Publications

* Student co-authors

Journal Articles


  1. C. Dhekne*, S. K. Bansal. "MOOClink: An Aggregator for MOOC Offerings fromVarious Providers". In Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), [S.I.], Jan. 2018. ISSN 2394-1707.
  2. Y. Pandey*, S. K. Bansal. "A Semantic Safety Check System for Emergency Management". In Open Journal of Semantic Web (OJSW), 4(1), 35-50, 2017.
  3. B. Ammons*, S.K. Bansal. "Scrumify: A software game to introduce agile software development methods". In Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), Special Issue, March 2017, ISSN 2394-1707.
  4. S. K. Bansal, A. Bansal. "Experiences translating project-based Software Engineering courses into online courses". In Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET), Special Issue, Jan 2016, ISSN 2394-1707.
  5. S. K. Bansal, O. Dalrymple. "Repository of Instructional and Assessment Techniques for OBE-based Instructional Module Development System". In Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET) Volume 29, Issue 3, 2016, pp. 93-100.
  6. M. Mammo*, M. Hassan*, S. K. Bansal. "Distributed SPARQL Querying over Big RDF Data using Presto-RDF", International Journal of Big Data (IJBD), 2(3), 2015, pp. 34-49. ​
  7. S. K. Bansal, S. Kagemann*. "Integrating Big Data: A Semantic Extract-Transform-Load Framework”. In IEEE Computer, vol.48, no. 3, pp. 42-50, Mar. 2015.
  8. S. K. Bansal, A. Bansal, O. Dalrymple. "Outcome-based Education Model for Computer Science Education". In Journal of Engineering Education Transformations (JEET) Volume 28, Issue 2&3, 2015, pp. 113-121.
  9. S. Bansal, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, M. B. Blake. "Generalized semantic Web service composition", In Springer Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), pp. 1-23, November 2014. 
  10. M. B. Blake, D. J. Cummings*, A. Bansal, and S. Kona. "Workflow Composition of Service Level Agreements and Web Services". In Journal of Decision Support Systems (DSS), Volume 53, Issue 1, April 2012, pp. 234-244.  
  11. S Kona, A Bansal, L Simon, A Mallya, G Gupta, and T Hite. "USDL: A Service-Semantics Description Language for Automatic Service Discovery and Composition". In International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR), Volume 6, No. 1, January-March 2009, pp. 20-48. [PDF] 

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Book Chapters

  1. M. B. Blake, A. Bansal, S. K. Bansal, S. Bluel, and T. Weise. "Web Services Challenge: Discovery and Composition of Semantic Web Services". In Semantic Services: Advancement through Evaluation, Springer 2012, Chapter 19, ISBN 978-3-642-28734-3.
  2. S. K. Bansal, A Bansal, and G Gupta. "Semantics-based Web Service Composition Engine". In Semantic Services: Advancement through Evaluation, Springer 2012, Chapter 21, ISBN 978-3-642-28734-3.
  3. S. Kona, A. Bansal, L. Simon, A. Mallya, G. Gupta, T.D. Hite. "USDL: A Service-Semantics Description Language for Automatic Service Discovery and Composition". In Innovations, Standards, and Practices of Web Services: Emerging Research Topics, IGI Global 2011, Chapter 2, ISBN 978-1613501047.


