Akira's Publications

Publications of Akira Kawaguchi [Citation Index at Google Scholar Entry]

Journal Articles

M. Lee, A. Mondal, C. Small, I. Paddibhatla, A. Kawaguchi, and S. Govind, A Database for the Analysis of Immunity Genes in Drosophila: PADMA Database, Fly, Landes Bioscience Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 155-161, April/May/June 2011.
R. Shoji, T. Furuya, A. Kawaguchi, and M. Inaishi, Ship Dominance Region in Route, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 123, pp. 7-12, October 2010.
A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, and Z. Chen, Deterioration Rates of Typical Bridge Elements in New York, Journal of Bridge Engineering, Volume 15, Issue 4, pp. 419-429, July/August 2010, doi:10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000123.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Impact of Route Dimensions on Ship Agent Group Navigation, In Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 121, pp. 49-54, October 2009.
A. Kawaguchi, M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and M. Kondo, Towards the Development of Intelligent Navigation Support Systems for Group Shipping and Global Marine Traffic Control, IET Intelligent Transport Systems (invited), Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2009, pp.257-267; doi:10.1049/iet-its.2008.0080. Preliminary version appeared as Towards the Development of Intelligent Navigation Support Systems for Group Shipping and Global Marine Traffic Control, In the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT2008), Athene, Greece, May 2008.
P. Mingyang, M. Inaishi, and A. Kawaguchi, Ship Cluster Behavior Model with Strategic and Tactical Obstacle Avoidance, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 119, September 2008, pp.43-49.
A. Agrawal, K. Ramalingam, A. Kawaguchi, S. Rozelman, F. Kulcsar, and N. Farooqi, Asset Management and Nondestructive Evaluation of Force Mains in New York City, To appear in ASCE Journal, September 2009. Preliminary version appeared as Asset Management and Nondestructive Evaluation of Force Mains in New York City, in the Proceedings of Pipelines Congress 2008 (PIPEs 2008) November 2008.
P. Mingyang, M. Inaishi, Z. Xiaoyu, and A. Kawaguchi, Grid based Sensing Model for Autonomous Ship Agent, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 118, April 2008, pp. 83-89.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, M. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Tokyo Bay Marine Traffic Simulation Using Ship Agents, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 116, April 2007, pp. 45-51.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, M. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Marine Traffic Simulation Using Ship Agent Clusters: Northbound Traffic in Tokyo Bay, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 115, October 2006, pp. 11-16.
A. Kawaguchi, X. Xiong, M. Inaishi, and H. Kondo, A Computerized Navigation Support for Maneuvering Clustered Ship Groups in Close Proximity, Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (invited), Vol. 3, Number 3, August 2006, pp. 46-56. Preliminary version appeared as A Computerized Navigation Support for Maneuvering Clustered Ship Groups in Close Proximity, Best session paper in the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '04), Orlando, Florida, July 2004.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, M. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Simulation of Cluster Merge and Separation Using a Ship Cluster Behavior Model, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 114, April 2006, pp. 9-16.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, M. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Simulation of Obstacle Avoidance and Passage Navigation Using a Ship Cluster Behavior Model, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 113, September 2005, pp. 17-23.
A. Mowshowitz and A. Kawaguchi, Measuring Search Engine Bias, Journal of Information Processing & Management, Volume 41, Number 5, September 2005, pp. 1193-1205.
A. Mowshowitz and A. Kawaguchi, Quantifying the Switching Model of Virtual Organization, Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, Volume 6, Number 4, May 2005, pp. 53-74.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Influence on the Information Search Space in Ship Cluster Behavior Model, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 112, April 2005, pp. 29-34.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Research on the Group Navigation Using Estimate Type Agents, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 111, September 2004, pp. 243-249.
M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and A. Kawaguchi, Multiple Ship Cluster Behavior Simulation, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 110, March 2004, pp. 1-7.
M. Inaishi and A. Kawaguchi, Ship Cluster Behavior Characteristics Investigation, Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 109, September 2003, pp. 89-96.
N. Dellatte, S. Chen, N. Maini, N. Parker, A. Agrawal, G. Mylonakis, K. Subramanian, A. Kawaguchi, P. Bosela, S. McNeil, and R. Miller, Application of Nondestructive Evaluation to Subway Tunnel Systems, Transportation Research Record, October 2003, No. 1845, pp. 127-135.
A. Mowshowitz and A. Kawaguchi, Bias on the Web, Communications of the ACM, September 2002, 45(9), pp. 56-60.
A. Mowshowitz and A. Kawaguchi, Assessing Bias in Search Engines, Journal of Information Processing & Management, January 2002, Volume 38, Number 1, pp. 141-156.
A. Kawaguchi, K. Mok, C. Pu, K. Wu, and P. Yu, A Performance Study of Divergence Control Algorithms, Special Issue on New Generation Database Technologies, IEICE Trans. on Information and Systems, January 1999, pp. 224-235. Preliminary version appeared as Comparative Study of Divergence Control Algorithms, IBM Research Report RC19564(85047) and Technical Report CUCS-013-94, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University.
O. Wolfson, W. Zhang, H. Butani, A. Kawaguchi, and K. Mok, Parallel Processing of Graph Reachability in Databases, International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), Vol. 21(4), August 1993, pp. 269-302.

