Wenfei Fan - Selected Publications#

Yang Cao and Wenfei Fan.
An effective syntax for bounded relational queries.
ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 599-614, 2016.
(Proposed a resource-bounded scheme for querying big data; deployed at Huawei Technologies; improved call-detail-record queries at Huawei from 25 times to 5 orders of magnitude).

Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Nan Tang, and Wenyuan Yu.
Towards certain fixes with editing rules and master data.
The VLDB Journal 21(2): 213-238, 2012.
(Full version of the best paper award winner at VLDB 2010; proposed models and algorithms for cleaning critical data (e.g., medical records) with accuracy guarantees; invited to a premier database journal VLDBJ; cited over 95 times).

Wenfei Fan and Floris Geerts.
Foundations of Data Quality Management, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012.
(The first monograph that covers all central issues of data quality; cited over 120 times).

Wenfei Fan, Jianzhong Li, Shuai Ma, Hongzhi Wang, and Yinghui Wu.
Graph pattern matching: From intractable to polynomial time.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 3 (1-2): 264-275, 2010. (An influential paper on social graph analysis, cited over 165 times).

Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis.
Conditional functional dependencies for capturing data inconsistencies.
ACM Transactions on Database Systems 33 (2), 2008.
(Full version of the best paper award winner at ICDE 2007; proposed a dependency theory for data consistency, which has been adopted by industry and implemented by commercial data quality tools, with a US patent issued; together with its conference version, it gathered over 530 citations).

Wenfei Fan.
Dependencies revisited for improving data quality.
ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS) 159-170, 2008 (An invited paper to PODS; cited over 185 times)

Michael Benedikt, Wenfei Fan, and Floris Geerts.
XPath satisfiability in the presence of DTDs.
Journal of the ACM (JACM) 55 (2), 2008.
(Full version of the test-of-time award winner at ACM PODS 2015; as put by the award citation, it studied "a classical problem associated with query languages", "contains a treasure trove of complexity results and
proof techniques", "has influenced many researchers, and it is considered today the standard reference for complexity results on the satisfiability problem for XPath expressions"; invited to the top CS
journal JACM, and cited over 280 times).

Wenfei Fan, Chee Yong Chan, Minos N. Garofalakis.
Secure XML Querying with Security Views.
International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 587-598, 2004 (An influential paper on XML access control, with a US patent issued; cited over 345 times).

Wenfei Fan and Jérôme Siméon.
Integrity constraints for XML.
Journal of Computer and System Sciences 66(1): 254-291, 2003.
(Full version of the test-of-time award winner at ACM PODS 2010; started the line of research on XML constraints, now a mature area from theory to practice to standards; invited to a major CS journal JCSS, and
cited over 275 times).

Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carmem S. Hara, Wang Chiew Tan.
Keys for XML.
Computer Networks 39(5): 473-487, 2002.
(The recipient of the best paper of the year award; its conference version received the Merit Award at WWW; it proposed a primitive form of constraints for XML, which has been included by W3C XML Schema; cited over 455 times)

(Following conventions in the subject, authors are usually listed alphabetically.)

Wenfei authored over 160 research papers, mostly in top venues including JACM, SICOMP and premier database journals TODS. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wenfei/publication.html

He is one of the few researchers who regularly publishes in both premierd database theory conference PODS (18), and top database systems conferences SIGMOD (18), VLDB (PVLDB, 29) and ICDE (14).

Wenfei is the only one in the international database community who has collected awards from all four leading conferences for database theory and database systems: SIGMOD, PODS (twice), VLDB and ICDE (twice). Moreover, each and every of his former PhD students has received an award from at least one of these four conferences.

According to Google Scholar, his papers gathered over 8100 citations; his h-index is 48, and i10-index is 103.