Amarnath Gupta 11742 Carmel Creek Road, Apt. I-201, San Diego, CA 92130 (858) 793-7239 gupta@sdsc.edu
CURRENT POSITION
		Director, Advanced Query Processing Laboratory, Science R&D Division Research Scientist San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego
Education
	Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
	Ph.D. (Engineering) in Computer Science		1994
	Research Area: Database Management
	Univ. of Texas, Arlington and Univ. of Texas, Health Science Center, Dallas
	M.S. in Biomedical Engineering		1987
	Research Area: Automatic Gait Analysis
	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
	B.Tech. Honors in Mechanical Engineering		1984
	Undergraduate Research: Robot Vision
Current RESEARCH INTERESTS
		· Information and Knowledge Modeling for Biomedical Sciences
		· Information Integration for Scientific Domains
		· Graph Data management for Biological Networks
		· Management and Utilization of Ontological Information
· Multimedia Data Management
RESEARCH Experience
		San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ. of California San Diego
		Research Scientist	2007-current
		Associate Research Scientist	2001-2007
		· Design of a Type-Extensible, Ontology-Enabled Mediator · Design, Implementation and Deployment of Information Integration System for multiple Neuroscience Databases · Design and Development of Graph Data Warehouse for Gene Regulatory and Metabolic Networks · Development of Ontology Management Tools over Integrated Ontology Sources for Neurosciences · Development of specialized query languages and engines for Complex Data Types used in multiple scientific disciplines
		Assistant Research Scientist	1998-2001
		· Techniques for preservation of software-dependent digital objects · Techniques for information integration of spatial data from distributed data sources · Developed query-translation techniques from Datalog-like query languages to specialized data sources like Oracle Spatial, and ArcXML
		Virage, Inc., San Mateo, California
		Research Scientist	1995 - 1998
		· Development of image and video query engine · Development of techniques for searching and combining multiple media data · Development of multimedia searching applications in the areas of histopathology, radiology and trademarks · 8 patents
		Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
		Computer Engineer		1988-1994
· Developed a Classificatory Data Model for Retrieval and Post-Analysis of Archaeological Artifacts with an Image Database · Developed an Expert Image Database Engine for Machine Fault Diagnosis from Ferrogram Images · Developed an Industrial Object Model Database Engine for Computer Vision · Developed a Semantic Network Based Data and Indexing Method for primary and secondary memory · Developed a Method for Information Retrieval using automated Handwritten Document Analysis
TEACHING Experience
		University of California, San Diego
		Lectures in Process Modeling for Advanced Topics in CSE Faculty Research Seminar, Computer Science Neuroinformatics Seminar Multimedia Systems		2004 2003, 2004 2003 2001
		Indian Statistical Institute
		Graduate Courses in Database Systems, Software Engineering, Compiler Construction, Image Processing		1988 - 1994
GRANTS
		Title of Proposal: Web Based Information Technologies Proposal to the Federal Web Consortium Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 4/1/98-7/31/99 Amount of Award: $175,000 Title of Proposal: Digital Government: Web Based Information Technologies: Advancing Federal Information Infrastructures Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 08/01/99 – 07/31/02 Amount of Award: $199,970 Title of Proposal: Methodologies for Preservation and Access of Software-dependent Electronic Records Granting Agency: National Historical Publications and Records Commission, National Archives and Records Administration Time Period of Grant/Contract: 1/1/00 – 12/31/02 Amount of Award: $300,000 Title of Proposal: I2T: An Information Integration Testbed for Digital Government Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 07/01/2000 – 06/30/2003 Amount of Award: $750,000 Title of Proposal: Structured Analysis of the Retina Granting Agency: National Institutes of Health Time Period of Grant/Contract: 07/01/2000 – 06/30/2003 Amount of Award: $54,784 (SDSC Direct) Title of Proposal: Evaluating Information Integration Architectures for a National Statistical Data Infrastructure Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 10/01/1999 – 06/30/2000 Amount of Award: $45,000 Title of Proposal: Causes of Robustness and Vulnerability in Real-world Networks: Lessons in Biology Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 09/15/2001 – 09/14/2003 Amount of Award: $32,501 annual (SDSC Direct) Title of Proposal: NBCR Supplement: Biomedical Informatics Research Network- Coordinating Center Granting Agency: NCRR, National Institutes of Health Time Period of Grant/Contract: 04/30/2001 – 03/31/2004 Amount of Award: $1,761,373 (SDSC Direct) – 25% is for Data Integration Title of Proposal: ITR: A Twin Framework to Analyze, Model and Design Robust, Complex Networks Using Biological and Computatational Principles Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 10/01/2002 – 09/30/2006 Amount of Award: $216,723 annual (SDSC Direct) Title of Proposal: NPACI Neuroscience Thrust: Federation of Brain Data Granting Agency: National Science Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 10/01/2002 – 09/30/2004 Amount of Award: $100,000 annual (SDSC Direct) Title of Proposal: Development of a 3D Cell-Centered Neuronal Database Granting Agency: NIDA, National Institutes of Health Time Period of Grant/Contract: 4/1/2003 – 3/31/2008 Amount of Award: $3,397,213 – 33% is for Data Model Development Title of Proposal: Biomedical Informatics Research Network - Coordinating Center Granting Agency: NCRR, National Institutes of Health Time Period of Grant/Contract: 5/1/2004-4/30/2009 Amount of Award: ~ $5M – 20% for Data Integration Title of Proposal: National Biomedical Computational Center Granting Agency: NCRR, National Institutes of Health Time Period of Grant/Contract: 10/01/2004 – 09/30/2009 Amount of Award: $100,000 annual Title of Proposal: Toward a distributed information system for marine biology and limnology Granting Agency: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Time Period of Grant/Contract: 10/15/2004 – 10/14/2006 Amount of Award: $1,762,420.00
Publications
		· See next page
Memberships
		· Association of Computing Machinery · NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network Ontology Task Force · Society for Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics Committee

