M. Tamer Özsu's Publications

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Books

M. T. Özsu and P. Valduriez. Principles of Distributed DatabaseSystems, 4th edition, Springer, 2020; ISBN 978-3-030-26252-5; eText ISBN: 978-3-030-26253-2.
L. Liu and M. T. Özsu. Encyclopedia of Data Management, 2nd edition, Springer, 2019; ISBN 978-1-4899-7993-3.
L. Golab and M. T. Özsu.Data Stream Management, Morgan & Claypool, 2010.
A. B. Pidduck, J. Mylopoulos, C. C. Woo, and M. T. Özsu. Advanced Information Systems Engineering - Proceedings of th 14^th International Conference (CAiSE 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2348, Springer-Verlag, 2002.
T. Ozsu, H-J. Schek, K. Tanaka, Y. Zhang and Y. Kambayashi (eds.). Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, IEEE Press, 2001.
A. Dogac, M. T. Özsu and O. Ulusoy (editors). Current Trends in Data Management Technology, Idea Group Publishers, 1999; ISBN 1-878289-51-9.
S. Jajodia, M. T. Özsu and A. Dogac (editors). Advances in Multimedia Information Systems - Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1508, Springer-Verlag, 1998; ISBN 3-540-65107-1.
A. Dogac, L. Kalinichenko, M. T. Özsu and A. Sheth (editors). Advances in Workflow Systems and Interoperability, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
A. Dogac, M. T. Özsu, A. Biliris and T. Sellis (editors), Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, xi+515 pages, 1994, ISBN 0-387-57825-0; ISBN 3-540-57825-0.
M. T. Özsu, U. Dayal and P. Valduriez (editors), Distributed Object Management, Morgan Kaufmann, xi+441 pages, 1994, ISBN 1-55860-256-9.
M. T. Özsu, Project Planning and Control Techniques (in Turkish), Turkish Information Processing Society Press, x+316 pages, 1986.

Book Chapters

P. Valduriez, R. Jimenez-Peris, and M. T. Özsu. Distributed database systems: The case for NewSQL. In Abdelkader Hameurlain and A. Min Tjoa, editors, Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, pages 1–15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2021.
M. T. Özsu and P. Valduriez. Distributed and Parallel Database Systems. In Computing Handbook, Third Edition: Information Systems and Information Technology, 3rd edition, Heikki Topi and Allen Tucker (editors), Chapter 13, CRC Press, 2014.
N. Zhang and M. T.Özsu. Native XML Storage and Query Processing. In Advanced Applications and Structures in XML Processing: Label Streams, Semantics Utilization and Data Query Technologies, C. Li and T. W. Ling (editors), IGI Global, 2009, pages 1-17.
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M. T. Özsu. Distributed Database Systems. In Encyclopedia of Information Systems, Hossein Bidgoli (ed.), Academic Press, 2003, pages 673-682.
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M. T. Özsu and B. Yao. Building Component Database Systems Using CORBA. In Component Databases, K. Dittrich and A. Geppert (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann, 2001, pages 207-236.
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I. Goralwalla, M. T. Özsu, and D. Szafron. An Object-Oriented Framework for Temporal Data Models. In Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, and S. Sripada (eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1998, pages 1-35.
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L. Liu, L. Yan, and M. T. Özsu. Interoperability in Large-Scale Distributed Information Delivery Systems. In Advances in Workflow Systems and Interoperability, A. Dogac, L. Kalinichenko, M. T. Özsu and A. Sheth (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pages 246-280.
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M. T. Özsu, U. Dayal and P. Valduriez. An Introduction to Distributed Object Management. In Distributed Object Management, M. T. Özsu, U. Dayal and P. Valduriez (eds.), Morgan-Kaufmann, 1994, pages 1-24.
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M. T. Özsu and J. Blakeley. Query Optimization and Processing in Object-Oriented Database Systems. In Modern Database Management - Object-Oriented and Multidatabase Technologies, W. Kim (ed.), Addison-Wesley/ACM Press, 1994, pages 146-174 .
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M. T. Özsu, D.D. Straube and R. Peters. Query Processing Issues in Object-Oriented Knowledge Base Systems. In Emerging Landscape of Intelligence in Database and Information Systems, F.E. Petry and L.M. Delcambre (eds.), JAI Press, 1994, pages 79-144.
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M. T. Özsu and P. Valduriez. Distributed Data Management: Unsolved Problems and New Issues. In Readings in Distributed Computing Systems, T. Casavant and M. Singhal (eds.), IEEE/CS Press, 1994, pages 512-544.
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A. Buchmann, M. T. Özsu, M. Hornick, D. Georgakopoulos, and F.A. Manola. A Transaction Model for Active Distributed Object Systems. In Transaction Models for Advanced Database Applications, A. Elmagarmid (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, 1992, pp. 123-158.
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Journal Papers

