News
Paper accepted in Information Systems
January 26, 2015
Our paper, Similarity Joins: Their Implementation and Interactions with Other Database Operators was accepted for publication in the Information Systems journal (Elsevier). This paper is co-authored by Dr. Yasin Silva and undergraduate students Spencer Pearson, Jaime Chon and Ryan Roberts.
Paper accepted at SISAP 2014
July 2, 2014
Our paper, Index-Based R-S Similarity Joins was accepted at the 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2014). In this paper, we present a general index-based approach to solve the Similarity Join problem between two relations. We look forward to presenting our work in SISAP 2014.
Best Paper Award - SISAP'13!
October 30, 2013
Our paper Database Similarity Join for Metric Spaces recently presented at the 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2013) has received a Best Paper award. Congratulations to all the co-authors, particularly to undergraduate students Spencer Pearson and Jason Cheney!
Presented at SISAP 2013
October 4, 2013
Dr. Yasin Silva and Spencer present their paper, Database Similarity Join for Metric Spaces, at the the 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2013) in A Coruña, Spain.
Paper accepted at SISAP 2013
July 5, 2013
Our paper, Database Similarity Join for Metric Spaces was accepted at the SISAP 2013 conference.
NCUIRE interview
March 7, 2013
Dr. Yasin Silva and Spencer were invited - along with other members of the NCUIRE undergraduate research program at ASU west - to participate in an interview about the SimDB project and the NCUIRE program.
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Poster presented at New College Open Door @ ASU West Spencer presented a poster entitled Exploiting Database Similarity Joins for Metric Spaces at the New College Open Door @ ASU West event. DBSimJoin presented at VLDB 2012 Dr. Silva and Spencer attended the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'12) in Istanbul, Turkey to present DBSimJoin (system demonstration). DBSimJoin is our implementation of a Similarity Join operator inside the PostgreSQL database. Spencer (left) and Dr. Silva, during the demo presentation Dr. Silva (left), Spencer (center) at the VLDB banquet, along with Jason Reed Project Featured in ASU Newsletter Our work was featured in the ASU West newsletter. The article talks about Spencer's participation in this project under ASU West's NCUIRE program. Spencer obtained the VLDB 2012 Travel Fellowship Spencer received the VLDB travel fellowship award. This award will allow him to attend and present at the VLDB’12 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey. We thank the VLDB travel fellowship committee for their support! Demo paper accepted at VLDB 2012 Our paper, Exploiting Database Similarity Joins for Metric Spaces was accepted to the demo track of VLDB 2012 NCUIRE Fellowship Award
March 2, 2013
September 4, 2012
September 4, 2012
Newsletter Article
August 5, 2012
May 29, 2012
May 2, 2012
Poster presented at ASU New College Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Projects Expo
April 11, 2012
Presented a poster entitled Similarity Join Database Operator for Multi-Dimensional Data at the Undergraduate Student Expo
Poster presented at NCUIRE Ex-Static event
February 25th, 2012
Presented a poster entitled Similarity Join Database Operator for Multi-Dimensional Data at the NCUIRE EX-Static Event
Poster presented at Inquire About NCUIRE
September 21, 2011
Presented a poster entitled Similarity Join Database Operator for Multi-Dimensional Data at the Inquire About NCUIRE open house event
Poster presented at New College Spring Expo
April 21, 2011
Presented a poster entitled Similarity Join Database Operator for Multi-Dimensional Data at the New College Spring Expo
NCUIRE Scholarship Award
May 17, 2011