Selected Publications.

    2009

    • CHAPTER: Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, "A Road-Map to Regulatory Compliance for Information Systems", in "The Handbook of Financial Cryptography", B. Rosenberg (editor), CRC Press 2009

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, "A Quick Intro to Trusted Hardware", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy S&P 2009 (draft: pdf)

    • MAGAZINE: Ragib Hasan, Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, “Secure Provenance: Protecting the Genealogy of Bits”, ;login: The USENIX Magazine

    • JOURNAL: Siddharth Bhatt, Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar, "A Personal Mobile DRM Manager for Smart-Phones", Elsevier Computers and Security Journal, Vol. 28, Issue 3, April 2009 (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Peter Williams, Radu Sion, Dennis Shasha, "The Blind Stone Tablet: Outsourcing Durability", Network and Distributed System Security Symposium NDSS 2009 (acceptance rate: 11.6%) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Ragib Hasan, Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, “Remembrance: The Unbearable Sentience of Being Digital", Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research CIDR 2009 (Perspectives Track, acceptance rate: 27%) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Ragib Hasan, Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, “The Case of the Fake Picasso: Preventing History Forgery with Secure Provenance”, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies FAST 2009 (acceptance rate: 22.5%) (draft: pdf)


    2008

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, "Trusted Hardware", ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security CCS 2008

    • CONFERENCE: Peter Williams, Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar, "Building Castles out of Mud: Practical Access Pattern Privacy and Correctness on Untrusted Storage", ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security CCS 2008 (acceptance rate: 15.3%) (draft: pdf)

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, Sean Smith, "Understanding and Deploying Trusted Hardware", USENIX Security 2008

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, "Strong WORM", International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ICDCS 2008 (acceptance rate: 14.7%) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Peter Williams, Radu Sion, "Usable Private Information Retrieval", Network and Distributed System Security Symposium NDSS 2008 (acceptance rate: 16%) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Sol Lederer, Jie Gao, Radu Sion, "Collaborative Location Certification for Sensor Networks", invited paper at the 2008 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium (draft: pdf)


    2007

    • SHORT PAPER: Radu Sion, "Regulatory Compliance in Data Management", invited entry in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems EDS 2007

    • SHORT PAPER: Radu Sion, "Digital Rights Management", invited entry in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems EDS 2007

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, "Regulatory Compliant Data Management", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2007 (pdf)

    • WORKSHOP: Ragib Hasan, Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, "Introducing Secure Provenance: Problems and Challenges", in Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability StorageSS 2007, at CCS (draft: pdf)

    • WORKSHOP: Ragib Hasan, Marianne Winslett, Radu Sion, "Requirements of Secure Storage Systems for Health-care Records", in Workshop on Secure Data Management SDM 2007, at VLDB (draft: pdf)

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, "Secure Data Outsourcing", The Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2007 (pdf)

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, Marianne Winslett, "Regulatory Compliant Data Management", The Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2007 (pdf)

    • DEMO: Radu Sion, Sumeet Bajaj, Bogdan Carbunar, Stefan Katzenbeisser, "NS2: Networked Searchable Store with Correctness", The Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2007 (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Sol Lederer, Jie Gao, Radu Sion, "On Certifying Location claims in Sensor Networks", Applied Cryptography and Network Security ACNS 2007 (industrial track, acceptance rate: 27%)

    • DEMO: Siddharth Bhatt, Bogdan Carbunar, Radu Sion, Venu Vasudevan, "The Motorola Personal Digital Rights Manager", Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference FC 2007 (acceptance rate: 18%)

    • CONFERENCE: Larry Shi, Bogdan Carbunar, Radu Sion, "Conditional E-Cash", Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference FC 2007 (acceptance rate: 18%) (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar, "On the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval", Network and Distributed System Security Symposium NDSS 2007 (acceptance rate: 15%) (pdf)

    • CHAPTER: Radu Sion, "Watermarking Databases", in "The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends", M. Gertz and S. Jajodia (editors), Springer Verlag 2008, XIV, ISBN: 978-0-387-48532-4 (draft: pdf)

