Peter Scheuermann, Professor, ECE Department, Northwestern University

Research Areas

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General Chair, 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2003) Chicago, October 2003
Program Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, Arizona, October 2001
Program Co-Chair, Fifth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (Coopis '2000), Eilat, Israel, September 2000
Program Director, Operating Systems and Compilers, National Science Foundation, CISE Directorate, 1997-1998
Member ACM-SIGMOD Advisory Committee 1998-2001
Member ACM-SIGMOD Awards Committee, 1992-1997
Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Bin Chen, Peter Haas and Peter Scheuermann, A New Two-Phase Sampling Based Algorithm for Discovering Association Rules, in Proceedings ACM-SIGKDD Conference, Edmonton, Canada, July 2002, pp. 462-468

Birgitta Konig-Ries, Kia Makki, Sam Makki, Charles Perkins, Niki Pissinou, Peter Reiher, Peter Scheuermann, Jari Veijalainen and Ouri Wolfson, On Building An Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems, in SIGMOD Record, Volume 31, Number 2, June 2002, pp. 73-79.

Mehmet Sayal and Peter Scheuermann, A Distributed Clustering Algorithm for Web-Based Access Patterns, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM-SIGMOD Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery, Boston, August 2000

Radem Vingralek, Yuri Breitbart, Mehmet Sayal and Peter Scheuermann, Web++: A System for Replication of Web Resources, The WWW Journal, Volume 3, No.2, Summer 2000, pp. 65-77.

Lisa Singh, Bin Chen, Rebecca Haight, Peter Scheuermann, An Algorithm for Constrained Association Rule Mining in Semi-structured Data, Proceedings 1999 Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, April 1999, Beijing, China. pp. 148-158.

Junho Shim, Peter Scheuermann and Radek Vingralek, Dynamic Caching of Query Results for Decision Support Systems, Proceedings of the 11th Intermn. Conf. on Statistical and Scientific Database Management, July 1999, Cleveland pp. 254-263.

Junho Shim, Peter Scheuermann, and Radek Vingralek, Proxy Cache Design: Algorithms, Implementation and Performance, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1999.

Radek Vingralek, Yuri Breitbart, Mehmet Sayal, Peter Scheuermann, Web++: A System for Fast and Reliable Web Service, in Proceedings of 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, California, June 1999, pp. 171-184.

Peter Scheuermann, Gerhard Weikum, Peter Zabback, Data Partitioning and Load Balancing in Parallel Disk Systems, The VLDB Journal, Volume 7, Number 1, February 1998, pp. 48-66.

L. Lee, P. Scheuermann, R. Vingralek, File Assignment in Parallel I/O Systems with Minimal Variance of Service Time, in IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1998.

Lisa Singh, Bin Chen, Rebecca Haight, Peter Scheuermann, Kiyoko Aoki: A Robust System Architecture for Mining Semi-Structured Data, KDD 1998.

Peter Scheuermann, Junho Shim, Radek Vingralek: WATCHMAN : A Data Warehouse Intelligent Cache Manager, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Bombay, India, 1996, pp. 51-62

Wiebren de Jonge, Peter Scheuermann, Ardie Schijf: "S+-trees: An Efficient Structure for the Representation of Large Pictures," Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding , Vol. 59, No. 3, May 1994, pp. 265-280.

Please refer to DB&LP Bibliography pages for a more complete list of database related publications.


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