Refereed Journal Papers

 

1.      Wei-Shinn Ku, Haiquan Chen, Haixun Wang, and Min-Te Sun, “A Bayesian Inference-Based Framework for RFID Data Cleansing”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), in press, 2013.

2.      Kazuya Sakai, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, and Roger Zimmermann, “Privacy Preserving Continuous Multimedia Streaming in MANETs”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), in press, 2013.

3.      Wei-Shinn Ku, Haiquan Chen, Chih-Jye Wang, and Chuan-Ming Liu, “Geo-Store: A Framework for Supporting Semantics Enabled Location-Based Services with RDF Triple Stores”, IEEE Internet Computing (IC), Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 35-43, 2013.

4.      Li-Han Chen, Fu-Hau Hsu, Yanling Hwang, Mu-Chun Su, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Chi-Hsuan Chang, “ARMORY: An Automatic Security Testing Tool for Buffer Overflow Defect Detection”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, in press, 2013.

5.      Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, and Cyrus Shahabi, “Spatial Query Integrity with Voronoi Neighbors”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 25, Issue 4, pp. 863-876, 2013.

6.      Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, and Haixun Wang, “A Query Integrity Assurance Scheme for Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases", GeoInformatica, Vol. 17, Issue 1, pp. 97-124, 2013.

7.      Kazuya Sakai, Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, and Min-Te Sun, “Dynamic Bit Encoding for Privacy Protection Against Correlation Attacks in RFID Backward Channel”, IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, Issue 1, pp. 112-123, 2013.

8.      Kazuya Sakai, Scott C.-H. Huang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, and Xiuzhen Cheng, “Timer-Based CDS Construction in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 10, Issue 10, pp. 1388-1402, 2011.

9.      Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, and Roger Zimmermann, “The Partial Sequenced Route Query with Traveling Rules in Road Networks”, GeoInformatica, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 541-569, Springer, 2011 (on-line version).

10.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Kazuya Sakai, and Min-Te Sun, “The Optimal k-Covering Tag Deployment for RFID-based Localization”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp. 914-924, Elsevier, 2011 (on-line version).

11.  Min-Te Sun, Kazuya Sakai, Benjamin R. Hamilton, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Xiaoli Ma, “G-STAR: Geometric STAtelss Routing for 3-D Wireless Sensor Networks”, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 341-354, Elsevier, 2011 (on-line version).

12.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Efficient Location Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 415-430, Springer, 2010.

13.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Yu Chen, and Roger Zimmermann, “Privacy Protected Spatial Query Processing for Advanced Location Based Services”, Wireless Personal Communications, Special Issue on Information Security and Data Protection in Future Generation Communication and Networking, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 53-65, Springer, 2009 (on-line version).

14.  Hongbing Hu, Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Zhou Su, “Weighted Trust Evaluation Based Malicious Node Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 132-149, Inderscience, 2009.

15.  Wei-Shinn Ku and Roger Zimmermann, “Nearest Neighbor Queries with Peer-to-Peer Data Sharing in Mobile Environments”, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, Issue 5, pp. 775-788, Elsevier, 2008.

16.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, and Haixun Wang, “Location-based Spatial Query Processing in Wireless Broadcast Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC),  Vol. 7, Issue 6, pp. 778-791, 2008.

17.  Yu Chen, Kai Hwang, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Collaborative Detection of DDoS Attacks over Multiple Network Domains”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 1649-1662, 2007.

18.  Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku, Haojun Wang, Amir Zand, and Jean-Pierre Bardet, “A Distributed Geotechnical Information Management and Exchange Architecture”, IEEE Internet Computing (IC), Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 26-33, Sep/Oct, 2006.

 

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

 

19.  Jiao Yu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, and Hua Lu, “An RFID and Particle Filter-Based Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation System”, In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Genoa, Italy, 2013.

20.  Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Haixun Wang, Liang Tang, and Min-Te Sun, “LinkProbe: Probabilistic Inference on Large-Scale Social Networks”, In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Brisbane, Australia, 2013.

21.  Ji Zhang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Xunfei Jiang, Xiao Qin, and Yu-Ling Hsueh, “Evaluation of Spatial Keyword Queries with Partial Result Support on Spatial Networks”, In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Milan, Italy, 2013. (TR version)

22.  Chih-Jye Wang and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Efficient Evaluation of Skyline Queries in Wireless Data Broadcast Environments”, In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 2012.

23.  Ling Hu, Yinan Jing, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Cyrus Shahabi, “Enforcing k Nearest Neighbor Query Integrity on Road Networks”, In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 2012.