    • CHAPTER: Ragib Hasan, Marianne Winslett, Soumyadeb Mitra, Windsow Hsu, Radu Sion, "Trustworthy Record Retention", in "The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends", M. Gertz and S. Jajodia (editors), Springer Verlag 2008, XIV, ISBN: 978-0-387-48532-4

    • CHAPTER: Radu Sion, "Towards Secure Data Outsourcing", in "The Handbook of Database Security: Applications and Trends", M. Gertz and S. Jajodia (editors), Springer Verlag 2008, XIV, ISBN: 978-0-387-48532-4 (draft: pdf)


    2006

    • FUN STUFF: Kate Greene, "Forensic Watermarks in Mobile Devices: Researchers are working on a new watermarking scheme to deter people from illegally sharing videos", MIT Technology Review, December 11, 2006 (I am uttering opinions for the MIT Technology Review, fun fun fun). (online, pdf)

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, "Secure Data Outsourcing", invited tutorial at the 13th International Conference on Management of Data COMAD 2006 (pdf)

    • PANEL: "Achieving Practical Private Information Retrieval", panel at the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2006. Panelists: William Gasarch, Aggelos Kiayias, Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Radu Sion (chair).

    • JOURNAL: Ramesh Natarajan, Radu Sion, Chid Apte, Inderpal Narang, "A Grid-based Approach for Enterprise-Scale Data Mining", in the Elsevier International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications 2006

    • JOURNAL: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Rights Protection for Discrete Numeric Streams", in the IEEE Journal of Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE TKDE 2006 Vol. 18, No. 5, May 2006 (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Bogdan Carbunar, Radu Sion, "Uncheatable Reputation for Distributed Computation Markets", Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference FC 2006, Anguilla, British West Indies (acceptance rate: 29%) (draft: pdf)

    • TUTORIAL: Radu Sion, "Database Watermarking", invited tutorial at the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications DASFAA 2006 (draft: pdf)

    • DEMO: Radu Sion, Ramesh Natarajan, Inderpal Narang, Thomas Phan, "XG: A Grid-enabled Query Processing Engine", the International Conference on Extending Database Technology EDBT 2006, Muenchen, Germany (demo), Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer Verlag (LNCS), vol. 3896/2006 pp. 1115-1120 (acceptance rate: 34%, 20/58) (pdf)


    2005

    • CHAPTER: Radu Sion, "Rights Assessment for Relational Data", in "Security in Decentralized Data Management", T. Yu and S. Jajodia (editors), Springer Verlag 2005

    • WORKSHOP: Thomas Phan, Kavitha Ranganathan, Radu Sion, "Evolving to the Perfect Schedule: Co-scheduling Job Assignments and Data Replication in Wide-Area Systems Using a Genetic Algorithm", Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing ICS 2005 (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, "Query Execution Assurance for Outsourced Databases", The Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2005 (acceptance rate: 16%, 32/195), (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Ramesh Natarajan, Inderpal Narang, Wen-Syan Li, Thomas Phan, "XG: A Data-driven Computation Grid for Enterprise-Scale Mining", International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2005 (acceptance rate: 23%, 92/390), (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Junichi Tatemura, "Dynamic Stochastic Models for Workflow Response Optimization", 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (Industry Track) IEEE ICWS 2005 (acceptance rate: 19%), (draft: pdf)

    • JOURNAL: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Ownership Proofs for Categorical Data", IEEE Journal of Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE TKDE 2005, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 2005 (draft: pdf)


    2004

    • CONFERENCE: Ramesh Natarajan, Radu Sion, Chid Apte, Inderpal Narang, "A Grid-based Approach for Enterprise-Scale Data Mining", Workshop on Data Mining and the Grid (DM-Grid) at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2004 (draft: pdf)

    • THESIS: Radu Sion, "Rights Assessment for Discrete Digital Data", Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2004, Computer Sciences, Purdue University

