Mirella M. Moro

Departamento de Ciência da Computação
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG
Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627
Pampulha, Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil
CEP 31270-010
Office: Building ICEX, room 4012
Phone numbers:
+55 (31) 3409-5849 (Office)
+55 (31) 3409-5858 (Fax)
Email:
mirella [AT] dcc [DOT] ufmg [DOT] br

Mirella M. Moro is an assistant professor at the Computer Science department at UFMG (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of California Riverside - UCR, 2007), and MSc and BSc in Computer Science as well (UFRGS, Brazil, 2001, 1999). She is the Education Director of SBC (Brazilian Computer Society) and is the editor-in-chief of the new electronic magazine SBC Horizontes, which focuses on career in Computer Science. She is also a member of the ACM Education Council, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGCSE, ACM-W, IEEE, IEEE WIE, and MentorNet. Mirella has been working with research in Computer Science in the area of Databases since 1997. Her research interests include query optimization, stream processing, content-based dissemination systems, hybrid XML/relational modeling, and social networks.

Complete list of publications here.

1. C. Bigonha, T.N.C. Cardoso, M.M. Moro, M.A. Gonçalves, V.A.F. Almeida Sentiment-based influence detection on Twitter. Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, online first on December 2011 ( Abstract| BibTex | PDF )
2. E. G. Barros, M. M. Moro, A. H. F. Laender. An Evaluation Study of Search Algorithms for XML Streams. Journal of Information and Data Management, vol 1, n 03, October 2010. ( Abstract| BibTex |PDF )
3. M. M. Moro, V. Braganholo, C. F. Dorneles, D. Duarte, R. Galante, R. S. Mello. XML: Some Papers in a Haystack. SIGMOD Record, vol 38, n 02, June 2009. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF )
4. A. H. F. Laender, M. M. Moro, C.Nascimento, P. Martins. An X-Ray on Web-Available XML Schemas . SIGMOD Record, vol 38, n 01, March 2009. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF )
5. M. M. Moro, Z. Vagena, V. J. Tsotras. XML Structural Summaries, Tutorial. PVLDB, vol. 1, n. 2, 1524-1525. 2008. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF)

Complete list of publications here.

1. F.C. Hummel, A.S. da Silva, M.M. Moro, A.H.F. Laender. Multiple keyword-based queries over XML streams. In: ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Glasgow, UK, 2011. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF )
2. C. A. S. Bigonha, T. N. C. Cardoso, M. M. Moro, V. A. F. Almeida, M. A. Gonçalves. Detecting Evangelists and Detractors on Twitter. Best Paper Award. In: Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web (WebMedia), 2010, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. ( Abstract| BibTex | PDF )
3. G.R. Lopes, M.M. Moro, L. K. Wives, J.P.M. de Oliveira. Collaboration Recommendation on Academic Social Networks. In: Proceedings of ER Workshops - International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM), 2010, Vancouver, Canada. ( Abstract| BibTex | PDF)
4. Z. Vagena, M. M. Moro. Semantic Search over XML Document Streams. In: International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web (DATAX), 2008, Nantes, France. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF)
5. M.M. Moro, P. Bakalov, V.J. Tsotras. Early Profile Pruning on XML-aware Publish/Subscribe Systems. In: 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), September 2007, Viena, Austria. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF)
6. M.M. Moro, L. Lim, Y-C Chang. Schema Advisor for Hybrid Relational-XML DBMS. In: 26th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2007, Beijing, China. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF | PPT )
7. Z. Vagena, M.M. Moro, V.J. Tsotras. RoxSum: Leveraging Data Aggregation and Batch Processing for XML Routing. In: 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 2007, Istanbul, Turkey. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF )
8. Z. Vagena, M.M. Moro, V.J. Tsotras. Value-Aware RoXSum: Effective Message Aggregation for XML-Aware Information Dissemination. In: 10th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), June 2007, Beijing, China. ( Abstract | PDF | BibTex | PPT )
9. M.M. Moro, S. Malaika, L. Lim. Preserving XML Queries during Schema Evolution. In: 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 2007, Banff, Canada. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF | PPT)
10. M.M. Moro, Z. Vagena, V.J. Tsotras. Evaluating Structural Summaries as Access Methods for XML. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF )
11. M.M. Moro, Z. Vagena, V.J. Tsotras. Tree-Pattern Queries on a Light-weight XML Processor. In: International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), August 2005, Trondheim, Norway. ( Abstract | BibTex | PDF | PPT )

1. M. M. Moro, Z. Vagena, V. J. Tsotras. XML Structural Summaries, Tutorial. In: International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2008, Auckland, New Zealand. ( Abstract / BibTex)
2. M.M. Moro, Z. Vagena. The Role of Structural Summaries for XML Retrieval, Tutorial. In: 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD), October 2007, João Pessoa, Brazil. ( Abstract / BibTex)

• Member of the Education Council, 2010-2012.

• Education Director, 2009-2011, 2011-2013
• Editor-in-Chief SBC HORIZONTES, the electronic magazine on Career in Computer Science - A nova revista eletrônica sobre carreira em Computação da SBC
• Assistant Editor of JIDM (Journal of Information & Data Management)