Liu, Hongbo, Tang, Zhifeng, Yang, Yongli, Weng, Dong, Sun, Gao, Duan, Zhiwen, ...
Abstract Background Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is a preventable, but not fully curable occupational lung disease. More and more coal miners are likely to be at risk of developing CWP owing to...
Li, Ning, Long, Yunzhu, Fan, Xuegong, Liu, Hongbo, Li, Cui, Chen, Lizhang, ...
Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a major cause of cancer death in China, is preceded by chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis (LC). Although hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been...
A.: An Hybrid Fuzzy Variable Neighborhood Particle (2008)
Abstract: Recently, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has exhibited good performance across a wide range of application problems. A quick review of the literature reveals that research for...
Hongbo Liu, Ajith Abraham, Crina Grosan, Ningning Li
This paper introduces a hybrid metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Particle Swarm Optimization (VNPSO), consisting of a combination of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and Particle Swarm...
Zhang J.: “A Particle Swarm Approach to Quadratic Assignment Problems (2008)
Summary. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has exhibited good performance across a wide range of application problems. But research on the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) has not much...
A Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Neighbor Selection in Peer-to-Peer Networks (2008)
Shichang Sun, Ajith Abraham, Guiyong Zhang, Hongbo Liu
Peer-to-peer (P2P) topology has significant influence on the performance, search efficiency and functionality, and scalability of the application. In this paper, we propose a Particle Swarm...
Zhang W.: “Scheduling Job on Computational Grids Using Fuzzy Particle Swarm Algorithm (2008)
Ajith Abraham, Hongbo Liu, Weishi Zhang, Tae-gyu Chang
Abstract. Grid computing is a computing framework to meet the growing computational demands. This paper introduces a novel approach based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) for scheduling jobs on...
Optimal Power Allocation for Type II H–ARQ via Geometric Programming (2008)
Hongbo Liu, Leonid Razoumov, Narayan M
Abstract — In mobile wireless data communications, it is very important to reduce the average energy consumption while maintaining a target frame-error-rate (FER) and frame latency. These goals can...
Hongbo Liu, Ajith Abraham, Weishi Zhang
A fuzzy adaptive turbulent particle swarm optimisation
A.: An Hybrid Fuzzy Variable Neighborhood Particle (2008)
Abstract: Recently, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has exhibited good performance across a wide range of application problems. A quick review of the literature reveals that research for...
Multi-objective Peer-to-Peer Neighbor-Selection Strategy Using Genetic Algorithm (2008)
Ajith Abraham, Benxian Yue, Chenjing Xian, Hongbo Liu, Millie Pant
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) topology has significant influence on the performance, search efficiency and functionality, and scalability of the application. In this paper, we present a Genetic...
A New Rough Set Reduct Algorithm Based on Particle Swarm Optimization (2008)
Benxian Yue, Weihong Yao, Hongbo Liu
Abstract. Finding appropriate features is one of the key problems in the increasing applications of rough set theory, which is also one of the bottlenecks of the rough set methodology. Particle Swarm...
Hybrid Fuzzy-Genetic Algorithm Approach for Crew Grouping (2008)
Hongbo Liu Zhanguo, Hongbo Liu, Zhanguo Xu
Crew grouping is an important problem and formulating a good solution always involves many challenges. For example, grouping soldiers intelligently to tank combat units, we should take into...
Role of Chaos in Swarm Intelligence - A Preliminary Analysis (2008)
Hongbo Liu, Ajith Abraham, Yonggang Li, Xiujin Yang
This paper investigates the relation between chaos and swarm intelligence. The swarm intelligent model is represented as an iterated function system (IFS). The dynamic trajectory of the particle is...
Qiu, Deyun, Xiao, Jun, Xie, Weibo, Liu, Hongbo, Li, Xianghua, Xiong, Lizhong, ...
Accumulating information indicates that plant disease resistance signaling pathways frequently interact with other pathways regulating developmental processes or abiotic stress responses. However,...
DNA Sequence Analysis Software (2007)
Xiong, Xin, Zhang, Yuan, Liu, Hongbo
Sometimes biologists need to compare many different genomes and find out the similarities and differences among these genome sequences. It will be very helpful for biologists to do this kind of...
Zhang, Yuan, Liu, Hongbo, Ma, Xiaofang, Wang, Jing
Bacterial chromosome replication initiates by binding of DnaA protein to the origin. DnaA protein is a sequence-specific DNA binding protein, which binds to eight DnaA boxes in the origin. There are...
Swarm Intelligence: Foundations, Perspectives and Applications (2006)
Ajith Abraham, He Guo, Hongbo Liu
This chapter introduces some of the theoretical foundations of swarm intelligence. We focus on the design and implementation of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)...
