Publications

2018

Lloyd, W., Ramesh, S., Chinthalapati, S., Ly, L., Pallickara, S., Serverless Computing: An Investigation of Factors Influencing Microservice Performance, IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2018), Apr 17-20, 2018 (to appear). Acceptance Rate 19% (pdf)

2017

Modelling Incomplete Information in Boolean Games using Possibilistic Logic
S. De Clercq, S. Schockaert, A. Nowe, M. De Cock
To appear in: International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Efficient and Private Scoring of Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines and Logistic Regression Models based on Pre-Computation
M. De Cock, R. Dowsley, C. Horst, R. Katti, A. Nascimento, W.-S. Poon, S. Truex
To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Exact and Heuristic Methods for Solving Boolean Games [PDF]
S. De Clercq, K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. Mihaylov, A. Nowe, M. De Cock
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 31(1), p.66-106, 2017
Soft Quantification in Statistical Relational Learning [PDF]
G. Farnadi, S.H. Bach, M.-F. Moens, L. Getoor, M. De Cock
Machine Learning 106(12), p.1971-1991, 2017
Repairing Inconsistent Answer Set Programs Using Rules of Thumb: a Gene Regulatory Networks Case Study [PDF]
E. Merhej, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 83, p.243-264, 2017
Noriyuki Iwane, Chunming Gao, Makoto Yoshida. “Effects of quizzes in marking supported e-learning”, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication. (IMCOM 2017 Conference) 2017
Lloyd, W., Pallickara, S., David, O., Arabi, M., Rojas, K. Mitigating Resource Contention and Heterogeneity in Public Clouds for Scientific Modeling Services, IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017), Apr 4-7, 2017. (pdf) (slides)
Lloyd, W., Pallickara, S., David, O., Arabi, M., Rojas, K., Wible, T., Ditty, J., Demystifying the Clouds: Harnessing Resource Utilizaiton Models for Cost Effective Infrastructure Alternatives, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2017, 5(4): 667-680, Oct 2017. (pdf)

2016

Computational Personality Recognition in Social Media [PDF]
G. Farnadi, G. Sitaraman, S. Sushmita, F. Celli, M. Kosinski, D. Stillwell, S. Davalos, M.-F. Moens, M. De Cock
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 26(2), p.109-142, 2016
Solving Stable Matching Problems using Answer Set Programming [PDF]
S. De Clercq, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, A. Nowe
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 16(3), p.247-268, 2016
Chunming Gao, Noriyuki Iwane. “Developing a Prototype for Evaluations of Healthcare Appointment and Registration Smart Assistant”, 2016 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. (CSCI 2016 Conference) 2016
Noriyuki Iwane, Chunming Gao, Makoto Yoshida, Hajime Kishida. (2016). “A Study on Haptic Media to Support Verbal Explanations”, 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2016) 2016
Dozier, A., David, O., Arabi, M., Lloyd, W., Zhang, Y., A Minimally Invasive Model Data Passing Interface for Integrating Legacy Environmental System Models, Environmental Modelling & Software, 80(6): 265-280, June 2016. (paper)

2015

Abdeltawab Hendawi, Amruta Khot, Aqeel Rustum, Anas Basalamah, Ankur Teredesai and Mohamed Ali, A Map-Matching Aware Framework for Road Network Compression, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015 (Best Demo Award).
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Mohamed Ali and Mohamed Mokbel, A Framework for Spatial Predictive Query Processing and Visualization, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015 (Best Demo Award).
Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Jie Bao, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed Ali, Predictive Tree: An Efficient Index for Predictive Queries on Road Networks, in the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Seoul, Korea, April, 2015.
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Mohamed Ali, Spatial Predictive Queries (Tutorial), the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015.
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Amruta Khot, Aqeel Rustum, Anas Basalamah, Ankur Teredesai and Mohamed Ali, COMA: Road Network Compression for Map Matching, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015.
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Amruta Khot, Aqeel Rustum, Anas Basalamah, Ankur Teredesai and Mohamed Ali, A Map-Matching Aware Framework for Road Network Compression, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015 (Best Demo Award).
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Mohamed Ali and Mohamed Mokbel, A Framework for Spatial Predictive Query Processing and Visualization, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015 (Best Demo Award).
Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Jie Bao, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed Ali, Predictive Tree: An Efficient Index for Predictive Queries on Road Networks, in the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Seoul, Korea, April, 2015.
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Mohamed Ali, Spatial Predictive Queries (Tutorial), the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015.
Abdeltawab Hendawi, Amruta Khot, Aqeel Rustum, Anas Basalamah, Ankur Teredesai and Mohamed Ali, COMA: Road Network Compression for Map Matching, the International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2015.
Characterizing and Extending Answer Set Semantics using Possibility Theory [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
Theory and Practice of Logic Programming 15(1), p.79-116, 2015
On the relationship between fuzzy autoepistemic logic and fuzzy modal logics of belief [PDF]
M. Blondeel, T. Flaminio, S. Schockaert, L. Godo, M. De Cock
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 276, p.74-99, 2015

