Publications:
- R. Brnawy and N. Shiri. "Clustering Technique Using Multi-Objective Functions for Multi-class Categorical Data", in Proc. 34th Int'l Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), LNCS-14146, pp 258--364, Penang, Malaysia, August 28--30, 2023.
- A. Alizadeh Mansouri, A. Javadtalab, and N. Shiri. "Streaming Data Analytics for Feature Importance Measures in Concept Drift Detection and Adaptation",
in Proc. 34th Int'l Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA),
LNCS 14146, pp 117--128, Penang, Malaysia, August 28--30, 2023.
- A. Alizadeh Mansouri, A. Javadtalab, and N. Shiri. "An Ensemble Learning
Augmentation Method for Concept Drift Detection over Streaming Data", in
proc. 18th Int'l Conf. on Data Science, Las Vegas, USA, July 25--28, 2022.
- S. Mohammadi and N. Shiri. "ARDBS: Efficient Processing of Provenance Queries over Annotated Relations", in proc. 33rd
Int'l Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA),
pp. 263--269, August 22--24, 2022, Vienna, Austria.
- G. Grahne, T. Liu, and N. Shiri. "Universal Provenance for Regular
Path Queries", in proc. 14th Int'l Workshop on Theory and Practice of
Provenance (TaPP 2022), co-located with SIGMOD, pp. 17--24,
June 17, 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- R. Brnawy and N. Shiri. "Improving Quality of Ensemble Technique for Categorical Data Clustering Using Granule Computing", in proc. 34th
Int'l Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA),
pp. 261--272, Sept. 27--30, 2021, Linz, Austria.
- A. Alsaig, V. Alagar, and N. Shiri. "Contelog: A Declarative Language
for Modeling and Reasoning with Contextual Data", Journal
of Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 207, 5 November 2020.
- A. Alsaig, V. Alagar, and N. Shiri."Declarative Approach to Model
Checking for Context-aware Applications", Accepted to Int'l Conf. on
Context-Aware Systems and Applications (ICCASA), My Tho, Vietnam, pp. 3--10,
Nov. 28--29, 2019.
- J.G. Thomas, S.P. Mudur, and N. Shiri.
"Detecting Anomalous Behaviour from Textual Content in Financial Records", in
IEEE/WIC/ACM Int'l Conference on Web Intelligence (WI' 19),
Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 373--377, Oct. 14--19, 2019.
- A. Alsaig, V. Alagar, Z. Chammaa, and N. Shiri. "Characterization and
Efficient Management of Big Data in IoT-Driven Smart City Development", in
Special Issue Smart IoT Sensing, Sensors 19(11):2430;
doi:10.3390/s19112430, pp 1--29, 2019.
- R. Brnawy and N. Shiri. "K-mixed Prototypes: A Clustering Algorithm for
Relational Data with Mixed Attribute Types", Poster in Proc. 34th ACM
Symp. on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 542--545,
April 8--12, 2019.
- A. Alsaig, V. Alagar, and N. Shiri. "Formal Context Representation
and Calculus for Context-Aware Computing", in Proc. Int'l Conf. on
Context-Aware Systems and Applications (ICCASA), Viet Tri, Vietnam,
PP. 3--13, Nov. 22--23, 2018.
- A. Kane and N. Shiri. "Multivariate Time Series Representation and
Similarity Search Using PCA", in Proc. 17th Industrial Conference on Data
Mining (ICDM), New York, USA, pp. 122--136, July 12--16, 2017.
- A. Kane and N. Shiri. "Selecting the Top-k
Discriminative Features Using Principal Component Analysis",
in Proc. 4th ICDM Workshop on Data Science and Big Data
Analytics (DSBDA), Barcelona, Spain, pp. 639--646, Dec. 12, 2016.
- M. Orang and N. Shiri. "Correlation Analysis Techniques for Uncertain Time Series",
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 50(1), pp. 79--116, 2017.
- M. Orang and N. Shiri.
"Improving Performance of Similarity Measures for
Uncertain Time Series using Preprocessing Techniques",
in Proc. 27th Int'l Conf. on Scientific
and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM),
San Diego, California, pp. 1--12, June 29-July 1, 2015.
- M. Orang and N. Shiri.
"An Experimental Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Uncertain Time Series",
in Proc. 18th Int'l Database Engineering & Applications Symp.
(IDEAS), Porto, Portugal, pp. 261--264, July 7-9, 2014.
- I. Gorti, N. Shiri, and T. Radhakrishnan.
"A Flexible Data Model for Multi-Tenant Databases
for Software as a Service", in Proc. of the 2nd IEEE
Int'l Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE)",
Sydney, Australia, pp. 1059--1066, Dec. 3-5, 2013.
