Journals
- Probabilistic
Top-k and Ranking-Aggregate Queries
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kevin C.-C. Chang
ACM Transactions on Database Sytems, TODS, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2008, Article 13
- Peter J. Haas, Ihab F. Ilyas, Guy M. Lohman, and Volker Markl
Discovering Statistical Properties for Query Optimization in Relational Database Systems – a Survey
To Appear in the Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2008
- Ihab F. Ilyas, George Beskales, and Mohamed A. Soliman
Survey of Top-k Query Processing Techniques in Relational Database Systems,
ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2008, Article 11
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Hicham G. Elmongui, Rahul Shah and Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Adaptive Rank-aware Query Optimization in Relational Databases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2006, pp 1257-1304
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Supporting Top-k Queries in Relational Databases
The VLDB Journal (Special Issue on Best Papers in the 29th VLDB Conference, 2003), Volume 13, Number 3, 2004, pp 207-221
- Waild Aref, Ann Catlin, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jianping Fan, Mustafa Hammad, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar and Xingquan Zhu
VDBMS: A testbed facility for research in video database benchmarking
ACM Multimedia Systems Journal , Special Issue on Multimedia Document Management Systems, Volume 9, Number 6, 2004, pp 575-585
- Walid G. Aref and Ihab F. Ilyas
SP-GiST: An Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Volume 17, 2001, pp 215-240
Conferences and Workshops
2008
2007
- Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kevin C.-C. Chang
Top-k Query Processing in Uncertain Databases
In Proceedings of ICDE 2007, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 896-905
- Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Nick Koudas
Finding Top-k and Skyline Bargaining Solutions
(poster paper) In Proceedings of ICDE 2007, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1263-1267
- Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl, Calisto Zuzarte
Collecting and Maintaining Just-in-Time Statistics
In Proceedings of ICDE 2007, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 516-525
2006
- Ning Zhang, Tamer Ozsu, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Ashraf Aboulnaga
FIX: Feature-based Indexing Techniques for XML Documents
To Appear in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2006, Seoul, Korea, pp. 259-270
- Derek Phillips, Ning Zhang, Ihab F. Ilyas and Tamer Ozsu
InterJoin: Exploiting Indexes and Materialized Views in XPath Evaluation
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management SSDBM 2006, Vienna, Austria, pp. 13-22
- Chengkai Li, Kevin. C.-C. Chang, and Ihab F. Ilyas
Supporting Ad-hoc Ranking Aggregates
In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 61-72
- Ning Zhang, Tamer Ozsu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Ihab F. Ilyas
XSEED: Accurate and Fast Cardinality Estimation for XPath Queries
In Proceedings of ICDE 2006, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, paper 61
2005
2004
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Rahul Shah, Walid G. Aref, Jeffrey S. Vitter and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Rank-aware Query Optimization
In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Paris, France, pp. 203-214
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter Haas, Paul Brown and Ashraf Aboulnaga
CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies
In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Paris, France, pp. 647-658
2003
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Supporting Top-k Join Quereis in Relational Databases
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2003, Berlin, Germany, pp. 754-765
(selected among best papers for journal publication)
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Jun Rao, Guy Lohman, Dengfeng Gao and Eileen Lin
Estimating Compilation Time of a Query Optimizer
In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, San Diego, California, pp. 373-384
- Walid Aref, Ann Christine Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk and Thanaa Ghanem
Video Query Processing in the VDBMS Testbed for Video Database Research
In Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases ACM MMDB 2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 25-32
- Walid G. Aref, Ann C. Catlin, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar, Y. Tu, and X. Zhu
VDBMS: A testbed facility for research in video database benchmarking
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, DMS 2003. Miami, Florida, pp. 160-166
2002
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Joining Ranked Inputs in Practice
In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2002, Hong Kong, China, pp. 950-961
- Walid G.Aref, Ann Catlin, Jianping Fan, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Moustafa Hammad, Ihab Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk and Xingquan Zhu
A Video Database Management System for Advancing Video Database Research
In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, MIS 2002, Tempe, Arizona, pp. 8-17
2001
- Walid G. Aref and Ihab F. Ilyas
An Extensible Index for Spatial Databases
In Proceedings of the International Scientific and Statistical Database Management Conference, SSDBM 2001, Fairfax, Virginia, pp. 49-58
Tutorials
- Ihab F. Ilyas and Walid G. Aref
Rank-aware Query Processing
Tutorial at EDBT 2004
- Ihab F. Ilyas and Walid G. Aref
Rank-aware Query Processing and Optimization
Tutorial at ICDE 2005
System Demonstrations
- Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Kevin Chang
URank: Formulation and Efficient Evaluation of Top-k
Queries in Uncertain Databases
In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, pp. 1082-1084
- Chengkai Li, Mohamed A. Soliman, Kevin Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas
RankSQL: Supporting Ranking Queries in Relational Database Management Systems
In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2005, Trondheim, Norway, pp. 1342-1345
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter Haas, Paul Brown and Ashraf Aboulenaga.
CORDS: Automatic Generation of Correlation Statistics in DB2
In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2004, Toronto, Canada, pp. 1341-1344
- Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohamed H. Ali, Mohamed G. Elfeky, Mohamed Eltabak, Thanaa Ghanemm, Moustafa A. Hammad, Ihab F. Ilyas, Ming Lu, Mirette Marzouk, Mohamed F. Mokbel, X. Xiong.
Nile: A Query Processing Engine for Data Streams
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2004, Boston, pp. 851-851
- Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul G. Brown, Ashraf Aboulnaga
Automatic Relationship Discovery in Self-Managing Database Systems
In Proceedings of the1st International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2004, New York, NY, pp. 340-341
- W. G. Aref,, A.C. Catlin, A. K. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, J. Guo,M. Hammad, I.F. Ilyas, M.S. Marzouk, S. Prabhakar, A. Rezgui, S. Teoh, E. Terzi, Y. Tu, A. Vakali, X. Q. Zhu,
A Distributed Database Server for Continuous Media
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2002, San Jose, California, pp. 490-491
Ph.D. Dissertation