1 Designing Multicast Protocols for Non-Cooperative Networks (2009)
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-yang Li, Senior Member, Yu Wang, Zheng Sun
Abstract—Conventionally, most network protocols assume that the network entities who participate in the network activities will always behave as instructed. However, in practice, most network...
Cost Sharing and Strategyproof Mechanisms for Set (2009)
Cover Games, Xiang-yang Li, Zheng Sun, Weizhao Wang
Abstract. We develop for set cover games several general cost-sharing methods that are approximately budget-balanced, core, and/or group-strategyproof. We first study the cost sharing for a single...
Liquidity, Covenants, and Credit Spreads (with Yang Lu and Chenyang Wei) TEACHING (2008)
Full responsibility for the core undergraduate course
Tree level spontaneous R-symmetry breaking in O'Raifeartaigh models (2008)
We show that in O'Raifeartaigh models of spontaneous supersymmetry breaking, R-symmetries can be broken by non-zero values of fields at tree level, rather than by vacuum expectation values of...
Criteria on Utility Designing of Convex Optimization in FDMA Networks (2008)
Sun, Zheng, Xu, Wenjun, He, Zhiqiang, Niu, Kai
In this paper, we investigate the network utility maximization problem in FDMA systems. We summarize with a suite of criteria on designing utility functions so as to achieve the global optimization...
Distributed Spiral Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks without Fusion Centers (2008)
A distributed spiral algorithm for distributed optimization in WSN is proposed. By forming a spiral-shape message passing scheme among clusters, without loss of estimation accuracy and convergence...
A Heuristic Scheduling Scheme in Multiuser OFDMA Networks (2008)
Sun, Zheng, He, Zhiqiang, Wang, Ruochen, Niu, Kai
Conventional heterogeneous-traffic scheduling schemes utilize zero-delay constraint for real-time services, which aims to minimize the average packet delay among real-time users. However, in light or...
Performance Comparison of Cooperative and Distributed Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio (2008)
Sun, Zheng, Xu, Wenjun, He, Zhiqiang, Niu, Kai
In this paper, we compare the performances of cooperative and distributed spectrum sensing in wireless sensor networks. After introducing the basic problem, we describe two strategies: 1) a...
Load Balancing Strategies to Solve Flowshop Scheduling on Parallel Computing (2008)
Sun, Zheng, Huang, Xiaohong, Ma, Yan
This paper first presents a parallel solution for the Flowshop Scheduling Problem in parallel environment, and then proposes a novel load balancing strategy. The proposed Proportional Fairness...
Continuous degeneracy of non-supersymmetric vacua (2008)
In global supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models with minimal K\"ahler potentials, F-type supersymmetry breaking always yields instability or continuous degeneracy of non-supersymmetric vacua. As a...
Design Differentiated Service Multicast With Selfish Agents (2008)
Weizhao Wang, Student Member, Xiang-yang Li, Associate Member, Zheng Sun
Abstract — Differentiated service (DiffServ) is a mechanism to provide the Quality of Service (QoS) with a certain performance guarantee. In this paper, we study how to design DiffServ multicast...
Design Differentiated Service Multicast With Selfish Agents (2008)
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-yang Li, Zheng Sun
Abstract. Differentiated service (DiffServ) is a mechanism to provide the Quality of Service (QoS) with a certain performance guarantee. In this paper, we study how to design the DiffServ multicast...
Abstract Iterative Mining for Rules with Constrained Antecedents (2008)
Zheng Sun, Philip S. Yu, Xiang-yang Li
In this study we discuss the problem of mining association rules with constrained antecedents in a large database of sales transactions or clickstream records. For a user-defined set A of items, this...
Nrf2 enhances resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapeutic drugs, the dark side of Nrf2 (2008)
Wang, Xiao-Jun, Sun, Zheng, Villeneuve, Nicole F., Zhang, Shirley, Zhao, Fei, Li, Yanjie, ...
Drug resistance during chemotherapy is the major obstacle to the successful treatment of many cancers. Here, we report that inhibition of NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) may be a promising strategy to...
Yang, Peiying, Sun, Zheng, Chan, Diana, Cartwright, Carrie A., Vijjeswarapu, Mary, Ding, Jibin, ...
