Watertight Trimmed NURBS (2009)
Thomas W. Sederberg, G. Thomas Finnigan, Xin Li, Hongwei Lin, Heather Ipson
This paper addresses the long-standing problem of the unavoidable gaps that arise when expressing the intersection of two NURBS surfaces using conventional trimmed-NURBS representation. The solution...
Phylogenetic analysis of modularity in protein interaction networks (2009)
Erten, Sinan, Li, Xin, Bebek, Gurkan, Li, Jing, Koyutürk, Mehmet
Abstract Background In systems biology, comparative analyses of molecular interactions across diverse species indicate that conservation and divergence of networks can be used to understand...
Ma, Wei, Yu, Li, Wang, Yu, Li, Xin, LÜ, Hanjing, Qiu, Zhongmin
Abstract Background Chronic cough has negative effects on quality of life. However, the changes in health-related quality of life and clinical implications remain unclear in Chinese patients with...
A possible scenario of the Pioneer anomaly in the framework of Finsler geometry (2009)
The weak field approximation of geodesics in Randers-Finsler space is investigated. We show that a Finsler structure of Randers space corresponds to the constant and sunward anomalous acceleration...
Aspects Of Eukaryotic Dna Replication, Repair And Recombination (2009)
The mechanism that replicates, maintains, and sometimes alters the DNA is most fundamental and important for life. Three processes (DNA Replication, Repair, and Recombination) that are involved in...
C*-algebras associated with integral domains and crossed products by actions on adele spaces (2009)
We compute the K-theory for C*-algebras naturally associated with rings of integers in number fields. The main ingredient is a duality theorem for arbitrary global fields. It allows us to identify...
Patch-based Video Processing: a Variational Bayesian Approach (2009)
Abstract—In this paper, we present a patch-based variational Bayesian framework for video processing and demonstrate its potential in denoising, inpainting and deinterlacing. Unlike previous...
SYMMETRIC DISPARITYESTIMATION INDISTRIBUTEDCODINGOFSTEREO IMAGES (2009)
Disparity estimation has been widely studied in the literature of stereo matching and coding. However, how to shift disparity estimation from encoder to decoder to support distributed coding...
Automatic Construction of Dental Charts for Postmortem Identification (2009)
Diaa Eldin Nassar, Ayman Abaza, Student Member, Xin Li, Senior Member, Hany Ammar
Abstract—Identification of deceased individuals based on dental characteristics is receiving increased attention, especially with the large volume of victims encountered in mass disasters. An...
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED AUDIO CONCEALMENT USING NONLOCAL SPARSE REPRESENTATIONS (2009)
We present a new class of parallel and distributed audio concealment (PDAC) algorithms which recover lost audio packets at the receiver to fight against channel impairment. The main contribution of...
On the Importance of Source Classification in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding (2009)
Source classification has been widely studied in conventional coding of image and video signals. This paper explores the idea of exploiting so-called classification gain in Wyner-Ziv (WZ) video...
Distributcd coding problem poses the challenge of how to shift the exploilation of the correlation stmcturc of source from encoder to decoder with minimal degradation on cod-ing efficiency. In this...
QoS-Aware Publish-Subscribe Service for Real-Time Data Acquisition � (2009)
Xinjie Lv, Xin Li, Tian Yang, Zaifei Liao, Wei Liu, Hongan Wang
Abstract: Many complex distributed real-time applications, monitoring and controlling the external environment, require sophisticated processing and sharing of an extensive amount of data under...
We associate reduced and full C*-algebras to arbitrary rings and study the inner structure of these ring C*-algebras. As a result, we obtain conditions for them to be purely infinite and simple. We...
Abstract Network Extractor Protocols (2009)
Yael Tauman Kalai, Xin Li, David Zuckerman, Anup Rao
We design efficient protocols for processors to extract private randomness over a network with Byzantine faults, when each processor has access to an independent weakly-random n-bit source of...
Fu, Wen, McCormick, Tom, Qi, Xiaoping, Luo, Liping, Zhou, Lingyin, Li, Xin, ...
Abstract Background The study tested the hypothesis that apoptosis can prevent and control growth of neoplastic cells. Previous studies in-vitro have shown that the pro-apoptotic P2X 7 receptor...
We study the haplotype inference problem from pedigree data under the zero recombination assumption, which is well supported by real data for tightly linked markers (i.e., single nucleotide...
Modularity Based Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Interaction Networks (2009)
Sinan Erten, Xin Li, Gurkan Bebek, Jing Li, Mehmet Koyutürk
Comparative analysis of available molecular interaction data reveals that various network components and properties are conserved across diverse species. These observations motivate phylogenetic...
We study the haplotype inference problem from pedigree data under the zero recombination assumption, which is well supported by real data for tightly linked markers (i.e., single nucleotide...
Yang, Hui-ling, Chen, Wei-qiong, Cao, Xuan, Worschech, Andrea, Du, Li-fen, Fang, Wei-yi, ...
Abstract Background Resveratrol (RES), an estrogen analog, is considered as a potential cancer chemo-preventive agent. However, it remains unclear how RES is transported into cells. In this study, we...
Computations modulo regular chains (2009)
Li, Xin, Maza, Marc Moreno, Pan, Wei
The computation of triangular decompositions are based on two fundamental operations: polynomial GCDs modulo regular chains and regularity test modulo saturated ideals. We propose new algorithms for...
Altered microRNA expression in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia (2009)
Lian, Jie, Zhang, Xiansheng, Tian, Hui, Liang, Ning, Wang, Yong, Liang, Chaozhao, ...
Abstract Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNA molecules, are indicated to play essential roles in spermatogenesis. However, little is known about the expression patterns or...
Gokce Keskin, Sudhir Saini, Advisors Larry Pileggi, Xin Li
With Shrinking supply voltages for today’s integrated circuits, maintaining the power supply voltage integrity within the required range of operation has become a critical design problem....
Abstract — In this paper, we present a low complexity turbo equalization receiver for data transmission over time-varying frequency-selective fading channels. In the receiver, an adaptive equalizer...
Abstract AN INTERNET BASED EXAMINATION PLATFORM ∗† (2009)
IBEP) for advanced distance learning is described in this paper. The platform was first used in Tsinghua University in July 1999, using TCP/IP as the fundamental protocol. So far more than 10,000...
Nano Mapper: an Internet knowledge mapping system for nanotechnology development (2009)
Li, Xin, Hu, Daning, Dang, Yan, Chen, Hsinchun, Roco, Mihail C., Larson, Catherine A., ...
Nanotechnology research has experienced rapid growth in recent years. Advances in information technology enable efficient investigation of publications, their contents, and relationships for large...
Gravitational field equations in Randers-Finsler space of approximate Berwald type are investigated. A modified Friedmann model is proposed. It is showed that the accelerated expanding universe is...
Fu, Wen, McCormick, Tom, Qi, Xiaoping, Luo, Liping, Zhou, Lingyin, Li, Xin, ...
BACKGROUND: The study tested the hypothesis that apoptosis can prevent and control growth of neoplastic cells. Previous studies in-vitro have shown that the pro-apoptotic P2X(7) receptor regulates...
Expression and Clinical Significance of Heparanase and Ki-67 in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (2009)
Zuoqing SONG, Xiaohong XU, Sen WEI, Jun CHEN, Yi LIU, Xin LI, ...
Background and objective It has been proven that heparanase and Ki-67 had relationship with occurrence and metastasis in lung cancer. The aim of this work was to investigate the expressions of...
Li-Xia Xie, Xin Li, Pu-Hui Xie, Qiu Jin
In the title compound, [Cu(C4HN3O4)(H2O)3]2[Cu2(C4HN3O4)2(H2O)6], both monomeric and dimeric molecules are present in the solid state. In the monomeric compound, the CuII atom is five-coordinated in...
Li, Xin, Qi, Xiaoping, Zhou, Lingyin, Fu, Wen, Abdul-Karim, Fadi W., MacLennan, Gregory, ...
The P2X(7) receptor is an important regulator of epithelial cell growth. The aim of the present study was to better understand the biological significance of P2X(7) receptor expression in normal and...
Regulation of P2X(7) gene transcription. (2009)
Zhou, Lingyin, Luo, Liping, Qi, Xiaoping, Li, Xin, Gorodeski, George I.
The pro-apoptotic P2X(7) receptor regulates growth of epithelial cells. The objectives of the study were to understand P2X(7) gene transcription; to identify the active promoter and the transcription...
Graph-based learning for information systems (2009)
Graph-based learning for information systems
Kazrin F is involved in apoptosis and interacts with BAX and ARC (2009)
Wang, Qiong, Liu, Min, Li, Xin, Chen, Lu, Tang, Hua
Kazrin has recently been identified as a functional protein that is involved in cell–cell junctions and in signal transduction. Here, we identified a new isoform, Kazrin F, which is 518 aa in...
Regulation by Sphingolipids of the Fate of FRTL-5 Cells (2009)
Satoh, Yumiko, Li, Xin, Yokota, Hiromitsu, Osada, Makoto, Ozaki, Yukio, Katoh, Ryohei, ...
Sphingolipids, including ceramide (Cer), sphingosine (Sph), and sphingosine 1-phosphate (Sph-1-P) have recently emerged as signal-transducing molecules. Functionally, a distinguishing characteristic...
Hua, Kegang, Oishi, Kenichi, Zhang, Jiangyang, Wakana, Setsu, Yoshioka, Takashi, Zhang, Weihong, ...
In the human brain, different regions of the cortex communicate via white matter tracts. Investigation of this connectivity is essential for understanding brain function. It has been shown that...
Phylogenetic analysis of modularity in protein interaction networks. (2009)
Erten, Sinan, Li, Xin, Bebek, Gurkan, Li, Jing, Koyut Rk, Mehmet
BACKGROUND: In systems biology, comparative analyses of molecular interactions across diverse species indicate that conservation and divergence of networks can be used to understand functional...
