If a paper that you would like is unavailable on-line, please e-mail Curtis.Dyreson at usu.edu, and I will try to provide it for you electronically or via snail mail.

Refereed Journals

Lihua Ran, Curtis Dyreson, Anneliese Andrews, Renee Bryce, and Christopher Mallery.
Building Test Cases and Oracles to Automate the Testing of Web Database Applications
Information and Software Technology, 51(2), February 2009, pp. 460-477.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infosof.2008.05.016

Richard T. Snodgrass, Curtis Dyreson, Faiz Currim, Sabah Currim, and Shailesh Joshi.
Validating Quicksand: Temporal Schema Versioning in tXSchema.
Data and Knowledge Engineering, 65(2), May 2008, pp. 223-242.

Curtis Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Faiz Currim, and Sabah Currim.
Weaving a Temporal Aspect into a Schema Tapestry.
Data and Knowledge Engineering, 63(3): 752-773 (2007).
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2007.04.006

Bedirhan Urgun, Curtis Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Jessica K. Miller, Michael D. Soo, Nick Kline, and Christian S. Jensen.
Integrating Multiple Calendars using tZaman
Software-Practice Experience, 37(3), March 2007, pp. 267-308.
Project website

Timothy O'Conner, Curtis Dyreson, and John Wyrick.
Athena: A Resource for Rapid Visualization and Systematic Analysis of Arabidopsis Promoter Sequences
Bioinformatics, 21, 2005, pp. 4411-4413.

Curtis Dyreson, Michael H. Böhlen, and Christian S. Jensen.
METAXPath
Journal of Digital Information 2(2), December 2001.
PDF | PDF (local cache)

Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, and Curtis Dyreson.
A Foundation for Capturing and Querying Complex Multidimensional Data
Information Systems (Special Issue on Data Warehousing), 26(5): 383-423 (2001).
PDF

Curtis Dyreson, William Evans, Hong Lin, and Richard Snodgrass.
Efficiently Supporting Temporal Granularities.
IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 12(4), July/August 2000, pp. 568-587.
Electronic Edition from TKDE

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Supporting Valid-time Indeterminacy.
ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 23(1), March 1998, pp. 1-57.
DBLP Electronic edition | other papers on temporal indeterminacy

James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Tomas Isakowitz, Christian S. Jensen, and Richard T. Snodgrass.
On the Semantics of Now in Temporal Databases.
ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 22(2), June 1997, pp. 215-254.
DBLP Electronic Edition | abstract | papers on now

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Efficient Timestamp Input and Output.
Software - Practice & Experience 24(1), 1994, pp. 89-109.
PDF | about

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Timestamp Semantics and Representation.
Information Systems, 18(3), 1993, pp. 143-166.
PDF | timestamp papers

Refereed Conferences and Workshops

Curtis Dyreson and Hao Jin
A Synthetic, Trend-based Benchmark for XPath
XBenchmark, a DASFAA Workshop, Brisbane, Queensland, April 2009.

Curtis Dyreson, Sourav Bhowmick, Kirankanth Mallampalli, Aswani Rao Jannu, and Shuohao Zhang
Morph: A (Shape) Polymorphic XML Query Language
PLAN-X, a POPL Workshop, Savannah, GA, January 2009.
PDF: morph.pdf

(Invited paper) Curtis Dyreson and Shuohao Zhang.
The Benefits of Utilizing Closeness in XML
DEXA Workshops, Turin, Italy, September 2008, pp. 269-273.

Hao Jin and Curtis Dyreson.
Supporting Proscriptive Metadata in an XML DBMS
DEXA Turin, Italy, September 2008, pp. 479-492.

Nikolaus Augsten, Michael H. Böhlen, Curtis Dyreson, and Johann Gamper.
Approximate Joins for Data Centric XML
ICDE, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008, pp. 814-823.

Lin Xu and Curtis Dyreson,
Approximate Retrieval of XML Data with ApproxXPath
ADC Wollongong, NSW, Australia, January 2008, pp 115-126.

Curtis Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Faiz Currim, and Sabah Currim.
Schema-mediated Exchange of Temporal XML Data.
ER 2006, LNCS 4215, Tucson, AZ, Nov. 2006, pp. 212-227.
Springer DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11901181_17
PPT of conference talk

Shuohao Zhang and Curtis Dyreson.
Polymporhic XML Restructuring.
IIWeb 2006. A WWW Workshop, May 2006.
IIWeb proceedings online http://iiweb2006.cs.uiuc.edu/6.pdf

Shuohao Zhang and Curtis Dyreson.
Symmetrically Exploiting XML.
WWW 2006 Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006, pp. 103-111.
ACM DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1135777.1135797
WWW link to paper: http://www2006.org/programme/item.php?id=5067
Nominated for best student paper.

