Another new semester has started at IIIT-Delhi and ACM Distinguished Speaker Talks is back for the third time. Read the details below to know more about the talk:

Abstract: Integration of XML documents demands consideration of similarities in both structure and content. This talk is about the structure and content semantic similarity detection of two XML documents from heterogeneous data sources. The talk will provide a description of the overall framework of XML integration based on content and structure semantic similarity using keys. This work introduces an approach to detect XML similarity and thus to join XML document versions using a change detection mechanism. In this approach, subtree keys still play an important role in order to avoid unnecessary subtree comparisons within multiple versions of the same document and the results improvement in the XML structure and content similarity comparisons. The main contribution is to provide an approach for evaluating semantic similarity between XML path expressions from two different XML structures. Comparisons with the previous systems shows that this approach has a better performance by a big order of magnitude in terms of detection, false-positive rates and execution time.

Biography: Sanjay Kumar Madria received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India in 1995. He is an Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly, University of Missouri-Rolla), USA.
Earlier he was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. He has published more than 150 Journal and conference papers in the areas of mobile computing, sensor networks, security, XML, and databases in general. He co-authored a book entitled “Web Data Management : A Warehouse Approach” published by Springer-verlag. He guest edited WWW Journal, several Data and Knowledge Engineering Sp. Issues on Web data management and Data warehousing. He won best papers awards in 2010 and 2010 in IEEE conferences. He was founding Program Chair for EC&WEB series of conferences and founding workshop chair IEEE International Workshop on P2P Data Management, Security and Trust since 2003. He served as general co-chair of mobile data management (MDM) conference held in 2010. He is serving as PC member of various database conferences such as VLDB, ICDE, MDM, and reviewer for many reputed database journals such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE Computer, ACM Internet Computing, IEEE TMC etc. Dr. Madria has given tutorials on mobile databases and XML Change Management  in many international conferences.
He is regular invited panelist in NSF, NSERC (Canada), Hong Kong Research Council and Sweden Council of Research. He was invited keynote speaker and invited speaker in Conferences and workshops. He received UMR faculty excellence award in 2007, 2009, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science invitational fellowship in 2006, and Air Force Research Lab’s visiting faculty fellowships from 2008-2011. His research is supported by grants over $3M from NSF, DOE, Army, AFRL, UM research board, and from industry such as Boeing. He is IEEE Senior Member and also a speaker under ACM/IEEE Distinguished Visitor program.

Where?: Class Room-1, IIIT-Delhi, NSIT Campus, Dwarka, New Delhi

When?: 5th August 2011, 3:30 pm

IIIT-Delhi is organizing its first annual Research Showcase to showcase the prominent research and projects being carried out at the institute. These posters and demos include some of the recent innovations by various research groups at IIIT-D including Image Analysis and Biometrics,Information Management and Data Analytics, Mobile and Ubiquitous computing, Security and Privacy, Software Engineering and Theory as well as outstanding projects done by students as part of their courses.

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Posted by Shashwat Goel

Its our sheer pleasure to announce that the ACM Student Chapter is organizing – Think like a ‘C’ientist, the programming event of IIIT-D on 3rd and 4th of March, for all Students and Faculty members of the institute. The event is being held in the evenings, and big prizes are up for grabs!

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Posted by Anush Sankaran

It is often felt that our academic systems spend too little effort on good students, with the result that many remain “good” and do not transcend to becoming “great”. This session is meant for “good” students in IIIT-D, who would like to move towards greatness. (Who is “good”? If you feel you are good, then you are “good” – you can use any measure you would like.)

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Posted by Vibhas Kumar

IIIT-D and IIT-D ACM Student Chapters are together organizing a Azure Cloud Computing workshop which is supported by Microsoft.

Posted by Kuldeep Yadav

Microsoft have sent a proposal to conduct a workshop to help newbies start programming on newly launched windows phone 7 platform. We have two dates to decide from : 15th and 16th November. We will have just 2-3 hrs workshop in the evening on one of these days.

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Posted by Niharika

The Sicurezza Team (ACM SIG on Security) is organizing an Extempore on Security Issues on Thu, 30th September, 2010. You will be given a random topic related to security issues on the spot (so no preparation needed !!!).Not to forget the exciting prizes to be won ( & of course the refreshments ).

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Posted by Anush Sankaran

IIIT-D ACM Student Chapter is organizing a Science and Technology quiz competition for all students and faculty of IIIT-D. This quiz aims at bringing to limelight the quizzing mantra of IIIT-D along with the awareness level of people at IIIT-D in Science and Technology …

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