Spring '08 North East DB/IR Day

Posters Presented at Spring '08 North East DB/IR Day

A Profile Anonymization Model for Privacy in a Personalized Location Based Service Environment Heechang Shin (Rutgers University) (Awarded tied Third Prize in Poster Contest)
Autotagging to Improve Text Search for 3D Models Corey Goldfeder (Columbia University)
Understanding User Reviewing Patterns: URSA Gayatree Ganu, Amelie Marian (Rutgers University), Noemie Elhadad (Columbia University) (Awarded tied Third Prize in Poster Contest)
Optimal Boolean Matrix Decomposition: Application to Role Engineering Haibing Lu (Rutgers University)
Simultaneous Multilingual Search for Translingual Information Retrieval Kristen Parton, Kathleen McKeown (Columbia University), James Allan (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
MayBMS: A System for Managing Large Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases Lyublena Antova, Christoph Koch (Cornell University), Dan Olteanu (Oxford University) (Awarded First Prize in Poster Contest)
Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources Minji Wu, Amelie Marian (Rutgers University)
Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing T. J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nick Taylor, Olivier Biton, Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania)
Fuzzy Multi-Dimensional Search in the Wayfinder File System Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amelie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen (Rutgers University)
Querying Sequential and Concurrent Horn Transaction Logic Programs Paul Fodor, Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University)
SciPort-Web Based Distributed Scientific Data Management and Integration Platform Fusheng Wang, Chen Qin, Cristobal Vergara-Niedermayr, Jasmin Optiz, Philipp Hussels (Siemens Corporate Research)
LOQAS-Med Sofia J. Athenikos, Hyoil Han, Ari D. Brooks (Drexel University)
OMP = Ontology + Patterns Sofia J. Athenikos, Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University)
SGL: A Language for Data-Driven Games Al Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Nitin Gupta, Christoph Koch, Ben Sowell, Walker White (Cornell University) (Awarded tied Third Prize in Poster Contest)
Join Algorithms for Information Extraction Alpa Jain (Columbia University), Panagiotis Ipeirotis (NYU), AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin at Madison), Luis Gravano (Columbia University) (Awarded Second Prize in Poster Contest)