Publications of Rui Zhang

  1. Ning Ding, Xiaobin Wang, Yao Fu, Guangwei Xu, Rui Wang, Pengjun Xie, Ying Shen, Fei Huang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Rui Zhang, Prototypical Representation Learning for Relation Extraction. The Ninth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021.
    　
  2. Yixin Su, Rui Zhang, Sarah Erfani, Zhenghua Xu, Detecting Beneficial Feature Interactions for Recommender Systems. The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021.
    　
  3.  Yang Song, Yu Gu, Rui Zhang, Ge Yu, ProMIPS: Efficient High-Dimensionalc-Approximate Maximum Inner Product Searchwith a Lightweight Index. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021.
    　
  4. Yimeng Dai, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Automatic Webpage Briefing. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021.
    　
  5. Yaoshu Wang, Chuan Xiao, Jianbin Qin, Rui Mao, Onizuka Makoto, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, Consistent and Flexible Selectivity Estimation for High-Dimensional Data. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2021.
    　
  6. Hao Wu, Junhao Gan, Zhewei Wei, Rui Zhang, Unifying the Global and Local Approaches: An Efficient Power Iteration with Forward Push. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2021.
    　
  7. Xiaojie Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Combating Selection Biases in Recommender Systems with A Few Unbiased Ratings. The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2021.
    　
  8. Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, and Rui Zhang. Generalizable and Explainable Dialogue Generation via Explicit Action Learning. The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Findings of EMNLP, 3981-3991, 2020.
    　
  9. Shiquan Yang, Rui Zhang, Sarah Erfani, GraphDialog: Integrating Graph Knowledge into End-to-End Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems, The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020.
    　
  10. Yunxiang Zhao, Qiuhong Ke, Flip Korn, Jianzhong Qi, and Rui Zhang. HexCNN: A Framework for Native Hexagonal Convolutional Neural Networks. 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2020.
    　
  11. Ang Li, Shanshan Zhao, Xingjun Ma, Mingming Gong, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Dacheng Tao, and Ramamohanarao Kotagiri. Short-Term and Long-Term Context Aggregation Network for Video Inpainting. 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020.
    　
  12. Yu Gu, Kaiqiang Yu, Zhen Song, Jianzhong Qi, Zhigang Wang, Ge Yu, and Rui Zhang. Distributed Hypergraph Processing Using Intersection Graphs. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), accepted in August 2020.
    　
  13. Hao Wu, Junhao Gan, Rui Zhang. Learning Based Distributed Tracking. 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2020.
    　
  14. Fuqiang Gu, Shahrokh Valaee, Kourosh Khoshelham, Jianga Shang, Rui Zhang. Landmark Graph-based Indoor Localization. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020.
    　
  15. Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang. Indexing. Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, 2020.
    　
  16. Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang. Query Processing-kNN. Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, 2020.
    　
  17. Jianzhong Qi, Yufei Tao, Yanchuan Chang, and Rui Zhang. Packing R-trees with Space-Filling Curves: Theoretical Optimality, Empirical Efficiency, and Bulk-loading Parallelizability. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), accepted in April 2020.
    　
  18. Yang Song, Yu Gu, Rui Zhang and Ge Yu. BrePartition: Optimized High-Dimensional kNN Search with Bregman Distances. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Accepted in April 2020.
    　
  19. Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun and Rui Zhang, Semi-Supervised Dialogue Policy Learning via Stochastic Reward Estimation, 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020.
    　
  20. Yimeng Dai, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Person Name Recognition with Fine-grained Annotation. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2020), 2020.
    　
  21. Yimeng Dai, Jianzhong Qi, and Rui Zhang. Joint Recognition of Names and Publications in Academic Homepages. The 13th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2020), 133-141, 2020.
    　
  22. Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, Rui Zhang, MALA: Cross-Domain Dialogue Generation with Action Learning. Proceedings of the 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), 2020.
    　
  23. Jianzhong Qi, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang, and Zhuowei Zhao. A Learning Based Approach to Predict Shortest-Path Distances. 23th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2020.
