Publications By Kenny Q. Zhu (1999- )

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(Author names preceding * are in alphabetic order.)

[2010- ]

A System for Extracting Top-K Lists from the Web.
Zhixian Zhang, Kenny Q. Zhu, Haixun Wang.
In the Proceedings of ACM KDD 2012.

A Runtime System for Generalized Committed Choice.
Xiao Jia, Kenny Q. Zhu, Joxan Jaffar and Roland Yap.
In the Proceedings of ACM Asia-Pacific Programming Language and Compilers Workshop (APPLC 2012, affiliated with PLDI 2012).

Probase: A Probabilistic Taxonomy for Text Understanding.
Wentao Wu, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang and Kenny Q. Zhu.
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2012. [PDF]

LearnPADS++: Incremental Inference of Ad Hoc Data Formats.
Kenny Q. Zhu, Kathleen Fisher and David Walker.
In the Proceedings of 14th International Symposium of Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2012). [PDF]

Automatic Inference of Movements from Contact Histories.
Pengcheng Wang, Zhaoyu Gao, Xinhui Xu, Yujiao Zhou, Haojin Zhu and Kenny Q. Zhu.
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2011. [PDF]

Forest: A Language and Toolkit For Programming with Filestores.
Kathleen Fisher, Nate Foster, David Walker and Kenny Q. Zhu.
In the Proceedings of ACM ICFP 2011 [PDF]

Incremental Learning of System Log Formats.
Kenny Q. Zhu, Kathleen Fisher and David Walker.
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 44, Issue 1. [PDF]

[2005-2009]

Language Support for Processing Distributed Ad Hoc Data.
Kenny Q. Zhu, Daniel S. Dantas, Kathleen Fisher, Limin Jia, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Vivek Pai and David Walker.
In the Proceedings of 11th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, PPDP 2009. [PDF]

Ad Hoc Data and the Token Ambiguity Problem.
Qian Xi, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker and Kenny Q. Zhu.
In the Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2009. [PDF]

LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation From Ad Hoc Data.
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2008, pp 1299--1302 . [PDF]

From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation From Ad Hoc Data.
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Q. Zhu* and Peter White.
In the Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT POPL 2008, pp 421-434. [PDF]

Towards 1-click tool generation with PADS.
David Burke, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Peter White and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
ICML workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction, 2007.

From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation From Ad Hoc Data.
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Q. Zhu* and Peter White.
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 43, Issue 1, pp 421-434. [PDF]

Generalized Committed Choice.
Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
In Proceedings of Coordination 2007. [PDF]

Indexing of Dynamic Abstract Regions.
Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
In the Proceedings of 22nd Intl Conf on Data Engineering, ICDE 2006. [PDF]

Open Constraint Programming.
Kenny Q. Zhu.
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, National University of Singapore 2005. [PDF]

Coordination of Many Agents.
Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
In the Proceedings of 21st Intl Conf on Logic Programming, ICLP 2005. [PDF]

[Before 2005]

Scalable Distributed Depth-First Search with Greedy Work Stealing.
Joxan Jaffar, Andrew E. Santosa, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu*.
In the Proceedings of 16th Intl Conf on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Boca Raton, (ICTAI 2004). pp.98--103. [PDF]

Population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm.
Kenny Q. Zhu and Ziwei Liu.
Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2004, Pisa, Italy. Springer. pp.537--547. [PDF].

Empirical study of population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm.
Kenny Q. Zhu and Ziwei Liu.
In Proceedings of GECCO 2004 (2), Seattle, USA. pp. 420-421. Springer. [PDF].

A Diversity-controlling Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.
Kenny Q. Zhu.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003) pp.176--183.. [PDF].

A Meeting Scheduling System Based on Open Constraint Programming.
Kenny Q. Zhu and Andrew E. Santosa.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Advance Informations System Engineering, CAiSE 2002, Toronto, Canada. pp.792--794. Springer. [PDF].

Heuristic methods for vehicle routing problem with time windows.
K. C. Tan, L. H. Lee, Q. L. Zhu and K. Ou.
Artificial Intelligent in Engineering (2001) pp. 281-295. Elsevier. [PDF]

Reactive Web Agents with OCP.
Kenny Q. Zhu, Wee-Yeh Tan, Andrew Santosa and Roland Yap.
ISADS2001, Dallas, Texas. [PS] [Short PS]

Heuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows.
K.C. Tan, L.H. Lee and Kenny Q. Zhu.
6th International Symposium on Aritificial Intelligence and Mathematics(AMAI 2000). [PS]

A Reactive Method for Real Time Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems.
Kenny Q. Zhu, Kar-Loon Ong.
12th ICTAI 2000, Vancouver, Canada. [Long PS], [Short PS]

Heuristic Methods for Vehicle Routing Problem with time Windows.
Kenny Q. Zhu.
B. Eng Thesis, National University of Singapore 1999. [PS]