Staff - Computing Science - Newcastle University

Dr Paolo Missier
Lecturer

Email: paolo.missier@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 386 6

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Moreau L, Clifford B, Freire J, Futrelle J, Gil Y, Groth P, Kwasnikowska N, Miles S, Missier P, Myers J, Plale B, Simmhan Y, Stephan E, Van den Bussche J. The Open Provenance Model Core Specification (v1.1). Future Generation Computer Systems 2011, 27(6), 743-756.
Missier P, Goble C. Workflows to Open Provenance Graphs, round-trip. Future Generation Computer Systems 2011, 27(6), 812-819.
Tan W, Missier P, Foster I, Madduri R, Goble C. A comparison of using Taverna and BPEL in building scientific workflows: the case of caGrid. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2010, 22(9), 1098-1117.
Sroka J, Hidders J, Missier P, Goble C. A formal semantics for the Taverna 2 workflow model. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 2010, 76(6), 490-508.
Pirro G, Trunfio P, Talia D, Missier P, Goble C. ERGOT: A Semantic-Based System for Service Discovery in Distributed Infrastructures. In: 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID '10). 2010, Melbourne, Australia: IEEE.
Missier P, Paton N, Belhajjame K. Fine-grained and efficient lineage querying of collection-based workflow provenance. In: EDBT/ICDT 2010 Joint Conference. 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland: EDBT.
Missier P, Wolstencroft K, Tanoh F, Li P, Bechhofer S, Belhajjame K, Goble C. Functional Units: Abstractions for Web Service Annotations. In: Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF). 2010, Miami, Florida, USA: IEEE.
Missier P, Sahoo SS, Zhao J, Sheth A, Goble C. Janus: from Workflows to Semantic Provenance and Linked Open Data. In: 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW). 2010, Troy, New York, USA: IPAW.
Missier P, Ludascher B, Bowers S, Anand MK, Altintas I, Dey S, Sarkar A, Shrestha B, Goble C. Seamless Provenance Representation and Use in Collaborative Science Scenarios [abstract]. In: AGU Fall Meeting. 2010, San Francisco, California, USA: AGU.
Missier P, Soiland-Reyes S, Owen S, Tan W, Nenadic A, Dunlop I, Williams A, Oinn T, Goble C. Taverna, reloaded. In: 22nd International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM). 2010, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Altintas I, Anand MK, Crawl D, Belloum A, Missier P, Goble C, Sloot P. Understanding Collaborative Studies Through Interoperable Workflow Provenance. In: 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW). 2010, Troy, New York, USA: IPAW.
Pirro G, Missier P, Trunfio P, Talia D, Falace G, Goble C. Combining DHTs and SONs for Semantic-Based Service Discovery. In: 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA). 2009, Pisa, Italy: IEEE.
Belhajjame K, Missier P, Goble C. Data Provenance in Scientific Workflows. In: Mario Cannataro, ed. Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Healthcare. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009, pp.46-59.
Embury SM, Missier P, Sampaio S, Greenwood RM, Preece AD. Incorporating Domain-Specific Information Quality Constraints into Database Queries. Journal of Data and Information Quality 2009, 1(2), 11.
Maheshwari K, Missier P, Goble C, Montagnat J. Medical Image Processing Workflow Support on the EGEE Grid with Taverna. In: 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). 2009, Albuquerque, NM, USA: IEEE.
Cao B, Plale B, Subramanian G, Missier P, Goble C, Simmhan Y. Semantically Annotated Provenance in the Life Science Grid. In: 1st International Workshop on the Role of Semantic Web in Provenance Management (SWPM). 2009, Washington, DC, USA: CEUR.
Gibson A, Gamble M, Wolstencroft K, Oinn T, Goble C, Belajjame K, Missier P. The Data Playground: An Intuitive Workflow Specification Environment. Future Generation Computer Systems 2009, 25(4), 453-459.
Lengu R, Missier P, Fernandes AAA, Guerrini G, Mesiti M. Time-completeness trade-offs in record linkage using Adaptive Query Processing. In: 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology (EDBT '09). 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia: ACM.
