Research
Activities: Patents, Publications, Grants, Projects
Statements on Research & Experience
United States Patent # 7,134,082
Inventor: Choi; Ben
Invention: Method and Apparatus for Individualizing and Updating a Directory of Computer Files
Patent Granted: November 7, 2006
~ Invent new ways for people to use the Internet (Executive Summary).
* Ben Choi,
Patent Pending on Method and
Apparatus for Organizing Information on Internet
Second IT
patent application filed by Economic Development & Technology Assessment,
Louisiana Tech University.
~ Invent techniques for Web Mining and for organizing information on the Web.
* Ben Choi and Zhongmei Yao, “Web Page Classification,” << Abstract
Foundations and Advances in Data Mining, Springer-Verag, Chapter: pp. 221 - 274, 2005. << Full Text
~ Describes the state of the art techniques and subsystems used to build automatic Web page classification systems.
Journal and Conference
Publications:
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Ben Choi and Kunal Tipnis,
“New
Components for Building Fuzzy Logic Circuits,”
Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD
2007) Vol.2,
pp. 586-590,
2007.
~ Designed new components for Fuzzy computing.
Yingheng Zhou & Ben Choi, “Virtual
Reality Simulation of Humanoid Robots,”
IEEE
Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) 33rd Annual Conference, pp. 2772-2777,
2007.
~ Developed a virtual reality system to simulate humanoid
robots.
Zhongmei
Yao & Ben Choi, “Clustering Web Pages into Hierarchical Categories,”
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, Special Issue on
Web Mining, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.17-35, April-June, 2007.
~ Developed a new system for Web Mining through automatic
Web page clustering.
Xiaogang Peng & Ben Choi, “Document Classifications Based On Word Semantic Hierarchies,”
The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, pp.362-367, 2005.
~ Propose new methods to automatically classify documents based on the meanings of words and the relationships between groups of meanings or concepts.
~ Supervise a Ph.D. Dissertation on applied Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology.
Zhongmei
Yao & Ben Choi, “Automatically Discovering the Number of Clusters in Web
Page Datasets,”
The 2005 International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 3-9, 2005.
~ Discover a constant factor that characterizes the Web
domain.
~ Propose a new method for automatically determining the number of clusters in
Web page datasets.
* Ben Choi and Xiaogang Peng, “Dynamic and Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages,”
Online Information Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 139-147, 2004.
~ Propose algorithms for document classification by using single-path search and dynamically expanding category tree.
* Ben Choi and Rohit Dhawan, “Agent Space Architecture for Search Engines,”
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, pp. 521-525, 2004.
~ Propose a new agent and network based architecture for parallel and distributed computing and for search engine cluster systems.
~ Supervise a
master thesis on parallel and distributed computing.
Sanjay Baberwal & Ben Choi,
“Speeding up Keyword
Search for Search Engines,”
The 3rd
IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information
Technology, pp. 255-260, 2004.
~ Propose new schemes for organizing and searching keywords in a large database.
~ Supervise a master thesis on information retrieval.
Vidyasagar Vasamsetty, David M. Coppola, Charles
J. Robinson, Kerrie Tainter, & Ben Choi,
“Analyses of Rotational Singularities
in Ferret Visual Cortex,”
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society (IEMBS) 26th Annual International Conference, vol. 2, pp.
4429-4432, 2004.
~ Co-supervising, with Prof. Charles Robinson, a master thesis on pattern recognition.
* Ben Choi, “Inductive Inference by Using Information Compression,”
Computational Intelligence 19 (2), 164-185, 2003.
~ Create methods for inducing models from examples by using information compression.
~ Develop an Automated Inductive Machine based on Kolmogorov complexity and minimum descriptive length principle.
*
Ben Choi and Qing
Guo, “Applying
Semantic Links for Classifying Web Pages,”
Developments in Applied Artificial
Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2003,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2718, pp. 148-153, 2003
~ Propose methods for classifying web pages by using the
web pages and their link structures.
~ Develop a new classifier that is suitable for classifying short web pages.
Zhongmei
Yao & Ben Choi, “Bidirectional Hierarchical Clustering for Web Mining,”
IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence,
pp. 620-624, 2003.
~ Propose algorithms for clustering information.
~ Supervise a master thesis on Web Mining.
* Ben Choi and Rohit Dhawan, “Distributed Object Space Cluster Architecture for Search Engines,”
High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop, 2003.
~ Propose a new cluster architecture for parallel and distributed computing.
* Ben Choi, “Applying Learning by Example for Digital Design Automation,”
Applied Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 205-221, 2002.
~ Create methods for applying machine learning techniques for designing digital circuits.
~ Develop systems for transforming high-level behavior specifications to VLSI fabrications.