Poly[bis[μ2-2-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)acetato]zinc(II)] (2009)
In the title compound, [Zn(C4H4N3O2)2]n, the ZnII atom is coordinated by two O atoms [Zn—O = 1.969 (2) and 1.997 (2) Å] and two N atoms [Zn—N = 2.046 (2) and...
Jia Ouyang, Zhenjiang Li, Xin Li, Hanjie Ying, Qiang Yong
A study was conducted to investigate the hydrolysis of cellulose-enriched corncob residue, a cellulosic waste from the xylo-oligosaccharides industry, by two processes. The corncob residue was...
Trmcic-Cvitas, Jelena, Hasan, Erol, Ramstedt, Madeleine, Li, Xin, Cooper, Matthew A., Abell, Chris, ...
Poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate) (POEGMA) brushes are extremely protein resistant polymer coatings that can reduce nonspecific adsorption of proteins from complex mixtures such as blood,...
A Frequency Separation Macromodel for System-Level Simulation of RF Circuits (2008)
Xin Li, Peng Li, Yang Xu, Robert Dimaggio, Lawrence Pileggi
Abstract- In this paper we propose a frequency-separation methodology to generate system-level macromodels for analog and RF circuits. The proposed macromodels are similar in form to those based on...
The Design and Implementation of the Chronobot/Virtual Classroom (CVC) System (2008)
S. K. Chang, Xin Li, Ricardo Villamarin, Dan Lyker, Chris Bryant
In this paper, we describe our approach to the design and implementation of the Chronobot/Virtual Classroom (CVC) system, which is a novel time/knowledge exchange platform. The system is based upon a...
Multispectral Iris Analysis: A Preliminary Study (2008)
Christopher Boyce, Arun Ross, Matthew Monaco, Lawrence Hornak, Xin Li
This paper explores the possibility of using multispectral iris information to enhance the recognition performance of an iris biometric system. Commercial iris recognition systems typically sense the...
Gkqe Keskin, Xin Li, Larry Pileggi
Abstract- An active on-chip circuit is demonstrated in 130nm This diminishing return is partially attributable to the supply CMOS for the suppression of on-chip power supply noise due to rail...
The Autocorrelation Matching method is a blind signal separation and channel equalization technique for distributed MIMO commu-nication systems over unknown FIR channels using only second order...
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Lawrence T. Pileggi
In this paper we propose a novel projection-based algorithm to estimate the full-chip leakage power with consideration of both inter-die and intra-die process variations. Unlike many traditional...
Meshless Harmonic Volumetric Mapping using Fundamental Solution Methods (2008)
Xin Li, Xiaohu Guo, Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
Abstract—Harmonic volumetric mapping establishes a smooth bijective correspondence between two solid shapes with same topology. We develop an automatic meshless method for creating such a mapping...
Behavioral Modeling for Analog System-Level Simulation by Wavelet Collocation Method (2008)
Xin Li, Xuan Zeng, Dian Zhou, Xieting Ling, Wei Cai
Abstract—In this paper, we propose a wavelet collocation method with nonlinear companding to generate behavioral models for analog circuits at the system level. During the overall process of...
� Recommendation System � Personalized Search Engine � E-Commerce (2008)
� User preference is important, because it is the keystone of many applications:
Ouri Wolfson, Goce Trajcevski, Xin Li
• Line simplification reduces the number of points while preserving the basic “shape ” of trajectories. • Two types of line simplification: – Strong: Use existing vertices – Weak: Don’t...
LINEAR REGRESSION WITH DOUBLY CENSORED DATA (2008)
Linear regression with doubly censored responses is considered. Buckley�James�Ritov-type estimators are proposed. Semiparametric information and projective scores are discussed. An expansion of...
Direct Evolution of Hierarchical Solutions with Self-Emergent Substructures (2008)
Xin Li, Chi Zhou, Weimin Xiao, Peter C. Nelson
Linear genotype representation and modularity have continuously received extensive attention from the Genetic Programming (GP) community. The advantages of a linear genotype include a convenient and...
Prefix Gene Expression Programming (2008)
Xin Li, Chi Zhou, Weimin Xiao, Peter C. Nelson
Gene Expression Programming (GEP) is a powerful evolutionary method derived from Genetic Programming (GP) for model learning and knowledge discovery. However, when dealing with complex problems, its...
A Wavelet Balance Approach for Steady-State Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits" (2008)
Xin Li, Bo Hu, Xieting Ling, Xuait Zeng
In this paper, a novel wavelet balance method is proposed for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits. The proposed method presents several merits compared with those conventional frequency...
Continuous Reservoir Model Updating by Ensemble Kalman Filter on Grid Computing Architectures (2008)
A reservoir engineering Grid computing toolkit, ResGrid and its extensions, were developed and applied to designed reservoir simulation studies and continuous reservoir model updating. The toolkit...
Continuous Reservoir Model Updating by Ensemble Kalman Filter on Grid Computing Architectures (2008)
A reservoir engineering Grid computing toolkit, ResGrid and its extensions, were developed and applied to designed reservoir simulation studies and continuous reservoir model updating. The toolkit...
All-angle zero reflection at metamaterial surfaces (2008)
Li, Xin, Liang, Zixian, Liu, Xiaohan, Jiang, Xunya, Zi, Jian
The authors study theoretically reflection on the surface of a metamaterial with a hyperbolic dispersion. It is found that reflection is strongly dependent on how the surface is terminated with...
Xie, Si, Fang, Wei, Liu, Zhen, Wang, Shuang, Li, Xin, Liu, Teng, ...
Abstract Background High resistance to drug is taken as a characteristic of human tumors, which is usually mediated by multidrug resistance-associated genes. ABCC2, an ATP-binding cassette multidrug...
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays threshold in Randers-Finsler space (2008)
Kinematics in Finsler space is used to study the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays particles through the cosmic microwave background radiation. We find that the GZK threshold is lifted...
Generic Friedberg-Lee Symmetry of Dirac Neutrinos (2008)
Luo, Shu, Xing, Zhi-zhong, Li, Xin
We write out the generic Dirac neutrino mass operator which possesses the Friedberg-Lee (FL) symmetry and find that its corresponding neutrino mass matrix is asymmetric. Following a simple way to...
An Empirical Study of Memory Hardware Errors in A Server Farm ∗ (2008)
Xin Li, Michael C. Huang, Kai Shen
The integrity of system hardware is an important requirement for providing dependable services. Understanding the hardware’s failure mechanisms and the error rate is therefore an important step...
A Compact Model for Valence-Band Electron Tunneling Current in Partially Depleted (2008)
Soi Mosfets, Weimin Wu, Student Member, Xin Li, Gennady Gildenblat, Senior Member, ...
Abstract—The valence-band electron (EVB) tunneling current in partially depleted silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs increases as the gate oxide gets thinner and affects the dynamic behavior of...
ABSTRACT Tag-based Social Interest Discovery (2008)
The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del.icio.us, Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the research community. Among...
Statistical Performance Modeling and Optimization (2008)
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Lawrence T. Pileggi
As IC technologies scale to finer feature sizes, it becomes increasingly difficult to control the relative process variations. The increasing fluctuations in manufacturing processes have introduced...
Adaptive Load Management over Real-time Data Streams (2008)
Xin Li, Li Ma, Kun Li, Kun Wang, Hong-an Wang
Streaming applications require long-running query services against data streams. Existing data stream management systems (DSMSs) are poor at processing long-running queries with timing constrains. To...
Embedded Coding of Palette Images in the Topological Space (Summary) (2008)
Most existing image coding techniques resolve the uncertainty of an image source on a pixel-by-pixel basis. In this paper, we demonstrate the effectiveness of region-based image models for the class...
29.2 Analog and RF Circuit Macromodels for System-Level Analysis (2008)
Xin Li, Peng Li, Yang Xu, Lawrence T. Pileggi
Design and validation of mixed-signal integrated systems require system-level model abstractions. Generalized Volterra series based models have been successfully applied for analog and RF component...
ABSTRACT Fast Arithmetic for Triangular Sets: from Theory to Practice (2008)
We study arithmetic operations for triangular families of polynomials, concentrating on multiplication in dimension zero. By a suitable extension of fast univariate Euclidean division, we obtain...
Abstract Surface Matching Using Consistent Pants Decomposition (2008)
Surface matching is fundamental to shape computing and various downstream applications. This paper develops a powerful pants decomposition framework for computing maps between surfaces with arbitrary...
50.1 A Frequency Relaxation Approach for Analog/RF System-Level Simulation (2008)
Xin Li, Yang Xu, Peng Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Lawrence T. Pileggi
The increasing complexity of today’s mixed-signal integrated circuits necessitates both top-down and bottom-up system-level verification. Time-domain state-space modeling and simulation approaches...
What do users think of us? Mining three years of CUL LibQUAL+ data (Word doc) (2008)
O'Brien, Liane, Miller, Linda, Li, Xin
This study of CUL's LibQUAL+ data was presented on May 21, 2008 at CUL's Professional Development Week. The PowerPoint file is located in CUL's eCommons:...
A modified Newton's gravity is obtained as the weak field approximation of the Einstein's equation in Finsler space. It is found that a specified Finsler structure makes the modified Newton's gravity...
What do users think of us? Mining three years of CUL LibQUAL+ data (PowerPoint presentation) (2008)
O'Brien, Liane, Miller, Linda, Li, Xin
This PowerPoint was presented at CUL's Professional Development Week on May 21, 2008. It presents a longitudinal view of CUL's LibQUAL+ data for the "core questions" that were asked in each of the...
Gravitational collapse without a remnant (2008)
Chang, Zhe, Guan, Cheng-Bo, Huang, Chao-Guang, Li, Xin
We investigate the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric, inhomogeneous star, which is described by a perfect fluid with heat flow and satisfies the equation of state $p=\rho/3$ or...
Type-directed Trace Analysis of Security Protocols in Process Calculus (2008)
Guoqiang Li, Bochao Liu, Xin Li, Mizuhito Ogawa
Abstract. Trace analysis, one of the formal methods to verify security protocols, represents every possible runs of the protocols as traces and analyzes whether any unsafe state is reachable....
