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Ron Fagin's Home PageIBM Almaden Research Center Phone: 408-927-1726 My tribute to Ted Codd that I gave when I won the 2004 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award My tribute to my thesis advisor Robert L. Vaught that I gave at his Memorial Service in Berkeley, June 2, 2002 In addition to honoring Robert Vaught, I am honoring the inspirational Donald Kreider of Dartmouth College, who passed away Dec. 7, 2006, by pointing to the Acknowledgements of my Ph.D. thesis. |
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Click here for a fairly complete collection of my papers, all in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, and organized into (overlapping) categories.
Below are some recent papers.
Clio: Schema mapping creation and data exchange, with Laura M. Haas, Mauricio A. Hernandez, Renee J. Miller, Lucian Popa, and Yannis Velegrakis. In A. T. Borgida, V. K. Chaudhri, P. Giorgini, and E. S. Yu, editors, Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications, Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos, LNCS 5600, Springer, 2009, pp. 198-236.
Reverse data exchange: coping with nulls, with Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, and Wang-Chiew Tan. Proc. 2009 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '09), pp. 23-32.
Quasi-inverses of schema mappings, with Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, and Wang-Chiew Tan. ACM Trans. on Database Systems 33, 2 (June 2008). (Special issue for selected papers from the 2007 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.)
Epistemic privacy, with Alexandre Evfimievski and David Woodruff. Proc. 2008 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '08), pp. 171-180.
Towards a theory of schema-mapping optimization, with Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alan Nash, and Lucian Popa. Proc. 2008 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '08), pp. 33-42.
The structure of inverses in schema mappings, with Alan Nash. IBM Research Report RJ10425, Dec. 2007.
Inverting schema mappings. ACM Trans. on Database Systems 32, 4 (Nov. 2007). (Special issue for selected papers from the 2006 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.)
Comparing partial rankings, with Ravi Kumar, Mohammad Mahdian, D. Sivakumar, and Erik Vee. SIAM J. Discrete Mathematics 20, 3 (2006), pp. 628-648.
Composing schema mappings: Second-order dependencies to the rescue, with Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, and Wang-Chiew Tan. ACM Trans. on Database Systems 30, 4 (Dec. 2005), pp. 994-1055. (Special issue for selected papers from the 2004 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference).
Efficient Implementation of Large-Scale Multi-Structural Databases, with Phokion Kolaitis, Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar, and Andrew Tomkins. Proc. 2005 Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB '05), pp. 958-969.
Data exchange: Semantics and query answering, with Phokion Kolaitis, Renee J. Miller, and Lucian Popa. Theoretical Computer Science 336 (2005), pp. 89-124. (Special issue for selected papers from the 2003 International Conference on Database Theory).
Multi-structural databases, with R. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar, and Andrew Tomkins. Proc. 2005 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '05), pp. 184-195.
Data exchange: Getting to the core, with Phokion Kolaitis and Lucian Popa. ACM Trans. on Database Systems 30, 1 (Mar. 2005), pp. 90-101. (Special issue for selected papers from the 2003 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems).
Locally consistent transformations and query answering in data exchange, with Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barcelo, and Leonid Libkin. Proc. 2004 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '04), pp. 229-240.
Comparing and aggregating rankings with ties, with Ravi Kumar, Mohammad Mahdian, D. Sivakumar, and Erik Vee. Proc. 2004 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '04), pp. 47-58.
Searching the workplace web, with Ravi Kumar, Kevin McCurley, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar, John A. Tomlin, and David P. Williamson. Proc. 2003 International World Web Conference (WWW '03), pp. 366-375.
Efficient similarity search and classification via rank aggregation, with Ravi Kumar and D. Sivakumar. Proc. 2003 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD '03), pp. 301-312. Corrigendum: Proc. 2008 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD '08), pp. 1375-1376.
Comparing top k lists, with Ravi Kumar and D. Sivakumar. SIAM J. Discrete Mathematics 17, 1 (2003), pp. 134-160. Extended abstract in 2003 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA '03), pp. 28-36.
Optimal aggregation algorithms for middleware, with Amnon Lotem and Moni Naor. J. Computer and System Sciences 66 (2003), pp. 614-656. Extended abstract appeared in Proc. 2001 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS '01), pp. 102-113.
Combining fuzzy information: an overview. SIGMOD Record 31,2, June 2002, pp. 109-118.
Translating web data, with Lucian Popa, Yannis Velegrakis, Renee J. Miller, and Mauricio A. Hernandez. Proc. 2002 Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB '02), pp. 598-609.
Query strategies for priced information, with Moses Charikar, Venkatesan Guruswami, Jon Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Amit Sahai. J. Computer and System Sciences 64, 2002, pp. 785-819 (Special issue for selected papers from the 2000 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing).
Schema management, with Periklis Andritsos, Ariel Fuxman, Laura M. Haas, Mauricio A. Hernandez, Ching-Tien Ho, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Renee J. Miller, Felix Nauman, Lucian Popa, Yannis Velegrakis, Charlotte Vilarem and Ling-Ling Yan, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 25, 3, 2002, pp. 33-39.
Compactly encoding unstructured inputs with differential compression, with Miklos Ajtai, Randal Burns, Larry Stockmeyer, and Darrell Long. J. ACM 49, 3, 2002, pp. 318-367.
Static index pruning for information retrieval systems, with David Carmel, Doron Cohen, Eitan Farchi, Michael Herscovici, Yoelle S. Maarek, and Aya Soffer. Proc. 24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, New Orleans (SIGIR '01), pp. 43-50.
The Clio project: managing heterogeneity, with Renee J. Miller, Mauricio A. Hernandez, Laura M. Haas, Lingling Yan, C. T. Howard Ho, and Lucian Popa. ACM SIGMOD Record 30, 1 (March 2001), pp. 78-83.
Data-driven understanding and refinement of schema mappings, with Ling Ling Yan, Renee J. Miller, and Laura M. Haas. Proc. 2001 ACM SIGMOD Conference (SIGMOD '01), pp. 485-496.
Random walks with "back buttons", with Anna Karlin, Jon Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Madhu Sudan, and Andrew Tomkins. Annals of Applied Probability 11, 3, 2001, pp. 810-862. Extended abstract appeared in Proc. 2000 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp. 484-493.
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