@inproceedings{vu2024,
  title        = {Exploiting Distant Supervision to Learn Semantic Descriptions of Tables with Overlapping Data},
  author       = {Vu, Binh and Knoblock, Craig A and Shbita, Basel and Lin, Fandel},
  booktitle    = {The Semantic Web--ISWC 2024: 23th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2024, November 11--15, 2024},
  year         = {2024},
  organization = {Springer International Publishing}
}

@inproceedings{shbita2024automatically,
  title={Automatically Constructing Geospatial Feature Taxonomies from OpenStreetMap Data},
  author={Shbita, Basel and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)},
  pages={208--211},
  year={2024},
  organization={IEEE},
  urlLink={https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSC59802.2024.00039},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita24-icsc.pdf},
  urlSlides={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita24-icsc-slides.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{shbita2024constructing,
  title={Constructing a Knowledge Graph of Historical Mining Data},
  author={Shbita, Basel and Sharma, Namrata and Vu, Binh and Lin, Fandel and Knoblock, Craig A.},
  booktitle={6th International Workshop on Geospatial Linked Data (GeoLD) Co-located with the 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)},
  year={2024},
  organization={CEUR},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita24-geold_ewsc.pdf},
  urlSlides={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita24-geold_ewsc-slides.pdf}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10386632,
  author={Pham, Minh and Knoblock, Craig A. and Chen, Muhao},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)}, 
  title={Detecting Semantic Errors in Tables using Textual Evidence}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={292-303},
  keywords={Semantics;Self-supervised learning;Syntactics;Big Data;Data models;Semantic error detection;contrastive learning;language models;textual evidence},
  doi={10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386632}}

@incollection{chiang2023geoai,
  title={GeoAI for the Digitization of Historical Maps},
  author={Chiang, Yao-Yi and Chen, Muhao and Duan, Weiwei and Kim, Jina and Knoblock, Craig A and Leyk, Stefan and Li, Zekun and Lin, Yijun and Namgung, Min and Shbita, Basel and others},
  booktitle={Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence},
  pages={217--247},
  year={2023},
  publisher={CRC Press}
}

@inproceedings{10.1145/3589132.3625571,
author = {Lin, Fandel and Knoblock, Craig A.},
title = {Indirect Cooperation in Distributed Stationary-Resource Searching with Predefined Destinations},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701689},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3589132.3625571},
doi = {10.1145/3589132.3625571},
abstract = {Private vehicles are a direct means to bring people from one place to their desired destinations. However, no omniscient dispatcher is handling the origin-destination of vehicles and the availability of stationary resources, such as parking spaces or charging stations. Competitive cruising for stationary resources leads to environmental pollution and is a waste of drivers' time. We focus on the problem of distributed stationary-resource searching with predefined destinations under a multi-agent scenario. It is a distributed route planning problem with global optimization objectives. We present a probabilistic approach to achieving indirect resource coordination and latent agent cooperation in a distributed manner. Our approach treats the estimated availability of stationary resources as a reference and guides each agent based on their preferences. We evaluate our approach on four real-world datasets. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 5\% in multi-criteria optimization.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
articleno = {26},
numpages = {12},
keywords = {stationary-resource searching, distributed route planning, multi-criteria optimization},
location = {, Hamburg, Germany, },
series = {SIGSPATIAL '23}
}

Private vehicles are a direct means to bring people from one place to their desired destinations. However, no omniscient dispatcher is handling the origin-destination of vehicles and the availability of stationary resources, such as parking spaces or charging stations. Competitive cruising for stationary resources leads to environmental pollution and is a waste of drivers' time. We focus on the problem of distributed stationary-resource searching with predefined destinations under a multi-agent scenario. It is a distributed route planning problem with global optimization objectives. We present a probabilistic approach to achieving indirect resource coordination and latent agent cooperation in a distributed manner. Our approach treats the estimated availability of stationary resources as a reference and guides each agent based on their preferences. We evaluate our approach on four real-world datasets. Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 5% in multi-criteria optimization.

@inproceedings{10.1145/3589132.3625659,
author = {Lin, Fandel and Knoblock, Craig A. and Shbita, Basel and Vu, Binh and Li, Zekun and Chiang, Yao-Yi},
title = {Exploiting Polygon Metadata to Understand Raster Maps - Accurate Polygonal Feature Extraction},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400701689},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3589132.3625659},
doi = {10.1145/3589132.3625659},
abstract = {Locating undiscovered deposits of critical minerals requires accurate geological data. However, most of the 100,000 historical geological maps of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are in raster format. This hinders critical mineral assessment. We target the problem of extracting geological features represented as polygons from raster maps. We exploit the polygon metadata that provides information on the geological features, such as the map keys indicating how the polygon features are represented, to extract the features. We present a metadata-driven machine-learning approach that encodes the raster map and map key into a series of bitmaps and uses a convolutional model to learn to recognize the polygon features. We evaluated our approach on USGS geological maps; our approach achieves a median F1 score of 0.809 and outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 4.52\%.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
articleno = {109},
numpages = {12},
keywords = {raster map, polygon extraction, image processing},
location = {, Hamburg, Germany, },
series = {SIGSPATIAL '23}
}

Locating undiscovered deposits of critical minerals requires accurate geological data. However, most of the 100,000 historical geological maps of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are in raster format. This hinders critical mineral assessment. We target the problem of extracting geological features represented as polygons from raster maps. We exploit the polygon metadata that provides information on the geological features, such as the map keys indicating how the polygon features are represented, to extract the features. We present a metadata-driven machine-learning approach that encodes the raster map and map key into a series of bitmaps and uses a convolutional model to learn to recognize the polygon features. We evaluated our approach on USGS geological maps; our approach achieves a median F1 score of 0.809 and outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 4.52%.

@article{shbita2023building,
  title={Building Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Graphs from Vectorized Topographic Historical Maps},
  author={Shbita, Basel and Knoblock, Craig A and Duan, Weiwei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Uhl, Johannes H and Leyk, Stefan},
  journal={Semantic Web},
  volume={14},
  number={3},
  pages={527--549},
  year={2023},
  publisher={IOS Press},
  urlLink={https://content.iospress.com/articles/semantic-web/sw222918},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita23-swj.pdf},
  urlSlides={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/shbita23-swj-slides.pdf}
}

@article{UHL2022101794,
    title = {Towards the automated large-scale reconstruction of past road networks from historical maps},
    journal = {Computers, Environment and Urban Systems},
    volume = {94},
    pages = {10-17},
    year = {2022},
    issn = {0198-9715},
    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101794},
    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971522000382},
    author = {Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk and Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
    keywords = {Historical maps, Topographic map processing, Spatial data integration, Road network analysis, Transportation infrastructure, Land development, Urbanization, Historical GIS},
    abstract = {Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of transportation infrastructure such as road networks is crucial. However, spatially explicit, multi-temporal road network data covering large spatial extents are scarce and rarely available prior to the 2000s. Herein, we propose a framework that employs increasingly available scanned and georeferenced historical map series to reconstruct past road networks, by integrating abundant, contemporary road network data and color information extracted from historical maps. Specifically, our method uses contemporary road segments as analytical units and extracts historical roads by inferring their existence in historical map series based on image processing and clustering techniques. We tested our method on over 300,000 road segments representing more than 50,000 km of the road network in the United States, extending across three study areas that cover 42 historical topographic map sheets dated between 1890 and 1950. We evaluated our approach by comparison to other historical datasets and against manually created reference data, achieving F-1 scores of up to 0.95, and showed that the extracted road network statistics are highly plausible over time, i.e., following general growth patterns. We demonstrated that contemporary geospatial data integrated with information extracted from historical map series open up new avenues for the quantitative analysis of long-term urbanization processes and landscape changes far beyond the era of operational remote sensing and digital cartography.}
}

Transportation infrastructure, such as road or railroad networks, represent a fundamental component of our civilization. For sustainable planning and informed decision making, a thorough understanding of the long-term evolution of transportation infrastructure such as road networks is crucial. However, spatially explicit, multi-temporal road network data covering large spatial extents are scarce and rarely available prior to the 2000s. Herein, we propose a framework that employs increasingly available scanned and georeferenced historical map series to reconstruct past road networks, by integrating abundant, contemporary road network data and color information extracted from historical maps. Specifically, our method uses contemporary road segments as analytical units and extracts historical roads by inferring their existence in historical map series based on image processing and clustering techniques. We tested our method on over 300,000 road segments representing more than 50,000 km of the road network in the United States, extending across three study areas that cover 42 historical topographic map sheets dated between 1890 and 1950. We evaluated our approach by comparison to other historical datasets and against manually created reference data, achieving F-1 scores of up to 0.95, and showed that the extracted road network statistics are highly plausible over time, i.e., following general growth patterns. We demonstrated that contemporary geospatial data integrated with information extracted from historical map series open up new avenues for the quantitative analysis of long-term urbanization processes and landscape changes far beyond the era of operational remote sensing and digital cartography.

@incollection{vu2022sand,
  title={SAND: A Tool for Creating Semantic Descriptions of Tabular Sources},
  author={Vu, Binh and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={The Semantic Web: ESWC 2022 Satellite Events: Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, Proceedings},
  pages={63--67},
  year={2022},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{duan2021label,
  title={A Label Correction Algorithm Using Prior Information for Automatic and Accurate Geospatial Object Recognition},
  author={Duan, Weiwei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Leyk, Stefan and Uhl, Johannes H and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data},
  pages={1604--1610},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE},
  URLpaper={https://weiweiduan.github.io/papers/BigD647_camera_ready.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{duan2021guided,
  title={Guided Generative Models using Weak Supervision for Detecting Object Spatial Arrangement in Overhead Images},
  author={Duan, Weiwei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Leyk, Stefan and Uhl, Johannes H and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data},
  pages={725--734},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE},
  URLpaper={https://weiweiduan.github.io/papers/BigD650_camera_ready.pdf}
}

@Article{ica-abs-3-297-2021,
AUTHOR = {Uhl, J. H. and Leyk, S. and Duan, W. and Li, Z. and Shbita, B. and Chiang, Y.-Y. and Knoblock, C. A.},
TITLE = {Towards the large-scale extraction of historical land cover information from historical maps},
JOURNAL = {Abstracts of the ICA},
VOLUME = {3},
YEAR = {2021},
PAGES = {297},
URL = {https://ica-abs.copernicus.org/articles/3/297/2021/},
DOI = {10.5194/ica-abs-3-297-2021}
}

@inproceedings{ijcai2021-488,
  title     = {SPADE: A Semi-supervised Probabilistic Approach for Detecting Errors in Tables},
  author    = {Pham, Minh and Knoblock, Craig A. and Chen, Muhao and Vu, Binh and Pujara, Jay},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-21}},
  editor    = {Zhi-Hua Zhou},
  pages     = {3543--3551},
  year      = {2021},
  month     = {August},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2021/488},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/488},
  URLslides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/pham-ijcai21-slides.pptx"
}

@inproceedings{10.1145/3486635.3491070,
author = {Li, Zekun and Guan, Runyu and Yu, Qianmu and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Knoblock, Craig A.},
title = {Synthetic Map Generation to Provide Unlimited Training Data for Historical Map Text Detection},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450391207},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3486635.3491070},
doi = {10.1145/3486635.3491070},
abstract = {Many historical map sheets are publicly available for studies that require long-term historical geographic data. The cartographic design of these maps includes a combination of map symbols and text labels. Automatically reading text labels from map images could greatly speed up the map interpretation and helps generate rich metadata describing the map content. Many text detection algorithms have been proposed to locate text regions in map images automatically, but most of the algorithms are trained on out-of-domain datasets (e.g., scenic images). Training data determines the quality of machine learning models, and manually annotating text regions in map images is labor-extensive and time-consuming. On the other hand, existing geographic data sources, such as Open-StreetMap (OSM), contain machine-readable map layers, which allow us to separate out the text layer and obtain text label annotations easily. However, the cartographic styles between OSM map tiles and historical maps are significantly different. This paper proposes a method to automatically generate an unlimited amount of annotated historical map images for training text detection models. We use a style transfer model to convert contemporary map images into historical style and place text labels upon them. We show that the state-of-the-art text detection models (e.g., PSENet) can benefit from the synthetic historical maps and achieve significant improvement for historical map text detection.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery},
pages = {17–26},
numpages = {10},
keywords = {historical maps, text detection, datasets, synthetic data generation},
location = {Beijing, China},
series = {GEOAI '21},
URLslides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/li-sigspatial21-slides.pdf"
}

Many historical map sheets are publicly available for studies that require long-term historical geographic data. The cartographic design of these maps includes a combination of map symbols and text labels. Automatically reading text labels from map images could greatly speed up the map interpretation and helps generate rich metadata describing the map content. Many text detection algorithms have been proposed to locate text regions in map images automatically, but most of the algorithms are trained on out-of-domain datasets (e.g., scenic images). Training data determines the quality of machine learning models, and manually annotating text regions in map images is labor-extensive and time-consuming. On the other hand, existing geographic data sources, such as Open-StreetMap (OSM), contain machine-readable map layers, which allow us to separate out the text layer and obtain text label annotations easily. However, the cartographic styles between OSM map tiles and historical maps are significantly different. This paper proposes a method to automatically generate an unlimited amount of annotated historical map images for training text detection models. We use a style transfer model to convert contemporary map images into historical style and place text labels upon them. We show that the state-of-the-art text detection models (e.g., PSENet) can benefit from the synthetic historical maps and achieve significant improvement for historical map text detection.

@InProceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_18,
author="Vu, Binh and Knoblock, Craig A. and Szekely, Pedro and Pham, Minh and Pujara, Jay",
editor="Hotho, Andreas and Blomqvist, Eva and Dietze, Stefan and Fokoue, Achille and Ding, Ying and Barnaghi, Payam and Haller, Armin and Dragoni, Mauro and Alani, Harith",
title="A Graph-Based Approach for Inferring Semantic Descriptions of Wikipedia Tables",
booktitle="The Semantic Web -- ISWC 2021",
year="2021",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
pages="304--320",
abstract="There are millions of high-quality tables available in Wikipedia. These tables cover many domains and contain useful information. To make use of these tables for data discovery or data integration, we need precise descriptions of the concepts and relationships in the data, known as semantic descriptions. However, creating semantic descriptions is a complex process requiring considerable manual effort and can be error prone. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic approach for automatically building semantic descriptions of Wikipedia tables. Our approach leverages hyperlinks in a Wikipedia table and existing knowledge in Wikidata to construct a graph of possible relationships in the table and its context, and then it uses collective inference to distinguish genuine and spurious relationships to form the final semantic description. In contrast to existing methods, our solution can handle tables that require complex semantic descriptions of n-ary relations (e.g., the population of a country in a particular year) or implicit contextual values to describe the data accurately. In our empirical evaluation, our approach outperforms state-of-the-art systems on the SemTab2020 dataset and outperforms those systems by as much as 28{\%} in F1 score on a large set of Wikipedia tables.",
isbn="978-3-030-88361-4",
URLslides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/vu-iswc21-slides.pptx"
}

There are millions of high-quality tables available in Wikipedia. These tables cover many domains and contain useful information. To make use of these tables for data discovery or data integration, we need precise descriptions of the concepts and relationships in the data, known as semantic descriptions. However, creating semantic descriptions is a complex process requiring considerable manual effort and can be error prone. In this paper, we present a novel probabilistic approach for automatically building semantic descriptions of Wikipedia tables. Our approach leverages hyperlinks in a Wikipedia table and existing knowledge in Wikidata to construct a graph of possible relationships in the table and its context, and then it uses collective inference to distinguish genuine and spurious relationships to form the final semantic description. In contrast to existing methods, our solution can handle tables that require complex semantic descriptions of n-ary relations (e.g., the population of a country in a particular year) or implicit contextual values to describe the data accurately. In our empirical evaluation, our approach outperforms state-of-the-art systems on the SemTab2020 dataset and outperforms those systems by as much as 28% in F1 score on a large set of Wikipedia tables.

