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Publications
Combinatorics
- Stones, Wanless, Divisors of the number of Latin rectangles, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, 117
(2010), pp. 204-215.
- Stones, Wanless, Compound orthomorphisms of the cyclic group. Finite Fields Appl., 16 (2010)
pp. 277-289.
- Stones, The many formulae for the number of Latin rectangles. Electron. J. Combin., 17 (2010):
A1.
- Stones, The parity of the number of quasigroups. Discrete Math., 310 (2010) pp. 3033-3039.
- Cavenagh, Hämäläinen, Lefevre, Stones, Multi-Latin squares. Discrete Math., 311
(2011), pp. 1164-1171.
- Cavenagh, Stones, Near-automorphisms of Latin squares. J. Combin. Des., 19 (2011), pp. 365-377.
- Stones, Wanless, A congruence connecting Latin rectangles and partial orthomorphisms. Ann. Comb.,
16 (2012) pp. 349-365.
- Stones, Vojtěchovský,
Wanless, Cycle structure of autotopisms of quasigroups and Latin squares. J. Combin. Des., 20 (2012) pp. 227-263.
- Stones, Formulae for the Alon-Tarsi Conjecture. SIAM J. Discrete Math., 26 (2012), pp. 65-70.
- Stones, Wanless, How not to prove the Alon-Tarsi Conjecture. Nagoya Math. J., 205 (2012),
pp. 1-24.
- Browning, Stones, Wanless, Bounds on the number of autotopisms and subsquares of a Latin square. Combinatorica,
33 (2013) pp. 11-22.
- Stones, Symmetries of partial Latin squares. European J. Combin., 34 (2013) pp. 1092-1107.
- Evans, Fear, Stones, Diagonally cyclic equitable rectangles. Des. Codes Cryptogr., 76 (2015) pp. 551-569. [Thus I have Erdős number 2]
- Fálcon, Stones, Classifying partial Latin rectangles. Electron. Notes Discrete
Math., 49 (2015) pp. 765-771.
- Stones, Su, Liu, Wang, Lin, A Latin square autotopism secret sharing scheme. Des. Codes Cryptogr., 80 (2016) pp. 635-650.
- Stones, Lin, Liu, Wang, On computing the number of Latin rectangles. Graphs. Combin., 32 (2016) pp. 1187-1202. [Warning: Figures 5 and 6 contain errors.]
- Fálcon, Stones, Partial Latin rectangle graphs and autoparatopism groups of partial Latin rectangles with trivial autotopism groups. Discrete Math., 340 (2017) pp. 1242-1260.
- Best, Marbach, Stones, Wanless, Covers and partial transversals of Latin squares. To appear in Des. Codes Cryptogr.
- Danan, Fálcon, Kotlar, Marbach, Stones, Two-line graphs of partial Latin rectangles. Electron. Notes Discrete Math., 68 (2018) pp. 53--58.
Graph theory and networks
- Li, Stones, Wang, Deng, Liu, Wang, NetMODE: Network motif detection without Nauty. PLoS One, 7 (2012):
e50093. (source code)
- Stones, Computing the number of h-edge spanning forests in complete bipartite graphs. Discrete
Math. Theor. Comput. Sci., 16 (2014), pp. 313-326. (source code)
- Mani, Stones, Congruences for the weighted number of labeled forests. Integers, 16 (2016): A17.
- Mani, Stones, The number of labeled connected graphs modulo prime powers. SIAM J. Discrete Math, 30 (2016), pp. 1046-1057.
- Kazemi, Pahlavsay, Stones, Cartesian product graphs and k-tuple total domination. To appear in FILOMAT. (arXiv)
Search engines
- Ao, Zhang, Wu, Stones, Wang, Liu, Liu, Lin, Efficient parallel lists intersection and index compression algorithms using graphics processing units. Proc. Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Endowment, 4 (2011) pp. 470-481.
- Tong, Wang, Stones, Sun, Liu,
Zhang, Exploiting query term correlation for list caching in web search engines. Proc. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM, 2013), pp. 1817-1820.
- Zhang, Sun, Tong, Stones, Wang,
Liu, Compact snippet caching for flash-based search engines. Proc. ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2015), pp. 1015-1018.
- Zhang, Ye, Huang, Stones, Wang, Liu, NBLucene: Flexible and efficient open source search engine. Proc. International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2016).
- Zhang, Tong, Huang, Liang, Li, Stones,
Wang, Liu, Leveraging context-free grammar for efficient inverted index compression. Proc. ACM Special Interest Group on
Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2016), pp. 275-284.
