· Referee for
· Journal of ACM;
· ACM Transaction on Database Systems;
· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering;
· IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering;
· Information Sceince (an International Journal)
· Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering;
· Int'l Conf. on Vary Large Data Base Systems;
· IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering;
· ACM SIGMOD Conferences;
· ACM SIGIR Conferences;
· ACM OOPSLA Conferences;
· Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering & Knowledge Eng;
· Int'l Symposium on Frontiers of Massive Parallel Computations;
· Int'l Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence;
· The 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology
· IRI-2001 International Conference, Nov, 2001, Las Vegas, Sponsored by International Society of Computer Automation.
· Hong Kong government, HK Research Council, HK University of Science and Technology, HK Polytech University
Speakers of: about 30 international and regional conferences, workshops, and symposiums.
Voting Member: State of Florida Innovative Investment Program Committee (Governor appointed Committee), 1997-98
Various duties inside School of Computer Science and Florida International University.
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS
Yibei Ling, Wei Sun, Xiao-Jing Xiang, and Naphtali Rishe, "A Hybrid Estimator For Selectivity Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 2, March/April 1999. pp 338-354.
Guo, S., Sun, W., and Weiss, M., ``Solving Satisfiability, Implication, and Equivalence Problems in Database Systems'', ACM Transactions on Database Systems. June 1996, pp. 270-293.
Guo, S., Sun, W., and Weiss, M., ``On Solving Satisfiability, Implication, and Equivalence Problems Involving Conjunctive Queries in Database Systems'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 4, August 1996. pp. 604--616.
Sun, W., Ling, Y., and Yu, C., ``Supporting Inheritance Using Subclass Assertions'', Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 8, 1995. pp. 663-685.
Sun, W. and Weiss, M. ``An Improved Algorithm for Implication Testing Involving Arithmetic Inequalities'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
Vol. 6, No. 6, Dec. 1994, pp. 997--1001.
Sun, W. and Yu, C. ``Semantic Query Optimization for Tree and Chain Queries'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, Feb. 1994, pp. 136--151.
Sun, W. and Yu, C., ``Automatic Knowledge Acquisition and Maintenance for Semantic Query Optimization'', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept. 1989, pp. 362-75.
Yu, C., Sun, W., Bitton, D., Yang, Q., Bruno, R., and Tullis, J., ``Efficient Placement of Audio Data on Optical Disks for Real-Time Applications'', Communication of ACM, ACM Press, July, 1989, pp. 862-871.
Sun, W., Meng, W. and Yu, C., ``Query Optimization in Distributed Object-Oriented Database Systems'', Computer Journal, Cambridge University Press, London, UK,
April 1992, pp. 98--107.
Sun, W., Meng, W., Yu, C. and Kim, W., ``An Efficient Way to Establish B+ Trees in a Distributed Environment'', Information Sciences, March 1994, Vol. 77, No. 3..
Sun, W., Liu, L., Zhang, W., and Comfort, J., ``Intelligent OCR Processing'', Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS), Vol. 43, No. 6, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., July 1992, pp. 422 -- 431.
REFEREED PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Naphtali Rishe, Shu-Ching Chen, Nagarajan Prabakar, Mark Allen Weiss, Wei Sun, Andriy Selivonenko, and Debra Lee Davis-Chu, "Terrafly: A High-Performance Web-Based Digital Library System for Spatial Data Access", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, April 2001, Germany (3 pages).
Long Yan, Wei Sun, and Lian Mo, "Web Searching with Distributed Index Agents", ISCA's IRI-2000 Conference, Honolulu, Sheraton Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Nov 1-3, 2000, Sponsored by the Int'l Society of Computer Automation
Guohong Cao, Mukesh Singhal, Yi Deng, Naphtali Rishe and Wei Sun, "A Delay-Optimal Quorum-Based Mutural Exclusion Scheme with Fault-Tolerance Capability", Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'98), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5/26-28/98.
Chen, W. Sun, N. Rishe, Performance Comparison of Three Alternaitves of Distributed Multidatabase Systems: A Global Query Perspective, Proceedings of IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Phoenix/Tempe, AZ, Feb. 16-18, 1998.
Chen, W. Sun, N. Rishe, Improving Performance of Web-Database Gateways Using Packed Queries, Proceedings of the 1997 IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2-4, 1997.
Long Yan, Wei Sun, Nagarajan Prabhakaran, Sha Guo, Yi Deng, and Naphtali Rishe, "A Dynamic Hypermedia Model for Interactive Video," Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems. April 97, Illinois. pp. 79-85.
Shigang Chen, Yi Deng, Paul Attie, and Wei Sun, ``Optimal Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems Based on Locally Constructed Wait-For Graphs'', Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Systems, May 27-30, 1996, Hong Kong. pp. 613-619.
