Database Research

School of CTI, DePaul University

Faculty:

• Bamshad Mobasher : (x5174)
  • Web Data Mining, Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Web Information Retrieval and Filtering, Text Mining, Reasoning with Uncertainty
• King-Lup Liu: (x5089)
  • Database systems, Information retrieval, Image retrieval, Multimedia retrieval
• Chonghua Zhang: (x5790)
  • Fuzzy databases

Upcoming Events and News:

• ACM CIKM 2001: ACM CIKM 2001, Tenth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Recent Papers and Talks:

• S. Parent, B. Mobasher, and S. Lytinen: An Adaptive Agent for Web Exploration Based of Concept Hierarchies. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, New Orleans, August 2001.
• B. Mobasher, H. Dai, T. Luo, and M. Nakagawa. Improving the Effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering on Anonymous Web Usage Data. Proceedings of the IJCAI 2001 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization (ITWP01), August 2001, Seattle.
• B. Berent, B. Mobasher, M. Spiliopoulou, and J. Wiltshire. Measuring the Accuracy of Sessionizers for Web Usage Analysis. Proceedings of the Web Mining Workshop at the First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 2001, Chicago.
• B. Mobasher, H. Dai, T. Luo, Y. Sung, and J. Zhu. Integrating Web Usage and Content Mining for More Effective Personalization. E-Commerce and Web Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 1875, Springer-Verlag, September 2000.
• B. Mobasher, R. Cooley, and J. Srivastava. Automatic Personalization Based on Web Usage Mining. Communications of ACM, August 2000.
• B. Mobasher, H. Dai, T. Luo, Y. Sung, M. Nakagawa, and J. Wiltshire. Discovery of Aggregate Usage Profiles for Web Personalization. Proceedings of the Web Mining for E-Commerce Workshop (WebKDD'2000), held in conjunction with the ACM-SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD'2000), August 2000, Boston.
• R. Cooley, B. Mobasher, and J. Srivastava. Data Preparation for Mining World Wide Web Browsing Patterns. Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 1, No.1, 1999.
• D. Boley, M. Gini, R. Gross, E. (Sam) Han, K. Hastings, G. Karypis, V. Kumar, B. Mobasher and J. Moore. Document Categorization and Query Generation on the World Wide Web Using WebACE. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 13, No. 5-6, pp. 365-391, 1999.
• Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, G. Karypis, V. Kumar, and B. Mobasher. Hypergraph Based Clustering in High-Dimensional Data Sets: A Summary of Results. IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 1, March 1998.
• K.L. Liu, C. Yu, W. Meng, A. Santos and C. Zhang: Discovering the Representative of a Search Engine Proc. of tenth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'01) (poster paper)(to appear)
• W. Meng, C. Yu, and K.L. Liu: Building Efficient and Effective Metasearch Engines. ACM Computing Surveys (to appear)
• C. Yu, K.L. Liu, W. Meng, Z. Wu, and N. Rishe: A Methodology to Retrieve Text Documents from Multiple Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (to appear)
• C. Yu, W. Meng, W. Wu, and K.L. Liu: Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents. ACM SIGMOD Conference, Santa Barbara, May 2001
• .K.L. Liu, C. Yu, W. Meng, W. Wu, and N. Rishe: A Statistical Method for Estimating the Usefulness of Text Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (to appear).
• K.L. Liu, W. Meng, C. Yu, C. Zhang and N. Rishe: Discovery of Similarity Computations of Search Engines. Proc. of Ninth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'00)
• C. Yu, W. Meng, K.L. Liu, W. Wu, and N. Rishe: Efficient and Effective Metasearch for a Large Number of Text Databases. Proc. of Eighth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'99) , Kansas City, November 1999.
• W. Meng, C. Yu, and K.L. Liu: Detection of Heterogeneities in a Multiple Text Database Environment. Proc. of the Fourth IFCIS Conference on Cooperativ Information Systems (CoopIS'99) , pp.22-33, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999.
• K.L. Liu, W. Meng, C. Yu and N. Rishe: Discovery of Similarity Computations on the Internet. (poster paper) ACM Conference on Digital Libraries,August, 1999.
• C. Yu, K.L. Liu, W. Wu, W. Meng, and N. Rishe: Finding the Most Similar Documents across Multiple Text Databases. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL'99) , pp.150-162, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1999.
• W. Meng, K.L. Liu, C. Yu, W. Wu, and N. Rishe: Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines. Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'99) , pp.146-153, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.
• W. Meng, K.L. Liu, C. Yu, X. Wang, Y. Chang, and N. Rishe: Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet. Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'98) , pp.14-25, New York City, August 1998.
• K.L. Liu, A.P. Sistla, C. Yu and N. Rishe: Query Processing in a Video Retrieval Systems 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE'98),1998.