scalable formal analysis. |
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Christine Toh |
My research focuses on the intersection of creativity and information technology during the early stages of the design process. Specifically, I investigate the changing landscape of design, including the increased use of data analytics tools during problem formulation and idea generation, as well as a theoretical understanding of how decisions regarding innovation are made in current design practice. Since design is considered an "information-centric" enterprise, my research also explores the information flow throughout the design process and investigates the impact of the increasing volume, velocity, and variety of information available in today's design environment. In addition, I also conduct research on human perceptions of automated and robotic entities, such as home automation devices and smart computing tools. My research focuses on how human users apply traditionally human-to-human relationships and constructs to machine counterparts in a variety of domains. |
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Paul Van Vliet |
Systems development methodologies Information systems education & pedagogy Gamification strategies in education Service learning in higher education |
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Sandra Vlasnik |
Software Development Methodologies |
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Kerry Ward |
My research interests include IS strategy, knowledge transfer, technology mediated learning, serious games and research methods. |
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Andrea Wiggins |
My research investigates the interactions of organizational settings, work design, and technologies in open collaboration systems. I study sociotechnical systems in citizen science to better understand and design information systems for open participation and collaboration in data-intensive contexts. My research focuses on the role of technologies and data practices in citizen science, and evaluating individual and collective performance and productivity in open collaboration. I’m interested in how ordinary people become involved in meaningful real-world research through citizen science projects, and how technologies can help. |
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Stanley Wileman |
My research interests are "all over the place" (meaning I'm interested in almost every computing-related area), but operating systems are clearly of most interest. Applications are okay, but system-level software is where my interests really lie. There are also lots of things mentioned that aren't properly material for a true research effort, but may work well for a project, or maybe for research with some reasonable implementation effort added. Operating Systems, Parallel Systems and Programming, Architecture, Networking, Language Tools, Formal Techniques and Theory |
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Victor Winter |
Program Transformation, Language Design, Java Source Code Analysis |
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Peter Wolcott |
information technology for development service learning student cognitive processes while learning |
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Jong-Hoon Youn |
Physical Activity Monitoring Using Wearables, Latency-Aware Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Protocols for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks |
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Rui Zhao |
(1) Web/cloud/mobile security and privacy, (2) usable security and privacy, (3) automated vulnerability analysis, and (4) human-computer interaction. |
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Qiuming Zhu |
Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Information Systems, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks, Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, Multimedia Network Communications, |