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The Database Research Group, formed since 2010, is part of the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Our research activities include everything related to data management.

NEWS

  • December 2017. A new paper got accepted to PVLDB 2018.
    • “An Experimental Study on Hub Labeling based Shortest Path Algorithms”, by Ye Li, Leong Hou U, Ken Yiu, Ngai Meng Kou.
  • March 2017.  2 papers got accepted to SIGMOD.
    • “FEXIPRO: Fast and Exact Inner Product Retrieval in Recommender Systems”, by Hui Li, Tsz Nam Chan, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis
    • “Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space”, by Bo Tang, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu.
  • December 2016. A conference paper got accepted in EDBT.
    “Fast Subsequence Search on Time Series Data”, by Yuhong Li, Bo Tang, Leong Hou U, Man Lung Yiu, Zhiguo Gong
  • November 2016. A conference paper got accepted in SIGMOD.
    “Extracting Top-K Insights from Multi-dimensional Data”, by Bo Tang, Shi Han, Man Lung Yiu, Rui Ding, Dongmei Zhang.
  • October 2016. A conference paper got accepted in EDBT.
    “Efficient Motif Discovery in Spatial Trajectories Using Discrete Fréchet Distance”, by Bo Tang, Man Lung Yiu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Kai Wang.
  • July 2016. Haibo and Ken got General Research Fundings for their projects on oblivious RAM and crowdsourced transportation, respectively.
  • June 2016. A journal paper got accepted in VLDBJ.
    “Efficient Discovery of Longest-lasting Correlation in Sequence Databases”, by Yuhong Li, Leong Hou U, Ken Yiu, Zhiguo Gong
  • May 2016. A conference paper got accepted in ICDE.
    “Answering Why-Not Spatial Keyword Top-k Queries via Keyword Adaption”, by Lei Chen, Xin Lin, Haibo Hu, Christian S. Jensen, Jianliang Xu
  • December 2015. 2 journal papers got accepted in TKDE.
    • “PCMLogging: Optimizing Transaction Logging and Recovery Performance with PCM” by Shen Gao, Jianliang Xu, Theo Härder, Bingsheng He, Byron Choi, Haibo Hu
    • “Exploit Every Bit: Effective Caching for High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search” by Bo Tang, Ken Yiu, Kien A. Hua
  • Nov 2015. A journal paper got accepted in TKDE.
    “Reverse Keyword Search for Spatio-Textual Top-k Queries in Location-Based Services.” by Xin Lin, Jianliang Xu, Haibo Hu
  • Oct 2015. A journal paper got accepted in TKDE.
    “Geo-Social K-Cover Group Queries for Collaborative Spatial Computing.” by Yafei Li, Rui Chen, Jianliang Xu, Qiao Huang, Haibo Hu, Byron Choi
  • September 2015. A conference paper got accepted in ICDM.
    “Accelerating Exact Similarity Search on CPU-GPU Systems”, by Takazumi Matsumoto and Ken Yiu
  • Summer 2015.   2 journal papers got accepted to TKDE. 1 paper got accepted to ICDM.
    • “Enabling Scalable Geographic Service Sharing with Weighted Imprecise Voronoi Cells”, by Xike Xie, Peiquan Jin, Ken Yiu, Jiang Du, Mingxuan Yuan, Christian S. Jensen.
    • “Beyond Millisecond Latency kNN Search on Commodity Machine”, by Bailong Liao, Leong Hou U, Ken Yiu, and Zhiguo Gong.
  • July 2015. Ken and Eric have got General Research Fundings (HKD 700,000) for their projects about utilizing modern CPUs for processing time series data and data aggregation.
  • May 2015. A new paper got accepted to VLDB.
    • “SDB: A Secure Query Processing System with Data Interoperability”, by W. Wong, Z. He, B. Kao, D. Cheung, and Eric Lo
  • Apr 2015.  Eric has got an ITF tier-3 grant (HK 1.3 million dollar) for his project Thrifty.
  • Mar 2015.   2 papers got accepted to SIGMOD.
    • “ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout”, by Z. Feng, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, and W. Xu.
    • “Thrifty: Offering Parallel Database as a Service using the Shared-Process Approach”, by P. Wong, Z. He, Z. Feng, W. Xu, and Eric Lo.
  • October 2014.   3 papers got accepted to ICDE.
    • “Accelerating Aggregation using Intra-cycle Parallelism in Modern CPUs”, by Z. Feng and Eric Lo.
    • “Diversified Caching for Replicated Web Search Engines”, by C. Xu, B. Tang, M. L. Yiu.
    • “Quick-Motif: An Efficient and Scalable Framework for Exact Motif Discovery”, by Y. Li, L. H. U, M. L. Yiu, Z. Gong.
  • Aug 2014. A new paper got accepted to ACM TOIS Journal.
    • “The Impact of Solid State Drive on Search Engine Management: An Empirical Study”, by J. Wang, Eric Lo, Ken Yiu, X. Liu, and G. Wang.
  • July 2014. Ken has got a General Research Funding (HKD 700,000) for his project about massive high-dimensional data.
  • May 2014. A new paper got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Route-Saver: Leveraging Route APIs for Accurate and Efficient Query Processing at Location-Based Services”, by Yu Li, and Ken Yiu.
  • Mar 2014. A new paper got accepted to PVLDB 2014.
