Amélie Marian Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Rutgers University 110 Frelinghuysen Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019

Office: CoRE 324, Busch Campus Tel: +1 732 445 6450 x0636 Email: amelie cs.rutgers.edu Home page: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~amelie

Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006: 198:541 Database Systems.
Fall 2006: 198:336 Principles of Information and Data Management.
Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2006: 198:500 Readings in Data Management, Light Seminar.

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Databases (Demonstrations) (VLDB 2008)
Program Committee Member, 4th Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances on Preference Handling (MPREF 2008)
Program Committee Member, Second International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2008) 
Program Committee Member, 1st PhD Workshop in CIKM (PIKM 2007)
Program Committee Member, International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2007) (Infrastructure for Information Systems Track)
Program Committee Member, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Demonstrations) (SIGMOD 2007)  
Program Committee Member, First International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2007) 
Program Committee Member, ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2006)
Program Committee Member, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management  (CIKM 2006) (Database Track) 
Program Committee Member, International XML Database Symposium (XSym 2006)
Co-organizer of the Third New York Area DB/IR day, April 2006

• Data Corroboration:
  • Over Web Sources:
    Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources, Minji Wu, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2007), 2007.
    Microsoft Live Labs Search Award for the research proposal "The Truth Is out There: Aggregating Answers From Multiple Web Sources."  (Feature story)
  • For Data Cleaning:
    Circumventing Data Quality Problems Using Multiple Join Paths, Yannis Kotidis, Amélie Marian, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the First International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB), 2006.
     
• Semi-structured Data Scoring: Scoring mechanisms to rank (approximate) structural matches to semi-structured data queries, and efficient algorithms to identify the best structural matches.
  • In Personal Information Management Systems:
    Multi-Dimensional Search for Personal Information Management Systems, Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, to appear in Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT'08), 2008.
    Fuzzy Multi-Dimensional Search in the Wayfinder File System, Christopher Peery, Wei Wang, Amélie Marian, Thu D. Nguyen, to appear in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'08), 2008.
  • For XML Data:
    Structure and Content Scoring for XML, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas, Amélie Marian, Divesh Srivastava, David Toman,  in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '05), 2005.
     
• Top-k Query Processing: adaptive algorithms to efficiently identify a query's top-k matching objects, for different scenarios (multimedia, web services, XML).
  • Over Web Sources:
    Evaluating Top-k Queries over Web-Accessible Databases, Amélie Marian, Nicolas Bruno, Luis Gravano, in ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 29, no. 2, June 2004.
    Evaluating Top-k Queries over Web-Accessible Databases, Nicolas Bruno, Luis Gravano, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '02), 2002.
  • Over Multimedia Repositories:
    Optimizing Top-k Selection Queries over Multimedia Repositories, Surajit Chaudhuri, Luis Gravano, Amélie Marian, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 16, no. 8, Aug. 2004.
  • Over XML Data:
    Adaptive Processing of Top-k Queries in XML, Amélie Marian, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava, in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), 2005.
    
  
  Further details available on our RANK project page.

Past projects:

• XML Projection: a projection operator integrated in the Galax XQuery implementation project.
  Projecting XML Documents, Amélie Marian, Jérôme Siméon, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '03), 2003.
  
  
• XML Version Management: a change-centric model and diff tools (XyDiff) to identify and represent changes in XML documents.
  Detecting Changes in XML Documents, Grégory Cobéna, Serge Abiteboul, Amélie Marian, in Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '02), 2002 .
  Change-Centric Management of Versions in an XML Warehouse, Amélie Marian, Serge Abiteboul, Grégory Cobéna, Laurent Mignet , in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '01), 2001.

Biographical Sketch

Amélie Marian has been an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University since September 2005. Her research interests are in top-k query processing, XML query optimization, and XML and web data management. Amélie received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2005. From March 1999 to August 2000, Amélie was a member of the VERSO project at INRIA-Rocquencourt. She received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Université Paris Dauphine, France in 1998 and 1999, respectively. She is the recipient of a Microsoft Live Labs Award (2006) and a Google Research Award (2008).

Amelie Marian