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(Oct 2009) Best student paper of SIMA 2009 at MILCOM 2009: Situation Based Control for Cyber-Physical Environments. Vivek K. Singh, and Ramesh Jain
(Oct 2009) Best paper of ACM SIGMM WSM 2009: Motivating Contributors in Social Media Networks. Vivek K. Singh, Ramesh Jain, Mohan Kankanhalli
(Oct 2009) ARM'09 Paper: A Reflective Middleware Architecture for Simulation Integration, Leila Jalali, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Sharad Mehrotra.
(Aug 2009) NSF grant: ASTERIX gets NSF funding: Prof. Michael Carey and Chen Li's multi-UC-campus project "ASTERIX: A Highly Scalable Parallel Platform for Semistructured Data Management and Analysis" has been funded at $2.7M for three years from the NSF Data Intensive Computing program. The project, based at UCI, also includes UCSD and UCR participants. UCI's share is $1.8M.
(Jul 2009) ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2009:
Paper: CCD: Efficient Customized Dissemination in Distributed Publish/Subscribe. Hojjat Jafarpour, Bijit Hore, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
Paper: Middleware for Pervasive Spaces: Balancing Privacy and Utility. Daniel Massaguer, Bijit Hore, Mamadou H. Diallo, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
Doctoral Symposium: A Semantic Approach for Building Pervasive Spaces. Daniel Massaguer, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian
(May 2009) SIGMOD 2009 programming contest: Shengyue Ji, Wen Pu(UIUC) and Mingyan Gao have been selected as one of the five finalist teams for the SIGMOD 2009 programming contest (Main Memory Transactional Index.

(Apr 2009) DEBS 2009 paper: MICS: An Efficient Content Space Representation Model for Publish/Subscribe Systems. Hojjat Jafarpour, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Mirko Montanari.
(Apr 2009) IEEE SAINT paper: Dynamic Load Balancing for Cluster-based Publish/Subscribe System. Hojjat Jafarpour, Sharad Mehrotra, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
(Apr 2009) ISI paper: The Software EBox: Information Integration for Situational Awareness. Naveen Ashish, Jay Lickfett, Sharad Mehrotra, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
(Apr 2009) CSIE 2009 paper: XAR: An Integrated Framework for Free Text Information Extraction. Naveen Ashish, Sharad Mehrotra, and Pouria Pirzadeh.
(Mar 2009) New Research Project: Prof. Chen Li officially launches TASTIER: a joint research project with Tsinghua University on efficient auto-complete and type-ahead search on large data sets.
(Mar 2009) AFRL Workshop: Reliable Dissemination of Mission-Critical Content over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks. Bo Xing, Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. AFRL Workshop on Proactive Computing in Wireless Adhoc Networks.
(Mar 2009) CRA-W Workshop: Panel on Making Pervasive Computing Truly Pervasive: The need for bridging the networking and Data Management communities. Panel Moderators: Sriram Chellappan and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. CRA-W Workshop on Pervasive Computing.
(Mar 2009) IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Workshop: An Experimental Study on Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc Mode for Mobile Device-to-Device Video Delivery. Bo Xing, Karim Seada, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD 2009).
(Mar 2009) CHORUS talk on MMSE: At the final conference of the famous European CHORUS project on Multimedia Search Engines (MMSE), Professor Ramesh Jain will be the first (and the only one from USA) speaker presenting state of art and the future of multimedia search technology. More information is available here.
(Mar 2009) ASTERIX gets seed funding: Michael Carey and Chen Li's project "ASTERIX: A Scalable Platform for XML Information Analysis" has received a UC Discovery Grant for $132K, including $52K from UC and $80K from eBay.
(Mar 2009) PerCom 2009 PhD forum competition: Ronen Vaisenberg won the first prize in the PerCom 2009 PhD forum competition.