Shigang Chen, Yi Deng, Wei Sun and Naphtali Rishe, ``Efficient Algorithms for Detection and Resolution of Distributed Deadlocks'', Proceedings of 7th IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 10/25-28/95, San Antonio, TX. pp. 10-16.
Yibei Ling and Wei Sun, ``An Evaluation of Sampling-Based Size Estimation Methods in Database Systems'', in Proceedings of the IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'95), Taipei, Taiwan, March 6--10, 1995. pp. 532-540.
Shigang Chen, Yi Deng, Cyril Orji, and Wei Sun, ``Efficient Deadlock Detection in Distributed Systems", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Oct 6-8, 1994, Las Vegas. pp. 591--598.
Sha Guo, Wei Sun, Yi Deng, Wei Li, Qing Liu, and Weiping Zhang, ``PANTHER: An Inexpensive and Integrated Multimedia Environment,'' Proc. of 1994 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Boston, May 1994. pp. 382--391.
Sun, W., Ling, Y., Rishe, N. and Deng, Y., ``An Instant and Accurate Size Estimation Method for Joins and Selections in a Retrieval-Intensive Environment,'' Proc. of SIGMOD 1993, May, 1993, Washington, D.C., pp. 79--88.
Naphtali Rishe, Wei Sun, David Barton, Yi Deng, Cyril Orji, Carlos Ordonez, Mario Sanchez, Artyom Shaposhnikov. ``Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center.'' ACM SIGMOD Record, 1995.
Rishe, N. and Sun, W., ``A Pipeline CASE tool for Database Design'', in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, June, 1994. pp. 336-343.
Wei Li, Wei Sun, and Fuqing Yang, ``JadeBird/III: A Collaborative Multimedia CASE Environment'', in the Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD'94), Bled, Slovenia, Sept. 20-22, 1994.
Rishe, N., Shaposhnikov, A., and Sun, W., ``Load Balancing Policy in Massive Parallel Semantic Database,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Massive Parallel
Computation Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Ischia, Italy, May 2--6, 1994. pp. 328--332.
Guo, S., Sun, W., Deng, Y., and Rishe, N., ``Semantic Query Optimization by Class Reference Reduction in Object-Oriented Database Systems'', in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, June, 1994. pp. 306--313.
Sha Guo, Wei Sun, Wei Li, Naphtali Rishe, Yi Deng, Qing Liu, and Wei-Ping Zhang, ``MSQL: An SQL-based Relational Database Extension to Support Multimedia Data,'' Proceedings of the Fifth Int'l Hong Kong Database Workshop, Hong Kong, Feb. 1994. pp. 202--213.
Meng, W., Liu, C., Sun, W., and Yu, C., ``Predict Query Processing Cost in a Distributed Database System,'' Proc. of the 4th Int'l Conference of Database and Expert Application (DEXA'93), Prague, Czech Republic, Spinger Verlag, Sept. 6--8, 1993. pp. 122-133.
Deng, Y., Ege, R. and Sun, W., ``An Executable Specification for Object-Oriented Design,''
Proc. of 5th Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, San Francisco, Ca., June 1993, pp. 46--53.
Ling, Y. and Sun, W., ``A Supplement to Sampling-Based Methods for Query Size Estimation in a Database System'', ACM SIGMOD RECORD, ACM Press, Dec., 1992, pp. 12--15.
Sun, W. Guo, S., Arefi, F., and Tu, S., ``Supporting Inheritance in Relational Database Systems'', Proc. of Int'l Conf on Software Eng. and Knowledge Eng., IEEE CS Press, Capri, Italy, June 1992, pp. 511 -- 518.
Cova, L. and Sun, W., ``Concurrently Supporting Transaction and Query Processing in Database Systems'', Proc. of IEEE Int'l Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing (RIDE-TQP'92), IEEE Computer Society Press, Phoenix, AZ, February 2-3, 1992, pp. 20--25.
Tu, S. and Sun, W., ``Linear Programming Supporting Ada-Tasking Static Analysis: A Petri Net Approach'', Proc. of Int'l Conf on Software Eng. and Knowledge Eng., IEEE CS Press, Capri, Italy, June 1992, pp. 222 -- 226.
Sun, W. and Cova, L., ``Semantic Query Optimization in Object-Oriented Database Systems'', Proc. of IEEE Int'l Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Transaction and Query Processing (RIDE-TQP'92), IEEE Computer Society Press,
Phoenix, AZ, February 2-3, 1992. (an extended abstract)
Sun, W., Ege, R., and Yu, C., ``Inheritance Constraints: Another Interpretation of Specialization'', Proc. of Object-Oriented Model Workshop, ACM Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'91),Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 6-7, 1991, pp. 41--45.
Yu, C., Jia, B., Sun, W., and Dao, S., ``Determining Relationships among Names'', in the special issue on Heterogeneous Database of ACM SIGMOD RECORD, ACM Press, Dec. 1991, pp. 79-80.
