Jinzhong Niu's Publications

Information Retrieval

• Jinzhong Niu. Modeling search users for evaluating suggestions of query modification. Working Paper, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, in preparation.
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• Udo Kruschwitz, M-Dyaa Albakour, Jinzhong Niu, Johannes Leveling, Nikolaos Nanas, Yunhyong Kim, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, and Anne De Roeck. Moving towards Adaptive Search in Digital Libraries. In Advanced Language Technologies for Digital Libraries, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 0000, Springer, 2011. To appear.
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• M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Jinzhong Niu, and Maria Fasli. Autoadapt at the Session Track in TREC 2010. In Proceedings of The Nineteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2010), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, November 2010.
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Mechanism Design

• Jinzhong Niu and Simon Parsons. Maximizing Matching in Double-sided Auctions. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, in preparation.
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• Simon Parsons, Marek Marcinkiewicz, Jinzhong Niu, and Steve Phelps. Everything you wanted to know about double auctions but were afraid to (bid or) ask. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, in preparation.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Maria Fasli, and Xin Yao. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 11(1):24–35, January-February 2012.
  Revised and significantly extended version of the AMEC'10 paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu. Automated Auction Mechanism Design with Competing Marketplaces. Ph.D. Thesis, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, 2011.
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• Kai Cai, Jinzhong Niu, and Simon Parsons. Using evolutionary game-theory to analyse the performance of trading strategies in a continuous double auction market. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2010. To appear.
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• Kai Cai, Jinzhong Niu, and Simon Parsons. Network effects in double auction markets with automated traders. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC XII), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, and Enrico Gerding. What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game Tells Us About Effective Auction Mechanisms. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 21(2):172–203, 2010.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, and Simon Parsons. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010. Extended Abstract.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, and Simon Parsons. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC XII), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
  Extended version of the AAMAS'10 paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, and Simon Parsons. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/1002.0378, 2010.
  Extended version of the AMEC'10 paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu and Simon Parsons. An Investigation Report on Auction Mechanism Design. Computing Research Repository (CoRR), abs/0904.1258, 2009.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, and Enrico Gerding. What the First TAC Market Design Game Tells Us About Effective Auction Mechanisms. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2009.
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• Kai Cai, Jinzhong Niu, and Simon Parsons. On the Economic Effects of Competition between Double Auction Markets. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC X), Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, and Peter McBurney. Characterizing Effective Auction Mechanisms: Insights from the 2007 TAC Mechanism Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pp. 1079–1086, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Thierry Moyaux, Steve Phelps, and David Shield. JCAT: A Platform for the TAC Market Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pp. 1649–1650, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008. Demo Paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. An Analysis of Entries in the First TAC Market Design Competition. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Sydney, Australia, December 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, and Peter McBurney. An Analysis of Entries in the First TAC Market Design Competition. Technical Report TR-2008016, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2008.
  Long version of the IAT'08 paper.
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• Kai Cai, Jinzhong Niu, and Simon Parsons. Using evolutionary game-theory to analyse the performance of trading strategies in a continuous double auction market. In Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, pp. 44–59, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2007.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, and Elizabeth Sklar. Some preliminary results on competition between markets for automated traders. In Proceedings of AAAI-07 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-07), Vancouver, Canada, July 2007.
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• Steve Phelps, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, Jinzhong Niu, Simon Parsons, and Elizabeth Sklar. Auctions, evolution and multi-agent learning. In Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, pp. 188–210, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2007.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, and Elizabeth Sklar. Reducing Price Fluctuation in Continuous Double Auctions through Pricing Policy and Shout Improvement Rule. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), pp. 1143–1150, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
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• Jinzhong Niu. Auction Experiments With JASA. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2005.
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TAC Market Design Competition (CAT)

• Tim Miller, Jinzhong Niu, Martin Chapman, and Peter McBurney. An overview and evaluation of the CAT Market Design Competition, Handbook of Computational Economics, under review.
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• Tim Miller and Jinzhong Niu. An assessment of strategies for choosing between competitive marketplaces. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 11(1):14–23, January-February 2012.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Maria Fasli, and Xin Yao. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 11(1):24–35, January-February 2012.
  Revised and significantly extended version of the AMEC'10 paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu. Automated Auction Mechanism Design with Competing Marketplaces. Ph.D. Thesis, The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY, 2011.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, and Enrico Gerding. What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game Tells Us About Effective Auction Mechanisms. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 21(2):172–203, 2010.
  Long version available for download. Official version is available at publisher's website.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, and Simon Parsons. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada, 2010. Extended Abstract.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, and Simon Parsons. A Grey-Box Approach to Automated Mechanism Design. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce (AMEC XII), Toronto, Canada, 2010.
  Extended version of the AAMAS'10 paper.
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• Kai Cai, Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Jinzhong Niu, Simon Parsons, and Steve Phelps. Overview of CAT: A Market Design Competition. Technical Report ULCS-09-005, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, 2009. Version 2.0.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter McBurney, and Enrico Gerding. What the First TAC Market Design Game Tells Us About Effective Auction Mechanisms. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2009.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Albert Mmoloke, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. CATP: A communication protocol for CAT games. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2009. Version 2.0.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. JCAT: The Software Platform for CAT Games. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2009. Version 2.0.
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• Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Jinzhong Niu, and Simon Parsons. CAT: A Market Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life XI), Winchester, UK, August 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, and Peter McBurney. Characterizing Effective Auction Mechanisms: Insights from the 2007 TAC Mechanism Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pp. 1079–1086, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Thierry Moyaux, Steve Phelps, and David Shield. JCAT: A Platform for the TAC Market Design Competition. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), pp. 1649–1650, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008. Demo Paper.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. An Analysis of Entries in the First TAC Market Design Competition. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Sydney, Australia, December 2008.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, and Peter McBurney. An Analysis of Entries in the First TAC Market Design Competition. Technical Report TR-2008016, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2008.
  Long version of the IAT'08 paper.
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• Enrico Gerding, Peter McBurney, Jinzhong Niu, Simon Parsons, and Steve Phelps. Overview of CAT: A market design competition. Technical Report ULCS-07-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, 2007. Version 1.1.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, and Elizabeth Sklar. Some preliminary results on competition between markets for automated traders. In Proceedings of AAAI-07 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-07), Vancouver, Canada, July 2007.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. JCAT: The Software Platform for CAT Games. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2007. Version 1.03.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Albert Mmoloke, Peter McBurney, and Simon Parsons. CATP Specification: A communication protocol for CAT games. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2007. Version 1.11.
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Market-Based Control

