Tian Xia, Ph.D.
I graduated from Northeastern University, and joined Oracle Corporation.

Education

Publications:
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    2008:

  1. Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang, and Yufei Tao. On Skylining with Flexible Dominance Relation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), to appear (short paper), 2008

    2. 2007:

  2. Tian Xia, Fusheng Wang, and Peiya Liu. Managing and Searching Distributed Multidimensional Annotations with Large Scale Image Data. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis and Mining (MCAM'07), pages 361-370, 2007.

  3. James M. Kang, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Shashi Shekhar, Tian Xia, and Donghui Zhang. Continuous Evaluation of Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbors. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 806-815, 2007 . [ abstract | pdf ]

  4. Yang Du, Tian Xia, Yufei Tao, Donghui Zhang, and Feng Zhu. On Multidimensional k-Anonymity with Local Recoding Generalization. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1422-1424 (poster paper), 2007. [ pdf ]

    5. 2006:

  5. Tian Xia and Donghui Zhang. Refreshing the Sky: The Compressed Skycube with Efficient Support for Frequent Updates. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) , pages 491-502, 2006. [ abstract | pdf ]

  6. Donghui Zhang, Yang Du, Tian Xia and Yufei Tao. Progressive Computation of The Min-Dist Optimal-Location Query. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pages 643-654, 2006. [ abstract | pdf ]

  7. Tian Xia and Donghui Zhang. Continuous Reverse Nearest Neighbor Monitoring. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 77 (full paper of 10 pages), 2006. [ abstract | pdf ]

  8. Evangelos Kanoulas, Yang Du, Tian Xia, and Donghui Zhang. Finding Fastest Paths on A Road Network with Speed Patterns. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages 10 (full paper of 10 pages), 2006. [ abstract | pdf ]

    9. 2005:

  9. Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Yang Du. On Computing Top-t Most Influential Spatial Sites. In Proceedingspp of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pages 946-957, 2005. [ abstract | pdf ]

  10. Tian Xia and Donghui Zhang. Improving the R*-tree with Outlier Handling Techniques. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), pages 125-134, 2005. [ abstract | pdf ]

  11. Yang Du, Donghui Zhang, and Tian Xia. The Optimal-Location Query. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pages 163-180, 2005. [ abstract | pdf ]

    12. 2004:

  12. Donghui Zhang and Tian Xia. A Novel Improvement to the R*-tree Spatial Index using Gain/Loss Metrics. In Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), pages 204-213, 2004. [ abstract | pdf ]

    13. 2003:

  13. Peter Tarasewich, Christopher S. Campbell, Tian Xia, and Myra Dideles. Evaluation of Visual Notification Cues for Ubiquitous Computing. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), page 349-366, 2003. [ abstract | pdf ]
Patent:
  1. Fusheng Wang, Tian Xia, and Peiya Liu. A Multidimensional Indexing Method and Apparatus for Managing and Searching Service and Non-Textual Annotations to Support Image-based Inspection and Diagnosis with Large Archived Data. (US Provisional Patent No. 2006P14568US)