PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES

 

            1.            Shortest paths in a network with two cost functions, proceedings of the third Jersusalem Conference on Information Technology, J. Meneta Ed. North­Holland, Amsterdam (1978) 211- 215.

            2.            A shifting algorithm for Min­Max tree partitioning, (with R.I. Becker and S.R Schach), in the Proceedings of the 7th ICALP International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Noodwijkerhout, The Netherlands, (J.W. de Bakker and J. Van Leeuwen eds.), Springer­Verlag, Berlin 1980, 64-75.

            3.            Efficient optimization of monotonic functions on trees, (with Y. Shiloach), in the Proceedings of the 6th Colloquium on trees in algebra and Programming, Genua, 1981, 332-339, in Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

            4.            Shifting algorithms for tree partitioning with general weighting functions, (with R.I. Becker), in the Proceedings of the 19th Anual allerton Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1981, 746-751.

            5.            Polynomial construction of optimal prefix tables for text compression (with Y. Choueka and A.S. Fraenkel) in the Proceedings of 19th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1981, 762-768.

            6.            A shifting algorithm for constrained MIN­MAX partition on trees, (with E. Agasi and R.I. Becker), in the Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, 1982.

            7.            Circuit partitioning with size and connection constraints, (with M. Snir), in the proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems, princeton, 1982.

            8.            Is text compression by prefixes and suffixes practical?, (with A.S. Fraenkel and M. Mor), in the ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Berlin 1982.

            9.            The balanced sorting Network, (with M. Dowd, L. Rudolph and M. Saks), in the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on principles of distributed computing, Montreal 1982, 161-172

        10.            Efficient variants of Huffman Codes in high-level languages, (with Y. Choueka and S.T. Klein), in the proceedings of the ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Montreal 1985.

        11.            Maximum economical domination in a treelike network, (with J. McHugh), Proceedings of the 24th Annual allertion Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1986, 69-78.

        12.            How hard is it to partition a path, (with M. Lucertini and B. Simeone), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Allertion Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1986, 39-48.

        13.            Small­large dynamic programming for trees, (with J. McHugh), Proceedings of the 25th annual Allertion Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1987, 36-45.

        14.            A Theoretical framework for Collaborative hypertext, (with M. Turoff), in Proceedings of the third International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Boston 1989.

        15.            Interpolation search for Alphabetic tables, (with L. Gabriel) in the proceedings of the 27th Annual Allertion Conference on Communication Control and Computing, 1989.

        16.            Image enhancement by path partitioning, (with M. Lucertini and B. Simeone) in 9th IAPR International Conference for Image Processing, Rome, 1989.

        17.            Cascading LZW algorithm with huffman coding: A variable to variable length compression algorithm, (with A. Mehta) in the proceedings of First Great Lakes Computer Science Conference, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes vol. 507, October 1989, 170-178.

        18.            Separating structural and semantic elements in an object oriented knowledge based model, (with E. J. Neuhold, J. Geller, F. Turau) in the proceeding of the Advanced Database Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, December 1989, 67-74.

        19.            A Theoretical underlying dual model for knowledge based systems, (with E. J. Neuhold, J. Geller, F. Turau) in the proceedings of First International Conference on system Integration, Morristown, NJ, April 1990, 96-103.

        20.            Structural schema Integration in Heterogeneous Multi­Database Systems using the dual Model. (with J. Geller and E. J. Neuhold). in the proceedings of the first International workshop on Interoperability in Multi­database Systems IEEE Computer Society Press, IMS-9, Kyoto, Japan, 200-203, 1991.

        21.            The Cascading of the LZW Compression Algorithm with Arithmetic Coding, with Maram V., and Kudakuntla, N., in Procreedings of the First Data Compression Conference, Utah, April 1991.

        22.            Algorithms for Structural Schema Integration, (with J. Geller, A. Mehta, E. Neuhold, and A. Sheth) Second International Conference on Systems Integration, Morristown, NJ, June 1992, 604-614.

        23.            A Graphical Schema Representation for Object­Oriented Databases, (with M. Halper, J. Geller, and E. Neuhold) Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS­92), Glasgow, Scotland, July 1992; appeared in: R. Cooper (ed.), Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS 92), Springer Verlag, New York, 1993, 282-307.

        24.            Part Relations for Object­Oriented Databases, (with M. Halper, J. Geller) in: G. Pernul and A. Tjoa (eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Entity­Relationship Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1992, 406-422.

        25.            Algorithms for Computing Access Relevance in Object­Oriented Databases (Extended Abstarct), (with A. Mehta, J. Geller, and P. Fankhauser) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1992, 657.

        26.            A Case Study of Structural Integration, (with J. Geller, P. Cannata, and A. Sheth) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1992, 102-111.

        27.            An OODB Part Relationship Model, (with M. Halper, J. Geller) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1992, 602-611.

        28.            Algorithms for Access Relevance to support Path­Method Generation in OODBs, (with A. Mehta, J. Geller, and P. Fankhauser) Fourth International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, Shatin, Hong Kong, Dec. 12­13, 1992, 183-200.

