Zhonghang Xia

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd, #11076
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1076

Phone: (270) 745-6459
Fax: (270) 745-6449
Email: zhonghang.xia@wku.edu

On sabbatical in Fall 2012

Research Interests:

Multimedia Computing and Networking
Data Mining
Distributed Systems
E-Commerce
Combinatorial Optimization/ Integer Programming

Courses

CS 241 Computer Science II
CS 245 Introduction to language
CS 270 Introduction to web programming
CS 476 Research Methods
CS 595 Machine Learning
CS 443/G Database Management Systems
CS 450 Computer Networks
CS 456 Artifical integlligence
CS 475/G Special topics
CS 543 Computer Information System Design
CS 565 Data Mining
CS 595 Special topics

Selected Publications:

Li, Q, Xia, Z.H., and Tao, D.C., A Global-to-Local Scheme for Imbalanced Point Matching, accepted by The International Conference on Image Processing 2009.
Tu, M., Xia, Z.H., and Tadayon, N., Allocation of Partitioned Data by Using A Neural Network Based Approach, Neurocomputing. 72(4-6), 2009, pp. 1000-1011.
Dong, Y. L., Xia, Z. H., Xia Z. Q., A Two-Level Approach to Choose the Cost Parameter in Support Vector Machines, Expert Systems with Applications, vol 34. no. 2, 2008, pp. 1366-1370.
Xia, Z.H., Xing, G.M., Qi, H.D., and Li, Q., A Kernel Method for XML Document Representation in Classification, Survey of Text Mining II, Springer, 2008, pp129-156.
Xia, Z. H., Hao, W., and Yen, I. L., "Proxy media assistant for streaming media delivery," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol 67, no. 7, 2007, pp. 863-875.
Qi, H.D, Xia, Z.H., and Xing, G.M., An Application of the Nearest Correlation Matrix on Web Document Classification, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, vol 3, no. 4, 2007, pp. 701-713.
Xia, Z.H., Xing, G.M., Qi, H.D., and Li, Q., A Kernel Method for XML Document Representation in Classification, in Proceedings of SIAM Text Mining 2007 workshop, April 26 ¨C 28, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Xia, Z. H., Dong, Y., and Xing, G., Support vector machines for collaborative filtering, in Proceedings of 44th ACM Southeast Conference, March 10-12, 2006, Melbourne, Florida, USA.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L., Du, D. L. and Li, P. "A hybrid scheme for admission control and transmission schedules in streaming media," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol 66, no. 3, 2006, pp. 334-344.
Guangming Xing, Chaitanya R. Malla, Zhonghang Xia, Snigdha Dantala Venkata, "Computing Edit Distances Between an XML Document and a Schema and its Application in Document Classification," to appear in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, April 23 - 27, 2006, Dijon, France.
Peng Li, I-Ling Yen, and Zhonghang Xia, “Preference update for E-commerce applications:Model, language, and processing,?accepted by Electronic Commerce Research Journal.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L. and Li, P., “A distributed admission control model for QoS assurance in large-scale media delivery systems? IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,vol.16, no.12, pp1143-1153, 2005.
Li, P., Xia, Z. H., Tu,M, and Yen, I. L. “M3-update: A new update model for e-commerce and web-based applications,?Journal for Computers and Their Applications, vol 12, no. 3, pp.152-162, 2005.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L., “Proxy assistant for streaming media delivery,?in Proc. of the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO (ICME 2004).
Xia, Z. H., Li, P. and Yen, I. L., “A neural network based approach for overlay multicast in media streaming system,?in Proc. of the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 04), Santa Fe, NM, April, 2004.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L. and Li, P., “A distributed admission control model for large-scale continuous media services,?in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2003.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L. and Li, P., “An aggressive distributed admission control policy for streaming media,?in Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, (ICCCN'03) Dallas, TX, Oct. 2003, pp.131-136.
Xia, Z. H., Yen, I. L., Du, D. L. and Li, P. "A hybrid scheme for transmission schedules in streaming media,?in Proc. of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS), Marina Del Ray, CA, Nov. 2003, pp.895-900.