Maria Esther Vidal

Email:

mvidal@umiacs.umd.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Vitae in Postscript

Academic Degree:

Master in Computer Science, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, 1991

Ph D. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela, 2000

Current Position:

Associated Professor Computer Science Department, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela

Research Interests:

Current research interests include scalable architectures for wide-area heterogeneous information servers; query interoperation between object and relational databases; query optimization and evaluation techniques for heterogeneous environments; higher-order wrapper languages for dynamic information servers.

Wide Area Heterogeneous Information Servers

Recent papers

A KIF mediator for Multiple F-logic Object Databases: Raschid, Louiqa and Vidal, Maria Esther. Under Review.
A Flexible Meta-Wrapper Interface for Autonomous Distributed Information Sources: Raschid, Louiqa and Vidal, Maria Esther and Gruser, Jean-Robert. Under Review.
SInMWrap: Source Independent Meta-Wrapper for Autonomous Distributed Sources: Raschid, Louiqa and Vidal, Maria Esther. Under Review.
A Meta-Wrapper for Scaling up to Multiple Autonomous Distributed Information Sources: Maria Esther Vidal, Louiqa Raschid, Jean Robert Gruser. In Proceedings CoopIS'98.
A Meta-Wrapper for Scaling up to Multiple Autonomous Distributed Information Sources (Extended Version): Maria Esther Vidal, Louiqa Raschid, Jean Robert Gruser.
Wrapper Generation for Web Accessible Data Sources: Jean Robert Gruser, Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal, Laura Bright. In Proceedings CoopIS'98.
Optimization of Wrappers and Mediators for Web Accessible Data Sources(WebSources): Laura Bright, Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal . Web Information and Data Management (WIDM'98). In conjunction with the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'98).
A Wrapper Generation toolkit to specify and construct Wrappers for Web Accessible Sources (WebSources): Laura Bright, Jean Robert Gruser, Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal. To appear in Computer Systems Special Issue on Semantics in the WWW. 1998.
WebSrcMed: A Mediator for Scaling up to Multiple Web Accesible Sources (WebSources): Maria Esther Vidal, Louiqa Raschid. Under Review.
Query Evaluation for Source Selection and Ranking: George A. Mihaila Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal. Proceedings of the Thrid international Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB 2000. In conjunction with ACM SIGMOD'2000.
Querying Quality of Data Metadata: George A. Mihaila Louiqa Raschid, Maria Esther Vidal. Third IEEE Computer Society Metadata Conference. 1999.
Efficient Evaluation of Queries in a MEdiator for WebSources: Vladimir Zadorozhny, Maria Esther Vidal, Louiqa Raschid, Tolga Urhan. Under review.

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