Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers:

• L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Using OODB Modeling to Partition a Vocabulary into Structurally and Semantically Uniform Concept Groups. To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu, and J. J.Cimino. Representing the UMLS as an object-oriented database: Modeling issues and advantages. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), (7)1, pages 66-80, January/February 2000.

• H. Gu, M. Halper,  J. Geller, and Y. Perl.   Benefits of an object-oriented database representation for controlled medical terminologies. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), (6)4, pages 283-303, July/August 1999

• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, and M. Singh. A methodalogy for partitioning a vocabulary hierarchy into trees. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (15)1, pages 77-98, January 1999.

• L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl Controlled Vocabularies in OODBs: Modeling Issues and Implementation , in Distributed And Parallel Databases, pp 37-65 January 1999.

• [MGPF96] A. Mehta, J. Geller, Y. Perl and P. Fankhauser, ``Computing Access Relevance for Path-Method Generation in OODBs and IM-OODB,'' Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 7(1), 1996, 75-100.

• [HGP98] Michael Halper, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl, ``An OODB Part-Whole Model: Semantics, Notation, and Implementation,'' Data & Knowledge Engineering,  27(1), 1998, 59-95.  

• Ashish Mehta, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl, Erich J. Neuhold: The OODB Path-Method Generator (PMG) Using Access Weights and Precomputed Access Relevance. VLDB Journal 7(1): 25-47 (1998)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:           

• J. Geller, C, Rush, L. Liu, M. Halper and Y. Perl. Ownership Semantics in the Financial Domain, 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9): Semantic Issues in e-Commerce Systems, Hong Kong, April 2001.

• H. Gu, J. Geller,  L. Liu, and M. Halper. Using a similarity measurement to partition a vocabulary of medical concepts.  In T. Bench-Capon, G. Soda, and A. M. Tjoa, editors, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications: DEXA'99, Florence, Italy, August 1999.  Published as: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1677, Springer-Verlag, New York, pages 712-723.

• L. Liu, M. Halper Incorporating Semantic Relationships into an Object-Oriented Database System, in proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), Jan. 1999.

• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, L. Liu, and J. J.Cimino.  Modeling the UMLS using an OODB.  In N. M. Lorenzi, editor, Proceedings of the 1999 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pages 82-86, Washington, DC, November1999.  

• L. Liu and M. Halper. Incorporating semantic relationships into an object-oriented database system. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), Maui, HI, January 1999 (CD-ROM), Copyright 1999 by the IEEE, 10 pages.

• H. Gu, L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl Converting an Integrated Hospital Formulary into an Object-Oriented Database Representation.  In C. G. Chute, editor, Proceedings of AMIA'98, Orlando, FL, pp 770-774, November, 1998.

• H. Gu, L. Liu, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Converting an integrated hospital formulary into an object-oriented database representation. In C. G. Chute, editor, Proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, pages 770-774, Orlando, FL, November 1998.

• H. Gu, Y. Perl, J. Geller, M. Halper, J. J. Cimino, and M. Singh. Partitioning a vocabulary's IS-A hierarchy into trees. In D. R. Masys, editor, Proceedings of the 1997 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pages 630-634, Nashville, TN, October 1997.

• L. Liu, M. Halper, H. Gu, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Modeling a vocabulary in an object-oriented database. In K. Barker and M. T. Ozsu, editors, CIKM-96, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 179-188, Rockville, MD, November 1996.

• M. Halper, H. Gu, J. J. Cimino, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Comprehending the structure of a medical vocabulary using object-oriented database modeling. OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information Systems, San Jose, CA, October 1996. Position Paper.

• Y. Perl, J. Geller, and H. Gu. Identify a Forest Hierarchy in an OODB specialization Hierarchy Satisfying Disciplined Modeling. Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems CoopIS'96 , pages
  182-195, Brussele, Belgium, June 1996.

• H. Gu, J. J. Cimino, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Utilizing OODB schema modeling for vocabulary management. In J. J. Cimino, editor, Proceedings of the 1996 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Fall Symposium, pages 274-278, Washington, DC, October 1996.

• M. Halper, H. Gu, J. J. Cimino, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Comprehending the structure of a medical vocabulary using object-oriented database modeling. OOPSLA'96 Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology for Health Care and Medical Information Systems, San Jose, CA, October 1996.  Position Paper.

• M. Halper, J. Geller, Y. Perl, and W. Klas. Integrating a part relationship into an open OODB system using metaclasses. In N. Adam, B. Bhargava, and Y. Yesha, editors, CIKM-94, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 10-17, Gaithersburg, MD, 1994.

• M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. Value propagation in object-oriented database part hierarchies.   B. Bhargava, T. Finin, and Y. Yesha, editors, Proceedings of the ISMM/ACM Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 606-614, Washington, DC, November, 1993.

• M. Halper, J. Geller, Y. Perl, and E. J. Neuhold. A graphical schema representation for object-oriented databases. In R. Cooper, editor, Interfaces to Database Systems, pages 282-307, Springer-Verlag, London, 1993.

• M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. An OODB "part" relationship model. In Y. Yesha, editor, Proceedings of the ISMM First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages 602-611, Baltimore, MD, November, 1992.

• M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. "Part" relations for object-oriented databases. In G. Pernul and A. Tjoa, editors, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, pages 406-422, Karlsruhe, Germany, October, 1992.

• M. Halper, Y. Perl, O. Yang, and J. Geller. Modeling Business Applications with the OODB Ownership Relationship. In R. S. Freedman, editor, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on AI Applications on Wall St., pages 2-10, New York, NY, June, 1995.

• O. Yang, M. Halper, J. Geller, and Y. Perl. The OODB ownership relationship. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS'94), pages 389-403, London, UK, 1994.

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