Publications of Kevin C. Chang

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  Journal Articles:
  1. Probabilistic Top-k and Ranking-Aggregate Queries. M. A. Soliman, I. F. Ilyas, and K. C.-C. Chang. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2008. To appear.

  2. Trustworthy keyword search for compliance storage. S. Mitra, M. Winslett, W. W. Hsu, and K. C.-C. Chang. VLDB J., 17(2):225-242, 2008.

  3. Accessing the Deep Web: A Survey. B. He, M. Patel, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. Communications of the ACM, 50(5):94-101, May 2007. [PDF]

  4. Optimizing Top-k Queries for Middleware Access: A Unified Cost-based Approach. S.-W. Hwang and K. C.-C. Chang. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 32(1):5, March 2007. [PDF]

  5. Probe Minimization by Schedule Optimization: Supporting Top-k Queries with Expensive Predicates. S.-W. Hwang and K. C.-C. Chang. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 19(5):646-662, May 2007. [PDF]

  6. Automatic Complex Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces: A Correlation Mining Approach. B. He and K. C.-C. Chang. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 31(1):346-395, March 2006. [PDF]

  7. Mining Semantics for Large Scale Integration on the Web: Evidences, Insights, and Challenges. K. C.-C. Chang, B. He, and Z. Zhang. SIGKDD Explorations, 6(2):67-76, December 2004. [PDF]

  8. Editorial: Special Issue on Web Content Mining. B. Liu and K. C.-C. Chang. SIGKDD Explorations, 6(2):1-4, December 2004. [PDF]

  9. A Holistic Paradigm for Large Scale Schema Matching. B. He and K. C.-C. Chang. SIGMOD Record, 33(4):20-25, December 2004. Invited paper. [PDF]

  10. Structured Databases on the Web: Observations and Implications. K. C.-C. Chang, B. He, C. Li, M. Patel, and Z. Zhang. SIGMOD Record, 33(3):61-70, September 2004. [PDF]

  11. PEBL: Web Page Classification without Negative Examples. H. Yu, J. Han, and K. C.-C. Chang. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(1):70-81, January 2004. Special Section on Mining and Searching the Web.

  12. Data Mining for Web Intelligence. J. Han and K. C.-C. Chang. IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, D.C., 35(11):64-70, November 2002. [PDF]

  13. Approximate Query Mapping: Accounting for Translation Closeness. K. C.-C. Chang and H. Garcia-Molina. The VLDB Journal, VLDB Foundation, Saratoga, Calif., 10(2-3):155-181, September 2001. [PS]

  14. Using Distributed Objects to Build the Stanford Digital Library InfoBus. A. Paepcke, M. Baldonado, K. C.-C. Chang, S. Cousins, and H. Garcia-Molina. IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, D.C., 32(2):80-87, February 1999.

  15. Predicate Rewriting for Translating Boolean Queries in a Heterogeneous Information System. K. C.-C. Chang, H. García-Molina, and A. Paepcke. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Press, New York, 17(1):1-39, January 1999. [PS]

  16. Interoperability for Digital Libraries Worldwide. A. Paepcke, K. C.-C. Chang, H. García-Molina, and T. Winograd. Communications of the ACM, ACM Press, New York, 41(4):33-43, April 1998. [PS]

  17. The Stanford Digital Library Metadata Architecture. M. Baldonado, K. C.-C. Chang, L. Gravano, and A. Paepcke. International Journal on Digital Libraries, Springer, Berlin, 1(2):108-121, September 1997. [PS]

  18. Boolean Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources. K. C.-C. Chang, H. García-Molina, and A. Paepcke. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, D.C., 8(4):515-521, August 1996. [PS] [Extended Version]

  Conference Proceedings:
  1. EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically. T. Cheng, X. Yan, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 33rd Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB 2007), pages 387-398, Vienna, Austria, September 2007. (91/538=16.9%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  2. Context-Aware Wrapping: Synchronized Data Extraction. S.-L. Chuang, K. C.-C. Chang, and C. Zhai. In Proceedings of the 33rd Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB 2007), pages 699-710, Vienna, Austria, September 2007. (91/538=16.9%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  3. Supporting Ranking and Clustering as Generalized Order-By and Group-By. C. Li, M. Wang, L. Lim, H. Wang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2007), pages 127-138, Beijing, China, June 2007. (70/480=14.6%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  4. Progressive and Selective Merge: Computing Top-K with Ad-hoc Ranking Functions. D. Xin, J. Han, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2007), pages 103-114, Beijing, China, June 2007. (70/480=14.6%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  5. Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web. T. Cheng and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2007), pages 108-113, Asilomar, Ca., January 2007. Extended System Demo Description. [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  6. Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases. M. A. Soliman, I. F. Ilyas, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pages 896-905, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. (122/659=18%). [PDF]

  7. Collaborative Wrapping: A Turbo Framework for Web Data Extraction. S.-L. Chiang, K. C.-C. Chang, and C. Zhai. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pages 1261-1262, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. (Poster Paper; 182/659=27%). [PDF]

