Publications
- In DBLP
- In Google Scholar
2013
- Lightweight Ontology-Based Tools for Managing Heterogeneous
Observational Data (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Riley Englin, Carlos Fonseca, Paul Jewell, Lauren Joplin, Patrick Mosca, Tyler Pacheco, Jacob Troxel, Tyler Weeks
S4BioDiv 2013
- Programming Personal Robots within an Introductory Computer
Science Course for Engineering Majors (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Kathie Yerion
CCSC-NW 2013
2012
- Database Support for Exploring Scientific Workflow Provenance
Graphs (.pdf)
Manish K. Anand, Shawn Bowers, and Bertram Ludaescher
SSDBM 2012
- Declarative Rules for Inferring Fine-Grained Data Provenance
from Scientific Workflow Execution Traces (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, and Bertram Ludaescher
IPAW 2012
- Scientific Workflow, Provenance, and Data Modeling Challenges
and Approaches (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers
Journal on Data Semantics 1:19-30, 2012
- Datalog as a Lingua Franca for Provenance Querying and Reasoning
(.pdf)
Saumen Dey, Sven Koehler, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher
USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP) 2012
- Golden Trail: Retrieving the Data History that Matters from a
Comprehensive Provenance Repository (.pdf)
Paolo Missier, Bertram Ludaesher, Saumen Dey, Michael Wang, Timothy McPhillips, Shawn Bowers, Michael Agun, and Ilkay Altintas
International Journal of Digital Curation 7(1):139-150 2012
- Database Support for Enabling Data-Discovery Queries over
Semantically-Annotated Observational Data (.pdf)
Huiping Cao, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer
Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, LNCS vol. 7600, pp. 198-228, 2012
2011
- Approaches for Semantically Annotating and Discovering Scientific Observational Data (.pdf)
Huiping Cao, Shawn Bowers, and Mark Schildhauer
DEXA 2011 - Approaches for Implementing Persistent Queues within
Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows (.pdf)
Michael Agun, Shawn Bowers
SWF 2011 - Protege Extensions for Scientist-Oriented Modeling of
Observation and Measurement Semantics (.pdf)
Wesley Saunders, Shawn Bowers, Margaret O'Brien
OWLED 2011 - Scientific Workflow Design 2.0: Demonstrating Streaming Data
Collections in Kepler (.pdf)
Lei Dou, Daniel Zinn, Timothy M. McPhillips, Sven Köhler, Sean Riddle, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher
ICDE 2011, pp. 1296-1299
2010
- ObsDB: A System for Uniformly Storing and
Querying Heterogeneous Observational Data
(.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Jay Kudo, Huiping Cao, Mark P. Schildhauer
e-Science 2010, pp. 287-298 - Techniques for efficiently querying scientific workflow
provenance graphs (.pdf)
M Anand, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
EDBT 2010, pp. 287-298 - XML-Based Computation for Scientific Workflows (.pdf)
D Zinn, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
ICDE 2010, pp. 812-815 - Parallelizing XML Data-Streaming Workflows via Map-Reduce
(.pdf)
Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Sven Koehler, Bertram Ludaescher
J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 76(6):447-463, 2010 - Provenance Browser: Displaying and Querying Scientific Workflow
Provenance Graphs (.pdf)
M Anand, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
ICDE 2010, pp. 1201-1204 - Linking Multiple Workflow Provenance Traces for Interoperable
Collaborative Science (.pdf)
Paolo Missier, Carole Goble, Saumen Dey, Anandarup Sarkar, Biva Shrestha, Bertram Ludascher, Shawn Bowers, Ilkay Altintas, Manish Kumar Anand
WORKS 2010 - Owlifier: Creating OWL-DL Ontologies from Simple
Spreadsheet-Based Knowledge Descriptions (.pdf)
S Bowers, J Madin, M Schildhauer
Ecological Informatics 5(1):19-25 - Understanding Collaborative Studies Through Interoperable
Workflow Provenance (.pdf)
I Altintas, M Anand, D Crawl, S Bowers, A Belloum, P Missier, B Ludaescher, C Goble, P Sloot
Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW 2010), to appear - Approaches for Exploring and Querying Scientific Workflow
Provenance Graphs (.pdf)
M Anand, S Bowers, I Altintas, B Ludaescher
Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW 2010), - Best Effort Data Exchange of Taxonomically Organized Data
ipa(.pdf)
