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USENIX'09 "Black-Box Performance Control for High-Volume Non-Interactive Systems," by Chunqiang Tang, Sunjit Tara, Rong N. Chang, and Chun Zhang. The 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. San Diego, CA, June 2009. Talk slides.
USENIX'09 "vPath: Precise Discovery of Request Processing Paths from Black-Box Observations of Thread and Network Activities," by Byung Chul Tak, Chunqiang Tang, Chun Zhang, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Rong N. Chang. The 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. San Diego, CA, June 2009. Talk slides.
Byung Chul was my summer intern in 2008 and 2009, and we started this project at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Middleware'09 "DSF: A Common Platform for Distributed Systems Research and Development," by Chunqiang Tang. The 2009 ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference. Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA, Nov. 2009.
AMIA'09 "Automatic Home Nursing Activity Recommendation," by Gang Luo and Chunqiang Tang. The 2009 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium. San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2009.
MIE'09 "Intelligent Consumer-Centric Electronic Medical Record," by Gang Luo, Selena B. Thomas, and Chunqiang Tang. The XXII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, pp. 120-124. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2009.
SCC'09 "An Optimal Capacity Planning Algorithm for Provisioning Cluster-Based Failure-Resilient Composite Services," by Chun Zhang, Rong N. Chang, Chang-shing Perng, Edward So, Chungqiang Tang, and Tao Tao. IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. Bangalore, India, September 2009.

SIGIR'08 "On Iterative Intelligent Medical Search," by Gang Luo and Chunqiang Tang. The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. Singapore, July 2008.
CIKM'08 "MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information," by Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, and Xing Wei. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Napa Valley, California, October, 2008.
ICPR'08 "Challenging Issues in Iterative Intelligent Medical Search," by Gang Luo and Chunqiang Tang. The 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Tampa, Florida, December 2008.

