Dr. Bin Zhu
Dept. of IS
School of Management
Boston University
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Journal Papers

  • B. Zhu, S. Watts, and H. Chen (2009), “NetVizer system: A concept visualization approach,” Decision Support System, conditionally accepted.
  • B. Zhu and S. Watts (2008), “Visualization of Network Information: The Impact of Task and Working Memory Capacity Differences,” Information Systems Research, accepted.
  • B. Zhu and H. Chen (2008), “CommunicationGarden System: Visualizing a Computer Mediated Communication System to Facilitate Knowledge Management,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 778-794.
  • B. Zhu and H. Chen (2005), “Using 3D Interfaces to Facilitate the Spatial Knowledge Retrieval: A Geo-referenced Knowledge Repository System,” Decision Support Systems,Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 167-182.
  • T.-H. Ong, H. Chen, WK Sung, and B. Zhu (2005), "NewsMap: A Knowledge Map for Online News," Decision Support Systems, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 583-597.
  • H. Chen, A.M. Lally, B. Zhu, and M. Chau (2003), “HelpfulMed: Intelligent Searching for Medical Information over the Internet, " Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 54, No. 7, 2003, pp. 683-694
  • B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, and H. Chen (2000), "Creating a Large-Scale Content-Based Air Photo Image Digital Library," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Digital Library, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 163-167
  • B. Zhu and H. Chen (2000), "Validating a Geographical Image Retrieval System," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 625-634.
  • B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Creating a Large Scale Digital Library for Geo-Referenced Information,” D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 7/8, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/07contents.html
  • M. Ramsey, H. Chen, and B. Zhu (1999), “A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 826-835

Conference Papers

  • B. Zhu and C. Yang (2009), Understanding How Product Information Traverses Across Online Communities,  accepted by the Third China Workshop on Information Management 2009, Guangzhou, China.
  • B. Zhu, M. Gaynor, and S. Bradner, Monitoring Team Conflicts through the Visualization of Social Networks, Proceedings of 7th Workshop on e-Business (WeB'08), Paris, France.
  • B. Zhu and M. Gaynor, Monitoring Conflicts in Virtual Teams: A Social Network Approach, Proceedings of the Second China Summer Workshop on Information Management, CSWIM 2008, Kunming, China.
  • Shankaranarayanan, G., B. Zhu., Cai, Y. (2008), Decision support with data quality metadata, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Quality 2008, Boston, MA.
  • B. Zhu., Shankaranarayanan, G., Cai, Y. Integrating Data Quality Data into Decision-Making Process: an Information Visualization Approach. Proceedings of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China.
  • B. Zhu and H. Chen, “NetVizer System: Supporting the Comprehension of Topological Features of a Social Network,” presented at 2nd Winter Information Systems (IS) Conference, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, March, 2005.
  • B. Zhu and B. Iyer (2003), “The Design for an Effective Knowledge Repository System,”Presented atMinnesota Symposium on Knowledge Management, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003.
  • B. Zhu and H. Chen (2001), “Social Visualization for Computer-Mediated Communication: A Knowledge Management Perspective,” Proceedings of Eleventh Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'01).
  • B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, R.V. Hauck, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Creating a Large Scale Digital Library for Geo-Referenced Information,” Proceedings of Digital Library‘99, the 4th ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Aug. pp. 11-14, 1999, pp. 260-261.
  • B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, R.V. Hauck, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Support Concept-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval: A Knowledge Management Approach," Proceedings of ICIS’99, 20th Annual International Conference on Information Systems.

Book Chapter

  • B. Zhu and H. Chen, “Information Visualization for Decision Making,” in Handbook on Decision Support Systems, Edited by Frada Burstein and Clyde W. Holsapple, published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.

Professional Presentation

  • B. Zhu, “Visualization for Effective Network Analysis,” presented at the conference for the Thirty Year Anniversary of the Department of Management Information Systems in University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November, 2004.

Papers in Progress

  •  G. Shankaranarayanan and B. Zhu, “Integrating Data Quality Data in Structured Decision Making: The Impact of task Complexity and Working Experience,” in submission to Information Systems Research.
  •  G. Shankaranarayanan, B. Zhu, and C. Cai, “Visualizing Data Quality Metadata for Decision Support,” to be submitted to ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality
  • B. Zhu and M. Gaynor, “Understanding the conflict escalation in virtual teams: A social network approach.” At the stage of data analysis, targeting Management Science.
  • B. Zhu, M. Gaynor, and S. Bradner, “Monitoring the status of team conflicts: An information visualization approach.” At the stage of system development, targeting to ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
  • B. Zhu and C. Yang, “How do ideas pass around in social network community?”
  •  B. Zhu and C. Yang, “Visualizing the dispersion of word-of-mouth in social media”