Publications:

2018

• Bounded Query Rewriting Using Views [topic 1]
  ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2018.
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, and Ping Lu
  

2017

• Data Driven Approximation with Bounded Resources [ Slides ] [topic 1]
  The 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Munich, Germany, 2017.
  Yang Cao and Wenfei Fan
  

• BEAS: Bounded Evaluation of SQL Queries [topic 1]
  ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), demo, Chicago, IL USA, 2017.
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Yanghao Wang, Tengfei Yuan, Yanchao Li and Laura Yu Chen.
  

• Parallelizing Sequential Graph Computations [topic 2]
  ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Chicago, IL USA, 2017 (the Best Paper Award).
  Wenfei Fan, Yinghui Wu, Jingbo Xu , Wenyuan Yu, Jiaxin Jiang, Zeyu Zheng, Bohan Zhang, Yang Cao and Chao Tian
  

• Relaxing Graph Pattern Matching With Explanations [topic 2]
  The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Singapore, 2017.
  Jia Li, Yang Cao, Shuai Ma
  

• Is Big Data Analytics beyond the Reach of Small Companies? [topic 1]
  Data Analysis and Knowledge Discovery, Sept. 2017 (invited).
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, and Tengfei Yuan
  

• Virtual Network Mapping in Cloud Computing: A Graph Pattern Matching Approach [topic 2]
  The Computer Journal, 2017, Vol 60(3)
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan and Shuai Ma

2016

• An Effective Syntax for Bounded Relational Queries [ Slides ] [topic 1]
  ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), San Francisco, USA, 2016.
  Yang Cao and Wenfei Fan


• Bounded Query Rewriting Using Views [topic 1]
  ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), San Francisco, USA, 2016.
  (Invited to the "Best of PODS 2016" issue of ACM TODS)
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, and Ping Lu


• Approximating Graph Pattern Queries Using Views [topic 2]
  The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Indianapolis, USA, 2016.
  Jia Li, Yang Cao and Xudong Liu

2015

• Querying Big Data by Accessing Small Data [ Slides ] [topic 1]
  ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2015.
  Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Yang Cao, Ting Deng and Ping Lu


• Making Pattern Queries Bounded in Big Graphs [ Slides ] [topic 1]
  The 31th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Seoul, Korea, 2015.
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Jinpeng Huai, Ruizhe Huang


• Virtual Network Mapping: A Graph Pattern Matching Approach [topic 2]
  The 30th British International Conference on Databases (BICOD) , Edinburgh, UK, 2015.
  (Invited to the "Best of papers from BICOD 2015" issue of the Computer Journal)
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan and Shuai Ma

2014

• Bounded Conjunctive Queries [ Slides ] [topic 1]
  The 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Hangzhou, China, 2014.
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, and Wenyuan Yu


• Strong Simulation: Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching [topic 2]
  ACM Transaction on Database Systems (TODS)
  Shuai Ma, and Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Jinpeng Huai, Tianyu Wo


• On the Data Complexity of Relative Information Completeness [topic 3]
  Information Systems 45:18-34, 2014
  Yang Cao, Ting Deng, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts

2013

• Determining the Relative Accuracy of Attributes [ Slides ] [topic 3]
  ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), New York, USA, 2013
  Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, and Wenyuan Yu

2012

• Distributed Graph Pattern Matching [topic 2]
  The 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Lyon, France, 2012
  Shuai Ma, Yang Cao, Jinpeng Huai, and Tianyu Wo


• Capturing Topology in Graph Pattern Matching [topic 2]
  The 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Istanbul, Turkey, 2012
  Shuai Ma, Yang Cao, Wenfei Fan, Jinpeng Huai, Tianyu Wo