Stuart E. Madnick – Recent Papers  1995-2003

 

1995:

            "Why Not One Big Database?  Principles for Data Ownership" (with M. Van Alstyne and E. Brynjolfsson), Decision Support Systems, Vol 15, December 1995, pp. 267-284. [SWP #3695, CISL #94-03]

 

1996:

            "Are We Moving Toward an Information SuperHighway or a Tower of Babel?  The Challenge of Large-Scale Semantic Heterogeneity", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, February 1996, pp.2-8  [also reprinted in 21st  (a Web 'Zine at http://www.vxm.com/), Vol 1, No. 6, April 1996, pp. Speed 1-10. [SWP #3888, CISL #96-01]

            “The Context Interchange Approach to Large Scale Data Integration:  Benefits and Challenges” (with j. Lee and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering, August 1996.

            "Conceptualizing Semantic Interoperability:  A Perspective from the Knowledge Level" (with J. Lee and M. Siegel), International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems: [Special Issue on Formal Methods in Cooperative Information Systems], Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1996.

            "Resolving Context Heterogeneity: Applying Insights from Semantics and Ontology" (with J. Lee), Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology & Systems, December 1996.

            "Lessons Learned from Modeling the Dynamics of Software Development" (with T. Abdel-Hamid), Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 12, December 1989, pp. 1426-1438, 1455.  [SWP # 2069-88; CISR No. 184]  also as Chapter 3, in Software Project Management: Readings and Cases,(ed. Chris Kemerer), Richard D. Irwin, 1996.

            "Database in the Internet Age", Database Programming & Design, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1997, pp. 28-33.

            "Integrating Information from Global Systems: Challenges of Effectively Exploiting the Information SuperHighway", to appear in Journal of Organizational Computing

            “Context Interchange Network Prototype” (with A. Darawala, C. Goh, S. Hofmeister, and M. Siegel) in Database Applications Semantics, Chapman & Hall (London, UK), October 1996 [SWP #3797, CISL #95-01].

            "Conceptualizing Semantic Interoperability:  A Perspective from the Knowledge Level" (with J. Lee and M. Siegel), International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems: [Special Issue on Formal Methods in Cooperative Information Systems], Vol. 5, No. 4, December 1996.

            "Resolving Context Heterogeneity: Applying Insights from Semantics and Ontology" (with J. Lee), Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology & Systems, December 1996.

 

1997:

            "Database in the Internet Age", Database Programming & Design, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1997, pp. 28-33.

            “The Context Mediator Prototype” (with S. Bressan, C. Goh, K. Fynn, M. Jakobisiak, K. Hussein, H. Kon, T. Lee, T. Pena, J. Qu, A. Shum, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘97), February 1997 [SWP #3940, CISL #97-02].

            “Overview of a Prolog Implementation of the COntext INterchange Mediator” (with S. Bressan, K. Fynn, C. Goh, T. Pena, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Applications of Prolog, London, England, April 1997 [SWP #3980, CISL #97-13].

            “A Procedure for Mediation of Queries to Sources in Disparate Context” (with S. Bressan, C.H. Goh, T. Lee, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the International Logic Programming Symposium, October 1997 [SWP #3964, CISL #97-09].

            “Incorporating Generalized Quantifiers into Description Logic for Representing Data Source Contents” (with S.Y. Tu), Proceedings of the IFIP 2.6 Conference on Database Semantics, October 1997 [SWP #3998, CISL #98-01].

            “Discovering and Reconciling Semantic Conflicts: A Data Mining Perspective” (with H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, D.W. Cheung), Proceedings of the IFIP 2.6 Conference on Database Semantics, October 1997 [SWP #3957, CISL #97-04].

            "Integrating Information from Global Systems: Challenges of Effectively Exploiting the Information SuperHighway", to appear in Journal of Organizational Computing

            “The Elusive Silver Lining: How We Fail to Learn from Software Development Failures” (with T.K. Abdel-Hamid), republished in Modelling for Management I: Simulation in Support of Systems Thinking, (Dartmouth Publishing Company, Ltd; Hants, England), 1997, pp. 443-452.

            “Lessons Learned from Modeling the Dynamics of Software Development” (with T.K. Abdel-Hamid), republished in Software Project Management: Readings and Cases, (Irwin Books/McGraw-Hill, Chicago), 1997, pp. 144-163.

 

1998:

            “Context Interchange on Wall Street” (with A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS’98), September 1998, pp.271-279.