- Yang, Tong, Stones, Zhang, Ye, Wang, Liu, Selective term proximity scoring via BP-ANN, Proc. ACM SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR 2016).
- Huang, Ren, Zhao, Stones, Zhang, Wang, Liu, GPU-accelerated block-max query processing. Proc. International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2017), pp. 225-238.
- Jiao, Ye, Zhao, Stones, Wang, Liu, Wang, Xie, Detecting TCP-based DDoS attacks in Baidu cloud computing data centers. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2017). (pdf)
- Wang, Yu, Stones, Ren, Wang, Liu, Ren, Efficient GPU-based query processing with pruned list caching in search engines. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2017). (pdf)
- Liu, Zhang, Hou, Stones, Wang, Liu, Index Compression for BitFunnel Query Processing. Proc. ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018).
Codes
- Lin, Wang, Stones, Liu, Liu, T-Code: 3-erasure longest lowest-density MDS codes. IEEE J. Sel. Areas
Commun., 28 (2010), pp. 289-296.
- Lin, Xu, Stones, Shi, Wang, New Pattern Erasure Codes, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
(ISIT), (2013), pp. 1899-1903.
Phylogenetics
- Zhou, Liu, Stones, Xie, Wang, MrBayes on a Graphics Processing Unit. Bioinformatics, 27 (2011)
pp. 1255-1261.
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Pang, Stones, Ren, Liu, Wang, Xia, Wu, Liu,
Xie, GPU MrBayes V3.1: MrBayes on graphics processing units for protein sequence data. Mol. Biol. Evol, 32 (2015), pp. 2496-2497.
- Pang, Stones, Liu, Wang, Xia, MrBayes for phylogenetic inference using protein data on a GPU cluster. In Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9530 (2015), pp. 267-280.
Data storage
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- Ma, Stones, Ma, Wang, Ren, Wang, Liu, Lazy exact deduplication. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2016). (pdf)
- Ma, Stones, Ma, Wang, Ren, Wang, Liu, Lazy exact deduplication. Trans. Storage, 13 (2017).
- Pang, Jia, Stones, Wang, Liu, A combined Bayesian network method for predicting drive failure times from SMART attributes. Proc. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2016).
- Li, Jin, Stones, Wang, Li, Liu, Parallelizing degraded read for erasure coded storage systems using collective communications, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2016). (pdf)
- Li, Li, Stones, Wang, Li, Liu, ProCode: A proactive erasure coding scheme for cloud storage systems. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2016). (pdf)
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- Li, Stones, Wang, Li, Liu, Xiao, Being accurate is not enough: New metrics for disk failure prediction. Proc. IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2016).
- Li, Stones, Wang, Liu, Li, Ding, New metrics for disk failure prediction that go beyond prediction accuracy. To appear in IEEE Access.
- Li, Stones, Wang, Liu, Li, Xu, Hard drive failure prediction using decision trees. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 164 (2017), pp. 55-65.
- Zhao, Shen, Li, Stones, Wang, Liu, An efficient fault-tolerance framework for distributed in-memory caching systems. To appear in Proc. ICPADS 2018.
- Li, Li, Stones, Wang, Li, Liu, Reliability equations for cloud storage systems with proactive fault tolerance. To appear in IEEE Trans. Dependable Secure Comput.
Gender studies
- Stones, Which gender is more concerned about transgender women in female bathrooms? Gend. Issues, 34 (2017), pp. 275-291. (MedicalXpress press release)
Recent presentations
- 41st Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (41ACCMCC), The University of Waikato, Australia. 13 December 2018. Contributed talk: Computing the autotopism group of a partial Latin rectangle. (talk slides)
- Design Theory Workshop in Honor of Curt Lindner's 80th Birthday, Koç Üniversitesi, Turkey. 4 September 2018. (talk slides)
- 第八届全国组合数学与图论大会, China. 23-26 August 2018. (talk slides)
- The Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences (KWMS) 14th International Conference, Korea. 30 June 2018. (talk slides)
- The Japanese Conference on Combinatorics and its Applications (JCCA 2018), Japan, 21 May 2018.
