Publications

Jounral Papers

Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, and Xuan Liu. "Query-Aware Location Anonymization for Road Networks". GeoInformatica, Springer, Vol. 15, No. 3, pages 571-607, July 2011.

Conference and Workshop Papers

Mohamed Mokbel, Jie Bao, Amr Magdy, Mohamed Sarwat, Louai Alarabi and Steven Yackel, "MNTG: An Extensible Web-based Traffic Generator" In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, (SSTD 2013), Munich, Germany, August 2013.

Yanhua Li, Moritz Steiner, Limin Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang, and Jie Bao, "Exploring Venue Popularity in Foursquare." In The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks (NetSciCom 2013), colocated with INFOCOM 2013, April 19, 2013 Turin, Italy. (to appear)

Jie Bao, Yu Zheng and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Location-based and Preference-Aware Recommendation Using Sparse Geo-Social Networking Data". In ACM SIGSPATIAL (GIS 2012), Redondo Beach, CA, US, 2012 [PPT]

Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel . "The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-Aware Social Networking System". In ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks LBSN 2012 (GIS-LBSN 2012), Redondo Beach, CA, US, 2012

Yanhua Li, Moritz Steiner, Limin Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang and Jie Bao. "Dissecting Foursquare Venue Popularity via Random Region Sampling.". In The student workshop at the 8th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2012), December 10-13, 2012 Nice, France.

Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang and Jie Bao. "Mutual or Unrequited Love: Identifying Stable Clusters in Social Networks with Uni- and Bi-directional Links". In 9th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW 2012), Canada June 22-23, 2012

Jie Bao, Mohamed F. Mokbel and Chi-Yin Chow. " GeoFeed: A Location-Aware News Feed System". In The 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), Washington DC, US, 2012. [PPT] [Poster]

Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski and Mohamed Sarwat. "Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-based Services 2.0". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases (PersDB 2011), co-located with VLDB 2011, Seattle, WA, September 2011.

Chi-Yin Chow, Jie Bao, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Towards Location-based Social Networking Services" In Proceeding of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (GIS-LBSN 2010), co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS, San Jose, CA, November 2010.

Jie Bao, Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Wei-Shinn Ku. "Efficient Evaluation of k-Range Nearest Neighbor Queries in Road Networks" In Proceedings of the 11^th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), Kansas City, MO, USA, 2010 [PPT]

Yu Chen, Jie Bao, Wei-Shinn Ku and Jiun-Long Huang. "Cache Management Techniques for Privacy Protected Location-based Services" In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS 2008), in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Beijing, China, 2008

Demos

Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System" In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012), Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012 [Poster] [Video]

Jie Bao, Haiquan Chen, and Wei-Shinn Ku. "PROS: A Peer-to-Peer System for Location Privacy Protection on Road Networks" In Proceedings of the 17^th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS 2009), Seattle, WA, 2009.

Technical Reports

Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang and Jie Bao "Mutual or Unrequited Love: Identifying Stable Clusters in Social Networks with Uni- and Bi-directional Links" 2012

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