            “Source Attribution for Querying Against Semi-Structured Documents” (With T. Lee and S. Bressan), accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM’98), Washington, DC, November 6, 1998.

            “Using an Active Conceptual Model for Mediating Analytic Information Exchange in the Fixed Income Securities Industry” (with A. Moulton, S. Bressan, and M. Siegel), April, 1998, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'98), Singapore, November 1998.  [SWP #4023, CISL #98-04].

            “Context Interchange: New Features and Formalisms for the Intelligent Integration of Information” (with C.H. Goh, S. Bressan, M. Siegel), accepted for publication in the Transactions on Office Information Systems [SWP #3941, CISL #97-03].

“Incorporating Generalized Quantifiers into Description Logic for Representing Data Source Contents” (with S.Y. Tu), in Data Mining and Reverse Engineering: Searching for Semantics, Chapman & Hall, 1998 [SWP #3998, CISL #98-01].

            “Discovering and Reconciling Semantic Conflicts: A Data Mining Perspective” (with H. Lu, W. Fan, C.H. Goh, D.W. Cheung), in Data Mining and Reverse Engineering: Searching for Semantics, Chapman & Hall, 1998 [SWP #3957, CISL #97-04].

“Application, Architecture, and Operation of the Context Interchange System” (with S. Bressan, C. Goh, N. Levina, A. Shah, M. Siegel), to appear in Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neutral Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies.

            “Integrating Information from Global Systems: Challenges of Effectively Exploiting the Information SuperHighway”, to appear in the Journal of Organizational Computing.

            “Source Attribution for Querying Against Semi-Structured Documents” (with T. Lee and S. Bressan), Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM’98), Washington, DC, November 6, 1998, pp. 33-39 [SWP #4042, CISL #99-01].

            “Using an Active Conceptual Model for Mediating Analytic Information Exchange in the Fixed Income Securities Industry” (with A. Moulton, S. Bressan, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'98), Singapore, November 1998.  [SWP #4023, CISL #98-04].

 

1999:

            “Metadata Jones and the Tower of Babel: The Challenge of Large-Scale Heterogeneity,” Proceedings of the IEEE Meta-data Conference, April 1999 [SWP #4069, CISL #99-04] (also at http://computer.org/conferen/proceed/meta/1999/papers/84/smadnick.html )

            “Context Interchange: New Features and Formalisms for the Intelligent Integration of Information” (with C.H. Goh, S. Bressan, M. Siegel), ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, July 1999 [SWP #3941, CISL #97-03].

            “Context Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in the Context Interchange System” (with S. Bressan, C. Goh, N. Levina, A. Shah, M. Siegel), to appear in Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neutral Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies [SWP #xxx, CISL #xxx].

            e-Commerce Bargain-Hunting with an unBun Model” (with R. Yahalom), Proceedings of the International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS’99), September 1999, pp. 186-196  [SWP #4067, CISL #99-02].

            “Information Integration with Attribution Support for Corporate Profiles” (with T. Lee, M. Chams, R. Nado, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, November 1999, pp. 423-429 [SWP #4098, CISL #99-05].

 

2000:

            “Context Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in the Context Interchange System” (with S. Bressan, C. Goh, N. Levina, A. Shah, M. Siegel), Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neutral Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Volume 12, Number 2, September 2000, pp. 165-179, [SWP #4133, CISL #00-04].

            “The Caméléon Web Wrapper Engine” (with A. Firat and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the VLDB2000 Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, September 14-15, 2000 [SWP #4128, CISL #00-03].

            “The Caméléon Approach to the Interoperability of Web Sources and Traditional Relational Databases,” Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2000.

            “Chapter 6: The MIT Context Interchange Project” in Data Quality, Ed: R.Y. Wang, M. Ziad, and Y.W. Lee, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 79-92 {earlier version appeared as “Metadata Jones and the Tower of Babel: The Challenge of Large-Scale Heterogeneity,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Meta-data Conference, April 1999 [SWP #4069, CISL #99-04]}.

            “Parallel (on the fly) Reading of an Entire Database Copy” (with S. Bhalla), to appear in the International Journal of Computer Research: Special Issue on Practical Applications of Parallel Computing and as chapter on “Applied Parallel Computing” in Advances in Computing: Theory and Practice, to be published by Nova Science Books and Journals.

            “Discovering and Reconciling Value Conflicts for Data Integration,” (with W. Fan, H. Lu, D. Cheung), to appear in Information Systems Journal.