Preece A, Missier P, Embury S, Jin B, Greenwood M. An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-Science. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2008, 20(3), 253-264.
Avenali A, Bertolazzi P, Batini C, Missier P. Brokering infrastructure for minimum cost data procurement based on quality–quantity models. Decision Support Systems 2008, 45(1), 95-109.
Tan W, Missier P, Madduri R, Foster I. Building Scientific Workflow with Taverna and BPEL: A Comparative Study in caGrid. In: 4th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA). 2008, Sydney, Australia.
Missier P, Belhajjame K, Zhao J, Goble C. Data Lineage Model for Taverna Workflows with Lightweight Annotation Requirements. In: 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop: Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (IPAW 2008). 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah: Springer.
Missier P, Embury S, Stapenhurst R. Exploiting Provenance to Make Sense of Automated Decisions in Scientific Workflows. In: 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop: Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (IPAW 2008). 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah: Springer.
Stead D, Paton N, Missier P, Embury S, Hedeler C, Jin B, Brown A, Preece A. Information quality in proteomics. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2008, 9(2), 174-188.
Goble C, Missier P, DeRoure D. Scientific workflows. In: McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2009. New York: McGraw Hill, 2008, pp.338-340.
Missier P, Embury S, Hedeler C, Greenwood M, Pennock J, Brass A. Accelerating Disease Gene Identification Through Integrated SNP Data Analysis. In: Data Integration in the Life Sciences: 4th International Workshop (DILS 2007). 2007, Philadelphia, PA: Springer.
Kotsiopoulos I, Missier P, Alper P, Corcho O, Bechhofer S, Goble C. Architectural patterns for the Semantic Grid. In: Domenico Talia, Angelos Bilas and Marios D. Dikaiakos, ed. Knowledge and Data Management in GRIDs. New York: Springer, 2007, pp.119-134.
Corcho O, Alper P, Missier P, Bechhofer S, Goble C. Grid Metadata Management: requirements and architecture. In: 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID '07). 2007, Austin, Texas: IEEE Computer Society.
Missier P, Embury SM, Greenwood RM, Preece AD, Jin B. Managing information quality in e-science: the Qurator workbench. In: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07). 2007, Beijing, China: ACM.
Hedeler C, Missier P. Quality management challenges in the post-genomic era. In: Zongmin Ma and Jake Chen, ed. Database Modeling in Biology: Practices and Challenges. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2007, pp.73-96.
Missier P, Alper P, Corcho O, Dunlop I, Goble C. Requirements and services for Metadata Management. IEEE Internet Computing 2007, 11(5), 17-25.
Missier P, Wieder P, Ziegler W. Semantic Support for Meta-Scheduling in Grids. In: Domenico Talia, Angelos Bilas and Marios D. Dikaiakos, ed. Knowledge and Data Management in GRIDs. New York: Springer, 2007, pp.169-183.
Turi D, Missier P, De Roure D, Goble C, Oinn T. Taverna Workflows: Syntax and Semantics. In: 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. 2007, Bangalore, India: IEEE.
Corcho O, Alper P, Kotsiopoulos I, Missier P, Bechhofer S, Goble C. An overview of S-OGSA: A Reference Semantic Grid Architecture. Journal of Web Semantics 2006, 4(2), 102-115.
Preece AD, Jin B, Pignotti E, Missier P, Embury SM, Stead D, Brown A. Managing Information Quality in e-Science Using Semantic Web Technology. In: The Semantic Web: Research and Applications - 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006). 2006, Budva, Montenegro: Springer.
Missier P, Oliaro A, Raffa A. Practical data quality certification: model, architecture, and experiences. In: IQIS: International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (SIGMOD 2006 Workshop). 2006, Chicago, USA: ACM.
Missier P, Embury SM, Greenwood M, Preece AD, Jin B. Quality views: capturing and exploiting the user perspective on data quality. In: 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '06). 2006, Seoul, Korea: ACM.