24.  Yuling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Caching Support for Skyline Query Processing with Partially-Ordered Domains”, In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 2012.

25.  Chih-Jye Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Haiquan Chen, “Geo-Store: A Spatially-Augmented SPARQL Query Evaluation System”, In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 2012 (demo).

26.  Chih-Jye Wang and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Anonymous Sensory Data Collection Approach for Mobile Participatory Sensing”, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Secure Data Management on Smartphones and Mobiles, held in conjunction with ICDE 2012, Washington, D.C., 2012.

27.  Mohan Yang, Haixun Wang, Haiquan Chen, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Querying Uncertain Data with Aggregate Constraints”, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Athens, Greece, 2011.

28.  Minda Xiang, Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Zhou Su, “Mitigating DDoS Attacks using Protection Nodes in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, TX, USA, 2011.

29.  Weikuan Yu, K. John Wu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Cong Xu, and Juan Gao, “BMF: Bitmapped Mass Fingerprinting for Fast Protein Identification”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Austin, TX, USA, 2011.

30.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Yifan Jin, “SkyEngine: Efficient Skyline Search Engine for Continuous Skyline Computations”, In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Hannover, Germany, 2011 (demo).

31.  Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, and Cyrus Shahabi, “Verifying Spatial Queries using Voronoi Neighbors”, In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), San Jose, CA, USA, 2010.

32.  Chih-Jye Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, and Cyrus Shahabi, “INTACT: A Spatial Query Integrity Assurance Framework for Location-based Services”, In Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), San Jose, CA, USA, 2010 (demo).

33.  Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Haixun Wang, and Min-Te Sun, “Leveraging Spatio-Temporal Redundancy for RFID Data Cleansing”, In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2010.

34.  Jie Bao, Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Efficient Evaluation of k-Range Nearest Neighbor Queries in Road Networks”, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Kansas City, MO, USA, 2010.

35.  Jun Feng, Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Pu Liu, “Analysis of Integrity Vulnerabilities and a Non-repudiation Protocol for Cloud Data Storage Platforms", In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC), held in conjunction with ICPP 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, 2010.

36.  Kazuya Sakai, Min-Te Sun, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Message-Efficient CDS Construction in MANETs”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), Modena, Italy, 2010.

37.  Jun Feng, Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Zhou Su, “D-DOG: Securing Sensitive Data in Distributed Storage Space by Data Division and Out-of-order Keystream Generation”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.

38.  Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Haixun Wang, “Cleansing Uncertain Databases Leveraging Aggregate Constraints”, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Management and Mining of Uncertain Data (MOUND), held in conjunction with ICDE 2010, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2010.

39.  Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Kazuya Sakai, “A Novel DDoS Attack Defending Framework with Minimized Bilateral Damages”, In Proceedings of the 7th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2010.

40.  Jie Bao, Haiquan Chen, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “PROS: A Peer-to-Peer System for Location Privacy Protection on Road Networks”, In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), Seattle, WA, 2009 (demo).

41.  Kazuya Sakai, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Roger Zimmermann, “Group-Server Scheduling for Continuous Multimedia Streaming in MANETs”, In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), San Diego, CA, USA, 2009.

42.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, and Haixun Wang, “Query Integrity Assurance of Location-based Service Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases”, In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009.

43.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku, Haojun Wang, and Chung-Dau Wang, “PLUS: A Message-Efficient Prototype for Location-based Applications”, In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, 2009 (demo).

44.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Adaptive Safe Regions for Continuous Spatial Queries over Moving Objects”, In Proceedings of the 14th  International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Brisbane, Australia, 2009.

45.  Kazuya Sakai, Min-Te Sun, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Fast Connected Dominating Set Construction in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, 2009.

46.  Yu Chen and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Self-Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices”, In Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2009.

47.  Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, and Roger Zimmermann, “The Multi-Rule Partial Sequenced Route Query”, In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Irvine, CA, USA, 2008.

48.  Kazuya Sakai, Min-Te Sun, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Hiromi Okada, “Maintaining CDS in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), Dallas, TX, USA, 2008.

49.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Efficient Updates for Continuous Skyline Computations”, In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Turin, Italy, 2008.

50.  Yu Chen, Jie Bao, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Jiun-Long Huang, “Cache Management Techniques for Privacy Protected Location-based Services”, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Beijing, China, 2008.

51.  Po-Yi Li, Wen-Chih Peng, Tsung-Wei Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Jianliang Xu, “A Cloaking Algorithm Based on Spatial Networks for Location Privacy”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC), Taichung, Taiwan, 2008.

