2014


  • Youssef Meguebli, Mouna Kacimi, Bich-Lien Doan, Fabrice Popineau, "Unsupervised Approach for Identifying Users' Political Orientations". In the proceedings of ECIR 2014, the annual European Conference on Information Retrieval, 2014
  • Youssef Meguebli, Mouna Kacimi, Bich-Lien Doan, Fabrice Popineau, "Building Rich User Profiles for Personalized News Recommendations ". To appear in the proceedings of NRA2014, the International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (UMAP 2014 workshops), 2014
  • 2013


  • Mouna Kacimi, Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna S. Varde, "Databases, information retrieval and knowledge management: exploring paths and crossing bridges". In proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Record, 2013
  • Mouna Kacimi and Bruno Crispo, "Leila". The paper that won the Best Baby Award in the Second Life Conference, 2013.
  • 2012


  • Mouna Kacimi and Johann Gamper, "MOUNA: Mining Opinions to Unveil Neglected Arguments". In Proceedings of CIKM2012, the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Link to the demo
  • 2011


  • Mouna Kacimi and Johann Gamper, "Diversifying Search Results of Controversial Queries". In Proceedings of CIKM2011, the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
  • Bilyana Taneva, Mouna Kacimi, Gerhard Weikum, "Finding Images of Difficult Entities in the Long Tail". n Proceedings of CIKM2011, the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
  • Mouna Kacimi and Bruno Crispo, "Ines". The paper that won the Best Baby Award in the First Life Conference, 2011.
  • 2010


  • Bilyana Taneva, Mouna Kacimi, Gerhard Weikum, "Gathering and Ranking Photos of Named Entities with High Precision, High Recall, and Diversity". In Proceedings of WSDM2010, the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data. (pdf).
  • 2009


  • Mouna Kacimi and Thomas Neumann,"System R Optimizer". In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009. (source).
  • Mouna Kacimi, Stefano Ortolani, Bruno Crispo, "Anonymous Opinion Exchange over Untrusted Social Networks". In Social Network Systems, EuroSys2009 Workshop, 2009. (pdf).
  • 2008


  • Tom Crecelius , Mouna Kacimi, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Parreira, Marc Spaniol, and Gerhard Weikum, "Social Wisdom for Search and Recommendation". IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, vol. 31, iss. 2, pp. 40-49, 2008. (pdf)
  • Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Thomas Neumann, Sebastian Michel, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Gerhard Weikum,"Efficient Top-k Querying over Social-Tagging Networks". In Proceedings the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2008. (pdf)
  • Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane X. Parreira, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum,"Social Recommenations At Work" (Demo paper). In Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference , 2008. (pdf)
  • Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane X. Parreira, Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum,"Making SENSE: Socially Enhanced Search and Exploration" (Demo paper). In proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases VLDB, 2008. (pdf)
  • Matthias Bender, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Ralf Schenkel and Gerhard Weikum, "Exploiting social relations for query expansion and result ranking". In Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0, ICDE Workshop, 2008. (pdf).
  • Walter Allasia, Fabrizio Falchi, Francesco Gallo, Mouna Kacimi, Aaron Kaplan, Jonathan Mamou, Yosi Mass, Nicola Orio, "Audio-Visual Content Analysis in P2P Networks: The SAPIR Approach". DEXA Workshops 2008, 610-614. (pdf).
  • 2007


  • Matthias Bender, Tom Crecelius , Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel , Josiane Xavier Parreira, Gerhard Weikum, "Peer-to-Peer Information Search: Semantic, Social, or Spiritual?. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, vol. 30, iss. 2, pp. 51-60, 2007. (pdf).
  • Mouna Kacimi and Kokou Yetongnon, "Evaluation Study of a Distributed Caching Based on Query Similarity in a P2P Network". In proceedings of the Second International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, 2007. (pdf).
  • Fabrizio Falchi, Mouna Kacimi, Yosi Mass, Fausto Rabitti, Pavel Zezula, "SAPIR: Scalable and Distributed Image Searching". SAMT (Posters and Demos) 2007 (pdf).
  • Mouna Kacimi and Kokou Yetongnon,"Dimensionality Reduction in a P2P System". In the proceedings of DEXA Workshops 2007, pp.804-808 (pdf).
  • 2006


  • Mouna Kacimi and Kokou Yetongnon,"Cost Models and Performance Evaluation of Similarity Search in the HON P2P System". In the proceedings of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA06). LNCS 4330 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-68067-5, pp. 772-781 (pdf).
  • Mouna Kacimi and Kokou Yetongnon,"Similarity Search in a Hybrid Overlay P2P Network". In proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC06). IEEE Computer Society 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2588-1, pp.460-466. (pdf).
  • Mouna Kacimi and Kokou Yetongnon,"Density-based Clustering for Similarity Search in a P2P Network". In proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (IEEE CCGrid06), IEEE Computer Society 2006, ISBN 0-7695-2585-7 pp.57-64. (pdf).
  • 2005


  • Mouna Kacimi, Richard Chbeir and Kokou Yetongnon, "Multimedia Proxy Cache Architectures", Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking" , 2005. ISBN: 1-59140-561-0. (source).
  • Mouna Kacimi, Yinghua Ma, Richard Chbeir and Kokou Yetongnon, "HON-P2P: A Cluster-based Hybrid Overlay Network for Multimedia Object Management" . In proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE ICPADS), IEEE Computer Society 2005, pp.578-584. (pdf).
  • Mouna Kacimi, Kokou Yetongnon, Yinghua Ma and Richard Chbeir, "Distributed Caching in a Cluster-based Hybrid Overlay Network for P2P Systems". In the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (ISCA 2005), ISBN 1-880843-56-0, pp.9-14.
  • 2004


  • Mouna Kacimi, Richard Chbeir and Kokou Yetongnon, "DM2P: Dynamic MultiMedia Proxy". In the proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association Conference, IRMA'04, May 2004. (source).