    　
  24. Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Sentence Generation for Entity Description with Content-plan Attention. Proceedings of the 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), 2020.
    　
  25. Xiaojie Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Adversarial Distillation for Learning with Privileged Provisions. Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), accepted in Sep 2019.
    　
  26. Hongfei Xu, Yu Gu, Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Ge Yu, Rui Zhang, Efficient processing of moving collective spatial keyword queries. VLDB Journal, accpeted in Nov 2019.
    　
  27. Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Gerhard Weikum, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang. Neural Relation Extraction for Knowledge Base Enrichment. 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2019.
    　
  28. Ang Li, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Generative Image Inpainting with Submanifold Alignment, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2019.  http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00211
    　
  29. Xiaojie Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi. Doubly Robust Joint Learning for Recommendation on Data Missing Not at Random, The 36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2019.
    　
  30. Yixin Su, Sarah Erfani, Rui Zhang. MMF: Attribute Interpretable Collaborative Filtering. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01099
    　
  31. Xinting Huang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, Rui Zhang, Hai-Tao Zheng. CARL: Aggregated Search with Context-Aware Module Embedding Learning, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03141
    　
  32. Ang Li, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Boosted GAN with Semantically Interpretable Information for Image Inpainting. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04503
    　
  33. Yang Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Wang Chen, Rui Zhang. LambdaGAN: Generative Adversarial Nets for Recommendation Task with Lambda Strategy. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2019.
    　
  34. Wang Chen, Hai-Tao Zheng, Yang Wang, Wei Wang, Rui Zhang. Utilizing Generative Adversarial Networks for Recommendation based on Ratings and Reviews, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2019.
    　
  35. Chuanwen Li, Yu Gu, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Ge Yu. Moving kNN query processing in metric space based on influential sets. Information Systems, 83, 126-144, 2019.
    　
  36. Zhen Wang, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Bo Yuan. DBSVEC: Density-Based Clustering Using Support Vector Expansion. Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.
    　
  37. Zeyi Wen, Dong Deng, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. 2ED: An Efficient Entity Extraction Algorithm using Two-Level Edit-Distance. Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.
    　
  38. Yunxiang Zhao, Jianzhong Qi, and Rui Zhang. CBHE: Corner-based Building Height Estimation for Complex Street Scene Images. The Web Conference (WWW), 2019.
    　
  39. Bayu Distiawan Trsedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang. Entity Alignment between Knowledge Graphs Using Attribute Embeddings, Proceedings of the 33th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019).
    　
  40. Wenkai Jiang, Jianzhong Qi, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Jin Huang, Rui Zhang. HyperX: A Scalable Hypergraph Framework. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 31 (5), 909 – 922, 2019.
    　
  41. Xi Zheng, Yuqun Zhang, Tianlei Zheng, Yao Deng, ErXi Dong, Rui Zhang, Xiao Liu, SmartVM: a SLA-aware microservice deployment framework,  World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 22, 275–293, 2019.
    　
  42. Tanzima Hashem, Lars Kulik, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Rui Zhang, Subarna Chowdhury Soma, Protecting Privacy for Distance and Rank Based Group Nearest Neighbor Queries, World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 22, 375–416, 2019.
    　
  43. Xiaojie Wang, Rui Zhang, Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi. KDGAN: Knowledge Distillation with Generative Adversarial Networks, 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2018.
    　
  44. Chenxu Zhao, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi. Web Page Template and Data Separation for Better Maintainability. 19th Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 2018.
    　
  45. Bayu Distiawan Trisedya, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Wei Wang. GTR-LSTM: A Triple Encoder for Sentence Generation from RDF Data.  56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2018.
    　
  46. Fuqiang Gu, Kourosh Khoshelham, Shahrokh Valaee, Jianga Shang, Rui Zhang, Locomotion Activity Recognition Using Stacked Denoising Autoencoders, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 2085-2093, June 2018.
