K. Selçuk Candan

School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Ira Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University
Box 878809
Tempe, AZ 85287-8809.

Office phone: (480) 965-2770
Fax: (480) 965-2751
e-mail: candan@asu.edu
POSITION
(Aug 09 - Present)

 

 

 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
 Arizona State University                                                  (Tempe, Arizona)
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering

(Sept 09 - Present)

 

 Graduate Faculty- School of Arts, Media, and Eng.         (Tempe, Arizona)
(Aug 03 - Aug 09)

 

 Associate Professor- Arizona State University                   (Tempe, Arizona)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
(Jan 07- Sept 09) Assoc. Director- Arts, Media, and Engineering Program      (Tempe, Arizona)

 
(Sept 05 - Aug 06) Affiliate Faculty, Center for Health Inf. & Research, ASU     (Tempe, Arizona)

 
(Aug 97 - Aug 03) Assistant Professor-Arizona State University                     (Tempe, Arizona)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

 

EDUCATION

(Aug 93 - Aug 97)

University of Maryland at College Park                  (College Park, Maryland)
Ph.D. in Computer Science
GPA 4.0
Advisor: Dr. V.S. Subrahmanian 
Thesis: A Framework for Distributed Multimedia Collaborations  
(Sept 89 - June 93) Bilkent University                                                              (Ankara, Turkey)
B.S. in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences
GPA 3.94 (Rank 1 in the department, rank 2 in the engineering school)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

(Aug 97 - Present) -Arizona State University    (Tempe, Arizona)
Fall'11 Multimedia Information Systems CSE408-Senior/Graduate
Spr’11 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Fall'10 Multimedia Information Systems CSE408-Senior/Graduate
Spr’10 Data and Information Security CSE467-Senior/Graduate
Fall’09 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Fall’09 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Spr’09 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’09 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall’08 Data and Information Security CSE467-Senior/Graduate
Fall'08 The ASU Experience ASU100-Freshman
Spr’08 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’08 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall'07 Data and Information Security CSE467-Senior/Graduate
Spr’07 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’07 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall'06 Multimedia Information Systems CSE408-Senior/Graduate
Spr’06 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’06 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall'05 Multimedia Information Systems CSE408-Senior/Graduate
Spr’05 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’05 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Spr’04 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall’03 Introduction to Engineering Design ECE100-Freshman
Fall’03 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Spr’03 Multimedia and Web Databases CSE515-Graduate
Fall'02 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Spr'01 Database Management System Implementation CSE510-Graduate
Fall'01 Database Management Systems CSE412-Senior/Graduate
Spr'01 Multimedia  and Web Databases CSE591-Graduate
Spr'00 Multimedia Databases CSE591-Graduate
Fall'99 Advanced Databases CSE510-Graduate
Fall'99 Database Management Systems CSE412-Senior
Fall'98 Multimedia Information Systems CSE408-Senior/Graduate
Fall'98 Advanced Databases CSE510-Graduate
Spr'98 Multimedia Databases CSE591-Graduate
Fall'97 Data Structures and Algorithms CSE310-Junior

 

(Sept 04-Dec 04)

Sabbatical Visit – University of Torino                                    (Torino, Italy)

Investigated interactive and adaptive multimedia system design

 

Nov 04 Multimedia and Web Databases (PhD course)

U.of Venice
Dec 04 Multimedia and Web Databases (PhD course)

     U.of Torino

 

(June 94-Aug 97)

Research Assistant - UMCP                                (College Park, Maryland) 
(Aug 93-June 94)

Teaching Assistant - UMCP                                 (College Park, Maryland)

Assisted in junior-level computer architecture course.

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

(Summer 2004)

Sabbatical Visit - IBM Almaden Research Labs.        (San Jose, California)

Investigated information integration and data placement challenges

 
(June 98 - May 10)

Visiting Research Scientist- NEC, USA Inc.             (Cupertino, California)

Investigated multimedia systems, content delivery networks, and Internet caching technologies.

 
(June 00 - Dec 00)

Research Scientist- CCRL, NEC, USA Inc.                (San Jose, California)

Investigated web acceleration, content delivery network, caching, and invalidation technologies.

 

(July 96 - Sept 96)

Intern- CCRL, NEC, USA Inc.                                     (San Jose, California)

Investigated language design, visual interface, and query processing issues in semantics and content-based image retrieval (SEMCOG).

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Teaching                      

Multimedia and web data indexing, retrieval, and query processing
 Multimedia information systems                            
Database management systems                           
Data and information security                             

Research                      

Manangement of multimedia, text, and Web data
Database systems
Multimedia systems
Integration and query processing in the presence of conflicts and imprecision
Assistive technologies for information and data access
Security and privacy of data

BOOKS and PROCEEDINGS

K. Selcuk Candan and Maria Luisa Sapino. Data Management for Multimedia Retrieval,
Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521887399, ISBN-13: 978-0521887397, May 31, 2010.

Divy Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan, and Wen-Syan Li (editors). New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services: Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) 74, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-19293-7, March 12, 2011.

L. Chen, C. Liu, X. Zhang, S. Wang, D. Strasunskas, S.L. Tomassen, J. Rao, W.-S. Li, K. Selcuk Candan, D.K.W. Chiu, Y. Zhuang, C.A. Ellis, and K.-H. Kim (editors). Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online), August 18, 2009.

Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Son Vuong, Carsten Griwodz, Alberto Del Bimbo, K. Selcuk Candan, and Alejandro Jaimes (chairs). Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 26-31, 2008, ACM 2008.

K. Selcuk Candan and Augusto Celentano (eds). Advances in Multimedia Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3665., ISBN: 978-3-540-28792-6, 2005.
 
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Yu-Ru Lin, K. Selcuk Candan, Hari Sundaram, Lexing Xie. SCENT: Scalable Compressed Monitoring of Evolving Multi-Relational Social Networks. accepted to the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), special issue on "Social Media", 2011.  

  2. Mario Cataldi, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino. Narrative-based Taxonomy Distillation for Effective Indexing of Text Collections. accepted to Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2011.  

  3. Luigi Di Caro, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino. PhC:Multi-resolution Visualization and Exploration of Text Corpora with Parallel Hierarchical Coordinates. accepted to the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2011.  

  4. Youngki Lee, SangJeong Lee, Byoungjip Kim, Jungwoo Kim, and Junehwa Song, K. Selcuk Candan. Scalable Activity-Travel Pattern Monitoring Framework for Large-scale City Environments. accepted to IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2011.

  5. K. Selcuk Candan, L. Di Caro, and M.L. Sapino. Multi-resolution Visualization and Explo- ration of Text Corpora with Parallel Hierarchical Coordinates. accepted for publication to the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2011. 

  6. Claudio Schifanella, Maria Luisa Sapino, and K. Selcuk Candan. On Context-Aware Co-Clustering with Metadata Support. accepted to Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 2011.

  7. Luigi Di Caro, Kasim Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Navigating within News Collections using Tag-Flakes. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 22(2), pp. 120-139, 2011.

  8. Jong Wook Kim, K. Selcuk Candan, and Junichi Tatemura. Organization and Tagging of Blog and News Entries based on Content Reuse. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Volume 58, Issue 3, 2010.

  9. Lina Peng, Renwei Yu, K. Selcuk Candan, and Xinxin Wang. Object and Combination Shedding Schemes for Adaptive Media Workflow Execution. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Volume 22 ,  Issue 1, pp. 105-119, January 2010 .

  10. K. Selcuk Candan, Mehmet Donderler, Terri Hedgpeth, Jong Wook Kim, Qing Li, and Maria Luisa Sapino. SEA: Segment-Enrich-Annotate Paradigm for Adapting Digital Content for Improved Accessibility. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 2009.

  11. Syed Toufeeq Ahmed, K. Selçuk Candan, Sangwoo Han, and Yan Qi. Topic Development Pattern Analysis based Adaptation of Information Spaces. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Volume 15 Issue 1, April 2009.

  12. K. Selcuk Candan, Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, and Maria Luisa Sapino. System Support for Exploration and Expert Feedback in Resolving Conflicts during Integration of Metadata. The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, Volume 17,  Issue 6,  pp. 1407-1444, November 2008.

  13. Songting Chen, Hua-Gang Li, Jun’ichi Tatemura, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan. Scalable Filtering of Multiple Generalized-Tree-Pattern Queries over XML Streams. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 20(12), pp. 1627-1640, 2008.

  14. Dirceu Cavendish and K. Selcuk Candan. Distributed XML Processing: Theory and Applications. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 68(8), pp. 1054-1069, 2008, doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2008.04.003

  15. Ping Lin and K. Selcuk Candan. Enabling Access-Privacy for Random Walk based Data Analysis Applications. Special issue of Data and Knowledge Engineering on privacy data management, 63, 3, pp. 667-683, Dec. 2007.

  16. Shibo Wu and K. Selcuk Candan. Demand-Scalable Geographic Multicasting in Wireless Sensor Networks. Comput. Commun. 30, 14-15, 2931-2953, Oct. 2007.

