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
Refereed Journal Articles
- Wai Yin Mok, Charles F. Hickman, and Christopher D. Allport. Implementing Business Processes: A Database Trigger Approach. International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations 3(2): 2013 (Discipline-Based Scholarship)
- 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)
- 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)
- Wai Yin Mok. Designing Nesting Structures of User-Defined Types in Object-Relational Databases. Information and Software Technology 49(9-10): 1017-1029 (2007)
- Wai Yin Mok. On Utilizing Variables for Specifying FDs in Data-Centric XML Documents. Data & Knowledge Engineering 60(3): 494–510 (2007)
- Wai Yin Mok, Prashant Palvia and David Paper. On the Computability of Agent-based Workflows. Decision Support Systems 42(3): 1239-1253 (2006)
- 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)
- David Paper, Wai Yin Mok and James Roger. Building Automation into Existing Business Processes. Annals of Cases on Information Technology 6:177–194 (2004)
- David Paper, Kenneth B. Tingey and Wai Yin Mok. The Relation Between BPR and ERP-Systems: A Failed Project. Annals of Cases on Information Technology 5:45–62 (2003)
- Wai Yin Mok. A Comparative Study of Various Nested Normal Forms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 14(2): 369-385 (2002)
- Wai Yin Mok and David P. Paper. Using Harel's Statecharts to Model Business Workflows. Journal of Database Management 13(3): 17-34 (2002)
- Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. Using NNF to Transform Conceptual Data Models to Object-Oriented Database Designs. Data & Knowledge Engineering 24(3): 313-336 (1998)
- Wai Yin Mok. On Keys and Normal Forms. Information Processing Letters 62(5): 255-258 (1997)
- Wai Yin Mok and David W. Embley. On Improving Dependency Implication Algorithms. Information Processing Letters 64(3): 135-141 (1997)
- Wai Yin Mok, Yiu-Kai Ng and David W. Embley. A Normal Form for Precisely Characterizing Redundancy in Nested Relations. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 21(1): 77-106 (1996)
