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May 2027
TSTUDIO: Efficient Discovery of Semantic Tokens for Long Time Series Transformers
Rundong Zuo, Rui Cao, Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2027)
IEEE CS, Copenhagen, Denmark
Accept. Rate20%
140
Sept 2026
Can AI Effectively Predict Human Judgments of Group Cohesion?
Maryam Ali Aljanobi, Yining Zhao, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of ACM 6th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2026)
Pisa, Italy
🏅 ACM GoodIT Student Travel Grant Award
Accept. Rate—
139
Sept 2026
ChatQPT: Towards Conversing with Relational Query Engines
Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Baochao Xu, Zhenning Shi, Xiyue Gao, Jingjing Li
In Proceedings of 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026)
Boston, United States (Demo)
Accept. Rate92/224
138
Sept 2026
From Human-Graph to Agent-Graph Interaction: State of the Art and Future Directions
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Arijit Khan
In Proceedings of 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2026)
Boston, United States (Tutorial)
Accept. Rate15/31
137
May 2026
Towards Selecting Informative Alternative Relational Query Plans for Database Education
Hui Li, Hu Wang, Sourav S Bhowmick, Zihao Ma
In the Proceedings of 52nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2026)
ACM Press, Bengaluru, India
🏆 Best Papers of SIGMOD 2026
Accept. Rate349/1049
136
May 2026
RETRO: A Visual Tool for Understanding Cardinality Estimation Errors For Database Education
Yani Zhang, Bingying Zhai, Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 52nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2026)
ACM Press, Bengaluru, India (Demo)
Video
🏆 Best Demonstration Honourable Mention Award
Accept. Rate39/122
135
Sept 2025
Themis: A GPU-accelerated Relational Query Execution Engine
Kijae Hong, Kyoungmin Kim, Young-Koo Lee, Yang-Sae Moon, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wook-Shin Han
In Proceedings of 51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2025)
ACM Press, London, United Kingdom
Accept. Rate22%
134
July 2025
How Cohesive Are Community Search Results on Online Social Networks?: An Experimental Evaluation
Yining Zhao, Sourav S Bhowmick, Nastassja L. Fischer, Annabel S.H. Chen
In Proceedings of 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2025)
ACM Press, Padova, Italy
Technical Report Code
Accept. Rate21.5%
133
June 2025
LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas
Kasidis Chanthatrojwong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 51st ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2025)
ACM Press, Berlin, Germany
Accept. Rate24.5%
132
June 2025
PASCAL: A Theory-Informed Visual Interface for Property Graph Schema Visualization
Kasidis Chanthatrojwong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 51st ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2025)
ACM Press, Berlin, Germany (Demo)
Video
Accept. Rate69 / 171
131
May 2025
leSAX Index: A Learned SAX Representation Index for Time Series Similarity Search
Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Rundong Zuo, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu
In the Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025)
IEEE CS, Hong Kong SAR, China
Code
Accept. Rate20%
130
Feb 2025
Experience Report on Using LANTERN in Teaching Relational Query Processing
Sourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li
In the Proceedings of 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE TS 2025)
ACM Press, Pittsburgh, USA
Accept. Rate—
129
Aug 2024
DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series
Rundong Zuo, Guozhong Li, Rui Cao, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 50th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2024)
ACM Press, Guangzhou, China.
Code
Accept. Rate21%
128
June 2024
Temporal JSON Keyword Search
Curtis Dyreson, Amani Shatnawi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Vishal Sharma
In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)
ACM Press, Santiago, Chile
Code
Accept. Rate213 / 768
127
June 2024
SIERRA: A Counterfactual Thinking-based Visual Interface for Property Graph Query Construction
Jiebing Ma, Sourav S Bhowmick, Lester Tay, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)
ACM Press, Santiago, Chile (Demo)
Video
Accept. Rate29 / 87
126
June 2024
Cognitive Psychology Meets Data Management: State of the Art and Future Directions
Sourav S Bhowmick, Annabel S. H. Chen, Divesh Srivastava
In the Proceedings of 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)
ACM Press, Santiago, Chile (Tutorial)
Accept. Rate—
125
May 2024
Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions
Sourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li, Annabel S. H. Chen, Yining Zhao
In the Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (ACM WWW)
ACM Press, Singapore (Tutorial)
Accept. Rate—
124
April 2024
DKWS: A Distributed System for Keyword Search on Massive Graphs
Jiaxin Jiang, Byron Choi, Huang Xin, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 36(5), IEEE CS
Code
Accept. Rate—
123
July 2023
CLOSET: Data-Driven COI Detection and Management in Peer-Review Venues
Sourav S Bhowmick
Communication of the ACM (CACM), 66(7), ACM.