- sGrow: Explaining the Scale-Invariant Strength Assortativity of Streaming Butterflies
  
  Aida Sheshbolouki
  University of Waterloo
  ,
  
  M. Tamer Özsu
  University of Waterloo
  
  May 2023pp 1-46 https://doi.org/10.1145/3572408
L. Zheng, L. Zou and M. T. Özsu. SGSI – A Scalable GPU-friendly Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithm. IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Eng., 2022. Accepted for publication
Y. Li, L. Zou, M. Özsu, and D. Zhao. Space-efficient subgraph search over streaming graph with timing order constraint. IEEE Trans. Knowl. and Data Eng., 34(9): 4453-4467, 2022.
R. Wang, J. Wang, S. Idreos, M.T. Özsu, W. G. Aref. The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation, Proc. VLDB Endowment, 16(1): 15-22, 2022.
K. Ammar, S. Sadhu, S. Salihoglu and M. T. Özsu. Optimizing Differentially-Maintained Recursive Queries on Dynamic Graphs. Proc. VLDB Endowment, 15(11): 3186-3198, 2022.
sGrapp: Butterfly Approximation in Streaming Graphs
- Aida Sheshbolouki
  University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- M. Tamer Özsu
  University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
January 2022pp 1-43 https://doi.org/10.1145/3495011

Conference Papers

P. Peng, M. T. Özsu, L. Zou, C. Yan, C.Liu. MPC: Minimum Property-Cut RDF Graph Partitioning. In Proc. 28th IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Eng., pages 192-204, 2022.

A. Pacaci, A. Bonifati, M. T. Özsu. Evaluating Complex Queries on Streaming Graphs. In Proc. 38th IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Eng., pages 272-285, 2022.

X. Zhang, M. T. Özsu, and L. Chen. ELite: cost-effective approximation of exploration-based graph analysis. In Proc. 3rd Joint Int. Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems (GRADES) and Network Data Analytics (NDA), pages 6:1–6:10, 2020.

Regular Path Query Evaluation on Streaming Graphs

Anil Pacaci, Angela Bonifati, M. TamerÖzsu
SIGMOD '20 Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2020

D. Yan, G. Guo, M. R. Chowdhury, M. T. Özsu, W-S. Ku, and J. C. S. Lui. G-thinker: A distributed framework for mining subgraphs in a big graph. In Proc. 36th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering, pages 1369-1380, 2020.

L. Zeng, L. Zou, M. T. Özsu, L. Hu, and F. Zhang. GSI: GPU-friendly Subgraph Isomorphism. Proc. 36th International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 1249-1260, 2020.

Analysis of Streaming Algorithms for Graph Partitioning

Anil Pacaci, M. Tamer Özsu
SIGMOD '19 Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2019

Y. Li, L. Zou, M. T. Özsu and D. Zhao. Time Constrained Continuous Subgraph Search over Streaming Graphs. Proc. 35th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2019, pages 1082-1093.

Distribution-Aware Stream Partitioning for Distributed Stream Processing Systems

Anil Pacaci, M. Tamer Özsu
BeyondMR'18 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Algorithms and Systems for MapReduce and Beyond, 2018

Stream WatDiv: A Streaming RDF Benchmark

Libo Gao, Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Özsu, Güneş Aluç
SBD'18 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, 2018

P. Peng, L. Zou, M. T. Özsu and D. Zhao. Multi-query Optimization in Federated RDF Systems . Proc. 23rd Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, pages 745–765, 2018.

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Do We Need Specialized Graph Databases?: Benchmarking Real-Time Social Networking Applications

Anil Pacaci, Alice Zhou, Jimmy Lin, M. Tamer Özsu
GRADES'17 Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Graph Data-management Experiences & Systems, 2017

O. Hartig and M. T. Özsu. Walking without a Map: Ranking-Based Traversal for Querying Linked Data. Proc. 15th International Semantic Web Conference, pages 305–324, 2016.

