Zhangxi Lin's Research Projects and Publications

1.       Broadband wireless access and mobile IPv6 (started 2004)

 

This research project is aimed at the application of broadband wireless Internet access based on the technology of IEEE 802.11x (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), and IEEE 802.20 (Mobile-Fi).

 

1.        Jiashan Huang, Tongsen Wang, Fumin Zou, Xinhua Jiang, and Zhangxi Lin, “Mobilize Internet Clients Seamlessly over Broadband Wireless Network – towards the Future M-Commerce”, The Proceedings of WITS 2005, Dec 10-11, 2005, Las Vegas.

1.        Fuqiang Liu, Zhihui Zeng, Jian Tao, Qing Li, and Zhangxi Lin, “Achieving QoS for IEEE 802.16 in Mesh Mode,” accepted by the 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City.

2.        Fumin Zou, Xinghua Jiang, and Zhangxi Lin, “Implementing Wireless Broadband Digital Network for the Railway Information System,” accepted by the 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City.

3.        Jiang, Xinhua, Fumin Zou, Yonghui Zhang, and Zhangxi Lin, “IPv6―A Boost for Implementing Mobile IP Applications,” Journal of Fujian University of Technology, Vo.2, No.4, 2004, 379-389. (in Chinese)

4.        Fumin Zou, Xinghu Jiang, and Zhangxi Lin, “IEEE 802.20 Based Broadband Railroad Digital Network – The Infrastructure for M-Commerce on the Train”, Proceedings of ICEB 2004, December 5-8, 2004, Beijing.

2. Online reputation distribution and market structure of C2C auctions (started 2003)

 

Market structure is one of important research strands in the industrial organization area. Typically, the distribution of firm size is investigated to study market status and trends. In this research, online reputation ratings for C2C online auctions are used as the indicator of online trader’s capacity. In this way studying the online reputation ratings can reveal the dynamics of electronic market.

  1. Jun Li, and Zhangxi Lin, “Taobao – A Chinese way of making Money in the C2C electronic market,” Business Forum China, accepted 2006.
  2. Zhangxi Lin, and Jun Li, “The Online Auction Market in China - A Comparative Study between Taobao and eBay,” The Proceedings of ICEC2005, August 12-14, 2005, Xi’an.
  3. Zhangxi Lin, Dahui Li, Balaji Janamanchi, and Wayne Huang, “Reputation Distribution and Consumer-to-Consumer Online Auction Market Structure,” forthcoming Decision Support Systems, 2004.

3. Open Source Software (Started 2003)

1.        Tongsen Wang, Lei Wu, and Zhangxi Lin, “The Rising Mozilla in the Web Browser War against Internet Explorer,” Business Forum China, accepted 2006.

2.        Bo Xu, Yan Xu, and Zhangxi Lin, “Control in Open Source Software Development,” The Proceedings of AMCIS, August 11-15, 2005, Omaha, Nebraska.

3.        Tongsen Wang, Lei Wu, and Zhangxi Lin, “The Revival of Mozilla in the Browser War against Internet Explorer,” The Proceedings of ICEC2005, August 12-14, 2005. Xi’an.

4.        Mingzhi Li, Zhangxi Lin, and Mu Xia, “Leveraging the Open Source Software Movement for Development of China’s Software Industry,” forthcoming Information Technology and Industry development, 2005.

4. Reputation, risk, TTP services, and decision making in online markets (started 2000)

 

This research project investigates reputation, risk, trust and online consumer decision-making in four different approaches: game theoretic modeling, even-driven Monte Carlo simulation, archival data analysis, and human subject based empirical study.  

