ÿþ<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="keywords" content="Panagiotis, Karras, Panos"> <meta name="description" content="Panagiotis Karras, Panagiotis, Panos, Homepage, Computer Science"> <meta name="Author" content="Panagiotis Karras"><title>Panagiotis Karras</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; color: black; background: white; } a:link { color: navy; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color: navy; text-decoration:none; } a:active { color: #555 } a:hover { color: olive } </style></head><body><br> <table border="0" cols="2" width="1050"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <font color="#000080" face="Garamond" size="5"><b>Panagiotis Karras</b></font> <p><font face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size="3">Department of Management Science and Information Systems<br> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<br> 1 Washington Park, 1066<br> Newark, New Jersey 07102<br> lastname at business rutgers edu</font></p> </td> <td> <div align="right"><img src="pkarras.jpg"></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table border="0" width="1050"> <tbody> <tr><td> <hr width="100%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">Panagiotis Karras is an Assistant Professor at <a href="http://www.business.rutgers.edu/msis">Rutgers Business School</a>.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">He received an M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the <a href="http://www.ece.ntua.gr/">National Technical University of Athens</a>, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the <a href="http://www.cs.hku.hk/">University of Hong Kong</a>, and the 2008 Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science from the <a href="http://www.science.org.hk/">Hong Kong Institution of Science</a>.</font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font face="Tahoma" size="3">In the past he has also worked and studied at the <a href="http://www.nus.edu.sg/">National University of Singapore</a>, at the <a href="http://www.uzh.ch/">University of Zurich</a>, at the <a href="http://www.imm.dtu.dk/">Technical University of Denmark</a>, at the <a href="http://www.ilsp.gr/">Institute of Language and Speech Processing</a> in Athens, at <a href="http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/">Schlumberger Information Solutions</a> in Oslo, at the <a href="http://www.ira.uka.de/">University of Karlsruhe</a>, Germany, and at the <a href="http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/">University of Patras</a>, Greece.</font></font></font></p> <hr width="100%"> <font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><br> </font></font><p><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font color="#000080" face="Garamond" size="+2">Publications in Refereed Journals</font></font></font></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><ol> <font face="Tahoma"> </li><li><a href="StochasticDatabaseCracking.pdf">Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores</a><br> Felix Halim, Stratos Idreos, Panagiotis Karras, and Roland H. C. Yap<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/pvldb/pvldb5.html">Proc.</a> of the VLDB Endowment (<a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/">PVLDB</a>), to appear (<a href="http://www.vldb2012.org/">38th</a> VLDB Conf., Istanbul, August 2012)</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="TKDE-AMN.pdf">Authenticated Multi-Step Nearest Neighbor Search</a><br> Stavros Papadopoulos, Lixing Wang, Yin Yang, Dimitris Papadias, and Panagiotis Karras<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/tkde/tkde23.html">IEEE</a> Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (<a href="http://www.computer.org/tkde/">TKDE</a>), 23(5), May 2011</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="SABRE.pdf">SABRE: A Sensitive Attribute Bucketization and REdistribution framework for t-closeness</a><br> Jianneng Cao, Panagiotis Karras, Panos Kalnis, and Kian-Lee Tan<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/vldb/vldb20.html">The VLDB Journal</a> (<a href="http://www.vldb.org/vldb_journal/">VLDBJ</a>), 20(1), February 2011</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="p-uncertainty.pdf">Á-uncertainty: Inference-Proof Transaction Anonymization</a><br> Jianneng Cao, Panagiotis Karras, Chedy Raïssi, and Kian-Lee Tan<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/pvldb/pvldb3.html">Proc.</a> of the VLDB Endowment (<a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/">PVLDB</a>), 3(1) (<a href="http://www.vldb2010.org/">36th</a> VLDB Conf., Singapore, September 2010)</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="paper201.pdf">Optimality and Scalability in Lattice Histogram Construction</a><br> Panagiotis Karras<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/pvldb/pvldb2.html">Proc.