Feng Tian

Large-Scale Peptide Modification on BioBrick Proteins (2009)

Tian, Feng, Chen, GuoQiang, Wang, Zhao

With the established BioBrick Assembly standards, fusion proteins with diversified functions are easy to manipulate. However, we realized that the existing BBF RFC do not clearly defining the...

Plant Modeling Based on 3D Reconstruction (2009)

Tonglin Zhu, Feng Tian, Yan Zhou, Hock Soon Seah, Xiaolong Yan

Abstract—In this paper a 3D plant modeling method based on projection image is presented. A novel simple 3D reconstruction algorithm is proposed and its calibration speed and precision are...

Flynet: a genomic resource for Drosophila melanogaster transcriptional regulatory networks (2009)

Tian, Feng, Shah, Parantu K., Liu, Xiangjun, Negre, Nicolas, Chen, Jia, Karpenko, Oleksiy, ...

Motivation: The highly coordinated expression of thousands of genes in an organism is regulated by the concerted action of transcription factors, chromatin proteins and epigenetic mechanisms....

A Relaying Incentive Scheme in Multihop Cellular Networks Based on Coalitional Game with Externalities (2008)

Li, Cuilian, Yang, Zhen, Tian, Feng

Cooperative multihop communication can greatly increase network throughput, yet packet forwarding for other nodes involves opportunity and energy cost for relays. Thus one of the pre-requisite...

An Effective Illustrative Visualization Framework Based on Photic Extremum Lines (PELs) (2008)

Xuexiang Xie, Ying He, Feng Tian, Hock-soon Seah, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin

Abstract—Conveying shape using feature lines is an important visualization tool in visual computing. The existing feature lines (e.g., ridges, valleys, silhouettes, suggestive contours, etc.) are...

Trees of extremal connectivity index (2008)

Huiqing Liu, Mei Lu, Feng Tian

The connectivity index wα(G) of a graph G is the sum of the weights (d(u)d(v)) α of all edges uv of G, where α is a real number (α � = 0), and d(u) denotes the degree of the vertex u. Let T be...

Some Upper Bounds for the Laplacian Spectral Radius of the Nordhaus-Gaddum Type (2008)

Huiqing Liu, Mei Lu, Feng Tian

Let G be a simple graph with n vertices, and let G c be its complement. Let δ(G) = δ and ∆(G) = ∆ be the minimum degree and the maximum degree of vertices of G, respectively. In this paper,...

Fan-Type Theorem for Long Cycles Containing a Specified Edge (2008)

Mei Lu, Huiqing Liu, Feng Tian

In this paper, we prove that if G is 3-connected noncomplete graph of order n satisfying min{max{d(u), d(v)} : d(u, v) = 2} = µ, then for each edge e, G has a cycle containing e of length at least...

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Lihua Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Feng Tian

Abstract. In this work, we consider a public facility allocation problem decided through a voting process under the majority rule. A location of the public facility is a majority rule winner if there...

Optimization and performance Contact Author: (2008)

Feng Tian, David J. Dewitt, Feng Tian

One approach to building an efficient XML query processor is to use a relational database system to store and query XML documents. However, XQuery contains a number of features that are either hard...

Auto Coloring with Enhanced Character Registration (2008)

Jie Qiu, Hock Soon Seah, Feng Tian, Quan Chen, Zhongke Wu, Konstantin Melikhov

An enhanced character registration method is proposed in this paper to assist the auto coloring for 2D animation characters. After skeletons are extracted, the skeleton of the character in a target...

CS 736 TERM PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT: A WEB CACHE HIERARCHY SIMULATOR (2007)

Feng Tian, Feng Tian

Abstract. Many organizations are interested in setting up Web caches these days to cut down the Internet traffic. However, for large organizations that have offices around the country or even the...

Abstract The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies (2007)

Feng Tian, Feng Tian, Feng Tian, David J. Dewitt, David J. Dewitt, Jianjun Chen, ...

XML is an emerging Internet standard for data representation and exchange. When used in conjunction with a DTD (Document Type Definition), XML permits the execution of a rich collection of queries...

Burau Representation And Random Walks On String Links (2007)

Xiao-Song Lin, Feng Tian, Zhenghan Wang

. Using a probabilistic interpretation of the Burau representation of the braid group offered by Vaughan Jones, we generalize the Burau representation to a representation of the semigroup of string...

S. Cluet, S. Jacqmin, and J. Simeon. "The New YATL: Design and Specifications (2007)

World Wide Web, S. Cluet, S. Jacqmin, Igor Tatarinov, Zachary G. Ives, Alon Y. Halevy, ...

IGMOD Conference, 2000. 114 [37] E. S. Cohen, D. A. Soni, R. Gluecker, W. M. Hasling, R. W. Schwanke and M. E. Wagner. "Version Management in Gypsy", ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Software...

miRAS: a data processing system for miRNA expression profiling study (2007)

Tian, Feng, Zhang, Huayue, Zhang, Xinyu, Song, Chi, Xia, Yongjing, Wu, Yiqing, ...

Abstract Background The study of microRNAs (miRNAs) is attracting great considerations. Recent studies revealed that miRNAs play as important regulators of gene expression and some even as cancer...

