Publications

2016

• Kutalmis Akpinar and Kien A. Hua. “EQL: Event Query Language for the Sharing of Internet-of-Things Infrastructure and Collaborative Applications Development” In ICSOC Workshops 2016.
• F. Jafariakinabad, KA. Hua, “Maximal Sequence Mining Approach for Topic Detection from Microblog Streams“, Accepted for presentation in 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2016)
• Jun Ye, Hao Hu, Guo-Jun Qi, and Kien A. Hua, “A Temporal Order Modeling Approach to Human Action Recognition from Multimodal Sensor Data”, accepted by ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Dec 2016
• Tuoerhongjiang Yusufu, Naifan Zhuang, and Kien A. Hua, “Relational Learning based Happiness Intensity Analysis in a Group,” in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Jose, December 11-13, 2016.
• Kai Li, Guo-Jun Qi, Jun Ye, and Kien A. Hua, “Supervised Ranking Hash for Semantic Similarity Search”, in proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, San Jose, December 11-13, 2016
• Naifan Zhuang, Jun Ye and Kien A. Hua. “DLSTM Approach to Video Modeling with Hashing for Large-Scale Video Retrieval,” in Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016 23rd International Conference on. IEEE. Cancun, Mexico. Dec 4-8, 2016.
• Kien A. Hua, “Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaborative Technologies,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, October 31 – November 4, 2016 (Extended Abstract for Invited Talk).
• Sheng-Hua Zhong, Yan Liu, and Kien A. Hua, “Field Effect Deep Networks for Image Recognition with Incomplete Data ,” in ACM Transactions of Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Vol. 12, Issue 4, August 2016.
• Kai Li, Guo-Jun Qi, Jun Ye, and Kien A. Hua, “Cross-modal Hashing Through Ranking Subspace Learning,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July 11-15, 2016.
• Bo Tang, Man Lung Yiu, and Kien A. Hua, “Exploit Every Bit: Effective Caching for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge of Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 28, No. 05, May 2016, pp. 1175-1188.

2015

• Jun Ye, Kai Li and Kien A. Hua. “WTA Hash-based Multimodal Feature Fusion for 3D Human Action Recognition,” in proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (Best paper award of ISM 2015), Miami, December 14-16, 2015.
• Yang Liu, Yan Liu, Chan, K.C.C. and Hua, K.A., “Hybrid Manifold Embedding,” Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.25, no.12, pp.2295,2302, Dec. 2014
• Michael Xuelin Huang, Grace Ngai, Kien A. Hua, Stephen C.F. Chan and Hong-va Leong, “Identifying User-Specific Facial Affects from Spontaneous Expressions with Minimal Annotation,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. PP, Issue 99, October 27, 2015.
• Tsz Nam Chan, Man Lung Yiu, and Kien A. Hua, “A Progressive Approach for Matrix Pattern Matching,” in Proc. of 14th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Seoul, South Korea, August 26-28, 2015.
• Yang Liu, Yan Liu, Yu Zhao, and Kien A. Hua, “What Strikes the Strings of Your Heart? – Feature Mining for Music Emotion Analysis,” in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 6, Issue 3, July-Sept. 2015, pp. 247-260.
• Kutalmış Akpınar, Kien A. Hua and Kai Li, “ThingStore: A Platform for Internet-of-Things Application Development and Deployment”, to appear in Proc. of 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Even-based Systems, Oslo, Norway, June 29 – July 3, 2015.
• Jun Ye, Kai Li, Guo-Jun Qi and Kien A. Hua, “Temporal Order-Preserving Dynamic Quantization for Human Actin Recognition from Multimodal Sensor Streams,” accepted by ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Shanghai, June 2015.
• Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang, Jason Kuhns, Vaithiyanathan Sundaram and Cliff Zou, “Redundancy Control through Traffic Deduplication”, to appear in Proc. of INFOCOM 2015, April 26-May 1, 2015.
• Yu Zhao, Yan Liu, Yang Liu, Shenghua Zhong and Kien A. Hua, “Face Recognition from a Single Registered Image for Conference Socializing”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 42, Issue 3, February 2015, pp. 973-979.
• Jun Ye and Kien A. Hua, “Octree-based 3D Logic and Computation of Spatial Relationships in Live Video Query Processing.” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communitations, and Applications (TOMM, formerly known as TOMCCAP) Vol. 11, Issue 2, (2015) :28

2014

• Sansiri Tarnpradab, Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and David G. Chandler. “Neural networks for prediction of stream flow based on snow accumulation.” In 2014 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES), pp. 88-94. IEEE, 2014.
• Kai Li, Jun Ye and Kien A. Hua, “What’s Making That Sound ?” Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, November 3-7, 2014.
• Jiajia Li, Grace Ngai, Stephen C.F. Chan, Kien A. Hua, Hong Va Leong and Alvin Chan, “From Writing to Painting: A Kinect-Based Cross-Modal Chinese Painting Generation System” Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, November 3-7, 2014.
• Yang Liu, Yan Liu, Yu Zhao and Kien A. Hua, “What Strikes the Strings of Your Heart?: Multi-Label Dimensionality Reduction for Music Emotion Analysis”, Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Orlando, November 3-7, 2014., pp. 1069-1072
• Kien A. Hua, Gholam Ali Shaykhian, Robert J. Beil, Kutalmis Akpinar and Kyle Martin, “Saliency-based CBIR System for Exploring Lunar Surface Imagery”, in Proc. of 2014 ASEE Annual Conference, June 15-18, 2014, Indianapolis, U.S.A.
• Wei-Liang Shen, Chung-Shiuan Chen, Kate Ching-Ju Lin and Kien A. Hua, “Autonomous Mobile Mesh Networks”, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 13, No. 2, February 2014, pp. 364-376. (DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.259).
• Alexander J. Aved and Kien A. Hua, “An Informatics-based Approach to Object Tracking for Distributed Live Video Computing”, in Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 68, Issue 1, January 2014, pp. 111-133. (DOI 10.1007/s11042-012-1204-z)

