Journal Papers

  1. E. Demir, C. Aykanat, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "A link-based storage scheme for efficient aggregate query processing on clustered road networks", Information Systems, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 75-93, 2010.

  2. A. Sharma, T. Pan, B.B. Cambazoglu, M. Gurcan, T. Kurc, and J. Saltz, "VirtualPACS: a federating gateway to access remote image data resources over the grid", Journal of Digital Imaging, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2009.

  3. T. Kucukyilmaz, B.B. Cambazoglu, F. Can, and C. Aykanat, "Chat mining: predicting user and message attributes in computer-mediated communication", Information Processing & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1448-1466, 2008.

  4. E. Demir, C. Aykanat, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "Clustering spatial networks for aggregate query processing: A hypergraph approach", Information Systems, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2008.

  5. C. Aykanat, B.B. Cambazoglu, and B. Ucar, "Multi-level hypergraph partitioning with multiple constraints and fixed vertices", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 609-625, 2008.

  6. S. Langella, S. Hastings, S. Oster, T. Pan, A. Sharma, J. Permar, D. Ervin, B.B. Cambazoglu, T. Kurc, and J. Saltz, "Sharing data and analytical resources securely in a biomedical research grid environment", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 363-373, 2008.

  7. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "Hypergraph-partitioning-based remapping models for image-space-parallel direct volume rendering of unstructured grids", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 3-16, 2007.

  8. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, E. Karaca, C. Aykanat, and T. Kucukyilmaz, "Architecture of a grid-enabled search engine", Information Processing & Management, Special Issue on Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Retrieval, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 609-623, 2007.

  9. C. Aykanat, B.B. Cambazoglu, F. Findik, and T. Kurc, "Adaptive decomposition and remapping algorithms for object-space-parallel direct volume rendering of unstructured grids", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 77-99, 2007.

  10. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "Performance of query processing implementations in ranking-based text retrieval systems using inverted indices", Information Processing & Management, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 875-898, 2006.


  11. Journal Submissions

  12. A. Cevahir, C. Aykanat, A. Turk, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "Site-based partitioning and repartitioning techniques for parallel PageRank computation", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (submitted).


  13. Conference Proceedings

  14. R. Baeza-Yates, P. Boldi, B. Ribeiro-Neto, and B.B. Cambazoglu, Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, February 2009.

  15. Book Chapters

  16. U.V. Catalyurek, S. Narayanan, O. Sertel, J. Kong, B.B. Cambazoglu, T. Pan, A. Sharma, S. Hastings, S. Langella, S. Oster, T. Kurc, M. Gurcan, and J. Saltz, "Service-based access to and processing of large scientific datasets", in L. Grandinetti (ed.), High performance computing and grids in action, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2008.

  17. Conference/Workshop Papers

  18. B.B. Cambazoglu, H. Zaragoza, and O. Chapelle, "Early exit optimizations for additive machine learned ranking systems", Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, New York, NY, February 2010.

  19. B.B. Cambazoglu, C. Drome, P. D'Alberto, H. Zaragoza, and A. Dasdan, "YMiss!: An automatic debugger for Yahoo! search relevance problems", Proceedings of Tech Pulse 2009, San Jose, CA, September/October 2009.

  20. B.B. Cambazoglu, V. Plachouras, and R. Baeza-Yates, "Quantifying performance and quality gains in distributed Web search engines", Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 411-418, Boston, MA, July 2009.

  21. B.B. Cambazoglu, F. Junqueira, V. Plachouras, and L. Telloli, "On the feasibility of geographically distributed Web crawling" (invited paper), Proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems, Vico Equense, Italy, June 2008.

  22. M.N. Gurcan, J. Kong, O. Sertel, B.B. Cambazoglu, J. Saltz, and U.V. Catalyurek, "Computerized pathological image analysis for neuroblastoma prognosis", Proceedings of the 2007 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2007.

  23. A. Cevahir, C. Aykanat, A. Turk, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "A Web-site-based partitioning technique for reducing preprocessing overhead of parallel PageRank computation", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4699, pp. 908-918, September 2007.

  24. B.B. Cambazoglu, O. Sertel, J. Kong, J. Saltz, M.N. Gurcan, and U.V. Catalyurek, "Efficient processing of pathological images using the grid: computer-aided prognosis of neuroblastoma", Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, pp. 35-41, Monterey Bay, CA, June 2007.

  25. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Catal, and C. Aykanat, "Effect of inverted index partitioning schemes on performance of query processing in parallel text retrieval systems", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4263, pp. 717-725, October 2006.

  26. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "A term-based inverted index organization for communication-efficient parallel query processing", IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, Tokio, Japan, October 2006.

  27. T. Kucukyilmaz, B.B. Cambazoglu, C. Aykanat, and F. Can, "Chat mining for gender prediction", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4243, pp. 274-283, October 2006.

  28. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, E. Karaca, C. Aykanat, B. Ucar, and T. Kucukyilmaz, "SE4SEE: a grid-enabled search engine for South-East Europe", Proceedings of Hypermedia and Grid Systems Conference, pp. 223-227, Opatija, Croatia, May 2005.

  29. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Turk, and C. Aykanat, "Data-parallel Web crawling models", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3280, pp. 801-809, 2004.

  30. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "Image-space-parallel direct volume rendering on a cluster of PCs", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2869, pp. 457-464, 2003.


  31. Conference/Workshop Abstracts

  32. T. Pan, A. Sharma, B.B. Cambazoglu, and J. Saltz, "Protecting data privacy with on-demand deployment of CAD algorithms to process local data: a novel use of grid technology in diagnostic imaging", Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Charlotte, NC, June 2009.