Aberrant arachidonic acid metabolism, especially altered cyclooxygenase and 5-lipoxygenase (LOX) activities, has been associated with chronic inflammation as well as carcinogenesis in human oral...
On Boundaries of Highly Visible Spaces and Applications (2007)
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the properties of a certain class of highly visible spaces. For a given geometric space with a specified set of disjoint obstacles, the free...
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the properties of a certain class of highly visible spaces. For a given geometric space with a specified set of disjoint obstacles, each of which...
On Boundaries of Highly Visible Spaces and Applications (2007)
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the properties of a certain class of highly visible spaces. For a given geometric space S containing obstacles specied by disjoint subsets of S,...
In this paper we dene a class of mechanical systems consisting of rigid objects (dened by linear or quadratic surface patches) connected by frictional contact linkages between surfaces. (This class...
In this paper we discuss the problem of computing optimal paths on terrains for a mobile robot. The cost of a path is defined to be the energy expended due to both friction and gravity. The model...
David Hsu, Tingting Jiang, John Reif, Zheng Sun
Probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planners have been successful in path planning of robots with many degrees of freedom, but narrow passages in a robot's configuration space create significant...
In this paper we define a class of mechanical systems consisting of rigid objects (defined by linear or quadratic surface patches) connected by frictional contact linkages between surfaces. (This...
Weighted Region Shortest Path Problem (2007)
In this paper we present an approximation algorithm for solving the following optimal motion planning problem: Given a planar space composed of polygonal regions, each of which is associated with a...
New Classes of Interconnection Topology Structures and Their Properties (2007)
In the first part of this paper, three generalizations of arrangement graph A n;k of [1], namely B n;k, C n;k and D n;k, are introduced. We prove that all the three classes of graphs are vertex...
IMIDAZOLINE RECEPTORS IN INSULIN SIGNALING AND METABOLIC REGULATION (2007)
The I1-imidazoline receptor is a novel target of drug development for hypertension and insulin resistance. This thesis focused on the molecular basis for I1-imidazoline binding and cell signaling and...
IMIDAZOLINE RECEPTORS IN INSULIN SIGNALING AND METABOLIC REGULATION (2007)
The I1-imidazoline receptor is a novel target of drug development for hypertension and insulin resistance. This thesis focused on the molecular basis for I1-imidazoline binding and cell signaling and...
Imidazoline receptors in insulin signaling and metabolic regulation [electronic resource]: / (2007)
[School of Medicine] Department of Nutrition.
When Is Noise Not Noise – A Microstructure Estimate of Realized Volatility (2007)
This paper studies the joint distribution of tick by tick returns and durations between trades. Returns are decomposed into changes in full information prices and microstructure noise, but the noise...
Supersymmetry breaking from string landscape / (2007)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007.
Imidazoline receptors in insulin signaling and metabolic regulation (2007)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2007.
When Is Noise Not Noise – A Microstructure Estimate of Realized Volatility (2007)
This paper studies the joint distribution of tick by tick returns and durations between trades. Returns are decomposed into changes in full information prices and microstructure noise, but the noise...
Clustered Institutional Holdings and Stock Comovement (2007)
Zheng Sun, Yakov Amihud, Jacob Boudoukh, Menachem Brenner, Stephen Brown, Edwin Elton, ...
Previous literature has found that stock returns comove more than fundamentals. More recently, researchers have also found commonalities in liquidity and trading activity. In this paper, I document...
IIA moduli stabilization with badly broken supersymmetry (2006)
Dine, Michael, Morisse, Alexander, Shomer, Assaf, Sun, Zheng
Scherk-Schwarz compactification in string theory can be defined as orbifolding by an R symmetry, a symmetry that acts differently on bosons and fermions. Such a symmetry can arise in many situations,...
On Witten's Instability and Winding Tachyons (2006)
Dine, Michael, Shomer, Assaf, Sun, Zheng
We investigate, from a spacetime perspective, some aspects of Horowitz's recent conjecture that black strings may catalyze the decay of Kaluza-Klein spacetimes into a bubble of nothing. We identify...
First experimental observation on different ionic states of isopropylthio ((CH3)2CHS) radical (2006)
Yao, Li, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Ge, Maofa, Ding, Yunfeng, Wang, Weigang, Du, Lin, ...
