Wai Yin Mok, Ph.D.
Information Systems
Associate Professor
Office: 308 BAB
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
Research Interests
- Website Development
- XML Schema Design
- Software Engineering
- Database Management
- Workflow Management
Teaching Interests
- Website Development
- Visual Basic
- Database Management
Referred Journal Articles
- W.Y. Mok. A comparative study of various nested normal forms, scheduled to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering in 2001.
- 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.
Recent Publications
- David W. Embley and Wai Yin Mok. Mapping Conceptual Models to Database Schemas. Chapter 5 in Handbook of Conceptual Modeling: Theory, Practice, and Research Challenges. Embley, David W.; Thalheim, Bernhard (Eds.) 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-15864-3, Hardcover, Springer.
- J. Fong, W. Mok, and H. Li. Design Non-recursive and Redundant-Free XML Conceptual Schema with Hypergraph. In Proceedings of The 1st International Workshop on Graph-structured Data Bases (GDB 2011), 22 April, Hong Kong, China Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 6637/2011, Pages: 40-52.
- Wai Y Mok, Charles F Hickman, and Christopher D Allport. Implementing Business Processes: A Database Trigger Approach. Accepted for publication in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations
- Wai Yin Mok, Joseph Fong, and David W. Embley. Extracting a Largest Redundancy-Free XML Storage Structure from an Acyclic Hypergraph in Polynomial Time. Information Systems 35(7): 804–824 (2010) (Discipline-Based Scholarship and an A* journal according to Australian Research Council ranking of worldwide journals).
- Wai Yin Mok. Characterizing the MVDs that Hold in a Connected Subtree of a Join Tree: A Correction. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 20(3): 425-426 (2008) (Discipline-Based Scholarship) (An impact journal and a “premium” CS journal in the area of databases).
- W.Y. Mok, and J. Fong. Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Service, XML and Higher Education. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Hybrid Learning – ICHL 2008, 13-15 August 2008, Hong Kong (Selected Papers) (Discipline-Based Scholarship).
- Wai Yin Mok. Designing Nesting Structures of User-Defined Types in Object-Relational Databases. Information and Software Technology 49(9-10): 1017-1029 (2007) (Discipline-Based Scholarship) (An impact journal and a “reputable” CS journal in the area of databases).
- Wai Yin Mok. On Utilizing Variables for Specifying FDs in Data-Centric XML Documents. Data & Knowledge Engineering 60(3): 494–510 (2007) (Discipline-Based Scholarship) (An impact journal and a “leading” CS journal in the area of databases).
- Wai Yin Mok, Prashant Palvia and David Paper. On the Computability of Agent-based Workflows. Decision Support Systems 42(3): 1239-1253 (2006) (Discipline-Based Scholarship) (An impact journal and one of the top ten MIS journals).
- Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. Generating Compact Redundancy-Free XML Documents from Conceptual-Model Hypergraphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 18(8): 1082-1096 (2006) (Discipline-Based Scholarship) (An impact journal and a “premium” CS journal in the area of databases).