2013

• Jun Ye and Kien A. Hua, “Exploiting Depth Camera for 3D Spatial Relationship Interpretation,” in proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems 2013, Oslo, Norway.
• Kai Li and Kien A. Hua, “Mobility-assisted Distributed Sensor Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), Decemebr 9-13, 2013, list-group list-group-flushlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Erich Dondyk, Louis F. Rivera, Cliff C. Zou, “Wi-Fi Access Denial of Service Attack to Smartphones”, to appear in International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2013.
• Baber Aslam, Ping Wang, Cliff Zou, “Extension of Internet Access to VANET via Satellite Receive-only Terminals”, to appear in International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), 2013.
• Soyoung Park, Baber Aslam, Damla Turgut, Cliff C. Zou, “Defense against Sybil Attack in the Initial Deployment Stage of Vehicular Ad hoc Network based on Roadside Unit Support”, Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2013, pp. 523-538.
• Corey McCall, Branden Maynes, Cliff C. Zou, Ning Zhang. “An Automatic Medication Self-Management and Monitoring System for Independently Living Patients”, Elsevier Journal of Medical Engineering & Physics, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2013, pp. 505-514.
• Baber Aslam, Faisal Amjad, Cliff C. Zou, “PMTR: Privacy-enhancing Multilayer Trajectory-based Routing Protocol for Vehicular ad hoc Networks”, to appear in IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Diego, Nov. 18-20, 2013.
• Faisal Amjad, Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou, “Reputation Aware Collaborative Spectrum Sensing for Mobile Cognitive Radio Networks”, to appear in IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Diego, Nov. 18-20, 2013.
• Faisal Amjad, Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou, “DS3: A Dynamic and Smart Spectrum Sensing Technique for Cognitive Radio Networks Under Denial of Service Attack”, to appear in IEEE Globecom, Atlanta, Dec. 9-13, 2013.
• Erich Dondyk, Cliff C. Zou, “Denial of Convenience Attack to Smartphones Using a Fake Wi-Fi Access Point,” in 10th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan. 11-14, 2013, pp. 164-170. (Acceptance ratio: 94/313 = 30.0%)
• Faisal Amjad, Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou, “Transparent Cross-Layer Solutions for Throughput Boost in Cognitive Radio Networks,” in 10th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan. 11-14, 2013, pp. 580-586. (Acceptance ratio: 94/313 = 30.0%)

2012

• Steven Nichols, Yu Zhang, and Kien A. Hua, “Robust Wireless Sharing of Internet Video Streams,” in Multimedia Systems journal, published online on October 11, 2012.
• Alexander J. Alex and Kien A. Hua, “An Informatics-based Approach to Object Tracking for Distributed Live Video Computing,” in Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, published online on August 25, 2012.
• Fuyu Liu and Kien A. Hua, “Moving Query Monitoring in Spatial Network Environments,” in a special, entitled Mobile Advances: Applications and Energy-Efficient Technologies, of the Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 17, No. 2, 2012, pp. 234-254.
• Alexander J. Alex and Kien A. Hua, “A General Framework for Managing and Processing Live Video Data with Privacy Protection,” in a special issue on privacy-aware multimedia surveillance systems of Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2012, pp. 123-143.
• Ning Yu, Kien A. Hua, and Hao Cheng, “A Multi-Direction Search Technique for Image Annotation Propagation,” in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 23, Issue 1, January 2012, pp. 237-244.
• Vaithiyanathan Sundaram and Kien A. Hua, “Seamless Video Streaming: A Light Weight Session Handoff Scheme for Dynamic Stream Merging based Wireless Mesh Networks,” in Proceedings of ICME Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems and Applications, July 9-13, 2012, Melbourne, Australia.
• Kai Li and Kien A. Hua, “Mobile Data Collection Networks for Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, May 31 – June 1, 2012, Krakow, Poland.
• Rung-Ching Chen, Wei-Lung Chang, Chia-Fen Shieh, Cliff C. Zou, “Using Hybrid Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Extend Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime”, Third International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA), pp. 156-161, 2012.
• Steven Zittrower, Cliff C. Zou, “Encrypted Phrase Searching in the Cloud”, IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 3-7, 2012, pp. 764-770. 
• Baber Aslam, Faisal M. Amjad, Cliff C. Zou, “Optimal Roadside Units Placement in Urban Areas for Vehicular Networks”, in 17th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Turkey, July 1-4, 2012, pp. 423-429.
• Jim Bardgett, Cliff C. Zou, “nSwitching: Virtual Machine Aware Relay Hardware Switching to improve intra-NIC Virtual Machine Traffic”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC), Ottawa, Canada,Jun. 10-15, 2012, pp. 2700-2705.

2011

• Ai Hua Ho, Yao H. Ho, Kien A. Hua, Roy Villafane, and Han-Chieh Chao, “An Efficient Broadcast Technique for Vehicular Networks,” Journal of Information Processing Systems, Volume 7, Number 2 (June 2011), pp. 221-240.
• Fuyu Liu, Yao-Hua Ho, and Kien A. Hua, “Privacy Protected Query Processing with Road Network Embedding”, in Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), March 22-25, 2011.
• Alexander J. Aved, Kien A. Hua, and Varalakshmi Gurappa” An Informatics-based Approach to Object tracking for Distributed Live Video Computing,” in Proc. of Multimedia Communications, Services & Security(MCSS2011), Krakow, Poland, 2011.
• Jun Ye and Kien A. Hua” Scalability Study of Wireless Mesh Networks with Dynamic Stream Merging Capability,” in Proc. of Multimedia Communications, Services & Security(MCSS2011), Krakow, Poland, 2011.
• Steven Nichols and Kien A. Hua” Design and Implementation of Intelligent Mesh Nodes for Wireless Video Stream Sharing,” in Proc. of ACM Internatoinal Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Service, August 5-7, 2011, Chengdu, China.
• Lei Wu, Jerome Harrington, Corey Kuwanoe, Cliff C. Zou, “Harnessing the Power of BitTorrent for Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks”, Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks, 4(8), p.860-870, 2011.
• Huy D. Truong, Christopher F. Turner, Cliff C. Zou, “iCAPTCHA: The Next Generation of CAPTCHA Designed to Defend Against 3rd Party Human Attacks”, in IEEE International Conference on Communications, (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 5-9, 2011.
• Soyoung Park, Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou, “Long-term Reputation System for Vehicular Networking based on Vehicle’s Daily Commute Routine”, in 8th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan. 9-12, 2011. (Acceptance ratio: 95/305 = 31.1%)
• Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou, “One-way-linkable Blind Signature Security Architecture for VANET”, in 8th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Jan. 9-12, 2011. (Acceptance ratio: 95/305 = 31.1%)