Preece AD, Jin B, Missier P, Embury SM, Stead D, Brown A. Towards the Management of Information Quality in Proteomics. In: 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'06). 2006, Salt Lake City, Utah: IEEE Computer Society.
Missier P, Embury S, Greenwood M, Preece A, Jin B. An ontology-based approach to handling information quality in e-science. In: 4th e-Science All Hands Meeting. 2005, Nottingham, UK.
Crescenzi V, Merialdo P, Missier P. Clustering web pages based on their structure. Data & Knowledge Engineering 2005, 54(3), 279-299.
Scannapieco M, Missier P, Batini C. Data Quality at a Glance. Datenbank-Spektrum 2005, 14, 6-14.
Bertoletti M, Missier P, Scannapieco M, Aimetti P, Batini C. Improving government-to-business relationships through data reconciliation and process re-engineering. In: Richard Y. Wang, Elizabeth M. Pierce, Stuart E. Madnick, Craig W. Fisher, ed. Information Quality. New York: M.E. Sharpe Inc, 2005, pp.151-166.
Missier P, Preece A, Embury S, Jin B, Greenwood M, Stead D, Brown A. Managing Information Quality in e-Science: A Case Study in Proteomics. In: 1st Workshop on Quality of Information Systems (QoIS 2005). 2005, Klagenfurt, Austria: Springer.
Missier P, Embury SM. Provider issues in quality-constrained data provisioning. In: 2nd International Workshop on Information Quality (IQIS '05). 2005, Baltimore, MD, USA: ACM.
Avenali A, Bertolazzi P, Batini C, Missier P. A formulation of the Data Quality Optimization Problem in Cooperative Information Systems. In: CAiSE Workshops: Data and Information Quality. 2004, Riga, Latvia: Riga Technical University.
Crescenzi V, Mecca G, Merialdo P, Missier P. An Automatic Data Grabber for Large Web Sites. In: 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). 2004, Toronto, Canada: Morgan Kaufmann.
Atzeni P, Basili R, Hansen DH, Missier P, Paggio P, Pazienza MT, Zanzotto FM. Ontology-Based Question Answering in a Federation of University Sites: The MOSES Case Study. In: Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Languages to Information Systems (NLDB). 2004, Manchester, UK: Springer.
Cappiello C, Missier P, Pernici B, Plebani P, Batini C. QoS in Multichannel IS: The MAIS Approach. In: ICWE Workshops: First International Workshop on Web Quality. 2004, Munich, Germany: Rinton Press.
Missier P, Batini C. A model for Information Quality management in Cooperative Information Systems. In: Eleventh Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD). 2003, Cetraro, Italy: Rubettino Editore.
Missier P, Batini C. A Multidimensional Model for Information Quality in Cooperative Systems. In: Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Information Quality (IQ). 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT.
Missier P, Batini C. An Information Quality Management Framework for Cooperative Information Systems. In: International Conference on Information Systems (ISE). 2003, Montreal, Canada.
Crescenzi V, Merialdo P, Missier P. Fine-grain web site structure discovery. In: Fifth ACM CIKM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM). 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: ACM Press.
Missier P, Lalk G, Verykios VS, Grillo F, Lorusso T, Angeletti P. Improving Data Quality in Practice: A Case Study in the Italian Public Administration. Distributed and Parallel Databases 2003, 13(2), 135-160.
Bertoletti M, Missier P, Scannapieco M, Aimetti P, Batini C. The Service to Businesses Project: Improving Government-to-Business Relationships in Italy. In: Electronic Government, Second International Conference (EGOV). 2003, Prague, Czech Republic: Springer.
Anjum F, Caruso F, Jain R, Missier P, Zordan A. CitiTime: a system for rapid creation of portable next-generation telephony services. Computer Networks 2001, 35(5), 579-595.
Missier P, Bianchi M, Zordan A, Umar A. Eguru: a decision support system for the assisted design of e-commerce architectures. In: Knowledge Management & Intelligent Enterprises (Industrial Volume): Proceedings of the 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS). 2001, Hong Kong: Kluwer.
