Publications by Mario A. Nascimento DBGroup@UofACS@UofA


  • Malhotra, B., Nascimento, M.A. and Nikolaidis, I., Better tree - better fruits: using dominating set trees for MAX queries. Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN'08), p. 1-7.

  • Chen, S., Ooi, B.-C., Tan, K.L. and Nascimento, M.A. Self-Tunable Spatio-Temporal B+-tree for Moving Objects. ACM SIGMOD 2008, p. 29-42.

  • Malhotra, B., Nikolaidis, I. and Nascimento, M.A. Distributed and Efficient Classifiers for Wireless Audio-Sensor Networks. Proc. of the 5th Intl. Conf. on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'08), p. 203-206.

  • Coman, A., Sander, J. and Nascimento, M.A., Adaptive processing of historical spatial range queries in peer-to-peer sensor networks.. Distributed and Parallel Databases J., 22(2-3), p. 133-163. Dec./2007.

  • Botea, V., Mallett, D., Nascimento, M.A. and Sander, J. Efficient and Practical Indexing of Historical Spatio-Temporal Data. GeoInformatica J., 12(2), p. 143-168, 2008

  • Santos, C.F., de Moura, E.S., Silva, A.S., Araujo, B.S., Calado, P. and Nascimento, M.A. Locality Based Pruning Methods for Web Search . ACM Trans. on Information Systems, 26(2), 2008.

  • Coman, A., Nascimento, M.A. A Distributed Algorithm for Joins in Sensor Networks . Proc. of the 19th Intl. Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'07), CD-ROM only.

  • Coman, A., Nascimento, M.A. and Sander, J., On Join Location in Sensor Networks . Proc. of the 8th Intl. Conf. on Mobile Data Management} (MDM'07), p. 190-197.

  • S. Chen, M.A. Nascimento, B.C. Ooi and A.K.H. Tung. SpADe: On Shape-based Pattern Detection in Streaming Time Series . Proc. of the 23rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering} (ICDE 2007). To appear.

  • B. Malhotra, I. Nikolaidis, M.A. Nascimento, B. Distributed and Ef¿cient Classi¿ers for Wireless Audio-Sensor Networks. . Proc. of the 5th Intl. Conf. Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2008). To appear.

  • Coman, A., Nascimento, M.A. and Sander, J., Exploiting Redundancy in Sensor Networks for Energy Efficient Processing of Spatiotemporal Region Queries. . Proc. of the ACM 14th Intl. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'05).

  • Kwon, Y-I., et al, Radial Projection: A Feature Extraction Method for Topographical Shapes. Proc. of the 6th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM'2005).

  • Belém, R.J.S et al, SNIF: A Simple Nude Image Finder. Proc. of the 3rd Latin American Web Congress (LA-Web'05).

  • Rasetic, S. et al., A Trajectory Splitting Model for Efficient Spatio-Temporal Indexing . Proc. of the 31st Int. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB'05). Aug./2005.

  • Moura, E.S. et al., Improving Web Search Performance Via a Locality Based Static Pruning Method. Proc. of the 14th Intl. World Wide Web Conf. (WWW'2005). May/2005.

  • Digout, C. and Nascimento, M.A., High-Dimensional Similarity Searches Using a Metric Pseudo-Grid. Proc. of the 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Managing Data for Emerging Multimedia Applications (co-located w/ ICDE 2005). April/2005.

  • Coman, A., Sander, J. and Nascimento, M.A., An Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Query Processing in Sensor Networks. Proc. of the 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (co-located w/ ICDE 2005). April/2005.

  • Luo, J. and Nascimento, M.A. Content-Based Sub-Image Retrieval Using Relevance Feedback. Proc. of the 2nd ACM Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Databases. Nov./2004.

  • Coman, A., Nascimento, M.A and Sander, J. A Framework for Spatio-Temporal Query Processing Over Wireless Sensor Networks . Proc. of the Intl. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (co-located with VLDB 2004), p. 104-110. Aug./2004.

  • Pireddu, L. and Nascimento, M.A. Taxonomy-Based Routing Indices for Peer-to-Peer Networks. Proc. of the ACM SIGIR Intl. Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (co-located with SIGIR 2004). July/2004. (Electronic Proceedings.)

