Publications
Journal Papers
Kevin Y. Yip, Ben Kao, Xinjie Zhu, Chun Kit Chui, Sau Dan Lee, and David W. Cheung, Mining Order-Preserving Submatrices from Data with Repeated Measurements, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE).
Wang Kay Ngai, Ben Kao, Reynold Cheng, Michael Chau, S.D. Lee, David W. Cheung, and Kevin Y. Yip, Metric and Trigonometric Pruning for Clustering Uncertain Data in 2D Geometric Space, in Information Systems, Vol. 36, Issue 2, April 2011, pages 476-497 (2011).
Smith Tsang, Ben Kao, Kevin Y. Yip, Wai-Shing Ho, S.D. Lee, Decision Trees for Uncertain Data, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Vol. 23, No. 1, pages 64-78, January 2011 (2011)
Ben Kao, S.D. Lee, Foris Lee, David Cheung, W.S. Ho, Clustering Uncertain Data Using Voronoi Diagrams and R-Tree Index, in IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Vol. 22, No. 9, pages 1210-1233 (2010)
Reynold Cheng, Ben Kao, Alan Kwan, Sunil Prabhakar, Yicheng Tu, Filtering Stream Data for Entity-based Continuous Queries, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Vol. 22, No. 2, February 2010, pages 234-248 (2010).
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, David Cheung and Kevin Yip, Mining Periodic Patterns with Gap Requirement from Sequences, in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD), Volume 1, Issue 2 (August 2007).
Lin Cheung, Kevin Y. Yip, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Michael Ng, On Mining Micro-array data by Order-Preserving Submatrix, in International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Inder Science Publishers, Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2007, pages 42-64 (2007).
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, and David Cheung, Efficient Algorithms for Mining and Incremental Update of Maximal Frequent Sequences, in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer, Vol. 10, No. 2, March 2005, pages 87-116 (2005).
Edward Hung, David Cheung, and Ben Kao, Optimization in Data Cube System Design, in Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 23 Issue 1, 2004, pages 17-45 (2004).
Ben Kao, K.Y. Lam, Brad Adelberg, Reynold Cheng, Tony Lee, Maintaining Temporal Consistency of Discrete Objects in Soft Real-Time Database Systems, in IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE ToC), Vol. 52, No. 3, March 2003, pages 373-389 (2003).
K.Y. Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Ben Kao, Tony Lee, and Reynold Cheng, Evaluation of Concurrency Control Strategies for Mixed Soft Real-time Database Systems, in Information Systems (IS), Elsevier Science, 27 (2), April 2002, pages 123-149 (2002).
K.K. Loo, C.L. Yip, Ben Kao, David Cheung, A Lattice-Based Approach for I/O Efficient Association Rule Mining, in Information Systems (IS), Elsevier Science, 27 (1), March 2002, pages 41-74 (2002)
David Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Kan Hu, S.D. Lee, Towards the Building of a Dense-Region-Based OLAP System, in Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Elsevier Science, 36 (1), 2001, pages 1-27. (2001)
Ben Kao, Joseph Lee, C.Y. Ng, and David Cheung, Anchor Point Indexing in Web Document Retrieval, in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews (IEEE SMC), Vol. 30 No. 3, August 2000, pages 364-373. (2000)
Victor Lee, K.Y. Lam, Ben Kao, Priority Scheduling of Transactions in Distributed Real-Time Databases, in Real-Time Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 16 Issue 1, 1999, pages 31-62 (1999).
S.D. Lee, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Is Sampling Useful in Data Mining? A Case in the Maintenance of Discovered Association Rules, in the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 2 Issue. 3, Sept., 1998, pages 233-262. (1998)
Anthony Chiu, Ben Kao, K.Y. Lam, An Analysis of Lock-based and Optimistic Concurrency Control Protocols in Multiprocessor Real-Time Databases, in the Journal of Systems and Softwares, Elsevier Science, Vol. 42 Issue 3, 1998, pages 273-286. (1998)
David Cheung, Ben Kao, Joseph Lee, Discovering User Access Patterns on the World-Wide-Web, in Knowledge Based Systems Journal, Elsevier Science, V10, N7, May 1998, pages 463-470. (1998)
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Deadline Assignment in a Distributed Soft Real-Time System, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Dec., 1997 (1997).
