Publications

2025

1. TechRxiv

   On Choosing the Columnar In-Memory Database Hyrise as High-Performant Implementation Platform for the Grandreport Tool

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Minakshi Kaushik, Mahtab Shahin, and 2 more authors

   2025

   DOI Bib

   @misc{peious2025techrxiv,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shahin, Mahtab and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On Choosing the Columnar In-Memory Database Hyrise as High-Performant Implementation Platform for the Grandreport Tool},
     journal = {TechRxiv},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.36227/techrxiv.174015861.15410981/v1},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.174015861.15410981/v1},
   }

2. NGISE

   On Choosing the Columnar In-Memory Database Hyrise as High-Performant Implementation Platform for the GrandReport Tool

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Minakshi Kaushik, Mahtab Shahin, and 2 more authors

   In NGISE 2025 – International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{peious2025ngise,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shahin, Mahtab and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On Choosing the Columnar In-Memory Database Hyrise as High-Performant Implementation Platform for the GrandReport Tool},
     booktitle = {NGISE 2025 -- International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {1--8},
     doi = {10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085185},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085185},
   }

3. NGISE

   Advancing Digital Services and e-Signature: A Case Study of Azerbaijan

   U. Mahyaddinova, R. K. Ahmed, S. Lips, and 2 more authors

   In NGISE 2025 – International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{mahyaddinova2025ngise,
     author = {Mahyaddinova, U. and Ahmed, R. K. and Lips, S. and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Advancing Digital Services and e-Signature: A Case Study of Azerbaijan},
     booktitle = {NGISE 2025 -- International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {1--7},
     doi = {10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085161},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085161},
   }

4. NGISE

   Towards Class Diagram Generation from User Stories Using LLMs

   M. Ojha, S. Gupta, and Rahul Sharma

   In NGISE 2025 – International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{ojha2025ngise,
     author = {Ojha, M. and Gupta, S. and Sharma, Rahul},
     title = {Towards Class Diagram Generation from User Stories Using LLMs},
     booktitle = {NGISE 2025 -- International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {1--6},
     doi = {10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085312},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085312},
   }

5. NGISE

   Leveraging Hashgraph Technology in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: A Case Study

   K. A. Khudhur, A. M. Ahmed, R. K. Ahmed, and 2 more authors

   In NGISE 2025 – International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{khudhur2025ngise,
     author = {Khudhur, K. A. and Ahmed, A. M. and Ahmed, R. K. and Ahmed, S. K. and Sharma, Rahul},
     title = {Leveraging Hashgraph Technology in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: A Case Study},
     booktitle = {NGISE 2025 -- International Conference on Next Generation Information System Engineering},
     year = {2025},
     pages = {1--7},
     doi = {10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085316},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/NGISE64126.2025.11085316},
   }

2024

1. IEEE-Access

   An Exhaustive Multi-Aspect Analysis of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in Numerical Association Rule Mining

   Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Pilleriin Koiva, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Access, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{kaushik2024ieeeaccess,
     author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Koiva, Pilleriin and Fister, Iztok and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {An Exhaustive Multi-Aspect Analysis of Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in Numerical Association Rule Mining},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {12},
     pages = {138985--139002},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3417334},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3417334},
   }

2. ICTIS

   On Measuring Confounding Bias in Mixed Multidimensional Data

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Minakshi Kaushik, Syed Attique Shah, and 3 more authors

   In ICTIS 2024, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{peious2024ictis,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shah, Syed Attique and Sharma, Rahul and Suran, Shweta and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On Measuring Confounding Bias in Mixed Multidimensional Data},
     booktitle = {ICTIS 2024},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. ICTIS

   On Measuring Confounding Bias in Mixed Multidimensional Data

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Minakshi Kaushik, Syed Attique Shah, and 3 more authors

   In ICTIS 2024 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1112), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{peious2024ictis_lnns,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shah, Syed Attique and Sharma, Rahul and Suran, Shweta and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On Measuring Confounding Bias in Mixed Multidimensional Data},
     booktitle = {ICTIS 2024 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1112)},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1007/978-981-97-6684-0_27},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6684-0_27},
   }

4. IEEE-Access

   Mobile Smart Contracts: Exploring Scalability Challenges and Consensus Mechanisms

   Vipin Deval, Vimal Dwivedi, Abhishek Dixit, and 4 more authors

   IEEE Access, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @article{deval2024ieeeaccess,
     author = {Deval, Vipin and Dwivedi, Vimal and Dixit, Abhishek and Norta, Alex and Shah, Syed Attique and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Mobile Smart Contracts: Exploring Scalability Challenges and Consensus Mechanisms},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     year = {2024},
     volume = {12},
     pages = {34265--34288},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3371901},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3371901},
   }

5. Book

   Digital Public Service Improvement in Cross-Border Use Cases

   Helen Raamat and others

   In Resilience Through Digital Innovation: Enabling the Twin Transition, 2024

   DOI Bib

   @incollection{raamat2024book,
     author = {Raamat, Helen and others},
     title = {Digital Public Service Improvement in Cross-Border Use Cases},
     booktitle = {Resilience Through Digital Innovation: Enabling the Twin Transition},
     publisher = {University of Maribor Press},
     year = {2024},
     pages = {269--282},
     doi = {10.18690/um.fov.4.2024.15},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.18690/um.fov.4.2024.15},
   }