2010

• Antoniya Petkova, Kien A. Hua, and Soontharee Koompairojn, “Processing Approximate Rank Queries in a Wireless Mobile Sensors Environment,” in Proc. of International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Kansas City, May 23-26, 2010.
• Sirikunya Nilpanich, Yao H. Ho, Kien A. Hua, and Antoniya Petkova,”A Lazy Processing Approach to User Relevance Feedback for Content-based Image Retrieval,” in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2010), Taichung, Taiwan, December 13-15, 2010.
• Aved, Alex, Hua, Kien A., and Petkova, Antoniya, “Mobile Sensor Approach to Location-Based Services,” Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-4, 23-25 Sept. 2010
• Yao H. Ho and Kien A. Hua, “Failure-Resilient Vehicular Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Denver, U.S.A., October 11-14, 2010.
• Fuyu Liu, Georgiana Hamza-Lup, and Kien A. Hua, “Using Broadcast to Protect User Privacy in Location-based Applications,” in Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2010 Worshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS 2010), December 10, 2010.
• Petkova A, Hua, K. A., and Koompairojn, S. “Processing Approximate Rank Queries in a Wireless Mobile Sensors Environment,” In Proceedings of the 2010 Eleventh International Conference on Mobile Data Management. (May 23 – 26, 2010)
• Kien A. Hua and Fei Xie, “A Dynamic Stream Merging Technique for Video-on-Demand Services over Wireless Mesh Access Networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2010).
• Soontharee Koompairojn, Kathleen Hua, Kien A. Hua, and Jintavaree Srisomboon, “Computer-Adied Diagnosis of Lumbar Stenosis Conditions,” in Proc. of Computer-Aided Diagnosis Conference, part of SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging, San Diego, February 13-18, 2010.
• Rui Peng, Alex J. Aved, Kien A. Hua “Real-Time Query Processing on Live Videos in Networks of Distributed Cameras”.International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking
• Ai H. Ho, Yao Ho, and Kien A. Hua, “Handling High Mobility in Next-Generation Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” in a special issue on next generation networks of the International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 23, Issue 9-10, September-October 2010, pp. 1078-1092.
• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua, and Ning Jiang, “Optimizing Patching-based Multicast for Video on Demand in Wireless Mesh Networks,” in a special issue on next generation networks of the International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 23, Issue 9-10, September-October, 2010, pp. 1057-1309.
• Fuyu Liu and Kien A. Hua, “Protecting User Privacy Better with Query I-Diversity,” in International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP), Vol. 4, No. 2, April-June, 2010, pp. 1-18.
• Hao Cheng, Kien A. Hua, and Ning Yu, “An Automatic Feature Generation Approach to Multiple Instance Learning and Its Applications to Image Databases,” in International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), Vol. 47, No. 3, May 2010, pp. 507-524.
• Ning Jiang, Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, and Onur Ozyer, “A Finite-State-Model Scheme for Efficient Cooperation Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” in a special issue on ubiquitous computing and mobile networking of the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing., Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 3-16.
• Shawn Embleton, Sherri Sparks, Cliff C. Zou, “SMM Rootkit: A New Breed of OS Independent Malware”, to appear in Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks.doi: 10.1002/sec.166
• Baber Aslam, Soyoung Park, Cliff Zou, and Damla Turgut. “Secure Traffic Data Propagation in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks”, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), 6(1), p.24-39, 2010.
• Ping Wang, Lei Wu, Ryan Cunningham, Cliff C. Zou. “Honeypot Detection in Advanced Botnet Attacks”, International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), 4(1), p.30-51, 2010.
• Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, Cliff C. Zou. “An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 7(2), 113-127, April-June,2010.
• Corey McCall, Branden Maynes, Cliff C. Zou, Ning Zhang. “RMAIS: RFID-based Medication Adherence Intelligence System”, in 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug.31 – Sept. 4, 2010.
• Baber Aslam, Lei Wu and Cliff C. Zou. “PwdIP-Hash: A Lightweight Solution to Phishing and Pharming Attacks”, to appear in IEEE  International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 15-17 July, 2010 (6-page short paper).
• Peter Matthews, Andrew Mantel, Cliff C. Zou. “Scene Tagging: Image-Based CAPTCHA Using Image Composition and Object Relationships”,in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS),p. 345-350, Beijing,China, 13-16 Apr. 2010. (6-page short paper, acceptance ratio: 38/166=23%)

