Dongwon Lee

Biographical Information

In addition to his appointment in IST, Lee holds a courtesy appointment with Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), www.cse.psu.edu. Lee is a member of the NIKE (Nittany Information, Knowledge and wEb) Research Group, nike.psu.edu, which studies various issues involving general management of information and knowledge and their applications in World Wide Web. The group explores subjects such as Conventional Database Research Agendas, XML Data Models and Schema/Query Languages, Web Analysis, Web Search, Semantic Web, Metadata Information Retrieval, Digital Library, Citation Analysis, Bibliometrics.

Research and Teaching

Lee's research interests include conventional database research agendas, XML data models and schema/query languages, web analysis, web search, semantic web, metadata, information retrieval, digital library, bibliometrics, and cybermetrics. Subjects he has taught include undergraduate and graduate courses in Web and XML databases and organization of data.

Publications:

Supporting XML Security Models using Relational Databases: A Vision, Dongwon Lee, Wang-Chien Lee, Peng Liu, In XML Database Symposium (XSym), Berlin, Germany, September 2003

Schema Conversions Methods between XML and Relational Models, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Wesley W. Chu, In Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2003 (Invited)

NeT & CoT: Translating Relational Schemas to XML Schemas using Semantic Constraints, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Frank Chiu, Wesley W. Chu, In 11th ACM Int'l Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), McLean, VA, USA, November 2002

XML to Relational Conversion using Theory of Regular Tree Grammars, Murali Mani, Dongwon Lee, In VLDB Workshop on Efficiency and Effectiveness of XML Tools, and Techniques (EEXTT), Hong Kong, China, August 2002

Effective Schema Conversions between XML and Relational Models, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Wesley W. Chu, In European Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Knowledge Transformation Workshop (ECAI-OT), Lyon, France, July 2002 (Invited)

Query Relaxation for XML Model, Dongwon Lee, In Ph.D Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2002 NeT & CoT: Inferring XML Schemas from Relational World, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Frank Chiu, Wesley W. Chu, In 18th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Jose, CA, USA, Feburary 2002 (Poster)

Semantic Data Modeling using XML Schemas, Murali Mani, Dongwon Lee, Richard D. Muntz, In Int'l Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Yokohama, Japan, November 2001 CPI: Constraints-Preserving Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTD to Relational Schema, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In J. Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Vol. 39, No 1, page 3 - 25, October 2001

Taxonomy of XML Schema Languages using Formal Language Theory, Makoto Murata, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, In Extreme Markup Languages, Montreal, Canada, August 2001

Nesting-based Relational-to-XML Schema Translation, Dongwon Lee, Murali Mani, Frank Chiu, Wesley W. Chu, In ACM SIGMOD Int'l Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, May 2001

Reasoning about XML Schema Languages using Formal Language Theory, Dongwon Lee, Makoto Murata, Murali Mani, In IBM Almaden Research Technical Report, RJ No. 10197, Log No. 95071, November 2000

Constraints-preserving Transformation from XML Document Type Definition to Relational Schema, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In Int'l Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2000 (Best Paper Award)

TBE: Trigger-By-Example, Dongwon Lee, Wenlei Mao, Wesley W. Chu, In Int'l Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, October 2000

Comparative Analysis of Six XML Schema Languages, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 29, No. 3, September 2000

TBE: A Graphical Interface for Writing Trigger Rules in Active Databases, Dongwon Lee, Wenlei Mao, Henry Chiu, Wesley W. Chu, In 5th IFIP 2.6 Working Conf. on Visual Database Systems (VDB), Fukuoka, Japan, May 2000 Semantic Caching via Query Matching for Web Sources, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In 8th ACM Int'l Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Kansas City, MO, USA, November 1999

Fast Retrieval of Similar Subsequences in Long Sequence Databases, Sanghyun Park, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In 3rd IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX), Chicago, IL, USA, November 1999

Conjunctive Point Predicate-based Semantic Caching for Wrappers in Web Database, Dongwon Lee, Wesley W. Chu, In 1st ACM Int'l Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), Washington DC, USA, November 1998

Generating Advanced Query Interfaces, Dongwon Lee, Divesh Srivastava, Dimitra Vista, In 7th Int'l World Wide Web Conf. (WWW), Australia, April 1998 (Poster)