  8. Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates. C. Li, K. C.-C. Chang, and I. F. Ilyas. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2006), pages 61-72, Chicago, June 2006. (58/446=13%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  9. Boolean + Ranking: Querying a Database by K-Constrained Optimization. Z. Zhang, S. Hwang, K. C.-C. Chang, M. Wang, C. Lang, and Y. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2006), pages 359-370, Chicago, June 2006. (58/446=13%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  10. Light-weight Domain-based Form Assistant: Querying Web Databases On the Fly. Z. Zhang, B. He, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 31st Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB 2005), pages 97-108, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005. (32/195=16%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  11. Making Holistic Schema Matching Robust: An Ensemble Approach. B. He and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGKDD Conference (KDD 2005), pages 429-438, Chicago, Illinois, August 2005. (14/75=19%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  12. RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries. C. Li, K. C.-C. Chang, I. F. Ilyas, and S. Song. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2005), pages 131-142, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2005. (66/431=15%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  13. Toward Large Scale Integration: Building a MetaQuerier over Databases on the Web. K. C.-C. Chang, B. He, and Z. Zhang. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2005), pages 44-55, Asilomar, Ca., January 2005. (26/86=30%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  14. RankFP: A Framework for Supporting Rank Formulation and Processing. H. Yu, S. Hwang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), pages 514-515, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. (Poster Paper; 100/521=19%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  15. Optimizing Access Cost for Top-k Queries over Web Sources: A Unified Cost-based Approach. S. Hwang and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), pages 188-189, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. (Poster Paper; 100/521=19%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  16. Organizing Structured Web Sources by Query Schemas: A Clustering Approach. B. He, T. Tao, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004), pages 22-31, Washington, D.C., November 2004. (59/303=19%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  17. Optimal Multimodal Fusion for Multimedia Data Analysis. Y. Wu, E. Y. Chang, K. C.-C. Chang, and J. R. Smith. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2004), pages 572-579, New York, October 2004. (56/330=17%).

  18. Discovering Complex Matchings across Web Query Interfaces: A Correlation Mining Approach. B. He, K. C.-C. Chang, and J. Han. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Conference (KDD 2004), pages 148-157, Seattle, Wa., August 2004. (40/337=12%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  19. Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax. Z. Zhang, B. He, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2004), pages 117-118, Paris, France, June 2004. (69/431=16%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  20. Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces. B. He and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2003), pages 217-228, San Diego, California, June 2003. (52/342=15%). [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  21. Heterogeneous Learner for Web Page Classification. H. Yu, K. C.-C. Chang, and J. Han. In Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2002), pages 538-545, Maebashi, Japan, December 2002. (72/369=20%). [PDF]

  22. PEBL: Positive Example Based Learning for Web Page Classification Using SVM. H. Yu, J. Han, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGKDD Conference (KDD 2002), pages 239-248, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002. (44/308=14%). [PDF]

  23. Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries. K. C.-C. Chang and S.-W. Hwang. In Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2002), pages 346-357, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2002. 42/239=18%. [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  24. NBDL: A CIS Framework for NSDL. J. Futrelle, K. C.-C. Chang, and S.-S. Chen. In Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2001), pages 124-125, Roanoke, Virginia, June 2001. [PDF]

  25. Approximate Query Translation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources. K. C.-C. Chang and H. Garcia-Molina. In Proceedings of the 26th VLDB Conference (VLDB 2000), pages 566-577, Cairo, Egypt, September 2000. (53/351=15%). [Extended Version]

  26. Mind Your Vocabulary: Query Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources. K. C.-C. Chang and H. García-Molina. In Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 1999), pages 335-346, Philadelphia, Pa., June 1999. (42/205=20%). [PS] [Extended Version]

  27. Conjunctive Constraint Mapping for Data Translation. K. C.-C. Chang and H. García-Molina. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 1998), pages 49-58, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 1998. [PS]

  28. An Extensible Constructor Tool for the Rapid, Interactive Design of Query Synthesizers. M. Baldonado, S. Katz, A. Paepcke, K. C.-C. Chang, H. Garcia-Molina, and T. Winograd. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 1998), pages 19-28, Pittsburgh, Pa., June 1998. [PS]

  29. PowerBookmarks: An Advanced Web Bookmark Database System and its Information Sharing and Management. W.-S. Li, Y.-L. Wu, C. Bufi, K. C.-C. Chang, D. Agrawal, and Y. Hara. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Foundations of Data Organization (FODO 1998), Kobe, Japan, November 1998.