2009

• Jonathan Cazalas, Kien A. Hua, “Leveraging Computation Sharing and Parallel Processing in Location-Based Services,” cse, vol. 2, pp.221-228, 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009
• Ai H. Ho, Yao Ho, and Kien A. Hua, “Handling High Mobility in Next-Generation Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proceedings of a special issue on Next Generation Networks of the International Journal of Communication Systems.
• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua, “A Caching-based Video-on-Demand in Wireless Relay Networks”, in Proceedings of 2009 International Conference in Wireless Communication and Signal Processing, November 13-15, 2009.
• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua, and Ning Jiang, “Optimizing Patching-based Multicast for Vdieo-on-Demand in Wireless Mesh Networks”, to appear in Internatinoal Journal of Communication Systems. (accepted July, 2009)
• Yao H. Ho, Ai H. Ho, Kien A. Hua, and Fei Xie, “Cooperation Enforcement in a Highly Dynamic Mobile Ad Hoc Network”, in a special issue on Data Security and Privacy Protection in Pervasive Computing Environment of the Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol. 15, Issue 5, pp. 1090-1118.
• Antoniya Petkova, Kien A. Hua, Alexander Aved “Processing Approximate Moving Range Queries in Mobile Sensor Environments”. The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09), Vancouver, Canada
• Alexander Aved, Kien A. Hua, Antoniya Petkova. “CAWA: Continuous Approximate Where-About Queries”. The 4th International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems, Hong Kong, China.
• Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, and Ning Yu. “Fast Query Point Movement Techniques for Large CBIR Systems”. Published in the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 21, No. 5, May 2009.
• Himanshu Pagey, Kien Hua, Chow-Sing Lin, “Caching as Privacy Enhancing Mechanism in Location-Based Services,” mdm, pp.238-243, 2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, 2009
• Danzhou Liu and Kien A. Hua. “Transfer Non-metric Measures into Metric for Similarity Search”, In the Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Beijing, China.
• Danzhou Liu and Kien A. Hua. “Incremental Query Evaluation for Support Vector Machines. In the Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Hong Kong, China. Beijing, China.
• Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua, Ying Cai “Query l-diversity in Location-Based Services” , The 3rd International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 18-21, 2009
• Hao Cheng, Kien A. Hua, and Ning Yu. “An Automatic Feature Generation Approach to Multiple Instance Learning and its Applications to Image Databases”. In the International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 2009.
• Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou. “Distributed Certificate and Application Architecture for VANETs”, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM’09), Boston, Oct. 18-21, 2009.
• Soyoung Park, Baber Aslam, Damla Turgut, Cliff C. Zou. “Defense against Sybil Attack in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network based On Roadside Units Support”, IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM’09), Boston, Oct. 18-21, 2009.
• Baber Aslam, Ping Wang, Cliff C. Zou. “Pervasive Internet Access by Vehicles through Satellite Receive-only Terminals”, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Francisco,Aug. 2-6, 2009.(Acceptance ratio: 114/387 = 29.5%)
• Ping Wang, Lei Wu, Baber Aslam, Cliff C. Zou. “A Systematic Study on Peer-to-Peer Botnets”, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), San Francisco,Aug. 2-6, 2009.(Acceptance ratio: 114/387 = 29.5%)
• Sherri Sparks, Shawn Ambleton, Cliff C. Zou. “A Chipset Level Network Backdoor: Bypassing Host-Based Firewall & IDS”, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Sydney, Australia, 10-12 Mar 2009. (full paper, acceptance ratio: 33/147 = 22.5%)

2008

• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua, and Ning Jiang, “A Cross-Layer Framework for Video-on-Demand Service in Multi-Hop WiMax Mesh Networks,” in a special issue on modeling, testbeds, and applications in wireless mesh networks of the Computer Communications Journal(Elsevier), Vol. 31, No. 8, May, 2008, pp. 1615-1626.
• Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua, Fei Xie. “On Reducing Communication Cost for Distributed Moving Query Monitoring Systems”. The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2008, Beijing, China.
• Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua, and Kiminobu Sugaya. “A Generic Framework for Internet-based Interactive Applications of High-Resolution 3D Medical Image Data”. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 12(5):618-626, 2008.
• Rui Peng, Kien A. Hua, Alex J. Aved, Georgiana L. Hamza-Lup “An IP-Based Live Database Approach to Surveillance Application Development”, Published at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2008, Freiburg, Germany (ICWI 2008).
• Hao Cheng, Kien A. Hua and Khanh Vu. “Constrained Locally Weighted Clustering”, Published in the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008), Auckland, New Zealand.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Hao Cheng and Sheau-Dong Lang. “Bounded Approximation: A New Criterion for Dimensionality-Reduction Approximation in Similarity Search”, Published in the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 20, No. 6, June 2008.
• Hao Cheng, Kien A. Hua and Khanh Vu. “Leveraging User Query Log: Toward Improving Image Data Clustering”, Published in the 7th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2008), Niagara Falls, Canada.
• H Cheng, Y. H. Ho, K. A. Hua, D. Liu, F. Xie, Y.-P. Tsaur “A Service-Oriented Approach to Storage Backup”, Published in the Industry Track of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2008), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Y. H. Ho, A. H. Ho, and K. A. Hua “Routing Protocols for Inter-Vehicular Networks: A Comparative Study in High-Mobility and Large Obstacles Environments, Pubilshed in the Computer Communications Journal – Special Issue on Mobility Protocols for ITS/VANET 2008.
• Y. H. Ho, K. A. Hua, N. Jiang, and F. Xie, Dynamic Route Diversion in Connectionless Mobile Ad Hoc Network. Published in the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) 2008.
• Himanshu Pagey. “Building User confidence in RFID technology for Mobile and Retail Environments”. To appear in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advance Information and Networking applications (AINA). 2008
• Baber Aslam, Ping Wang, Cliff C. Zou. “An Economical, Deployable and Secure Vehicular Ad hoc Network”, in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM’08), San Diego, November 17-19, 2008.
• Shawn Embleton, Sherri Sparks, Cliff C. Zou. “SMM Rootkits:  A New Breed of OS Independent Malware”, in Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 22-25, 2008. (full paper, Acceptance ratio: 26/123=21%)
• Soyoung Park, Cliff C. Zou. “Reliable Traffic Information Propagation in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks,” IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Apr. 28-30, NJ, 2008 (invited paper).