User Motivations and Incentive Structures in an Online Recommender System (2008)
F. Maxwell Harper, Joseph A. Konstan, Xin Li, Yan Chen
Abstract. Ratings-based recommender systems are one type of online community that relies on user contributions. We present an overview of the implicit incentive structures that motivate rating...
William Grosky, Nilesh Patel, Xin Li, Farshad Fotouhi
We examine the efficacy of using MPEG-7 in a native XML database environment for managing aerial image data. This application domain exhibits unique challenges in the management of image data which...
CURVE SPACE: CLASSIFYING CURVES ON SURFACES (2008)
Abstract. We design signatures for curves defined on genus zero surfaces. The signature classifies curves according to the conformal geometry of the given curves and their embedded surface. Based on...
doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxh116 Dynamically Emerging Semantics in an MPEG-7 Image Database (2008)
William Grosky, Nilesh Patel, Xin Li, Farshad Fotouhi
We examine the efficacy of using MPEG-7 in a native XML database environment for managing aerial image data. This application domain exhibits unique challenges in the management of image data which...
Poster Abstract: Energy-Efficient Data Organization and Query Processing in Sensor Networks (2008)
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Xin Li, Ramesh Govindan, Cyrus Shahabi, Wei Hong
Recent sensor networks research has produced a class of data storage and query processing techniques called Data-Centric Storage that leverages locality-preserving distributed indexes like DIM, DIFS,...
A Generic Task-Farming Framework for Reservoir Analysis in a Grid Environment (2008)
Santiago Pena, Dayong Huang, Zhou Lei, Gabrielle Allen, Xin Li, Chris D. White
The vast majority of research projects involving Grid Computing have focused on the development and standardization of the middleware that allows Grids to function. Despite the maturity of the...
Study of a Cost-effective Localization Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks ⋆ (2008)
Abstract. Currently, most of the RSS-based localization approaches rely on an isotropic radio propagation model to compute the distance from RSS, which however has been proved to be impossible by...
CURVE SPACE: CLASSIFYING CURVES ON SURFACES (2008)
Abstract. We design signatures for curves defined on genus zero surfaces. The signature classifies curves according to the conformal geometry of the given curves and their embedded surface. Based on...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xin Li, Nawaaz Ahmed
It is important yet hard to identify navigational queries in Web search due to a lack of sufficient information in Web queries, which are typically very short. In this paper we study several machine...
CONFORMAL SPHERICAL PARAMETRIZATION FOR HIGH GENUS SURFACES (2008)
Wei Zeng, Xin Li, Shing-tung Yau, Xianfeng Gu
Abstract. Surface parameterization establishes bijective maps from a surface onto a topolog-ically equivalent standard domain. It is well known that the spherical parameterization is limited to...
Full-SpaceLDA With Evolutionary Selection for Face Recognition' (2008)
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a popular feature extraction technique for face recognition. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem when dealing with the high...
CONFORMAL SPHERICAL PARAMETRIZATION FOR HIGH GENUS SURFACES (2008)
Wei Zeng, Xin Li, Shing-tung Yau, Xianfeng Gu
Abstract. Surface parameterization establishes bijective maps from a surface onto a topolog-ically equivalent standard domain. It is well known that the spherical parameterization is limited to...
Valerie Taylor, Xingfu Wu, Jonathan Geisler, Xin Li, Zhiling Lan, Mark Hereld, ...
Performance models provide significant insight into the performance relationships between an application and the system, either parallel or distributed, used for execution. The development of models...
Mid−term report Study on Pathology in Lookahead Based Heuristic Search (2008)
Lihong Li, Xin Li, Yiping Zhou
Problem formulation and challenges Many decision−making systems adopt lookahead policies to select the most promising eligible actions. In most cases, the deeper a program looks ahead, the better...
ABSTRACT Context Sensitive Stemming for Web Search (2008)
Fuchun Peng, Nawaaz Ahmed, Xin Li, Yumao Lu
Traditionally, stemming has been applied to Information Retrieval tasks by transforming words in documents to the their root form before indexing, and applying a similar transformation to query...
Xin Li, Chieh-chih Chang, Shi-kuo Chang
Facial expression is one of the primary communication means of the human. However, realistic facial expression images are not used in popular communication tools on portable devices because of the...
A Wavelet Balance Approach for Steady-State Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits * (2008)
Xin Li, Bo Hu, Xieting Ling, Xuan Zeng
In this paper, a novel wavelet balance method is proposed for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits. The proposed method presents several merits compared with those conventional frequency...
Using Open Web APIs in Teaching Web Mining (2008)
Hsinchun Chen, Xin Li, Michael Chau, Yi-jen Ho, Chunju Tseng
With the advent of the World Wide Web, many business applications that utilize data mining and text mining techniques to extract useful business information on the Web have emerged from Web searching...
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008)
Wei Zeng, Xin Li, Shing-tung Yau, Xianfeng Gu
Surface parameterization establishes bijective maps from a surface onto a topologically equivalent standard domain. It is well known that the spherical parameterization is limited to genus-zero...
Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design (2008)
Haibo Ma, Yi Gao, Xin Li, Jing Ma, Chungen Liu, Yuansheng Jiang, ...
BioChem Press
Project Proposal Study on Pathology in Lookahead Based Heuristic Search (2008)
Lihong Li, Xin Li, Yiping Zhou
Lookahead control policies are often used in searching game trees to improve the quality of a decision. However, sometimes looking ahead deeper consistently degrades the quality of a decision, which...
A Logarithmically Completely monotonic Function Involving the Gamma Functions 1 (2008)
Chao-ping Chen, Xin Li, Feng Qi
We show that the function x → [Γ(x+1)]1/x x[Γ(x+2)] 1/(x+1) is logarithmically completely monotonic on (0, ∞). This answers a question by A.Vernescu.
Self-emergence of Structures in Gene Expression Programming (2008)
This thesis work aims at improving the problem solving ability of the Gene Expression Programming (GEP) algorithm to fulfill complex data mining tasks by preserving and utilizing the self-emergence...
Chang, Zhe, Guan, Cheng-Bo, Huang, Chao-Guang, Li, Xin
We investigate the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric, inhomogeneous star, which is described by a perfect fluid with heat flow and satisfies the equation of state $p=\rho/3$ at its...
Xin Li, Jun Yan, Zhihong Deng, Lei Ji, Weiguo Fan, Benyu Zhang, ...
In recent years, different commercial Weblog subscribing systems have been proposed to return stories from users ’ subscribed feeds. In this paper, we propose a novel clustering-based RSS...
An Empirical Study of Memory Hardware Errors in A Server Farm ∗ (2008)
Xin Li, Michael C. Huang, Kai Shen
The integrity of system hardware is an important requirement for providing dependable services. Understanding the hardware’s failure mechanisms and the error rate is therefore an important step...
We present a data-driven, project-based algorithm which enhances image resolution by extrapolating high-band wavelet coefficients. High-resolution images are reconstructed by alternating the...
A Novel Orthogonal NMF-Based Belief Compression for POMDPs (2008)
High dimensionality of POMDP’s belief state space is one major cause that makes the underlying optimal policy computation intractable. Belief compression refers to the methodology that projects the...
C.2.3 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Operations General Terms (2008)
Xin Li, Fang Bian, Mark Crovella, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Gianluca Iannaccone, ...
Network anomaly detection using dimensionality reduction techniques has received much recent attention in the literature. For example, previous work has aggregated netflow records into...
Super-Resolution for Synthetic Zooming (2008)
Optical zooming is an important feature of imaging systems. In this paper, we investigate a low-cost signal processing alternative to optical zooming—synthetic zooming by super-resolution (SR)...
Connecting NSF Funding to Patent Innovation in Nanotechnology (2008)
Zan Huang, Hsinchun Chen, Xin Li, Mihail C. Roco
Nanotechnology research has experienced growth rapid in knowledge and innovations; it also attracted significant public funding in recent years. Several countries have recognized nanotechnology as a...
Transparent and Robust Audio Data Hiding 1 in Cepstrum Domain (2008)
In this paper, we propose a novel data hiding scheme for audio signals in cepstrum domain. Cepstrum representation of audio can be shown to be very robust to a wide range of attacks including most...
An important question in developmental biology is how a single cell divides to produce different types of cells, tissues and organs. Cell-to-cell signaling is an important mechanism to generate...
Wells, Christine, Salvage-Jones, Judith Anne, Li, Xin, Hitchens, Kelly Jane, Butcher, Suzanne, Murray, Rachel Z., ...
The recognition of carbohydrate moieties by cells of the innate immune system is emerging as an essential element in antifungal immunity, but despite the number and diversity of lectins expressed by...
Wells, Christine, Salvage-Jones, Judith Anne, Li, Xin, Hitchens, Kelly Jane, Butcher, Suzanne, Murray, Rachel Z., ...
The recognition of carbohydrate moieties by cells of the innate immune system is emerging as an essential element in antifungal immunity, but despite the number and diversity of lectins expressed by...
Globally optimal surface mapping for surfaces with arbitrary topology (2008)
Xin Li, Yunfan Bao, Xiaohu Guo, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
Abstract — Computing smooth and optimal one-to-one maps between surfaces of same topology is a fundamental problem in graphics and such a method provides us a ubiquitous tool for geometric modeling...
Globally optimal surface mapping for surfaces with arbitrary topology (2008)
Xin Li, Yunfan Bao, Xiaohu Guo, Miao Jin, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
Abstract — Computing smooth and optimal one-to-one maps between surfaces of same topology is a fundamental problem in computer graphics and such a method provides us a ubiquitous tool for geometric...
An important question in developmental biology is how a single cell divides to produce different types of cells, tissues and organs. Cell-to-cell signaling is an important mechanism to generate...
Backward Propagation of Variance: You Measure it, BPV can Model it! (2008)
McAndrew, Colin, Li, Xin, Stevanovic, Ivica, Gildenblat, Gennady
Wells, Christine, Salvage-Jones, Judith Anne, Li, Xin, Hitchens, Kelly Jane, Butcher, Suzanne, Murray, Rachel Z., ...
