Wen-syan Li

Bio

Dr. Wen-Syan Li received his Ph.D and MS in Computer Science from Northwestern University. He also holds an MBA degree in Finance. Before joining SAP Research Center, China, he was a senior researcher in Computer Science at IBM Almaden Research Center. At IBM Almaden Research Center, he conducted research in the areas of distributed information systems and grid computing. Started from 2006, he was assigned to explore business opportunities in China by adapting IBM technology for emerging and high profile clients in the financial service and healthcare sectors. He received an IBM Research Division Award in 2007 for leading a successful FOAK (First of a Kind) project on "Smart Database" with Taikang Life in China. Before joining IBM Research, he was with NEC Research and NEC Venture Development Center in Silicon Valley where he invented and developed NEC's CachePortal web acceleration technology for high performance e-commerce applications. CachePortal was the winner of the 2004 Best of CeBIT America Award in enterprise software and deployed globally throughout MARSYS's worldwide data centers.

Research Interests

Dr. Li's research interests include information management, distributed computing, business intelligence, and service oriented computing. He has published more than 100 journal articles and conference papers in these areas as well as holds 18 granted US patents. He enjoys mentoring young hard-working researchers and exploring emerging areas, such as SaaS, from both technology and business aspects.

Personal

I was born in Taiwan and is a native speaker of Chinese. I lived in US for almost 20 years (Chicago, New York, and Silicon Valley) before moving to Shanghai. I enjoys Chinese culture and usually stays in Hangzhou during the weekend for its Longjing tea, local cuisine, and the beautiful West Lake. I like 50's~60's classic Jazz music with a collection of 1000+ CDs ("bad" hobby from my student time). My favorite artists are Duke Ellington, Bill Evans Trio and Modern Jazz Quartet and favorite Jazz clubs are Fitzgerald in Chicago, Yoshi's in Oakland, California and Village Vanguard in New York City. I like the art of bartending and preparing Japanese sushi (once took some courses to really apprecite it). In the evening and weekend, I often watch NHK Taiga Drama Series. I also enjoy traveling to countries w different culture than the US's.

Granted US Patents

1. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "System and Methods for Invalidation to Enable Caching of Dynamically Generated Content", US Patent No. 7,228,318, issued on June 5, 2007.

2. K. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "System and Method for Intelligent Load Distribution to Minimize Response Time for Web Content Access", US Patent No. 7,054,931, issued on May 30, 2006.

3. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "System and Methods for Invalidation to Enable Caching of Dynamically Generated Content", US Patent No. 6,889,234, issued on May 2, 2005.

4. Wen-Syan Li, Kunihiro Taniguchi, and Atsuhiro Tanaka, "System and Method for Intelligent Web Content Fetch and Delivery of Any Whole and Partial Undelivered Objects in Ascending Order of Object Size", US Patent No. 6,854,018 issued on February 8, 2005.

5. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Yi-Leh Wu, "Document Retrieval by Information Unit", US Patent No. 6,847,960 issued on January 25, 2005.

6. Wen-Syan Li, " System and Method for Efficient Content Delivery Using Redirection Pages Received from the Content Provider Original Site and the Mirror Sites", US Patent No. 6,799,21 issued on Sep. 28 2004.

7. Wen-Syan Li, "System and Method for Automated Construction of URL. Cookie, and Database Query Mapping," US Patent No. 6,799,21 issued on Sep. 28 2004.

8. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Method and Apparatus for Intelligent Network Bandwidth and System Resource Utilization for Web Content Fetch and Refresh", US Patent No. 6,701,316 issued on March 2, 2004.

9. Wen-Syan Li, " Advanced Web Bookmark Database System", US Patent No. 6,725,227 issued on April 20, 2004.

10. Wen-Syan Li, " Focused Search Engine and Method", US Patent No. 6,691,108 issued on February 10, 2004.

11. Wen-Syan Li, Okan Kolak, and Quoc Vu, "Method of Defining and Utilizing Logical Domains to Partition and to Reorganize Physical Domains", US Patent No. 6,647,381 issued on November 11, 2003.

