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
• Modeling of patterns and different learning styles for pedagogical framework documentation, Ho Sin Ban, Ian Chai and Tan Chue Hong, Proceedings of the 7th MMU International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies 2006 (M²USIC 2006), PJ Hilton, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Multimedia University, 16-17 Nov 2006
• An Empirical Investigation of Methods for Teaching Design Patterns Within Object-Oriented Frameworks, 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)
• An empirical assessment of the use of patterns in teaching the Swing framework, by Ho Sin Ban, Ian Chai, Tan Chuie Hong (2007).  Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2007), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: The Hong Kong Web Society, 15-17 August 2007, pp. 413-416.
• 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), Vol.28, Issue 3, page 201 to 210, May 2009
• 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.
  
• Traditional step-by-step version
• Minimalist version
• Patterns version

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
• Muthuvelu, N., Chai, I. and Eswaran, C. (February 2008): An Adaptive And Parameterized Job Grouping Algorithm For Scheduling Grid Jobs. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT2008), Phoenix Park, South Korea, 2:975-980.
• Ian K. T. Tan, Ian Chai and K. H. Poo, Abridgement of LinScheds Raw Data for Process Scheduling and Migration, The 2nd International Conference on Engineering and ICT, 18-20 February 2010, (ICEI2010), pages 678 - 682, Melaka, Malaysia
• Ian K. T. Tan, Ian Chai and K. H. Poo, Pthreads Performance Characteristics on Shared Cache CMP, Private Cache CMP and SMP, The 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Applications (ICCEA 2010), 19-21, March 2010, Bali Island, Indonesia, pages 186 - 191
• Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkannan, and Rajkumar Buyya, On-line Task Granularity Adaptation for Dynamic Grid Applications, International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2010), 21st May - 23rd May 2010, Busan, Kore
• Razieh Mokhtarnameh, Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Sin Ban Ho, Ian Chai, A Comparison Study on Key Exchange-Authentication protocol, accepted for publication in International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) September 2010. (ISSN 0975-8887) Vol 7 no 5 pp5-7
• Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkannan, and Rajkumar Buyya, Batch Resizing Policies and Techniques for Fine- Grain Grid Tasks: The Nuts and Bolts, Journal of Information Processing Systems, June 2011, Vol 7 no 2, pp 299-320, ISSN 1976-913X(Print); 2092-805X(Online)
• Ian Tan, Ian Chai and Poo Kuan Hoong, An Adaptive Task-Core Ratio Load Balancing Strategy for Multi-core Processors, accepted for publication in The International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Vol 3, no 5, pp 748-753, October 2011. (ISSN 1793-8163)