The recognition of carbohydrate moieties by cells of the innate immune system is emerging as an essential element in antifungal immunity, but despite the number and diversity of lectins expressed by...
Xu, Yuanyuan, Wang, Yi, Zheng, Quanmei, Li, Bing, Li, Xin, Jin, Yaping, ...
One hundred and four workers ingested excessive levels of arsenic in an accident caused by leakage of pipeline in a copper-smelting factory. Clinical examinations were performed by physicians in a...
On the origin of new genes in Drosophila (2008)
Zhou, Qi, Zhang, Guojie, Zhang, Yue, Xu, Shiyu, Zhao, Ruoping, Zhan, Zubing, ...
Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for the origination of new genes. Despite extensive case studies, the general principles governing this fundamental process are still unclear at the...
2-(Pyridinyldithio)ethylcarbamoyl dextran (PDEC dextran) is developed herein as a novel biosensor coating material aimed for direct and facile fabrication of a sulfhydryl-specific capture surface on...
Direct acoustic profiling of DNA hybridisation using HSV type 1 viral sequences (2008)
Uludag, Yildiz, Li, Xin, Coleman, Heather, Efstathiou, Stacey, Cooper, Matthew A.
We describe the detection of specific, conserved DNA sequences of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 1 by means of a novel, high sensitivity acoustic biosensor. Repeated assays on planar and polymeric...
Determining the Optimal Number of Clusters by an Extended RPCL Algorithm (Revised Version) (2007)
Xin Li, Man Wai Mak, Chi Kwong Li
Determining an appropriate number of clusters is a di cult yet important problem. The rival penalized competitive learning (RPCL) algorithm was designed to solve this problem. But its performance is...
A Note on Chebyshev's Inequality (2007)
Starting with Chebyshev's inequality, we introduce improvements and variations that lead to new problems and conjectures on polynomials and logarithmic potentials. 1
Determining the Optimal Number of Clusters by an Extended RPCL Algorithm (Revised Version) (2007)
Xin Li, Man Wai Mak, Chi Kwong Li
Determining an appropriate number of clusters is a difficult yet important problem. The rival penalized competitive learning (RPCL) algorithm was designed to solve this problem. But its performance...
Convergence of Interpolating Laurent Polynomials on an Annulus (2007)
. We study the convergence of Laurent polynomials that interpolate functions on the boundary of a circular annulus. The points of interpolation are chosen to be uniformly distributed on the two...
this paper, we will establish such a separation theorem. The key of the proof is an existence theorem for one-sided interpolation L-polynomials (see Theorem 4 below), which is of interest in its own....
Determining an appropriate number of clusters is a difficult but important problem. The rival penalized competitive learning (RPCL) algorithm was proposed to solve this problem. But its performance...
Approximation by Rational Functions in Hardy Space (2007)
. The denseness of rational functions with prescribed poles in the Hardy space and disk algebra is considered. Keywords: Rational approximation, Hardy space, disk algebra, system identification....
Learning Components for A Question-Answering (2007)
Dan Roth, Gio Kao Kao, Xin Li, Ramya Nagarajan, Vasin Punyakanok, Nick Rizzolo, ...
We describe a machine learning approach to the development of several key components in a question answering system and the way they were used in the UIUC QA system. A unified learning approach is...
Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of Questions (2007)
Dan Roth, Chad Cumby, Xin Li, Paul Morie, Ramya Nagarajan, Nick Rizzolo, ...
We describe a machine learning centered approach to developing an open domain question answering system. The system was developed in the summer of 2002, building upon several existing machine...
CoNLL'01 Exploring Evidence for Shallow Parsing (2007)
Signi cant amount of work has been devoted recently to develop learning techniques that can be used to generate partial (shallow) analysis of natural language sentences rather than a full parse. In...
COLING'02 Learning Question Classifiers (2007)
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of the constraints the...
Fang Bian, Ashish Goel, C. S. Raghavendra, Xin Li
Energy-efficient communication is critical for increasing the life of power limited wireless ad hoc networks. Accordingly, there has been considerable interest in minimum energy broadcast. In this...
The Autocorrelation Matching Method For Distributed Mimo (2007)
Communications Over Unknown, Hui Luo, Ruey-wen Liu, Xieting Lin, Xin Li
The Autocorrelation Matching method is a blind signal separation and channel equalization technique for distributed MIMO communication systems over unknown FIR channels using only second order...
Question-Answering via Enhanced Understanding of Questions (2007)
Dan Roth, Chad Cumby, Xin Li, Paul Morie, Ramya Nagarajan, Nick Rizzolo, ...
Representation Construction Relation Extraction Question Classification Abstract Representation Construction Relation Extraction Question Set Indexing Extracting Satisfaction Answer Selection...
Palma, Kristoffer, Zhao, Qingguo, Cheng, Yu Ti, Bi, Dongling, Monaghan, Jacqueline, Cheng, Wei, ...
Innate immunity against pathogen infection is an evolutionarily conserved process among multicellular organisms. Arabidopsis SNC1 encodes a Resistance protein that combines attributes of multiple...
Hadron Scattering in an Asymmetric Box (2007)
Li, Xin, Chen, Ying, Meng, Guo-Zhan, Feng, Xu, Gong, Ming, He, Song, ...
We propose to study hadron-hadron scattering using lattice QCD in an asymmetric box which allows one to access more non-degenerate low-momentum modes for a given volume. The conventional...
Towards a CPT Invariant Quantum Field Theory on Elliptic de Sitter Space (2007)
Consequences of Schr\"{o}dinger's antipodal identification on quantum field theory in de Sitter space are investigated. The elliptic $\mathbb{Z}_2$ identification provides observers with complete...
Improving multi-agent coalition formation in complex environments (2007)
Coalition formation in multi-agent systems is a process where agents form coalitions and work together to solve a joint problem via cooperating or coordinating their actions within each coalition. It...
Image Resolution Enhancement via Data-Driven Parametric Models in the Wavelet Space (2007)
We present a data-driven, project-based algorithm which enhances image resolution by extrapolating high-band wavelet coefficients. High-resolution images are reconstructed by alternating the...
ABSTRACT : In this report, we compared haplotyping approaches using families and unrelated individuals on the simulated rheumatoid arthritis (RA) data in Problem 3 from Genetic Analysis Workshop...
A memory soft error measurement on production systems (2007)
Xin Li, Kai Shen, Michael C. Huang
Memory state can be corrupted by the impact of particles causing single-event upsets (SEUs). Understanding and dealing with these soft (or transient) errors is important for system reliability....
Asymptotic probability extraction for nonnormal performance distributions (2007)
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Student Member, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Student Member, Lawrence T. Pileggi
Abstract—While process variations are becoming more significant with each new IC technology generation, they are often modeled via linear regression models so that the resulting performance...
A memory soft error measurement on production systems (2007)
Xin Li, Kai Shen, Michael C. Huang
Memory state can be corrupted by the impact of particles causing single-event upsets (SEUs). Understanding and dealing with these soft (or transient) errors is important for system reliability....
Improving Multi-Agent Coalition Formation in Complex Environments (2007)
Coalition formation in multi-agent systems is a process where agents form coalitions and work together to solve a joint problem via cooperating or coordinating their actions within each coalition. It...
A memory soft error measurement on production systems (2007)
Xin Li, Kai Shen, Michael C. Huang
Memory state can be corrupted by the impact of particles causing single-event upsets (SEUs). Understanding and dealing with these soft (or transient) errors is important for system reliability....
Harmonic volumetric mapping for solid modeling applications (2007)
Xin Li, Xiaohu Guo, Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
Figure 1: Harmonic volumetric mapping from a solid polycube model(a) to the solid Buddha model(b). (c) is the color-coded distance field of the Buddha interior. This color-coded distance field is...
Hongyu Wang, Ying He, Xin Li, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
(a) Conformal polycube map (b) Polycube T-spline (c) T-junctions on polycube spline(d) Close-up of control points Figure 1: Polycube spline for the Isidore Horse model. (a) The conformal polycube map...
On the virtues of generic programming for symbolic computation (2007)
Xin Li, Marc Moreno Maza, Éric Schost
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of C level code polynomial arithmetic on the performances of AXIOM highlevel algorithms, such as polynomial factorization. More precisely,...
Visual Comput (2007) 23: 1027–1033 DOI 10.1007/s00371-007-0170-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE (2007)
Xin Li, Jiansong Deng, Falai Chen, Xin Li, Jiansong Deng, Falai Chen
In geometric modeling, the representations of surfaces is one of the most important and interesting research topics. Computer graphics and computer-aided design communities prefer parametric...
BMC Proceedings BioMed Central (2007)
Proceedings Comparison of haplotyping methods using families and unrelated individuals on simulated rheumatoid arthritis data
Improving multi-agent coalition formation in complex environments [electronic resource] / (2007)
Electronic text and images (PDF).
On Modeling Interchannel Dependency for Color Image Denoising (2007)
ABSTRACT: In this article, we study the modeling of interchannel dependency and its application into removing additive noise from corrupted color images. We start from an ad hoc spatially invariant...
Image Resolution Enhancement via Data-Driven Parametric Models in the Wavelet Space (2007)
We present a data-driven, project-based algorithm which enhances image resolution by extrapolating high-band wavelet coefficients. High-resolution images are reconstructed by alternating the...
Massive Overlap Fermions on Anisotropic Lattices (2006)
Li, Xin, Meng, Guozhan, Feng, Xu, Liu, Chuan
We formulate the massive overlap fermions on anisotropic lattices. We find that the dispersion relation for the overlap fermion resembles the continuum form in the low-momentum region once the bare...
INCREMENTAL QUERY PROCESSING IN INFORMATION FUSION SYSTEMS (2006)
This dissertation studies the methodology and techniques of information retrieval in fusion systems where information referring to same objects is assessed on the basis of data from multiple...