(Mar 2009) IGI Global book chapter: XAR: An Integrated Framework for Semantic Extraction and Annotation Cases on Semantic Interoperability for Information Systems Integration: Practices and Applications. Naveen Ashish and Sharad Mehrotra. (Editor: Yannis Kalfoglou)
(Feb 2009) SIGMOD 2009:
Paper: Access Control in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform. Vinayak Borkar, Michael Carey, Daniel Engovatov, Panagiotis Reveliotis, Dmitry Lychagin, Josh Spiegel, Sachin Thatte, and Till Westmann
Paper: Exploiting Context Analysis for Combining Multiple Entity Resolution Systems. Stella Chen, Dmitri Kalashnikov, and Sharad Mehrotra
Paper: Efficient Type-Ahead Search on Relational Data: a TASTIER Approach. Guoliang Li, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, and Jianhua Feng
Demo: MEDIALIFE: From Images to a Life Chrnicle. Amarnath Gupta, Setareh Rafatirad, Mingyan Gao, and Ramesh Jain.
(Feb 2009) NSF grant: Chen Li received an NSF CluE grant (about $221,000) on large-scale data cleaning using Hadoop.
(Feb 2009) NSF workshop on Database and Application Security: A Middleware Approach for Managing Privacy of Outsourced Personal Data. Sharad Mehrotra and Bijit Hore
(Jan 2009) Google research award: Michael Carey received a Google Research Award ($70,000) to work on OpenII (Open Information Integration).
(Jan 2009) WWW 2009 paper: Efficient Interactive Fuzzy Keyword Search. Shengyue Ji, Guoliang Li, Chen Li, and Jianhua Feng
(Jan 2009) Journal of Bioinformatics paper: Human Genomes as Email Attachments. Scott Christley, Yiming Lu, Chen Li, and Xiaohui Xie. It was ranked the top 1 most-frequently read article in January 2009.
(2009) NSF grant: Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian received a $135,000 NSF grant on Dispatcher selection (joint with SRI).
(2009) DHS grant: Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian received a $1,000,000 SAFIRE grant from DHS.
(Dec 2008) INFOCOM 2009 paper: RADcast: Enabling Reliability Guarantees for Content Dissemination in Ad Hoc Networks. Bo Xing, Sharad Mehrotra, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
(Dec 2008) PerCom 2009:
Paper: Privacy-Preserving Event Detection in Pervasive Spaces. Bijit Hore, Jehan Wickramasuriya (Motorola, Inc.), Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, and Daniel Massaguer
Demo: Proximiter: Enabling Mobile Proximity-Based Content Sharing on Portable Devices. Bo Xing, Karim Seada, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian
(Oct 2008) MMCN 2009: Exploiting Semantics For Scheduling Data Collection From Sensors On Real-Time To Maximize Event Detection. Ronen Vaisenberg, Sharad Mehrotra, and Deva Ramanan
(Oct 2008) CCNC 2009 demo: PassItOn: An Opportunistic Messaging Prototype on Mobile Devices. Bo Xing, Karim Seada, Peter Boda, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian.
(Sep 2008) ICDE 2009:
Paper: Best-Effort Top-k Query Processing Under Budgetary Constraints. Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Chen Li, Yosi Mass, Haggai Roitman, Ralf Schenkel, and Gerhard Weikum
Paper: Space-Constrained Gram-Based Indexing for Efficient Approximate String Search. Alexander Behm, Shengyue Ji, Chen Li, and Jiaheng Lu
Paper: Using Semantics for Speech Annotation of Images. Chaitanya Desai, Dmitri Kalashnikov, and Sharad Mehrotra
Paper: Updates in the AquaLogic Data Services Platform. Michael Blow, Vinayak Borkar, Michael Carey, Christopher Hillery, Alexander Kotopoulis, Dmitry Lychagin, Radu Preotiuc-Pietro, Panagiotis Reveliotis, Joshua Spiegel, and Till Westmann
Demo: WEST: Modern Technologies for Web People Search. Dmitri Kalashnikov, Zhaoqi Chen, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad Mehrotra, and Zheng Zhang
Tutorial: Efficient Approximate Search on String Collections. Chen Li and Marios Hadjieleftheriou (AT&T Labs--Research)

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