6. CSOC

   Performance of a Distributed Apriori Algorithm Using the Serverless Functions of the Apollo Framework

   Mahtab Shahin, Syed Attique Shah, Rahul Sharma, and 4 more authors

   In CSOC 2024, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{shahin2024csoc,
     author = {Shahin, Mahtab and Shah, Syed Attique and Sharma, Rahul and Ghasempouri, Tara and Poveda, Juan Aznar and Fahringer, Thomas and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Performance of a Distributed Apriori Algorithm Using the Serverless Functions of the Apollo Framework},
     booktitle = {CSOC 2024},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. ESWA

   Utilizing Continuous Time Markov Chain for Analyzing Video-on-Demand Streaming in Multimedia Systems

   Debjani Ghosh, Mayank Pandey, Chakrapani Gautam, and 3 more authors

   Expert Systems with Applications, 2023

   DOI Bib HTML

   @article{ghosh2023eswa,
     author = {Ghosh, Debjani and Pandey, Mayank and Gautam, Chakrapani and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Utilizing Continuous Time Markov Chain for Analyzing Video-on-Demand Streaming in Multimedia Systems},
     journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
     year = {2023},
     volume = {223},
     doi = {10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119857},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.119857},
   }

2. iiWAS

   On Observing Patterns of Correlations During Drill-Down

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, and 2 more authors

   In iiWAS 2023, 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{peious2023iiwas,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shahin, Mahtab and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On Observing Patterns of Correlations During Drill-Down},
     booktitle = {iiWAS 2023},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-48316-5_16},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48316-5_16},
   }

2022

1. IEEE-Access

   A Novel Framework for Unification of Association Rule Mining, Online Analytical Processing and Statistical Reasoning

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 5 more authors

   IEEE Access, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @article{sharma2022ieeeaccess,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Bazin, Alexandre and Shah, Syed Attique and Fister, Iztok and Ben Yahia, Sadok and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {A Novel Framework for Unification of Association Rule Mining, Online Analytical Processing and Statistical Reasoning},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {10},
     pages = {12792--12813},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3142537},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3142537},
   }

2. DASFAA

   Towards Unification of Statistical Reasoning, OLAP and Association Rule Mining

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 3 more authors

   In DASFAA 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2022dasfaa,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Shahin, Mahtab and Yadav, Amrendra Kumar and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Towards Unification of Statistical Reasoning, OLAP and Association Rule Mining},
     booktitle = {DASFAA 2022},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {596--603},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-00123-9_48},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00123-9_48},
   }

3. DEXA

   Detecting Simpson’s Paradox: A Machine Learning Perspective

   Rahul Sharma, Huseyn Garayev, Minakshi Kaushik, and 3 more authors

   In DEXA 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2022dexa,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Garayev, Huseyn and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Tiwari, Prayag and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Detecting Simpson's Paradox: A Machine Learning Perspective},
     booktitle = {DEXA 2022},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {323--335},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-12423-5_25},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12423-5_25},
   }

4. ADBIS

   Detecting Simpson’s Paradox: A Step Towards Fairness in Machine Learning

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 4 more authors

   In ADBIS 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2022adbis,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Bertl, Markus and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Kumar, Ashwani and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Detecting Simpson's Paradox: A Step Towards Fairness in Machine Learning},
     booktitle = {ADBIS 2022},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-15743-1_7},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15743-1_7},
   }

5. DASFAA

   Why Not to Trust Big Data: Discovering Instances of Simpson’s Paradox

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 3 more authors

   In DASFAA 2022 Workshop, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2022dasfaa_ws,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Shahin, Mahtab and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Why Not to Trust Big Data: Discovering Instances of Simpson’s Paradox},
     booktitle = {DASFAA 2022 Workshop},
     year = {2022},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-11217-1_4},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11217-1_4},
   }

6. IEEE

   Existence of Yule Simpson Effect: Experiments with Data

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 3 more authors

   In Confluence 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2022confluence,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Shahin, Mahtab and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Existence of Yule Simpson Effect: Experiments with Data},
     booktitle = {Confluence 2022},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {351--355},
     doi = {10.1109/Confluence52989.2022.9734211},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/Confluence52989.2022.9734211},
   }

7. IEEE-Access

   Machine Learning Assisted Methodology for Multiclass Classification of Malignant Brain Tumors

   Ankit Vidyarthi, Ruchi Agarwal, Deepak Gupta, and 3 more authors

   IEEE Access, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @article{vidyarthi2022brain,
     author = {Vidyarthi, Ankit and Agarwal, Ruchi and Gupta, Deepak and Sharma, Rahul and Draheim, Dirk and Tiwari, Prayag},
     title = {Machine Learning Assisted Methodology for Multiclass Classification of Malignant Brain Tumors},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     year = {2022},
     volume = {10},
     pages = {50624--50640},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3172303},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3172303},
   }