US Patents

Concurrency control for materialized views of a database. U.S. Patent Number 6889358, issued in May 3, 2005.
Refreshing materialized views of a database to maintain consistency with underlying data. U.S. Patent Number 6272502, issued in August 7, 2001.
Assessing search engine bias (provisional patent). Filed with Abbe Mowshowitz in December 11, 2000.

Books and Book Chapters

A. Kawaguchi, A. Nagel, C. Chan, and N. Parker, Building a Community Information System for Supporting Disabled Bus Riders and Local Businesses, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) 75, Springer-Verlag, August 2011, pp. 188-201, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22810-0. Preliminary edition appeared in the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST2010).
Y. Noda, A. Kawaguchi, and K. Terashima, A Mechatronics Vision for Smart Wheelchairs, Book chapter in "Mobile Robots Navigation", Edited by Alejandra Barrera, ISBN 978-953-307-076-6, 666 pages, Sciyo Worldwide Press, March 2010.
A. Kawaguchi, Japanese Translation of "Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology" by A. Mowshowitz, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978156720515, PDF download available at http://www.metamanager.net, January 2009.
A. Kawaguchi and A. Nagel, Linear Programming in Database, Book chapter in the "New Developments in Robotics, Automation and Control", In-Tech Press, ISBN 9789537619206, November 2008.
A. Kawaguchi, Data Analysis Fundamentals, Learning Guide, Ashridge Press, U.K., 2006.
A. Kawaguchi, S. Russell, G. Qian, C. Miyata, and J. Becerra, Integrated WLAN deployment: Implementation of a Mobile Wireless Diabetes Management System, Book chapter in the Handbook of Wireless Local Area Networks: Applications, Technology, Security, and Standards, CRC Press, ISBN 0849323231, May 2005.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Articles

