2021

Auctus: A Dataset Search Engine for Data Discovery and Augmentation. Sonia Castelo, Rémi Rampin, Aécio Santos, Aline Bessa, Fernando Chirigati and Juliana Freire. VLDB'21:  Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (to appear). 

Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries. Aécio Santos, Aline Bessa, Fernando Chirigati, Christopher Musco, Juliana Freire. SIGMOD'21: Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 1531 - 1544, 2021. 

An Ecosystem of Tools for Modeling Political Violence. Aline Bessa, Sonia Castelo, Rémi Rampin, Aécio Santos, Mike Shoemate, Vito D'Orazio, Juliana Freire. SIGMOD'21: Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 2384 - 2388, 2021.

Auctus: A Dataset Search Engine for Data Augmentation. Fernando Chirigati, Rémi Rampin, Aécio S. R. Santos, Aline Bessa, Juliana Freire. arXiv:2102.05716

2020

Effective Discovery of Meaningful Outlier Relationships. Aline Bessa, Juliana Freire, Divesh Srivastava, and Tamraparni Dasu. ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS),  1(2), pp. 12 - 33. Full text.

2019

Understanding Spatio-Temporal Urban Processes. Lais M. A. Rocha, Aline Bessa, Fernando Chirigati, Eugene OFriel, Mirella Moro, and Juliana Freire. In: IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pp. 563 - 572. 

2017

Exploiting Item Co-Utility to Improve Collaborative Filtering Recommendations. Aline Bessa, Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Adriano Veloso, and Nivio Ziviani. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 68(10), pp. 2380 - 2393. Full text.

2016  

Exploring What not to Clean in Urban Data: A Study Using New York City Taxi Trips. Juliana Freire, Aline Bessa, Fernando Chirigati, Huy Vo, and Kai Zhao. In: IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 39(2), pp. 63 - 77.  Full text.

2015 

RioBusData: Outlier Detection in Bus Routes of Rio de Janeiro. Aline Bessa, Fernando de Mesentier Silva, Rodrigo Frassetto Nogueira, Enrico Bertini, and Juliana Freire. In: Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Visualization in Data Science (VDS at IEEE VIS), Chicago, Illinois, US. Full text.

2014 

Bridging Vocabularies to Link Tweets and News. Tuan-Anh Hoang-Vu, Aline Bessa, Luciano Barbosa, and Juliana Freire. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), Snowbird, Utah, US. Full text.

2013 

Using Mutual Influence to Improve Recommendations.  Aline Bessa, Adriano Veloso, and Nivio Ziviani. In: Proceedings of the 20th String Processing and Information Retrieval International Symposium, pp. 17 – 28.  Full text.

2012 

Graph Cospectrality Using Neighborhood Matrices. Aline Bessa, Ivan C. Rocha-Neto, Suani T.R. Pinho, Roberto F.S. Andrade, and Thierry P.C. Lobāo. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, v. 19, P23. Full text.

Alleviating the Sparsity Problem in Recommender Systems by Exploring Underlying User Communities.  Aline Bessa, Adriano Veloso, Alberto H.F. Laender, and Nivio Ziviani. In: Proceedings of the 6th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, pp. 35 – 47. Full text.