Victor Lee, K.Y. Lam, S. L. Hung, Ben Kao, Priority Assignment in Distributed Real-Time Databases Using Optimistics Concurrency Control, in IEE Proceedings -- Computers and Digital Techniques, Vol. 144, No. 5, Sept. 1997 (1997).
Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Overview of the STanford Real-time Information Processor (STRIP) in ACM SIGMOD RECORD, vol. 25 number 1, March 1996 (1996).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Scheduling Soft Real-Time Jobs Over Dual Non-Real-Time Servers, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Jan. (1996).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Daniel Barbara, Aggressive Transmissions of Short Messages over Redundant Paths, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS) Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. (1994).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, An Overview of Real-Time Database Systems, in W.A. Halang and A. D. Stoyenko (Eds.), Real-Time Computing, NATO ASI Series F, vol. 127. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, (1994).
Conference and Workshop Papers
Yiwei Zhang, Eric Lo and Ben Kao, On the Use of Bug and Predicate Signatures for Statistical Debugging, to appear in the proceeding of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2013), Boston, June 2013.
Xuan S. Yang, Reynold Cheng, Luyi Mo, Ben Kao, and David W. Cheung, On Incentive-Based Tagging, in the proceeding of the 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013), Brisbane, Australia, April 2013.
Yiwei Zhang, Eric Lo and Ben Kao, Evaluation Metric for Multiple-Bug Localization with Simple and Complex Predicates, in the proceeding of the 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2012), Hong Kong, December 2012.
Chang Wan, Ben Kao and David W. Cheung, Location-Sensitive Resources Recommendation in Social Tagging Systems, in the proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, October 2012.
Yvoone Jin, Reynold Cheng, Ben Kao and K.Y. Lam, A Filter-Based Protocol for Continuous Queries over Imprecise Location Data, in the proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, October 2012.
Rui-Rui Li, Ben Kao, Bin Bi, Reynold Cheng and Eric Lo, DQR: A Probabilistic Approach to Diversified Query Recommendation, in the proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, October 2012.
Chun-Kit Chui, Eric Lo, Ben Kao and Reynold Cheng, I/O Efficient Algorithms for Evaluating Pattern-Based Aggregate Queries in a Sequence OLAP System, in the proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK, October 2011.
Chenghui Ren, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, Xinjie Zhu, and Reynold Cheng, On Querying Historical Evolving Graph Sequences, in the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2011), Seattle, USA, September 2011.
Bin Bi, Sau Dan Lee, Ben Kao and Reynold Cheng, CubeLSI: An Effective and Efficient Method for Searching Resources in Social Tagging Systems, in the proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering 2011 (IEEE ICDE 2011), Hannover, Germany, April 2011.
Shiming Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, David. W. Cheung and Ben Kao, Efficient Skyline Evaluation over Partially Ordered Domains, in the proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2010), Singapore, September 2010.
Chun-Kit Chui, Eric Lo, Ben Kao and David W. Cheung, S-OLAP: an OLAP system for analysis sequence data, in the proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2010 (SIGMOD 2010), Indianapolis, USA, June 2010.
Jiangtao Ren, Sau Dan Lee, Xianlu Chen, Ben Kao, Reynold Cheng, and David Cheung, Naive Bayes Classification of Uncertain Data, in the proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2009 (IEEE ICDM 2009), Miami, U.S.A., December 2009.
Bin Bi, Lifeng Shang, Ben Kao, Collaborative Resource Discovery in Social Tagging Systems, in the proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, November 2009.
Chun-Kit Chui, Eric Lo, Ben Kao and Wai-Shing Ho, Supporting Ranking Pattern-Based Aggregate Queries in Sequence Data Cubes, in the proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2009), Hong Kong, November 2009.
W.K. Wong, David W. Cheung, Edward Hung, Ben Kao, Nikos Mamoulis, An Audit Environment for Outsourcing of Frequent Itemset Mining, in the proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009), Lyon, France, August 2009.