  17. Shibo Wu and K. Selcuk Candan. Power-Aware Single- and Multipath Geographic Routing in Sensor Networks. Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages 974-997, September 2007.

  18. Wen-Syan Li, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan, Yusuf Akca, and  Murat Kantarcioglu. Virtual Active Network for Live Streaming Media Delivery. Journal of Interconnection Networks, Vol. 8, No. 1,  pp. 45-74, 2007.

  19. M.L.Sapino, K.S. Candan, J.W.Kim, and F. Antonelli. Annotating Educational Discussion Boards to Help Students who are Blind. International Journal of Continuing Education and Life-Long Learning. Vol. 17, No.4/5 pp. 294 - 318, 2007.

  20. Lina Peng, K. Selcuk Candan, Christopher Mayer, Kyung D. Ryu and Karamvir S. Chatha. Optimization of Media Processing Workflows with Adaptive Operator Behaviors, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 245-272, June, 2007

  21. K. Selcuk Candan, Jong Wook Kim, Huan Liu, Reshma Suvarna. Discovering Mappings in Hierarchical Data from Multiple Sources using the Inherent Structure. Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, 10, 2, 185-210, Aug. 2006.

  22. Prakash Yamuna  and K.S. Candan. Similarity-based Retrieval of Temporal Documents in Digital Libraries, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 27(1): 143-180, 2005.

  23. Ping Lin and K. Selcuk Candan. Hiding Tree Structured Data and Queries from Untrusted Data Stores. Information Systems Security Journal, Volume 14, Issue 4, September, 2005.

  24. Christopher B. Mayer, K. Selcuk Candan, and Venkatesh Sangam. Effects of User Request Patterns on a Multimedia Delivery System, pp., 233-251, Multimedia Tools and Applications, December 2004.

  25. Lakshmi P. Mahalingam and K.S. Candan. Multi-criteria Query Optimization in the Presence of Predicates with Result Size and Quality Tradeoffs, Special Issue of Multimedia Tools and Applicationson Multimedia Information Systems, Guest Editors: S. Adali and C.V. Ravishankar, 23(3): 167-183, August 2004 

  26. W.-S. Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selçuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal: Freshness-driven Adaptive Caching for Dynamic Content Web Sites. Data Knowl. Eng. 47(2): 269-296, 2003.

  27. K.S. Candan, W.-S. Li: Reasoning for Web Document Associations and its Applications in Site Map Construction. DKE 43(2): 121-150, 2002.

  28. W.-S. Li, W.-P. Hsiung, Oliver Po, K.S. Candan, and D. Agrawal, Evaluations of Architectural Designs and Implementation for Database-Driven Web Sites, DKE 43(2): 151-177, 2002. 

  29. W.-S. Li, J. Shim, K.S. Candan. WebDB, A System for Querying Semi-structured Data on the Web, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 13(1), 3-33, 2002.

  30. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, Q. Vu, and D. Agrawal, Query Relaxation by Structure and Semantics for Retrieval of Logical Web Documents, TKDE 14(4): 768-791, 2002.

  31. K.S. Candan, W.-S. Li. On Similarity Measures for Multimedia Database Applications. Knowledge and Information Systems 3(1): 30-51, 2001.

  32. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, Y. Hara: Supporting Efficient Multimedia Database Exploration. VLDB Journal 9(4): 312-326, 2001.

  33. K.S. Candan, E. Lemar, V.S. Subrahmanian. View Management in Multimedia Databases. VLDB Journal 9(2): 131-153, 2000.

  34. K.S. Candan, W.-S. Li, M.L. Priya: Similarity-based Ranking and Query Processing in Multimedia Databases. DKE 35(3): 259-298, 2000.

  35. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan: SEMCOG: A Hybrid Object-based Image and Video Database System and Its Modeling, Language, and Query Processing. TAPOS 5(3): 163-180, 1999.

  36. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan: Integrating Content Search with Structure Analysis for Hypermedia Retrieval and Management. Computing Surveys 31(4es): 13, 1999.

  37. K.S. Candan, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Retrieval Schedules Based on Resource Availability and Flexible Presentation Specifications. ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 232-250, 1998.

  38. K.S. Candan, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Collaborative Multimedia Documents: Authoring and Presentation. Special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems on Multimedia Computing Systems, Volume 13(12), 1998.

  39. K.S. Candan, V.S. Subrahmanian, and P. Venkat Rangan. Collaborative Multimedia Systems: Synthesis of Media Objects. IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, Nr. 3, pp. 433-457, May-June 1998.

  40. K.S. Candan, E. Hwang, and V.S. Subrahmanian. An Event-Based Model for Continuous Media Data on Heterogeneous Disk Servers, ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 251-270, 1998.

  41. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, and Y. Hara. Hierarchical Image Modeling for Object-based Media Retrieval, Data and Knowledge Engineering,  Vol:27, Nr:2, pp. 139-176, July 1998.

  42. K.S. Candan, J. Grant, and V.S. Subrahmanian. A Unified Treatment of Null Values Using Constraints. Information Systems Journal, Vol. 98, no 1-4, pp. 99-156, May 1997.

  43. S. Adali, K.S. Candan, Su-Shing Chen, K. Erol, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Advanced Video Information System: Data Structures and Query Processing. ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 4, pp 172-186, August 96.

MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS

  1. K. Selcuk Candan, Jong Wook Kim, Parth Nagarkar, Mithila Nagendra, and Renwei Yu. RanKloud: Scalable Multimedia Data Processing in Server Clusters. Accepted for publication at the IEEE Multimedia, Special Issue on Large-Scale Multimedia Retrieval and Mining, 18(1), pp. 64-77, 2011.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Songling Liu, Juan P. Cedeno, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino, Shengyu Huang, and Xinsheng Li. R2DB: A System for Querying and Visualizing Weighted RDF Graphs. accepted for demonstration at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2012.

  2. Huiping Cao, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Skynets: Searching for Minimum Trees in Graphs with Incomparable Edge Weights. to appear at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.

  3. Mijung Kim and K. Selcuk Candan. Approximate Data Analysis within a Tensor-Relation Algebraic Framework. to appear at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.

  4. Claudio Schifanella, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Metadata-Driven Multiresolution Approach to Tensor Decomposition. to appear at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.

  5. Xinxin Wang, K.Selcuk Candan and Junehwa Song. Complex Pattern Ranking (CPR): Evaluating Top-k Pattern Queries Over Event Streams. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'11), pp. 279-290, 2011.

  6. Sangjeong Lee, Youngki Lee, Byoungjip Kim, K. Selçuk Candan, Yunseok Rhee, and Junehwa Song. High-Performance Composite Event Monitoring System Supporting Large Numbers of Queries and Sources. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'11), pp. 137-148, 2011.

  7. Juan Cedeno and K. Selcuk Candan. R2DF Framework for Ranked Path Queries over Weighted RDF Graphs, accepted to the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS), May 5-27, 2011.

  8. K. Selcuk Candan, Parth Nagarkar, Mithila Nagendra, and Renwei Yu. RanKloud: A Scalable Ranked Query Processing Framework on Hadoop, to be demonstrated at the 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 22-24, 2011.

  9. Luigi Di Caro, Maria Luisa Sapino, and K. Selcuk Candan.Unraveling Multi-Dimensional Data using pDView, to be demonstrated at the 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 22-24, 2011.

  10. Mario Cataldi, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. ANITA: A Narrative Interpretation of Taxonomies for Their Adaptation to Text Collections. 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 1781-1784, 2010.  

  11. Xinxin Wang, K. Selçuk Candan. Relevant Shape Contour Snippet Extraction with Metadata Supported Hidden Markov Models. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), pp. 430-437, 2010.

  12. K. Selcuk Candan, Mario Cataldi and Maria Luisa Sapino. Reducing Metadata Complexity for Faster Table Summarization. 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 240-251, 2010.

  13. Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan and Maria Luisa Sapino. Feedback-driven Result Ranking and Query Refinement for Exploring Semi-structured Data Collections. 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 3-14, 2010.

  14. Munmun De Choudhury, Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, K. Selçuk Candan, Lexing Xie, and Aisling Kelliher. How Does the Data Sampling Strategy Impact the Discovery of Information Diffusion in Social Media? International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2010

  15. Jong Wook Kim and K. Selcuk Candan. Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval. ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pp. 115-126, 2009.

  16. Tejas Bapat, K. Selcuk Candan, Venkata Cherukuri, and Hari Sundaram. Information-Gradient based Decentralized Data Management over RFID Tag Clouds. 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009), pp. 72 - 81, 2009.

  17. K. Selcuk Candan, Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, and Maria Luisa Sapino. AlphaSum: Size-Constrained Table Summarization using Value Lattices. 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) Saint Petersburg, Russia, March 24-26 2009.

  18. Jong Wook Kim and K. Selcuk Candan. PICC Counting: Who Needs Joins when you Can Propagate Efficiently. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pp. 756-767, 2009.

