Publications

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Books

• The Semantic Web: The Semantics of Data and Services on the Web
  Data-Centric Systems and Applications, Springer Verlag, (to appear), January 2006 (with C. Bussler)
• Real World Semantic Web Applications
  Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 92, V. Kashyap and L. Shklar (editors), IOS Press, December 2002
• Information Brokering over Heterogeneous Digital Data: A Metadata-based approach
  Kluwer Academic Publishers, July 2000 (with A. Sheth)

Proceedings and Journal Special Issues

• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

Co-editor, Special issue on Semantic Web and HealthCare Information Systems Interoperability (to appear), IDEA Group Publishers

• Library Management Journal

Co-editor, Special issue on Libraries in the Knowledge Era: Exploiting the knowledge wealth for Semantic Web Technology, Vol 26(4/5), May 2005, Emerald Insight Publishers

• Cooperative Information Agents VIII
  8^th International Workshop, CIA 2004, Erfurt, Germany, September 27-29, 2004, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Vol. 3191
• Semantics for Grid Databases

International Conference on Semantics for a Networked World, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS) Vol. 3226

Book Reviews

• Building Successful Human-Centered Systems
  IEEE MultiMedia 8(3), July-September 2001 (with A. Sheth)

Book Chapters

• Information Modeling on the Web: The Role of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
  Practical Handbook of Internet Computing CRC Press, June 2004
• Relationships at the Heart of the Semantic Web: Modeling, Discovering and Exploiting Complex Semantic Relationships
  Enhancing the Power of the Internet: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Springer Verlag, 2003 (to appear), M. Nikravesh, B. Azvin, R. Yager and L. Zadeh (editors), (with A. Sheth and I. B. Arpinar)
• The "Emergent" Semantic Web: A consensus approach for deriving Semantic Knowledge on the Web
  Real World Semantic Web Applications, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol 92, IOS Press, 2002 (with C. Behrens)
• Semantic similarities between Objects in Multiple Databases
  Heterogeneous Distributed Databases. Morgan Kaufmann, June 1998, A. Elmagarmid, M. Rusinkiewicz and A. Sheth (editors), (with A. Sheth)
• Semantic Heterogeneity in Global Information Systems: The Role of Metadata, Context and Ontologies
  Academic Press 1997, Cooperative Information Systems: Current Trends and Directions. M. Papazoglou and G. Schlageter (editors), (with A. Sheth)
• Metadata for building the MultiMedia Patch Quilt
  MultiMedia Database Systems: Issues and Research Directions. Springer Verlag 1995, S. Jajodia and V. Subrahmanian (editors), (with K. Shah and A. Sheth)
• Q-Data: Using Deductive Database Technology to Improve Data Quality
  Applications of Logic Databases. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, Raghu Ramakrishnan (editor), (with A. Sheth and C. Wood)

Journal Articles

• TaxaMiner; An Experimental Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping
  International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Special Issue on Semantic Web and Mining Reasoning, September 2005 (to appear, with C. Ramakrishnan, C. Thomas and A. Sheth)
• Trust – But Verify! Emergence, Quality and Trust in Intelligent Systems
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, Trends and Controversies, Volume 19(5), September/October 2005
• Emergent Semantics: An organizing principle for Biomedical Informatics and Knowledge Management
  AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin, Special Issue on Semantic Web Challenges for Knowledge Management, Volume 1(2), July 2004
• Imprecise Answers in Distributed Environments: Estimation of Information Loss for Multiple Ontology based Query Processing
  International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), Special Issue on Intelligent Integration of Information, H. Wache and D. Fensel (editors), Volume 9(4), December 2000, (with E. Mena, A. Illarramendi and A. Sheth)
• OBSERVER: An approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies
  Distributed and Parallel Databases - An International Journal, A. Elmagarmid (editor-in-chief), Volume 8(2), April 2000, (with E. Mena, A. Illarramendi and A. Sheth)
• Semantic and Schematic Similarities between Database Objects: A Context-based approach
  The VLDB Journal, The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases 5(4), December 1996. P. Apers, H. Schek, J. Gray and S. Su (editors-in-chief), (with A. Sheth)

