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WEIYI MENG

Phone: (607) 777-4311 (Office); Fax: (607) 777-4729

Email: meng@cs.binghamton.edu

Homepage: http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~meng/meng.html

Current Positions

Professor, September 2004 - present

Department of Computer Science

T. J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science

State University of New York at Binghamton

Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, August 2014 –

T. J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science

State University of New York at Binghamton

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, July 1992, University of Illinois at Chicago

Thesis: A Theory of Translation from Relational Queries to Hierarchical Queries

M.S., Computer Science, 1988, University of Illinois at Chicago

Thesis: New Strategies for Evaluating Recursive Queries

B.S., Mathematics, 1982, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China

Research Interests

Large-scale metasearch engines, Web database integration, Internet-based information retrieval,

information trustworthiness analysis, Web data quality, Web information extraction, topic sentiment

analysis, database management systems

Other Experiences

Guest Professor, 2005 - present

School of Information, Renmin University, China

Visiting international expert/professor, 2012 – present (summer only)

Sha Shixuan International Research Centre for Big Data Management and Analytics, located at

Renmin University, China

Member of the Academic Committee of the Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Key

Lab., located at Renmin University, China, 2012 - present

Guest Professor, 2010 - 2013

Chengdu University, China

Adjunct Professor, August 2009 – August 2012.

Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Co-founder & President, October 2006 – March 2012

Vice President for Research, 2002 - October 2006

Webscalers, LLC, Lafayette, LA

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Webscalers was a company that commercialized metasearch technology

Guest Professor, 2005 - 2008

School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China

Associate Director, 1998 - 2008

The Center for Computing Technologies

Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

State University of New York at Binghamton

President & Board Member, 2008 - 2009

Vice President & Board Member, 2005 - 2008

Southern Tier Chinese Culture Association, New York

Associate Professor, September 1998 - August 2004

Department of Computer Science

State University of New York at Binghamton

Assistant Professor, September 1992 - August 1998

Department of Computer Science

State University of New York at Binghamton

Awards

Distinguished Service Award, Southern Tier Chinese Culture Association, 2009.

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2008, State University

of New York

Research Initiation Award, 1993, National Science Foundation

University Fellowship, 1989, University of Illinois at Chicago

Membership

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)

ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

Senior member: IEEE Computer Society

Conference Organization

Organizing Committee Chair of the Greater China Database Research Summit (GCDRS), Macau,

June 2014.

Program Committee Co-Chair of the International Conference on Database Systems for

Advanced Applications (Dasfaa), 2013.

Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Web-Age Information

Management (WAIM). September 2012 - 2014.

Member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Web-Age Information

Management (WAIM). September 2008 – August 2015.

Publicity Co-Chair of the International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

(WAIM), 2011, 2012.

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Program Committee Co-Chair of the Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information

Management (WAIM), 2008.

General Co-Chair of the Sixth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

(WAIM), 2005.

Treasurer of the 12th ACM Great Lake Symposium on VLSI, 2002.

Member of Organizing Committee of International Conference on Information Society in the 21

Century: Emerging Technologies and New Challenges (IS 2000)

Program Committee Chair of the Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Tools with

Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 1999.

Publicity Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information

Systems (PDIS'96)

Best Paper Committee Co-Chair of the International Conference on Database Systems for

Advanced Applications (Dasfaa), 2014.

Best paper selection committee of the National Database Conference of China (NDBC), 2012,

2013, 2014, 2015.

Member of Advisory Committee of International Conference on Computing, Cybernetics, and

Intelligent Information Systems (CCIIS), 2013.

Member of Advisory Committee of International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing

Challenges (ISBCC), 2014, 2015.

Program Committee Member

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2005, 2015.

International Symposium on Big Data and Cloud Computing Challenges (ISBCC), 2014, 2015.

CCF Conference on Big Data, 2015.

ICDE 2014 PhD Symposium, 2014.

ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013, 2014,

2015, 2016.

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Demo Track, 2013.

International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), 2016.

Third International Conference on Emerging Databases (EDB), 2011.

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Demo Program Committee, 2010.

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010.

International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM), 2009, 2011.

International Symposium on Database Theory and Application (DTA), 2009.

International Workshop on the Semantic Web meets the Deep Web (SWDW), 2008.

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2008, 2009.

Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2008.

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ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006-2012.

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2007.

World Wide Web conference (WWW), 2008.

Second International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration

(WIRI), 2006.

The Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2004-2014.

The International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2001, 2002,

2012.

The International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2001, 2003, 2006,

2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.

IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2001.

Tenth International Database Symposium on Mobile, XML and Post-Relational (IDS), 2000.

2000 International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2000, 2010-

2013.

The National Database Conference of China (NDBC), 2000, 2004.

The 1999 International Symposium on Database, Web and Cooperative Systems (DWACOS),

1999.

The Fifth International Computer Science Conference (ICSC), 1999.

The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Dasfaa), 1999,

2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012.

The Second International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems (ICMIS'97) (in

conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology

(ICAST)), 1997.

The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), 1993, 2002,

2003, 2006.

SIGMOD2007 PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR), 2007.

International workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), 2007, 2009, 2012.

Tenth International Workshop on Quality in DataBases (QDB), 2012.

Conference Session Chairs

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'07).

The International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'05).

The International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'04).

The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'03).

The International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2003, WAIM2005,

WAIM2007).

Conference Keynote and Tutorials

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Large-Scale Integrated Access to Web Data Sources.

Keynote Talk at International Conference on Computing, Cybernetics, and Intelligent Information

System (CCIIS), November 2013.

Information Integration in the Web Age - A Search Perspective.

Keynote Talk at National Database Conference of China, October 2009.

Metasearch Engines - Current Status and New Challenges.

Tutorial at International Conference on Web Age Information Management, August 2003.

Searching from Distributed Heterogeneous Text Sources.

Tutorial at International Conference on Web Information System Engineering, June 2000

Metasearch Engine: Solutions and Challenges. Tutorial at International

Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 1999 (with Clement Yu)

Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet.

Tutorial at ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, August 1999 (with Clement Yu)

Conference/Workshop Panelist

How to Do Big Data Research in Academia? Second International Big Data Analysis and

Management Workshop, July 2013.

Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data on the Models, Theories, Algorithms and Applications

of Data Management. International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM),

August 2012.

Big Data Analysis and Management: Opportunities and Challenges. First International Big Data

Analysis and Management Workshop, July 2012.

System building: How Does It Help or Hinder Research?

9th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'08).

Information Retrieval and Database: Research Problems and Approaches.

6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'05).

Research Issues in Web Aged Information Management.

4th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'03).

Convergence of Technologies on the Web: the Case of Distributed Artificial Intelligence,

Databases and Information Retrieval.

1999 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX'99).

NSF Panelist

National Science Foundation Panelist, 2005, 2010, 2015

National Science Foundation Career Proposal Panelist, 1999, 2002

National Science Foundation SBIR Proposal Panelist, 2001

Editorial Board / Editorial Review Board

World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 2010 - present

Frontiers of Computer Science, 2011 - present

Journal of Database Management (JDM), 2001 - 2013

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems (responsible for area “IR Evaluation measures”), 2007 -

present

Guest Editor

Special Issue for Journal of Computer Science and Technology (with Sean X. Wang and Yan Jia),

2009

Special Issue for International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, June 2000

Special Issue for IEEE Software (with Clement Yu), May 1994

Referee

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (TSMC)

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies (TOIT)

ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb)

ACM Computing Surveys

Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases

Journal of Database Management (JDM)

Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)

Journal of Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (FnTIR)

Information and Software Technology

Software Practice and Experience

IEEE Software

Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal

World Wide Web Journal

Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science

Computer Journal

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Computer Networks Journal

Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST)

International Journal for Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET)

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International Journal on Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)

Journal of Internet and Information Systems (JIIS)

International Journal of Web Science (IJWS)

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD)

ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)

International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)

International Symposium on Applied Computing

International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems

International Conference on Database Systems for advanced Applications (DASFAA)

International Computer Science Conference

International Symposium on Database, Web and cooperative Systems

International Conference on Web Information Systems engineering (WISE)

International Database Symposium on Mobile, XML and post-Relational Databases

International Conference on Information Society in the 21st Century

IEEE International Symposium on Autonomous decentralized Systems

International Conference on Web-Age Information management (WAIM)

International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications

ACM CIKM International Workshop on Web Information and data Management (WIDM)

The Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb)

International Workshop on Challenges in Web Information retrieval and Integration (WIRI)

ACM SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research

International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb)

International Workshop on the Semantic Web meets the Deep Web (SWDW)

International Workshop on Quality in DataBases (QDB)

International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)

Research Proposals for National Science Foundation

Research Proposal for Israel Science Foundation

Research proposal for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong

Invited Talks and Lectures

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Web Data Truthfulness Analysis, VIT Pune, India, October 2015.