A. Kawaguchi, A. Mowshowitz, A. Nagel, A. Toce, G. Bent, P. Stone, P. Dantressangle, A Model of Query Performance in Dynamic Distributed Federated Databases Taking Account of Network Topology, To appear in Annual Conference of International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science (ACITA2012), Southampton, U.K., September 2012. Presentation accompanied by Demo: Efficient Data Joins in Gaian Database – Utilizing Hypercube Labeled Networks, P. Stone, A. Kawaguchi, A. Mowshowitz, and G. Bent.
A. Toce, A. Mowshowitz, A. Kawaguchi, G. Bent, P. Stone, P. Dantressangle, HyperD: Analysis and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Hypercube Database, To appear in Annual Conference of International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science (ACITA2012), Southampton, U.K., September 2012.
A. Mowshowitz, A. Kawaguchi, A. Toce, A. Nagel, P. Stone, P. Dantressangle, and G. Bent, Network Topology as a Cost Factor in Query Optimization, In Annual Conference of International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science (ACITA2011), Adelphi, Maryland, September 2011.
A. Mowshowitz, A. Kawaguchi, A. Toce, A. Nagel, G. Bent, P. Stone, and P. Dantressangle, Query Optimization in a Distributed Hypercube Database, In Annual Conference of International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Science (ACITA2010), London, England, September 2010.
A. Kawaguchi, A. Nagel, C. Chan, and N. Parker, Building a Community Information System for Supporting Disabled Bus Riders and Local Businesses, In the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST2010), Valencia, Spain, April 2010, pp. 221-229.
A. Kawaguchi, J. Wei, Y. Noda, T. Miyoshi, and K. Terashima, A Study on the Safety and Drivability Enhancement of Mobile Wheelchairs, In the International Conference of Computing in Engineering, Science and Information (ICC2009), Fullerton, California, April 2009, pp. 384-387; doi:10.1109/ICC.2009.68.
A. Kawaguchi and C. Chan, Community Support for Disabled Bus Riders: What Can We Do? In the International Conference of Computing in Engineering, Science and Informatics (ICC2009), Fullerton, California, April 2009, pp. 100-103; doi:10.1109/ICC.2009.51.
A. Kawaguchi, A. Mondal, N. Montesdeoca, S. Govind, and M. Lee, PADMA Database: Pathogen Associated Drosophila MicroArray Database, In the International Conference of Computing in Engineering, Science and Information (ICC2009), Fullerton, California, April 2009, pp. 63-66; doi:10.1109/ICC.2009.62.
A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, and Z. Chen, Bridge Element Deterioration Rates, New York State Department of Transportation, TIRC/NYSDOT C01-51 Final Report, March 2009.
M. Lee, A. Mondal, N. Montesdeoca, C. Small, A. Kawaguchi, and S. Govind, Easy Retrieval and Comparison of Microarray Data of Pathogen-Infected Drosophila through PADMA Database, In the 50th Annual Genetic Society of America's Drosophila Research Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2009.
A. Agrawal, K. Ramalingam, A. Kawaguchi, S. Rozelman, F. Kulcsar, and N. Farooqi, Asset Management and Nondestructive Evaluation of of Force Mains in New York, In Proceedings of Pipelines Congress 2008 (PIPEs 2008), New York, New York, November 2008, pp. 1-11; doi:10.1061/40994(321)66.
A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, Z. Chen, S. Lagace, R. Delisle, Deterioration Rates of Typical Bridge Elements in New York, In the 10th International Bridge and Structure Management Conference, Buffalo, New York, October 2008, pp.119-131.
A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, Z. Chen, S. Lagace, and R. Delisel, Case Study on Factors Affecting Deterioration of Bridge Elements in New York, NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges: Structural Materials Technology, Oakland, California, September 2008.
K. Mouskos, U. Uyar, A. Kawaguchi, and N. Parker, A Real-time Integrated Transport/Communication/Database Architecture to Support Traffic Simulation, In the 1st International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.
A. Kawaguchi, Y. Noda, Y. Sato, Y. Kondo, and K. Terashima, Mechatronics Support for Mobile Wheelchairs, In the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT2008), Athene, Greece, May 2008.
A. Kawaguchi, M. Inaishi, H. Kondo, and M. Kondo, Towards the Development of Intelligent Navigation Support Systems for Group Shipping and Global Marine Traffic Control, In the 10th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation (AATT2008), Athene, Greece, May 2008.
A. Kawaguchi, Y. Noda, Y. Sato, Y. Kondo, and K. Terashima, A Mechatronics Vision for Smart Wheelchairs, In the 4th International Conference on Assistive Technologies (AT2008), Baltimore, Maryland, April 2008, pp. 145-150.
A. Agrawal, K. Ramalingam, A. Kawaguchi, S. Rozelman, F. Kulcsar, and N. Farooqi, Remote Monitoring on Internal Condition of Buried Pipe Infrastructures, In Structures Congress 2008: Crossing Borders, Proceedings of the 2008 Structures Congress, Vancouver, Canada, April 2008, pp. 1-10; doi:10.1061/41016(314)263.
A. Kawaguchi, Z. Chen, and G. Qian, Errors in Database, Submitted for publication, February 2008.
A. Kawaguchi, Z. Chen, and G. Qian, Extended Abstract of Errors in Database, In the 3rd Annual Conference on Computer & Human Errors (CHE'07), New York, New York, December 2007.
K. Ramalingam, A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, S. Rozelman, F. Kulcsar, and N. Farooqi, Asset Management and Nondestructive Evaluation of Force Mains in New York City, In Proceedings of the 80th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference, San Diego, California, October 2007, pp. 3843-3867(25); doi:10.2175/193864707787974265.
G. Qian and A. Kawaguchi, Characterizing Database Errors, In the 4th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications, Orland, Florida, July 2007, pp. 205-210.
A. Kawaguchi and J. A. Perez, Linear Programming for Database Environment, In the 4th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO'07), Angers, France, May 2007, pp. 186-191.
