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  1. Continuous Subgraph Matching via Cost-Model-based Dynamic Vertex Dominance Embeddings

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  2. GCLS 2 : Towards Efficient Community Detection Using Graph Contrastive Learning with Structure Semantics

    Article • November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  3. Reproducibility Report for ACM SIGMOD 2024 Paper: 'CAFE: Towards Compact, Adaptive, and Fast Embedding for Large-scale Recommendation Models'

    Article • March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  4. Is Aggregation the Only Choice? Federated Learning via Layer-wise Model Recombination

    Article • August 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  5. HERO: A Hierarchical Set Partitioning and Join Framework for Speeding up the Set Intersection Over Graphs

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  6. $kt$-Safety: Graph Release via $k$-Anonymity and $t$-Closeness

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  7. Range-constrained probabilistic mutual furthest neighbor queries in uncertain databases

    Article • Knowledge and Information Systems, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  8. MonitorLight

    Article • October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian, Zekuan Fang

  9. Efficient Processing of Group Planning Queries Over Spatial-Social Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  10. Maximizing the Utility in Location-Based Mobile Advertising

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, February 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  11. Fast and Accurate SimRank Computation via Forward Local Push and its Parallelization

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, December 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  12. Cohesive Group Nearest Neighbor Queries on Road-Social Networks under Multi-Criteria

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, November 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  13. Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  14. Top-k Community Similarity Search Over Large Road-Network Graphs

    Article • April 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  15. A Comparative Study of Consistent Snapshot Algorithms for Main-Memory Database Systems

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, February 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  16. Effective and efficient top-k query processing over incomplete data streams

    Article • Information Sciences, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  17. Efficiently Discovering Regions of Interest with User-Defined Score Function

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  18. Topic-based community search over spatial-social networks

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, August 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  19. Efficient Path Routing Over Road Networks in the Presence of Ad-Hoc Obstacles

    Article • Information Systems, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  20. Distributed Multimodal Path Queries

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  21. Probabilistic Maximum Range-Sum Queries on Spatial Database

    Article • November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  22. Efficient Join Processing Over Incomplete Data Streams

    Article • November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  23. GCache: Neighborhood-Guided Graph Caching in a Distributed Environment

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, November 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  24. Skyline queries over incomplete data streams

    Article • The VLDB Journal, October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  25. Constrained shortest path query in a large time-dependent graph

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  26. FROG: A Fast and Reliable Crowdsourcing Framework

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  27. Cohesive Group Nearest Neighbor Queries Over Road-Social Networks

    Article • April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  28. Maximizing the Utility in Location-Based Mobile Advertising

    Article • April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  29. Weight-Constrained Route Planning Over Time-Dependent Graphs

    Article • April 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  30. An Efficient Probabilistic Approach for Graph Similarity Search

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  31. Efficient SimRank Tracking in Dynamic Graphs

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  32. On Efficiently Detecting Overlapping Communities over Distributed Dynamic Graphs

    Article • April 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  33. Probabilistic Time-Constrained Paths Search over Uncertain Road Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, March 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  34. Matching Heterogeneous Event Data

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  35. A Secure and Smart Framework for Monitoring Infants' Safety

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  36. Second-order random walk-based proximity measures in graph analysis: formulations and algorithms

    Article • The VLDB Journal, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  37. Keyword Search over Distributed Graphs with Compressed Signature

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, June 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  38. Efficient Ad-Hoc Graph Inference and Matching in Biological Databases

    Article • May 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  39. Prediction-Based Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing

    Article • April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  40. Task Assignment on Multi-Skill Oriented Spatial Crowdsourcing

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  41. Online Subgraph Skyline Analysis over Knowledge Graphs

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, July 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  42. Quality-Aware Subgraph Matching Over Inconsistent Probabilistic Graph Databases

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  43. RSkNN: kNN Search on Road Networks by Incorporating Social Influence

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, June 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  44. Subgraph Matching with Set Similarity in a Large Graph Database

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  45. Reliable diversity-based spatial crowdsourcing by moving workers

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, June 2015, VLDB Endowment

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  46. How to Build Templates for RDF Question/Answering

    Article • May 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dongyan ZHAO, Dr. Xiang Lian

  47. Keyword Search Over Probabilistic RDF Graphs

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, May 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  48. Efficient Graph Similarity Search Over Large Graph Databases