12. Wen-Syan Li and Quoc Vu, "System for Personalizing, Organizing and Managing Web Information", US Patent No. 6,631,496 issued on October 7, 2003.

13. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "System and Method for Intelligent Caching and Refresh of Dynamically Generated and Static Web Content", US Patent No. 6,591,266 issued on July 8, 2003.

14. Wen-Syan Li and K. Selcuk Candan, "System and Method Employing Random Walks for Mining Web Page Associations and Usage to Optimize User-oriented Web Page Refresh and Pre-fetch Scheduling", US Patent No. 6,549,896 issued on April 15, 2003.

15. Wen-Syan Li, "Supporting Web-query Expansion Efficiently Using Multi-granularity Indexing and Query Processing", US Patent No. 6,480,843 issued on November 12, 2002.

16. Quoc Vu, Wen-Syan Li, and Edward Chang, "Personalized Navigation Trees", US Patent No. 6,393,427 issued on May 21, 2002.

17. Wen-Syan Li and K. Selcuk Candan, "Method and Apparatus for Facilitating Query Reformulation", US Patent No. 6,175,829 issued on January 16, 2001.

18. Wen-Syan Li and K. Selcuk Candan, "Method and Apparatus for Facilitating Query Reformulation", US Patent No. 5,930,783 issued on July 27, 1999.

Publications

Journal articles

1. Rafae Batti, Dengfeng Gao,Wen-Syan Li, "Enabling Policy-Based Access Control in Business Intellgence Applications", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science, in press.

2. Haifeng Jiang, Dengfeng Gao, Wen-Syan Li, "Improving Parallelism of Federated Query Processing", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science, 64(3): 511-533, Elsevier Science, March 2008.

3. K. Selcuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Improving Response Time of Application Delivery Networks", in International Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), 8(3), 181-208, World Scientific Publishing, 2007.

4. Wen-Syan Li, Divyakant Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan, Yusuf Akca, and Murat Kantarcioglu, "Active Network for Live Streaming Media Delivery", in International Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), 8(1), 45-74, World Scientific Publishing, 2007.

5. Wen-Syan Li, Daniel C. Zilio, Vishal S. Batra, Calisto Zuzarte, and Inderpal Narang, "Load Balancing and Data Placement for Multi-tiered Database Systems", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 62(3): 523-546, Elsevier Science, September 2007.

6. Wen-Syan Li, Kemal Altintas, and Murat Kantarc?oglu, "On Demand Synchronization and Load Distribution for Database Grid-based Web Applications", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 51(3): 295-323, Elsevier Science, 2004.

7. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Wei-Kuang Huang, "Acceleration and Monitoring of Data Center- Hosted Distributed Database-driven Web Applications", in Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 12(2), Sage Publications, September 2004.

8. Wen-Syan Li, Wang-Pin Hsiung and K. Selcuk Candan, "Multi-tiered Cache Management and Acceleration for Database-driven Web Sites", in Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, 12(2), Sage Publications, September 2004.

9. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po,Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Freshness-driven Adaptive Caching for Dynamic Content Web Sites", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 47(2):269-296, Elsevier Science, November 2003.

10. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "Reasoning forWeb Document Associations and Its Applications in Site Map Construction", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 43(2):121-150, Elsevier Science, November 2002.

11. Wen-Syan Li, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Evaluations of Architectural Designs and Implementation for Database-Driven Web Sites", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 43(2):151-177, Elsevier Science, November 2002.

12. Necip Fazil Ayan, Wen-Syan Li, and Okan Kolak, "Automating Extraction of Logical Domains in a Web Site", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 43(2):179-205, Elsevier Science, November 2002.

13. Wen-Syan Li, Selcuk Candan, Quoc Vu, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Query Relaxation by Structure and Semantics for Retrieval of Logical Web Documents", in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 14(4):768-791, IEEE, July/August 2002.

