Publications

@article{journals-dke-MoslemiMBM26,
  title = {Heterogeneity in entity matching: A survey and experimental analysis},
  author = {Mohammad Hossein Moslemi and Amir Mousavi and Behshid Behkamal and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Data & Knowledge Engineering},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2026.102575},
  eprint = {2508.08076},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08076},
  doi = {10.1016/j.datak.2026.102575}
}

@article{tods-2025,
  title = {Semi-Oblivious Chase Termination for Linear Existential Rules and Beyond: An Experimental Analysis},
  author = {Amirhossein Alizad and Marco Calautti and Mostafa Milani and Andreas Pieris},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Database Systems},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3785662},
  pdf = {https://air.unimi.it/retrieve/handle/2434/1229979/3373928/3785662.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{conf-icde-GhahramanpourM26,
  title = {Structure Selection for Fairness-Constrained Differentially Private Data Synthesis},
  author = {Naeim Ghahramanpour and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icde/GhahramanpourM26},
  eprint = {2603.12112},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.12112}
}

@inproceedings{conf-icde-AbdElazimIM26,
  title = {The Human Factor in Data Cleaning: Exploring Preferences and Biases},
  author = {Hazim AbdElazim and Shadman Islam and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2026},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icde/AbdElazimIM26},
  eprint = {2602.19368},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.19368}
}

@inproceedings{bigdata-2025-2,
  title = {Beyond Accuracy: An Empirical Study of Uncertainty Estimation in Imputation},
  author = {Zarin Tahia Hossain and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Big Data Workshops},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21607},
  eprint = {2511.21607},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.21607}
}

@article{data-2025,
  title = {Beyond the List: A Framework for the Design of Next-Generation MEDLINE Search Tools},
  author = {Vladimir Zhurov and Kamran Sedig and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Data},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/10/167},
  pdf = {https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/data/data-10-00167/article_deploy/data-10-00167.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{edbt-2025,
  title = {Evaluating SQL Understanding in Large Language Models},
  author = {Ananya Rahaman and Anny Zheng and Mostafa Milani and Fei Chiang and Rachel Pottinger},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {The International Conference on Extending Database Technology},
  url = {https://www.openproceedings.org/2025/conf/edbt/paper-211.pdf},
  eprint = {2410.10680},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.10680}
}

@article{informatics-2025,
  title = {Fuzzy Ontology Embeddings and Visual Query Building for Ontology Exploration},
  author = {Vladimir Zhurov and John Kausch and Kamran Sedig and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {Informatics},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/12/4/133},
  eprint = {2508.08128},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08128}
}

@inproceedings{bigdata-2025-1,
  title = {Relation-Stratified Sampling for Shapley Values Estimation in Relational Databases},
  author = {Amirhossein Alizad and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Big Data Workshops},
  url = {https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22035},
  eprint = {2511.22035},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.22035}
}

@inproceedings{bigdata-2024,
  title = {Evaluating Blocking Biases in Entity Matching},
  author = {Mohammad Hossein Moslemi and Harini Balamurugan and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Big Data},
  url = {https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/bigdata/2024/10825531/23ykIScPrOg},
  eprint = {2409.16410},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.16410}
}

@article{sigmod-2024,
  title = {OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport},
  author = {Alireza Pirhadi and Mohammad Hossein Moslemi and Alexander Cloninger and Mostafa Milani and Babak Salimi},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654963},
  eprint = {2403.02372},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.02372}
}

@inproceedings{guide-2024,
  title = {Threshold-Independent Fair Matching through Score Calibration},
  author = {Mohammad Hossein Moslemi and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Workshop on Governance, Understanding and Integration of Data for Effective and Responsible AI},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3665601.3669845},
  eprint = {2405.20051},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20051},
  doi = {10.1145/3665601.3669845}
}

@article{tkde-2021,
  title = {Data Anonymization With Diversity Constraints},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Yu Huang and Fei Chiang},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9629273},
  eprint = {2007.09141},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.09141}
}

@article{is-2022,
  title = {Extending sticky-Datalog± via finite-position selection functions: Tractability, algorithms, and optimization},
  author = {Leopoldo E. Bertossi and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Information Systems},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030643792200134X},
  eprint = {2108.00903},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.00903}
}

@article{vldb-2023,
  title = {Semi-Oblivious Chase Termination for Linear Existential Rules: An Experimental Study},
  author = {Marco Calautti and Mostafa Milani and Andreas Pieris},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3611479.3611493},
  eprint = {2303.12851},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12851}
}