  • Mallett, D., Elding, J. and Nascimento, M.A., Information-Content Based Sentence Extraction for Text Summarization . Proc. of the 2004 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology. p. 214-218, Apr./2004.

  • Digout, C., Nascimento, M.A. and Coman, A., Similarity Search and Dimensionality Reduction: Not all Dimensions are Equally Useful. Proc. of the 9th Intl. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, p. 831-842. Mar./2004.

  • Luo, J. and Nascimento, M.A. Content Based Sub-Image Retrieval via Hierarchical Tree Matching Proc. of the 1st ACM Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Databases, p. 63-69. Nov./2003.

  • Ciferri, R.R., Salgado, A.C., Times, V.C., Nascimento, M.A. and Magalhes, G.C.. A Performance Comparison among the Traditional R-trees, the Hilbert R-tree and the SR-tree. Proc. of the 13th Int. Conf. of the Chilean Comp. Sc. Society, Nov./2003, p. 3-12.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Moura, E.S. and Oliveira, A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval . Manaus, Brazil. LNCS Vol. 2857, Springer-Verlag, Oct/2003.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Candan, K.S. and Babaguchi N. Guest Editorial: Best Papers of the ACM Multimedia 2001 Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval. Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, 21(1), p. 5-7. Sep./2003.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Sander, J. and Pound, J. Analysis of SIGMOD's Co-Authorship Graph. ACM SIGMOD Record, 32(3). Sep./2003. [Website].

  • Coman, A., Sander, J. and Nascimento, M.A. Efficient Indexing of High Dimensional Normalized Histograms. Proc. of the 14th Intl. Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications. Prague, Czech Republic, Sept/2003.

  • Antoniuk, J. and Nascimento, M.A. A Light Weight PDA-Friendly Collection Fusion Technique. Proc. of the 27th Intl. ACM Conf. on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR'03), Toronto, Canada, July/2003. (Poster.) [website for prototype application.]

  • Zhang, Y., Nascimento, M.A. and Zaiane, O.R. Building Image Mosaics: An Application of Content-Based Image Retrieval. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03) Baltimore, USA, July/2003.

  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X. Cell Histograms Versus Color Histograms for Image Representation and Retrieval . Knowledge and Information Systems Journal (KAIS), 5(3), p. 315-336. Jul/2003. [Technical Report].

  • Nascimento, M.A. (Book Review) Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies, Andy Oram (Ed.), O'Reilly, 2001. ACM SIGMOD Record, 32(1), p. 57-58. June/2003.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Pfoser, D. and Theodoridis, Y. Synthetic and Real Spatiotemporal Datasets IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin - Special Issue on Infrastructure for Spatiotemporal Query Processing Research. 26(1), p. 26-32. June/2003.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Sridhar, V. and Li, X. Region-based Image Retrieval Using Multiple-Features Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 14(2), p. 151-179. Apr/2003. [Submitted version]. (Extended version of the VISUAL'02 paper.)
  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X. A Compact and Efficient Image Retrieval Approach Based on Border/Interior Pixel Classification. Proc. of the ACM 11th Intl. Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'02), p. 102-109, McLean, VA, USA. Nov/2002.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Tousidou, E., Chitkara, V. and Manolopoulos, Y., Image Indexing and Retrieval Using Signature Trees. Data and Knowledge Engineering J., 43(1), p. 57-77, Oct./2002. [Technical Report].

  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X. Techniques for Color-Based Image Retrieval. Multimedia Mining: A Highway to Intelligent Multimedia Documents (invited chapter), p. 61-80. Chabane, D. (Ed.), Kluwer Academic, Oct./2002. [Technical Report].

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Wang, S., Robust Color-based Image Retrieval Using Bipartite Graphs. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'02), p. 45-49. Lausanne, Switzerland, Aug/2002.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Ozsu, M.T. and Zaiane, O. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 Intl. Database Engineering and Application Symposium . Edmonton, Canada. IEEE Press, July/2002.

