Ihab Francis Ilyas

• Book: Probabilistic Ranking Techniques in Relational Databases (Synthesis Lectures on Data Management)
  March 2011, 71 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00344ED1V01Y201103DTM014)
  Ihab F. Ilyas and Mohamed A. Soliman

RESEARCH

Research Interests

Query Processing and Optimization; Ranking and Top-k Queries; Probablistic and Uncertain Databases; Indexing Techniques; and Multimedia and Spatial Databases

Projects

• URank: Ranking and Aggregation in Uncertain Databases
• RankDB: Rank-aware Query Processing in Database Systems.
• ProbClean: Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs of DataQuality Problem
• Continuous and Adaptive Query Optimization
• SP-GiST: A General Index Framework for Space Partitioning Trees

Current Students

Ph.D. Students

• Amr El-Helw
• George Beskales
• Anup Chalamalla
• Ning Zhang (co- supervised by Tamer Özsu)
• Jeffrey Pound (co-supervised by Grant Weddell)
  

Masters Students

• Artur Galiullin
• Mina Farid
• Mina Saleeb

Graduated Students

• Mohamed A. Soliman (Ph.D. 2010) - Now with Greenplum
• Nan Jiang (Masters 2009)
• Hiren Patel (Masters 2010)

TEACHING

PUBLICATIONS  [Complete List]   [DBLP] 

• Ranking with Uncertain Scoring Functions: Semantics and Sensitivity Measures
  Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinenghi and Marco Tagliasacchi
  In SIGMOD 2011, Athens, Greece, pp. 805-816
  
  
• Guided Data Repair
  Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid , Jennifer Neville , Mourad Ouzzani and Ihab F. Ilyas
  In VLDB, 2011, Seattle, Washington - PVLDB 4(5): 297-289 (2011)
  
  
• 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): 197-207 (2010)
  
  
• Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information
  Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Mina Saleeb
  In VLDB 2010, Singapore - PVLDB 3(1): 826-837 (2010)
  
  
• Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language
  Jeffrey Pound, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Grant Weddell
  in SIGMOD 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 423-434
  
  
• Supporting Ranking Queries on Uncertain and Incomplete Data
  Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Shalev Ben-David
  In the VLDB Journal, Volume 19, Number 4, 2010, pp. 477 - 501
  
  
• StatAdvisor: Recommending Statistical Views
  Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas and Calisto Zuzarte
  In VLDB 2009, Lyon, France - PVLDB 2(2): 1306-1317 (2009)
  
  
• 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): 598-609 (2009)
  
  
• Creating Competitive Products
  Qian Wan, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Ihab F. Ilyas, M. Tamer Ozsu and Yu Peng
  In VLDB 2009, Lyon, France - PVLDB 2(1): 898-909 (2009)
  
  
• Ranking with Uncertain Scores
  Mohamed A. Soliman and Ihab F. Ilyas
  In ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China, pp. 317-328
  
  
• PSALM: Cardinality Estimation in the Presence of Fine-grained Access Controls
  Huaxin Zhang, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kenneth Salem
  In ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China, pp. 505-516
  
  
• Efficient Search for the Top-k Probable Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Databases
  George Bekales, Mohamed A. Soliman and Ihab F. Ilyas
  In VLDB 2008, New Zealand, PVLDB, Volume 1, Number 1, 2008, pp. 326-339
  
  
• Probabilistic Top-k and Ranking-Aggregate Queries
  Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kevin C.-C. Chang
  In TODS, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2008, Article 13
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases
  Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kevin C.-C. Chang
  In ICDE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 896-905
  
  
• Collecting and Maintaining Just-in-Time Statistics
  Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl, Calisto Zuzarte
  In ICDE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 516-525
  
  
• Adaptive Rank-aware Query Optimization in Relational Databases
  Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Hicham Elmongui, Rahul Shah and Jeffrey S. Vitter
  In TODS, Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2006, pp. 1257 - 1304
  
  
• FIX: Feature-based Indexing Techniques for XML Documents
  Ning Zhang, Tamer Ozsu, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Ashraf Aboulnaga
  In VLDB 2006, Seoul, Korea, pp. 259-270
  
  
• Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates
  Chengkai Li, Kevin. C.-C. Chang,  and Ihab F. Ilyas
  In SIGMOD 2006 Chicago, Illinois, pp. 61-72
  
  
• XSEED: Accurate and Fast Cardinality Estimation for XPath Queries
  Ning Zhang, Tamer Ozsu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Ihab F. Ilyas
  In ICDE 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, paper 61
  
  
• RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries
  Chengkai Li, Kevin. C.-C. Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Sumin Song
  In SIGMOD 2005, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 131-142
  
  
• Rank-aware Query Optimization
  Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey S. Vitter, and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
  In SIGMOD 2004, Paris, France, pp. 203-214
  
  
• CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies
  Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter Haas, Paul Brown, and Ashraf Aboulnaga
  In SIGMOD 2004, Paris, France, pp. 647-658
  
  
• Supporting Top-k Join Queries in Relational Databases
  Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
  In VLDB 2003, Berlin, Germany, pp. 754-765 (selected among best papers for the VLDB Journal Volume 13, Number 3 (207-221), 2004
  
  

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES [Complete Listl]

Editorial

• Guest Editor for the International Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, Special Issue on Ranking in Databases

Chairing/Steering

• Vice Chair of ICDE 2010 (Text and Uncertain Data Track)
• Steering Committe of DBRank
• Program Co-chair of DBRank 2008: In Conjunction with ICDE 2008
• Program Co-chair of DBRank 2007: In Conjunction with ICDE 2007
• Co-chair of the SIGMOD 2008 New Faculty Symposium
• Co-chair of the SIGMOD 2007 New Faculty Symposium

Program Committee Member

• ICDE (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)
• SIGMOD (2006, 2007, 2011)
• VLDB (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
• EDBT (2010)
• WWW (2009)
• DBRank (2009,2010,2011)
• KEYS (2009,2010)
• AMW (2011)

Last modified March 22, 2011