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Resilient Rights Protection for Sensor Streams", The Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2004 (acceptance rate: 16.1%, 81/504), pages 732-743 (pdf)

    • INVITED: Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, Keith Frikken, Radu Sion, "Digital Rights Protection", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 27 (2004), pages 19-26 (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Radu Sion, "QuaSAQ: An Approach to Enabling End-to-End QoS for Multimedia Databases", International Conference on Extending Database Technology EDBT 2004, Heraklion - Crete, Greece (acceptance rate: 14.2%, 42/294), pages 694-711 (pdf)

    • JOURNAL: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Protecting Rights over Relational Data using Watermarking", the IEEE Journal of Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE TKDE, Vol. 16, No. 12, December 2004, pages 1509-1525 (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, "Proving Ownership over Categorical Data", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering IEEE ICDE 2004, Boston (acceptance rate: 14.2%, 63/441), pages 584-596 (draft: pdf)

    • DEMO: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Rights Protection for Relational Data through Watermarking", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering IEEE ICDE 2004, Boston (demo), pages 863-864 (sigmod paper: pdf)

    • WORKSHOP: Radu Sion, "Rights Protection beyond Multimedia", Proceedings of the EDBT/ICDE PhD Workshop 2004, pp. 109-118, (acceptance rate: 25.5%, 22/86) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, "Attacking Digital Watermarks", Proceedings of the Symposium on Electronic Imaging SPIE 2004, San Jose, (draft: pdf)


    2003

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Rights Protection for Relational Data", Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2003, San Diego (acceptance rate: 15.2%, 52/342), pages 98-109 (pdf)

    • WORKSHOP: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Resilient Information Hiding for Abstract Semi-Structures", Proceedings of the Workshop on Digital Watermarking IWDW 2003, Seoul, Korea Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer Verlag (LNCS), vol. 2939/2004, pages 141-153 (draft: pdf)

    • WIP: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, "Provable Access Accounting for Content Distribution Networks", Las Vegas, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference ACSAC 2003 (work in progress) (draft: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "On-the-fly Intrusion Detection for Web Portals", Proceedings of the IEEE ITCC 2003, Las Vegas, IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 325-330 (pdf)


    2002

    • CONFERENCE: W. Li, W. Hsiung, D. Kalashnikov, R. Sion, O. Po, D. Agrawal, K. Selcuk Candan, "Issues and Evaluations of Caching Solutions for Web Application Acceleration", Proceedings of the Very Large Databases Conference, VLDB 2002 (acceptance rate: 18%), pages 1019-1030 (pdf.gz) News: NEC CachePortal won the Best of CeBIT award in the Enterprise Platform Software category in May 2004 !

    • WORKSHOP: M. Atallah, V. Raskin, C. F. Hempelmann, M. Karahan, R. Sion, K. E. Triezenberg, U. Topkara, "Natural Language Watermarking and Tamperproofing", Proceedings of the Information Hiding Workshop IH 2002, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer Verlag (LNCS), vol. 2578/2003, pages 196-212 (acceptance rate: 34%, 27/78) (pdf)

    • WORKSHOP: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "On Watermarking Numeric Sets", Proceedings of the Workshop on Digital Watermarking IWDW 2002, Seoul, Korea, Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer Verlag (LNCS) (TR files: pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Mikhail Atallah, Sunil Prabhakar, "Power: A Metric for Evaluating Watermarking Algorithms", Proceedings of IEEE ITCC 2002, Las Vegas, IEEE Computer Society Press, pages 95-99 (pdf)


    2000

    • CONFERENCE: L. Boloni, K. Jun, K. Palacz, R. Sion, D.C. Marinescu, "The Bond Agent System", in Proceedings of ASA/MA 2000, Zurich, Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag, 2000 (acceptance rate: 18%, 20/107), pages 99-112 (pdf)

    • CONFERENCE: Radu Sion, Ladislau Boloni, "MicroServers", Proceedings of the Evolutionary Intelligent Agents Special Session of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, San Diego, (pdf)


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