  • Wang, T., Shi, J. and Nascimento, M.A. Experimental Results Towards Content-Based Sub-Image Retrieval . Proc. of the 2002 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Information Technology (ITCC), p. 230-235, Las Vegas, Apr./2002.

  • Sridhar, V., Nascimento, M.A. and Li, X. Region-based Image Retrieval Using Multiple-Features . Proc of the 2002 Visual Information Systems Conf. (VISUAL'02), p. 61-75, Taiwan, Mar./2002.

  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X. MiCRoM: A Metric Distance to Compare Segmented Images . Proc. of the 2002 Visual Information Systems Conf. (VISUAL'02), p. 12-23, Taiwan, Mar./2002.

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Chitkara, V. Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Binary Signatures. Proc. of the ACM 2002 Symposium on Applied Computing, p. 31-35, Madrid, Spain, Mar/2002. [Technical Report].
  • Sridhar, V., Li, X., and Nascimento, M.A. Towards robust hidden watermarking using multiple quasi-circles, Proc. of the ACM Multimedia 2001 Multimedia and Security Workshop, p. 31-35, Ottawa, Canada, Oct/2001.

  • Davidson, A., Anvik, J., and Nascimento, M.A., Parallel Traversal of Signature Trees for Fast CBIR. Proc. of the ACM Multimedia 2001 Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop, p. 6-9, Ottawa, Canada, Oct/2001.

  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X. An Adaptive and Efficient Clustering-based Approach for Content Based Image Retrieval in Image Databases. Proc. of the Intl. Data Eng. and Application Symposium (IDEAS'01), p. 356-365, Grenoble, France, Jul/2001. [Technical Report].
  • Chitkara, V., Nascimento, M.A. and Mastaller, C., Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Binary Signatures. [Technical Report].

  • Stehling, R.O., Nascimento, M.A. and Falcao, A.X., On ``Shapes'' of Colors for Content-Based Image Retrieval. Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'2000), p. 171-174, Los Angeles, USA, Nov/2000. [Technical Report], [Workshop E-Proceedings].

  • Theodoridis, Y. and Nascimento, M. Generating Spatiotemporal Datasets on the WWW. ACM SIGMOD Record, 29(3), Sep/2000.

  • Colossi, N.G. and Nascimento, M.A., Benchmarking Access Structures for High-Dimensional Multimedia Data. Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'2000), p. 1215-1218, New York, USA, Jul/2000. [Technical Report].

  • Silva, J.R.O. and Nascimento, M.A., An incremental batch-oriented index for bitemporal databases. Proc. of the 7th Intl. Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME'2000), p. 133-142. Cape Breton, Canada, Jul/2000.
  • Nascimento, M.A., and Dunham, M.H., Indexing Valid Time Databases via B+-trees. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 11(6), p. 929--947, Nov-Dec/1999. [Technical Report].

  • Oliveira, A.R.L., Nascimento, M.A. and Lyra, C., Efficient Implementation fo Interior Point Methods for the Polynomial L1 Regression Problem , J. of Comput. Statistics and Data Analysis, 35(2), pp. 119-135, Dec/2000. [Abstract].

  • Nascimento, M.A., Silva, J.R.O and Theodoridis, Y., Evaluation of Access Structures for Discretely Moving Points. Proc. of the Intl. Workshop on Spatiotemporal Database Management (STDBM'99), pp. 171-188. Edinburgh, UK, Sep/99. [Abstract].

  • Theodoridis, Y., Silva, J.R.O. and Nascimento, M.A., On the Generation of Spatiotemporal Datasets . Proc. of the 6th Intl. Symposium on Spatial Databases (SSD'99), pp. 147-164. Hong Kong, China, Jul/99. [Abstract]. [Software].

  • Lucena, I., Camara, G. and Nascimento, M.A., An Environment for Generating Spatial Analysis Programs (In Portuguese) . 1999 Brazilian Conf. for Geoprocessing Users (GIS BRASIL'99), CDROM Proceedings. Salvador, Brazil, May/99.

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Medeiros, C.B. Report on the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD'98). . ACM SIGMOD Record, 29(3), Sep/2000.

