Publications

• Papers by Year
   
  2009

  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy and Cong Yu: Data Integration with Uncertainties. VLDBJ 18(2):469-500, 2009. [PDF] (The original publication is available at here.)
  • Laure Berti-Equille, Anish Das Sarma, Xin Luna Dong, Amelie Marian, and Divesh Srivastava. Sailing the information ocean with awareness of currents: discovery and application of source dependence. In CIDR, 2009. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Daisy Zhe Wang, Xin Luna Dong, Anish Das Sarma, Michael Franklin, Alon Halevy. Functional Dependency Generation and Applications in Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems. In WebDB, 2009. [PDF]
  • Xin Luna Dong, Laure Berti-Equille, and Divesh Srivastava. Integrating conflicting data: the role of source dependence. In VLDB, 2009. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Xin Luna Dong, Laure Berti-Equille, and Divesh Srivastava. Truth discovery and copying detection in a dynamic world. In VLDB, 2009. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Xin Luna Dong and Felix Naumann. Data fusion--Resolving data conflicts for integration. In VLDB, 2009. [PDF][Presentation]

   

  2008

  • Anish Das Sarma, Xin Dong, and Alon Y. Halevy: Bootstrapping Pay-as-you-go Data Integration Systems. In SIGMOD, 2008. [PDF]

  2007

  • Mike Cammarano, Xin Luna Dong, Bryan Chan, Jeff Klingner, Justin Talbot, Alon Y. Halevy, Pat Hanrahan: Visualization of Heterogeneous Data. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 13(6): 1200-1207, 2007. [PDF]
  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy and Cong Yu: Data Integration with Uncertainties. In VLDB, 2007. [PDF][Presentation][DBClip][Tech-report]
  • Xin Dong and Alon Y. Halevy: Indexing Dataspaces. In Sigmod, 2007. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Jayant Madhavan, Shawn Jeffery, Shirley Cohen, Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, David Ko and Cong Yu: Web-Scale Data Integration: You can afford to Pay as You Go. In CIDR, 2007. [PDF]

  2006

  • Jayant Madhavan, Shirley Cohen, Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, Shawn Jeffery, David Ko and Cong Yu: Structured data meets the Web: A few observations. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 29(4): 19-26, 2006. [PDF]
  • Jing Liu, Xin Dong and Alon Y. Halevy: Answering Structured Queries on Unstructured Data. In WebDB 2006. [PDF][Presentation]

  2005

  • Xin Dong: A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration. In VLDB 2005 PhD Workshop. [PDF]
  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy and Jayant Madhavan: Reference Reconciliation in Complex Information Spaces. In SIGMOD 2005. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Yuhan Cai, Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, Jing Liu and Jayant Madhavan: Personal Information Management with SEMEX. SIGMOD DEMO 2005. (BEST DEMO, one of three top demos) [PDF][Presentation]
  • Xin Dong and Alon Y. Halevy: Malleable Schemas: A Preliminary Report. In WebDB 2005. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Xin Dong and Alon Y. Halevy: A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration. In CIDR 2005. [PDF][Presentation]

  2004

  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy and Jayant Madhavan: Mining structures for semantics. SIGKDD Explorations, 6(2):53-60, 2004. [PDF]
  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, Jayant Madhavan, Ema Nemes and Jun Zhang: Similarity Search for Web Services. In VLDB 2004. [PDF][Presentation]
  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy and Igor Tatarinov: Containment of Nested XML Queries. In VLDB 2004. [PDF][Presentation][Tech-report]
  • Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy, Ema Nemes, Stephan B. Sigundsson and Pedro Domingos: SEMEX: Toward On-the-fly Personal Information Integration. In IIWEB 2004. [PDF][Presentation]

  2003

  • Igor Tatarinov, Zachary G. Ives, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu, Nilesh N. Dalvi, Xin Dong, Yana Kadiyska, Gerome Miklau and Peter Mork: The Piazza peer data management project. In SIGMOD Record 32(3): 47-52 (2003) [PDF]
  • Philip Bohannon, Xin Dong, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, Chengkai Li, P. P. S. Narayan and Pradeep Shenoy: ROLEX: Relational On-Line Exchange with XML. In SIGMOD Conference 2003: 673. [PDF]

   

• Book Chapters
   
  • A. Das Sarma, X. Dong, and A. Halevy: Data Modeling in Dataspace Support Platforms. Book chapter in “Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications.” Springer, 2009.
  • Xin Dong and Divesh Srivastava: XML Indexing. In “Encyclopedia of Database Systems.” Springer, to appear.
  • Anish Das Sarma, Xin Dong, and Alon Halevy: Uncertainty in Data Integration. In “Managing and Mining Uncertain Data.” Springer, 2008.
  • Tiziana Catarci, Xin Dong, Alon Halevy and Antonella Poggio: Structure everything. In "Personal Information Management." University of Washington Press, Oct 2007.
  • Xin Dong: Chpt 1. The origin of XML. Chap 2. XML grammar. In "Step by Step to XML." Tsinghua Publication House, March 2001. (In Chinese)

   

• Ph.D. Dissertation
  • Xin Dong: Providing best-effort services in Dataspace systems. Ph.D. Dissertation. Univ. of Washington, 2007. [PDF]