PhD Thesis

Personal information

• Natalia Kwasnikowska
  
  Hasselt University
  Theoretical Computer Science Group
  Agoralaan, gebouw D
  BE-3590 Diepenbeek
  Belgium
  
  Office: D250a
  Tel: +32 11 268260
  E-mail: FirstName (DOT) LastName (AT) uhasselt (DOT) be
  
  
  
• Natalia Kwasnikowska obtained her PhD in June 2011. A copy of Natalia Kwasnikowska's PhD thesis is available.

Research

• I am involved in research on formal models for dataflows (data-centered workflows) and dataflow repositories. See our project web page for more information.

Publications

• "A formal account of the Open Provenance Model" (pdf)
  Natalia Kwasnikowska, Luc Moreau, and Jan Van den Bussche
  University of Southampton ECS Technical Report 21819, December 2010
• "The Open Provenance Model core specification v1.1" (pdf)
  Luc Moreau, Ben Clifford, Juliana Freire, Joe Futrelle, Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Simon Miles, Paolo Missier, Jim Myers, Beth Plale, Yogesh Simmhan, Eric Stephan, and Jan Van den Bussche
  To appear in Future Generation Computer Systems
• "A graph model of data and workflow provenance" (pdf)
  Umut Acar, Peter Buneman, James Cheney, Jan Van den Bussche, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Stijn Vansummeren
  In proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP), February 2010, San Jose, CA, USA
• "Mapping the NRC dataflow model to the Open Provenance Model" (pdf - presentation)
  Natalia Kwasnikowska and Jan Van den Bussche
  In proceedings of the 2nd Int. Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), June 2008, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  Lectures Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5272/2008, pp 3-16
• "DFL: A dataflow language based on Petri nets and nested relational calculus" (pdf)
  Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Jan Van den Bussche
  Information Systems, vol. 33 (2008), pp 261-284
• "A formal model of dataflow repositories" (pdf - presentation)
  Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, and Jan Van den Bussche
  In proceedings of the 4th Int. Workshop on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS), June 2007, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, vol. 4544/2007, pp 105-121
• "Modeling and storing scientific protocols" (pdf - presentation)
  Natalia Kwasnikowska, Yi Chen, and Zoé Lacroix
  In proceedings of the First Int. Workshop in Knowledge Systems in Bioinformatics (KSinBIT), October 2006, Montpellier, France
  Lectures Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4277/2006, pp 730-739
• "Lumbar cerebrospinal fluid proteome in multiple sclerosis: Characterization by ultrafiltration, liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry" (pdf)
  Jean-Paul Noben, Debora Dumont, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Peter Verhaert, Veerle Somers, Raymond Hupperts, Piet Stinissen, and Johan Robben
  Journal of Proteome Research 2006 5(7):1647-1657
• "Petri net + nested relational calculus = dataflow" (pdf)
  Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, and Jan Van den Bussche
  In proceedings of the 13th Int. Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), November 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus
  Lectures Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3760/2005, pp 220-237
• "Well-constructed Workflows in Bioinformatics" (pdf)
  Anna Gambin, Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Slawomir Lasota, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, and Jan Van den Bussche
  Workshop on Database Issues in Biological Databases (DBiBD), January 2005, Edinburgh, UK

Posters

• "Mapping the NRC dataflow model to the Open Provenance Model" (presentation - poster)
  Natalia Kwasnikowska and Jan Van den Bussche
  Poster at the 5th Int. Workshop on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS), June 2008, Evry, France
• "A formal model of dataflow repositories" (pdf)
  Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, and Jan Van den Bussche
  Poster at the 3rd Benelux Bioinformatics Conference (BBC), August 2007, Leuven, Belgium
• "An algorithm to find co-regulated gene clusters: Adjustment for random variability of gene expression" (abstract - poster)
  Ivy Jansen, Kerstin Koch, Natalia Kwasnikowska, and Tomasz Burzykowski
  Poster at the 11th Int. Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), April 2007, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
• "NRC as a formal model for expressing bioinformatics workflows" (abstract - poster)
  Anna Gambin, Jan Hidders, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Slawomir Lasota, Jacek Sroka, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, and Jan Van den Bussche
  Poster at the 13th Int. Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), June 2005, Detroit, MI, USA