Patents

1. N. Rishe. U.S. Patent 6,795,825 “A Database Querying System and Method” issued 2004.09.21.

2. N. Rishe. U.S. Patent 6,339,773 “Data extractor” issued 2002.01.15.

3. N. Rishe, A. Shaposhnikov. U.S. Patent 5,920,857 “Efficient Optimistic Concurrency Control and Lazy Queries for Databases and B-Trees” issued 1999.07.06.

4. E. Vaschillo and N. Rishe. U.S. Patent 5,997,482 “Therapeutic Method for a Human Subject” issued 1999.12.07.

Books Authored

5. Naphtali Rishe. TerraAtlas: Central Washington, DC. The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2006. ISBN 0-939923-99-8.

6. N. Rishe.     Database Design: The Semantic Modeling Approach. McGraw-Hill, 1992, 528 pp.

7. N. Rishe.     Database Design Fundamentals: A Structured Introduction to Databases and a Structured Database Design Methodology. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988. 436 pp. (Also printed as International Edition. Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1988. 432 pp. ISBN 0-13-197476-9.)

Books Edited

8. N. Rishe, S. Navathe and D. Tal (eds.) Databases: Theory, Design and Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, 296 pp.

9. N. Rishe, S. Navathe and D. Tal (eds.) Parallel Architectures. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, 306 pp.

Conference Proceedings Edited

10. Jose Aguilar, Hsing-Wei Chu, Elena D. Gugiu, Ilka Miloucheva, and Naphtali Rishe, eds. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA-2005, Volume II. 350 pp. July, 2005.

11. Nagib Callaos, Woei-Jiunn Tsaur, John Tsiligaridis, Ahmed Patel, Naphtali Rishe, and Oliver Latry (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Volume VIII, Control, Communication and Network Systems, Technologies and Applications. 454 pp. July, 2004.

12. Nagib Callaos, John Porter, and Naphtali Rishe (eds.). Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Volume VII, Information Systems Development II. 584 pp. July, 2002.

13. N.Rishe, M. Martinez (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, April 30 - May 1, 1998, Miami, FL.

14. N. Rishe, S. Navathe and D. Tal (eds.) Databases and Parallel Architectures. Proceedings of the PARBASE-90: International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and their Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990. 584 pp.

Book Chapters

15. N. Rishe, O. Wolfson, and K. Naboulsi. “Report Generators.” Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1999. V. 18, pp. 500-513.

16. N. Rishe, W. Subbarao. “Research Initiatives” Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 1999, Vol. 18, pp. 514-520.

17. C. Chen, C. Orji, N. Rishe. “Batch Processing.” Encyclopedia of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 223-233.

18. D. Tal, N. Rishe, S. Navathe, and S. Graham. “On Parallel Architectures.” In: Parallel Architectures. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991 (Editors: N. Rishe, S. Navathe and D. Tal) pp. 1-17.

19. N. Rishe and W. Sun. “A Predicate Calculus Language for Queries and Transactions in Semantic Databases.” In: Databases: Theory, Design and Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991 (N. Rishe, S. Navathe, and D. Tal, eds.) pp. 204-221.

Journals and Series

20. O. Wolfson, B Xu, H. Yin, N. Rishe Resource “Discovery Using Spatio-temporal Information in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.” In: Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 5th International Workshop, W2GIS 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, December 15-16, 2005. Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3833. pp 129-142.

21. N. Rishe, M. Gutierrez, A. Selivonenko, S. Graham. “TerraFly: A Tool for Visualizing and Dispensing Geospatial Data.” Imaging Notes, Summer 2005, Vol. 20, No. 2. pp. 22-23.

22. K.J. Faller II, A. Barreto, N. Gupta, and N. Rishe. “Decomposition and Modeling of Head-Related Impulse Responses for Customized Spatial Audio.” WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2005. pp. 354-361.

23. M. Mourad, M. Adjouadi, I. Yaylali, Melvin Ayala, and N. Rishe. “An Interface for Analyzing and Integrating Different Imaging Modalities.” WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2005. pp. 392-397.

24. S. Lingala, M. Adjouadi, M. Mourad, and N. Rishe. “Modified Watershed Transform.” WSEAS Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 3, December 2005. pp. 398-403.

25. M. C. Zabawa, M. Adjouadi, and N. Rishe. “SystemC Co-Design for Image Compression: Fast Discrete Cosine Transform using Distributed Arithmetic.” WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 4, No. 6, June 2005. pp. 477-484.

26. Shu-Ching Chen, Xinran Wang, Naphtali Rishe, and Mark Allen Weiss. “A Web-Based Spatial Data Access System Using Semantic R-trees.” Information Sciences: An International Journal. vol. 167, no. 1-4, pp. 44-61, December 2004.

27. N. Rishe, M. Gutierrez, J. Janvier. “A View from Above Without Leaving the Ground.” NASA Spinoff 2004, pp. 72-73.

28. O. Joukov and N. Rishe. “Computer Technology for Solving Large Scale Matrix Problems.” Proceedings of Computational Science and its Applications - ICCSA 2003, Pt. 1, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Vol. 2667. pp. 848-854.

29. Bryon K. Ehlmann, Gregory A. Riccardi, Naphtali D. Rishe, Jinyu Shi. “Specifying and Enforcing Association Semantics via ORN in the Presence of Association Cycles.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. November/December 2002 Vol. 14 No. 6 pp. 1249-1257.

30. W. Meng, K. Liu, C. Yu, W. Wu, and N. Rishe. “A Statistical Method for Estimating the Usefulness of Text Databases.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 14 (2002) nbr 6 pp 1422-1437.

31. Bo Xu, Ouri Wolfson, Sam Chamberlain, Naphtali Rishe “Cost Based Data Dissemination in Satellite Networks” Mobile Networks & Applications, Vol. 7 (2002), No. 1, pp. 49-66.

32. C. Yu, K.L. Liu, W. Meng, Z. Wu, N. Rishe. “A Methodology to Retrieve Text Documents from Multiple Databases”. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Vol. 14 (2002) nbr 6 pp. 1347-1361.

33. E. Vaschillo, P. Lehrer, N. Rishe, M. Konstantinov. “Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback as a Method for Assessing Baroreflex Function: A Preliminary Study of Resonance in the Cardiovascular System.” J. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. vol 27 (2002), nbr 1, pp. 1-27.

34. D. Muller, G. Tie-Shue, M. Gutierrez, N. Rishe. “Coping with Copious Content: Problems and Solutions in the Management of Land-Imaging Satellite Data.” APSCC: Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council Newsletter, Vol. 8 April 2002. pp. 11-13

35. Q. Yang, W. Zhang, C. Liu, J. Wu, J. Wu, C. Yu, H. Nakajima, and N. Rishe. “Efficient processing of nested fuzzy SQL queries in fuzzy databases.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. November/December 2001 Volume 13 Number 6 pp. 884-901.

36. B.K. Ehlmann, N. Rishe, J. Shi. “The Formal Specification of ORN Semantics.” Information and Software Technology. Vol. 42, No.3, pp. 159-170. February 2000.