- M. Mofidpoor, N. Shiri, and T. Radhakrishnan.
"Index-based Join Operations in Hive", in Proc. of
the Scalable Cloud Data Management (SCDM) Workshop,
co-located with the IEEE BigData Conference,
Silicon Valley, CA, USA, pp. 26--33, Oct. 6--9, 2013.
- M. Orang and N. Shiri.
"A Probabilistic Approach to Correlation Queries in Uncertain Time
Series Data", in Proc. of 21st ACM Int'l Conf. on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Maui, Hawaii, USA, pp. 2229--2233,
Oct. 29 -- Nov. 2, 2012.
- S. Kabir, S.P. Mudur, and N. Shiri.
"Capturing Browsing Interests of Users intoWeb Usage Profiles", in
AAAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and
Recommender Systems (ITWP), pp. 18-25, Toronto, Canada, July 22, 2012.
- A. Ketata, S.P. Mudur, and N. Shiri. "New Assessment Criteria
for Improving Usage Profiling in Web Usage Mining",
in Proc. of 3Clust Workshop on Multi-view data, High-diemensionality,
External knowkedge: Striving for a uniform Approcah to Clustering, in
conjunction with PAKDD, pp. 39-50, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
May 29 -- June 1, 2012.
- Q. Huang and N. Shiri. "Extending Magic Sets Technique to
Deductive Databases with Uncertainty", in Proc. 4th VLDB Workshop
on Management of Uncertain Data (MUD'10), pp. 19-33, Sept. 13, 2010,
Singapore.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "Conjunctive Queries with Constraints:
Homomorphism, Containment and Rewriting", in Proc. 6th Int'l Symp.
on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS),
S. Link and H. Prade (Eds.), LNCS 5956, Springer,
Sofia, Bulgara, pp. 40-57, Feb. 15-19, 2010.
- T. Hasan, P.S. Mudur, and N. Shiri. "A Session Generalization
Technique for Improved Web Usage Mining", in Proc. 11th ACM
Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM),
in conjunction with CIKM, Hong Kong, Nov. 2-9, 2009.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri. "A Formal Framework for
Description Logics with Uncertainty". International Journal of
Approximate Reasoning, Vol 50(9), pp 1399-1415,
DOI, April 2009.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "Using Patterns for Faster and Scalable
Rewriting of Conjunctive Queries", in Proc. Alberto Mendelzon
Workshop on Foundation of Data Management (AMW), Arequipa,
Peru, May 12-15, 2009.
- J. Lai and N. Shiri. "A Unified Framework for Evaluating Deductive Databases with Uncertainty", in Proc. of 14th Int'l CSI Computer Conference (CSICC),
pp. 293-298, Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20-21, 2009.
- J. Lai and N. Shiri. "Query Processing and Optimization for
Logic Programs with Certainty Constraints", in Proc. of 22nd Int'l
FLAIRS Conference, pp. 575-576, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, May 19-21, 2009.
- A. Ketata, S. Mudur, and N. Shiri. "Dependable Performance Analysis for
Fuzzy Clustering of Web usage Data", IEEE Symposium on Computational
Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM), March 30-April 2,
Nashville, USA, 2009.
- V. Haarslev, H.I. Pai, and N. Shiri.
"Semantic Web Uncertainty Management", in Encyclopedia of Information
Science and Technology, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), 2nd Edition,
Idea Group Inc., pp. 3439-3444, 2009.
- A. Alasoud, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "An Empirical Comparison of
Ontology Matching Techniques". Journal of Information Science, 35(4), pp. 379-397, July 2009.
- P. Nguyen and N. Shiri. "Fast Correlation Analysis on Time Series
Datasets". In Proc. 17th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM), pp. 787-795, Napa Valley, California, Oct. 26-30, 2008.
- P. Nguyen and N. Shiri. "Polyhedral Transformation for Indexed Rank Order
Correlation Queries". Poster in Proc. 17th ACM Conf. on Information and
Knowledge Management (CIKM), Napa Valley, California, Oct. 26-30, 2008.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri. "Uncertainty Reasoning for
Ontologies with General TBoxes in Description Logics",. in Proc.
3rd Workshop on Uncertainty for the Semantic Web (URSW),
P.C.G. da Costa et al. (Eds.), LNAI 5327, pp. 385--402, Busan, Korea, 2008.
- C.N. Lian, M. Halachev, and N. Shiri.
