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---+ Research My main areas of research are in<strong> Database</strong> and *Information Systems*. Some of my particular interests are in the following topics ([[#Note][note]] about manuscripts here provided and other relevant [[#Links][links]]): * _Semantic Data Integration_ * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/ieee-is-066-073.pdf][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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/cruz-complex-systems-web.pdf][Ontology Driven Data Integration in Heterogeneous Networks]] (with Huiyong Xiao). Complex Systems in Knowledge-Based Environments, eds. Andreas Tolk and Lakhmi Jain, pages 75-97, Springer, 2009. * _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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/cruz-xiao-vldbj-08.pdf][A Layered Framework Supporting Personal Information Integration and Application Design for the Semantic Desktop]] (with Huiyong Xiao), _VLDB Journal_, vol 17, no. 6, pp 1385-1406, November 2008. * _Schema and Ontology Alignment_ * [[http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-83/int_1.pdf][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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/gis_trans-publish.pdf][Structural Alignment Methods with Applications to Geospatial Ontologies]] (with 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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/vldb2009-revised.pdf][AgreementMaker Efficient Matching for Large Real-World Schemas and Ontologies (Demo Paper)]] (with Flavio Palandri Antonelli, and Cosmin Stroe). International Conference on Very Large Databases<em>,</em> Lyons, France, September 2009 (to appear). * _Semantic Web and Security_ * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/swws07-camera.pdf][A Role and Attribute Based Access Control System Using Semantic Web Technologies (with Lorenzo Cirio and 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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/KES08-CrGjOr.pdf][A Secure Mediator for Integrating Multiple Level Access Control Policies]] (with 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, 2008. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/ACM-GIS-Demo-revised.pdf][A Location Aware Role and Attribute Based Access Control System (Demo Paper)]] (with Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini), ACM GIS, 2008. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/CollCom-ready-3.pdf][A Constraint and Attribute Based Security Framework for Dynamic Role Assignment in Collaborative Environments]] (with Rigel Gjomemo, Benjamin Lin, and Mirko Orsini), CollaborateCom, 2008. * _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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/p46-cruz.pdf][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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/webpapers/cruz-xiao-revised.pdf][Data Integration for Querying Geospatial Sources]] (with Huiyong Xiao). Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet, eds. John Sample, Kevin Shaw, Shengru Tu, and Mahdi Abdelguerfi, Springer, pages.113-137, 2008. * _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. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/vlfinal-camera.pdf][A Layered Architecture for the Exploration of Heterogeneous Information Using Coordinated Views]] (with Yuan Feng Huan). IEEE Visual Languages, pp. 11-18, 2004. * _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. * _Visual Query Languages_ * Implementation of a Constraint-Based Visualization System (with Peter Leveille, IEEE Visual Languages, pp. 13-20, 2000).<em> Best Paper Award.</em> * 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_ * [[http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/rt/gd-tutorial.html][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_ * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/Papers/cruz-vdb00.pdf][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). * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/grants/ep98.pdf][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). *<a name="Links" title="Links"></a>Other Links of Interest* * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/Publications][Publications]] page. * Partial [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cruz:Isabel_F=.html][publication list]] in the excellent [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/index.html][DBLP Bibliography Database]], by [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/][Michael Ley]]. * Research groups and center: * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/Advis][ADVIS Lab]] * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~ifc/dislnew.html][Database and Information Systems Research Group at UIC]]. * Mobile Information Systems Research Center. * [[http://www.rites.uic.edu/][Center for RITES (Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security)]] * [[http://www.evl.uic.edu/][Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIC]]. * [[http://www.cs.uic.edu/bin/view/Main/Research][Research groups in Computer Science at UIC]]. --- <a name="Note" title="Note"></a>Note: The manuscripts provided here are preliminary. The final version of the papers can be obtained from the named sources. ---
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