Dr. Yuxia (Lucy) Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science
- Office: CBI 109
- Phone: (361)-825-2646
- Fax: (361)-825-5848
- E-Mail: lucy.huang@tamucc.edu
Education:
- Ph.D University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Office Hours:
- Monday: 9:00-10:00am, Tuesday: 11:00-12:00pm, Thursday: 2:00-5:00pm
Areas of Expertise:
- Geospatial Semantic Web development: Ontology construction & mapping, semantic interoperability
- Internet GIS: Web Map service development
- GIS in public health: agent-based modelling and simulation
Recent Publications:
- HUANG, Y., and BIAN, L., 2009. Ontology-driven Tour Planning Systems: A Conceptual Framework. Environmental and Planning B (in press)
- HUANG, Y. and BIAN, L., 2009. A Bayesian Network and Analytic Hierarchy Process Based Personalized Recommendations for Tourist Attractions over the Internet. Expert Systems with Applications, 36, 933-943.
- HUANG, Y., 2009. Toward Semantic Interoperability in Travel Planning on the Semantic Web: Learning a Reference Ontology from Online Heterogeneous Tourist Attractions Classification Systems. Information Technology & Tourism. 11(1), 51-66.
- SU, L., HUANG, Y., CHOPPING, M., RANGO, A., and MARTONCHIK, J., 2009. An Empirical Study on the Utility of Topographic Parameters and BRDF Model Parameters for Mapping Vegetation in a Semi-arid Region with MISR imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 30(13), 2463-2483.
- HUANG, Y., 2009. An Ontology Model for the National Map. Position paper. In the UCGIS Specialist Meeting on Developing an “Ontology for the National Map”. Feb. 3-4. Washington DC.
- HUANG, Y., 2009. Progress in Automatic Ways for Ontology Construction. DIW 2009 Workshop, May 15-16
- BIAN, L., WHALEN, T., HUANG, Y., LEE, G., LIM, E., MAO, L., YANG, Y., 2008. Explicit Spatial-Temporal Simulation of a Rare Disease. Proceedings of 11th. Joint Conf on Information Sciences. Shenzhen, China Dec 15-20, 2008
- HUANG, Y., and BIAN, L., 2008. An Ontology Model for Personalized Tour Planning Recommendations on the Semantic Web. Extended Abstract. In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Utah. Sep. 24-26
- HUANG, Y. and SU, L., 2006. A Fast Algorithm for Constructing Multi-resolution Representations of Linear Features to Support the Progressive Transmission of Vector Map Data. GISciene & Remote Sensing, 41 (3), pp. 197-217.
Courses Taught:
- GISC 2438: Geospatial software system I
- GISC 3301: Geospatial system II
- GISC 4335: Geospatial system III
- GISC 4350: Project
- GSEN 5365: Geospatial Multivariate Techniques
- GSEN 5390: Selected topics
Grants:
- 2009 PI. “Explore a new automatic way for ontology construction from online text”. Texas Research Development Fund (TRDF).
- 2009 PI. “Validation of Bayesian Network Architecture for Personalized Recommendations of Tourist Attractions – A Case Study within College Student Population” ”Faculty Research Enhancement Grant Application, college level grant.