B. Bislimovska, G. Aluç, M. T. Özsu and P. Fraternali. Graph Search of Software Models Using Multidimensional Scaling. Proc. EDBT/ICDE Joint Conference Workshops (4th International Workshop on Querying Graph Structured Data), 2015, pages 163-170.

G. Aluç, M. T. Özsu, K. Daudjee and O. Hartig. Executing Queries over Schemaless RDF Databases. Proc. 31st International Conference on Data Engineering, 2015, pages 807 - 818.

X. Shen, L. Zou, M. T. Özsu, Y. Li, S. Han, D. Zhao. A Graph-based RDF Triple Store. Proc. 31st International Conference on Data Engineering, pages 1508–1511, 2015. System demonstration paper

G. Aluç, O. Hartig, M. T. Özsu, and K. Daudjee. Diversified Stress Testing of RDF Data Management Systems. Proc. 13th International Semantic Web Conference, 2014, pages 197-212.

Video presentation

O. Hartig and M. T. Özsu. Reachable Subwebs for Traversal-Based Query Execution. Proc. 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (Companion Volume), 2014, pages 541–546.

F. Li, M. T. Özsu, G. Chen, and B.C. Ooi. R-Store: A Scalable Distributed System for Supporting Real-time Analytics. Proc. 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2014, pages 40-51.

Adaptive input admission and management for parallel stream processing

Cagri Balkesen, Nesime Tatbul, M. Tamer Özsu
DEBS '13 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Distributed event-based systems, 2013

K. Ammar and M. T. Özsu. WGB: Towards a Universal Graph Benchmark. Proc. 4th Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, 2013, pages 58-72.

C. Balkesen, J. Teubner, G. Alonso, and M. T. Özsu. Main-Memory Hash Joins on Multi-Core CPUs: Tuning to the Underlying Hardware. In Proc. 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2013, pages 362–373.

J. Cheng, Y. Ke, S. Chu, and M. T. Özsu. Efficient Core Decomposition in Massive Networks. In Proc. 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2011, pages 51-62.

L. Zou, L. Chen, M. T. Özsu, and D. Zhao. Dynamic Skyline Queries in Large Graphs. In Proc. 15th Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'10), April 2010, Part II, pages 62-78.

Mining data streams with periodically changing distributions

Yingying Tao, M. Tamer Özsu
CIKM '09 Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, 2009

Mining frequent itemsets in time-varying data streams

Yingying Tao, M. Tamer Özsu
CIKM '09 Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, 2009

Efficient decision tree construction for mining time-varying data streams

Yingying Tao, M. Tamer Ö zsu
CASCON '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, 2009

A partial-order based active cache for recommender systems

Umar Qasim, Vincent Oria, Yi-Fang Brook Wu, Michael E. Houle, M. Tamer Özsu
RecSys '09 Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Recommender systems, 2009

L. Zou, L. Chen, and M. T. Özsu.Distance-join: Pattern match query in a large graph database. In Proc. 35th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), August 2009, pages 886-897.

R. C-W. Wong, M. T. Özsu, P. S. Yu, A. Fu, and L. Liu. Efficient method for maximizing bichromatic reverse nearest neighbor. In Proc. 35th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), August 2009, pages 1126-1137.

Q. Wan, R. C-W. Wong, I. F. Ilyas, M. T. Özsu and Y. Peng. Creating Competitive Products. In Proc. 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), August 2009, pages 898-909.

L. Zou, L. Chen, and M.T. Özsu. K-Automorphism: A General Framework for Privacy Preserving Network Publication, In Proc. 35th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), August 2009, pages 946-957.

N, Tang, J. X. Yu, H. Tang, M. T. Özsu, and P. Boncz. Materialized View Selection in XML Databases. In Proc. 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'09), 2009 ,pages 616-630..

Speed up semantic search in p2p networks

Qiang Wang, Rui Li, Lei Chen, Jie Lian, M. Tamer Özsu
CIKM '08 Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management, 2008

Q. Wang, K. Daudjee, and M. T. Özsu. Popularity-aware Prefetch in P2P Range Caching . In Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'08), 2008, pages 53--62.