Sun, W., Prabhakaran, N., Weiss, M., and Zhou, X., ``Automatic Identification of Semantic Integrity Constraints in Object-Oriented Databases'', Proc. of the 1991 IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Computer Society Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 13-16, 1991, pp. 1667--1672.
Sun, W., ``Semantic Constraints in Object-Oriented Data Models and Databases'', Proc. of the 3rd International Conf. on Software Eng. and Knowledge Eng., Skokie, Illinois, June 27--29, 1991, pp. 181-186.
Sun, W., Rishe, N., Y. Ding, Meng, W., and Liu, C., ``Knowledge-based Query Optimization in an Object-Oriented Database System'', Proc. of the 1991 IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Computer Society Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 13-16, 1991, pp. 1657--1662.
Yu, C., Sun, W., Dao, S. and Keirsey, D., ``Determining %Relationships among Attributes for the Interoperability of Multi-Database Systems'', Attribute Relationships in Multi-Database Systems'', Proc. of the First IEEE Int'l Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, Kyoto, Japan, April 1991, pp. 251-257.
Sun, W. and Rishe, N., ``Machine Learning in Acquiring Constraints in Relational Database Systems'', Proc. of Florida AI Research Symposium, Cocoa Beach, FL, April 2-5, 1991, pp. 145--149.
Liu, L., Babad, Y., Sun, W., and Chan, K., ``Adaptive Post-processing of OCR Texts via Knowledge Acquisition'', Proc. of the 19th Annual ACM Computer Science Conference, ACM Press, San Antonio, Texas, March 5--7, 1991, pp. 558--569.
Sun, W., Meng, W. and Yu, C., ``Query Optimization in Object-Oriented Database Systems'', Proc. of the Int'l Conference of Database and Expert Application, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, Austria, August 29 - 31, 1990, pp. 215-222.
Yu, C., Sun, W., Dao, S., and Keirsey, D., ``Determining Relationships among Attributes for the Interoperability of Multi-Database Systems'', Proc. of NSF Workshop on Multidatabases and Semantic Interoperability, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nov. 2-4, 1990, pp. 10-15.
Sun, W. and Jia, B., ``Query Optimization Using Semantic Knowledge Base'', Proc. of the 1989 International Symposium for Computer Professionals, Aug. 21-23, 1989, Beijing, pp. 158-163.
Sun, W. and Jing, M., ``UITB --- A User Interface Tool Box'', Proc. of the First International Workshop on Software Developing Environment, Aug. 28-30, 1987, The China Sinica Press, Beijing, pp. 366 - 380.
BOOKS
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Web-Based Applications and E-Commerce, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Editors: Wei Sun, Samuel Chanson, and Doug Tygar, Austin, Texas, USA, May 31 - June 4, 1999. Sponsored by IEEE.
Proceedings of 4th Int'l Conf on Parallel and Distributed Info System, Editors: Wei Sun, Jeff Naughton, and Gerhard Weikum, Dec 18-20, 1996, Miami Beach, Florida, USA, co-sponsored by IEEE CS and ACM SIGMOD. (295 pages). IEEE Computer Socienty Press. ISBN: 0-8186-7475-x.
Chen, Z. and Sun, W., ``Computer Graphics'', BUAA Press, Beijing, February 1990 (306 pages, in Chinese). ISBN: 7-81012-064-8/TP.025.
Chen, Z. and Sun, W., ``Introduction to Computer Graphics'', Rulin Publisher Inc., Taiwan, April 1992 (460 pages, in Chinese). ISBN: 957-652-313-3.
Liu, Y., Liang, N., Wang, D., Zhang, S., Yang, T., Yang, C., and Sun, W., ``The Dictionary of Modern Chinese Words'', AA Press of China, Beijing, June 1990, (1,320 pages, in Chinese). ISBN: 7-80034-302-2/H.031.
Liu, Y., Sun, W., et al., ``The Frequency of Chinese Characters'', China Literacy Press, Beijing, 1988, (1,200 pages, in Chinese).
Liu, Y., Sun, W., et al., ``3,000 Most Frequently Used Chinese Characters'', China Literacy Press, Beijing, 1986, (123 pages, in Chinese). ISBN: 7-81042-149-81.
Liu, Y., Sun, W., et al., ``Modern Chinese Word Listings'', The Standardization Press of China, Beijing, China, 1985, (1,660 pages, in Chinese). ISBN: 7-81078-20-33.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rishe, N. and Sun, W., ``A Predicate Calculus Based Language for Semantic Database Systems'', in Database Systems: Theory, Design and Applications, N. Rishe, S. Navathe, & D. Tol Eds., IEEE Computer Society Press, California, 1991, pp. 204--221. ISBN: 0-8186-9165-4.
THE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Sun, W., ``Automatic Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Base Maintenance", Ph.D Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical Eng. and Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, August, 1990.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
There are more than 50 technical reports (not listed here).