@article{10.1145/3453172,
author = {Gil, Yolanda and Garijo, Daniel and Khider, Deborah and Knoblock, Craig A. and Ratnakar, Varun and Osorio, Maximiliano and Vargas, Hern\'{a}n and Pham, Minh and Pujara, Jay and Shbita, Basel and Vu, Binh and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Feldman, Dan and Lin, Yijun and Song, Hayley and Kumar, Vipin and Khandelwal, Ankush and Steinbach, Michael and Tayal, Kshitij and Xu, Shaoming and Pierce, Suzanne A. and Pearson, Lissa and Hardesty-Lewis, Daniel and Deelman, Ewa and Silva, Rafael Ferreira Da and Mayani, Rajiv and Kemanian, Armen R. and Shi, Yuning and Leonard, Lorne and Peckham, Scott and Stoica, Maria and Cobourn, Kelly and Zhang, Zeya and Duffy, Christopher and Shu, Lele},
title = {Artificial Intelligence for Modeling Complex Systems: Taming the Complexity of Expert Models to Improve Decision Making},
year = {2021},
issue_date = {July 2021},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {11},
number = {2},
issn = {2160-6455},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3453172},
doi = {10.1145/3453172},
abstract = {Major societal and environmental challenges involve complex systems that have diverse multi-scale interacting processes. Consider, for example, how droughts and water reserves affect crop production and how agriculture and industrial needs affect water quality and availability. Preventive measures, such as delaying planting dates and adopting new agricultural practices in response to changing weather patterns, can reduce the damage caused by natural processes. Understanding how these natural and human processes affect one another allows forecasting the effects of undesirable situations and study interventions to take preventive measures. For many of these processes, there are expert models that incorporate state-of-the-art theories and knowledge to quantify a system's response to a diversity of conditions. A major challenge for efficient modeling is the diversity of modeling approaches across disciplines and the wide variety of data sources available only in formats that require complex conversions. Using expert models for particular problems requires integration of models with third-party data as well as integration of models across disciplines. Modelers face significant heterogeneity that requires resolving semantic, spatiotemporal, and execution mismatches, which are largely done by hand today and may take more than 2 years of effort.We are developing a modeling framework that uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to reduce modeling effort while ensuring utility for decision making. Our work to date makes several innovative contributions: (1) an intelligent user interface that guides analysts to frame their modeling problem and assists them by suggesting relevant choices and automating steps along the way; (2) semantic metadata for models, including their modeling variables and constraints, that ensures model relevance and proper use for a given decision-making problem; and (3) semantic representations of datasets in terms of modeling variables that enable automated data selection and data transformations. This framework is implemented in the MINT (Model INTegration) framework, and currently includes data and models to analyze the interactions between natural and human systems involving climate, water availability, agricultural production, and markets. Our work to date demonstrates the utility of AI techniques to accelerate modeling to support decision-making and uncovers several challenging directions for future work.},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems},
month = {July},
articleno = {11},
numpages = {49},
keywords = {regional-level decision-making, remote sensing data, Intelligent user interfaces, integrated modeling, model metadata}
}

Major societal and environmental challenges involve complex systems that have diverse multi-scale interacting processes. Consider, for example, how droughts and water reserves affect crop production and how agriculture and industrial needs affect water quality and availability. Preventive measures, such as delaying planting dates and adopting new agricultural practices in response to changing weather patterns, can reduce the damage caused by natural processes. Understanding how these natural and human processes affect one another allows forecasting the effects of undesirable situations and study interventions to take preventive measures. For many of these processes, there are expert models that incorporate state-of-the-art theories and knowledge to quantify a system's response to a diversity of conditions. A major challenge for efficient modeling is the diversity of modeling approaches across disciplines and the wide variety of data sources available only in formats that require complex conversions. Using expert models for particular problems requires integration of models with third-party data as well as integration of models across disciplines. Modelers face significant heterogeneity that requires resolving semantic, spatiotemporal, and execution mismatches, which are largely done by hand today and may take more than 2 years of effort.We are developing a modeling framework that uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to reduce modeling effort while ensuring utility for decision making. Our work to date makes several innovative contributions: (1) an intelligent user interface that guides analysts to frame their modeling problem and assists them by suggesting relevant choices and automating steps along the way; (2) semantic metadata for models, including their modeling variables and constraints, that ensures model relevance and proper use for a given decision-making problem; and (3) semantic representations of datasets in terms of modeling variables that enable automated data selection and data transformations. This framework is implemented in the MINT (Model INTegration) framework, and currently includes data and models to analyze the interactions between natural and human systems involving climate, water availability, agricultural production, and markets. Our work to date demonstrates the utility of AI techniques to accelerate modeling to support decision-making and uncovers several challenging directions for future work.

@book{kejriwal2021,
    Author = {Mayank Kejriwal and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely}, 
    Title = {Knowledge Graphs: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications},
    Publisher = {The MIT Press},
    Address = {Cambridge, MA},
    Year = {2021}
}

@Article{rs13183672,
AUTHOR = {Uhl, Johannes H. and Leyk, Stefan and Li, Zekun and Duan, Weiwei and Shbita, Basel and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Knoblock, Craig A.},
TITLE = {Combining Remote-Sensing-Derived Data and Historical Maps for Long-Term Back-Casting of Urban Extents},
JOURNAL = {Remote Sensing},
VOLUME = {13},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {18},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {3672},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/18/3672},
ISSN = {2072-4292},
ABSTRACT = {Spatially explicit, fine-grained datasets describing historical urban extents are rarely available prior to the era of operational remote sensing. However, such data are necessary to better understand long-term urbanization and land development processes and for the assessment of coupled nature–human systems (e.g., the dynamics of the wildland–urban interface). Herein, we propose a framework that jointly uses remote-sensing-derived human settlement data (i.e., the Global Human Settlement Layer, GHSL) and scanned, georeferenced historical maps to automatically generate historical urban extents for the early 20th century. By applying unsupervised color space segmentation to the historical maps, spatially constrained to the urban extents derived from the GHSL, our approach generates historical settlement extents for seamless integration with the multi-temporal GHSL. We apply our method to study areas in countries across four continents, and evaluate our approach against historical building density estimates from the Historical Settlement Data Compilation for the US (HISDAC-US), and against urban area estimates from the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE). Our results achieve Area-under-the-Curve values >0.9 when comparing to HISDAC-US and are largely in agreement with model-based urban areas from the HYDE database, demonstrating that the integration of remote-sensing-derived observations and historical cartographic data sources opens up new, promising avenues for assessing urbanization and long-term land cover change in countries where historical maps are available.},
DOI = {10.3390/rs13183672}
}

Spatially explicit, fine-grained datasets describing historical urban extents are rarely available prior to the era of operational remote sensing. However, such data are necessary to better understand long-term urbanization and land development processes and for the assessment of coupled nature–human systems (e.g., the dynamics of the wildland–urban interface). Herein, we propose a framework that jointly uses remote-sensing-derived human settlement data (i.e., the Global Human Settlement Layer, GHSL) and scanned, georeferenced historical maps to automatically generate historical urban extents for the early 20th century. By applying unsupervised color space segmentation to the historical maps, spatially constrained to the urban extents derived from the GHSL, our approach generates historical settlement extents for seamless integration with the multi-temporal GHSL. We apply our method to study areas in countries across four continents, and evaluate our approach against historical building density estimates from the Historical Settlement Data Compilation for the US (HISDAC-US), and against urban area estimates from the History Database of the Global Environment (HYDE). Our results achieve Area-under-the-Curve values >0.9 when comparing to HISDAC-US and are largely in agreement with model-based urban areas from the HYDE database, demonstrating that the integration of remote-sensing-derived observations and historical cartographic data sources opens up new, promising avenues for assessing urbanization and long-term land cover change in countries where historical maps are available.

@Article{app11114808,
AUTHOR = {Shi, Yuan and Li, Ang and Kumar, T. K. Satish and Knoblock, Craig A.},
TITLE = {Building Survivable Software Systems by Automatically Adapting to Sensor Changes},
JOURNAL = {Applied Sciences},
VOLUME = {11},
YEAR = {2021},
NUMBER = {11},
ARTICLE-NUMBER = {4808},
URL = {https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/11/4808},
ISSN = {2076-3417},
DOI = {10.3390/app11114808}
}

@inproceedings{li2020automatic,
  title={An Automatic Approach for Generating Rich, Linked Geo-Metadata from Historical Map Images},
  author={Li, Zekun and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Tavakkol, Sasan and Shbita, Basel and Uhl, Johannes H and Leyk, Stefan and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining},
  pages={3290--3298},
  year={2020},
  url_Paper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/li20-kdd.pdf},
  URLslides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/li-kdd20-slides.pdf"
}

@inproceedings{shbita2020building,
  title={Building linked spatio-temporal data from vectorized historical maps},
  author={Shbita, Basel and Knoblock, Craig A and Duan, Weiwei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Uhl, Johannes H and Leyk, Stefan},
  booktitle={European Semantic Web Conference},
  pages={409--426},
  year={2020},
  organization={Springer},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita20-eswc.pdf},
  urlLink={https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49461-2_24}
}

@article{doi:10.1080/13658816.2019.1698742,
  author = {Weiwei Duan and Yao-Yi Chiang and Stefan Leyk and Johannes H. Uhl and Craig A. Knoblock},
  title = {Automatic alignment of contemporary vector data and georeferenced historical maps using reinforcement learning},
  journal = {International Journal of Geographical Information Science},
  volume = {34},
  number = {4},
  pages = {824-849},
  year  = {2020},
  publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
  doi = {10.1080/13658816.2019.1698742},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/weiwei19-ijgis.pdf},
  UrlLink = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1698742}
}

@book{chiang2020using,
  title={Using historical maps in scientific studies: Applications, challenges, and best practices},
  author={Chiang, Yao-Yi and Duan, Weiwei and Leyk, Stefan and Uhl, Johannes H and Knoblock, Craig A},
  year  = {2020},
  publisher={Springer},
  urlLink={https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66908-3}
}

@article{pfeffer2019software,
  title={Software Adaptation for an Unmanned Undersea Vehicle},
  author={Pfeffer, Avi and Wu, Curt and Fry, Gerald and Lu, Kenny and Marotta, Steve and Reposa, Mike and Shi, Yuan and Kumar, TK Satish and Knoblock, Craig A and Parker, David and Irfan Muhammad and Chris Novakovic},
  journal={IEEE Software},
  volume={36},
  number={2},
  pages={91--96},
  year={2019},
  publisher={IEEE},
  urlLink={https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8648259},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/pfeffer19-ieee.pdf}
}

@article{zhang2019extracting,
  title={Extracting geographic features from the Internet: A geographic information mining framework},
  author={Zhang, Ying and Ma, Qunfei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Knoblock, Craig and Zhang, Xin and Yang, Puhai and Gao, Minghe and Hu, Xiang},
  journal={Knowledge-Based Systems},
  volume={174},
  pages={57--72},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  urlLink={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2019.02.031},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/zhang19-elseviar.pdf}
}

@article{uhl2019automated,
  title={Automated extraction of human settlement patterns from historical topographic map series using weakly supervised convolutional neural networks},
  author={Uhl, Johannes H and Leyk, Stefan and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Duan, Weiwei and Knoblock, Craig A},
  journal={IEEE Access},
  year={2019},
  publisher={IEEE},
  urlLink={https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8946322},
  urlPaper={http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/uhl19-ieee.pdf}
}

@article{duan2019automatic,
  title={Automatic alignment of contemporary vector data and georeferenced historical maps using reinforcement learning},
  author={Duan, Weiwei and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Leyk, Stefan and Uhl, Johannes H and Knoblock, Craig A},
  journal={International Journal of Geographical Information Science},
  pages={1--26},
  year={2019},
  publisher={Taylor \& Francis}
}

@inproceedings{Garijo:2019:III:3308557.3308711,
 author = {Garijo, Daniel and Khider, Deborah and Ratnakar, Varun and Gil, Yolanda and Deelman, Ewa and da Silva, Rafael Ferreira and Knoblock, Craig and Chiang, Yao-Yi and Pham, Minh and Pujara, Jay and Vu, Binh and Feldman, Dan and Mayani, Rajiv and Cobourn, Kelly and Duffy, Chris and Kemanian, Armen and Shu, Lele and Kumar, Vipin and Khandelwal, Ankush and Tayal, Kshitij and Peckham, Scott and Stoica, Maria and Dabrowski, Anna and Hardesty-Lewis, Daniel and Pierce, Suzanne},
 title = {An Intelligent Interface for Integrating Climate, Hydrology, Agriculture, and Socioeconomic Models},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces: Companion},
 series = {IUI '19},
 year = {2019},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-6673-1},
 location = {Marina del Ray, California},
 pages = {111--112},
 numpages = {2},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308557.3308711},
 urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/daniel19-iui.pdf},
 doi = {10.1145/3308557.3308711},
 acmid = {3308711},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {environmental modeling, intelligent workflow systems, model integration, scientific discovery},
} 

@inproceedings{pham2019learning,
  title={Learning Data Transformations with Minimal User Effort},
  author={Pham, Minh and Knoblock, Craig A and Pujara, Jay},
  booktitle={2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)},
  pages={657--664},
  year={2019},
  organization={IEEE},
  urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/minh19-ieee.pdf},
  urlSlides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/pham-ieee19-slides.pptx"
}

@inproceedings{Vu:2019:LSM:3308558.3313711,
 author = {Vu, Binh and Knoblock, Craig and Pujara, Jay},
 title = {Learning Semantic Models of Data Sources Using Probabilistic Graphical Models},
 booktitle = {The World Wide Web Conference},
 series = {WWW '19},
 year = {2019},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-6674-8},
 location = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
 pages = {1944--1953},
 numpages = {10},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308558.3313711},
 doi = {10.1145/3308558.3313711},
 acmid = {3313711},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {Semantic models, knowledge graph, linked data, ontology, probabilistic graphical models, semantic web},
} 

@inproceedings{shi2019automatic,
  title={Automatic Adaptation to Sensor Replacements},
  author={Shi, Yuan and Kumar, TK Satish and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={The Thirty-Second International Flairs Conference},
  year={2019}
}

@inproceedings{vu2019d,
  title={D-REPR: A Language for Describing and Mapping Diversely-Structured Data Sources to RDF},
  author={Vu, Binh and Pujara, Jay and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture},
  pages={189--196},
  year={2019},
  Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/vu19-kcap.pdf},
  UrlSlides = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/vu2019-slides.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{Shbita2019,
	title = {Parsing, Representing and Transforming Units of Measure},
	author = {Basel Shbita and Arun Rajendran and Jay Pujara and Craig A. Knoblock},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Modeling the World's Systems},
	location = {Pittsburgh, PA},
	year = {2019},
  Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shbita19-mws.pdf}
  }
	

@inproceedings{khider2019mint,
  title={MINT: An intelligent interface for understanding the impacts of climate change on hydrological, agricultural and economic systems},
  author={Khider, Deborah and Gil, Yolanda and Cobourn, Kelly M and Deelman, Ewa and Duffy, Christopher and da Silva, Rafael Ferreira and Kemanian, Armen and Knoblock, Craig and Kumar, Vipin and Peckham, Scott Dale and others},
  booktitle={AGU Fall Meeting 2019},
  year={2019},
  organization={AGU}
}

@inproceedings{uhl2018,
	author = {Johannes Uhl and Stefan Leyk and  Yao-Yi Chiang and Weiwei Duan and Craig A. Knoblock},
	title = {Exploring the Potential of Deep Learning for Settlement Symbol Extraction from Historical Map Documents},
	editor = {Freundschuh S.M. and Sinton D.},
	booktitle = {The 22nd International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography and GIScience},
	address = {Madison, WI},
	year = 2018,
	pages = {22--24},
	url = {https://www.ucgis.org/assets/docs/AutoCarto-UCGIS%202018%20Proceedings.pdf}
}

@article{uhl2018:iet,
  title={Spatialising uncertainty in image segmentation using weakly supervised convolutional neural networks: a case study from historical map processing},
  author = "Johannes H Uhl and Stefan Leyk and Yao-Yi Chiang and Weiwei Duan and Craig A. Knoblock",
  journal={IET Image Processing},
  volume={12},
  number={11},
  pages={2084--2091},
  year={2018},
  publisher={IET},
  Urlpaper = "{http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock18-iet.pdf}",
  UrlLink = "{http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-ipr.2018.5484}",
}

	

@article{uhl2018:isprs,
  title={Map Archive Mining: Visual-Analytical Approaches to Explore Large Historical Map Collections},
  author = "Johannes H Uhl and Stefan Leyk and Yao-Yi Chiang and Weiwei Duan and Craig A. Knoblock",
  journal={ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information},
  volume={7},
  number={4},
  pages={148},
  year={2018},
  Urlpaper = "{http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/uhl18-isprs.pdf}",
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}

@article{gil2018intelligent,
  title={Intelligent systems for geosciences: {A}n essential research agenda},
  author={Yolanda Gil and Suzanne A. Pierce and Hassan Babaie and Arindam Banerjee and Kirk Borne and Gary Bust and Michelle Cheatham and Imme Ebert-Uphoff and Carla Gomes and Mary Hill and John Horel and Leslie Hsu and Jim Kinter and Craig Knoblock and David Krum and Vipin Kumar and Pierre Lermusiaux and Yan Liu and Chris North and Victor Pankratius and Shanan Peters and Beth Plale and Allen Pope and Sai Ravela and Juan Restrepo and Aaron Ridley and Hanan Samet and Shashi Shekhar},
  journal={Communications of the ACM},
  volume={62},
  number={1},
  pages={76--84},
  year={2018},
  publisher={ACM},
  Urlpaper = "{http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gil18-acm.pdf}"
}

@article{kejriwal2018:ieee,
  title={Investigative Knowledge Discovery for Combating Illicit Activities},
  author={Kejriwal, Mayank and Szekely, Pedro and Knoblock, Craig A.},
  journal={IEEE Intelligent Systems},
  Volume={33},
  number={1},
  pages={53--63},
  year={2018},
  publisher={IEEE},
  Urlpaper = "{http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/kejriwal18-ieee.pdf}"
}

@inproceedings{shi2018constraint,
  title={Constraint-Based Learning for Sensor Failure Detection and Adaptation},
  author={Shi, Yuan and Kumar, TK Satish and Knoblock, Craig A},
  booktitle={2018 IEEE 30th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)},
  pages={328--335},
  year={2018},
  organization={IEEE},
  Urlpaper = "{http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shi18-ieee.pdf}"
}  

@inproceedings{gil2018mint,
  title={MINT: Model Integration Through Knowledge-Powered Data and Process Composition},
  author={Yolanda  Gil and Kelly Cobourn and Ewa Deelman and Chris Duffy and Rafael Ferreira da Silva and Armen Kemanian and Craig Knoblock and Vipin Kumar and Scott Peckham and Lucas Carvalho and Yao-Yi Chiang and Daniel Garijo and Deborah Khider and Ankush Khandelwal and Minh Pahm and Jay Pujara and Varun Ratnakar and Maria Stoica and Binh Vu},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software},
  year={2018},
  url={http://dgarijo.com/papers/iemss2018-MINT.pdf}
}
  
  

@inproceedings{kumar2018,
    author = "Kumar, T. K. Satish and Xu, Hong and Tang, Zheng and Kumar, Anoop and Rogers, Craig Milo and Knoblock, Craig A.",
    year = "2018",
    pages = "38--43",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS)",
    title = "Alert Generation in Execution Monitoring Using Resource Envelopes",
    Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tksk18-flairs.pdf},
    URLslides = "http://files.hong.me/papers/kumar2018-slides.pdf"
}

@inproceedings{kumar2018:aaai,
	author = "T. K. Satish Kumar and Zhi Wang and Anoop Kumar and Craig Rogers and Craig A. Knoblock",
	year = 2018,
	title = "Load Scheduling of Simple Temporal Networks Under Dynamic Resource Pricing",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2018)",
	Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tksk18-aaai.pdf},
  UrlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/aaai-load.pdf}
	}