Web Data Truthfulness Analysis, Shandong University, China, July 2015.

Towards Large-Scale Web Database Integration System, Shandong University, China, July 2015.

Web Data Truthfulness Analysis, Renmin University, China, July 2015.

Integrated Access to Deep Web Data Sources, Renmin University, China, July 2014.

Research Issues in Large-Scale Web Database Integration Systems, Hebei University, China, July

2014.

Research Issues in Large-Scale Web Database Integration Systems, Renmin University, China,

July 2014.

Semantic Annotation of Search Results from the Deep Web, Southwest Minzhu University,

China, June 2014.

Research Issues in Web Database Integration Systems, Xihua University, China, June 2014.

Semantic Annotation of Search Results from the Deep Web, University of Twente, Netherlands,

December 2013.

Verifying the Truthfulness of Fact Statements Using the Web, VIT University, India, November

2013.

Integrated Access to Web Databases, Kent State University, United States, October 2013.

Several Research Issues on Web Search and Web Data Analysis, Tsinghua University, China,

July 2013.

Annotating Structured Data in the Deep Web, Chengdu University, China, June 2013.

Annotating Structured Data from Web Databases, Xihua University, China, June 2013.

Automatic Semantic Annotation of Structured Data in the Deep Web, Hebei University, China,

July 2012.

Large-Scale Distributed Information Retrieval on the Web, Renmin University, China, July 2012.

Verifying the Truthfulness of Fact Statements Using the Web, Xihua University, China, June

2012.

Topic Sentiment Change Analysis. Huawei Technologies, United States, August 2011.

Truthfulness Analysis of Fact Statements. Renmin University, China, June 2011.

Truthfulness Verification of Fact Statements Using the Web. Hebei University, China, June 2011.

Large-Scale Metasearch Engine Technology. Xihua University, China, June 2010.

Integrated Access to Web Data: Challenges and Solutions. Chengdu University, China, June

2010.

Large-Scale Metasearch Engine Technology. Sichuan University, China, June 2010.

Unified Access to Web Data Sources. Wuhan University, China, May 23-28, 2010.

Large Scale Metasearch Engine Technology, Sogou, China, May 2010.

Opinion Shift Analysis. Renmin University, China, May 2010.

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How to Do Database Research? PhD Research Workshop, National Database Conference of

China, October 2009.

Very Large-Scale Metasearch Engine Technology. Huawei Technologies, China, July 2008.

Web Database Integration. VLDB School of China, a 5-hour invited lecture, China, July 2008.

Very Large-Scale Metasearch Engine: Benefits, Challenges and solutions. IBM T. J. Watson

Research Center, United States, November 2007.

Automatic Annotation of Structured Data from the Deep Web, Renmin University, China, June

2007.

Web Database Integration, Sichuan University, China, June 2006.

Information Extraction from Search Engine Returned Result pages, Renmin University, China,

June 2006.

Towards a Unified Access to Web Databases, Hebei University, China, October 2005.

Search Engine Technology: Can We Do Better Than Google?, Beihang University, China,

October 2005.

Search Engine Technology: Can We Do Better Than Google?, Renmin University, China,

October 2005.

Large-Scale Metasearch Engines: The WebScales Approach. Beijing University, China, October

2005.

Large-Scale Metasearch Engines: The WebScales Approach. Tsinghua University, China,

October 2005.

Search Engine Technology: Can We Do Better Than Google?, Beijing University of Technology,

October 2005.

Towards a Unified Access to Web Databases, Sichuan University, China, September 2005.

Towards Integrated Access to Web Databases: A Status Report, Air Force Research Lab at Rome,

United States, September 2005.

Web Database Integration, Renmin University, China, August 2004.

Information Retrieval: Technology and Advanced Applications, VLDB School of China, July 22-

July 24, 2004.

Metasearch of Structured and Unstructured Data on the Web, Air Force Rome Lab, United States,

June 2002

Concept Hierarchy Based Search Engine Categorization, Lockheed-Martin, United States, April

2002

Web Data Management. Database Society of Chinese Computer Federation, Beijing, July 2000

Selection of Useful Sources in Metasearch Engine, Lockheed-Martin, United States, July 1999

Multidatabase: Challenges and Solutions. Lockheed-Martin, United States, August 1998.

Retrieval of Information in a Multidatabase Environment IBM Owego, United States, December

1993

Consulting

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Linden Technology, Ltd., 1991 – 1993

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2003 – 2004

Huawei Technologies, 2008 – 2012

Grants

National Science Foundation (IIS-1546441), PI, “BIGDATA: Streaming Architecture for

Continuous Entity Linking in Social Media”. $300,000, 1/1/2016-12/31/2018 (this is a

joint grant with Eduard Dragut and Yuhong Guo of Temple University, with a total

$1,083,339).

National Institute of Health, PI (BU part), “Text Mining Pipeline to Accelerate Systematic

Reviews in Evidence-Based Medicine”. Subcontract from University of Illinois at Chicago to

Binghamton University, $276,799, 09/30/2010-09/29/2015 (the total budget of the project is

$2,193,108; PI: Neil Smalheiser).

National Science Foundation (CNS-0958501), Co-PI, “II-EN: Infrastructure for Computer

Systems Research”, $500,001, 6/1/2010-5/31/2015 (PI: Michael Lewis; other Co-PIs: Kanad

Ghose, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh and Madhusudhan Govindaraju).

United Health Services, PI, “11020504 UHS” (Graduate Student Support), $20,587, 08/02/2010-

05/09/2011.

State University of New York Research Foundation, Entrepreneurship Across the Curriculum

Course Development Grant, $1,000, Fall 2010.

National Science Foundation (IIS-0842608), PI, “SGER/Collaborative Research: Handling

Negations and Temporal Aspects for Opinion Retrieval”. $75,000, 9/1/2008-8/28/2010.

Binghamton University, Interdisciplinary Collaboration Grants, Co-PI, “CyberExp: Sensor

Informatics with Cyberinfrastructure for Explosives monitoring and Discovery”, $10,000,

5/31/2008-5/30/2009, (Co-PIs: Omowunmi Sadik, Qinru Qiu).

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Co-PI, “EthoSearch: The Ethogram Archive

Project”, Subcontract from Lincoln Park Zoo to Binghamton University, $255,035, 12/1/2007-

11/30/2010, (PI: Anne Clark).

National Science Foundation (IIS-0738727), PI, “SGER/Collaborative Research: Intelligent Use

of Dictionaries for Document Retrieval”. $40,000, 9/15/2007-9/14/2008.

National Science Foundation (CNS-0454298), Co-PI, “CRI: Heterogeneous High Performance

Infrastructure for Computer Systems Research”. $527,147 (+ $105,428 matching fund from

SUNY Research Foundation), 7/1/2005-6/30/2009, (PI: Michael Lewis; other Co-PIs: Kanad

Ghose, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh and Madhusudhan Govindaraju).

National Science Foundation (IIS-0414981), PI, “Achieving Information Integration of Web

Databases Through the Construction of Metasearch Engines”, $230,001, 7/15/2005-6/30/2009

(Co-PI: Madhusudhan Govindaraju).

Harry Fox Agency, PI, “A Web-Based Music Search System”. $25,000, 2002-2003.

National Science Foundation, PI, “WebScales: Towards a Large-scale Metasearch Engine",

$105,287, 2002-2005.

National Science Foundation Research Infrastructure Award: “Research Infrastructure for

Distributed and Data-Intensive Computing”. $147,946 (plus $147,946 matching fund from SUNY

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Research Foundation), 2000-2003, (Co-PI with Kanad Ghose, Michael Lewis, Nael Abu-

Ghazaleh).

National Science Foundation, PI, “Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet”,

$133,500 (+ $7,500 SUNY Research Foundation Equipment Match), 1999-2002.

Air Force Rome Lab., $59,000, Co-Investigator (PI: Nik Bourbakis), 1998-99.

Minigrant for minor-equipment, $800, SUNY at Binghamton, 1998.

Center for Computing Technologies (SUNY at Binghamton), $8,000, 1996-97.

Faculty Research Grant, $3,680, SUNY at Binghamton, 1994.

National Science Foundation ARI: Instrumentation Development and Acquisition ($244,300 with

matching money), 1994 (Co-Investigator with 8 other faculty members).

National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award (RIA), PI, “Efficient Processing

of Queries in Heterogeneous Database Systems”, $98,208, 1993-96 (+ $8,500 SUNY Research

Foundation Equipment Match).

