2011

• Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinenghi and Marco Tagliasacchi
  Ranking with Uncertain Scoring Functions: Semantics and Sensitivity Measures
  In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Athens, Greece, pp. 805-816
  
  
• Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid , Jennifer Neville , Mourad Ouzzani and Ihab F. Ilyas
  Guided Data Repair
  In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2011, Seattle, Washington
  PVLDB 4(5): 279-289 (2011)
  
  
• Ihab F. Ilyas and Mohamed A. Soliman [Book]
  Probabilistic Ranking Techniques in Relational Databases (Synthesis Lectures on Data Management)
  March 2011, 71 pages, (doi:10.2200/S00344ED1V01Y201103DTM014)
  
  

2010

• George Beskales, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Lukasz Golab
  Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints
  In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2010, Singapore
  PVLDB 3(1): 197-207 (2010)
  
  
• Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Mina Saleeb
  Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information
  In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2010, Singapore
  PVLDB 3(1): 826-837 (2010)
  
  
• Jeffrey Pound, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Grant Weddell
  Expressive and Flexible Access to Web-Extracted Data: A Keyword-based Structured Query Language
  In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 423-434
  
  
• Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Shalev Ben-David
  Supporting Ranking Queries on Uncertain and Incomplete Data [Journal]
  In the VLDB Journal, Volume 19, Number 4, 2010, pp. 477 - 501
  
  
• Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinenghi and Marco Tagliasacchi
  Rank-join Algorithms for Search Computing [Book Chapter]
  Search Computing Challenges and Directions, Springer LNCS, Vol. 5950, March 2010.
  
  

2009

• Amr-El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Calisto Zuzarte
  StatAdvisor: Recommending Statistical Views
  In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2009, Lyon, France
  PVLDB 2(2): 1306-1317 (2009)
  
  
• George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Shai Ben-David, and Yubin Kim
  Modeling and Querying Possible Repairs in Duplicate Detection
  In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2009, Lyon, France
  PVLDB 2(1): 598-609 (2009)
  
  
• Qian Wan, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Ihab F. Ilyas, M. Tamer Ozsu and Yu Peng
  Creating Competitive Products
  In Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2009, Lyon, France
  PVLDB 2(1): 898-909 (2009)
  
  
• Mohamed A. Soliman and Ihab F. Ilyas
  Ranking with Uncertain Scores
  In In Proceedings of ICDE 2009, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Shanghai, China, pp. 317-328
  
  
• Huaxin Zhang, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kenneth Salem
  PSALM: Cardinality Estimation in the Presence of Fine-grained Access Controls
  In Proceedings of ICDE 2009, The IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Shanghai, China, pp. 505-516
  
  
• Peter J. Haas, Ihab F. Ilyas, Guy M. Lohman, and Volker Markl
  Discovering Statistical Properties for Query Optimization in Relational Database Systems – a Survey [Journal]
  In the Journal on Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Volume 1 Issue 4 (March 2009) pp. 223-250
  
  

2008

• George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman and Ihab F. Ilyas
  Efficient Search for the Top-k Probable Nearest Neighbors in Uncertain Databases
  In Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2008, New Zealand
  PVLDB, Volume 1, Number 1, 2008, pp. 326-339
  
  
• Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Kevin C.-C. Chang
  Probabilistic Top-k and Ranking-Aggregate Queries [Journal]
  ACM Transactions on Database Sytems, TODS, Volume 33, Issue 3, September 2008, Article 13
  
  
• Ihab F. Ilyas, George Beskales, and Mohamed A. Soliman [Journal]
  Survey of Top-k Query Processing Techniques in Relational Database Systems,
  ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 4, October 2008, Article 11
  

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]
  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

• Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Hicham G. Elmongui, Rahul Shah and Jeffrey Scott Vitter [Journal]
  Adaptive Rank-aware Query Optimization in Relational Databases
  ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 31, Issue 4, December 2006, pp 1257-1304
  
  
• Ning Zhang, Tamer Ozsu, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Ashraf Aboulnaga
  FIX: Feature-based Indexing Techniques for XML Documents
  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

• Chengkai Li, Kevin.C.-C. Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Sumin Song
  RankSQL: Query Algebra and Optimization for Relational Top-k Queries
  In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, Baltimore, Maryland, pp.131-142

2004

• Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid [Journal]
  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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Waild Aref, Ann Catlin, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jianping Fan, Mustafa Hammad, Ihab F. Ilyas, Mirette Marzouk, Sunil Prabhakar and Xingquan Zhu [Journal]
  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
  

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 of VLDB 2003)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Walid G. Aref and Ihab F. Ilyas [Journal]
  SP-GiST: An Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees
  Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Volume 17, 2001, pp 215-240
  

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

• Jeffrey Pound, Ihab F. Ilyas, and Grant Weddell
  QUICK: Expressive and Flexible Search over Knowledge Bases and Text Collections
  In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases,VLDB 2010, Singapore
  PVLDB 3(2): 1573-1576 (2010)
  
  
• Mohamed A. Soliman, Mina Saleeb, and Ihab F. Ilyas
  MashRank: Towards Uncertainty-Aware and Rank-Aware Mashups
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 1137-1140
  
  
• George Beskales, Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas and Shai Ben-David
  ProbClean: A Probabilistic Duplicate Detection System
  In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Los Angeles, USA, pp. 1193-1196
  
  
• 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

• Ihab F. Ilyas
  Rank-aware Query Processing an Optimization
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, August 2004