"Searching for Supermaximal Repeats in Large DNA Sequences",
Communications in Computer and Information Science,
M. Elloumi et al. (Eds), Vol. 13, BIRD 2008, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
pp. 87-101, Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2008.
- M. Halachev and N. Shiri. "Fast Structured Motif Search in DNA Sequences",
Communications in Computer and Information Science,
M. Elloumi et al. (Eds), Vol. 13, BIRD 2008, Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
pp. 58-73, Vienna, Austria, July 7-9, 2008.
- N. Mohajerin and N. Shiri. "A
Top-Down Approach to Rewriting Conjunctive Queries Using Views", in
K.-D. Schewe and B. Thalheim (Eds.): SDKB 2008, LNCS 4925, pp. 180-198,
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Nantes, France, March 29, 2008.
- A. Alasoud, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "Effective Ontology
Matching Technique", in Proc. 17th Int'l Symp. on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'08), pp. 585-590, Toronto, Canada,
May 20-23, 2008.
- N. Shiri and Z.H. Zheng. "Optimizing Fixpoint Evaluation of Logic Programs
with Uncertainty", in Proc. 13 CSI Int'l Computer Conference (CSICC),
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS),
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Volume 6, pp. 50-60,
Kish, Iran, March 9-11, 2008.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "A Generalized Model for Mediator
Based Information Integration", in Proc. 11th IEEE Int'l
Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS),
Banff, Canada, Sept. 6-8, 2007.
- Srividya Kadiyala and Nematollaah Shiri. "A Compact Multi-Resolution
Index for Variable Length Queries in Time Series Databases",
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 15, pp. 131-147, 2008.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri.
"Optimizing tableau reasoning in ALC extended with uncertainty",
in Proc. 20th Int'l Workshop on Description Logics
(DL'07), Brixen-Bressanone, pp. 307-314, Italy, June 8-10, 2007.
- A. Alasoud, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "A Multi Level Matching
Algorithm for Combining Similarity Measures in Ontology Integration",
in ODBIS VLDB-Workshop Post-proceedings, LNCS 4623, Springer-Verlag,
ISSN 0302-9743, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 1-17, 2007.
- Xi Deng, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "Using Patterns to Explain
Inferences in ALCHI. Journal of Computational Intelligence,
Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 373-392, Blackwell Publishing, Boston MA, August 2007.
- Xi Deng, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "Measuring Inconsistencies
in Ontologies", in Proc. 4th European Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC'07), LNCS, Springer, Innsbruck, Austria, June 3-7, 2007.
- Jung Hwa Chae and Nematollaah Shiri. "A Description Logic
Framework for Access Control and Security in Object-Oriented Systems",
in Proc. Int'l Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS'07),
Springer, LNAI 4482, pp. 565-573, Toronto, Canada, May 14-16, 2007.
- Jung Hwa Chae and Nematollaah Shiri. "Formalization of RBAC
Policy with Object Class Hierarchy", in Proc. 3rd Information
Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2007), LNCS
4464, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-72159-8, Hong Kong, China,
May 7-9, 2007.
- M. Halachev, N. Shiri, and A. Thamildurai. "Efficient and Scalable
Indexing Techniques for Biological Sequence Data", in Proc.
1st Int'l Conf. on Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD),
LNBI 4414-0464, Springer, Berlin, Germany, March 12-14, 2007.
Also available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71233-6_36
- S. Kannappady, S. Mudur, N. Shiri. "Clickstream Visualization Based
on Usage Patterns", in Proc. 5th Indian Conf. on Computer Vision,
Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), Kalra, P., Peleg, S. (Eds.),
LNCS 4338, Springer, Madurai, India, Dec. 13-16, 2006.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S. Mudur. "Adaptive Web Usage Profiling",
in LNAI 4198, O. Nasraoui et al. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 119-138, 2006.
- S. Kannappady, S. Mudur, N. Shiri. "Visualization of Web Usage Patterns",
in Proc. 10th IEEE Int'l Database Engineering & Applications Symposium
(IDEAS), Delhi, Indea, December 11-14, 2006.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "A Unified Model for Information Integration",
poster in Proc. 14th Int'l Conf. on Cooperative Information
Systems (CoopIS), Montpellier, France, November 1-3, LNCS 4277, 2006.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S. Mudur. "Analysis of Fuzzy Clustering
Techniques Used for Web Personalization", in Proc. NAFIPS, Montreal,
Canada, June 3-6, 2006.
- S. Kannappady, K. Demirli, S. Mudur, N. Shiri. "Application of Fuzzy
Edge Detection for Fast Object-based Image Retrieval", in Proc.
NAFIPS, Montreal, Canada, June 3-6, 2006.