A continuous beam of isopropylthio radical (CH3)2CHS was generated in the gas phase by the pyrolysis of isopropyl disulfide C3H7SSC3H7. The electronic structure of isopropylthio radical has been...
Electronic structures of acyl nitrites and nitrates (2006)
Zeng, Xiaoqing, Yao, Li, Wang, Weigang, Liu, Fengyi, Sun, Qiao, Ge, Maofa, ...
The gas phase electronic structures of CM3C(O)ONO and CM3C(O)ONO2 (M = H, Cl, F) are studied by photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) combined with the outer valence Green's function (OVGF) calculations...
First experimental observation on different ionic states of isopropylthio ((CH3)2CHS) radical (2006)
Yao, Li, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Ge, Maofa, Ding, Yunfeng, Wang, Weigang, Du, Lin, ...
A continuous beam of isopropylthio radical (CH3)2CHS was generated in the gas phase by the pyrolysis of isopropyl disulfide C3H7SSC3H7. The electronic structure of isopropylthio radical has been...
Electronic structures of acyl nitrites and nitrates (2006)
Zeng, Xiaoqing, Yao, Li, Wang, Weigang, Liu, Fengyi, Sun, Qiao, Ge, Maofa, ...
The gas phase electronic structures of CM3C(O)ONO and CM3C(O)ONO2 (M = H, Cl, F) are studied by photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) combined with the outer valence Green's function (OVGF) calculations...
Sun, Zheng, Sood, Sandeep, Li, Ning, Ramji, Divya, Yang, Peiying, Newman, Robert A., ...
Previous studies have shown that aberrant arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism, especially cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-Lox) pathways, are activated during oral carcinogenesis, and can...
Sun, Zheng, Sood, Sandeep, Li, Ning, Ramji, Divya, Yang, Peiying, Newman, Robert A., ...
Previous studies have shown that aberrant arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism, especially cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-Lox) pathways, are activated during oral carcinogenesis, and can...
"Teflon materials including poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) and poly (tetrafluoroethylene-co-hexafluoropropylene) (FEP) were exposed to vacuum UV (VUV) radiation from a He DC arc plasma that was...
First Experimental Observation of the CH3Se Radical (2005)
Sun, Qiao, Li, Zhen, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Wang, Weigang, Sun, Zheng, Ge, Maofa, ...
First Experimental Observation of the CH3Se Radical (2005)
Sun, Qiao, Li, Zhen, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Wang, Weigang, Sun, Zheng, Ge, Maofa, ...
First Experimental Observation of the CH3Se Radical (2005)
Sun, Qiao, Li, Zhen, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Wang, Weigang, Sun, Zheng, Ge, Maofa, ...
First Experimental Observation of the CH3Se Radical (2005)
Sun, Qiao, Li, Zhen, Zeng, Xiaoqing, Wang, Weigang, Sun, Zheng, Ge, Maofa, ...
Mechanism design for set cover games when elements are agents (2005)
Zheng Sun, Xiang-yang Li, Weizhao Wang, Xiaowen Chu
Abstract. In this paper we study the set cover games when the elements are selfish agents. In this case, each element has a privately known valuation of receiving the service from the sets, i.e.,...
the multicast payment fairly (2005)
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-yang Li, Zheng Sun
Abstract. Multicast routing uses a structure, either a tree or a mesh, to connect the receivers to the source, thus saving the bandwidth. How to share the cost among the receivers in a certain fair...
Narrow Passage Sampling for Probabilistic Roadmap Planning (2005)
Zheng Sun, Ieee Member, David Hsu, Tingting Jiang, Hanna Kurniawati, John H. Reif, ...
Probabilistic roadmap (PRM) planners have been successful in path planning of robots with many degrees of freedom, but sampling narrow passages in a robot's configuration space remains a...
Cost sharing and strategyproof mechanisms for set cover games (2005)
Xiang-yang Li, Zheng Sun, Weizhao Wang
Abstract. We develop for set cover games several general cost-sharing methods that are approximately budgetbalanced, core, and/or group-strategyproof. We first study the cost sharing for a single set...