37. Yibei Ling, Wei Sun, Naphtali Rishe and Xiaojing Xiang “A Hybrid Estimator For Selectivity Estimation.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 11, 2 (1999), pp. 338-354.

38. E. Alvarez, N. Rishe, D. Barton. “Semantic Geographic Information System”, ISMM Applied Informatics Journal, Volume 17, No. 3, 1998, pp. 61-69.

39. W. Meng, C. Yu, W. Wang and N. Rishe “Performance Analysis of three text-join algorithms.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10, 3 (June 1998), pp 477-492.

40. Q. Yang, S. Dao, C. Yu and N. Rishe. “A parallel scheme using the divide-and-conquer method” International Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, 1997, pp 405-438.

41. N. Rishe, “A Universal Model for Non-procedural Database Languages,” Fundamenta Informaticae, April 1996, pp. 31-57.

42. N. Rishe, A. Shaposhnikov, S. Graham. “Load Balancing in a Massively Parallel Semantic Database,” Computer Systems Science and Engineering (Special issue on massively parallel processing), 11, 4 (July 1996), pp. 195-199.

43. N. Rishe. “A Methodology and Tool for Top-down Relational Database Design.” Data and Knowledge Engineering, 10 (1993) 259-291.

44. Q. Li and N. Rishe. “A transputer T9000 family based architecture for parallel database machines,” ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 21, 5, 1993, 55-67. (Refereed for and appeared also in the proceedings of IPPS-93 — Workshop on Input/Output in Parallel Computer Systems.)

45. Q. Li and N. Rishe. “CONNECT — an Architecture for a Highly Parallel System Based on Building Blocks.” Microprocessors and Microsystems, 16, 2 (1992), pp. 67-79.

46. N. Rishe. “Interval-based approach to lexicographic representation and compression of numeric data.” Data and Knowledge Engineering, 8, 4 (1992), pp. 339-351.

47. N. Rishe. “A File Structure for Semantic Databases.” Information Systems, 16, 4 (1991), pp. 375-385.

48. N. Rishe. “Semantic Binary Database Model.” Hong Kong Computer Journal, 6, 11 (1990), pp. 30-34.

49. Q. Li, N. Rishe, and D. Tal. “RISC Processors in a Massively Parallel Database Machine.” Microprocessors and Microsystems, 14, 6 (1990): 351-356.

50. N. Rishe, M. Lipkind. “Modeling of Virus Interrelationships for Computer Analysis of Inhibition Data.” Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 13, 1 (1990) 39-48.

51. N. Rishe, D. Tal, and Q. Li. “Architecture for a Massively Parallel Database Machine” Microprocessing and Microprogramming, 25 (1989) 33-38.

52. N. Rishe. “Efficient Organization of Semantic Databases” Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms. (FODO-89) W. Litwin and H.-J. Schek, eds. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 367, pp. 114-127, 1989.

53. M. Lipkind and N. Rishe. “Antigenic Relationships between Avian Paramyxoviruses. III. A Mathematical Model of Antigenic Drift and a Computer-assisted Approach for Construction of a Phylogenetic Tree.” Archives of Virology, 103: 83-98 (Dec. 1988.)

54. M. Lipkind and N. Rishe. “Mathematical Modeling Approach for Revealing Phylogenetic Relationships between Antigenically Related Avian Paramyxoviruses (PMV).” Virus Research, 2: 46, 1988.

55. M. Lipkind, N. Rishe. “Comparison of Two Alternative Mathematical Models of Antigenic Kinship Between Avian Paramyxoviruses,” Israel Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 44: 138, 1988.

56. N. Rishe. “On Representation of Medical Knowledge by a Binary Data Model.” Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 8 (1987), pp. 623-626.

57. N. Rishe, M. Lipkind. “A Mathematical Model of Antigenic Kinship of Viruses.” Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 8 (1987), pp. 592-596.

58. N. Rishe, M. Hanani. “A Method of Matching Data.” Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, vol. 8 (1987), pp. 172-174.

59. N. Rishe, M. Lipkind. “Antigenic relationships between avian paramyxoviruses. II. A Combinatorial Mathematical Model of Antigenic Kinship.” Archives of Virology, vol. 92 (1987), pp. 243-253.

60. N. Rishe. “Postconditional Semantics of Data Base Queries.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 239 (Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics. A. Melton, ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 275-295.

61. N. Rishe. “On Denotational Semantics of Data Bases.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 239 (Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, ed. A. Melton), p p 249-274. Springer-Verlag, 1986.

62. M. Lipkind, N. Rishe. “Quantitative Characteristics of Antigenic Relationship Between Avian Paramyxoviruses,” Israel Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 42, 1: 61, 1986.

63. Sh. Lavi, Sh. Steinmetz, N. Rishe. “Perspectives of Office Automation” (in Hebrew). Journal of Communication and Electronics (Kesher weElektronika), March 1984, p p 268-270.

64. N. Rishe. “The Expressiveness of Logic-based Database Query Languages.” Proceedings of Database Theory Workshop XP7.52. Austin, Texas, August 13-15, ed. Hank Korth, 1986, pp. Rishe/1-28)

Conference Proceedings

65. Teng, W., N. Rishe, and H. Rui. “Enhancing access and use of NASA satellite data via TerraFly.” In Proc. ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference, May 1-5, 2006, Reno, NV.

66. Li Yang and Naphtali Rishe. “Formal Representation and Transformation of DTDs to Sem-ODM.” The 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, FCS06: June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas.

67. S. Ilarri, O. Wolfson, E. Mena, A. Illarramendi, N. Rishe. “Processing of Data Streams with Prediction Functions.” Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Computer Society, 2006. pp 237-246.

68. B. Xu, O. Wolfson, N. Rishe. “Benefit and Pricing of Spatio-Temporal Information in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks.” Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Computer Society, 2006. pp 223-232.

69. Teng, W., H. Rui, N. Rishe, and R. Tetrault. “Enhancing access to NASA data via seamless integration into decision support systems.” American Geophisical Union Fall 2005 Meeting, Dec. 5-9, 2005, San Francisco, CA.

70. K.J. Faller II, A. Barreto, N. Gupta, and N. Rishe. “Performance Comparison of Two Identification Methods for Analysis of Head Related Impulse Responses.” Proceesings of the IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, CISSE 2005, December 10-20, 2005, Bridgeport, CT. DVD-ROM format, Paper SCSS # 21.

71. K.J. Faller II, A. Barreto, N. Gupta, and N. Rishe. “Enhanced Modeling of Head-Related Impulse Responses Towards the Development of Customizable Sound Spatialization.” Proceedings of the WSEAS / IASME International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Man-Machine Systems and Cybernetics, CIMMACS'05, Miami, Florida, USA, November 17-19, 2005, pp. 82-87.

72. Naphtali Rishe, Ouri Wolfson, Ben Wongsaroj, Andriy Selivonenko, Yanli Sun, Keith Morren, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Royel Haynes, Kiesha Pierre, Asha Brito. “Mesh Simplification Algorithm for Online 3D GIS.” Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA 2005. Vol. II, pp. 84-88.