Accept. Rate—
122
July 2023
To Draw Is Human: Toward No-Code Subgraph Search
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi
Communication of the ACM (CACM), 66(7), ACM.
Accept. Rate—
121
June 2023
Theories and Principles Matter: Towards Visually Appealing and Effective Abstraction of Property Graph Queries
Jiebing Ma, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Lester Tay
In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)
ACM Press, Seattle, USA.
Accept. Rate—
120
June 2023
A Framework for Privacy Preserving Localized Graph Pattern Query Processing
Lyu Xu, Byron Choi, Yun Peng, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)
ACM Press, Seattle, USA.
Code
Accept. Rate—
119
June 2023
ARENA: Alternative Relational Query Plan Exploration to Augment Database Education
Hu Wang, Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Baochao Xu
In the Proceedings of 49th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2023)
ACM Press, Seattle, USA (Demo).
Video Software
Accept. Rate—
118
March 2023
PANE: Scalable and Effective Attributed Network Embedding
Renchi Yang, Jieming Shi, Xiaokui Xiao, Yin Yang, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Juncheng Liu
The VLDB Journal, 32(6), Springer-Verlag.
Code
🔥 Special Issue on Best Papers of VLDB 2021
Accept. Rate—
117
Feb 2023
SVP-T: A Shape-level Variable-Position Transformer for Multivariate Time Series Classification
Rundong Zuo, Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Daphne Mah, Grace L.H. Wong
In Proceedings of 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023)
AAAI Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
Code
Accept. Rate19.6%
116
Sept 2022
SENSOR: Data-driven Construction of Sketch-based Visual Query Interfaces for Time Series Data
Li Yan, Nerissa Xu, Guozhong Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu
In Proceedings of 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2022)
ACM Press, Sydney, Australia (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate46 / 106
115
Sept 2022
MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education
Jess Tan, Desmond Yeo, Rachael Neoh, Huey Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 48th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2022)
ACM Press, Sydney, Australia (Demo).
Video Software
Accept. Rate46 / 106
114
June 2022
Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)
ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Tutorial).
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Accept. Rate8 / 19
113
June 2022
PLAYPEN: Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Top-down and Bottom-Up Search on Large Networks.
Zifeng Yuan, Huey-Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Zekun Ye, Byron Choi, Wook-Shin Han
In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)
ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate22 / 53
112
June 2022
LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education.
Peng Chen, Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shafiq R Joty, Weiguo Wang
In the Proceedings of 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)
ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA (Demo).
Video Software
Accept. Rate22 / 53
111
May 2022
IPS: Instance Profile for Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification
Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Daphne Mah, Grace Wong
In the Proceedings of 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2022)
IEEE CS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Code
Accept. Rate—
110
April 2022
GFocus: User Focus-based Graph Query Autocompletion
Peipei Yi, Byron Choi, Zhewei Zhang, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 34(4), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
109
March 2022
Efficient Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification
Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Kwok-Pan Chun, Grace Wong
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 34(3), IEEE CS
Code
Accept. Rate—
108
Oct 2021
Kandinsky Mobile: Abstract Art-Inspired Interactive Visualization of Social Discussions on Mobile Devices.
Castillo Clarence Fitzgerald Gumtang, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2021)
ACM Press, Virtual (Interactive Arts Track).
Video
Accept. Rate—
107
Aug 2021
Towards Plug-and-Play Visual Graph Query Interfaces: Data-driven Canned Pattern Selection for Large Networks
Zifeng Yuan, Huey-Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Zekun Ye, Wook-Shin Han, Byron Choi
In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)
ACM Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Technical Report Video
Accept. Rate24%
106
Aug 2021
Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs
Renchi Yang, Jieming Shi, Xiaokui Xiao, Yin Yang, Juncheng Liu, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 47th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2021)
ACM Press, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Code
🏆 Best Research Paper Award
🏆 SIGMOD Research Highlights Award
Accept. Rate24%
105
June 2021
MIDAS: Towards Efficient and Effective Maintenance of Canned Patterns in Visual Graph Query Interfaces
Kai Huang, Huey-Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 47th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2021)
ACM Press, Xi'an, China.
