Li Yan

Li Yan received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University, China. She is currently a Full Professor of College of Computer Science & Technology at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Her research interests include database modeling, XML data management, as well as imprecise and uncertain data processing. She has published over 50 papers in international journals, conferences and books in these areas since 2008. She also authored and edited several scholarly books published by Springer-Verlag and IGI Global, respectively.

Publications

RDF(S) Store in Object-Relational Databases
RDF(S) Store in Object-Relational Databases
Zongmin Ma, Daiyi Li, Jiawen Lu, Ruizhe Ma, Li Yan. © 2024. 32 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema (RDFS) recommended by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provide a flexible model for semantically representing data on the...
A Temporal JSON Data Model and Its Query Languages
A Temporal JSON Data Model and Its Query Languages
Ruizhe Ma, Zhangbing Hu, Li Yan. © 2022. 29 pages.
As a ubiquitous form of data in the natural world, time has been widely used in many domains such as the military, finance, medical treatment, and environment. Temporal data...
Automatic Construction of OWL Ontologies From Petri Nets
Automatic Construction of OWL Ontologies From Petri Nets
Zongmin Ma, Haitao Cheng, Li Yan. © 2019. 31 pages.
Ontology, as a formal representation method of domain knowledge, plays a particular important key role in semantic web. How to construct ontologies has become a key technology in...
Emerging Technologies and Applications in Data Processing and Management
Emerging Technologies and Applications in Data Processing and Management
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 458 pages.
Advances in web technology and the proliferation of sensors and mobile devices connected to the internet have resulted in the generation of immense data sets available on the web...
A Survey on JSON Data Stores
A Survey on JSON Data Stores
Lubna Irshad, Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 25 pages.
The World Wide Web is a bunch of interlinked documents full of information and knowledge where people search sources to interpret relevant information. As the modern web is...
Modeling Temporal Information With JSON
Modeling Temporal Information With JSON
Zhangbing Hu, Li Yan. © 2019. 20 pages.
As a ubiquitous form of data in human natural life, time has been widely used in military, finance, medical treatment, environment and other fields. Therefore, temporal data...
Towards Massive RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases: A Survey
Towards Massive RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases: A Survey
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2019. 22 pages.
The resource description framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...
Schema-Based JSON Data Stores in Relational Databases
Schema-Based JSON Data Stores in Relational Databases
Lubna Irshad, Li Yan, Zongmin Ma. © 2019. 33 pages.
JSON is a simple, compact and light weighted data exchange format to communicate between web services and client applications. NoSQL document stores evolve with the popularity of...
Modeling and Querying Fuzzy Data: Current Approaches and Future Trends
Modeling and Querying Fuzzy Data: Current Approaches and Future Trends
Li Yan, Z. M. Ma. © 2018. 29 pages.
Imperfect information extensively exists in data and knowledge intensive applications, where fuzzy data play an import role in nature. Fuzzy set theory has been extensively...
RDF Keyword Search by Query Computation
RDF Keyword Search by Query Computation
Zongmin Ma, Xiaoqing Lin, Li Yan, Zhen Zhao. © 2018. 27 pages.
Keyword searches based on the keywords-to-SPARQL translation is attracting more attention because of a growing number of excellent SPARQL search engines. Current approaches for...
Reengineering Probabilistic Relational Databases with Fuzzy Probability Measures into XML Model
Reengineering Probabilistic Relational Databases with Fuzzy Probability Measures into XML Model
Zongmin Ma, Chengwei Li, Li Yan. © 2017. 22 pages.
This paper concentrates on modeling probabilistic events with fuzzy probability measures in relational databases and XML (Extensible Markup Language). Instead of crisp...
Handbook of Research on Innovative Database Query Processing Techniques
Handbook of Research on Innovative Database Query Processing Techniques
Li Yan. © 2016. 625 pages.
Research and development surrounding the use of data queries is receiving increased attention from computer scientists and data specialists alike. Through the use of query...
Modeling and Querying Fuzzy Data: Current Approaches and Future Trends
Modeling and Querying Fuzzy Data: Current Approaches and Future Trends
Li Yan, Z. M. Ma. © 2016. 29 pages.
Imperfect information extensively exists in data and knowledge intensive applications, where fuzzy data play an import role in nature. Fuzzy set theory has been extensively...
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2016. 20 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the Web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
A Review of RDF Storage in NoSQL Databases
Zongmin Ma, Li Yan. © 2016. 20 pages.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a model for representing information resources on the Web. With the widespread acceptance of RDF as the de-facto standard recommended...