Contributed talk: Enumerating partial Latin rectangles. (talk slides)
- Cairo University, Egypt, 8 February 2018. Seminar: Covers and partial transversals of Latin squares. (talk slides)
- 5th International Combinatorics Conference, Monash University, Australia, 5 December 2017. Contributed talk: Balanced equi-n-squares: a generalization of Latin squares. (talk slides)
- University of Seville, Spain. 5 April 2017. Seminar: A Latin square autotopism secret sharing scheme. (talk slides)
- Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Turkey. 23 March 2017. Seminar: Totally autoparastrophic and trivially autotopic partial Latin squares. (talk slides)
- Nankai University, China. 3 March 2017. Seminar: Computing the symmetries of partial Latin rectangles. (talk slides)
- Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. 25 February 2017. Seminar: Partial Latin rectangles graphs and symmetries of partial Latin rectangles. (talk slides)
- Monash University, Australia. 19 December 2016. Seminar: Computing autotopism groups of partial Latin rectangles: a pilot study. (talk slides)
- 40th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (40ACCMCC), The University of Newcastle, Australia. 14 December 2016. Contributed talk: Cartesian product graphs and k-tuple total domination. (talk slides)
- 35th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS, 2016), Hungary. 27 September 2016. Paper presentation: Being Accurate Is Not Enough: New Metrics for Disk Failure Prediction. (talk slides)
- Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Iran. 28 July 2016. Symmetries of partial Latin rectangles via graphs. (talk slides)
- 3rd Istanbul Design Theory, Graph Theory and Combinatorics Workshop, Koç Üniversitesi, Turkey. 16 June 2016. Contributed talk: Partial Latin squares with no non-trivial autotopisms and six autoparatopisms. (talk slides)
- University of Seville, Spain. 19 May 2016. Seminar: Reliability equations for large storage systems with proactive fault tolerance. (talk slides)
- 32nd International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2016), Santa Clara University, USA. 5 May 2016. Paper presentation: Lazy exact deduplication. (talk slides)
- Monash University, Australia. 21 March 2016. Seminar: The infrequency of crimes by (pretend) transgender women in female bathrooms. (talk slides)
- Monash University, Australia. 31 August 2015. Seminar: Weights of partial Latin rectangles with specified symmetry groups. (talk slides)
- University of Seville, Spain. 15 July 2015. Seminar: Diagonally cyclic equitable rectangles. (talk slides)
- 25th British Combinatorial Conference, University of Warwick, England. 7 July 2015. Contributed talk: Counting partial Latin rectangles. (talk slides)
- 38th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (38ACCMCC), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 1-5 December 2014. Contributed talk: A Latin square autotopism secret sharing scheme. (talk slides)
Co-authors
- Naiyong Ao.
- Darcy Best, Google, USA.
- Joshua Browning.
- Nick Cavenagh, University of Waikato, New Zealand.
- Hualiang Deng.
- Eiran Danan, Tel-Hai College, Israel.
- Jianli Ding.
- Anthony B. Evans, Wright State University, USA.
- Raúl Fálcon, University of Seville, Spain.
- David Fear.
- Carlo Hämäläinen.
- Boran Hou.
- Haibing Huang.
- Jiayi Huang.
- Yuhan Jia.
- Jiahui Jiao.
- Xingtong Jin.
- Adel Kazemi, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Iran.
- Dani Kotlar, Tel-Hai College, Israel.
- James Lefevre, University of Queensland, Australia.
- Jin Liang.
- Jing Li, Civil Aviation University of China, China.
- Peng Li.
- Tianlong Li.
- Xin Li, Google, USA.
- Yusen Li, Nankai University, China.
- Zhongwei Li, Nankai University, China.
- Sheng Lin, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China.
- Jing Liu, Nankai University, China.
- Xiaoguang Liu, Nankai University, China.
- Xinyu Liu.
- Yang Liu.
- Shen Lu.
- Jingwei Ma.
- Yuxiang Ma.
- Arun Mani, University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Trent Marbach, Nankai University, China.
- Shuai Pang.
- Behnaz Pahlavsay, Hokudai University, Japan.
- Junjie Ren, Microsoft, Canada.
- Mingming Ren, Nankai University, China.
- Kai Shi.
- Ming Su, Nankai University, China.
- Pengyu Sun, Baidu, China.
- Shizhao Sun.
- Jiancong Tong, Baidu, China.
- Petr Vojtěchovský, University of Denver, USA.
- Gang Wang, Nankai University, China.
- Dongdong Wang.
- Haidong Wang.
- Jingui Wang.
- Jinsong Wang.
- Shaoyan Wang.
- Ian M. Wanless, Monash University, Australia. (Wikipedia)
- Di Wu, Toutiao, China.
- Haoyang Wu.
- Hongju Xia.
- Kang Xiao.
- Qiang Xie, Nankai University, China.
- Guangping Xu.
- Ming Xu.
- Ju Yang.
- Benjun Ye.
- Wenqing Yu.
- Fan Zhang, Google, USA.
- Rui Zhang.
- Zhaohua Zhang.
- Shuaibing Zhao.
- Yue Zhao.
- Jianfu Zhou, Dartmouth College, USA.


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