Publications

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Journals

Son T. Mai, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ira Assent, Mathias Skovgaard Birk, Martin Storgaard Dieu, Jon Jacobsen, Jesper Kristensen:
Scalable Interactive Dynamic Graph Clustering on Multicore CPUs. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 31(7): 1239-1252 (2019)
Habibur Rahman, Senjuti Basu Roy, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das:
Optimized group formation for solving collaborative tasks. VLDB J. 28(1): 1-23 (2019)
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ria Mae Borromeo:
User group analytics: hypothesis generation and exploratory analysis of user data. VLDB J. 28(2): 243-266 (2019)
Son T. Mai, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Sébastien Bailly, Jean Louis Pépin, Ahlame Douzal Chouakria, Ky T. Nguyen, Anh-Duong Nguyen:
Evolutionary Active Constrained Clustering for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Analysis. Data Science and Engineering 3(4): 359-378 (2018)
Maha Alsayasneh, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Éric Gaussier, Vincent Leroy, Julien Pilourdault, Ria Mae Borromeo, Motomichi Toyama, Jean-Michel Renders:
Personalized and Diverse Task Composition in Crowdsourcing. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 30(1): 128-141 (2018)
Sumit Sidana, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Marianne Clausel, Majdeddine Rebai, Son T. Mai, Massih-Reza Amini:
Health Monitoring on Social Media over Time. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 30(8): 1467-1480 (2018)
Shashwat Mishra, Vincent Leroy, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
Colloquial region discovery for retail products: discovery and application. Int. J. Data Sci. Anal. 4(1): 17-34 (2017)
Vincent Leroy, Martin Kirchgessner, Alexandre Termier, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
TopPI: An efficient algorithm for item-centric mining. Inf. Syst. 64: 104-118 (2017)
Ria Mae Borromeo, Thomas Laurent, Motomichi Toyama, Maha Alsayasneh, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Vincent Leroy:
Deployment strategies for crowdsourcing text creation. Inf. Syst. 71: 103-110 (2017)
A Survey of General-Purpose Crowdsourcing Techniques, Anand Inasu Chittilappilly, Lei Chen, Sihem Amer-Yahia. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 28(9): 2246-2266 (2016).
Profile Diversity for Query Processing using User Recommendations, Maximilien Servajean, Reza Akbarinia, Esther Pacitti, Sihem Amer-Yahia. Inf. Syst. 48: 44-63 (2015).
PGLCM: efficient parallel mining of closed frequent gradual itemsets, Trong Dinh Thac Do, Alexandre Termier, Anne Laurent, Benjamin Négrevergne, Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 43(3): 497-527 (2015).
SOCLE: Towards a framework for data preparation in social applications, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Noha Ibrahim, Christiane Kamdem Kengne, Federico Ulliana, Marie-Christine Rousset. Ingénierie des Systèmes d’Information 19(3): 49-72 (2014).
Diversité dans la recherche d’entités, Imène Saidi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Safia Nait Bahloul, Ingénierie des Systèmes d’Information 19(3): 107-136 (2014).
Composite Retrieval of Diverse and Complementary Bundles, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Esteban Feuerstein, Isabel Méndez-Díaz, Paula Zabala, IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 26(11): 2662-2675 (2014).
An expressive framework and efficient algorithms for the analysis of collaborative tagging, Mahashweta Das, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das, Cong Yu. In VLDB J. 23(2): 201-226 (2014).
Recommendation Projects at Yahoo!, S. Amer-Yahia. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 34(2): 69-77, 2011.
Space Efficiency in Group Recommendation, Senjuti Basu Roy, S. Amer-Yahia, Ashish Chawla, Gautam Das, Cong Yu. In VLDB Journal Special Issue on Social Recommendations, 2010.
Battling Predictability and Overconcentration in Recommender Systems, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Cong Yu. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 32(4): 33-40, 2009.
Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results, Erik Vee, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram,S. Amer-Yahia. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 32(4): 57-64, 2009.
Challenges in Searching Online Communities, S. Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt and Philip Bohannon. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 30(2): 23-31, 2007.
Optimizing Tree Pattern Queries over Secure XML Databases, Hui Wang, Divesh Srivastava, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, SungRan Cho, S. Amer-Yahia. In Secure Data Management in Decentralized Systems, pp. 127-165, 2007.
XQuery Full-Text extensions explained, S. Amer-Yahia, Chavdar Botev, Jochen Dorre, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. In IBM Systems Journal 45(2): 335-352, 2006.
A Declarative Approach to Optimize Bulk Loading into Databases, S. Amer-Yahia and Sophie Cluet. In ACM Trans. Database Syst. 29(2): 233-281, 2004.
Distributed Evaluation of Network Directory Queries, S. Amer-Yahia, Divesh Srivastava and Dan Suciu. In IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 16(4): 474-486, 2004.
Tree pattern Query Minimization, S. Amer-Yahia, SungRan Cho, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In VLDB Journal 11(4): 315-331, 2002.

