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Technical Papers

Pedagogical Documentation Papers

Concrete Example - Abstraction Pattern, #7, Pedagogical Patterns: Success in Teaching Object Technology, Ian Chai, OOPSLA '96 Workshop, San Jose, California, October 6, 1996.
Peppery Patterns: How to turn Java applets into Habanero hablets, Ian Chai, Pattern Languages of Programming (PLoP '97), Montecello, Illinois, 2-5 September, 1997. [Washington University Tech. Report #wucs-97-34]
Pedagogical Framework Documentation: A Research Proposal, by Ian Chai, Empirical Studies of Programmers '97 Student Workshop, Alexandria, Virginia, 24-26 October, 1997.
Pedegogical Framework Documentation: Summary of an empirical study: how to document object-oriented frameworks -- summary of an empirical study, World Engineering Congress, 19^th-22^nd July, 1999.
Pedagogical Framework Documentation: How to Document Object-Oriented Frameworks an Empirical Study, Ph.D. Dissertation by Ian Chai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (Written in 1999, published in 2000). (Copy at ncstrl.org) (Copy at UIUC)
Modeling and Simulations of Pedagogical Framework Documentation: An Empirical Study for Prototyping in a Rapid Application Development Environment by Ho Sin Ban, Ian Chai, & Tan Chuie Hong, AIUB Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 3, No.2., August 2004, pages 1-28
An Empirical Investigation for Different Sequences of Pedagogical Framework Documentation in RAD by Ho Sin Ban, Ian Chai, & Tan Chuie Hong, 8^th IASTED conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2004), November 9-11, 2004, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
An Empirical Investigation of Methods for Teaching Design Patterns Within Object-Oriented Framework s, by Ho Sin Ban, Ian Chai, & Tan Chuie Hong, pages 701-722, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, Volume 6, No. 4 (December 2007)
Comparison of different documentation styles for frameworks of object-oriented code, by S.B.Ho, I. Chai, and C.H. Tan, Behaviour & Information Technology (Taylor & Francis), [Issue not yet published]
Also available: raw SPSS data behind these papers from Ho Sin Ban's website.

Pedagogical Doumentation examples

Visualesson Patterns: Lessons on how to use Visualworks 2.5
Peppery Patterns: Lessons on how to use Habanero Version 1.0
Peppery Patterns: Lessons on how to use Habanero Version 2.0
Pedagogical Framework Documentation research materials: These three sets of documentation describe how to transform a Java 1.1 applet into a Habanero 2.0 hablet. They use 3 different philosophies of documentation.

Other papers

Orthogonal Zig-Zag: an Efficient Method for Extracting Straight Lines from Engineering Drawings, Ian Chai and Dov Dori. Proceedings, International Workshop on Visual Form (IWVF '91), Capri, Italy, 27-30 May, 1991.
Extraction of text boxes from engineering drawings, D.Dori & I.Chai. Proceedings, SPIE/IS&T's Electronic Imaging Science & Technology, San Jose, California, 9-14 February, 1992.
Sparse-pixel recognition of primitives in engineering drawings, Dov Dori, Yubin Liang, Joseph Dowell and Ian Chai, Machine Vision and Applications, Volume 6, Numbers 2-3 / March, 1993
Interpretation of Wavelet Subband Energy Features Compaction Properties and its Spatial Information, Matthew Y.W. Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2000, pp S3-5.1-4, 5-6 October 2000, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima Analysis of Image Spatial Energy Discontinuity, Matthew Y.W. Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2001, pp 4.2(1-4), 16-17 October 2001, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
TINA Services: A Look at the Primary Application Areas, Chen Li Choo, R. Logeswaran, Lee Sze Wei, Ian Chai, IASTED International Conference of Communication Systems and Networks 2002 (CSN'02), Malaga, Spain, September 2002, pp. 410-415.
Performance and load issues in TINA networks, Chen Li Choo, Maria Kihl, Lee Sze Wei and Ian Chai, Proceedings, TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) Workshop 2002, pp 29-32, 2-4 October 2002, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Virtual Environment For Networked Audio-Visual Desktop Conferencing, Nimal Maddumage, Ewe Hong Tat and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2002, pp 109-112, 2-3 October 2002, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Entropy Code Pre-Processing Using Wavelet Subspace Energy Feature Re-Mapping, Matthew Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2002, pp 148-151, 2-3 October 2002, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Wavelet maxima mapping quantiser for image low-pass approximation sub-band coding, Matthew Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, Electronic Letters, pages 358-360, Issue 4 of Year 2003, Volume 39, IEE Publishing and Information Services, Institution of Electrical Engineers
Image low-pass approximation sub-band quantisation with wavelet maxima mapping quantiser, Matthew Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, International Conference on Visual Information Engineering - VIE 2003, Ideas, Applications, Experience, 7 - 9 July 2003, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, Page 302 - 305, Printed and Published by IEE, UK, conference publication 495, and ISBN: 082967578
Knowledge - Driven CRM, Goon Tuck Choy and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2003, 2-3 October 2003, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Adaptive Image Coding Using Wavelet Zero-Tree Energy Feature Re-Mapping, Matthew Teow, Sze-Wei Lee and Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2003, 2-3 October 2003, Hilton Hotel Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Linguistic description of patterns from mined images, H. Nair, I. Chai, International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), 2004 , Universidade Portucalense, Porto - Portugal, 14-17, April 2004, Proceedings Volume 2, Page 77-83
Texture Images Compression Using Wavelet Zerotree Energy Featuring Re-Mapping, Matthew Teoh, Sze-Wei Lee, Ian Chai, Proceedings, M²USIC (MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies) 2004, pages TS2A 5-8, 7-8 October 2004, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Multi-Agent System-based Crawlers for Virtual Organizations, Mohammed Ben Mubarak, Azrul Hasni, Ian Chai, Second International Conference on Distributed Framework for Multimedia Applications (DFMA 2006), Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia, 15-17 May 2006

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