Themis: A GPU-accelerated Relational Query Execution Engine

In Proceedings of 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2025)

ACM Press, London, United Kingdom

Experience Report on Using LANTERN in Teaching Relational Query Processing

In the Proceedings of 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE TS 2025)

ACM Press, Pittsburgh, USA

PANACEA: Towards Influence-driven Profiling of Drug Target Combinations in Cancer Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 15th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2024)

ACM Press, Shenzhen, China

Technical Report

Code

DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series.

In Proceedings of 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2024)

ACM Press, Guangzhou, China.

Temporal JSON Keyword Search

In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)

ACM Press, Santiago, Chile

Code

SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction

In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)

ACM Press, Santiago, Chile (Demo)

[Video]

Cognitive Psychology Meets Data Management: State of the Art and Future Directions

In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)

ACM Press, Santiago, Chile (Tutorial)

Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions

In the Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (ACM WWW)

ACM Press, Singapore (Tutorial)

Using a Conceptual Model in Plug-and-play SQL

In the Proceedings of 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2023)

Springer-Verlag, Lisbon, Portugal.

Technical Report

Best Student Paper Award

Code

Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries

In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)

ACM Press, Seattle, USA.

A Framework for Privacy Preserving Localized Graph Pattern Query Processing

In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)

ACM Press, Seattle, USA.

ARENA: Alternative Relational Query Plan Exploration to Augment Database Education

In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)

ACM Press, Seattle, USA (Demo).

Video

Software

VOYAGER: Automatic Computation of Visual Complexity and Aesthetics of Graph Query Interfaces

In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Extended Database Technology (EDBT 2023)

Ioannina, Greece (Demo).

SVP-T: A Shape-level Variable-Position Transformer for Multivariate Time Series Classification

In Proceedings of 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023)

AAAI Press, Washington, D.C., USA.

Generating Plugs and Data Sockets for Plug-and-Play Database Web Services

In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (COOPIS 2022)

Springer, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

SENSOR: Data-driven Construction of Sketch-based Visual Query Interfaces for Time Series Data

In Proceedings of 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2022)

ACM Press, Sydney, Australia (Demo).

Video

MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education

In Proceedings of 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2022)

ACM Press, Sydney, Australia (Demo).

Video

Software

ArcheGEO: Towards Improving Relevance of Gene Expression Omnibus Search Results

In the Proceedings of 13th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2022)

ACM Press, Chicago, USA

Code

Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future

In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)

ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Tutorial).

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

PLAYPEN: Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Top-down and Bottom-Up Search on Large Networks.

In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)

ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Demo).

Video

LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education.

In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)

ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Demo).

Video

Software

IPS: Instance Profile for Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification

In the Proceedings of 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022)

IEEE CS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Code

Kandinsky Mobile: Abstract Art-Inspired Interactive Visualization of Social Discussions on Mobile Devices.

In Proceedings of 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2021)

ACM Press, Virtual (Interactive Arts Track).

Video

Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Canned Pattern Selection for Large Networks

In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)

ACM Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Technical Report

Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs

In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)

ACM Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Code

Best Research Paper Award

Video

MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces

In the Proceedings of 47th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2021)

ACM Press, Xi'an, China.

Technical Report

Code

Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans

In the Proceedings of 47th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2021)

ACM Press, Xi'an, China.

Technical Report

Video

Privacy Preserving Strong Simulation Queries for Large Graphs

In the Proceedings of 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021)

IEEE CS, Chania, Greece

Code

ShapeNet: A Shapelet-Neural Network Approach for Multivariate Time Series Classification

In Proceedings of 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)

Vancouver, Canada.

Code

Visualet: Visualizing Shapelets for Time Series Classification

In the Proceedings of 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020)

ACM Press, Galway, Ireland (Demo).

SCALE: An Efficient Framework for Secure Dynamic Skyline Query Processing in the Cloud
In the Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2020)
Springer Verlag, Jeju Island, South Korea

Homogeneous Network Embedding for Massive Graphs via Reweighted Personalized PageRank

In Proceedings of 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2020)

ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan.