52.  Idris M. Atakli, Hongbing Hu, Yu Chen, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Malicious Node Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks using Weighted Trust Evaluation”, In Proceedings of the Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), Ottawa, Canada, 2008.

53.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Partition-Based Lazy Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects”, In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), Seattle, WA, USA 2007.

54.  Yu Chen, Kai Hwang, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Distributed Change-Point Detection of DDoS Attacks: Experimental Results on DETER Testbed”, In Proceedings of DETER Community Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test 2007 (DETER), Boston, MA, USA 2007.

55.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, and Sushama Shroff, “Privacy Protected Query Processing on Spatial Networks”, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Privacy Data Management (PDM), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.

56.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, and Haixun Wang, “Location-based Spatial Queries with Data Sharing in Wireless Broadcast Environment”, In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007 (tech report).

57.  Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Distributed Continuous Range Query Processing on Moving Objects”, In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA), Krakow, Poland, 2006.

58.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Chi-Ngai Wan, and Haojun Wang, “MAPLE: Mobile Scalable P2P System for Location-Based Services”, In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2006 (demo).

59.  Wei-Shinn Ku and Roger Zimmermann, “Location-based Spatial Queries with Data Sharing in Mobile Environments”, In Proceedings of the ICDE Ph.D. Workshop 2006, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2006.

60.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, and Trung Nguyen, “ANNATTO: Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Queries in Travel Time Networks”, In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Nara, Japan, 2006 (demo).

61.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, and Chi-Ngai Wan, “Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Queries in Travel Time Networks”, In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information System (ACM GIS), Bremen, Germany, 2005.

62.  Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “ASPEN: An Adaptive Spatial Peer-to-Peer Network”, In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information System (ACM GIS), Bremen, Germany, 2005.

63.  Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Wei-Cheng Chu, “Efficient Query Routing in Distributed Spatial Databases”, In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information System (ACM GIS), Washington, D.C., USA, 2004.

64.  Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku, and Haojun Wang, “Spatial Data Query Support in Peer-to-Peer Systems”, In Proceedings of the 28th International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Workshop on Geographic and Biological Data Management, Hong Kong, China, 2004.

65.  Roger Zimmermann, Kun Fu, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Design of a Large Scale Data Stream Recorder”, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Angers, France, 2003.

Refereed Book Chapters

66.  Yu Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Jun Feng, Pu Liu, and Zhou Su, “Secure Distributed Data Storage in Cloud Computing”, Book Chapter in Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms, editor Rajkumar Buyya et al., pp. 221-248, Wiley, ISBN 0470887990, 2011.

67.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Haojun Wang, and Roger Zimmermann, “Modern Navigation Systems and Related Spatial Query”, Book Chapter in Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics, editor Hassan A. Karimi, pp. 285-292, Idea Group, Inc., ISBN 1591409969, 2009.

68.  Yu Chen, Hao Chen, and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Malicious Node Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Book Chapter in Security in RFID and Sensor Networks, editor Yan Zhang and Paris Kitsos, pp. 361-374, Auerbach Publications (Taylor & Francis Group), ISBN 1420068393, 2009.

69.  Yu Chen and Wei-Shinn Ku, “Distributed Data Aggregation Technology for Real-Time DDoS Attacks Detection”, Book Chapter in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, editor John Wang, pp. 701-708, Idea Group, Inc., ISBN 1591405572, 2008.

70.  Wei-Shinn Ku and Roger Zimmermann, “GIME: A Geotechnical Information Exchange Architecture Using Web Services”, Book Chapter in Emerging Spatial Information Systems and Applications, editor Brian N. Hilton, pp. 110-132, Idea Group, Inc., ISBN 1599040751, 2007.

Technical Reports

71.  Yu-Ling Hsueh, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, “Partition-Based Lazy Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects”, USC-CS-TR-07-892, University of Southern California.

72.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, and Chi-Ngai Wan, “Nearest Neighbor Queries with Data Sharing in Mobile Environments”, USC-CS-TR-06-886, University of Southern California.

73.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Chi-Ngai Wan, and Haojun Wang, “A P2P Simulation Model to Support Mobile, Scalable Nearest Neighbor Queries for Location-based Services”, USC-CS-TR-05-871, University of Southern California.

74.  Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, and Chi-Ngai Wan, “Location-based Spatial Queries with Data Sharing in Mobile Environments”, USC-CS-05-843, University of Southern California.