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By Dr Xin Cao
Journal articles
2024, 'Assessing the relative importance of dry-season incoming solar radiation and water storage dynamics during the 2005, 2010 and 2015 southern Amazon droughts: Not all droughts are created equal', Environmental Research Letters, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad281e
,2024, 'Budgeted Sequence Submodular Maximization with Uniform and Non-Uniform Costs', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8, pp. 503 - 518, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2023.3306362
,2023, 'Selectivity Estimation for Queries Containing Predicates over Set-Valued Attributes', Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 1, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3626755
,2023, 'GSim: A Graph Neural Network Based Relevance Measure for Heterogeneous Graphs', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35, pp. 12693 - 12707, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2023.3271425
,2023, 'On the Power of Gradual Network Alignment Using Dual-Perception Similarities', IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45, pp. 15292 - 15307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3300877
,2023, 'WISK: A Workload-aware Learned Index for Spatial Keyword Queries', Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 1, pp. 1 - 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3589332
,2023, 'Class-Imbalanced-Aware Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition', IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3252084
,2023, 'Dynamic Graph Embedding via Meta-Learning', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2023.3329238
,2023, 'Edgeless-GNN: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Edgeless Nodes', IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2023.3292240
,2022, 'Efficient Radius-Bounded Community Search in Geo-Social Networks', IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34, pp. 4186 - 4200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TKDE.2020.3040172
,2022, 'ABLE: Meta-Path Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks', ACM TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FROM DATA, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3494558
,2021, 'CP-GNN: A Software for Community Detection in Heterogeneous Information Networks[Formula presented]', Software Impacts, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2021.100169
,2020, 'A unified linear convergence analysis of k-SVD', Memetic Computing, 12, pp. 343 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12293-020-00315-4
,2020, 'Multiple-user closest keyword-set querying in road networks', Information Sciences, 509, pp. 133 - 149, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2019.09.009
,2019, 'PrivSem: Protecting location privacy using semantic and differential privacy', World Wide Web, 22, pp. 2407 - 2436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11280-019-00682-0
,2018, 'Augmented keyword search on spatial entity databases', VLDB Journal, 27, pp. 225 - 244, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00778-018-0497-6
,2017, 'Group-based collective keyword querying in road networks', Information Processing Letters, 118, pp. 83 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2016.10.008
,2016, 'Maximizing bichromatic reverse spatial and textual k nearest neighbor queries', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 9, pp. 456 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2904121.2904122
,2015, 'Efficient processing of spatial group keyword queries', ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 40, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2772600
,2014, 'Retrieving regions of interest for user exploration', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 7, pp. 733 - 744, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2732939.2732946
,2014, 'SOPS: A system for efficient processing of spatial-keyword publish/subscribe', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 7, pp. 1601 - 1604, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2733004.2733040
,2012, 'Approaches to exploring category information for question retrieval in community question-answer archives', ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2180868.2180869
,2012, 'Keyword-aware optimal route search', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 5, pp. 1136 - 1147, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2350229.2350234
,2012, 'SWORS: A system for the efficient retrieval of relevant spatial web objects', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 5, pp. 1914 - 1917, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/2367502.2367536
,2010, 'Mining significant semantic locations from GPS data', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 3, pp. 1009 - 1020, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920968
,2010, 'Retrieving top-k prestigebased relevant spatial web objects', Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 3, pp. 373 - 384, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920891
,Conference Papers
2023, 'Criteria Tell You More than Ratings: Criteria Preference-Aware Light Graph Convolution for Effective Multi-Criteria Recommendation', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pp. 1808 - 1819, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3580305.3599292
,2023, 'Approximate Indexing for Top-k Queries over Massive Spatio-textual Data Streams', in Proceedings - 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, ICDEW 2023, pp. 8 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW58674.2023.00006
,2023, 'LMSFC: A Novel Multidimensional Index Based on Learned Monotonic Space Filling Curves', in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, pp. 2605 - 2617, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603598
,2023, 'Spatial Structure-Aware Road Network Embedding via Graph Contrastive Learning', in Advances in Database Technology - EDBT, pp. 144 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.48786/edbt.2023.12
,2023, 'Weighted Sampling for Masked Language Modeling', in ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096946
,2022, 'GradAlign+: Empowering Gradual Network Alignment Using Attribute Augmentation', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 4374 - 4378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3511808.3557605
,2022, 'Decoupled Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Network for Traffic Forecasting', in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Sydney, pp. 2733 - 2746, presented at 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Sydney, 05 September 2022 - 09 September 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551827
,2022, 'Budgeted Sequence Submodular Maximization', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, pp. 4733 - 4739, presented at Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, 23 July 2022 - 29 July 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/656
,2022, 'Multi-level Cross-view Contrastive Learning for Knowledge-aware Recommender System', in SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1358 - 1368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532025
,2022, 'Constrained Path Search with Submodular Function Maximization', in Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 325 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE53745.2022.00029
,2022, 'Effective Community Search over Large Star-Schema Heterogeneous Information Networks', in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, pp. 2307 - 2320, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3551793.3551795
,2022, 'Estimating Node Importance Values in Heterogeneous Information Networks', in Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 846 - 858, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE53745.2022.00068
,2022, 'Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration in Billion-Scale Labelled Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 49 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20891-1_5
,2022, 'Hop-Constrained s-t Simple Path Enumeration in Large Uncertain Graphs', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 115 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15512-3_9
,2022, 'MDERank: A Masked Document Embedding Rank Approach for Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction', in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 396 - 409
,2021, 'Detecting Communities from Heterogeneous Graphs: A Context Path-based Graph Neural Network Model', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 1170 - 1180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3459637.3482250
,2021, 'Relation Prediction via Graph Neural Network in Heterogeneous Information Networks with Missing Type Information', in International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings, pp. 2517 - 2526, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3459637.3482384
,2021, 'On efficient and scalable time-continuous spatial crowdsourcing', in Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 1212 - 1223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE51399.2021.00109
,2020, 'Monotonic Cardinality Estimation of Similarity Selection: A Deep Learning Approach', in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 1197 - 1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3318464.3380570
,2020, 'Efficient attribute-constrained Co-located community search', in Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering, pp. 1201 - 1212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDE48307.2020.00108
,2020, 'Effective and efficient community search over large heterogeneous information networks', in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, pp. 854 - 867, http://dx.doi.org/10.14778/3380750.3380756
,2020, 'Efficient community search over large directed graphs: An augmented index-based approach', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 3544 - 3550
,2020, 'Inductive link prediction for nodes having only attribute information', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1209 - 1215
,2020, 'Optimal region search with submodular maximization', in IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1216 - 1222
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