D Thau, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
New Trends in Information Integration (NTII 2010) at ICDE 2010 - A Semantic Annotation Framework for Retrieving and Analyzing
Observational Datasets (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Huiping Cao, Mark Schildhauer, Matthew B. Jones, Ben Leinfelder, Margaret O'Brien
ESAIR 2010, pp. 31-32
2009
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A Navigation Model for Exploring Scientific Workflow Provenance
Graphs (.pdf)
Manish Anand, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher
WORKS 2009 -
Scientific Workflow Design with Data Assembly Lines (.pdf)
Daniel Zinn, Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, Bertram Ludaescher
WORKS 2009 - Merging Sets of Taxonomically Organized Data using Concept
Mappings under Uncertainty (.pdf)
David Thau, Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher
ODBASE 2009, pp. -
Merging Taxonomies under RCC-5 Algebraic Articulations (.pdf)
D Thau, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
Journal of Computing Science and Engineering 3(2):109-126, 2009 -
Scientific Workflows: Business as Usual? (.pdf)
B Ludaescher, M Weske, T McPhillips, S Bowers BPM 2009, pp. 31-47 - Exploring Scientific Workflow Provenance Using Hybrid Queries
over Nested Data and Lineage Graphs (.pdf)
M Anand, S Bowers, T McPhillips, B Ludaescher
SSDBM, 2009 - Efficient Provenance Storage over Nested Data Collections
(.pdf)
M Anand, S Bowers, T McPhillips, B Ludaescher
EDBT, 2009 - X-CSR: Dataflow optimization for distributed XML processing
pipelines (.pdf)
D Zinn, S Bowers, T McPhillips, B Ludaescher
ICDE, 2009 - Scientific Workflow Design for Mere Mortals (.pdf)
T McPhillips, S Bowers, D Zinn, B Ludaescher
FGCS, 2009
2008
- A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Expressing Observational
Data Semantics (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Josh Madin, Mark Schildhauer
ER 2008, pp. 41–55. - Merging taxonomies under RCC-5 algebraic articulations (.pdf)
David Thau, Shawn Bowers, Betram Ludaescher
Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web (ONISW) 2008 - Improving data discovery for metadata repositories through
semantic search (.pdf)
Chad Berkley, Shawn Bowers, Matthew Jones, Josh Madin, Mark Schildhauer
Intelligent Systems for Environmental Knowledge Engineering and Ecoinformatics (i-SEEK) 2008, pp. 47-54 - Flexible scientific workflow modeling using frames, templates and
dynamic embedding (.pdf)
A Ngu, S Bowers, T McPhillips, T Critchlow, N Haasch
SSDBM 2008, pp. 566–572 - Kepler/pPOD: Scientific workflow and provenance support for
assembling the tree of life (.pdf)
S Bowers, T McPhillips, S Riddle, M Anand, B Ludaescher
Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) 2008, pp. 70–78. - Advancing Ecological Research with Ontologies (.pdf)
J Madin, S Bowers, M Schildhauer, M Jones
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(3):159-168, 2008. - Indirectly-driven knowledge models in Ecology
D Pennington, I Athanasiadis, S Bowers, S Krivov, J Madin, M Schildhauer, F Villa.
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies 3(3):210-225, 2008
2007
- An Ontology for Describing and Synthesizing Ecological
Observation Data (.pdf)
Josh Madin, Shawn Bowers, Mark Schildhauer, Sergeui Krivov, Deana Pennington, Ferdinando Villa
Ecological Informatics, 2(3):279–296, 2007 - Project Histories: Managing Data Provenance Across
Collection-Oriented Scientific Workflow Runs (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, and Bertram Ludaescher
Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2007 - Provenance in Collection-Oriented Workflows (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, and Bertram Ludaescher
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, to appear, 2007 - From Computation Models to Models of Provenance: The RWS
Approach (.pdf)
Bertram Ludaescher, Norbert Podhorszki, Ilkay Altintas, Shawn Bowers, and Timothy McPhillips
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, to appear, 2007 - Provenance in Scientific Workflow Systems (.pdf)
SB Davidson, S Cohen Boulakia, A Eyal, B Ludaescher, T McPhillips, S Bowers, M Anand, J Freire
IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 30(4): 44-50, 2007 - Ecological niche modeling using the Kepler workflow
system
D Pennington, D Higgins, AT Peterson, M Jones, B Ludaescher, S Bowers.
Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids
I Taylor, D Gannon, E Deelman, M Shields (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 91-108
2006
- Collection-Oriented Scientific Workflows for Integrating and
Analyzing Biological Data (.pdf)
T McPhillips, S Bowers, B Ludaescher
Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) 2006, pp. 248-263. - A Model for User-Oriented Data Provenance in Pipelined
Scientific Workflows (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, Bertram Ludaescher, Shirley Cohen, Susan B. Davidson.
Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW) 2006, pp. 133-147. - Enabling Scientific Workflow Reuse through Structured
Composition of Dataflow and Control-Flow (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher, Anne H.H. Ngu, Terence Critchlow.
In IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow), 2006 - A Calculus for Propagating Semantic Annotations through
Scientific Workflow Queries (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers, Bertram Ludaescher.
In Query Languages and Query Processing (QLQP), 2006, to appear. - Using the Uni-Level Description (ULD) to Support Data-Model
Interoperability (.pdf)
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
Data and Knowledge Engineering, 59(3):511–533, 2006 - Scientific Workflows: More e-Science Mileage from
Cyberinfrastructure (.pdf)
Bertram Ludaescher, Shawn Bowers, Timothy McPhillips, Norbert Podhorszki.
Workshop on Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science, 2006. - The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the
Gene to a the Biosphere (.pdf)
Matthew Jones, Mark Schildhauer, O.J. Reichman, and Shawn Bowers
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 37:519–544, 2006
2005
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Towards Automatic Generation of Semantic Types
in Scientific Workflows
Shawn Bowers and Bertram Ludaescher
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Scalable Semantic Web Knowledge Base Systems (SSWS), WISE 2005 Workshop Proceedings, LNCS, volume 3807, 2005. -
Actor-Oriented Design of Scientific Workflows
Shawn Bowers and Bertram Ludaescher
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'2005), LNCS, volume 3716, 2005. -
Pipelining Nested
Data Collections in Scientific Workflows Timothy
McPhillips and Shawn Bowers
In SIGMOD Record, to appear, 2005. -
SEEK: Data Integration
and Workflow Solutions for EcologyWilliam
Michener, James Beach, Shawn Bowers, Laura Downey, Matthew Jones,
Bertram Ludaescher, Deana Pennington, Arcot Rajasekar, Samantha
Romanello, Mark Schildhauer, Dave Vieglais, and Jianting Zhang
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS'2005), LNCS, volume 3615, pp. 321-324, 2005 -
Incorporating Semantics
in Scientific Workflow Authoring
Chad Berkley, Shawn Bowers, Matthew Jones, Bertram Ludaescher, Mark Schildhauer, and Jing Tao
In Proc. of SSDBM, to appear, 2005. -
Creating and
Providing Data Management Services for the Biological and
Ecological Sciences: Science Environment for Ecological
Knowledge
Samantha Romanello, William Michener, James Beach, Matthew Jones, Bertram Ludaescher, Arcot Rajasekar, Mark Schildhauer, Shawn Bowers, Deana Pennington
In Proc. of SSDBM, to appear, 2005. -
Managing Scientific
Data: From Data Integration to Scientific
Workflows
Bertram Ludaescher, Kai Lin, Shawn Bowers, Efrat Jaeger-Frank, Boyan Brodaric, Chaitan Baru
In GSA Today, Special Issue on Geoinformatics to appear, 2005.
2004
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Data Procurement for Enabling Scientific
Workflows: On Exploring Inter-Ant Parasitism
Shawn Bowers, David Thau, Rich Williams, and Bertram Ludaescher
In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web and Databases (SWDB'04), 29-30 August, 2004, Toronto, Canada. -
Incremental navigation: Providing simple and
generic access to heterogeneous structures
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'04), Springer, LNCS, volume 3288, pp. 668-681, 8-12 November 2004, Shanghai, China.
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On
Integrating Scientific Resources through Semantic
Registration
Shawn Bowers, Kai Lin, and Bertram Ludaescher
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), 21-23 June 2004, Santorini Island, Greece.