In this paper, we introduce a hybrid metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Particle Swarm Optimization (VNPSO) algorithm, consisting of a combination of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and...
Hongbo Liu, Okkyung Choi, Seong Hwan Moon
Abstract. This paper introduces a hybrid metaheuristic, the Variable Neighborhood Particle Swarm Optimization (VNPSO), consisting of a combination of the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) and...
Food consumption dynamics in China: the case of beef (2006)
Liu, Hongbo, Parton, Kevin A., Cox, Rodney, Zhou, Zhang-Yue
As a large developing country, China has experienced rapid economic growth in the two decades. With the increase of consumer income, food consumption has become greatly diversified. Such changes have...
Fuzzy Adaptive Turbulent Particle Swarm Optimization (2005)
In this paper, we introduce Turbulence in the Particle Swarm Optimization (TPSO) and illustrate how this approach could be used for function optimization problems involving high dimensions. The...
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003.
The chitin synthase structural gene, WdCHS5 was isolated from Wangiella dermatitidis. Sequence analysis revealed that this gene has a myosin motor-like-encoding region at its 5'-end and a chitin...
Development and validation of internet simulation : flow control modeling and analysis / (2002)
"Graduate Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering."
Behaviour of multiplanar XX- and XT- tubular joints / (2001)
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Civil and Structural Engineering, 2001.
SSFNET TCP Simulation Analysis by tcpanaly (2000)
SSFNET is a collection of SSF-based models for simulating Internet protocols and networks. It is designed at the logical IP-network level, and the simulation quantum is an IP packet. SSFNET TCP is a...
Towards Realistic Million-Node Internet Simulations (1999)
James Cowie, Hongbo Liu, Jason Liu, David Nicol, Andy Ogielski
This paper describes the Scalable Simulation Framework (SSF), a discrete event modeling API designed for the construction and simulation of very large networks. SSF can execute detailed simulations...
"Graduate Program in Chemistry."
Wang, Zheng, Zheng, Li, Liu, Hongbo, Wang, Qingfeng, Hauser, Melinda, Kauffman, Sarah, ...
The chitin synthase structural gene WdCHS2 was isolated by screening a subgenomic DNA library of Wangiella dermatitidis by using a 0.6-kb PCR product of the gene as a probe. The nucleotide sequence...
Liu, Hongbo, Kauffman, Sarah, Becker, Jeffrey M., Szaniszlo, Paul J.
The chitin synthase structural gene WdCHS5 was isolated from the black fungal pathogen of humans Wangiella dermatitidis. Sequence analysis revealed that the gene has a myosin motor-like-encoding...
Wang, Zheng, Zheng, Li, Liu, Hongbo, Wang, Qingfeng, Hauser, Melinda, Kauffman, Sarah, ...
The chitin synthase structural gene WdCHS2 was isolated by screening a subgenomic DNA library of Wangiella dermatitidis by using a 0.6-kb PCR product of the gene as a probe. The nucleotide sequence...
Liu, Hongbo, Kauffman, Sarah, Becker, Jeffrey M., Szaniszlo, Paul J.
The chitin synthase structural gene WdCHS5 was isolated from the black fungal pathogen of humans Wangiella dermatitidis. Sequence analysis revealed that the gene has a myosin motor-like-encoding...
Han, Weiqing, Liu, Bin, Cao, Boyang, Beutin, Lothar, Krüger, Ulrike, Liu, Hongbo, ...
Escherichia coli strains causing postweaning diarrhea (PWD) and edema disease (ED) in pigs are limited to a number of serogroups, with O8, O45, O138, O139, O141, O147, O149, and O157 being the most...
A Rice Gene of De Novo Origin Negatively Regulates Pathogen-Induced Defense Response
Xiao, Wenfei, Liu, Hongbo, Li, Yu, Li, Xianghua, Xu, Caiguo, Long, Manyuan, ...
How defense genes originated with the evolution of their specific pathogen-responsive traits remains an important problem. It is generally known that a form of duplication can generate new genes,...
A Pair of Allelic WRKY Genes Play Opposite Roles in Rice-Bacteria Interactions1[C][W][OA]
Tao, Zeng, Liu, Hongbo, Qiu, Deyun, Zhou, Yan, Li, Xianghua, Xu, Caiguo, ...
Although allelic diversity of genes has been reported to play important roles in different physiological processes, information on allelic diversity of defense-responsive genes in host-pathogen...
At-home meat consumption in China: an empirical study *
Hongbo Liu, Kevin A. Parton, Zhang-Yue Zhou, Rod Cox
The remarkable economic changes occurring within China since 1978 have resulted in a striking alteration in food consumption patterns, and one marked change is the increasing consumption of meat....