Ashraf Aboulnaga Associate Professor Cheriton School of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada

Office: 3349 Davis Centre
Phone: (519) 888-4567 x37522
Fax: (519) 885-1208
E-mail: [My first name]@uwaterloo.ca

Short bio / Detailed CV

Teaching (Past Teaching)

• Winter 2012: CS 848 - Advanced Topics in Data Bases: Databases in Cloud Computing Environments

Research

• Cloud computing
  • High availability in cloud computing environments
  • Elastic scaleout of database workloads
  • Tuning virtual machines for database workloads
  • Database systems in virtual storage environments
  • Analytics in the cloud
• Data integration
  • Pay-as-you go schema mediation and mapping
• Self-managing database systems
  • Robust query processing
  • Workload management in the presence of query interactions
  • Experiment-driven performance modeling
• XML databases
  • Automatic physical design for XML databases

Students and Postdoctoral Fellows (Former Students)

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Iman Elghandour
• Rui Liu (co-supervised with Ken Salem)

Ph.D. Students

• Mumtaz Ahmad
• Ahmed El-Roby
• Umar Farooq Minhas
• Ahmed Soror

M.Math. Students

• Mostafa Ead
• Huangdong Meng
• Taha Rafiq
• Jingen Xiang

Selected Publications (Complete List) (My DBLP Page)

• Umar Farooq Minhas, Rui Liu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Jonathan Ng, and Sean Robertson.
  Elastic Scale-out for Partition-Based Database Systems.
  International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB '12), Washington, DC, USA, April 2012.
  Publisher's version
  (To appear)
• Umar Farooq Minhas, Shriram Rajagopalan, Brendan Cully, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, and Andrew Warfield.
  RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems.
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 4, number 11, pages 738-748, August 2011.
  Presented at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '11), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2011.
  Publisher's version
  (Best Paper Award)
• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, and Kamesh Munagala.
  Interaction-Aware Scheduling of Report Generation Workloads.
  The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), volume 20, number 4, pages 589-615, August 2011.
  Publisher's version
• Extended version of CIKM '08 paper and ICDE '08 poster.
• Muhammad Bilal Sheikh, Umar Farooq Minhas, Omar Zia Khan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Pascal Poupart, and David J. Taylor.
  A Bayesian Approach to Online Performance Modeling for Database Appliances using Gaussian Models.
  International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '11), Karlsruhe, Germany, pages 121-130, June 2011.
  Publisher's version
• Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu.
  Predicting Completion Times of Batch Query Workloads Using Interaction-aware Models and Simulation.
  International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '11), Uppsala, Sweden, pages 449-460, March 2011.
  Publisher's version
• Extended version of ICDE '10 short paper.
• Hatem A. Mahmoud and Ashraf Aboulnaga.
  Schema Clustering and Retrieval for Multi-domain Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems.
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '10), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, pages 411-422, June 2010.
  Publisher's version
• Sean Tozer, Tim Brecht, and Ashraf Aboulnaga.
  Q-Cop: Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Client Timeouts Under Heavy Loads.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '10), Long Beach, California, USA, pages 397-408, March 2010.
  Publisher's version
• Ahmed A. Soror, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Peter Kokosielis, and Sunil Kamath.
  Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads.
  ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), volume 35, number 1, article 7 (47 pages), February 2010.
  Publisher's version
• Extended version of SIGMOD '08 paper. Special issue for the best papers of SIGMOD '08.
• Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, Fei Chiang, Andrey Balmin, Kevin Beyer, and Calisto Zuzarte.
  XML Index Recommendation with Tight Optimizer Coupling.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08), Cancun, Mexico, pages 833-842, April 2008.
  Publisher's version
• This work was demonstrated at SIGMOD '08.
• The XML Index Advisor described in this paper works with IBM DB2 V9.5 and higher, and is available for download from IBM alphaWorks.
• Kareem El Gebaly and Ashraf Aboulnaga.
  Robustness in Automatic Physical Database Design.
  International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '08), Nantes, France, pages 145-156, March 2008.
  Publisher's version
• Ashraf Aboulnaga and Kareem El Gebaly.
  µBE: User Guided Source Selection and Schema Mediation for Internet Scale Data Integration.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07), Istanbul, Turkey, pages 186-195, April 2007.
  Publisher's version
• This work was demonstrated at ICDE '07.

Recent Scientific Activities (Complete List)

• Advisory board member of ClevrU, 2011-present.
• Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) , 2012/2013.
  Papers published in this volume of PVLDB will be presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2013.
• Program committee member of:
  • International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2012.
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2012.
  • International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2012.
  • Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON), 2011.
  • ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.
  • International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2011.
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2011.
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011.
  • International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2011.

Last updated December 28, 2011