Curriculum Vitae

Wai Yin Mok
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Accounting and Information Systems
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899
Office: (256)824-6980, Dept: (256)824-6159, Fax: (256)824-2929

Email: mokw@email.uah.edu
Last Updated: September 6, 2005

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, December 1996
M.S. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, August 1992
B.S. in Computer Science, Brigham Young University, August 1990

Professional Positions

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
Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, July 1993 – August 1996
Instructor, Brigham Young University, September 1994 – December 1994
Assistant Lecturer, Hong Kong Polytechnic, October 1992 – July 1993
Software Engineer, Hong Kong Motorola, July 1992 – October 1992

Honors and Awards

Listed in the 23rd (2006) Edition of Who's Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ

Listed in the 59th (2005) Edition of Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, NJ

Recipient of the 2003 Richard A. Witmondt Faculty Fellowship, College of Administrative Science, UAH

Recipient of the 2002 Richard A. Witmondt Faculty Fellowship, College of Administrative Science, UAH

Recipient of the 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 through 12/31/2004

Mini-grant, College of Administrative Science, 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

Refereed Journal Articles

 

D.P. Paper, W.Y. Mok, and J. Roger. Building Automation into Existing Business Processes. Annals of Cases on Information Technology, 6:177–194, 2004

 

D.P. Paper, Kenneth B. Tingey, and W.Y. Mok.  The Relation Between BPR and ERP-Systems:  A Failed Project.  Annals of Cases on Information Technology, 5:45–62, 2003

 

W.Y. Mok, and D.P. Paper. Using Harel's Statecharts to model Business Workflows (proof copy). Journal of Database Management, 13(3): 17–34, July–September 2002

 

W.Y. Mok. A comparative study of various nested normal forms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, 14(2): 369–385, March/April 2002

W.Y. Mok, and D.W. Embley. Using NNF to transform conceptual data models to object-oriented database designs. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 24(3): 313–336, January 1998

W.Y. Mok, and D.W. Embley. On improving dependency implication algorithms. Information Processing Letters, 64(3): 135–141, November 1997

W.Y. Mok. On keys and normal forms. Information Processing Letters, 62(5): 255–258, June 1997

W.Y. Mok, Y-K. Ng, and D.W. Embley. A normal form for precisely characterizing redundancy in nested relations. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 21(1): 77–106, March 1996

Journal Articles under Review

W.Y. Mok, P. Palvia, and D.P. Paper. On the Computability of Agent-based Workflows.  Decision Support Systems.  (revised and resubmitted)

 

W.Y. Mok and D.W. Embley. Generating Redundancy-Free XML Documents from Conceptual-Model Hypergraphs.  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering. (submitted)

 

W.Y. Mok and D.W. Embley. Generating Redundancy-Free XML Documents from Acyclic Hypergraphs.  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering. (submitted)

 

W.Y. Mok.  Designing User-Defined Type Nesting Structures for Object-Relational Databases.  Information and Software Technology.  (submitted)

 

W.Y. Mok.  On Utilizing Variables for Specifying FDs in XML Documents. Data & Knowledge Engineering.  (submitted)

Journal Articles under Preparation

W.Y. Mok, and D.W. Embley. Redundancy-Free XML Documents and Inclusion Dependencies

W.Y. Mok.  On the Computability and Complexity of Using Computable Input/Output Functions in Disrupting Terrorist Networks

Book Chapters

D.W. Embley, W.Y. Mok.  Mapping Conceptual Models to Database Schemas.  In Handbook of Database Technologies, The Computer & Information Science series, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Edited by Joachim Hammer and Markus Schneider (invited book chapter, to be completed by Dec 1, 2005).

