Publications

Semantic Web and Ontology




* Fang Wei, Chen Wang, Li Ma, Aoying Zhou, "Detecting Overlapping Community Structures in Networks with Global Partition and Local Expansion", APWeb 2008, pp. 43-55.

* Li Ma, Chen Wang, Jing Lu, Feng Cao, Yue Pan, Yong Yu, "Effective and Efficient Semantic WebData Management over DB2", SIGMOD 2008, pp. 1183-1194.

* Ying Yan, Chen Wang, Aoying Zhou, Weining Qian, Li Ma, Yue Pan, "Efficiently querying rdf data in triple stores", poster, WWW 2008, pp. 1053-1054.

* Li Ma, Jing Mei, Yue Pan, Krishna Kulkarni, Achille Fokoue, Anand Ranganathan, "Semantic Web Technologies and Data Management", W3C workshop on RDF access to relational databases.

* Robert Schiaffino, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Chintan Patel, Edith Schonberg, and Kavitha Srinivas, "Computing OWL Ontology Decompositions Using Resolution", The Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies.

* Robert Lu, Feng Cao, Li Ma, Yong Yu and Yue Pan, "An Effective SPARQL Support over Relational Databases", VLDB2007 Joint ODBIS & SWDB workshop on Semantic Web, Ontologies, Databases.

* Chintan Patel, James Cimino, Julian Dolby, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, and Kavitha Srinivas, "Matching Patient Records to Clinical Trials Using Ontologies", International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007), pp. 816-829, 2007.

* Julian Dolby, James Fan, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, William Murdock, Kavitha Srinivas, and Christopher Welty, "Scalable Cleanup of Information Extraction Data Using Ontologies", International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2007), pp. 100-113, 2007.

* Jing Lu, Li Ma, Lei Zhang, Jean-Sébastien Brunner, Chen Wang, Yue Pan, Yong Yu, "SOR: A Practical System for OWL Ontology Storage, Reasoning and Search ", the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Demo, pp. 1402-1405, 2007.

* Julian Dolby, Achille Fokoue, Aditya Kalyanpur, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, "Scalable Semantic Retrieval Through Summarization and Refinement", the 21st Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), pp.299-304, 2007.

* Jean-Sébastien Brunner, Li Ma, Chen Wang, Lei Zhang, Daniel C. Wolfson, Yue Pan, Kavitha Srinivas, "Explorations in the Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Product Information Management", the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), pp.747-756, 2007.

* Li Ma, Yang Yang, Zhaomin Qiu, Guotong Xie, Yue Pan, ShengPing Liu, "Towards A Complete OWL Ontology Benchmark", Proc. of 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), pp.124-139, 2006.

* Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, "The Summary Abox: Cutting Ontologies Down to Size", Proc. of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pp.343-356, 2006.

* J. Mei, L. Ma, Y. Pan, "Ontology Query Answering on Databases", Proc. of International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), pp.445-458, 2006.

* Jian Zhou, Li Ma, Qiaoling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yong Yu, and Yue Pan, "Minerva: A Scalable OWL Ontology Storage and Inference System", Proc. of Asia Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), pp.429-443, 2006.

* Y. Pan, G. Xie, L. Ma, Y. Yang, Z. Qiu, Juhnyoung Lee, "Model-Driven Ontology Engineering", Journal of Data Semantics. pp.57-78, 2006.

* X. Hou, G. Hu, L. Ma, T. Liu, Y. Pan, "Ontology Driven Securities Data Management and Analysis", Proc. of APWeb, pp.1083-1095, 2006.

* Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Edith Schonberg, Kavitha Srinivas, "SHIN ABox Reduction", Proc. of International Workshop on Description Logics, 2006.

* Achille Fokoue, Aaron Kershenbaum, Li Ma, Chintan Patel, Edith Schonberg, and Kavitha Srinivas, "Using Abstract Evaluation in ABox Reasoning", the Second International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems, 2006.

* Aaron Kershenbaum, Achille Fokoue, Chintan Patel, Christopher Welty, Edith Schonberg, James Cimino, Li Ma, Kavitha Srinivas, Robert Schloss, and J William Murdock, "A View of OWL from the Field: Use cases and Experiences", OWL: Experiences and Directions 2006.

* L. Ma, Zh. Su, Y. Pan, L. Zhang, T. Liu, "RStar: An RDF Storage and Query System for Enterprise Resource Management", Proc. of 13th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp.484-491, 2004.