Auto Coloring with Enhanced Character Registration (2007)

Jie Qiu, Hock Soon Seah, Feng Tian, Quan Chen, Zhongke Wu, Konstantin Melikhov

An enhanced character registration method is proposed in this paper to assist the auto coloring for 2D animation characters. After skeletons are extracted, the skeleton of the character in a target...

The tilt cursor: enhancing stimulus-response compatibility by providing 3d orientation cue of pen (2007)

Feng Tian, Xiang Ao, Hongan Wang, Vidya Setlur, Guozhong Dai

In order to improve stimulus-response compatibility of touchpad in pen-based user interface, we present the tilt cursor, i.e. a cursor dynamically reshapes itself to providing the 3D orientation cue...

The Number of Complete Maps on Surfaces (2006)

Mao, Linfan, Liu, Yanpei, Tian, Feng

A map is a connected topological graph cellularly embedded in a surface and a complete map is a cellularly embedded complete graph in a surface. In this paper, all automorphisms of complete maps of...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

Haplotype variation in structure and expression of a gene cluster associated with a quantitative trait locus for improved yield in rice (2006)

He, Guangming, Luo, Xiaojin, Tian, Feng, Li, Kegui, Zhu, Zuofeng, Su, Wei, ...

By constructing nearly isogenic lines (NILs) that differ only at a single quantitative trait locus (QTL), we fine-mapped the yield-improving QTL qGY2–1 to a 102.9-kb region on rice chromosome 2....

Haplotype variation in structure and expression of a gene cluster associated with a quantitative trait locus for improved yield in rice (2006)

He, Guangming, Luo, Xiaojin, Tian, Feng, Li, Kegui, Zhu, Zuofeng, Su, Wei, ...

By constructing nearly isogenic lines (NILs) that differ only at a single quantitative trait locus (QTL), we fine-mapped the yield-improving QTL qGY2–1 to a 102.9-kb region on rice chromosome 2....

The organic complexation of iron in seawaters around New Zealand (2006)

Tian, Feng

This project aimed to characterise the organic speciation of iron in various oceanic waters associated with the New Zealand marine environment, and to examine the possible production of natural...

Transonic Hydrodynamic Escape of Hydrogen from Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres (2005)

Feng Tian, Owen B. Toon, Er A. Pavlov, H. De Sterck

Hydrodynamic escape is an important process in the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres. Transonic steady state solutions of the time-independent hydrodynamic equations are difficult to...

On the Ordering of Trees with the General Randić Index of the Nordhaus-Gaddum Type ∗ (2005)

Huiqing Liu, Mei Lu, Feng Tian

The general Randić index of an organic molecule whose molecular graph is G is defined as the sum of (d(u)d(v)) α over all pairs of adjacent vertices of G, where d(u) is the degree of the vertex u...

Implementing a Scalable XML Publish/Subscribe System Using a Relational Database System (2004)

Feng Tian

An XML publish/subscribe system needs to match many XPath queries (subscriptions) over published XML documents. The performance and scalability of the matching algorithm is essential for the system...

Mixed mode xml query processing (2003)

Alan Halverson, Josef Burger, Leonidas Galanis, Ameet Kini, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Ajith Nagaraja Rao, ...

Querying XML documents typically involves both tree-based navigation and pattern matching similar to that used in structured information retrieval domains. In this paper, we show that for good...

The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies (2002)

Feng Tian

This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses an object manager....

The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies (2002)

Feng Tian, Feng Tian, Feng Tian, David J. Dewitt, David J. Dewitt, Jianjun Chen, ...

Topics: Databases and database services in new context- Internet and the WWW Semi-structured data Database benchmark and measurement

The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies (2002)

Feng Tian, David J. Dewitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zhang

This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses an object manager....

[3,3] Sigmatropic Rearrangement of Some Fluorinated 1,5-Hexadienes (2002)

Dolbier, William R., Palmer, Keith W., Tian, Feng, Fiedorow, Piotr, Zaganiaczyk, Andrzej, Koroniak, Henryk

Fluorine atoms incorporated into 1,5-hexadiene molecule should influence the kinetic as well as the thermodynamic parameters of [3,3] sigmatropic rearrangement (Cope rearrangement). Within few...

On the use of support vector machines for intrusion detection / (2001)

Tian, Feng.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2001.

The Niagara Internet Query System (2001)

Jeffrey Naughton, David Dewitt, David Maier, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jianjun Chen, Leonidas Galanis, ...

Recently, there has been a great deal of research into XML query languages to enable the execution of database-style queries over XML files. However, merely being an XML query-processing engine does...

The Niagara Internet Query System (2001)

Jeffrey Naughton, David Dewitt, David Maier, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jianjun Chen, Leonidas Galanis, ...

Recently, there has been a great deal of research into XML query languages to enable the execution of database-style queries over XML files. However, merely being an XML query-processing engine does...

The Niagara Internet Query System (2001)

Jeffrey Naughton, David Dewitt, David Maier, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jianjun Chen, Leonidas Galanis, ...