    　
  47. Weihao Cheng, Sarah Erfani, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Predicting Complex Activities from Ongoing Multivariate Time Series. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018.
    　
  48. Xiaojie Wang, Jianzhong Qi, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Yu Sun, Bo Li, and Rui Zhang. Joint Optimization Approach for Personalized Recommendation Diversification. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2018.
    　
  49. Chuandong Yin, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Sun, and Tenglun Tan. Context-Uncertainty-Aware Chatbot Action Selection via Parameterized Auxiliary Reinforcement Learning. 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2018.
    　
  50. Jianzhong Qi, Yufei Tao, Yanchuan Chang, Rui Zhang, Theoretically Optimal and Empirically Efficient Rtrees with Strong Parallelizability, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 11(5), 2018.
    　
  51. Mingzhao Li, Zhifeng Bao, Timos Sellis, Shi Yan, Rui Zhang, HomeSeeker: A visual analytics system of real estate data, Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 45, 1-16, 2018.
    　
  52. Jianzhong Qi, Vivek Kumar, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Goce Trajcevski, and Peter Scheuermann. Continuous Maintenance of Range Sum Heat Maps. Proceedings of the 33th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2018. (demo).
    　
  53. Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, Shixun Huang, Rui Zhang, A Unified Processing Paradigm for Interactive Location-based Web Search, The 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2018).
    　
  54. Weihao Cheng, Sarah M. Erfani, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Learning Datum-Wise Sampling Frequency for Energy-Efficient Human Activity Recognition, Proceedings of the 32th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018).
    　
  55. Xiaojie Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou, Tetsuya Sakai, Rui Zhang, Search Result Diversity Evaluation based on Intent Hierarchies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 30 (1): 156-169, 2018.
    　
  56. Weihao Cheng, Sarah M. Erfani, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Accurate Recognition of the Current Activity in the Presence of Multiple Activities. 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2017: 39-50
    　
  57. Yu Sun, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie, Kieran McDonald, Rui Zhang. Collaborative Intent Prediction with Real-Time Contextual Data, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 35 (4), 30, 2017.
    　
  58. Weihao Cheng, Sarah M. Erfani, Ruiand Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, “Markov Dynamic Subsequence Ensemble for Energy-Efficient Activity Recognition”, International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), 2017
    　
  59. Saad Aljubayrin, Jianzhong Qi, Christian S. Jensen, Rui Zhang, Zhen He, Yuan Li. Finding Lowest-Cost Paths in Settings with Safe and Preferred Zones. VLDB Journal, 26(3): 373-397, 2017.
    　
  60. Zeyi Wen, Bin Li, Rao Kotagiri, Jian Chen, Yawen Chen, Rui Zhang. Improving Efficiency of SVM k-fold Cross-validation by Alpha Seeding. Proceedings of the 31th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2017
    　
  61. Yu Gu, Guanli Liu, Jianzhong Qi, Hongfei Xu, Ge Yu, and Rui Zhang. The Moving K Diversified Nearest Neighbor Query. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(10): 2778-2792, 2016.
    　
  62.   Yu Sun, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Yingzi Wang, Xing Xie, Kieran McDonald, Rui Zhang. Contextual Intent Tracking for Personal Assistants, 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2016.  Best Student Paper Award for the Applied Data Science track.   Video
    　
  63. Sandra Milligan, Jiazhen He, James Bailey, Rui Zhang, Benjamin IP Rubinstein, Validity: a framework for cross-disciplinary collaboration in mining indicators of learning from MOOC forums, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 546-547, 2016.
    　
  64. Saad Aljubayrin, Bin Yang, Christian S. Jensen, Rui Zhang, Finding non-dominated paths in uncertain road networks. Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, (SIGSPATIAL/GIS) 2016: 15:1-15:10.
    　
  65. Xiaojie Lin, Ye Gu, Rui Zhang, Ju Fan, Linking News and Tweets. 27th Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2016: 467-470
    　
  66. Gitansh Khirbat, Jianzhong Qi, and Rui Zhang. N-ary Biographical Relation Extraction using Shortest Path Dependencies. 14th Annual Workshop of The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), 2016.