Shuohao Zhang, Curtis Dyreson, and Zhe Dang.
Compacting XML Data.
DASFAA 2006, LNCS 3882, Singapore, April 2006, pp. 767-776.
Springer DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11733836_54
PDF of conference talk

Curtis Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Faiz Currim, Sabah Currim, and Shailesh Joshi.
Validating Quicksand: Schema Versioning in tXSchema.
XSDM 2006 (ICDEW '06), Atlanta, GA, April 2006, p. 82.
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2006.161
PDF of conference talk

Igor Timko, Curtis Dyreson, and Torben Bach Pedersen,
Probabilistic Data Modeling and Querying for Location-Based Data Warehouses
SSDBM, 2005, pp. 273-282.

Hao Jin and Curtis Dyreson.
Sanitizing using Metadata in MetaXQuery
ACM SAC Santa Fe, NM March 2005, pp. 1732-1736.
PDF of conference talk

Lihua Ran, Curtis Dyreson, and Anneliese Andrews.
AutoDBT: A Framework for Automatic Testing of Web Database Applications
WISE 2004, LNCS 3306, Brisbane, QLD, Nov. 2004, pp. 181-192.
PDF of conference talk

Shuohao Zhang Curtis Dyreson, and Richard Snodgrass.
Schema-less, Semantics-based Change Detection for XML Documents
WISE 2004, LNCS 3306, Brisbane, QLD, Nov. 2004, pp. 279-290.
PDF of conference talk

Hao Jin and Curtis Dyreson.
Grouping in MetaXQuery
WISE, LNCS 3306, Brisbane, QLD, Nov. 2004, pp. 688-693.
PDF of conference talk

Curtis Dyreson, Hui-ling Lin, and Yingxia Wang.
Managing Versions of Web Documents in a Transaction-time Web Server
WWW2004 New York, NY, May 2004, pp. 422-432.
Electronic version (ACM DOI) | PDF of conference talk

Faiz Currim, Sabah Currim, Curtis Dyreson, and Richard T. Snodgrass.
A Tale of Two Schemas: Creating a Temporal Schema from a Snapshot Schema with tXSchema.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) Heraklion, Crete, March 2004, pp. 348-365.
Electronic Edition (LNCS)

Curtis Dyreson.
Temporal Coalescing with Now, Incomplete Information, and Granularity
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on the Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Diego, CA, June 2003, pp. 169-180.

Shuohao Zhang and Curtis Dyreson.
Adding Valid Time to XPath.
to appear in Lecture notes in Computer Science 2544, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database and Network Information Systems (DNIS), Aizu, Japan, December 2002.
Electronic Edition | PDF

Haiyun He and Curtis Dyreson.
Warp-edge Optimization in XPath
Lecture notes in Computer Science 2426, Advances in Object-Oriented Information Systems, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Efficient Web-based Information Systems (EWIS), Montpellier, France, September 2002. pp. 187-196.
PDF

Andy Frantz, Radek Mista, Dave Bakken, Curtis Dyreson, and Murali Medidi.
Mr. Fusion: A Programmable Data Fusion Middleware Subsystem with a Tunable Statistical Profiling Service.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2002) (Software track), Washington D.C., June 2002.
PDF

Curtis Dyreson.
Observing Transaction-time Semantics with TTXPath
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2001), Kyoto, Japan, December 2001, pp. 193-202.
PDF

Curtis Dyreson, Michael H. Böhlen, and Christian S. Jensen.
METAXPath
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2001), Tokyo, Japan, October 2001, pp. 17-23.
PDF (DC2001 on-line proceedings) | PDF (local cache)
Conference talk: PPS

Curtis Dyreson.
Towards a Temporal World-Wide Web: A Transaction Time Web Server
In Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2001) (Australian Computer Science Communications 23(2)), Gold Coast, Australia, January 2001, pp. 169-175.
PDF | Conference talk PPT

Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, and Curtis Dyreson.
Pre-Aggregation for Irregular OLAP Hierarchies with the TreeScape System.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering Demo Sessions (ICDE '01), Heidelberg, Germany, April, 2001, pp. 1-3.

Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, and Curtis Dyreson.
The TreeScape System: Reuse of Precomputed Aggregates over Irregular OLAP Hierarchies.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), demonstration track, Cairo, Egypt, September 2000, pp. 595-598.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis Dyreson, Michael H. Böhlen, and Christian S. Jensen.
Capturing and Querying Multiple Aspects of Semistructured Data.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999, pp. 290-301.
AUCQL project home page with web demo, papers, etc.
DBLP Electronic Edition | PDF
VLDB'99 conference talk Powerpoint (ppt)

Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, and Curtis Dyreson.
Extending Practical Pre-Aggregation in On-Line Analytical Processing.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Edinburgh, Scotland, September 1999, pp. 666-674.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Torben Bach Pedersen, Christian S. Jensen, and Curtis E. Dyreson.
Supporting Imprecision in Multidimensional Databases Using Granularities.
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM '99), Cleveland, OH, July 1999, pp. 90-101.
IEEE Electronic Edition | PDF

Michael H. Böhlen, Linas Bukauskas, and Curtis E. Dyreson.
The Jungle Database Search Engine.
In ACM SIGMOD Conference '99, demonstration track, Philadelphia, PA, June 1999, pp. 584-586.
DBLP Electronic Edition | AQUA project