2007

• Hao Cheng, Khanh Vu, and Kien A. Hua. “Local and Global Structures Preserving Projection”. in the the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), Patras, Greece, 2007
• A. Aved, T. Do, G. Hamza-Lup, A. H. Ho, L. Hoang, L. Hsia, K. A. Hua, F. Liu, R. Peng “A Real-Time Route Diversion Management System” In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Seattle, Washington, September, 2007.
• Ning Yu, Khanh Vu, and Kien A. Hua. “An In-Memory Relevance Feedback Technique for High-Performance Image Retrieval Systems”. In the Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2007
• Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua, Tai T. Do. A P2P Technique for Continuous kNN Query in Road Networks. In 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA ’07), Resenburg, Germany
• Tai T. Do, Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua. When Mobile Objects` Energy is not So Tight: A New Perspective on Scalability Issues of Continuous Spatial Query Systems. In 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA ’07), Resenburg, Germany
• Tai T. Do, Kien A. Hua, Mounir Tantaoui. Robust Video-on-Demand Streaming in Peer-to-Peer Environments. Accepted to the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal. Available online on August 29 2007.
• Ning Yu, Kien A. Hua, and Danzhou Liu. “Client-side Relevance Feedback Approach for Image Retrieval in Mobile Environment”. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Beijing, China, July, 2007.
• Ning Jiang, Kien A. Hua, and DanZhou Liu, A Scalable and Robust Approach to Collaboration Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks In the Journal of Communications and Networks.
• Danzhou Liu and Kien A. Hua. Support Concurrent Queries in Multiuser CBIR Systems. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April, 2007.
• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua and Ning Jiang, Achieving True Video-on-Demand Service in Multi-Hop WiMax Mesh Networks In the proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN2007).
• Fei Xie, Kien A. Hua and Ning Jiang, Semi-Split TCP: Maintaining End-to-End Semantics for Split TCP , In the proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN2007).
• Cliff C. Zou, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Modeling and Simulation Study of the Propagation and Defense of Internet Email Worm,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 4(2), p.105-118, April-June 2007.
• Sherri Sparks, Ryan Cunningham, Shawn Embleton, Cliff C. Zou. “Automated Vulnerability Analysis: Leveraging Control Flow for Evolutionary Input Crafting”, in 23rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), p.477-486, Miami Beach, Florida, Dec. 10-14, 2007. (acceptance ratio: 40/191=21%)
• Jerome Harrington, Corey Kuwanoe, Cliff C. Zou. “A BitTorrent-Driven Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack”, 3rd International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Nice, France, Sept. 17-20, 2007. (Acceptance ratio 26%=31/119)
• Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, and Cliff C. Zou, “An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet”, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets (HotBots’07), Cambridge, MA, April 10th, 2007. (acceptance ratio: 11/32=34.4%)

2006

• A. Aved, A. Ho, K. Hua, L. Hoang, G. Hamza-Lup, “A Mobile Computing Approach to Automatic Traffic Evacuation Management” in Proceedings of the Intelligent Transportations Systems Conf., 2006.
• Kien A. Hua Handout for July 26, 2006 FDOT ITS Working Group meeting, Orlando, FL.
• Kien A. Hua, Ning Yu and Danzhou Liu. Query Decomposition: A Multiple Neighborhood Approach to Relevance Feedback Processing in Content-based Image Retrieval. To appear in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of Data Engineering (ICDE2006)
• Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, and Ning Yu. Fast Query Point Movement Techniques with Relevance Feedback for Content-based Image Retrieval. To appear in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT2006)
• Fuyu Liu, Kien A. Hua, Tai T. Do.”Dynamic Range Query in Spatial Network Environments”. In 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA ’06), Krakow, Poland.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Hao Cheng, and Sheau-Dong Lang. “A Non-Linear Dimensionality-Reduction Technique for Fast Similarity Search in Large Databases.” 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data.
• Danzhou Liu, Kien A. Hua and Kiminobu Sugaya. “A Framework for Web-based Interactive Applications of High-Resolution 3D Medical Image Data.” To appear in the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS2006)
• Soontharee Koompairojn, Kien A. Hua and Chutima Bhadrakom. “Automatic Classification System for Lumbar Spine X-ray Images.” To appear in the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS2006)
• Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua, Guohong Cao, Toby Xu. Real-Time Processing of Range-Monitoring Queries in Heterogeneous Mobile Databases. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2006.
• Cliff C. Zou, Nick Duffield, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong. “Adaptive Defense Against Various Network Attacks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: High-Speed Network Security (J-SAC), 24(10), p.1877-1888, October 2006.  (Acceptance ratio: 14/70= 20%)
• Cliff C. Zou, Don Towsley, and Weibo Gong. “On the Performance of Internet Worm Scanning Strategies,” Elsevier Journal of Performance Evaluation, 63(7), p.700-723, July 2006.
• Cliff C. Zou, Don Towsley, Weibo Gong, Songlin Cai. “Advanced Routing Worm and Its Security Challenges,” Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 82(1), p.75-85, 2006.
• Jingfei Kong, Cliff C. Zou, and Huiyang Zhou, “Improving Software Security via Runtime Instruction-Level Taint Checking”, Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability (ASID) held with 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Sytems (ASPLOS-XII), p.18-24,San Jose, CA, October, 2006.
• Cliff C. Zou and Ryan Cunningham. “Honeypot-Aware Advanced Botnet Construction and Maintenance,” in the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 25-28, p.199-208, Philadelphia, 2006 (Acceptance ratio: 34/187=18.2%).
• David Dagon, Cliff C. Zou, and Wenke Lee. “Modeling Botnet Propagation Using Time Zones,” in 13th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), p.235-249, Feb. 2-4, San Diego, 2006 (Acceptance ratio: 17/127=13.4%).

2005

• Ai H. Ho, Yao H. Ho, and Kien A. Hua. A Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in Street Environments. Proc. of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2005), Nevada , USA . June 2005, pp. 575- 582.
• Georgiana L. Hamza-Lup, Kien A. Hua, Rui Peng, Ai H. Ho. A Maximum Flow Approach to Dynamic Handling of Multiple Incidents in Traffic Evacuation Management. In /Proc. of the 8^th Int’l IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems/ (ITSC’05), Vienna, Austria, September 13-15, 2005.
• Georgiana L. Hamza-Lup, Kien A. Hua, Rui Peng, Yao H. Ho. Real-Time Evacuation Management under Multiple Coordinated Human-Caused Threats. In /Proc. of the 12^th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems/, San Francisco, CA, November 6-10, 2005.
• Ning Jiang, Fenn-Hui Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, Onur Ozyer. A Finite-State-Model Scheme for Efficient Cooperation Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. To appear at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005), Fukuoka, Japan.
• Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua, and Aaron Phillip. Leveraging 1-hop Neighborhood Knowledge for Efficient Flooding in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. of IEEE Int’l Performance Computing and Communications Conference, April 7-9, 2005.
• Duc Tran, Kien A. Hua. Range Multicast for Video On Demand. To appear in Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, first quarter of 2005.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Nualsawat Hiransakolwong and Sirikunya Nilpanich. Recognition of Enhanced Images. To appear in MMM’05 – The 11th International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling, January 12-14, 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
• Cliff C. Zou, Weibo Gong, Don Towsley, and Lixin Gao. “The Monitoring and Early Detection of Internet Worms,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 13(5), p.961-974, October 2005.