• Jinzhong Niu. Network Market-based Load Balancing. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, in preparation.
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• Tengjiao Wang, Ziyu Lin, Bishan Yang, Jun Gao, Allen Huang, Dongqing Yang, Qi Zhang, Shiwei Tang, and Jinzhong Niu. MBA: A Market-Based Approach to Data Allocation and Migration for Cloud Database. Science in China Series F: Information Sciences, 55(9):1935–1948, Beijing, China, 2012.
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• Tengjiao Wang, Bishan Yang, Allen Huang, Qi Zhang, Jun Gao, Dongqing Yang, Shiwei Tang, and Jinzhong Niu. Dynamic Data Migration Policies for Query-Intensive Distributed Data Environments. In Advances in Data and Web Management, Joint International Conferences, APWeb/WAIM 2009, Suzhou, China, April 2-4, 2009, Proceedings, pp. 63–75, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 5446, Springer, 2009.
  BEST PAPER AWARD WINNER at APWeb/WAIM 2009.
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Multiagent Learning

• Jinzhong Niu. Review on Multiagent Learning. Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 2004.
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Petri Net-Based Software Engineering

• Jinzhong Niu, Jing Zou, and Aihua Ren. OOPN: An Object-Oriented Petri Nets and its Integrated Development Environment. In Proceedings of 2003 IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA'2003), ACTA Press, Marina del Ray, USA, November 2003.
  BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD WINNER at the Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, CUNY for Year 2003-2004.
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• Jinzhong Niu. Research and Implementation of Integrated Concurrent Software Development Environment Based on Object-Oriented Petri Nets. Master's Thesis, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (now Beihang University), Beijing, China,1999. In Chinese.
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• Aihua Ren, Jinzhong Niu, Zian Sun, and Yuedong Du. OOPN Integrated Development Environment. In Proceedings of the Seventh China National Conference on Petri Nets, pp. 126–131, China Computer Science 26 (June, Special Issue), 1999. In Chinese.
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• Aihua Ren, Jinzhong Niu, Zian Sun, and Shiding Lin. Collaborative Modelling of Concurrent Systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh China National Conference on Petri Nets, pp. 137–141, China Computer Science 26 (June, Special Issue), 1999. In Chinese.
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• Aihua Ren, Jinzhong Niu, and Yongming Zhang. An Object-Oriented Petri Net Based Method for the Concurrent Program Modeling. Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA), 24(4):491–494, 1998. In Chinese.
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• Aihua Ren, Jinzhong Niu, and Yongming Zhang. An Approach to Object-Oriented Petri Net Modeling. In Proceedings of TOOLS Asia'97 and OOT China'97, Beijing, China, 1997. In Chinese.
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Consumer Electronics

• Jintao Li, Tiejun Huang, and Jinzhong Niu. Intelligent Home Information Center (iHIC). Technical Report, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2001. In Chinese.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Tiejun Huang, and Jintao Li. The Road Map to Enhanced TV API. Technical Report, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000. In Chinese.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Tiejun Huang, and Jintao Li. Investigation Report on Sun's JavaTV, ATSC's DASE, and DVB's MHP. Technical Report, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999. In Chinese.
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• Jinzhong Niu and Hong Yang. Java and DTV. China Computer World, 1999(49), December 1999. In Chinese.
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Network Security

• Jinzhong Niu. Putty with bcrypt. Technical Report, Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, City College of New York, City University of New York, 2011.
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• Jinzhong Niu and Gilbert Baumslag. Social Security Group Authentication. Technical Report, Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, City College of New York, City University of New York, 2004.
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Others

• Jinzhong Niu. Everything on Magnus. Technical Report, Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software, City College of New York, City University of New York, in progress.
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• Jinzhong Niu, Jinyu Niu, and Jintao Li. WWW Technology --- Design and Implementation Principles of Apache, Water Electricity Publishing House, Beijing, China, April 2002. 398 pages. In Chinese.
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