    　
  67. Gitansh Khirbat, Jianzhong Qi, and Rui Zhang. Disambiguating Entities Referred by Web Endpoints using Tree Ensembles. 14th Annual Workshop of The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA), 2016.
    　
  68. Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Shanika Karunasekera, Lars Kulik, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, Hairuo Xie, Eman Bin Khunayn. SMARTS: Scalable Microscopic Adaptive Road Traffic Simulator, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 8(2): 26:1-26:22, 2017.
    　
  69. Yu Sun, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie, Kieran McDonald, Rui Zhang. Collaborative Nowcasting for Contextual Recommendation, WWW Conference 2016.
    　
  70. Chuanwen Li, Yu Gu, Jianzhong Qi, Ge Yu, Rui Zhang, and Qingxu Deng. INSQ: An Influential Neighbor Set Based Moving kNN Query Processing System. Proceedings of the 31th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2016. (demo).
    　
  71. Yu Sun, Rui Zhang, Andy Yuan Xue, Jianzhong Qi, Xiaoyong Du. Reverse Nearest Neighbor Heat Maps: A Tool for Influence Exploration, Proceedings of the 31th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2016. 966-977.
    　
  72. Jiazhen He, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, James Bailey, Rui Zhang, Sandra Milligan, and Jeffrey Chan. MOOCs Meet Measurement Theory: A Topic-Modelling Approach. Proceedings of the 30th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'2016).
    　
  73. Jin Huang, Rui Zhang, Rajkumar Buyya, Jian Chen, Yongwei Wu, HEADS-JOIN: Efficient Earth Mover’s Distance Similarity Joins on Hadoop, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 27(6): 1660-1673, 2016.
    　
  74. Jin Huang, Rui Zhang, and Jeffrey Xu Yu. Scalable Hypergraph Processing, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2015. (Short)
    　
  75. Weichao Guo, Kang Chen, Huan Feng, Yongwei Wu, Rui Zhang, Weimin Zheng. MARS: Mobile Application Relaunching Speed-up through Flash-Aware Page Swapping, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 65(3): 916-928, 2016.
    　
  76. Thi Nguyena, Zhen He, Rui Zhang, Philip G. D. Ward, Exploiting velocity distribution skew to speed up moving object indexing, 51(c):72-104, 2015.
    　
  77. Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Zheng, Rui Zhang, K-Nearest Neighbor Temporal Aggregate Queries, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2015.
    　
  78. Saad Aljubayrin, Zhen He, and Rui Zhang, Skyline Trips of Multiple POIs Categories, Proceedings of the The 20th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2015.
    　
  79. Jiazhen He, James Bailey, Benjamin Rubinstein, Rui Zhang, Identifying At-Risk Students in Massive Open Online Courses, Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015.
    　
  80. Saad Aljubayrin, Jianzhong Qi, Christian Jensen, Rui Zhang, Zhen He, Zeyi Wen. The Safest Path via Safe Zones. Proceedings of the 31th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2015.
    　
  81. Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Yueguo Chen and Xiaoyong Du. MapReduce Based Location Selection Algorithm for Utility Maximization with Capacity Constraints. Computing, 97(4): 403-423, 2015.
    　
  82. Chuanwen Li, Yu Gu, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Ge Yu. A Safe Region based Approach to Moving KNN Queries in Obstructed Space. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 45(2): 417-451, 2015.
    　
  83. Andy Yuan Xue, Jianzhong Qi, Xing Xie, Rui Zhang, Jin Huang, Yuan Li. Solving the Data Sparsity Problem in Destination Prediction. VLDB Journal, 24 (2): 219-243, 2015.
    　
  84. Jian Chen, Jin Huang, Zeyi Wen, Zhen He, Kerry Taylor, Rui Zhang. Analysis and Evaluation of the Top-k Most Influential Location Selection Query. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 43 (1): 181-217, 2015.