Faculty Research Grant, $2,000, SUNY at Binghamton, 1993.

Courses Taught

CS375 Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Fall 1994 (31 students), Spring 2013 (two sections,

52 students), Spring 2015 (32 students).

CS432 Database Systems: Spring 1993 (27 students), Spring 1994 (22 students), Fall 1995 (13

students), Fall 1996 (16 students), Fall 1997 (26 students), Fall 1998 (32 students), Fall 1999 (42

students), Fall 2000 (47 students), Fall 2001 (41 students), Fall 2002 (43 students), Fall 2003 (34

students), Fall 2004 (33 students), Spring 2006 (5 students, taught with CS532), Spring 2007 (28

students), Spring 2008 (28 students), Spring 2009 (34 students), Spring 2010 (35 students),

Spring 2011 (39 students), Spring 2012 (31 students), Fall 2014 (10 students, cross-listed).

CS433-CS533 (cross-listed) Information Retrieval, Spring 2012 (15 students), Spring 2014 (37

students).

CS472 Compiler Design: Fall 1992 (10 students).

CS532 Database Systems: Spring 1993 (31 students), Spring 1994 (34 students), Fall 1994 (22

students), Fall 1995 (23 students), Fall 1996 (30 students), Fall 1997 (22 students), Fall 1998

(section 1: 36 students; section 2: 14 students), Fall 1999 (37 students), Fall 2000 (42 students),

Fall 2001 (30 students), Fall 2002 (54 students), Fall 2003 (24 students), Fall 2004 (13 students),

Spring 2006 (33 students), Spring 2007 (38 students), Spring 2008 (37 students), Spring 2009 (28

students), Spring 2010 (25 students). Spring 2011 (14 students), Fall 2013 (21 students), Fall

2014 (29 students, cross-listed)

CS534 Web Data Management, Spring 2000 (31 students), Spring 2001 (30 students)

CS580 Special Topics in Database Systems: Fall 1992 (32 students)

CS632 Advanced Database Systems, Fall 1993 (15 students), Spring 1995 (22 students), Spring

1996 (12 students), Spring 1997 (16 students), Spring 1998 (9 students), Spring 1999 (15

students), Spring 2002 (16 students), Spring 2003 (20 students)

CS634 Web Data Management, Spring 2004 (14 students). Spring 2005 (7 students), Fall 2006 (7

students), Fall 2007 (14 students), Fall 2008 (16 students), Fall 2009 (16 students), Fall 2010 (17

students), Fall 2011 (16 students), Fall 2012 (9 students), Spring 2014 (12 students).

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CS688 Computer Science Graduate Seminar, Spring 2003.

PhD Dissertations Supervised

1. Truth Finding on the Web. Xian Li, Spring 2013.

2. Categorization and Diversification of Search Results based on Semantic and Usage Similarity.

Reza T. Hemayati, Fall 2012.

3. Entity Resolution in Structured Records with Machine Learning Methods. Liangcai Shu, Spring

2012.

4. Automatic Search Interface Clustering and Search Result Processing in Metasearch Engine.

Yiyao Lu, Fall 2011.

5. Automatic Wrapper Generation for the Extraction of Data Records from Search Engine Result

Pages. Hongkun Zhao, Fall 2007.

6. Towards Automatic Understanding and Integration of Web Databases for Developing Large-

Scale Unified Access Systems. Hai He, Spring 2005.

7. Raw Relation Sets, Order Fusion and Top-N Query Problem. Yuxi Chen, 2002.

8. Automatic Discovery and Selection of Text Sources on the Web, Towards Building a Very

Large-Scale and Effective Metasearch Engine – WebScales. Zonghuan Wu, 2002.

9. View Materialization and Maintenance in a Multidatabase Environment. Rongquen Chen, 1997.

10. SCOPE: A Browsing System for Exploring Large Databases Using Dynamic Abstraction. Inje

Kim, 1996. (co-advisor with Sudhir Aggarwal)

Masters Theses and Projects Supervised

1. Enhancing NER Results with Ontologies. Ziya R. Bilgin, Summer 2015.

2. Construction of Approval and Disapproval Word Dictionaries. Yi Wang. Spring 2014.

3. Answer-Pattern based Snippet Generation. Kimberly M. Low. Spring 2014.

4. Improving Web Search Resulrs by Considering Diversification, Intention and Similarity. Laleh

Jafarian Dehkordi, Summer 2012.

5. WT-verifier: Truthfulness Verification of Fact Statements on Wikipedia. Yang Liu, Spring 2012.

6. Evaluating Different Query Generation Methods for Retrieving Truthful Data Units on Different

Search Engines. Yadnesh D. Baviskar, Summer 2011.

7. Personal Home Page Classifier. Robin Varghese, Spring 2011.

8. ProductResearchGPS: Improving Consumer Research. Joshua Schell, Spring 2011.

9. Development of Ethogram Search Engine: Design and Implementation. Swapnil Patil, Summer

2010.

10. An Operational Prototype of Personal Citation Analyzer. Hao Zou, Fall 2009.

11. MP-SAIES - A Multi-Purpose Semi-Automatic Information Extraction System. Tao Zhang,

Spring 2009.

12. Finding and Evaluating Lexical Signature Queries for Web Pages. Shenglin Qiu, Spring 2009.

13. A Web Platform for Global Search Engine Encyclopedia. Vijay Rajput, Summer 2008.

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14. Building a Comparison Shopping Website Using Metasearch Approach. Yicheng Doe, Spring

2007.

15. WrapperMill – A Tool For Generating and Managing Wrappers for Search Engines. Wanjing

Zhang, Spring 2007.

16. Evaluation of Web-Based News Search Systems. Jing Qiu, Spring 2007.

17. Ethogram Catagorization based on Lexical Similarity. Ryan Farrell, Summer 2006 (with Anne

Clark).

18. Snippet Generation Algorithms: Design and Implementation. Minal Dharod, Spring 2006.

19. Generating Relevant Terms for Concepts in a Concept Hierarchy. Jatin Sonavane, Fall 2005 (with

Michal Cutler).

20. University Student Admission Making System Using Classification Mining. Dhiraj Lalwani,

Summer 2005.

21. Search Algorithms for Discovery of Web Services. Janette M. Hicks, Spring 2005 (with

Madhusudhan Govindaraju).

22. A Medical/Health Metasearch Engine. Maochun Qin, Fall 2004.

23. Investigating and Developing Techniques to Support Sound-based Value Matches in a Database

Systems. Umesh Kalaspurkar, Fall 2004.

24. Adding Top N Query Capability to Database Systems. Meijuan Ouyang, Summer 2003.

25. Implementation of An E-textbook Search Tool. Yang Jiang, Summer 2003.

26. Web Application with Database in Bioinformatics. Hongsheng Tang, Summer 2003.

27. A Web-based Music Search System. Yiyao Lu, Summer 2003.

28. Color-Based Image Retrieval Using Text Retrieval Techniques. Zhen Hu, Spring 2003.

29. Unsupervised and Supervised Classification of E-Commerce Search Engines. Qian Peng, Spring

2003.

30. Improving Search Engine Retrieval Effectiveness Using Query Expansion and Result Re-ranking

with User Profile. Nevidita Sampath, Spring 2003.

31. An HTML Parser in Java. Diane Murphy, Fall 2002.

32. Study and Implementation of the Manifold System for Distributed Web Sources. Canying Ye,

Fall 2002.

33. Combined Content Based Image Retrieval. Xiaozhou Wei, Fall 2002.

34. Design and Implementation of a Distributed Web Page Indexing Scheme for Search Engines. Xin

Yu, Summer 2002.

35. Form Label Extraction and Automatic Form Submission System. Jingzhou Hua, Summer 2002.

36. Database Search based on Semantic Similarity Using WordNet. Hua Ma, Summer 2002.

37. Combining Multiple Query Models to Improve Retrieve Effectiveness. Yunfang Zhang, Summer

2002.

38. Determining Usefulness of a Database to Category Topics from a Category Hierarchy in a

Metasearch Engine Environment. Iva Aleksova, Summer 2001.

39. Building a Computer Science Academic Metasearch Engine. Zhuogang Li, Summer 2000.

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40. Similarity Based Word Matching Using WordNet. Jiten Dedhia, Summer 2000.

41. Search Engine Specialty Determination Based on the Open Directory Hierarchy. Hongyu Sun,

Summer 2000.

42. Implementation of a Fuzzy Interface to a Relational Database Management System. Alok

Mahesh, Spring 2000.

43. User Profile Construction and Maintenance Based on Implicit User Feedback in a Search Engine

Environment. Yinghua Huang, Spring 2000.