Conference and Workshop Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

* Student co-authors
  1. A. K. Dileep*, A. Mishra*, R. Mehta*, S. Uppal*, J. Chakraborty*, and S. K. Bansal. "Template-based Question Answering analysis on the LC-QuAD 2.0 Dataset", in proceedings of Semantic Data Integration (SDI) Workshop at 15th IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021 (to appear).
  2. Y. Hu*, S. Chang*, K. Hsu*, J. Chakraborty*, and S. K. Bansal. "Ontology-based Document Recommendation System using Topic Modeling", in proceedings of Semantic Data Integration (SDI) Workshop at 15th IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021 (to appear).
  3. R. G. Athreya*, S. K. Bansal, A-C. N.Ngomo, and R. Usbeck. "Template-based Question Answering using Recursive Neural Networks", in proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), 2021 (to appear).
  4. J. Chakraborty, B. Yaman, L. Virgili, K. Konar, S. K. Bansal. "OntoConnect: Unsupervised Ontology Alignment with Recursive Neural Network", in proceedings of the ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Semantic Web and Applications Track, 2021 (28% acceptance rate).
  5. J. Chakraborty, B. Yaman, L. Virgili, K. Konar, S. K. Bansal. "OntoConnect: Unsupervised Ontology Alignment with Recursive Neural Network", in proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Ontology Matching colocated with the 19th International Conference on Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2020.
  6. M. Hassan*, S. K. Bansal. "S3QLRDF: Property Table Partitioning Scheme for Distributed SPARQL Querying of large-scale RDF data", in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS), Beijing, China 2020.
  7. R. G. Athreya*, S. K. Bansal, A-C. N.Ngomo, and R. Usbeck. "Template-based Question Answering using Recursive Neural Networks", arXiv 2020, arXiv:2004.13843.
  8. V. Edgar*, C. L.Place*, Julia Schmidt*, A. Bansal, and S. K. Bansal. "SustainOnt: an ontology for defining an index of neighborhood sustainability across domains", in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data (SBD 20) @ SIGMOD 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 16.
  9. B.J. Skromme, C. Redshaw, M.A. Gupta, M. S. Gupta, P. Andrei, H. Erives, A. Bailey, W. Thompson, S. Bansal. "Interactive Editing of Circuits in a Step-Based Tutoring System", In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, July 2020.
  10. S. Tiwari*, B. Goel*, S. K. Bansal. "Mold: A Framework for Entity Extraction and Summarization", in proceedings of Semantic Data Integration (SDI) Workshop at 14th IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), San Diego, CA, 2020.
  11. B. Skromme, S. K. Bansal, W. Barnard, M. White. "Step-based Tutoring Software for Complex procedures in Circuit Analysis", in proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE), pp. 1-5, Cincinnati, USA, 2019.
  12. S. K. Bansal, J. M.-Alexander. "Building a Repository of Instructional and Assessment Techniques for Instructional Module Development System", in Proceedings of Research in  Engineering Education Symposium (REES), pp. 771-780, Cape Town, South Africa, 2019.
  13. M. Hassan*, S. K. Bansal. "Data Partitioning Scheme for Efficient Distributed RDF Querying Using Apache Spark", in proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Newport Beach, CA 2019 (28% acceptance rate).
  14. V. Raj*, P. Goulet*, S. K. Bansal. "Evaluation of Instructional Module Development System", in proceedings of IEEE Frontiers of Education Conference (FIE), pp. 1-9, San Jose CA, 2018.
  15. M. Hassan*, S. K. Bansal. "Semantic Data Querying over NoSQL Databases with Apache Spark", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), pp. 364-371, Salt Lake City, Utah 2018.
  16. M. Hassan*, S. K. Bansal. "RDF Data Storage techniques for efficient SPARQL Query Processing using Distributed Computation Engines", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), pp. 323-330, Salt Lake City, Utah 2018.
  17. J. Chakraborty*, G. Thopugunta*, S. K. Bansal. "Data Extraction and Integration for Scholar Recommendation System", in Proceedings of Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 397-402, Laguna Hills, CA, 2018.
  18. V. Johri*, S. K. Bansal. "Identifying trends in technologies and programming languages using Topic Modeling", in Proceedings of Semantic Data Integration Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 391-396, Laguna Hills, CA, 2018.
