Marcos R. Vieira      Academic Mailing Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Riverside 363 Engineering BU2 Riverside, CA 92521 Office Phone: +1 951 827 2838    Resume:

Prior to joining the UCR, I received my M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science (2004) from University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, supervised by Prof. Dr. Caetano Traina Jr. (Master's Thesis in Portuguese) and my B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering (2001) from Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil.

Research Interests

• Databases
• Data Mining
• Data Structures and Indexing Techniques
• Query by Content in Multimedia Databases

Teaching

• Fall 2008: I am TA-ing CS152 Compiler Design (Prof. R. Gupta)
• Office: BU2-363 (Database Lab)
• Office hours: MW 4-5:30pm or by appointment

Refereed Publications (from DBLP)

• Caetano Traina Jr., Roberto F. Santos Filho, Agma J. M. Traina, Marcos R. Vieira, Christos Faloutsos: The Omni-Family of All-Purpose Access Methods: A Simple and Effective Way to Make Similarity Search More Efficient. VLDB J. 2007  
• Marcos R. Vieira, Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Adriano S. Arantes, Christos Faloutsos: Boosting k-Nearest Neighbor Queries Estimating Suitable Query Radii. SSDBM 2007  
• Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina, Marcos R. Vieira, Adriano S. Arantes, Christos Faloutsos: Efficient Processing of Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS Through Query Rewriting. CIKM 2006  
• Marcos R. Vieira; Caetano Traina Jr.; Fabio J. T. Chino; Agma J. M. Traina. "DBM-Tree: Trading Height-Balancing for Performance in Metric Access Methods". Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2006  
• Fabio J. T. Chino, Marcos R. Vieira, Agma J. M. Traina, Caetano Traina Jr.: MAMView: A Visual Tool for Exploring and Understanding Metric Access Methods. SAC 2005  
• Adriano S. Arantes; Marcos R. Vieira; Caetano Traina Jr.; Agma J. M. Traina. "Efficient Algorithms to Execute Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS". Journal of The Brazilian Computer Society 2004  
• Marcos R. Vieira, Caetano Traina Jr., Fabio Jun Takada Chino, Agma J. M. Traina: DBM-Tree: A Dynamic Metric Access Method Sensitive to Local Density Data. SBBD 2004  
• Adriano S. Arantes, Marcos R. Vieira, Caetano Traina Jr., Agma J. M. Traina: Operadores de Selecao por Similaridade para Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Bases de Dados Relacionais. SBBD 2003 (in portuguese)  
• Adriano S. Arantes; Marcos R. Vieira; Agma J. M. Traina; Caetano Traina Jr.. The Fractal Dimension Making Similarity Queries More Efficient. Proc. 2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Fractals and Self-similarity in Data Mining: Issues and Approaches 2003  

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