Publications

2009

Efficiently Managing Large-Scale Raster Species Distribution Data in PostgreSQL. Jianting Zhang, Michael Gertz, Le Gruenwald. To appear in 17 ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS'09), 2009.

Clustering and Exploring Search Results using Timeline Constructions. Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. To appear in the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09), 2009.

Dependenz-basierte Relationsextraktion mit der UIMA-basierten Text-Mining Pipeline UTEMPL. Jannik Strötgen, Juliane Fluck, and Anke Holler. In Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2009. September 30 - October 02 2009, Potsdam, Germany, pages: 125-136, 2009.

In-Network Detection of Anomaly Regions in Sensor Networks with Obstacles. Conny Franke, Marcel Kernstedt, Daniel Klan, Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Elena Chervakova.  Computer Science - Research and Development 24(3), (Springer), 2009.

Effectiveness of Temporal Snippets. Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Michael Gertz. To appear in Workshop on Web Search Result Summarization and Presentation (together with WWW 2009).

Constraint-based Learning of Distance Functions for Object Trajectories. Wei Yu and Michael Gertz. In 21 International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2009, LNCS 5566, Springer, 627-645, 2009.

ORDEN: Outlier Region Detection and Exploration in Sensor Networks (demo paper). Conny Franke and Michael Gertz. To appear in the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2009.

VDM-RS: A visual Data Mining System for Exploring and Classifying Remotely Sensed Images. Jianting Zhang, Le Gruenwald, and Michael Gertz. To appear in Computers & Geosciences (Elsevier), 2009.

In-Network Detection of Anomaly Regions in Sensor Networks with Obstacles. Conny Franke, Marcel Kernstedt, Daniel Klan, Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Elena Chervakova. In 13. GI-Fachtagung Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web, March 2009, Muenster, Germany, pages 367-386, 2009.

2008

Detection and Exploration of Outlier Regions in Sensor Data Streams. Conny Franke and Michael Gertz. In Workshops Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), December 15-19, 2008, Pisa, Italy. IEEE Computer Society 2008, pages 375-384, 2008.

Security and Privacy for Geospatial Data – Concepts and Research Directions (Inaugural Paper for the ACM SPRINGL Workshop). Elisa Bertino, Bhavani Thuraisingham, Michael Gertz, and Maria L. Damiani. In 1st ACM GIS Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL'08), 2008.

Real-time Integration of Geospatial Data Streams. Carlos Rueda and Michael Gertz. In 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), LNCS 5069, pages 605-611, 2008.

A Linked Environment of Coordinated Multiple Vies for Exploratory Analysis of Large-Scale Species Distribution Data. Jianting Zhang, Kate S. He, and Michael Gertz. In Proceedings of the 2008 Environmental Information Management Conference (EIMC), September 10-11, Albuquerque, NM, 2008.

Sensor data dissemination systems using Web-based standards: A case study of publishing data in support of evapotranspiration models in California. Jianting.Zhang, Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz, Carlos Rueda, Jeffrey Bergamini. In Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems (Taylor and Francis, UK) Special Issue on Environmental Sensing, Informatics and Decision Making, Volume 26, Issue 1 March 2009, pages 35-52, 2008.

Expertise Identification and Visualization from CVS, Omar Alonso, Premkumar Devanbu, Michael Gertz. In 5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2008).

2007

On the Value of Temporal Information in Temporal Information Retrieval, Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz, and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, SIGIR Forum, December 2007, Volume 41, No 2, pages 35-41.

Modeling Satellite Image Streams for Change Analysis. Carlos Rueda and Michael Gertz. In 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2007), November 7-9, 2007, Seattle, Washington, USA.

The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends, Michael Gertz and Sushil Jajodia (editors), Springer, Berlin,  579 pages. Links at Amazon.com and Springer.

Security Re-engineering for Databases: Concepts and Technqiues, Michael Gertz and Madhavi Gandhi, In The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends, Michael Gertz and Sushil Jajodia (editors), 2007.

Geospatial Image Stream Processing: Models, Techniques, and Applications in Remote Sensing Change Detection, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, October 2007.

Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets. Daniel Zinn, Jim Bosch, Michael Gertz. In 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 23-28, 2007, University of Vienna, Austria, pages 567-578. [presentation]

Search Results using Timeline Visualizations. Omar Alonso, Michael Gertz, Ricardo Baeza-Yates. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, demo paper, p. 908.

Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets. Daniel Zinn, Jim Bosch and Michael Gertz. Technical Report 2007-11, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, April 2007.

Spatio-Temporal Aggregates over Streaming Geospatial Image Data. Jie Zhang. Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, March 2007.

Exploratory Search Using Timelines. Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Michael Gertz. In Exploratory Search and HCI (SIGCHI 2007 Workshop), 2007.

A Model and Framework for Visualization Exploration. T.J. Jankun-Kelly, Kwan-Liu Ma, and Michael Gertz. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 13(2):357-369, 2007.

2006

Optimization of Multiple Continuous Queries over Streaming Satellite Data. Quinn Hart and Michael Gertz. In 14th ACM International Workshop on Geographic Information Systems, ACM-GIS 2006.

GeoStreams: An Online Geospatial Image Database. Quinn Hart,Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, December 2006.

Clustering of Search Results using Temporal Attributes (Poster). Omar Alonso and Michael Gertz. In 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval, Seattle 2006, 597-589.

An Extensible Infrastructure for Processing Distributed Geospatial Data Streams. Carlos Rueda, Michael Gertz, Bertram Ludaescher, Bernd Hamann. In 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Vienna 2006.

Operator Scheduling in a Distributed Stream Processing System for Geospatial Image Data. Shefali Singhal, Ph.D. Thesis. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis, August 2006.

Using Type Qualifiers to Analyze Untrusted Integers and Detecting Security Flaws in C Programs. Ebrima N. Ceesay, Jingmin Zhou, Michael Gertz, Karl Levitt, Matt Bishop. In SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment, Berlin, July 2006.

Database Security. Michael Gertz and Arnon Rosenthal. In Bidgoli, H. (editor) Handbook of Information Security, Threats, Vulnerabilities, Prevention, Detection and Management, Wiley, 2006.

A Data and Query Model for Streaming Geospatial Image Data. Michael Gertz, Quinn Hart, Carlos Rueda, Shefali Singhal, Jie Zhang. In T. Grust et al. (Eds.): EDBT 2006 Workshops, LNCS 4254, pp. 687–699, 2006 (11th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects (Query Languages and Query Processing - QLQP 2006)), Munich, March 2006.

Mining Email Social Networks. Chris Bird, Alex Gourley, Premkumar Devanbu, A. Swaminathan, Michael Gertz.  In ICSE 2006 Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2006).

Integrating Document and Data Retrieval Based on XML. Jan-Marco Bremer and Michael Gertz. In the VLDB Journal 15(1):53-83, 2006.

2005

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Quality. Felix Naumann, Michael Gertz, Stuart Madnick (Editors), MIT, Cambidge, MIT School of Management, 2005.

Evaluation of a Dynamic Tree Structure for Indexing Query Regions on Streaming Geospatial Data. Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz, and Jie Zhang.  In 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD05), LNCS 3633, Springer, 145-162, 2005.

Querying Streaming Geospatial Image Data: the GeoStreams Project. Quinn Hart and Michael Gertz.  In the 17th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2005), 147-150.

2004

Spatio-Temporal Aggregates over Raster Image Data. Jie Zhang, Michael Gertz, Demet Aksoy. In 12th International Symposium of ACM GIS, 39-46.

Flexible authentication of XML documents. Premkumar T. Devanbu, Michael Gertz, April Kwong.  Journal of Computer Security 12(6): 841-864 (2004)

Indexing Query Regions for Streaming Geospatial Data. Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz. In 2nd Workshop on Spatio-temporal Database Management - STDBM'04 (co-located with VLDB 2004).

Database Techniques for the Analysis and Exploration of Software Repositories. Omar Alonso, Premkumar T. Devanbu, and Michael Gertz. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2004).