2004

• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, Tai T. Do. A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Media Streaming. Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Advances in Service Overaly Networks
• Yao H. Ho, Ai H. Ho, Kien A. Hua, and Georgiana L. Hamza-Lup. A Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2004), Alexandria , Egypt . 28 June-1 July 2004. Vol. 1, pp. 188- 195.
• K. A. Hua, M. A. Tantaoui, and W. Tavanapong. Video Delivery Technologies for Large-Scale Deployment of Multimedia Applications. Proceedings of the IEEE, 92(9): 1439-1451, September 2004.
• K. A. Hua, R. Peng, and G. L. Hamza-Lup. Dissemination of Sensor Data over the Internet. In Proceedings of 2004 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004), August 2004, p. 745-754.
• K. A. Hua, R. Peng, and G. L. Hamza-Lup. WISE: A Web-Based Intelligent Sensor Explorer Framework for Publishing, Browsing, and Analyzing Sensor Data over the Internet. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004), July 2004, p. 568-572.
• R. Peng, K. A. Hua and G. L. Hamza-Lup. A Web Services Environment for Internet-Scale Sensor Computing. In Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC2004), September 2004, p. 101-108. (recognized as one of the best paper and extended version will appear in Journal of Web Services Research).
• Georgiana Hamza-Lup, Kien A. Hua, Minh Le, and Rui Peng. Enhancing Intelligent Transportation Systems to Improve and Support Homeland Security. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, October 3-6, 2004 (published in CD-ROM).
• Ying Cai, Wallapak Tavanapong, Kien A. Hua. A Double Patching Technique for Efficient Bandwidth Sharing in Video-on-Demand Systems. To appear in International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications.
• Ning Jiang, Kien A. Hua, Mounir Tantaoui. Collaboration Enforcement and Adaptive Data Redirection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using only First-hand Experience. To appear in the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications, Paris, France.
• Ning Jiang, Yao H. Ho, Kien A. Hua. Range Multicast Routers for Large-Scale Deployment of Multimedia Application. To appear in ACM Multimedia 2004, NY, USA.
• Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang, Rui Peng, Mounir Tantaoui. PSP: A Persistent Streaming Protocol for Transactional Communications. 2004 IEEE International conference on Communications, Circuits, and Systems, Chengdu, China.
• Yao H. Ho, Ai H. Ho, Kien A. Hua, Georgiana L. Hamza-Lup. A Connectionless Approach to Mobile Ad hoc Networks. To appear in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’2004), Alexandria, Egypt.
• Mounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, Tai T. Do. BroadCatch: A Periodic Broadcast Technique for Heterogeneous Video-on-Demand. To appear in IEEE Transaction on Broadcasts.
• Tai T. Do, Kien A. Hua, Mounir Tantaoui. P2VoD: Providing Fault Tolerant Video-on-Demand Streaming in Peer-to-Peer Environment. To appear in the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Paris, June 2004.
• Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Sheau-Dong Lang. Shape Recognition Based on the Medial Axis Approach. In Proceedings of ICME 2004, Taipei, June 27-30, 2004.
• Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua and Sheau-Dong Lang. Many-to-Many Skeletal-Graphs Matching Approach to Shape Recognition. In the proceedings of the International Conference: Sciences of Electronic,Technologies of Information and Telecommunications, March 15-20, 2004, Tunisia.
• Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua , Guohong Cao. Processing Range-Monitoring Queries on Heterogeneous Mobile Objects. To appear in MDM 2004.

2003

• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tanavapong. Image Retrieval Based on Regions of Interest. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 4, July/August 2003.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Tai T. Do. A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Media Streaming. To appear in IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Advances in Overlay Networks, 2003.
• Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, Piotr S. Windyga. Segmentation of ultrasound liver images: An automatic approach. In Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME 2003), July 6-9, 2003.
• Mounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang. A Limitless Infrastructure for Next-Generation Large Scale Simulation and Training Systems. In Proc. of Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC 2003), March 30 – April 3, 2003 ( Orlando, Florida, USA ), p. 86-93.
• Kien A. Hua, Mounir A. Tantaoui. Cost Effective and Scalable video Streaming techniques. In Borko Furht, Oge Marques (eds.): Handbook of Video Databases (to appear 2002/2003) CRC Press, , 2002.
• Ning Jiang, Roy Villafane, Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran. ADMiRe: An Algebraic Approach to Sstem Performance Analysis Using Data Mining Techniques. In Proc of ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003), March 9-12, Melbourne, FL, USA.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Tai T. Do. ZIGZAG: An Efficient Peer-to-Peer Scheme for Media Streaming. In Proc of the IEEE INFOCOM 2003, March 30-April 3 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran, and Roy Villafane. Overlay Multicast for Video on Demand on the Internet. In Proc of the ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003), March 9-12, Melbourne, FL, USA.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua and Simon Sheu. A New Caching Architecture for Efficient Video Services on the Internet. In Proc of the IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2003), January 27-31, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Kien Hua, Ning Jiang, JungHwan-Oh. Exploiting Pattern Relationship for Intrusion Detection. In Proc of the IEEE Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2003), January 27-31, Orlando, FL, USA.
• Olivier Bagouet, Kien A. Hua, David Oger. A Periodic Broadcast Protocol for Heterogeneous Receivers. In Proc of the SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking 2003 (MMCN 2003).
• Khanh Vu, Kien Hua, Ning Jiang. Improving Image Retrieval Effectiveness in Query-By-Example Environment. In Proc of the ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003), March 9-12, Melbourne, FL, USA.
• Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, Yao H. Ho. ASIA: An Automatic Annotation Technique For Query-by-concept in Image Retrieval Systems. MMM’03 The 9th International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling,January 8-10, 2003, Taiwan.