 

2001:

            Parallel (on the fly) Reading of an Entire Database Copy” (with S. Bhalla), International Journal of Computer Research: Special Issue on Practical Applications of Parallel Computing, Vol 10, No. 4, 2001, also in Practical Parallel Computing, (Editors: Marcin Paprzycki, Luciano Tarricone, Laurence Tianrou Yang), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN 1-59033-127-3, pp. 149-163, 2002 [SWP #4385-01, CISL #2001-15, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=335803].

            Discovering and Reconciling Value Conflicts for Numerical Data Integration,” (with W. Fan, H. Lu, D. Cheung), Information Systems Journal, Vol 26, No 8, pp. 635-656, November 2001 [SWP #4153, CISL #2000-09, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=335580].

            Cross-Organizational Data Quality and Semantic Integrity: Learning and Reasoning about Data Semantics with Context Interchange Mediation” (with A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Americans Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS, Boston), August 2001 [SWP #4167:4183-01, CeB #108, CISL #2001-04, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=289992].

Corporate Household Data: Research Directions” (with X. Chen, J. Funk, and R. Wang), Proceedings of the Americans Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS, Boston), August 2001 [SWP #4166, CeB #107, CISL WP #2001-03, TDQM WP#2001-08].

Knowledge Representation Architecture for Context Interchange Mediation: Fixed Income Securities Investment Examples” (with A. Moulton, M. Siegel), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs: XML, Metadata, Ontologies, and Business Knowledge on the Web (WEBH; Munich, Germany), published by IEEE (ISBN 0-7695-1230-5, ISSN 1529-4188), September 2001, pp. 50-54 [SWP #4169:4184-01, CeB #109, CISL #2001-05, http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=289996].

The Misguided Silver Bullet: What XML will and will NOT do to help Information Integration,” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (IIWAS2001; Linz, Austria), published by Osterreichische Computer Gesellschaft (ISBN 3-85403-157-2), September 2001, pp. 61-72 [SWP #4185-01, CeB #111, CISL #2001-08,  http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=281823].

Improving the Quality of Corporate Household Data: Current Practices and Research Directions” (with R. Wang, F. Dravis, and X. Chen), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Quality (IQ2001, Cambridge), November 2001, pp. 92-104 [SWP #4398-01, CISL #2001-10, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=365180].

            Working Papers Completed or Revised:

Laboratory for Information Globalization and Harmonization Technologies: A New Research Initiative”, (with N. Choucri, M. Siegel, F. Haghseta, A. Moulton, H. Zhu), November 2001 [SWP #4350, CeB #142, CISL #2001-12, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=303825].

Corporate Household Knowledge Processing: Challenges, Concepts,

 and Solution Approaches”, (with R. Wang), August 2001, [SWP #4222-01, CISL #2001-09, TDQM #2001-10, http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=281831].

 

2002:

Seizing the Opportunity: Exploiting Web Aggregation” (with M. Siegel), MISQ Executive, Vol 1, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 35-46. [SWP #4351, CeB #144, CISL #01-13, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=303827].

Data Integration using Web Services” (with M. Hansen and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Integration over the Web (DIWeb'02, Toronto, Canada), May 2002 [SWP #4406-02, CISL #2002-14, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376822], also published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2590, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2003 [ISBN 3-540-00736-9], pp. 165-182.

DIRECT: A System for Mining Data Value Conversion Rules from Disparate Sources” (with W. Fan, H. Lu, and D.W. Cheung), Decision Support Systems, 2002, pp. 19-39. [SWP #4411-01, CISL #2001-11, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=377900].

Process Aggregation using Web Services” (with M. Hansen and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Models, Architecture, Engineering and Applications, (WseBT’02, Toronto, Canada), May 2002 [SWP #4395-02, CISL #2002-05, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=365000], also to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Semantic Interoperability in the Securities Industry: Context Interchange Mediation of Semantic Differences in Enumerated Data Types” (With A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs:  XML, Metadata, Ontologies, and Business Knowledge on the Web (WEBH2002), Aix En Provence, France, September 6, 2002 [SWP #3309-02, CISL #2002-10, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=365021].

E-Aggregation: The Present and Future of Online Financial Services in Asia-Pacific” (with H. Fujii, T. Okano, and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS-2002), Tokyo, Japan, September 3-4, 2002 [SWP #4405-02, CISL #2002-06, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376864].

The Interplay of Web Aggregation and Regulations” (with H. Zhu and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the  IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology (LAWTECH 2002), Cambridge, MA, November 6-8, 2002 [SWP #4397-02, CISL #2002-17, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=365061].