International Conferences

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Idir Benouaret, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy:
An Efficient Greedy Algorithm for Sequence Recommendation. DEXA (1) 2019: 314-326
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Shady Elbassuoni, Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Ria Mae Borromeo, Mehrdad Farokhnejad:
GroupTravel: Customizing Travel Packages for Groups. EDBT 2019: 133-144
Mohammadreza Esfandiari, Dong Wei, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy:
Optimizing Peer Learning in Online Groups with Affinities. KDD 2019: 1216-1226
Mohammadreza Esfandiari, Senjuti Basu Roy, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
Explicit Preference Elicitation for Task Completion Time. CIKM 2018: 1233-1242
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
User Group Analytics: Discovery, Exploration and Visualization. CIKM 2018: 2307-2308
Son T. Mai, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ahlame Douzal Chouakria, Ky T. Nguyen, Anh-Duong Nguyen:
Scalable Active Constrained Clustering for Temporal Data. DASFAA (1) 2018: 566-582
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan:
Cohort Representation and Exploration. DSAA 2018: 169-178
Son T. Mai, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ahlame Douzal Chouakria:
Scalable Active Temporal Constrained Clustering. EDBT 2018: 449-452
Julien Pilourdault, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy, Dongwon Lee:
Task Relevance and Diversity as Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing. ICDE 2018: 365-376
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
Online Lattice-Based Abstraction of User Groups. DEXA (1) 2017: 95-110
Manish Singh, Ria Mae Borromeo, Anas Hosami, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Shady Elbassuoni:
Customizing Travel Packages with Interactive Composite Items. DSAA 2017: 137-145
Julien Pilourdault, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Dongwon Lee, Senjuti Basu Roy:
Motivation-Aware Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing. EDBT 2017: 246-257
Ria Mae Borromeo, Maha Alsayasneh, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Vincent Leroy:
Crowdsourcing Strategies for Text Creation Tasks. EDBT 2017: 450-453
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy:
Toward Worker-Centric Crowdsourcing. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 39(4): 3-13 (2016)
Martin Kirchgessner, Vincent Leroy, Alexandre Termier, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Marie-Christine Rousset:
TopPI: An Efficient Algorithm for Item-Centric Mining. DaWaK 2016: 19-33
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Éric Gaussier, Vincent Leroy, Julien Pilourdault, Ria Mae Borromeo, Motomichi Toyama:
Task Composition in Crowdsourcing. DSAA 2016: 194-203
Martin Kirchgessner, Vincent Leroy, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Shashwat Mishra:
Testing Interestingness Measures in Practice: A Large-Scale Analysis of Buying Patterns. DSAA 2016: 547-556
Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Pierre-François Dutot, Denis Trystram:
Multi-Objective Group Discovery on the Social Web. ECML/PKDD (1) 2016: 296-312
Sumit Sidana, Shashwat Mishra, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Marianne Clausel, Massih-Reza Amini:
Health Monitoring on Social Media over Time. SIGIR 2016: 849-852
Julien Pilourdault, Vincent Leroy, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
Distributed Evaluation of Top-k Temporal Joins. SIGMOD Conference 2016: 1027-1039
Beatrice Valeri, Shady Elbassuoni, Sihem Amer-Yahia:
Crowdsourcing Reliable Ratings for Underexposed Items. WEBIST (2) 2016: 75-86
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Sofia Kleisarchaki, Naresh Kumar Kolloju, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Ruben H. Zamar:
Exploring Rated Datasets with Rating Maps. WWW 2017: 1411-1419
Group Recommendation with Temporal Affinities, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Behrooz Omidvar Tehrani, Senjuti Basu Roy, Nafiseh Shabib. EDBT 2015: 421-432.
ECCO- A Framework for Ecological Data Collection and Management Involving Human Workers, Senjuti Basu Roy, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Lucas Joppa. EDBT 2015: 677-682.
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Optimization in Collaborative Crowdsourcing, Habibur Rahman, Senjuti Basu Roy, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das, PVLDB 2015.
Maximilien Servajean, Esther Pacitti, Miguel Liroz-Gistau, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Amr El Abbadi:
Exploiting Diversification in Gossip-Based Recommendation. Globe 2014: 25-36.
Crowd4U: An Initiative for Constructing an Open Academic Crowdsourcing Network. Atsuyuki Morishima, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy. HCOMP 2014.
An Approach to Diversify Entity Search Results. Imène Saidi, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Safia Nait Bahloul, ICAASE 2014: 44-51.
Exploiting group recommendation functions for flexible preferences, Senjuti Basu Roy, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das, Cong Yu. ICDE 2014: 412-423.
Efficient Sentiment Correlation for Large-scale Demographics, Mikalai Tsytsarau, S. Amer-Yahia, Themis Palpanas. In the Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2013.
Diverse Near Neighbor Problem, Sofiane Abbar, S. Amer-Yahia, Piotr Indyk, Sepideh Mahabadi. In the Proceedings of SoCG 2013.
Real-Time Recommendation of Diverse Related Articles, Sofiane Abbar, Sihem. Amer-Yahia, Piotr Indyk, Sepideh Mahabadi. In the Proceedings of WWW 2013.
Understanding Local Structure in Ranked Datasets (vision paper), Julia Stoyanovich, S. Amer-Yahia, Susan Davidson, Marie Jacob, Tova Milo. In the Proceedings of CIDR 2013.
Who Tags What? An Analysis Framework, Mahashweta Das, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, S. Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB), 2012.
