Jian Tang

Department of Computer Science
Office: EN 2011
Phone: 709-737-4580 (O) 709-753-4407 (H)
Voice Phone Number: 737-8627

Research interests:

Research projects:

• Fault tolerance in distributed systems
• Enhancing availability of replicated data
• Developing and supporting workflow models
• Multidatabase systems
• Multimedia databases

Selected publications

• "Supporting Dispute Handling in Electronic Commerce Transactions", by J. Tang, Ada Waichee Fu and J. Veijalainen, to appear in Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, in press.
• "Mining Intentional Knowledge in Outlier Detection", by Zhixiang Chen, J. Tang and Ada Waichee Fu, International Symposium on Database Engineering and Applications (IDEAS), Hong Kong, July, 2003.
• "On Complimentarity between Clustering and Outlier Detection Schemes", by Zhixiang Chen, Ada Waichee Fu and Jian Tang, Proc. of the International Conference on Data Engineering for Web Applications, Prague, Spet., 2003.
• "A Robust Outlier Detection Scheme in Large Data Sets", by Jian Tang, Zhixiang Chen, Ada Waichee Fu and David Cheung, 6th Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2002.
• "Secure E-Commerce Transactions, Modeling and Some System Support Aspects", by Jian Tang and Ada Waichee Fu, 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics, Hong Kong, April, 2001.
• "Hierarchical Classification of Documents with Error Control", by Chun-hung Cheung, Jian Tang, Ada Waichee Fu, Irwin King, 5th Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Hong Kong, April 2001.
• "Using Agents to Improve Security and Convenience in Mobile E-Commerce", by J. Tang and J. Veijalainen, Proc. of the Hawaii Intl. Conf. on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, U.S.A, Jan. 2001
• "Enforcement of Inter-Task Dependencies in Workflows, Characterization and Paradigm", by J. Tang and J. Veijalainen, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1998, pp 19 - 53.
• "Using Incremental Pruning to Increase Efficiency of Dynamic Item Set Counting for Mining Association rules", by J. Tang, Proc. of the 7th Intl. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov. 1998.
• "A Scheme to Increase Reliability in Workflow Systems" by J. Tang and J. Veijalainen, Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology, Berlin, Germany, July, 1998.
• "A Scheme to Specify and Implement Ad-Hoc Recovery in Workflow Systems", by J. Tang and S. Y. Hwang, Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology, Valencia, Spain, March, 1998.
• "Handling Uncertainties in Workflow Applications", by J. Tang and San-Yih Hwang, Proc. of the 5th Intl. Conf. On Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov. 1996.
• "Transaction-oriented Work-Flow Concepts in Inter- Organizational Environments", by J. Tang and J. Veijalainan, Proc. of 4th Intl. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management, Nov. 1995, pp 250 - 259.
• "Coping with value Dependency for Failure Recovery in Multidatabase Systems" by J. Tang and Y. Sun, Proc. of the 4th Int'l. Conf. on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering, HongKong, May, 1994, pp 297-306.
• "On Multilevel Voting", by J. Tang, Distributed Computing, August, 1994, 39 - 58.
• "An Efficient Method for Mutual Exclusion in Truly Distributed Systems" by H. Chen and J. Tang, Proc. of the 14th int'l. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems, Poland, June, 1994, pp 97-104.
• "Obtaining Coteries that Optimize the Availability of Replicated Databases", by J. Tang and N. Natarajan, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 2, April, 1993, pp 309-321.

Memorial University of Newfoundland
Department of Computer Science
St. John's, NFLD
A1B 3X5, Canada