A. Agrawal, G. Qian, A. Kawaguchi, S. Lagace, R. Delisle, B. Kelly, P. Weykamp, T. Conway, and E. Dubin, Deterioration Rates of Typical Bridge Elements in New York, Structures Congress 2006: Structural Engineering and Public Safety, St. Louis, Missouri, May 2006, pp. 1-10; doi 10.1061/40889(201)128.
A. Kawaguchi, Developing Wireless Database Application Meta-composer, In the International Conference on Applied Computing (IADIS'05), Algarve, Portugal, February 2005, pp. 8-13.
A. Agrawal, A. Kawaguchi, G. Qian, and S. Lagace, Deterioration Rates of Bridge Elements in New York State, In the 2nd International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Cost (IABMAS'04), Kyoto, Japan, October 2004, pp. 813-814.
C. Miyata, S. Russell, T. Carvalho, and A. Kawaguchi, Wireless Telemedicine and Service Level Management Architecture Specification, In the 1st International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, Setubal, Portugal, August 2004, pp. 70-78.
A. Kawaguchi, X. Xiong, M. Inaishi, and H. Kondo, A Computerized Navigation Support for Maneuvering Clustered Ship Groups in Close Proximity, Best session paper in the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '04), Orlando, Florida, July 2004, pp. 313-318.
N. Parker, Y. Andreopoulos, M. Tomkiewicz, A. Kawaguchi, S. Jones, and D. Denisov, Hybrid-Electric Transit Buses: Challenges and Implications for Full Implementation, In the 8th Pan-American Conference of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Albany, New York, September 2004.
A. Kawaguchi, S. Russell, and G. Qian, Implementation Techniques for a Mobile Wireless Blood Glucose Monitoring System, Submitted for journal publication.
S. Russell, C. Miyata, A. Kawaguchi, and J. Becerra, An ODP-based Method for Service Level Management Architecture Specification for Wireless Biometric Data Management Systems, In the 1st Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2004, pp. 353-361.
M. Inaishi and A. Kawaguchi, A Ship Behavior Cluster Model for Maneuverability and Marine Traffic Assessment, In the 1st Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2004, pp. 53-60.
M. Inaishi and A. Kawaguchi, Ship Group Navigation Assessment, Best session paper in the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS '03), Orlando, Florida, July 2003, pp. 410-415.
A. Kawaguchi, S. Russell, and G. Qian, Developing a Wireless Blood-Glucose Monitoring System: Concept and Practice, In the 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI '03), Orlando, Florida, July 2003, pp. 345-350.
A. Kawaguchi, S. Russell, and G. Qian, Security Issues in the Development of a Wireless Blood-Glucose Monitoring System, In the 16th IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS '03), New York, New York, June 2003, pp. 102-107.
S. Russell, A. Kawaguchi, and G. Qian, Development of a HIPAA Compliant Wireless Medical Data Application: Wireless Blood Glucose Monitor, In the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS '03), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2003, pp. 210-215.
N. Delatte, S. Chen, N. Maini, N. Parker, A. Agrawal, G. Mylonakis, K. Subramaniam, A. Kawaguchi, P. Bosela, S. McNeil, and R. Miller, Using Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) to Evaluate the Condition of Subway Tunnel Systems, Forensic Engineering: Proceedings of the Third Congress, ASCE, October 2003, pp. 329-340.
N. Delatte, S. Chen, N. Maini, N. Parker, A. Agrawal, G. Mylonakis, K. Subramaniam, A. Kawaguchi, P. Bosela, S. McNeil, and R. Miller, The Application of Nondestructive Evaluation to Subway Tunnel Systems, In the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 2003.
A. Kawaguchi and A. Mowshowitz, Analyzing Search Engine Bias, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computing and Information Technologies (ICCIT '01), Montclair, New Jersey, October 2001, pp. 3-8.
A. Mowshowitz and A. Kawaguchi, Bias in Information Retrieval Systems, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS '99), Charlotte, North Carolina, December 1999, pp. 32-37.
A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, Algorithms and Implementation for Concurrency Control with Deferred Materialized Views, Submitted for publication, November 1997.
A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, Implementing Incremental View Maintenance in Nested Data Models, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 1369, Springer-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-540-64823-2. Preliminary version appeared in the Sixth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL '97), Colorado, August 1997.
L. Colby, A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, Supporting Multiple View Maintenance Policies, Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Management of Data (ACM/SIGMOD), Tucson, Arizona, May 1997, pp. 405-416. Extended version available as Supporting Multiple View Maintenance Policies: Concepts, Algorithms, and Performance Analysis, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 112580-961029-09.
A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, D. Quass, and K. Ross, Concurrency Control Theory for Deferred Materialized Views, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT '97), Delphi, Greece, January 1997. In Afrati/Kolaitis, Editors, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Vol. 1186, Springer-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-540-62222-5, pp. 306-320. Extended version available as Concurrency Control Theory for Deferred Materialized Views, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 112580-961008-07.
A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, View Maintenance in Nested Data Models, ACM/SIGMOD International Workshop on Materialized Views: Techniques and Applications, Montreal, Canada, June 1996, pp. 72-83.
O. Wolfson, W. Zhang, H. Butani, A. Kawaguchi, and K. Mok, A Methodology for Evaluating Parallel Graph Algorithms and Its Application to Single Source Reachability, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS), San Diego, CA, January 1993, pp. 243-250.
S. Ura, T. Aoki, T. Ogawa, A. Kawaguchi, S. Kondo, M. Mizuno, N. Yamamoto, S. Kawamata, K. Nozawa, and M. Tsubouchi, Advanced Patient-oriented Pharmacy System (APOS), MEDINFO80, Lindberg/Kaihara, Editors, IFIP, North-Holland, Tokyo, Japan, October 1980, pp. 924-931.