Technical Report Code
Accept. Rate—
104
June 2021
Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans
Weiguo Wang, Sourav S Bhowmick, Hui Li, Shafiq Joty, Siyuan Liu, Peng Chen
In the Proceedings of 47th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2021)
ACM Press, Xi'an, China.
Technical Report Video
Accept. Rate—
103
June 2021
A Generic Ontology Framework for Indexing Keyword Search on Massive Graphs
Jiaxin Jiang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 33(6), IEEE CS
Code
Accept. Rate—
102
April 2021
Privacy Preserving Strong Simulation Queries for Large Graphs
Lyu Xu, Jiaxin Jian, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021)
IEEE CS, Chania, Greece
Code
Accept. Rate—
101
Feb 2021
ShapeNet: A Shapelet-Neural Network Approach for Multivariate Time Series Classification
Guozhong Li, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Kwok-Pan Chun, Grace L.H. Wong
In Proceedings of 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)
Vancouver, Canada.
Code
Accept. Rate21%
100
Nov 2020
SURGE: Continuous Detection of Bursty Regions Over a Stream of Spatial Objects
Kaiyu Feng, Guo Tao, Gao Cong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shui Ma
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 32(11), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
99
Sept 2020
FERRARI: An Efficient Framework for Visual Exploratory Subgraph Search in Graph Databases
Chaohui Wang, Miao Xie, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Xiaokui Xiao, Shuigeng Zhou
The VLDB Journal, 29(5), Springer-Verlag.
Code
Accept. Rate—
98
Aug 2020
Homogeneous Network Embedding for Massive Graphs via Reweighted Personalized PageRank
Renchi Yang, Jieming Shi, Xiaokui Xiao, Yin Yang, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 46th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2020)
ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan.
Code
Accept. Rate24.91%
97
June 2020
CHASSIS: Conformity Meets Online Information Diffusion
Hui Li, Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)
ACM Press, Portland, USA.
Technical Report Talk
Accept. Rate—
96
June 2020
G-CARE: A Framework for Performance Benchmarking of Cardinality Estimation Techniques for Subgraph Matching
Yeonsu Park, Seongyun Ko, Sourav S Bhowmick, Kyoungmin Kim, Kijae Hong, Wook-Shin Han
In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)
ACM Press, Portland, USA.
Code
Accept. Rate26.9%
95
June 2020
BOOMER: A Tool for Blending Visual P-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks
Yinglong Song, Huey-Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)
ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate36 / 100
94
June 2020
AURORA: Data-driven Construction of Visual Graph Query Interfaces for Graph Databases
Sourav S Bhowmick, Kai Huang, Huey Eng Chua, Zifeng Yuan, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)
ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate36 / 100
93
June 2020
LATTE: Visual Construction of Smart Contracts
Sean Tan, Sourav S Bhowmick, Huey Eng Chua, Xiaokui Xiao
In the Proceedings of 46th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2020)
ACM Press, Portland, USA (Demo).
Video Code
Accept. Rate36 / 100
92
April 2020
PPKWS: An Efficient Framework for Keyword Search on Public-Private Networks
Jianxin Jiang, Xin Huang, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Lyu Xu
In the Proceedings of 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2020)
IEEE CS, Dallas, USA
Code
Accept. Rate19.5%
91
January 2020
FROST: Movement History-conscious Facility Relocation
Meng Wang, Hui Li, Jiangtao Cui, Sourav S Bhowmick, Ping Lui
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 11(1), ACM
Code
Accept. Rate—
90
July 2019
KANDINSKY: Abstract Art-Inspired Visualization of Social Discussions
Christina Lui, Sourav S Bhowmick, Adam Jatowt
In Proceedings of 42nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2019)
ACM Press, Paris, France (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
89
July 2019
CATAPULT: Data-driven Selection of Canned Patterns for Efficient Visual Graph Query Formulation
Kai Huang, Huey Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)
ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Code
Accept. Rate20.4%
88
July 2019
Efficient Estimation of Heat Kernel PageRank for Local Clustering
Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jun Zhao, Rong-Hua Li
In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)
ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Code
Accept. Rate20.4%
87
July 2019
NEURON: Query Execution Plan Meets Natural Language Processing For Augmenting DB Education
Siyuan Liu, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wanlu Zhang, Shu Wang, Wanyi Huang, Shafiq Joty
In the Proceedings of 45th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2019)
ACM Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Demo).