MRI: Meaningful Interpretations of Collaborative Ratings, S. Amer-Yahia, Mahashweta Das, Gautam Das and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB), 2011.
Making Interval-Based Clustering Rank-Aware, Julia Stoyanovich, S. Amer-Yahia and Tova Milo. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2011.
Interactive Itinerary Planning, Senjuti Basu Roy, Gautam Das, S. Amer-Yahia and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011.
Relevance and Ranking in Online Dating Systems, Fernando Diaz, Don Metzler, S. Amer-Yahia. In the Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Conference, 2010.
Automatic Construction of Travel Itineraries Using Social Breadcrumbs, Munmun De Choudhury, Moran Feldman, S. Amer-Yahia, Nadav Golbandi, Ronny Lempel and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT), 2010.
Constructing and Exploring Composite Items, S. Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy, Ashish Chawla, Gautam Das and Cong Yu. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2010.
It takes variety to make a world: diversification in recommender systems, Cong Yu, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and S. Amer-Yahia. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 368-378, 2009.
Building Community-Centric Information Exploration Applications on Social Content Sites, S. Amer-Yahia, Jian Huang , and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference (Industrial Track), pp. 947-952, 2009.
Getting Recommender Systems to Think Outside the Box, Zeinab Abbassi, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan, Sergei Vassilvitskii and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2009.
Group Recommendations: Semantics and Efficiency, S.Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy, Ashish Chawla, Gautam Das and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2009.
SocialScope: Enabling Information Discovery on Social Content Sites, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the Biennal Conference on Innovative Data Systems (CIDR), 2009.
Efficient Computation of Diverse Query Results, Erik Vee, Utkarsh Srivastava, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Prashant Bhat and S. Amer-Yahia. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 228-236, 2008.
Efficient Top-K Processing Over Query-Dependent Functions, Lin Guo, S. Amer-Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Utkarsh Srivastava and Erik Vee. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 1044-1055, 2008.
Efficient Network-Aware Search in Collaborative Tagging Sites, S. Amer-Yahia, Michael Benedikt, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Julia Stoyanovich. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 710-721, 2008.
Personalizing XML Search in PIMENTO, S. Amer-Yahia, Irini Fundulaki and Laks V. S. Lakshmanan. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 906-915, 2007.
Expressiveness and Performance of Full-Text Search Languages, Chavdar Botev, S. Amer-Yahia and Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 349-367, 2006.
Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates, S. Amer-Yahia, Emiran Curtmola and Alin Deutsch. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 575-586, 2006.
Adaptive Processing of Top-K Queries in XML, Amelie Marian, S. Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas and Divesh Srivastava. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 162-173, 2005.
Structure and Conten tScoring for XML, S.Amer-Yahia, Nick Koudas, Amelie Marian, Divesh Srivastava and David Toman. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 361-372, 2005.
Web-Services Architecture for Efficient XML Data Exchange, S. Amer-Yahia and Yannis Kotidis. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 523-534, 2004.
FleXPath:Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML,S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan and Shashank Pandit. In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 83-94, 2004.
TexQuery: A Full-Text Search Extension to XQuery, S. Amer-Yahia, Chavdar Botev and Jayavel Shanmugasundaram. In the Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 583-594, 2004.
XML Publishing: Look at Siblings too!, S. Amer-Yahia, Yannis Kotidis and Divesh Srivastava. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 711-713, 2003.
PIX: A System for Phrase Matching in XML Documents, S. Amer-Yahia, Mary F. Fernandez, Divesh Srivastava and Yu Xu. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 768-776, 2003.
LockX: A System for Efficiently Querying Secure XML, SungRan Cho, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 669, 2003.
Phrase Matching in XML, S. Amer-Yahia, Mary F. Ferna`ndez, Divesh Srivastava and Yu Xu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 177-188, 2003.
Logical and Physical Support for Heterogeneous Data, S. Amer-Yahia, Mary F.Fernandez, Rick Greer and Divesh Srivastava. In the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pp. 270-281, 2002.
Tree Pattern Relaxation, S. Amer-Yahia, SungRan Cho and Divesh Srivastava. In the ACM International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 496-513, 2002.
Optimizing the Secure Evaluation of Twig Queries, SungRan Cho, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 490-501, 2002.
Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries, S. Amer-Yahia, SungRan Cho, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 497-508, 2001.
On Bounding-Schemas for LDAP Directories, S. Amer-Yahia, H. V. Jagadish, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In the ACM International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), pp. 287-301, 2000.
Optimizing Queries on Compressed Bitmaps, S. Amer-Yahia and Theodore Johnson. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 329-338, 2000.
Bulk Loading Techniques for Object Databases and an Application to Relational Data, S.Amer-Yahia, Sophie Cluet and Claude Delobel. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 534-545, 1998.