</a> of the VLDB Endowment (<a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/">PVLDB</a>), 2(1) (<a href="http://vldb2009.org/">35th</a> VLDB Conf., Lyon, France, August 2009)</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="framework.pdf">A Framework for Efficient Data Anonymization under Privacy and Accuracy Constraints</a><br> Gabriel Ghinita, Panagiotis Karras, Panos Kalnis, and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/tods/tods34.html">ACM</a> Transactions on Data Base Systems (<a href="http://tods.acm.org/">TODS</a>), 34(2), June 2009</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="hexastore.pdf">Hexastore: Sextuple Indexing for Semantic Web Data Management</a><br> Cathrin Weiss, Panagiotis Karras, and Abraham Bernstein<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/pvldb/pvldb1.html">Proc.</a> of the VLDB Endowment (<a href="http://vldb.org/pvldb/">PVLDB</a>), 1(1) (<a href="https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/research/conferences/vldb08/">34th</a> VLDB Conf., Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008)</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="hsoeg.pdf">Hierarchical Synopses with Optimal Error Guarantees</a> [<a href="appendix_hsoeg.pdf">appendix</a>]<br> Panagiotis Karras and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/tods/tods33.html">ACM</a> Transactions on Data Base Systems (<a href="http://tods.acm.org/">TODS</a>), 33(3), August 2008</i> </li></font> </ol></td></tr></tbody></table> </font></font><p><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font color="#000080" face="Garamond" size="+2">Publications in Refereed Conferences</font></font></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><ol> <font face="Tahoma"> </li><li><a href="ppo143-nobari.pdf">Scalable Parallel Minimum Spanning Forest Computation</a><br> Sadegh Nobari, Thanh-Tung Cao, Panagiotis Karras, and Stéphane Bressan<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/ppopp/ppopp2012.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://dynopt.org/ppopp-2012/">the 17th</a> ACM SIGPLAN Symp. on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (<a href="http://www.sigplan.org/ppopp.htm">PPoPP</a>), New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2012</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="cikm645-xue.pdf">Utility-Driven Anonymization in Data Publishing</a><br> Mingqiang Xue, Panagiotis Karras, Chedy Raïssi, and Hung Keng Pung<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/cikm/cikm2011.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.cikm2011.org/">the 20th</a> ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (<a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/">CIKM</a>), Glasgow, United Kingdom, October 2011</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="p1334-kashyap.pdf">Scalable kNN Search on Vertically Stored Time Series</a><br> Shrikant Kashyap and Panagiotis Karras<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/kdd/kdd2011.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.kdd.org/kdd2011/">the 17th</a> ACM SIGKDD Intl Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/">KDD</a>), San Diego, California, August 2011</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="rg.pdf">Fast Random Graph Generation</a><br> Sadegh Heyrani Nobari, Xuesong Lu, Panagiotis Karras, and Stéphane Bressan<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/edbt/edbt2011.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://edbticdt2011.it.uu.se/">the 14th</a> Intl Conf. on Extending Database Technology (<a href="http://www.edbt.org/">EDBT</a>), Uppsala, Sweden, March 2011</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="icd.pdf">CW2I: Community Data Indexing for Complex Query Processing</a><br> Mei Hui, Panagiotis Karras, and Beng Chin Ooi<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/waim/">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.cse.ust.hk/~waim2010/">the 11th</a> Intl Conf. on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Jiuzhaigou, China, July 2010</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="Nectar10fhalim.pdf">Local Search in Histogram Construction</a><br> Felix Halim, Panagiotis Karras, and Roland H. C. Yap<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/aaai/">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php">the 24th</a> AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (<a href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai.php">AAAI</a>), Atlanta, Georgia, July 2010</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="KM0563-halim.pdf">Fast and Effective Histogram Construction</a><br> Felix Halim, Panagiotis Karras, and Roland H. C. Yap<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/cikm/cikm2009.