PUBLICATIONS

2005

· M. Baitaluk, X., Qian, S. Godbole, V. Chicarmane, A. Gupta and A. Ray "An Information Integration System for Automated Reconstruction and Dynamic Modeling of Gene Regulatory Networks", 2nd Int. Symp. of Molecular Biology (ISMB) (poster), June. 2005 (to appear).

· B. Liu, A. Gupta and R. Jain "A Live Multimedia Stream Querying System", 2nd Int. Conf. Computer Vision Meets Databases (CVDB), June. 2005 (to appear).

· L. Chen, A. Gupta, M. E. Kurul, "Efficient Algorithms for Pattern Matching on Directed Acyclic Graphs”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, March. 2005.

· S. Yamini and A. Gupta, "Spatiotemporal annotation graph (STAG): A data model for composite digital objects", Demonstration Track, IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, March. 2005.

· Y. Wang, S. Santini and A. Gupta, "Efficiently querying spatial histograms", Storage and Retrieval Methods and Applications for Multimedia, SPIE, Vol. 5682, pp. 183-194, Jan. 2005.

2004

· S. Santini, A. Gupta "Modeling functional data sources as relations ", 23rd Int. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), Shanghai, China, Oct. 2004.

· I. Zaslavsky, H. He, J. Tran, M.E. Martone, A. Gupta, "Integrating Brain Data Spatially: Spatial Data Infrastructure and Atlas Environment for Online Federation and Analysis of Brain Images ", Biological Data Management Workshop (BIDM 2004) in conjunction with 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'04), pp. 389-393, Zaragosa, Spain, Aug/Sept. 2004.

· A. Gupta, "Life Science Research and Data Management", SIGMOD Record, 33(2), June 2004, pp. 12-14.

