Group Publications:

Approximate Maximum Weighted Branchings. A. Bagchi, A. Bhargava, and T. Suel. July 2005, submitted for publication. (available soon)

Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web Search Engines. Y. Chen, A. Markowetz, and T. Suel. June 2005, submitted for publication. (available soon)

Efficient Query Evaluation on Large Textual Collections in a Peer-to-Peer Environment. J. Zhang, and T. Suel. 5th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, August 2005. PDF

Interactive Wrapper Generation with Minimal User Effort. U. Irmak, and T. Suel. Technical Report TR-CIS-2005-02, Polytechnic University, May 2005 (also submitted for journal publication). PDF

Design and Implementation of a Geographic Search Engine. A. Markowetz, Y. Chen, X. Long, B. Seeger, and T. Suel. 8th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), June 2005. PDF (Note: an extended version is available as Technical Report TR-CIS-2005-03, Polytechnic University, February 2005. PDF)

Hierarchical Substring Caching for Efficient Content Distribution to Low-Bandwidth Clients. U. Irmak, and T. Suel. 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 2005. PDF

Three-Level Caching for Efficient Query Processing in Large Web Search Engines. X. Long, and T. Suel. 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 2005. PDF

Improved Single-Round Protocols for Remote File Synchronization. U. Irmak, S. Mihaylov, and T. Suel. IEEE Infocom Conference, March 2005. PDF (Note: an earlier version with some of the results appeared at the 4th New York Metro Area Networking Workshop (NYMAN), September 2004.)

Optimal Peer Selection for P2P Downloading and Streaming. M. Adler, R. Kumar, K. Ross, D. Rubenstein, T. Suel, and D. Yao. IEEE Infocom Conference, March 2005. PDF

The Perron-Frobenius Theorem and Some of its Applications. U. Pillai, S. Cha, and T. Suel. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, March 2005.

Approximation Algorithms for Array Partitioning Problems. S. Muthukrishnan, and T. Suel. Journal of Algorithms 54, 2005, pp. 85-104. PDF

Compressing File Collections with a TSP-Based Approach. D. Trendafilov, N. Memon, and T. Suel. Technical Report TR-CIS-2004-02, Polytechnic University, April 2004. (submitted for journal publication) PDF

Local Methods for Estimating PageRank Values. Y. Chen, Q. Gan, and T. Suel. 3rd Workshop on Web Dynamics (in conjunction with WWW 2004), May 2004. PDF

Improved File Synchronization Techniques for Maintaining Large Replicated Collections over Slow Networks. P. Noel, D. Trendafilov, and T. Suel. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), March 2004, to appear. PDF (Talk: PPT PDF)

Server-Friendly Delta Compression for Efficient Web Access. A. Savant, and T. Suel. Eighth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW), September 2003, to appear. PDF

On the Scalability of an Image Transcoding Proxy Server. A. Savant, N. Memon, and T. Suel. International Conference on Image Processing, September 2003. PDF

Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering. X. Long, and T. Suel. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2003, to appear. PDF

ODISSEA: A Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Scalable Web Search and Information Retrieval. T. Suel, C. Mathur, J. Wu, J. Zhang, A. Delis, M. Kharrazi, X. Long, and K. Shanmugasunderam. 6th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), June 2003. PDF
Technical Report (23 pages): PDF
WWW2003 Poster Version (2 pages): PDF HTML

Cluster-Based Delta Compression of Collections of Files. Z. Ouyang, N. Memon, T. Suel, and D. Trendafilov. International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), December 2002. PDF

I/O-Efficient Techniques for Computing Pagerank. Y. Chen, Q. Gan, and T. Suel. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (CIKM), November 2002. PDF

zdelta: An Efficient Delta Compression Tool. D. Trendafilov, N. Memon and T. Suel. Technical Report TR-CIS-2002-02, Polytechnic University, June 2002. PDF

Algorithms for Delta Compression and Remote File Synchronization. T. Suel, and N. Memon. Invited chapter in Handbook of Lossless Compression. Edited by K. Sayood, Academic Press, August 2002. (ask for a copy of this chapter)

Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Distributed Web Crawler. V. Shkapenyuk and T. Suel. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, February 2002. Postscript

Compressing the Graph Structure of the Web. T. Suel and J. Yuan. IEEE Data Compression Conference, March 2001. Postscript