Database Systems Laboratory -- List of Theses

PhD Theses

Edwin Max Knorr.

   "Outliers and Data Mining: Finding Exceptions in Data".

   University of British Columbia, PhD thesis, 2002. 

   ISBN 0-612-73191-X.



Kai Sang Leung.

   "Efficient and Effective Exploratory Mining of Constrained Frequent 

   Sets". University of British Columbia, PhD thesis, 2002. 

   ISBN 0-612-79234-X.

	

MSc Theses

1994

Xiaomei Tian.

   "Optimizations for Model Computation Based on Partial 

   Instantiation". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1994.



Jinhai Yang.

   "Maximizing Buffer and Disk Utilizations for News On-Demand".

   University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1994.

	    

1995

Edwin Max Knorr.

   "Efficiently Determining Aggregate Proximity Relationships in Spatial 

   Data Mining". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1995.

	    

1996

Dwifiandika S. Faulus.

   "The Design and Implementation of a Query Language/Interface for Image

   Database". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1996.



Andishe S. Sedighian.

   "A Comparative Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Indexing Structures for

   'Eigenimages'". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1996.



Dominic Pok Man Tam.

   "An Analysis of Multi-Level Filtering for High Dimensional Image 

   Data". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1996.



Yiqing Yu.

   "Finding Strong, Common and Discriminating Characteristics of Clusters

   for Thematic Maps". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1996.

	    

1997

Kai Sang Leung.

   "Efficient and Effective Subimage Similarity Matching for Large Image 

   Databases". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1997.



Yaping Shi.

   "Design and Implementation of a Content-Based Video Retrieval 

   System". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1997.



Paul Sik Leung Shum.

   "Optimal Display Sequences for Multi-Chip Queries". University of

   British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1997.

	    

1998

Rita Dilek.

   "Statistical Admission Control for MPEG Streams with Non-Overflow

   Guarantees". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1998.



Chiu Yan (Alex) Pang.

   "Efficient Data Mining of Constrained Association Rules".

   University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1998.



Malcolm W. Steenburgh.

   "Efficient Multimedia Retrieval Using Custom Indexing Methods".

   University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1998.

	    

1999

Ivy Olga Kwok.

   "Efficient and Effective Computation of 2-Dimensional Depth 

   Contours". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1999.



Jason Chun-Sing Madar.

   "Semantic Compression and Pattern Extraction with Fascicles".

   University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1999.



Teresa Beikie Mah.

   "Supporting User Interaction for the Exploratory Mining of Constrained

   Frequent Sets". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 1999.

	    

2001

Yu Yin.

   "Iceberg-cube Computation with PC Cluster". University of 

   British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2001.

	    

2002

Maja Dimitrijevic.

   "Mining for co-occurring motion trajectories: sport analysis".

   University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2002.



Min Phan.

   "GEA: a toolkit for gene expression analysis". University of 

   British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2002.



Xiaodong Zhou.

   "Generalized MDL Approach for Data Summarization". University of

   British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2002.

	    

2003

Ruiyao Yang.

   "Multi-Scale Summaries of Temporal Trajectories". University

   of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2003.



Yan (Maryann) Zhao

   "Quotient Cube and Qc-Tree: Efficient Summarizations for Semantic 

   OLAP". University of British Columbia, MSc thesis, 2003.

	    

2004

Zhimin Chen

   "From Tree Patterns to Generalized Tree Patterns: On Efficient 

   Evaluation of XQuery ". University of British Columbia, 

   MSc thesis, 2004.