- Xi Deng, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "Resolution Based
Explanations for Reasoning in ALC", in Proc. Canadian Semantic
Web Working Symp. (CSWWS), June 6, Quebec City, Canada, 2006.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri. "Towards a
Formal System for Description Logics with Uncertainty",
in Proc. Canadian Semantic Web Working Symp. (CSWWS),
June 6, Quebec City, Canada, 2006.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri. "Uncertainty
Reasoning in Description Logics: A Generic Approach",
in Proc. 19th Int'l FLAIRS Conf.,
Melbourne Beach, Florida, May 11-13, 2006.
- A. Nemalhabib and N. Shiri. "CLUC: A Natural Clustering Algorithm
for Categorical Datasets based on Cohesion", in Proc. 21st ACM
Symp. on Applied Computing (SAC), Dijon, France, April 23-27,
2006.
- V. Haarslev, Hsueh-Ieng Pai, and N. Shiri. "
A Generic Framework for Description Logics with Uncertainty",
CEUR Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW),
Vol. 173, Galway, Ireland, Nov. 7, 2005.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "Containment of Conjunctive Queries with
Arithmetic Expressions", in Proc. 13th Int'l Conf. on
Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Agia Napa,
Cyprus, Oct. 31 - Nov. 4, 2005.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "Answering Queries in Heterogeneous
Information Systems", in Proc. ACM Workshop on Interoperability
of Heterogeneous Information Systems (IHIS), Bremen, Germany,
Nov. 4, 2005.
- M. Halachev, N. Shiri, and A. Thamildurai. "Exact Match Search
in Sequence Data Using Suffix Trees", in Proc. ACM 14th Int'l
Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
Bremen, Germany, Oct. 31 - Nov. 5, 2005.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S.P. Mudur. "Incremental Relational
Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering for Dynamic Web Usage Profiling",
in Proc. WEBKDD Workshop on Taming Evolving, Expanding and
Multi-faceted Web Clickstreams, Chicago, USA,
August 21, 2005.
- A. Alasoud, V. Haarslev, and N. Shiri. "A Hybrid Approach
for Ontology Integration", in Proc. VLDB Workshop on
Ontologies-based techniques for DataBases and Information Systems
(ODBIS), Trondheim, Norway, Sept. 2-3, 2005.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S.P. Mudur. "Improving the Effectiveness
of Model Based Recommender Systems for Highly Sparse and Noisy Web
Usage Data", In IEEE/WIC/ACM Int'l Conf. on Web Intelligence
(WI), Sept. 19-22, Compiegne, France, 2005.
- Deng X., Haarslev V., and Shiri N. "A Framework for Explaining
Reasoning in Description Logics", In AAAI Int'l Symp. on
"Explanation-Aware Computing", Washington DC, USA,
November 3-6, 2005.
- Deng X., Haarslev V., and Shiri N. "A Resolution Based Framework to
Explain Reasoning in Description Logics", In Int'l Workshop on
Description Logics (DL), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK,
July 26-28,2005.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S.P. Mudur. "A Fuzzy Hybrid
Collaborative Filtering Technique for Web Personalization",
In 3rd IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization (ITWP), August 1, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
- N. Shiri. "Expressive Power of Logic Frameworks with Uncertainty",
In 18th Int'l FLAIRS Conference, Special Track on Uncertainty
Reasoning, May 16-18, Florida, 2005.
- B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, S.P. Mudur. "An Efficient Technique
for Mining Usage Profiles using Relational Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering",
In IEEE Int'l Workshop on Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
and Integration (WIRI), April 8-9, Tokyo, Japan, 2005.
- N. Shiri and Ali Taghizadeh. "Lineage Tracing in Mediator-Based
Information Integration Systems", In 5th IEEE Int'l Symp.
and School on Advance Distributed Systems (ISSADS),
Jan. 24-28, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005.
- A. Kiani and N. Shiri. "A Framework for Information
Integration with Uncertainty", In 5th IEEE Int'l Symp.
and School on Advance Distributed Systems
(ISSADS), Jan. 24-28, LNCS 3563, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2005.
- Haarslev V., Lu Y., and Shiri N. "OntoXPL: Intelligent Exploration of OWL
Ontologies", In Proc. Int'l IEEE/WIC/ACM Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI),
September 20-24, Beijing, China, 2004.
- N. Shiri and Z.H. Zheng. "Challenges in Fixpoint Computation with
Multisets", in Proc. 3rd Int'l Symp. on Foundations of Information and
Knowledge Systems (FoIKS), pp. 273-290, LNCS 2942, Vienna, Austria, Feb. 17-20, 2004.