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Curriculum Vita Wai Yin Mok1 Associate Professor of Information Systems Department of Economics and Information Systems College of Business Administration University of Alabama in Huntsville Office: (256) 824-6980, Fax: (256) 824-6328, Dept: (256) 824-6590 Email: mokw at uah dot edu Last Updated: December 11, 2009 Education Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, December 1996 M.S. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 1992 B.S. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, August 1990 Professional Positions Senior Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, May 2009 – July 2009 Senior Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, July 2008 Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, July 2007 – December 2007 Tenure granted, UAH, August 2006 Associate Professor of Information Systems, UAH, since August 2004 Assistant Professor of Information Systems, UAH, August 2001 – August 2004 Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Utah State University, August 1999 – August 2001 Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Akron, August 1996 – August 1999 Assistant Lecturer of Computer Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic, October 1992 – July 1993 Software Engineer, Hong Kong Motorola, July 1992 – October 1992 Certifications Oracle PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate, since November 18, 2005 Honors and Awards 23rd (2006) Edition of Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ 59th (2005) Edition of Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ 2003 Richard A. Witmondt Faculty Fellowship, College of Administrative Science, UAH 2002 Richard A. Witmondt Faculty Fellowship, College of Administrative Science, UAH 2001 – 2002 College of Administrative Science Outstanding Research Award, UAH Member of Phi Kappa Phi, since April 17, 2001 Research Supports Research Mini-Grant, UAH, $9998, 1/1/2004 – 12/31/2004 Mini-grant, College of Business Administration, UAH, $5000, Summer 2002 New Faculty Research Grant, Utah State University, $15000, August 2000 – August 2001 Faculty Startup Fund, University of Akron, $10000, August 1996 – August 1999 1 Hong Kong Citizen and US Naturalized Citizen Selected Refereed Journal Articles Wai Yin Mok, Joseph Fong and David W. Embley. Extracting a Largest Redundancy-Free XML Storage Structure from an Acyclic Hypergraph in Polynomial Time. conditionally accepted to be published in Information Systems. Wai Yin Mok. Characterizing the MVDs that Hold in a Connected Subtree of a Join Tree: A Correction. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 20(3): 425-426 (2008) Wai Yin Mok. Designing Nesting Structures of User-Defined Types in Object-Relational Databases. Information and Software Technology 49(9-10): 1017-1029 (2007) [download] Wai Yin Mok. On Utilizing Variables for Specifying FDs in Data-Centric XML Documents. Data & Knowledge Engineering 60(3): 494–510 (2007) [download] Wai Yin Mok, Prashant Palvia and David Paper. On the Computability of Agent-based Workflows. Decision Support Systems 42(3): 1239-1253 (2006) [download] Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. Generating Compact Redundancy-Free XML Documents from Conceptual-Model Hypergraphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 18(8): 10821096 (2006) [download] David Paper, Wai Yin Mok and James Roger. Building Automation into Existing Business Processes. Annals of Cases on Information Technology 6:177–194 (2004) David Paper, Kenneth B. Tingey and Wai Yin Mok. The Relation Between BPR and ERP-Systems: A Failed Project. Annals of Cases on Information Technology 5:45–62 (2003) Wai Yin Mok. A Comparative Study of Various Nested Normal Forms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 14(2): 369-385 (2002) [download] Wai Yin Mok and David P. Paper. Using Harel's Statecharts to Model Business Workflows. Journal of Database Management 13(3): 17-34 (2002) [download] Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. Using NNF to Transform Conceptual Data Models to Object-Oriented Database Designs. Data & Knowledge Engineering 24(3): 313-336 (1998) [download] Wai Yin Mok. On Keys and Normal Forms. Information Processing Letters 62(5): 255-258 (1997) [download] Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. On Improving Dependency Implication Algorithms. Information Processing Letters 64(3): 135-141 (1997) [download] Wai Yin Mok, Yiu-Kai Ng and David W. Embley. A Normal Form for Precisely Characterizing Redundancy in Nested Relations. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 21(1): 77-106 (1996) [download] Selected Book Chapters Wai Yin Mok and David P. Paper. Revisiting Workflow Modeling with statecharts. In Advanced Topics in Database Research – Vol. 3, Idea Group Publishing, ISBN: 1591402557, 2004. Originally published as Using Harel's Statecharts to model Business Workflows. Journal of Database Management 13(3): 17-34 (2002) Selected Refereed Conference Publications Wai Yin Mok, and Joseph Fong. Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Service, XML and Higher Education. ICHL 2008, 13-15 August 2008, Hong Kong Wai Yin Mok. XTFDs: FDs for XML Documents. AMCIS 2005: 3054-3058 [download] David W. Embley and Wai Yin Mok. Producing XML Documents with Guaranteed “Good” Properties. SCI 2003: 195–198 [download] David W. Embley and Wai Yin Mok. Developing XML Documents with Guaranteed “Good” Properties. ER 2001: 426-441 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2224) [download] Wai Yin Mok and David P. Paper. On Transformations from UML Models to Object-Relational Databases. HICSS 2001 [download] Wai Yin Mok. A Design Strategy of Object-Relational Databases. IRMA 2000: 900–901 Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. An approach to efficient data clustering based on a new definition for nested normal form. COMAD 1997, (Printed as the book: Management of Data, D.J. Ram (editor), Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, pages 125–143.) Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. Transforming Conceptual Models to Object-Oriented Database Designs: Practicalities, Properties, and Peculiarities. ER 1996: 309-324 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1157) [download] Wai Yin Mok, David W. Embley and Yiu-Kai Ng. Theoretical and practical implications of a new definition for nested normal form. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Systems and Management of Data, pages 55–75, Madras, India, 26–28 October 1994 Wai Yin Mok, Yiu-Kai Ng and David W. Embley. An improved nested normal form for use in objectoriented software systems. In Proceedings of the Second International Computer Science Conference: Data and Knowledge Engineering: Theory and Applications, pages 446–452, Hong Kong, 13–16 December 1992 Courses Taught E-commerce (Microsoft FrontPage, Business Models) Web-Programming (HTML, Cascading Style Sheet, JavaScript, ColdFusion) Business Programming (Microsoft VB .Net) Databases (Oracle SQL) Advanced Databases (Oracle PL/SQL) Business Applications (Microsoft Office) XML Document Design (XML, XSTL, XPATH) Professional Activities Editorial Review Board Member for J. Database Manag. (April 20, 2000 – September 1, 2008) Editorial Review Board Member for Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (since October 2003) Program Committee Member for ICHL 2009 Program Committee Member for SDKB 2008 Track Chair of “Object Oriented Technologies Track” for IRMA 2006, Washington, D.C. Program Committee Member for ER 2006 Program Committee Member for IRMA 2005 Track Chair for GITM 2004, San Diego, CA Program Committee Member for ER 2003 Program Committee Member for IRMA 2001 Referee for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Referee for ACM Transactions on Database Systems Referee for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Referee for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Referee for Data & Knowledge Engineering Referee for The Computer Journal Referee for Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations External Reviewer for ICIS 2001 External Reviewer for AMCIS 2001 External Reviewer for WebDB 2001 Publicity Chair for SSDBM 99 Book Reviewer for McGraw-Hill Book Reviewer for Idea Group Publishing External Reviewer for ACM SIGMOD 2000 External Reviewer for ER 1996