Zhang, Hai-zhu, Li, Xin, Hu, Bin
Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China. lsg@xxmc.edu.cn
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment (2006)
Chen, Yan, Li, Xin, MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment (2006)
Chen, Yan, Li, Xin, MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment (2006)
Chen, Yan, Li, Xin, MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment (2006)
Chen, Yan, Li, Xin, MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...
MIND: A Distributed Multidimensional Indexing for Network Diagnosis (2006)
Xin Li, Fang Bian, Hui Zhang, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, ...
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain (2006)
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Modern...
Effect of myelin on regulatory pathways for fast axonal transport / (2006)
Thesis (M.S. in Anatomy and Cell Biology)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006.
Self-emergence of structures in gene expression programming / (2006)
Thesis (Ph.D. in Computer Science)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006.
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain (2006)
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers....
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain (2006)
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers....
Deleteagene: A Fast Neutron Deletion Mutagenesis-Based Gene Knockout System for Plants (2006)
Xin Li, Michael Lassner, Yuelin Zhang
Deleteagene™ (Delete-a-gene) is a deletion-based gene knockout system for plants. To obtain deletion mutants for a specific gene, random deletion libraries created by fast neutron...
Li Zhang, Beiying Qiu, Xin Li, Xin Wang, Jingya Li, Yongliang Zhang, ...
A small library of 6-aminoquinoxalines has been prepared by nucleophilic substitution of 6-fluoroquinoxaline with amines and nitrogen-containing heterocycles under computer-controlled microwave...
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain (2006)
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers....
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain (2006)
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Modern...
MIND: A Distributed Multi-Dimensional Indexing System for Network Diagnosis (2006)
Xin Li, Fang Bian, Hui Zhang, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, ...
Detecting coordinated attacks on Internet resources requires a distributed network monitoring infrastructure. Such an infrastructure will have two logically distinct elements: distributed monitors...
International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management (2006)
The dynamic multi-innovation diffusion model with active potential consumers and its application to the diffusion of local telephony and mobile telephony in China
Curves-on-surfaces: A general shape comparison framework (2006)
Xin Li, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
We develop a new surface matching framework to handle surface comparisons based on a novel mathematical analysis of curves on surfaces, and propose a unique signature for any closed curve on a...
Yan Chen, Xin Li, Yan Chen, Xin Li
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...
Location Estimation in Library Environment based on (2006)
Pg Day, Yicheng Feng, Jianjia Pan, Haotian Wu, Xin Li, Zhili Wu, ...
A Semi-supervised SVM for Manifold Learning
Spatial analysis of news sources (2006)
Andrew Mehler, Yunfan Bao, Xin Li, Yue Wang, Steven Skiena
Abstract — People in different places talk about different things. This interest distribution is reflected by the newspaper articles circulated in a particular area. We use data from our...
Efficient implementation of polynomial arithmetic in a multiple-level programming environment (2006)
Abstract. The purpose of this study is to investigate implementation techniques for polynomial arithmetic in a multiple-level programming environment. Indeed, certain polynomial data types and...
Curves-on-surfaces: A general shape comparison framework (2006)
Xin Li, Ying He, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
We develop a new surface matching framework to handle surface comparisons based on the mathematical analysis of curves on surfaces, and propose a unique signature for any closed curve on a surface....
Congxia Dai, Yunfei Zheng, Xin Li, Communicated James Davis, Riad Hammoud
Pedestrian detection and tracking in infrared imagery using shape
Least-Square Prediction for Backward Adaptive Video Coding (2006)
Almost all existing approaches towards video coding exploit the temporal redundancy by block-matching-based motion estimation and compensation. Regardless of its popularity, block matching still...
Meshless thin-shell simulation based on global conformal parameterization (2006)
Xiaohu Guo, Xin Li, Student Member, Student Member, Yunfan Bao, Xianfeng Gu, ...
Abstract — This paper presents a new approach to the physically-based thin-shell simulation of point-sampled geometry via explicit, global conformal point-surface parameterization and meshless...
Discovering overlapping communities of named entities (2006)
Xin Li, Bing Liu, Philip S. Yu
Abstract. Although community discovery based on social network analysis has been studied extensively in the Web hyperlink environment, limited research has been done in the case of named entities in...
HW/SW CoDesign for a Reactive Processor (2006)
Sascha Gädtke, Xin Li, Marian Boldt, Reinhard Von Hanxleden
This paper presents an approach to accelerate reactive processing via an external logic block that handles complex signal expressions. A reactive program, programmed in the synchronous language...
INCREMENTAL QUERY PROCESSING IN INFORMATION FUSION SYSTEMS (2006)
Xin Li, Xin Li, Dr. Shi-kuo Chang, Xin Li Phd
This dissertation was presented by
Multithreaded parallel implementation of arithmetic operations modulo a triangular set (2006)
We discuss the parallelization of arithmetic operations on polynomials modulo a triangular set. We focus on parallel normal form computations since this is a core subroutine in many high-level...
MIND: A Distributed Multi-Dimensional Indexing System for Network Diagnosis (2006)
Xin Li, Fang Bian, Hui Zhang, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, ...
Detecting coordinated attacks on Internet resources requires a distributed network monitoring infrastructure. Such an infrastructure will have two logically distinct elements: distributed monitors...
Modeling intra-class variation for non-ideal iris recognition (2006)
Abstract. Intra-class variation is fundamental to the FNMR performance of iris recognition systems. In this paper, we perform a systematic study of modeling intra-class variation for nonideal iris...
Fast and accurate segmentation of dental x-ray records (2006)
Xin Li, Ayman Abaza, Diaa Eldin Nassar, Hany Ammar
Abstract. Identification of deceased individuals based on dental characteristics is receiving increased attention. Dental radiographic films of an individual are usually composed into a digital image...
Super-Resolution for Synthetic Zooming (2006)
Optical zooming is an important feature of imaging systems. In this paper, we investigate a low-cost signal processing alternative to optical zooming—synthetic zooming by super-resolution (SR)...
Least-Square Prediction for Backward Adaptive Video Coding (2006)
Almost all existing approaches towards video coding exploit the temporal redundancy by block-matching-based motion estimation and compensation. Regardless of its popularity, block matching still...
Li, Jiexun, Li, Xin, Su, Hua, Chen, Hsinchun, Galbraith, David W.
One of the most important goals of biological investigation is to uncover gene functional relations. In this study we propose a framework for extraction and integration of gene functional relations...
Bian, Fang, Li, Xin, Govindan, Ramesh, SHENKER, SCOTT J
Until practical ad-hoc localization systems are developed, early deployments of wireless sensor networks will manually configure location information in network nodes in order to assign spatial...
Energy-Efficient Data Organization and Query Processing in Sensor Networks (2005)
Gummadi, Ramakrishna, Li, Xin, Govindan, Ramesh, Shahabi, Cyrus, Hong, Wei
Recent sensor networks research has produced a class of data storage and query processing techniques called Data-Centric Storage that leverages locality-preserving distributed indexes like DIM, DIFS,...
Negotiating the semantic gap in an MPEG-7 aerial image database (2005)
This dissertation presents our research related to content-based retrieval and annotation system for aerial image regions in a database environment. The purpose is to narrow the semantic gap for...
The main goal of this work was to observe and study spin moment transfer in composite structure (ferromagnetic/normal metal), as well as in purely ferromagnetic nanostructures. Our initial assumption...
Modeling Interconnect Variability Using Efficient Parametric Model Order Reduction (2005)
Li, Peng, Liu, Frank, Li, Xin, Pileggi, Lawrence T., Nassif, Sani R.
Assessing IC manufacturing process fluctuations and their impacts on IC interconnect performance has become unavoidable for modern DSM designs. However, the construction of parametric interconnect...
Modeling Interconnect Variability Using Efficient Parametric Model Order Reduction (2005)
Li, Peng, Liu, Frank, Li, Xin, Pileggi, Lawrence T., Nassif, Sani R.
Assessing IC manufacturing process fluctuations and their impacts on IC interconnect performance has become unavoidable for modern DSM designs. However, the construction of parametric interconnect...
Genetic models of Candida infection and host resistance factors (2005)
Ashman, Robert B., Farah, Camile S., Hu, Yan, Li, Xin, Wells, Christine
Infections caused by the yeast Candida albicans can occur on the skin, on mucous surfaces, or in disseminated form throughout the body and corresponding models have been developed in vivo. Patterns...
Scheduling optical packet switches with reconfiguration delay / (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005.
Qin, Ling, Tamasi, Joseph, Raggatt, Liza, Li, Xin, Feyen, Jean H. M., DiCicco-Bloom|, Emanuel, ...
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is the major mediator of calcium homeostasis and bone remodeling and is now known to be an effective drug for osteoporosis treatment. Yet the mechanisms responsible for its...
Genetic models of Candida infection and host resistance factors (2005)
Ashman, Robert B., Farah, Camile S., Hu, Yan, Li, Xin, Wells, Christine
Infections caused by the yeast Candida albicans can occur on the skin, on mucous surfaces, or in disseminated form throughout the body and corresponding models have been developed in vivo. Patterns...
Qin, Ling, Tamasi, Joseph, Raggatt, Liza, Li, Xin, Feyen, Jean H. M., DiCicco-Bloom|, Emanuel, ...
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is the major mediator of calcium homeostasis and bone remodeling and is now known to be an effective drug for osteoporosis treatment. Yet the mechanisms responsible for its...
Towards solving large-scale POMDP problems via spatio-temporal belief state clustering (2005)
Xin Li, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu
Markov decision process (MDP) is commonly used to model a stochastic environment for supporting optimal decision making. However, solving a large-scale MDP problem under the partially observable...
Xin Li, Tan F. Wong, John M. Shea
Collaborative decoding is an approach that achieves spatial gain and diversity by exchanging decod-ing information among a cluster of physically separated receivers. The least-reliable-bit (LRB)...
Mining Community Structure of Named Entities from Free Text (2005)
Although community discovery based on social network has been studied extensively in the Web hyperlink environment, limited research has been done in the case of Web documents. The co-occurrence of...