  • Nascimento, M.A., A Stratum Based Approach to Access Degenerate Temporal Relations . In Current Trends in Database Technology, A. Dogac, M. Tamer Ozsu and O. Ulusoy (Eds.), Ideas Group Publishing. 1999. [Abstract].
  • Stehling, R. and Nascimento, M.A., Access Methods for Object-Oriented Databases (in Portuguese.) SBBD'98, Proceedings, p. 369-383. Maringa', Brazil, Oct/98.

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Cunha, A.C.R., An Experiment Stemming Non-Traditional Text (with Cunha). SPIRE'98, Proceedings, p. 75-80. Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, Sep/98.

  • Faria, G., Medeiros, C.B. and Nascimento, M.A., An Extensible Framework for Spatio-Temporal Database Applications 10th IEEE SSDBM, Proceedings, p. 202-205. Capri, Italy, Jul/98. [Technical Report (extended version)].

  • Nascimento, M.A., A Two-Stage B+-tree Based Approach To Index Transaction Time IADT'98, Proceedings, p. 503-520. Berlin, Germany, Jul/98.

  • Lucena, I., Camara, G. and Nascimento, M.A., Object-Oriented Map Algebra (in Portuguese.) 1998 Brazilian Conference on Geoprocessing Users, Curitiba, Brazil, May/98.

  • Oliveira, A.R.L., Lyra, C. and Nascimento, M.A., Efficient Implementation fo Interior Point Methods for the Polynomial L1 Regression Problem 1998 INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal Canada, Apr/98. . [Technical Report].

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Silva, J.R.O., Towards Historical R-trees. ACM SAC'98, Proceedings, p. 235-240. Atlanta, USA, Feb/98.
  • Nascimento, M.A., and Dunham, M.H., Using B+-trees to Efficiently Process Inclusion Spatial Queries. ACM GIS'97 Workshop Proceedings, p. 3-8. Las Vegas, USA, Nov/97. [Technical Report (expanded)].

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Dunham, M.H., A Proposal for Indexing Bitemporal Databases Via Cooperative B+-trees IDEAS'97 Proceedings, p. 349-357. Montreal, Canada, Aug/97.

  • Lin, J-L., Dunham, M.H. and Nascimento, M.A., A Survey on Distributed Database Checkpointing Distributed and Parallel Databases - An Intl. Journal, 5(3), p. 289-319, Jul/97.

  • Lucena, I., Camara, G. and Nascimento, M.A., Computer-Human Interfaces for Map Algebras (in Portuguese.) 1997 Brazilian Conference on Geoprocessing Users, Curitiba, Brazil, May/97.

  • Souza, K.X.S. and Nascimento, M.A., Using JAVA to Implement Agents in Artificial Ecosystems. I EFITA Proceedings, p. 57-62, Copenhagem, Denmark, Jun/97.
  • Nascimento, M.A. and Dunham, M.H., Using B+-trees as a Practical Alternative to the Classical R-tree SBBD'96 Proceedings, p. 187-200. Sao Carlos, Brazil, Oct/96.

  • Nascimento, M.A., Dunham, M.H. and Elmasri, R., M-IVTT: A Practical Index for Bitemporal Databases DEXA'96 Proceedings, p. 779-790. Zurich, Switzerland, Sep./96. .

  • Nascimento, M.A., Dunham, M.H. and Kouramajian, V., A Multiple Tree Mapping-Based Approach for Range Indexing. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, 2(3), p. 36-46, Apr/96.

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Dunham, M.H., Indexing a Decision-Transaction Time Time Database ACM SAC'96 Proceedings, p. 166-172. Philadelphia, PA, Feb/96.
  • Nascimento, M.A., Eich, M.H., and Elmasri, R., Using Incremental Trees For Space Efficient Indexing of Bitemporal Databases ADB'95 Proceedings, p. 235-248, Santa Clara, CA, Dec/95.

  • Nascimento, M.A. and Eich, M.H., Decision Time for Temporal Databases TIME'95 Proceedings, p. 157-162, Melbourne Beach, FL, Apr./95.

  • Li et al, Checkpointing and Recovery in Partitioned Main Memory Databases IIMS'95 Proceedings, Washington, DC, Jun/95.

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