73. Naphtali Rishe, Yanli Sun, Ben Wongsaroj, Andriy Selivonenko, Malek Adjouadi, Armando Barreto, Royel Haynes, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Kiesha Pierre, Asha Brito. “Level of Detail Control and Multi-Resolution Model for Online 3D GIS.” Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA 2005. Vol. II, pp. 80-83.

74. Naphtali Rishe, Oleg Joukov, Carlos Canas, Andriy Selivonenko, Kiesha Pierre, Asha Brito. “Information Defense Technology on the Base of Modular Algebra.” Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA 2005. Vol. II, pp. 76-79.

75. Mario Sanchez, Naphtali Rishe, Keith Morren, Wilnigue Joseph. “Towards the Storage of Geospatial Data with the Semantic Binary Model and Virtual Quadrilaterals.” Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA 2005. Vol. II, pp. 89-92.

76. Robert Steinhoff, Ahmad Gallon, Chattam Smith III, Naphtali Rishe, Andriy Selivonenko. “Improving Eigenface Face Recognition by using Image Registration Preprocessing Methods.” Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, CITSA 2005. Vol. II, pp. 93-95.

77. Li Yang and Naphtali Rishe. “Transforming Sem-ODM Semantic Schemas to DTDs.” Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Southeast Conference, ACMSE 2005. vol 1, pp. 237-242.

78. Naphtali Rishe, Armando Barreto, Ouri Wolfson, Maxim Chekmasov, Dmitry Vasilevsky, Scott Graham, Sonal Sood. “Semantic Database Engine Design.” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2005. pp. 433-436.

79. Naphtali Rishe, Armando Barreto, Ouri Wolfson, Maxim Chekmasov, Dmitry Vasilevsky, Scott Graham, Sonal Sood. “Object ID Distribution and Encoding in the Semantic Binary Engine.” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2005. pp. 279-284.

80. Naphtali Rishe, Malek Adjouadi, Ouri Wolfson, Maxim Chekmasov, Dmitry Vasilevsky, Scott Graham, Dayanara Hernandez. “Storage Types in the Semantic Binary Database Engine.” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2005. pp. 437-440.

81. Naphtali Rishe, Malek Adjouadi, Ouri Wolfson, Maxim Chekmasov, Dmitry Vasilevsky, Scott Graham, Dayanara Hernandez. “XML-Based Semantic Database Definition Language.” Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2005. pp. 197-202.

82. L. Yang and N. Rishe. “XQuery Translation to Sem-SQL.” Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04), June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada. pp. 185-191.

83. Naphtali Rishe, Scott Graham, Martha Gutierrez. "Goddard Space Flight Center's Partnership with Florida International University." EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 85(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, December 2004.

84. Naphtali Rishe, Bill Teng, Hualan Rui, Scott Graham, Martha Gutierrez. "Web-based Dissemination of TRMM Data via TerraFly." EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 85(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, December 2004.

85. Li Yang and Naphtali Rishe. “A Flexible and Effective XML Storage and Retrieval System.” Proceedings of IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, December 13-15, 2004, Miami, FL. pp. 227-230.

86. Naphtali Rishe, Yanli Sun, Maxim Chekmasov, Andriy Selivonenko, Scott Graham. “System Architecture for 3D TerraFly Online GIS.” IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE2004), December 13-15, 2004, Miami, FL. pp. 273-276.

87. B. Wongsaroj, N. Rishe, M. Chekmasov, T. Knight, Y. Ruggiero. “TerraFly: a Teaching Device for Emergency Evacuation.” Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, FL. Vol. VIII, pp. 63-66.

88. B. Wongsaroj, N. Rishe, M. Chekmasov, E. Egboma, W. Pinckney, R. Haynes, I. De Felipe. “Supporting Emergency Response Teams with TerraFly over Wireless Networks.” Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, FL. Vol. VIII, pp. 67-71.

89. N. Rishe, M. Chekmasov, B. Wongsaroj, W. Pinckney, M. Jean-Gilles, D. Hernandez. “TerraAtlas as a Tool for Emergency Management.” Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, FL. Vol. VIII, pp. 52-57.

90. B. Wongsaroj, N. Rishe, M. Chekmasov, E. Ugboma, N. Morisseau-Leroy, O. Iyalomhe. “Geographic Information Systems in Historical Tree Cover Studies.” Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, FL. Vol. VIII, pp. 72-77.

91. N. Rishe, B. Wongsaroj, M. Chekmasov, M. Sanchez, E. Ugboma, C. Smith, M. Jean-Gilles. “Access to Geo-Referenced Data via TerraFly Imagery and Data Dispenser.” Proceedings of the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July 18-21, 2004, Orlando, FL. Vol. VIII, pp. 58-62.

92. Naphtali Rishe. “TerraFly Web GIS.” World Best Technolgies 2004 Conference. Arlington, TX, March 2004.

93. Naphtali Rishe. “TerraFly for Earth Sciences.” Earth Science Information Parnetrs Federation Conference. Orlando, January 2004.

94. Naphtali Rishe, Yanli Sun, Andriy Selivonenko. “A Rich-Semantics GIS Imagery Composing Framework.” The Ninth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2003), Miami, FL, September 24-26, 2003. pp. 144-147.

95. Naphtali Rishe, Boonserm Wongsaroj, Maxim Chekmasov, Andriy Selivonenko, Yanli Sun, Scott Graham, Alejandro Mendoza. “Autopilot Scripting for the TerraFly GIS.” The Ninth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2003), Miami, FL, September 24-26, 2003. pp. 98-100.

96. Naphtali Rishe, Boonserm Wongsaroj, Maxim Chekmasov, Andriy Selivonenko, Scott Graham, Martha Gutierrez, Oksana Dyganova, Wayne Pinckney, Elvis Padron, Chemese Armstrong, Albert Marshall. “Replication and Maintenance of TerraFly GIS.” Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2003, Orlando, USA, July 27-30, 2003. Vol. XVI, pp. 6-10.

97. Naphtali Rishe, Andriy Selivonenko, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Martha Gutierrez, Boonserm Wongsaroj, Oksana Dyganova, Alejandro Mendoza. “Overview of TerraFly GIS Hardware Architecture.” Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2003, Orlando, USA, July 27-30, 2003. Vol. XVI, pp. 11-16.

98. O. Wolfson, H. Cao, H. Lin, G. Trajcevski, F. Zhang, N. Rishe. “Management of Dynamic Location Information in DOMINO.” ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection DiSC03. December 2003.

