2016

  • Kaiyu Zhao, Matthew Ward, Elke Rundensteiner, and Huong Higgins, "MaVis: Machine Learning Aided Multi-Model Framework for Time Series Visual Analytics", Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA) 2016. BEST PAPER AWARD (one of 2 best papers).
  • Xiao Qin, Ramoza Ahsan, Xika Lin, Elke Rundensteiner, and Matthew Ward, "Interactive Temporal Association Analytics", EDBT 2016.

2014

  • Xiao Qin and Ramoza Ahsan and Xika Lin and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "iPARAS: Incremental Construction of Parameter Space for Online Association Mining", BigMine 2014: 149-165.
  • Xika Lin and Abhishek Mukherji and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "SPIRE: Supporting ParameterDriven Interactive Rule Mining and Exploration", (Demonstration Paper), PVLDB 7(13): 1653-1656 (2014).
  • Kaiyu Zhao and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Huong N. Higgins, "LoVis: Local Pattern Visualization for Model Refinement", EuroVis 2014: 331--340.
  • Kaiyu Zhao and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Huong N. Higgins, "Progressively Consolidating Historical Visual Explorations for New Discoveries", VDA 2014: 90170T-90170T-8.
  • Abhishek Mukherji and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "COLARM: Cost-based Optimization for Localized Association Rule Mining", EDBT 2014: 181-192.

2013

  • Abhishek Mukherji and Jason Whitehouse and Christopher R. Botaish and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "SPHINX: A Parameter Space Explorer for Analyzing Evidence-Hypotheses Relationships", CIKM 2013: 2521-2524 (Demonstration Paper).
  • Abhishek Mukherji and Xika Lin and Jason Whitehouse and Christopher R. Botaish and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "FIRE: Interactive Visual Support for Parameter Space-Driven Rule Mining", CIKM 2013: 2447-2452.
  • Di Yang and Kaiyu Zhao and Hanyuan Lu and Maryam Hasan and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "Mining and Linking Complex Patterns across Live Data Streams and Stream Archives", PVLDB 6(12): 1346-1349 (2013)(Demonstration Paper).
  • Abhishek Mukherji and Xika Lin and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward and Carolina Ruiz, "PARAS: Interactive Parameter Space Exploration for Association Rule Mining",(Demonstration Paper), SIGMOD Conference 2013: 1017-1020.
  • Xika Lin and Abhishek Mukherji and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Carolina Ruiz and Matthew O. Ward, "PARAS: Parameter Space Framework for Online Association Mining", PVLDB 6(3): 193-204 (2013).
  • Zaixian Xie and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Exploring Large Scale Time-Series Data Using Nested Timelines", Visualization and Data Analysis, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE, Vol. 8654, 865405, Feb 2013.

2012

  • Zhenyu Guo and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Carolina Ruiz, "Evaluation of a Pointwise Local Visual Exploration Method", Tsinghua Science and Technology, Special Issue on Visualization and Computer Graphic, Vol. 17, No. 4, Aug 2012, pp. 429-439 (accepted: June 2012).
  • Di Yang and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "Mining Neighbor-Based Patterns In Data Streams", Information Systems Journal 38(3): 331-350, 2012.
  • Di Yang and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "Shared execution strategy for neighbor-based pattern mining requests over streaming windows", ACM Transactions of Database Systems (TODS) Journal, 37(1): 5, 2012 (accepted in 2011).
  • Di Yang and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, " Summarization and Matching of Density-Based Clusters in Steaming Environments", PVLDB vol.5(2), pp 121-132, 2012 (accepted in 2011).

2011

  • Matthew O. Ward and Zaixian Xie and Di Yang and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Quality-Aware Visual Data Analysis", Computational Statistics 2011, V. 26, No. 4, pp. 567-584.
  • Zhenyu Guo and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Carolina Ruiz, "Pointwise Local Pattern Exploration for Sensitivity Analysis", IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2011, pp 131-140.
  • Avani Shastri and Di Yang and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "MTopS: Scalable Processing of Continuous Top-K Multi-Query Workloads", 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2011, pp 1107-1116.
  • Di Yang and Zhenyu Guo and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "CLUES: A Unified Framework Supporting Interactive Exploration of Density-Based Clusters in Streams", 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2011, pp 815-824.
  • Zhenyu Guo and Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Nugget Browser: Visual Subgroup Mining and Statistical Significance Discovery in Multivariate Dataset", IV2011: 15th International Conference Information Visualisation, pp 267-275.
  • Abhishek Mukherji and Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "Achieving High Freshness and Optimal Throughput in CPU-limited Execution of Multi-Join Continuous Queries", British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD) 2011, pp 48-65.
  • Matthew O. Ward and Zhenyu Guo, "Visual Exploration of Time-Series Data with Shape Space Projections", Computer Graphics Forum 2011, Volume 30, Number 3, pp 701-710.
  • Di Yang, Avani Shastri, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "An optimal strategy for monitoring top-k queries in streaming windows.", Extending Database Technology 2011, pp 57-68.

