Research Interests

Random Graph Analysis

Systems Analysis and Design

Complex Software System Analysis

Web Site Design Analysis and Evaluation

Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis

Publications

Journal Publications

• "A System for Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis: Design and Evaluation," Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, Daniel Zeng, Hsinchun Chen, Catherine Larson, Wei Chang, Chunju Tseng and James Ma, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, July 2007, 11(4), pp 483-492.

• "Multiple Queue-Based Web Caching Replacement Strategies," James Ma, Daniel Zeng, Fei-yue Wang, Xiaopeng Zhong, and Bu Fang, Information Sciences (submitted and under review).

Book Chapters

• "Spatial-Temporal Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Measure and A Case Study in Infectious Disease Informatics," James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Hsinchun Chen, Intelligence and Security Informatics, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Springer Publishing, 2006, pp. 542-547.

• "Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis: HotSpot and Correlation Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics," James Ma, Wei Chang, Daniel Zeng, and Hsinchun Chen, Elsevier Publishing (accepted).

Conference Publications

• "Automatically Determining Web Site Comprehensibility," James Ma, Zhu Zhang, and Ray Garcia, Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2006), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 9-10, 2006.

• "Analyzing Software Function Call Graphs Using A Two-Phase Network Growth Model," James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Michael Conover, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on E-business (WeB 2006), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 9, 2006.

Work in Process

• "Spatial-Temporal Cross-Correlation Analysis: A Case Study in Infectious Disease Informatics and Crime Analysis," James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Hsinchun Chen, Target Journal: Decision Support Systems.

• "A Two-Phase Network Growth Model: A Case Study in Software Engineering," James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Zan Huang, Target Journal: Physical Review B.

• "Analyzing Complex Software Structures with a Random Graph Model," James Ma and Daniel Zeng.

• "Products, Processes, and People: A Case Study in Open-Source Software Using Random Networks," James Ma and Daniel Zeng.