@inproceedings{gupta2018feature,
  title={Feature Selection Methods For Understanding Business Competitor Relationships},
  author={Gupta, Rahul and Pujara, Jay and Knoblock, Craig A and Sharanappa, Shushyam M and Pulavarti, Bharat and Hoberg, Gerard and Phillips, Gordon},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Data Science for Macro-Modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets},
  year={2018},
  organization={ACM},
  Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/rahul18-dsmm.pdf},
  urlSlides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/pujara-sigmod_dsmm18-slides.pptx"
}

@inproceedings{duan2018:autocarto,
	author = "Weiwei Duan and Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Stefan Leyk and Johannes H. Uhl",
	title = "Automatic Generation of Precisely Delineated Geographic Features from Georeferenced Historical Maps Using Deep Learning",
	booktitle = {The 22nd International Research Symposium on Computer-based Cartography and GIScience (Autocarto/UCGIS)},
	Year = {2018},
  Url = {https://www.ucgis.org/assets/docs/AutoCarto-UCGIS%202018%20Proceedings.pdf}
	}

@inproceedings{kumar18-isaim,
	author = "T. K. Satish Kumar and Zhi Wang and Anoop Kumar and Craig Rogers and Craig Knoblock",
	year = 2018,
	title = "On the Linear Programming Duals of Temporal Reasoning Problems",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (ISAIM-2018)",
	 Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/kumar18-isaim.pdf}
	}
	

@inproceedings{lin2018:semsci,
    author    = "Chun Lin and Hang Su and Craig A. Knoblock and Yao-Yi Chiang and Weiwei Duan and Stefan Leyk and Johannes H. Uhl",
    title     = "Building Linked Data from Historical Maps",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the ISWC 2018 Workshop on Enabling Open Semantic Science (SemSci 2018)",
    year      = "2018",
    Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lin18.pdf},
    urlslides = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/lin08-semsci.pdf}
	}

	

@inproceedings{kumar2017:ictai,
    author = "Kumar, T. K. Satish and Xu, Hong and Tang, Zheng and Kumar, Anoop and Rogers, Craig Milo and Knoblock, Craig A.",
    title = "A Distributed Logical Filter for Connected Row Convex Constraints",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI)",
    Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/kumar17-ictai.pdf},
    UrlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/kumar17-ictai.pdf},
    year = 2017
}

@inproceedings{uhl17:icprs,
	author = "Johannes Uhl and Stefan Leyk and  Yao-Yi Chiang and Weiwei Duan and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title = "Extracting Human Settlement Footprint from Historical Topographic Map Series Using Context-Based Machine Learning",
	booktitle = {8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Systems, At Madrid, Spain, Volume: 8},
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock17-cprs.pdf},
	Year = 2017
	}

@inproceedings{knoblock2017:urbangis,
	author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Aparna R. Joshi and Abhishek Megotia and Minh Pham and Chelsea Ursaner",
	title = "Automatic Spatio-temporal Indexing to Integrate and Analyze the Data of an Organization",
	booktitle = {UrbanGIS 2017: International Workshop on Smart Cities and Urban Analytics},
        Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock17-urbangis.pdf},
        urlslides = {https://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/automatic-spatiotemporal-indexing-to-integrate-and-analyze-the-data-of-an-organization/1},
	Year = {2017}
	}

@inproceedings{knoblock2017:geoai,
	author = "Weiwei Duan and Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Vinil Jain and Dan Feldman and Johannes H. Uhl and Stefan Leyk",
	title = "Automatic Alignment of Geographic Features in Contemporary Vector Data and Historical Maps",
	booktitle = {1st ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Geographic Knowledge Discovery (GeoAI 2017)},
        Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock17-geoai.pdf},
	Year = {2017}
	}
	

@inproceedings{knoblock2017:iswc,
	author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Eleanor Fink and Duane Degler, David Newbury and Robert Sanderson and Kate Blanch and Sara Snyder and Nilay Chheda and Nimesh Jain and Ravi Raju Krishna and Nikhila Begur Sreekanth and Yixiang Yao",
	title = "Lessons Learned in Building Linked Data for the American Art Collaborative",
	booktitle = {ISWC 2017 - 16th International Semantic Web Conference},
    Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock17-iswc.pdf},
	Year = 2017,
	urlSlides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock-AAC17-slides.pptx"
	}

@inproceedings{eric2017:dsmm,
        Author = {Eric Heiden and Gerard Hoberg and Craig A. Knoblock and Palak Modi and Gordon Phillips and Gaurangi Raul and Pedro Szekely},
        Booktitle = {Proceedings of DSMM: Data Science for Macro-Modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets},
        Title = {Web Text-based Network Industry Classifications: Preliminary Results},
        Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/eric17-dsmm.pdf},
        Year = {2017}
        }
		

@inproceedings{yuan2017:ijcai,
	author = " Yuan Shi and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title = " Learning with Previously Unseen Features",
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
        Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock17-ijcai.pdf},
        urlLink= {https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/379},
        Keywords= { Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-task Learning, Semi-Supervised Learning},
	Year = 2017,
	}
				

@inproceedings{zhang2016:agile,
        Author = {Ying Zhang and Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Chaopeng Li and Liming Du and Shaowen Liu and Sanjay Singh},
        Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science},
        Title = {An Automatic Approach for Building Place-Name Datasets from the Web},
        Urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/zhang16-agile.pdf},
        Year = {2016},
        urlSides = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/zhang-ijcai16-slides.pptx"
        }
	

@inproceedings{zhu16:iswc,
	author = "Linhong Zhu and Majid Ghasemi-Gol and Pedro Szekely and Aram Galstyan and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title = "Unsupervised Entity Resolution on Multi-type Graphs",
	booktitle = {ISWC 2016 - 15th International Semantic Web Conference},
	Year = 2016,
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/zhu16-iswc.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/program/accepted-papers.html},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/zhu16-iswc-slides.pdf}
	}

@inproceedings{pham16:iswc,
	author = "Minh Pham and Suresh Alse and Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely",
	title = "Semantic labeling: A domain-independent approach",
	booktitle = {ISWC 2016 - 15th International Semantic Web Conference},
	Year = 2016,
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/pham16-iswc.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/program/accepted-papers.html},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/pham16-iswc-slides.pdf}
	}
	

@inproceedings{taheriyan16:iswc,
	author = "Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jos� Luis Ambite",
	title = "Leveraging Linked Data to Discover Semantic Relations within Data Sources",
	booktitle = {ISWC 2016 - 15th International Semantic Web Conference},
	Year = 2016,
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan16-iswc.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://iswc2016.semanticweb.org/pages/program/accepted-papers.html},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/taheriyan16-iswc-slides.pdf}
	}

@inproceedings{gleb16:tpdl,
	author = {Gleb Gawriljuk and Andreas Harth and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
 	title = {A Scalable Approach to Incrementally Building Knowledge Graphs},
 	booktitle = {TPDL 2016 - 20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries},
	year = 	{2016},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gleb16-tpdl.pdf},
	urlLink = {http://www.tpdl2016.org/papers},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/gleb16-tpdl-slides.pdf}
	}
	

@inproceedings{cpaul2016:eswc,
	author = {Christian Paul and Achim Rettinger and Aditya Mogadala and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
	title = {Efficient Graph-based Document Similarity},
	booktitle = {The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains. 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, Greece.},
	note = "Best Research Paper Nominee",
	year = {2016},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/cpaul16-eswc.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://2016.eswc-conferences.org/program/accepted-papers},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/cpaul16-eswc-slides.ppt},
	Keywords = {Semantic document similarity, Knowledge graph based document models, Efficient similarity calculation}
	}

@inproceedings{wu2016:IUI,
	author = {Bo Wu and Craig A. Knoblock},
 	title = {Maximizing Correctness with Minimal User Effort to Learn Data Transformations},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
	year = 	{2016},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/wu16-iui.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2856791},
	urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/BoWu4/maximizing-correctness-with-minimal-user-effort-to-learn-data-transformations},
	urlDemo = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RncAKkBGRXA},
	urlVideo = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mySjvkh5Kjw&start=4090&end=5160},
	Keywords = {Programming by Example, Data Transformation, Program Synthesis}
	}	

@article{taheriyan2016:websem,
	author = {Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite},
 	title = {Learning the semantics of structured data sources},
	Journal = {Journal of Web Semantics},
	year = 	{2016},
	Volume = {37-38},
	Pages = {152-169},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan16-websem.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570826815001444},
	urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/mohsentaheriyan/learning-the-semantics-of-structured-data-sources?qid=c23bcf64-33ff-4770-a07d-8a26c13ba2cf&v=&b=&from_search=1},
	Keywords = {Knowledge graph, Semantic model, Semantic labeling, Semantic web, Ontology, Linked data}
	}
	

@inproceedings{taheriyan2015:cold,
	title = {Leveraging Linked Data to Infer Semantic Relations within Structured Sources},
	author = {Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite and Yinyi Chen},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan15-cold.pdf},
	urlLink = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1426/},
	urlSlides ={http://www.slideshare.net/mohsentaheriyan/leveraging-linked-data-to-infer-semantic-relations-within-structured-sources},
	Keywords = {semantic  model, semantic  relation, linked  data, semantic label, semantic web}
	}

@inproceedings{slepicka2015:cold,
	title = {KR2RML: An Alternative Interpretation of R2RML for Heterogenous Sources},
	author = {Jason Slepicka and Chengye Yin and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/slepicka15-cold.pdf},
	urlLink ={http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1426/},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/slepicka15-cold-slides.pdf},
}
	

@inproceedings{becker2015:semstats,
	author = {Karin Becker and Shiva Jahangiri and Craig A. Knoblock},
 	title = {A Quantitative Survey on the Use of the Cube},
	bookTitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Statistics},
	year = 	{2015},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/becker15-semstats.pdf},
	urlLink= {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Quantitative-Survey-on-the-Use-of-the-Cube-Becker-Jahangiri/8f9e7a46f794f9658de9c065929340dbda41e1ba},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/becker15-semstats-slides.pdf},
	Keywords = {"LOD, Cube, multidimensional data, quantitative analysis"}
	}	
	

@inproceedings{becker2015:ceur,
	author = 	{Karin Becker and Xiaojie Tan and Shiva Jahangiri and Craig A. Knoblock},
 	title = 	{Finding, Assessing, and Integrating Statistical Sources for Data Mining},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets LOD},
	year = 	{2015},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/becker15-ceur.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/html/conf/esws/BeckerTJK15},
	urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/becker15-ceur-slides.pdf},
	urlVideo= {http://videolectures.net/eswc2015_knoblock_data_mining/},
	Keywords = {"LOD, Cube ontology, data integration, knowledge discovery"}
	}	

@inproceedings{szekely2015:iswc,
	author = 	{Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock and Jason Slepicka and Andrew Philpot and Amandeep Singh and Chengye Yin and Dipsy Kapoor and Prem Natarajan and Daniel Marcu and Kevin Knight and David Stallard and Subessware S. Karunamoorthy and Rajagopal Bojanapalli and Steven Minton and Brian Amanatullah and Todd Hughes and Mike Tamayo and David Flynt and Rachel Artiss and Shih-Fu Chang and Tao Chen and Gerald Hiebel and Lidia Ferreira},
 	title = 	{Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human Trafficking},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015)},
	year = 	{2015},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/szekely15-iswc.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://iswc2015.semanticweb.org/knowledge-graphs},
	urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/building-and-using-a-knowledge-graph-to-combat-human-trafficking?qid=e7ade00c-65fa-4184-9751-213ec7e7255b&v=&b=&from_search=1},
	urlVideo= {http://videolectures.net/iswc2015_szekely_human_trafficking/},
	Keywords = {"knowledge graphs"}
	}	

@inproceedings{wu2015:ijcai,
 author = {Bo Wu and Craig A. Knoblock},
 title = {An Iterative Approach to Synthesize Data Transformation Programs},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
 year = {2015},
 urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/wu15-ijcai.pdf},
 urlLink= {http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IJCAI/IJCAI15/paper/viewPaper/11421},
 urlSlides= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/wu15-ijcai-slides.pdf},
 Keywords = {"data transformation"}
} 

@inproceedings{knoblock2015:spie,
	author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
	title = {A Scalable Architecture for Extracting, Aligning, Linking, and Visualizing Multi-Int Data},
	booktitle={SPIE Sensing Technology+ Applications},
	organization={International Society for Optics and Photonics},
	year = {2015},
	Publisher = {SPIE, 9499},
	urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock15-spie.pdf},
	urlLink= {http://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2177119},
	urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/a-scalable-architecture-for-extracting-aligning-linking-and-visualizing-multiint-data?qid=6ef51aeb-7bb3-424f-afdf-c0a18da96a02&v=&b=&from_search=1},
	Keywords = {"big data, information integration, analysis, visualization"}
	}
		

@inproceedings{ramnandan2015:eswc,
  title = {Assigning Semantic Labels to Data Sources},
  author = {S.K. Ramnandan and Amol Mittal and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th ESWC 2015},
  year = {2015},
  urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ramnandan15-eswc.pdf},
  urlLink= {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-18818-8_25},
  urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/assigning-semantic-labels-to-data-sources?qid=02970492-5c10-4c71-9aed-3c549f8b364a&v=&b=&from_search=1},
  urlVideo= {http://videolectures.net/eswc2015_krishnamurthy_data_sources/},
  Keywords={semantic labeling, source modeling}
  }
	

@article{knoblock2015:aimag,
	Title = {Exploiting Semantics for Big Data Integration},
	Author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
	Journal = {AI Magazine},
	Year = {2015},
	urlPaper= {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock15-aimagazine.pdf},
	urlLink=  {http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2565},
	urlSlides= {http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/semantics-for-big-data-integration-and-analysis},
	Keywords={big data, big data integration}  
	  } 

@article{chiang15:geoinformatica,
  Author = "Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Recognizing Text in Raster Maps",
  Journal = "Geoinformatica",
  volume =  "19",
  number =  "1",
  Year =    "2015",
  Pages =   "1--27",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang14-geoinformatica.pdf",
  urlLink= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10707-014-0203-9",
  Keywords = {"Map Extraction","Geospatial Integration"}
  }
  
  
 

@inproceedings{slepicka2014:iswc-demo,
	author = {Jason Slepicka and Chengye Yin and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock},
	title = {A Demonstration of Linked Data Source Discovery and Integration },
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ISWC 2014 Posters \& Demonstrations Track},
	editors = {Matthew Horridge and Marco Rospocher and Jacco van Ossenbruggen},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = "CEUR, 1272",	
	urlPaper = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1272/paper_129.pdf},
	urlLink = "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1272/"
	}

@InCollection{parundekar2014ldm,
	Author = "Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite",
	Title = "Aligning ontologies of linked data",
	Editors = " Andreas Harth, Katja Hose, and Ralf Schenkel",
	Booktitle = "Linked Data Management: Principles and Techniques",
	Publisher = "CRC Press", 
	Year = "2014",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar14-ldmgmt.pdf"
	}

@inproceedings{wu2014iteratively,
	Author = {Wu, Bo and Knoblock, Craig A.},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Data Integration and Application at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining},
	Organization = {IEEE},
	Pages = {1105--1112},
	Title = {Iteratively Learning Conditional Statements in Transforming Data by Example},
	Year = {2014},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/wu14-icdm.pdf",
	urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/wu14-icdm-slides.pdf"
	}

@inproceedings{dimou2014mapping,
	Author = {Dimou, Anastasia and Sande, Miel Vander and Slepicka, Jason and Szekely, Pedro and Mannens, Erik and Knoblock, Craig A. and Walle, Rik Van de},
	Booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)},
	Organization = {IEEE},
	Pages = {151--158},
	Title = {Mapping hierarchical sources into RDF using the RML mapping language},
	Year = {2014},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/dimou14-icsc.pdf",
	urlLink="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=6882016"
	}

@incollection{fink2014linked,
	Author = {Fink, Eleanor E. and Szekely, Pedro and Knoblock, Craig A.},
	Booktitle = {Digital Heritage: Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection, LNCS 8740},
	Editor = {Marinos Ioannides and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann and Eleanor Fink and Roko Zarnic and Alex-Yianing Yen and Ewald Quak},
	Pages = {228--237},
	Publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
	Title = {How Linked Open Data Can Help in Locating Stolen or Looted Cultural Property},
	Year = {2014},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/fink14-euromed.pdf"
	}

@inproceedings{jaiswal14-giscience,
  author = {Ayush Jaiswal and Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Liang Lan},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Geographic Information Science},
  title = {Location Prediction With Sparse {GPS} Data},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/jaiswal14-giscience.pdf",
  urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/jaiswal14-giscience-poster.pdf",
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{chiang14sigspatial-strabo,
  author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Sima Moghaddam and Sanjauli Gupta and Renuka Fernandes and Craig A. Knoblock},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang14-sigspatial-arcstrabo.pdf},
  title = {From Map Images to Geographic Names},
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{chiang14sigspatial-karma,
  author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Bo Wu and Akshay Anand and Ketan Akade and Craig A. Knoblock},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
  title = {A System for Efficient Cleaning and Transformation of Geospatial Data Attributes},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang14-sigspatial-arckarma.pdf},
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{sathe14sigspatial,
  author = {Mihir Sathe and Craig A. Knoblock and Yao-Yi Chiang and Aaron Harris},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
  title = {A Parallel Query Engine for Interactive Spatiotemporal Analysis},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/sathe14-sigspatial.pdf},
  urlslides = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/sathe14-sigspatial-poster.pdf},
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{narayanan14,
  author = {Shrikanth Narayanan and Ayush Jaiswal and Yao-Yi Chiang and Yanhui Geng and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the First Workshop on Data Integration and Application at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining},
  title = {Integration and Automation of Data Preparation and Data Mining},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/narayanan14-icdm.pdf},
  urlslides = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/narayanan14-icdm-slides.pdf},
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{taheriyan14:icsc,
  author = {Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite},
  title = {{A Scalable Approach to Learn Semantic Models of Structured Sources}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2014)},
  year = {2014},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan14-icsc.pdf},
  urlslides = {http://www.slideshare.net/mohsentaheriyan/a-scalable-approach-to-learn-semantic-models-of-structured-sources},
}