Conferences and Workshops

• Measuring the Quality of Care Using Data From Hospital Information Systems: Issues about Data Quality
  (to appear) Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), Boston, MA, November 2005 (with J. Einbinder and J. Vengco)
• Definitions Management: A Semantics-based approach for Clinical Documentation in HealthCare Delivery
  (to appear) Proceedings of the 4^th International Semantic Web Conference, Industrial Track, Galway, Ireland, November 2005, (with A, Morales, T. Hongsermeier and Q. Li)
• A Knowledge Management Platform for Translational Medicine
  Poster Writeup, Proceedings of the AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium, October 2005, Washington DC (with T. Hongsermeier)
• Collaborative Authoring of Decision Support Knowledge: A Demonstration
  Vendor Demonstration, Proceedings of the AMIA 2005 Annual Symposium, October 2005, Washington DC (with T. Hongsermeier and J. Hanrahan)
• Semantics-based Knowledge Management for Translational Medicine
  Presentation, IT Solutions for Drug Discovery, Bio IT World Conference Expo, May 2005, Boston, MA (with T. Hongsermeier)
• A Knowledge Management Platform for Translational Medicine
  Poster Presentation, Discovery Day, Massachusetts Biotech Council, March 2005 (with T. Hongsermeier)
• Emergent Semantics Systems
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Semantics of a Networked World: Semantics for Grid Databases, Paris, June 2004 (with K Aberer, P Cudre-Mauroux, A. Ouksel, T. Catarci, M Hacid, A Illarramendi, M Mecella, E Mena, E Neuhold, O Troyer, T Risse, M Scannapieco, F Saltor, L Santis, S Spaccapietra, S Staab and R Studer).
• Emergent Semantics: Principles and Issues
  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DAFSAA 2004), Jeju Islnad, Korea, March 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2973, Springer Verlag (with K Aberer, P Cudre-Mauroux, A. Ouksel, T. Catarci, M Hacid, A Illarramendi, M Mecella, E Mena, E Neuhold, O Troyer, T Risse, M Scannapieco, F Saltor, L Santis, S Spaccapietra, S Staab and R Studer).
• The UMLS Semantic Network and the Semantic Web [Presentation]
  Proceedings of the AMIA 2003 Annual Symposium, November, 2003, Washington, DC
• Towards (Semi-)automatic Generation of Bio-medical ontologies [Poster]
  Poster Writeup, Proceedings of the AMIA 2003 Annual Symposium, November, 2003, Washington, DC (with C. Ramakrishnan and T. C. Rindflesch)
• Representing the UMLS Semantic Network using OWL (Or "What's in a Semantic Web Link?") [Presentation]
  Proceedings of the Second International Semantic Web Conference, October 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida (with A. Borgida)
• The Semantic Web: The Semantics of Data on the Web [Tutorial Slides]
  Tutorial Description, Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2003, Berlin, Germany (with S. Decker)
• The Semantic Web: Has the DB Community Missed the Bus (again)? [Presentation]
  Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on DB & IS Research on the Semantic Web and Enterprises, April 2002, Amicalola, GA
• The Agricultural Ontology Server (A Tool for Facilitating access to Knowledge)
  XML Conference and Exhibition, December 2001, Orlando, FL (with Howard Beck, Stephen Katz, Johannes Keizer, Frehiwot Fisseha and Sofia Pinto).
• The Emergent Semantic Web: A Consensus approach for Deriving Semantic Knowledge on the Web
  Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Working Symposium, July 2001, Stanford, USA (with Cliff Behrens)
• Declarative RDF Models for Feature based targeting of content to multiple devices
  Poster Proceedings of the 10th International WWW Conference, May 2001, Hong Kong (with L. Shklar)
• Professional Services Automation: A Knowledge Management Approach using LSI and Domain Specific Ontologies
  Proceedings of the 14th International FLAIRS Conference (Florida AI Research Symposium), Special track on AI and Knowledge Management, May 2001, Key West, Florida, USA (with S. Dalal and C. Behrens)
• Professional Services Automation: A semantics-based approach for Knowledge Management
  Proceedings of the 9th IFIP Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), Industrial Session on Knowledge Management and Intelligent Enterprises, April 2001, Hong Kong (with P. Tukey, S. Dalal and C. Behrens)
• Optimal Economic State-based Pricing for E-commerce
  The INFORMS 99 Fall Conference, Philadelphia, November 1999
• Design and Creation of Ontologies for Environmental Information Retrieval
  Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management, Banff, Canada, October 1999
• Semantic Information Brokering: How Can a Multi-Agent Approach Help?
  Cooperative Information Agents III, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, M. Klusch, O. Shehory, G. Weiss (Eds.), Vol. 1652, Berlin et al.: Springer-Verlag, 292-311, 1999 (July), Also appears in: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, CIA-1999, Uppsala, Sweden, July 1999, contained in this volume of LNAI (with A. Sheth and T. Lima)