2014

Mohamed Ali, Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Ankur Teredesai, Predictive Spatial Search, in the Spatial Search Specialist Meeting, Santa Barbara, December 8-9, 2014.
Abdeltawab M Hendawi, David Hazel, Joel Larson, YiRu Li, Dwaine Trummert, Mohamed Ali, Ankur Teredesai, AMADEUS: A System for Monitoring Water Quality Parameters and Predicting Contaminant Paths, in the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), San Diego, California, USA June 15-19, 2014.
Yiru Li, Sarah George, Craig Apfelbeck, Abdeltawab Hendawi, David Hazel, Ankur Teredesai, Mohamed Ali, Routing Service With Real World Severe Weather, in the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014) November 4-7, 2014 — Dallas, Texas, USA (Best Demo Award).
Mohamed Ali, Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Ankur Teredesai, Predictive Spatial Search, in the Spatial Search Specialist Meeting, Santa Barbara, December 8-9, 2014.
Abdeltawab M Hendawi, David Hazel, Joel Larson, YiRu Li, Dwaine Trummert, Mohamed Ali, Ankur Teredesai, AMADEUS: A System for Monitoring Water Quality Parameters and Predicting Contaminant Paths, in the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs), San Diego, California, USA June 15-19, 2014.
Yiru Li, Sarah George, Craig Apfelbeck, Abdeltawab Hendawi, David Hazel, Ankur Teredesai, Mohamed Ali, Routing Service With Real World Severe Weather, in the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014) November 4-7, 2014 — Dallas, Texas, USA (Best Demo Award).
Semantics for Possibilistic Answer Set Programs: Uncertain Rules versus Rules with Uncertain Conclusions [PDF]
K. Bauters, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 55(2), p.739-761, 2014
Fuzzy Autoepistemic Logic and its Relation to Fuzzy Answer Set Programming [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
Fuzzy Sets and Systems 239, p.51-80, 2014
Using the Crowd for Readability Prediction [PDF]
O. De Clercq, V. Hoste, B. Desmet, P. Van Oosten, M. De Cock, L. Macken
Natural Language Engineering 20(3), p.293-325, 2014
Complexity of Fuzzy Answer Set Programming under Lukasiewicz Semantics [PDF]
M. Blondeel, S. Schockaert, M. De Cock, D. Vermeir
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 55(9), p.1971-2003, 2014
ASP-G: An ASP-based Method for Finding Attractors in Genetic Regulatory Networks [PDF]
M. Mushthofa, G. Torres, Y. Van de Peer, K. Marchal, M. De Cock
Bioinformatics 30(21), p.3086-3092, 2014

2013

Mohammed Daubal, Olajumoke Fajinmi, Lars Jangaard, Niko Simonson, Brett Yasutake, Joe Newell, and Mohamed Ali, Safe Step: A Real-time GPS Tracking and Analysis System for Criminal Activities using Ankle Bracelets. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Orlando, FL, USA, November 2013.
Yasin N. Silva, Walid G. Aref, Per-Ake Larson, Spencer S. Pearson, and Mohamed H. Ali, Similarity Queries: Their Conceptual Evaluation, Transformations, and Processing. VLDB Journal, 22(3): 395-420, 2013.
Siva Ravada, Mohamed Ali, Jie Bao, Mohamed Sarwat, The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2013 – Geofencing. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Orlando, FL, USA, November 2013.
Yasin N. Silva, Walid G. Aref, Per-Ake Larson, Spencer S. Pearson, and Mohamed H. Ali, Similarity Queries: Their Conceptual Evaluation, Transformations, and Processing. VLDB Journal, 22(3): 395-420, 2013.
Mohammed Daubal, Olajumoke Fajinmi, Lars Jangaard, Niko Simonson, Brett Yasutake, Joe Newell, and Mohamed Ali, Safe Step: A Real-time GPS Tracking and Analysis System for Criminal Activities using Ankle Bracelets. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Orlando, FL, USA, November 2013.
Siva Ravada, Mohamed Ali, Jie Bao, Mohamed Sarwat, The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2013 – Geofencing. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Orlando, FL, USA, November 2013.

