Projects

Current Projects

• Spatio-Temporal Databases

• XML Security

Students

Current Student

• Liuying Peng

Past Student

• Wei Li, now at IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory, San Jose, CA

Activities

• UMass-Lowell Database Group
• New England Database Society

Publications

1. Wei Li and Cindy X. Chen, "Efficient Data Modeling and Querying System for Multi-Dimensional Spatial Data", to appear in Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'08), Irvine, California, November, 2008.
2. Wei Li, Cindy X. Chen and Jie Wang, "PCS: An Efficient Clustering Method for High-Dimensional Data", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08), vol.2, pages 597-603, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008. (This paper received "Best Student Paper Award".)
3. Wei Li and Cindy X. Chen, "SQS: A Secure XML Querying System", in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'08), vol.1, pages 413-416, Barcelona, Spain, June 2008.
4. Cindy X. Chen, "Spatio-Temporal Databases", in "Encyclopedia of GIS", pages 1121, Springer, 2008.
5. Cindy X. Chen, "Spatio-Temporal Query Languages", in "Encyclopedia of GIS", pages 1125-1128, Springer, 2008.
6. Xun Z. Tu, Kajal Claypool and Cindy X. Chen, "ACache: Using Caching to Improve the Performance of Multiple Sequence Alignments", in Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'06), pages 343-352, Vienna, Austria, July, 2006.
7. Cindy X. Chen, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabhan and Isabelle M. Rouvellou, "Query Translation Scheme for Heterogeneous XML Data Sources", in Proceedings of 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'05), pages 31-38, Bremen, Germany, Nov., 2005.
8. Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool and Rosario Uceda-Sosa, "From Ontology to Relational Databases", in Proceedings of International Workshop on Conceptual Model-directed Web Information Integration and Mining (CoWIMM'04), pages 278-289, Beijing, China, Nov., 2004.
9. Rosario Uceda-Sosa, Cindy X. Chen and Kajal T. Claypool, "Framework to Design Ontology Views", in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'04), pages 844-849, Beijing, China, Nov., 2004.
10. Cindy X. Chen, Haixun Wang and Carlo Zaniolo, "Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases: an approach based on User-Defined Aggregates", in Flexible querying and reasoning in spatio-temporal databases: theory and applications, Springer Geosciences/Geoinformation series, pages 55-74, 2004.
11. Cindy X. Chen, Jiejun Kong and Carlo Zaniolo, "Design and Implementation of a Temporal Extension of SQL", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'03), pages 689-691, Bangalore, India, March, 2003.
12. Cindy X. Chen and Carlo Zaniolo, "SQL^ST: A Spatio-Temporal Data Model and Query Language", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'00), pages 96-111, Salt Lake City, Utah, October, 2000.
13. Cindy X. Chen and Ashok Malhotra, "XML Queries via SQL", in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'00), pages 53-60, Shanghai, China, June, 2000.
14. Cindy X. Chen and Carlo Zaniolo, "Universal Temporal Extensions for Data Languages", in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'99), pages 428-437, Sydney, Australia, March, 1999.
15. Cindy X. Chen and Carlo Zaniolo, "Universal Temporal Data Languages", in Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Deductive Databases and Logic Programming (DDLP'98), pages 113-126, Manchester, UK, June, 1998.