My research interests revolve around XML databases. They include:
- storage and query processing for XML and semi-structured data
- keyword search in semi-structured databases
- update validation for XML documents
- rewriting XML queries using views
I received my Ph.D. degree from the UC San Diego Database Lab, where my advisor was Yannis Papakonstantinou.
Publications:
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