Code

CHASSIS: Conformity Meets Online Information Diffusion

In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)

ACM Press, Portland, USA.

Technical Report

Talk

G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching

In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)

ACM Press, Portland, USA.

Code

BOOMER: A Tool for Blending Visual P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks

In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)

ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).

Video

AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases

In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)

ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).

Video

LATTE: Visual Construction of Smart Contracts

In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)

ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).

Video

Code

BRUNCH: Branching Structure Inference of Hybrid Multivariate Hawkes Processes with Application to Social Media
In the Proceedings of the 24^th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2020)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

PPKWS: An Efficient Framework for Keyword Search on Public-Private Networks

In the Proceedings of 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2020)

IEEE CS, Dallas, USA

Code

Path Travel Time Estimation using Attribute-related Hybrid Trajectories Network

In the Proceedings of 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019)

ACM Press, Beijing, China.

Document in Context of the Time (DICT): Providing Temporal Context for Supporting Analysis of Past Documents

In the Proceedings of 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019)

ACM Press, Beijing, China (Demo).

KANDINSKY: Abstract Art-Inspired Visualization of Social Discussions

In Proceedings of 42nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2019)

ACM Press, Paris, France (Demo).

Video

CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation

In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)

ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Code

Efficient Estimation of Heat Kernel PageRank for Local Clustering

In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)

ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Code

NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education

In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)

ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Demo).

Video

Software

Typicality-based Identification of Across-time Comparable Entity Pairs in News Archives
In the Proceedings of the 24^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2019)
Springer Verlag, Chiangmai, Thailand (Best Papers of DASFAA 2019)

An Indexing Framework for Efficient Visual Exploratory Subgraph Search in Graph Databases

In the Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019)

IEEE CS, Macau, China (Short)

Technical Report

Code

FGreat: Focused Graph Query Autocompletion

In the Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019)

IEEE CS, Macau, China (Demo)

ATAR: Aspect-based Temporal Analog Retrieval System for Document Archives

In the Proceedings of 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2019)

ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia (Demo).

Every Word has its History: Interactive Exploration and Visualization of Word Sense Evolution.

In the Proceedings of 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018)

ACM Press, Turin, Italy (Demo).

PANDA: A System for Partial Topology-based Search on Large Networks

In Proceedings of 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2018)

ACM Press, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Demo).

Video

Code

Ranking Without Learning: Towards Historical Relevance-based Ranking of Social Images

In Proceedings of 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2018)

ACM Press, Ann Arbor, USA.

Killing Two Birds With One Stone: Concurrent Ranking of Tags and Comments of Social Images

In Proceedings of 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2018)

ACM Press, Ann Arbor, USA.

BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of p-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks

In the Proceedings of 44th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2018)

ACM Press, Houston, USA.

Talk video (unplugged)

Software Video

PISTIS: A Conflict of Interest Declaration and Detection System for Peer Review Management

In the Proceedings of 44th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2018)

ACM Press, Houston, USA (Demo).

SURGE: Continuous Detection of Bursty Regions Over a Stream of Spatial Objects

In the Proceedings of 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2018)

IEEE CS, Paris, France

Conflict of Interest Declaration and Detection System in Heterogeneous Networks

In the Proceedings of 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017)

ACM Press, Singapore

PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases

In the Proceedings of 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017)

Munich, Germany (Demo).

Video

Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs

In the Proceedings of 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017)

Munich, Germany (Tutorial).

Slides

TINTIN: Exploiting Target Features for Signaling Network Similarity Computation and Ranking

In the Proceedings of 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2017)

ACM Press, Boston, USA

Code

TOTEM: Personal Tweets Summarization on Mobile Devices

In Proceedings of 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2017)

ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan (Demo).

Video

ASTERIX: Ambiguity and Missing Element-Aware XML Keyword Search Engine

In Proceedings of 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2017)

ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan (Demo).

Code

Plug-and-Play Queries for Temporal Data Sockets

In the Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2017)

London, UK.

Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions

In the Proceedings of 43rd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2017)

ACM Press (Tutorial).

