Zongmin Ma

Zongmin Ma (Z. M. Ma) received the Ph. D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 2001 and is currently a Full Professor in College of Information Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China. His current research interests include intelligent database systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, the Semantic Web and XML, knowledge-bases systems, and semantic image retrieval. He has published over 80 papers in international journals, conferences, and books in these areas since 1999. He also authored and edited several scholarly books published by Springer-Verlag and IGI Global, respectively. He has served as member of the international program committees for several international conferences and also spent some time as a reviewer of several journals. Dr. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE.

Publications

A Sample-Aware Database Tuning System With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zhongliang Li, Yaofeng Tu, Zongmin Ma. © 2024. 25 pages.
Based on the relationship between client load and overall system performance, the authors propose a sample-aware deep deterministic policy gradient model. Specifically, they...
RDF(S) Store in Object-Relational Databases
Zongmin Ma, Daiyi Li, Jiawen Lu, Ruizhe Ma, Li Yan. © 2024. 32 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS) recommended by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provide a flexible model for semantically representing data on the...
An Efficient NoSQL-Based Storage Schema for Large-Scale Time Series Data
Ruizhe Ma, Weiwei Zhou, Zongmin Ma. © 2024. 21 pages.
In IoT (internet of things), most data from the connected devices change with time and have sampling intervals, which are called time-series data. It is challenging to design a...
Automatic Construction of OWL Ontologies From Petri Nets
Zongmin Ma, Haitao Cheng, Li Yan. © 2019. 31 pages.
Ontology, as a formal representation method of domain knowledge, plays a particular important key role in semantic web. How to construct ontologies has become a key technology in...
Emerging Technologies and Applications in Data Processing and Management
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 458 pages.
Advances in web technology and the proliferation of sensors and mobile devices connected to the internet have resulted in the generation of immense data sets available on the web...
A Survey on JSON Data Stores
Lubna Irshad, Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 25 pages.
The World Wide Web is a bunch of interlinked documents full of information and knowledge where people search sources to interpret relevant information. As the modern web is...
Towards Massive RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases: A Survey
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 22 pages.
The resource description framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...
Schema-Based JSON Data Stores in Relational Databases
Lubna Irshad, Li Yan, Zongmin Ma. © 2019. 33 pages.
JSON is a simple, compact and light weighted data exchange format to communicate between web services and client applications. NoSQL document stores evolve with the popularity of...
RDF Keyword Search by Query Computation
Zongmin Ma, Xiaoqing Lin, Li Yan, Zhen Zhao. © 2018. 27 pages.
Keyword searches based on the keywords-to-SPARQL translation is attracting more attention because of a growing number of excellent SPARQL search engines. Current approaches for...
Managing Big Data in Cloud Computing Environments
Zongmin Ma. © 2016. 314 pages.
Cloud computing has proven to be a successful paradigm of service-oriented computing, and has revolutionized the way computing infrastructures are abstracted and used. By means...
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2016. 20 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the Web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2016. 20 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the Web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...
Intelligent Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval: Advancing Applications and Technologies
Li Yan, Zongmin Ma. © 2012. 334 pages.
As consumer costs for multimedia devices such as digital cameras and Web phones have decreased and diversity in the market has skyrocketed, the amount of digital information has...
Approach of Using Texture and Shape for Image Retrieval
Gang Zhang, Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2012. 16 pages.
Feature integration is one of important research contents in content-based image retrieval. Single feature extraction and description is foundation of the feature integration....
Advanced Database Query Systems: Techniques, Applications and Technologies
Li Yan, Zongmin Ma. © 2011. 410 pages.
Databases are designed to support data storage, processing, and retrieval activities related to data management. The use of databases in various applications has resulted in an...
International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR)
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A.. Est. 2010.
The International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) combines research from academicians and industrialists across the globe on advanced tools and technologies that...
A Review of Fuzzy Models for the Semantic Web
Hailong Wang, Zongmin Ma, Li Yan, Jingwei Cheng. © 2010. 15 pages.
In the Semantic Web context, information would be retrieved, processed, shared, reused and aligned in the maximum automatic way possible. Our experience with such applications in...
Artificial Intelligence for Maximizing Content Based Image Retrieval
Zongmin Ma. © 2009. 450 pages.
The increasing trend of multimedia data use is likely to accelerate creating an urgent need of providing a clear means of capturing, storing, indexing, retrieving, analyzing, and...
The Semantic Web for Knowledge and Data Management
Zongmin Ma, Huaiqing Wang. © 2009. 386 pages.
While the current Web provides access to an enormous amount of information, it is currently only human-readable. In response to this problem, the Semantic Web allows for explicit...
Intelligent Databases: Technologies and Applications
Zongmin Ma. © 2007. 320 pages.
With advances and in-depth applications of computer technologies, and the extensive applications of Web technology in various areas, databases have become the repositories of...
Database Modeling for Industrial Data Management: Emerging Technologies and Applications
Zongmin Ma. © 2006. 374 pages.
Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of industrial database modeling, Database Modeling for Industrial...
Web-Based Intelligent E-Learning Systems: Technologies and Applications
Zongmin Ma. © 2006. 388 pages.
Collecting and presenting the latest research and development results from the leading researchers in the field of e-learning systems, Web-Based Intelligent E-Learning Systems...
Advances in Fuzzy Object-Oriented Databases: Modeling and Applications
Zongmin Ma. © 2005. 354 pages.
Collecting the latest research results from the leading researchers in the field of fuzzy object-oriented databases, Advances in Fuzzy Object-Oriented Databases: Modeling and...