· M.E. Martone, A. Gupta and M.H. Ellisman, "e-Neuroscience: challenges and triumphs in integrating distributed data from molecules to brains", Nature Neuroscience, 7(5), May 2004, pp. 467-472.

· M. Chagoyen, M.E. Kurul, P.A. De-Alarcón, J.M. Carazo and A. Gupta, "Designing and executing scientific workflows with a programmable integrator", Bioinformatics, 20(13), pp. 2092-2100, September, 2004

· A. Gupta, B. Liu, P. Kim, R. Jain, "Using Stream Semantics for Continuous Queries in Media Stream Processors ", IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), (Demonstration), pp. 854, March. 2004

2003

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, J.S. Grethe, M.E. Martone, "Towards a Formalization of Disease-Specific Ontologies for Neuroinformatics", Neural Networks, 16(9), pp. 1277-1292, 2003.

· M.E. Martone, S. Zhang, A. Gupta, X. Qian, H. He, D.L. Price, M. Wong, S. Santini, M.H. Ellisman, "The Cell-Centered Database: A Database for Multiscale Structural and Protein Localization Data from Light and Electron Microscopy ", Neuroinformatics, 1(4), pp. 379-396, 2003.

· A. Gupta and B. Ludäscher, "The Many Faces of Process Interaction Graphs: A Data Management Perspective", OMICS - A Journal of Integrative Biology, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 105-108, Spring 2003.

· T. Wang, S. Santini, A. Gupta, "An Interpolated Volume Model for Databases", 22nd Int. Conf. on Conceptual Modeling (ER), pp. 335-348, Oct. 2003.

· T. Wang, S. Santini, A. Gupta, "An Interpolated Volume Data Model ", ACM Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB), (Demonstration), pp. 1121-1124, Sept. 2003.

· M. Chagoyen, M.E. Kurul, P.A. De-Alarcon, S. Santini, B. Ludäscher, J.M. Carazo, A. Gupta, "A Semantic Mediation Approach for Problems in Computational Molecular Biology", IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2003), pp. 386-387, Aug. 2003.

· B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, I. Altintas, "Compiling Abstract Scientific Workflows into Web Service Workflows", Int. Conf. on Statistical and Scientific Data Management (SSDBM), pp. 251-254, July 2003.

· S. Zhang, X. Qian, A. Gupta, M.E. Martone, "A Practical Approach for Microscopy Imaging Data Management (MIDM) in Neuroscience", Int. Conf. on Statistical and Scientific Data Management (SSDBM), pp. 237-240, July 2003.

· I. Altintas, S. Bhagwanani, D. Buttler, S. Chandra, M. Coleman, T. Critchlow, A. Gupta, W. Han, L. Liu, B. Ludäscher, R. Moore, C. Pu, A. Shoshani, M. Vouk, "A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows", Int. Conf. on Statistical and Scientific Data Management (SSDBM), pp. 247,250, July 2003.

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, M.E. Martone, A. Rajasekar, E. Ross, X. Qian, S. Santini, H. He, I. Zaslavsky, "BIRN-M: A Semantic Mediator for Solving Real-World Neuroscience Problems ", ACM Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (Demonstration), page 678, June 2003.

· B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, M.E. Martone , A Model Based Mediator System for Scientific Data Management. In Z. Lacroix and T. Critchlow(eds.), Bioinformatics: Managing Scientific Data, pp. 335-370, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.

· A. Gupta, Y. Yang, A. Bagchi, A. Ray, Declarative Specification of Gene Regulatory Networks and Query Evaluation in PathSys, Proc. of Workshop on Bioinformatics, in conjunction with Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), March 2003.

2002

· M.E. Martone, A. Gupta, B. Ludascher, I. Zaslavsky and M.H. Ellisman, , Federation of brain data through knowledge-guided mediation. In R. Kotter(ed.), Neuroscience Databases: A Practical Guide, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 275-292, October 2002.