W. K. Wong, David W. Cheung, Ben Kao, and Nikos Mamoulis, Secure k-NN Computation on Encrypted Databases, in the proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data 2009 (SIGMOD 2009), Providence, USA, June 2009.
Jim Gong, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Nikos Mamoulis, XML Data Integration Using Fragment Join, in the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), Brisbane, Australia, April 2009.
Smith Tsang, Ben Kao, Kevin Y. Yip, Wai-Shing Ho, S.D. Lee, Decision Trees for Uncertain Data, in the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering 2009 (IEEE ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China, March 2009.
Chun-Kit Chui, Ben Kao, Kevin Y. Yip, Sau Dan Lee, Mining Order-Preserving Submatrices from Data with Repeated Measurements, in the Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2008 (IEEE ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, December 2008.
Ben Kao, Sau Dan Lee, David Cheung, Wai-Shing Ho, K.F. Chan, Clustering Uncertain Data Using Veronoi Diagrams, in the Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2008 (IEEE ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, December 2008.
Eric Lo, Ben Kao, S.D. Lee, W.S. Ho, Chun-Kit Chui, and David Cheung, OLAP on Sequence Data, in the Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
Chun-Kit Chui and Ben Kao, A Decremental Approach for Mining Frequent Itemsets from Uncertain Data, in the Proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 2008.
S.D. Lee, Ben Kao, and Reynold Cheng, Reducing UK-means to K-means, in the Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE 2007), Omaha, USA, October 2007.
W. K. Wong, David W. Cheung, Edward Hung, Ben Kao, and Nikos Mamoulis, Security in Outsourcing of Association Rule Mining, in the Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007), Vienna Austria, Sept. 2007.
Chun-Kit Chui, Ben Kao, and Edward Hung, Mining Frequent Itemsets from Uncertain Data, in the Proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 2007.
Bill Lin, Wai-Shing Ho, Ben Kao, and Chun-Kit Chui, Adaptive Frequency Counting over Bursty Data Streams, in the proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining 2007 (IEEE CIDM 2007), Hawaii, April 2007.
K. K. Loo and Ben Kao, Mining Time-Delayed Associations from Discrete Event Datasets, in the proceedings of The12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2007), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2007.
Jacky Ngai, Ben Kao, Reynold Cheng, Michael Chau, Kevin Yip and Chun-Kit Chui, Efficient Clustering of Uncertain Data, in the proceedings of The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, December, 2006, pages 436-445.
Michael Chau, Reynold Cheng, and Ben Kao, and Jacky Ngai, Uncertain Data Mining: An Example in Clustering Location Data, in the Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April, 2006.
Michael Chau, Reynold Cheng, and Ben Kao, Uncertain Data Mining: A New Research Direction, in the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial 2005, Taiwan, December 2005.
Reynold Cheng, Ben Kao, Sunil Prabhakar, Alan Kwan, Yicheng Tu, Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-based Queries with Non-value Tolerance, in the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005), Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
Yufei Tao, Reynold Cheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Wang Kay Ngai, Ben Kao, Sunil Prabhakar, Indexing Multi-Dimensional Uncertain Data with Arbitrary Probability Density Functions, in the Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2005), Trondheim, Norway, August 2005.
K.K. Loo, Ivy Tong, Ben Kao and David Cheung, On-line Algorithms for Mining Inter-Stream Associations from Large Sensor Networks, in the Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2005), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 2005.
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, David Cheung and Kevin Yip, Mining Periodic Patterns with Gap Requirement from Sequences, in the Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2005), Baltimore, Maryland, June 2005.
Lin Cheung, Kevin Y. Yip, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Michael Ng, On Mining Micro-array data by Order-Preserving Submatrix, in the Proceedings of the International Workshop on Biomedical Data Engineering, (BMDE 2005) Tokyo, Japan, April, 2005.
David Cheung, W.S. Ho, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, Eric Lo, SF-Tree: An Efficient and Flexible Structure for Estimating Selectivity of Simple Path Expressions with Statistical Accuracy Guarantee, in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2004), Jeju Island, Korea, March 2004.