Design multicast protocols for non-cooperative networks (2005)
Weizhao Wang, Xiang-yang Li, Zheng Sun, Yu Wang
Abstract — Conventionally, most network protocols assume that the network entities who participate in the network activities will always behave as instructed. However, in practice, most network...
Mechanism design for set cover games when elements are agents (2005)
Zheng Sun, Xiang-yang Li, Weizhao Wang, Xiaowen Chu
Abstract. In this paper we study the set cover games when the elements are selfish agents. In this case, each element has a privately known valuation of receiving the service from the sets, i.e.,...
Adaptive hybrid sampling for probabilistic roadmap planning (2004)
Jaffar Joxan, David Hsu, David Hsu, Zheng Sun, Zheng Sun
tutorial article, which has been submitted for publication in a journal or for consideration by the commissioning organization. The report represents the ideas of its author, and should not be taken...
On frictional mechanical systems and their computational power (2003)
Abstract. In this paper we define a class of mechanical systems consisting of rigid objects (defined by linear or quadratic surface patches) connected by frictional contact linkages between surfaces....
Adaptive and Compact Discretization for Weighted Region Optimal Path Finding (2003)
Abstract. This paper presents several results on the weighted region optimal path problem. An often-used approach to approximately solve this problem is to apply a discrete search algorithm to a...
Adaptive and Compact Discretization for Weighted Region Optimal Path Finding (2003)
Abstract. This paper presents several results on the weighted region optimal path problem. An often-used approach to approximately solve this problem is to apply a discrete search algorithm to a...
ON FRICTIONAL MICTIONAL SYSTEM AND THEIR COMRm ATIONAL POWER (2003)
John Reif Andzhg', John H. Reif, Zheng Sun
In this paper we define a class of mechanical systems consistingof rigid objects (defined by linear or quadratic surface patches) connected by frictional contact linkages between surfaces. (This...
Movement planning in the presence of flows (2001)
This paper investigates the problem of time-optimum movement planning in two and three dimensions for a point robot which has bounded control velocity through a set of n polygonal regions of given...
Movement planning in the presence of flows (2001)
This paper investigates the problem of time-optimum movement planning in d = 2; 3 dimensions for a point robot which has bounded control velocity through a set of n polygonal regions of given...
Converter placement supporting broadcast in WDM optical networks (2001)
Lu Ruan, Dingzhu Du, Xiaodong Hu, Ieee Computer Society, Xiaohua Jia, Senior Member, ...
AbstractÐGiven a WDM optical network with wavelength channels on its fiber links, we consider the problem of finding the minimum set of network nodes such that, with wavelength converters at these...
Movement planning in the presence of flows (2001)
Abstract. This paper investigates the problem of time-optimum movement planning in d = 2; 3 dimensions for a point robot which has bounded control velocity through a set of n polygonal regions of...
BUSHWHACK: An approximation algorithm for minimal paths through pseudo-Euclidean spaces (2001)
Abstract. In this paper we define piecewise pseudo-Euclidean optimal path problems, where each region has a distinct cost metric of a class we call pseudo-Euclidean, that allows the path cost to...
Finding Profile Association Rules (1998)
Charu Aggarwal, Zheng Sun, Philip S. Yu
We have a large database consisting of user profile information together with behavioral patterns. We introduce the concept of profile association rules, which discusses the problem of relating...
Laser beam welding of austenitic-ferritic dissimilar steel joints / (1992)
"Thesis for the degree of Doctor of Technology to be presented with due permission for examination and criticism ... at Lappeenranta University of Technology (Lappeenranta, Finland) on the 27th of...
Laser beam welding of austenitic-ferritic dissimilar steel joints / (1992)
Diss. -- Lappeenrannan teknillinen korkeakoulu.
Sun, Zheng, Huang, Zheping, Zhang, Donna D.
The bZIP transcription factor Nrf2 has emerged as a pivotal regulator of intracellular redox homeostasis by controlling the expression of many endogenous antioxidants and phase II detoxification...
Sun, Zheng, Chin, Y. Eugene, Zhang, Donna D.
To maintain intracellular redox homeostasis, genes encoding many antioxidants and detoxification enzymes are transcriptionally upregulated upon deleterious oxidative stress through the cis...