14. Wen-Syan Li, Junho Shim, and K. Selcuk Candan, "WebDB: A System for Querying Semistructured Data on the Web", in Journal of Visual Languages and Computing special issue on Multimedia Languages for the Web, 13(1):3-33, Academic Press, February 2002.

15. Selcuk Candan andWen-Syan Li, "Similarity-Based Ranking and Query Processing in Multimedia Databases", in International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, 3(1):30-51, Springer-Verlag, February 2001.

16. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "Facilitating Facilitating Multimedia Database Query and Exploration", in VLDB Journal, 9(4):312-326, Springer, 2001.

17. Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Wen-Syan Li, and Yoshinori Hara, "Integrating Image Matching and Classification for Multimedia Retrieval on the Web", in International Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, 11(3):295-309, Kluwer, 2000.

18. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "On Similarity Measures for Multimedia Database Applications", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 35(3):259-298, Elsevier Science, 2000.

19. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "SEMINT: A Tool for Identifying Attribute Correspondences in Heterogeneity Databases Based on Neural Networks", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science, 33(1):49-84, April 2000.

20. Wen-Syan Li and Divyakant Agrawal, "Supporting Web Query Expansion Efficiently Multi-Granularity Indexing and Query Processing", in International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 35(3):239-257, Elsevier Science, 2000.

21. Wen-Syan Li and Selcuk Candan, "Integrating Content Search with Structure Analysis for Hypermedia Retrieval and Management", in ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, February 2000.

22. Wen-Syan Li, Chris Clifton, and Shu-Yao Liu "Database Integration Using Neural Networks: Implementation and Experience", in International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, 2(1):73-96, Springer-Verlag, February 2000.

23. Wen-Syan Li and K. Selcuk Candan, "SEMCOG: An Object-based Image Database System and Its Extensions to Video Data", in Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS), 5(3), John Wiley, New York, 1999.

24. Wen-Syan Li, Quoc Vu, Divyakant Agrawal, Yoshinori Hara, and Hajime Takano, "PowerBookmarks: A System for Personalizable Web Information Organization, Sharing, and Management", in Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 31(11-16):1375-1389, Elsevier Science, 1999.

25. Wen-Syan Li, Yi-Leh Wu, Junho Shim, Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Divyakant Agrawal, Yoshinori Hara, Reiko Ito, Yutaka Kimura, Kazuyuki Shimazu, and Yukiyoshi Saito, "WebDB Hypermedia Database System", in the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Transactions on Information Systems, 82(1), January 1999.

26. Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Wen-Syan Li, Yusaku Okamura, and Yoshinori Hara, "Toward Supporting Object-based Navigation in Multimedia WEB Databases", in Journal of Theory and Practice of Object Systems (TAPOS), 4(4):261-283, John Wiley, 1998.

27. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "Hierarchical Image Modeling for Object-based Media Retrieval", International Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering, 27(2):139-176, Elsevier Science, July 1998.

28. Wen-Syan Li and Junho Shim, "Facilitating Complex Web Queries through Visual Interfaces and Query Relaxation", in Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, 30(1-7):149-159, Elsevier Science, 1998.

29. Peter Scheuermann, Wen-Syan Li, and Chris Clifton, "Multidatabase Query Processing with Uncertainty in Global Keys and Attribute Values", Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 49(3):283-301, John Wiley, March 1998.

30. Nabil R. Adam, Richard D. Holowczak, and Wen-Syan Li, "Object Manifestations in Medical Imaging Applications", in Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 11(4), Elsevier Science, July 1996.

31. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "Dynamic Integration in Multidatabase Systems", Journal of Database Management, 7(1), Ideal Group, January 1996.

Book chapters

1. J.-P. Prost, L. Berman, R. Chang, M. Devarakonda, M. Haynos, W.-S. Li, Y.Li, I. Narang, J. Unger, and D. Verma, "Developing Innovative Technologies for Commercial Grids", Chapter in Grid Computing: New Frontiers of High Performance Computing, Elsevier Publisher, 2005.