A Framework for Corporate Householding” (with R. Wang and W. Zhang), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ), Cambridge, November 8-10, 2002, pp. 36-46 [SWP #4294-02, CISL #2002-13].

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=389664

Context Interchange Mediation for Semantic Interoperability and Dynamic Integration of Autonomous Information Sources in the Fixed Income Securities Industry” (with A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Barcelona, Spain, December 14-15, 2002, pp.61-66 [SWP #4404-02, CISL #2002-20, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376863].

Financial Information Integration In the Presence of Equational Ontological Conflicts” (with A. Firat, and B. Grosof), Proceedings of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Barcelona, Spain, December 14-15, 2002, pp. 211-216 [BEST PAPER AWARD] [SWP #4408-02, CISL #2002-16, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376840].

Global Comparison Aggregation Services” (with H. Zhu), Proceedings of the First Workshop on eBusiness (Web2002) [ISBN 957-01-2874-7], Barcelona, Spain, December 14-15, 2002, pp. 73-84 [SWP #4410-02, CISL #2002-19, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376842].

Knowledge Integration to Overcome Ontological Heterogeneity: Challenges from Financial Information Systems” (with A. Firat, and B. Grosof), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain, December 15-18, 2002, pp. 183-194 [SWP #4382-02, CISL #2002-11, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=336205].

Semantic Interoperability in the Fixed Income Securities Industry: A Knowledge Representation Architecture for Dynamic Integration of Web-Based Information” (with A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, January 6 - 9, 2003 [SWP #4409-02, CISL #2002-18, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376861] [Nominated for Best Paper Award]

Asynchronous Reading of Consistent Copy of a Large Database” (with S. Bhalla), Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice, Vol. 12 (Practical Applications of Parallel Computing – 2002), ISBN 1-59033-532-5, 2002 [SWP #4152, CISL # 2000-08].

Asynchronous Backup and Initialization of a Database Server for Replicated Database Systems” (with S. Bhalla), accepted for publication in the Journal of Supercomputing (Kluwer) [SWP #4416-03, CISL #2002-02,

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=391840].

An Information Product Approach for Total Information Awareness” (with R. Wang, T. Allen, W. Harris), Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 8-15, 2003 [SWP #4407-02, CISL #2002-15, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376820].

 

2003:

Semantic Interoperability in the Fixed Income Securities Industry: A Knowledge Representation Architecture for Dynamic Integration of Web-Based Information” (with A. Moulton and M. Siegel), Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, January 6 - 9, 2003 [SWP #4409-02, CISL #2002-18, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376861] [Nominated for Best Paper Award]

Asynchronous Reading of Consistent Copy of a Large Database” (with S. Bhalla), Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice, Vol. 12 (Practical Applications of Parallel Computing – 2002), (ISBN 1-59033-532-5), 2002 [SWP #4152, CISL # 2000-08].

Asynchronous Backup and Initialization of a Database Server for Replicated Database Systems” (with S. Bhalla), Journal of Supercomputing (Kluwer), Vol. 27, No 1 (Jan. 2004). [SWP #4416-03, CISL #2002-02,

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=391840].

An Information Product Approach for Total Information Awareness” (with R. Wang, T. Allen, W. Harris), Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 8-15, 2003 [SWP #4407-02, CISL #2002-15, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=376820].

Oh, So That is What you Meant!  The Interplay of  Data Quality and Data Semantics,” Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’03), Chicago, October 2003; in Conceptual Modeling – ER 2003, (ISBN 3-540-20299-4) Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 3-13 [SWP #4420-03, CISL 2003-04, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=436805].

Exemplifying Business Opportunities for Improving Data Quality through Corporate Household Research,” (with R. Wang, K. Chettayar, F. Dravis, J. Funk, R. Katz-Haas, C. Lee, Y. Lee, X. Xian, S. Bhansali), to be appear in Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS) Monograph Series, Special Volume on Information Quality [SWP #xxx, CISL #yyy, ].

The Design and Implementation of a Corporate Householding Knowledge Processor to Improve Data Quality,” (with R.Wang and X. Xian), Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 3, Winter 2003-04 [SWP # 4439-03, CISL 2003-06, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=461001].

COntext Interchange  System Demonstration,” (with A. Moulton, A. Firat, M. B. Kaleem, P. Lee, M. Siegel, and H. Zhu), Proceeding of the Semantic Integration Workshop, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 20,2003.

Information and Knowledge Sharing – Successes and Failures,” (with W. Chu, C. Kboblock, S, Ram), Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Information and Knowledge Sharing, Scottsdale, Arzona, November 2003