2010

  • Zaixian Xie, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Visual Exploration of Stream Pattern Changes Using a Data-Driven Framework", Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp 522-532, Nov.29 - Dec. 1, 2010 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6454).
  • Di Yang, Zhenyu Guo, Zaixian Xie, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "Interactive visual exploration of neighbor-based patterns in data streams", (Demonstration Paper), ACM SIGMOD Conference 2010, pp 1151-1154.
  • Matthew O. Ward, Zhenyu Guo, " Generalized Hyper-cylinders: a Mechanism for Modeling and Visualizing N-D Objects.", Scientific Visualization: Advanced Concepts 2010. 1-10.
  • Zaixian Xie, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, " Visual analysis of multivariate data streams based on DOI functions.", Technical Report TR-10-06, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science Department, 2010.
  • Zaixian Xie, Zhenyu Guo, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Operator-Centric Design Patterns for Information Visualization Software", Visualization and Data Analysis, Proc. of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE, Vol. 7530, 75300J, Jan 2010.

2009

  • Zhenyu Guo, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Model Space Visualization for Multivariate Linear Trend Discovery", IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp 75-82, October 2009.
  • Matthew O. Ward, "Linking and Brushing.", Encyclopedia of Database Systems 2009: 1623-1626.
  • Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "A Shared Execution Strategy for Multiple Pattern Mining Requests over Streaming Data", PVLDB 2(1): 874-885 (2009).
  • Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "Neighbor-based pattern detection for windows over streaming data.", EDBT 2009: 529-540.
  • Zaixian Xie, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Exploring Multivariate Data Streams Using Windowing and Sampling Strategies", Interacting with temporal data workshop at CHI 2009.

2007

  • D. Yang, Z. Xie, E. A. Rundensteiner and M. O. Ward, "Managing Discoveries in The Visual Analytics Process", SIGKDD Explorations 9(2): 22-29 (2007)
  • Zaixian Xie, "Towards Exploratory Visualization of Multivariate Streaming Data", IEEE Vis/InfoVis/VAST Doctoral Colloquium, v.1, 2007, p. 1.
  • Charudatta Wad, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "QoS: Quality-driven data abstraction generation for large databases", 5th Int. Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB 2007: 19-25),   Vienna, Austria, Sep 2007. 
  • Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "Nugget Discovery in Visual Exploration Environments by Query Consolidation", CIKM 2007: 603-612.
  • Di Yang, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "Analysis Guided Visual Exploration to Multivariate Data", IEEE VAST 2007: 83-90.
  • Zaixian Xie, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Shiping Huang, "Integrating Data and Quality Space Interactions in Exploratory Visualizations", The Fifth International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV 2007), pp47-60, July 2007.
  • Elke Rundensteiner, Matthew Ward, Zaixian Xie, Qingguang Cui, Charudatta Wad, Di Yang, Shiping Huang, "XmdvTool^Q: Quality-Aware Interactive Data Exploration", ACM SIGMOD CONFERENCE 2007, demonstration paper, pp 1109-1112, June 2007
  • Di Yang, "Analysis Guided Visual Exploration of Multivariate Data'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2007.

2006

  • Qingguang Cui, "Measuring Data Abstraction Quality in Multiresolution Visualizations'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 2006.
  • Qingguang Cui, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Jing Yang, "Measuring Data Abstraction Quality in Multiresolution Visualization", IEEE Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis 2006), pp709-716, October 2006
  • Zaixian Xie, Shiping Huang, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Exploratory Visualization of Multivariate Data with Variable Quality", IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, pp183-190, October 2006.
  • Qingguang Cui, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Enhancing Scatterplot Matrices for Data with Ordering or Spatial Attributes", Visualization and Data Analysis, Part of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, pp0R1-0R11 Jan 2006.

2005

  • Nishant K. Mehta, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, "A Hierarchy Navigation Framework: Supporting Scalable Interactive Exploration over Large Databases", Ninth International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2005), pp 425-434 July 2005.
  • Shiping Huang, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction for Text Visualization", The Third International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV 2005), pp 63 -74, July 2005.
  • Jing Yang, "A General Framework for Multi-Resolution Visualization'', Ph.D. Dissertation. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, April 2005.
  • Wei Peng, "Clutter-Based Dimension Reordering in Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, January 2005.

2004

  • Matthew O. Ward, Jing Yang, "Interaction Spaces in Data and Information Visualization", Joint Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp 137-145, May 2004.
  • Shiping Huang, "Exploratory Visualization of Data with Variable Quality'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 2004.
  • Jing Yang, Anilkumar Patro, Shiping Huang, Nishant Mehta, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Value and Relation Display for Interactive Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004 (InfoVis 2004), pp 73 - 80, October 2004.
  • Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Clutter Reduction in Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization Using Dimension Reordering", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2004 (InfoVis 2004), pp 89 - 96, October 2004.
  • Anilkumar Patro, "Pixel Oriented Visualization in XmdvTool'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, September 2004.
  • Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Order, Spacing, and Clustering in Visual Exploration of Large Scale Data", National Science Foundation, IDM Project Report, 2004.

  • Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner, David C. Brown, Matthew O. Ward and Shiping Huang, "Mapping Nominal Values to Numbers for Effective Visualization", Information Visualization Journal, Vol 3, pp 80-95, 2004.

