George Beskales PhD Candidate School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada M.S. 2005, Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt B.S. 2002, Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt

I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Ihab Ilyas and I am a member of the database group.

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Contact

Mailing Address:

University of Waterloo
School of Computer Science
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
Canada

Email: gbeskale @ cs.uwaterloo.ca
Office Phone: +1 (519) 888-4567 ext. 33414
Office: DC 3304

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Publications [DBLP]

• Refered Journals
  • A Survey of Top-k Query Processing Techniques in Relational Database Systems. Ihab F. Ilyas, George Beskales, and Mohamed A. Soliman. In the ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2008, Article 11
• Conference Proceedings
  • Factorization-based Lossless Compression of Inverted Indices. George Beskales, Marcus Fontoura, Maxim Gurevich, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Vanja Josifovski. To appear in CIKM 2011, Glasgow, UK
  • Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints. George Beskales, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Lukasz Golab. In VLDB 2010, Singapore, PVLDB 3(1), 2010, pp. 197-207
  • Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection. George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas and Shai Ben-David. In VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, PVLDB 2(1), 2009, pp. 598-609
  • Efficient Search for the Top-k Probable Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Databases. George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman and Ihab F. Ilyas. In VLDB 2008, New Zealand, PVLDB 1(1), 2008, pp. 326-339
  • Recovery Services for the Planning Layer of Agents. Khaled Nagi and George Beskales. In ICEIS 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 138-146
• System Demonestration
  • ProbClean: A Probabilistic Duplicate Detection System.George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Shai Ben-David and Yubin Kim. In ICDE 2010, Long Beach, California, USA.

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Technical Reports (U of Waterloo)

• Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection. George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas and Shai Ben-David. University of Waterloo, Tech. Report CS-2009-15, 2009

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Awards and Scholarships

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST), 2008
• Teaching Assistant Award for work in CS448, Winter 2007

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Teaching Assistantships

• CS 448/648 - Introduction to Databases (Fall 2005 , Winter 2006 , Spring 2006)
• CS 348 - Introduction to Databases (Fall 2006)
• CS 448/648 - Database Systems Implementation (Winter 2007,Fall 2007)

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PhD Courses

• CS 688 - Introduction to Computer Graphics (Fall 2005)
• CS 856 - Internet-Scale Distributed Data Management (Fall 2005)
• CS 763 - Computational Geometry (Winter 2006)
• CS 848 - Query Processing for Emerging Applications (Spring 2006)

CURRICULUM VITAE [PDF]

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George Beskales, [Last modified: July 27^th, 2011]