2012

Mohamed Ali, Travis Rautman, John Krumm, Ankur Teredesai, The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2012 – Map Matching. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, November 2012.
Mohamed H. Ali, Ashish Bindra, and Ankur Teredesai, Dimensionality Reduction in Phenomenon-Aware Stream Query Processing. International Journal of Data Engineering, 3(3), 2012.
Mohamed Ali, Travis Rautman, John Krumm, Ankur Teredesai, The ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2012 – Map Matching. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, November 2012.
Mohamed H. Ali, Ashish Bindra, and Ankur Teredesai, Dimensionality Reduction in Phenomenon-Aware Stream Query Processing. International Journal of Data Engineering, 3(3), 2012.
Matthew E. Tolentino, Kirk W. Cameron. The Optimist, the Pessimist, and the Global Race to Exascale in 20 Megawatts, IEEE Computer, Vol. 45, Issue 1, January, 2012.

2011

Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Fay, Curtis Wong, Steven Drucker, and Balan Sethu Raman, Online Visualization of Geospatial Stream Data using the WorldWide Telescope. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seattle, Sept. 2011.
Jeremiah Miller, Miles Raymond, Josh Archer, Seid Adem, Leo Hansel, Sushma Konda, Malik Luti, Yao Zhao, Ankur Teredesai, and Mohamed Ali, An Extensibility Approach for Spatio-temporal Stream Processing using Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the 12^th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 2011. [Watch Video]
Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, and Roman Schindlauer, The Extensibility Framework in Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),Hannover, Germany, April 2011.
Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Fay, Curtis Wong, Steven Drucker, and Balan Sethu Raman, Online Visualization of Geospatial Stream Data using the WorldWide Telescope. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seattle, Sept. 2011.
Jeremiah Miller, Miles Raymond, Josh Archer, Seid Adem, Leo Hansel, Sushma Konda, Malik Luti, Yao Zhao, Ankur Teredesai, and Mohamed Ali, An Extensibility Approach for Spatio-temporal Stream Processing using Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the 12^th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 2011. [Watch Video]
Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, and Roman Schindlauer, The Extensibility Framework in Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),Hannover, Germany, April 2011.

2010

Yasin Silva, Walid Aref, and Mohamed H. Ali, The Similarity Join DataBase Operator. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Long Beach, California, USA, March 2010.
Alex Raizman, Asvin Ananthanarayan, Anton Kirilov, Badrish Chandramouli, and Mohamed Ali, An Extensible Test Framework for the SQL Server StreamInsight Query Processor. Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest), Co-located with ACM SIGMOD, Indianapolis, IN, June 2010 (Best Paper Award).
B. Chandramouli, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Goldstein, Beysim Sezgin, and Balan S. Raman, Data Stream Management Systems for Computational Finance. Technical Report, MSR-TR-2010-130, Microsoft Research, Sept. 2010.
Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Balan S. Raman, and Ed Katibah, Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analytics using Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) San Jose, CA, USA, November 2010.
Seyed Jalal Kazemitabar, Ugur Demiryurek, Mohamed H. Ali, Afsin Akdogan, and Cyrus Shahabi, Geospatial Stream Query Processing using Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Singapore, Sept. 2010. [Watch Video]
Yasin Silva, Walid Aref, and Mohamed H. Ali, The Similarity Join DataBase Operator. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Long Beach, California, USA, March 2010.
Alex Raizman, Asvin Ananthanarayan, Anton Kirilov, Badrish Chandramouli, and Mohamed Ali, An Extensible Test Framework for the SQL Server StreamInsight Query Processor. Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest), Co-located with ACM SIGMOD, Indianapolis, IN, June 2010 (Best Paper Award).
B. Chandramouli, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Goldstein, Beysim Sezgin, and Balan S. Raman, Data Stream Management Systems for Computational Finance. Technical Report, MSR-TR-2010-130, Microsoft Research, Sept. 2010.
Mohamed Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Balan S. Raman, and Ed Katibah, Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analytics using Microsoft StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) San Jose, CA, USA, November 2010.
Seyed Jalal Kazemitabar, Ugur Demiryurek, Mohamed H. Ali, Afsin Akdogan, and Cyrus Shahabi, Geospatial Stream Query Processing using Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Singapore, Sept. 2010. [Watch Video]
Badrish Chandramouli, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Goldstein, Beysim Sezgin, and Balan S. Raman, Data Stream Management Systems for Computational Finance. IEEE Computer (12): 45-52 (2010).
Mohamed H. Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Balan Raman, and Ed Katibah, Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing in Microsoft StreamInsight. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 33(2): 69-74 (2010).
Badrish Chandramouli, Mohamed Ali, Jonathan Goldstein, Beysim Sezgin, and Balan S. Raman, Data Stream Management Systems for Computational Finance. IEEE Computer (12): 45-52 (2010).
Mohamed H. Ali, Badrish Chandramouli, Balan Raman, and Ed Katibah, Spatio-Temporal Stream Processing in Microsoft StreamInsight. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 33(2): 69-74 (2010).