* G. Xie, S. Liu, Z. Zhang, L. Ma, Y. Pan, L. Zhang, Z. Su, L.Q. Shen, "SemanticWare: An EMF-Compatible RDF Infrastructure", International Workshop on The Model-Driven Semantic Web, 2004.




Pattern Recognition and Image Processing


Journals:
* L. Ma, T. Tan, Y. Wang and D. Zhang, "Personal Identification Based on Iris Texture Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Vol.25, No.12, pp.1519-1533, 2003.

* L. Ma, T. Tan, Y. Wang and D. Zhang, "Efficient Iris Recognition by Characterizing Key Local Variations", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Vol. 13, No.6, pp.739- 750, 2004.

* L. Ma, T. Tan, D. Zhang, Y. Wang, "Local Intensity Variation Analysis for Iris Recognition", Pattern Recognition, Vol.37, No.6, pp.1287-1298, 2004.

* J. Huang, T. Tan, L. Ma and Y. Wang, "Phase Correlation based Iris Image Registration Model", Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol.20, No.3, pp.419-425, 2005.

Conferences:
* L. Ma, Y. Wang and T. Tan, "Iris Recognition Based on Multichannel Gabor Filtering", Proc. of the 5th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol.I, pp.279-283, 2002.

* L. Ma, Y. Wang and T. Tan, "Iris Recognition Using Circular Symmetric Filters", Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. II, pp.414-417, 2002.

* L. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Tan and D. Zhang, "Iris recognition: A Review", Proc. of the 3rd Chinese Conference on Biometrics, pp.137-143, 2002.

* L. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Tan, "Iris Recognition based on Local Intensity Variation Analysis", Proc. of the 4th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, 2003.

* J. Zhang, T. Tan and L. Ma, "Invariant Texture Segmentation via Circular Gabor Filter", Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. II, pp.901-904, 2002.

* D. Zhang, L. Ma, Y. Wang and T. Tan, "A Fast Localization Algorithm for Iris Recognition", Proc. of the 3rd Chinese Conference on Biometrics, pp.144-149, 2002.

* J. Huang, L. Ma, T. Tan and Y. Wang, "Learning-based Resolution Enhancement of Iris Image", In Proc. of British Machine Vision Conference, pp.153-162, U.K., 2003.

* Z. Sun, L. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Tan and J. Cui, "An Iris Image Quality Assessment Algorithm based on Fourier Spectrum analysis", Proc. of the 4th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition, 2003.

* J. Huang, L. Ma, and Y. Wang and T. Tan, "Iris Recognition Based on Local Orientation Description", In Proc. of Asian Conference on Computer Vision, pp.954-959, 2004.

* J. Cui, L. Ma, Y. Wang, T. Tan, Z. Sun, "An Appearance-based Method for Iris Detection", In Proc. of Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Vol.2, pp.1091-1096, 2004.

* J. Cui, Y. Wang, L. Ma, T. Tan and Z. Sun, "An Iris Recognition Algorithm Using Local Extreme Points", Proc. of International Conference on Biometric Authentication, pp.442-449, 2004.

* J. Cui, Y. Wang, T. Tan, L. Ma and Z. Sun, "A Fast and Robust Iris Localization Method based on Texture Segmentation", Proc. SPIE, Vol. 5404, pp.401-408, Biometric Technology for Human Identification, 2004.

* T. Tan and L. Ma, "Iris Recognition: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges", Proc. SPIE Vol. 5404, pp.183-194, Biometric Technology for Human Identification, 2004.



Patents



* A method and system to support semantic query and analytics over relational databases, 2008

* An External Query Optimizer for RDB-based RDF Triple Store, 2008

* Scalable Ontology Reasoning, 2007

* A Method for Combining Relationship Information and Faceted Metadata to Navigate and Query Information Resources, 2007

* System and Method for Unsupervised Graph Coarsening Based on Modularity and Similarity, 2007

* System and Method to Automatically Refine Ontology within Specific Context, 2006

* A Method and System for the Construction of Browsing Path in Semi-structured and Structured Data, 2006.

* A System and Method to Build Semantic Enabled OLAP System, 2006.

* A Method for Extracting Core Content of Web Pages Based on Layout Cue, 2004.

* Iris Recognition Based on Wavelet Analysis and Zero-crossings Representation, 2002.

* Personal Identification Based on Iris Patterns, 2001.

* A New Sensor for Live Iris Imaging, 2001.