  19. Jong Wook Kim, K. Selcuk Candan, and Junichi Tatemura. Efficient Overlap and Content Reuse Detection in Blogs and Online News Articles. 18th International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, pp. 81-90, 2009.

  20. Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino. Exploring Path Query Results through Relevance Feedback, Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), pp. 1959-1962, 2009.

  21. Tejas Bapat, K. Selcuk Candan, Venkata Cherukuri, and Hari Sundaram. AURA: Enabling Attribute-based Spatial Search in RFID Rich Environments. 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1211-1214 , Shanghai, China March 29 - April 4, 2009.

  22. K. Selcuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, Thomas Phan, and Minqi Zhou. Frontiers in Information and Software as Services. (Theme paper) First IEEE Workshop on Information & Software as Services (associated with the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering - ICDE), pp., 1761 - 1768, Shanghai, China, 2009.

  23. Mario Cataldi, Claudio Schifanella, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino, Luigi Di Caro. CoSeNa: A Context-based Search and Navigation System. International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09), pp. 218-225, 2009.

  24. S.T. Ahmed, K. Selcuk Candan, S. Cidambaram, S. Gaur, J.W. Kim, M. Kim, H. Sundaram, X. Wang, and R. Yu. Enabling Accessible Interfaces to Digital Library Content. Demos, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2009), pp. 1841-1842, June 28 2009-July 3 2009.

  25. Yan Qi, K.Selcuk Candan, Junichi Tatemura, Songting Chen, Fenglin Liao. Supporting OLAP Operations over Imperfectly Integrated Taxonomies.  In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pp. 875-888, 2008.

  26. Junichi Tatemura, Songting Chen, Fenglin Liao, Oliver Po, K. Selcuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal. UQBE: Uncertain Query By Example for Web Service Mashup. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (demo), pp. 1275-1280, 2008.

  27. Luping Ding, Songting Chen, Elke Rundensteiner, Junichi Tatemura, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan. Runtime Semantic Query Optimization for Event Stream Processing. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 676-685, 2008.

  28. Qing Li, K. Selcuk Candan, Yan Qi. Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI & the Web Special Track, pp.1195-1200, 2008.

  29. K. Selcuk Candan, Mario Cataldi, Maria Luisa Sapino, and Claudio Schifanella. Structure- and Extension-Informed Taxonomy Alignment. VLDB Workshop on Ontologies-based Techniques for DataBases in Information Systems and Knowledge Systems (ODBIS), pp. 1-8, 2008.

  30. Luigi Di Caro, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Using tagFlake for Condensing Navigable Tag Hierarchies from Tag Clouds. ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (demo), pp. 1069-1072, 2008.

  31. Shibo Wu and K. Selcuk Candan. GPEB: Power-Efficient Geographic Broadcasting in Sensor Networks. MASS Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks (LOCAN), pp. 571-576, 2008.

  32. K. Selcuk Candan, Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Table Summarization with the Help of Domain Lattices. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 1473-1474, 2008.

  33. Venkata S. Cherukuri and K. Selcuk Candan. Propagation-Vectors for Trees (PVT): Concise yet Effective Summaries for Hierarchical Data and Trees. CIKM Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR), pp. 3-10, 2008.

  34. K. Selcuk Candan, Luigi Di Caro, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Creating Tag Hierarchies for Effective Navigation in Social Media. CIKM Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM), pp. 75-82, 2008.

  35. Andruid Kerne, Ron Wakkary, Frank Nack, Amanda Steggell, Alejandro Jaimes, K. Selcuk Candan, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pamela Jennings, and Aleksandra Dulic. Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Research. ACM Multimedia Panels, pp. 1113, 2008.

  36. Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Sum-Max Monotonic Ranked Joins for Evaluating Top-K Twig Queries on Weighted Data Graphs. In Proceedings of the 33rd international Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pp. 507-518,  Vienna, Austria, September 23 - 27, 2007.

  37. Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Feedback-based InConsistency Resolution and Query Processing on Misaligned Data Sources, In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07), pp. 151-162, Beijing, China, June 11 - 14, 2007.

  38. Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino, and Keith W. Kintigh. Integrating and Querying Taxonomies with QUEST in the Presence of Conflicts, In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07), Demo, pp. 1153-1155, Beijing, China, June 11 - 14, 2007.

  39. Junichi Tatemura, Arsany Sawires, Oliver Po, Songting Chen, K. Selcuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal, and Maria Goveas. Mashup Feeds: Continuous Queries over Web Services, In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07), Demo, pp. 1128-1120, Beijing, China, June 11 - 14, 2007.

  40. Jong Wook Kim, K. Selcuk Candan, and Jun Tatemura. CDIP: Collection-Driven, yet Individuality-Preserving Automated Blog Tagging. IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), pp. 87-94,  2007.

  41. Lina Peng and K. Selcuk Candan. Predictive Early Object Shedding in Media Processing Workflows. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 1191 - 1194,  2007.

  42. Dirceu Cavendish and K. Selcuk Candan. PASS Middleware for Distributed and Autonomous XML Message Processing. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),  pp. 1410-1413, 2007.

  43. Lina Peng and K. Selcuk Candan. Data-quality Guided Load Shedding for Expensive In-Network Data Processing,  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),  pp. 1325-1328, 2007.

  44. Qing Li, K. Selcuk Candan, Yan Qi, Extracting Relevant Snippets from Web Documents through Language Model based Text Segmentation,  IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07)

  45. Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Maria Goveas, Sangwoo Han, Terri Hedgpeth, Jong Wook Kim, Atul Kolhatkar, and Maria Luisa Sapino. OASIS System for Organizing, Annotating, and Serving Information to Students without Sight. International Conference on Technology-based Learning with Disability (LWD-07), July 19-20, Dayton, Ohio, 2007.

  46. Gisik Kwon and K. Selcuk Candan. DANS: Decentralized, Autonomous, and Network-wide Service Delivery and Multimedia Workflow Processing. ACM Multimedia 2006.

  47. K. Selcuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Songting Chen, Junichi Tatemura, Divyakant Agrawal. AFilter: Adaptable XML filtering with Prefix-Caching and Suffix-Clustering.VLDB 2006.

  48. Hua-Guang Li, Songting Chen, Junichi Tatemura, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung. Twig^2Stack: Bottom-up Processing of Generalized-Tree-Pattern Queries over XML Documents.VLDB 2006.

  49. Songting Chen, Hua-Guang Li, Junichi Tatemura, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan. Safety Guarantee of Continuous Join Queries over Punctuated Data Streams. VLDB 2006.

  50. Arsany Sawires, Junichi Tatemura, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, K. Selcuk Candan. Maintaining XPath Views In Loosely Coupled Systems. VLDB 2006.

  51. K. Selcuk Candan, M.Donderler, Y. Qi, J. Ramamoorthy, and J. W. Kim. FMware: Middleware for Efficient Filtering and Matching of XML Messages with Local Data. Middleware 2006, LNCS 4290, 301-321,  2006.

  52. Yan Qi and K. Selcuk Candan. CUTS: CUrvature-Based Development Pattern Analysis and Segmentation for Blogs and other Text Streams. Hypertext 2006.

  53. Shibo Wu and K. Selcuk Candan. GMP: Distributed Geographic Multicast Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2006.

  54. K. Selcuk Candan, G. Kwon, L. Peng, and M.L.Sapino. Modeling Adaptive Media Processing Workflows. ICME 2006.

  55. J.W. Kim and K.Selcuk Candan. Concept Similarity Mining without Frequency Information from Domain Describing Taxonomies, CIKM 2006.

  56. M.L. Sapino, K. Selcuk Candan, and P. Bertolotti. Log-Analysis based Characterization of Multimedia Documents for Effective Delivery of Distributed Multimedia Presentations. International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS) 2006.

  57. Yan Qi, K. Selcuk Candan, Maria Luisa Sapino, and Keith W. Kintigh. QUEST: QUery-driven Exploration of Semistructured Data with ConflicTs and Partial Knowledge, VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB), 2006.

  58. J.W. Kim and K. Selcuk Candan. Keyword Weight Propagation for Indexing Structured Web. Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD) 2006.

  59. Ping Lin and K. Selcuk Candan. Access-Private Outsourcing of Markov Chain and Random Walk based Data Analysis Applications. Workshop on Privacy Data Management (PDM'06),In conjunction with International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006).

  60. Christopher B. Mayer, Judson Dressler, Felicia Harlow, Gregory Brault, and K. Selcuk Candan. Replicating Multi-quality Web Applications Using ACO and Bipartite Graphs. International Workshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swam Intelligence (ANTS) 2006, LNCS 4150, 270-281, 2006.

  61. Lina Peng, Gisik Kwon, Yinpeng Chen, K. Selcuk Candan, Hari Sundaram, Karamvir Chatha, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Modular Design of Media Retrieval Workflows Using ARIA. (Demonstration) International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, LNCS 4071, July 13-15, 2006.

