Dawit Seid and Sharad Mehrotra. Grouping and Aggregate queries Over Semantic Web Databases. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007), Irvine, CA, June 2007. PDF

Vibhav Gogate, Bozhena Bidyuk and Rina Dechter, Studies in Lower Bounding Probability of Evidence using the Markov Inequality, In 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2007. PDF

Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter, Approximate Counting by Sampling the Backtrack-free Search Space, In 22nd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2007. PDF

Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter, SampleSearch: A Scheme that Searches for Consistent Samples, In 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2007. PDF

Naveen Ashish, R. Hegde, C. Huyck, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov , Sharad Mehrotra, Padhraic Smyth, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. Awareness Technologies for Disaster Response.
In Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security , Springer Verlag , September 2007
Editors: H. Chen, E. Reid, J. Sinai, A. Silke, and B. Ganoz.

Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra. Adaptive Graphical Approach to Entity Resolution . In Proc. of the ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (ACM IEEE JCDL), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2007. PDF

Rabia Nuray-Turan, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra. Self-tuning in Graph-based Reference Disambiguation . In Proc. of the Int'l Conference on Databse Systems for Advance Applications (DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, Apr. 2007. PDF

Yiming Ma and Sharad Mehrotra. Integrating Similarity Retrieval and Skyline Exploration via Relevance Feedback. In Proc. of the Int'l Conference on Databse Systems for Advance Applications (DASFAA), Bangkok, Thailand, Apr. 2007. PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra, Zhaoqi Chen, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Naveen Ashish. Disambiguation Algorithm for People Search on the Web . In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2007. PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov and Sharad Mehrotra. Domain-independent data cleaning via analysis of entity-relationship graph . In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (ACM TODS) , 31(2):716-767, June 2006. PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra, and Ram Hariharan. Index for Fast Retrieval of Uncertain Spatial Point Data . In Proc. of International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Nov. 2006. PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov , Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra, and Ram Hariharan. Modeling and Querying Uncertain Spatial Information for Situational Awareness Applications. In Proc. of International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Nov. 2006. PDF

Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter, A New Algorithm for Sampling CSP Solutions Uniformly at Random, In 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP), 2006. PDF

Vibhav Gogate, Rina Dechter, Bozhena Bidyuk, James Marca and Craig Rindt, Modeling Travel and Activity Routines using Hybrid Dynamic Mixed Networks, In 85th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2006. PDF

U. Westermann, R. Jain. E - A Generic Event Model for Event-Centric Multimedia Data Management in eChronicle Applications. In Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Electronic Chronicles (eChronicle 2006), Atlanta, Georgia, Apr. 2006. PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra, Ram Hariharan, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. SAT: Spatial Awareness from Textual Input. EDBT 2006 (Demo) PDF

Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotra and Zhaoqi Chen. Exploiting Relationships for Domain-independent Data Cleaning. SIAM Data Mining (SDM) Conference 2005. PDF

Ramaswamy Hariharan, Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Chen Li and Sharad Mehrotra: Quality-driven approximate methods for integrating GIS data. GIS 2005. PDF

Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter, Approximate Inference Algorithms for Hybrid Bayesian Networks with Discrete Constraints, In 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2005. PDF

Vibhav Gogate, Rina Dechter, Bozhena Bidyuk, Craig Rindt and James Marca. Modeling Transportation Routines using Hybrid Dynamic Mixed Networks. UAI 2005. PDF

M. M. Trivedi, T. L. Gandhi, K. S. Huang, "Distributed Interactive Video Arrays for Event Capture and Enhanced Situational Awareness," IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI in Homeland Security, Volume 20, Issue 5, Sept.-Oct. 2005 PDF

Latest News

>> Dawit Seid succesfully defended his PhD dissertation on August 13, 2007. Congratulations.

>> Upcoming book chapter on SAMI in " Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security" (Springer, Expected Sep 2007)

>> Talk on SAMI project at Bell-Labs India, Banglore India, April 23rd 2007. slides

>> A prototype version of the Ontario Disaster Portal is available here