Martin Frank - Publications

Martin R. Frank, Edward R. Omiecinski, and Shamkant B. Navathe. Adaptive and automated index selection in relational DBMS. In Alain Pirotte, Claude Delobel, and Georg Gottlob, editors, Proceedings of EDBT'92, International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 277-292, Springer, Berlin, (Vienna, Austria, March 23-27) 1992. (best paper award) abstract postscript (451k)

Martin R. Frank, J. J. "Hans" de Graaff, Daniel F. Gieskens, and James D. Foley. Building user interfaces interactively using pre- and postconditions. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 641-642, (Monterey, California, May 3-7) 1992. abstract Adobe Acrobat (42k)

Martin R. Frank and James D. Foley. Model-based user interface design by example and by answering questions. In Adjunct Proceedings of INTERCHI, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 161-162, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 24-29) 1993. abstract Adobe Acrobat (58k)

Martin R. Frank and James D. Foley. Model-based user interface design by example and by interview. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 129-137, (Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-5) 1993. abstract Adobe Acrobat (97k)

Martin R. Frank and James D. Foley. A pure reasoning engine for programming by demonstration. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 95-101, (Marina del Rey, California, November 2-4) 1994. abstract Adobe Acrobat (41k)

Martin R. Frank, Piyawadee "Noi" Sukaviriya, and James D. Foley. Inference Bear: Designing interactive interfaces through before and after snapshots. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems, pages 167-175, (Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 23-25) 1995. abstract Adobe Acrobat (123k)

Martin R. Frank. Grizzly Bear: A demonstrational learning tool for a user interface specification language. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, pages 75-76, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 15-17) 1995. abstract Adobe Acrobat (54k)

Martin R. Frank. Standardizing the representation of user tasks. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Acquisition, Learning, and Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users, 3 pages, (Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 25-27) 1996. abstract Adobe Acrobat (59k)

Martin R. Frank and Pedro Szekely. Adaptive Forms: An interaction paradigm for entering structured data. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 153-160, (San Francisco, California, January 6-9) 1998. abstract Adobe Acrobat (92k)

Martin R. Frank and Pedro Szekely. Adaptive Forms: An interaction technique for entering structured data. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal (Elsevier, Holland), volume 11, number 1, pages 37-45, 1998. (Invited revision of the IUI'98 paper.) Microsoft Word (576k) Adobe Acrobat (609k) HTML

Martin Frank and Pedro Szekely. Collapsible User Interfaces for Information Retrieval Agents. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 15-22, (Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, January 5-8) 1999. Microsoft Word (369k) Adobe Acrobat (149k)

Martin Frank, Maria Muslea, Jean Oh, Steve Minton, and Craig Knoblock. An Intelligent User Interface for Mixed-Initiative Multi-Source Travel Planning. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 85-86, (Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 14-17) 2001. Microsoft Word (95k) Adobe Acrobat (127k)

Pedro Szekely, Craig Milo Rogers, and Martin Frank. Interfaces for Understanding Multi-Agent Behavior. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 161-166, (Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 14-17) 2001. Adobe Acrobat (2.69M)

Craig A. Knoblock, Steve Minton, Jose Luis Ambite, Maria Muslea, Jean Oh, and Martin Frank. Mixed-initiative, multi-source information assistants. In WWW10 - Tenth International World Wide Web Conference, 11 pages, (Hong Kong, May 1-5) 2001. Adobe Acrobat (902k) HTML ps.gz

Martin Frank, Alejandro Bugacov, Jinbo Chen, Gordon Dakin, Pedro Szekely, Bob Neches. The Marbles Manifesto: A Definition and Comparison of Cooperative Negotiation Schemes for Distributed Resource Allocation. Proceedings of the 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium on Negotiation Methods for Autonomous Cooperative Systems, pages 36-45, (North Falmouth, Massachusetts, November 2-4) 2001. Adobe Acrobat (285k)

Martin Frank, Pedro Szekely, Robert Neches, Baoshi Yan, Juan Lopez. WebScripter: World-Wide Grass-roots Ontology Translation via Implicit End-User Alignment. Proceedings of the WWW-2002 Semantic Web Workshop, 7 pages, (Honolulu, Hawaii, May 7) 2002. Adobe Acrobat (1.8MB)

Siegfried Handschuh, Tanja Sollazzo, Steffen Staab, Martin Frank. Semantic Web Service Architecture - Evolving Web Service Standards toward the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the 15th International FLAIRS Conference, 5 pages, (Pensacola, Florida, May 16-18) 2002. Adobe Acrobat (188k)

Jinbo Chen, Alejandro Bugacov, Pedro Szekely, Martin Frank, Min Cai, Donghan Kim, Robert Neches. Coordinated aggressive bidding in distributed combinatorial resource allocation. AAMAS Workshop on Representations and Approaches for time-critical decentralized resource/role/task allocation, 8 pages, (Melbourne, Australia, July 14) 2003. Adobe Acrobat

Baoshi Yan, Martin Frank, Pedro Szekely, Robert Neches, Juan Francisco Lopez. WebScripter: Grass-roots Ontology Alignment via End-User Report Creation. 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), pages 676-689, (Sanibel Island, Florida, Oct 20-23) 2003. [18.7% research track acceptance rate, 49 out of 262] Adobe Acrobat

Min Cai, Martin Frank, Jinbo Chen, Pedro Szekely. MAAN: A Multi-Attribute Addressable Network for Grid Information Services. 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid2003), 8 pages, (Phoenix, Arizona, Nov 17) 2003. Adobe Acrobat

Min Cai, Martin Frank. RDFPeers: A Scalable Distributed RDF Repository based on A Structured Peer-to-Peer Network University of Southern California - Computer Science Technical Report 03-807, December 2003. (cite the WWW2004 paper below instead, this is the version of the paper as it was submitted) Adobe Acrobat

Min Cai, Martin Frank. RDFPeers: A Scalable Distributed RDF Repository based on A Structured Peer-to-Peer Network. 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), 8 pages, (New York, May 17-22) 2004. [14.6% acceptance rate, 74 out of 506] Adobe Acrobat

Martin Frank. About New Global-Scale Collaborative Applications enabled by Structured P2P Networks for RDF. (peer-reviewed workshop position paper) World Wide Web Conference Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing, 2 pages, 2004.

Min Cai, Martin Frank, Jinbo Chen, Pedro Szekely. MAAN: A Multi-Attribute Addressable Network for Grid Information Services. Journal of Grid Computing, Kluwer, 2004 (accepted for publication on April 6, 2004).

Stefan Decker and Martin Frank, The Networked Semantic Desktop, WWW'2004 Workshop on Application Design, Development and Implementation Issues in the Semantic Web, May 18th, 2004 Adobe Acrobat

Min Cai, Martin Frank. A Scalable and Subscribable Peer-to-Peer RDF Repository for Distributed Metadata Management. Journal of Web Semantics, 2004 (status: accepted with minor revisions)

Martin Frank, Min Cai, Baoshi Yan, Sameer Maggon, Robert MacGregor. Efficient Distributed Interest Management via Scalable Subscriptions in an RDF P2P Network. (status: submitted to ISWC'2004)