* Ben Choi and Baolin Li, “Abstracting Keywords
from Hypertext Documents,”
International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Engineering,
pp. 137-142, 2002.
~ Propose techniques for
automatically summarizing a document by using keywords and synonyms.
~ Supervise
a master practicum on Knowledge Engineering.
Xiaogang Peng & Ben Choi, “Automatic Web Page Classification in a Dynamic and Hierarchical Way,”
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, pp. 386-393, 2002.
~ Propose algorithms for
information classification by using single-path search and dynamically expanding
category tree.
~ Supervise a master thesis on Data Mining.
* Ben Choi and Chaoyang Zhang, “Component-Based
Distributed Computing for Numerical Simulation,”
International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications,
pp. 2143-2149, 2002.
~ Applying Microsoft distributed
component-based system for numerical simulations.
~ Supervise a master practicum
on Parallel and Distributed Processing.
* Ben Choi and Yanbing Chen, “Humanoid Motion
Description Language,”
International Workshop on
Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 21-24, 2002.
~ Propose frameworks for
developing a computer language to describe motions of humanoid robots and
virtual actors.
~ Supervise a master practicum on Virtual Reality and Robotics.
Wen Tian, & Ben Choi, and Vir Phoha, “An
Adaptive Web Cache Access Predictor Using Neural Network,”
Developments in Applied Artificial
Intelligence, IEA/AIE 2002,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol.
2358, pp. 450-459, 2002.
~ Applying Neural Networks for
improving the speed of web access by using advanced pre-fetching and caching
methods.
~ Supervise a master practicum on applied Neural Networks.
* Ben Choi and Nakul Bharade, “Network Traffic
Reduction by Hypertext Compression,”
International Conference on
Internet Computing, pp. 877-882,
2002.
~ Propose new mechanism for
reducing networking traffic by three levels of compressing HTML files.
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Supervise a master practicum on Internet Computing.
* Ben Choi,
“Making Sense of Search Results by Automatic Web-page Classifications,”
WebNet 2001 -- World Conference on the WWW and Internet, pp.184-186, 2001.
~ Propose strategies for automatically classifying Internet web pages using three types of information.
* Ben Choi, “Automata
for Learning Sequential Tasks,”
New Generation Computing:
Computing Paradigms and Computational Intelligence,
Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 23-54, 1998.
~ Create a new learning system.
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Develop new algorithms for learning, adapting, and handling information.
* Ben Choi and Dik Lee, “Generic Associative Memory for Information Retrieval,”
~ Create special circuits for
parallel searching.
~ Design an Application Specific Integration Circuit (ASIC)
for information retrieval.
Manjula Waldron & Ben Choi, “Text to Fingerspelling and Speech on the Amiga Micro-computer,”
IEEE Ninth Annual Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pp.1769-1770, 1987.
~ Develop a special graphic
program for assisting communications for hearing-impaired persons.
~ Use
digitized images and speech processing techniques.
Reports:
Michael J. McShane, Jason Gardner, & Ben
Choi, “Multi-Sensor Probe For Cardiovascular Diagnostics”
Institute for Micromanufacturing, white paper, Louisiana Tech University,
May 2000.
~ Catheter-based Deployment of Micromachined Sensor Arrays.
Dik Lee & Ben Choi, “Two Papers on
Text-Retrieval and AI Machines,”
Technical Research Report, Computer and Information Science Research
Center, OSU-CISRC-3/89-TR12, 1989.
~ Design a new Artificial
Intelligent Machine (a Prolog machine).
~ Use Spice program to simulate
specially designed associative memory.
~ Use Magic program to do VLSI layouts.
* Ben Choi, “Automata for Learning Sequential Tasks,” Ph.D. Dissertation,
Doctoral Thesis, The Ohio State University, June 1996.
~ Create a new learning system.
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Develop new algorithms for learning, adapting, and handling information.
~ Use
C/C++ to implement a new learning simulator.
* Ben Choi,
“Parallel Distributed Computer Architecture and General Associative Memory for
Artificial Intelligent Processing,”
Master Thesis, The Ohio State University, September 1988.
~ Develop Parallel Distributed
Computer Architectures.
~ Design a General Associative Memory for Artificial
Intelligent Processing.
Presentations:
* Ben Choi, presenting “New Components for Building Fuzzy Logic Circuits,”
In Fourth International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2007), Haikou, China, August 24-27, 2007.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Automatically Discovering the Number of Clusters in Web Page Datasets,”
In the 2005 International Conference on Data Mining, as part of the 2005 World Congress in Applied Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, June 20-23, 2005.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Document Classifications Based On Word Semantic Hierarchies,”
In The IASTED
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications,
as part of
The 23rd IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied
Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, February 14-16,
2005.
