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Vassilios S. Verykios



Welcome to my homepage. My name is Vassilis Verykios and I am an Assistant Professor
in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. My research
interests include data reconciliation, database security and data mining. I am also
interested in the areas of parallel and distributed computing and database applications.
My teaching interests span the areas of databases, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, data mining and data quality.


Projects

 

Education

 

Academic Experience

 

Recent Publications

BOOK CHAPTERS

1.      Verykios, V.S., and Elmagarmid, A.K. The Purdue University Data Quality Project. In R. Wang, M. Ziad and Y. Lee, Eds., Data Quality, Chapter 8, pp. 119-137, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

2.      Houstis, E.N., Verykios, V.S., Catlin, A.C., Ramakrishnan, N., and Rice, J. R. A Data Mining Environment for Modeling the Performance of Scientific Software. In E.N. Houstis, S. Gallopoulos, J.R. Rice and R. Bramley, Eds., Enabling Technologies for Computational Science: Frameworks, Middleware and Environments, Chapter 21, pp. 261-271, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

 

JOURNALS

3.      Verykios, V.S., Elmagarmid, A.K., and Houstis, E.N. Automating the Approximate Record Matching Process. Journal of Information Sciences, vol. 126, issue 1-4, pp. 83-98, July 2000.

4.      Verykios, V.S., Houstis, E.N. and Rice, J.R. A Knowledge Discovery Methodology for the Performance Evaluation of Scientific Software. Journal of Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 115-132, June 2000.

5.      Houstis, E.N., Catlin, A.C., Rice, J.R., Verykios, V.S., Ramakrishnan, N., and Houstis, C.E. PYTHIA-II: A Knowledge/Database System for Managing Performance Data and Recommending Scientific Software. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 227-253, June 2000.

6.      Verykios, V.S., Houstis, E.N., Tsoukala, L.H., and Pantazopoulos, K.N. Automating the Analysis of  Option Pricing Algorithms through Intelligent Knowledge Acquisition Approaches. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part A

7.      Missier, P., Lalk, G., Verykios, V.S., Grillo, F., Lorusso, T., and Angeletti, P. Improving Data Quality in Practice: A Case Study in the Italian Public Administration. Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, to appear.

 

CONFERENCES

8.      Dasseni, E., Verykios, V.S., Elmagarmid, A.K., and Bertino, E. Hiding Association Rules by Using Confidence and Support. To appear in IHW 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.

9.      Verykios, V.S., Elmagarmid, A.K., Elfeky, M., Cochinwala, M., and Dalal, S., On the Completeness and Accuracy of the Record Matching Process. In Proceedings of the MIT Conference on Information Quality, pp. 54-69, October 2000, Boston, MA.

10.  Verykios, V.S., Houstis, E.N., and Rice, J.R. Mining the Performance of Complex Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence, Information and Systems (ICIIS’99), pp. 606-612, November 1999, Bethesda, MD.

11.  Atallah, M., Bertino, E., Elmagarmid, A.K., Ibrahim, M., and Verykios, V.S. Disclosure Limitation of Sensitive Rules. In Proceedings of 1999 IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX’99) pp. 45-52, November 1999, Chicago, IL.

12.  Pantazopoulos, K.N., Verykios, V.S., and Houstis, E.N. A Knowledge-Based System for the Evaluation of Option Pricing Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 4th  IEEE/IAFE/INFORMS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering (CIFEr'98), pp.123-140, March 1998, New York, NY.

 

UNDER REVIEW

13. Cochinwala M., Dalal S., Elmagarmid A.K., and Verykios V.S. Record Matching: Past, Present and Future. Submitted to ACM Computing Surveys.

14. Elfeky, M.G., Verykios, V.S., and Elmagarmid A.K. TAILOR: A Record Linkage Toolbox. Submitted to ICDE' 2002, San Jose, USA, February 24-25, 2002

15. Saygin Y., Verykios, V.S., and Elmagarmid A.K. Privacy Preserving Association Rule Mining. Submitted to the 12th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering:  Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE-2EC'2002).

 

 

Contact Info

College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875
Phone : 215-895-1532
Fax:     215-895-2494
E-mail: verykios@cis.drexel.edu