    　
  85. Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Hongzhi Wang, Zeyi Wen and Dan Wu. Indexable Online Time Series Segmentation with Error Bound Guarantee. WWW Journal, 18(2): 359-401, 2015.
    　
  86. Zeyi Wen, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jianzhong Qi, Kerry Taylor. MASCOT: Fast and Highly Scalable SVM Cross-validation using GPUs and SSDs. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2014
    　
  87. Chuanwen Li, Yu Gu, Jianzhong Qi, Ge Yu, Rui Zhang, Yi Wang. Processing Moving kNN Queries Using Influential Neighbor Sets. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB),  vol.8 (2): 113 - 124, 2014. Source code.
    　
  88. Zeyi Wen, Rui Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Enabling Precision/Recall Preferences for Semi-supervised SVM Training. The 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014.
    　
  89. Phillip G. D. Ward, Zhen He, Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi. Real-time Continuous Intersection Joins over Large Sets of Moving Objects using Graphic Processing Units. VLDB Journal,  23 (6): 965-985, 2014.
    　
  90. Xiaojie Lin, Rui Zhang, Zeyi Wen, Hongzhi Wang, Jianzhong Qi. Efficient Subgraph matching using GPUs. ADC, 2014.
    　
  91. Dana Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Rui Zhang, Steven Versteeg. Efficient Graph Based Approach to Large Scale Role Engineering, Transactions on Data Privacy 7:1, 1 - 26, 2014.
    　
  92. Yanqiu Wang, Rui Zhang, Chuanfei Xu, Jianzhong Qi, Yu Gu and Ge Yu. Continuous Visible k Nearest Neighbor Query on Moving Objects. Information Systems, 44: 1-21, 2014.
    　
  93. Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Martin Stradling and Jin Huang. Towards a Painless Index for Spatial Objects. ACM Transactions on Data Base Systems (TODS), 39(3): 19:1-19:42, 2014.
    　
  94. Dongsheng Duan, Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li, Rui Zhang, Xiwu Gu, Kunmei Wen. LIMTopic: A Framework of Incorporating Link based Importance into Topic Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 26(10): 2493-2506. 2014.
    　
  95. Jiazhen He, James Bailey and Rui Zhang. Exploiting Transitive Similarity and Temporal Dynamics for Similarity Search in Heterogeneous Information Networks. Proceedings of the The 19th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pp 141-155, Bali, Indonesia, April 21-24, 2014.
    　
  96. Jin Huang, Rui Zhang, Rajkumar Buyya, and Jian Chen. MELODY-Join: Efficient Earth Mover's Distance Similarity Join Using MapReduce. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014.
    　
  97. Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Yanqiu Wang, Andy Yuan Xue, Ge Yu, Lars Kulik. The Min-dist Location Selection and Facility Replacement Queries. WWW Journal, 17(6): 1261-1293, 2014.
    　
  98. Sashi Gurung, Dan Lin, Wei Jiang, Ali Hurson, Rui Zhang. Traffic Information Publication with Privacy Preservation. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) , 5(3): 44:1-44:26, 2014.
    　
  99. Andy Yuan Xue, Rui Zhang, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Jianhui Yu, Yong Tang. DesTeller: A System for Destination Prediction Based on Trajectories with Privacy Protection. (Demo) Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) vol.6(12):1198-1201, 2013.
    　
  100. Andy Yuan Xue, Rui Zhang, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Jin Huang, Zhenghua Xu. Destination Prediction by Sub-Trajectory Synthesis and Privacy Protection Against Such Prediction. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2013.
    　
  101. Zheng Huo, Xiaofeng Meng, Rui Zhang. Feel Free to Check-in: Privacy Alert against Hidden Location Inference Attacks in GeoSNs.  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2013.
    　
  102. Tanzima Hashem, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang. Countering Overlapping Rectangle Privacy Attack for Moving kNN Queries. Information Systems. 38(3): 430-453, 2013.