  33. E. Okuyan, E. Kayaaslan, C. Aykanat, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "Task repartitioning under data replication with memory constraints", Dagstuhl Seminar on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Dagstuhl, Germany, February 2009.

  34. T. Pan, A. Sharma, B.B. Cambazoglu, and J. Saltz, "DIAS: a role-based authorization system for images in grid environments", Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Seattle, WA, May 2008.

  35. T. Pan, J. Permar, S. Langella, A. Sharma, S. Oster, S. Hastings, B.B. Cambazoglu, and J. Saltz, "Data-level authorization for image sharing in the grid environment", 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, November 2007.

  36. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "Remapping models for scientific computing via graph and hypergraph partitioning", Third SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, Costa Mesa, CA, February 2007.

  37. B.B. Cambazoglu, T. Pan, A. Sharma, V. Kumar, J. Kong, O. Sertel, M. Gurcan, U.V. Catalyurek, and J. Saltz, "A grid-enabled image processing infrastructure for large pathology images", Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Anatomic Pathology Informatics and Imaging Support for Translational Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2007.


  38. Book Reviews

  39. B.B. Cambazoglu, "Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice", Information Processing & Management (submitted).

  40. Tutorials

  41. R. Baeza-Yates and B.B. Cambazoglu, "Distributed Web retrieval", 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Montpellier, France, June 18-20, 2008.

  42. Posters

  43. S. Tatikonda, F. Junqueira, B.B. Cambazoglu, and V. Plachouras, "On efficient posting list intersection with multicore processors", Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, pp. 738-739, Boston, MA, July 20, 2009.

  44. J. Kong, O. Sertel, J. Prescott, A. Ruiz, H. Shimada, G. Lozanski, J. Wang, D. Zhang, N. Mayr, W. Yuh, A. Shanaah, F. Racke, B.B. Cambazoglu, M. Ujaldon, U. Catalyurek, K.L. Boyer, J. Saltz, and M. Gurcan, "Medical image understanding: applications to histopathology and radiology", A One-Day Ohio Imaging Symposium, Columbus, OH, October 19, 2007.

  45. A. Sharma, T. Pan, B.B. Cambazoglu, J. Permar, S. Hastings, M. Gurcan, T.M. Kurc, and J. Saltz, "IVI toolkit: grid-enabling biomedical imaging applications and image archives in Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)", Joint NCRI Informatics - caBIG Conference, London, UK, July 12-13, 2007.

  46. M. Gurcan, T. Pan, A. Sharma, B. Rutt, B.B. Cambazoglu, and J. Saltz, "GridImage: a grid computing platform for radiological and pathological image analysis", Annual Meeting of the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, Providence, RI, USA, June 7-9, 2007.

  47. O. Sertel, J. Kong, B.B. Cambazoglu, H. Shimada, U.V. Catalyurek, J. Saltz, and M.N. Gurcan, "Computerized analysis of pathological images: detection of stroma regions for neuroblastoma classification", 6th Annual OSUMC Graduate and Postgraduate Research Day, Columbus, OH, USA, March 29, 2007.

  48. J. Kong, O. Sertel, B.B. Cambazoglu, H. Shimada, K. Boyer, J. Saltz, and M.N. Gurcan, "Computerized analysis of pathological images: grading of neuroblastic differentiation", 6th Annual OSUMC Graduate and Postgraduate Research Day, Columbus, OH, USA, March 29, 2007.


  49. Theses

  50. B.B. Cambazoglu, "Models and algorithms for parallel text retrieval", PhD Thesis, Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, January 2006.

  51. B.B. Cambazoglu, "A hypergraph-partitioning-based remapping model for image-space parallel volume rendering", MSc Thesis, Computer Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2000.


  52. Talks/Demonstrations

  53. B.B. Cambazoglu, "Improving search", talk at Yahoo! Search Workshop, Santa Clara, CA, February 25, 2009.

  54. B.B. Cambazoglu, "YMiss!", talk at Yahoo! Search Workshop, Santa Clara, CA, July 30, 2008.

  55. B.B. Cambazoglu, "In vivo imaging middleware and its applications", talk at 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, November 27, 2007.

  56. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Sharma, and T. Pan, "Federated query processing infrastructure", demonstration at caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, October 11, 2007.

  57. B.B. Cambazoglu, A. Sharma, T. Pan, "caMicroscope: remote pathology image viewer", demonstration at caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace Meeting, Saint Louis, MO, October 11, 2007.

  58. T. Pan, J. Permar, A. Sharma, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "In vivo imaging middleware security infrastructure", demonstration at caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, April 13, 2007.

  59. T. Pan, A. Sharma, and B.B. Cambazoglu, "GridImage: grid computing to support human markup and multiple CAD systems", talk and demonstration at Annual caBIG Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, February 6, 2007.

  60. T. Pan, A. Sharma, B.B. Cambazoglu, M.N. Gurcan, and J. Saltz, "VirtualPACS federation toolkit", demonstration at 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, USA, November 27-December 1, 2006.

  61. B.B. Cambazoglu and E. Karaca, "SEE-GRID project regional application: search engine for South-East Europe", talk and demonstration at SEE-GRID Project Final Review Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey, May 3, 2006.

  62. B.B. Cambazoglu, "The SE4SEE grid application", invited talk at TUBITAK/ULAKBIM National Grid Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, September 21, 2005.

  63. B.B. Cambazoglu, "SE4SEE: a grid-enabled search engine", talk at SEE-GRID Project Review Meeting, Opatija, Croatia, May 30, 2005.


  64. Technical Reports

  65. B.B. Cambazoglu and C. Aykanat, "Harbinger machine learning toolkit manual", Technical report, BU-CE-0502, Bilkent University, Computer Engineering Deptartment, Ankara, Turkey, 2005.