44. Study and Implementation of Data Mining Algorithms. Vatsal Vaidya, Fall 1999.

45. Document Indexing and Retrieval: Design and Implementation. Xiaoqi Xu, Fall 1999.

46. Multiple Online Book Stores, Rita Gera, Fall 1999.

47. Concept Hierarchy Based Search Engine Categorization in a Metasearch Engine Environment,

Wenxian Wang, Fall 1999.

48. Using Link Structure to Improve the Result from Altavista. Zhanxiang Ruan, Fall 1999.

49. Web-Based Multidatabase Employee Information System. You Xu, Summer 1999.

50. Design and Implementation of a Search Engine Analyzer. Ritu Juneja, Summer 1999.

51. Implementation of Two Algorithms that Rank Web Pages Using the Link Information. Harmeet

Sethi, Summer 1999.

52. MSQL – An SQL Extension for Massive Databases. Yuxi Chen, Spring 1999.

53. Document Retrieval from Multiple Collections. Yun He, Spring 1999.

54. Three-Tier Client/Server Based Uniform Access Tool for Multidatabase Systems. Amar Shah,

Spring 1999.

55. A New Study on Using HTML Structures to Improve Retrieval. Hongou Deng, Spring 1999.

56. WebSSQL: A Similarity-based SQL for Searching the Web. Changqing Zhang, Fall 1998.

57. Query Processing in Object-Oriented Multidatabase Systems. Dharmesh K. Dadbhawala, Fall

1997.

58. A Study of the Usefulness of the Structure of HTML Documents on Retrieval Effectiveness.

Yungming Shih, Summer 1997 (co-advisor with Michal Cutler).

59. WIRE – A WWW-based Information Retrieval and Extraction System. Fuyung Hung, Spring

1997 (co-advisor with Sudhir Aggarwal).

60. Processing Joins between Documents in Single Collections. Chandrashekhar M. Veera, Spring

1997.

61. Translation of Object-Oriented Queries to Relational Queries. Willy Chang, Summer 1996.

62. Transformation of Relational Schema to Object-Oriented Schema in a Multidatabase System.

Aqueo Kamada, Spring 1996. (co-advisor with Beatriz Daltrini in Brazil).

63. Index Structures for Fuzzy Databases. Radha Ramnath, Summer 1995.

64. Efficient Processing of Aggregate Functions in Multidatabase Systems. King-Lup Liu, Summer

1994.

Students under Supervision

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Ph.D. students: Yu Jiang, Can Lin, Guangyu Liu

MS students: Stanley Z. Yan, Satadisha Saha Bhowmick.

University Services

Department Undergraduate Committee, 92-94

Department Lab. and Software Planning Committee, 92-93, 96-98 (Chair), 98-99, 2001-2005

Department Library Committee, 93-94, 94-95 (Chair)

Department Graduate Committee, 94-13, 05-14 (Chair)

Department Faculty Search Committee, 94-16

Department Junior IPC Committee, 98-16

Department Senior IPC Committee, 2010-2015, 2016 (Chair)

Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Workload, Spring and Fall 95

Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Ph.D. Review Site Visit, Fall 1998

Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Homepage Reconstruction, Fall 1999 (Chair)

Department Student Quality of Life Committee, Spring 95

Department G-Pod Committee, Spring 2006

Department TA Selection Committee, 2005-2013 (Chair)

Watson School Commencement Committee, 92-97

Masters School Marshal for Watson, Commencement Ceremony, Winter 2014, Spring 2015,

Winter 2015

Watson School Faculty Quality of Life Task Force, 94-95

Watson School Research Committee, 97-11, 14-16, 14-15 (Chair)

Watson School Graduate Studies Committee, 05-15, 10-13 (Chair)

Watson School NYSEG Space Committee, Fall 2001

Watson School Computer Committee (Chair), 2002-2005

Watson School Ad Hoc Graduate Review Committee, 2003-04

Search Advisory Committee for Dean of Watson School, 06-07

Watson School Search Committee for Associate Dean for Research, 07-08

IEEC Technical Advisory Board member, 2014-2015

External IPC member for Bioengineering Department (five cases), 2013-2016

Coordinator of the Dual-degree Program between Watson School and School of Information of

Renmin University, 2008-present (Played key role in establishing the dual degree program

between Watson School of Binghamton University and the School of Information of Renmin

University of China (2008))

University Committee of Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, Fall

2002, Fall 2005

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Graduate Council, 03-04 (Interim member), 06-09

Graduate Council Curriculum Committee, 06-07

Graduate Council Advisory Committee for Scholarship and Research, 06-08, 15-17

Graduate Council Strategic Planning Committee, 08-09

Research Division Grant Proposal Writer Search Committee, 2015

Faculty Senate, 04-06

Fulbright Committee, 04-06

Binghamton University Strategic Planning Council, 09-11

Binghamton University Road Map team (Global Engagement Committee, Co-Chair of the

subcommittee on Partnering), Fall 2012

Other Services

Served as an external reviewer of the Computer Science program of the University of Vermont,

2014.

Served/serving as a member for the PhD Dissertation committees of Ruofei Zhang, Phil H. Sin,

Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Bo Long, Ryan Levering, Jisu Oh, Zhen Guo, Yi Xu, Chaitali Gupta,

Steven Loscalzo, Yan Zhou, Yue Han, Robert Wright, Tianlin Li.

Served/serving as a member for Master Thesis/Project Committees of Rong-Quen Chen, Yizhong

Huang, Hong Ye, ikram Holay, Guangbiao Pu, Qinglan Chen, Jie Zhou, Yayi Du, Huidong Gu,

Dong Sun, Bing Shen, Kai Ma, Sonal Dedhia, Horald Fennell, Ryan Levering, Jennifer Lai,

Haroon Khan, Atul Pawar, Phillip H. Sin, Sahana Krishnamurthy, Daniel A. Goldman, Vijay B.

Rao, Ronny Lewin, Amit Mahale, Yohan Mammen, Nirav Pandya, Kelvin Wu, Chintan Gandhi,

Miao He, Vikram Munishwar, Hao Li, Li Chen, Chaitali Gupta, Chao Huang, Steven Loscalzo,

Sourabh Vartak, Kevin J. Acunto.

Supervised undergraduate projects (Igor Tsirlin, Dogan C. Dogan, Mehmet Varol, Lin He,

Emrecan Tarakci).

Supervised an REU student project.

Supervised a number of SPIR (Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence) projects

(Zonghuan Wu at eBase, Fang Liu at eBase, Yuxi Chen at Cosco Technologies, Jianli Song at

Enviro Control Technologies, Ryan Farrell at Weekly Homebuyers List).

Served as an external member for the Ph.D. Dissertation Committees of Elizabeth Laun, Chien-Yi

Peng, Zhihang Song, Cheng Chen.

Served as an external examiner for a master thesis by Jiawei Deng (Nanyang Technology

University, Singapore).

Served as an external examiner for Ph.D. Thesis by Ding Chen (National University of

Singapore), Ph.D. Thesis by Weishu Hu (University of Macau).

Served as an external PhD committee member for Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet (University of Twente,

Netherlands).

Served as external reviewers of several tenure/promotion personnel cases.

Supervised/supervising visiting scholars from Brazil, China and Korea.

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Invention Disclosures

Weiyi Meng. Pattern-based Query Expansion and Search. Invention Number RB-434, SUNY at

Binghamton, August 2013.

Weiyi Meng, Yicheng Doe. A Comparison Shopping Prototype System for Laptop Computers

Using Metasearch Approach. Invention Number RB-269, SUNY at Binghamton, May 2007.

Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, and Clement Yu. SELEGO - Customized

Metasearch Engine System. Invention Number RB-197, SUNY at Binghamton, November 2004.

Weiyi Meng, Hongkun Zhao, Vijay Raghavan, and Zonghuan Wu. A Visual Feature Based

Automatic Extraction of Search Records from Search Engine Returned Result Pages. Invention

Number RB-191, SUNY at Binghamton, April 2004.

Weiyi Meng, Hai He, and Clement Yu. Automatic Integration of the Search Interfaces of Web

Databases. Invention Number RB-190, SUNY at Binghamton, April 2004.

Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Efficient and Effective Distributed Information Retrieval System.

Invention Number RB-117, SUNY at Binghamton, April 1999.

Patents

Method and System for Selecting Data Source. Jiangtao Jia, Hanqiang Hu, Chong Gu, Weiyi

Meng. WO Patent WO/2012/016,457, 2012.