*
Ben Choi, presenting
“Speeding up Keyword
Search for Search Engines,”
In The 3rd
IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet, and Information Technology,
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands,
November 22-24, 2004.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Agent Space Architecture for Search Engines,”
In IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Bidirectional Hierarchical Clustering for Web Mining,”
In IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, Halifax, Canada, October 13-16, 2003.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Applying Semantic Links for Classifying Web Pages,”
In The 16th International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Loughborough, UK, June 23-26, 2003.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Distributed Object Space Cluster Architecture for Search Engines,”
In High Availability and Performance Computing Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA, October 27, 2003.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Automatic Web Page Classification in a Dynamic and Hierarchical Way,”
In The 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Maebashi City, Japan, December 9-12, 2002.
* Ben Choi, presenting “An Adaptive Web Cache Access Predictor Using Neural Network,”
In The Fifteenth International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, Cairns, Australia, June 17-20, 2002.
*
Ben Choi, presenting “Making Sense of Search Results by Automatic Web-page
Classifications,”
In WebNet 2001: World Conference on the WWW and Internet, Orlando, Florida USA, October 23-27, 2001.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Generic Associative Memory for Information Retrieval,”
In The Sixth International Workshop on Database Machines, Deauville, France, June 19-21,1989.
* Ben Choi, presenting “Text to Fingerspelling
and Speech on the Amiga Micro-Computer,”
In The IEEE Ninth Annual Conference
of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, MA USA, November 13-16,
1987.
* Ben Choi, PI:
“Proposal for a Working Prototype Search and Classification Engine for Special
Interest Groups”
Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Louisiana state IT
initiative funds, 2004.
~ Research and
development on building a special search engine that
classifies web pages and presents search results in categories relevant to
user's special interest.
* Ben Choi, PI:
“Develop a Working Prototype for Tech's First IT Patent”
Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Louisiana state IT
initiative funds, 2001-2003.
~ Research and Development on Information Technology for Web-pages classification and Search Engine Design.
~ Based on Patent Pending Technology.
* Ben Choi, PI:
“Undergraduate Research Projects on Information Technology”
Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Louisiana state IT
initiative funds, 2001.
~ Support Undergraduate Students for R&D on Information Technology.
~ R&D on Automaton Design and Implementation.
* Ben Choi, PI:
“Equipments for Multimedia Teaching and Distant Learning”
Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology, Louisiana state IT
initiative funds, 2001.
~ Facilitate R&D on Multimedia Teaching and Distant Learning.
~ Use Pen-based Computers for Interactive Teaching and Distant Learning.
Research
Projects: (Online Interests
Outline)
Information Classification and Search Engine (iCSe) (CEnIT Funded Project):
Research and Development for Techniques on Automatic HTML Classification and Search Engine Design.
RS: Specially Selected Graduate and Undergraduate Students.
Automaton Design and Implementation (CEnIT Funded Project):
Research and Development on Robotic.
RS: Undergraduate Students: Nick Tullos and Students in CSC364 Computer Architecture class.
Virtual
Reality and Cybernetics (Sponsored by CAM Ph.D. Program):
Human and Machine Interface, Communication, Control, and Simulation.
Humanoid Project, RS: Yanbing Chen
Virtual
Reality System and 3D Simulation, RS: James Patterson, Chris Martin, Tarun
Agnani,
Michael Bryant, Yanbing Chen, Mangilal Agarwal, Ched Wiggins, Jason Elliot, and Alberto
Martinez.
Bio-Senor
Project (Sponsored by IfM):
"Multi-Sensor Probe for Cardiovascular Diagnostics"
Catheter-based deployment of Micromachined Sensor Arrays
An IfM (Institute for Micromanufacturing) approved joint project,
PIs: Michael J. McShane, Jason Gardner, and * Ben Choi
Apply
AI (machine learning) for Design Automation:
Apply machine learning techniques for synthesis of circuits for micromanufacturing.
Web based State Table and VHDL translation, RS: Mu Zhou
Circuit Design Automation, RS: Patrick Peng, Kunal Tipnis, Nick Tullos
Data Mining:
Data mining and Warehousing, RS: Boalin Li, Brenda Miles, Sanjay Babewal
Data mining and Classification, RS: Shoahui Jia, Zhongmei Yao
Database:
Database Performance Turning and Administration, RS: Min Xu
Parallel and
Distributed Computing:
Network of Workstations, RS:
Yunjuan Xie
Distributed Programming, RS: Cheng Yu
Distributed
Processing Using Common Object Request Broker Architecture, RS: Shaopeng Sun
Internet and
www:
Web-based CGI programming, RS: Min Xu
Web-based Java CGI
applications: RS: Edward Lu
Web Server Construction and Data Searching: RS: Yongjing Lin
Research Projects Supervised (See Teaching)