Modeling interconnect variability using efficient parametric model order reduction (2005)
Peng Li, Frank Liu, Xin Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Sani R. Nassif
Assessing IC manufacturing process fluctuations and their impacts on IC interconnect performance has become unavoidable for modern DSM designs. However, the construction of parametric interconnect...
Modeling interconnect variability using efficient parametric model order reduction (2005)
Peng Li, Frank Liu, Xin Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Sani R. Nassif
Assessing IC manufacturing process fluctuations and their impacts on IC interconnect performance has become unavoidable for modern DSM designs. However, the construction of parametric interconnect...
Mining Community Structure of Named Entities from Free Text (2005)
Although community discovery has been studied extensively in the Web environment, limited research has been done in the case of free text. Co-occurrence of words and entities in sentences and...
Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration (2005)
Xin Li, Jian Wang, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Tun-shih Chen, Wanju Chiang
In this paper we propose a novel analog design optimization methodology to address two key aspects of top-down system-level design: (1) how to optimally compare and select analog system architectures...
Xin Li, Tan F. Wong, John M. Shea
Abstract — Collaborative decoding is an approach that can achieve diversity and combining gain by exchanging decoding information among a cluster of physically separated receivers. On AWGN...
Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration (2005)
Xin Li, Jian Wang, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Tun-shih Chen, Wanju Chiang
In this paper we propose a novel analog design optimization methodology to address two key aspects of top-down system-level design: (1) how to optimally compare and select analog system architectures...
Projection-based performance modeling for inter/intra-die variations (2005)
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Andrzej Strojwas
Large-scale process fluctuations in nano-scale IC technologies suggest applying high-order (e.g., quadratic) response surface models to capture the circuit performance variations. Fitting such models...
Rebalancing distributed data storage in sensor networks (2005)
Xin Li, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, Fang Bian
Sensor networks are an emerging class of systems with significant potential. Recent work [14] has proposed a distributed data structure called DIM for efficient support of multi-dimensional range...
Energy-efficient data organization and query processing in sensor networks (2005)
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Xin Li, Ramesh Govindan, Cyrus Shahabi, Wei Hong
cost makes it infeasible to consider centrally collecting and Sensor networks are an emerging class of highly distributed processing voluminous sensor data. An important compo-systems that generate,...
Improved Wavelet Decoding via Set Theoretic Estimation (2005)
In this letter, we show that the performance of a wavelet decoder can be improved via a set theoretic approach at low bit rates. The traditional decoding rule is replaced by iterative...
Advanced Indexing Techniques for Wide-Area Network Monitoring (2005)
Xin Li, Fang Bian, Hui Zhang, Christophe Diot, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong, ...
Detecting and unraveling incipient coordinated attacks on Internet resources requires a distributed network monitoring infrastructure. Such an infrastructure will have two logically distinct...
Energy-Efficient Data Organization and Query Processing in Sensor Networks (2005)
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Xin Li, Ramesh Govindan, Cyrus Shahabi, Wei Hong
Recent sensor networks research has produced a class of data storage and query processing techniques called Data-Centric Storage that leverages locality-preserving distributed indexes to efficiently...
Synchronization in OFDM-Based WLAN with Transmit and Receive Diversities (2005)
Ting-jung Liang, Xin Li, Ralf Irmer, Gerhard Fettweis
Abstract — This paper 1 deals with the feasibility of improving synchronization (packet detection and frequency synchronization) of OFDM systems by exploiting transmit and receive diversities....
Brain image analysis using spherical splines (2005)
Ying He, Xin Li, Xianfeng Gu, Hong Qin
Abstract. We propose a novel technique based on spherical splines for brain surface representation and analysis. This research is strongly inspired by the fact that, for brain surfaces, it is both...
Link prediction approach to collaborative filtering (2005)
Zan Huang, Xin Li, Hsinchun Chen
Recommender systems can provide valuable services in a digital library environment, as demonstrated by its commercial success in book, movie, and music industries. One of the most commonlyused and...
An economic model of user rating in an online recommender system (2005)
F. Maxwell Harper, Xin Li, Yan Chen, Joseph A. Konstan
Abstract. Economic modeling provides a formal mechanism to understand user incentives and behavior in online systems. In this paper we describe the process of building a parameterized economic model...
Correlation-Aware Statistical Timing Analysis with Non-Gaussian Delay Distributions (2005)
Yaping Zhan, Andrzej J. Strojwas, Xin Li, Lawrence T. Pileggi, David Newmark, Mahesh Sharma
Process variations have a growing impact on circuit performance for today’s integrated circuit (IC) technologies. The Non-Gaussian delay distributions as well as the correlations among delays make...
Partitioning, Surface/Volume Parameterization/Remeshing Education (2005)
Xin Li, Advisors Hong Qin, Xianfeng Gu, Advisors Hong Qin, Xianfeng Gu
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Mustafa Celik, Lawrence T. Pileggi
The large-scale process and environmental variations for today’s nanoscale ICs are requiring statistical approaches for timing analysis and optimization. Significant research has been recently...
An Esterel Processor with Full Preemption Support and its Worst Case Reaction Time Analysis (2005)
Xin Li, Jan Lukoschus, Marian Boldt, Michael Harder, Reinhard Von Hanxleden
The concurrent synchronous language Esterel allows programmers to treat reactive systems in an abstract, concise manner. An Esterel program is typically first translated into other, non-synchronous...
Intelligent access to information requires semantic integration of structured databases with unstructured textual resources. While the semantic integration problem has been widely studied in the...
Stateful Inspection Firewall Session Table (2005)
Xin Li, Zhenzhou Ji, Mingzeng Hu
Stateful Inspection is a key technology to network devices such as routers and firewalls. Existing session table architectures of Stateful Inspection devices store all session information in a single...
Genetic Models of candida infection and host resistance factors (2005)
Ashman, Robert B., Farah, Camile S., Hu, Yan, Li, Xin, Wells, Christine
The Kiel Esterel Processor - A Semi-Custom, Configurable Reactive Processor (2005)
Li, Xin, Von Hanxleden, Reinhard
The synchronous language Esterel is an established language for developing reactive systems. It gives an abstract, well-defined and executable description of the application, and can be synthesized...
Dynamically Emerging Semantics in an MPEG-7 Image Database (2005)
Grosky, William, Patel, Nilesh, Li, Xin, Fotouhi, Farshad
We examine the efficacy of using MPEG-7 in a native XML database environment for managing aerial image data. This application domain exhibits unique challenges in the management of image data which...
Dynamically Emerging Semantics in an MPEG-7 Image Database (2005)
Grosky, William, Patel, Nilesh, Li, Xin, Fotouhi, Farshad
We examine the efficacy of using MPEG-7 in a native XML database environment for managing aerial image data. This application domain exhibits unique challenges in the management of image data which...
Applications of Decision and Utility Theory in Multi-Agent Systems (2004)
This report reviews the applications of decision-related theories (decision theory, utility theory, probability theory, and game theory) in various aspects of multi-agent systems. In recent years,...
Estimating Mass of Sigma-Meson and Study on Application of the Linear Sigma-Model (2004)
Ding, Yi-Bing, Li, Xin, Li, Xue-Qian, Liu, Xiang, Shen, Hong, Shen, Peng-Nian, ...
Whether the $\sigma-meson$ ($f_0(600)$) exists as a real particle is a long-standing problem in both particle physics and nuclear physics. In this work, we analyze the deuteron binding energy in the...
Robust analog/RF circuit design with projection-based posynomial modeling (2004)
Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Yang Xu, Lawrence T. Pileggi
In this paper we propose a RObust Analog Design tool (ROAD) for post-tuning analog/RF circuits. Starting from an initial design derived from hand analysis or analog circuit synthesis based on...
An interactive visual query interface on spatial/ temporal data (2004)
Abstract: In this paper a visual approach for the query interface on the spatial/temporal data is described, which is designed for the users who know nothing about query languages. Based on concept...
Zhuli Xie, Xin Li, Barbara Di Eugenio, Peter C. Nelson
In this paper, we consider the automatic text summarization as a challenging task of machine learning. We proposed a novel summarization system architecture which employs Gene Expression Programming...
Investigation of Constant Creation Techniques in the context of Gene Expression Programming (2004)
Xin Li, Chi Zhou, Peter C. Nelson, Thomas M. Tirpak
Abstract. Gene Expression Programming (GEP) is a new technique of Genetic Programming (GP) that implements a linear genotype representation. It uses fixed-length chromosomes to represent expression...
Robust analog/RF circuit design with projection-based posynomial modeling (2004)
Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Student Member, Yang Xu, Lawrence T. Pileggi
Abstract—In this paper, a robust analog design (ROAD) tool for posttuning (i.e., locally optimizing) analog/RF circuits is proposed. Starting from an initial design derived from hand analysis or...
Object contour tracking using level sets (2004)
Alper Yilmaz, Xin Li, Mubarak Shah
Abstract — High level vision tasks (recognition, understanding, etc.) for video processing require tracking of the complete contour of the objects. In general, objects undergo non-rigid...
Fang Bian, Xin Li, Ramesh Govindan, Scott Schenker
Until practical ad-hoc localization systems are developed, early deployments of wireless sensor networks will manually configure location information in network nodes in order to assign spatial...
Scalable video compression via overcomplete motion compensated wavelet coding (2004)
Recently, there have been a flurry of works on overcomplete motion compensated wavelet coding (OMCWC). In this paper, we address the importance of phase and focus on the design of scalable video...
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities (2004)
Kimberly Ling, Gerard Beenen, Pamela J. Ludford, Xiaoqing Wang, Klarissa Chang, Xin Li, ...
Fduqa on trec2004 qa track (2004)
Lide Wu, Xuanjing Huang, Lan You, Zhushuo Zhang, Xin Li, Yaqian Zhou
In this year’s QA Track, we process factoid questions in a way that is slightly different from our previous system [1]. The most significant difference is that we developed a new answer type...
Zhuli Xie, Xin Li, Barbara Di Eugenio, C. Nelson
In this paper, we consider the automatic text summarization as a challenging task of machine learning. We proposed a novel summarization system architecture which employs Gene Expression Programming...
