Andrey Balmin

Research Staff Member
Exploratory Database Systems,
IBM Almaden Research Center
650 Harry Road, K55/B1, San Jose, CA, 95120, USA
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FAX: +1 408 927-3215

My research intresets include, but are not limited to:

  • storage and query processing for XML and semi-structured data
  • keyword search and querying in semi-structured and graph databases
  • BI modeling and large scale analytics in the cloud

I received my Ph.D. degree from the UC San Diego Database Lab, where my advisor was Yannis Papakonstantinou.

 

Publications: (for a more up-to-date list, see my DBLP entry)

Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, Fei Chiang, Andrey Balmin, Kevin S. Beyer, Calisto Zuzarte: XML Index Recommendation with Tight Optimizer Coupling. ICDE 2008: 833-842

 

Andrey Balmin, Fatma Özcan, Ashutosh Singh, Edison Ting: Grouping and optimization of XPath expressions in DB2 pureXML. SIGMOD Conference 2008: 1065-1074

 

Heasoo Hwang, Andrey Balmin, Hamid Pirahesh, Berthold Reinwald: Information discovery in loosely integrated data. SIGMOD Conference 2007: 1147-1149

 

Zografoula Vagena, Latha S. Colby, Fatma Özcan, Andrey Balmin, Quanzhong Li: On the Effectiveness of Flexible Querying Heuristics for XML Data. XSym 2007: 77-91

 

Andrey Balmin, Kevin S. Beyer, Fatma Özcan, Matthias Nicola: On the Path to Efficient XML Queries. VLDB 2006: 1117-1128

 

Andrey Balmin, Tom Eliaz, John Hornibrook, Lipyeow Lim, Guy M. Lohman, David E. Simmen, Min Wang, Chun Zhang: Cost-based optimization in DB2 XML. IBM Systems Journal 45(2): 299-320 (2006)

 

Andrey Balmin, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Victor Vianu: Incremental Validation of XML Documents. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 29(4): 710-751 (2004)

Andrey Balmin, Fatma Ozcan, Kevin S. Beyer, Roberta Cochrane, Hamid Pirahesh: A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing. VLDB 2004

Andrey Balmin, Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou:
ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases. VLDB 2004

Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Andrey Balmin:
Keyword Proximity Search on XML Graphs. ICDE 2003: 367-378

Andrey Balmin, Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Divesh Srivastava, Tianqiu Wang: A System for Keyword Proximity Search on XML Databases. VLDB 2003 demonstration. 1069-1072

Andrey Balmin, Yannis Papakonstantinou: "Storing and Querying XML Data Using Denormalized Relational Databases." VLDB Journal 14(1): 30-49 (2005)

Andrey Balmin, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Thanos Papadimitriou: "Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment." VLDB 2000: 220-231

Andrey Balmin, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Thanos Papadimitriou: "Optimization of Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment." ICDE 2000: 311