Ihab Francis Ilyas

DBRank 2010: Fourth International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (2010) - In Conjunction with ICDE 2010

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.
  • Prototype: RankSQL (Demo in VLDB 2005)
    
• Continuous and Adaptive Query Optimization
• SP-GiST: A General Index Framework for Space Partitioning Trees

Current Students

• Amr El-Helw (Ph.D.) Started Winter 2005
• Mohamed A. Soliman (Ph.D.) Started Winter 2005
• George Beskales (Ph.D.) Started Fall 2005
• Mina Saleeb (Ph.D.) Started Fall 2008
• Ning Zhang (Ph.D.) Started Winter 2009 (co-advised by Tamer Özsu)
• Mina Fareed (Masters) Started Fall 2009
• Anup Chalamala (Masters) Started Fall 2009
• Hiren Patel (Masters) Started Winter 2009

Graduated Students

• Nan Jiang (Masters)

Students News

• Mohamed Soliman was awarded Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2009-2010)
  
• Amr El-Helw was awarded IBM Ph.D. Fellowship (2007,2009)
  
• Mohamed Soliman was awarded David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship (2007-2008)
  
• George Beskales was awarded David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship (2008-2009)

TEACHING

• CS348 - Fall 2009

PUBLICATIONS  [Complete List]   [DBLP] 

• 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 ACM Transactions on Database Sytems, 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 ACM Transactions on Database Sytems, 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 the 2006 ACM SIGMOD 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 the 2005 ACM SIGMOD, 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 the 2004 ACM SIGMOD, 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 the 2004 ACM SIGMOD, 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 Databaes

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)
• SIGMOD (2006, 2007)
• VLDB (2007, 2008, 2009)
• EDBT (2010)
• WWW (2009)
• ACM GIS (2008)
• SSDBM (2007)
  
• COMAD (2006)
• CIKM (2006)
• XSym (2006, 2007)

Last modified September, 10 2009