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Publications (a complete list)

v     Book Chapter

*      Wei Zhao, Jun-Jang Jeng, Lianjun An, Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Rainer Hauser, Tao Tao, “Aligning Business Processes with Enterprise Service Computing Infrastructure”, Chapter 2, pp. 25-57, Enterprise Service Computing: From Concept to Deployment, 2007.

v     Journals

*      Zhao, W., Hauser, R., Bhattacharya, K., Bryant, B.R. and Cao, F. (2006) ‘Compiling business processes: untangling unstructured loops in irreducible flow graphs’, Int. J. Web and Grid Services, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.68–91.

*      Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Rajeev R. Raje, Andrew M. Olson, Mikhail Auguston, Wei Zhao, Carol C. Burt. A Non-Invasive Approach to Assertive and Autonomous Dynamic Component Composition in Service-Oriented Paradigm, Journal of Universal Computer Science, vol. 11, no. 10, 2005, pp. 1645-1675.

*      Zhao, W., Bryant, B.R., Cao, F., Hauser, R., Bhattacharya, K. and Tao, T. (2007) ‘Transforming business process models in the presence of irreducibility and concurrency’, Int. J. Business Process Integration and Management, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.37–48.

*      Wei Zhao. “Generative Assembly of Distributed and Heterogeneous Components”. The Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science. 2002. (abstract)

v     Conferences

*      Wei Zhao, Kamal Bhattacharya, Barrett R. Bryant, Fei Cao, Rainer Hauser, “Transforming Business Process Models: Enabling Programming at a Higher Level”, The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'05), pp. 173-180, 2005. (acceptance ratio: 17%)

*      Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Shih-Hsi Liu and Wei Zhao, “A Non-Invasive Approach to Dynamic Web Service  Provisioning”, The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'05), pp. 229-236, 2005. (acceptance ratio: 19%)

*      F. Cao, B. R. Bryant, W. Zhao, C. C. Burt, R. R. Raje, A. M. Olson, M. Auguston, “Marshaling and Unmarshaling Models Using Entity-Relationship Model,” The 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC2005), 2005.

*      W. Zhao, B. R. Bryant, R. R. Raje, M. Auguston, C. C. Burt, A. M. Olson, “Automated Glue/Wrapper Code Generation in Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous Software Components”, Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC2004), IEEE Press, pp. 275-285, Monterey, California, USA, 2004.

*      W. Zhao, B. R. Bryant, F. Cao, R. R. Raje, M. Auguston, C. C. Burt, M. Olson, “Grammatically Interpreting Feature Compositions”, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’04), pp. 185-191, Alberta Canada, 2004.

*      F. Cao, B. R. Bryant, W. Zhao, C. C. Burt, R. R. Raje, A. M. Olson, M. Auguston, ``A meta-modeling approach to Web Services, '' ICWS04, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California, USA.

*      Wei Zhao, Barrett R. Bryant, Rajeev R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson, Carol C. Burt. Generative Composition of Distributed and Heterogeneous Components”. Proc. of 40th Annual ACM Southeast Conference pp.195-196. Raleigh, North Carolina, April 2002.

v     Workshops

*      Beum-Seuk Lee, Xiaoqing Wu, Fei Cao, Shih-hsi Liu, Wei Zhao, Chunmin Yang, Barrett R. Bryant, Jeffrey G. Gray, “T-Clipse: an Integrated Development Environment for Two-Level Grammar,” OOPSLA2003 Workshop on Eclipse Technology Exchange, OOPSLA 2003 Companion pp. 91-95, Anaheim, California, Oct 26-30, 2003.

*      Barrett R. Bryant, Beum-Seuk Lee, Fei Cao, Wei Zhao, Carol C. Burt, Rajeev R. Raje, Andrew M. Olson, Mikhail Auguston, “From Natural Language Requirements to Executable Models of Software Components”, Proc. of Monterey Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: From Requirements to Implementation, pp. 51-58, Chicago, Illinois, Sept 24-26, 2003.