Slides

TENET: A Machine Learning-based System for Target Characterization in Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 16th IEEE Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2016)

IEEE CS, Barcelona, Spain (Demo)

Code

FacetsViewer: A Tool for Multi-faceted Decomposition of Complex Networks

In the Proceedings of 16th IEEE Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2016)

IEEE CS, Barcelona, Spain (Demo)

Video

Code

TAPESTRY: Network-centric Target Prioritization in Disease-related Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2016)

ACM Press, Seattle, USA

Predictive Modeling of Drug Effects on Signaling Pathways in Diverse Cancer Cell Lines

In the Proceedings of 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2016)

ACM Press, Seattle, USA

Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities

In the Proceedings of 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)

New Delhi, India.

AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases

In the Proceedings of 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)

New Delhi, India (Demo).

Software

DualSim: Parallel Subgraph Enumeration in a Massive Graph on a Single Machine

In the Proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2016)

ACM Press, San Francisco, USA.

Software

Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration

In the Proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2016)

ACM Press, San Francisco, USA.

Interruption-Sensitive Empty Result Feedback: Rethinking the Visual Query Feedback Paradigm for Semistructured Data

In the Proceedings of 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015)

ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia

PRISM: Concept-preserving Summarization of Top-K Social Image Search Results

In the Proceedings of 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015)

Hawaii, USA (Demo).

Virtual eXist-DB: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence

In the Proceedings of 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015)

Hawaii, USA (Demo).

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit: Connecting Past with Present by Finding Corresponding Terms across Time

In the Proceedings of 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015)

Beijing, China.

GetReal: Towards Realistic Selection of Influence Maximization Strategies in Competitive Networks

In the Proceedings of 41st ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2015)

ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia.

Nomination for the Best paper award

Asymmetric Structure-Preserving Subgraph Queries for Large Graph

In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea

Software

VISUAL: An HCI-inspired Simulator of Blending Visual Subgraph Query Construction and Processing

In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo)

A Video of VISUAL

DAVINCI: Data-driven Visual Interface Construction for Subgraph Search in Graph Databases.

In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo)

A Video of DAVINCI

PIGEON: Progress Indicator for Subgraph Queries

In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)

IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo)

One Feature Doesn’t Fit All: Characterizing Topological Features of Targets in Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2014)

ACM Press, Newport Beach, California, USA

DB ⋈ HCI: Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Graph Data Management and HCI

In the Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2014)

Springer-Verlag, Munich, Germany.

Keynote paper

PRISM: Concept-preserving Social Image Search Results Summarization

In Proceedings of 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2014)

ACM Press, Gold Coast, Australia.

A Video of PRISM

Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers

In the Proceedings of 40th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2014)

ACM Press, Snowbird, Utah, USA.

In Search of Influential Event Organizers in Online Social Networks

In the Proceedings of 40th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2014)

ACM Press, Snowbird, Utah, USA.

Summarizing Social Image Search Results

In the Proceedings of 23rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (ACM WWW 2014)

ACM Press, Seoul, South Korea (Poster).

Why Not, WINE?

In the Proceedings of 23rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (ACM WWW 2014)

ACM Press, Seoul, South Korea (Demo).

A Video of WINE

INGOT: Towards Network-driven In Silico Combination Therapy

In the Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2014)

IEEE CS, Bangkok, Thailand (Invited Paper)

Why Not, WINE?: Towards Answering Why-Not Questions in Social Image Search

In the Proceedings of 21st ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2013)

ACM Press, Barcelona, Spain

MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data

In the Proceedings of 39th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2013)

ACM Press, New York City, USA

A Video of MESSIAH

Code

Extended version

QUBLE: Blending Visual Subgraph Query Formulation with Query Processing on Large Networks

In the Proceedings of 39th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2013)

ACM Press, New York City, USA (Demo)

Video

MUSTBLEND: Blending Visual Multi-Source Twig Query Formulation and Query Processing in RDBMS