  62. K. Selcuk Candan, M. Donderler, J. Ramamoorthy, J.W.Kim. Clustering and Indexing of Experience Sequences for Popularity-driven Recommendations. Poster presentation at 3rd ACM Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2006)

  63. Fabrizio Antonelli, Jong Wook Kim, K. Selcuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. Navigation Support for Students who are Blind in Accessing Discussion Boards. ACM International Workshop on Combining Intelligent and Adaptive Hypermedia Methods/Techniques in Web-Based Education Systems, Hypertext 2005.

  64. Lina Peng, Gisik Kwon, K. Selc¸uk Candan, Kyung Ryu, Karam Chatha, Hari Sundaram, and Yinpeng Chen. Media Processing Workflow Design and Execution with ARIA. Demonstration at the ACM Multimedia Conference 2005.

  65. L. Chen, K. Selcuk Candan, Junichi Tatemura, Divyakant Agrawal, Dirceu Cavendish. On Overlay Schemes to Support Point-in-Range Queries for Scalable Grid Resource Discovery,The 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2005.

  66. Junichi Tatemura, Oliver Po, Arsany Sawires,  Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan. WReX: A Scalable Middleware Architecture to Enable XML Caching for Web Services. Middleware 2005, LNCS 3790, 124-143, 2005.

  67. Lina Peng and K. Selcuk Candan. Confidence-driven Early Object Elimination in Quality-Aware Sensor Workflows, Second International VLDB Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, DMSN 2005, Trondheim , Norway , August 29, 2005.

  68. J.W. Kim, K. Selcuk Candan, M. Donderler. Topic Segmentation of Message Hierarchies for Indexing and Navigation Support. WWW’05 Conference, May 2005.

  69. Arsany Sawires,  Junichi Tatemura,  Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan. Incremental Maintenance of Path Expression Views, ACM SIGMOD 2005.

  70. W.-S. Li, V. S. Batra, V. Raman, W. Han, K. S. Candan, and I. Narang. Load and Network Aware Query Routing for Information Integration, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 927- 938, Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

  71. Lina Peng and K. Selcuk Candan. Adaptive Multi-Sensor, Multi-Actuator Media Workflow System for Interactive Arts.IEEE International Workshop on Managing Data for Emerging Multimedia Applications (EMMA) 2005.

  72. L. Chen, K. Selcuk Candan,Junichi Tatemura, Divyakant Agrawal, Dirceu Cavendish. DHT Overlay Schemes for Scalable p-Range Resource Discovery. poster presentation at the International Symposium on High Performance Distributed  Computing (HPDC) 2005.

  73. Shibo Wu and K. Selcuk Candan, GPER: Geographic Power Efficient Routing in Sensor Networks, International Conference of Network Protocols, Berlin , Germany , 2004.

  74. Lina Peng, K. Selcuk Candan, Kyung D. Ryu, Karamvir S.Chatha, Hari Sundaram. ARIA: An Adaptive and Programmable Media-flow Architecture for Interactive Arts. ACM Multimedia Conference, Interactive Art Program, New York , October 2004.

  75. K. Selcuk Candan, Lina Peng, Kyung D. Ryu, Karamvir S.Chatha, Christopher Mayer. Efficient Stream Routing in Quality- and Resource-Adaptive Flow Architectures, Multimedia Information Systems Workshop, Washington DC , 2004,

  76. Nikhil Iyer and K. Selcuk Candan: Server Replication in Interactive, Push-Based Data Delivery  Networks. Multimedia Information Systems Workshop, Washington DC , 2004,

  77. K Selcuk Candan, Jong Wook Kim, Huan Liu, Reshma Suvarna: Structure-based Mining of Hierarchical Media Data, Meta-data, and Ontologies. 5th Workshop  on Multimedia Data Mining in conjunction with  the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining,  August 22 - 25, 2004, Seattle , WA , USA

  78. Ping Lin and K. Selcuk Candan:Secure and Privacy Preserving Outsourcing of Tree Structured Data. Workshop on Secure Data Management in a Connected World (SDM'04) in conjunction with the VLDB conference, LNCS 3178, 1-17, August 2004.

  79. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selçuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal: Challenges and Practices in Deploying Web Acceleration Solutions for Distributed Enterprise Systems, in Proceedings International WWW Conference, New York, USA, May 2004.

  80. Ping Lin and K. Selcuk Candan. Hiding Traversal of Tree Structured Data from Untrusted Data Stores, Second International Workshop on Security In Information Systems WOSIS, pp. 314-323, April 2004.

  81. Mehmet E. Dönderler, K. Selçuk Candan, Shibo Wu, Lina Peng, and Jong W. Kim: iCARE-Assistant: Adaptive Electronic Course Content Delivery for Students who are Blind, demonstration at the Sixth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2004

  82. M. E. Donderler , L. Peng, K.S. Candan, Adaptive Content Delivery to Assist Blind Students in Accessing Course Materials, presented at 6th Annual   Accessing Higher Ground Conference: Assistive Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education, University of Colorado-Boulder, November 13-14, 2003.

  83. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selçuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal: Freshness-driven Adaptive Caching for Dynamic Content. DASFAA 2003: 203-212, March 2003.

  84. Christopher B. Mayer, K. Selçuk Candan, Venkatesh Sangam: Effects of User Patterns on a Multimedia Delivery System. Multimedia Information Systems 2003: 23-34

  85. V. Sangam, C. Mayer, and K.S. Candan. Fairly Redistributing Failed Server Load in a Distributed System, On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003, Workshop on Reliable and Secure Middleware, LNCS pp. 871-884, 2003.

  86. W.-S. Li, O. Po, W.-P. Hsiung, K.S. Candan, D. Agrawal. Engineering and Hosting Adaptive Freshness-Sensitive Web Applications on Data Centers. WWW 2003: 587-598, 2003.

  87. W.-S. Li, O. Po, W.-P. Hsiung, K.S. Candan, D. Agrawal, Y. Akca, K. Taniguchi: CachePortal II: Acceleration of Very Large Scale Data Center-Hosted Database-driven Web Applications. (Demo) VLDB, 1109-1112, 2003.

  88. Rida A. Bazzi, K. S. Candan, Raphael Badin, Aziz Fajri. Provably Secure Data Hiding and Tamper Resistance for a Simple Loop Program. Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 5071
    Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Defense and Law Enforcement II, Sept. 2003.

  89. K.S. Candan, D. Agrawal, W.-S. Li, O. Po , W.-P. Hsiung: View Invalidation for Dynamic Content Caching in Multitiered Architectures.   VLDB 2002

  90. W.-S. Li, W.-P Hsuing, D.Y. Kalashnikov, R. Sion, O. Po, D. Agrawal, K.S. Candan: Issues and Evaluations of Caching Solutions for Web Application Acceleration  VLDB 2002

  91. W.-P. Hsiung, W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, D. Agrawal. Multi-tiered Cache Management for E-Commerce Web Sites, CIC 2002, Hong Kong.  

  92. W.-S. Li, O. Po, W.-P. Hsiung, K.S. Candan, D. Agrawal, Acceleration of Data Center-Hosted Distributed Database-driven Web Applications, Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2002), Hong Kong.

  93. C. Mayer, K.S. Candan and V. Sangam, The Effect of Unpredictable Client Access Patterns on a Grid-Quorum CDN, Poster Presentation at International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2002), CA, October 2002.

  94. K.S. Candan, W.-S. Li, Q. Luo, W.-P. Hsiung, D. Agrawal: Enabling Dynamic Content Caching for Database-Driven Web Sites.  SIGMOD 2001

  95. L.P. Mahalingam and K.S. Candan. Query Optimization in the Presence of Top-k Predicates.   Multimedia Information Systems Workshop, Capri , Italy , November 2001.

  96. K.S. Candan, Wen-Syan Li: Discovering Web Document Associations for Web Site Summarization. Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery : Third International Conference, DaWaK 2001 Munich, Germany September 5-7, LNCS 2114, 152-161, 2001.

  97. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal:
    Engineering High Performance Database-Driven E-commerce Web Sites through Dynamic Content Caching. Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies : Second International Conference, EC-Web 2001, LNCS 2115, 250-259, Munich, Germany, September 4-6, 2001,

  98. K. Selçuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li. Web Site Summarization using Document Associations. WWW Posters 2001

  99. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Divyakant Agrawal, Qiong Luo,
    Wayne Huang, Yusuf Akca, Cemal Yilmaz. Web Acceleration for Electronic Commerce Applications. WWW Posters 2001

  100. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal,
    Qiong Luo, Wei-Kuang Waine Huang, Yusuf Akca, Cemal Yilmaz: Cache Portal: Technology for Accelerating Database-driven E-commerce Web Sites. Demonstration at VLDB 2001: 699-700.

  101. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Quoc Vu, Divyakant Agrawal: Retrieving and Organizing Web Pages by ``Information Unit''. WWW 2001: 230-244

  102. K.S. Candan, W.-S. Li: Using Random Walks for Mining Web Document Associations. Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), pp. 294-305, 2000.