Video Software
Accept. Rate—
86
June 2019
On-Demand Recent Personal Tweets Summarization on Mobile Devices
Jin Yao Chin, Sourav S Bhowmick, Adam Jatowt
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
70(6), Wiley Publisher (IF 2.835)
Accept. Rate—
85
Apr 2019
An Indexing Framework for Efficient Visual Exploratory Subgraph Search in Graph Databases
Chaohui Wang, Miao Xie, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Xiaokui Xiao, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019)
IEEE CS, Macau, China (Short)
Technical Report Code
Accept. Rate—
84
Apr 2019
FGreat: Focused Graph Query Autocompletion
Nathan Ng, Peipei Yi, Zhiwei Zhang, Byron Choi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu
In the Proceedings of 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019)
IEEE CS, Macau, China (Demo)
Accept. Rate—
83
Aug 2018
PANDA: A System for Partial Topology-based Search on Large Networks
Miao Xie, Sourav S Bhowmick, Hao Su, Gao Cong, Wook-Shin Han
In Proceedings of 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2018)
ACM Press, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Demo).
Video Code
Accept. Rate—
82
July 2018
Ranking Without Learning: Towards Historical Relevance-based Ranking of Social Images
Min Min Chew, Sourav S Bhowmick, Adam Jatowt
In Proceedings of 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2018)
ACM Press, Ann Arbor, USA.
Accept. Rate30%
81
July 2018
Killing Two Birds With One Stone: Concurrent Ranking of Tags and Comments of Social Images
Boon Siew Seah, Aixin Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick
In Proceedings of 41st international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2018)
ACM Press, Ann Arbor, USA.
Accept. Rate30%
80
June 2018
BOOMER: Blending Visual Formulation and Processing of p-Homomorphic Queries on Large Networks
Yinglong Song, Huey Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 44th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2018)
ACM Press, Houston, USA.
Talk Video Software Video
Accept. Rate19.5%
79
June 2018
PISTIS: A Conflict of Interest Declaration and Detection System for Peer Review Management
Siyuan Wu, Leong Hou U, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wolfgang Gatterbauer
In the Proceedings of 44th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2018)
ACM Press, Houston, USA (Demo).
Accept. Rate35 / 108
78
April 2018
SURGE: Continuous Detection of Bursty Regions Over a Stream of Spatial Objects
Kaiyu Feng, Tao Guo, Gao Cong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shuai Ma
In the Proceedings of 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2018)
IEEE CS, Paris, France
Accept. Rate—
77
Jan 2018
TROVE: A User-friendly Tool for Visualizing and Analyzing Cancer Hallmarks in Signaling Networks
Huey Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jie Zheng
Bioinformatics, 34(2), Oxford Univ Press.
Video
Accept. Rate—
76
Aug-Sept 2017
PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases
Kai Huang, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shuigeng Zhou, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017)
Munich, Germany (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate35 / 115
75
Aug-Sept 2017
Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs
Arijit Khan, Sourav S Bhowmick, Francesco Bonchi
In the Proceedings of 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017)
Munich, Germany (Tutorial).
Slides
Accept. Rate—
74
August 2017
TOTEM: Personal Tweets Summarization on Mobile Devices
Jin Yao Chin, Sourav S Bhowmick, Adam Jatowt
In Proceedings of 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2017)
ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
73
August 2017
ASTERIX: Ambiguity and Missing Element-Aware XML Keyword Search Engine
Ba Quan Truong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Curtis Dyreson, Hong Jing Khok
In Proceedings of 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2017)
ACM Press, Tokyo, Japan (Demo).
Code
Accept. Rate—
72
Aug 2017
VISUAL: Simulation of Visual Subgraph Query Formulation To Enable Automated Performance Benchmarking
Sourav S Bhowmick, Huey Eng Chua, Byron Choi, Curtis Dyreson
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 29(8), 1765-1778, IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
71
June 2017
AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases
Peipei Yi, Byron Choi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu
The VLDB Journal, 26(3), Springer-Verlag.
Software
Accept. Rate—
70
May 2017
Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Chengkai Li
In the Proceedings of 43rd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2017)
ACM Press, Chicago, USA (Tutorial).