Potential-driven load distribution for distributed data stream processing

Weihan Wang, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Shimin Guo, M. Tamer Özsu
SSPS '08 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Scalable stream processing system, 2008

N. Tang, J. X. Yu, M. T. Özsu, and K-F. Wong. Hierarchical Indexing Approach to Support XPath Queries. In Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), 2008, pages 1510–1512 (poster paper).

N. Tang, J. X. Yu, M. T. Özsu, B. Choi, and K-F. Wong. Multiple Materialized View Selection for XPath Query Rewriting. In Proc. 24th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), April 2008, pages 873–882.

Q. Wang and M. T. Özsu. An efficient Eigenvalue-based P2P XML routing framework. In Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'08), 2007, pages 105-112.

In-network execution of monitoring queries in sensor networks

Xiaoyan Yang, Hock Beng Lim, M. Tamer Özsu, Kian Lee Tan
SIGMOD '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2007

QAGen: generating query-aware test databases

Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, M. Tamer Özsu
SIGMOD '07 Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2007

B. Chen, T-W. Lin, M. T. Özsu, and Z. Zhu. On Label Stream Partition for Efficient Holistic Twig Join. In Proc. 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'07), April 2007, pages 807-818.

C. Plattner, G. Alonso, and M. T. Özsu. DBFarm: A Scalable Cluster for Multiple Databases. In Proc. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference (Middleware), November-December 2006, pages 180-200.

Multi-query optimization of sliding window aggregates by schedule synchronization

Lukasz Golab, Kumar Gaurav Bijay, M. Tamer Özsu
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2006

N. Zhang, M. T. Özsu, I. Ilyas, and A. Aboulnaga. FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents. In Proc. 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'06), September 2006, pages 259-270.

L. Chen, Ş. Gündüz-Ögüdücu and M. T. Özsu. Mixed Type Audio Classification with Support Vector Machine. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2006, pages 781-784.

D. Phillips, N. Zhang, I. Ilyas, and M. T. Özsu. InterJoin: Exploiting Indexes and Materialized Views in XPath Evaluation. In Proc. 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'06), Vienna, Austria, July 2006, pages 13-22.

L. Golab, P. Prahladha, and M. T. Özsu. Indexing Time-Evolving Data With Variable Lifetimes. In Proc. 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'06), Vienna, Austria, July 2006, pages 265-274.

Q. Wang, A. K. Jha, and M. T. Özsu. An XML Routing Synopsis for Unstructured P2P Networks. In Proc. 1st International Workshop on XML, Web, and Internet Contents Technologies (XWICT'06), Hong Kong, June 2006, pages 176-183.

N. Zhang, M. T. Özsu, A. Aboulnaga, and I. F. Ilyas. XSeed: Accurate and Fast Cardinality Estimation for XPath Queries. In Proc. 22nd Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE’06), Atlanta, GA, April 2006.

L. Golab, K. G. Bijay, M. T. Özsu. On Concurrency Control in Sliding Window Queries over Data Streams. In Proc. 10th Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 2006, pages 608 - 626.

Localized routing trees for query processing in sensor networks

Jie Lian, Lei Chen, Kshirasagar Naik, M. Tamer Özsu, G. Agnew
CIKM '05 Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2005

L. Chen and M. T. Özsu. Using Multi-Scale Histograms to Answer Pattern Existence and Shape Match Queries. In Proc. 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM’05), Santa Barbara, CA, June 2005, pages 217-226.

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Update-pattern-aware modeling and processing of continuous queries

Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Özsu
SIGMOD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2005

Robust and fast similarity search for moving object trajectories

Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria
SIGMOD '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2005

N. Zhang, S. K. Agrawal, and M. T. Özsu. BlossomTree: Evaluating XPaths in FLWOR Expressions. In Proc. 21st International Conference on Data Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, April 2005, pages 132-133 (poster paper).

Symbolic representation and retrieval of moving object trajectories

Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria
MIR '04 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval, 2004

I . Bartolini, P. Ciaccia, V. Oria, M. T. Özsu. Integrating the Results of Multimedia Sub-Queries Using Qualitative Preferences. In Proc. 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS'04), Washington, DC, August 2004, pages 66-75.

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L. Golab, S. Garg and M. T. Özsu. On Indexing Sliding Windows over On-line Data Streams. In Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Heraklion, Greece, March 2004, pages 712-729.

N. Zhang, V. Kacholia, and M. T. Özsu. A succinct physical storage scheme for efficient evaluation of path queries in XML. In Proc. 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, Boston, MA, March 2004, pages 56-65.