@inproceedings{edbt-2023,
  title = {Workload-Aware Query Recommendation Using Deep Learning},
  author = {Eugenie Yujing Lai and Zainab Zolaktaf and Mostafa Milani and Omar AlOmeir and Jianhao Cao and Rachel Pottinger},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {The International Conference on Extending Database Technology},
  url = {https://openproceedings.org/2023/conf/edbt/paper-173.pdf},
  pdf = {https://openproceedings.org/2023/conf/edbt/paper-173.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{edbt-2021,
  title = {Preserving Diversity in Anonymized Data},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Yu Huang and Fei Chiang},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {The International Conference on Extending Database Technology},
  url = {https://openproceedings.org/2021/conf/edbt/p20.pdf},
  pdf = {https://openproceedings.org/2021/conf/edbt/p20.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{icde-2021,
  title = {Summarizing Provenance of Aggregate Query Results in Relational Databases},
  author = {Omar AlOmeir and Eugenie Yujing Lai and Mostafa Milani and Rachel Pottinger},
  year = {2021},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering},
  url = {https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icde/2021/918400b955/1uGXKLN4qPK},
  pdf = {https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mkmilani/report.pdf}
}

@article{journals-sigmod-MaierPDDHLLMRST20,
  title = {Advice from SIGMOD/PODS 2020},
  author = {David Maier and Rachel Pottinger and AnHai Doan and Eduard C. Dragut and Bill Howe and Joanne Lateulere and John Lateulere and Mostafa Milani and Tilmann Rabl and Dan Suciu and Yufei Tao and Wang-Chiew Tan and Kristin Tufte},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {ACM SIGMOD Record},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3444831.3444841},
  pdf = {https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/2009/pdfs/07_Reports_Maier.pdf},
  doi = {10.1145/3444831.3444841}
}

@inproceedings{sigmod-2020,
  title = {Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis},
  author = {Zainab Zolaktaf and Mostafa Milani and Rachel Pottinger},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3318464.3380602},
  eprint = {2002.09091},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.09091}
}

@article{is-2020,
  title = {Privacy-aware data cleaning-as-a-service},
  author = {Yu Huang and Mostafa Milani and Fei Chiang},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Information Systems},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306437920300879},
  eprint = {2008.00368},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.00368}
}

@inproceedings{icde-2020,
  title = {The Pastwatch: On the usability of provenance data in relational databases},
  author = {Omar AlOmeir and Eugenie Yujing Lai and Mostafa Milani and Rachel Pottinger},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9101356/},
  pdf = {https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mkmilani/pastwatch.pdf}
}

@article{jdiq-2018,
  title = {Ontological Multidimensional Data Models and Contextual Data Quality},
  author = {Leopoldo E. Bertossi and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {Journal of Data and Information Quality},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3148239},
  eprint = {1704.00115},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00115}
}

@inproceedings{conf-amw-BertossiM17,
  title = {The Ontological Multidimensional Data Model},
  author = {Leopoldo E. Bertossi and Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2017},
  booktitle = {Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/amw/BertossiM17},
  eprint = {1703.03524},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1912/paper2.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{conf-rr-MilaniCB16,
  title = {A Hybrid Approach to Query Answering Under Expressive Datalog ±},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Andrea Calì and Leopoldo E. Bertossi},
  year = {2016},
  booktitle = {m. RR 2016},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/rr/MilaniCB16},
  eprint = {1604.06770},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06770}
}

@inproceedings{conf-rr-MilaniB16,
  title = {Extending Weakly-Sticky Datalog±: Query-Answering Tractability and Optimizations},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Leopoldo E. Bertossi},
  year = {2016},
  booktitle = {s. RR 2016},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/rr/MilaniB16},
  eprint = {1607.02682},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02682}
}

@inproceedings{conf-ruleml-Milani15,
  title = {Multidimensional Ontologies for Contextual Quality Data Specification and Extraction},
  author = {Mostafa Milani},
  year = {2015},
  booktitle = {RuleML Doctoral Consortium},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ruleml/Milani15},
  pdf = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1417/paper1.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{conf-ruleml-MilaniB15,
  title = {Ontology-Based Multidimensional Contexts with Applications to Quality Data Specification and Extraction},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Leopoldo E. Bertossi},
  year = {2015},
  booktitle = {Rule Technologies: Foundations, Tools, and Applications},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ruleml/MilaniB15},
  pdf = {https://people.scs.carleton.ca/~bertossi/papers/obmcExt.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{conf-amw-MilaniB15,
  title = {Tractable Query Answering and Optimization for Extensions of Weakly-Sticky Datalog+-},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Leopoldo E. Bertossi},
  year = {2015},
  booktitle = {Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/amw/MilaniB15},
  eprint = {1504.03386},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1378/AMW_2015_paper_20.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{conf-icde-MilaniBA14,
  title = {Extending contexts with ontologies for multidimensional data quality assessment},
  author = {Mostafa Milani and Leopoldo E. Bertossi and Sina Ariyan},
  year = {2014},
  booktitle = {ICDE Workshops 2014},
  url = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icde/MilaniBA14},
  eprint = {1312.7373},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7373}
}