  30. Evaluating the Cost of Boolean Query Mapping. K. C.-C. Chang and H. García-Molina. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 1997), pages 103-112, Philadelphia, Pa., July 1997. (28/104=27%). [PS]

  31. Metadata for Digital Libraries: Architecture and Design Rationale. M. Baldonado, K. C.-C. Chang, L. Gravano, and A. Paepcke. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (DL 1997), pages 47-56, Philadelphia, Pa., July 1997. (28/104=27%). [PS]

  32. STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching. L. Gravano, K. C.-C. Chang, H. García-Molina, and A. Paepcke. In Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 1997), pages 207-218, Tucson, Ariz., May 1997. (42/202=21%). [PS]

  Conference Tutorials:
  1. Accessing the Web: From Search to Integration. K. C.-C. Chang and J. Cho. In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2006), pages 804-805, Chicago, June 2006. Tutorial description. [PDF] [Slides PPT]

  Conference Demonstrations:
  1. Supporting Entity Search: a Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine. T. Cheng, X. Yang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2007), pages 1144-1146, Beijing, China, June 2007. Demonstration description. (35/107 = 32%). [PDF]

  2. URank: Top-k Query Processing for Uncertain Databases. M. Sliman, I. Ilyas, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2007), pages 1082-1084, Beijing, China, June 2007. Demonstration description. (35/107 = 32%). [PDF]

  3. Dewex: A Search Engine for Exploring the Deep Web. G. Kabra, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pages 1511-1512, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007. Demonstration description. [PDF]

  4. RankSQL: Supporting Ranking Queries in Relational Database Management Systems. C. Li, M. A. Soliman, K. C.-C. Chang, and I. F. Ilyas. In Proceedings of the 31st Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB 2005), pages 1342-1345, Trondheim, Norway, August 2005. Demonstration description. (29/69 = 42%). [PDF]

  5. MetaQuerier: Querying Structured Web Sources On-the-fly. B. He, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2005), pages 927-929, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2005. Demonstration description. (24/71 = 34%). [PDF]

  6. Towards Building a MetaQuerier: Extracting and Matching Web Query Interfaces. B. He, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), pages 1098-1099, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. Demonstration description. [PDF]

  7. Towards Building a MetaQuerier: Extracting and Matching Web Query Interfaces. B. He, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In NSF Information and Data Management (IDM) Workshop 2004, Boston, Massachussetts, October 2004. Demonstration description.

  8. Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces. B. He, Z. Zhang, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 2004), pages 913-914, Paris, France, June 2004. Demonstration description. [PDF]

  9. Knocking the Doors to the Deep Web: Understanding Web Query Interfaces. Z. Zhang, B. He, and K. C.-C. Chang. In NSF Information and Data Management (IDM) Workshop 2003, Seattle, Washington, September 2003. Demonstration description.

  10. PowerBookmarks: A System for Personalizable Web Information Organization, Sharing, and Management. W.-S. Li, K. C.-C. Chang, D. Agrawal, and et al. In Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD 1999), pages 565-567, Philadelphia, Pa., June 1999. Demonstration description.

  Workshop Proceedings:
  1. Query Routing: Finding Ways in the Maze of the Deep Web. G. Kabra, C. Li, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the ICDE International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (ICDE-WIRI 2005), Tokyo, Japan, April 2005. (14/47=30%). [PDF]

  2. MetaQuerier over the Deep Web: Shallow Integration across Holistic Sources. K. C.-C. Chang, B. He, and Z. Zhang. In Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (VLDB-IIWeb 2004), Toronto, Canada, August 2004. (20/42=48%). [PDF]

  3. On-the-fly Constraint Mapping across Web Query Interfaces. Z. Zhang, B. He, and K. C.-C. Chang. In Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (VLDB-IIWeb 2004), Toronto, Canada, August 2004. (20/42=48%). [PDF]

  4. Mining Complex Matchings across Web Query Interfaces. B. He, K. C.-C. Chang, and J. Han. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (SIGMOD-DMKD 2004), pages 3-10, Paris, France, June 2004. (8/34=24%). [PDF]

  5. Clustering Structured Web Sources: A Schema-Based, Model-Differentiation Approach.. B. He, T. Tao, and K. C.-C. Chang. In EDBT Workshops (EDBT-ClustWeb 2004), pages 536-546, Crete, Greece, March 2004. (9/15=60%). [PDF]

  Invited Papers:
  1. Database Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. M. Winslett, K. C.-C. Chang, A. Doan, J. Han, C. Zhai, and Y. Zhou. SIGMOD Record, 31(3):97-102, September 2002. [PDF]

  2. The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols. M. Roscheisen, M. Baldonado, K. C.-C. Chang, L. Gravano, S. Ketchpel, and A. Paepcke. In Digital Libraries in Computer Science: The MeDoc Approach, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1392, pages 213-230. 1998. [PS]

  Books and Chapters
  1. PowerBookmarks: An Advanced Web Bookmark Database System and its Information Sharing and Management. W.-S. Li, Y.-L. Wu, C. Bufi, K. C.-C. Chang, D. Agrawal, and Y. Hara. In Information Organization and Databases, chapter 26. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

  Miscellaneous Publications:
  1. The UIUC Web Integration Repository. K. C.-C. Chang, B. He, C. Li, and Z. Zhang. Computer Science Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. http://metaquerier.cs.uiuc.edu/repository, 2003.

  2. Query and Data Mapping Across Heterogeneous Information Sources. K. C.-C. Chang. PhD thesis, Stanford Univ., January 2001. [PS]

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Kevin C. Chang,  kcchang@cs.uiuc.edu