B.B. Yao, M. T. Özsu, and N. Khandelwal. XBench Benchmark and Performance Testing of XML DBMSs. In Proc. 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, Boston, MA, March 2004, pages 621-632.

L. Chen and M. T. Özsu. Multi-Scale Histograms for Answering Queries over Time Series Data. In Proc. 20th. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’04), Boston, MA, March 2004, page 838 (poster paper).

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Ş. Gündüz and M. T. Özsu. A Poisson Model for User Accesses to Web Pages. In Proceedings of 18th International Symposiumon Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS), Antalya, Turkey, November 2003, pages 332 - 339. Published as Springer LNCS Volume 2869 / 2003.

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L. Golab and M. T. Özsu. Processing Sliding Window Multi-Joins in Continuous Queries over Data Streams. In Proc. 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'03), Berlin, Germany, September 2003, pages 500-511.

A Web page prediction model based on click-stream tree representation of user behavior

Şule Gündüz, M. Tamer Özsu
KDD '03 Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2003

E. Pacitti, M. T. Özsu, and C. Coulon. Preventive Multi-Master Replication in a Cluster of Autonomous Databases. In Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2003), Klagenfurt, Austria, August 2003, pages 318-327.

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A comprehensive XQuery to SQL translation using dynamic interval encoding

David DeHaan, David Toman, Mariano P. Consens, M. Tamer Özsu
SIGMOD '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, 2003

Ş. Gündüz and M. T. Özsu. A User Interest Model for Web Page Navigation. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Data Mining for Actionable Knowledge (DMAK), Seoul, Korea, April 2003, pages 46-57.

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L. Chen, M. T. Özsu, and V. Oria. Modeling Video Data for Content Based Queries: Extending the DISIMA image data model. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Multi-Media Modeling, Taiwan, January 2003, pages 169-189.

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L Chen, S. J. Rizvi, and M. T. Özsu. Incorporating Audio Cues into Dialog and Action Scene Extraction. In Proceedings of SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, San Jose, CA, January 2003, pages 252-264.

S.K.S. Lam and M. T. Özsu. Querying Web Data - The WebQA Approach. In Proc. 3^rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, Singapore, December 2002, pages 139-148.

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L. Chen, V. Oria, and M. T. Özsu. A Multi-Level Index Structure for Video Databases. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Information System , Tempe, Arizona, USA, October 2002, pages 28-37.

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L. Chen and M. T. Özsu. Rule-Based Scene Extraction from Video. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002, pages 737-740.

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L. Chen and M. T. Özsu. Modeling of Video Objects in a Video Database. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002, pages 217-221.

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V. Oria, M. T. Özsu, and P. J. Iglinski. Querying Images in the DISIMA DBMS". In Proc. 7th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Capri, Italy, November 2001, pages 89-98.

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Vincent Oria, M. Tamer Özsu, Shu Lin, Paul J. Iglinski
MULTIMEDIA '01 Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2001

S. Lin, M. T. Özsu, V. Oria and R. Ng. An Extendible Hash for Multi-Precision Similarity Querying of Image Databases. In Proc. 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'01), Rome, Italy, September 2001, pages 221-230.

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S. Hollfelder, V. Oria and M. T. Özsu. Mining User Behavior for Resource Prediction in Interactive Electronic Malls. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York City, July-August 2000, pages 863-866.

V. Oria, M. T. Özsu, L. I. Cheng, P.J. Iglinski and Y. Leontiev. Modeling Shapes in an Image Database System''. In Proc. 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems , Indian Wells, Palm Springs Desert, California, USA, October 1999, pages 34-40.

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K. Voruganti, M. T. Özsu, and R. Unrau. An Adaptive Hybrid Server Architecture for Client Caching Object DBMSs. In Proc. 25th. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'99), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999, pages 150-161.

L.L. Yan and M. T. Özsu. Conflict Tolerant Queries in AURORA. In Proc. 4th Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'99), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999, pages 279-290.

V. Oria, M. T. Özsu, B. Xu, L. I. Cheng, and P. Iglinski. VisualMOQL: The DISIMA Visual Query Language. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'99), Florence, Italy, June 1999, Volume 1, pages 536-542.

Y. Niu, M. T. Özsu, X. Li. 2-D-S Tree: An Index Structure for Content-Based Retrieval of Images. In Proc. SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, CA, January 1999, pages 110-121.