  103. A. Sen, K.S. Candan, A. Ferreira, B. Beauquier, S. Perennes: On Shortest Path Problems with "Non-Markovian" Link Contribution to Path Lengths. NETWORKING 2000. Broadband Communications, High Performance Networking, and Performance of Communication Networks: IFIP-TC6/European Commission International Conference. LNCS 1815, 859-870, May 2000.

  104. P. Yamuna and K. S. Candan. Efficient Similarity-based Retrieval of Temporal Structures, Symposium on Applications and the Internet, Jan. 2001.

  105. K.S. Candan and Y. Yang: Least-Cost High-Quality Object Retrieval for Distributed Multimedia Collaborations. ICMCS, Vol. 1, pp.  649-654, 1999.

  106. P. Yamuna, N. Cho, K. Selcuk Candan, M. Wagner.  Towards and Open Repository for VRML. International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 1999.

  107. W.-S. Li and K.S. Candan. SEMCOG: A Hybrid Object-based Image Database System and Its Modeling, Language, and Query Processing, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 284-291, Orlando , Florida , USA , February 23- 27, 1998.

  108. K.S. Candan, F. Golshani, S. Panchanathan, and Y.-C. Park. VIMOS: A Video Mosaic for Spatio-Temporal Representation of Visual Information, IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI) 98, April 5-7, 1998, Tucson, Arizona, 1998.

  109. K.S. Candan and M.G. Wagner. Multilayered Storage and Transmission Standard for Animated 3D Polygon Meshes. SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Boston , MA , 2-5 November 1998.

  110. K.S. Candan, E. Lemar, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Management and Rendering of Multimedia Views.  Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, LNCS 1508, pp. 45-56, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 1998.

  111. Y. Park, S. Panchanathan, F. Golshani, and K.S. Candan. Interactive Classification and Indexing of Still and Motion Pictures in VideoRoadMap, SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, Boston, MA, 2-5 November 1998.

  112. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, and K.Hirata. SEMCOG: An Integration of SEMantics and COGnition- based Approaches for Image Retrieval. in 12th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'97), pp. 136-143, 1997.

  113. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, and Y. Hara. IFQ: A Visual Query Interface and Query Generator for Object-based Media Retrieval. IEEE Multimedia Systems Conference'97, pp. 353-361, Ottowa , Ontario , Canada , June 1997.

  114. W.-S. Li, K.S.Candan, K.Hirata, and Y. Hara. SEMCOG: An Object-Based Image Retrieval System and its Visual Query Interface. Demonstration at the SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Tucson , Arizona , May 97. Also  in SIGMOD Record 26(2), pp. 521 - 524, June 1997.

  115. W.-S. Li, Y. Hara, N. Fix, K.S. Candan, K.Hirata, and S. Mherjea Brokerage Architecture for Stock Photo Industry. Proceedings of IEEE RIDE, April 1997.

  116. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, and Y. Hara. Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on VLDB, pp. 538-547, August 26-29,1997, Athens , Greece .

  117. S. Adali, K.S. Candan, Y. Papakonstantinou, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems. Proc. of the SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Montreal , June 96.

  118. K.S. Candan, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. CHIMP: A Framework for Supporting Multimedia Document Authoring and Presentation. The Fourth ACM International Multimedia Conference '96, pp. 329-339, Boston , November 1996.

  119. K.S. Candan, V.S. Subrahmanian, and P.V. Rangan Towards a Theory of Collaborative Multimedia, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp. 279-282, Hiroshima, Japan, June 96.

  120. K.S. Candan, V.S. Subrahmanian, and S. Jajodia. Secure Mediated Databases. IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, New Orleans , February 96.

  121. K.S. Candan, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Collaborative Multimedia Documents: Authoring and Presentation. Presented at the Second International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, West Point , New York , 1996.

  122. K.S. Candan, S. Adali, Su-Shing Chen, K. Erol, and V.S. Subrahmanian. AVIS: Advanced Video Information System. Presented at the First International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Virginia , 1995.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Renwei Yu, Mithila Nagendra, Parth Nagarkar, K. Selcuk Candan, and Jong Wook Kim. Data-Utility Sensitive Query Processing on Server Clusters to Support Scalable Data Analysis Services. "New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services : Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud", Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 74, (Editors: Agrawal, Divyakant; Candan, K. Selcuk; Li, Wen-Syan), pp.155-184, 2011.

  2. K. Selcuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, Thomas Phan, and Minqi Zhou. At the Frontiers of Information and Software as Services. "New Frontiers in Information and Software as Services : Service and Application Design Challenges in the Cloud", Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 74, (Editors: Agrawal, Divyakant; Candan, K. Selcuk; Li, Wen-Syan), pp. 283-300, 2011.

  3. Huiping Cao, Yan Qi, K. Selçuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. XML Data Integration: Schema Extraction and Mapping. Advanced Applications and Structures in XML Processing: Label Streams, Semantics Utilization and Data Query Technologies, (Editors: Changqing Li and Tok Wang Ling), Information Science Publishing), ISBN: 1-61520-727-9, Feb 9. 2010.

  4. Yan Qi, Huiping Cao, K. Selçuk Candan, and Maria Luisa Sapino. XML Data Integration: Merging, Query Processing and Conflict Resolution. Advanced Applications and Structures in XML Processing: Label Streams, Semantics Utilization and Data Query Technologies, (Editors: Changqing Li and Tok Wang Ling), Information Science Publishing, ISBN: 1-61520-727-9, Feb 9. 2010.

  5. K. Selcuk Candan and Maria Luisa Sapino. Multimedia Data Querying. Encyclopedia on Databases Systems, Özsu, M. Tamer; Liu, Ling (Eds.), ISBN: 978-0-387-49616-0, 2009.

  6. K. Selcuk Candan. Streaming Multimedia Information Processing. Encyclopedia of Multimedia, 2nd ed., Furht, Borko (Ed.), ISBN: 978-0-387-74724-8, 2008.

  7. K. Selcuk Candan and Maria Luisa Sapino. Multimedia Information Systems. Encyclopedia of Multimedia, 2nd ed., Furht, Borko (Ed.), ISBN: 978-0-387-74724-8, 2008.

  8. Jong Wook Kim and K. Selçuk Candan, Leveraging Structural Knowledge for Hierarchically-Informed Keyword Weight Propagation in the Web, chapter in Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis - 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WEBKDD 2006, Revised Papers,  Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS/LNAI), Vol. 4811, O. Nasraoui, M. Spiliopoulou, J. Srivastava, B. Mobasher, B. Masand (Eds), pp. 72-91, 2007.

  9. C. Mayer and K. Selcuk Candan. Large Scale ASP replication of Database Driven Portals. Encylopedia of Portal Technology and Applications. Volume I. ISBN 978-1-59140-989-2, 2007.

  10. K. Selcuk Candan, Jong Wook Kim, Huan Liu, Reshma Suvarna, and Nitin Agarwal. Exploiting Spatial Transformations for Identifying Mappings in Hierarchical Media Data. Chapter in Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Valery A. Petrushin and Latifur Khan, Eds.),  2006.

  11. K. S. Candan, Y. Akca, and W.-S. Li. Policy-based Resource Sharing in Streaming Overlay Networks. Chapter in Web Content Delivery, Springer, 2005. 

  12. Ping Lin and K.S. Candan. Data and Application Security for Distributed Application Hosting Services. Chapter in Information Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems, Eds. Carlo Bellettini and Maria Grazia, Idea Group Publishing, pp. 273-316, 2004.

  13. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, Acceleration of Data Center-Hosted Distributed Database-driven Web Applications, Chapter in Cooperative Internet Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pages 64-85, March 2003.

  14. Wang-Pin Hsiung, Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, Multi-tiered Cache Management for E-Commerce Web Sites. Chapter in Cooperative Internet Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, pages 86-106, March 2003.

  15. K.S. Candan and W.-S. Li. Integration of Database and Internet Technologies for Scalable End-to-end E-commerce Systems, Chapter in Architectural Issues in Web-enabled e-Business, Ed Shi Nansi, Idea Group Publishing, pp. 84-112, November 2002.

  16. K.S. Candan. Management of Collaborative Multimedia Documents, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Marcel Dekker Inc, Volume 28, Supplement 7, pp. 169-188, 2002.

  17. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, and Y. Hara. A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search, in Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 182-197, Number 1274, Springer, 1997.

  18. R. Cutler and K.S. Candan. Multimedia Authoring Systems. Chapter in Multimedia Database Systems , Springer-Verlag,(eds. V.S. Subrahmanian and S. Jajoida), 1996.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS and TECHNICAL REPORTS

  1. K. Selcuk Candan. RanKloud: Scalable Multimedia and Social Media Retrieval and Analysis in the Cloud. Kaynote talk abstract, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'11), 2011.

  2. Howard Leung, Cha Zhang, Qing Li, Rynson W. H. Lau, Benjamin W. Wah, Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, K. Selcuk Candan, Irene Cheng. ACM 2009 Workshop on Ambient Media Computing (AMC'09) Overview. ACM Multimedia 2009: pp. 1143-1144, 2009. 