In the Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2013),

Springer-Verlag, Wuhan, China

A Video of MUSTBLEND

Code

CINEMA: Conformity-Aware Greedy Algorithm for Influence Maximization in Online Social Networks

In the Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2013)

ACM Press, Genoa, Italy

VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework

In the Proceedings of 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2013),

ACM Press, Asilomar, California, USA

Efficient Algorithms for Generalized Subgraph Query Processing

In the Proceedings of 21st ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2012)

ACM Press, Hawaii, USA

Code

STEROID: In Silico Heuristic Target Combination Identification for Disease-Related Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 3rd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2012)

ACM Press, Orlando, Florida, USA

Extended version

Content is Still King: The Effect of Neighborhood Voting Schemes on Tag Relevance for Social Image Retrieval

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ACM ICMR 2012)

ACM Press, Hong Kong, China

CASIS: A System for Concept-Aware Social Image Search

In the Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (ACM WWW 2012)

ACM Press, Lyon, France (Demo).

Video

Stars on Steroids: Fast Evaluation of Multi-source Star Twig Queries in RDBMS

In the Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012)

Springer Verlag, Busan, South Korea (Best Papers of DASFAA 2012).

Extended version

SINBAD: Towards Structure-Independent Querying of Common Neighbors in XML Databases

In the Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012)

Springer Verlag, Busan, South Korea.

Querying XML Data: As You Shape It

In the Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)

IEEE CS, Washington, USA

PRAGUE: Towards Blending Practical Visual Subgraph Query Formulation and Query Processing

In the Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)

IEEE CS, Washington, USA

Extended version

Integrating Historical Noisy Answers For Improving Data Utility under Differential Privacy

In the Proceedings of 15th ACM International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2012)

ACM Press, Berlin, Germany

In Silico Identification of Endo16 Regulators in the Sea Urchin Endomesoderm Gene Regulatory Network

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

ACM Press, Miami, Florida, USA

PANI: An Interactive Data-Driven Tool for Target Prioritization in Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

ACM Press, Miami, Florida, USA (Demo)

Video

FUSE: A System for Data-Driven Multi-Level Functional Summarization of Protein Interaction Networks

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

ACM Press, Miami, Florida, USA (Demo)

Video

Social Image Tag Recommendation By Concept Matching

In the Proceedings of 19th ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2011)

ACM Press, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (Short)

CASINO: Towards Conformity-Aware Social Influence Analysis in Online Social Networks

In the Proceedings of 20th ACM Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2011)

ACM Press, Glasgow, Scotland (Short)

Extended version

FUSE: Towards Multi-Level Functional Summarization of Protein Interaction Networks

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2011)

ACM Press, Chicago, USA

Best paper award

PANI: A Novel Algorithm for Fast Discovery of Putative Target Nodes in Signaling Networks

In the Proceedings of 2nd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB 2011)

ACM Press, Chicago, USA (Short)

Extended version

GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing

In the Proceedings of 37^thACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2011)

ACM Press, Athens, Greece (Demo paper)

Video

Efficient Evaluation of NOT-Twig Queries in Tree-Unaware Relational Databases 

In the Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011)

Springer Verlag, Hong Kong, China.

Optimizing Incremental Maintenance of Minimal Bisimulation of Cyclic Graphs

In the Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011)

Springer Verlag, Hong Kong, China.

Efficient Maintenance of Common Keys in Archives of Continuous Query Results from Deep Web Sites

In the Proceedings of 27^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
IEEE CS, Hannover, Germany

Technical Report

Affinity-Driven Prediction and Ranking of Products in Online Product Review Sites

In the Proceedings of 19^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2010)
ACM Press, Toronto, Canada (Short paper).

