Marcos R. Vieira      Mailing Address: IBM Research, Brazil Natural Resources Analytics Group Av. Pasteur, 138/146, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Office Phone: +55 21 2132 4238    Resume:

Prior to joining UCR, I received my M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science (2004) from University of São Paulo at São Carlos and my B.S. Degree in Computer Engineering (2001) from Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

I recently joined the IBM Research Laboratory - Brazil.

Research Interests

• Metric, Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Databases
• Query Processing Techniques
• Data Streaming Systems
• Data Structures and Indexing Techniques
• Data Mining Techniques

Work Experience

• Research Intern at the Distributed Streaming Systems Group - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (summer 2011)
• Intern at the Geodatabase Department - Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Redlands, CA (summer 2010 to spring 2011)
• Research Intern at the Data Mining and User Modeling Research Group - Telefónica Research, Madrid, Spain (summer 2009)
• Research Intern at the Data Management Department - AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ (summer 2008)

Refereed Publications [DBLP]

2013
Stream-Mode FPGA Acceleration of Complex Pattern Trajectory Querying
R. Moussalli, M. Vieira, W. Najjar, V. Tsotras
Proc. of 13th Int'l Symp. on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2013


STEM: A Spatio-TEmporal Miner for Bursty Activities
T. Lappas, M. Vieira, D. Gunopulos, V. Tsotras
Proc. of the ACM Int'l Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD) [Demo], 2013

Spatio-Temporal Databases: Complex Motion Pattern Queries
M. Vieira, V. Tsotras
SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2013

2012
On The Spatiotemporal Burstiness of Terms
T. Lappas, M. Vieira, D. Gunopulos, V. Tsotras
Proc. of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2012


A Spatial Caching Framework for Map Operations in Geographical Information Systems
M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, E. Hoel, V. Tsotras
Proc. of 13th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2012

2011
DivDB: A System for Diversifying Query Results
M. Vieira, H. Razente, M. Barioni, M. Hadjieleftheriou, D. Srivastava, C. Traina, Jr., V. Tsotras
Proc. of 37th Int'l Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) [Demo], 2011


FlexTrack: A System for Querying Flexible Patterns in Trajectory Databases
M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, V. Tsotras
Proc. of 12th Int'l Symp. on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) [Demo], 2011


On Query Result Diversification
M. Vieira, H. Razente, M. Barioni, M. Hadjieleftheriou, D. Srivastava, C. Traina, Jr., V. Tsotras
Proc. of 27th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011


Complex Motion Pattern Queries for Trajectories
M. Vieira, V. Tsotras
Proc. of IEEE ICDE Ph.D. Workshop, 2011

2010
MAMView: A Framework for Visualization of Metric Trees
M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina
Proc. of 25th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD) [Demo], 2010


Querying Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Mobile Phone-Call Databases
M. Vieira, E. Frias-Martinez, P. Bakalov, V. Frias-Martinez, V. Tsotras
Proc. of 11th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2010


Characterizing Dense Urban Areas from Mobile Phone-Call Data: Discovery and Social Dynamics
M. Vieira, E. Frias-Martinez, N. Oliver, V. Frias-Martinez
Proc. of 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010


Querying trajectories using flexible patterns
Marcos R. Vieira, P. Bakalov, Vassilis J. Tsotras
Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2010


DBM-Tree: A Dynamic Metric Access Method Sensitive to Local Density Data
M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina
Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM) [invited paper], 2010


Revisiting the DBM-Tree
M. Vieira, F. Chino, A. Traina, C. Traina, Jr.
Journal of Information and Data Management (JIDM) [invited paper], 2010


A Visual Framework to Understand Similarity Queries and Explore Data in Metric Access Method
M. Vieira, F. Chino, C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina
Int'l Journal Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), 2010

2009
On-line discovery of flock patterns in spatio-temporal data
M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, V. Tsotras
Proc. of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 2009


Boosting XML Filtering Through a Scalable FPGA-based Architecture
A. Mitra, M. Vieira, P. Bakalov, W. Najjar, V. Tsotras
Proc. of 4th Conf. on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2009

2007
The Omni-Family of All-Purpose Access Methods: A Simple and Effective Way to Make Similarity Search More Efficient
C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina, R. Filho, M. Vieira, C. Traina, Jr., C. Faloutsos
Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), 2007


Boosting k-Nearest Neighbor Queries Estimating Suitable Query Radii
M. Vieira, C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina, A. Arantes, C. Faloutsos
Proc. of 19th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2007

2006
Efficient Processing of Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS Through Query Rewriting
C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina, M. Vieira, A. Arantes, C. Faloutsos
Proc. of the 15th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006


DBM-Tree: Trading Height-Balancing for Performance in Metric Access Methods
M. Vieira, C. Traina, Jr., F. Chino, A. Traina
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS), 2006

2005
MAMView: a visual tool for exploring and understanding metric access methods
Fabio J. T. Chino, Marcos R. Vieira, Agma J. M. Traina, Caetano Traina
Proc. of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2005

2004
Efficient Algorithms to Execute Complex Similarity Queries in RDBMS
A. Arantes, M. Vieira, C. Traina, A. Traina,
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS), 2004


DBM-Tree: A Dynamic Metric Access Method Sensitive to Local Density Data
M. Vieira, C. Traina, Jr., F. Chino, A. Traina
Proc. of 19th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD), 2004

2003
Similarity Selection Operators for Relational Database Management Systems
A. Arantes, M. Vieira, C. Traina, Jr., A. Traina
Proc. of 18th Brazilian Symp. on Databases (SBBD), 2003


The Fractal Dimension Making Similarity Queries More Efficient
A. Arantes, M. Vieira, A. Traina, C. Traina, Jr.
Proc. of 2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Fractals and Self-Similarity in Data Mining: Issues and Approaches, 2003


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