99. King-Lup Liu, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu, and Naphtali Rishe. “Discovery of Similarity Computations of Search Engines.” ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection DiSC01. June 2003.
100- N. Rishe and B. Wongsaroj. “Infrastructure for Research and Training in Database Management for Web-based Geospatial Data Visualization with Applications to Aviation.” Infrastructure 2003: NSF CISE/EIA RI and MII PI's Workshop. Arlington, VA, August 17-19, 2003. pp. 48-52.
101- Naphtali Rishe, Eghosa Ugboma, Maxim Chekmasov, Marina Chekmasova, Scott Graham, Ian De Felipe. “Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Environmental Database.” Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2003, Orlando, USA, July 27-30, 2003. Vol. XVI, pp. 17-21.
102- Naphtali Rishe, Maxim Chekmasov, Marina Chekmasova, Scott Graham, Ian De Felipe. “On-demand Geo-referenced TerraFly Data Miner.” International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Miami, FL January 12-15, 2003. pp. 277-279.
103- Naphtali D. Rishe, Maxim V. Chekmasov, Rosany H. Rodriguez, Scott C. Graham, Daniel J. Mendez. “On the Algorithm for Semantic Wrapping of Relational Databases.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 436-440.
104- Goce Trajcevski, Ouri Wolfson, Cao Hu, Hai Lin, Fengli Zhang, Naphtali Rishe. “Managing Uncertain Trajectories of Moving Objects with Domino.” 4th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2002), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. 3-6 April 2002. pp. 218-225
105- Dmitriy Beryoza, Naphtali Rishe, Scott Graham, Ian De Felipe. “Data Extractor Wrapper System.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 425-431.
106- Dmitriy Beryoza, Naphtali Rishe, Andrei Selivonenko, Alejandro Roque, Ian De Felipe. “Dispatching Java Agents to User for Data Extraction from Third Pparty Web Sites.” Seventeenth International Symposium On Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS XVII) University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, October 28-30, 2002. pp. 276-280.
107- N. Rishe, W. Sun, M. Chekmasov, S.C. Chen, M. Chekmasova. “Infrastructure for Research and Training on High-Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management.” Infrastructure 2002: NSF CISE/EIA RI and MII PI's Workshop. Snowbird, Utah, July 12-14, 2002. pp. 66-67
108- O. Wolfson, H. Cao, H. Lin, G. Trajcevski, F. Zhang, N. Rishe. “Management of Dynamic Location Information in DOMINO.” EDBT 2002: 8th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Prague, Czech Republic. March 24-28, 2002. pp. 769-772
109- Naphtali Rishe, Tao Huang, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Li Yang, Sheldon Himmelsbach. “Semantic Wrapping Tool For Internet.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 441-445.

110. N. Rishe, M. Chekmasov, M. Chekmasova, D. Hernandez, A. Roque, N. Terekhova, A. Zhyzhkevych. “Database on Salinity Patterns in Florida Bay” Seventh International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, 20-22 May 2002, Miami. pp. F4.1-F4.8

111. N. Rishe, S.C. Chen, A. Mendoza, A. Selivonenko, O. Dyganova, S. Graham. “GIS inter-protocol bridge: GIS vector and raster imagery inter-process wrapper” Seventh International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, 20-22 May 2002, Miami. pp. F5.1-F5.7.

112. M. Gutierrez, N. Rishe, O. Dyganova, A. Selivonenko, G. Rocha, S. Graham, R. Alvarez. “Applying TerraFly for Vulnerability Assessment of Mobile Home Communities” Seventh International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, 20-22 May 2002, Miami. pp. F6.1-F6.6.

113. Naphtali Rishe, Artyom Shaposhnikov, Scott Graham, Gustavo Palacios. “Implementation of Security in Semantic Binary Object Database.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 446-449.

114. Naphtali D. Rishe, Maxim V. Chekmasov, Marina V. Chekmasova, Natalia Y. Terekhova, Anatoliy A. Zhyzhkevych, Gustavo Palacios. “Semantic Design and Oracle Implementation of the Vegetation Database for the Everglades National Park.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 432-435.

115. Naphtali Rishe, Li Yang, Maxim Chekmasov, Marina Chekmasova, Scott Graham, Alejandro Roque. “Mapping from XML DTD to Semantic Schema.” 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2002, Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002. pp. 450-455.

116. Li Yang, Naphtali Rishe, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Yanli Sun, Ian De Felipe. “XML Schema Modeling Using Sem-ODM.” The Ninth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2003), Miami, FL, September 24-26, 2003. pp. 187-192.

117. Naphtali Rishe, Boonserm Wongsaroj, Maxim Chekasov, Scott Graham, Eric Johnson, Raymond Cain, Clevin Weekes, Duane Lawrence. “TerraFly Application for Flight Planning and Training.” Proceedings of the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2003, Orlando, USA, July 27-30, 2003. Vol. XVI, pp. 1-5.

118. Naphtali Rishe, Jun Yuan, Rukshan Athauda, Shu-Ching Chen, Xiaoling Lu, Xiaobin Ma, Alexander Vaschillo, Artyom Shaposhnikov, Dmitry Vasilevsky: “Semantic Access: Semantic Interface for Querying Databases” ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection DiSC01. June 2003.

119. N. Rishe. “TerraFly and Ampath”. The AMPATH Workshop, Valdiva, Chile, April 2002

120. Naphtali Rishe, Ouri Wolfson, Scott Graham, Wei Sun. “Database Query Distribution over Intelligent Networks.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Database Technologies at the Beginning of the New Millennium, SoftCOM 2001, October 09-12, 2001, Croatia. Volume 1 pp. 109-116.

121. Ouri Wolfson, Naphtali Rishe, Scott Graham, Wei Sun. “Database Integration over Hybrid Networks.” Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM. October 9-12, 2001, Croatia. Volume 2 pp. 935-942.

122. Tajana Lucic, Naphtali Rishe, Oksana Dyganova, Andriy Selivonenko, and Ouri Wolfson. “DoctorDigest: A System for Classification of Medical Internet Resources and Reviews.” Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM. October 9-12, 2001, Croatia. Volume 2 pp. 981-988

123. N. Rishe, S.-C. Chen, N. Prabhakar, M.A. Weiss, W. Sun, A. Selivonenko, D. Davis-Chu. “Terrafly: A High-Performance Web-Based Digital Library System for Spatial Data Access”. ICDE 2001: International Conference on Data Engineering, April 2-6, 2001, Heidelberg, Germany. pp. 17-19

124. N. Rishe, W. Sun, M. Chekmasov, S.C. Chen, M. Chekmasova. “Infrastructure for Research and Training on High-Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management.” Infrastructure 2001: NSF CISE/EIA RI/MII Workshop. Ballston, Virginia July 23-24, 2001 pp. 49-54

125. N. Rishe. “TerraFly: NASA Regional Applications Center”. The AMPATH Workshop: Identifying Areas of Scientific Collaboration Between the US and the AMPATH Service Area, Florida International University, Miami. Conference Report. August 15-17, 2001 p. 7-8

126. N. Rishe, O. Dyganova, A. Selivonenko, M. Chekmasov, A. Mendoza. “MedFerret: Client-Based Semantic Query Integrator.” Proceedings of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, FL. Vol. I, pp. 66-70.

127. A. Shaposhnikov, N. Rishe, O. Wolfson, D. Mendez. “Algorithms for Efficient Data Compression in Databases using the Semantic Binary Model.” Proceedings of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, FL. Vol. I, pp. 77-81.

128. A. Selivonenko, N. Rishe, T. Berk, O. Dyganova, S. Graham, D. Mendez. “Crawling Distributed Operating System within Multiple Heterogeneous Operating Systems of Internet-connected Hosts and Devices.” Proceedings of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, FL. Vol. I, pp. 71-76.