V. Oria, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron, and P. Iglinski. Defining Views in an Image Database System. In Proc. 8th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Data Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia (DS-8), Rotorua, New Zealand, January 1999, pages 231-250.

V. Oria, P. Iglinski, and M. T. Özsu. A Framework for Multimedia Database Systems. In Proc. 4th African Conference on Research in Computer Science, Dakar, Senegal, October 1998, 293-304.

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Temporal granularity for unanchored temporal data

Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Yuri Leontiev, M. Tamer Özsu, Duane Szafron, Carlo Combi
CIKM '98 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information and knowledge management, 1998

M. T. Özsu, K. Voruganti, and R. Unrau. An Asynchronous Avoidance-Based Cache Consistency Algorithm for Client Caching DBMSs. In Proc. 24th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'98), New York, N.Y., August 1998, pages 440-451.

Y. Leontiev, D. Szafron, and M. T. Özsu. On Separation Between Interface, Implementation, and Representation in Object DBMSs. In Proc. 26th Conf. on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS USA'98), Santa Barbara, California, July 1998, pages 155-167.

H. Thimm and M. T. Özsu. A Generic Scheme and Sample Implementation Architecture for Graceful Service Adaptation in Multimedia Database Systems. In Proc. IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Austin, Texas, June-July 1998, pages 241-244.

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V. Oria, B. Xu, M. T. V. Oria, B. Xu, M. T. Özsu. VisualMOQL: A Visual Language for Image Databases. In Proc. 4th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB-4), L'Aquila, Italy, May 1998, pages 186-191.

K. Böhm, K. Aberer, M. T. Özsu, K. Gayer. Query Optimization for Structured Documents Based on Knowledge on the Document Type Definition. In IEEE Proc. Advances in Digital Libraries, Santa Barbara, CA, April 1998, pages 196-205.

J.Z. Li and M. T. Özsu. Point-Set Topological Relations Processing in Multimedia Databases. In Proc. First International Forum on Multimedia and Image Processing, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998, pages 54.1-54.6.

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V. Oria, M. T. Özsu, L. Liu, X. Li, J.Z. Li, Y. Niu, and P. Iglinski. Modeling Images for Content-Based Queries: The DISIMA Approach. Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Visual Information Systems, San Diego, CA, December 1997, pages 339-346.

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J.Z. Li and M. T. Özsu. STARS: A SpaTial Attributes Retrieval System for Images and Videos. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'97), Singapore, November 1997, pages 69-84.

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An object-oriented SGML/HyTime compliant multimedia database management system

M. Tamer Özsu, Paul Iglinski, Duane Szafron, Sherine El-Medani, Manuela Junghanns
MULTIMEDIA '97 Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia, 1997

Modeling temporal primitives: back to basics

Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Yuri Leontiev, M. Tamer Özsu, Duane Szafron
CIKM '97 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Information and knowledge management, 1997

I. Goralwalla, D. Szafron, M. T. Özsu, R.J. Peters. Managing Schema Evolution Using a Temporal Object Model. in Conceptual Modeling - ER'97, pages 71-84, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, David Embley and Robert Goldstein (editors). (Proc. 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Los Angeles, California, 3-6 November 1997.)

Y. Niu, M. T. Özsu, X. Li. 2D-h Trees: An Index Scheme for Content-Based Retrieval of Images in Multimedia Systems. IEEE International Conference On Intelligent Processing Systems 1997 (IEEE ICIPS'97), Beijing, China, October 1997, pages 1710-1715.

J. Z. Li, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron, V. Oria. MOQL: A Multimedia Object Query Language. The Third International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Como, Italy, September 1997, pages 19-28.

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I. Goralwalla, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron. A Framework for Temporal Data Models: Exploiting Object-Oriented Technology. In Proc. of 1997 Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS USA 97), Santa Barbara, California, July 1997.

L.L. Yan, M. T. Özsu, L. Liu. Accessing Heterogeneous Data Through Homogenization and Integration Mediators. In Proc. Second IFCIS Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'97), Kiawah Island, North Carolina, June 1997, pages 130-139.

J. Z. Li, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron, Modeling of Moving Objects in a Video Database , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Ottawa, Canada, June 1997, pages 336-343.

L.L. Yan, M. T. Özsu, L. Liu. Mediator Join Indices. In Proc. 7th Int. Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, Birmingham, UK, April 1997, pages 51-59.