Curtis E. Dyreson.
A Jumping Spider: Restructuring the WWW Graph to Index Concepts that Span Pages.
WWW7 Workshop on the Re-use of Web Information, Brisbane, Australia, April 1998.
HTML | Jumping Spider Project

Curtis E. Dyreson.
Information Retrieval from an Incomplete Data Cube.
In Proceedings of the Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Mumbai, India, September 1996, pp. 532-543.
DBLP Electronic Edition | Incomplete Data Cube project

Anthony M. Sloane and Curtis E. Dyreson.
An Interactive Self-Paced Learning Environment for the World-Wide Web.
In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE First Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education (ASCE '96), Sydney, NSW, July 1996, pp. 344-351.
PDF | Educational Software project

Curtis E. Dyreson.
An Experiment in Classroom Management Using the World-Wide Web.
In Proceedings of the Second Australian Conference on the World-Wide Web (AusWeb '96), Gold Coast, QLD, July 1996.
HTML | Educational Software project

Curtis E. Dyreson and Anthony M. Sloane.
The Boomerang White Paper: a Page As You Like It.
In World Wide Web Journal: the Proceedings of the Fourth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Boston, Mass, Dec. 1995, pp. 667-676.
HTML | Boomerang project

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Valid-time Indeterminacy.
In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Vienna, Austria, April 1993, pp. 335-343. Winner of Best Paper Award.
PDF | indeterminacy papers

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Timestamp Semantics and Representation
In Proceedings of The International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993, pp. 140-190.
Timestamp Papers

Book Chapters

Christian S. Jensen and Curtis Dyreson, (editors, with multiple other contributors).
A Consensus Glossary of Temporal Database Concepts - February 1998 Version.
In Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1399, Springer-Verlag, pp. 367-405. O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, and S. Sripada, editors.
LNCS Electronic Edition | PDF

C. Bettini, C. Dyreson, W. Evans, R. Snodgrass, and X. Sean Wang,
A Glossary of Time Granularity Concepts.
In Temporal Databases: Research and Practice, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1399, O. Etzion, S. Jajodia, and S. Sripada, editors, Springer-Verlag, pp. 406-411.
LNCS Electronic Edition | PDF

Curtis E. Dyreson.
A Bibliography on Uncertainty Management in Information Systems.
Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solutions. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. pp. 415-458.
PDF | BibTex references (without macros) | BibTex references (with macros)

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
The TSQL2 Baseline Clock. The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. Volume 19.
Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1997. pp. 49-67.
(Also appears as, Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
The Baseline Clock.
The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor, Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 73-92.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis E. Dyreson, Michael D. Soo, and Richard T. Snodgrass,
The Data Model for Time.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 93-98.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass,
Temporal Granularity.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 345-382.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass,
Temporal Indeterminacy.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 325-344.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass,
A Timestamp Representation.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 471-496.
DBLP Electronic Edition

James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Tomas Isakowitz and Christian S. Jensen.
Now.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 383-392.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Richard T. Snodgrass, Christian S. Jensen, Curtis E. Dyreson, Wolfgang Kafer, Nick Kline, and John F. Roddick.
A Second Example.
In The TSQL2 Temporal Query Language. Richard T. Snodgrass, editor. Kluwer Academic Press, 1995. pp. 47-72.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Unrefereed Publications

Richard T. Snodgrass, Ilsoo Ahn, Gad Ariav, Don Batory, James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Ramez Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Christian S. Jensen, Wolfgang Kaefer, Nick Kline, Krishna Kulkarni, T. Y. Cliff Leung, Nikos Lorentzos, John F. Roddick, Arie Segev, Michael D. Soo and Suryanarayana M. Sripada.
TSQL2 Language Specification.
ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 23, No. 1, March, 1994, 18 pages.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Richard T. Snodgrass, Ilsoo Ahn, Gad Ariav, Don Batory, James Clifford, Curtis E. Dyreson, Ramez Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Christian S. Jensen, Wolfgang Kaefer, Nick Kline, Krishna Kulkarni, T. Y. Cliff Leung, Nikos Lorentzos, John F. Roddick, Arie Segev, Michael D. Soo and Suryanarayana M. Sripada.
A TSQL2 Tutorial.
ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 23, No. 3, September, 1994, pp. 27-33.
DBLP Electronic Edition

Curtis E. Dyreson and Richard T. Snodgrass.
Timestamp Semantics and Representation
In Proceedings of The International Workshop on an Infrastructure for Temporal Databases, Arlington, TX, June 1993, pp. 140-190.
Timestamp Papers

Michael H. Böhlen, Linas Bukauskas, and Curtis Dyreson.
Advertising Databases on the World-Wide Web.
25 pages.
AQUA project

Curtis E. Dyreson.
Automatic Filtering of Now-centric Data.
James Cook University Technical Report 95/14. November, 1995. 18 pages.
PostScript (gzipped)

Michael D. Soo, Richard T. Snodgrass, Curtis E. Dyreson, Christian S. Jensen and Nick Kline.
Architectural Extensions to Support Multiple Calendars.
TempIS Technical Report 32. May 1992. 71 pages.
MultiCal project