· S. Santini, A. Gupta, Conceptual Integration of Multiple Partial Geometric Models, 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, (ER), Tampere, Finland, pp. 365-379, October 2002.

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, M. E. Martone, Registering Scientific Information Sources for Semantic Mediation, 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, (ER), Tampere, Finland, pp. 182-198, October 2002.

· S. Santini, A. Gupta, "GeMBASE: A Geometric Mediator for Brain Analysis with Surface Ensembles", Intl. Conf. Very Large Databases (VLDB), Hong Kong, August 2002 .

· P.A. De Alarcon, A. Pascual-Montano, A Gupta, J.M. Carazo, "Modeling Shape and Topology of 3D Images of Biological Specimens", Proc. Int. Conf. On Image Proc. And Pattern Recog. (ICPR), Vol. 1, pp. 79-82, August 2002.

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, M.E. Martone, X. Qian, J. Tran and I. Zaslavsky "A System for Managing Alternate Models in Model-based Mediation", British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), pp. 54-57, July 2002.

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, R.W. Moore "Ontology Services for Curriculum Development in NSDL", ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), July 2002.

· M. E. Martone, A. Gupta, M. Wong, X. Qian, G. Sosinsky, S. Lamont, B. Ludäscher, and M. H. Ellisman, “A Cell-Centered Database for Electron Tomographic Data”, Journal of Structural Biology 138(1-2), 145-155, 2002.

· B. Ludäscher, I. Altintas and A. Gupta, "Time to Leave the Trees: From Syntactic to Conceptual Querying of XML", Proc. of Workshop on XML Data Management (XMLDM), in conjunction with Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 2002.

· S. Santini and A. Gupta, “Principles of Schema Design in Multimedia Databases”, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia Systems 4(2), pp. 248-259, June 2002.

· P. A. de-Alarcon, A. Pascual-Montano, A. Gupta and J.M. Carazo," Modeling Shape and Topology of Low-resolution Density Maps of Biological Macromolecules", Biophysical Journal, 83(2), 619-632, August 2002.

· X.Qian, B. Ludäscher, M.E. Martone and A. Gupta, "Navigating Virtual Information Sources with Know-ME", Proc. of Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2002), pp.739-41, Prague, March 2002.

· S. Santini and A. Gupta, “An Extensible Feature Management Engine for Image Retrieval”, Proc. SPIE Storage and Retrieval for Media Databases, vol. 4676, pp. 86-97, January 2002.

2001

· S. Santini and A. Gupta, “A Data Model for Querying Wavelet Features in Image Databases”, Intl. Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, Capri, Italy, November 2001.

· S. Santini and A. Gupta, “A Wavelet Data Model for Image Databases”, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo, Tokyo, Japan, August 2001.

· B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, M. E. Martone, “Model-Based Mediation with Domain Maps”, 17th Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Heidelberg, Germany, IEEE Computer Society, 2001.

· S. Santini, A. Gupta and R. Jain, “Emergent Semantics through Interaction in Image Databases”, IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 13. No. 3, pp. 337-351, May/June 2001.

2000

· A.W.M. Smeulders, M. Worring, S. Santini, A. Gupta and R. Jain, “Content-Based Image Retrieval at the End of the Early Years”, IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, No. 12, December 2000.

· M.H. Goldbaum, A. Gupta, V. Kouznetsova, I. Zaslavsky, D.J. Nazafi, “General Medical Image (online) Description Grammar”, poster, American Association of Ophthalmologists, November, 2000.

· I. Zaslavsky, B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, and R. Marciano, “Accuracy Mediation in a Spatial Wrapper Mediator System”, 1st Geographic Information Science Conference, Savannah, Georgia, October 2000. Extended abstract .

· G. Burns, K. Stephan, B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta, “Towards a Federated Neuroscientific Knowledge Management System Using Brain Atlases”, Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), poster paper, Brugge, Belgium, 2000.