    　
  103. Linlin Ding, Guoren Wang, Junchang Xin, Xiaoyang Wang, Shan Huang, Rui Zhang. ComMapReduce: An Improvement of MapReduce with Lightweight Communication Mechanisms. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). 88: 224-247, 2013.
    　
  104. Dongsheng Duan, Yuhua Li, Ruixuan Li, Rui Zhang, Aiming Wen. RankTopic: Ranking Based Topic Modeling. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2012.
    　
  105. Yu Sun, Jin Huang, Yueguo Chen, Rui Zhang, Xiaoyong Du, Location Selection for Utility Maximization with Capacity Constraints, 21th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ) 2012. (Short Paper)
    　
  106. Yu Sun, Jin Huang, Yueguo Chen, Xiaoyong Du, Rui Zhang, Top-k Most Incremental Location Selection with Capacity Constraint, Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2012).
    　
  107. Chunyang Ma, Rui Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Gang Chen. DuoWave: Mitigating the curse of dimensionality for uncertain data. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). 76: 16-38, 2012.
    　
  108. Thi Nguyen, Zhen He, Rui Zhang, Phillip Ward. Boosting Moving Object Indexing through Velocity Partitioning. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2012, vol.5(9):860-871  / (VLDB) 2012.
    　
  109. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri. Probabilistic Voronoi Diagrams for Probabilistic Moving Nearest Neighbor Queries. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE). 75: 1-33, 2012.
    　
  110. Zhenghua Xu, Rui Zhang, Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, Udaya Parampalli. An Adaptive Algorithm for Online Time Series Segmentation with Error Bound Guarantee. 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2012.
    　
  111. Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Lars Kulik, Dan Lin, Yuan Xue. The Min-dist Location Selection Query. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2012.
    　
  112. Rui Zhang, Jianzhong Qi, Dan Lin, Wei Wang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong. A Highly Optimized Algorithm for Continuous Intersection Join Queries over Moving Objects, VLDB Journal, 21(4): 561-586, 2012.
    　
  113. Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Jie Shao, Rui Zhang, and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Continuous Detour Queries in Spatial Networks, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 24(7): 1201-1215, 2012.
    　
  114. Dan Lin, Christian Jensen, Rui Zhang, Lu Xiao, Jiaheng Lu. A Moving Object Index for Efficient Query Processing with Peer-Wise Location Privacy, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2011, vol.5 / (VLDB) 2012.
    　
  115. Sumukh Ghodke, Steven Bird, Rui Zhang. A Breadth-First Representation for Tree Matching in Large Scale Forest-Based Translation. The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) 2011
    　
  116. Jin Huang, Zeyi Wen, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Jian Chen, Zhen He. Top-k Most Influential Locations Selection, 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011).
    　
  117. Jin Huang, Zeyi Wen, Mukaddim Pathan, Kerry Taylor, Yuan Xue, Rui Zhang. Ranking Locations for Facility Selection based on Potential Influences, 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2011).
    　
  118. Alex Hindle, Jie Shao, Dan Lin, Jiaheng Lu, Rui Zhang. Clustering Web Video Search Results based on Integration of Multiple Features. World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 14(1): 53-73, 2011.
    　
  119. Elizabeth Antoine, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jie Shao, Rui Zhang. Accelerating Spatial Join Operations using Bit-Indices. Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2011.
    　
  120. Rui Zhang, Martin Stradling. The HV-tree: a Memory Hierarchy Aware Version Index. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2010, 3(1): 397-408, 2010. slides
    　
  121. Chaoyi Pang, Rui Zhang, Qing Zhang, Junhu Wang. Dominating Sets in Directed Graphs. Information Sciences, 180(19): 3647-3652, 2010.
    　
  122. Rui Zhang, H. V. Jagadish, Bing Tian Dai, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao. Optimized Algorithms for Predictive Range and KNN Queries on Moving Objects. Information Systems, 35(8): 911-932, 2010.
    　
  123. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, Lars Kulik. A Motion-Aware Approach for Efficient Evaluation of Continuous Queries on 3D Object Databases, VLDB Journal, 19(5): 603-632, 2010.
