Zachary Ives is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an Associated Faculty Member of the Penn Center for Bioinformatics. He received his B.S. from Sonoma State University and his PhD from the University of Washington. His research interests include data integration, peer-to-peer models of data sharing, processing and security of heterogeneous sensor streams, and data exchange between autonomous systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Panel.
Adaptive query processing
Sideways Information Passing for Push-Style Query Processing (with Nicholas E. Taylor), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)
In many modern data management settings, data is queried from a central node or nodes,...
Adapting to Source Properties in Processing Data Integration Queries (with Alon Y. Halevy and Daniel S. Weld), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2004)
An effective query optimizer finds a query plan that exploits the characteristics of the source...
Integrating Network-Bound XML Data (with Alon Y. Halevy and Daniel S. Weld), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2001)
Although XML was originally envisioned as a replacement for HTML on the web, to this...
Adaptive Query Processing for Internet Applications (with Alon Y. Levy, Daniel S. Weld, Daniela Florescu, and Marc Friedman), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2000)
As the area of data management for the Internet has gained in popularity, recent work...
An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration (with Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, Alon Levy, and Daniel S. Weld), Database Research Group (CIS) (1999)
Query processing in data integration occurs over network bound, autonomous data sources. This requires extensions...
Data integration and exchange
Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance (with Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, and Val Tannen), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)
We consider systems for data sharing among heterogeneous peers related by a network of schema...
Integrating Ontologies and Relational Data (with Sören Auer), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)
In recent years, an increasing number of scientific and other domains have attempted to standardize...
Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing (with Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nicholas E. Taylor, Olivier Biton, and Val Tannen), Database Research Group (CIS) (2007)
One of the most elusive goals of structured data management has been sharing among large,...
Reconciling while Tolerating Disagreement in Collaborative Data Sharing (with Nicholas E. Taylor), Database Research Group (CIS) (2006)
In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data...
Schema Mediation for Large-Scale Semantic Data Sharing (with Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu, and Igor Tatarinov), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2005)
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well suited for exchanging information in...
Sensor networks
Sensor Network Security: More Interesting Than You Think (with Madhukar Anand, Eric Cronin, Micah Sherr, Matthew A. Blaze, and Insup Lee), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2006)
With the advent of low-power wireless sensor networks, a wealth of new applications at the...
Quantifying Eavesdropping Vulnerability in Sensor Networks (with Madhukar Anand and Insup Lee), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2005)
With respect to security, sensor networks have a number of considerations that separate them from...
XML processing
An XML Query Engine for Network-Bound Data (with Alon Y. Halevy and Daniel S. Weld), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2002)
XML has become the lingua franca for data exchange and integration across administrative and enterprise...
Integrating Network-Bound XML Data (with Alon Y. Halevy and Daniel S. Weld), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2001)
Although XML was originally envisioned as a replacement for HTML on the web, to this...
Updating XML (with Igor Tatarinov, Alon Y. Halevy, and Daniel S. Weld), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2001)
As XML has developed over the past few years, its role has expanded beyond its...
Peer-to-peer architectures
Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance (with Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, and Val Tannen), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)
We consider systems for data sharing among heterogeneous peers related by a network of schema...
Orchestra: Facilitating Collaborative Data Sharing (with Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Nicholas E. Taylor, Olivier Biton, and Val Tannen), Database Research Group (CIS) (2007)
One of the most elusive goals of structured data management has been sharing among large,...
Reconciling while Tolerating Disagreement in Collaborative Data Sharing (with Nicholas E. Taylor), Database Research Group (CIS) (2006)
In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data...
Schema Mediation for Large-Scale Semantic Data Sharing (with Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu, and Igor Tatarinov), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2005)
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well suited for exchanging information in...
The Piazza peer data management system (with Alon Y. Halevy, Jayant Madhavan, Peter Mork, Dan Suciu, and Igor Tatarinov), Departmental Papers (CIS) (2004)
Intuitively, data management and data integration tools should be well-suited for exchanging information in a...
No subject area
MOSAIC: Multiple Overlay Selection and Intelligent Composition (with Yun Mao, Boon Thau Loo, and Jonathan M. Smith), Technical Reports (CIS) (2007)
Today, the most effective mechanism for remedying shortcomings of the Internet, or augmenting it with...
Interviewing During a Tight Job Market (with Qiong Luo), Database Research Group (CIS) (2002)
Various tips for interviewing for PhD graduates, seeking an academic position in a research university...