Sarah Chan, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, Michael Tang, Mining Emerging Substrings, in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2003), Kyoto, Japan, March 2003.
Kin-Fai Kan, David Cheung, and Ben Kao, Maintenance of Partial-Sum-Based Histograms, in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2003) Kyoto, Japan, March 2003.
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, and C.L. Yip, A Comparison Study on Algorithms for Incremental Update of Frequent Sequences, in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '02), Maebashi, Japan, December, 2002.
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, David Cheung, and C.L. Yip, Efficient Algorithms for Incremental Updates of Frequent Sequences, in the Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2002), Taiwan, May, 2002.
Felix Cheung, Ben Kao, David Cheung, and C.Y. Ng, An Efficient Algorithm for Incremental Updates of Concept Spaces, in the Proceedings of the Sixth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2002), Taiwan, May, 2002.
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, and David Cheung, A GSP-based Efficient Algorithm for Mining Frequent Sequences, in the 2001 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI 2001), Las Vagas, June 2001.
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, and David Cheung, FFS - An I/O Efficient Algorithm for Mining Frequent Sequences, in the Proceedings of the Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2001), Hong Kong, April, 2001.
C.Y. Ng, Joseph Lee, Felix Cheung, Ben Kao, and David Cheung, Efficient Algorithms for Concept Space Construction, in the Proceedings of the Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2001), Hong Kong, April, 2001.
C.L. Yip, Michael Tang, Ben Kao, Selection of Melody Lines for Music Databases, in the proceedings of the 24th IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, pp. 243-248 (IEEE COMPSAC 2000), Taipei, Oct., 2000.
K.K. Loo, C.L. Yip, Ben Kao, David Cheung, Exploiting the Duality of Maximal Frequent Itemsets and Minimal Infrequent Itemsets for I/O Efficient Association Rule Mining, in the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2000), Greenwich, Sept., 2000.
C.L. Yip, Ben Kao, A Study on N-gram Indexing of Musical Features, in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2000 (IEEE ICME 2000), New York, July, 2000.
C.Y. Ng, Ben Kao, David Cheung, Text-Source Discovery and GlOSS Update in a Dynamic Web, in the Proceedings of the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000), Kyoto, April, 2000.
Edward Hung, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Y.L. Liang, An Optimization Problem in Data Cube System Design, in the Proceedings of the Fourth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2000), Kyoto, April, 2000.
Ben Kao, K.Y. Lam, Brad Adelberg, Reynold Cheng, Tony Lee, Updates and View Maintenance in Soft Real-Time Database Systems, in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM '99), Kansas City, Nov., 1999.
David Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Hongjun Lu, T.W. Lam, and H.F. Ting, Requirement-based Data Cube Schema Design, in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM '99), Kansas City, Nov., 1999.
David Cheung, Bo Zhou, Ben Kao, Kan Hu, S.D. Lee DROLAP -- A Dense-Region-Based Approach to On-line Analytical Processing, in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '99), Florence, August, 1999.
C.L. Yip, Ben Kao A Study on Musical Features for Melody Databases, in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA '99), Florence, August, 1999.
C.L. Yip, K.K. Loo, Ben Kao, David Cheung, C.K. Cheng, LGen - A Lattice-Based Candidate Set Generation Algorithm for I/O Efficient Association Rule Mining, in the Proceedings of the Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD '99) (Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1574), pp. 54-63, Springer-Verlag, Beijing, April, 1999.
Bo Zhou, David Cheung, Ben Kao, A Fast Algorithm for Density-Based Clustering in Large Databases, in the Proceedings of the Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD '99) (Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1574), pp. 338-349, Springer-Verlag, Beijing, April, 1999.
Chi-Lap Yip, Ben Kao, Finding Index Terms From Text Documents, in the proceedings of The First Asia Digital Library Workshop (ADL '98), Hong Kong, August, 1998.
Chi-Lap Yip, Ben Kao, Indexing Multilingual Information on the Web, in the proceedings of The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Application Conference (COMPSAC '98), Vienna, August, 1998.