 

W.Y. Mok, and D.P. Paper.  Revisiting Workflow Modeling with statecharts (proof copy).  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, July–September 2002

 

D.P. Paper, Kenneth B. Tingey, and W.Y. Mok. The Myth Of Enterprise Database Redesign (proof copy). In Managing Data Mining Technologies in Organizations: Techniques and Applications, Idea Group Publishing, ISBN: 1591400570, February 2003

Refereed Conference Publications

W.Y. Mok.  XTFDs: FDs for XML Documents.  In Proceedings of 2005 Americas Conference on Information Systems, pages 3054–3058, 11–14 August 2005, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

 

W.Y. Mok, and D.P. Paper.  On the computability of business workflows.  In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Global Information Technology Management World Conference (GITM), San Diego, California, 13–15 June, 2004

 

W.Y. Mok, F. Tseng, and A. Wilhite. Terrorist Networks: Using Network Theory to Study the Creation and Efficient Disruption of Terrorists’ Networks.  In Proceedings of the Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC 2003), Huntsville, Alabama, October 30 & 31, 2003

 

D.W. Embley, and W.Y. Mok. Producing XML Documents with Guaranteed ``Good'' Properties.  In Proceedings of the 7th World Multi conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003), July 27–30, 2003, Orlando, Florida (invited paper)

 

D.P. Paper, W.Y. Mok, and James Roger. Developing a Process Facilitative System for Information Sharing.  In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Global Information Technology Management World Conference (GITM), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 8–10 June, 2003

 

D.W. Embley, and W.Y. Mok. Developing XML Documents with Guaranteed "Good" Properties. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2001), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2224, pages 426–441, Yokohama, Japan, 27–30 November 2001

W.Y. Mok, and D.P. Paper. On Transformations from UML Models to Object-Relational Databases. In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS 2001), Maui, Hawaii, 3–6 January 2001

W.Y. Mok. A Design Strategy of Object-Relational Databases. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA 2000), pages 900–901, Anchorage, Alaska, 21–24 May 2000

W.Y. Mok, and D.W. Embley. An approach to efficient data clustering based on a new definition for nested normal form. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD'97), Chennai (Madras), India, 18–20 December 1997 (Printed as the book: Management of Data, D.J. Ram (editor), Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, pages 125–143.)

W.Y. Mok, and D.W. Embley. Transforming conceptual models to object-oriented database designs: practicalities, properties, and peculiarities. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'96), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1157, pages 309–324, Cottbus, Germany, 7–10 October 1996. (Co-best-paper award among several chosen to be republished in Data and Knowledge Engineering.)

W.Y. Mok, D.W. Embley, and Y-K. 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

W.Y. Mok, Y-K. Ng, and D.W. Embley. An improved nested normal form for use in object-oriented 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

Professional Activities

Editorial Review Board Member for Journal of Database Management (April 2000 – August 31, 2006) (>= 6 times)

Editorial Review Board Member for Informing Science: the International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline (since October 2003) (>= 2 times)

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 2004 Global Information technology Management World Conference (GITM), San Diego, CA

Program Committee Member for ER 2003

Program Committee Member for IRMA 2001

Referee for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2 times)

Referee for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (1 time)

Referee for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (1 time)

Referee for Data & Knowledge Engineering (>= 3 times)

Referee for The Computer Journal (1 time)

Referee for Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (1 time)

External Reviewer for ICIS 2001
External Reviewer for AMCIS 2001
External Reviewer for WebDB 2001
Publicity Chair for the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM'99)
Book Reviewer for McGraw-Hill
Book Reviewer for Idea Group Publishing
External Reviewer for ACM SIGMOD 2000
External Reviewer for the 15th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'96)

Teaching

Database Courses: MIS340, MIS350, MIS640, MIS655

·        Helping students to become certified by Oracle as Oracle9i PL/SQL Developer Certified Associate

Web programming: MIS420/520, MIS440/540

·        E-Commerce, JavaScript and ColdFusion, Microsoft FrontPage

Visual Basic .Net: MIS310

·        Object-oriented event-driven programming

XML: MIS480/580

·        DTDs, XML Schema, XPath Expressions

Masters Students 

Eight (all in University of Akron)