Academic Accomplishments


  • Publications in Refereed journals, and in Refereed Conference and Workshop Proceedings
    1. Y. An, X. Hu, and I. Song. Round-Trip Engineering for Maintaining Conceptual-Relational Mappings. To appear in the Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'08). 2008. Montepellier, France. (pdf)

    2. Y. An, A. Borgida, and J. Mylopoulos. Discovering and Maintaining Semantic Mappings between XML Schemas and Ontologies. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE). Published by Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (KIISE). 2008 (pdf)

    3. Y. An and T. Topaloglou. Maintaining Semantic Mappings between Database Schemas and Ontologies. In the Proceedings of Joint ODBIS and SWDB workshop on Semantic Web, Ontologies, Databases 2007 in conjunction with VLDB07, Vienna, Austria.
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    5. Y. An, A. Borgida, Renee J. Miller, and J. Mylopoulos. A Semantic Approach to Discovering Schema Mapping Expressions. In the Proceedings of International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. (pdf)

    6. Y. An, A. Borgida, and J. Mylopoulos. Discovering the Semantics of Relational Tables through Mappings. Journal on Data Semantics VII, LNCS4244, pages 1-32, 2006. (pdf)

    7. Y. An, J. Janssen, and E. E. Milios. Characterizing and Mining Citation Graph of Computer Science Literature. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) 6:6, pages 664-678, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2004.(pdf)

    8. Y. An, J. Mylopoulos, and A. Borgida. Building Semantic Mappings from Databases to Ontologies. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) Nectar Track, Boston, MA, 2006. (pdf)

    9. Y. An, A. Borgida, and J. Mylopoulos. Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences. In Proceedings of On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems (OTM'05): CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, Agia Napa, Cyprus. R. Meersman and Z. Tari, editors, LNCS 3761, pages 1152-1169. Springer Verlag, 2005.(pdf)

    10. Y. An, Alex Borgida, and J. Mylopoulos. Constructing Complex Semantic Mappings between XML Data and Ontologies. In Proceedings of 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'05), Galway, Ireland. Y. Gil et al., editors, LNCS 3729, pages 6-20, Springe-Verlag, 2005.(pdf)

    11. Y. An and J. Mylopoulos. Translating XML Web Data into Ontologies. In Proceedings of Workshops of On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems (OTM'05): International Workshop on Web Semantics (SWWS'05), Agia Napa, Cyprus. R. Meersman et al., editors, LNCS 3762, pages 967-976, Springer-Verlag, 2005.(pdf)

    12. Y. An, Alex Borgida, and J. Mylopoulos. Refining the Semantic Mappings from Relational Tables to Ontologies. In Proceedings of 2nd International workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (SWDB'04) in conjunction with Very Large Databases (VLDB'04), Toronto, Canada. C. Bussler, V. Tannen, and I. Fundulaki, editors, LNCS 3372, pages 84-90, Springer-Verlag, 2004. (pdf)

    13. Y. An, J. Janssen, and E. E. Milios. Characterizing the Citation Graph as a Self-Organizing Networked Information Space. In Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Innovative Internet Computing Systems(IICS'02), Kühlungsborn, Germany, June 2002. H. Unger, T. Bohme, and A. R. Mikler, editors, LNCS 2346, pages 97-107, Springer-Verlag, 2002. (pdf)

  • Posters
    1. Y. An and T. Topaloglou. Capturing and Using Semantics for Biological Database Schemas. Poster presentation in 4th International Workshop on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS07), Philadelphia, PA. 2007.

  • Professional Activities
    1. Program Committee for: 1st World Summit on the Knowledge Society, Greece, 2008.
    2. Program Committee for: DAWAK'08 (10th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery)
    3. Program Committee for: CIKM 2008 (the track on Semantic Web/RDF Models, Algorithms and Ranking)
    4. Technical Reviewer for: JoDS, VLDBJ.
    5. Program Committee for: ESWC'08
    6. Program Committee for: ISWC'07.
    7. Program Committee for: ONISW'07 in conjunction with ER'07.
    8. Technical Reviewer for: VLDB'07, DL'07.
    9. Technical Reviewer for: ESWC'07.
    10. Program Committee for: SWA track in ACM SAC'07.
    11. Technical Reviewer for: ICDE 2007.
    12. Program Committee for: SWAT 2006 in conjunction with ER'06.
    13. Technical Reviewer for: IEEE TKDE 2006.
    14. Technical Reviewer for: SIGMOD 2005.
    15. Program Committee for: AIMSA 2004.
    16. Program Committee for: ISWC 2003.
  • PhD and Master's Thesis
    • Yuan An. Discovering and Using Semantics for Database Schemas. PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2007. (pdf)

    • Yuan An. Characterizing and Mining Citation Graph of Computer Science Literature. Master's Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 2001. (pdf)
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