J.Z. Li, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron. Modeling Video Temporal Relationships in an Object Database Management System. In Proc. Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN97), San Jose, California, February 1997, pages 80-91.

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J.Z. Li, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron. Spatial Reasoning Rules in Multimedia Management System. In Proc. International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Toulouse, France, November 1996, pages 119-133.

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J.Z. Li, M. T. Özsu, D. Szafron. Modeling of Video Spatial Relationships in an Objectbase Management System. In Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Database Management Systems, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, 1996, pages 124-133.

Experimenting with temporal relational databases

Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Abudullah U. Tansel, M. Tamer Özsu
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management, 1995

An extensible query optimizer for an objectbase management system

M. Tamer Özsu, Adriana Muñoz, Duane Szafron
CIKM '95 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Information and knowledge management, 1995

R.J. Peters and M. T. Özsu. Axiomatization of Dynamic Schema Evolution in Objectbases. In Proc. 11th International Conference on Data Engineering, Taiwan, March 1995, pages 156-164.

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R.J. Peters and M. T. Özsu. Reflection in a Uniform Behavioral Object Model. In Proc. 12th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, Dallas, Texas, December 1993, pages 37-49.

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I. Goralwalla and M. T. Özsu. Temporal Extensions to a Uniform Behavioral Object Model. In Proc. 12th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach, Dallas, Texas, December 1993, pages 115-127.

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M. T. Özsu, R.J. Peters, B. Irani, A. Lipka, A. Munoz and D. Szafron. TIGUKAT Object Management System: Initial Design and Current Directions. In Proceedings of CASCON'93, Toronto, Canada, October 1993, pages 595-611.

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An extensible query model and its languages for a uniform behavioral object management system

Randal J. Peters, Anna Lipka, M. Tamer Özsu, Duane Szafron
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management, 1993

J. Shillington and M. T. Özsu. Semipermeable Transactions and Semantics-Based Concurrency Control for Multidatabases. In Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 1993, pages 245-248.

M. T. Özsu and Y. Niu. Effects of Network Protocols on Distributed Concurrency Control Performance. In Proc. International Conference on Computing and Information, Toronto, Canada, May 1992, pages 274-279.

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D.D. Straube and M. T. Özsu. Execution Plan Generation for an Object-Oriented Data Model. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, Munich, Germany, December 1991, pages 43-67.

K. Barker and M. T. Özsu. Reliable Transaction Execution in Multidatabase Systems. In Proc. 1st International Workshop on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Kyoto, Japan, April 1991, pages 344-347.

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Type consistency of queries in an object-oriented database system target="_blank"

Dave D. Straube, M. Tamer Özsu
OOPSLA/ECOOP '90 Proceedings of the European conference on object-oriented programming on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, 1990

D.D. Straube and M. T. Özsu. A Model for OODB Queries. In Proc. Object-Oriented Database Task Group Workshop, Atlantic City, N.J., 22 May 1990, NIST Technical Report NISTIR 4503, pages 126-135.

K. Barker and M. T. Özsu. Concurrent Transaction Execution in Multidatabase Systems. In Proc. COMPSAC'90, Chicago, Illinois, October 1990, pages 282-288.

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M. T. Özsu and K. Barker. Architectural Classification and Transaction Execution Models of Multidatabase Systems. In Proc. International Conference in Computing and Information, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 1990, pages 275-279. Also in Advances in Computing and Information - ICCI '90, S.G. Akl, F. Fiala, W.W. Koczkokaj (eds.), pages 285-294, Springer-Verlag, 1990.

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K.L. Wong and M. T. Özsu. Distributed Simulation of Performance Petri Nets. In Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Calgary, Canada, July 1990, pages 141-152.

M. T. Özsu. Architectural Models for Distributed Database Operating Systems. In Computing and Information, R. Janicki and W.W. Koczkodaj (eds.), North-Holland Publishing Co., 1989, pages 343-349.

M. T. Özsu and T.M. Koon. Evaluation of the Reliability Mechanisms in Distributed Database Systems. In Proc. CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) Edmonton '87 Conference, Edmonton, Canada, November 1987, pages 246-255.

M. T. Özsu. Distributed Simulation using Petri Nets. In Proc. Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 1987, pages 3-8.