2003

  • Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003 (InfoVis 2003), pp 105 - 112, October 2003.
  • Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner, David C. Brown and Matthew O. Ward, "Mapping Nominal Values to Numbers for Effective Visualization", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2003 (InfoVis 2003), pp 113 - 120, October 2003.
  • Punit R. Doshi, Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "A Strategy Selection Framework for Adaptive Prefetching in Data Visualization", 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2003), pp 107-116, July 2003.
  • Shiping Huang, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction for Text Visualization", Worcester Polytechnic Institute Technical Report #WPI-CS-TR-03-14, April 2003.
  • Jing Yang, Wei Peng, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Interactive Hierarchical Dimension Ordering, Spacing and Filtering for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Worcester Polytechnic Institute Technical Report #WPI-CS-TR-03-13, April 2003.
  • Anilkumar Patro, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Seamless Integration of Diverse Data Types into Exploratory Visualization Systems", Worcester Polytechnic Institute Technical Report #WPI-CS-TR-03-12, April 2003.
  • Geraldine E. Rosario, Elke A. Rundensteiner, David C. Brown and Matthew O. Ward, "Mapping Nominal Values to Numbers for Effective Visualization", Worcester Polytechnic Institute Technical Report #WPI-CS-TR-03-11, April 2003.
  • Jing Yang, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Shiping Huang, "Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Joint Eurographics/IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp 19 - 28, May 2003.
  • Punit R. Doshi, Elke A. Rundensteiner and Matthew O. Ward, "Prefetching for Visual Data Exploration", Eighth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2003), pp 195 - 202, March 2003.
  • Punit R. Doshi, ``Adaptive Prefetching for Visual Data Exploration'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, January 2003.

2002

  • Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Jing Yang, Punit R. Doshi and Geraldine Rosario, "Interactive Poster: XmdvTool: Interactive Visual Data Exploration System For High-dimensional Data Sets", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002 (InfoVis 2002), pp 52-53, 2002.
  • Jing Yang, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "InterRing: An Interactive Tool for Visually Navigating and Manipulating Hierarchical Structures ", IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization 2002 (InfoVis 2002), pp 77-84, 2002.
  • Matthew O. Ward, "A taxonomy of glyph placement strategies for multidimensional data visualization", Information Visualization, Vol 1, pp 194-210, 2002.
  • Jing Yang, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction for Exploration of High Dimensional Datasets", Technical Report # WPI-CS-TR-02-22
  • Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Hierarchical Visualization Techniques for Data Mining", National Science Foundation, IDM Project Report for Project IIS-9732897, 2002.
  • Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Order, Spacing, and Clustering in Visual Exploration of Large Scale Data", National Science Foundation, IDM Project Report for IIS-0119276, 2002.
  • Punit R. Doshi, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, and Daniel Stroe, "Prefetching For Visual Data Exploration." Technical Report #: WPI-CS-TR-02-07.
  • Elke A. Rundensteiner, Matthew O. Ward, Jing Yang, and Punit R. Doshi, "XmdvTool: Visual Interactive Data Exploration and Trend Discovery of High-dimensional Data Sets." ACM SIGMOD CONFERENCE 2002, demonstration paper, pp 631, June 2002.

2001

  • Jing Yang, ``Visual Hierarchical Dimension Reduction'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, December 2001.

2000

  • Jing Yang, Matthew O. Ward and Elke A. Rundensteiner, "Hierarchical Exploration of Large Multivariate Data Sets", Proc. Dagstuhl Seminar on Scientific Visualization 2000, pp 201-212. A shorter version of the above document without the user study.
  • Fua, Y.-H., Ward, M. O., and Rundensteiner, E. A., "Structure-Based Brushes: A Mechanism for Navigating Hierarchically Organized Data and Information Spaces'', IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. (invited paper selected from IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization), pp 150-159, May - June 2000.
  • Ionel Daniel Stroe, ``Scalable Visual Hierarchy Exploration'', M.S. Thesis. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, May 2000.
  • The project report for IDM 2000 is located here.

Before 2000

  • Fua, Y.-H., Ward, M. O., and Rundensteiner, E. A., "Navigating Hierarchies with Structure-Based Brushes," IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization , pp 58 - 64, Oct. 1999.
  • Fua, Y.-H., Ward, M. O., and Rundensteiner, E. A., "Hierarchical Parallel Coordinates for Visualizing Large Multivariate Data Sets," IEEE Conf. on Visualization '99, pp 43 - 50, Oct. 1999.
  • Matthew O. Ward, "Creating And Manipulating N-Dimensional Brushes,"  Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistical Graphics, pp 6 - 14, Aug 1997
  • Allen R. Martin, Matthew O. Ward, "High Dimensional Brushing for Interactive Exploration of Multivariate Data, " IEEE Conf. on Visualization '95, pp 271- 278, Oct. 1995.
  • Matthew O. Ward, "XmdvTool: Integrating Multiple Methods for Visualizing Multivariate Data," IEEE Conf. on Visualization '94, pp 326 - 333, Oct. 1994.