Ashraf Aboulnaga Associate Professor David R. 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]@cs.uwaterloo.ca

Short bio / Detailed CV

Current Teaching (Past Teaching)

• None

Research

• Cloud computing
• Database systems in virtualized environments
• Data integration
• Self-managing database systems
• XML databases

Current Students (Former Students)

• Mumtaz Ahmad
• Ke Deng
• Iman Elghandour
• Hatem Mahmoud
• Umar Farooq Minhas
• Ahmed Soror

Selected Publications (Complete List) (My DBLP Page)

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu.
  Interaction-Aware Prediction of Business Intelligence Workload Completion Times.
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '10), Long Beach, California, USA, March 2010.
  (To appear)
• 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, March 2010.
  (To appear)
• Ashraf Aboulnaga, Ziyu Wang, and Zi Ye Zhang.
  Packing the Most Onto Your Cloud.
  International Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDB '09), Hong Kong, China, November 2009.
  (To appear)
• Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, and Calisto Zuzarte.
  Recommending XMLTable Views for XQuery Workloads.
  International XML Database Symposium (XSym '09), Lyon, France, pages 129-144, August 2009.
• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu.
  Query Interactions in Database Workloads.
  International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest '09), Providence, Rhode Island, USA, June 2009.
• Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Ahmed Soror, Umar Farooq Minhas, Peter Kokosielis, and Sunil Kamath.
  Deploying Database Appliances in the Cloud.
  IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, volume 32, number 1, pages 13-20, March 2009.
• Xin Liu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, and Xuhui Li.
  CLIC: CLient-Informed Caching for Storage Servers.
  USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), San Francisco, California, USA, pages 297-310, February 2009.
• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, and Kamesh Munagala.
  Modeling and Exploiting Query Interactions in Database Systems.
  ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '08), Napa, California, USA, pages 183-192, October 2008.
• Ahmed Ataullah, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Frank Wm.Tompa.
  Records Retention in Relational Database Systems.
  ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '08), Napa, California, USA, pages 873-882, October 2008.
• Ahmed Soror, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Peter Kokosielis, and Sunil Kamath.
  Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads.
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '08), Vancouver, Canada, pages 953-966, June 2008.
• 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.
• This work was demonstrated at SIGMOD '08.
• Ashraf Aboulnaga, Cristiana Amza, and Kenneth Salem.
  Virtualization and Databases: State of the Art and Research Challenges.
  Tutorial at the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '08), Nantes, France, pages 746-747, March 2008.
• An earlier (and longer) version of this tutorial appears in ICDE '07.
• 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.
• This work was demonstrated at ICDE '07.

Recent Professional Activities (Complete List)

• International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2010.
• International XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2009.
• International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2009.
• International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2009. (Workshop Organizer)
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2009.
• ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2009.
• IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009.

Last updated October 19, 2009