Middleware Systems Research Group

University of Toronto, Canada

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Department

Computer Science

Associated Projects

Blue Bay

E-mail

kzhang at cs dot toronto dot edu

Biography

Kaiwen Zhang is a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science at the University of Toronto as a member of the Middleware Systems Research Group since 2010. Born in Beijing (China), he obtained his B.Sc and M.Sc at McGill University in Montréal. His research interests include expressiveness and QoS in content-based pub/sub systems, massively multiplayer online games and consistency in replicated systems.

Publications

• DEBS Grand Challenge: The MSRG Soccer Monitoring Engine in the World Cup of Event Processing.
  Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Kianoosh Mokhtarian, Tilmann Rabl, Mohammad Sadoghi, Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh, Young Yoon, and Kaiwen Zhang.
  In The 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2013.
  Acceptance rate 40%.
  Tags: event processing systems, live monitoring, soccer
• Distributed Ranked Data Dissemination in Social Networks.
  Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In 33rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2013.
  Acceptance rate: 13%.
  Tags: aggregation, topk, content-based publish/subscribe, social networks
• Language Expressiveness and Quality of Service for Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Kaiwen Zhang.
  In Middleware PhD Symposium, 2012.
  Tags: padres, predictive publish/subscribe, publish/subscribe, pub/sub applications, online games, total order, topk
• Distributed Ranked Data Dissemination in Social Networks.
  Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  University of Toronto, 2012.
  Tags: topk, publish/subscribe, aggregation
• Solving Manufacturing Equipment Monitoring Through Efficient Complex Event Processing.
  Tilmann Rabl, Kaiwen Zhang, Mohammad Sadoghi, Navneet Kumar Pandey, Aakash Nigam, Chen Wang, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, 2012.
  Best DEBS Challenge Award - Public Voting.
  Tags: event processing, grand challenge
• Total Order in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012.
  Acceptance rate: 13%.
  Tags: total order, content-based publish/subscribe
• Total Order in Content-based Publish/Subscribe Systems.
  Kaiwen Zhang, Vinod Muthusamy, and Hans-Arno Jacobsen.
  University of Toronto, 2011.
  Pages 1-13.
  Tags: total order, padres, content-based publish/subscribe