Research

My main areas of research are in Database and Information Systems. Some of my particular interests are in the following topics:

• Semantic Data Integration
  • Semantic Data Integration in Hierarchical Domains (with Afsheen Rajendran). IEEE Intelligent Systems, March - April, pp. 66-73, 2003.
  • Using a Layered Approach for Interoperability on the Semantic Web (with Huiyong Xiao). 4th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Rome, Italy, 2003.
  • Exploring a New Approach to the Alignment of Ontologies (with Afsheen Rajendran). Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data, Sanibel Island, Florida, 2003.
• Semantic Desktop for Personal Information Management
  • A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management (with Huiyong Xiao). 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop - Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration Infrastructure, Galway, Ireland, November 2005 (in association with ISWC).
  • Semantically-Driven Multimedia Querying and Presentation (with Olga Sayenko). Managing Multimedia Semantics, Idea Group Publishing, 2005.
  • Semantic Organization of Multimedia Data for Meaningful Display (with Olga Sayenko). HCI International Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2005.
• Visualization for the Semantic Web
  • Web Rendering Systems: Techniques, Classification Criteria, and Challenges (with Tiziana Catarci and Stephen Kimani). Visualizing the Semantic Web, eds. V. Geroimenko and C. Chen, Springer Verlag, 2002.
• Geospatial Information Systems
  • Object Interoperability for Geospatial Applications. First Semantic Web Working Symposium, SWWS, Stanford, California, 2001.
  • Querying Heterogeneous Land Use Data: Problems and Potential (with Nancy Wiegand, Daniel Patterson, Naijun Zhou, Steve Ventura). dg.o 2002, Los Angeles, California, 2002.
  • Handling Semantic Heterogeneities using Declarative Agreements (with Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, and Nancy Wiegand). ACM GIS 2002.
  • A Web Query System for Heterogeneous Geospatial Data (with Nancy Wiegand, Naijun Zhou). Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM, July 2003, pp. 262-265.
• User Interfaces for Multimedia Information Systems
  • A User Interface for Distributed Multimedia Database Querying with Mediator Supported Refinement (with Kim James). International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, IDEAS '99, Montreal, Canada, pp. 433-441, IEEE Press, August 1999.
  • A Framework for the Dynamic Presentation of Fused Multimedia Databases (with Haiyan Lin, Yuan Feng Huang, International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Ischia, Italy, pp.13-22, 2003).
• Visual Query Languages
  • Implementation of a Constraint-Based Visualization System (with Peter Leveille, IEEE Visual Languages, pp. 13-20, 2000). Best Paper Award.
  • As You Like It: Personalized Database Visualization Using a Visual Language (with Peter Leveille, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 2001).
• Information and Algorithm Visualization
  • Visualizing Geometric Algorithms over the Web (with James Baker, Giuseppe Liotta, and Roberto Tamassia, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 12(1-2), pp. 125-152, 1999).
• Graph Drawing, and in particular Declarative or Contraint-based Graph Drawing
  • Graph Drawing Tutorial (with Roberto Tamassia)
  • 3D Graph Drawing with Simulated Annealing (with Joseph P. Twarog). Graph Drawing 1995: 162-165
  • Drawing Graphs by Example Efficiently: Trees and Planar Acyclic Digraphs (with Ashim Garg). Graph Drawing 1994: 404-415
• Web Information Systems
  • WebSA: Database Support for Efficient Web Site Navigation (with Leo Liu and Tony Wu, 5th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB5), Fukuoka - Japan, May 10-12, 2000, Kluwer Academic Publisher).
  • Measuring Structural Similarity Among Web Documents: Preliminary Results (with Slava Borisov, Michael Marks, and Tim Webb, 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, EP '98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1375, Springer, 1998, pp. 513-524).

Other Links of Interest

• (Incomplete) List of my publications in the excellent DBLP Bibliography Database, by Michael Ley.
• I belong to the following research groups and centers:
  • The ADVIS Research Group - ADVIS publications page.
  • Database and Information Systems Research Group at UIC.
  • Center for RITES (Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security) at UIC.
  • Mobile Information Systems Research Center
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIC.
• Research groups in Computer Science at UIC.

Isabel F. Cruz