    　
  124. Rui Zhang, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh Srivastava, Pu Zhou. Streaming Multiple Aggregations Using Phantoms, VLDB Journal, 19(4): 557-583, 2010.
    　
  125. Cui Yu, James Bailey, Julian Montefusco, Rui Zhang, Jiling Zhong. Enhancing the B+-Tree with Dynamic Node Popularity Caching, Information Processing Letters, 110 (7), 268-273, 2010.
    　
  126. Tanzima Hashem, Lars Kulik, Rui Zhang. Privacy Preserving Group Nearest Neighbor Queries, EDBT 2010.
    　
  127. Zhe Zhang, Jian Jiang, Xiaoyan Liu, Ricky Lau, Huaiqing Wang, Rui Zhang. A Real Time Hybrid Pattern Matching Scheme for Stock Time Series, ADC 2010.
    　
  128. Elizabeth Antoine, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jie Shao and Rui Zhang. Recursive Partitioning Method for Trajectory Indexing, ADC 2010.
       
  129. Xiaoyan Liu, Xindong Wu, Huaiqing Wang, Rui Zhang, James Bailey, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao . Mining Distribution Change in Stock Order Streams, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2010 (short paper).
    　
  130. Sarana Nutanong, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik. Analysis and Evaluation of V*-kNN: An Efficient Algorithm for Moving kNN Queries, VLDB Journal, 19(3): 307-332, 2010. Slides
    　
  131. Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang. Incremental Evaluation of Visible Nearest Neighbor Queries. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering (TKDE), 22(5): 665-681, 2010.
    　
  132. Cui Yu, Rui Zhang, Yaochun Huang, Hui Xiong. High-dimensional kNN joins with incremental updates. GeoInformatica Journal, 1 (14), 55-82, 2010.
    　
  133. Rui Zhang: Nonparametric Data Reduction Techniques. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1912, Springer 2009.
    　
  134. Rui Zhang: Parametric Data Reduction Techniques. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2044-2045, Springer 2009.
    　
  135. Rui Zhang: Data Reduction. Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 621-626, Springer 2009.
    　
  136. Dana Zhang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Steven Versteeg, Rui Zhang . RoleVAT: Visual Assessment of Practical Need for Role Based Access Control, ACSAC 2009.
    　
  137. Sarana Nutanong, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik. V*-kNN: an Efficient Algorithm for Moving k Nearest Neighbor Queries. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, 2009. Play the Demo
    　
  138. Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, and Lars Kulik . Spatio-Temporal Database Research at the University of Melbourne, SIGMOD Record, 38(3), 35-39, 2009.
    　
  139. Sarana Nutanong, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik. The V*-Diagram: A Query Dependent Approach to Moving KNN Queries. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 1, 1095-1106, 2008. Slides   Source code.
    　
  140. David Lomet, Mingsheng Hong, Rimma Nehme, Rui Zhang. Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 1, 870-881, 2008.
    　
  141. Rui Zhang, Dan Lin, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Elisa Bertino. Continuous Intersection Joins Over Moving Objects. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, 2008. Slides
    　
  142. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik. A Motion-Aware Approach to Continuous Retrieval of 3D Objects. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, 2008. Slides
    　
  143. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Rui Zhang, Egemen Tanin, Lars Kulik. Load Balancing for Moving Object Management in a P2P Network. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) New Delhi, India, 2008.
    　
  144. H.V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, Rui Zhang. iDistance Techniques. An entry in Encyclopedia of GIS, 469-471 ,Springer 2008. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h01539/.
    　
  145. Sarana Nutanong, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang. Visible Nearest Neighbor Queries. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
    　
  146. Anthony Tung, Rui Zhang, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi. Similarity Search: A Matching Based Approach. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seoul, 2006. Slides
    　
  147. Dan Lin, Rui Zhang, Aoying Zhou. Indexing Fast Moving Objects for KNN Queries Based on Nearest Landmarks. GeoInformatica, 10(4): 423-445, 2006.