Learning question classifiers: The role of semantic information (2004)
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of text data, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of the constraints...
Distributed coding of multispectral images: a set theoretic approach (2004)
Distributed coding problem poses the challenge of how to shift the exploitation of the correlation structure of source from encoder to decoder with minimal degradation on coding efficiency. In this...
Asymptotic Probability Extraction for Non-Normal Distributions of Circuit Performance (2004)
Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Lawrence T. Pileggi
While process variations are becoming more significant with each new IC technology generation, they are often modeled via linear regression models so that the resulting performance variations can be...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
Changes in susceptibility to posaconazole in clinical isolates of Candida albicans (2004)
Li, Xin, Brown, Nathaniel, Chau, Andrew S., López-Ribot, José L., Ruesga, Maria T., Quindos, Guillermo, ...
Objectives: To characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for reduced susceptibility to azoles in Candida albicans clinical isolates. Materials and methods: Seven sequential C. albicans...
Multi-dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks (2003)
Li, Xin, Kim, Young Jin, Govindan, Ramesh, Hong, Wei
In many sensor networks, data or events are named by attributes. Many of these attributes have scalar values, so one natural way to query events of interest is to use a multi-dimensional range query....
Distributed Index for Multi-dimensional Data in Sensor Networks (2003)
Xin Li, Young Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Wei Hong
In many sensor network applications, data or events are named by attributes. Many of these attributes have scalar values, so one natural way to query events of interest is to use a multi-dimensional...
A Literature Review on Learner Control Strategies in Software Tutoring Systems (2003)
This paper is a comprehensive research review on the learner control strategies in software tutoring systems. With the application of more computer techniques in education and the involvement of more...
A Fast and Efficient Topological Coding Algorithm for Compound Images (2003)
We present a fast and efficient coding algorithm for compound images. Unlike popular mixture raster content (MRC) based approaches, we propose to attack compound image coding problem from the...
Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma
Abstract — A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information...
Ming Li, Xin Chen, Xin Li, Bin Ma
Abstract—A new class of distances appropriate for measuring similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per distance, is studied. We propose a new “normalized information...
Reliability exchange schemes for iterative packet combining in distributed arrays (2003)
Arun Avudainayagam, John M. Shea, Tan F. Wong, Xin Li
Abstract — We investigate reliability exchange schemes that allow a group of radios to act as a distributed antenna array in which radio links are used to exchange information between the various...
Noise macromodel for radio frequency integrated circuits (2003)
Yang Xu, Xin Li, Peng Li, Lawrence Pileggi
Abstract † Noise performance is a critical analog and RF circuit design constraint, and can impact the selection of the IC system-level architecture. It is therefore imperative that some model of...
PhraseNet: Towards Context Sensitive Lexical Semantics (2003)
Xin Li, Dan Roth, Yuancheng Tu
This paper introduces PhraseNet, a context-sensitive lexical semantic knowledge base system. Based on the supposition that semantic proximity is not simply a relation between two words in isolation,...
A hybrid approach to nonlinear macromodel generation for time-varying analog circuits (2003)
Peng Li, Xin Li, Yang Xu, Lawrence T. Pileggi
Modeling frequency-dependent nonlinear characteristics of complex analog blocks and subsystems is critical for enabling efficient verification of mixed-signal system designs. Recent progress has been...
Ming Li, Xin Li, Xin Li, Bin Ma, Paul Vitanyi
A new class of metrics appropriate for measuring e#ective similarity relations between sequences, say one type of similarity per metric, is studied. We propose a new "normalized information...
Computer Viruses: The Threat Today and the Expected Future (2003)
X Examensarbete, Xin Li, Xin Li
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A Fast and Efficient Topological Coding Algorithm for Compound Images (2003)
this paper, we attack compound image coding from a dierent perspective. We argue that computationally expensive document segmentation [4, 5, 6] is not an indispensable component to compound image...
On Exploiting Geometric Constraint of Image Wavelet Coefficients (2003)
In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to exploit geometric constraint of edges in wavelet-based image coding. The value of studying this problem is the potential coding gain brought by...
New Results of Phase Shifting in the Wavelet Space (2003)
This letter investigates the relationship between even-phase coefficients and odd-phase coefficients in a two-channel perfect reconstruction filter bank. We demonstrate that they are linked to each...
Multi-dimensional range queries in sensor networks (2003)
Xin Li, Young Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan
In many sensor networks, data or events are named by attributes. Many of these attributes have scalar values, so one natural way to query events of interest is to use a multidimensional range query....
A Bayesian Approach to Object Contour Tracking Using Level Sets (2003)
Alper Yilmaz Xin, Xin Li, Mubarak Shah
High level vision tasks (recognition, understanding, etc.) for video processing require tracking of the complete contour of the objects. In general, objects undergo non-rigid deformations, which...
A Fast and Efficient Topological Coding Algorithm for Compound Images (2003)
We present a fast and efficient coding algorithm for compound images. Unlike popular mixture raster content (MRC) based approaches, we propose to attack compound image coding problem from the...
A Fast and Efficient Topological Coding Algorithm for Compound Images (2003)
We present a fast and efficient coding algorithm for compound images. Unlike popular mixture raster content (MRC) based approaches, we propose to attack compound image coding problem from the...
Immunofluorescence assay and flow-cytometry selection of bead-bound aptamers (2003)
Yang, Xianbin, Li, Xin, Prow, Tarl W., Reece, Lisa M., Bassett, Suzanne E., Luxon, Bruce A., ...
An immunofluorescence assay was developed to identify proteins specifically binding to oligonucleoside phosphorodithioate (ODN) aptamers from a bead‐bound ODN library. Accordingly, NF‐κB...
Changes in susceptibility to posaconazole in clinical isolates of Candida albicans (2003)
Li, Xin, Brown, Nathaniel, Chau, Andrew S., López-Ribot, José L., Ruesga, Maria T., Quindos, Guillermo, ...
Objectives: To characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for reduced susceptibility to azoles in Candida albicans clinical isolates. Materials and methods: Seven sequential C. albicans...
Changes in susceptibility to posaconazole in clinical isolates of Candida albicans (2003)
Li, Xin, Brown, Nathaniel, Chau, Andrew S., López-Ribot, José L., Ruesga, Maria T., Quindos, Guillermo, ...
Objectives: To characterize the molecular mechanisms responsible for reduced susceptibility to azoles in Candida albicans clinical isolates. Materials and methods: Seven sequential C. albicans...
Recently Koch et al. suggested an interesting approach for covariate adjustment in randomized clinical trials. Here we report our experience with the approach in Assent II, a large randomized trial...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas A & M University, 2002.
A wavelet-balance approach for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits (2002)
Xin Li, Bo Hu, Xieting Ling, Xuan Zeng
Abstract—In this paper, a novel wavelet-balance method is proposed for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits. Taking advantage of the superior computational properties of wavelets, the...
Similarity distance and phylogeny (2002)
A new class of similarity measures appropriate for measuring relations between sequences is studied. The \normalized information distance", based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov...
Learning question classifiers (2002)
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of the constraints the...
Novel Sequential Error-Concealment Techniques Using Orientation Adaptive Interpolation (2002)
This paper introduces a new framework for error concealment in block-based image coding systems: sequential recovery. Unlike previous approaches that simultaneously recover the pixels inside a...
Evolutionary query processing, fusion and visualization (2002)
Shi-kuo Chang, Weiying Dai, Stephen Hughes, Prasad S. Lakkavaram, Xin Li
An evolutionary query is a query that may change in time and/or space. For example when an emergency management worker moves around in a disaster area, a predefined query can be executed repeatedly...
State space estimation of wireless fading channels. (2002)
Thesis (M.Sc.) -- University of Ottawa, 2002.
Deleteagene: A Fast Neutron Deletion Mutagenesis-Based Gene Knockout System for Plants (2002)
Xin Li, Michael Lassner, Yuelin Zhang
Deleteagene™ (Delete-a-gene) is a deletion-based gene knockout system for plants. To obtain deletion mutants for a specific gene, random deletion libraries created by fast neutron mutagenesis are...
Yang, Xianbin, Bassett, Suzanne E., Li, Xin, Luxon, Bruce A., Herzog, Norbert K., Shope, Robert E., ...
Chemically synthesized combinatorial libraries of unmodified or modified nucleic acids have not previously been used in methods to rapidly select oligonucleotides binding to target biomolecules such...
Jia, Yan Xing, Wu, Bin, Ren,Shi Kuo, Tu, Yong Qiang, Chan, Albert S. C., Kitching, William, ...
[GRAPHICS] The stereocontrolled synthesis of (2S,4R,6R,8S,10S,1'R,1"R)-2(acetylhydroxymethyl)-4, 10-dimethyl-8(isopropenylhydroxymethyl)-1, 7-dioxaspiro[5,5]-undecane (4a) and its C1"-epimer (4b),...
Jia, Yan Xing, Wu, Bin, Ren,Shi Kuo, Tu, Yong Qiang, Chan, Albert S. C., Kitching, William, ...
[GRAPHICS] The stereocontrolled synthesis of (2S,4R,6R,8S,10S,1'R,1"R)-2(acetylhydroxymethyl)-4, 10-dimethyl-8(isopropenylhydroxymethyl)-1, 7-dioxaspiro[5,5]-undecane (4a) and its C1"-epimer (4b),...
Target-tracking in flir imagery using mean-shift and global motion compensation (2001)
Alper Yilmaz, Khurram Shafique, Niels Lobo, Xin Li, Teresa Olson, Mubarak A. Shah
In this paper, we present a new approach for tracking targets in forward-looking infrared (FLIR) imagery taken from an airborne, moving platform. Our tracking approach uses the target intensity and...
Exploring Evidence for Shallow Parsing (2001)
Significant amount of work has been devoted recently to develop learning techniques that can be used to generate partial (shallow) analysis of natural language sentences rather than a full parse. In...