8. ANT

   Exploring Factors Affecting a Crossroad Dataset Using Association Rule Mining

   Mahtab Shahin, Iman Heidari, Mohammad Reza, and 4 more authors

   In ANT 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{shahin2022ant,
     author = {Shahin, Mahtab and Heidari, Iman and Reza, Mohammad and Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Ghasempouri, Tara and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Exploring Factors Affecting a Crossroad Dataset Using Association Rule Mining},
     booktitle = {ANT 2022},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {231--238},
     doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.032},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.03.032},
   }

9. iiWAS

   An Analysis of Human Perception of Partitions of Numerical Factor Domains

   Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 1 more author

   In iiWAS 2022, 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{kaushik2022iiwas,
     author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {An Analysis of Human Perception of Partitions of Numerical Factor Domains},
     booktitle = {iiWAS 2022},
     year = {2022},
     pages = {137--144},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21047-1_13},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21047-1_13},
   }

10. ADBIS

    Discretizing Numerical Attributes: An Analysis of Human Perceptions

    Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Ankit Vidyarthi, and 1 more author

    In ADBIS 2022, 2022

    DOI Bib

    @inproceedings{kaushik2022adbis,
      author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Vidyarthi, Ankit and Draheim, Dirk},
      title = {Discretizing Numerical Attributes: An Analysis of Human Perceptions},
      booktitle = {ADBIS 2022},
      year = {2022},
      pages = {188--197},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-15743-1_18},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15743-1_18},
    }

2021

1. SNCS

   A Systematic Assessment of Numerical Association Rule Mining Methods

   Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 3 more authors

   SN Computer Science, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @article{kaushik2021sncs,
     author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Shahin, Mahtab and Ben Yahia, Sadok and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {A Systematic Assessment of Numerical Association Rule Mining Methods},
     journal = {SN Computer Science},
     year = {2021},
     volume = {2},
     number = {5},
     pages = {1--13},
     doi = {10.1007/s42979-021-00725-2},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00725-2},
   }

2. BDA

   Impact-driven Discretization of Numerical Factors: Case of Two- and Three-Partitioning

   Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 1 more author

   In BDA 2021, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{kaushik2021bda,
     author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Impact-driven Discretization of Numerical Factors: Case of Two- and Three-Partitioning},
     booktitle = {BDA 2021},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {244--260},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-93620-4_18},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93620-4_18},
   }

3. ACM

   Big Data Analytics in Association Rule Mining: A Systematic Literature Review

   Mahtab Shahin, Sijo Arakkal Peious, Rahul Sharma, and 4 more authors

   In BDET 2021, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{shahin2021bdet,
     author = {Shahin, Mahtab and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Ben Yahia, Sadok and Shah, Syed Attique and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Big Data Analytics in Association Rule Mining: A Systematic Literature Review},
     booktitle = {BDET 2021},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {40--49},
     doi = {10.1145/3474944.3474951},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3474944.3474951},
   }

4. IEEE

   Cluster-based Association Rule Mining for an Intersection Accident Dataset

   Mahtab Shahin, Soheila Saeidi, Syed Attique Shah, and 4 more authors

   In ICECube 2021, 2021

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{shahin2021icecube,
     author = {Shahin, Mahtab and Saeidi, Soheila and Shah, Syed Attique and Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Cluster-based Association Rule Mining for an Intersection Accident Dataset},
     booktitle = {ICECube 2021},
     year = {2021},
     pages = {1--6},
     doi = {10.1109/ICECube53880.2021.9628206},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECube53880.2021.9628206},
   }

2020

1. DaWaK

   Expected vs. Unexpected: Selecting Right Measures of Interestingness

   Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 2 more authors

   In DaWaK 2020, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{sharma2020dawak,
     author = {Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Ben Yahia, Sadok and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {Expected vs. Unexpected: Selecting Right Measures of Interestingness},
     booktitle = {DaWaK 2020},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {38--47},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_4},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_4},
   }

2. DaWaK

   Grand Reports: A Tool for Generalizing Association Rule Mining to Numeric Target Values

   Sijo Arakkal Peious, Rahul Sharma, Minakshi Kaushik, and 2 more authors

   In DaWaK 2020, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{peious2020dawak_grand,
     author = {Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Sharma, Rahul and Kaushik, Minakshi and Shah, Syed Attique and Ben Yahia, Sadok},
     title = {Grand Reports: A Tool for Generalizing Association Rule Mining to Numeric Target Values},
     booktitle = {DaWaK 2020},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {28--37},
     doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_3},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59065-9_3},
   }

3. FDSE

   On the Potential of Numerical Association Rule Mining

   Minakshi Kaushik, Rahul Sharma, Sijo Arakkal Peious, and 3 more authors

   In FDSE 2020, 2020

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{kaushik2020fdse,
     author = {Kaushik, Minakshi and Sharma, Rahul and Peious, Sijo Arakkal and Shahin, Mahtab and Ben Yahia, Sadok and Draheim, Dirk},
     title = {On the Potential of Numerical Association Rule Mining},
     booktitle = {FDSE 2020},
     year = {2020},
     pages = {3--20},
     doi = {10.1007/978-981-33-4370-2_1},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4370-2_1},
   }