Databases that tell the Truth: Authentic Data Publication. Michael Gertz, April Kwong, Charles U. Martel, Glen Nuckolls, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Stuart S. Stubblebine. In Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, March 2004, Vol 7, No 1. 

Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar "Data Quality on the Web". Michael Gertz, M. Tamer Ozsu, Gunter Saake, Kai-Uwe Sattler. In SIGMOD Record, Volume 33, Number 1, March 2004.

A General Model for Authentic Data Publication. Charles Martel, Glenn Nuckolls, Premkumar Devanbu, Michael Gertz, April Kwong, Stuart G. Stubblebine.  In Algorithmica, Volume 39, No 1 (Spinger).

2003

On Tree Pattern Constraints for XML Documents. April Kwong, Michael Gertz. Technical Report CSE-2003-30, University of California at Davis, December 2003.

Distributed XML Repositories: Top-down Design and Transparent Query Processing. Michael Gertz, Jan-Marco Bremer. Technical Report CSE-2003-20, Department of Computer Science.

Next-Generation Information Retrieval: Integrating Document and Data Retrieval Based on XML, Jan-Marco Bremer, (PhD thesis), September 2003.

Trust typing in Distributed Co-operative Information Systems. Premkumar Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Brian Toone.  In Tenth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2888 Springer 2003, 370-388. 

On Distributing XML Repositories. Jan-Marco Bremer, Michael Gertz.  In 6th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB 2003).

Authentic Data Publication over the Internet. Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Chip Martel, Stuart G. Stubblebine. In the Journal of Computer Security. Volume 11, Number 3/2003, pp. 291 - 314.

Integrating Scientific Data through External, Concept-based Annotations. Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler. In Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools and Techniques and Data Integration over the Web (VLDB 2002 Workshop EEXTT and CAiSE 2002Workshop DIWeb. Revised Papers ), 220-240, LNCS 2590, Springer, 2003.

An Efficient XML Node Identification and Indexing Scheme. Jan-Marco Bremer, Michael Gertz. Technical Report CSE-2003-04. Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis, January 2003.

Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems V. Michael Gertz (Editor). IFIP TC11/WG11.5 Fifth Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS), November 11-12, 2002, Bonn, Germany. IFIP Conference Proceedings 251 Kluwer 2003, ISBN 1-4020-7473-5

Opportunities and Challenges in Tracing Security Breaches. Michael Gertz. In IFIP TC11/WG11.5 Fifth Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 223-226.

Monitoring Mission Critical Data for Integrity and Availability. Michael Gertz, George Csaba.  In IFIP TC11/WG11.5 Fifth Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems (IICIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 189-201.

Trust Mediation for Distributed Information Systems. Brian Toone, Michael Gertz, Prem Devanbu. In Security and Privacy in the Age of Uncertainty, IFIP TC11 18th International Conference on Information Security (SEC2003), Kluwer, 1-12, 2003.

2002

Structural Constraints for XML. April Kwong, Michael Gertz. Technical Report CSE-2002-24, June 2002.

XQuery/IR: Integrating XML Document and Data Retrieval. Jan-Marco Bremer, Michael Gertz. In Fifth International Workshop on the Web and Databases, Madison, Wisconsin, June 6-7, pp. 1-6, 2002.

A Model for the Visualization Exploration Process. T. J. Jankun-Kelly, Kwan-Liu Ma, Michael Gertz. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2002, Robert Moorhead, Markus Gross, Kenneth I. Joy, eds., IEEE Computer Science Press, 2002.

Integrating Scientific Data through External, Concept-based Annotations. Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler. In Second International Workshop Data Integration over the Web, 87-102, 2002.

Michael Gertz, Erik Guldentops, Leon Strous (eds.): Integrity, Internal Control and Security in Information Systems - Connecting Governance and Technology. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Proceedings of the Forth International IFIP WG11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control, Brussels, Belgium, November 2001.