@article{szekely14:ijhac,
  title = {Publishing the Data of the Smithsonian American Art Museum to the Linked Data Cloud},
  author = {Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock and Fengyu Yang and Xuming Zhu and Eleanor Fink and Rachel Allen and Georgina Goodlander},
  journal = {International Journal of Humanities and Art Computing (IJHAC)},
  year = {2014},
  mont = {March},
  volume=8,
  pages={152-166},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/szekely14-ijhac.pdf",
  urlLink="http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ijhac.2014.0104"
}

@inproceedings{wu14:iui,
    author = "Bo Wu and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock",
    title = "Minimizing User Effort in Transforming Data by Example",
    booktitle = "{Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interface}",
    year = "2014",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/wu14-iui.pdf",
    urlPoster= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/wu14-iui-poster.pdf",
    urlVideo="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmu8gZJo7jo",
    Keywords = {"Data Cleaning"}}
    

@article{chiang14:acmsurveys,
  Author = "Yao-Yi Chiang and Stefan Leyk and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "A Survey of Digital Map Processing Techniques",
  Journal = "ACM Computing Surveys",
  volume =  "47",
  number =  "1",
  Year =    "2014",
  Pages =   "1--44",
  urlLink= "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557423",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang14-acm.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Map Extraction","Geospatial Integration"},
  }
  

@inproceedings{knoblock13:sbd,
	author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely},
	title = {Semantics for Big Data Integration and Analysis },
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Semantics for Big Data},
	year = {2013},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock13-sbd.pdf",
	urlSlides="http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/semantics-for-big-data-integration-and-analysis"
}

@inproceedings{knoblock13:iswc-demo,
	author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Shubham Gupta and Animesh Manglik and Ruben Verborgh and Fengyu Yang and Rik Van de Walle},
	title = {Publishing Data from the Smithsonian American Art Museum as Linked Open Data },
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ISWC 2013 Posters \& Demonstrations Track},
	editors = {Eva Blomqvist and Tudor Groza},
	pages = {129-132},
	year = {2013},
	urlPaper = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1035/iswc2013_demo_33.pdf},
	urlPoster = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock13-iswc-demo-poster.pdf},
	urlVideo = {http://youtu.be/1Vaytr09H1w},
	urlLink = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1035/}
}

@inproceedings{harth13:cold,
  	author = {Andreas Harth and Craig Knoblock and Steffen Stadtm�ller and Rudi Studer and Pedro Szekely},
  	title = {On-the-fly Integration of Static and Dynamic Sources},
  	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data (COLD2013)},
	 year = {2013},
	urlPaper = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1034/HarthEtAl_COLD2013.pdf},
	urlLink = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1034/}
}

@inproceedings{zhang13:ijcai,
  	author = {Ying Zhang and Yao-Yi Chiang and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock},
  	title = {A Semantic Approach to Retrieving, Linking, and Integrating Heterogeneous Geospatial Data},
  	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2013 IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Cities},
 	year = {2013},
  	urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/zhang13-semantic-cities.pdf},
	urlslides = {http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28009324}
}

@inproceedings{parundekar13:ijcai,
	author = 	"Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite",
 	title = 	"Discovering Alignments in Ontologies of Linked Data",
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
	year = 	"2013",
       	Keywords = {"Linked Data"},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar13-ijcai.pdf",
	urlPoster= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar13-ijcai-poster.pdf",
	urlSlides= "http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/28005519",
	}	

@inproceedings{taheriyan13:iswc,
	author = 	"Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite",
 	title = 	"A Graph-based Approach to Learn Semantic Descriptions of Data Sources",
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013)},
	year = 	"2013",
       	Keywords = {"Source modeling"},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan13-iswc.pdf",
	urlSlides={http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/27603846},
	urlLink={http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007\%2F978-3-642-41335-3},
	urlBook={http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-41334-6}
	}	

@inproceedings{szekely13:eswc,
  title = {Connecting the Smithsonian American Art Museum to the Linked Data Cloud},
  author = {Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock and Fengyu Yang and Xuming Zhu and Eleanor Fink and Rachel Allen and Georgina Goodlander},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference},
  address = {Montpellier},
  month = {May},
  year = {2013},
  urlSlides = {http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/22842834"},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/szekely13-eswc.pdf",
  note = "Awarded Best In-Use Paper at ESWC 2013"
}

@article {chiang13:ijdar,
   author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
   title = {A General Approach for Extracting Road Vector Data from Raster Maps},
   journal = {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
   publisher = {Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg},
   year = {2013},
   volume=16,
   number=1,
   pages="55-81",
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang11-ijdar.pdf",
   urlLink = "http://www.springerlink.com/content/p050045151145470/",
   keyword = {"Map Extraction"}
   }

@inproceedings{gupta2012karma,
  title={Karma: A system for mapping structured sources into the Semantic Web},
  author={Gupta, Shubham and Szekely, Pedro and Knoblock, Craig A and Goel, Aman and Taheriyan, Mohsen and Muslea, Maria},
  booktitle={Extended Semantic Web Conference},
  pages={430--434},
  year={2012},
  organization={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{goel12:icai,
  author = {Aman Goel and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman},
  title = {{Exploiting Structure within Data for Accurate Labeling Using Conditional Random Fields}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)},
  year = {2012},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/goel12-icai.pdf",
  urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/goel12-icai-slides.pdf"
}

@inproceedings{taheriyan12:iswc,
	author = 	"Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite",
 	title = 	"Rapidly Integrating Services into the Linked Data Cloud",
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)},
	year = 	"2012",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/taheriyan12-iswc-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan12-iswc.pdf",
	urlPoster= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/taheriyan12-gss-poster.pdf",
	urlVideo= "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1G5kh5jYg&feature=player_embedded",
       	Keywords = {"Source modeling"}
	}	

@inproceedings{parundekar12:iswc,
        title = "Discovering Concept Coverings in Ontologies of Linked Data Sources",
        author = "Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite",
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)},
        year = 2012,
        urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar12-iswc-slides.pdf",
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar12-iswc.pdf",
        urlVideo="http://videolectures.net/semantic_parundekar_aligning_ontologies/",
        note = "Awarded Best Research Paper at ISWC 2012",
        Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
	}

@article{knoblock12-eij,
   Author ="Craig A. Knoblock", 
   Title = "Reduce Data Overload", 
   journal = "Earth Imaging Journal", 
   pages  = "28--30", 
   month ="March/April",
   year = "2012",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock12-eij.pdf",
   Keywords = {"document geolocation"}}

@inproceedings{parundekar12:knowlod,
        title = "Finding Concept Coverings in Aligning Ontologies of Linked Data",
        author = "Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jose Luis Ambite",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the ESWC 2012 Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data", 
        year = 2012,
         Keywords = {"Source Modeling"},
         	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar12-knowlod.pdf",
	urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar12-knowlod-slides.pdf"
	}

@inproceedings{wu12:iiweb,
	author = 	"Bo Wu and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock",
 	title = 	"Learning Data Transformation Rules through Examples: Preliminary Results",
	booktitle ="Ninth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2012)",
	year = 	"2012",
       	Keywords = {"Data cleaning"},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/bowu12-iiweb.pdf",
	urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/bowu12-iiweb-slides.pdf"
	}	

@inproceedings{taheriyan12:lapis,
	author = 	"Mohsen Taheriyan and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite",
 	title = 	"Semi-Automatically Modeling Web APIs to Create Linked APIs",
	booktitle ="Proceedings of the ESWC 2012 Workshop on Linked APIs",
	year = 	"2012",
       	Keywords = {"Source modeling"},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/taheriyan12-lapis.pdf",
	urlSlides= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/taheriyan12-lapis-slides.pdf"
	}	

@inproceedings{chiang2012:giscience,
	author = 	"Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
 	title = 	"Generating Named Road Vector Data from Raster Maps",
	booktitle ="Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Geographic Information Science",
	year = 	"2012",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang12-giscience.pdf",
	 urlLink = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/k5n2638281m12h2p/},
  	urlPresentation = {http://prezi.com/pu5smfc7iexa/giscience-2012-generating-named-road-vector-data-from-raster-maps/},
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}	

@incollection{ chiang12:grec,
  publisher = {Springer},
  author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Stefan Leyk and Craig A. Knoblock},
  booktitle = {Graphics Recognition: Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution, Selected Papers of the 8th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  title = {Efficient and Robust Graphics Recognition from Historical Maps},
  urlPaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang12-grec.pdf},
  year = {2012}
}

@inproceedings{knoblock12:eswc,
        title = "Semi-Automatically Mapping Structured Sources into the Semantic Web",
        author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite and and Aman Goel and Shubham Gupta and Kristina Lerman and Maria Muslea and Mohsen Taheriyan and Parag Mallick",
        booktitle = "Semantic Web: Research and Applications", 
        publisher = "Springer",
        pages = "375-390",
        year = 2012,
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock12-eswc-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock12-eswc.pdf",
	urlVideo = {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUIqTI56oeQ&feature=share&list=PLdD4tO6i0DwMXmBhOwlt7zEZKoOWrWpOA]},
       	Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
	}

@inproceedings{szekely11:sso,
        title = "Exploiting Semantics of Web Services for Geospatial Data Fusion",
        author = "Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock and Shubham Gupta and Mohsen Taheriyan and Bo Wu",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies (SSO 2011)", 
        address = "Chicago, IL",
        year = 2011,
		urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/szekely11-sso-slides.pdf",
		urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/szekely11-sso.pdf",
		urlSlides= "http://www.slideshare.net/CraigKnoblock/semantics-for-big-data-integration-and-analysis",
       	Keywords = {"Geospatial Fusion"}
	        }
        

@inproceedings{parundekar11:tc,
        title = "Aligning Unions of Concepts in Ontologies of Geospatial Linked Data",
        author = "Rahul Parundekar and Jose Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the Terra Cognita 2011 Workshop in Conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference", 
        address = "Bonn, Germany",
        year = 2011,
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar11-tc-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar11-tc.pdf",
         urlLink =  "http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-/",
         Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
	}

@inproceedings{knoblock11:lisc,
        title = "Interactively Mapping Data Sources into the Semantic Web",
        author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Jose Luis Ambite and Shubham Gupta and Aman Goel and Maria Muslea and Kristina Lerman and Parag Mallick",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Linked Science 2011 in Conjunction with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference", 
        address = "Bonn, Germany",
        year = 2011,

	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock11-lisc-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock11-lisc.pdf",
         urlLink =  "http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-783/",
       	Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
	}

@inproceedings{minton11:iaai,
	title = "Monitoring Entities in an Uncertain World: Entity Resolution and Referential Integrity",
	author = "Steven N. Minton and Sofus A. Macskassy and Peter LaMonica and KaneSee and Craig A. Knoblock and Greg Barish and Matthew Michelson and Raymond Liuzzi",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the 25th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11)", 
	year = {2011},
	address = {San Francisco, CA},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/minton11-iaai.pdf",
	urlPresentation = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/minton11-iaai-slides.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Entity Resolution"}
         }

@InProceedings{gil11:iswc,
	author = {Yolanda Gil and Pedro Szekely and Sandra Villamizar and Thomas C. Harmon and Varun Ratnakar and Shubham Gupta and Maria Muslea and Fabio Silva and Craig A. Knoblock},
	title = {Mind Your Metadata: Exploiting Semantics for Configuration, Adaptation, and Provenance in
Scientific Workflows},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011)},
	year = 	{2011},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gil11-iswc.pdf",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/gil11-iswc-slides.pdf",
	keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
	}

@inproceedings{chiang2011:grec,
   author = "Yao-Yi Chiang and Stefan Leyk and Craig A. Knoblock", 
   title = "Harvesting Cartographic Information from Historical Maps: Efficient User Intervention Strategy for Robust Graphics Recognition", 
   booktitle = "In Proceedings of the Ninth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics RECognition (GREC'11)", 
   urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang11-grec-slides.pdf",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang11-grec.pdf",
   keywords = {"Map Extraction"},
   year = "2011"
   }

@inproceedings{chiang2011:icdar,
	author = 	"Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
 	title = 	"Recognition of Multi-Oriented, Multi-Sized, and Curved Text",
	booktitle ="Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition",
	year = 	"2011",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang11-icdar-poster.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang11-icdar.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}	

@inproceedings{goel11:aaai,
	title = "Using Conditional Random Fields to Exploit Token Structure and Labels for Accurate Semantic Annotation",
	author = "Aman Goel and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the 25th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11)", 
	year = {2011},
	address = {San Francisco, CA},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/goel11-aaai.pdf",
	urlPresentation = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/goel11-aaai-poster.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Source Modeling"},
	 }
	

@article {tuchinda11:acmtw,
    author = "Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely",
    title = "Building Mashups by Demonstration",
    journal = "{ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)}",
    year = "2011",
    volume = 5,
    number = 3,
    month = "July",
    urlLink = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1993053.1993058",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tuchinda11-acmtw.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Mashup Construction"}}
        

@article{goel11:ijdar,
   author = {Aman Goel and Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock},
   title = {Harvesting maps on the web},
   journal = {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
   publisher = {Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg},
   issn = {1433-2833},
   pages = {349-372},
   volume = {14},
   issue = {4},
   year = {2011},
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/goel10-ijdar.pdf",
   urlLink = "http://www.springerlink.com/content/v1m8882u8u737n48/",
   keyword = {"Map Discovery"}
}
   

@InProceedings{gupta10:giscience,
	Author = "Shubham Gupta and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title = "A Framework for Integrating and Reasoning about Geospatial Data",
	booktitle = "Extended Abstracts of the Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience)",
	year = 2010,
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gupta10-GIScience.pdf",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/gupta10-GIScience-slides.pdf",
	keywords = {"Geospatial Fusion"}}

@InProceedings{parundekar2010:lstd,
	author = {Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite},
	title = {Aligning Geospatial Ontologies on the Linked Data Web},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Spatiotemporal Data},
	year = 	{2010},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar10-lstd.pdf",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar10-lstd-slides.pdf",
	keywords = {"Linked Data"}}	

@InProceedings{parundekar2010:iswc,
	author = {Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite},
	title = {Linking and Building Ontologies of Linked Data},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2010)},
	year = 	{2010},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar10-iswc.pdf",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar10-iswc-slides.pdf",
	urlLink = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/data/LinkedData",
	keywords = {"Linked Data"}
	}

@inproceedings{chiang10:icpr,
	Author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition},
	Title = {An Approach for Recognizing Text Labels in Raster Maps},
	Year = {2010},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang10-icpr.pdf",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang10-icpr-poster.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}}

@inproceedings{parundekar10:sss,
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence},
 	title = {Linking the Deep Web to the Linked Data Web},
	year = {2010},
	author = {Rahul Parundekar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite},
	address = {Stanford, CA},
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/parundekar10-sss-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/parundekar10-sss.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Linked Data"}
}

@inproceedings{gupta10:iscram,
	Author = "Shubham Gupta and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title = "Building Geospatial Mashups to Visualize Information for Crisis Management",
	Booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management",
	Year = 2010,
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/gupta10-iscram-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gupta10-iscram.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Mashup Construction"}}

@article{michelson10:jair,
	Author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title = "Constructing Reference Sets from Unstructured, Ungrammatical Text",
	Journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
	Year = 2010,
	Volume = 38,
	pages = "189--221",
	urlPaper= "http://www.jair.org/media/2937/live-2937-5005-jair.pdf",
          urlLink =  "http://dx.doi.org/10.1613/jair.2937",
	Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}}

@inproceedings{knoblock10:drr,
        Author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Ching-Chien Chen and Yao-Yi Chiang and Aman Goel and Matthew Michelson and Cyrus Shahabi",
        Booktitle = "Proceedings of the Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval XVII of SPIE-IS\&T Electronic Imaging",
        Title =  "A General Approach to Discovering, Registering, and Extracting Features from Raster Maps",
        Volume = 7534,
        Year = 2010,
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock10-drr-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock10-drr.pdf",
         urlLink =  "http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.838967",
         Keywords = {"Map Extraction","Geospatial Integration"},
	}

@incollection{chiang09:lncs,
	Author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
	booktitle = {Graphics Recognition: Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution, Selected Papers of the 8th International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (GREC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6020},
	editors = {Jean-Marc Ogier and Wenyin Liu and Josep Llad�s},
	Publisher = "Springer",
	Address = "New York",
	Pages = {93-105},
	Title = {Extracting Road Vector Data from Raster Maps},
	Year = {2009},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang09-lncs.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}

@inproceedings{chiang09:acmgis,
	Author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
	Booktitle = {GIS '09: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems},
	Title = {Classification of Raster Maps for Automatic Feature Extraction},
	Year = {2009},
	isbn = {978-1-60558-649-6}, 
	pages = {138--147}, 
	location = {Seattle, Washington}, 
	doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1653771.1653793}, 
	publisher = {ACM}, 
	address = {New York, NY, USA},
         urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang09-acmgis-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang09-acmgis.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}

@inproceedings{michelson2009:ijcai,	
  author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Exploiting Background Knowledge to Build Reference Sets for Information Extraction",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2009)",
  address = "Pasadena, CA",
  year = "2009",
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michelson09-ijcai-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson09-ijcai.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}
}

@InProceedings{ambite2009:iswc,
	author = 	 {Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Sirish Darbha and Aman Goel and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Rahul Parundekar and Thomas Russ},
	title = 	 {Automatically Constructing Semantic Web Services from Online Sources},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009)},
	year = {2009},
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite09-iswc.pdf",
	urlPresentation = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/ambite09-iswc-slides.pdf",
	keywords = {"Source Modeling"}
}

@inproceedings{chiang2009:ICDAR,
	author = 	"Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
 	title = 	"A method for automatically extracting road layers from raster maps",
	year = 	"2009",
	booktitle ="Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition",
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang09-icdar-poster.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang09-icdar.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}

	}
	
	

@inproceedings{chiang2009:grec,
	author = 	"Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
 	title = 	"An Approach to Automatic Road Vectorization of Raster Maps",
	booktitle ="Proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics RECognition (GREC'09)",
	year = 	"2009",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang09-grec.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}
	
		

