Boanerges Aleman-meza

CRISMA: Context and Ranking in SeMantic Associations (2008)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Willie Milnor

The focus of contemporary data and information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of data. Search engines have made good progress in the ability to...

Semantic Associations (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, Willie Milnor

• [1] formally defines Semantic Associations using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [2] • We focus on rho-Path (semantic connectivity) – Essentially find all paths between two entities...

Template Based Semantic Similarity for Security Applications (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, Satya Sanket Sahoo, I. Budak Arpinar

Today’s search technology delivers impressive results in finding relevant documents for given keywords. However many applications in various fields including genetics, pharmacy, social networks,...

CRISMA: Context and Ranking in SeMantic Associations (2008)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Willie Milnor

Abstract. Information retrieval over semantic metadata, has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. Discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...

Relationships in XML documents (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza

Semi-structured data can be written using XML format. XML was designed with the semi-structured data model in mind. XML syntax is defined in (reference) and easy to understand by humans (this is a...

Association Analytics for Network Connectivity in a Bibliographic and Expertise Dataset (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Sheron L. Decker, Delroy Cameron, I. Budak Arpinar

This chapter highlights the benefits of semantics for analysis of the collaboration network in a bibliography dataset. The metadata of publications can be used for extracting keywords and terms,...

Data Processing in Space, Time and Semantics Dimensions (2008)

Farshad Hakimpour, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Matthew Perry, Amit Sheth

Abstract. This work presents an experimental system for data processing in space, time and semantics dimensions using current Semantic Web technologies. The paper describes how we obtain geographic...

Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking 1 (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Discovering complex and meaningful relationships, which we call Semantic Associations, is an important challenge. Just as ranking of documents is a critical component of today’s search...

regulatory (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Yihai Yu, Jonathan Arnold, Thiab R. Taha

simulator for computing large ensembles of biochemical and gene

Context-Aware Semantic Association Ranking 1 (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Discovering complex and meaningful relationships, which we call Semantic Associations, is an important challenge. Just as ranking of documents is a critical component of today’s search...

Conflict of Interest • Should Arpinar review Verma’s paper? (2008)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

• Situation(s) that may bias a decision • Why it is important to detect COI? – for transparency in circumstances such as contract allocation, IPOs, corporate law, and peer-review of scientific...

A.P.: SwetoDblp Ontology of Computer Science Publications (submitted for publication, http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/projects/semdis/swetodblp/SwetoDbl p-AHAS06.pdf (2007)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Farshad Hakimpour, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Abstract. SwetoDblp is a large populated ontology with a shallow schema yet a large number of real-world instance data. We describe how such ontology is built from an XML source and how it can be...

Combining RDF vocabularies for expert finding (2007)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Uldis Bojars, Harold Boley, John G. Breslin, Malgorzata Mochol, Lyndon Jb Nixon, ...

Abstract. This paper presents a framework for the reuse and extension of existing, established vocabularies in the Semantic Web. Driven by the primary application of expert finding, we will explore...

SEMEF: A Taxonomy-Based Discovery of Experts, Expertise and Collaboration Networks (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Sheron L. Decker, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Finding relevant experts in research is often critical and essential for collaboration. Semantics can be useful in this process. In particular, a taxonomy of Computer Science topics,...

Collecting Expertise of Researchers for Finding Relevant Experts in a Peer-Review Setting. Paper presented at the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

We present ideas for determining the expertise of researchers across various areas of computer science and for finding relevant experts/reviewers in a peerreview setting. We explain how Semantic Web...

Collecting Expertise of Researchers for Finding Relevant Experts in a Peer-Review Setting. Paper presented at the 1st International ExpertFinder Workshop (2007)

Delroy Cameron, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

We present ideas for determining the expertise of researchers across various areas of computer science and for finding relevant experts/reviewers in a peerreview setting. We explain how Semantic Web...

Combining RDF vocabularies for expert finding (2007)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Uldis Bojars, Harold Boley, John G. Breslin, Malgorzata Mochol, Lyndon Jb Nixon, ...

Abstract. This paper presents a framework for the reuse and extension of existing, established vocabularies in the Semantic Web. Driven by the primary application of expert finding, we will explore...

Finding experts using Internet-based discussions in online communities and associated social networks (2007)

John G. Breslin, Uldis Bojars, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Harold Boley, Lyndon Jb Nixon, Axel Polleres, ...

This position paper on expert finding presents a conceptual framework for the reuse and interlinking of existing, well-established vocabularies in the Semantic Web. Such a framework can be used to...

Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text (2006)

Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Precisely identifying entities in web documents is essential for document indexing, web search and data integration. Entity disambiguation is the challenge of determining the correct entity...