Quantifying Tag Representativeness of Visual Content of Social Images

In the Proceedings of 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2010)
ACM Press, Firenze, Italy

Searching and Browsing Social Images through iAVATAR

ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge (ACM MM 2010)
Firenze, Italy

iAVATAR: An Interactive Tool for Finding and Visualizing Visual-Representative Tags in Image Search

In the Proceedings of 36^thInternational Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010)
Singapore (Demo paper) Video

Using XMorph to Transform XML Data

In the Proceedings of 36^thInternational Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010)
Singapore (Demo paper)

GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases

In the Proceedings of 36^thACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2010)
ACM Press, Indianapolis, USA

Efficient Database-Driven Evaluation of Security Clearance for Federated Access Control of Dynamic XML Documents
In the Proceedings of 15^thInternational Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010)
Springer Verlag, Tsukuba, Japan (short paper)

Extended version

BIDEL: An XML-based System for Effective Fast Change Detection of Genomic and Proteomic Data
In the Proceedings of 15^thInternational Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010)
Springer Verlag, Tsukuba, Japan (Demo paper)

Code

XMorph: A Shape-Polymorphic, Domain-Specific XML Data Transformation Language

In the Proceedings of 26^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010)
IEEE CS, Los Angeles, USA (Short Paper)

The Steady States and Dynamics of Urokinase Mediated Plasmin Activation

In the Proceedings of 15^th Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing (PSB 2010)  Hawai, USA.

Blog Cascade Affinity: Analysis and Prediction
In the Proceedings of 18^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2009)
ACM Press, Hong Kong, China.

Towards Non-directional XPath Evaluation in a RDBMS
In the Proceedings of 18^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2009)
ACM Press, Hong Kong, China (Short paper).

Extended version

NEAR-Miner: Mining Evolution Associations of Web Site Directories for Efficient Maintenance of Web Archives
In the Proceedings of 35^thInternational Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009)
Lyon, France

In the Search of NECTARs from Evolutionary Trees
In the Proceedings of 14^thInternational Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009)
Springer Verlag, Brisbane, Australia

On the Discovery of Conserved XML Query Patterns for Evolution-Conscious Caching
In the Proceedings of 14^thInternational Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009)
Springer Verlag, Brisbane, Australia

Extended version

XBLEND: Visual XML Query Formulation Meets Query Processing
In the Proceedings of 25^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
IEEE CS, Shanghai, China (Demo Paper)

Video

Code

XML Data Integration Based on Content and Structure Similarity Using Keys
In the Proceedings of 16^thInternational Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CooPIS 2008)
Springer-Verlag, Monterrey, Mexico

Characterizing and Predicting Community Members from Evolutionary and Heterogeneous Networks
In the Proceedings of 17^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2008)
ACM Press, Napa Valley, California, USA

Efficient Processing of High Selective XML Twig Patterns with Parent-Child Edges in a Tree-Unaware RDBMS
In the Proceedings of 16^thACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2007)
ACM Press, Lisbon, Portugal

Extended version

Efficient Evaluation of Nearest Common Ancestor in XML Twig Queries Using Tree-Unaware RDBMS
In the Proceedings of 18^thInternational Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2007)
Springer Verlag, Regensburg, Germany

Extended version

XANADUE: A System for Detecting Changes to XML Data in Tree-Unaware Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of 26^thACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2007)
ACM Press, Beijing, China (Demo Paper)

Mirror Site Maintenance Based on Evolution Associations of Web Directories
In the Proceedings of 16^th ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (ACM WWW 2007)
ACM Press, Banff, Canada (Poster Paper)

Efficient Support for Ordered XPath Processing in Tree-Unaware Commercial Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of 12^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007)
Springer Verlag, Bangkok, Thailand

Extended version

Efficient XML Query Processing in RDBMS Using GUI-Driven Prefetching in a Single-User Environment
In the Proceedings of 12^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007)
Springer Verlag, Bangkok, Thailand

BioDIFF: An Effective Fast Change Detection Algorithm for Biological Annotations
In the Proceedings of 12^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007)
Springer Verlag, Bangkok, Thailand

Code

OXONE: A Scalable Solution for Detecting Superior Quality Deltas on Ordered Large XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 25^th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER 2006)
Springer Verlag, Tuscon, USA

Event Detection From Evolution of Click-Through Data
In the Proceedings of the 12^th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2006)
ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA.
ACM Student Travel Award

A Tale of Two Approaches: Query Performance Study of XML Storage Strategies in Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006)
Springer Verlag, Krakow, Poland