Slides
Accept. Rate—
69
April 2017
PANDA: Towards Partial Topology-based Search on Large Networks in a Single Machine
Miao Xie, Sourav S Bhowmick, Gao Cong, Qing Wang
The VLDB Journal, 26(2), Springer-Verlag.
Video Code
Accept. Rate—
68
Nov 2016
PINOCCHIO: Probabilistic Influence-based Location Selection over Moving Objects
Meng Wang, Hui Li, Jiangtao Cui, Ke Deng, Sourav S Bhowmick, Zhenhua Dong
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 28(11), IEEE CS
Code
Accept. Rate—
67
Oct 2016
The Past is Not a Foreign Country: Detecting Semantically Similar Terms across Time
Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Sourav S Bhowmick, Katsumi Tanaka
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 28(10), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
66
Sept 2016
Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Curtis Dyreson
In the Proceedings of 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)
New Delhi, India.
Accept. Rate16%
65
Sept 2016
AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases
Peipei Yi, Byron Choi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu
In the Proceedings of 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2016)
New Delhi, India (Demo).
Software
Accept. Rate37 / 103
64
June-Jul 2016
DualSim: Parallel Subgraph Enumeration in a Massive Graph on a Single Machine
Hyeonji Kim, JuneYoung Lee, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wook-Shin Han, Jeong Hoon Lee, Seongyun Ko, Moath Jarrah
In the Proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2016)
ACM Press, San Francisco, USA.
Software
Accept. Rate20%
63
June-Jul 2016
Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration
Kaiyu Feng, Gao Cong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Wen-Chih Peng, Chunyan Miao
In the Proceedings of 42nd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2016)
ACM Press, San Francisco, USA.
Accept. Rate20%
62
March 2016
Clustering and Summarizing Protein-Protein Interaction Networks: A Survey
Sourav S Bhowmick, Boon Siew Seah
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 28(3), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
61
Oct 2015
TENET: Topological Feature-based Target Characterization in Signaling Networks
Huey Eng Chua, Sourav S Bhowmick, Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, C F Dewey, Jr
Bioinformatics, 31(20), Oxford Univ Press.
Technical Report Software
Accept. Rate—
60
Sept 2015
PRISM: Concept-preserving Summarization of Top-K Social Image Search Results
Boon Siew Seah, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun
In the Proceedings of 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015)
Hawaii, USA (Demo).
Accept. Rate49 / 150
59
Sept 2015
Virtual eXist-DB: Liberating Hierarchical Queries from the Shackles of Access Path Dependence
Curtis Dyreson, Sourav S Bhowmick, Ryan Grapp
In the Proceedings of 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015)
Hawaii, USA (Demo).
Accept. Rate49 / 150
58
Aug 2015
Structure-Preserving Subgraph Query Services
Zhe Fan, Byron Choi, Qian Chen, Jianliang Xu, Haibo Hu, Sourav S Bhowmick.
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 27(8), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
57
July 2015
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit: Connecting Past with Present by Finding Corresponding Terms across Time
Yating Zhang, Adam Jatowt, Sourav S Bhowmick, Katsumi Tanaka
In the Proceedings of 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2015)
Beijing, China.
Accept. Rate25%
56
July 2015
Authenticated Subgraph Similarity Search in Outsourced Graph Databases
Yun Peng, Zhe Fan, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick.
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 27(7), IEEE CS
Software
Accept. Rate—
55
May-June 2015
GetReal: Towards Realistic Selection of Influence Maximization Strategies in Competitive Networks
Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jiangtao Cui, Yunjun Gao, Jianfeng Ma
In the Proceedings of 41st ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2015)
ACM Press, Melbourne, Australia.
🏆 Nomination for the Best Paper Award
Accept. Rate25.6%
54
Apr 2015
Asymmetric Structure-Preserving Subgraph Queries for Large Graph
Zhe Fan, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)
IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea
Code
Accept. Rate25.2%
53
Apr 2015
PIGEON: Progress Indicator for Subgraph Queries
Xiaojing Xie, Zhe Fan, Byron Choi, Peipei Yi, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)
IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo).
