Publications

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  • Horton+: A Distributed System for Processing Declarative Reachability Queries over Partitioned Graphs [PDF], with Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Mohamed F. Mokbel, in PVLDB Vol. 6 Issue. 14, PVLDB 2013, presented in the 40th International Conference on Very Large DatabasesVLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China, Sept, 2014
  • [Tutorial Abstract] Mobility and Social Networking: A Data Management Perspective [PDF] [Slides], with Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB 2013, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August, 2013
  • [Demo Paper] RecDB in Action: Recommendation Made Easy in Relational Databases [PDF] [Poster] [Source Code] [Project Website] [Demo Video], with James Avery, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB 2013, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August, 2013
  • MNTG: An Extensible Web-based Traffic Generator [PDF] [Project Website], with Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Amr Magdy
    , Louai Alarabi, Ethan Waytas, and Steven Yackel. in Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases SSTD 2013, Munich, Germany, August 2013
  • Plutus: Leveraging Location-Based Social Networks in Recommending Potential Customers to Venues [PDF], with Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and John Riedl in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management MDM 2013, Milan, Italy, June 2013 (Includes NSF $2,400 travel fellowship)
  • [Seminar Abstract] Social Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective [PDF], with Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management MDM 2013, Milan, Italy, June 2013
  • Generic and Efficient Framework for Search Trees on Flash Memory Storage Systems [PDF], with Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, and Suman Nath. in the International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems GeoInformatica 2013, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 417-448, 2013 (Special issue on best papers of SSTD 2011)
  • The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-Aware Social Networking System [PDF], with Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks LBSN 2012 in conjunction with ACM GIS, Redondo Beach, CA, November 2012
  • RecDB: Towards DBMS Support for Online Recommender Systems [PDF]. in Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium, SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012 (Includes NSF $1,000 travel fellowship)
  • LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System [PDF] [Poster], with Justin J. Levandoski, Ahmed Eldawy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012 (Best of Conference Citation) (includes NSF $725 travel fellowship)
  • [Demo Paper] Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System [PDF] [Poster] [Video], with Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012. Sindbad System received the Best Poster Award in social sciences category award and Best Overall Poster at U-Spatial Symposium
  • [Demo Paper] Horton: Online Query Execution Engine For Large Distributed Graphs [PDF] [Poster], with Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Gabriel Kliot. in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012
  • RecStore: An Extensible and Adaptive Framework for Online Recommender Queries inside the Database Engine [PDF], with Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Michael D. Ekstrand. in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology EDBT 2012, Berlin, Germany, March 2012 (Includes NSF $1,600 travel fellowship)
  • FAST: A Generic Framework For Flash-Aware Spatial Trees [PDF] [UMN CS News], with Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, and Suman Nath. in Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases SSTD 2011, Minneapolis, MN, August 2011 (Best Research Paper Award)
  • Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-based Services 2.0 [PDF], with Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed ElDawy, and Justin J. Levandoski. in Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases PersDB 2011 in Conjunction with VLDB 2011, Seattle, WA, September 2011 (Includes Google $500 travel fellowship)