Deep Web Mobile Search Method, Server and System. Wei Wang, Xiaoyi Dong, Chong Gu,

Hanqiang Hu, Fei Zhang, Weiyi Meng. WO Patent WO/2010/083,698, 2010.

Tech Transfer Related Grants

National Science Foundation SBIR Phase II grant (Awarded to Webscalers, LLC), Senior

Personnel, “Building a Large-Scale, Effective, Self-Maintainable and Customizable News

Metasearch System”, $500,000, 9/1/2005-8/31/2007 (PI: King-Lup Liu; other Senior Personnels:

Clement Yu, Vijay Raghavan, Zonghuan Wu).

National Science Foundation SBIR Phase I grant (Awarded to Webscalers, LLC), Senior

Personnel, “Customized Metasearch Engine”, $99,973, 1/1/2004-6/30/2004 (PI: King-Lup Liu;

other Senior Personnels: Clement Yu, Vijay Raghavan, Zonghuan Wu).

PUBLICATIONS

Summary: Has published 3 books, 7 book chapters and over 140 papers. According to the Google Scholar

site (scholar.google.com), Weiyi Meng's publications have been cited more than 6,000 times

(http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C-wDOskAAAAJ&hl=en).

Books

1. Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and

Integration. Morgan & Claypool, June 2012.

2. Weiyi Meng and Clement Yu. Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology. Morgan & Claypool,

December 2010.

3. Clement Yu and Weiyi Meng. Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced

Applications. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 1998.

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Edited Books/Proceedings

4. Weiyi Meng, Ling Feng, Stephane Bressan, Werner Winiwarter, Wei Song (Edited). Proceedings

of The 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications

(DASFAA), Part I & Part II, Springer, April 2013.

5. Yan Jia, Weiyi Meng, Ning Jing (Edited). Proceedings of The Ninth International Conference on

Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing

Services, July 2008.

Book Chapters

6. Reza T Hemayati and Weiyi Meng. Semantic-Based Grouping of Search Engine Results. In

Introduction to the Web Semantic: Concepts, Technologies and Applications edited by Gabriel

Fung, iConcept Press, 2011.

7. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Web Search Technologies for Text Documents. In The Handbook of

Technology Management edited by Hossein Bidgoli, Wiley Publishers, pp.466-481, January

2010.

8. Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Modeling and Extracting Deep-Web

Query Interfaces. In Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems, edited by Zbigniew W. Ras

and William Ribarsky. Springer, pp.65-90, October 2009.

9. Weiyi Meng. Metasearch Engines. In Encyclopedia of Database Systems edited by Ling Liu and

M. Tamer Ozsu, pp.1730-1734, Springer, 2009.

10. Weiyi Meng, Hai He. Data Search Engine. In Encyclopedia of Computer Science and

Engineering edited by Benjamin Wah, John Wiley & Sons, pp.826-834, January 2009.

11. Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Web Search Technology. In The Internet Encyclopedia edited by

Hossein Bidgoli, Wiley Publishers, pp.738-753, 2003.

12. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Query Processing in Multidatabase Systems. In Modern Database

Systems: The Object Model, Interoperability, and Beyond edited by Won Kim, Addison-

Wesley/ACM Press, pp.551-572, 1994.

Refereed Journal Papers

13. Wensheng Wu, Weiyi Meng, Weifeng Su, Quangyou Zhou, Yao-Yi Chiang. Q2P: Discovering

Query Templates via Autocompletion. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2016 (to appear)

14. Jing Wang, Clement Yu, Philip Yu, Bing Liu, and Weiyi Meng. Diversionary Comments under

blog Posts. ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) (to appear)

15. Eduard Dragut, Hong Wang, Clement Yu, Prasad Sistla, and Weiyi Meng. Polarity Consistency

Checking for Domain Independent Sentiment Dictionaries. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and

Data Engineering, 27(3):838-851, March 2015.

16. Eduard Dragut, Bhaskar DasGupta, Brian Peirne, Ali Neyestani, Badr Atassi, Clement Yu, and

Weiyi Meng. Merging Query Results From Local Search Engines for Geo-referenced Objects.

ACM Transactions on the Web, 8(4):20, October 2014.

17. Yu Jiang, Can Lin, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Aaron M. Cohen, Neil R. Smalheiser. Rule-based

Deduplication of Article Records from Bibliographic Databases. Database: The Journal of

Biological Databases and Curation. January 2014.

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18. Neil R. Smalheiser, Can Lin, Lifeng Jia, Yu Jiang, Aaron M. Cohen, Clement Yu, John M. Davis,

Clive E. Adams, Marian S. McDonagh and Weiyi Meng. Design and Implementation of Metta - a

Metasearch Engine for Biomedical Literature Retrieval Intended for Systematic Reviewers.

Health Information Science and Systems, 2(1), January 2014.

19. Lifeng Jia, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. The Impacts of Structural Difference and Temporality of

Tweets on Retrieval Effectiveness. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 31(4): 21,

December 2013.

20. Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Annotating Search Results From

Web Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25(3), pp.514-527,

March 2013.

21. Xian Li, Xin Luna Dong, Kenneth B. Lyons, Weiyi Meng, and Divesh Srivastava. Truth Finding

on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved? Proc. of VLDB, 6(2), pp.97-108, 2012.

22. Xian Li, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Truthfulness Analysis of Fact Statements Using the Web.

IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 34(3), pp.3-10, September 2011.

23. Wei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng, Weiyi Meng. ViDE: A Vision-based Approach for Deep Web Data

Extraction. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.22, No.3, pp.447-460,

March 2010.

24. Liang Zhu, Weiyi Meng, Chunnian Liu, Wenzhu Yang, Dazhong Liu.Processing Top-N

Relational Queries by Learning. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol.34, No.1, pp.21-

55, February 2010.

25. Eduard Dragut, Fang Fang, Prasad Sistla, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Stop Word and Related

Problems in Web Interface Integration. Proc. of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2(1), pp.349-

360, August 2009.

26. Liang Zhu, Weiyi Meng, Wenzhu Yang, Chunnian Liu. Region Clustering Based Evaluation of

Multiple Top-N Selection Queries. Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol.64, No.2, pp.439-461,

February 2008.

27. Wei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng, and Weiyi Meng. A Survey of Deep Web Data Integration. Chinese

Journal of Computers, Vol.30, No.9, pp.1475-1489, September 2007.

28. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Towards Deeper Understanding

of the Search Interfaces of the Deep Web. World Wide Web Journal, Vol.10, No.2, pp.133-155,

June 2007.

29. Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Clustering E-Commerce Search

Engines based on Their Search Interface Pages Using WISE-Cluster. Data & Knowledge

Engineering, Vol.59, No.2, pp.231-246, November 2006.

30. Fang Liu, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Personalized Web Search for Improving Retrieval

Effectiveness. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.16, No.1, pp.28-40,

January 2004.

31. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Automatic Integration of Web Search

Interfaces with WISE-Integrator. VLDB Journal, Vol.13, No.3, pp.256-273, September 2004.

(Special Issue for Best Papers of VLDB 2003)

32. King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, Wensheng Wu, and Naphtali Rishe. A Statistical

Method for Estimating the Usefulness of Text Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and

Data Engineering, Vol.14, No.6, pp.1422-1437, November/December 2002.

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33. Clement Yu, King-Lup Liu, Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, and Naphtali Rishe. A Methodology to

Retrieve Text Documents from Multiple Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data

Engineering, Vol.14, No.6, pp.1347-1361, November/December 2002.

34. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Building Efficient and Effective Metasearch

Engines. ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.34, No.1, pp.48-89, March 2002.

35. Weiyi Meng, Wenxian Wang, Hongyu Sun, and Clement Yu. Concept Hierarchy Based Text

Database Categorization. International Journal on Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol.4,

No.2, pp.132-150, March 2002.

36. Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, Clement Yu, and Zhuogang Li. A Highly Scalable and Effective

Method for Metasearch. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol.19, No.3, pp.310-335,

July 2001.

37. Nikolaos Bourbakis, Weiyi Meng, Changqing Zhang, Zonghuan Wu, John Salerno, and Stan

Borek. Retrieval of Multimedia Web Documents and Removal of Redundant Information.

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Vo1.8, No.1, pp.19-42, March 1999.

38. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Wei Wang, Naphtali Rishe. Performance Analysis of Three Text-Join

Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol.10, No.3, pp.477-492,

May/June 1998.

39. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Won Kim. A Theory of Translation from Relational Queries to

Hierarchical Queries. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.7, No.2,

pp.228-245, April 1995.

40. Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Confronting Database Complexities. IEEE Software (special issue

on database systems), Vol.11, No.3, pp.7-10, May 1994 (invited and refereed).

41. Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Progress in Database Search Strategies. IEEE Software (special

issue on database systems), Vol.11, No.3, pp.11-19, May 1994 (invited and refereed).

42. Wei Sun, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Won Kim. An Efficient Way to Reestablish B+Trees in

a Distributed Environment. Information Sciences, Vol.77, No.3, pp.227-251, March 1994.

43. Wei Sun, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Query Optimization in Distributed Object-Oriented

Database Systems. The Computer Journal, Vol.35, No.2, pp.98-107, Cambridge University Press,

April 1992.

44. Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, and S. Park. A Framework for Effective Information Retrieval. ACM

Transactions on Database Systems, Vol.14, No.2, pp.147-167, June 1989.

Refereed Conference, Symposium & Workshop Papers

45. Xian Li, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Verification of Fact Statements with Multiple Truthful

Alternatives. Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and

Technologies (WEBIST), Rome, Italy, April 2016 (to appear).

46. Liang Zhu, Qin Ma, Weiyi Meng, Mingqian Yang, and Fang Yuan. An Experimental Evaluation

of Aggregation Algorithms for Processing Top-K Queries. Proc. of the 15th IEEE International

Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2015), pp.326-333, Liverpool,

England, UK, October 2015.

47. Xian Li, Xin Luna Dong, Kenneth B. Lyons, Weiyi Meng, and Divesh Srivastava. Scaling Up

Copy Detection. Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),

pp.89-100, Seoul, Korea, April 2015.

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48. Yu Jiang, Xian Li, and Weiyi Meng. DiscWord: Learning Discriminative Topics. Proc. of the

2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2014), pp.63-70,

Warsaw, Poland, August 2014.

49. Lifeng Jia, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Faceted Models of Blog Feeds. Proc. of the 22nd ACM

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp.2279-2284, San Francisco,

October 2013.

50. Reza T. Hemayati, Laleh J. Dehkordi, and Weiyi Meng. mNIR: Diversifying Search Results based

on a Mixture of Novelty, Intention and Relevance. Proc. of the 12th International Conference on

Web Information System Engineering (WISE), pp.594-608, Paphos, Cyprus, November 2012.

51. Jing Wang, Clement Yu, Philip S. Yu, Bing Liu, Weiyi Meng. Diversionary Comments under

Political Blog Posts. Proc. of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge

Management (CIKM), pp.1789-1793, Maui, Hawaii, October 2012.

52. Reza T. Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Categorizing Search Results Using WordNet and

Wikipedia. Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

(WAIM), pp.185-197, Harbin, China, August 2012.

53. Liangcai Shu, Can Lin, Weiyi Meng, Yue Han, Clement Yu, and Neil R. Smalheiser. A

Framework for Entity Resolution with Efficient Blocking. Proc. of the IEEE International

Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI), pp.431-440, Las Vegas, August 2012.

54. Eduard C. Dragut, Hong Wang, Clement Yu, A. Prasad Sistla and Weiyi Meng. Polarity

Consistency Checking for Sentiment Dictionaries. Proc. of the 50th Annual Meeting of the

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp.997-1005, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2012.

55. Yu Jiang, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Topic Sentiment Change Analysis. Proc. of the 7th

International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM), pp.443-457, New

York City, August 2011.

56. Xian Li, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. T-verifier: Verifying Truthfulness of Fact Statements.

Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp.63-74,

Hannover, Germany, April 2011.

57. Liangcai Shu, Aiyou Chen, Ming Xiong, and Weiyi Meng. Efficient Spectral Neighborhood

Blocking for Entity Resolution. Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data

Engineering (ICDE), pp.1067-1078, Hannover, Germany, April 2011.

58. Reza T. Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Identifying and Ranking Possible Semantic

and Common Usage Categories of Search Engine Queries. Proc. of the 11th International

Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), pp.254-261, Hong Kong, December

2010.

59. Aaron M. Cohen, Clive E. Adams, John M. Davis, Clement Yu, Philip S. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Lorna

Duggan, Marian McDonagh, and Neil R. Smalheiser. Evidence-based Medicine: The Essential

Role of Systematic Reviews and the Need for Automated Text Mining Tools. Proc. of the 1st

ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010), pp.376-380, Arlington, Virginia,

November 2010.

60. Eduard Dragut, Clement Yu, Prasad Sistla, Weiyi Meng. Construction of a Sentimental Word

Dictionary. Proc. of the 19th ACM Conference on Informationand Knowledge Management

(CIKM 2010), pp.1761-1764, Toronto, Canada, October 2010.

61. Lifeng Jia, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. The Effect of Negation on Sentiment Analysis and

Retrieval Effectiveness. Proc. of the 18th ACM Conference on Informationand Knowledge

Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, China, pp.1827-1830, November 2009.

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62. Eduard Dragut, Fang Fang, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Deriving Customized Integrated Web

Query Interfaces. Proc. of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence,

Milan, Italy, pp.685-688, September 2009.

63. Fangjiao Jiang, Weiyi Meng, Xiaofeng Meng. Selectivity Estimation for Exclusive Query

Translation in Deep Web Data Integration. Proc. of the International Conference on Database

Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pp.595-600, Brisbane, Australia, April 2009.

64. Liangcai Shu, Jinhui Wu, Lei Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Kernel-based Transductive Learning with

Nearest Neighbors. Proc. of the Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference

and Web-Age Information Management (APWeb-WAIM 2009), pp.345-356, Suzhou, China, April

2009. (Received best runner-up student paper award)

65. Liangcai Shu, Bo Long, Weiyi Meng. A Latent Topic Model for Complete Entity Resolution.

Proc. of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp.880-891,

Shanghai, China, March 2009.

66. Fangjiao Jiang, Linlin Jia, Weiyi Meng, Xiaofeng Meng. MrCoM: A Cost Model for Range

Query Translation in Deep Web Data Integration. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference

on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), pp.263-270, December 2008.

67. Wei Zhou, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. A System for Finding Biological Entities that Satisfy

Certain Conditions from Texts. Proc. of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and

Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), pp.1281-1290, Napa Valley, California, October 2008.

68. Liangcai Shu, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement Yu. Querying Capability Modeling and

Construction. Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering

(WISE), pp.13-25, Nancy, France, December 2007.

69. Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael R. Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, and Weiyi

Meng. Improving Performance of Web Services Query Matchmaking with Automated

Knowledge Acquisition. Proc. of 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web

Intelligence (WI'07), pp.559-563, Silicon Valley, November 2007.

70. Janette Hicks, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, and Weiyi Meng. Enhancing the Discovery of Web

Services through Optimized Algorithms. Proc. of 2007 IEEE International conference on

Granular Computing, pp.695-698, Silicon Valley, November 2007.

71. Wei Zhang, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Opinion Retrieval from Blogs. Proc. of the ACM

Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp.831-840, Lisboa,

Portugal, November 2007.

72. Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement Yu, Chaojing Sun, Fang Liu, Weiyi Meng. Recognition and

Classification of Noun Phrases in Queries for Effective Retrieval. Proc. of the ACM Sixteenth

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp.711-720, Lisboa, Portugal,

November 2007.

73. Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Mining Templates from Search Result Records of

Search Engines. Proc. of the 13th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovering and

Data Mining (SIGKDD 2007), pp.884-893, San Jose, California, August 2007.

74. Chaitali Gupta, Rajdeep Bhowmik, Michael Head, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Weiyi Meng. A

Query-based System for Automatic Invocation of Web Services. Proc. of 2007 IEEE

International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Application Services and Industry Track,

pp.759-766, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2007.

75. Reza T. Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Semantic-based Grouping of Search Engine

Results Using WordNet. Proc. of the Joint Conference of the 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference

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and the 8th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (APWeb/WAIM'07),

pp.678-686, HuangShan, China, June 2007.

76. King-Lup Liu, Weiyi Meng, Jing Qiu, Clement Yu, Vijay Raghavan, Zonghuan Wu, Yiyao Lu,

Hai He, Hongkun Zhao. AllInOneNews: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale News

Metasearch Engine. Proc. of 26th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of

Data (SIGMOD 2007), Industrial track, pp.1017-1028, Beijing, China, June 2007.

77. Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Annotating Structured Data of

the Deep Web. Proc. of IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007),

pp.376-385, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.

78. Xian Li, Weiyi Meng, Xiaofeng Meng. EasyQuerier: A Keyword Based Interface for Web

Database Integration System. Proc. of 12th International Conference on Database Systems for

Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pp.936-942, Bangkok, Tailand, April 2007.

79. Ronak Desai, Qi Yang, Zonghuan Wu, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Identifying Redundant Search

Engines in a Very Large Scale Metasearch Engine Context. Proc. of 8th ACM International

Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006), pp.51-58, November 2006.

80. Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections

From Search Engine Result Pages. Proc. of 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data

Bases (VLDB06), pp.989-1000, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.

81. Eduard Dragut, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Meaningful Labeling of Integrated Query Interfaces.

Proc. of 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB06), pp.679-690, Seoul,

Korea, September 2006.

82. Yanyan Ling, Xiaofeng Meng, and Weiyi Meng. Automated Extraction of Hit Numbers From

Search Result Pages. Proc. of Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information

Management (WAIM 2006), pp.73-84, Hong Kong, June 2006.

83. Fang Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, Abdur Chowdhury. Effective Keyword Search in Relational

Databases. Proc. of ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp.563-574, Chicago, June 2006.

84. Wei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng, Weiyi Meng. Vision-based Web Data Records Extraction. Proc. of

Ninth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2006), pp.20-25, Chicago,

June 2006.

85. Eduard Dragut, Wensheng Wu, Prasad Sistla, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Merging Source

Query Interfaces on Web Databases. Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Data

Engineering (ICDE'06), pp.679-690, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.

86. Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Wanjing Zhang, King-Lup Liu, and Clement Yu. Automatic Extraction

of Publication Time from News Search Results. Proc. of 2nd International Workshop on

Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration (WIRI2006), pp.141-150, Atlanta,

Georgia, April 2006.

87. Shuang Liu, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Word Sense Disambiguation in Queries. Proc. of

Fourteenth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

(CIKM'05), pp.525-532, Bremen, Germany, November 2005.

88. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Constructing Interface Schemas for

Search Interfaces of Web Databases. Proc. of 6th International Conference on Web Information

Systems Engineering (WISE05), pp.29-42, New York City, November 2005.

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89. Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Evaluation of Result

Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines. Proc. of 6th International Conference on Web

Information Systems Engineering (WISE05), pp.53-66, New York City, November 2005.

90. Dheerendranath Mundluru, Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Weiyi Meng, Hongkun Zhao.

Automatically Extracting Subsequent Response Pages from Web Search Sources. Proc. of the

IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically

Heterogeneous Data and Knowledge Sources, Houston, Texas, November 2005.

91. Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, and Clement Yu. WISE-Cluster: Clustering E-Commerce

Search Engines Automatically. Proc. of 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information

and Data Management (WIDM 2004), pp.104-111, Washington, DC, November 2004.

92. Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, and Clement Yu. Fully Automatic

Wrapper Generation for Search Engines. Proc. of Fourteenth International World Wide Web

Conference (WWW14), pp.66-75, Chiba, Japan, May 2005.

93. Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Bootstrapping Domain Ontology for

Semantic Web Services from the Source Web Sites. Proc. of 6th VLDB Workshop on

Technologies for E-Services (TES 2005), pp.11-22, Trondheim, Norway, September 2005.

94. Shuang Liu, Fang Liu, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. An Effective Approach to Document

Retrieval via Utilizing WordNet and Recognizing Phrases. Proc.of 27th Annual International

ACM SIGIR Conference, pp.266-272, Sheffield, UK, July 2004.

95. Liang Zhu, and Weiyi Meng. Learning-Based Top-N Selection Query Evaluation over Relational

Databases. Proc. of Fifth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management,

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pp.197-207, Dalian, China, July 2004.

96. Wensheng Wu, Clement Yu, Anhai Doan, and Weiyi Meng. An Interactive Clustering-based

Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web. Proc. of 33rd ACM SIGMOD

Conference, pp.95-106, Paris, France, June 2004.

97. Yuxi Chen, Weiyi Meng. Raw Relation Sets and Multiperson Decision Making. Proc. of 15th

IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'03), pp.504-509,

Sacramento, California, November 2003.

98. Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Hua Qian, Vuyyuru Rama K, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement Yu.

Towards Automatic Incorporation of Search Engines into a Large-Scale Metasearch Engine.

Proc. of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp.658-661,Halifax,

Canada, October 2003.

99. Clement Yu, George Philip, and Weiyi Meng. Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly

Uncooperative Local Systems. Proc. of 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

(VLDB'03), pp.117-128, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

100. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. WISE-Integrator. An Automatic

Integrator of Web Search Interfaces for E-Commerce. Proc. of 29th International Conference on

Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'03), pp.357-368, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.

101. Yuxi Chen, Weiyi Meng. Top-N Query. Query Language, Distance Function and Processing

Strategies. Proc. of Fourth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management

(WAIM'03), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2762)}, pp.459-470, Chengdu, China,

August 2003.

102. Fang Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Personalize Web Search by Mapping User Queries to

Categories. Proc. of Eleventh ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge

Management (CIKM'02), pp.558-565, McLean, Virginia, November 2002.

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103. Clement Yu, Prasoon Sharma, Weiyi Meng, and Yan Qin. Database Selection for Processing k

Nearest Neighbors Queries in Distributed Environments. Proc. of the First ACM/IEEE Joint

Conference on Digital Libraries, pp.215-222, Roanoke, VA, June 2001.

104. Zonghuan Wu, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Zhuogang Li. Towards a Highly-Scalable and

Effective Metasearch Engine. Proc. of Tenth International World Wide Web Conference

(WWW10), pp.386-395, Hong Kong, May 2001.

105. Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, Wensheng Wu, King-Lup Liu. Efficient and Effective Metasearch for

Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents. Proc. of 2001 ACM SIGMOD

Conference, pp.187-198, Santa Barbara, May 2001.

106. King-Lup Liu, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, C. Zhang, and Naphtali Rishe. Discovery of Similarity

Computations of Search Engines. Proc. of Ninth ACM International Conference on Information

and Knowledge Management (CIKM'00), pp.290-297, Washington, D.C., November 2000.

107. Wenxian Wang, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Concept Hierarchy Based Text Database

Categorization in a Metasearch Engine Environment. Proc. of First International Conference on

Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'2000), pp.283-290, Hong Kong, June 2000.

108. Changqing Zhang, Weiyi Meng, Zhongfei Zhang, Zonghuan Wu. WebSSQL – A Query

Language for Multimedia Web Documents. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Advances in Digital

Libraries (ADL'00), pp.58-67, Washington, D.C., May 2000.

109. Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Wensheng Wu, and Naphtali Rishe. Efficient and

Effective Metasearch for a Large Number of Text Databases. Proc. of Eighth ACM International

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'99), pp.217-224, Kansas City,

November 1999.

110. Michal Cutler, Hongou Deng, S. Manicaan, and Weiyi Meng. A New Study on Using HTML

Structures to Improve Retrieval. Proc. of the Eleventh IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial

Intelligence (ICTAI'99), pp.406-409, Chicago, November 1999.

111. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Detection of Heterogeneities in a Multiple Text

Database Environment. Proc. of the Fourth IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information

Systems (CoopIS'99), pp.22-33, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999.

112. Clement Yu, King-Lup Liu, Wensheng Wu, Weiyi Meng, and Naphtali Rishe. Finding the Most

Similar Documents across Multiple Text Databases. Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Advances

in Digital Libraries (ADL'99), pp.150-162, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1999.

113. Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Wensheng Wu, and Naphtali Rishe. Estimating the

Usefulness of Search Engines. Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering

(ICDE'99), pp.146-153, Sydney, Australia, March 1999.

114. Sudhir Aggarwal, Fuyung Hung, and Weiyi Meng. WIRE – A WWW-based Information

Retrieval and Extraction System. Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Database and

Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98), pp.887-892, Vienna, Austria, August 1998.

115. Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Xiaodong Wang, Yu-Hsi Chang, and Naphtali Rishe.

Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet. Proc. of the 24th International Conference

on Very Large Data Bases, pp.14-25, New York City, August 1998.

116. Michal Cutler, Yungming Shih, Weiyi Meng. Using the Structures of HTML Documents to

Improve Retrieval. Proc. of Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'97).

pp.241-251, Monterey, California, December 1997.

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117. Rongquen Chen, and Weiyi Meng. Precise Detection and Proper Handling of View Maintenance

Anomalies in a Multidatabase Environment. Proc, of the Second IFCIS International Conference

on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'97), pp.110-119, Kiawah Island, South Carolina,

June 1997.

118. Rongquen Chen, and Weiyi Meng. Efficient View Maintenance in a Multidatabase Environment.

Proc. of the Fifth International Conference On Database Systems For Advanced Applications

(DASFAA'97), pp.391-400, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997.

119. Weining Zhang, Elizabeth Laun, and Weiyi Meng. A Methodology of Integrating Fuzzy

Relational Databases in a Multidatabase System. Proc. of the Fifth International Conference On

Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA'97), pp.401-410, Melbourne, Australia,

April 1997.