• Estimating Information Loss for Multi-Ontology based Query Processing
  Proceedings of the Second and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Intelligent Information Integration in conjunction with European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Brighton, UK, August 1998, (with E. Mena, A. Illarramendi and A. Sheth)
• Domain Specific Ontologies for Semantic Information Brokering on the Global Information Infrastructure
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Formal Ontologies in Information Systems; also appears in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS-Press, Trento, Italy, June 1998 (with Eduardo Mena, Amit Sheth and Arrantza Illarramendi).
• Knowledge Mining Applications in InfoSleuth: An approach based on incorporating cognitive constraints in E-R models
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual Modeling in conjunction with the 1997 International conference on E-R models, Los Angeles, California, November 1997 (with Gale Martin).
• Modeling and Querying Textual Data using E-R models and SQL
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Management of SemiStructured Data in conjunction with the 1997 ACM International Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD) Tucson, Arizona, May 1997 (with M. Rusinkiewicz).
• InfoSleuth: Semantics Integration of Information in Open and Dynamic Environments
  Proceedings of the 1997 ACM International Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), Tucson, Arizona, May 1997, (with R. Bayardo, W. Bohrer, R. Brice, A. Cichocki, G. Fowler, A. Helal, T. Ksiezyk, G. Martin, M. Nodine, M. Rashid, M. Rusinkiewicz, R. Shea, C. Unnikrishnan, A. Unruh, and D. Woelk)
• Steps towards Media-independent Search of Web-accessible Heterogeneous Digital Data
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems West Point, New York, USA September 1996, (with A. Sheth)
• Managing Multiple Information Sources through Ontologies: Relationship between Vocabulary Heterogeneity and Loss of Information
  Proceedings of the workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases in conjunction with European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Budapest, Hungary August 1996, (with E. Mena, A. Illarramendi and A. Sheth)
• OBSERVER: An approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies
  Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Coopera tive Information Systems (CoopIS '96), Brussels, Belgium, June 1996, (with E. Mena, A. Sheth and A. Illarramendi)
• Media-independent correlation of Information: What? How?
  Proceedings of the First IEEE Metadata Conference , Silver Spring, Maryland, April 1996 (with A. Sheth)
• Attribute-based access of Heterogeneous Digital Data.
  Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Access to Legacy Data, Fourth International WWW Conference, Boston, MA, December 1995 (with A. Sheth and W. LeBlanc)
• InfoHarness: Use of Automatically Generated Metadata for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information.
  Proceedings of CAiSE '95, Jyvaskla, Finland, June 1995, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #932 (with L. Shklar, A. Sheth and K. Shah)
• InfoHarness: A System for Search and Retrieval of Heterogeneous Information (extended version).
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Demo), San Jose, California, June 1995 (with L. Shklar, A. Sheth and S. Thatte)
• Modeling Heterogeneous Information
  Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies (NGITS '95),, Naharia, Israel, June 1995 (with L. Shklar, K. Shah and C. Basu)
• Semantics-based Information Brokering
  Proceedings of the third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Baltimore, Maryland, November 1994 (with A. Sheth)
• So Far (Schematically) yet So Near (Semantically)
  Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Conference on Semantics of Interoperable Database Systems, DS-5, Lorne, Victoria, Australia, November 1992; In IFIP Transactions A-25, North-Holland, 1993 (with A . Sheth)

Technical Reports

• TaxaMiner: Improving Label Quality using Latent Semantic Indexing
  Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, September 2004 (with C. Ramakrishnan, C. Thomas and A. Sheth)
• TaxaMiner: An Experimentation Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping
  Technical Report UGA-CS-TR-04-005, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, August 2004 (with C. Ramakrishnan, C. Thomas, D. Bassu, T. C. Rindflesch and A. Sheth)
• Facilitator 's Report: Integration, Interoperation and Composition Track
  Semantic Web Working Symposium, July 2001, Stanford, USA
• Semantics-based Information Brokering: A step towards realizing the Infocosm
  Technical Report DCS-TR-307, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, March 1994 (with A. Sheth)