@INPROCEEDINGS{michelson09:icai,
 author = 	{Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock},
 	title =  {Mining the Heterogeneous Transformations Between Data Sources to Aid Record Linkage},
 	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI)},
 	year = {2009},
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michelson09-icai-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson09-icai.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}
}

@InProceedings{ives2009:cidr,
  author = 	 {Zachary G. Ives and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton and Marie Jacob and Partha Pratim Talukdar and Rattapoom Tuchinda and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Maria Muslea and B. Cenk Gazen},
  title = 	 {Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy \& Paste},
  booktitle = {Fourth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) },
  year = 	 {2009},
  address = 	 {Pacific Grove, CA},
  month = 	 {January},
  urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ives09-cidr.pdf",
  urlPresentation = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/ives09-cidr-slides.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Interactive Data Integration"}
}

@InProceedings{ambite2009:ijcai,
  author = 	 {Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Bora Cenk Gazen and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Thomas Russ},
  title = 	 {Discovering and Learning Semantic Models of Online Sources for Information Integration},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web},
  year = 	 {2009},
  address = 	 {Pasadena, CA},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite09-iiweb.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
}

@article{goldberg09:ijgis,
	Author = "Daniel W. Goldberg and John P. Wilson and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title = "Extracting geographic Features from the internet to automatically build detailed regional gazetteers",
	Journal = "International Journal of Geographic Information Science",
	Year = 2009,
	Volume = 23, 
	Number = 1,
	Pages = "92-128",
	urlLink= "http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1365%2d8816&volume=23&issue=1&spage=93",
      	Keywords = {"Building Gazetteers"}}

@InCollection{lerman09:eds,
  author = 	 "Kristina Lerman and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Wrapper Maintenance",
  publisher =	 "Springer",
  address =      "Leipzig, Germany",
  year =	 "2009",
  booktitle =    "Encyclopedia of Database Systems",
  editor =	 "Ling Liu and M. Tamer Ozsu",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman09-eds.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
} 

@InProceedings{chiang08:acmgis,
  	Author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock},
 	 Title = {Automatic Extraction of Road Intersection Position, Connectivity, and Orientation from Raster Maps},
 	 BookTitle = {16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008)},
 	 Year = {2008},
 	 urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang08-acmgis-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang08-acmgis.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}

@inproceedings{ambite08:icdm,
	Author = "Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Anon Plangprasopchok and Thomas Russ and B. Cenk Gazen and Steven Minton and Mark J. Carman",
	Title = "Exploiting Data Semantics to Discover, Extract, and Model Web Sources",
	Booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Semantic Aspects in Data Mining (SADM'08)",
	Year = 2008,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite08-icdm.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}}

@incollection{goldberg08:udgd,
	Author = "Daniel W. Goldberg and John P. Wilson and Craig A. Knoblock",
        Title = "Exploring the Use of Gazetteers and Geocoders for the Analysis and Interpretation of a Dynamically Changing World",
        Editors = "K.S. Hornsby and M. Yuan",
        Booktitle = "Understanding of Dynamics of Geographic Domains",
        Publisher = "CRC Press",
        Address = "Boca Raton, FL",
        Chapter = 4, 
        Pages = "51-76",
        Year = 2008,
      	Keywords = {"Geocoding"}}

@article{blythe08:jucs,
	Author = "Jim Blythe and Dipsy Kapoor and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton",
	Title = "Information Integration for the Masses",
	Journal =  "Journal of Universal Computer Science", 
	Volume = 14,
	Number = 11,
	pages =      "1811--1837",
  	note = 	 {Special Issue on Wrapping Web Data Islands},
	Year = 2008,
	urlLink= "http://www.jucs.org/jucs_14_11/information_integration_for_the",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/blythe08-jucs.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}}	

@article{goldberg08:ijhg,
	Author = "Daniel W. Goldberg and John P. Wilson and Craig A. Knoblock and Beate Ritz and Myles G Cockburn",
	Title = "An effective and efficient approach for manually improving geocoded data",
	Journal = "International Journal of Health Geographics",
	year = 2008, 
	volume = 7,
	number = 60, 
	urlLink= "http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/60",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/goldberg08-ijhg.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Geocoding"}}
	

@article{knoblock08:aimag,
   Author ="Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Mark J. Carman and  Matthew Michelson and Pedro Szekely and Rattapoom Tuchinda", 
   Title = "Beyond the Elves: Making Intelligent Agents Intelligent", 
   journal = "AI Magazine", 
   volume = "29",
   number = "2", 
   pages  = "33--42", 
   year = "2008",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock08-aimag.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Information Agents"}}

@article{chen08:geoinformatica,
  Author = "Ching-Chien Chen and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
  title = "Automatically and Accurately Conflating Raster Maps with Orthoimagery",
  Journal = "Geoinformatica",
  volume =  "12",
  number =  "3",
  Year =    "2008",
  Pages =   "377--410",
  urlLink= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10707-007-0033-0",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen08-geoinformatica.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Map Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{michelson08:gis,
 author = {Matthew Michelson and Aman Goel and Craig A. Knoblock},
 title = {Identifying Maps on the World Wide Web},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on GIScience, LNCS 5266},
 publisher = "Springer",
 address = "New York",
 pages = "249--260",
 year = {2008},
 urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michelson08-gis-slides.pdf",
 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson08-gis.pdf",
 Keywords = {"Map Discovery"}
} 
 

@article{chiang08:geoinformatica,
  Author = "Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi and Ching-Chien Chen",
  title = "Automatic and Accurate Extraction of Road Intersections from Raster Maps",
  Journal = "Geoinformatica",
  volume =  "13",
  number =  "2",
  Year =    "2008",
  Pages =   "121-157",
  urlLink= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10707-008-0046-3",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang08-geoinformatica.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}}

@InCollection{chen08:eofgis,
  author = 	 "Ching-Chien Chen and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Conflation of Geospatial Data",
  publisher =	 "Springer",
  address =      "Leipzig, Germany",
  year =	 "2008",
  booktitle =    "Encyclopedia of Geopatial Information Science",
  editor =	 "Shashi Shekhar and Hui Xiong",
  pages =        "133-140",
  urlPaper= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_182",
  Keywords = {"Vector Conflation","Map Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}
} 
  

@article{phoebus08:jair,
 author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock",
 title = "Creating Relational Data from Unstructured and Ungrammatical Data Sources",

 journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)",
 year = "2008",
 volume = "31",
 pages = "543--590",
 urlLink= "http://jair.org/papers/paper2409.html",
 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson08-jair.pdf",
 Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}
}

@article{barish08:aij,
  author =  "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =   "Speculative Plan Execution for Information Gathering",
  journal = "Artificial Intelligence",
  volume =  "172",
  Number =  "4-5",
  Year =    "2008",
  Pages =   "413--453",
  urlLink= "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.08.002",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish08-aij.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution"}}
  

@inproceedings{tuchinda08:iui,
    author = "Rattapoom Tuchinda and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock",
    title = "Building Mashups by Example",
    booktitle = "{Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interface}",
    month = "January",
    year = "2008",
    urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/tuchinda08-iui-slides.pdf",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tuchinda08-iui.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Mashup Construction"}}

@inproceedings{ knoblock2007:eb,
  title = {EntityBases: Compiling, Organizing and Querying Massive Entity Repositories},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)},
  author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Jos� Luis Ambite and Kavita Ganesan and Maria Muslea and Steven Minton and Greg Barish and Evan Gamble and Claude Nanjo and Kane See and Cyrus Shahabi and and Ching-Chien Chen},
  month = {June},
  year = {2007},
  address = {Las Vegas, Nevada, USA},
  urlpaper = {http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock07-icai.pdf},
  Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}
}

@incollection{knoblock07:gdi,
   Author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
   Title= "Geospatial Data Integration",
   Booktitle = "The Handbook of Geographic Information Science",
   Editor = "John Wilson and A. Stewart Fotheringham",
   Publisher ="Wiley-Blackwell",
   Year = 2007,
   Note = "ISBN: 978-1-4051-0796-9"}

@PhDThesis{thakkar07:thesis,
   Author = "Snehal Thakkar",
   Title = "A Data Integration Approach to Dynamically Fusing Geospatial Sources",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2007"}
   
   

@inproceedings{michalowski:07acmgis,
  AUTHOR = {Martin Michalowski and Craig A. Knoblock and Kenneth M. Bayer and Berthe Y. Choueiry },
  TITLE = {Exploiting Automatically Inferred Constraint Models for Building Identification in Satellite Imagery},
  YEAR = 2007,
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS 07)},
  PAGES = {35-42},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michalowski07-acmgis-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski07-acmgis.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Constraint Integration"}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Michalowski07:ModRef,
author = {Martin Michalowski and Craig A. Knoblock and Berthe Y. Choueiry},
title = {Exploiting Problem Data to Enrich Models of Constraint Problems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop On
Constraint Modelling and Reformulation (ModRef07)},
year = {2007},
pages = {1-15},
urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michalowski07-modref-poster.png",
urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski07-modref.pdf",
Keywords = {"Constraint Integration"}
}

@inproceedings{thakkar07:acmgis,
  AUTHOR = {Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite},
  TITLE = {Quality-Driven Geospatial Data Integration},
  YEAR = 2007,
  BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS 07)},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar07-acmgis.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Geospatial Integration"}}

@INPROCEEDINGS{blythe07:iiweb,
  author = {James Blythe and Dipsy Kapoor and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton},
  title = {Information Integration for the Masses},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb)},
  year = {2007},
  urlLink= "http://www.jucs.org/jucs_14_11/information_integration_for_the",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/blythe08-jucs.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{michelson07:iiweb,
  author = {Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock},
  title = {Mining Heterogeneous Transformations for Record Linkage},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Information Integration	on the Web (IIWeb)},
  year = {2007},
  pages = {68--73},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson07-iiweb.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}
}

@ARTICLE{michelson07:ijdar,
  author = {Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock},
  title = {Unsupervised Information Extraction from Unstructured, Ungrammatical Data Sources on the World Wide Web},
  journal = {International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR),
	Special Issue on Noisy Text Analytics},
  volume = {10},
  number = {3-4},
  pages = {211-226},
  year = {2007},
  urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/ycmuv97",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson07-ijdar.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}
}

@inproceedings{michalowski07:sara,
  AUTHOR = {Martin Michalowski and Craig A. Knoblock and Berthe Y. Choueiry},
  TITLE = {{Reformulating Constraint Models Using Input Data}},
  YEAR = 2007,
  BOOKTITLE = {Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation
    (SARA 07)},
  ADDRESS = {Whistler, Canada},
  PAGES = {402-403},
  publisher =    {LNAI 4612, Springer},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michalowski07-sara-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski07-sara.pdf",
  KEYWORDS = {"Constraint Reasoning"}}

@inproceedings{bayer07:sara,
  AUTHOR = {Kenneth M. Bayer and Martin Michalowski and Berthe Y. Choueiry and Craig A. Knoblock},
  TITLE = {{Reformulating Constraint Satisfaction Problems to Improve Scalability}},
  YEAR = 2007,
  BOOKTITLE = {Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation
    (SARA 07)},
  ADDRESS = {Whistler, Canada},
  PAGES = {64-79},
  publisher =    {LNAI 4612, Springer},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/bayer07-sara-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/bayer07-sara.pdf",
  KEYWORDS = {"Constraint Reasoning"}}

@article{lerman07:ijswis,
   author = "Kristina Lerman and Anon Plangprasopchok and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title =  "Semantic Labeling of Online Information Sources",
   journal = "International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems",
    volume = {3},
    number = {3},
    pages = {36--56},
    year  = {2007},
    urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/yeo77de",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman07-ijswis.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
} 

@inproceedings{bayer07:cp,
  AUTHOR = {Kenneth M. Bayer and Martin Michalowski and Berthe Y. Choueiry and Craig A. Knoblock},
  TITLE = {{Reformulating CSPs for Scalability with Application to Geospatial Reasoning}},
  YEAR = 2007,
  BOOKTITLE = {International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 07)},
  PAGES = {164-179},
  publisher = {LNCS 4741, Springer},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/bayer07-cp-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/bayer07-cp.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}}

@ARTICLE{carman07:jair,
 author = {Mark J. Carman and Craig A. Knoblock},
 title = {Learning Semantic Definitions of Online Information Sources},
 journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)},
 volume = {30},
 pages = {1--50},
 year = {2007},
 urlLink= "http://jair.org/papers/paper2205.html",
 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/carman07-jair.pdf",
 Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
} 

@inproceedings{michelson07:sss,
  author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock", 
  title = "Beginning to Understand Unstructured, Ungrammatical Text: An Information Integration Approach", 
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Reading", 
  location = "Stanford, CA", 
  year = 2007,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson07-sss.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}}

@inproceedings{michelson07:and,
  author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock", 
  title = "An Automatic Approach to Semantic Annotation of Unstructured, Ungrammatical Sources: A First Look",   
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st IJCAI Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data", 
  location = "Hyderabad, India", 
  year = "2007",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson07-and.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}}

@article{goldberg07:urisa,
 author    = {Daniel W. Goldberg and John P. Wilson and Craig A. Knoblock},
 title     = {From Text to Geographic Coordinates: The Current State of Geocoding},
 journal = "Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association",  
 year      =  2007,
 volume    = {19},
 number    = {1},
 pages     = {33--46},
      	Keywords = {"Geocoding"}}
	 

@inproceedings{tuchinda07:iui,
    author = "Rattapoom Tuchinda and Pedro Szekely and Craig A. Knoblock",
    title = "Building Data Integration Queries by Demonstration",
    booktitle = "{Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interface}",
    month = "January",
    year = "2007",
    urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/tuchinda07-iui-slides.pdf",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tuchinda07-iui.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Mashup Construction"}}

@InProceedings{carman07:ijcai,
 author = {Mark James Carman and Craig A. Knoblock},
 title = {Learning Semantic Descriptions of Web Information Sources},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
 year = {2007},
 month = {January},
 urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/carman07-ijcai-slides.pdf",
 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/carman07-ijcai.pdf",
 Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
} 

@inproceedings{chen2006:stdbm,
	author =	 "Ching-Chien Chen and Cyrus Shahabi and Craig A. Knoblock and Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan",
	title =	"Automatically and Efficiently Matching Road Networks with Spatial Attributes in Unknown Geometry Systems",

	booktitle = "The VLDB 2006 Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM)",
	address = "Seoul, Korea", 
	month = "September",
	year = "2006",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen06-stdbm.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Vector Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}
	}

@PHDTHESIS{carman:thesis,
 author = {Mark James Carman},
 title = {Learning Semantic Definitions of Information Sources on the Internet},
 school = {University of Trento},
 year = {2006},
  Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}
} 

@inproceedings{michelson06:aaai,
   author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock", 
   title = "Learning Blocking Schemes for Record Linkage", 
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06)", 
   address = "Boston, MA", 
   year = 2006,
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson06-aaai.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}}

@inproceedings{lerman06:aaai,
   author = "Kristina Lerman and Anon Plangprasopchok and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title = "Automatically Labeling the Inputs and Outputs of Web Services",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06)", 
   address = "Boston, MA", 
   year = 2006,
   urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/lerman06-aaai-slides.pdf",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman06-aaai.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}}

@inproceedings{chiang06:icpr,
   	author = "Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock",
   	title = "Classification of Line and Character Pixels on Raster Maps Using Discrete Cosine Transformation Coefficients and Support Vector Machines", 
   	booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006)", 
      	year = 2006,
	urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang06-icpr-slides.pdf",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang06-icpr.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
	}

@inproceedings{shahabi06:icme,
   author = "Cyrus Shahabi and Yao-Yi Chiang and  Kelvin Chung and Kai-Chen Huang and Jeff Khoshgozaran-Haghighi and Craig A. Knoblock and Sung Chun Lee and Ulrich Neumann and Ram Nevatia and Arjun Rihan and Snehal Thakkar and Suya You",
   title = "GeoDec: Enabling Geospatial Decision Making", 
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia \& Expo (ICME)", 
   address = "Toronto,Canada",
   month = "July",
   year =  2006,
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shahabi06-icme.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Geospatial Integration"}}

@inproceedings{knoblock06:dgo,
   author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi and Ching-Chien Chen and E. Lynn Usery",
   title = "Automatic Alignment of Vector Data and Orthoimagery for the National Map", 
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Digital Government Research", 
   address = "San Diego, CA",
   year = 2006,
   urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock06-dgo-slides.pdf",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock06-dgo.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Vector Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}}

@article{chen06:geoinformatica,
  	author    = {Ching-Chien Chen and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi},
 	title     = {Automatically Conflating Road Vector Data with Orthoimagery},
	journal   = {GeoInformatica},
 	volume    = {10},
  	number    = {4},
  	year      = {2006},
  	pages     = {495-530},
       	Keywords = {"Conflation"},
 	urlLink = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10707-006-0344-6},
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen06-geoinformatica.pdf",
      	Keywords = {"Vector Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}
}

@article{muslea05:jair,
  author =  "Ion Muslea and Steve Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =   "Active Learning with Multiple Views",
  journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
  volume =  "27",
  Year =    "2006",
  Pages =   "203-233",
  urlLink= "http://jair.org/papers/paper2005.html",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea06-jair.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}}

@inproceedings{kolahdouzan2005:UCGIS,
	author = "Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan and Ching-Chien Chen and Cyrus Shahabi and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title = "GeoMatchMaker: Automatic and Efficient Matching of Vector Data with Spatial Attributes in Unknown Geometry Systems",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the UCGIS 2005 Summer Assembly",
	address =  "Jackson Hole, Wyoming",
	month =  "June",
	year = "2005",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/kolahdouzan05-ucgis.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Vector Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}
	}

@article{lin05:wias,
   Author = "Shou-de Lin and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "SERGEANT: A framework for building more flexible web agents by exploiting a search engine",
   Journal = "Web Intelligence and Agent Systems",
   Publisher = "IOS Press",
   Volume = 3, 
   Number = 1,
   year = 2005,
   Pages = "1-15",
   urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/yde7ecj",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lin05-wias.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}
   }

