Publications

A complete list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar and DBLP accounts.

Selected Conference Papers

Widmoser, Kocher, Augsten. Scalable Distributed Inverted List Indexes in Disaggregated Memory. ACM SIGMOD 2024. DOI (Open Access)
Schmitt, Kocher, Augsten, Mann, Miller. A Two-Level Signature Scheme for Stable Set Similarity Joins. PVLDB 2023. DOI (Open Access).
Widmoser, Kocher, Augsten, and Mann. MetricJoin: Leveraging Metric Properties for Robust Exact Set Similarity Joins. IEEE ICDE 2023. DOI.
Thiel, Kocher, Augsten, Hütter, Mann, and Schmitt. FINEX: A Fast Index for Exact & Flexible Density-Based Clustering. ACM SIGMOD 2023. DOI (Open Access), Extended Version (arXiv).
Kocher, Augsten, and Mann. Scaling Density-Based Clustering to Large Collections of Sets. EDBT 2021. DOI (Open Access), Slides, Talk (10m), Pitch (30s).
Kocher and Augsten. A Scalable Index for Top-k Subtree Similarity Queries. ACM SIGMOD 2019. DOI (Open Access), Slides, Talk (17m).
Kocher, Schwarz, and Uhl. Empirical Evaluation of LBP-Extension Features for Finger Vein Spoofing Detection. BIOSIG 2016. DOI.

Ambros et al. Two-Year Progress of Pilot Research Activities in Teaching Digital Thinking Project (TDT). Journal for Higher Education Development (Special Issue Higher Education) 2023. DOI.
Pawlik, Hütter, Kocher, Mann, and Augsten. A Link is Not Enough - Reproducibility of Data. Datenbank-Spektrum 2019. DOI.

Hütter and Kocher. Feedforward-Aided Course Designs for Similarity Search. DataEd 2023. DOI (Open Access), Slides.

Kocher. Scalable Similarity Queries over Complex Data. Cumulative dissertation. University of Salzburg, 2021. 5-page Summary (PDF), Full (PDF).
Kocher. Top-k Tree Similarity Queries. Master’s thesis. University of Salzburg, 2017.
Kocher. Efficient Algorithms in Relational Database Design. Bachelor’s thesis. University of Salzburg, 2014.
Kocher and Tannerberger. Network Management with SNMP in C++. Diploma thesis. HTBLuVA Salzburg, 2008.