ICWS'08 "A Temporal Data-Mining Approach for Discovering End-to-End Transaction Flows", by Ting Wang, Chang-shing Perng, Tao Tao, Chungqiang Tang, Edward So, Chun Zhang, Rong Chang, and Ling Liu. The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Beijing, China, September 2008.
SCC'08 "Leveraging Service Composition Relationship to Improve CPU Demand Estimation in SOA Environments", by Chun Zhang, Rong Chang, Chang-Shing Perng, Edward So, Chunqiang Tang, and Tao Tao. The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, July 2008.
SIGMOD'07 "Resource-Adaptive Real-Time New Event Detection," by Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, and Philip S. Yu. The 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, June 2007.
Business Impact: This work has been implemented in an exploratory stream processing system, which was deemed "ready to make its way into the marketplace" in a New York Times report.
WWW'07 "A Scalable Application Placement Controller for Enterprise Data Centers," by Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Michael Spreitzer, and Giovanni Pacifici. The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 331-340, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007. Talk slides
Business Impact: An extended version of the algorithm in this paper has been implemented and shipped as a subcomponent of a leading commercial product.
WWW'07 "Answering Relationship Queries on the Web," by Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, and Ying-li Tian. The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 561-570, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007. Talk slides
WWW'07 Poster "MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information," by Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, and Xing Wei. The 16th International World Wide Web Conference, pages 1175-1176, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2007.
SCC'07 "QoS-Aware Optimization of Composite-Service Fulfillment Policy," by Chun Zhang, Rong Chang, Chang-Shing Perng, Edward So, Chunqiang Tang, and Tao Tao. The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, May 2007.
IM'07 "A Service Middleware that Scales in System Size and Applications," by Constantin Adam, Rolf Stadler, Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Michael Spreitzer. The 2007 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Munich, Germany, May 2007.
Part of this work was done while Constantin Adam was working as a summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
LADIS'07 "P2P for Enterprise Middleware," by David Chess, Mike Spreitzer, Malgorzata Steinder, Asser Tantawi, Ian Whalley, and Chunqiang Tang. The 2007 Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware Workshop. Haifa, Israel, March, 2007. Talk slides
Business Impact: This paper is related to the P2P enterprise middleware I developed, which has been shipped as a subcomponent of a leading commercial product,
SCC'06
Best Paper		 "A Distributed Service Management Infrastructure for Enterprise Data Centers Based on Peer-to-Peer Technology," by Chunqiang Tang, Rong N. Chang, and Edward So. The 2006 International Conference on Services Computing. Chicago, USA, September, 2006. Winner of the Best Paper Award out of the 66 accepted papers (full, short, and industry papers). Talk slides
Business Impact: This paper is related to the P2P enterprise middleware I developed, which has been shipped as a subcomponent of a leading commercial product,
INFOCOM'06 "Impact of the Inaccuracy of Distance Prediction Algorithms on Internet Applications---an Analytical and Comparative Study", by Rongmei Zhang, Chunqiang Tang, Y. Charlie Hu, Sonia Fahmy, and Xiaojun Lin. IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2006. Talk slides.
Part of this work was done while Rongmei Zhang was working as a summer intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
PASSWORD'06 "On Estimating the Security Risks of Composite Software Services," by Jian Yin, Chunqiang Tang, Xiaolan Zhang, and Michael McIntosh. The PASSWORD Workshop. Nantes, France, July, 2006.
SIGMETRICS'05 "Low Traffic Overlay Networks with Large Routing Tables," by Chunqiang Tang, Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Laura Z. Luan, Edward So, and Christopher Ward. The 2005 International Conference on Measurements and Modeling of Computer Systems (ACM SIGMETRICS'05), pages 14-25. Banff, Canada, June 2005. Talk slides.
Business Impact: This paper is related to the P2P enterprise middleware I developed, which has been shipped as a subcomponent of a leading commercial product,
DSN'05 "GoCast: Gossip-enhanced Overlay Multicast for Fast and Dependable Group Communication," by Chunqiang Tang, Rong N. Chang, and Christopher Ward. The 2005 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN'05, DCCS track), pages 140-149. Yokohama, Japan, June 2005. Talk slides.
Business Impact: This paper is related to the P2P enterprise middleware I developed, which has been shipped as a subcomponent of a leading commercial product,
ICWS'05 "Fresco: A Web Services based Framework for Configuring Extensible SLA Management Systems," by Christopher Ward, Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Z. Luan, Edward So, and Chunqiang Tang. The 2005 International Conference on Web Services. Orlando, Florida, July 2005.
SCC'05 "PEM: A Framework Enabling Continual Optimization of Workflow Process Executions Based upon Business Value Metrics," by Melissa J. Buco, Rong N. Chang, Laura Z. Luan, Edward So, Chunqiang Tang, Christopher Ward. The 2005 International Conference on Services Computing, Industry Track. Orlando, Florida, July 2005.
TGRS'05 "A Hybrid Contextual Approach to Wildland Fire Detection Using Multispectral Imagery," Ying Li, Anthony Vodacek, Robert L. Kremens, Ambrose Ononye, and Chunqiang Tang. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. September 2005, volume 43, number 9, pp 2115-2126. (draft version)
SIGIR'04 "On Scaling Latent Semantic Indexing for Large Peer-to-Peer Systems," by Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Zhichen Xu. The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. Sheffield, UK, July, 2004. Talk slides.
NSDI'04 "Hybrid Global-Local Indexing for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval," by Chunqiang Tang and Sandhya Dwarkadas. First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. San Francisco, CA, March 2004. Talk slides.
IPDPS'04 "Integrating Remote Invocation and Distributed Shared State," by Chunqiang Tang, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott. The 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 2004. Talk slides.
Ph.D. Dissertation "Data Sharing and Information Retrieval in Wide-Area Distributed Systems," by Chunqiang Tang. University of Rochester, NY, August 2004. This dissertation contains comprehensive and detailed information on InterWeave, pSearch, and eSearch.
SIGCOMM'03 "Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Using Self-Organizing Semantic Overlay Networks," by Chunqiang Tang, Zhichen Xu, and Sandhya Dwarkadas. ACM SIGCOMM 2003. Karlsruhe, Germany, August 2003. Talk slides. Some open issues in this paper are addressed in our SIGIR'04 paper above and an earlier technical report HPL-2002-198 "Efficient Information Retrieval in Structured Overlays."
HotOS'03 "Towards a Semantic-Aware File Store," by Zhichen Xu, Magnus Karlsson, Chunqiang Tang and Christos Karamanolis. The 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX). Linhue, Hawaii, May 2003.
ICDCS'03 "Building Topology-Aware Overlays using Global Soft-State," by Zhichen Xu, Chunqiang Tang, and Zheng Zhang. The 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03). Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003.
ICDCS'03 "Efficient Distributed Shared State for Heterogeneous Machine Architectures," by Chunqiang Tang, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott. The 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003. Talk slides. Expanded version available as technical report URCS-TR-783 "Support for Machine and Language Heterogeneity in a Distributed Shared State System."
PPoPP'03 "Exploiting High-level Coherence Information to Optimize Distributed Shared State," by DeQing Chen, Chunqiang Tang, Brandon Sanders, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott. The 2003 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'03). San Diego, California, June 2003.
NOSSDAV'03 "RITA: Receiver Initiated Just-in-Time Tree Adaptation for Rich Media Distribution," by Zhichen Xu, Chunqiang Tang, Sujata Banerjee, and Sung-Ju Lee. The 13th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'03). Monterey, California, June 2003.
WIAPP'03 "Service Multicast for Media Distribution Networks," by Sujata Banerjee, Zhichen Xu, Sung-Ju Lee, and Chunqiang Tang. The 2003 IEEE Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP'03). San Jose, CA, June 2003.
FTDCS'03 "Towards a Semantic, Deep Archival File System," by Mallik Mahalingam, Chunqiang Tang, and Zhichen Xu. The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'003). San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2003.
FTDCS'03 "pFilter: Global Information Filtering and Dissemination Using Structured Overlay Networks," by Chunqiang Tang and Zhichen Xu. The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 2003. Expanded version available as technical report HPL-2002-304, October 2002.
FTDCS'03 "Distributed Shared State (position paper)," by Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Chunqiang Tang. The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS'03). San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2003.
ICPP'02
Best Paper		 "Multi-level Shared State for Distributed Systems," by DeQing Chen, Chunqiang Tang, Xiangchuan Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott. The 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'02). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 2002. Winner of the Best Paper Awardout of 67 accepted papers and 188 submissions. Earlier but expanded version available as technical report URCS-TR-744, "Beyond S-DSM: Shared State for Distributed Systems."
HotNets'02 "pSearch: Information Retrieval in Structured Overlays," by Chunqiang Tang, Zhichen Xu, and Mallik Mahalingam. First Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets I). Princeton, NJ, October 2002. Also appears in Computer Communication Review, 33(1):89-94, January 2003. Talk slides] Partially expanded version available as technical report HPL-2002-198, "PeerSearch: Efficient Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks." Note: the "PeerSearch" project eventually evolved into the "pSearch" project.
WC3'02 "JVM for a Heterogeneous Shared Memory System," by DeQing Chen, Chunqiang Tang, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott. The Second Workshop on Caching, Coherence, and Consistency (WC3 '02), in conjunction with ICS '02, New York, NY, June 2002.

Patent Applications as of 08/2004

12 patents were filed in year 2002-2003 while working at HP labs. IBM patents omitted.