2002

• Mounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu. A Scalable Technique for VCR-like Interactions in Video-on-Demand Applications. The 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Networks Systems and Applications (MNSA 2002) in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002) Vienna, Austria, July 2-4, p. 246-251.
• Mounir A. Tantaoui, Kien A. Hua, and Simon Sheu. A Broadcast Technique for Providing Better VCR-Like Interactions in a Periodic Broadcast Environment. In Proc of Globecom 2002, Taipei,Taiwan, Nov.17-21, p. 1648-1652.
• Ying Cai and Kien A. Hua, “Managing Continuous Range Queries in Mobile Databases”, Proc. of 4th IEEE Int’l Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN’02), Sept. 9-11, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Ying Cai and Kien A. Hua, “An Adaptive Query Management Technique for Efficient Real-Time Monitoring of Spatial Regions in Mobile Database Systems”, Proc. of 21st IEEE Int’l Performance, Computing, and Communication Conference (IPCCC’02), April 3-5, 2002, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A, Page 259-266.
• Nualsawat Hiransakolwong, Piotr S. Windyga, Kien A. Hua Khanh Vu. FASU: A Full Automatic Segmenting System for Ultrasound Images. To appear at the Workshop on Application of Computer Vision (WACV), December 2-4, 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• Ning Jiang, Kien Hua, Simon Sheu. Considering Both Intra-pattern and Inter-pattern Anomalies in Intrusion Detection. To appear at The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM02).
• Mounir Tantaoui, Kien Hua, Simon Sheu. Interaction with Broadcast Video. To appear at ACM Conference on Multimedia (SIGMM 2002), December 1-6, 2002, Juan Les Pins, France, p. 29-38.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Tai T. Do. Layered Range Multicast for Video on Demand. To appear at IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N 2002), October 14-16, 2002, Miami, FL, USA.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Tai T. Do. Scalable Media Streaming in Large P2P Networks. To appear at ACM Conference on Multimedia (SIGMM 2002), December 1-6, 2002, Juan Les Pins, France.
• Ning Jiang, Kien A. Hua, Morgan C. Wang. A Parameter Reduction Based Technique for Automatic Analysis of Database Systems. Joint Statistician Meeting 2002. Sep 12 – 15, NY, USA.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Mounir Tantaoui. A Multi-Multicast Sharing Technique for Large-Scale Video Information Systems. To appear at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2002), April-May 2002, New York, NY, USA.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua and Kiran Prabhakara. On The Efficient Use of Multiple Physical-Channel Air-Cache. To appear at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2002), March 2002, Orlando, FL, USA.

2001

• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, and Duc A. Tran. Handling Free-Shaped Queries in Large Image Databases using a Sampling-Based Image Retrieval Technique. To appear in Journal of Applied Systems Studies, 2001.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua and JungHwan Oh. Indexing for Efficient Processing of Noise-Free Queries. In Proc of the ACM Multimedia’01 Proc., Sep./Oct. 2001.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran: An efficient core-area detection algorithm for fast noise-free image query processing. SAC 2001: 258-263
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua and JungHwan Oh. A Noise-Free Similarity Model for Image Retrieval Systems. In Proc. of IS&T/SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, Jan. 2001, pages 1-11.
• Khanh Vu, Kien A. Hua and Nualsawat Hiransakolwong. A Fast Two-Phased Initial Search Technique for Arbitrary-Shaped Queries. In Proc. of IS&T/SPIE Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, Jan. 2001, pages 409-508.
• Kien A. Hua, JungHwan Oh and Khanh Vu. Non-Linear Approach to Shot Boundary Detection. In Proc. of IS\&T/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking, Jan. 2001, pages 1-12.
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, Ning Jiang: A generalized air-cache design for efficiently broadcasting on multiple physical channels. SAC 2001: 387-392
• Yu-lung Lo, Kien A. Hua, Honesty C. Young: GeMDA: A Multidimensional Data Partitioning Technique for Multiprocessor Database Systems. Distributed and Parallel Databases 9(3): 211-236 (2001)
• Wallapak Tavanapong, Kien A. Hua: Design and implementation of a video browsing system for the Internet. Software – Practice and Experience 31(5): 471-503 (2001)
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, and Khanh Vu. An Object-based Video Data Model for Multimedia Systems. In a Special issue on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Journal of Applied Systems Studies, 2001.

2000

• Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran, and Roy Villafane. Caching Multicast Protocol for On-Demand Video Delivery. In the proceedings of ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2000), pp. 2-13, January 23-25, San Jose, USA.
• Kien A. Hua, JungHwan Oh: Detecting video shot boundaries up to 16 times faster (poster session). ACM Multimedia 2000: 385-387
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu: Semantics Reasoning Based Video Database Systems. DEXA 2000: 41-50
• Duc A. Tran, Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu: VideoGraph: A Graphical Object-Based Model for Representing and Querying Video Data. ER 2000: 383-396
• Kiran Prabhakara, Kien A. Hua, Jung-Hwan Oh: Multi-Level Multi-Channel Air Cache Designs for Broadcasting in a Mobile Environment. ICDE 2000: 167-176
• Jung-Hwan Oh, Kien A. Hua: An Efficient Technique for Summarizing Videos using Visual Contents. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (II) 2000: 1167-1170
• Jung-Hwan Oh, Kien A. Hua: Efficient and Cost-effective Techniques for Browsing and Indexing Large Video Databases. SIGMOD Conference 2000: 415-426
• Roy Villafane, Kien A. Hua, Duc Tran, Basab Maulik: Knowledge Discovery from Series of Interval Events. JIIS 15(1): 71-89 (2000)
• Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu: An Efficient Periodic Broadcast Technique for Digital Video Libraries. Multimedia Tools and Applications 10(2/3): 157-177 (2000)

