Davood Rafiei's Refereed Publications:

• Davood Rafiei, Haobin Li, Data Extraction from the Web Using Wild Card Queries, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2009.

• Christopher Pinchak, Davood Rafiei, Dekang Lin, Answer Typing for Information Retrieval, Proc. of the CIKM Conference, 2009.

• Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin, Davood Rafiei, Flexible Answer Typing with Discriminative Preference Ranking, Proc. of the EACL Conference, 2009.

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, On Efficiently Searching Trajectories and Archival Data for Historical Similarities, Proc. of the VLDB Conference, 2008.

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, On MBR Approximation of Histories for Historical Queries: Expectations and Limitations, Proc. of the ICDE Conference, 2007.

• Davood Rafiei, Cheng Hu, Bulk Loading a Linear Hash File, Proc. of the DaWak Conference, 2006.

• Davood Rafiei, Daniel Moise, Dabo Sun, Finding Syntactic Similarities between XML Documents, Proc. of the XANTEC Workshop (in conjunction with DEXA and DaWak) , 2006. (here are the slides)

• Fan Deng, Davood Rafiei, Approximately Detecting Duplicates for Streaming Data using Stable Bloom Filters, Proc. of the SIGMOD Conference , 2006.

• Reza Sherkat, Davood Rafiei, Efficiently Evaluating Order Preserving Similarity Queries Over Historical Market-Basket Data, Proc. of the ICDE Conference, 2006.

• Davood Rafiei, Stephen Curial, Effectively Visualizing Large Networks Through Sampling, Proc. of the IEEE Visualization Conference, 2005.

• Davood Rafiei, Bulk Loading Large Collections of Hyperlinked Resources, Proc. of the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia , 2005.

• Davood Rafiei, Stephen Curial, ALVIN: A System for Visualizing Large Networks, Poster Proc. of WWW 2005.

• Gabriela Moise, Jörg Sander, Davood Rafiei, Focused Co-citation: Improving the Retrieval of Related Pages on the Web, Poster Proc. of WWW 2003.

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Efficient Retrieval of Similar Shapes, VLDB Journal, 11(1): 17-27, August 2002 (ps).

• Alberto Mendelzon, Davood Rafiei An Autonomous Page Ranking Method for Metasearch Engines, Poster Proc. of WWW 2002.

• Alberto Mendelzon, Davood Rafiei What do the Neighbours Think? Computing Web Page Reputations IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 23(3): 9-16, September 2000 (ps).

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Querying Time Series Data Based on Similarity, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 12(5): 675-693, September/October 2000 (ps).

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, What is this Page Known for? Computing Web Page Reputations, Proc. WWW9 Conference, Amsterdam, May 2000 (ps) (also published in Computer Networks 33 (2000):823-835)

• Davood Rafiei, On Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data Proc. IEEE Data Engineering Conference, Sydney, Australia, March 1999. (ps)

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Efficient Retrieval of Similar Time Sequences Using DFT, Proc. FODO Conference, Kobe, Japan, November 1998. ( a newer version to be published as a book chapter which turns out to be easier to print)

• Davood Rafiei, Alberto Mendelzon, Similarity-Based Queries for Time Series Data, Proc. ACM SIGMOD Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 1997 (ps).