129. M. Gutierrez, N. Rishe, S. Graham, G. Rocha, X. Ye, O. Wolfson. “A Web-Enabled System for Storage and Retrieval of GOES-8 Meteorological Data from a Semantic Database.” Proceedings of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, FL. Vol. I, pp. 62-65.

130. L. Yang, N. Rishe, J. Yuan, M. Chekmasov, L. Pachas, A. Mendoza. “XMLWrapper: Storing and Retrieving XML Documents using the Semantic Binary Object-Oriented Database (Sem-ODB). Proceedings of the 5th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics SCI-2001, July 22-25, 2001, Orlando, FL. Vol. I, pp. 82-87.

131. A. Selivonenko, N. Prabhakar, N. Rishe, D. Davis-Chu. “Dynamic Mosaicking of Heterogeneous Digital Images”. Proceedings of the ISCA 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000), November 1-3, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii. pp. 86-90.

132. N. Rishe, A. Vaschillo, D. Vasilevsky, A. Shaposhnikov, S. Chen. “A Benchmarking Technique for DBMS's with Advanced Data Models” Proceedings of Challenges of 2000 ADBIC-DASFAA Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems. September 5-8, 2000, Prague, Czech Republic. pp. 138-149

133. N. Rishe, J. Yuan, R. Athauda, S. Chen, X. Lu, X. Ma, A. Vaschillo, A. Shaposhnikov, D. Vasilevsky. “SemanticAccess: Semantic Interface for Querying Databases”. VLDB 2000: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Cairo, Egypt, 2000 pp. 591-594

134. N. Rishe, D. Borisenkov, I. Boytchenko, A. Peshkov, S. Markin, P. Pasechnik. “Structured Query Language: Implementation for Sem-ODB DBMS.” Fifth International Conference on Informatics, Education, Ecology and Human Health, September 25-30, 2000 Astrakhan, Russia

135. N. Rishe, W. Sun, M. Chekmasov, N. Prabakar, S. Chen, D. Beryoza, and M. Chekmasova. “Infrastructure for Research and Training on High-Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management.” Infrastructure 2000: NSF CISE EIA/RI/MII Workshop. Snowbird, Utah, July 7-9, 2000 pp. 45-49.

136. D. Davis-Chu, N. Prabakar, N. Rishe, A. Selivonenko. “A System for Continuous, Real-Time Search and Retrieval of Georeferenced Objects”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000), November 1-3, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 82-85.

137. N. Rishe, R. Athauda, J. Yuan, X. Ma, S.-C. Chen. “Knowledge Management for Database Interoperability”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000), November 1-3, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 23-26.

138. N. Rishe, J. Yuan, J. Meng, S. Chen, O. Wolfson “On Database Integration over Intelligent Networks” Proceedings of the ISCA 2nd International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2000), November 1-3, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. pp. 70-75.

139. N. Rishe, R. Athauda, J. Yuan, S. Chen. “Semantic Relations: The Key to Integrating and Query Processing in Heterogeneous Databases”. The 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2000, The 6th Int'l Conference on Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis ISAS 2000, Orlando, FL, July 23-26, 2000. Vol. VII, pp. 717-722.

140. N. Rishe, J. Yuan, R. Athauda, X. Lu, X. Ma. “SemWrap: A Semantic Wrapper Over Relational Databases, With Substantial Size Reduction of User's SQL Queries”. EDBT 2000: Seventh International Conference on Extending Database Technology, March 27-31, 2000, Konstanz, Germany.

141. S. Chen, X. Wang, N. Rishe, M. Weiss, “A High-Performance Web-Based System Design for Spatial Data Accesses” ACM GIS Symposium, Washington D.C. November 10-11, 2000, pp. 33-38.

142. S.-C.Chen, M.-L. Shyu, N. Rishe. “Modeling Interactive Multimedia Presentation Systems Using Augmented Transition Networks” First International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'2000), February 27-March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ. pp 643-646.

143. M.-L. Shyu, S.-C. Chen, N. Rishe. “Markov Model Mediator Mechanism vs Object-Oriented Data Model As a Data Warehouse Schema,” Fifth International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics (CS&I'2000), February 27-March 3, 2000, Atlantic City, NJ. pp. 496-499,

144. N. Prabakar, Q. Jin, N. Rishe. Variation Assessment of Large Entities Using Spatial Data. Proceedings of the 2000 Int'l Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology, CISST'2000, June 26-29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp 571-576 .

145. N. Rishe, A. Shaposhnikov, A. Vaschillo, D. Vasilevsky, S. Chen. “High Performance Lempel-Ziv Compression Using Optimized Longest String Parsing And Adaptive Huffman Window Size. IEEE Data Compression Conference 2000, March 28-30, Snowbird, UT. p.568

146. S.-C. Chen, N.Rishe, X. Wang, M. A. Weiss. A User-Friendly Multimedia System for Querying and Visualizing of Geographic Data. The 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Invited Session on Multimedia Systems Development, July 23-26, 2000, Orlando, Florida. pp. 689-694 Vol. II.

147. N. Rishe, A. Vaschillo, D. Vasilevsky, A. Shaposhnikov, S. Chen. “The Architecture for Semantic Data Access to Heterogeneous Information Sources”. CATA-2000 ISCA — 15th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, March 29-31, 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 134-139.

148. D. Davis-Chu, N. Prabakar, N. Rishe. Client-Server Based Real-Time Integration of Remotely Sensed and Digital Data. Proceedings of the 2000 Int'l Conference on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology, CISST'2000, June 26-29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp 499-505.

149. N. Rishe, M. Gutierrez, A. Gonzales, D. Davis. “An Efficient Storage, Analysis, and Retrieval System for SeaWiFS Data using SeaDAS, Sem-ODB technology, and the World Wide Web”. ISSSR: Conference on Systems and Sensors for the New Millennium, October 31 - November 4, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada. pp. 214-218.

150. O. Wolfson, P. Sistla, B. Xu, J. Zhou, S. Chamberlain, Y. Yesha, and N. Rishe. “Tracking Moving Objects Using Database Technology in DOMINO.” Fourth Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS '99), Zikhron-Yaakov, Israel, July 5-8, 1999. pp. 112-119.

151. N. Prabhakaran, S. Sridhar, and N. Rishe. “A Two Phase Digital Ortho Photo Mosaicking System.” International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST '99), June 28 - July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 151-154.

152. C. Yu, K. Liu, W. Wu, W. Meng, and N. Rishe. “Finding the Most Similar Documents across Multiple Text Databases.” ADL-99: Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1999, pp. 150-162.

153. N. Rishe, W. Sun, M. Chekmasov, N. Prabhakaran, D. Beryoza, and M. Chekmasova. “Infrastructure for Research and Training on High-Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management.” Infrastructure '99: NSF, CISE, EIA, RI and MII PI's Workshop. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, August 7-9, 1999. pp.42-46

154. K. Liu, W. Meng, C. Yu, and N. Rishe. “Discovery of Similarity Computations on the Internet.” ACM Digital Library. August 11-14, 1999, Berkeley, California. pp. 233-234.

