Research Areas

Probabilistic or Imprecise Databases. 1

XQuery and XML. 1

Education. 1

Web-Services and Fault Tolerance. 1

Probabilistic or Imprecise Databases

• Christopher Ré and Dan Suciu

Approximate Lineage for Probabilistic Databases

In VLDB 2008, to appear. [Full Version]

· Magdalena Balazinska, Christopher Ré and Dan Suciu

Systems Aspects of Probabilistic Databases

In VLDB 2008, Tutorial, to appear.

• Christopher Ré, Juile Letchner, Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Suciu

Event Queries on Correlated Probabilistic Streams

In SIGMOD 2008, to appear [Full Version (Coming Soon)]

• Nodira Khoussainova, Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello ,

Julie Letchner, Christopher Ré Dan Suciu and Jordan Walke.

A Demonstration of ScenicPeex through a Digital Diary Application

In SIGMOD 2008, Demonstration, to appear.

• Christopher Ré and Dan Suciu

Management of Data with Uncertainties.

Proceedings of the 16^th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.

• Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu and Val Tannen,

Orderings on Annotated Collections.

Liber Amicorum in honor of Jan Paredaens’ 60^th Birthday, 2007.

• Christopher Ré and  Dan Suciu, 
  Efficient Evaluation of HAVING queries on a Probabilistic Database
  Proceedings of the 11^th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages, DBPL 2007
  Full Version [UW TR #2007-06-01] [PowerPoint 2007 Talk]
•  Eytan Adar and Christopher Ré,
  Managing Uncertainty in Social Networks
  In  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 15-22, 2007
• Christopher Ré and Dan Suciu, 
  Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases for Information Exchange and Query Optimization
  Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2007
  Full Version (UW TR #2007-03-02) [PowerPoint 2007 Talk]
• Christopher Ré, 
  Applications of Probabilistic Constraints (General Exam Paper)
  University of Washington TR #2007-03-03, Manuscript
• Christopher Ré, Nilesh Dalvi, Dan Suciu, 
  Efficient Top-K Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Data
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2007
  Extended Version (UW TR #2006-06-05) [PowerPoint 2007 Talk (with narration)]
• Michael J. Cafarella, Christopher Ré, Dan Suciu, Oren Etzioni. 
  Structured Querying of Web Text Data: A Technical Challenge
  Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, CIDR 2007.
• Christopher Ré, Nilesh Dalvi,  Dan Suciu, 
  Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases
  In  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, vol.  29, no.  1, pp.  25-31 ,  2006
• Jihad Boulos,  Nilesh Dalvi,  Bhushan Mandhani,  Shobhit Mathur,  Christopher Ré,  Dan Suciu, 
  MYSTIQ: A system for finding more answers by using probabilities
  In  SIGMOD, Demonstration, 2005

XQuery and XML

• Christopher Ré, Jérôme Siméon, Mary F. Fernández
  A Complete and Efficient Algebraic Compiler for XQuery
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2006.
• Giorgio Ghelli, Christopher Ré and Jérôme Siméon
  XQuery! An XML Query language with side-effects
  DATA-X colocated with EDBT 2006
• Christopher Ré, Jim Brinkley and Dan Suciu
  SilkRoute: A preformant XQuery to SQL translation
  University of Washington TR: 2006-06-02
• Nathan Bales, Jim Brinkley,  Shobhit Mathur,  Chris Ré and Dan Suciu, 
  A Framework for XML-based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain
  In  XSYM,  September,  2005
• Christopher Ré,  Jim Brinkley,  Kevin Hinshaw and Dan Suciu, 
  Distributed XQuery
  In  Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), pp.  116-121,  September,  2004

Education

• With Chavdar Botev and many others
  Supporting workflow in a course management system
  In SIGCSE 2005.

Web-Services and Fault Tolerance

• Werner Vogels and Christopher Ré
  WS-Membership: Failure Management in a Web-Services World.
  In WWW2003 (Alternate Track).
• Werner Vogels and Christopher Ré, Robbert van Renesse and Kenneth P. Birnman
  A Collobrative Infrastructure for Scalable and Robust News Delivery.
  In ICDCS 2002.