@UNPUBLISHED{goldberg05:ecai,
 AUTHOR = {Daniel W. Goldberg and John P. Wilson and Craig A. Knoblock},
 TITLE = {Extracting Geographic Features from the Internet to Automatically Build Detailed Regional Gazetteers},
 NOTE = {Presented at ECAI 2nd Annual Cultural Congress, Shanghai, China, 9-13 May},
 ADDRESS = {Shanghai, China},
 Month = {May},
 YEAR = 2005,
 urlLink= "http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1365%2d8816&volume=23&issue=1&spage=93",
  Keywords = {"Building Gazetteers"}
}

@article{thakkar05:vldb,
  author = "Snehal Thakkar and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Composing, Optimizing, and Executing Plans for Bioinformatics Web Services",
  Journal = "VLDB Journal, Special Issue on Data Management, Analysis and Mining for Life Sciences",
  volume =  "14",
  Number =  "3",
  Month = "Sep",
  Year =    "2005",
  Pages =   "330-353",
  urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/y8bxhya",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar05-vldb.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Data Integration","Bioinformatics"}}

@incollection{sharifzadeh05:ng2i,
  author = "Mehdi Sharifzadeh and Cyrus Shahabi and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Learning Approximate Thematic Maps from Labeled Geospatial Data",
  booktitle = "Next Generation Geospatial Information: From Digital Image Analysis to SpatioTemporal Databases",
  editor = "Peggy Agouris and Arie Croitoru",
  publisher = "A.A. Balkema Publishers, New York",
  year = "2005",
  pages = "129-141",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/sharifzadeh05-ng2i.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Learning Thematic Maps","Geospatial Integration"}
}

@Inproceedings{knoblock05:iccbr,
  Author = "Craig A. Knoblock",
  Title = "Learning to Optimize Plan Execution in Information Agents",
  Booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2005), LNAI 3620",
  Publisher = "Springer-Verlag, New York",
  Editor = "Hector Munoz-Avila and Francesco Ricci",
  year = 2005,
  Pages = "2-3",
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock05-iccbr-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock05-iccbr.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Streaming Dataflow","Information Agents"}}

@Inproceedings{carman05:wswkshp,
  Author = {Mark James Carman and Craig A. Knoblock},
  Title = {Inducing Source Descriptions for Automated Web Service Composition},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Workshop on Exploring Planning and Scheduling for Web Services, Grid, and Autonomic Computing, Technical Report WS-05-03},
  Publisher = {AAAI Press},
  Year = 2005,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/carman05-wswkshp.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Learning Semantic Models"}}

@Inproceedings{knoblock05:fss,
  Author = {Craig A. Knoblock and Pedro Szekely and Rattapoom Tuchinda},
  Title = {A Mixed-Initiative System for Building Mixed-Initiative Systems},
  Booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Mixed-Initiative Problem-Solving Assistants},
  Year = 2005,
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock05-fss-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock05-fss.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Mashup Construction"}}

@Inproceedings{sneha05:gir,
  Author = {Sneha Desai and Craig A. Knoblock and Yao-Yi Chiang and Kandarp Desai and Ching-Chien Chen},
  Title = {Automatically Identifying and Georeferencing Street Maps on the Web},
  Booktitle ={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'05)},
  Year = 2005,
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/desai05-gir-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/desai05-gir.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Map Discovery"}
}

@InProceedings{chiang05:acmgis,
  Author = {Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock and Ching-Chien Chen},
  Title = {Automatic Extraction of Road Intersections From Raster Maps},
  BookTitle = {The 13th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'05)},
  Address= {Bremen, Germany},
  Year = 2005,
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/chiang05-acmgis-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chiang05-acmgis.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{michalowski05:csp,
  author = {Martin Michalowski and Craig A. Knoblock},
  title = {A Constraint Satisfaction Approach to Geospatial Reasoning},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05)},
  year = {2005},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michalowski05-aaai-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski05-aaai.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{minton:icdm05,
  author = {Steven Minton and Claude Nanjo and Craig A. Knoblock and 
Martin Michalowski and Matthew Michelson},
  title = {Heterogeneous Field Matching Method for Record Linkage},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '05)},
  year = {2005},
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/minton05-icdm-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/minton05-icdm.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}
}

@inproceedings{michelson05:ijcai,
  author = "Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Semantic Annotation of Unstructured and Ungrammatical Text",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2005)",
  address = "Edinburgh, Scotland",
  year = "2005",
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/michelson05-ijcai-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michelson05-ijcai.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Extraction"}
}

@inproceedings{tuchinda05:iui,
  author = "Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Interactively Building Agents for Consumer-Side Data Mining",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces",
  address = "San Diego, CA",
  year = "2005",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tuchinda05-iui.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@article{barish05:jair,
  author =  "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =   "An Expressive Language and Efficient Execution System for Software Agents",
  journal = "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
  volume =  "23",
  Year =    "2005",
  Pages =   "625-666",
  urlLink= "http://jair.org/papers/paper1548.html",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish05-jair.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Streaming Dataflow","Information Agents"}}

@InCollection{ambite2005:pbr,
 author =      "Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
 title =      "Plan Optimization by Plan Rewriting",
 booktitle =    "Intelligent Techniques for Planning",
 publisher =    "Idea Group Publishing",
 address =      "Hershey, PA",
 pages =      "121-161",
 year =       "2005",
 editor =      "Ioannis Vlahavas and Dimitris Vrakas",
 Keywords = {"Planning","Planning by Rewriting"}
} 

@article{michalowski05:aimag,
   Author = "Martin Michalowski and Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "Automatically Utilizing Secondary Sources to Align Information Across Data Sources",
   Journal = "AI Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Integration",
   volume = "26",
   number = "1",
   Year = "2005",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski05-aimag.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Record Linkage"} }

@InCollection{lerman04:vei,
  author  =      {Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock},
  booktitle =        {Virtual Enterprise Integration: Technological and Organizational Perspectives},
  title =      {Machine Learning Techniques for Web Wrapper Maintenance},
  editor =       {Goran D. Putnik and Maria Manuela Cunha},
  pages =        {334-350},
  publisher =    {Idea Group Publishing},
  address =      {Hershey, PA},
  year =         {2005},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman09-eds.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
} 

@Article{ambite2005:heracles,
 author =      {Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock and Maria Muslea and Steven Minton},
 title =      {Heracles II: Conditional Constraint Networks for Interleaved Planning and Information Gathering},
 journal =      {IEEE Intelligent Systems},
 volume  =   20,
 number  =   2,
 month =    {March/April},
 year =      2005,
 pages =    "25-33",
 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite05-is.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}
}

@mastersthesis{bakshi04:thesis,
   Author = "Rahul Bakshi",
   Title = "Integrating and Reasoning about Online Sources to Accurately Geocode Addresses",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2004",
       	Keywords = {"Geocoding"} }

@inproceedings{chen04:stdbm,
        Author = "Ching-Chien Chen and Cyrus Shahabi and Craig A. Knoblock",
        Title = "Utilizing Road Network Data for Automatic Identification of Road Intersections from High Resolution Color Orthoimagery",
        Booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management - STDBM'04",
        Year = 2004,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen04-stdbm.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Extraction"}
        }

@inproceedings{chen04:acmgis,
	Author = "Ching-Chien Chen and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi and Snehal Thakkar and Yao-Yi Chiang",
	Title = "Automatically and Accurately Conflating Orthoimagery and Street Maps",
	BookTitle = "Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'04)",
	Year = "2004",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen04-acmgis.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Map Conflation","Geospatial Integration"},
	}

@inproceedings{bakshi04:acmgis,
	Author = "Rahul Bakshi and Craig A. Knoblock and Snehal Thakkar",
	Title = "Exploiting Online Sources to Accurately Geocode Addresses",
	BookTitle = "Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'04)",
	Year = "2004",
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/bakshi04-acmgis.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Geocoding"} }

@InProceedings{lerman04:atem,
  author =       "Kristina Lerman and B. Cenk Gazen  and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =        "Populating the Semantic Web",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the AAAI 2004 Workshop on Advances in Text Extraction and Mining",
  year =         "2004",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman04-atem.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
}

@InProceedings{lerman04:sigmod,
  author =       "Kristina Lerman and Lise Getoor and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =        "{Using the Structure of Web Sites for Automatic Segmentation of Tables}",
  year =         "2004",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of ACM SIG on Management of Data (SIGMOD-2004)",
  pages =        "",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman04-sigmod.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
}

@article{michalowski2004:is,
   Author = "Martin Michalowski and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and  Snehal Thakkar and Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig A. Knoblock and Steve Minton",
   Title = "Retrieving and Semantically Integrating Heterogeneous Data from the Web",
   Journal = "IEEE Intelligent Systems",
   Volume="19",
   Number="3",
   Year = "2004",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski04-is.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Data Integration"}}

@inproceedings{michalowski04:iiweb,
   Author = "Martin Michalowski and Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "Exploiting Secondary Sources for Unsupervised Record Linkage",
   BookTitle = "Proceedings of the 2004 VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web",
   Year = "2004",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski04-vldbwkshp.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Record Linkage"} }

@inproceedings{thakkar04:pswgs,
   Author = "Snehal Thakkar and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "A Data Integration Approach to Automatically Composing and Optimizing Web Services",
   BookTitle = "Proceedings of 2004 ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Web and Grid Services",
   Address= "Whistler, BC, Canada",
   Year = "2004",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar04-icapswkshp.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Data Integration"} }

@inproceedings{knoblock04:enter,
  author = "Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Building Software Agents for Planning, Monitoring, and Optimizing Travel",
  booktitle = "Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2004: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information Technology and Travel \& Tourism",
  publisher = "Springer-Verlag, New York",
  editor = "Andrew J. Frew",
  year = 2004,
  pages = "1-15",
  urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/knoblock04-enter-slides.pdf",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock04-enter.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
  } 

@inproceedings{tuchinda04:iui,
  author = "Rattapoom Tuchinda and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Agent Wizard: Building Information Agents by Answering Questions",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces",
  address = "Island of Madeira, Portugal",
  year = "2004",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tuchinda04-iui.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@PhDThesis{barish03:thesis,
   Author = "Greg Barish",
   Title = "Speculative Plan Execution for Information Agents",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2003",
    Keywords = {"Information Agents"}}

@inproceedings{chen03:ng2i,
  author = "Ching-Chien Chen and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi and Snehal Thakkar",
  title = "Automatically and Accurately Conflating Satellite Imagery and Maps",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information",
  address = "Cambridge, MA",
  year = "2003",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen03-ng2i.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Map Conflation","Geospatial Integration"}
}

@inproceedings{sharifzadeh03:ng2i,
  author = "Mehdi Sharifzadeh and Cyrus Shahabi and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Learning Approximate Thematic Maps from Labeled Geospatial Data",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Workshop on Next Generation Geospatial Information",
  address = "Cambridge, MA",
  year = "2003",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/sharifzadeh05-ng2i.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Learning Thematic Maps","Geospatial Integration"}
}

@inproceedings{lin03:wic,
  author = "Shou-de Lin and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = " Exploiting a Search Engine to Develop More Flexible Web Agents",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2003)",
  address = "Halifax, Canada",
  publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
  pages = "54-60",
  year = "2003",
  note = "Best Paper Award",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lin03-wic.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@inproceedings{ghandeharizadeh03:icws,
     author = "Shahram Ghandeharizadeh and Craig A. Knoblock and Christos Papadopoulos and Cyrus Shahabi and Esam Alwagait and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Min Cai and Ching-Chien Chen and Parikshit Pol and Rolfe Schmidt and Saihong Song and Snehal Thakkar and Runfang Zhou",  
     title = "Proteus: A System for Dynamically Composing and Intelligently Executing Web Services",
     booktitle = "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)", 
     address ="Las Vegas, NV", 
     month = "June",
     year = 2003,
     urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ghandeharizadeh03-icws.pdf",
     Keywords = {"Composing Web Services","Data Integration"}} 

@inproceedings{chen03:sstd,
    author = "Ching-Chien Chen and Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
    title = "Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets",
    booktitle = "Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 8th International Symposium (SSTD 2003)",
    Address = {Springer, Berlin},
    Volume = {2750},
    Series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
    Pages = "469-488",
    year = "2003",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chen03-sstd.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Geospatial Integration"} }

@inproceedings{knoblock03:ijcai,
  author = "Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Deploying Information Agents on the Web",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003)",
  address = "Acapulco, Mexico",
  year = "2003",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock03-ijcai.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@inproceedings{michalowski03:kddwkshp,
   Author = "Martin Michalowski and Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "Exploiting Secondary Sources for Automatic Object Consolidation",
   Booktitle = "Proceedings of the KDD'03 Workshop on Data Cleaning, Record Linkage and Object Consolidation",
   Year = 2003,
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/michalowski03-kddwkshp.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}}

@inproceedings{etzioni03:kdd,
   Author = "Oren Etzioni and Craig A. Knoblock and Rattapoom Tuchinda and Alexander Yates",
   Title = "To Buy or Not to Buy: Mining Airline Fare Data to Minimize Ticket Purchase Price",
   Booktitle = "Proceedings of the Ninth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining",
   Year = 2003,
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/etzioni03-kdd.pdf",
   urlPresentation= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/slides/etzioni03-kdd-slides.pdf",
   urlData= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/data/Hamlet/dataset.zip",
    Keywords = {"Data Mining"}}

@inproceedings{barish03:iiweb,
   Author = "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "Combining Classification and Transduction for Value Prediction in Speculative Plan Execution",
   BookTitle = "Proceedings of 2003 IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web",
   Address= "Acapulco, Mexico",
   Year = "2003",
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish03-iiweb.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution"} }

@inproceedings{thakkar03:iiweb,
   Author = "Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock",
   Title = "Efficient Execution of Recursive Integration Plans",
   BookTitle = "Proceedings of 2003 IJCAI Workshop on Information Integration on the Web",
   Address= "Acapulco, Mexico",
   Year = "2003",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar03-iiweb.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Data Integration"} }

@inproceedings{thakkar03:p4ws,
   Author = "Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite",
   Title = "A View Integration Approach to Dynamic Composition of Web Services",
   BookTitle = "Proceedings of 2003 ICAPS Workshop on Planning for Web Services",
   Address= "Trento, Italy",
   Year = "2003",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar03-p4ws.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Service Composition","Data Integration"} }

@inproceedings{muslea03:ijcai,
   author  = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Active Learning with Strong and Weak Views: A Case Study on Wrapper Induction",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003)",
  address = "Acapulco, Mexico",
   year    = "2003",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea03-ijcai.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{barish03:ijcai,
  author = "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Learning Value Predictors for the Speculative Execution of Information Gathering Plans",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2003)",
  address = "Acapulco, Mexico",
  year = "2003",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish03-ijcai.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Streaming Dataflow"}
}

@ARTICLE{lerman03:jair,
  author =       "Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title =        "Wrapper Maintenance: A Machine Learning Approach",
  journal =      "Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
  year =         "2003",
  volume =       {18},
  pages =        {149-181},
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman09-eds.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
}

@incollection{knoblock03:iew,
        Author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton and Ion Muslea",
        Title = "Accurately and Reliably Extracting Data from the Web: {A} Machine Learning Approach",
        booktitle = "Intelligent Exploration of the Web",
        editor = "Piotr S. Szczepaniak and Javier Segovia and Janusz Kacprzyk and Lotfi A. Zadeh",
        publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
        address = "Berkeley, CA",
        pages = "275--287",
        Year = "2003",
        urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock03-iew.pdf",
        Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}}

@article{knoblock02:is,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Agents for Gathering, Integrating, and Monitoring Information for Travel Planning",
  year =         "2002",
  month = "November/December",
  journal = 	 "IEEE Intelligent Systems",
  volume = 17,
  number = 6,
  Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@PhDThesis{muslea02:thesis,
   Author = "Ion Muslea",
   Title = "Active Learning with Multiple Views",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2002",
   urlLink= "http://jair.org/papers/paper2005.html",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea06-jair.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}}

@article{allsopp02:ieee-is,
  author = 	 "David N. Allsopp and Patrick Beautement and Michael Kirton and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Niranjan Suri and Edmund H. Durfee and Craig A. Knoblock and Austin Tate and Craig W. Thompson",
  title = 	 "Coalition Agents Experiment: Multiagent Cooperation in International Coalitions",
  year =         "2002",
  month = "May/June",
  journal = 	 "IEEE Intelligent Systems",
  pages = "26-35",
  volume = 17,
  number = 3,
   Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@article{chalupsky02:aimag,
       author="Hans Chalupsky and Yolanda Gil and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Jean Oh and David V. Pynadath and Thomas Russ and Milind Tambe",
       title="Electric Elves: Agent Technology for Supporting Human Organizations",
       journal="AI Magazine",
       volume = 23,
       number = 2,
       month = "Summer",
       pages = "11-24",
       year=2002,
       urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chalupsky02-aimag.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Information Agents"}}

@Inproceedings{tejada02:kdd,
   Author = "Sheila Tejada and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
   Title = "Learning Domain-Independent String Transformation Weights for High Accuracy Object Identification",
   Booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2002)",
   Address = "Edmonton, Alberta, Canada", 
   Year = 2002,
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tejada02-kdd.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}}

@PhDThesis{tejada02:thesis,
   Author = "Sheila Tejada",
   Title = "Learning Object Identification Rules for Information Integration",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2002",
   urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/y874bhx",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tejada01-is.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}}

@inproceedings{ambite02:iaai,
        author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Maria Muslea and Jean Oh and Steven Minton",
        title="Getting from Here to There: Interactive Planning and Agent Execution for Optimizing Travel",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-2002)",
        address="AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA",
        pages="862--869",
        year=2002,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite02-iaai.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
}

@inproceedings{allsopp02:ksco,
        Author="David N. Allsopp and Patrick Beautement and Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Edmund H. Durfee and Michael Kirton and Craig A. Knoblock and Niranjan Suri and Austin Tate and Craig W. Thompson",
        Title="Coalition Agents Experiment: Multi-Agent Co-operation in an International Coalition Setting", 
        Booktitle="Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2002)",
        Address="Toulouse, France",
        Month="April",
        Year="2002",
       	Keywords = {"Information Agents"}}