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An
Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific
Workflows
Shawn Bowers and Bertram Ludscher
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS'04), March 25-26, 2004 Leipzig, Germany, Springer, LNCS, volume 2994.
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Superimposed
Applications using SPARCE
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois Delcambre, and Shawn Bowers
In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'04), 2004.
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Putting
integrated information in context: Superimposing conceptual models
with SPARCE.
Sudarshan Murthy, David Maier, Lois Delcambre, and Shawn Bowers
In Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling (APCCM'04), Dunedin, New Zealand, January, 2004.
2003
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Towards a
Generic Framework for Semantic Registration of Scientific
Data
Shawn Bowers and Bertram Ludaescher.
In Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving Scientific Data (informal proceedings), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, volume 83, ISSN 1613-0073, 2003.
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The Uni-Level
Description: A uniform framework for representing information in
multiple data models
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER03), 2003.
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On modeling
conformance for flexible transformation over data
models
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web, volume 95 of the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2003.
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Harvesting
information to save our forests
L. Delcambre, T. Tolle, D. Maier, F. Phillips, P. Toccalino, N. Steckler, M. Koch, L. Shapiro, E. Landis, B. Banga, S. Bowers, J. Brewster, A. Gutema, W. Howe, S. Murthy, J. Norman, R. Tummala, M. Weaver, and K. Zillman.
In Communications of the ACM, volume 46, number 1, pp. 38.39, January, 2003.
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The
Forest Portal: A Multidisciplinary Project (Poster)
M. Koch, L. Delcambre, P. Toccalino, E. Landis, F. Phillips, T. Tolle, L. Shapiro, N. Steckler, D. Maier, M. Weaver, S. Bowers, B. Banga, J. Brewster, A. Gutema, S. Murthy, B. Howe, R. Tummala, J. Norman, K. Zilman, D. Drake, C. Palmer and A. Burt.
In Proceedings of dg.o 2003 May, 2003.
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The
Uni-Level Description: A Uniform Framework for Managing Structural
Heterogeneity
Shawn BowersPh.D. Thesis, OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU, December, 2003.
2002
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Superimposed
Schematics: Introducing E-R Structure for In-Situ
Information Selections
Shawn Bowers, Lois Delcambre, and David Maier
In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER02), Tampere, Finland, October 2002.
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JustBrowsing: A Generic API for Exploring
Information
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
Demo at the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2002), Tampere, Finland, October 2002.(.ps)
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On Modeling Conformance
for Flexible Transformation over Data Models
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KTSW-2002), Lyon, France, July 23rd, 2002.
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Enriching documents
in an information portal using superimposed schematics
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on Digital Government Research, pages 493-498, May, 2002.
2001
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A Generic Representation
for Exploiting Model-Based Information
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Electronic Transactions of Artificial Intelligence (ETAI Journal), Volume 5, pp. 1-34, 2001.
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Bundles in
Captivity: An Application of Superimposed Information
Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Shawn Bowers, Longxing Deng, and Mathew Weaver
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2001. (.pdf)
- Bundles: Meeting
Clinical Information Needs
Joan Ash, Paul Gorman, Mary Lavelle, Jason Lyman, Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Shawn Bowers, and Mathew Weaver.
In Bulletin of the Medical Library Association (BMLA), volume 89, number 3, 2001.
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Similarity search
for harvesting information to sustain our forests
L. Delcambre, M. Weaver, T. Tolle, D. Maier, E. Landis, S. Bowers, P. Toccalino, F. Phillips, N. Steckler, C. Palmer, J. Norman, R. Tummala, S. Varde
In Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Digital Government Research, pages 155-158, May, 2001.
2000
- Representing
and Transforming Model-Based Information
Shawn Bowers and Lois Delcambre
In Proc. of the International Workshop on the Semantic Web at the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
(SemWeb), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2000.
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Applying Adaptation
Spaces to Support Quality of Service and Survivability
Shawn Bowers, Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Crispin Cowan, Perry Wagle, Dylan McNamee, Anne-Francoise Le Meur, and Heather Hinton.
In Proc. of the DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition, January 2000.
1999
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SAM: Security
Adaptation Manager
Heather Hinton, Crispin Cowan, Lois Delcambre, and Shawn Bowers.
In Proc. of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Phoenix, Arizona, December 1999.