T.M. Koon and M. T. Özsu. Performance Comparison of Resilient Concurrency Control Algorithms for Distributed Databases. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Data Engineering, Los Angeles, California, February 1986, pages 565-573.

A.A. Farrag and M. T. Özsu. A General Concurrency Control for Database Systems. In Proc. National Computer Conference, Chicago, Illinois , July 1985, pages 567-573.

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M. T. Özsu. Performance Comparison of Distributed vs. Centralized Locking Algorithms in Distributed Database Systems. In Proc. 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, May 1985, pages 254-261.

M. T. Özsu. A Net Simulator as a Performance Evaluation Tool for Distributed Database Systems. In Proc. Convention Informatique, Vol. A., Paris, France, 1984, pages 154-159.

M. T. Özsu. An Introduction to Distributed Database Systems. In Proc. UNESCO Regional Workshop on Microcomputers and Local Area Networks, Ankara, Turkey, 1982, pages 305-319.

M. T. Özsu and B.W. Weide. Modeling of Distributed Database Concurrency Control Algorithms Using a Generalized Petri Net Formalism. In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, September 1982, pages 660-665.

SYNGLISH - a high level query language for the RAP database machine target="_blank"

M. Tamer Özsu, Esen A. Ozkarahan
ACM SIGIR Forum, 1980 (Actually in Proc. 5th Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing)

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Paper and proposal reviews: is the process flawed?

Henry F. Korth, Philip A. Bernstein, Mary Fernandez, Le Gruenwald, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Kathryn McKinley, Tamer Ozsu
ACM SIGMOD Record, 2008

An apples-to-apples comparison of two database journals

Philip A. Bernstein, Elisa Bertino, Andreas Heuer, Christian S. Jensen, Holger Meyer, M. Tamer Özsu, Richard T. Snodgrass, Kyu-Young Whang
ACM SIGMOD Record, 2005

Issues in data stream management

Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Özsu
ACM SIGMOD Record, 2003

Ş. Gündüz and M. T. Özsu. Recommendation Models for User Accesses to Web Pages. In Proc. 13 Int. Conf. Artificial Neural Networks(ICANN), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003, pages 1003-1010. (Invited paper).

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M. T. Özsu. Distributed Data Management Issues in a Changing Environment. In Proc. Int. Workshop on Foundations of Models for Information Integration (FMII-2001), Viterbo, Italy, September 2001 (Keynote address).

M. T. Özsu and P. Iglinski. An Interoperable Multimedia Catalog System for Electronic Commerce. IEEE Q. Bull. Data Eng., 23(1): 17-22, March 2000.

M. T. Özsu. Issues in Multimedia Database Management. In Proc. Int. Conf. On Database Eng. and Applications, Montreal, Canada, August 2-4, 1999, pages 452-459. (Invited paper and presentation)

Data management issues in electronic commerce

M. Tamer Özsu
ACM SIGMOD Record, 1999 (Panel Statement at ACM SIGMOD Conference)

M. T. Özsu. The Push/Pull Effect - Can Distributed Database Technology Meet The Challenges of New Applications? Database Programming & Design, April 1997.

M. T. Özsu. Query Processing Issues in Object-Oriented Database Systems - Preliminary Ideas. In Proc. 1991 IEEE Symp. on Applied Computing, Kansas City, MO, April 3-5, 1991, pages 312-324. (Invited paper and presentation)

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M. T. Özsu and P. Valduriez. Distributed Database Systems: Where Are We Now?" Database Programming & Design, March 1992 and April 1992 issues. Originally appeared in IEEE Computer, 24(8): 68-78, August 1991.

Towards an infrastructure for temporal databases: report of an invitational ARPA/NSF workshop

Niki Pissinou, Richard Thomas Snodgrass, Ramez Elmasri, Inderpal S. Mumick, Tamer Özsu, Barbara Pernici, Arie Segev, Babis Theodoulidis, Umeshwar Dayal
ACM SIGMOD Record, 1994

M. T. Özsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez. Workshop Report - International Workshop on Distributed Object Management. ACM SIGMOD Record, 22(1): 40-54, March 1993.

M. T. Özsu. The promise and reality of distributed database systems. The Relational Journal, 5(1), February/March 1993.

P. Valduriez and M. T. Özsu. Systèmes de Gestion de Bases de Données Répartis et Parallèles. Canadian Information Processing/Informatique Canadienne, July/August 1992.

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