Yajing Zhao Ph.D. Candidate, under the guidance of Dr. Jing Dong Department of Computer Science Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas 800 W Campbell Road Richardson, Texas 75080-3021 Email: yxz045100 At utdallas Dot edu Office: ECSS 3.619 Office Hours (Fall 2009): Tuesday 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Thursday 12:45pm - 2:45pm

• Education

  • M.S., Software Engineering, the University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.
  • B.E., Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

   

• Awards

  • Academic Award
    • Louis Beecherl, Jr., Graduate Fellowship, 2009-2010 academic year
  • Professional Award
    • CISCO Individual Achievement Award, August 2008

• Research Interests

  Software engineering, software architecture, design pattern, model driven architecture, model transformation, reverse engineering, service-oriented architecture, semantic Web, Web services.

• Publications

  • Refereed Journal Papers:

  1.      Ontology Classification for Semantic Web based Software Engineering, Yajing Zhao, Jing Dong, and Tu Peng, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2009 (To appear).

  2.      Automated Verification of Security Pattern Compositions, Jing Dong, Tu Peng, and Yajing Zhao, Information and Software Technology (IST), Elsevier-Science, 2009 (To appear).

  3.      A Matrix-Based Approach for Recovering Design Patterns, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, and Yongtao Sun, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMC), Part A: Systems and Humans, Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 1271-1282, November 2009.

  4.      A Review of Design Pattern Mining Techniques, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, and Tu Peng, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), World Scientific Publishing, Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 823-855, September 2009.

  5.      XSLT-Based Evolutions and Analyses of Design Patterns, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, and Yongtao Sun, Software – Practice and Experience (SPE), Wiley, Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 773-805, June 2009.

  6.      Design Pattern Evolutions in QVT, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, and Yongtao Sun, Software Quality Journal, accepted with minor revision, 2009.

  7.   On Instantiation and Integration Commutability of Design Pattern, Jing Dong, Tu Peng, and Yajing Zhao, the Computer Journal, accepted with minor revision, 2009.

   

  • Refereed Book Chapters:

  1.      Specifying Enterprise Web-Oriented Architecture, Longji Tang, Yajing Zhao, and Jing Dong, High Assurance Services Computing, Springer, pages 241-260, 2009.

  2.      Design Patterns From Theory To Practice, Jing Dong, Tu Peng, Yongtao Sun, Longji Tang, and Yajing Zhao (in alphabetical order), in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, pages 1047-1052, IGI Global Publishing, 2008.

  • Refereed Conference Papers:

  1.      Hierarchical Composition of OWL-S Web Services, Jing Dong, Yongtao Sun, and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), pages 187-194, Czech Republic, August 2008, IEEE CS Press.

  2.      Compound Record Clustering Algorithm for Design Pattern Detection by Decision Tree Learning, Jing Dong, Yongtao Sun, and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), pages 226-231, USA, July 2008.

  3.      Verifying Behavioral Correctness of Design Pattern Implementation, Tu Peng, Jing Dong and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pages 454-459, CA, USA, July 2008.

  4.      Design Pattern Detection By Template Matching, Jing Dong, Yongtao Sun, and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pages 765-769, Ceará, Brazil, March 2008. (Acceptance rate: 29%)

  5.      Model Checking Security Pattern Compositions, Jing Dong, Tu Peng, and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), pages 80-89, Portland, Oregon, USA, October 2007, IEEE CS Press. (Acceptance rate: 24/92=26.1%)

  6.      Classification of Design Pattern Traits, Jing Dong and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pages 473-476, Boston, USA, July 2007.

  7.      Architecture and Design Pattern Discovery Techniques – A Review, Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, and Tu Peng, the Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP), pages 621-627, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2007.

  8.      DP-Miner: Design Pattern Discovery Using Matrix, Jing Dong, Dushyant S. Lad, and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), pages 371-380, Arizona, USA, March 2007.

  • Refereed Workshop Papers:

  1.   Experiments on Design Pattern Discovery, Jing Dong and Yajing Zhao, the Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE), in conjunction with ICSE, Minneapolis, USA, May 2007.

• Presentations and Talks

1.      Experiments on Design Pattern Discovery, on the 3rd International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE), in conjunction with ICSE, Minneapolis, USA, May 2007.

2.      DP-Miner: Design Pattern Discovery Using Matrix, on the 14th Annual IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS), Arizona, USA, March 2007.

• Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant for the following course:
    • CS6v81 Semantic Web                                                                Fall 2009
    • CS6362 Advanced Software Architecture and Design                   Summer 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
    • CS6361 Advanced Requirement Engineering                                 Summer 2006
    • CS6356 Software Reuse                                                              Spring 2007
    • CS4485 Software Engineering                                                      Spring 2007
    • CS4352 Software Architecture and Design                                   Spring 2009, Fall 2009
    • CS4337 Organization of Programming Languages                          Spring 2006, Fall 2006
    • CS3345 Data Structure and Algorithm Analysis                             Fall 2008
    • CS1336 Programming Fundamentals                                             Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008

last updated: November 04, 2009