Time - Dependent Semantic Similarity Measure of Queries Using Historical Click-Through Data
In the Proceedings of the 15^th ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006)
ACM Press, Edinburgh, Scotland

CLEOPATRA: Evolutionary Pattern-based Clustering of Web Usage Data
In the Proceedings of the 10^th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

iWED: An Integrated Multigraph Cut-based Approach for Detecting Events From a Web Site
In the Proceedings of the 10^th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

Mining Temporal Indirect Associations
In the Proceedings of the 10^th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

COWES: Clustering Web Users Based on Historical Web Sessions
In the Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

DTD-Diff: A Change Detection Algorithm for DTDs
In the Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2006)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

Every Click You Make, I Will Be Fetching It: Efficient XML Query Processing in RDBMS Using GUI-driven Prefetching
In the Proceedings of the 22^nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2006)
IEEE Computer Society, Atlanta, USA (Poster Paper)

Detecting Changes on XML Documents Using Relational Databases: A Schema-Conscious Approach
In the Proceedings of the 14^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2005)
ACM Press, Bremen, Germany
Student Travel Award

WAM-Miner: In the Search of Web Access Motifs from Historical Web Log Data
In the Proceedings of the 14^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2005)
ACM Press, Bremen, Germany

Mining Conserved XML Query Paths for Dynamic-Conscious Caching
In the Proceedings of the 14^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2005)
ACM Press, Bremen, Germany (Poster Paper)

Detecting Changes to Hybrid XML Documents Using Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Copenhagen, Denmark

SM3: An XML Database Solution for the Management of MPEG-7 Descriptions
In the Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Copenhagen, Denmark

Detecting Semantically Correct Changes to Relevant Hidden Web Data
In the Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Copenhagen, Denmark
Certificate of Excellence award for achieving rank 1 out of 390 submissions

Event Composition and Detection in Data Stream Management Systems
In the Proceedings of the 16^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mining Positive and Negative Association Rules from XML Query Patterns for Caching
In the Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Beijing, China

FASST Mining: Discovering Frequently Changing Semantic Structure from Versions of Unordered XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Beijing, China

XANDY: Detecting Changes on Large Unordered XML Documents Using Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005)
Springer Verlag, Beijing, China

Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML
In the Proceedings of the 13^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2004)
ACM Press, Washington D.C, USA
Best Paper Award,
Distinguished Hyperion Travel Grant Award

BioDiff: An Effective Fast Change Detection Algorithm for Genomic and Proteomic Data
In the Proceedings of the 13^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2004)
Springer Verlag, Beijing, China (Poster Paper)

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Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing Using Relational Database Systems
In the Proceedings of the 23^rd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER 2004)
Springer Verlag, Shanghai, China
Selected as one of the top 6 papers in ER 2004

A Global-to-Local Rewriting Querying Mechanism using Semantic Mapping for XML Schema Integration
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Application of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems (ODBASE 2004)
Springer Verlag, Larnaca, Cyprus

Mining History of Changes to Web Access Patterns
In the Proceedings of the 8^th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD 2004)
Pisa, Italy (Poster Paper)

Discovering Pattern-based Dynamic Structures from Versions of Unordered XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 2004)
Springer-Verlag, Zaragoza, Spain

Mining Maximal Frequently Changing Subtree Pattern from XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK 2004)
Springer-Verlag, Zaragoza, Spain

Detecting Content Changes on Ordered XML Documents using Relational Databases
In the Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004)
Springer-Verlag, Zaragoza, Spain

HW-STALKER: A Machine Learning-based Approach to Transform Hidden Web Data to XML
In the Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004)
Springer-Verlag, Zaragoza, Spain

SUCXENT: An Efficient Path-based Approach to Store and Query XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004)
Springer-Verlag, Zaragoza, Spain

Mining Association Rules from Structural Deltas of Historical XML Documents
In the Proceedings of the 8^th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2004)
Springer Verlag, Sydney, Australia

DiffXML: Change Detection for XML Data
In the Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2004)
Springer Verlag, Jeju Island, South Korea