French Conferences

Efficient XML Data Exchange from Relations, S. Amer-Yahia and Yannis Kotidis. In the Proceedings of Bases de donne ´es Avancees (BDA), 2003.
Bulk Loading Techniques for Object Databases and an Application to Relational Data, S.Amer-Yahia, Sophie Cluet and Claude Delobel. In the Proceedings of Bases de Donne ´es Avancees (BDA), 1998.
Object Views and Updates, S. Amer-Yahia, Philippe Bre`che and Cassio Souza dos Santos. In the Proceedings of Bases de Donne ´es Avancees (BDA), pp. 253-272, 1996.

Standards Papers

XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text (XQFT) Language, S. Amer-Yahia et al, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C Recommendation), http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/, May 2008.
Bulk Loading Techniques for Object Databases and an Application to Relational Data,S.Amer-Yahia, Sophie Cluet and Claude Delobel. In the Proceedings of Bases de Donne ´es Avancees (BDA), 1998.
Object Views and Updates, S. Amer-Yahia, Philippe Breche and Cassio Souza dos Santos. In the Proceedings of Bases de Donnees Avancees (BDA), pp. 253-272, 1996.

Surveys and Reports

Report on the Third International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases, S. Amer-Yahia and Georgia Koutrika. In SIGMOD Record 38(4): 43-45, 2009.
Databases and Web 2.0 Panel at VLDB 2007, S. Amer-Yahia, Volker Markl, Alon Y. Halevy, AnHai Doan, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann and Gerhard Weikum. In SIGMOD Record 37(1): 49-52 (2008).
DB/IR Integration: Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar ”Ranked XML Querying”, S. Amer-Yahia, Djoerd Hiemstra, Thomas Roelleke, Divesh Srivastava and Gerhard Weikum. In SIGMOD Record 37(3): 46-49 (2008).
XML Search: Languages, INEX and Scoring, S. Amer-Yahia and Mounia Lalmas. SIGMOD Record 35(4): 16-23 (2006).
Report on the DB/IR Panel at SIGMOD 2005, S. Amer-Yahia, Pat Case, Thomas Ro ¨lleke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram and Gerhard Weikum. In SIGMOD Record 34(4): 71-74, 2005.

Workshops

Birds of a TagFlock Together, Serge Abiteboul, S. Amer-Yahia, Alban Galland, Amelie Marian, Pierre Senellart. In the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM), 2010.
Towards a Generic Bidding Standard for Online Adversitsing, S. Amer-Yahia, Sebastien Lahaie and David Pennock. In the fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2008.
Reviewing the Reviewers: Characterizing Biases and Competencies using Socially Meaningful Attributes, S. Amer-Yahia, Andrei Z. Broder and Alban Galland. In Workshop on Social Information Processing (SIP), 2008.
A Study of the Benefit of Leveraging Tagging Behavior to Model Users’ Interests in del.icio.us, Julia Stoyanovich, S. Amer-Yahia, Cameron Marlow and Cong Yu. In Workshop on Social Information Processing (SIP), 2008.
Towards a Generic Bidding Standard for Online Adversitsing, S. Amer-Yahia, Sebastien Lahaie and David Pennock. In the fourth Workshop on Ad Auctions in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2008.
GalaTex: A Conformant Implementation of the XQuery Full-Text Language, Emiran Curtmola, S. Amer-Yahia, Philip Brown, Mary F. Fernandez. In the XIME-P Workshop, 2005
A Comprehensive Solution to the XML-to-Relational Mapping Problem, S. Amer-Yahia, Fang Du and Juliana Freire, In the International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), pp. 31-38, 2004.
Teaching Relational Optimizers About XML Processing, S. Amer-Yahia, Yannis Kotidis and Divesh Srivastava. In the XML Symposium Workshop (XSym), pp. 158-172, 2004.
A Mapping Schema and Interface for XML Stores, S. Amer-Yahia and Divesh Srivastava. In the International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), pp. 23-30, 2002.