2. K. Selcuk Candan, Yusuf and Wen-Syan Li, "Resource-Aware Adaptive Multicasting in a Shared Proxy Overlay Network", Chapter in Web content Delivery, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2005.

3. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Acceleration of Data Center-Hosted Distributed Database-driven Web Applications", Chapter in Cooperative Internet Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2003.

4. Wang-Pin Hsiung, Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Multi-tiered Cache Management for E-Commerce Web Sites" Chapter in Cooperative Internet Computing, Kluwer Academic Publisher.

5. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "Integration of Database and Internet Technologies for Scalable Endto-end E-commerce Systems", 2003. Chapter in Shi Nansi (Ed.) Architectural Issues in Web-enabled e-Business, Idea Group Publishing, December 2001.

6. Wen-Syan Li, Yi-Leh Wu, Corey Bufi, Kevin Chang, Divyakant Agrawal, and Yoshinori Hara, "Power-Bookmarks: An Advanced Web Bookmark Database System and its Information Sharing and Management", in Information Organization and Databases, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2000.

7. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search", in Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Number 1274, Springer, 1997.

Invited papers

1. Wen-Syan Li, "Focused Search Engines", in Proceedings of 1999 Japan ACM SIGMOD Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 16, 1999.

2. Wen-Syan Li, "Integration of Content Search and Structural Analysis for Web Document Retrieval", in Proceedings of 1999 Data Engineering Workshop, Kagoshima, Japan, March 4-6, 1999.

3. Wen-Syan Li and Yi-Leh Wu, "Query Relaxation By Structure for Document Retrieval on the Web" in Proceedings of 1998 Advanced Database Symposium, Japan, Dec 1998.

4. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search", in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on the Worldwide Computing and Its Applications'97 (WWCA97), March 10-11, 1997, Tsukuba, Japan.

Refereed conference papers

1. Vishal Batra, Wen-Syan Li, and Sumit Negi, "J2EE Architecture for Database Cluster-based High Volume E-Commerce Web Applications", in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 17-20, 2008, Beijing, China.

2. Thomas Phan and Wen-Syan Li, "Dynamic Materialization of Query Views for Data Warehouse Workloads", in Proceedings of the 24st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 7-12, 2008. Cancun, Mexico.

3. Thomas Phan and Wen-Syan Li, "Load Distribution of Analytical Query Workloads for Database Cluster Architectures", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 25-30 2008, Nantes, France.

4. Wen-Syan Li, Dengfeng Gao, Rafae Bhatti, Inderpal Narang, Hirofumi Matsuzawa, Masayuki Numao, Masahiro Ohkawa, and Takeshi Fukuda, "Deadline and QoS Aware DataWarehouse", in Proceedings of the 33th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), p.1418-1421, September 2007. (demonstration)

5. Haifeng Jiang, Dengfeng Gao, and Wen-Syan Li, "Exploiting Correlation and Parallelism for Materialized- View Recommendation in Distributed Data Warehouses", in Proceedings of the 23st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), p.276-285, April 15-20, 2007. Istanbul, Turkey.

6. Thomas Phan and Wen-Syan Li, "Heuristics-based Scheduling of Composite Web Service Workloads", in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2006), p.30-35, 2006, Melbourne, Australia.

7. Wen-Syan Li, Daniel Zilio, Vishal S. Batra, Mahadevan Subramanian, Calisto Zuzarte, and Inderpal Narang, "Load Balancing for Multi-tiered Database Systems through Autonomic Placement of Materialized Views", in Proceedings of the 22st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

8. Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, Wei Han, and Inderpal Narang, "QoS-based Data Access and Placement for Federated Systems", in Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Sep. 2005, Trondheim, Norway. (demonstration)

9. Radu Sion, Ramesh Natarajan, Inderpal Narang, Wen-Syan Li, Thomas Phan, "XG: A Data-Driven Computation Grid for Enterprise-Scale Mining", in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), p.828-837, August 22-26, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark.

10. Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, Wei Han, K. Seluk Candan, and Inderpal Narang, "Load and Network Aware Query Routing for Information Integration", in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), p. 927-938, 5-8 April 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

11. Wen-Syan Li, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, K. Seluck Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Challenges and Practices in Deploying Web Acceleration Solutions for Distributed Enterprise Systems", in Processing of the 13th International Conference on World-Wide Web Conference (WWW'2004), May 17-22, 2003, New York City, New York, USA.

12. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Seluk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal, Yusuf Akca, Kunihiro Taniguchi, "CachePortal II: Acceleration of Very Large Scale Data Center-Hosted Database-driven Web Applications" in Proceedings of 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2003), p.1109-1112, September 9-12, 2003 Berlin, Germany. (demonstration description)

13. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Seluck Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Engineering and Hosting Adaptive Freshness-sensitive Web Applications on Data Centers" in Processing of the 12th International Conference on World-Wide Web Conference (WWW'2003), p.587-598, May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

14. Junichi Tatemura, Wang-Pin Hsiung, and Wen-Syan Li, "Acceleration of Web Service Workflow Execution through Edge Computing" in Processing of the 12th International Conference on World-Wide Web Conference (WWW'2003) (Alternative Track), May 20-24, 2003, Budapest, Hungary.

15. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Seluck Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Freshness-driven Adaptive Caching for Dynamic Content" in Processing of the 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2003), p.203-212, March 26-28, 2003, Kyoto, Japan.

16. Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, Wang-Pin Hsiung, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Acceleration of Data Center-Hosted Distributed Database-driven Web Applications", in Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2002), August 18-19, 2002, Hong Kong, China.

17. Wang-Pin Hsiung, Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Multi-tiered Cache Management for E-Commerce Web Sites", in Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC 2002), August 18-19, 2002, Hong Kong, China.

18. Wen-Syan Li,Wang-Pin Hsiung, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Radu Sion, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal, and K. Selcuk Candan, "Issues and Evaluations of Caching Solutions for Web Application Acceleration", in Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2002), p.1019-1030, August 20-23, 2002 Hong Kong, China.

19. K. Selcuk Candan, Divyakant Agrawal, Wen-Syan Li, Oliver Po, and Wang-Pin Hsiung, "View Invalidation for Dynamic Content Caching in Multi-tiered Architectures", in Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2002), p.562-573, August 20-23, 2002 Hong Kong, China.

20. Wen-Syan Li, Selcuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal "Engineering High Performance Database-Driven E-commerce Web Sites Through Dynamic Content Caching", in Proceedings of DEXA 2nd International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, p.250-259, Munich, Germany, September 4-6, 2001.

21. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li "DiscoveringWeb Document Associations forWeb Site Summarization", in Proceedings of DEXA 3rd International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery, p.152-161, Munich, Germany, September 5-7, 2001.

22. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Oliver Po, Divyakant Agrawal, Qiong Luo, Wei-Kuang Wayne Huang, Yusuf Akca, and Cemal Yilmaz, "CachePortal: Technology for Accelerating Database-driven E-commerce Web Sites, in Proceedings of 27th Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'2001) Conference, p.699-700, September 11-14, 2001, Rome, Italy. (demonstration)

23. Selcuk Candan, Wen-Syan Li, Qiong Luo, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Divyakant Agrawal, "Enabling Dynamic Content Caching for Database-DrivenWeb Sites", in Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD Conference, p.532-543, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2001.

24. Wen-Syan Li, Selcuk Candan, Quoc Vu, and Divyakant Agrawal, "Retrieval and Organization of Web Documents by Information Unit", in Proceedings of the 10th World Wide Web Conference, p.230-244, May 2001, Hong Kong, China.