  3. W.-S. Li and K. Selcuk Candan. International Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence (RTBI 2009) Chairs’ Message, April 2009.

  4. K. Selcuk Candan, Alberto Del Bimbo, Carsten Griwodz, Alejandro Jaimes. Introduction to the Special Section for the Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2008. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP), 5(3), 2009.

  5. K. Selcuk Candan and Syed Toufeeq Ahmed. Bridging the Digital Accessibility Gap in NSDL with MAISON Services, NSF NSDL Annual Meeting, 2009.

  6. Keith W. Kintigh, K.Selcuk Candan, and John B. Howard. The Digital Archaeological Record: Requirements for Database Preservation, Access and Integration. Abstract for the 2008 Conference of Commission 4 of the Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, June 2008.

  7. K. Selcuk Candan, Terri Hedgpeth, Qing Li. Oasis System for Serving Digital Information to Students without Sight. 11th  Annual Vision Rehabilitation and Technology Expo (demo + presentation). 2007.

  8. Qing Li, Terri Hedgpeth, K. Selcuk Candan, Sangwoo Han, Atul Kolhatkar. OASIS  System Demo. NAU/AzTAP: 10th Annual Assistive Technology Conference, 2007.

  9. Ping Lin, K. Selçuk Candan: Hiding Traversal of Tree Structured Data from Untrusted Data Stores. Intelligence and Security Informatics: First NSF/NIJ Symposium, ISI 2003: LNCS 2665, 385, Tucson, AZ, USA, June 2-3, 2003.

  10. Ping Lin, K. Selçuk Candan, Rida A. Bazzi, Zhichao Liu: Hiding Data and Code Security for Application Hosting Infrastructure. ISI 2003: 388

  11. M.E. Donderler, K.S. Candan, T. Hedgpeth, S. Panchanathan, Adaptive Content Delivery to Assist Blind Students in Accessing Course Materials, Teleconference on Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities, April 2003.

  12. C. Mayer, K.S. Candan, and V. Sangam. Constraints, Parameters, and Strategies for Replicating Large content for Web Delivery, Arizona State University , CSE-TR-02-007, 2002.

  13. K.S. Candan, H. Liu, and R. Suvarna. Resource Description Framework: Metadata and Its Applications, SIGKDD Explorations, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.6-19, July 2001.

  14. L.P. Mahalingam and K.S. Candan. Query Optimization in the Presence of Top-k and Fuzzy Predicates,  Arizona State University , CSE-TR-01-003, 2001.

  15. R.A. Bazzi and K.S. Candan, Practical Code Hiding, CSE Technical Report, Arizona State University ASU-CSE/TR-99-012, 1999.

  16. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K.Hirata, and Y. Hara IFQ: A Visual Query Interface for Object-based Image Retrieval. Demonstration at the 1997 ACM CHI Conference, 1997.

  17. K.S. Candan and Y. Yang. Cost- and Similarity-driven Query Optimization in the Presence of User-defined Functions, CSE Technical Report, Arizona State University, TR-97-041, 1997.

  18. K.S. Candan. A Framework for Distributed Multimedia Collaborations, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland at College Park , 1997.

  19. K.S. Candan, E. Hwang, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Resource Lock Commit Protocol (RLCP) for Multimedia Object Retrieval. Technical Report, UMCP-CSD CS-TR-3746, UMIACS-TR-97-08, February 1997.

  20. K.S. Candan, B. Prabhakaran, and V.S. Subrahmanian. Retrieval Schedules Based on Resource Availability and Flexible Presentation Specifications. Computer Science Technical Report Series, CS-TR-3616 UMIACS-TR-96-21, March 1996.

  21. K.S. Candan, J. Grant, and V.S. Subrahmanian. A Unified Treatment of Null Values Using Constraints. Computer Science Technical Report Series, CS-TR-3456 UMIACS-TR-95-47, April 1995.

  22. K.S. Candan and V.S. Subrahmanian. An Algebra and Calculus for Multidatabases with Integrity Constraints. Computer Science Technical Report CS-TR-3316 UMIACS-TR-94-86, July 1994.

PATENTS

  1. United States Patent 7,054,931; System and method for intelligent load distribution to minimize response time for web content access; Inventors: Candan; Kasim Selcuk; Li; Wen-Syan; May 30, 2006.

  2. United States Patents 6,889,234 and  7,228,318; System and methods for invalidation to enable caching of dynamically generated content; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; Kasim; Agrawal; Divyakant; May 3, 2005 and June 5, 2007.

  3. United States Patent 6,847,960; Document retrieval by information unit; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; K. Selcuk; Wu, Yi-Leh; Jan 25, 2005.

  4. United States Patent 6,701,316; Method and apparatus for intelligent network bandwidth and system resource utilization for web content fetch and refresh; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; K. Selcuk; Agrawal; Divyakant;March 2nd, 2004.

  5. United States Patent 6,591,266; System and Method for Intelligent Caching and Refresh of Dynamically Generated and Static Web Content; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; K. Selcuk; July 8, 2003

  6. United States Patent  6,549,849;  System and Method Employing Random Walks for Mining Web Page Associations and Usage to Optimize User-Oriented Web Page Refresh and Pre-fetch Scheduling; Inventors: Candan; K. Selcuk; Li; Wen-Syan; April 15, 2003

  7. United States Patent  6,175,829; Method and Apparatus for Facilitating Query Reformulation; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; K. Selcuk; January 16, 2001

  8. United States Patent 5,930,783; Semantic and Cognition Based Image Retrieval; Inventors: Li; Wen-Syan; Candan; Kasim S.; July 27, 1999

TUTORIALS

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

  1. K. Selcuk Candan. RanKloud: Scalable Multimedia and Social Media Retrieval and Analysis in the Cloud. Kaynote talk at the 9th International Workshop on Large-Scale and Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR), Oct. 2011.

  2. K. Selcuk Candan. Data Placement for Policy-based Data Management in the Cloud. Invited talk at HP Labs, January 2011.

  3. K. Selcuk Candan. Multimedia Data Processing: Efficiency, Scalability, and Effectiveness. Invited talk at KAIST, July 2010.

  4. K. Selcuk Candan. Grand Challenges (and Opportunities) in IA Research and Education. Invited talk at the Information Assurance Workshop, ASU, May 2010.

  5. K. Selcuk Candan. Multimedia Data Processing: Efficiency, Scalability, and Effectiveness. Invited talk at University of Genova, March 2010.

  6. K. Selcuk Candan. Efficient Processing of Top-K Joins on Batch-Oriented Cluster Architectures. Invited talk at HP Labs, Feb 2010.

  7. K. Selcuk Candan. Multimedia Data Processing: Efficiency and Effectiveness. Invited talk at University of Padova, 2009.

  8. K. Selcuk Candan. Multimedia Data Mining Workflows: Efficiency and Effectiveness. Invited talk at SIAM SDM Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining, 2009.

  9. K. Selcuk Candan. "Interactive Art and Us, 'the Scientists'”. Talk at panel "Connecting Artists and Scientists in Multimedia Research". ACM Multimedia Conference, 2008.

  10. K.S. Candan. Sensors Networks for Ambient Systems. VLDB International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN) 2008, Invited Panelist, August 2008.

  11. K.S. Candan. Enabling Scientific Data Integration through Exploration and Expert Feedback. Information Science and Technology (IST) symposium of UKC 2008, Invited paper, August 2008.

  12. K. Selcuk Candan, Terri Hedgpeth, Qing Li. Oasis System for Serving Digital Information to Students without Sight. 11th  Annual Vision Rehabilitation and Technology Expo (presented by a colleague - Terri Hegpeth). November 2007

  13. K.S. Candan. OASIS: Organizing, Annotating, and Serving Information to Individuals without Sight. Invited presentation, Conference of Korean Computer Scientists and Engineers Association in America, December 2006.

  14. K.S. Candan. Context-Aware Navigation Research at EmitLab. Telecom Italia , invited presentation, November 2006.

  15. K. Selcuk Candan. Ubiquitous Environment to Facilitate Access to Textbooks and Related Materials for Individuals who are Blind or Visually Impaired. Rehabilitation Services Administration, invited presentation, June 2005.

  16. K.S. Candan. Indexing and Matching Web Data and Metadata. Center for Research and Technological Innovation, RAI , invited presentation, December 2004.

  17. K.S. Candan. Multimedia and Web Databases. University of Venice , invited tutorial, November 2004.

  18. K.S. Candan. Multimedia Database Research at EmitLab. University of Torino , invited presentation, March 2004.

  19. K.S. Candan. Quality- and Freshness Sensitive Object Replication. Dagstuhl Seminar on Data Quality on the Web, invited presentation, 2003.

  20. K.S. Candan. ARIA: Quality-Adaptive Media-Flow Architectures for Sensor Data
    Management. NSF-IDM Workshop, Seattle , WA , Sept 16th, 2003.

  21. K.S. Candan. Secure Computation Outsourcing. AFOSR Software Systems & Information Fusion Workshop., Syracuse , NY , June 2002.