155. C. Yu, W. Meng, K. Liu, W. Wu, and N. Rishe. “Efficient and Effective Metasearch for a Large Number of Text Databases.” ACM CIKM: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. November 2-6, 1999, Kansas City, MO. USA. pp. 217-224.

156. W. Meng, K. Liu, C. Yu, W. Wu, and N. Rishe. “Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines.” ICDE-99: Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Data Engineering. Sydney, Australia, March 1999. pp 146-153.

157. N. Rishe, K. Naboulsi, O. Wolfson, and B. Ehlmann. “An Efficient Web-based Semantic SQL Query Generator.” The 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshop. Austin, TX, May 31 - June 5, 1999, pp. 23-30

158. N. Prabhakaran, V. Maddineni, and N. Rishe. “Spatial Overlay of Vector Data on Raster Data in a Semantic Object- Oriented Database Environment.” International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST '99), June 28 - July 1, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 100-104.

159. R. Ege, N. Rishe, J. Liu, V. Lebedev, “Using Java to add 'Stored Procedures' to Databases”, TOOLS'99 Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, August 1-5, 1999. pp.322-331

160. O. Wolfson, L. Jiang, A. Sistla, S. Chamberlain, N. Rishe, M. Deng “Databases for Tracking Mobile Units in Real Time” ICDT-99: 7th International conference on Database Theory, Jerusalem, Israel, January 10-12, 1999, pp.169-186.

161. D.L. Davis-Chu, E. Alvarez, and N. Rishe. “The Creation of a System for 3D Satellite and Terrain Imagery.” The 13th International Conference in Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 1-3, 1999, pp. II-329 - II-336.

162. W. Meng, K. Liu, C. Yu, X. Wang, Y. Chang, N. Rishe, “Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet”, VLDB'98: Proceedings of Inernational Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 24-27, 1998, New York, NY, p. 14-25.

163. C. Chen and N. Rishe. “Fragmented join: a pipelined multidatabase join method.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, July 13-16, 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp. 1650-1657

164. R. Ege, Y. Battikhi, P. Pardo, J. Uppal, R. Rishe “A Modular Java API for Object-Oriented Databases”, IEEE Compsac '98, Vienna, Austria, August 1998, p.55-60

165. N. Rishe, D. Barton, F. Urban, M. Chekmasov, M. Martinez, E. Alvarez, M. Gutierrez, P. Pardo. “High Performance Database Management for Earth Sciences.” NASA University Research Center Technical Conference, Huntsville, AL. Feb 22-25, 1998, pp. 539-544.

166. G. Cao, M. Singhal, Y. Deng, N. Rishe, and W. Sun. “A Delay- Optimal Quorum-Based Mutual Exclusion Scheme with Fault-Tolerance Capability.” ICDC'98: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 1998, pp. 444-451.

167. N. Rishe. “Infrastructure for Research and Training on High-Performance Heterogeneous Distributed Database management.” Proceedings of Infrastructure 98: NSF CISE/EIA RI and MII PI's Workshop, July 24-26, 1998. Snowbird, UT. pp 44-48.

168. C.M. Chen, R. Qiu, and N. Rishe “A Pipelined Query Processor for Distributed Multidatabases”, Proceedings of the IEEE Southeast Conference, Apr. 24-26, 1998 Orlando FL. pp. 132-133

169. E. Alvarez and N. Rishe “Multimedia Spatial Databases.” Proc. Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, Miami, May 1998. pp 1-8.

170. D. Beryoza, J. Uppal, P. Pardo, and N.Rishe “Interfacing Java to Semantic DBMS.” Proc. Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, Miami, May 1998.

171. R. Ghersgorin, A. Anzardo, and N. Rishe “Western Cultures Semantic Database Application.” Proc. Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, Miami, May 1998. p. 50.

172. A. Kirienko, N. Rishe, J. Obando, H. Liu, J. Lu, W. Meng, and M. Zborovskiy “Techniques of Software Quality Assurance at the FIU High Performance Database Research Center.” Proc. Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, Miami, May 1998. p. 54.

173. N. Rishe, K. Naboulsi, and M. Olivero “Report Generator Web Interfaces to Semantic Database Cover.” Proc. Workshop on Next Generation Database Design and Applications, Miami, May 1998. p. 59.

174. E. Vaschillo, N. Rishe. “RSA biofeedback: the underlying mechanics and curative properties.” Association for Applied Pathophysiology and Biofeedback Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting, Orlando FL, April 1998, p. 139.

175. E. Vaschillo, M.A. Konstantinov, N. Rishe. “The heart rate and respiration relationship. Biofeedback investigation method.” Proceedings of the AAPB 29th Annual Meeting, AAPB Conference, Orlando FL, April 1-5,1998, p. 139

176. E. Vaschillo, U.V. Visochin, N. Rishe. RSA biofeedback as effective relaxation method. AAPB Conference, Orlando FL, April 1998. p. 2.

177. M. Chekmasov, N. Rishe, D. Barton, K. Medhyanapu, M. Chekmasova, R. Rodriguez. “Design and Implementation of the ENP Environmental Database using ORACLE.” American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing/ Resource Technology Institute Annual Conference, Tampa, FL March 30-April 4, 1998. pp. 630-638.

178. C.M. Chen and N. Rishe, “Development of an Open and Scalable Web-based Information Publishing System”, Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, pp. 163-165, Apr. 1-3, 1998, Marietta, GA.

179. E. Alvarez, Y. Battikhi, N. Rishe, D. Barton, M. Martinez, A. Anzardo. “Semantic Database Schema Editor and Viewer Tool for Geospatial Applications.” First International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL June 1-3, 1998, I, pp. 30-36.

180. N. Rishe, D. Barton, M. Chekmasov, K. Medhyanapu, S. Graham, M. Chekmasova. “Everglades Data Integration using a Semantic Database System.”International Conference Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL June 1-3, 1998, I, pp. 567-573.

181. N. Rishe, D. Barton, N. Prabhakaran, M. Gutierrez, M. Martinez, R. Athauda, A. Gonzalez, S. Graham. “Landsat Viewer: A Tool to Create Color Composite Images of Landsat The Matic Mapper Data.” International Conference Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL June 1-3, 1998, I, pp. 529--536.

182. E. Alvarez, N. Rishe, D. Barton, A. Anzardo. “Storage and Visualization of Ozone Layer Thickness Data.” First International Conference Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL June 1-3, 1998, II, pp 29-36.

183. T. Ho, E. Alvarez, N. Prabhakaran, D. Barton, N. Rishe, S. Graham. “Integration of a GIS and a Semantic Database System.” First International Conference Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry, Lake Buena Vista, FL June 1-3, 1998, I, pp. 629-636.

184. C. Chen, W. Sun, N. Rishe. “Performance comparison of three alternatives of distributed multidatabase systems: a global query perspective” IEEE Int'l Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 98) pp. 53-59.

185. C. Chen, W. Sun, N. Rishe. “Improving performance of Web- Database gateways using packed queries.” IASTED 1997 Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering (SE '97), pp. 357-361.