25. Wen-Syan Li, Necip Fazil Ayan, Okan Kolak, and Quoc Vu, "Constructing Multi-Granular and Topic- Focused Web Site Maps", in Proceedings of the 10th World Wide Web Conference (WWW10), p.343-354, May 2001, Hong Kong, China.

26. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "Discovering Web Document Associations for Web Site Summarization", in Proceedings of the 10th World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, China, May 2001. (poster session)

27. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, Wang-Pin Hsiung, Divyakant Agrawal, Qiong Luo, Wei-Kuang Wayne Huang, Yusuf Akca, Cemal Y?lmaz, "Web Acceleration for Electronic Commerce Applications", in Proceedings of the 10th World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, China, May 2001. (poster session)

28. Selcuk Candan and Wen-Syan Li, "Using RandomWalks for MiningWeb document Associations", in Proceedings of the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'2000), Kyoto, Japan, April 18-20, 2000.

29. Wen-Syan Li, Okan Kolak, Quoc Vu, and Hajime Takano, "Defining Logical Domains in a Web Site", in Proceedings of 2000 ACM Hypertext Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA, May 30-June 3, 2000.

30. Okan Kolak and Wen-Syan Li, "On Ranking and Organizing Web Query Results", in Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX), Chicago, Illinois USA, November 8, 1999.

31. Vadim Katz and Wen-Syan Li, "Topic Distillation on Hierarchically Categorized Web Documents", in Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering (KDEX), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 8, 1999.

32. Wen-Syan Li, Quoc Vu, Divyakant Agrawal, Yoshinori Hara, and Hajime Takano, "PowerBookmarks: A System for Personalizable Web Information Organization, Sharing, and Management", in Proceedings of 8th International World-Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999.

33. Quoc Vu, Wen-Syan Li, and Edward Chang, "On Constructing Personalized Navigation Trees for Web Documents" in Proceedings of 8th International World-Wide Web Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 1999.

34. Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea, Wen-Syan Li, and Yoshinori Hara, "Integrating Image Matching and Classification for Multimedia Retrieval on the Web", in Proceedings of 1999 IEEE International conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Florence, Italy, June 7-11, 1999.

35. Wen-Syan Li et. al "PowerBookmarks: A System for PersonalizableWeb Information Organization, Sharing, and Management" in Proceedings of 1999 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, May 31 - June 3, 1999.

36. Wen-Syan Li, Yi-Leh Wu, Corey Bufi, Kevin Chang, Divyakant Agrawal, and Yoshinori Hara, "Power-Bookmarks: An Advanced Web Bookmark Database System and its Information Sharing and Management", in Proceeding of the 5th International Conference of Foundations of Data Organization (FODO'98), Kobe, Japan, Nov. 12-14, 1998.

37. Wen-Syan Li, Junho Shim, K. Selcuk Candan, and Yoshinori Hara, "WebDB: A Web Query System and its Modeling, Language, and Implementation" in Proceedings of 1998 IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, April 1998.

38. Wen-Syan Li and Junho Shim, "Facilitating Complex Web Queries through Visual Interfaces and Query Relaxation", in Proceedings of the 7th World-Wide Web Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, April 1998.

39. Wen-Syan Li and K. Selcuk Candan, "SEMCOG: A Hybrid Object-based Image Database System and Its Modeling, Language, and Query Processing", in Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference of Data Engineering, Orlando, FL, USA, Feb 23-26, 1998.

40. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulation", in Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'97), p. 538-547, Athens, Greece, August 25-29, 1997.

41. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "IFQ: A Visual Query Interface and Query Generator for Object-based Media Retrieval", in Proceedings of 1997 IEEE Multimedia Systems and Computing Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 1997.

42. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "SEMCOG: An Object-based Image Retrieval System and Its Visual Query Interface", in Proceedings of 1997 ACM SIGMOD Conference, P.521-524, Tucson, AZ, USA, May 1997.

43. Wen-Syan Li, Yoshinori Hara, Nancy Fix, Selcuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Sougata Mukherjea "Brokerage Architecture for Stock Photo Industry", in Proceedings of IEEE RIDE'97, UK, April 1997.