Posters

Complexity and Algorithms for Composite Retrieval, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Esteban Feuerstein, Isabel Méndez-Díaz, Paula Zabala. In the Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2013.
Tweet4act: Using Incident-Specific Profiles for Classifying Crisis-Related Messages, Soudip Roy Chowdhury, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, S. Amer-Yahia, Carlos Castillo. In the Proceedings of ISCRAM 2013.
Constructing travel Itineraries from Tagged Geo-Temporal Breadcrumbs, Munmun De Choudhury, Moran Feldman, S. Amer-Yahia, Nadav Golbandi, Ronny Lempel and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2010.
Rank-Aware Clustering of Structured Datasets, Julia Stoyanovich and S. Amer-Yahia. In the Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009.
Efficient Recommendation Diversification Using Item Explanations,CongYu,LaksV.S.Lakshmanan and S. Amer-Yahia. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009.
GalaTex: A Conformant Implementation of the XQuery Full-Text Language, Emiran Curtmola, S. Amer-Yahia, Philip Brown and Mary F. Fernandez. In the Proceedings of the World wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 1024-1025, 2005.

Demonstrations

Cícero A. L. Pahins, Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Valérie Siroux, Jean Louis Pépin, Jean-Christian Borel, João Comba:
COVIZ: A System for Visual Formation and Exploration of Patient Cohorts. PVLDB 12(12): 1822-1825 (2019)
Ahmad Ghizzawi, Julien Marinescu, Shady Elbassuoni, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gilles Bisson:
FaiRank: An Interactive System to Explore Fairness of Ranking in Online Job Marketplaces. EDBT 2019: 582-585
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani, João Comba, Viviane Moreira, Fabian Colque Zegarra:
Exploration of User Groups in VEXUS. ICDE 2018: 1557-1560
Mohammadreza Esfandiari, Kavan Bharat Patel, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Senjuti Basu Roy:
Crowdsourcing Analytics With CrowdCur. SIGMOD Conference 2018: 1701-1704
MKosetsu Ikeda, Atsuyuki Morishima, Habibur Rahman, Senjuti Basu Roy, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das:
Collaborative Crowdsourcing with Crowd4U. PVLDB 9(13): 1497-1500 (2016)
MapRat: Meaningful Explanation, Interactive Exploration and Geo-Visualization of Collaborative Ratings, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Shrikant Desai, Mahashweta Das, S. Amer-Yahia, Gautam Das, Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB), 2012.
MAQSA: A System for Social Analytics on News, S. Amer-Yahia, Samreen Anjum, Amira Ghnai, Aysha Siddique, Sofiane Abbar, Sam Madden, Adam Marcus, Mohammed El-Haddad. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, 2012.
From del.icio.us to x.qui.site: Recommendations in Social Tagging Sites, S. Amer-Yahia, Alban Galland, Julia Stoyanovich and Cong Yu. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 1323-1326, 2008.
Personalizing XML Text Search in PimenT, S. Amer-Yahia, Irini Fundulaki, Prateek Jain, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 1310-1313, 2005.
A TeXQuery-Based XML Full-Text Search Engine, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram and S. Amer-Yahia. In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 943-944, 2004.
ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases, Fang Du, S. Amer-Yahia, Juliana Freire: In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp. 1297-1300, 2004.
PIX: Exact and Approximate Phrase Matching in XML, S. Amer-Yahia, Mary F. Ferna`ndez, Divesh Srivastava and Yu Xu, In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 664, 2003.
LockX: A System for Efficiently Querying Secure XML, SungRan Cho, S. Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan and Divesh Srivastava. In the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 669, 2003.
Bulk Loading Techniques for Object Databases and an Application to Relational Data,S.Amer-Yahia, Sophie Cluet and Claude Delobel. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1996.
Object Views and Updates, S. Amer-Yahia, Philippe Brche and Cassio Souza dos Santos. In the Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 1995.