        29.            Computing Access Relevance to Support Path­Method Generation in Interoperable Multi­OODB, (with A. Mehta, J. Geller, and P. Fankhauser) RIDE­93 (Research Issues in Data Engineering) Workshop, Vienna, Austria, April 19­20, 1993, 144-151.

        30.            Value Propogation in Object­Oriented Database Part Hierarchies, (with M. Halper, J. Geller) Proceedings of the 2nd Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington DC, Nov. 1993, 606-614.

        31.            The OODB Path­Mehtod Generator (PMG) using Precomputed Access Relevance, (with A. Mehta, J. Geller, and E. Neuhold) Proceedings of the 2nd Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Washington DC, Nov. 1993, 596-605.

        32.            The new class of g­chain periodic sorters, (with R.J. Becker and D. Nassimi), 5th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, (June 1993), 356-364.

        33.            Generalizations of the Class of g­Chain Periodic Sorting Networks, (with D. Nassimi and R. Becker), The 8th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPPS'94), Cancun, Mexico, IEEE Computer Society, April 1994, to appear.

        34.            The OODB Ownership Relationship, (with YANG, M. Halper, and J. Geller) in: 1994 International Conference on Object­Oriented Information Systems (OOIS­94), D. Patel, Y. Sun and S. Patel (eds.), Springer Verlag, New York, 1994, pp. 278­291.

        35.            Integrating a Part Relationship into an Open OODB System using Metaclasses, (with M. Halper, J. Geller, and W. Klas), Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Gaithersburg, MD, Nov 29 ­ Dec. 1, 1994, pp. 10­17.

        36.            Modeling Business Applications with the OODB Ownership Relationship (with O. Yang, J. Geller, and M. Halper) in The Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications on Wall Street, New York City, June 6­9, 1995, pp. 2­10.

        37.            Identifying a Forest Hierarchy in an OODB Specialization Hierarchy Satisfying Disciplined Modeling, (with J. Geller and H. Gu), First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS­96), Brussels, Belgium, June 19­21, 1996, pp. 182­195.

        38.            Comprehending the Structure of a Medical Vocabulary using Object­Oriented Database Modeling (with M. Halper, H. Gu, J. Cimino and J. Geller) , in Proceedings of the OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object­Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information System, San Jose, CA, 1996.

        39.            Utilizing OODB Schema Modeling for Vocabulary Management, (with H. Gu, J. Cimino, M. Halper and J. Geller), in Proceedings'96 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, pp. 274­278, Washington,DC, 1996.

        40.            Modeling a Vocabulary in an Object­Oriented Database (with L. Liu, M. Halper, H. Gu and J. Geller), in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 179­188, Rockville, Maryland, 1996.

        41.            Partitioning a Vocabulary's IS­A Hierarchy into Trees (with H. Gu, J. Geller, M. Halper, J.Cimino and M. Singh), in Proceedings'97 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pp. 630-634, Nashville, TN, 1997.

        42.            Converting an Integrated Hospital Formulary into an Object­Oriented Database Representation, (with H. Gu, L. Liu, M. Halper, and J. Geller), in Proceedings'98 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pp. 770-774, Orlando, FL, 1998.

        43.            Modeling the UMLS Using an OODB, (with H. Gu, J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu, J. Cimino), AMIA 1999 Fall Conference pp. 82­86, 1999.

        44.            A Metaschema for the UMLS Semantic Network, (with H. Gu, J. Geller, M. Halper and Z. Chen), Proceedings of the METMBS, pp. 755­761, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2000.

        45.            Extracting a Partition from a Complex Schema of a Medical Terminology, (with H. Gu, J. Geller, M. Halper, F. Kuo and J.J. Cimino), Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, pp. 262­267, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000.

        46.            A Structural Partition of the Unified Medical Language System’s Semantic Network, (with Z. Chen, J. Geller and M. Halper), Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine, pp. 296­301, Arlington, Virginia, November 2000.

        47.            Ownership Semantics in the Financial Domain, (with J. Geller, M. Halper, C. Rush and L. Liu), Proceedings of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9): Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems, pp. 340­356, Hong Kong, April 2001.

        48.            A Metaschema of the UMLS based on partitioning of its Semantic Network, (with J. Geller, M. Halper and Z. Chen), In S. Bakken, editor, Proceedings of the 2001 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pp. 234­238, Washington, DC, November 2001.

        49.            Auditing the UMLS For Redundant Classifications, (with Yi Peng, Michael Halper, James Geller), AMIA 2002, San Antonio, TX, pp. 612-616.

        50.            Enriching the Structure of the UMLS Semantic Network, (with Li Zhang, Michael Halper, James Geller, James J. Cimino), AMIA 2002, San Antonio, TX, pp. 939-943.

        51.            Mining the Web for target marketing information, (with James Geller and Richard Scherl), Proceedings of CollECTer, Toulouse, France, April 20th, 2002, (no page numbers).

        52.            Using the Metaschema to Audit UMLS Classification Errors, (with H. Gu, H. Min, Y. Peng and L. Zhang), AMIA 2002, pp 310-314.