Annotating Scientific Images: A Concept-based Approach. Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Fred Gorin, Michael Hogarth, Jim Stone. In 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 59-68, IEEE Computer Society.

Reverse Engineering for Web Data: From Visual to Semantic Structures. Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, Neel Sundaresan. In 18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2002), IEEE Computer Society, 2002.

2001

A Model and Architecture for Conceptualized Data Annotations. Michael Gertz, Kai-Uwe Sattler.  Technical Report CSE-2001-11, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, December 2001.

Flexible Authentication of XML Documents. Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, April Kwong, Chip Martel, Stuart G. Stubblebine.  In Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-8), 136-146, ACM, 2001.

Authentic Publication of XML Document Data. April Kwong, Michael Gertz. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'01), 331-340, IEEE Computer Society, 2001.

Quixote: Building XML Repositories from Topic Specific Web Documents. Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, Neel Sundaresan.  In Fourth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB'2001), 103-108, 2001.

Semantic Integrity Support in SQL:1999 and Commercial (Object-)Relational Database Management Systems. Can Türker, Michael Gertz. The VLDB Journal, Volume 10, Number 4, 241-269.

Bruce Rosenstock, Michael Gertz: Web-based Scholarship: Annotating the Digital Library (Extended Abstract). In ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2001, ACM, 2001.

Marco Bremer, Michael Gertz: Web Data Indexing Through External Semantic-carrying Annotations. In 11th IEEE International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering: Document Management for Data Intensive Business and Scientific Applications (RIDE 2001), 69-76, IEEE Computer Society, 2001.

2000

Alexander L. Wolf, Dennis Heimbinger, Antonio Carzaniga, John Knight, Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz: Bend Don't Break: Using Reconfiguration to Achieve Survivability, In Third Information Survivability Workshop (ISW-2000), 2000. 

Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Chip Martel, Philip Rogaway, Stuart G. Stubblebine: Authentic Re-Publication by Untrusted Servers: A Novel Approach to Database Survivability, In Third Information Survivability Workshop (ISW-2000), 2000.

Prem Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Chip Martel, Stuart G. Stubblebine: Authentic Third-party Data Publication. In 14th IFIP 11.3 Working Conference in Database Security,101-112, Kluwer, 2000.

Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl Levitt: Discovery of Multi-Level Security Policies. In 14th IFIP 11.3 Working Conference in Database Security, 173-184, Kluwer, 2000.

Michael Gertz: Achieving Semantic Interoperability Through Controlled Annotations, Position Paper, US-Korea Joint Workshop on Digital Libraries, Aug. 10-11, 2000, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA.

Mike Hogarth, Michael Gertz, Fred Gorin: Terminology Query Language: A Sever Interface for Concept Oriented Terminology Systems. In American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium On Health Care Informatics, 2000.

Fred Gorin, Mike Hogarth, Michael Gertz: The Challenges and Rewards of Integrating Diverse Neuroscience Information. To appear in The Neuroscientist, Sage Publications.

Can Türker and Michael Gertz: Semantic Integrity Support in SQL-99 and Commercial (Object-)Relational Database Management Systems, 2000. UC Davis Computer Science Technical Report CSE-2000-11.

1999

Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl Levitt: DEMIDS: A Misuse Detection System for Database Systems. In Third Annual IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - November 18-19, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pages 159-178, 1999.

Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl Levitt: Misuse Detection in Database System Through User Profiling. In Second International Workshop on the Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, September 7-9, 1999.

Frederick Gorin, Michael Gertz, Michael Hogarth: Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources for the Construction and Modeling of Biological Systems of the Nervous System, Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics and Proteomics Workshop, UC Davis, June 21-25, 1999.

Premkumar Devanbu, Michael Gertz, Stuart Stubblebine: Security for Automated, Distributed Configuration Management. In Proceedings, ICSE 99 Workshop on Software Engineering over the Internet, 1999.

1998

Michael Gertz and Ingo Schmitt: Data Integration Techniques based on Data Quality Aspects, In 3rd National Workshop on Federated Databases, December 1998, Magdeburg, Germany Shaker Verlag, 1998, ISBN: 3-8265-4522-2.