Recently, there has been a great deal of research into XML query languages to enable the execution of database-style queries over XML files. However, merely being an XML query-processing engine does...

The Niagara Internet Query System (2001)

Jeffrey Naughton, David Dewitt, David Maier, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Jianjun Chen, Leonidas Galanis, ...

Recently, there has been a great deal of research into XML query languages to enable the execution of database-style queries over XML files. However, merely being an XML query-processing engine does...

On the use of support vector machines for intrusion detection (2001)

Tian, Feng

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2001

NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases (2000)

Jianjun Chen, David J. Dewitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wang

Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an active environment,...

NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases (2000)

Jianjun Chen, David J. DeWitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wang

Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an active environment,...

NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases (2000)

Jianjun Chen, David J. Dewitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wangcomputer

ABSTRACT Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users toreceive new results when they become available. While

NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases (2000)

Jianjun Chen, David J. Dewitt, Feng Tian, Yuan Wang

Continuous queries are persistent queries that allow users to receive new results when they become available. While continuous query systems can transform a passive web into an active environment,...

The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage (2000)

Strategies Feng Tian, Feng Tian, David J. Dewitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zhang

This paper studies five strategies for storing XML documents including one that leaves documents in the file system, three that use a relational database system, and one that uses an object manager....

Burau Representation And Random Walks On String Links (1998)

Xiao-Song Lin, Feng Tian, Zhenghan Wang

This paper extensively revises the first author's preprint "Burau representation and random walks on knots". He would like to thank the warm hospitality of the math department of the...

Burau Representation And Random Walks On String Links (1998)

Xiao-Song Lin, Feng Tian, Zhenghan Wang, F. Tian, Z. Wang

This paper extensively revises the first author's preprint "Burau representation and random walks on knots". He would like to thank the warm hospitality of the math department of the...

The connectivity index (1998)

Mei Lu, Huiqing Liu, Feng Tian

Let G be a simple connected graph of order n. The connectivity index Rα(G) of a graph G is the sum of the weights (d(u)d(v)) α of all edges uv of G, where α is a real number (α � = 0), and d(u)...

Burau representation and random walk on string links (1996)

Lin, Xiao-Song, Tian, Feng, Wang, Zhenghan

Using a probabilistic interpretation of the Burau representation of the braid group offered by Vaughan Jones, we generalize the Burau representation to a representation of the semigroup of string...

Functionalized xenon as a biosensor

Spence, Megan M., Rubin, Seth M., Dimitrov, Ivan E., Ruiz, E. Janette, Wemmer, David E., Pines, Alexander, ...

The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small...

Selective incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan into proteins in mammalian cells

Zhang, Zhiwen, Alfonta, Lital, Tian, Feng, Bursulaya, Badry, Uryu, Sean, King, David S., ...

An orthogonal tryptophanyl–transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase (TrpRS)-mutant opal suppressor tRNATrp (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts}...

Haplotype variation in structure and expression of a gene cluster associated with a quantitative trait locus for improved yield in rice

He, Guangming, Luo, Xiaojin, Tian, Feng, Li, Kegui, Zhu, Zuofeng, Su, Wei, ...

By constructing nearly isogenic lines (NILs) that differ only at a single quantitative trait locus (QTL), we fine-mapped the yield-improving QTL qGY2–1 to a 102.9-kb region on rice chromosome 2....

Functionalized xenon as a biosensor

Spence, Megan M., Rubin, Seth M., Dimitrov, Ivan E., Ruiz, E. Janette, Wemmer, David E., Pines, Alexander, ...

The detection of biological molecules and their interactions is a significant component of modern biomedical research. In current biosensor technologies, simultaneous detection is limited to a small...

Selective incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan into proteins in mammalian cells

Zhang, Zhiwen, Alfonta, Lital, Tian, Feng, Bursulaya, Badry, Uryu, Sean, King, David S., ...

An orthogonal tryptophanyl–transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetase (TrpRS)-mutant opal suppressor tRNATrp (\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts}...

Haplotype variation in structure and expression of a gene cluster associated with a quantitative trait locus for improved yield in rice

He, Guangming, Luo, Xiaojin, Tian, Feng, Li, Kegui, Zhu, Zuofeng, Su, Wei, ...

By constructing nearly isogenic lines (NILs) that differ only at a single quantitative trait locus (QTL), we fine-mapped the yield-improving QTL qGY2–1 to a 102.9-kb region on rice chromosome 2....

The Niagara Internet Query System

Jeffrey Naughton, David DeWitt, David Maier, Jianjun Chen, Leonidas Galanis, Kristin Tufte, ...

: Many projections envision a future in which the Internet is populated with a vast number of Web-accessible XML files---a "World-Wide Database". Recently, there has been a great deal of...

Flynet: a genomic resource for Drosophila melanogaster transcriptional regulatory networks

Tian, Feng, Shah, Parantu K., Liu, Xiangjun, Negre, Nicolas, Chen, Jia, Karpenko, Oleksiy, ...

Motivation: The highly coordinated expression of thousands of genes in an organism is regulated by the concerted action of transcription factors, chromatin proteins and epigenetic mechanisms....