  22. K.S. Candan. Multimedia Database Support for Digital Libraries. Dagstuhl Seminar on Multimedia Databases, Report 249, pp. 13-14 (invited presentation abstract), 1999.

  23. K.S. Candan. A Framework for Distributed Collaborations and Distance Learning, Invited talk at the Multidisciplinary Initiative on Distance Learning (MIDL) - ASU, March 1998.

  24. W.-S. Li, K.S. Candan, K. Hirata, and Y. Hara. A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search, Invited talk at the 1st International Conference on The Worldwide Computing and Its Applications '97 (WWCA97), March 10-11, 1997, Tsukuba , Japan ( presented by the co-author).

  25. K.S. Candan. Storage and Retrieval of Multimedia Data: Challenges and Solutions, IEEE Communications and Signal Processing Society, Monthly Seminar, ASU, 1998.

SCIENTIFIC and PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

  • Association of Computer Machinery (1997-)

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society (1997-)

EDITORSHIPS

  1. Associate Editor, VLDB Journal (Sept 2005-Aug 2011)

  2. Associate Editor, Journal of Multimedia (Jan 2010-)

  3. Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Retrieval" (eds. K. Selcuk Candan, Tao Mei, Nicu Sebe, and Heng Tao Shen), to be published in 2013.

  4. K. Selcuk Candan, Alberto Del Bimbo, Carsten Griwodz, Alejandro Jaimes. Guest Editors, Special Section of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP) for the Best Papers of ACM Multimedia 2008, 5(3), 2009.

  5. ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC) editorial board member (2002-2008)

  6. Special Issue of Mobile Networks and Applications on Ambient Media and Systems. Eds. A. El Saddik, Ben Liang, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Moessner, and J.C. Liu, 13 (6), pp. 543-546, 2008.

  7. Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Journal on the Use of “Context” in Multimedia Information  Systems. Eds. K. Selcuk Candan, Augusto Celentano, Wolfgang Klas, Volume 2, Number 3, August 2006.

  8. Advances in Multimedia Information Systems, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3665, Eds. K. Selcuk Candan, A. Celentano, ISBN: 978-3-540-28792-6, 2005.

  9. Special Issue of Multimedia Systems Journal on Multimedia Information Systems. Eds. K. Selcuk Candan, Wolfgang Klas, 10(1), July 2004.

  10. Special Issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Eds. M.A. Nascimento, K. Selcuk Candan, N. Babaguchi, 21(1): 5-7, 2003.

AWARDS

  • School of Computing and Informatics "Service Faculty of the Year Award", 2009

  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "Recognition of Service Award", 2008.

  • School of Computing and Informatics "Research Faculty of the Year Award", 2008

  • School of Computing and Informatics "Service Faculty of the Year Award", 2007

  • Co-inventor of the CachePortal technology, which received the ”Best of CeBIT America” award in the Enterprise Platform Software category, 2004.

  • Co-PI of the iCare research group, which received the "Innovator of the Year in Academia" award for Celebration of Innovation, presented by governor of Arizona, 2004.

  • ASU, Student Affairs Honors, Oct. 27, 1999

  • ASU, Certificate of Appreciation (outstanding service), Apr. 14, 1999

  • ASU-SOAR, ACM received 1999 SOAR Awards and mentions, Feb 25, 1999

  • 1997 ACM DC Chapter Samuel N. Alexander Doctoral Fellowship Award for Ph.D. thesis.

  • Scholarship from the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institute (TUBITAK) for both undergraduate and graduate studies.

GRANTS

NSF-III#1116394. "RanKloud: Data Partitioning and Resource Allocation Strategies for Scalable Multimedia and Social Media Analysis" (2011-2014)
NSF-III#1016921. "One Size Does Not Fit All: Empowering the User with User-Driven Integration." (2010-2013)
NSF DUE#1043583 - "MiNC: NSDL Middleware for Network- and Context-aware Recommendations (2010-2012).
HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP); Data-Quality Aware Middleware for Scalable Data Analysis, 2009-2011.
Mellon Foundation; Digital Antiquity: Enabling and Enhancing Preservation and Access to Archaeological Information: 1/1/2009-4/30/2011
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) via Korea Research Foundation; A Framework for Real-time Context Monitoring in Sensor-rich Personal Mobile Environments. 2009-2013 
NSF Award, MAISON: Middleware for Accessible Information Spaces on NSDL, 2008-2010
NSF Award, Design of Dense RFID Systems for Indexing in the Physical World across Space, Time, and Human Experience, 2008-2010
NSF Award, AOC: Archaeological Data Integration for the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics, 2007-2009
DES/RSA Award, Ubiquitous Environment to Facilitate Access to Textbooks and Related Materials for Adults and School Age children who are Blind or Visually Impaired, 2006-2008
Mellon Foundation; Digital Antiquity: Planning a Digital Information Infrastructure for Archaeology, 2007-2008
ASU-CEINT Award, Indexing in the Physical World across Space, Time, and Human Experience via dense RFID systems, 2007
NSF Award, Enabling the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics: A Cyberinfrastructure for Archaeology, 09/15/2004-09/14/2005
NSF Award, Quality-Adaptive Media-Flow Architectures to Support Sensor Data Management, 15/10/03-14/10/06
NSF ITR Medium Award, iLearn: IT-enabled Ubiquitous Access to Educational Opportunities for Blind Individuals, 2003-2008
NSF PPD-FRI Award, Ubiquitous Environment to Facilitate Engineering Education for Blind Persons, 2003-2005
NSF Award, Replication of Heterogeneous Multimedia Data, 01/01/01-02/31/03
DOD-AFOSR Award, Code Hiding Techniques for Mobile Applications, 12/01/99-11/30/02
ARO, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 06/01/02-05/31/03
ASU-FGIA, A Distributed Service-provider for Heterogeneous Multimedia Environments, 1998
ASU-IT301, iCARE, 2002-2003
ASU-IT301, Distributed Digital Media and Arts (DMA), 2002-2003
ASU-IT301, Distributed Digital Media and Arts (DMA),

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

Panels Co-Chair, VLDB Conference, 2012.

Publicity Co-Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2012.

General Chair, ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2012.

General Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2011.

Program Group Leader, ACM SIGMOD Conference 2010.

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2012.

PC Member, International world Wide Web Conference (WWW) Posters track, 2012.

Review Board member, the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (Journal track) 2008 - now.

Review Board member, ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), 2011.

PC Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. (CIKM) 2011.

PC Member, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. (PAKDD) 2011.

PC Member, AAAI- Special Track on AI and the Web (AIW) 2011.

PC Member, Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2011.

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2011.

PC Member,International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) 2011.

PC Member, International world Wide Web Conference (WWW) Posters track, 2011.

PC Member, ACM Fourteenth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP), 2011. 

Session Chair, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2010.

Program Co-Chair, Second IEEE Workshop on Information and Software as a Service (WISS) 2010.

PC Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2010.

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2010.

PC Member, Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2010.

PC Member, VLDB Conference (Experiments and Analyses) 2010.

PC Member, Int.Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Systems (WIAMIS) 2010.

PC Member, The Second Workshop on Management and Mining Of UNcertain Data (MOUND) 2010.

PC Member, KDD Multimedia Data Mining Workshop, 2010

PC Member, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, 2010.

PC Member, International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS) 2010.

PC Member, ACM Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro) 2010.

PC Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference, multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications track, 2008.

Workshops Chair, 1st  International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-Sys) 2008.

Co-Chair, First IEEE Workshop on Information and Software as a Service (WISS) 2009.

Co-Chair, APWEB/WAIM'2009 First Workshop on Real-Time Business Intelligence (RTBI) 2009.

Co-Chair, ACM Workshop on Ambient Media Computing: Sensory Media Systems and Applications, (AMC-iWAM), 2009.

PC Member, World Wide Web Conference, Rich Media Track, 2009.

PC Member, ACM Multimedia Conference, 2009.

PC Member, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, 2009.

PC Member, 6th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks, 2009.

PC Member, Int.Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Systems (WIAMIS) 2009.

PC Member, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2009.

PC Member, First SIAM SDM  Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining 2009.

PC Member, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) 2009.

PC Member, International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS) 2009.

PC Member, International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) 2008.

PC Member, DASFAA 2008.

PC Member, International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2008.

PC Member, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS) 2008.

PC Member, Int. Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television (AMDIT) 2008.

PC Member, SIGKDD Int. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD) 2008.

PC Member, VLDB Int. Workshop on Data Management in Sensor Networks (DMSN) 2008.

PC Member, Workshop on Software Engineering of Pervasive Services (SEPS) 2008.

PC Member, Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro) 2008.

Co-chair, SIGKDD Int. Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD) 2007.

Co-chair, 1st ICDE Int. Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, Media, and Sensing (AIMS) 2007.

PC Member, International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS) 2007.

PC Member, International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium 2007.