Technical Reports and Memorandums

L. Do, P. Ram, A. Kawaguchi, and C. Pu, Using Operation Delta to Efficiently Maintain Data Warehouses, Boeing Technical Memorandum, November 1999.
A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, D. Quass, and K. Ross, Concurrency Control Theory for Deferred Materialized Views, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 112580-961008-07.
L. Colby, A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, Supporting Multiple View Maintenance Policies: Concepts, Algorithms, and Performance Analysis, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 112580-961029-09.
N. Gehani, W McKenna, I. Mumick, M. Rabinovich, L. Colby, and A. Kawaguchi, Welcome -- an architecture for integrated customer care systems, Technical report, AT&T, 1995.
L. Colby, A. Kawaguchi, D. Lieuwen, I. Mumick, and K. Ross, Implementing Materialized Views, Bell Laboratories Technical Memorandum 112580-951218-12.
A. Kawaguchi, K. Mok, C. Pu, K. Wu, and P. Yu, Comparative Study of Divergence Control Algorithms, IBM Research Report RC19564(85047) and Technical Report CUCS-013-94, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University.

Thesis

A. Kawaguchi, Implementation Techniques for Materialized Views, Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, February 1998.
A. Kawaguchi, A Study on Drug Information Systems, Master's Thesis, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan. March 1981.

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