186. N. Rishe, D. Barton, N. Prabhakaran, M. Gutierrez, E. Alvarez, R. Athauda, J. Tola-Rodriguez, A. Gonzalez “Landsat Data Visualization via the Internet” International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR), San Diego, CA. December 13-19, 1997, pp. Rishe/1-9.

187. N. Prabhakaran, N. Rishe, and R. Athauda. “Tracking Hurricane Paths.” Proceedings of the Image Registration Workshop, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, November 1997, pp. 357-360.

188. O. Joukov, N. Rishe. “Effective computer technology for data processing.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Seoul (Korea), Dec. 1997, pp. 178-182.

189. O. Joukov and N. Rishe. “Effective computer algebra for some applications” Proceedings of World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Berlin, 1997, Vol. 2, pp. 761-765.

190. K. Liu, P. Sistla, C. Yu, N. Rishe. “Query Processing in a Video Retrieval System.” IEEE Data Engineering Conference, 1997, pp. 276-283.

191. A. Aslandogan, C. Thier, C. Yu, J. Zou, N. Rishe. “Using semantic contents and Wordnet in image retrieval.” Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference, 1997, pp. 286-294.

192. L. Amat, Jr., L. Florit, N. Rishe, D. Barton, A. Perez-Pons “A 3-d Viewer for Superimposed Spatial Data Sets.” Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference and Workshops on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, 17-19 November 1997, vol. II, pp. 344-351.

193. Long Yan, Wei Sun, Nagarajan Prabhakaran, Sha Guo, Yi Deng, Naphtali Rishe. “A Dynamic Hypermedia Model for Interactive Video.” Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems. April 97, Illinois. pp. 79-85.

194. N. Rishe and O. Zhukov. “High Performance Computer Technology for Solving Complex Physics Problems”, International School-Seminar on Automation and Computing in Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Yalta, 1996; abstract published in the Abstracts of International School-Seminar on Automation and Computing in Science, Engineering, and Industry, Yalta, 1996, p.34.

195. N. Rishe and O. Zhukov. “Highly Effective Computing Algebra”, International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation, Zurich, 1996, p. 103-104

196. N. Rishe and O. Zhukov. “Effective Computing Technology for Solving Complex Problems”, EPS-APS International Conference on Physics Computing, Krakow, 1996.

197. G. Cao and N. Rishe. “A Nonblocking Consistent Checkpointing Algorithm for Distributed Systems.” Proceedings of the IASTED Eighth International Conference Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems October 16-19, 1996 - Chicago, Ill., pp 302-307.

198. Cyril Orji, Naphtali Rishe and Kingsley Nwosu. “Data layout for Interactive Video-on-Demand Storage Systems.” 8th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'96), June 10-12, 1996, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. pp 285-292.

199. Cyril Orji, Naphtali Rishe and Kingsley Nwosu. “Dynamic Reallocation of Multimedia Data Objects.” 1996 Pacific Distributed Multimedia Systems Conference (Pacific DMS '96), Hong Kong. pp 163-170.
200- C. Liu, A. Ouksel, P. Sistla, J. Wu, C. Yu, and N. Rishe. “Performance Evaluation of G-Tree and Its Application in Fuzzy databases.” International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 1996, pp. 235-242.
201- K. L. Liu, G. J. Lipovski, C. Yu, N. Rishe. “Efficient Processing of One and Two Dimensional Proximity Queries in Associative Memory.” Proceedings of ACM SIGIR 1996, pp 138-146.
202- W. Meng, C. Yu, W. Wang and N. Rishe. “Performance Analysis of several algorithms for processing Joins between textual attributes.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Data Engineering Conference, 1996, pp. 636-644.
203- M. Sanchez, N. Rishe, D. Barton. “Specialized GIS Via a High Performance Semantic Database.” Proceedings of the 12th Annual Louisiana Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Workshop, April 16-18, 1996 (published in 1998), pp.56-58.
204- M. Sanchez, N. Rishe, D. Barton. Specialized GIS for a High Performance Semantic Database. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Louisiana Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems Workshop Lafayette, LA, April 16-19, 1996. Invited paper.
205- M. Sanchez, C. Orji, N. Rishe, K. Nwosu. “Time Mechanics as Applied to Event Ordering.” Proceedings of the IEEE Southeast Conference, April 11-14, 1996. pp. 661-664.
206- M. Sanchez, D. Barton, N. Rishe. “Semantic Database for Geographic Information Systems.” Proceedings of the IEEE Southeast Conference, April 11-14, 1996. pp. 696-698.
207- Orji, C., Rishe, N. and Nwosu, K. “Multimedia Object Storage and Retrieval.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Systems, Yokohama, Japan, March 1996, pp 368-375.
208- Naphtali Rishe, Wei Sun, David Barton, Yi Deng, Cyril Orji, Michael Alexopoulos, Leonardo Loureiro, Carlos Ordonez, Mario Sanchez, Artyom Shaposhnikov. “Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center.” SIGMOD Record, 24 (1995), 3, pp. 71-76.
209- Ya Xu, Cyril Orji, Yi Deng and Naphtali Rishe. “An Architecture for Operating System Support of Distributed Multimedia Systems”, Proceedings of the First Intl. Workshop on Multi-media DBMS, (New York, August 1995), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 56-63.

210. N. Rishe. “On storage and retrieval of generalized spatial data.” First International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Arlington, Virginia, September 1995.

211. S. Chen, Y. Deng, W. Sun, and N. Rishe, “Efficient Algorithms for Detection and Resolution of Distributed Deadlocks”, Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, San Antonio, Oct. 1995, pp. 10-18.

212. M. Sanchez, D. Barton, N. Rishe. “Application of a High Performance Semantic Database to GIS Data Requirements” Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Louisiana Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. Lafayette, LA, April 18-20, 1995. pp. 53-54.

213. N. Rishe. “Managing Network Resources for Efficient, Reliable Information Systems,” panel position paper, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (Austin, Texas, September 28-30, 1994), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp. 223-226.

214. N. Rishe and Q. Li. “Storage of Spatial Data in Semantic Databases” in Computers in Engineering 1994 (Proceeding of the 1994 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, MN, September 11-14, 1994), ASME, pp. 793-800.

215. N. Rishe, A. Shaposhnikov, and W. Sun. “Load Balancing Policy in Massively Parallel Semantic Databases” Proceedings of the First International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994, pp. 328-333.

216. N.Rishe and W.Sun. “A pipeline CASE tool for database design.” Proceedings of SEKE'94: Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 336-343. KSI, 1994.

217. Guo, S., Sun, W., Rishe, N., and Deng, Y. “Semantic query optimization by class reference reduction in object-oriented data bases.” Proceedings of SEKE'94: Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 306-313. KSI, 1994.

218. S. Guo, W. Sun, W. Li, N. Rishe, Y. Deng Q. Liu, W. Zhang. “MSQL: An SQL-based Relational Database Extension to Support Multimedia Data” Proceedings of the 5th International Hong Kong Computer Society Database Workshop, February 25-26, 1994, pp. 202-213.

