PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Sebastian van Delden and Wei Zhong. “Effective Integration of Autonomous Robots into an Introductory Computer Science Course: A Case Study,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Selected papers from the Sixth Meeting of the Consortium for Computing Science in Colleges. (Acceptance Rate: 50%), vol. 23(4), pp. 10-19, April 2008.

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Xinmin Tian, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Parallel Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Schemes Using Pthread and OpenMP over Hyper-Threading Technology,” Journal of Supercomputing, vol. 41(1), pp. 1-16, July 2007.

Wei Zhong, Jieyue He, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Clustering Support Vector Machines for Local Protein Structure Prediction,” Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, vol. 32(2), pp. 518-526, February 2007.

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Improved K-means Clustering Algorithm for Exploring Local Protein Sequence Motifs Representing Common Structural Property,” IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, vol. 4(3), pp. 255-265, September 2005.

Refereed Conferences/Workshops Publications

Wei Zhong, Rick Chow, Richard Stolz, Jieyue He, Marsha Dowell. “Hierarchical Clustering Support Vector Machines for Classifying Type-2 Diabetes Patients,” Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4983, (Selected Papers from The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications) pp. 379-389, May 2008. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~37%)

Rick Chow, Wei Zhong, Michael Blackmon, Richard Stolz, Marsha Dowell. “An Efficient SVM-GA Feature Selection System for Large Healthcare Databases,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1373-1380, Atlanta, July 2008. (Conference Track Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~36%)

Wei Zhong, Jieyue He, and Yi Pan. “Multiclass Fuzzy Clustering Support Vector Machines for Protein Local Structure Prediction,” Proceedings of The 7th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE2007), pp. 21-26, Boston, September 2007. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~ 28%)

Fang Zhou, Jieyue He, Wei Zhong. “Mutual Information based Minimum Spanning Trees Model for Selecting Discriminative Genes,” Proceedings of The 7th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE2007), pp. 1051-1055, Boston, September 2007. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~ 28%)

Jieyue He, Wei Zhong, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai and Yi Pan. “Clustering Support Vector Machines and Its Application to Local Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction,” Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3992, (Selected Papers from International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications) pp. 710-717, December 2006. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: 37%)

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Discovery of Local Protein Sequence Motifs Using Improved K-means Clustering Technique,” Advances in Bioinformatics and its applications (Series in Mathematical Biology and Medicine - vol. 8, Selected Papers from International Conference on Bioinformatics and Its Applications) (ICBA2004), pp. 297-303, Florida, December 2004. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~28%)

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Hae-Jin Hu, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Factoring Tertiary Classification into Binary Classification Improves Neural Network for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction,” Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB2004), pp. 175-181, San Diego, October 2004. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: ~70%)

Wei Zhong, Gulsah Altun, Robert Harrison, Phang C. Tai, and Yi Pan. “Parallel Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Based on Neural Networks,” Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC2004), pp. 2968 – 2971, San Francisco, September 2004. (Acceptance Rate of Regular Papers: Unknown)