Semantic analytics on social networks: experiences in addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection (2006)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...

Ontology-Driven Automatic Entity Disambiguation in Unstructured Text (2006)

Joseph Hassell, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar

Abstract. Precisely identifying entities in web documents is essential for document indexing, web search and data integration. Entity disambiguation is the challenge of determining the correct entity...

Semantic analytics on social networks: experiences in addressing the problem of conflict of interest detection (2006)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Li Ding, Pranam Kolari, Amit P. Sheth, ...

In this paper, we describe a Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships among potential reviewers and authors of scientific papers. This application discovers...

Semantic Analytics Visualization (2006)

Leonidas Deligiannidis, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza

Abstract. In this paper we present a new tool for semantic analytics through 3D visualization called “Semantic Analytics Visualization ” (SAV). It has the capability for visualizing ontologies...

An ontological approach to the document access problem of insider threat (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Phillip Burns, Matthew Eavenson, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Verification of legitimate access of documents, which is one aspect of the umbrella of problems in the Insider Threat category, is a challenging problem. This paper describes the research...

OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)

Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza

As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...

An ontological approach to the document access problem of insider threat (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Phillip Burns, Matthew Eavenson, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Verification of legitimate access of documents, which is one aspect of the umbrella of problems in the Insider Threat category, is a challenging problem. This paper describes the research...

An ontological approach to the document access problem of insider threat (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Phillip Burns, Matthew Eavenson, Amit Sheth

Abstract. Verification of legitimate access of documents, which is one aspect of the umbrella of problems in the Insider Threat category, is a challenging problem. This paper describes the research...

Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval...

Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications (2005)

A. Sheth, B. Aleman-Meza, F. S. Arpinar, Amit Sheth, C. Ramakrishnan, C. Bertram, ...

Public and private organizations have access to vast amount of internal, deep Web and open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into actionable and insightful...

Ranking Complex Relationships on the Semantic Web (2005)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Christian Halaschek-wiener, I. Budak Arpinar, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit Sheth

Abstract. The focus of contemporary Web information retrieval systems has been to provide efficient support for the querying and retrieval of relevant documents. More recently, information retrieval...

OntoQA: Metric-based ontology quality analysis (2005)

Samir Tartir, I. Budak Arpinar, Michael Moore, Amit P. Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza

As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When trying to reuse existing...

Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...

Trusted (2004)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Chris Halaschek

� Many new techniques and software tools from emerging Semantic Web (SW) community � Need a common infrastructure for testing � Need of an open and freely available ontology with a very large...

Ontology-Driven Web Services Composition (2004)

I. Budak Arpinar, Ruoyan Zhang, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Angela Maduko

Abstract. Discovering and composing individual Web Services into more complex yet new and more useful Web Processes is an important challenge. In this paper, we present three techniques for (semi)...

Semantic Association Identification and Knowledge Discovery for National Security Applications (2004)

Amit Sheth, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Clemens Bertram, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Chris Halaschek, ...

Abstract. Enterprises have access to vast amount of internal, deep Web and open Web information. Transforming this heterogeneous and distributed information into actionable and insightful information...

SWETO: Large-Scale Semantic Web Test-bed (2004)

Boanerges Aleman-meza, Chris Halaschek, Amit Sheth, I. Budak Arpinar, Gowtham Sannapareddy

The emergent Semantic Web community needs a common infrastructure for testing the scalability and quality of new techniques and software which use machine processable data. Since ontologies are a...

Discovering and ranking semantic associations over a large rdf metabase (2004)

Chris Halaschek, Boanerges Aleman-meza, I. Budak Arpinar, Amit P. Sheth

Information retrieval over semantic metadata has recently received a great amount of interest in both industry and academia. In particular, discovering complex and meaningful relationships among this...

Ontology-driven Web services composition platform (2004)

I. Budak Arpinar, Boanerges Aleman-meza, Ruoyan Zhang, Angela Maduko

Discovering and assembling individual Web Services into more complex yet new and more useful Web Processes is an important challenge. In this paper, we present techniques for (semi) automatically...

B.: Automatic composition of semantic web services (2003)

Ruoyan Zhang, I. Budak Arpinar, Boanerges Aleman-meza

With the growing number of Web services, importance of composing existing Web Services into more complex services in order to achieve new and more useful solutions is increasing. However, in order to...

Transaction Management for a Main-Memory Database (2002)

Piyush Burte, Boanerges Aleman-meza, D. Brent Weatherly, Rong Wu, Supervising Professor, John A. Miller

As part of research by members of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia, we have developed a Java-based Transaction Manager that fits into the multi-layered design of MMODB,...