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6630
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Kenneth Salem is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of computer science, with notable contributions in advanced database systems, distributed systems, and data management.

Their work frequently appears in several academic venues, including:

  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Babylonian Journal of Mathematics
  • The VLDB Journal
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Communications of the ACM

Kenneth Salem's research spans the following main fields of study:

  • Computer Science

Within this broad domain, their subfields include:

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Hardware and Architecture

The specific topics they have worked on cover:

  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Cryptography and Data Security

Kenneth Salem's recent publications include:

  • Accurate Summary-based Cardinality Estimation Through the Lens of Cardinality Estimation Graphs, 2023, ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Fuzzy Soc-Small Two-Absorbing Modules and Related Concepts, 2024, Babylonian Journal of Mathematics
  • Special issue on best papers of VLDB 2017, 2020, The VLDB Journal
  • TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE: Ad Hoc Transactions: What They Are and Why We Should Care, 2023, ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Eventual Durability, 2024, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Collaboration has been a part of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Jeremy Chen
  • Yuqing Huang
  • Mushi Wang
  • Semih Salihoğlu
  • Wafaa H. Hanoon

Kenneth Salem was awarded the ACM Distinguished Member title in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Main memory database systems: an overview

    H. Garcia-Molina;K. Salem

  • Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments

    Pradeep Padala;Kang G. Shin;Xiaoyun Zhu;Mustafa Uysal

  • Sagas

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  • Disk striping

    Kenneth Salem;Hector Garcia-Molina

  • Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads

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

  • Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads

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

  • Lazy database replication with snapshot isolation

    Khuzaima Daudjee;Kenneth Salem

  • Adaptive block rearrangement

    Sedat Akyürek;Kenneth Salem

  • Modeling long-running activities as nested sagas

    Hector Garcia-Molina;Dieter Gawlick;Johannes Klein;Karl Kleissner

  • How to roll a join: asynchronous incremental view maintenance

    Kenneth Salem;Kevin Beyer;Bruce Lindsay;Roberta Cochrane

  • Concurrency Control and Recovery for Global Procedures in Federated Database Systems.

    Rafael Alonso;Hector Garcia-Molina;Kenneth Salem

  • Deploying Database Appliances in the Cloud

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

  • Altruistic locking

    Kenneth Salem;Héctor García-Molina;Jeannie Shands

  • NoSE: Schema Design for NoSQL Applications

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

  • System and method for asynchronous view maintenance

    Kevin Scott Beyer;Roberta Jo Cochrane;Bruce Gilbert Lindsay;Kenneth Mark Salem

  • Checkpointing memory-resident databases

    K. Salem;H. Garcia-Molina

  • Coordinating multi-transaction activities

    Hector Garcia-Molina;Dieter Gawlick;Johannes Klein;Karl Kleissner

  • Query processing techniques for arrays

    Arunprasad P. Marathe;Kenneth Salem

  • RemusDB: transparent high availability for database systems

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

  • Lazy database replication with ordering guarantees

    K. Daudjee;K. Salem

  • System M: a transaction processing testbed for memory resident data

    K. Salem;H. Garcia-Molina

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashraf Aboulnaga
Ashraf Aboulnaga The University of Texas at Arlington
Hector Garcia-Molina
Hector Garcia-Molina Stanford University
Richard J. Lipton
Richard J. Lipton Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Barbará
Daniel Barbará George Mason University
Amr El Abbadi
Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara
Bruce G. Lindsay
Bruce G. Lindsay IBM (United States)
Guy M. Lohman
Guy M. Lohman IBM (United States)
Sam Lightstone
Sam Lightstone IBM (United States)
Miron Livny
Miron Livny University of Wisconsin–Madison
Axel Schweiger
Axel Schweiger University of Washington

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