· Moore, R.; Baru, C.; Rajasekar, A.; Ludäscher, B.; Marciano, R.; Wan, M.; Schroeder, W.; Gupta, A. Collection-based persistent digital archives. 2. D-Lib Magazine, vol.6, (no.4), Corporation for National Research Initiatives, April 2000.

· B. Ludäscher, A. Gupta and M. Martone, “A Mediator System for Model-based Information Integration”, Int. Conf. VLDB, 2000. Cairo, 639-42.

· I. Zaslavsky, R. Marciano, A. Gupta, C. Baru, “XML-based Spatial Data Mediation Infrastructure for Global Interoperability ”, 4th Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Conference , Cape Town, South Africa, 13-15 March 2000.

· Moore, R.; Baru, C.; Rajasekar, A.; Ludäscher, B.; Marciano, R.; Wan, M.; Schroeder, W.; Gupta, A. Collection-based persistent digital archives. 1. D-Lib Magazine, vol.6, (no.3), Corporation for National Research Initiatives, March 2000.

· M. Trivedi, S. Bhonsle and A. Gupta, "Database Architecture for Autonomous Transportation Agents for On-scene Networked Incident Management (ATON)", Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, 2000 (poster paper).

· A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher and M. Martone, “Knowledge-based Integration of Neuroscience Data Sources”, 12th Int. Conf. Scientific and Statistical Database Management Systems, Berlin, 39-52, 2000.

· I. Zaslavsky, A. Gupta and R. Marciano, “Combined Query and Transformation Planning in Spatial Mediators”, Spatial Data Handling, 2000.

· A. Gupta and S. Santini, “Toward a Feature Algebra for Visual Databases: a Case Study with Histogram Algebra”, VDB-5, Int. Conf. On Visual Databases, Tokyo, 2000.

· S. Bhonsle, A. Gupta, S. Santini and R. Jain, “Semiorder Database for Complex Activity Recognition in Multi-sensory Environments”, Proc. Of IEEE Int. Conf. On Data Engineering, San Diego, 689-90, 2000 (demonstration paper PDF).

1999

· B. Ludäscher and A. Gupta, “Modeling Interactive Web Sources for Information Mediation”, Proc. WWWCM’99, Conceptual Modeling for the World Wide Web, Paris, November 1999.

· Gupta, R. Marciano, I. Zaslavsky and C. Baru, “Integrating GIS and Imagery through XML-Based Information Mediation”, Proc. NSF International Workshop on Integrated Spatial Databases: Digital Images and GIS, Portland, Maine, June 1999 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1737, Springer-Verlag, 211-34.)

· C. Baru, A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, R. Marciano, Y. Papakonstantinou, P. Velikhov, V. Chu, “XML-Based Information Mediation for Digital Libraries”, Proc. Digital Libraries ’99, 1999.

· P. A. de Alarcón, A. Gupta, J. M. Carazo, “A Framework for Querying a Database for Structural Information on 3D Images of Macromolecules: A Web-Based Query-by-Content Prototype on the BioImage Macromolecular Server”, Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 125, No. 2/3, Apr 1999, pp. 112-122 (PDF).

· S. Bhonsle, A. Gupta, S. Santini, M. Worring and R. Jain, “Complex Visual Activity Recognition Using a Temporally Ordered Database”, Proc. Of the 3rd Int. Conf. Visual ’99, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1614, Springer, 1999, pp. 719-726.

· C. Baru, A. Gupta, B. Ludäscher, R. Marciano, Y. Papakonstantinou, P. Velikhov, V. Chu, “XML-Based Information Mediation with MIX”. Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD'99, June 1-3, 1999, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, pp.597-599.

· A. Gupta and C. Baru, “An Extensible Information Model for Shared Scientific Data Collections”, Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 16, No. 9, 1999, pp. 9-20.

· S. Santini, A. Gupta, and R. Jain, "User Interfaces for Emergent Semantics in Image Databases,'' In Proceedings of the 8th IFIP Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-8) Rotorua (New Zealand), January 1999 pp. 123-143.