  19. Y. Pandey*, S.K. Bansal. "Safety check: a semantic web application for emergency management", in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD@SIGMOD 2017, Chicago, IL, USA, May 19, 2017.
  20. C. Dhekne*, S. K. Bansal. "Linking and maintaining quality of data about MOOCs using Semantic Computing", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), January 2017, San Diego, CA USA.
  21. J. Chakraborty*, A. Padki*, S. K. Bansal. "Semantic ETL - State-of-the-art and open research challenges", in Proceedings of Workshop on Semantic Data Integration (SDI) at IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), January 2017, San Diego, CA USA.
  22. S. K Bansal, O. Dalrymple. "Instructional Module Development System (IMODS)", in Proceedings of 21st ACM Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), July 2016, Peru.
  23. S. K. Bansal, O. Dalrymple, A. Gaffar. "Building Faculty Expertise in Outcomes-based Education", at NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium (EnFUSE), April 2016, Washington, DC, USA.
  24. S. K Bansal, O. Dalrymple. "IMOD-Ont: Towards an Ontology for Instructional Module Design", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), February 2016, Laguna Hills, CA USA.
  25. S. K Bansal, O. Dalrymple, A. Gaffar. "Building Faculty Expertise in Outcome-based Education Curriculum Design", in Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers of Education (FIE), October 2015, El Paso, TX, USA.
  26. S. K Bansal, O. Dalrymple, A. Gaffar. "Design, Development, and Implementation of the Instructional Module Development System (IMODS)", in Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Conference (ASEE) - NSF Grantees session, June 2015, Seattle, USA.
  27. M. Mammo*, S. K. Bansal. "Distributed SPARQL over Big RDF Data: A Comparative Analysis Using Presto and MapReduce", in Proceedings of IEEE Big Data Congress, June 2015, New York, USA. (18% acceptance rate)
  28. M. Mammo*, S. K. Bansal. "Presto-RDF: SPARQL Querying over Big RDF Data", in Proceedings of Australasian Database Conference (ADC), June 2015, Melbourne, Australia. 
  29. S. Kagemann*, S. K. Bansal. "MOOCLink: Building and utilizing linked data from Massive Open Online Courses" IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), pp.373,380, 7-9 Feb. 2015. (<30% acceptance rate)
  30. S. K. Bansal, A. Bansal, O. Dalrymple. "Outcome-based Education Model for Computer Science Education",  in Proceedings of Second Intl. Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education, January 2015, Bengaluru, India.
  31. O. Dalrymple,  S. Bansal, A. Gaffar, R. Taylor*. "Instructional Module Development (IMOD) System: A User Study on Curriculum Design Process". In Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2014, Madrid, Spain.
  32. S. Bansal. "Towards a Semantic Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) framework for Big Data Integration". In Proceedings of IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BIGDATA), pp. 522-529, June 2014, Anchorage, USA. (35% acceptance rate)
  33. O. Dalrymple,  S. Bansal, A. Gaffar. "User Research for the Instructional Module Development (IMOD) System". In Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Conference (ASEE) - NSF Grantees session, June 2014, Indianapolis, USA.
  34. O. Dalrymple,  S. Bansal, K. Elamparithi*, Husna Gafoor*, Adam Lay*, Saishruti Shetty*. "Instructional Module Development (IMOD) System: Building Faculty Expertise in Outcome-based Course design". In Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2013, Oklahoma City, USA.
  35. P. Kannan*,  S. Bansal. "Unimate: A Student Information System". In Proceedings of IEEE ICACCI International Symposium on Education Informatics (ISEI), August 2013, Mysore, India (25% Acceptance Rate). 
  36. S. Potineni*,  S. Bansal, Ashish Amresh. "ScrumTutor: A Web-based Interactive Tutorial for Scrum Software Development". In Proceedings of IEEE ICACCI: International Symposium on Women in Computing and Informatics (WCI), August 2013, Mysore, India (25% Acceptance Rate). 
  37. K. Gary, T. Lindquist,  S. Bansal, A. Ghazarian. "A Project Spine for Software Engineering Curricular Design". In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) co-located with ICSE, May 2013, San Francisco, CA.
  38. S. Bansal, O. Dalrymple, V. Menon*, K. Andhare*, V. Moghe*. "Semantic Web-based Instructional Module Development System". In Proceedings of IASTED Software Engineering and Applications (SEA), November 2012, Las Vegas, USA.