1999

• Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua: An efficient bandwidth-sharing technique for true video on demand systems. ACM Multimedia (1) 1999: 211-214
• Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, Jung-Hwan Oh: SamMatch: a flexible and efficient sampling-based image retrieval technique for large image databases. ACM Multimedia (1) 1999: 225-234
• Roy Villafane, Kien A. Hua, Duc Tran, Basab Maulik: Mining Interval Time Series. DaWaK 1999: 318-330
• Kien A. Hua, Khanh Vu, Ta-Hsiung Hu: Improving RAID Performance Using a Multibuffer Technique. ICDE 1999: 79-86
• Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong, Yu-lung Lo: Performance of Load Balancing Techniques for Join Operations in Shared-Noting Database Management Systems. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 56(1): 17-46 (1999)
• Ying Cai, Kien A. Hua and Khanh Vu. Optimizing Patching Performance. In Proc .of ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, Jan. 1999, pages 204-215.
• Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong, James Ze Wang: 2PSM: An Efficient Framework for Searching Video Information in a Limited-Bandwidth Environment. Multimedia Systems 7(5): 396-408 (1999)

1998

• Kien A. Hua, Ying Cai, and Simon Sheu, “Exploiting Client Bandwidth for More Efficient Video Broadcast”, Proc. of 7th IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Communication and Network (IC3N’98), Oct. 12-15, 1998, Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A, Page 848-856.
• Kien A. Hua, Ying Cai, Simon Sheu: Patching: A Multicast Technique for True Video-on-Demand Services. ACM Multimedia 1998: 191-200
• Kien A. Hua, J-H Oh and Khanh Vu. An Adaptive Hybrid Technique for Video Multicast. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Oct. 1998, pages 27-234.

1997

• Wallapak Tavanapong, Kien A. Hua, James Ze Wang: A Framework for Supporting Previewing and VCR Operations in a Low Bandwidth Environment. ACM Multimedia 1997: 303-312
• Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua: Virtual Batching: A New Scheduling Technique for Video-on-Demand Servers. DASFAA 1997: 481-490
• Yu-long Lo, Kien A. Hua, Honesty C. Young: A General Multidimensional Data Allocation Method for Multicomputer Database Systems. DEXA 1997: 357-366
• Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong: Chaining: A Generalized Batching Technique for Video-On-Demand. ICMCS 1997: 110-117
• James Ze Wang, Kien A. Hua: A Bandwidth Management Technique for Hierarchical Storage in Large-Scale Multimedia Servers. ICMCS 1997: 261-268
• Kien A. Hua, James Ze Wang, Simon Sheu: BiHOP: A Bidirectional Highly Optimized Pipelining Technique for Large-Scale Multimedia Servers. INFOCOM (3) 1997: 1357-1364
• Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu, James Ze Wang: Earthworm: A Network Memory Management Technique for Large-Scale Distributed Multimedia Applications. INFOCOM (3) 1997: 990-997
• Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu: Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems. SIGCOMM 1997: 89-100

1996

• Yu-lung Lo, Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong: Scheduling Queries for Parallel Execution on Multicomputer Database Management Systems. DEXA 1996: 698-707
• Simon Sheu, Kien A. Hua, Ying Cai: On the Optimality of Degree of Declustering. DEXA 1996: 865-874
• James Ze Wang, Kien A. Hua, Honesty C. Young: SEP: A Space Efficient Pipelining Technique for Managing Disk Buffers in Multimedia Servers. ICMCS 1996: 598-607

1995

• Inien Syu, Sheau-Dong Lang, Kien A. Hua: A Heuristic Information Retrieval Model on a Massively Parallel Processor. ICDE 1995: 365-372
• Kien A. Hua, Wallapak Tavanapong, Honesty C. Young: A Performance Evaluation of Load Balancing Techniques for Join Operations on Multicomputer Database Systems. ICDE 1995: 44-51
• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee, Chau M. Hua: Dynamic Load Balancing in Multicomputer Database Systems Using Partition Tuning. TKDE 7(6): 968-983 (1995)

1994

• Kien A. Hua, Chinmoy Tripathy: Object Skeletons: An Efficient Navigation Structure for Object-Oriented Database Systems. ICDE 1994: 508-517
• Kien A. Hua, Sheau-Dong Lang, Wen K. Lee: A Decomposition-Based Simulated Annealing Technique for Data Clustering. PODS 1994: 117-128
• Chiang Lee, Kien A. Hua: A Self-Adjusting Data Distribution Mechanism for Multidimensional Load Balancing in Multiprocessor-Based Database Systems. IS 19(7): 549-567 (1994)

1993

• Kien A. Hua, Jeffrey X. W. Su, Chau M. Hua: Efficient Evaluation of Traversal Recursive Queries Using Connectivity Index. ICDE 1993: 549-558
• Kien A. Hua, Yu-lung Lo, Honesty C. Young: Including the Load Balancing Issue in the Optimization of Multi-way Join Queries for Shared-Nothing Database Computers. PDIS 1993: 74-83
• Kien A. Hua, Jeffrey X. W. Su: Dynamic Load Balancing in Very Large Shared-Nothing Hypercube Database Computers. IEEE Transactions on Computers 42(12): 1425-1439 (1993)
• Kien A. Hua, Lishing Liu, Jih-Kwon Peir: Designing High-Performance Processors Using Real Address Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Computers 42(9): 1146-1151 (1993)
• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee, Honesty C. Young: Data partitioning for multicomputer datbase systems: a cell-based approach. IS 18(5): 329-342 (1993)
• Kien A. Hua, Yu-lung Lo, Honesty C. Young: Considering Data Skew Factor in Multi-Way Join Query Optimization for Parallel Execution. VLDB Journal 2(3): 303-330 (1993)

1992

• Kien A. Hua, Wen K. Lee, Sheau-Dong Lang: Parallel Simulated Annealing for Efficient Data Clustering. DEXA 1992: 244-249
• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee, Honesty C. Young: An Efficient Load Balancing Strategy for Shared-Nothing Database Systems. DEXA 1992: 469-474

1991

• Kien A. Hua, Sridhar Hannenhalli: Parallel Transitive Closure Computations Using Topological Sort. PDIS 1991: 122-129
• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee, J.-K. Peir: Interconnecting Shared-Everything Systems for Efficient Parallel Query Processing. PDIS 1991: 262-270
• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee: Handling Data Skew in Multiprocessor Database Computers Using Partition Tuning. VLDB 1991: 525-535

1990

• Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee: An Adaptive Data Placement Scheme for Parallel Database Computer Systems. VLDB 1990: 493-506