· S. Santini, A. Gupta, and R. Jain, "Querying Multiple Perspective Video", Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3656 Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, San Jose, January 1999, pp. 264-273.

1998

· A. Gupta, S. Bhonsle, S. Santini and R. Jain, "An Event Management Architecture for Activity Recognition in a Multistream Video Database". In Proceedings of the 1998 Image Understanding Workshop, Monterey, CA, November 1998

Older Publications

· Gupta, A.; Jain, R. “Visual information retrieval”, Communications of the ACM, May 1997, vol.40, (No.5): 70-9.

· Gupta, A. Hampapur H., Gorkani, M., Jain, R., “On Summarization of Video”, International Conference on Image Processing, IEEE, Santa Barbara, 1997.

· Gupta A., Santini, S. Jain, R. “In Search of Information in Visual Media”, Communications of the ACM, December 1997, vol. 40 (No. 12): 35:42.

· Hampapur, A.; Gupta, A.; Horowitz, B.; Chiao-Fe Shu; and others. “Virage Video Engine” In Proc. Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases V, San Jose, CA, USA, 13-14 Feb. 1997, vol.3022:188-98.

· Gupta, B. Chanda, “A Hue Preserving Enhancement Scheme For A Class Of Colour Images”, Pattern Recognition Letters (17), 1996, pp. 109-114.

· Katkere, A.; Schlenzig, J.; Gupta, A.; Jain, R., “Interactive video on WWW: beyond VCR-like interfaces”, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, May 1996, vol.28, (no.7-11):1559-72.

· Bach, J.R.; Fuller, C.; Gupta, A.; Hampapur, A.; and others. “The Virage Image Search Engine: an open framework for image management”, In Proc. Storage and Retrieval for Still Image and Video Databases IV, San Jose, CA, USA, 1-2 Feb. 1996, vol.2670:76-87.

· Jain, R. and Gupta, A., "Computer Vision and Visual Information Retrieval", Book Chapter, In. Advances in Image Understanding: A Festschrift for Prof. Azriel Rosenfeld, IEEE Computer Society Press. 1996, 301-315.

· Kelly, P.H.; Gupta, A.; Jain, R., “Visual computing meets data modeling: defining objects in multi-camera video databases”, In Proc. Storage and Retrieval for Still Image and Video Databases IV, San Jose, CA, USA, 1-2 Feb. 1996, vol.2670:120-31.

· A . Gupta, S. Moezzi, A. Taylor, S. Chatterjee, R. Jain, M. Goldbaum, S. Burgess, “Content-based retrieval of ophtalmological images” In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing, Lusanne,1996, vol.3: 701-704, 1996.

· A. Gupta "Visual Information Retrieval: a Virage Perspective", Technical Report, Virage, Inc., 1996.

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· A. Gupta and A. Bagchi, “Learning object models in visual semantic networks”, In Proc. International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, TAI '92, Arlington, VA, USA, 10-13 Nov. 1992. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1992: 204-11.

· Gupta, A.; Weymouth, T.; Jain, R., “Semantic queries in image databases”, IFIP Transactions A (Computer Science and Technology), 1992, vol.A-7:201-15.

· Gupta, A.; Weymouth, T.E.; Jain, R., “ An extended object-oriented data model for large image bases”, In Proc. Advances in Spatial Databases. 2nd Symposium, SSD '91, Zurich, Switzerland, 28-30 Aug. 1991, Edited by: Gunther, O.; Schek, H.-J. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1991: 45-61.

· Gupta, A.; Weymouth, T.; Jain, R., “Semantic queries with pictures: the VIMSYS model”, In Proc. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Barcelona, Spain, 3-6 Sept. 1991. Edited by: Lohman, G.M.; Sernadas, A.; Camps, R. San Mateo, CA, USA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1991: 69-79.