120. Weining Zhang, and Weiyi Meng. Integration of Fuzzy Databases in a Multidatabase

Environment. Proc. of the 14th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science

Society (SCCC96), pp.77-86, Valdivia, Chile, November 1996.

121. King-Lup Liu, Rongquen Chen, and Weiyi Meng. Distributed Processing of Aggregate Queries in

a Multidatabase System. Proc. of the 7-th International Conference on Computing and

Information (ICCI'96) (Special Issue of Journal of Computing and Information), pp.742-759,

Ontario, Canada, June 1996.

122. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Wei Wang, Nnaphtali Rishe. Performance Analysis of Several

Algorithms for Processing Joins between Textual Attributes. Proc. of the 12-th IEEE

International Conference on Data Engineering, pp.636-644, New Orleans, Louisiana, February

1996.

123. Weiyi Meng, Aqueo Kamada, and Yu-Hsi Chang. Transformation of Relational Schemas to

Object-Oriented Schemas. Proc. of the Nineteenth Annual International Computer Software and

Applications Conference (COMPSAC'95), pp.356-361, Dallas, Texas, August 1995.

124. Weiyi Meng. Outerjoin Processing in the Presence of Data Inconsistency in Multidatabase

systems. Proc. of the Fourth International Conference for Young Computer Scientists

(ICYCS'95), pp.253-258, Beijing, China, July 1995.

125. Weiyi Meng, and Rongquen Chen. Distribution of Selections over Joins in the Presence of Data

Inconsistency in a Multidatabase Environment. Proc. of the 7-th International Conference on

Computing and Information (ICCI'95) (Special Issue of Journal of Computing and Information)},

pp.780-793, Peterborough, Canada, July 1995.

126. Clement Yu, Yi Zhang, Weiyi Meng, Won Kim, Gaoming Wang, Tracy Pham, and Son Dao.

Translation of Object-Oriented Queries to Relational Queries. Proc. of the 11-th IEEE

International Conference on Data Engineering, pp.90-97, Taipei, Taiwan, March 1995.

127. Qi Yang, Chengwen Liu, and Weiyi Meng. Parallelization by the Divide-and-Conquer Method in

Database Systems. Proc. of the Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distributed

Computing Systems (PDCS'94). pp.28-33, Las Vegas, October 1994.

128. Sudhir Aggarwal, Inje Kim, and Weiyi Meng. Database Exploration with Dynamic Abstractions.

Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

(DEXA'94) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 856)}. pp.621-630, Athens, Greece, September

1994.

129. Weiyi Meng, Chengwen Liu, Wei Sun, and Clement Yu. Predict Query Processing Cost in a

Distributed Database System. Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Database and Expert

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Systems Applications (DEXA'93) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 720). pp.122-133, Prague,

Czech Republic, September 1993.

130. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Won Kim, Gaoming Wang, Tracy Pham, and Son Dao. Construction

of a Relational Front-end for Object-Oriented Database Systems. Proc. of the 9-th IEEE

International Conference on Data Engineering, pp.476-483, Vienna, Austria, April 1993.

131. Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Won Kim. Processing Hierarchical Queries in Heterogeneous

Environment. Proc. of the 8-th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, pp.394-401,

Phoenix, Arizona, February 1992.

132. Wei Sun, Naphtali Rishe, Yi Ding, Weiyi Meng, and Chengwen Liu. Knowledge-based Query

Optimization in an Object-Oriented Database System. Proc. of 1991 IEEE International

Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, pp.1657-1662, Charlottesville, Virginia, October

1991.

133. Chengwen Liu, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Learning Term Weights for Document Retrieval.

Proc. of the 1st Golden West International Conference on Intelligent Systems, pp.74-79, Reno,

Nevada, June 1991.

134. Wei Sun, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Query Optimization in Object-Oriented Database

Systems. Proc. of International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications

(DEXA'90), pp.215-222, Vienna, Austria, August 1990.

Refereed Poster & Demo Papers

135. Qingyuan Liu, Eduard Dragut, Arjun Mukherjee, and Weiyi Meng. FLORIN - A System to

Support (Near) Real-Time Applica-tions on User Generated Content for Daily News. Proc. of the

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Demo Paper, Hawaii, September

2015 (to appear).

136. Eduard Dragut, B. P. Beirne, Bhaskar DasGupta, A. Neyestani, B. Atassi, Clement Yu, Meng

Weiyi. YumiInt – A Deep Web Integrating System for Local Search Engines for Geo-referenced

Objects. Proc. of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Demo

paper, Brisbane, Australia, pp.1352-1355, April 2013.

137. Lifeng Jia, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng and Lei Zhang. Facet-Driven Blog Feed Retrieval. Proc. of

the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics

(CICLing 2013), poster paper, Samos, Greece, March 2013.

138. Wei Zhang, Lifeng Jia, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Improve the Effectiveness of the Opinion

Retrieval and Opinion Polarity Classification. Proc. of the 17th ACM Conference on Information

and Knowledge Management (CIKM), poster paper, pp.1415-1416, Napa Valley, California,

October 2008.

139. Janette Hicks, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Weiyi Meng. Search Algorithms for Discovery of

Web Services. Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Work in Progress

track, pp.1172-1173, Salt Lake City, July 2007.

140. Yiyao Lu, Zonghuan Wu, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Vijay Raghavan, Clement

Yu. MySearchView: A Customized Metasearch Engine Generator. Proc. of 26th ACM SIGMOD

International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), Demo paper, pp.1113-1115,

Beijing, China, June 2007.

141. Fang Liu, Shuang Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, Ophir Frieder, and David Grossman. Database

Selection in Intranet Mediators for Natural Language Queries. Proc. of Fourteenth ACM

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International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'05), Poster paper,

pp.229-230, Bremen, Germany, November 2005.

142. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. WISE-Integrator: A System for Extracting

and Integrating Complex Web Search Interfaces of the Deep Web. Proc. of International

Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'05), pp.1314-1317, Demo paper, Trondheim,

Norway, August 2005.

143. Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Automatic Extraction of Web Search

Interfaces for Search Interface Integration. Proc. of Thirteenth International World Wide Web

Conference (WWW13), Poster Paper, pp.414-415, New York City, May 2004.

144. Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, and Clement Yu. Clustering E-Commerce Search Engines.

Proc. of Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW13), Poster Paper, pp.416-

417, New York City, May 2004.

145. Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement Yu, and Chun Du. Creating

Customized Metasearch Engines on Demand Using SE-LEGO. Proc. of Fourth International

Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'03), Lecture Notes in Computer

Science (LNCS 2762), Demo paper, pp.503-505, Chengdu, China, August 2003.

146. Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, Chun Du, Komanduru. Sai C, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, and

Clement Yu. SE-LEGO: Creating Metasearch Engine on Demand. Proc. of 26th ACM SIGIR

Conference, Demo paper, pp.464, Toronto, Canada, July 2003.

147. King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Discovering the Representative of a Search Engine.

Proc. of Eleventh ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

(CIKM'02), (poster paper), pp.652-654, McLean, Virginia, November 2002.

148. King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, A. Santoso, and C. Zhang. Discovering the

Representative of a Search Engine. Proc. of Tenth ACM International Conference on Information

and Knowledge Management (CIKM'01), (poster paper), pp.577-579, Atlanta, Georgia,

November 2001.

149. King-Lup Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, and Naphtali Rishe. Discovery of Similarity

Computation on the Internet. Proc. of the ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (DL'99), pp.232-

233 (poster paper), Berkeley, California, August 1999.

Other Publications

150. Wensheng Wu, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Database Selection for Longer Queries. Proc. of

the 2004 Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies, pp.575-584,

Chicago, July 2004 (invited).

151. Weiyi Meng, and Zonghuan Wu. Text Database Selection in Metasearch Engines. Journal of

Computer Research and Development, Vol.38, No.4, pp.396-404, April 2001 (invited).

152. Nikolaos Bourbakis, Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, John Salerno, and Stan Borek. Removal of

Redundancy in Documents Retrieved from Different Resources. Proc. of 1998 IEEE

International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'98), pp.112-119, Taipei,

November 1998 (invited).

153. Yu-Hsi Chang, and Weiyi Meng. Using OODM for Schema Integration in a Heterogeneous

Database Environment. Proc. of the Sixth IEEE Dual-Use Technologies and Applications

Conference, pp.85-90, Syracuse, June 1996 (lightly reviewed).

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154. Inje Kim, Sudhir Aggarwal, and Weiyi Meng. Navigation and the User Interface in SCOPE.

Proc. of the Fifth IEEE Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference, pp.372-377, Utica,

May 1995 (lightly reviewed).