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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Information Discovery on Semistructured Data.
  • XML Databases and Storage.
  • Software Engineering
  • Music and technology
  • Education technology

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Papers

  1. XOntoRank: Ontology-Aware Search of Electronic Medical Records
    Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis, Anand Ranganathan, and Michael Weiner MD
    To appear in International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2009.
    Shanghai, China. March-April 2009 (Acceptance Rate: 17%).
  2. Information Discovery on Electronic Medical Records.
    Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfán, Redmond P. Burke, Anthony F. Rossi and Jeffrey A. White.
    National Science Foundation Symposium on Next Generation of Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery for Innovation, NGDM 2007.
    Baltimore, Maryland. October 2007 (Acceptance Rate: 28%).
  3. Beyond Lazy XML Parsing.
    Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis and Raju Rangaswami.
    18th International Conference on Database and Expert System Applications, DEXA 2007.
    Regensburg, Germany. September 2007 (Acceptance Rate: 32%).

Journal Papers

  1. 2LP: A double-lazy XML parser.
    Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis and Raju Rangaswami.
    Elsevier Information Systems, to appear.

Book Chapters

  1. Challenges for Information Discovery on Electronic Medical Records.
    Vagelis Hristidis, Fernando Farfán, Redmond P. Burke, Anthony F. Rossi, Jeffrey A. White.
    Book details: Next Generation of Data Mining. CRC - Taylor & Francis. Editors: Hillol Kargupta, Jiawei Han, Philip Yu, Rajeev Motwani, Vipin Kumar. 2008.

Technical Reports

  1. Efficient Native Storage Systems for Semistructured Data.
    Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis and Raju Rangaswami.
    Florida International University Technical Report TR-2006-09-01. September 2006.

Posters/Short Papers

  1. Ontology-Aware Search on XML-based Electronic Medical Records.
    Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis, Anand Ranganathan, and Redmond P. Burke.
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2008 (acceptance rate 31%)
  2. Storing Trees on Disk Drives.
    Medha Bhadkamkar, Fernando Farfán, Vagelis Hristidis, and Raju Rangaswami.
    Proceedings of the File and Storage Technologies WiP, 2005.

PRESENTATIONS

  1. Ontology-Aware Search on XML-based Electronic Medical Records,
    Poster Session at ICDE 2008. Cancún, México.
  2. Beyond Lazy XML Parsing,
    Presentation at DEXA 2007. Regensburg, Germany.

SERVICE

  • External Reviewer for COMAD 2008.
  • External Reviewer for ICDM 2008.
  • External Reviewer for PIKM 2008.
  • External Reviewer for Information Systems Frontiers Journal (Springer).
  • External Reviewer for Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier).
  • External Reviewer for DEXA 2008.
  • External Reviewer for Journal of Supercomputing (Springer).
  • XML and Databases Session Chair.
    at DEXA 2007. Regensburg, Germany.