Accept. Rate—
52
Apr 2015
VISUAL: An HCI-inspired Simulator of Blending Visual Subgraph Query Construction and Processing
Sourav S Bhowmick, Huey-Eng Chua, Benji Thian, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)
IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
51
Apr 2015
DAVINCI: Data-driven Visual Interface Construction for Subgraph Search in Graph Databases
Jinbo Zhang, Sourav S Bhowmick, Hong H. Nguyen, Byron Choi, Feida Zhu
In the Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2015)
IEEE CS, Seoul, South Korea (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
50
Jan 2015
Conformity-aware Influence Maximization in Online Social Networks
Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun, J Cui
The VLDB Journal, 24(1), Springer-Verlag.
Accept. Rate—
49
Dec 2014
Towards Efficient Authenticated Subgraph Query Service in Outsourced Graph Databases
Zhe Fan, Yun Peng, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Sourav S Bhowmick.
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 7(4), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
48
Sep 2014
Side-Effect Estimation: A Filtering Approach to the View Update Problem
Yun Peng, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Haibo Hu, Sourav S Bhowmick.
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 26(9), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
47
Sep 2014
DualAligner: A Dual Alignment-based Strategy to Align Protein Interaction Networks
Boon-Siew Seah, Sourav S Bhowmick, C. Forbes Dewey, Jr.
Bioinformatics, 30(18), Oxford Univ Press
Software
Accept. Rate—
46
July 2014
PRISM: Concept-preserving Social Image Search Results Summarization
Boon-Siew Seah, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun
In Proceedings of 37th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR 2014)
ACM Press, Gold Coast, Australia.
Video
Accept. Rate21%
45
June 2014
Querying Virtual Hierarchies using Virtual Prefix-Based Numbers
Curtis Dyreson, Sourav S Bhowmick, Ryan Grapp
In the Proceedings of 40th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2014)
ACM Press, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
Accept. Rate25%
44
June 2014
In Search of Influential Event Organizers in Online Social Networks
Kaiyu Feng, Gao Cong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Shuai Ma
In the Proceedings of 40th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2014)
ACM Press, Snowbird, Utah, USA.
Accept. Rate25%
43
Apr 2014
Summarizing Social Image Search Results
Boon-Siew Seah, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun
In the Proceedings of 23rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (ACM WWW 2014)
ACM Press, Seoul, South Korea (Poster).
Accept. Rate91 / 566
42
Apr 2014
Why Not, WINE?
Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun, Ba Quan Truong
In the Proceedings of 23rd ACM International World Wide Web Conference (ACM WWW 2014)
ACM Press, Seoul, South Korea (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate28 / 84
41
May 2014
QUBLE: Towards Blending Interactive Visual Subgraph Search Queries on Large Networks
Ho Hoang Hung, Sourav S Bhowmick, Ba Quan Truong, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
The VLDB Journal, 23(3), Springer-Verlag.
Accept. Rate—
40
Jan 2014
Affinity-driven Blog Cascade Analysis and Prediction
Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun, J. Cui.
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), 28(2), Springer
Accept. Rate—
39
Oct 2013
Why Not, WINE?: Towards Answering Why-Not Questions in Social Image Search
Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun, Ba Quan Truong
In the Proceedings of 21st ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2013)
ACM Press, Barcelona, Spain.
Accept. Rate20%
38
June 2013
MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data
Ba Quan Truong, Sourav S Bhowmick, Curtis Dyreson, Aixin Sun
In the Proceedings of 39th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2013)
ACM Press, New York City, USA.
Video Code Extended Version
Accept. Rate20%
37
June 2013
QUBLE: Blending Visual Subgraph Query Formulation with Query Processing on Large Networks
Ho Hoang Hung, Sourav S Bhowmick, Ba Quan Truong, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 39th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2013)
ACM Press, New York City, USA (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
36
Jan 2013
VOGUE: Towards A Visual Interaction-aware Graph Query Processing Framework
Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 6th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2013)
ACM Press, Asilomar, California, USA.
Accept. Rate—
35
Oct 2013
Incremental Maintenance of the Minimum Bisimulation of Cyclic Graphs
Jintian Deng, Byron Choi, Jianliang Xu, Haibo Hu, Sourav S Bhowmick.
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 25(11), IEEE CS
Accept. Rate—
34
Apr 2012
CASIS: A System for Concept-Aware Social Image Search
Ba Quan Truong, Aixin Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (ACM WWW 2012)
ACM Press, Lyon, France (Demo).
Video
Accept. Rate—
33
Apr 2012
Querying XML Data: As You Shape It
Curtis Dyreson, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)
IEEE CS, Washington, USA.