  1. Solomon Antony, Zhangxi Lin, and Bo Xu, “Risk Relief Services in Online Customer-to-Customer Auctions: An Empirical Study”, forthcoming Decision Support Systems, accepted 2006.
  2. Zhangxi Lin, and Bo Xu, “A Virtual Field Experiment System for Studying Risk Relief Service Adoption on Online Auction Market”, The Proceedings of WITS 2005, Dec 10-11, 2005, Las Vegas.
  3. Radha Appan, and Zhangxi Lin, “Sellers in Online Auction Markets: Introducing a Feedback-Based Classification,” forthcoming Journal of International Technology and Information Management, accepted 2005.
  4. Xiaorui Hu, Zhangxi Lin, Andrew B. Whinston, and Han Zhang, “Hope or Hype: On the Viability of Escrow Services As Trusted Third Parties in Online Auction Environments”  Information Systems Research, September 2004, 236-249.
  5. Dahui Li, and Zhangxi Lin, “Negative Reputation Rate as the Signal of Risk in Online Consumer-to-consumer Transactions”, Proceedings of ICEB 2004, December 5-8, 2004, Beijing.
  6. Appan Radha, and Zhangxi Lin, “Multi-dimensional effects of online reputation on trust and perceived risk,” AMCIS 2004, August 5-9, 2004.
  7. Xiaorui Hu, Zhangxi Lin, and Han Zhang, " Perceived Risk and Escrow Adoption in Online Consumer-to-Consumer Auction Markets: An Economic Analysis," to appear in Kerem Tomak (eds), Advances in the Economics of Information System, Ideal Group Inc., 2004.
  8. Xiaorui Hu, Zhangxi Lin, and Han Zhang, " Myth or Reality: Effect of Trust-Promoting Seals in Electronic market," in Otto Petrovic, Reinhard Posch, and Franz Marhold (ed), Trust in Network Economy, Ideal Group Inc., 2003, pp143-150.
  9. Zhangxi Lin,Dahui Li, and Wayne Huang, "Reputation System and Reputation Distribution – An Exploratory Study in Online Consumer-to-Consumer Auctions," in Rasool Azari (eds), Current Security Management Ethical Issues of Information Technology, Ideal Group Inc., 2003, pp249-266.
  10. Zhangxi Lin, Dahui Li, and Wayne Huang, "Modeling Trader Reputation Distribution in An Online C2C Auction Market," IRMA 2002, May 19-22, 2002, Seattle.
  11. Hu, Xiaorui, Zhangxi Lin, and Han Zhang,  "Trust Promoting Seals in Electronic Markets: An Exploratory Study of Their Effectiveness for Online Sales Promotion," Journal of Promotion Management, Vol. 9, No.1, 2002.
  12. Antony, Solomon, Zhangxi Lin, and Bo Xu, “Determinants of Online Escrow Service Adoption: An Experimental Study,” The Proceedings of WITS 2001, December 15-16, 2001, New Orleans, pp.71-76.
  13. Xiaorui Hu, Zhangxi Lin, Andrew B. Whinston, and Han Zhang, "Perceived Risk and Escrow Adoption: An Economic Analysis in Online Consumer-to-Consumer Auction Markets." The Proceedings of ICIS 2001, December 16-19, 2001, New Orleans. ( Extended abstract , full version ). 
  14. Hu, Xiaorui, Zhangxi Lin, and Han Zhang, “Myth or Reality: Do the Trust-Promoting Seals Really Matter in E-Markets?” The Proceedings of WITS 2001, December 15-16, 2001, New Orleans, pp.65-70.
  15. Dahui Li, Surya B. Yadav, and Zhangxi Lin, "Exploring the Role of Privacy Programs on Initial Online Trust Formation," AMCIS'01, Boston, Auguest 3-5, 2001.
  16. Xiaorui Hu, Zhangxi Lin, Andrew B. Whinston, and Han Zhang, "Escrow services in online auction markets: Decision Making and Profit Maximization," presented in WISE 2000, Brisbane, Australia, December 14-15, 2000.

5. Incentive-compatible network resource pricing (started 1997)

 

This research project applies the economics approach to explore optimal network resource pricing in order to maximize the total social welfare of the network service. Recently the incentive-compatible approach is further applied to the resource management of grid computing network, with the extension in prioritized critical path optimization.

  1. Mei Lin, and Zhangxi Lin, “A Cost-effective Critical Path Approach for Service Priority Selections in Grid Computing Economy,” forthcoming Decision Support Systems, accepted 2005.
  2. Mei Lin, and Zhangxi Lin, “The Cost-Effective Critical Path Approach for Service Priority Optimization in the Grid Computing Economy,” ITCC 2004, April 3-5, 2004.
  3. Zhangxi Lin, Huimin Zhao and Sathya Ramanathan, " Pricing Web Services for Optimizing Resource Allocation – An Implementation Scheme," Web2003, Seattle, WA, December 13-14, 2003.
  4. Zhangxi Lin, Peng Si Ow, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Exploring Traffic Pricing for the Virtual Private Network", Information Technology and Management, No.3, October 2002, 301-327.
  5. Zhangxi Lin, Peng Si Ow and Dale O. Stahl, "Pricing Virtual Private Networks - An Economic, Engineering and Experimental Approach," in Holsapple, Jacob and Rao (eds), Business Modeling: Multidisciplinary Approaches, chapter 17, Kluwer, 2001, pp235-260.
  6. Dahui Li, Zhangxi Lin, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Bridging Agent-based Simulations and Direct Experiments - An Experimental System for Internet Traffic Pricing," AMCIS'01, Boston, Auguest 3-5, 2001.
  7. Zhangxi Lin, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, "A Traffic-pricing Model for the Packet-switching Network with Prioritized Round-robin Queueing ", 5th INFORMS-CIST, November 5, 2000, San Antonio.
  8. Zhangxi Lin, Peng Si Ow, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Exploring Traffic Pricing for the Virtual Private Network", The Proceedings of WITS'99, December 11-12, 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina

6. IT/IS Issues in China (since 1991)

 

This joint research project with the wide international cooperation addresses several IT/IS issues for China: open source software, software industry, e-commerce, and e-government.

  1. John Gordon, and Zhangxi Lin, “A Journey through China,” eLearning Age, October 2004, 16-18.
  2. Xianfeng Zhang, Qi Li, and Zhangxi Lin, “E-commerce Education in China: Current Situation, Main Problems and Future Perspectives,” forthcoming Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, 2004.
  3. Hongli Hu, Qi Li, and Zhangxi Lin, " From Concept towards Implementation: E-Government in China " AMCIS 2003, Tampa, Florida, August 4-6, 2003.
  4. Hongli Hu, Zhangxi Lin, and William Foster, “China’s Software Industry – Current Status and Development Strategies,” GITM 2003, Calgary, Canada, June 8-10, 2003.
  5. Yan Xu, Zhangxi Lin, and William Foster, “Agile Methodology in CMM Framework: An Approach to Success for Software Companies in China,” GITM 2003, Calgary, Canada, June 8-10, 2003. 13.
  6. Zhangxi Lin, and Shunian Lu, "The General Conceive and Implementation of External-loan Project Management Information System", in Information Systems Engineering, No. 1, 1991, pp10-16
  7. Ruiyao Zhang, Shunian Lu, Zhangxi Lin, Zuguang Weng, and Xi Cai, A Practical Handbook for the Balance of International Payments, Fujian Science and Technology Publisher, 1991

7. Distance Learning and Its Applications in China (1995-2004)

  1. John Gordon, and Zhangxi Lin, “The Learning Industry,” in Caroline Howard, Judith Boettcher, Lorraine Justice, and K. D. Schenk (ed), Encyclopedia of Online Learning and Technology, 2005, in press.
  2. John Gordon, Chongrong Li, Zhangxi Lin, and Dehua Yang, “Developing A Modern Infrastructure for Open Distance Education in China – The Implementation of NCEC project,” Communications of AIS, v14, 2004, 92-127.
  3. John Gordon Chongrong Li, Zhangxi Lin, and Dehua Yang, "Network-Training Collaboration in Europe and China (NCEC) - A Retrospective," eLearnChina Conference 2003, Edinburgh, UK, 21-23 July, 2003.
  4. Wayne Huang, H.Q. Wang, Zhangxi Lin, and J.H. Huang “How to Compete in Global Education Market Effectively? - A Conceptual Framework for Designing a Next Generation eEducation System,” forthcoming in Journal of Global Information Management, 12(2), April-June 2004, 85-107. (An earlier version was published in the Proceedings of 31st Annual Meeting of Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-6, 2002, pp.422-424. )
  5. Zhangxi Lin, Chongrong Li, Dehua Yang, and John Gordon, "An Introduction to Network-Training Collaboration in Europe and China (NCEC)," The First Sina-America Workshop on E-Commerce (SAWEC'01) , Xi'an, May 28-30, 2001.
  6. Dehua Yang, Hongying Li, and Zhangxi Lin,  "The Applications of LOM and XML in Web-Based Distance Learning," The Proceedings of International Workshop on Distance Learning and Virtual Campus , November 14-15, 2000, Beijing, China.
  7. Zhangxi Lin, Dehua Yang, Chongrong Li, Malcolm Crowe, John Gordon, and Matti Hämäläinen, "Network-Training Collaboration in Europe and China (NCEC) - Issues and Promises ", The Proceedings of AMCIS'00, August 10-13, 2000, Long Beach
  8. John Gordon, Matti Hämäläinen, Zhangxi Lin, Chongrong Li, Yong-En Chen and Xinyue Liu, NCEC - Network-Training Collaboration in Europe and China: Developing the Infrastructure", The Proceedings of ENABLE99, Espoo, Finland, June 2 - 5, 1999.
  9. John Gordon, Matti Hamalainen, Zhangxi Lin, Hugh Paton and Yong-En Chen, "Adapting European production and delivery systems for network based continuing education in China," EUROCHINATEL Conference, Beijing, April 2-4, 1997
  10. Zhangxi Lin, "Internet-based Application Research - An Introduction to CODE and IBAR Projects", The Second National Academic Conference for Chinese Youth, July 1995, Beijing.