*      Wei Zhao, Barrett R. Bryant, Jeff Gray, Carol C. Burt, Rajeev R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson. “A Generative and Model Driven Framework for Automated Software Product Generation”. Proc. of the 6th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: Automated Reasoning and Prediction, pp. 103-108. Portland, Oregon, May 2003. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~hws/cgi-bin/CBSE6/Proceedings/proceedings.cgi

*      Wei Zhao, Barrett R. Bryant, Fei Cao, Rajeev R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson, Carol C. Burt. “A Component Assembly Architecture with Two-Level Grammar Infrastructure”. Proc. of OOPSLA’2002 Workshop Generative Techniques in the Context of Model Driven Architecture. Seattle, Washington State, November 2002. http://www.softmetaware.com/oopsla2002/zhaow.pdf

*      Barrett R. Bryant, Fei Cao, Wei Zhao, Rajeev R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson, Carol C. Burt, “Generative Programming Using Two-Level Grammar in UniFrame,” Proceedings of ECOOP’2002 Workshop on Generative Programming in conjunction with the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. Málaga, Spain, June 10, 2002 http://www.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/~czarn/ECOOP02GPW/bryant.pdf

*      Wei Zhao, B. R. Bryant, R. R. Raje, M. Auguston, A. M. Olson, C. C. Burt, “A Unified Approach to Component Assembly Based on Generative Programming,” Proceedings of Workshop on Generative Programming.  Satellite of the 7th International Conference on Software Reuse, Austin, Texas April 15, 2002. http://www.cwi.nl/events/2002/GP2002/papers/zhao.pdf

v     Doctoral symposia and Ph.D. workshops

*      Wei Zhao, “A Language Paradigm for Domain Driven Development”, Doctoral Symposium, The 3rd Annual Southeastern Software Engineering Conference, Huntsville, Alabama, March 2004. http://www.ndia-tvc.org/SESEC/

*      Wei Zhao, “A Language Based Formalism for Domain Driven Development”, Doctoral Symposium, OOPSLA2003 Companion pp.130-131, Anaheim, California, October 2003.

*      Wei Zhao. “Two-Level Grammar as the Formalism for Middleware Generation in Internet Component Broker Organizations.” Proceedings of GCSE/SAIG Young Researchers Workshop, held in conjunction with the First ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5 2002. http://www.cs.uni-essen.de/dawis/conferences/GCSE_SAIG_YRW2002/submissions/final/Zhao.pdf 

*      Wei Zhao. “A Product-Line Architecture for Component Model Domains”, Proceedings of the 12th Workshop for PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems, held in conjunction with the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Málaga, Spain, June 10-11, 2002. http://www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/facilities/public/AD/phdoos02/index.htm

v     Posters

*      Wei Zhao, “A Language Based Formalism for Domain Driven Development”, ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition, OOPSLA2003 Companion pp. 388-389, Anaheim, California, October 2003

*      Beum-Seuk Lee, Xiaoqing Wu, Fei Cao, Shih-hsi Liu, Wei Zhao, Chunmin Yang, Barrett R. Bryant, Jeffrey G. Gray, ``T-Clipse: an Integrated Development Environment for Two-Level Grammar," OOPSLA Special Event (hosted by IBM): Eclipse Technology Exchange, Anaheim, California, Oct 26-30, 2003.

*      Wei Zhao “UniFrame: the Internet Software Component Exchange and Assembly Web”. ACM SIGSOFT FSE-10 Student Research Forum. Charleston, South Carolina, November 18-20, 2002.

*      Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Wei Zhao, Rajeev R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson, Carol C. Burt. "A Translation Approach to Component Specification," (poster), OOPSLA'02. Seattle, WA, Nov 4-8, 2002.

*      Barrett Bryant, et al., UniFrame: Framework for Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components (Poster). The 6th ECOOP’2002. Malaga, Spain, June 2002. http://ecoop2002.lcc.uma.es/P07.htm

v     Technical report

*      W. Zhao, R. Hauser, K. Bhattachaya, B. Bryant, “Compiling Business Processes: Untangle Unstructured Loops in Irreducible Flow Graphs”, Technical report UABCIS-TR-2005-0505-1, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2005. http://www.cis.uab.edu/zhaow/papers/irreducible.pdf

*      W. Zhao, B. R. Bryant, F. Cao, R. Hauser, K. Bhattachaya, & T. Tao. Transforming Business Process Models in the Presence of Irreducibility and Concurrency. Technical Report UABCIS-TR-2005-1213-1, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2005. http://www.cis.uab.edu/zhaow/papers/IJBPIM-zhao.pdf


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