  39. K. Andhare, O. Dalrymple, S. Bansal. "Learning Objectives Feature for the Instructional Module Development System". In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education-Pacific South West Section (ASEE-PSW), April 2012, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
  40. S. Bansal, A. Bansal. "Reputation-based Web service selection for Composition". In Proceedings of the World Congress on Services (SERVICES), July, 2011, Washington, DC. [PDF]
  41. S. Bansal, A. Bansal. "Effective Web Service Selection for Composition using Centrality Measures". In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Society (i-Society), July 2011, London UK. [PDF]
  42. S. Bansal, A. Bansal, M. B. Blake. "Trust based Dynamic Web Service Composition using Social Network Analysis". In Proceedings of Business Applications of Social Network Analysis Workshop (BASNA), December 2010 at IEEE 4th International Conference on Internet Multimedia Systems Architecture and Application (IMSAA), Bangalore, India (20% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]
  43. S. Kona, A. Bansal, M. B. Blake, G. Gupta. "Weaving Functional and Non-Functional Attributes for Dynamic Web Service Composition". In Proceedings of 22nd Intl. Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), July 2010, San Francisco, CA (33% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]
  44. S. Kona, A. Bansal, M. B. Blake, S. Bleul, T. Weise; "WSC-2009: A Quality of Service-Oriented Web Services Challenge". In Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC), July 2009, Austria.
  45. M. B. Blake, M. Nowlan*, A. Bansal, S. Kona. "Annotating UDDI Registries to Support the Management of Composite Services". In Proceedings of 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii. [PDF]
  46. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, M. B. Blake. "Generalized Semantics-based Service Composition". In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), September 2008, Beijing, China (16% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]
  47. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, M. B. Blake. "Towards a General Framework for Web Service Composition". In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), July 2008. [PDF]
  48. A. Bansal, M. B. Blake, S. Kona, M. Jaeger, et al. "WSC-08: The Web Services Challenge". in Proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conference on E-Technology, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC/EEE), July 2008, Crystal City, VA.
  49. A. Bansal, S. Kona, M. B. Blake, G. Gupta; "An Agent-based Approach for Composition of Semantic Web Services". In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (ACEC) at WETICE, June 2008, Rome, Italy. [PDF]
  50. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta. "Automatic Composition of Semantic Web Services". In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), July 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah (18% Acceptance Rate). [PDF]
  51. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, T. Hite. "Semantics-based Web Service Composition engine" (Short paper). In Proceedings of IEEE Conf. on E-Commerce Technology and Conf. on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Service (CEC/EEE), July 2007, Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
  52. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, T. Hite. "Efficient Web Service Discovery and Composition using Constraint Logic Programming". In Proceedings of Intl. Workshop on Applied Logic Programming Semantic Web and Services (ALPSWS) at FLoC, August 2006, Seattle,WA. [PDF]
  53. S. Kona, A. Bansal, G. Gupta, T. Hite. "Web Service Discovery and Composition using USDL" (Short paper). In Proceedings of IEEE Conf. on E-Commerce Technology and Conf. on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Service (CEC/EEE), June, 2006, San Francisco, CA. [PDF]
  54. A. Bansal, S. Kona, L. Simon, A. Mallya, G. Gupta, T. Hite. "Universal Service-Semantics Description Language". In Proceedings of IEEE European Conference On Web Services (ECOWS), November 2005, Vaxjo, Sweden. (Received Best Paper Award) [PDF]
  55. L. Simon, A. Bansal, A. Mallya, S. Kona, G. Gupta, T. Hite. "Towards a Universal Service Description Language". In Proceedings of Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP), September 2005. [PDF]
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