Neal Sample
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Stanford, CA 94305
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Scheduling and Resource Allocation in Autonomous Service Networks
Neal Sample
Ph.D Dissertation, Stanford University, 2004 (PDF ZIP)

MARS: Multidisciplinary Application Runtime System
Neal Sample
Master's Thesis, University of Wyoming, 1998 (PDF)


Refereed Conference and Workshop Publications

Active Mediation Technology for Service Composition
David Liu, Neal Sample, Jun Peng, Kincho Law, and Gio Wiederhold
International Workshop on Component Based Business Information Systems Engineering (CBBISE`03 @ OOIS`03)(PDF)

Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Planning for the Ubiquitous Grid
Neal Sample, Pedram Keyani, Gio Wiederhold
Fifth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coord2002) (PDF)(AR:33%)

A Comprehensive Model for Arbitrary Result Extraction
Neal Sample, Dorothea Beringer, Gio Wiederhold
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)(PDF)(AR:38%)

A parallel index for semistructured data
Brian Cooper, Neal Sample, Moshe Shadmon
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002)(PDF)

Extensible Data Management in the Middle-Tier
Brian Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael Franklin, Joshua Olshansky, Moshe Shadmon
12th International Workshop on Research Issues on Data Engineering (RIDE'02)(PDF)(AR:24%)

A fast index for semistructured data
Brian Cooper, Neal Sample, Moshe Shadmon, Michael Franklin, Gisli Hjaltason
27th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2001)(PDF)(AR:17%)

Pipeline Expansion in Coordinated Applications
Carl Bartlett, Neal Sample, Matt Haines
1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99) (PostScript)

Hybrid Search for Optimization of High-Dimensional k-d Trees
Neal Sample, Matt Haines, Mark Arnold, Tim Purcell
5th WSES/IEEE World Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers (CSCC 2001) (PDF)
note: withdrawn from this conference 01 May 2001

Composition of Multi-site Services
Gio Wiederhold, Dorothea Beringer, Neal Sample, Laurence Melloul
4th World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT'99)
(this conference was moved to IDPT 2000, Dallas, TX, USA) (PostScript)

CLAM: Composition Language for Autonomous Megamodules"
Neal Sample, Dorothea Beringer, Laurence Melloul, Gio Wiederhold
Third International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coord99). Published in Springer LNCS 1594.
(26/67) (PostScript)(AR:39%)

CPAM, A Protocol for Software Composition
Laurence Melloul, Dorothea Beringer, Neal Sample, Gio Wiederhold
CAiSE'99, Heidelberg, Germany, June 1999. Published in Springer LNCS 1626. (PDF)

MARS: Runtime Support for Coordinated Application
Neal Sample, Carl Bartlett, Matt Haines
1999 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'99), 28 February-2 March 1999, San Antonio, Texas (PDF)

Guidelines for Safe Simulation and Synthesis of Implicit Style Verilog
Mark Arnold, Neal Sample, James Shuler.
Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Verilog HDL Conference, March 1998. (PostScript)


U.S. and International Patents

2 currently under review in the U.S. and worldwide

Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browse
Moshe Shadmon, Neal Sample, Brian Cooper, Michael Franklin
(20020120598)

Efficient Traversals Over Hierarchical Data and Indexing Semistructured Data
Moshe Shadmon, Neal Sample
(in flight)


Journals, Invited Papers, Other

CHAIMS: Towards Application Level Reliability for Software Services
Neal Sample
Submitted: Journal of Intelligence Community Research and Development
An expanded version of "Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Planning for the Ubiquitous Grid" submitted in completion of a PostDoctoral Fellowship (under review)

Managing Complex and Varied Data with the IndexFabrictm
Neal Sample, Brian Cooper, Michael Franklin, Gísli Hjaltason, Moshe Shadmon, Levy Cohen
18th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2002 - demo)(PDF)

Middle-Tier Extensible Data Management
Brian Cooper, Neal Sample, Michael Franklin, Joshua Olshansky, Moshe Shadmon
World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (IWIS/WWW)
(PDF - invited extended version of "Extensible Data Management in the Middle-Tier")

Indexing Open Schemas
Neal Sample, Moshe Shadmon
Web Databases 2002 - 2nd Annual International Workshop of the Working Group "Web and Databases" of the German Informatics Society (GI) (PDF)

XML Directories, New Trends and Opportunities
Moshe Shadmon, Neal Sample
XML.org Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3 (HTML)

JavaScript for Simulation Education
Neal Sample, Mark Arnold
NAU/web.97 conference, Flagstaff, Arizona, 12-15 June 1997. (html)