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, April 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  49. Efficient Subgraph Skyline Search Over Large Graphs

    Article • November 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian, Dongyan ZHAO

  50. Trip Planner Over Probabilistic Time-Dependent Road Networks

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  51. Matching heterogeneous event data

    Article • June 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  52. SQBC: An efficient subgraph matching method over large and dense graphs

    Article • Information Sciences, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  53. k-nearest keyword search in RDF graphs

    Article • Journal of Web Semantics, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  54. Efficient processing of probabilistic group subspace skyline queries in uncertain databases

    Article • Information Systems, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  55. Probabilistic top-k dominating queries in uncertain databases

    Article • Information Sciences, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  56. Causality and responsibility

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  57. Graph similarity search with edit distance constraint in large graph databases

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian, Dongyan ZHAO

  58. k-Nearest Keyword Search in RDF Graphs

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  59. UTPB: A Benchmark for Scientific Workflow Provenance Storage and Querying Systems

    Article • June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  60. Continuous monitoring of skylines over uncertain data streams

    Article • Information Sciences, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  61. Subspace Similarity Search under {\rm L}_p-Norm

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, February 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  62. Query Processing over Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  63. Similarity Join Processing on Uncertain Data Streams

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, November 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  64. Finding the least influenced set in uncertain databases

    Article • Information Systems, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  65. Shooting top-k stars in uncertain databases

    Article • The VLDB Journal, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  66. Cost-efficient repair in inconsistent probabilistic databases

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  67. Efficient query answering in probabilistic RDF graphs

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  68. Managing uncertain spatio-temporal data

    Article • January 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  69. Probabilistic Time Consistent Queries over Moving Objects

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  70. The World in a Nutshell: Concise Range Queries

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  71. A generic framework for handling uncertain data with local correlations

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, October 2010, VLDB Endowment

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  72. Set similarity join on probabilistic data

    Article • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, September 2010, VLDB Endowment

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  73. Development of foundation models for Internet of Things

    Article • Frontiers of Computer Science in China, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  74. Probabilistic inverse ranking queries in uncertain databases

    Article • The VLDB Journal, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  75. Consistent query answers in inconsistent probabilistic databases

    Article • June 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  76. Ranked Query Processing in Uncertain Databases

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  77. Reverse skyline search in uncertain databases

    Article • ACM Transactions on Database Systems, February 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  78. Efficient Similarity Join over Multiple Stream Time Series

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, November 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  79. General Cost Models for Evaluating Dimensionality Reduction in High-Dimensional Spaces

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, October 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  80. Multiscale Representations for Fast Pattern Matching in Stream Time Series

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, April 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  81. A Concise Representation of Range Queries

    Article • March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  82. Efficient Processing of Metric Skyline Queries

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, March 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  83. Efficient processing of probabilistic reverse nearest neighbor queries over uncertain data

    Article • The VLDB Journal, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  84. Efficient join processing on uncertain data streams

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  85. Probabilistic Inverse Ranking Queries over Uncertain Data

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  86. Top-k dominating queries in uncertain databases

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  87. Efficient Pattern Matching over Uncertain Data Streams

    Article • HKIE Transactions, January 2009, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  88. Probabilistic Group Nearest Neighbor Queries in Uncertain Databases

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  89. Pattern Matching over Cloaked Time Series

    Article • April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  90. Similarity Search in Arbitrary Subspaces Under Lp-Norm

    Article • April 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  91. Dynamic skyline queries in metric spaces

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  92. Efficient Similarity Search in Nonmetric Spaces with Local Constant Embedding

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  93. Efficient Similarity Search over Future Stream Time Series

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  94. Monochromatic and bichromatic reverse skyline search over uncertain databases

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  95. Probabilistic ranked queries in uncertain databases

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  96. A General Cost Model for Dimensionality Reduction in High Dimensional Spaces

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  97. Approximate Similarity Search over Multiple Stream Time Series

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  98. Random Sampling for Continuous Streams with Arbitrary Updates

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  99. Similarity Match Over High Speed Time-Series Streams

    Article • January 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  100. Multidimensional reverse kNN search

    Article • The VLDB Journal, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xiang Lian

  101. Efficient Methods on Predictions for Similarity Search over Stream Time Series

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Xiang Lian