Ben Kao, Joseph Lee, David Cheung, C.Y. Ng, Recommending Anchor Points in Structure-Preserving Hypertext Document Retrieval, in the Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Application Conference (COMPSAC '98), Vienna, August, 1998.
Norris Yu, K.Y. Lam, Ben Kao, Enhancement of a Data Mining Algorithm for Mining of Association Rules. in the 8th International Database Workshop: Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Client/Server Databases, July, 1997.
Anthony Chiu, Ben Kao, K.Y. Lam, Comparing Two-Phase Locking and Optimistic Concurrency Control Protocols in Multiprocessor Real-Time Databases, in the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '97), Geneva, Switzerland, April 1997 (Also HKU CS technical report TR-96-09.) (1997)
S.D. Lee, David Cheung, Ben Kao, A General Incremental Technique For Maintaining Discovered Association Rules in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference On Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA '97), Melbourne, Australia. March 1997 (1997).
David Cheung, Ben Kao, Joseph Lee, Discovering User Access Patterns on the World-Wide-Web in the Proceedings of the First Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD '97), Feb. 1997 (1997).
Joseph Lee, David Cheung, Ben Kao, Intelligent Agents for Matching Information Providers and Consumers on the World-Wide-Web in the Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '97), Jan. 1997 (1997).
Victor Lee, K.Y. Lam, Ben Kao, Impact of Priority Assignment on Optimistic Concurrency Control in Distributed Real-Time Databases in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (IEEE RTCSA '96), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 1996 (1996).
Victor Lee, K.Y. Lam, Ben Kao, Priority Assignment for Sub-Transactions in Distributed Real-Time Databases, in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '96), California, April, 1996 (1996).
Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Database Support for Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data, in the Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '96), Avignon, France, March 1996 (1996).
Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Applying Updates in a Soft Real-Time Database System, in the Proceedings of the 1995 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '95), San Jose, California, March 1995 (1995).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Brad Adelberg, On Building Distributed Soft Real-Time Systems, in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '95) April 1995 (1995).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Subtask Deadline Assignment for Complex Distributed Soft Real-Time Tasks, in the Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '94) (1994).
Brad Adelberg, Hector Garcia-Molina, Ben Kao, A Real-Time Database System for Telecommunication Applications, in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modelling and Analysis (1994).
Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Emulating Soft Real-Time Scheudling Using Traditional Operating System Schedulers, in the Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS '94) (1994).
Daniel Barbara, Rafael Alonso, Chris Clifton, and Ben Kao, The Gold Mailer, in the Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '93) (1993).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Deadline Assignment in a Distributed Soft Real-Time System, in the Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '93) (1993).
Umesh Dayl, Hector Garcia-Molina, Ben Kao, Mei Hsu, and Ming Shan, Third Generation TP Monitors: A Database Challenge, in the Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '93) (1993).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, Soft Real-Time Communication Over Dual Non-Real-Time Networks, in the Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS '93) (1993).
Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Daniel Barbara, Aggressive Transmissions Over Redundant Paths, in the Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '91) (1991).
Book Chapters
Minghua Zhang, Ben Kao, C.L. Yip, David Cheung, Mining Sequence Patterns in Evolving Databases, in Temporal and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (Chapter 4), Idea Group Inc. ISBN: 978-1-59904-387-6, July 2007. (2007)
Ben Kao and David Cheung, Information Discovery in World-Wide-Web, in Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management, edited by D. Feng, W.C. Siu and Hong-Jiang Zhang, Springer. ISBN 3-540-00244-8 (2003)
Ben Kao and Minghua Zhang, Algorithms for Mining Frequent Sequences, in Advances in Data Mining and Modeling, World Scientific. ISBN 981-238-354-9 April 2003. (2003)
Ben Kao, Reynold Cheng, Disk I/O Scheduling, in Real-Time Database Systems: Architecture and Techniques, edited by Kam-Yiu Lam and Tei-Wei Kuo, Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-7218-2 (2001)
Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, and K.Y. Lam, Updates and View Maintenance, in Real-Time Database Systems: Architecture and Techniques, edited by Kam-Yiu Lam and Tei-Wei Kuo, Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-7218-2 (2001)