Recent Publications of the ADVIS Lab

on Semantic Data Integration [SDI], Semantic Desktop [SD], Geographical Information Systems [GIS], Security and Semantic Web [SSW], Mobile Databases [MDB]

Partial List

• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

2009

[SDI] Ontology Driven Data Integration in Heterogeneous Networks

Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
Complex Systems in Knowledge-Based Environments, eds. Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi Jain, pages 75-97, Springer, 2009. pdf

[MDB] Continuous Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Queries for Uncertain Trajectories

Goce Trajcevski, Roberto Tamassia, Hui Ding, Peter Scheuermann, and Isabel F. Cruz
12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St Petersburg, Russia, March 2009 (to appear). pdf

[GIS] A Data Model and Query Language For Urban Transportation Systems

Joel Booth, Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, and Isabel F. Cruz
12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), St Petersburg, Russia, March 2009 (to appear). pdf

2008

[SD] A Layered Framework Supporting Personal Information Integration and Application Design for the Semantic Desktop

Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
VLDB Journal, vol 17, no. 6, pages 1385-1406, November 2008. pdf

[GIS] Structural Alignment Methods with Applications to Geospatial Ontologies

Isabel F. Cruz and William Sunna
Transactions in GIS, special issue on Semantic Similarity Measurement and Geospatial Applications, eds. Krzystof Janowicz, Martin Raubal, Angela Schwering, Werner Kuhn, vol. 12, no. 6, pages 683-711, December 2008. pdf

[GIS] Data Integration for Querying Geospatial Sources

Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet, eds. John Sample, Kevin Shaw, Shengru Tu, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Springer, pages.113-137, 2008. pdf

[SSW] A Secure Mediator for Integrating Multiple Level Access Control Policies

Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, and Mirko Orsini
12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, XML Security Track, ed. Ernesto Damiani, Zagreb, Croatia, Springer, pages 354-362, 2008. pdf

[SSW] A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments

Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini
CollaborateCom, Springer, pages 322-339, 2008. pdf

[SSW] A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System (Demo Paper)

Isabel F. Cruz, Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini
16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), pages 527-528, 2008. pdf

[MDB] Alternating Multiple Tributaries+Deltas

Goce Trajcevski, Oliviu Ghica, Peter Scheuermann, Roberto Tamassia and Isabel F. Cruz
5th International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2008), in conjunction with VLDB, Auckland, New Zealand, pages 28-34, 2008. pdf

2007

[SSW] Privacy-Preserving Schema Matching Using Mutual Information

Isabel F. Cruz, Roberto Tamassia, and Danfeng Yao
21st Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4602, pages 93-94, Springer, 2007. pdf

[GIS] Structure-Based Methods to Enhance Geospatial Ontology Alignment

William Sunna, Isabel F. Cruz
GeoSpatial Semantics, Second International Conference (GeoS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4853, Springer, pages 82-97, 2007. pdf

[GIS] Using the AgreementMaker to Align Ontologies for the OAEI Campaign 2007

William Sunna, Isabel F. Cruz
2nd ISWC International Workshop on Ontology Matching, Busan, Korea, CEURWS, pages 133-138, 2007. pdf

[SSW] A Role and Attribute Based Access Control System Using Semantic Web Technologies

Lorenzo Cirio, Isabel F. Cruz, Roberto Tamassia
IFIP WG 2.12 and WG 12.4 International Workshop on Semantic Web and Web Semantics (SWWS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4806, Springer, pages 1256-1266, 2007. pdf

[GIS] A Visual Tool for Ontology Alignment to Enable Geospatial Interoperability

Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, Nalin Makar, Sujan Bathala
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 18(3): 230-254, 2007. pdf

[MDB] BORA: Routing and Aggregation for Distributed Processing of Spatio-temporal Range Queries

Goce Trajcevski, Hui Ding, Peter Scheuermann, and Isabel F. Cruz
8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), IEEE Computer Society, pages 36-44, 2007. pdf

