Fields of Research

Data management and data science
Inter-organisational, extra-organisational and global information systems
Human information interaction and retrieval
Information modelling, management and ontologies

Research Objectives

Information systems, technologies and services
Electronic information storage and retrieval services
Application software packages

Career Best Publications

Breaking out of the MisMatch trap; 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
DDE: from dewey to a fully dynamic XML labeling scheme; 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Effective XML keyword search with relevance oriented ranking; 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
Efficient provenance storage for relational queries; 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Efficient query processing for XML keyword queries based on the IDList index; The VLDB Journal
Extended XML tree pattern matching: theories and algorithms; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Fast result enumeration for keyword queries on XML data; The 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2013
Fast SLCA and ELCA computation for XML keyword queries based on set intersection; IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering
Removing the mismatch headache in XML keyword search; 36th Annual ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval 2013
sonLP: social network link prediction by principal component regression; 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
sonSchema: A conceptual schema for social networks; 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)
Towards an effective XML keyword search; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Research Publications

A dynamic labeling scheme using vectors; 18th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
A semantic approach to keyword search over relational databases; 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)
An effective object-level XML keyword search; 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Breaking out of the MisMatch trap; 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
DDE: from dewey to a fully dynamic XML labeling scheme; 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
Demonstrating effective ranked XML keyword search with meaningful result display; 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Effective XML keyword search with relevance oriented ranking; 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering
Efficient label encoding for range-based dynamic XML labeling schemes; 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Efficient provenance storage for relational queries; 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Efficient query processing for XML keyword queries based on the IDList index; The VLDB Journal
Efficient XML keyword search: from graph model to tree model; 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Elaps: An efficient location-aware pub/sub system; 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2015
Exploring XML data is as easy as using maps; 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
ExpressQ: identifying keyword context and search target in relational keyword queries; ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2014
Extended XML tree pattern matching: theories and algorithms; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Fast result enumeration for keyword queries on XML data; Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
Fast result enumeration for keyword queries on XML data; The 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2013
Fast SLCA and ELCA computation for XML keyword queries based on set intersection; IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering
Group-by and aggregate functions in XML keyword search; 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems (DEXA 2014)
iSearch: an interpretation based framework for keyword search in relational databases; 3rd International Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data 2013
MALEX: a MAp-Like Exploration Model on XML database; 3rd International Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data 2013
MCN: a new semantics towards effective XML keyword search; 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
MESA: a map service to support fuzzy type ahead search over geo-textual data; 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
MVP index: towards efficient known-item search on large graphs; The 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
Object-oriented XML keyword search; 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Real time personalized search on social networks; 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2015
Reducing graph matching to tree matching for XML queries with ID references; 21st International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Related axis: the extension to XPath towards effective XML search; Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Removing the mismatch headache in XML keyword search; 36th Annual ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval 2013
Schema-independence in XML keyword search; 33rd Edition of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Semantic path ranking scheme for relational keyword queries; 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems (DEXA 2014)
SemanticTwig: a semantic approach to optimize XML query processing; Proceedings of 13 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
sonLP: social network link prediction by principal component regression; 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
sonSchema: A conceptual schema for social networks; 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)
sonSQL: An extensible relational DBMS for social network start-ups; 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2013)
Storage and use of provenance information for relational database queries; 16th International Database Systems for Advanced Applications Conference
Supporting range queries in XML keyword search; 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology and 16th International Conference on Database Theory Joint Workshop 2013
The price is right: models and algorithms for pricing data; 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Top-down SLCA computation based on list partition; The 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2013
Towards an effective XML keyword search; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Using semantics in XML query processing; 2nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
XML keyword query refinement; First International Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data
XMLDM 2012 Workshop Co-Chair; 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management: GDMM, IWSN, MDSP, USDM and XMLDM
XReal: an interactive XML keyword searching; 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

Research Projects

Research Candidate Supervision