Christina Chung, Michael Gertz, and Karl Levitt: Application-Level Misuse Dectection, In Relational DBMS In 1998 UC Davis Student Workshop on Computing.

M. Gertz: Managing Data Quality and Integrity in Federated Databases, In: Second Annual IFIP TC-11 WG 11.5 Working Conference on Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems, Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia November 19-20, 1998, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

1997

M. Gertz, U.Lipeck: An Extensible Framework for Repairing Constraint Violations. In S. Jajodia, W. List, G. McGregor, L. Strous (eds.), Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems, Vol. 1: Increasing the confidence in information systems, Chapman & Hall, London, 1997, 89-11 1.

A.Scharnofske, U.Lipeck, M. Gertz: SubQuery-By-Example: Eine orthogonale Erweiterung von QBE (in German). In K.R.Dittrich, A. Geppert (Eds): "Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft (BTW) 1997 '', Springer-Verlag (Informatik Aktuell) Germany, 133--151, 1997.

1996

M. Gertz: An Extensible Framework for Repairing Constraint Violations, Proc. of the Sixth Intern. Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects --- Integrity in Databases, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 1996, 41--56.

M. Gertz: Diagnosis and Repair of Constraint Violations in Database Systems. PhD thesis, Institut für Informatik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, 1996. Published by Infix Verlag, Sankt Augustin, ISBN 3-89601-419-6, 1996. (for more information, please contact the author).

M. Gertz, G. Koschorreck, U. W. Lipeck, M. Bethke, R. Grützner, A. Schlüter: ODDIS -- Ein Informationssystem für das Oracle Data Dictionary. Universität Hannover, Institut für Informatik, Hannover, 1996. Also in Datenbank-Rundbrief, Ausgabe 17 - Mai 1996, 139-143.

M. Gertz, U. W. Lipeck: Deriving Optimized Integrity Monitoring Triggers from Dynamic Integrity Constraints. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 20(2), 1996, 163--194.

1995

M. Gertz, U. W. Lipeck: A Diagnostic Approach to Repairing Constraint Violations in Databases. In W. Nejdl (ed.), Sixth International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX`95), Working Papers, October 2-4, Goslar, Germany, Universität Hannover, Hannover, 1995, 65--72. Postscript Version (90K) or Dvi Version (28K)

M. Gertz, U. W. Lipeck: "Temporal" Integrity Constraints in Temporal Databases. In J. Clifford, A. Tuzhilin (eds.), Recent Advances in Temporal Databases -- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Sept. 1995, Workshops in Computing, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, 77--92 Postscript Version (90K)

V. Kouramajian, M. Gertz: A Graphical Query Language for Temporal Databases. In M. P. Papazoglou (ed.), OOER'95: Object-Oriented and Entity-Relationship Modeling, LNCS 1021, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, 388--399. Postscript Version (82K)

1994

M. Gertz: Specifying Reactive Integrity Control for Active Databases. In J. Widom, S. Chakravarthy (eds.), RIDE'94 - Fourth International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1994, 62--70. Postscript Version (61K) or Dvi Version (dvi, 28K)

M. Gertz, U. W. Lipeck: ICE: An Environment for Integrity-Centered Database Design. In U. W. Lipeck, G. Vossen (eds.), Formale Grundlagen für den Entwurf von Informationssystemen - GI-Workshop, Tutzing, 24.-26.Mai 1994, Informatik-Berichte 03/94, Universität Hannover, Hannover, 1994, 207--219. Postscript Version (61K)

U. W. Lipeck, M. Gertz, G. Saake: Transitional Monitoring of Dynamic Integrity Constraints. Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering 17:1 (1994), 38--42. (Special Issue on Database Constraint Management). Postscript Version (30K) or Dvi version (10K)

1993

M. Gertz, U. W. Lipeck: Deriving Integrity Maintaining Triggers from Transition Graphs. In Proceedings Ninth International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, 22--29. Postscript Version Paper (67K) or Dvi Version (27K)