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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ashraf Aboulnaga is affiliated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Qatar. Their research contributions span a range of topics within computer science with a focus on cloud computing, advanced database systems, data management, and graph neural networks.

Their work has been published in leading venues such as:

  • The VLDB Journal
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Communications of the ACM
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)

Aboulnaga's research fields include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Signal Processing

They have contributed to main topics such as:

  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Advanced Graph Neural Networks
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies

Some of their recent publications include:

  • FlexPushdownDB, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • RDFFrames, 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • FlexpushdownDB: rethinking computation pushdown for cloud OLAP DBMSs, 2024, The VLDB Journal
  • Accelerating Entity Lookups in Knowledge Graphs Through Embeddings, 2022, 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
  • Link Prediction via Higher-Order Motif Features, 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Xiangyao Yu
  • Marco Serafini
  • Michael Stonebraker
  • Ghadeer Abuoda
  • Yifei Yang

Aboulnaga has been recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member since 2015 and held the ACM Senior Member status since 2009.

Best Publications

  • CORDS: automatic discovery of correlations and soft functional dependencies

    Ihab F. Ilyas;Volker Markl;Peter Haas;Paul Brown

  • Self-tuning histograms: building histograms without looking at data

    Ashraf Aboulnaga;Surajit Chaudhuri

  • Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications

    Ashraf Aboulnaga;Alaa R. Alameldeen;Jeffrey F. Naughton

  • The Niagara Internet Query System.

    Jeffrey F. Naughton;David J. DeWitt;David Maier;Ashraf Aboulnaga

  • Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads

    Ahmed A. Soror;Umar Farooq Minhas;Ashraf Aboulnaga;Kenneth Salem

  • Arabesque: a system for distributed graph mining

    Carlos H. C. Teixeira;Alexandre J. Fonseca;Marco Serafini;Georgos Siganos

  • Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads

    Ahmed A. Soror;Umar Farooq Minhas;Ashraf Aboulnaga;Kenneth Salem

  • A Demonstration of the Solid Platform for Social Web Applications

    Essam Mansour;Andrei Vlad Sambra;Sandro Hawke;Maged Zereba

  • E-store: fine-grained elastic partitioning for distributed transaction processing systems

    Rebecca Taft;Essam Mansour;Marco Serafini;Jennie Duggan

  • ReStore: reusing results of MapReduce jobs

    Iman Elghandour;Ashraf Aboulnaga

  • Query optimization by sub-plan memoization

    Surajit Chaudhuri;Ashraf I. Aboulnaga

  • Deploying Database Appliances in the Cloud

    Ashraf Aboulnaga;Kenneth Salem;Ahmed A. Soror;Umar Farooq Minhas

  • NoSE: Schema Design for NoSQL Applications

    Michael Joseph Mior;Kenneth Salem;Ashraf Aboulnaga;Rui Liu

  • Scalable maximum clique computation using MapReduce

    Jingen Xiang;Cong Guo;A. Aboulnaga

  • Clay: fine-grained adaptive partitioning for general database schemas

    Marco Serafini;Rebecca Taft;Aaron J. Elmore;Andrew Pavlo

  • RemusDB: transparent high availability for database systems

    Umar Farooq Minhas;Shriram Rajagopalan;Brendan Cully;Ashraf Aboulnaga

  • Accurate estimation of the cost of spatial selections

    A. Aboulnaga;J.F. Naughton

  • NoSE: Schema design for NoSQL applications

    Michael J. Mior;Kenneth Salem;Ashraf Aboulnaga;Rui Liu

  • Q-Cop: Avoiding bad query mixes to minimize client timeouts under heavy loads

    Sean Tozer;Tim Brecht;Ashraf Aboulnaga

  • Self-tuning histogram and database modeling

    Ashraf Aboulnaga;Surajit Chaudhuri

  • XSEED: Accurate and Fast Cardinality Estimation for XPath Queries

    Ning Zhang;M.T. Ozsu;A. Aboulnaga;I.F. Ilyas

  • ReStore: Reusing results of MapReduce jobs

    Ashraf Aboulnaga;Ashraf Aboulnaga;Iman Elghandour;Iman Elghandour

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Salem
Kenneth Salem University of Waterloo
Shivnath Babu
Shivnath Babu Duke University
Jeffrey F. Naughton
Jeffrey F. Naughton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter J. Haas
Peter J. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst
Volker Markl
Volker Markl Technical University of Berlin
Ihab F. Ilyas
Ihab F. Ilyas University of Waterloo
Surajit Chaudhuri
Surajit Chaudhuri Microsoft (United States)
Mohammed J. Zaki
Mohammed J. Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Panos Kalnis
Panos Kalnis King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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