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2006

[SD] Application Design and Interoperability for Managing Personal Information in the Semantic Desktop

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz
2nd International Workshop on the Semantic Desktop (in association with ISWC), CEUR, vol. 202, pages 61-75, 2006. pdf. slides

[SDI] Integrating and Exchanging XML Data Using Ontologies

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz
Journal of Data Semantics, vol. VI, pages 67-89, Springer, 2006. pdf

[SDI] Ontology-based Query Rewriting in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz
The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support (ICKEDS), pages 11-18, 2006. pdf

[SDI] The Problem of Ontology Alignment on the Web: a First Report

Davide Fossati, Gabriele Ghidoni, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel F. Cruz, Huiyong Xiao, and Rajen Subba
The 2nd Web as Corpus Workshop (associated with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL), April, pages. 51-58, 2006. pdf

2005

[SDI] The Role of Ontologies in Data Integration

Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
Jornal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, 13(4), pages 245-252, December 2005. pdf

[SD] A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz
International Workshop on the Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure (in association with ISWC), pages 1-15, November 2005. pdf

[GIS] Concept Level Matching of Geospatial Ontologies

Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, and Kalyan Ayloo
In GIS Planet Second Conference and Exhibition on Geographic Information, Estoril, Portugal, (CD-ROM proceedings, 18 pages), June 2005. pdf

[GIS] A Web Query System for Heterogeneous Government Data

Nancy Wiegand, Isabel F. Cruz, Naijun Zhou, and William Sunna
International Journal of Electronic Government Research, Vol. 1, Issue 2, pages 63-81, April-June 2005. pdf

2004

[SDI] RDF-based Metadata Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz
In Second IST Workshop on Metadata Management in Grid and P2P Systems (MMGPS), (Web proceedings, http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/ist_workshop/mmgps04/ index_04.htm, 12 pages), December 2004. pdf

[SDI] Semantic Mappings for the Integration of XML and RDF Sources

Huiyong Xiao, Isabel F. Cruz, and Feihong Hsu
In VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), (Web proceedings, http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiweb-proceedings.html, 6 pages), August 2004. pdf

[SDI] Peer-to-Peer Semantic Integration of XML and RDF Data Sources

Isabel F. Cruz, Huiyong Xiao, and Feihong Hsu
In Third International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC), New York City, NY, July 2004. Published in: LNCS, Vol. 3601, Springer, pages 108-119, 2005. pdf

[SDI] An Ontology-based Framework for Semantic Interoperability between XML Sources

Isabel F. Cruz, Huiyong Xiao, and Feihong Hsu
In Eighth International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pages 217-226, July 2004. pdf

[GIS] Semi-automatic Ontology Alignment for Geospatial Data Integration

Isabel F. Cruz, William Sunna, and Anjli Chaudhry
In Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Adelphi, MD, pages 207-210, October 2004. pdf

2003

[SDI] Using a Layered Approach for Interoperability on the Semantic Web

Isabel F. Cruz and Huiyong Xiao
In Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), pages 221-231, December 2003. pdf

[GIS] Exploring a New Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies

Isabel F. Cruz and Afsheen Rajendran
In Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data, in cooperation with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sanibel Island, Florida, pages 7-12, 2003. pdf

[GIS] Semantic Data Integration in Hierarchical Domains

Isabel F. Cruz and Afsheen Rajendran
In IEEE Intelligent Systems 18(2): 66-73 (2003). pdf

[GIS] Resolving Schema and Value Heterogeneities for XML Web Querying

Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou, Isabel F. Cruz, and William Sunna
In National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o), Boston, Massachusetts, page 316, May 2003. pdf

2002

[GIS] Handling Semantic Heterogeneities using Declarative Agreements

Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, and Nancy Wiegand
In ACM GIS 10th International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Mclean, Virginia, pages 168-174, November 2002. pdf

[GIS] XML Database Integration for Visualizing US Election Results

Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, and William Sunna
In National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o), Los Angeles, California, pages 403-406, May 2002. pdf