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/">the 18th</a> ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (<a href="http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/">CIKM</a>), Hong Kong, China, November 2009</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="multiplicative.pdf">Multiplicative Synopses for Relative-Error Metrics</a><br> Panagiotis Karras<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/edbt/edbt2009.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.math.spbu.ru/edbticdt/">the 12th</a> Intl Conf. on Extending Database Technology (<a href="http://www.edbt.org/">EDBT</a>), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 2009</i><p> </p><li><a href="ICDE08_conference_0189.pdf">Lattice Histograms: a Resilient Synopsis Structure</a><br> Panagiotis Karras and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/icde/icde2008.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.icde2008.org/">the 24th</a> IEEE Intl Conf. on Data Engineering (<a href="http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/tcde/conf_e.html">ICDE</a>), Cancún, Mexico, April 2008</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="ICDE08_conference_0264.pdf">Common Influence Join: A Natural Join Operation for Spatial Pointsets</a><br> Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, and Panagiotis Karras<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/icde/icde2008.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.icde2008.org/">the 24th</a> IEEE Intl Conf. on Data Engineering (<a href="http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/tcde/conf_e.html">ICDE</a>), Cancún, Mexico, April 2008</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="edbt2008_027.pdf">Ring-constrained Join: Deriving Fair Middleman Locations from Pointsets via a Geometric Constraint</a><br> Man Lung Yiu, Panagiotis Karras, and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/edbt/edbt2008.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://edbt2008.lina.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/">the 11th</a> Intl Conf. on Extending Database Technology (<a href="http://www.edbt.org/">EDBT</a>), Nantes, France, March 2008</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="vldb2007fawlil.pdf">Fast Anonymization with Low Information Loss</a><br> Gabriel Ghinita, Panagiotis Karras, Panos Kalnis, and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/vldb/vldb2007.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.vldb2007.org/">the 33rd</a> Intl Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (<a href="http://www.vldb.org/">VLDB</a>), Vienna, September 2007</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="frp301-karras.pdf">Exploiting Duality in Summarization with Deterministic Guarantees</a><br> Panagiotis Karras, Dimitris Sacharidis, and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/kdd/kdd2007.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.kdd2007.com/">the 13th</a> ACM SIGKDD Intl Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (<a href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/">KDD</a>), San Jose, California, August 2007</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="icde2007_401.pdf">The Haar+ Tree: a Refined Synopsis Data Structure</a><br> Panagiotis Karras and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/icde/icde2007.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.icde2007.org/">the 23rd</a> IEEE Intl Conf. on Data Engineering (<a href="http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/tcde/conf_e.html">ICDE</a>), Istanbul, April 2007</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="sutc2006_135.pdf">Detecting the Direction of Motion in a Binary Sensor Network</a><br> Panagiotis Karras and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/sutc/sutc2006-1.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://sutc2006.asia.edu.tw/">the 1st</a> IEEE Intl Conf. on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (<a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/site/store/menuitem.41cf17dc879177c86ee948ce8bcd45f3/index.jsp?&amp;pName=store_level1&amp;path=store/P2006&amp;file=p2553.xml&amp;xsl=generic.xsl&amp;">SUTC</a>), Taichung, June 2006</i><p> </p></li><li><a href="vldb2005_p421.pdf">One-Pass Wavelet Synopses for Maximum-Error Metrics</a><br> Panagiotis Karras and Nikos Mamoulis<br> <i><a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/vldb/vldb2005.html">Proc.</a> of <a href="http://www.vldb2005.org/">the 31st</a> Intl Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (<a href="http://www.vldb.org/">VLDB</a>), Trondheim, Norway, August 2005</i> </li></font> </ol></td></tr></tbody></table> </font></font><p><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font color="#000080" face="Garamond" size="+2">Teaching</font></font></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><ol> <font face="Tahoma"> <a href="https://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_101216_1%26url%3D"> 26:198:643</a>: Information Security (Spring 2012)<br> <a href="https://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_110881_1%26url%3D"> 29:623:220</a>: Management Information Systems (Spring 2012)<br> <a href="https://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_101216_1%26url%3D"> 22:198:603</a>: Business Data Management (Fall 2011)<br> <a href="https://blackboard.newark.rutgers.