    • “Retrieving Regions of Interest for User Exploration”, by Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen, and Ken Yiu.
  • Feb 2014. A new journal paper got accepted to VLDB Journal
    • “MyBenchmark: Generating Benchmark Databases for Query Workloads”, by Eric Lo, Nick Cheng, Wilfred Lin, Wing-Kai Hon and Byron Choi.
  • Winter 2013.   3 journal papers got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Scalable Evaluation of Trajectory Queries over Imprecise Location Data”, by Xike Xie, Ken Yiu, Reynold Cheng, Hua Lu.
    • “Managing Evolving Uncertainty in Trajectory Databases”, by Hoyoung Jeung, Hua Lu, Saket Sathe, Ken Yiu.
    • “Towards Online Shortest Paths Computation”, by Leong Hou U, Hong Jun Zhao, Ken Yiu, Yuhong Li, and Zhiguo Gong.
  • August 2013. A new paper got accepted to PVLDB 2013.
    • “Discovering Longest-lasting Correlation in Sequence Databases”, by Yuhong Li, Leong Hou U, Ken Yiu, Zhiguo Gong.
  • July 2013. Eric has got a Hong Kong General Research Funding (HKD 700,000) for his project about database usability.
  • Apr 2013. A new paper got accepted to SIGMOD 2013.
    • “Parallel Analytics as a Service”, by Petrie Wong, Andy He, and Eric Lo.
  • Apr 2013. A new paper got accepted to SIGIR 2013.
    • “The Impact of Solid State Drive on Search Engine Cache Management”, by Jianguo Wang, Eric Lo, Ken Yiu, Jiancong Tong, Gang Wang, and Xiaoguang Liu.
  • Jan 2013. A new paper got accepted to TODS.
    • “Moving Spatial Keyword Queries: Formulation, Methods, and Analysis”, by Dingming Wu, Ken Yiu, Christian S. Jensen.
  • Oct 2012. A new paper got accepted to ICDE 2013.
    • “Efficient Notification of Meeting Points for Moving Groups via Independent Safe Regions”, by Jing Li, Ken Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis.
  • Sep 2012. A new paper got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Identifying the Most Connected Vertices in Hidden Bipartite Graphs using Group Testing”, by Jianguo Wang, Eric Lo, Ken Yiu.
  • Aug 2012. A new paper got accepted to VLDBJ.
    • “UV-Diagram: A Voronoi Diagram for Uncertain Spatial Databases”, by Xike Xie, Reynold Cheng, Ken Yiu, Liwen Sun, Jinchuan Chen.
  • Aug 2012. A new paper got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Answering Why-Not Questions on Top-K Queries”, by Andy He and Eric Lo.
  • July 2012. Eric has got an Amazon Research Grant (USD 10000 AWS Credit) for his project about adaptive optimization in MapReduce.
  • July 2012. Eric has got a General Research Funding (HKD 700,000) for his project about big data analytic.
  • July 2012. Ken has got a General Research Funding (HKD 500,000) for his project about spatial index tuning.
  • Jun 2012. A new paper got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Joint Top-K Spatial Keyword Query Processing”, by Dingming Wu, Ken Yiu, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen.
  • Mar 2012. Eric has got an ITF tier-3 grant (HK 1 million dollar) for his project about database scaling.
  • Mar 2012. Andy and Eric’s ICDE 2012 paper got selected as bests of ICDE 2012.
  • Feb 2012. A new paper got accepted to SIGMOD 2012.
    • “Effective Caching of Shortest Paths for Location-Based Services”, by Jeppe R. Thomsen, Ken Yiu, and Christian S. Jensen.
  • Feb 2012. A new paper got accepted to PVLDB 2012.
    • “Shortest Path Computation with No Information Leakage”, by Kyriakos Mouratidis and Ken Yiu.
  • Sep 2011. A new paper got accepted to ICDE 2012.
    • “Answering Why-Not Questions on Top-k Queries”, by Andy He and Eric Lo.
  • May 2011. A new paper got accepted to PVLDB 2011.
    • “On Querying Historial Evolving Graph Sequences”, by Chenghui Ren, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Xinjie Zhu, and Reynold Cheng.
  • Feb 2011. A new paper got accepted by TODS.
    • “Design and Analysis of a Ranking Approach to Private Location-Based Services”, by Ken Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Jesper Moller, and Hua Lu.
  • Oct 2010. 2 papers got accepted to ICDE 2011!
    • “Authentication of Moving kNN Queries”, by Ken Yiu, Eric Lo, and Duncan Yung.
    • “Efficient Continuously Moving Top-K Spatial Keyword Query Processing”, by Dingming Wu, Ken Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, and Gao Cong.
  • Sep 2010. A new paper got accepted to TKDE.
    • “Measuring the Sky: On Computing Data Cubes via Skylining the Measures”, by Ken Yiu, Eric Lo, and Duncan Yung.
  • Apr 2010. 3 papers got accepted to VLDB 2010!
    • “Generating Databases for Query Workload”, by Eric Lo, Nick Cheng, and Wing-Kai Hon.
    • “Efficient Proximity Detection among Mobile Users via Self-Tuning Policies”, by Ken Yiu, L. H. U, S. Šaltenis, and K. Tzoumas.
    • “Explore or Exploit? Effective Strategies for Disambiguating Large Databases”, by Reynold Cheng, Eric Lo, X. Yang, Ming-Hay Luk, X. Li, and X. Xie.



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