@inproceedings{muslea02:icml-robust,
   author    = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title     = "Active + semi-supervised learning = robust multi-view learning",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002)",
   pages     = "435--442",
   address   = "Sydney, Australia",    
   year      = "2002",
   urlPaper="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea02-icml-robust.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{muslea02:icml-view,
   author    = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title     = "Adaptive View Validation: A First Step Towards Automatic View Detection",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2002)",
   pages     = "443--450",
   address   = "Sydney, Australia",    
   year      = "2002",
   urlPaper="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea02-icml-view.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}
 

@inproceedings{muslea02:isi,
   author    = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Adaptive View Validation: A Case study on Wrapper Induction and Text Classification",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI-2002 Workshop on Intelligent Services Integration",
   page      = "12--18",
   address = "Edmonton, Alberta, Canada",
   year    = "2002",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{thakkar02:isi,
    author = "Snehal Thakkar and Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Cyrus Shahabi",
    title = "Dynamically Composing Web Services from On-line Sources",
    booktitle = "Proceeding of {AAAI-2002} Workshop on Intelligent Service Integration",
    month = "July",
    address = "Edmonton, Alberta, Canada",
    pages = "1--7",
    year = "2002",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/thakkar02-isi.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Service Composition","Data Integration"}
}

@InProceedings{barish02:aips,
        Author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
        Title="Speculative Execution for Information Gathering Plans",
        Booktitle="Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling (AIPS 2002)",
        Pages = "184-193",
        Address="AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA",
        Year=2002,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish02-aips.pdf",
       Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Gathering"}}

@inproceedings{barish02:aips-workshop,
  author = "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "An efficient and expressive language for information gathering on the web",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the {AIPS-2002} Workshop on Is there life after operator sequencing? -- Exploring real world planning",
  pages = "5--12",
  address = "Tolouse, France",
  year = "2002",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish02-aips-workshop.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Gathering"}
}

@inproceedings{barish02:webdb,
  author = "Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Learning efficient value predictors for speculative plan execution",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the World Wide Web and Databases ({WebDB 2002})",
  address = "Madison, WI",
  pages = "77--82",
  year = "2002",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish02-webdb.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Gathering"}
}

@article{ashish02:ijcis,
       author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
       title="Selectively Materializing Data in Mediators by Analyzing User Queries",
       journal="International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems",
       volume = 11,
       number = 1,
       month="March",
       year="2002",
       urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish02-ijcis.pdf",
       Keywords = {"Data Integration"}} 

@inproceedings{shahabi01:acmgis,
       Author="Cyrus Shahabi and Mohammada R. Kolahdouzan and Snehal Thakkar and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
       Title="Efficiently Querying Moving Objects with Pre-defined Paths in a Distributed Environment",
       Booktitle="Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS)",
       Address="Atlanta, GA",
       Month="November",
       Year="2001",
       urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/shahabi01-acmgis.pdf",
       Keywords = {"Geospatial Integration"}}

@article{ambite01:jair,
        author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
        title="Planning by Rewriting",
        journal="Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research",
        volume=15,
        pages="207-261",
        year="2001",
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite01-jair.pdf",
        Keywords = {"Planning by Rewriting","Planning"}}

@article{tejada01:is,
      author="Sheila Tejada and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton", 
      title ="Learning Object Identification Rules for Information Integration",
      journal="Information Systems",
      volume=26,
      number=8,
      year="2001",
      urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/y874bhx",
      urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tejada01-is.pdf",
      Keywords = {"Record Linkage"}}

@inproceedings{chalupsky01:iaai,
       author="Hans Chalupsky and Yolanda Gil and Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Jean Oh and David V. Pynadath and Thomas Russ and Milind Tambe",
       title="Electric Elves: Applying Agent Technology to Support Human Organizations",
       booktitle="Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence",
       year=2001,
      urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/chalupsky01-iaai.pdf",       
       Keywords = {"Information Agents"}}

@inproceedings{lerman01:atem,
       author="Kristina Lerman and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
       title="Automatic Data Extraction from Lists and Tables in Web Sources",
       booktitle="Proceedings of the IJCAI 2001 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining",
       year = 2001,
       address = "Seattle, WA",
       urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/lerman01-atem.pdf",   
       Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}}

@inproceedings{knoblock01:ic-ai,
        author="Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Steven Minton and Cyrus Shahabi and Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan and Maria Muslea and Jean Oh and Snehal Thakkar",
        title="Integrating the World: {T}he WorldInfo Assistant",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2001)",
        address="Las Vegas, NV",
        year=2001,
        urlPaper="http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock01-ic-ai.pdf",
        Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}
}

@inproceedings{knoblock01:www,
   author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Maria Muslea and Jean Oh and Martin Frank",
   title = "Mixed-Initiative, Multi-source Information Assistants",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference",
   address = "ACM Press, New York, NY",
   pages = "697-707",
   month = "May",
   year = 2001,
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock01-www.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}}

@article{knoblock01:ijcis,
	author="Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Naveen Ashish and Ion Muslea and Andrew Philpot and Sheila Tejada",
	title="The {ARIADNE} Approach to Web-based Information Integration",
	journal="International Journal of Cooperative 
	Information Systems (IJCIS), Special Issue on Intelligent Information Agents:  {T}heory and Applications",
         volume = 10,
         number = "1/2",
          pages = "145-169",
	year=2001,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock01-ijcis.pdf",
	urlLink = "http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcis/10/1001n02/S0218843001000291.html",
       	Keywords = {"Data Integration"}}

@article{ambite01:jiis,
  author =       {Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock and Ion Muslea and
Andrew Philpot},
  title =        {Compiling Source Descriptions for Efficient and Flexible Information Integration},
  Journal =      {Journal of Intelligent Information Systems},
  volume = 16,
  number = 2,
  month = "March",
  year = 2001,
  pages = "149--187",
  urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/yevnprn",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite00-jiis.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Data Integration"}
}

@Article{muslea01:jaamas,
   author  = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Hierarchical Wrapper Induction for Semistructured Information Sources",
   journal = "Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems",
   volume = 4,
   number ="1/2",
   month = "March",
   year    = "2001",
   urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea01-jaamas.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{frank01:iui,
    author = "Martin Frank and Maria Muslea and Jean Oh and Steve Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
    title = "An Intelligent User Interface for Mixed-Initiative Multi-Source Travel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces",
    address = "Santa Fe, New Mexico", 
    month = "January",
    year = 2001,
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/frank01-iui.pdf",
    Keywords = {"Constraint Reasoning"}}

@article{knoblock00:deb,
        Author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Kristina Lerman and Steven Minton and Ion Muslea",
        Title = "Accurately and Reliably Extracting Data from the Web: {A} Machine Learning Approach",
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock00-deb.pdf",
        journal = "IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin",
        Volume = 23,
        Number = 4, 
        Pages = "33-41",
        Month = "December",
        Year = "2000",
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock00-deb.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}}

@PhDThesis{ashish00:thesis,
   Author = "Naveen Ashish",
   Title = "Optimizing information mediators by selectively materializing data",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "2000",
       	Keywords = {"Information Mediators","Data Integration"}}

@inproceedings{barish00:icde,
        author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Yi-Shin Chen and Steven Minton and
        Andrew Philpot and Cyrus Shahabi",
        title="{TheaterLoc}: Using Information Integration Technology to Rapidly Build Virtual Applications",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 International Conference
                   on Data Engineering (ICDE-2000) Demonstration Session",
        address="San Diego, CA",
        year=2000,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish00-icde.pdf",
        Keywords = {"Web Integration","Data Integration"}
}

@inproceedings{barish00:agents,
        author="Greg Barish and Daniel DiPasquo and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
        title="Dataflow Plan Execution for Software Agents",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
                   Autonomous Agents (Agents-2000)",
        address="Barcelona, Spain",
        year=2000,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish00-agents.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Agents"}
}

@inproceedings{barish00:icai,
        author="Greg Barish and Daniel DiPasquo and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
        title="A Dataflow Approach to Agent-based Information Management",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on
                  Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2000)",
        address="Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications (CSREA) Press, Athens, GA",
        year=2000,
         urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish00-icai.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Agents"}
}

@inproceedings{barish00:iaai,
        author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Yi-Shin Chen and Steven Minton and
        Andrew Philpot and Cyrus Shahabi",
        title="The {TheaterLoc} Virtual Application",
        booktitle="Proceedings of Twelfth Annual Conference on Innovative
                   Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-2000)",
        address="Austin, Texas",
        year=2000,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish00-iaai.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Web Integration","Data Integration"}
}

@inproceedings{barish00:aaai,
        author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
        title="Speculative Execution for Information Agents",
        booktitle="Proceedings of Seventeenth National Conference on 
                   Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000), Student Abstract",
        address="Austin, Texas",
        year=2000,
        urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish00-aaai.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Agents"}
}

@InProceedings{ambite00:aips,
        Author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
        Title="Learning Plan Rewriting Rules",
        Booktitle="{P}roceedings of the Fifth International Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Scheduling",
        Address="Breckenridge, CO",
        Year=2000,
         urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite00-aips.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Planning by Rewriting","Planning"}}


	

@article{ambite00:aij,
  author =       {Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock},
  title =        {Flexible and Scalable Cost-Based Query Planning in Mediators: {A} Transformational Approach},
  Journal =      {Artificial Intelligence Journal},
  volume= "118",
  number = "1-2",
  Pages= "115--161",
  month = "April",
  year = 2000,
  urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite00-aij.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Information Mediators","Planning by Rewriting"}
}

@inproceedings{muslea00:aaai,
   author  = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Selective sampling with redundant views",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
   year    = "2000",
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea00-aaai.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{muslea00:crm,
   author  = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Selective sampling with co-testing",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the CRM Workshop on Selecting and Combining Models with Machine Learning Algorithms",
   address = "Montreal, Canada",
   month = "April",
   year    = "2000",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}
}

@inproceedings{muslea00:ecai,
   author  = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
   title   = "Selective Sampling With Naive Co-Testing: Preliminary Results",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the ECAI-2000 Workshop On Machine Learning for Information Extraction",
   address = "Berlin, Germany",
   year    = "2000",
   urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea00-ecai.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning","Active Learning"}

}

@article{hsu00:tkde,
	author="Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
	title="Semantic Query Optimization for Query Plans of Heterogeneous Multi-Database Systems",
	journal="IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering",
        volume = 12,
        number = 6,
        month = "November/December",
        pages = "959--978",
	year="2000",
	urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu00-tkde.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Semantic Query Optimization","Query Planning"}
}

@inproceedings{barish99:iii,
        author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Yi-Shin Chen and Steven Minton and
        Andrew Philpot and Cyrus Shahabi",
        title="TheaterLoc: A Case Study In Building An Information Integration Application",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Intelligent
                   Information Integration",
        address="Stockholm, Sweden",
        year=1999,
         urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish99-iii.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Web Integration"}

}

@inproceedings{barish99:widm,
        author="Greg Barish and Craig A. Knoblock and Daniel DiPasquo and Steven Minton",
        title="An Efficient Plan Execution System for Information Management Agents",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the ACM CIKM'99 Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM)",
        address="Kansas City, MO",
        year=1999,
          urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/barish99-widm.pdf",
       	Keywords = {"Dataflow Execution","Information Agents"}

}

@inproceedings{ashish99:widm,
        author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
        title="Selectively Materializing Data in Mediators by Analyzing Query Distribution, Source Structure and Maintenance Cost",
        booktitle="Proceedings of the ACM CIKM'99 Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM)",
        address="Kansas City, MO",
        year=1999,
        urlPaper = "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish99-widm.pdf",
        Keywords = {"Mediators","Materialization"}
}

@InProceedings{ashish99:coopis,
  author =       "Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
  title =        "Selectively Materializing Data in Mediators by Analyzing User Queries",
  booktitle =    "Fourth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS)",
  year =         "1999",
  address =      "Edinburgh, Scotland",
  month =        "September",
  urlLink= "http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcis/11/1101n02/S0218843002000534.html",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish99-coopis.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Mediators","Materialization"}
}

@inproceedings{knoblock99:ecommerce,
	author="Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
	title="Building Agents for Internet-base Supply Chain Integration",
	booktitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Agents for Electronic Commerce and 
	Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply Chain",	
	address="Seattle, WA",
	year=1999,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock99-ecommerce.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Information Agents"}
	}

@Inproceedings{muslea99:agents,
	Title = "A Hierarchical Approach to Wrapper Induction",
	Author = "Ion Muslea and Steve Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents",
	Address = "Seattle, WA",
	Year = 1999,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea99-agents.pdf",
	Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
	}

@article{knoblock98:expert,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
  title = 	 "The {Ariadne} approach to Web-based information integration",
  year =         "1998",
  month = "September/October",
  journal = 	 "IEEE Intelligent Systems",
  volume = 13,
  number = 5,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock98-expert.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Web Integration"}
}

@proceedings{knoblock98:aiii,
    key = "Knoblock and Levy",
	Title = "Proceedings from the 1998 Workshop on AI and Information Integration",
	Institution = "American Association for Artificial Intelligence",
	Year = 1998,
    editor = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Levy",
    series = 	 "Technical Report WS-98-14",
    address = 	 "AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA"}

		  

@InProceedings{muslea98:conald,
  author = "Ion Muslea and Steven Minton and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = "Wrapper Induction for Semistructured, Web-based Information Sources",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning from Text and the Web",
  address = "Pittsburgh, PA",
  year = 1998,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/muslea98-conald.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
  }
				  

@InProceedings{ashish98:aiii, 		  
  author = "Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
  title = "Optimizing Information Agents by Selectively Materializing Data",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI'98 Workshop on AI and Information Integration",
  address = "Madison, WI",		  
  year = 1998,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish98-aiii.pdf",
   Keywords = {"Materialization"}
    } 		  
		  

@PhDThesis{ambite98:thesis,
   Author = "Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite",
   Title = "Planning by Rewriting",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "1998"}

@InProceedings{knoblock98:ariadne,
  author = "Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite
		  and Naveen Ashish and Pragnesh Jay Modi and Ion
		  Muslea and Andrew Philpot and Sheila Tejada",
  title = "Modeling Web Sources for Information Integration",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence", 	  
  address = "Madison, WI",		  
  year = 1998,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock98-ariadne.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Web Integration"} }

@InProceedings{ambite98:aips,
	Author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Flexible and Scalable Query Planning in Distributed and Heterogeneous Environments",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems",
        Address="Pittsburgh, PA",
	Year=1998,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite98-aips.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Query Planning"}
	}
		  
		  

@InCollection{arens98:agents,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock and Chun-Nan Hsu",
	Title="Query Processing in the SIMS Information Mediator",
	Booktitle="Readings in Agents",
        Editor="Michael N. Huns and Munindar P. Singh", 
        Publisher="Morgan Kaufmann",
        Address="San Francisco, CA",
	Year=1998,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens98-agents.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Mediator"}}
		  

@InProceedings{ashish98:krdb,
        Author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Cyrus Shahabi",
        Title="Intelligent Caching for Information Mediators: A KR Based Approach",
        Booktitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Representation meets Databases (KRDB)",
        year= 1998, 
        Address="Seattle, WA",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish98-krdb.pdf",
         Keywords = {"Mediator","Materialization"}
        }
		  

@InProceedings{ambite98:sigmod,
        Author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton and Pragnesh J. Modi and Ion Muslea and Andrew Philpot and Sheila Tejada",
        Title="{Ariadne}: A System for Constructing Mediators for Internet Sources, System Demonstration",
        BookTitle = "Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data", 
        Month = "June",
        Year = "1998", 
        Address = "Seattle, WA"}

@article{hsu97:jkdd,
  author = 	 "Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Discovering Robust Knowledge from Databases that Change",
  year =         1997,
  journal = 	 "Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery",
  volume =       2,		  
  number =       1,
  urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/y8bfvmo",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu97-jkdd.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Data Mining"}
}
		  

@Article{ambite97:expert,
	Author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Agents for Information Gathering",	
	Journal="IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their Applications",
        Month="September/October",
	Year="1997",
	  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite97-expert.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}
	}
		  

@InCollection{gazen97:ecp,
	Author="B. Cenk Gazen and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Combining the Expressiveness of {UCPOP} with the Efficiency of {G}raphplan",
	Booktitle="Recent Advances in AI Planning: 4th European Conference on Planning, ECP'97",
        Editor="Sam Steel and Rachid Alami",		  
        Publisher="Springer-Verlag",
        Address="New York",
	Year=1997,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/gazen97-ecp.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Planning"}}


		  

@InCollection{ashish97:ecp,
	Author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Levy",
	Title="Information Gathering Plans With Sensing Actions",
 	Booktitle="Recent Advances in AI Planning: 4th European Conference on Planning, ECP'97",
	Publisher="Springer-Verlag",   
        Editor="Sam Steel and Rachid Alami",		  
        Address="New York",
	Year=1997,
	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish97-ecp.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}
	}
		  
		  

@InProceedings{ashish97:ssd,
	Author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured {I}nternet Sources",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Management of Semistructured Data",
        Address="Tucson, AZ",
        Year=1997,
        Note="Republished as an invited paper in the ACM SIGMOD Record, Special Issue on Managment of Semi-Structured Data, December, 1997",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish97-ssd.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}
	}
		 		  
		  

@InProceedings{ashish97:coopis,
	Author="Naveen Ashish and Craig A. Knoblock",
        Title="Semi-automatic Wrapper Generation for {I}nternet Information Sources",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems",
	Year=1997,
        Address="Kiawah Island, SC",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ashish97-coopis.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Wrapper Learning"}        
        }

		  

@InProceedings{ambite97:aaai,
	Author="Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Planning by Rewriting: {E}fficiently Generating High-Quality Plans",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
        Address="Providence, RI",
	Year=1997,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite97-aaai.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Planning by Rewriting"}     	
        }