Umar A, Bianchi M, Caruso F, Missier P. A Knowledge-Based Decision Support Workbench for Advanced Ecommerce. In: Academia/Industry Working Conference on Research Challenges (AIWoRC 2000), Next Generation Enterprises: Virtual Organizations and Mobile/Pervasive Technologies. 2000, Buffalo, New York, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
Caruso F, Cochinwala M, Ganapathy U, Lalk G, Missier P. Demonstration of Telcordia's Database Reconciliation and Data Quality Analysis Tool. In: Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). 2000, Cairo, Egypt: Morgan Kaufmann.
Jain R, Anjum F, Missier P, Shastry S. Java Call Control, Coordination and Transactions. IEEE Communications 2000, 38(1), 108-114.
Umar A, Missier P. A Framework for Analyzing Virtual Enterprise Infrastructure. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises (RIDE). 1999, Sydney, Australia: IEEE Computer Society.
Umar A, Missier P. A Knowledge-based Decision Support Workbench for Enterprise Resource Integration and Migration. In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Enterprise Management and Resource Planning Systems (EMRPS). 1999, Venice, Italy.
Anjum F, Caruso F, Jain R, Missier P, Zordan A. ChaiTime:A System for Rapid Creation of Portable Next-Generation Telephony Services Using Third-Party Software Components. In: Proceedings of the Second IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OpenArch). 1999, New York, USA: IEEE Computer Society.
Mecella M, Missier P, Batini C. Integration of Highly Fragmented Legacy Information Systems Through Object Modeling and Layered Wrappers. In: Proceedings of the AICA Annual Conference. 1999, Abano Terme, Italy.
Missier P, Rusinkiewicz M, Jin W. Multidatabase Languages. In: Elmagarmid, A.K., Rusinkiewicz, M., Sheth, A, ed. Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems. San Francisco, California, USA: Morgan Kauffman, 1998, pp.175-216.
Missier P. Technology for the Copyright Protection of Digital Image. In: Monography Bullettin on Archiving in Art History. Pisa, Italy: Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Centro Ricerche Informatiche, 1998.
Missier P, Rusinkiewicz M. Extending a Multidatabase Manipulation Language to Resolve Schema and Data Conflicts. In: Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP TC-2 Working Conference on Data Semantics (DS-6). 1996, Stone Mountain, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: Chapman & Hall.
Missier P, Rusinkiewicz M, Silberschatz A. Providing Multidatabase Access - an Association Approach. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop on Database Reengineering and Interoperability. 1995, Hong Kong.
Missier P. Semantic unification in the inference of union types. In: 7th Italian Conference on Logic Programming (GULP'92). 1992, Tremezzo, Como, Italy.
Missier P, Belhajjame K. A PROV encoding for provenance analysis using deductive rules. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1327.
Missier P, Randell B, Koutny M. Modelling Provenance using Structured Occurrence Networks. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1326.
Woodman S, Hiden H, Watson P, Missier P. Achieving Reproducibility by Combining Provenance with Service and Workflow Versioning. In: 6th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science. 2011, Seattle, Washington, USA: ACM Digital Library.
Zhao J, Sahoo S, Missier P, Sheth A, Goble C. Extending semantic provenance into the web of data. IEEE Internet Computing 2011, 15(1), 40-48.
Missier P, Ludäscher B, Dey S, Wang M, McPhillips T, Bowers S, Agun M, Altintas I. Golden-Trail: Retrieving the Data History that Matters from a Comprehensive Provenance Repository. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. School of Computing Science Technical Report Series 1300.
Missier P. Incremental workflow improvement through analysis of its data provenance. In: 3rd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP). 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece: CEUR.
Curcin V, Missier P, De Roure D. Simulating Taverna workflows using stochastic process algebras. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience 2011, 23(16), 1920-1935.

Newcastle University

Computing Science

Dr Paolo Missier Lecturer

Dr Paolo Missier
Lecturer