44. K. Hirata, S. Mukherjea, Y. Okamura, Wen-Syan Li, Y. Hara, "Object-based Navigation: An Intuitive Navigation Style for Content-oriented Integration Environment", in Proceedings of 1997 ACM Hypertext Conference, UK, April 1997.

45. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "IFQ: A Visual Query Interface for Object-based Image Retrieval" in Proceedings of 1997 ACM CHI Conference, Atlantic, GA, USA, March 1997.

46. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan, K. Hirata and Yoshinori Hara, "A Hybrid Approach to Multimedia Database Systems through Integration of Semantics and Media-based Search", in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, T.Masuda, Y.Masunaga, M.Tsukamoto (Eds.), Vol. 1274, P. 182-197, August, 1997.

47. Wen-Syan Li, K. Selcuk Candan and K. Hirata, "SEMCOG: An Integration of SEMantics and COGnition-based Approaches for Image Retrieval", in Proceedings of 1997 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing Special Track on Database Technology, San Jose, CA, USA, February 28-March 2, 1997.

48. Wen-Syan Li and Richard D. Holowczak, "Constructing Information Systems Based on Schema Reuse", in Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'96), Rockville, Maryland, USA, November 12 - 16, 1996.

49. Nabil R. Adam, Vijay Atluri, and Wen-Syan Li, "Toward High Performance Clinical Information Systems", in Proceedings of the Second Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, Minitrack on Heterogeneous Database Interoperability, Phoenix, Arizona, August 16-18, 1996.

50. Lawrence Henschen, Chris Fernandes, Tania Neild, and Wen-Syan Li, "Modeling Attribute Correspondences in Multidatabase Systems", in Proceedings of Intelligent Information Management Systems International Conference (IIMS'96), June 1996.

51. Peter Scheuermann, Wen-Syan Li, and Chris Clifton, "Dynamic Integration and Query Processing with Ranked Role Sets", in Proceedings of First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'96), Brussels, Belgium, June 19-21, 1996.

52. Richard D. Holowczak andWen-Syan Li, "A Survey on Attribute Correspondence and Heterogeneity Metadata", in Proceedings of the First IEEE Metadata Conference, April 16-18, 1996.

53. Wen-Syan Li, "Multimedia Synchronization and Usage in Digital Libraries," in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST'96), Chicago, IL, April 6, 1996.

54. Chris Clifton and Wen-Syan Li, "Classifying Software Components Using Design Characteristics", in Proceedings of the IEEE 10th Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (KBSE-95), Boston, MA, November 12-15, 1995.

55. Wen-Syan Li, "Source Modeling and Data Integration in Digital Libraries", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries, Ibaraki, Japan, Aug. 22-25, 1995.

56. Chris Fernandes and Wen-Syan Li, "Resolving Keyword Abbreviation Heterogeneity Using Gene Matching", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries, Ibaraki, Japan, Aug. 22-25, 1995.

57. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "Semint: A System Prototype for Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases," in Proceedings of 1995 ACM SIGMOD Conference, San Jose, CA, May 23-25, 1995.

58. Wen-Syan Li, "Knowledge Gathering and Matching in Heterogeneous Databases," in Proceedings of AAAI 1995 Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, Stanford University, Stanford, California, March 27-29, 1995.

59. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "Experiences with Semint: Automated Semantic Integration," in Proceedings of 11th International Conference On Advanced Science and Technology (ICAST'95), University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, March 25, 1995.

60. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "Semantic Integration in Heterogeneous Databases Using Neural Networks", in Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Very Large Data bases, pages 1-12, Santiago, Chile, September 12-15 1994.

61. Wen-Syan Li and Chris Clifton, "Using Field Specification to Determine Attribute Equivalence in Heterogeneous Databases," in Proceedings of IEEE Third International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering - Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, pages 174-177, Vienna, Austria, April 1993.