Publications

Major Conferences

  • ICDT'15 Datalog Queries Distributing over Components.
    Tom J. Ameloot, Bas Ketsman, Frank Neven, Daniel Zinn.
    18th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2015), March 2015. (to appear)
  • PODS'14 Weaker Forms of Monotonicity for Declarative Networking: a More Fine-grained Answer to the CALM-conjecture.
                 [ PODS'14 Best-Paper Award ]
    Tom J. Ameloot, Bas Ketsman, Frank Neven, Daniel Zinn.
    Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2014), June 22-27, 2014.
  • ICDT'12  Win-Move is Coordination-Free (Sometimes).  ICDT-Slides    Slides (Berkeley DB-Lunch)   Poster (2nd NorCal DB Day)
    Daniel Zinn, Todd J. Green and Bertram Ludaescher.
    15th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2012), March 26-29, 2012.
  • CCGrid'11  Towards Reliable, Performant Workflows for Streaming-Applications on Cloud Platforms. Slides: PPT PDF
  • Daniel Zinn, Yogesh Simmhan, Michail Giakkoupis, Quinn Hart, Timothy McPhillips, Viktor K. Prasanna, Bertram Ludaescher.
    11th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2011), Newport Beach, CA, USA, May 2011.
  • ICDE'11   Scientific Workflow Design 2.0: Demonstrating Streaming Data Collections in Kepler. Poster PDF
  • Lei Dou, Daniel Zinn, Timothy McPhillips, Sven Köhler, Sean Riddle, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher.
    • 27th IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011), Hannover, Germany, April 2011.
  • ICDE'10   XML-Based Computation for Scientific Workflows.   Slides: PPT PDF Poster: PPT PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludäscher.
    26th IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Long Beach, California, March 2010.
  • ICDE'09     X-CSR: Dataflow Optimization for Distributed XML Process Pipelines.   Slides: PPT PDF  Poster: PPT PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, Bertram Ludaescher.
    25th IEEE Int'l Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009.
  • CCS'07    Doppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship.   Slides: PPT PDF
    Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Earl Barr, Michael Byrd, and Rich East.
    14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2007), Alexandria, VA, USA, October 2007.
  • CoopIS'07     A Relaxed but not Necessarily Constrained Way from the Top to the Sky.
    Katja Hose, Christian Lemke, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Daniel Zinn.
    15th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2007), Vilamoura, Algarve, November 2007.
  • VLDB'07     Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets.   Slides: PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Jim Bosch, and Michael Gertz.
    33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
  • MASCOTS'03     System-Level Simulation Modeling with MLDesigner.
    Gunar Schorcht, Ian A. Troxel, Keyvan Farhangian, Peter Unger, Daniel Zinn, Colin K. Mick, Alan D. George, and Horst Salzwedel.
    11th International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2003), Orlando, FL, USA, October 2003.

Journals and Book Chapters

  • LNCS'13   First-Order Provenance Games.
    Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher, Daniel Zinn.
    In Search of Elegance in the Theory and Practice of Computation. Pages 382–399. 2013.
  • JCSS'10   Parallelizing XML Data-Streaming Workflows via Map-Reduce.    Slides: PPT PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Sven Köhler, Bertram Ludäscher.
    Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Special Issue on Workflows.
  • FGCS'09     Scientific Workflow Design for Mere Mortals.
    Timothy McPhillips, Shawn Bowers, Daniel Zinn, Bertram Ludaescher.
    Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS 2008), doi:10.1016/j.future.2008.06.013.
  • digma 03/08    Wer sucht, der findet (nicht immer).
    Daniel Zinn.
    digma ­ Zeitschrift fuer Datenrecht und Informationssicherheit, Heft 3, September 2008.

Smaller Conferences & Workshops

  • ADMS'14 Multipredicate Join Algorithms for Accelerating Relational Graph Processing on GPUs.
    Haicheng Wu, Daniel Zinn, Molham Aref, and Sudhakar Yalamanchili.
    Fifth International Workshop on Accelerating Data Management Systems Using Modern Processor and Storage Architectures (ADMS 2014). Sepember 2014.
  • SSDBM'11  ProPub: A Declarative Approach for Publishing Customized, Policy-Aware Provenance.
    Saumen C Dey, Daniel Zinn and Bertram Ludaescher.
    23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'11), Portland, OR, USA. July 2011.
  • SSDBM'11  Improving Workflow Fault Tolerance through Provenance-based Recovery.
    Sven Koehler, Sean Riddle, Daniel Zinn, Timothy Mcphillips and Bertram Ludaescher.
    23rd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'11), Portland, OR, USA. July 2011.
  • WORKS'10    Streaming Satellite Data to Cloud Workflows for On-Demand Computing of Environmental Data Products. Slides: PPT PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Quinn Hart, Bertram Ludäscher, Yogesh Simmhan.
    5th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS 2010), New Orleans, LA, November 2010.
  • IPAW'10   Abstract Provenance Graphs: Anticipating and Exploiting Schema-Level Data Provenance. Slides: PPT PDF TechReport: PDF
    Daniel Zinn and Bertram     Ludäscher.
    Third International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW 2010), Troy, NY, USA, June 2010.
  • WORKS'09    Scientific Workflow Design with Data Assembly Lines.   Slides: PPT PDF
    Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, Bertram Ludäscher.
    4th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS 2009), Portland, OR, November 2009.
  • PTMini'09    Parallel Virtual Machines in Kepler. Slides: PPT PDF Poster: PPT PDF
  • Daniel Zinn, Xuan Li, Bertram Ludaescher.
  • 8th Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference, Berkeley, CA, USA. April 2009.
  • EDBT PhD'08    Modeling and Optimization of Scientific Workflows.    Slides: PDF
    Daniel Zinn.
    EDBT 2008 Ph.D. Workshop (EDBT Ph.D. 2008), Nantes, France, March 2008.
  • DBISP2P'05     Processing Rank-Aware Queries in P2P Systems. 
    Marcel Karnstedt, Katja Hose, Anke Koch, Kai-Uwe Sattler, and Daniel Zinn.
    Third International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2005), Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
  • WebDB'05     Processing Top-N Queries in P2P-based Web Integration Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees. 
    Katja Hose, Marcel Karnstedt, Kai-Uwe Sattler, and Daniel Zinn.
    Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on the Web & Databases (WebDB 2005), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, June 2005.

Thesis, Techreports, Class Papers

  • Dissertation    Modeling and Optimization of Scientific Workflows.
    Daniel Zinn.
    Dissertation, University of California at Davis, January 2010.
  • Master's Thesis     Skyline Queries in Peer-to-peer Systems.
    Daniel Zinn.
    Diplomarbeit, TU Ilmenau, Germany, August 2005.
  • Student Project     MLDesigner’s NS2 Domain. [Slides]
    Daniel Zinn.
    TU Ilmenau, Germany, December 2004.

Older Writeups

      MLDesigner’s Network Building Set
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      Advanced Research Seminar: Profiler tools for Linux (german)
      Slides: Advanced Research Seminar: Profiler tools for Linux (german)

      Advanced Research Seminar: SELinux as Kernel Module (german)
      Slides: Advanced Research Seminar: SELinux as Kernel Module (german)







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