Publications

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

Selected Conference Papers

• 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.

Selected Journal Papers

• 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.

Selected Workshop Papers

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

Theses

• Kocher. Scalabe 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.