219. W. Sun, Y. Ling, N. Rishe, and Y. Deng. “An instant and accurate size estimation method for joins and selections in a retrieval-intensive environment.” Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 1993, May 1993, Washington D.C., pp. 79-88.

220. Q. Li and N. Rishe. “A transputer T9000 family based architecture for parallel database machines,” Proceedings of IPPS-93 -- Workshop on Input/Output in Parallel Computer Systems (April 13, 1993, Newport Beach, CA), pp. 121-133.

221. N. Rishe and Q. Li. “Application of Semantic Data Modeling to Environmental Engineering.” Proceeding of the Third ASME Int'l Conference on Computers in Engineering (San Diego, CA, August 8-12, 1993), pp. 701-709.

222. W. Sun, N. Rishe, Y. Ding, W. Meng, and C. Liu. “Knowledge-based query optimization in an object-oriented database system.” 1991 IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (Charlottesville, VA, October 1991), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991, pp. 1657-1662.

223. Wei Sun and Naphtali Rishe. “Machine Learning in Acquiring Constraints in Relational Database Systems.” Proceedings of FLAIRS-91 — The Fourth Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, Cocoa Beach, April 2-5, 1991, ed. M.B. Fishman. pp. 145-149.

224. N. Rishe, Q. Li. “A Proof of Impossibility of Deadlock in a Fixed-routing Hypercube Network.” Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers, Monterey, Calif., (March 6-8, 1989.) Sandia National Labs, 1990. pp. 339-342.

225. Q. Li, N. Rishe. “A Hypercube Control Network for a Circuit-Switching Interprocessor Network.” Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Hypercube Concurrent Computers, Monterey, Calif., (March 6-8, 1989.) Sandia National Labs, 1990. pp. 151-154.

226. William B. Feild Jr., Jainendra K. Navlakha and Naphtali Rishe. “Towards A Semantic Binary Connectionist Network: Hybrid Expert System Knowledge Base Design.” In: Expert Systems: Theory and Applications (Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Expert Systems, Long Beach, CA, December 14-16, 1989.) Ed. M.H. Hamza. Acta Press, 1990, pp. 36-39.

227. Qiang Li, Wang Ling and Naphtali Rishe. “Three-Node Grouping Problem in the Hypercube Networks” ISMM International Conference on Intelligent Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 13-15, 1989. In: R. Ammar, ed.     Intelligent Distributed Processing, Acta Press, 1990, pp. 27-30.

228. S. Graham and N. Rishe. “An Implementation of Conservative Two-Phase-Locking for Parallel Semantic Database Machines.” ISMM International Conference on Intelligent Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 13-15, 1989. In: R. Ammar, ed. Intelligent Distributed Processing, Acta Press, 1990, pp. 98-101.

229. Ragae Ghaly and Naphtali Rishe. “A recoverable and concurrent locking algorithm for a parallel semantic binary database machine with inverted replication.” ISMM International Conference on Intelligent Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, FL, December 13-15, 1989. In: R. Ammar, ed.     Intelligent Distributed Processing, Acta Press, 1990, pp. 102-106.

230. N. Rishe. “A Predicate-calculus Based Language for Semantic Databases.” In: Databases and Parallel Architectures. Proceedings of the PARBASE-90: International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and their Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 424-429.

231. G. Schaps, N. Rishe. “Structured Evaluation of Database Management Systems.” In: Databases and Parallel Architectures. Proceedings of the PARBASE-90: International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and their Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 441-446.

232. J. Addess, E. Gudes, N.Rishe, and D.Tal. “Performance Evaluation of a New Optimistic Concurrency Control Algorithm.” In: Databases and Parallel Architectures. Proceedings of the PARBASE-90: International Conference on Databases, Parallel Architectures, and their Applications. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 522-525.

233. N. Rishe. “Semantic Database Management: From Microcomputers to Massively Parallel Database Machines.” Keynote Paper, Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Microcomputer and Microprocessor Applications, Budapest, October 17-19, 1989, pp 1-12.

234. N. Rishe. “Lexicographic Encoding of Numeric Data Fields.” Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Computer Arithmetic. (ARITH-9, Santa Monica, CA, September 6-8, 1989.) Eds. Milos D. Ercegovac and Earl Swartzlander. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989, pp. 241-246.

235. Q. Li, D. Barton, and N. Rishe. “A Linear Equation Solution Algorithm on a Coarse-grained Parallel System”, Proceedings of The Third Parallel Processing Symposium, Fullerton, CA, March 29-31, 1989. Ed. L.H. Canter. IEEE, 1989. pp. 360-368.

236. N. Rishe. “A Semantic Database Management System.” Proceedings of the Innovation-89 Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, April 6-7, 1989.

237. N. Rishe, D. Tal and Q. Li. “A Sequenced Hypercube Topology for a Massively-parallel Database Computer.” Proceedings of The 2nd Symposium on Frontiers of Massively-parallel Computation. (October 10-12, 1988, GMU, Fairfax, VA.) Ed. R. Mills. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989, pp. 521-524.

238. Ragae Ghaly, Wang Ling, Naphtali Rishe, Doron Tal. “Knowledge Representation of Dynamic Features in the Semantic Binary Data Model.” In: Expert Systems: Theory and Applications (Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Expert Systems, Long Beach, CA, December 14-16, 1989.) Ed. M.H. Hamza. Acta Press, 1989. pp. 80-84.

239. Q. Li and N. Rishe “A Hybrid of Packet-switched and Circuit-switched Networks.” In: Mini and Microcomputers: From Micros to Supercomputers (Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference on Mini and Microcomputers, Miami Beach, December 14-16, 1988; Editor M.H. Hamza.) Acta Press, 1988, pp. 363-366.

240. N. Rishe and Q. Li. “Deadlock Elimination in Networks with Hamiltonian Circle.” In: Mini and Microcomputers: From Micros to Supercomputers (Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference on Mini and Microcomputers, Miami Beach, December 14-16, 1988; Editor M.H. Hamza.) Acta Press, 1988, pp. 282-285.

241. N. Rishe. “Transaction-Management System in a Fourth-Generation Language for Semantic Databases.” In: Mini and Microcomputers: From Micros to Supercomputers (Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference on Mini and Microcomputers, Miami Beach, December 14-16, 1988; M.H. Hamza, ed.), Acta Press, 1988, pp. 92-95.

242. N. Rishe. “A Compact Monotonic Universal Encoding of Numbers.” Proceedings of the 26-th ACM SERC, Mobile, Ala. April 20-22, 1988. Eds. J.H. Cross and E.E. Ellis. ACM, 1988. p p 364-368.

243. D.Tal, N. Rishe, D. Barton and N. Prabhakaran “High-throughput Highly-parallel Database System.” Proceedings of the 26-th ACM SERC, Mobile, Ala. April 20-22, 1988. Eds. J.H. Cross and E.E. Ellis. ACM, 1988. p p 682-686.

244. M. Hanani, N. Rishe, Y. Shokhat, A. Amit. “A System of Information Approximation” (in Hebrew). Proceedings of the Congress of Israel Information Processing Association, Jerusalem, 1982, 63-72.

Selected Technical Reports

technical reports published by universities and governmental/industrial bodies.