HyperThesis: The gRNA Spell on the Curse of Bioinformatics Applications Integration
In the Proceedings of the 12^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2003)
ACM Press, New Orleans, USA

AXIS: A XML Schema Integration System
In the Proceedings of the 22^nd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER´03)
ACM Press, Chicago, USA

Incremental Query Answering using Multi-layered Database Model in Mobile Computing Environment
In the Proceedings of the 14^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003)
Springer-Verlag, Prague, Czech Republic

Data Management Issues in Metaboloinformatics - Issues and Challenges
In the Proceedings of the 14^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2003)
Springer-Verlag, Prague, Czech Republic

Storing DTD-conscious XML Data in XEDY
In the Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB 2003)
Springer-Verlag, Prague, Czech Republic

XomatiQ: Living with Genomes, Proteomes, Relations and a Little Bit of XML
In the Proceedings of the 19^th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003)
IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore, India

Multi-layered Database Model and Intelligent Query Answering in Mobile Computing Environment
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2003)
Springer Verlag, Melbourne, Australia

Multi-version Transaction Model to Improve Data Availability in Mobile Computing
In the Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (COOPIS 2002)
Springer Verlag, Irvine, California, USA

Modelling and Predicting Web Page Accesses Using Burrell´s Model
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB´02)
Springer-Verlag, Aix-en-Provence, France

Deriving and Verifying Statistical Distribution of a Hyperlink-based Web Page Quality Metric
In the Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002)
Springer-Verlag, Aix-en-Provence, France

Efficient Processing of Xpath Queries Using Indexes
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-WEB´02)
Springer-Verlag, Aix-en-Provence, France

A Model for XML Schema Integration
In the Proceedings of the 13^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002)
Springer-Verlag, Aix-en-Provence, France

Constraint-free Join Processing in a Web Warehouse
In the Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK´02)
Springer-Verlag, Aix-en-Provence, France

The gRNA: A Highly Programmable Infrastructure for Prototyping, Developing and Deploying Genomics-Centric Applications
In the Proceedings of the 28^th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2002)
Morgan Kauffmann, Hong Kong, China

On Formulation of Disjunctive Web Queries in WHOWEDA
In the Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA´01)
Springer-Verlag, Munich, Germany

Imposing Disjunctive Constraints on Inter-Document Structure
In the Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA´01)
Springer-Verlag, Munich, Germany

Association Rules for Web Data Mining in WHOWEDA
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practices
Kyoto, Japan (Invited Paper)

An Architecture for XML Schema Integration
In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practices
Kyoto, Japan (Invited Paper)

Reducing Cognitive Overheads in a Web Warehouse Using Reverse-Osmosis
In the Proceedings of the 7^th IEEE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS´00)
IEEE Computer Society, Japan

Detecting and Representing Relevant Web Deltas using Web Join
In the Proceedings of the 20^th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS´00)
IEEE Computer Society, Taiwan

Algebraic Operations on Bags in a Web Warehouse
In the Proceedings of the 5^th International Computer Science Conference (ICSC´99)
Springer-Verlag, Hong Kong

Research Issues in Web Data Mining
In the Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DAWAK´99)
Springer-Verlag, Florence, Italy

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Bags in a Web Warehouse
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd International Database Engineering and Application Symposium (IDEAS´99)
IEEE Computer Society, Montreal, Canada

Pi-Web Join in a Web Warehouse
In the Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Database Applications for Advanced Applications (DASFAA´99)
IEEE Computer Society, Taiwan

Information Coupling in Web Databases
In the Proceedings of the 17^th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER´98)
Springer-Verlag, Singapore

Web Bags: Are they Useful in a Web Warehouse?
In the Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Foundations of Data Organization (FODO´98)
Kobe, Japan

Join Processing in Web Databases
In the Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA´98)
Springer-Verlag, Vienna, Austria

Web Warehousing: An Algebra for Web Information
In the Proceedings of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital Library (ADL98)
IEEE Computer Society, Santa Barbara, California, USA