Accept. Rate17.7%
32
Apr 2012
PRAGUE: Towards Blending Practical Visual Subgraph Query Formulation and Query Processing
Changjiu Jin, Sourav S Bhowmick, Byron Choi, Shuigeng Zhou
In the Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012)
IEEE CS, Washington, USA.
Extended Version
Accept. Rate17.7%
31
Nov 2012
ANDES: Efficient Evaluation of NOT-Twig Queries in Relational Databases
Kheng Hong Soh, Ba Quan Truong, Sourav S Bhowmick
The VLDB Journal, 21(6), Springer-Verlag.
Accept. Rate—
30
Sept 2012
Plasmin Triggers a Switch-like Decrease in Thrombospondin-Dependent Activation of TGF-beta1
L. Venkatraman, Ser-Mien Chia, B. C. Narmada, Jacob K White, Sourav S Bhowmick, C. Forbes Dewey, Jr., Peter So, Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, Hanry Yu
Biophysical Journal, 103(5), Elsevier Science
Accept. Rate—
29
Nov 2012
FACETS: Multi-faceted Functional Decomposition of Protein Interaction Networks
Boon-Siew Seah, Sourav S Bhowmick, C. Forbes Dewey, Jr.
Bioinformatics (IF 5.47), 28(20), Oxford Univ Press
Software Video
Accept. Rate—
28
2011
Tag-based Social Image Retrieval: An Empirical Evaluation
Aixin Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick, Khanh Tran Nam Nguyen, Ge Bai
Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(12) (IF 2.3)
Accept. Rate—
27
2011
The Steady States and Dynamics of Urokinase-mediated Plasmin Activation In Silico and In Vitro
L Venkatraman, Huipeng Li, C. F. Dewey, J. K. White, Sourav S Bhowmick, Hanry Yu, Lisa Tucker-Kellogg
Biophysical Journal, 101(8), Elsevier Science (IF 4.2)
Accept. Rate—
26
July 2011
AffRank: Affinity-Driven Ranking of Products in Online Social Rating Networks.
Hui Li, Sourav S Bhowmick, Aixin Sun
Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(7) (IF 2.3)
Accept. Rate—
25
Nov-Dec 2011
Social Image Tag Recommendation By Concept Matching
Aixin Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick, Jun-An Chong
In the Proceedings of 19th ACM Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2011)
ACM Press, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (Short).
Accept. Rate—
24
June 2011
GBLENDER: Visual Subgraph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing
C Jin, Sourav S Bhowmick, X Xiao, Byron Choi, S Zhou
In the Proceedings of 37th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2011)
ACM Press, Athens, Greece (Demo paper).
Video
Accept. Rate—
23
Apr 2011
Efficient Maintenance of Common Keys in Archives of Continuous Query Results from Deep Web Sites
Fajar Ardian, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
IEEE CS, Hannover, Germany.
Technical Report
Accept. Rate19.8%
22
March 2010
Cell Delivery Therapeutics for Liver Regeneration
W.-X. Zhang, Lisa Tucker-Kellogg, B.C. Narmada, L. Venkatraman, S. Chang, Y. Lu, Nancy Tan, J. White, C. F. Dewey, S S Bhowmick, Peter So, S Shen, Hanry Yu
Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (ADDR), 62(7-8), Elsevier Science (IF 8.3)
Accept. Rate—
21
Oct 2010
Quantifying Tag Representativeness of Visual Content of Social Images
A Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2010)
ACM Press, Firenze, Italy.
Accept. Rate16%
20
Oct 2010
Searching and Browsing Social Images through iAVATAR
A Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick
ACM Multimedia Grand Challenge (ACM MM 2010)
Firenze, Italy.
Accept. Rate—
19
Sept 2010
iAVATAR: An Interactive Tool for Finding and Visualizing Visual-Representative Tags in Image Search
A Sun, Sourav S Bhowmick, Y Liu
In the Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010)
Singapore (Demo paper).
Video
Accept. Rate36%
18
Sept 2010
Using XMorph to Transform XML Data
C Dyreson, Sourav S Bhowmick, K Mallampalli
In the Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010)
Singapore (Demo paper).
Accept. Rate36%
17
June 2010
GBLENDER: Towards Blending Visual Query Formulation and Query Processing in Graph Databases
C Jin, Sourav S Bhowmick, X Xiao, James Cheng, Byron Choi
In the Proceedings of 36th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2010)
ACM Press, Indianapolis, USA.
