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 ACM, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGCSE, 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 hybrid XML/relational modeling, XML query optimization, stream processing, content-based dissemination systems, temporal databases, versioning management, and schema evolution.

Complete list of publications here.

1. 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. ( PDF )
2. 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. ( PDF )
3. R. Machado, A.F. Moreira, R. M. Galante, M.M.Moro. Type-safe Versioned Object Query Language. Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 938-957, September 2006.( Abstract / BibTex / PDF )
4. M.M. Moro, V.P. Braganholo, A.C. Nácul, M.R. Fornari. The Successful Grad Student. IEEE Potentials, n.03, vol.24, August-September, 2005. ( Abstract / BibTex / PDF )

1. M. M. Moro, D.B. Saccol, R.M. Galante. TRIple Content-based OnTology (TRICOt) for XML Dissemination. In: International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), 2009, Boston, USA. ( Abstract / BibTex/ PDF)
2. 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)
3. 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)
4. 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 )
5. 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 )
6. 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 )
7. 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/ PPT)
8. 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 )
9. 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 )
10. Z. Vagena, M.M. Moro, V.J. Tsotras. Twig Query Processing over Graph-Structured XML Data. In: 7h International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), held with ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2004, Paris, France. ( 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)

• Education Director, 2009-2011
• Member of the Education Board, 2007-2009
• 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 the upcoming publication JIDM (Journal of Information & Data Management)

• EDBT 2010 (Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology).
• WEI 2009 chair, 2008 co-chair (Braz. Comp. Soc. Workshop on Education in Computer Science)
• CIKM 2009, 2008 (ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management).
• CIESC 2009 chair (Congreso Iberoamericano de Educación Superior en Computación)
• DEXA 2009 (Intl. Conf. on Database and Expert Systems Applications).
• DocEng 2009, 2008 (ACM Symposium on Document Engineering).
• ER 2009 (Intl. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling).
• ICDE Demo Session 2009 (International Conference on Data Engineering).
• SBBD 2009, 2008 (Brazilian Symposium on Databases).
• SBBD Poster Session 2008 chair, 2007 (Brazilian Symposium on Databases).
• EDBT Demo Session 2008 (International Conference on Extending Database Technology).
• WIVA 2008 ( Workshop on Information Visualization and Analysis in Social Networks).
• XSym 2007 (Fifth International XML Database Symposium).
• ERBD 2008, 2006, 2005 (Regional School on Databases, Brazil).

• ICDE 2010, proceedings chair (International Conference on Database Engineering)
• ER 2009, publicity chair (International Conference on Conceptual Modeling)
• WEI 2009 chair, 2008 co-chair (Braz. Comp. Soc. Workshop on Education in Computer Science)
• Poster Session SBBD 2008 chair (Brazilian Symposium on Databases).
• WebMedia 2007, proceedings chair (Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web)

• ACM SIGMOD Record.
• ACM TODS (Transactions on Database Systems).
• ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technology).
• IEEE TKDE (Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering).
• VLDB Journal (International Journal on Very Large Data Bases).
• Elsevier DKE (Data Knowledge & Engineering).
• Elsevier Information Systems
• Springer DPD (Distributed and Parallel Databases).
• RITA (Revista de Informática Teórica e Aplicada - J. of Theoretical and Applied Informatics).
• SBC REIC (Revista Eletrônica de Iniciação Científica).
• JBCS (Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society).
• International Journal of Computers & Applications.