@InCollection{knoblock97:agents,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite",
  title = 	 "Agents for Information Gathering",
  booktitle =    "Software Agents",
  publisher =    "AAAI/MIT Press",
  year = 	 "1997",
  editor = 	 "J. Bradshaw",
  address = 	 "Menlo Park, CA",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock97-agents.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}     
	}
		  

@InCollection{arens96:i3-book,
  author = 	 "Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock and Wei-Min Shen",
  title = 	 "Query Reformulation for Dynamic Information Integration",
  booktitle=     "Intelligent Integration of Information",
  Editor="Gio Wiederhold", 
  Publisher="Kluwer Academic Publishers",
  Address="Boston, MA",
  Year=1996,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens96-i3-book.pdf",
  Keywords = {"Query Reformulation"}     
  }

@InProceedings{knoblock96:fss,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Why Plan Generation and Plan Execution Are Inseparable",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Plan Execution",
	Address="Cambridge, MA ",
	Year=1996,
  	Keywords = {"Plan Execution"}     
		}
		  

@InCollection{arens96:arpi,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock and Chun-Nan Hsu",
	Title="Query Processing in the SIMS Information Mediator",
	Booktitle="Advanced Planning Technology",
        Editor="Austin Tate", 
        Publisher="The AAAI Press",
        Address="Menlo Park, CA",
	Year=1996,
  	Keywords = {"Query Processing"}     	
	}
		  

@InProceedings{hsu96:aaai,
	Author="Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Discovering Robust Knowledge from Dynamic Closed-World Data",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
        Address="Portland, OR",
	Year=1996,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu96-aaai.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Mining"}     	
	}

@InProceedings{tejada96:sss,
	Author="Sheila Tejada and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
	Title="Learning Models for Multi-Source Integration",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Machine Learning in Information Access",
	Address="Stanford, CA",
	Year=1996,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/tejada96-sss.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Integration"}     
		}
		  

@InProceedings{knoblock96:aips,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Building a Planner for Information Gathering: {A} Report from the Trenches", 
	Booktitle="{P}roceedings of the Third International Conference
		  on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems",
	Address="Edinburgh, Scotland",
	Year=1996,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock96-aips.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}     
		}

@Article{arens96:jiis,
  author = 	 "Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock and Wei-Min Shen",
  title = 	 "Query Reformulation for Dynamic Information Integration",
  journal = 	 "Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Special
		  Issue on Intelligent Information Integration",
  year = 	 "1996",
  volume = 	 "6",
  number = 	 "2/3",
  pages = 	 "99--130",
  urlLink= "http://tinyurl.com/yekboes",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens96-jiis.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Query Reformulation"}     
}

@PhDThesis{hsu96:thesis,
   Author = "Chun-Nan Hsu",
   Title = "Learning Effective and Robust Knowledge for Database Query Optimization",
   School = "Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California",
   Year = "1996"}

@InCollection{hsu96:kdd-book,
  author = 	 "Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Using Inductive Learning to Generate Rules for Semantic Query Optimization",
  chapter = 	 17,
  publisher =	 "AAAI Press",
  address =      "Menlo Park, CA",
  year =	 1996,
  booktitle =    "Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining",
  editor =	 "Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro and Usama Fayyad and Padhraic Smythe and Ramasamy Uthurusamy",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu96-kdd-book.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Mining"}     		 		 
} 

@InCollection{carbonell95:prodigy,
  author = 	 "Jaime G. Carbonell and Oren Etzioni and Yolanda Gil and
		  Robert L. Joseph and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton
		  and Manuela M. Veloso",
  title = 	 "Planning and Learning in {P}rodigy: {O}verview of an Integrated Architecture",
  booktitle =    "Goal-Driven Learning",
  publisher =    "MIT Press",
  year = 	 "1995",
  editor = 	 "Ashwin Ram and David B. Leake",
  chapter = 	 "11",
  pages = 	 "297--306",
  address = 	 "Cambridge, MA",
  	Keywords = {"Prodigy"}       
}

@InProceedings{hsu95:robust,
  author = 	 "Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Estimating the Robustness of Discovered Knowledge",
  booktitle =	 "Proceedings of the First International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining",
  address =	 "Montreal, Canada",
  year =	 1995,
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu95-robust.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Mining"}     
}

@InProceedings{knoblock95:ijcai,
  author = 	"Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	"Planning, Executing, Sensing, and Replanning for Information Gathering",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
  year = 	"1995",
  address = "Montreal, Canada",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock95-ijcai.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}     
}

@InProceedings{knoblock95:ipe,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Integrating Planning and Execution for Information Gathering",
  booktitle =    "Working Notes of the {AAAI} Spring Symposium on
                  Information Gathering in Heterogeneous, Distributed
		  Environments", 
  Address =      "Palo Alto, CA",
  year = 	 "1995",
  Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}     
}

@InProceedings{ambite95:models,
  author = 	 "Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Reconciling Distributed Information Sources",
  booktitle =    "Working Notes of the {AAAI} Spring Symposium on
                  Information Gathering in Heterogeneous, Distributed
		  Environments", 
  Address =      "Palo Alto, CA",
  year = 	 "1995",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite95-models.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}     
}

@InProceedings{knoblock95:runtime,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Levy",
  title = 	 "Exploiting Run-Time Information for Efficient Processing of Queries",
  booktitle =    "Working Notes of the {AAAI} Spring Symposium on
                  Information Gathering in Heterogeneous, Distributed
		  Environments", 
  Address =      "Palo Alto, CA",
  year = 	 "1995",
          urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock95-runtime.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Query Processing"}     
}

@Proceedings{knoblock95:sss,
  title = 	 "Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments", 
  year = 	 "1995",
  editor = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Levy",
  series = 	 "Technical Report SS-95-08",
  address = 	 "AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA",
}

@Article{knoblock95:sigart,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Qiang Yang",
	Title="Relating the Performance of Partial-Order Planning Algorithms to Domain Features",	
	Journal="SIGART Bulletin, Special Issue on Evaluating Plans, Planners and Planning Agents",
	Volume=6,
	Number=1,
	Year="1995",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock95-sigart.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Partial-Order Planning"}     	
	}

@article{kambhampati95:joint-aij,
  author = 	 "Subbarao Kambhampati and Craig A. Knoblock and Qiang Yang",
  title = 	 "Planning as Refinement Search: {A} Unified Framework for Evaluating the Design Tradeoffs in Partial Order Planning", 
  journal =      "Artificial Intelligence",
  year =         1995,
  volume =       76,
  number =       "1-2",
    urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/kambhampati95-joint-aij.ps",
  Keywords = {"Partial-Order Planning"}     
}

@InProceedings{knoblock94:levy,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock and Alon Levy",
  title = 	 "Efficient Query Processing for Information Gathering Agents",
  BookTitle =	 "Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents", 
  Address =      "Gaithersburg, MD",
  year = 	 "1994",
  urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock94-levy.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Gathering"}     
}

@InProceedings{ambite94:agents,
Author	=	"Jos\'{e} Luis Ambite and Craig A. Knoblock",
Title	=	"Reconciling Agent Models",
BookTitle=	"Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Information Agents",
Address =       "Gaithersburg, MD",
Year	=	"1994",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/ambite94-agents.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Source Modeling"}     }

@InProceedings{knoblock94:qap,
  author = 	 "Craig A. Knoblock",
  title = 	 "Applying a General-Purpose Planner to the Problem of Query Access Planning",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Planning
		  and Learning: On to Real Applications",
  address =      "New Orleans, La",
  year = 	 "1994",
  	Keywords = {"Query Planning"}     
}

@InProceedings{arens94:caching,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Intelligent Caching: Selecting, Representing, and Reusing Data in an Information Server",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Third International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management",
        Address="Gaithersburg, MD",
	Year=1994,
  	Keywords = {"Caching"}     
		}

@InProceedings{hsu94:learning,
	Author="Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Rule Induction for Semantic Query Optimization",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference
on Machine Learning",
        Address="New Brunswick, NJ",
	Year=1994,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu94-learning.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data MIning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock94:pep,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Generating Parallel Execution Plans with a Partial-Order Planner",
	Booktitle= "{P}roceedings of the Second International Conference
		  on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems",
	Address="Chicago, IL",
	Year=1994,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knobock94-pep.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Plan Execution"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock94:coopis,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Yigal Arens and Chun-Nan Hsu",
	Title="Cooperating Agents for Information Retrieval",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems",
	Address="Toronto, Canada",
	Year=1994,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock94-coopis.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Information Agents"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock94:ai-plan,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Qiang Yang",
	Title="Evaluating the Tradeoffs in Partial-Order Planning Algorithms",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Comparative Analysis
		  of AI Planning Systems", 
	Location="Seattle, WA",
	Pages="42-58",
	Year="1994",
  	Keywords = {"Partial-Order Planning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock94:snlp-tweak,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Qiang Yang",
	Title="Evaluating the Tradeoffs in Partial-Order Planning Algorithms",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the Canadian Artificial
		   Intelligence Conference",
	Location="Banff, Alberta, Canada",
	Year="1994",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock94-snlp-tweak.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Partial-Order Planning"}     
		}

@Article{knoblock94:aij,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Automatically Generating Abstractions for Planning",
	Journal="Artificial Intelligence",
	Volume=68,
        Number=2,
	Year=1994,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock94-aij.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Learning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{arens94:queries,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Chin Y. Chee and Chun-Nan Hsu and Hoh In and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Query Processing in an Information Mediator",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the ARPA / Rome Laboratory
		  Knowledge-Based Planning and Scheduling Initiative",
	Address="Tucson, AZ",
	Year=1994,
	 urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens94-queries.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Query Processing"}     }

@InProceedings{knoblock94:agents,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Yigal Arens",
	Title="An Architecture for Information Retrieval Agents",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Software Agents",
        Address="Palo Alto, CA",
	Year=1994,
  	Keywords = {"Information Agents"}     
		}

@InProceedings{arens93:sigmod,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock", 
        Title="SIMS: Retrieving and Integrating Information From Multiple Sources (Demonstration System Description)",
        Booktitle="Proceedings of SIGMOD-93", 
        Address="Washington, DC", 
        Year=1993,
  	Keywords = {"SIMS"}     
	        }

@InProceedings{hsu93:reform,
	Author="Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Reformulating Query Plans For Multidatabase Systems",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Second International Conference
on Information and Knowledge Management",
        Publisher="ACM",
	Address="Washington, D.C.",
	year="1993",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu93-reform.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Query Reformulation"}     
		}

@Article{arens93:ijicis,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Chin Y. Chee and Chun-Nan Hsu and
		  Craig A. Knoblock",  
	Title="Retrieving and Integrating Data from Multiple Information Sources", 
	year="1993",
	Journal="International Journal on Intelligent and Cooperative
		  Information Systems", 
	Volume=2,
	Number=2,
	Pages="127-158",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens93-ijicis.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Integration"}     
		}

@InProceedings{hsu93:learning,
	Author="Chun-Nan Hsu and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Learning Database Abstractions for Query Reformulation",
	Booktitle="Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases",
	year="1993",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/hsu93-learning.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Data Mining"}     
		}

@Book{knoblock93:book,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Generating Abstraction Hierarchies: An Automated Approach to Reducing Search in Planning",
	Publisher="Kluwer Academic Publishers",
	Address="Norwell, MA",
	Year=1993,
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Learning"}     	}
	

@InProceedings{arens92:sims,
	Author="Yigal Arens and Craig A. Knoblock",
        Title="Planning and Reformulating Queries for Semantically-Modeled Multidabase Systems",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the First International Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management",
	Address="Baltimore, MD",
	Pages="92-101",
	Year=1992,
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/arens92-sims.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"SIMS"}     	}

@InCollection{knoblock92:abstrips,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="An Analysis of {ABSTRIPS}",
	BookTitle= "{P}roceedings of the First International Conference
		  on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems",
	Editor="J. Hendler",
	Publisher="Morgan Kaufmann",
	Address="San Mateo, CA",
	Pages="126-135",
	Year="1992",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock92-abstrips.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Planning"}     	}

@InProceedings{knoblock91:integ, Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Steven
Minton and Oren Etzioni",
	Title="Integrating Abstraction and Explanation-Based Learning in {PRODIGY}",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
	Address="Anaheim, CA",
	Pages="541-546",
	Year="1991",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock91-integ.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Planning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock91:search, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Search Reduction in Hierarchical Problem Solving",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
	Address="Anaheim, CA",
	Pages="686-691",
	Year="1991",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock91-search.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Planning"}     	}

@InProceedings{knoblock91:spectrum, Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Josh
D. Tenenberg and Qiang Yang",
	Title="Characterizing Abstraction Hierarchies for Planning",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
	Address="Anaheim, CA",
	Pages="692-697",
	Year="1991",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock91-spectrum.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Planning"}     
		}

@PhDThesis{knoblock91:thesis,
	Author="Craig A. Knoblock",	
	Title="Automatically Generating Abstractions for Problem Solving",
	School="School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University", 
	Year="1991",
	Note="Available as Technical Report CMU-CS-91-120",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock91-thesis.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Learning Abstractions"}     	}
		

@InCollection{carbonell91:prodigy,
  author = 	"Jaime G. Carbonell and Craig A. Knoblock and Steven Minton",
  title = 	"{PRODIGY}: {A}n Integrated Architecture for Planning and Learning",
  booktitle = 	"Architectures for Intelligence",
  publisher = 	"Lawrence Erlbaum",
  year = 	"1991",
  editor = 	"Kurt VanLehn",
  address = 	"Hillsdale, NJ",
  pages  =	"241-278",
  	Keywords = {"Prodigy"}     
	}

@InProceedings{carbonell90:cogsci, Author="Jaime G. Carbonell and
Yolanda Gil and Robert L. Joseph and Craig A. Knoblock and Steve Minton
and Manuela M. Veloso",
	Title="Designing an Integrated Architecture: The PRODIGY View",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of The Twelfth Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society", 
	Address="Boston, MA",
	Year="1990",
  	Keywords = {"Prodigy"}     }

@InProceedings{knoblock90:spectrum, Author="Craig A. Knoblock and Josh
D. Tenenberg and Qiang Yang",
	Title="A Spectrum of Abstraction Hierarchies for Planning",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic
Generation of Approximations and Abstractions",
	Address="Boston, MA",
	Year="1990",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Planning"}     	
	}

@InProceedings{knoblock90:hanoi, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Abstracting the {T}ower of {H}anoi",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Generation of Approximations and Abstractions",
	Address="Boston, MA",
	Pages="13-23",
	Year="1990",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock90-hanoi.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Learning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{knoblock90:aaai, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Learning Abstraction Hierarchies for Problem Solving",
	BookTitle= "Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
	Address="Boston, MA",
	Pages="923-928",
	Year="1990",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock90-aaai.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Learning"}     
		}

@InProceedings{veloso90:planning, Author="Manuela M. Veloso and Jaime G.
Carbonell and Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Nonlinear Planning in Complex Domains Using a Casual-Commitment Approach",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Automated Planning for Complex Domains",
	address="Boston, MA",
	Year="1990",
  	Keywords = {"Planning"}     }

@InProceedings{knoblock90:crw, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Learning Problem-Specific Abstraction Hierarchies",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Change of Representation and Problem Reformulation",
	Address="Palo Alto, CA",
	Year="1990",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Learning Abstractions"}     	}

@InCollection{minton90:mit,
   Author="Steven Minton and Jaime G. Carbonell and Craig A. Knoblock and Daniel R. Kuokka and Oren Etzioni and Yolanda Gil",
   Title="Explanation-Based Learning: {A} Problem Solving Perspective",
  booktitle = 	"Machine Learning: {P}aradigms and Methods",
  publisher = 	"MIT Press",
  year = 	"1990",
  editor = 	"Jaime G. Carbonell",
  address = 	"Boston, MA",
  	Keywords = {"EBL"}     
}

@InCollection{knoblock90:crib, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="A Theory of Abstraction for Hierarchical Planning",
	Editor="D. Paul Benjamin",
	BookTitle="Change of Representation and Inductive Bias",
	Publisher="Kluwer", Address="Boston, MA", Year="1990",
	Pages="81-104",
  	Keywords = {"Abstraction Planning"}     	
	}

@InProceedings{knoblock89:mlw, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Learning Hierarchies of Abstraction Spaces",
	Address="Ithaca, NY",
	Pages="241-245",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Machine Learning",
	Year="1989",
        	urlPaper= "http://usc-isi-i2.github.io/papers/knoblock89-mlw.pdf",
  	Keywords = {"Learning Abstractions"}     	
	}

@Article{minton89:aij, 	
	Author="Steven Minton and Jaime G. Carbonell and Craig A. Knoblock and Daniel R. Kuokka and Oren Etzioni and Yolanda Gil",
	Title="Explanation-Based Learning: {A} Problem Solving Perspective",
	Journal="Artificial Intelligence", 
	Volume=40,
	Number="1-3",
	Pages="63-118",
	Year="1989",
  	Keywords = {"EBL"}     	}

@InProceedings{knoblock88:crib, Author="Craig A. Knoblock",
	Title="Automatically Generating Abstractions for Planning",
	Organization="Philips Laboratories",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the First International Workshop in Change of Representation and Inductive Bias",
	Address="Briarcliff, NY", Year="1988",
  	Keywords = {"Learning Abstractions"}     	}

@InProceedings{minton87:wml,
	Author="Steven Minton and Jaime G. Carbonell and Oren Etzioni and Craig A. Knoblock and Daniel R. Kuokka",
	Title="Acquiring Effective Search Control Rules: {Explanation-based} Learning in the {PRODIGY} System",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning",
	Address="Irvine, CA", Year="1987",
	  	Keywords = {"EBL"}    }

@InProceedings{minton86:kcwkshp,
	Author="Steven Minton and Jaime G. Carbonell and Craig A. Knoblock and Daniel R. Kuokka and Henrik Nordin",
	Title="Improving the Effectiveness of Explanation-Based Learning in the PRODIGY System",
	BookTitle="Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Compilation",
	Address="Inn at Otter Crest, OR", Year="1986",
	Pages="77-87",
         Keywords = {"EBL"}  }