Accept. Rate20.8%
16
Mar 2010
XMorph: A Shape-Polymorphic, Domain-Specific XML Data Transformation Language
Curtis Dyreson, Sourav S Bhowmick, A R Jannu, K Mallampalli, S Zhang
In the Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010)
IEEE CS, Los Angeles, USA (Short Paper).
Accept. Rate20%
15
Jan 2010
The Steady States and Dynamics of Urokinase Mediated Plasmin Activation
L Venkatraman, Hanry Yu, Sourav S Bhowmick, C F Dewey, Jr, L Tucker-Kellogg
In the Proceedings of 15th Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing (PSB 2010)
Hawaii, USA.
Accept. Rate—
14
Aug 2009
NEAR-Miner: Mining Evolution Associations of Web Site Directories for Efficient Maintenance of Web Archives
Ling Chen, S S Bhowmick, W Nejdl
In the Proceedings of 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009)
Lyon, France.
Accept. Rate17.9%
13
Mar 2009
XBLEND: Visual XML Query Formulation Meets Query Processing
Z Yong, S S Bhowmick, E Leonardi, K Widjanarko
In the Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
IEEE CS, Shanghai, China (Demo Paper).
Video Code
Accept. Rate25%
12
Jun 2007
XANADUE: A System for Detecting Changes to XML Data in Tree-Unaware Relational Databases
E Leonardi, S S Bhowmick
In the Proceedings of 26th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2007)
ACM Press, Beijing, China (Demo Paper).
Accept. Rate—
11
Mar 2007
Efficient Processing of XPath Queries with Indexes
Y Chen, S K Madria, K Passi, S S Bhowmick
Information Systems (IS), 32(1), pp. 131-159, Elsevier Science.
Accept. Rate—
10
May 2007
Mirror Site Maintenance Based on Evolution Associations of Web Directories
L Chen, S S Bhowmick, W Nejdl
In the Proceedings of 16th ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (ACM WWW 2007)
ACM Press, Banff, Canada (Poster Paper).
Accept. Rate—
9
Aug 2006
Event Detection From Evolution of Click-Through Data
Q Zhao, T-Y Liu, S S Bhowmick, W-Y Ma
In the Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2006)
ACM Press, Philadelphia, USA.
🏅 ACM Student Travel Award
Accept. Rate11%
8
May 2006
Time - Dependent Semantic Similarity Measure of Queries Using Historical Click-Through Data
Q Zhao, C-H Hoi, T-Y Liu, S S Bhowmick, M R Lyu, W-Y Ma
In the Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006)
ACM Press, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Accept. Rate11%
7
April 2006
Every Click You Make, I Will Be Fetching It: Efficient XML Query Processing in RDBMS Using GUI-driven Prefetching
S S Bhowmick, Sandeep Prakash
In the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2006)
IEEE Computer Society, Atlanta, USA (Poster Paper).
Accept. Rate14.4% (53/367)
6
Mar 2003
Detecting and Representing Relevant Web Deltas in WHOWEDA
S Bhowmick, S K Madria, W K Ng
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 15(2): pp. 423-441
Accept. Rate—
5
Mar 2003
XomatiQ: Living with Genomes, Proteomes, Relations and a Little Bit of XML
S S Bhowmick, Pedro Cruz, Amey Laud
In the Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003)
IEEE Computer Society, Bangalore, India.
Accept. Rate—
4
Apr 2002
Mobile Data and Transaction Management
S K Madria, Mukesh Mohania, S S Bhowmick, B Bhargava
Information Sciences Journal, 141(3-4), pp. 279-309, Elsevier Science.
Accept. Rate—
3
Dec 2002
A Survey of Web Metrics
Devanshu Dhyani, W K Ng, S S Bhowmick
ACM Computing Surveys, 34(4), pp. 469-503
Accept. Rate—
2
Aug 2002
The gRNA: A Highly Programmable Infrastructure for Prototyping, Developing and Deploying Genomics-Centric Applications
A Laud, S S Bhowmick, P Cruz, D T Singh, G Rajesh
In the Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2002)
Morgan Kauffmann, Hong Kong, China.
Accept. Rate—
1
Apr 2000
Detecting and Representing Relevant Web Deltas using Web Join
S S Bhowmick, S K Madria, W K Ng, E P Lim
In the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'00)
IEEE Computer Society, Taiwan.
Accept. Rate—