8. Miscellaneous e-commerce research topics (2001-present)

  1. Zhangxi Lin, Jun Xia, and Bo Xing, “Deregulation and Foreign M&A in China’s Telecoms Industry”, The Proceedings of ISAP 2005, Dec 11, 2005, Las Vegas.
  2. Karma Sherif, Radha Appan, and Zhangxi Lin, “A Resource Based Model for Systematic Software Reuse: A Contingency Approach,” forthcoming International Journal of Information Management, accepted 2005.
  3. Zhangxi Lin, Gary Anderson and TJ Anderson, "Enabling Real Estate Businesses on the Web: From E-Business Model to The Application Services," IEEE IT Professional, Jan/Feb, 2004, 44-49.
  4. Michael Gibson, Zhangxi Lin, and James Burns,  “E-commerce Deployment - A Transaction Cost Viewpoint,"  Information System Management, V20, N3, Summer 2003, 8-21. (An earlier version was published in the Proceedings of IRMA 2002)
  5. Zhangxi Lin, S. Ramanathan, and Balakrishna Kandula, "Agent-Based Simulation of C2C Internet Auctions with Online Escrow," 7th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, Yale University, June 28-29, 2001.

9. Knowledge discovery on the database and automatic publication (1989-2000)

 

This research project explores the idea how to discover knowledge from databases using the knowledge-based approach. This early data mining effort has coincidently applied the similar model and structure to implement knowledge discovery system. The latest focus of this project was on the web based publication with the understanding of the data in the database. 

  1. Zhangxi Lin, Matti Hamalainen, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Knowledge-Based Approach for Automating Web Publishing from Databases," in Cornelius T. Leonades (eds), Expert Systems , l4:33, Academic Press, 2001.
  2. Zhangxi Lin, Matti Hamalainen, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Knowledge-based HTML Document Generation for Automating Web Publishing", Expert Systems with Applications, 1996, V10, N3/4, 381-391.
  3. Zhangxi Lin, Matti Hämäläinen, and Andrew B. Whinston, "Intelligent HTML Document Generation for Routine Publication Based on the Internet", PACES'95, May 1995.
  4. Zhangxi Lin et al, "Automated Verbal Report Generation Based on Economic Databases -- Cases and Technological Issues", a full paper in AIEM3, Portland, August, 1993.
  5. Daxin Wang, Zhangxi Lin, Tongsen Wang and Yuqing Huang, "Application of Meta-knowledge to Analyzing and Reasoning System on Macroeconomic Data", in Shangxu Hu et al (eds), Information and Systems, Vol. 2, pp840-843, 1991.
  6. Zhangxi Lin, "RASF--Automating Routine Analysis of Financial Data", in L. F. Pau et al (eds), in Expert Systems in Economics, Banking & Management, North-Holland, 1989, pp69-75.
  7. Zhangxi Lin et al, "The Knowledge Structure of Verbal Reports and Its Representation", in E. Balagurusamy (ed), The Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Industry and Government, Nov. 23-25, 1989, Hyderabad, India, pp600-611.

Current Working Papers/Projects:

  1. Zhangxi Lin, “Mobile Broadband Wireless Access and Its Impacts.” Since June 2004
  2. Yonghui Zhang, Xinhua Jiang, and Zhangxi Lin, “Mobile IP and Its Handoff Technology.” Since December 2004.
  3. Jianzhi Li, and Zhangxi Lin, “A Decision Support System for Pareto Optimization of Cooperative Negotiation,” since May 2004.
  4. “Quality Competition in Online Service Provision,” since September 2003.
  5. William Foster, and Zhangxi Lin, “The Impacts of China’s IPv6 Network,” since June 2004.
  6. Zhangxi Lin, “Time Differentiated Pricing for Real-time Internet Services,” 1997.