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_100689_1%26url%3D"> 29:623:350</a>: Structured Programming Applications (Fall 2011)<br> <a href="http://ivle7.nus.edu.sg/lms/Account/NUSBulletin/msearch_view.aspx?modeCode=CS5322&acadYear=2009/2010&semester=1"> CS5322</a>: Database Security (Spring 2010)<br> <a href="http://ivle7.nus.edu.sg/lms/Account/NUSBulletin/msearch_view.aspx?modeCode=CS2102&acadYear=2009/2010&semester=1"> CS3230</a>: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Fall 2009)<br> <a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs6234/2009/"> CS6234</a>: Advanced Algorithms (Spring 2009)<br> <a href="http://ivle7.nus.edu.sg/lms/Account/NUSBulletin/msearch_view.aspx?modeCode=CS3230&acadYear=2009/2010&semester=1"> CS2102</a>: Database Systems (Spring 2009, Fall 2009)<br> </li></font> </ol></td></tr></tbody></table> </font></font><p><font face="Tahoma" size="3"><font color="#000080" face="Garamond" size="+2">Service</font></font></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><ol> <font face="Tahoma"> Journal Referee for:<br> <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/453">Algorithmica</a>, <a href="http://tods.acm.org/">ACM TODS</a>, <a href="http://www.vldb.org/vldb_journal/">VLDB Journal</a>, <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tkde/">IEEE TKDE</a>, <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/">Information Systems</a>, <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering/">DKE</a>, <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition-letters/">Pattern Recognition Letters</a>, <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/">Pervasive and Mobile Computing</a>, <a href="http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/">Journal of Zhejiang University</a> <br><br> Program Committee Memberships:<br> 2013: <a href="http://ktw.mimos.my/stake2013/">STAKE</a><br> 2012: <a href="http://kdd.org/kdd2012/">KDD</a>, <a href="http://www.icde12.org/">ICDE</a>, <a href="http://www.caise2012.univ.gda.pl/">CAiSE</a>, <a href="http://pakdd2012.pakdd.org/">PAKDD</a>, <a href="http://db.disi.unitn.eu/pages/WebDB2012/">WebDB</a>, <a href="http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/INTELLI12.html">INTELLI</a>, <a href="http://www.dataconference.org/">DATA</a><br> 2011: <a href="http://www.kdd.org/kdd2011/">KDD</a>, <a href="http://edbticdt2011.it.uu.se/">EDBT</a>, <a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2011.org/">ECMLPKDD</a>, <a href="http://www.caise2011.com/">CAiSE</a>, <a href="http://pakdd2011.pakdd.org/">PAKDD</a>, <a href="http://www.wise2011.org/">WISE</a>, <a href="http://www.eswc2011.org/">ESWC</a>, <a href="http://www.dexa.org/node/42">DaWaK</a>, <a href="http://www.takilab.org/conf/cisis/2011/">CISIS</a>, <a href="http://www.mimos.my/stake2011/">STAKE</a>, <a href="http://adma2011.arnetminer.org/">ADMA</a>, <a href="http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ADBIS2011/">ADBIS</a>, <a href="http://ideas.encs.concordia.ca/ideas11/">IDEAS</a><br> 2010: <a href="http://www.vldb2010.org/">VLDB</a>, <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/cikm10/">CIKM</a>, <a href="http://www.ecmlpkdd2010.org/">ECMLPKDD</a>, <a href="http://www.icde2010.org/">ICDE</a> PhD Workshop, <a href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/conferences/pakdd2010/">PAKDD</a>, <a href="http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/wise2010/">WISE</a>, <a href="http://www.cse.ust.hk/~UMMM10/">UMMM</a>, <a href="http://apsipa2010.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/v3/index.shtml">APSIPA</a>, <a href="http://www.cisis-conference.eu/conf/">CISIS</a>, <a href="http://www.adbis2010.org/">ADBIS</a>, <a href="http://semdata.org/events/2010/vldb">SemData@VLDB</a><br> 2009: <a href="http://i.cs.hku.hk/icde2009/">ICDE</a> (Demonstrations Track), <a href="http://itpe.siit.tu.ac.th/pakdd2009/">PAKDD</a><br> </font> </ol></td></table> </td></tr> </tbody> </table> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/basic.js"> </script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" > <!-- nedstatbasic("ADAFCgvH2q92cJFc6PChM0KTrmiw", 0); // --> </script> <noscript> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nedstatbasic.net/stats?ADAFCgvH2q92cJFc6PChM0KTrmiw"><img src="http://m1.nedstatbasic.net/n?id=ADAFCgvH2q92cJFc6PChM0KTrmiw" border="0" width="0" height="0" alt="Nedstat 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