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Assistant Professor 

Department of Computer Science
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812

Office: SS413

Phone: 406-243-2886

Email: chen@cs.umt.edu

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I received my M.S. and Ph. D. at School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, Miami, Florida in August 2004 and April 2007.

My current research focuses on Distributed Multimedia Database Systems, Database Management, Data Mining, GIS, Digital Library.

Book Chapters

1. Min Chen and Shu-Ching Chen, "MMIR: An Advanced Content-based Image Retrieval System using a Hierarchical Learning Framework ," accepted for publication, Edited by Jeffrey Tsai, Advances in Machine Learning Application in Software Engineering, Idea Group Publishing.
2. Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Chengcui Zhang, "Video Event Mining via Multimodal Content Analysis and Classification," accepted for publication, Edited by Valery A. Petrushin and Latifur Khan, Multimedia Data mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer-Verlag.
3. Na Zhao, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, "User Adaptive Video Retrieval on Mobile Devices," accepted for publication, Edited by Laurence T. Yang, Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Jianhua Ma, Ling Tan and and Bala Srinivasan, Mobile Intelligence: When Computational Intelligence Meets Mobile Paradigm, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007.

Journals

1. Mei-Ling Shyu, Zongxing Xie, Min Chen, and Shu-Ching Chen, "Video Semantic Event/Concept Detection Using a Subspace-based Multimedia Data Mining Framework," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimedia Data Mining, Volume 10, Number 2, pp. 252-259, February 2008.
2. Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Min Chen, "LMS - A Long Term Knowledge-Based Multimedia Retrieval System for Region-Based Image Databases," International Journal of Applied System Studies (IJASS), in press.
3. Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Kasun Wickramaratna, "Semantic Event Detection via Temporal Analysis and Multimodal Data Mining," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia, Volume 23, Number 2, pp. 38-46, March 2006.
4. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Kanoksri Sarinnapakorn, "Capturing High-Level Image Concepts via Affinity Relationships in Image Database Retrieval," Multimedia Tools and Applications, in press.
5. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Chi-Min Shu, "Probabilistic Semantic Network-based Image Retrieval Using MMM and Relevance Feedback," Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 131-147, August 2006.
6. Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang and Min Chen, "A Multimodal Data Mining Framework for Soccer Goal Detection Based on Decision Tree Logic," International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, in press.
7. Min Chen, "Information Tracking via Bar Code Technique in Motorola," Bar Code & Information System, ISSN 1004-9274, vol. 5, pp. 4-5, 1999. (in Chinese)

Refereed Conference/Symposium/Workshop Proceedings

1. Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, and Min Chen, "An Effective Multi-Concept Classifier for Video Streams," accepted for publication, Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2008), August 4th-7th, 2008, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

2. Na Zhao, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, "MRBAC: Hierarchical Role Management and Security Access Control for Distributed Multimedia Systems," Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2008), pp. 76-82, May 5-7, 2008, Orlando, Florida, USA.

3. Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Na Zhao, Shahid Hamid, Khalid Saleem, and Kasturi Chatterjee, "Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model (FPHLM): Research Experience in System Integration," accepted for publication, Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, May 18-21, 2008, Montreal, Canada.

4. Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Shu-Ching Chen, "Semantic Event Extraction Using Neural Network Ensembles," Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Computing and Multimedia Systems, in conjunction with First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC2007), pp. 575-580, September 17-19, 2007, Irvine, California, USA.

5. Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, "Hierarchical Temporal Association Mining for Video Event Detection in Video Databases," accepted for publication, The Second IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Databases and Data Management (MDDM'07), in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.

6. Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Mei-Ling Shyu, "Exciting Event Detection using Multi-level Multimodal Descriptors and Data Classification," accepted for publication, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2006), December 11-13, 2006, San Diego, CA, USA.

7. Kasturi Chatterjee, Khalid Saleem, Na Zhao, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Shahid Hamid, "Modeling Methodology for Component Reuse and System Integration for Hurricane Loss Projection Application," accepted for publication, The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2006), September 16-18, 2006, Hawaii, USA.

8. Kasun Wickramaratna, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, "Neural Network Based Framework for Goal Event Detection in Soccer Videos," IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), pp. 21-28, December 12-14, 2005, Irvine, California, USA.

9. Xin Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Shu-Ching Chen, and Min Chen, "A Latent Semantic Indexing Based Method for Solving Multiple Instance Learning Problem in Region-based Image Retrieval," IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2005), pp. 37-44. December 12-14, 2005, Irvine, California, USA.

10. Chengcui Zhang, Xin Chen, Min Chen, Shu-Ching Chen, and Mei-Ling Shyu, "A Multiple Instance Learning Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval Using One-Class Support Vector Machine," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 6-8, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

11. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, and Stuart H. Rubin, "Affinity-Based Similarity Measure for Web Document Clustering," Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI'2004), pp. 247-252, November 8-10, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

12. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, "A Unified Framework for Image Database Clustering and Content-based Retrieval," Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB 2004), pp. 19-27, November 13, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA.

13. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, "Affinity Relation Discovery in Image Database Clustering and Content-based Retrieval," Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004 Conference, pp. 372-375, October 10-16, New York, USA.

14. Shu-Ching Chen, Shahid Hamid, Sneh Gulati, Na Zhao, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Paresh Gupta, "A Reliable Web-based System for Hurricane Analysis and Simulation," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 2004, pp. 5215-5220, October 10-13, 2004, Hague, The Netherlands.

15. Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Min Chen, and Chengcui Zhang, "A Decision Tree-based Multimodal Data Mining Framework for Soccer Goal Detection," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 265-268, June 27 - June 30, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

16. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, and Chi-Min Shu, "MMM: A Stochastic Mechanism for Image Database Queries," Proceedings of the IEEE Fifth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2003), pp. 188-195, December 10-12, 2003, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.

17. Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen, Min Chen, Chengcui Zhang, Kanoksri Sarinnapakorn, "Image Database Retrieval Utilizing Affinity Relationships," Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases (ACM MMDB'03), pp. 78-85, November 7, 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

18. Shu-Ching Chen, Mei-Ling Shyu, Chengcui Zhang, Lin Luo, Min Chen, "Detection of Soccer Goal Shots Using Joint Multimedia Features and Classification Rules," Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2003), in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, pp. 36-44, August 24-27, 2003, Washington, DC, USA.

19. Shu-Ching Chen, Keqi Zhang, Min Chen, "A Real-Time 3D Animation Environment for Storm Surge," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), vol. I, pp. 705-708, July 6-9, 2003, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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1. UM PACE Visitng Scholar/Mentor Program Award, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, $2,962.

2. Dissertation Year Fellowship, Florida International University (2006)

3. Outstanding Academic Performance Award, School of Computing & Information Sciences, Florida International University (2006)

4. Presidential Fellowship, Florida International University (2006)

5. Presidential Fellowship, Florida International University (2005)

6. The Best Student Research Award, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2004)

7. Presidential Fellowship, Florida International University (2004)

8. The Outstanding Graduate GPA Award within the Field of Information and Technology, School of Computer Science, Florida International University (2003)

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