PC Member, Workshop on Database Management and Application over Networks (DBMAN) 2007

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2007

PC Member, International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2007

PC Member, CIKM 2007

PC Member, International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) 2007

PC Member, International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) 2007

PC Member, Int. Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2007

PC Member, IEEE/ACS Int.Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) 2007

Organizing Committee Member (Publicity Chair), SIGMOD 2006

PC Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2006.

PC Member, International Conference on Multimedia &Expo , 2006.

PC Member, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval , 2006.

PC Member, Multimedia Data Mining Workshop (MDM/KDD), 2006.

PC Member, International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB), 2006.

PC Member, Workshop on Mobile Location-Aware Sensor Networks, 2006.

Reviewer, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2006.

ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop Steering Committee member, 2004-2007

PC Member, International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining 2005

PC Member, DASFAA 2006

PC Co-Chair, 11th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems 2005

PC Member, VLDB conference 2005

PC Member, International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences 2005

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering 2004

PC Member, 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems 2004

PC Member, International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining 2004

PC Member, International Workshop on Multimedia and Web Design 2004

PC Member, International Symp. On Computer and Information Sciences 2004

PC member, International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining 2003

PC Member, International Conference on Data Engineering 2003

PC Member, Seventh International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 2003

PC Member, ICME, 2003.

PC Member, ISCIS 2003.

PC Co-Chair, Eighth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 2002

Organizing Committee Member, ISCAS 2002

Organizing Committee Member Web3D 2002

PC Member, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2001

Co-Chair, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2001

PC Member, Seventh International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, 2001

PC Member, 4th International Conference on Visual Information Systems, 2000

PC Member, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2000

PC Member, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2000

PC Member, First International Workshop on Multimedia Intelligent Storage and Retrieval Management, 1999

PC Member, Fifth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems,1999

PC Member, ACM Digitial Library Workshop on Organizing Web Space,1999

PC Member, Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics,1999

PC Member, Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems,1998

 

 
JOURNAL REFEREE

ACM TOMCCAP journal

ACM Transactions on the Web journal

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

IEEE Internet Computing

Multimedia Systems Journal

Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal

Very Large Databases Journal

Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

World Wide Web Journal

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Computer Journal

IEEE Internet Computing Magazine

IEEE Multimedia Magazine

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering

Journal of Information Systems

ACM Computing Surveys

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Software Practice and Experience

Software Practice and Experience Journal

Acta Informatica Journal

Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal

Information Sciences Journal

Journal of Intelligent Systems

Int. J. of Electronic Business

European Journal of Operational Research

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Advances in Multimedia

Information Processing and Management

Journal of Web Engineering

IEEE Tractions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems

 

 
OTHER CONFERENCE REFEREE

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03)

ACM SIGMOD Conference

International Conference  on Multimedia Computing and Systems

European Signal Processing Conference

International Conference on Data Engineering

ACM Multimedia Conference

Web10 Conference

Third International Workshop on Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-based Information Systems

International Conference on Information Society in the 21st Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS2000)

International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'98)

World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'98/ISAS'98)

Fourth International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems 1998

IFIP Working Group on Database, Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-8)

Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CASCON'98)

SPIE's Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, 1998.

 

 
PROPOSAL REFEREE

NSF Proposal (2011)

NSF Proposal (2009)

NIH Proposal (2008)

NSF NSDL Proposal (2008)

Qatar National research Fund (2010)

Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (2007, 2008, 2009,2010)

Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE) (2007)

NSF IIS Proposal (2006)

NSF IIS Proposal (2005)

NSF IDM Proposal (2004)

NSF DST Proposal (2004)

ARO Proposal (2003)

ARO Proposal (2002)

ARO Proposal (2001)

NSF SBIR Proposal (2000)

 
UNIVERSITY COMMITEES and ORGANIZATIONS

CS Graduate Program Committee (2011-)

CIDSE Administration and Planning Committee (2010-)

FSE Deans Personnel Advisory Committee (2009-)

Scientific Visualization Faculty Recruitment Committee (2010-2011)

SCI Steering Committee (2008-2009)

Faculty Recruitment Committee (2008-2009)

AME Personnel Committee, 2008-2009.

CSE Personnel Committee member (2006-2008)

Faculty Recruitment Committee (2007-2008)

Information Sciences Certificate Committee member (2006-2008)

Chair, SCI Steering Committee (2007-2008)

Chair, SCI Steering Committee (2006-2007)

AME Personnel Committee, 2007-2008.

AME Recruitment Committee, 2007-2008

SCI Steering Committee member (2005-2006)

BMI Recruitment Committee member (2005-2006)

Faculty Secretary (2005-2006)

CSE Executive Committee member (2005)

AME, Ubiquitous Computing, and Databases Recruitment Committees, member (spring, 2005)

AME Recruitment Committee, chair (2004)

Recruitment Committee, chair (2003-2004)

Personnel Committee (2003-2004)

CSE/AME Education Committee (2003-2004)

Chair Recruitment Committee (2002)

Computing Resources Committee (2002)

Graduate Program Committee (2001-2002)

Turkish Student Association - ASU, Faculty Advisor (1998-2000)

Association of Computer Machinery - ASU, Faculty Advisor (1997-2000)

Graduate Admissions Committee (1997-)

Faculty Recruitment Committee (1998-2000)

 
 

STUDENTS

    

 
M.L. Priya MS Query Optimization in Multimedia Databases

 
A. Jindal MS Quorums-Replication of Data in Distributed Systems

 
P. Yamuna MS Similarity based Retrieval and Indexing of Temporal Structures

 
Namhee-Cho McS Design and Implementation of a VRML Repository

 
V. Sangam MS

Failure Handling in Quality-Quorums

 
Nikhil Iyer MS

Server Replication and Object Placement in a Push-based System

 
J. Ramamoorthy MS

RCDEX: An Index Structure for Sequence Matching in the Presence of Commutations

 
Prachi Tyagi MS Continuous Realtime Indexing

 
Ling Xu McS

Text Recognition and Correction

 
Reshma Suvarna MS

RDF indexing and retrieval (co-advised with Dr. H. Liu)

 
Maria Goveas MS Context-aware Text Segmentation  
Atul Kolhatkar MS Text Summarization using TOpic Development Patterns  
Sangwoo Han MS Automated Reorganization of Text Segments Obtained from Multiple Documents into Coherent Linear and Hierarchical Documents

 
Vishal Shah MS MIST: On Most Informational Snippet Detection in a Document Corpus   
Hardik Doshi MS OER-HMM: An Observations Equivalence Rules Based Hidden Markov Model and its Use in Generating Recommendations  
Venkata Cherukuri MS Mobility Aware Read/Write Protocol for RFID Rich Environments  
Mike Balzer McS    
Sim Phor Na McS    
Mingyi Shu McS    
Robert Ivey McS    
Christopher Mayer PhD (Dec 2005)

Quality-based Replication of Freshness-Differentiated Web Applications and their Back-end Databases

 
Ping Lin PhD (May 2006) PXStore: A Content- and Access- Privacy Preserving XML Data Store for Secure and Private Data Outsourcing

 
Lina Peng PhD (Jan 2008)

Quality-Adaptive Execution and Optimization of Media Processing Workflows

 
Gisik Kown PhD (March 2008) Decentralized Resource Location and Multimedia Service Execution in Peer-to-Peer Network  
Shibo Wu PhD (December 2008) Power-Efficient Geographic Routing in Sensor Networks

 
Jong Wook Kim PhD(2009)

Exploiting Structured Knowledge for Segmentation, Enrichment, and
Summarization of Data

 
Yan Qi PhD(2009)

System Support for Exploration and Expert Feedback in Resolving Conflicts during Integration of Metadata

  
Renwei Yu MS(2011)

Time Efficient and Quality Effective K Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimension Space 

  
Xinxin Wang MS (2011)

CPR: Complex Pattern Ranking for Evaluating Top-k Pattern Queries over Event Streams 

  
Tejas Bapat MS (2009) Spsearch: Enabling Spatial Search in a RFID Rich Environment   
Juan P. Cedeno MS (2010) A Framework for Top-K Queries over Weighted RDF Graphs   
Shruti Gaur MS (2011) On Summarization of Non-Linear Narratives   
Mithila Nagendra MS (2010) Efficient Processing of Join-based Skyline Queries in Parallel Share-nothing Environments   
Mijung Kim McS    
Wei Huang MS (2011) Sequence-based Web Page Template Detection   
Mithila Nagendra PhD(current)    
Mijung Kim PhD(current)    
Parth Nagarkar PhD(current)    
Shengyu Huang PhD(current)    
Xinsheng Li PhD(current)    
Jung Hyun Kim PhD(current)    
Xilun Chen PhD(current)    
Songling Liu PhD(current)    
Mehmet Donderler Post-Doc (2002-2004) Currently @ Turkcell Technology, Turkey  
Qing Li Post-Doc (2006-2008) Currently @ Associate Professor, School of Economic Information Engineering, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China  
Huiping Cao Post-Doc (2007-2009) Currently @ Computer Science Dept., New Mexico State University (Assistant Prof.)