Publications

Refereed Journals

G.V. Cormack, C.R. Palmer, C.L.A. Clarke, Passage-Based Query Refinement (MultiText Experiments for TREC-6). Information Processing and Management , 36(1), January 2000.

L.J.Brown, M.P.Consens, I.J.Davis, C.R.Palmer, and F.W.Tompa, A Structured Text ADT for Object-Relational Databases. Theory and Practice of Object Systems , 4(4): 227-244, 1998. Postscript draft.

Refereed Conferences

Christopher R. Palmer and Christos Faloutsos, Electricity Based External Similarity of Categorical Attributes, The Seventh Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-03), Seoul, South Korea, May 2003. (to appear)

Christopher R. Palmer, Phillip B. Gibbons and Christos Faloutsos, ANF: A Fast and Scalable Tool for Data Mining in Massive Graphs, The eighth ACM SIGKDD Internal Conference on Knowlege Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2002), Edmonton, AB, Canada, July, 2002. source (v.1.0), PS, PDF.

L. Tauro, C. Palmer, G. Signaos, and M. Faloutsos, A simple conceptual model for the Internet topology, IEEE Globecom 2001 , San Antonio, Texas, November 2001. PDF .

Christopher R. Palmer and J. Gregory Steffan, Generating Network Topologies that Obey Power Laws, IEEE Globecom 2000 , San Francisco, CA, November 2000. postscript draft or C source for the recursive generator

Christopher R. Palmer and Christos Faloutsos, Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering, 2000 ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conference on Management of Data , Dallas, TX, May 2000. Source code is available here.

Cormack G.V., Palmer C.R. and Clarke C.L.A., Efficient Construction of Large Test Collections, Proceedings of SIGIR 98, the ACM Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, August 1998. postscript draft

Palmer C.R. and Cormack G.V., Operation Transforms for a Distributed Shared Spreadsheet, Proceedings of CSCW 98, the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Seattle, November 1998. postscript draft ; slides ; for related work see SIGCE .

Refereed Short Publications

R. E. Valdes-Perez, J. Pesenti, and C. R. Palmer, Hierarchial Document Clustering for Digital Libraries, JCDL'01 - The first ACM+IEEE Join Conference on Digital Libraries , Roanoke, VA. [draft of demo abstract]

Gordon V. Cormack, Ondrej Lhotak and Christopher R. Palmer, Estimating Precision by Random Sampling, SIGIR 99 , the ACM Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, August 1999. [draft of poster abstract]

Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Christopher R. Palmer, and Rob C. Good, The MultiText Retrieval System. In SIGIR 99 , the ACM Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Berkeley, CA, August 1999. [demo abstract]

Other Conferences / Workshops

Palmer, C.R., Gibbons, P.B., Faloutsos, C., Data Mining on Large Graphs, in the Workshop on Dynamic Social Network Modelling and Analysis, Washington, DC, November, 2002. PDF

Palmer, C.R., Siganos, G., Faloutsos, M., Faloutsos, C., Gibbons, P.B., The connectivity and fault-tolerance of the Internet topology. Workshop on Network-Related Data Management (NRDM 2001) , Santa Barbara, CA, May, 2001. postscript / slides (ppt)

Cormack, G.V., Clarke, C.L.A., and Palmer, C. R., Fast Automatic Passage Ranking (MultiText Experiments for TREC-8) Proceedings of The Eight Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1999.

Cormack, G.V., Palmer, C.R., Van Biesbrouck, M., and Clarke, C.L.A., Short Boolean Queries: MultiText Experiments for TREC 7, Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1998. PDF or Postscript

Cormack G.V., Clarke C.L.A., Palmer C.R. and To S.L., Passage Based Refinement (MultiText Experiments for TREC-6), Proceedings of The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 1997. postscript

Technical Reports

Christopher R. Palmer and Christos Faloutsos, Density Biased Sampling: An Improved Method for Data Mining and Clustering, Carnegie Mellon Technical Report: CMU-CS-99-113, postscript , pdf .

C.R. Palmer and G.V. Cormack, Lock-Free Distributed Objects: A Shared Spreadsheet. University of Waterloo Technical Report: CS-98-04. 1998. Postscript

Other Publications

Robert Meldrum and Chris Palmer, UNIX make for RTE-A, TC Interface, Vol. 9, Issue 4, July/August 1990.