    　
  148. Christian S. Jensen, Dan Lin, Beng Chin Ooi, Rui Zhang. Effective Density Queries of Continuously Moving Objects. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, 2006.
    　
  149. Rui Zhang, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh Srivastava. Multiple Aggregations Over Data Streams. ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Baltimore, 2005. Slides
    　
  150. Rui Zhang, Panos Kalnis, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan. Generalized Multi-dimensional Data Mapping and Query Processing. ACM Transactions on Data Base Systems (TODS), 30(3), 661-697, 2005.
    　
  151. H.V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Cui Yu, Rui Zhang. iDistance: An Adaptive B+-tree Based Indexing Method for Nearest Neighbor Search. ACM Transactions on Data Base Systems (TODS), 30(2), 364-397, 2005.
    　
  152. Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Rui Zhang. Approximate NN queries on Streams with Guaranteed Error/performance Bounds. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Toronto, 2004. Slides
    　
  153. Rui Zhang, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan. Making the Pyramid Technique Robust to Query Types and Workload. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Boston, 2004. Slides
    　

Invited Papers or Keynote Speeches in Conferences

  1. Rui Zhang. High-performance Management and Processing of Large-scale Moving Object Data. (Keynote Speech) Proceedings of the International Conference on Management and Information Engineering (ICMAIE), July 13-15, 2012, Wuhan. Slides
    　
  2. Rui Zhang. Location Based Queries in a Streaming Fashion. (Keynote Speech) Proceedings of the 8th Web Information Systems and Applications Conference (WISA), November 4-6, Chongqing, 2011. Slides
    　
  3. Rui Zhang. Processing Spatio-Temporal Queries through a Streaming Fashion. (Invited Speech) Proceedings of the 22th Australasian Database Conference (ADC), January 17-20, Brisbane, 2011. Slides
    　

Technical Reports                .

  1. Rui Zhang, Jin Huang, Zeyi Wen, Jian Chen, Kerry Taylor, Zheng He, Processing of Top-K Most Influential Location Selection Queries, 2013
    　
  2. Yu Sun, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang, Yueguo Chen, Xiaoyong Du. MapReduce Based Location Selection Algorithm for Utility Maximization with Capacity Constraints, 2013
    　
  3. Naiqi Li, Jianzhong Qi, Rui Zhang. Survey for Spatial and Temporal Data Bases and Mining. 2016
    　
  4. Deep Learning Reading List

Other Talks

  1. Indexing Multidimensional Data through a Mapping Based Approach, 2011 (powerpoint)
  2. 挑战自我，超越自我
  3. 闲聊大数据

Visiting Talks

2019 墨尔本大学张瑞教授在华中科技大学学术报告
2019 墨尔本大学张瑞教授在华南师范大学学术报告
2019 墨尔本大学张瑞教授访问华南师范大学计算机学院
2019 墨尔本大学张瑞教授在澳大利亚博士沙龙第十二届论文报告会学术报告
2018 墨尔本大学张瑞教授与清华大学来访者做报告交流
2017 墨尔本大学张瑞教授在山东大学学术报告
2017 墨尔本大学张瑞教授在华南师范大学学术报告
2017 墨尔本大学张瑞教授与人民大学来访者做报告交流
2017 张瑞教授主持第三届清华-墨尔本大数据研讨会
“聚焦澳洲华人学者”系列访谈2015第四期 - 澳大利亚中国博士沙龙
【学术 |金砖讲座】2016年第一期: 墨尔本大学张瑞副教授 硕士、博士研究生学习方法和职业规划
2016 墨尔本大学张瑞副教授在华中科技大学学术报告
2014 墨尔本大学张瑞副教授在华南师范大学学术报告
2014 墨尔本大学张瑞副教授在人民大学学术报告
2014 墨尔本大学张瑞副教授在华中科技大学学术报告
 2012 墨尔本大学张瑞博士在厦门大学学术报告