Exploring Evidence for Shallow Parsing (2001)
Signi cant amount of work has been devoted recently to develop learning techniques that can be used to generate partial (shallow) analysis of natural language sentences rather than a full parse. In...
New Edge-Directed Interpolation (2001)
This paper proposes an edge-directed interpolation algorithm for natural images. The basic idea is to first estimate local covariance coefficients from a low-resolution image and then use these...
Edge-Directed Prediction for Lossless Compression of Natural Images (2001)
This paper sheds light on the recent least-square (LS)-based adaptive prediction schemes for lossless compression of natural images. Our analysis shows that the superiority of the LS-based adaptation...
Xin Li, Louis Kerofsky, Shawmin Lei
This paper presents a novel framework of motion compensated pre&ction(MCP) techniques in the wavelet domain for high performance video coding. Our analysis reveals fundamental limitations with...
Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Jonathan Geisler, Xin Li, Zhiling Lan, Rick Stevens, ...
Efficient execution of a scientific computing application requires insights into how system features impact the performance of the application. A distributed system consists of heterogeneous...
Architecture is a wonderful world. As a student of architecture, time and time again I am inpressed by its powerful imagines. The more I study and learn, however, the more I question. What is the...
Overexpression of higher plant nitrite reductase (1999)
Nitrogen is most frequently the limiting element that restricts plant growth. Nitrite reductase catalyzes one of the key reactions of nitrogen assimilation in plants and photosynthetic bacteria. This...
Overexpression of higher plant nitrite reductase (1999)
Nitrogen is most frequently the limiting element that restricts plant growth. Nitrite reductase catalyzes one of the key reactions of nitrogen assimilation in plants and photosynthetic bacteria. This...
grantor: University of Toronto
Corona discharges on the conductor surface of a HVDC transmission line generate ion flow in the interelectrode space, and therefore cause power losses as well as environmental concerns. To evaluate...
Corona discharges on the conductor surface of a HVDC transmission line generate ion flow in the interelectrode space, and therefore cause power losses as well as environmental concerns. To evaluate...
Corona discharges on the conductor surface of a HVDC transmission line generate ion flow in the interelectrode space, and therefore cause power losses as well as environmental concerns. To evaluate...
Corona discharges on the conductor surface of a HVDC transmission line generate ion flow in the interelectrode space, and therefore cause power losses as well as environmental concerns. To evaluate...
Performance study of real-time scheduling schemes for video-on-demand servers / (1997)
Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Applied Science, 1997.
Estimation in linear regression models with doubly censored data / (1995)
"Graduate Program in Statistics."
We continue the investigation initiated by Mastroianni and Szabados on question whether Jackson's order of approximation can be attained by Lagrange interpolation for a wide class of functions....
We continue the investigation initiated by Mastroianni and Szabados on question whether Jackson's order of approximation can be attained by Lagrange interpolation for a wide class of functions....
Remarks on orthogonal polynomials with respect to varying measures and related problems (1993)
We point out the relation between the orthogonal polynomials with respect to (w.r.t.) varying measures and the so-called orthogonal rationals on the unit circle in the complex plane. This observation...
Modeling soil: Realtime dynamic models for soil slippage and manipulation (1993)
A physically based model of an object is a mathematical representation of its behavior, which incorporates principles of Newtonian physics. Dynamic soil models are required in animations and realtime...
Remarks on orthogonal polynomials with respect to varying measures and related problems (1993)
We point out the relation between the orthogonal polynomials with respect to (w.r.t.) varying measures and the so-called orthogonal rationals on the unit circle in the complex plane. This observation...
DATA MINING VIA MINIMAL SPANNING TREE CLUSTERING FOR PROLONGING LIFETIME OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
GUANGYAN HUANG, XIAOWEI LI, JING HE, XIN LI
Clustering is applied in wireless sensor networks for increasing energy efficiency. Clustering methods in wireless sensor networks are different from those in traditional data mining systems. This...
Impact of the recall period on measuring health utilities for acute events
Nick Bansback, Huiying Sun, Daphne P. Guh, Xin Li, Bohdan Nosyk, Susan Griffin, ...
The impact of healthcare interventions on health utility values is most frequently measured using a preference-based instrument. Each of the available instruments instructs the respondent to report...
Human anterior chamber angle development without cell death or macrophage involvement
Meghpara, Beeran, Li, Xin, Nakamura, Hiroshi, Khan, Ahsan, Bejjani, Bassem A., Lin, Shan, ...
Genetic control of floral zygomorphy in pea (Pisum sativum L.)
Wang, Zheng, Luo, Yonghai, Li, Xin, Wang, Liping, Xu, Shilei, Yang, Jun, ...
Floral zygomorphy (flowers with bilateral symmetry) has multiple origins and typically manifests two kinds of asymmetries, dorsoventral (DV) and organ internal (IN) asymmetries in floral and organ...
Altered microRNA expression in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia
Lian, Jie, Zhang, Xiansheng, Tian, Hui, Liang, Ning, Wang, Yong, Liang, Chaozhao, ...
On the origin of new genes in Drosophila
Zhou, Qi, Zhang, Guojie, Zhang, Yue, Xu, Shiyu, Zhao, Ruoping, Zhan, Zubing, ...
Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for the origination of new genes. Despite extensive case studies, the general principles governing this fundamental process are still unclear at the...
Annotating breast cancer microarray samples using ontologies
Liu, Hongfang, Li, Xin, Yoon, Victoria, Clarke, Robert
As the most common cancer among women, breast cancer results from the accumulation of mutations in essential genes. Recent advance in high-throughput gene expression microarray technology has...
Seoul Virus and Hantavirus Disease, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China
Zhang, Yong-Zhen, Dong, Xue, Li, Xin, Ma, Chao, Xiong, Hai-Ping, Yan, Guang-Jie, ...
This outbreak was caused by the virus circulating in local wild rats through infection of laboratory rats.
Huang, Wei, Li, Xin, Morris, Elizabeth A., Tudorica, Luminita A., Seshan, Venkatraman E., Rooney, William D., ...
The pharmacokinetic analysis of dynamic-contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI data yields Ktrans and kep, two parameters independently measuring the capillary wall contrast reagent transfer rate. The almost...
Dynamic NMR effects in breast cancer dynamic-contrast-enhanced MRI
Li, Xin, Huang, Wei, Morris, Elizabeth A., Tudorica, Luminita A., Seshan, Venkatraman E., Rooney, William D., ...
The passage of a vascular-injected paramagnetic contrast reagent (CR) bolus through a region-of-interest affects tissue 1H2O relaxation and thus MR image intensity. For longitudinal relaxation [R1...
A Novel Role for Protein Farnesylation in Plant Innate Immunity1[C][W][OA]
Goritschnig, Sandra, Weihmann, Tabea, Zhang, Yuelin, Fobert, Pierre, McCourt, Peter, Li, Xin
Plants utilize tightly regulated mechanisms to defend themselves against pathogens. Initial recognition results in activation of specific Resistance (R) proteins that trigger downstream immune...
Role of decorin in the antimyeloma effects of osteoblasts
Li, Xin, Pennisi, Angela, Yaccoby, Shmuel
Building on our previous report that osteoblasts and increased bone formation have a negative impact on myeloma cell growth in a subset of patients, we investigated the role of decorin, the main...
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Modern...
Monaghan, Jacqueline, Xu, Fang, Gao, Minghui, Zhao, Qingguo, Palma, Kristoffer, Long, Chengzu, ...
Plant Resistance (R) proteins play an integral role in defense against pathogen infection. A unique gain-of-function mutation in the R gene SNC1, snc1, results in constitutive activation of plant...
Xia, Shitou, Zhu, Zhaohai, Hao, Lin, Chen, Jin-Gui, Xiao, Langtao, Zhang, Yuelin, ...
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a plant immune response induced by local necrotizing pathogen infections. Expression of SAR in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants correlates with...
Liu, Cun, Liang, Ping, Wang, Yang, Zhou, Pei, Li, Xin, Han, Zhi-Yu, ...
AIM: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of percutaneous transhepatic lymphosonography (PTL) as a novel method for the detection of tumor lymphangiogenesis in hepatic VX2 of rabbits and to...
Li, Xin, Qi, Xiaoping, Zhou, Lingyin, Fu, Wen, Abdul-Karim, Fadi W., MacLennan, Gregory, ...
The P2X7 receptor is an important regulator of epithelial cell growth. The aim of the present study was to better understand the biological significance of P2X7 receptor expression in normal and...
Regulation of P2X7 gene transcription
Zhou, Lingyin, Luo, Liping, Qi, Xiaoping, Li, Xin, Gorodeski, George I.
The pro-apoptotic P2X7 receptor regulates growth of epithelial cells. The objectives of the study were to understand P2X7 gene transcription; to identify the active promoter and the transcription...
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Modern...
Multi-agent based modeling and analysis of collaboration strategies in supply chain
A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed and delivered to customers. Modern...
Lane, M. Chelsea, Li, Xin, Pearson, Melanie M., Simms, Amy N., Mobley, Harry L. T.
MR/P fimbriae of uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis undergo invertible element-mediated phase variation whereby an individual bacterium switches between expressing fimbriae (phase ON) and not expressing...
Chen, Huamin, Xue, Li, Chintamanani, Satya, Germain, Hugo, Lin, Huiqiong, Cui, Haitao, ...
Pathogen/microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs/MAMPs) trigger plant immunity that forms the first line inducible defenses in plants. The regulatory mechanism of MAMP-triggered immunity,...
Phylogenetic analysis of modularity in protein interaction networks
Erten, Sinan, Li, Xin, Bebek, Gurkan, Li, Jing, Koyutürk, Mehmet
Li, Xin, Guo, Ning, Song, Furong
According to the statistical data of Shandong Province from 1990 to 2006, we use the method of statistical analysis to analyze the dynamic relationship between the cultivated land change and the...
Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment
We implemented one of the first web-based online field experiments of fund-raising. We embedded our experiment in the Internet Public Library to test four mechanisms: Voluntary Contribution (VCM),...