My Erdos number is (4):
Paul Erdos --> Bela Bollobas --> Dimitrios Gunopulos --> Fabio Casati --> Sherif Sakr
Paul Erdos --> Noga Alon --> Frank Neven --> Sebastian Maneth --> Sherif Sakr
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Conference paper,
Journal paper,
Workshop paper)
S. Sakr (2013) “An introduction to InfoSphere Streams: A platform for analyzing big data in motion”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].
Z. Li, Q. Lu, L. Zhu, L. Bass, X. Xu, S. Sakr, P. Bannerman (2013) “Improving Availablity for Cloud-Based Applications through Deployment Choices”. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2013), CA, USA, (To Appear).
Q. Lu, X. Xu, L. Zhu, L. Bass, Z. Li, S. Sakr, P. Bannerman (2013) “Incorporating Uncertainty into in-Cloud Application Deployment Decisions for Availability”. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2013), CA, USA, (To Appear).
S. Sakr, A. Liu (2013) “Is Your Cloud-Hosted Database Truly Elastic?”. Proceedings of the IEEE 9th World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2013), CA, USA, (To Appear).
X. Xu, Q. Lu, L. Zhu, Z. Li, S. Sakr, H. Wada, I. Weber (2013) “Availability Analysis for Deployment of In-Cloud Applications”. Proceedings of the 4th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS 2013), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, (To Appear).
S. Sakr (2013) “Supply cloud-level data scalability with NoSQL databases”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].
L. Zhao, S. Sakr, A. Liu (2013) “A Framework for Consumer-Centric SLA Management of Cloud-Hosted Databases”. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (IEEE TSC), [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A. Liu, A. Fayoumi (2013) “The Family of MapReduce and Large Scale Data Processing Systems”. Journal of ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), (To Appear) [Preprint].
I. Bedini, S. Sakr, B. Theeten, A. Sala, P. Cogan (2013) “Modeling Performance of a Parallel Streaming Engine: Bridging Theory and Costs”. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, [PDF].
S. Sakr, S. Elnikety, Y. He (2012) “G-SPARQL: A Hybrid Engine for Querying Large Attributed Graphs”. Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
B. Suleiman, S. Sakr, S. Venugopal, W. Sadiq (2012) “Trade-off Analysis of Elasticity Approaches for Cloud-based Business Applications”. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, [PDF].
S. Sakr, A. Awad, M. Kunze (2012) “Querying Process Models Repositories By Aggregated Graph Search”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management (rBPM'12), BPM Workshops, Tallinn, Estonia, [PDF] [Project Page].
A. Awad, S. Sakr (2012) “On Efficient Processing of BPMN-Q Queries”. Journal of Computers in Industry 63(9): 867-881, [PDF] [Project Page].
L. Zhao, S. Sakr, L. Zhu, X. Xu, A. Liu (2012) “An Architecture Framework for Application-Managed Scaling of Cloud-Hosted Relational Databases”. Proceedings of the Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing and Internet Technologies (NORDICLOUD), Helsinki, Finland, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A. Liu (2012) “SLA-Based and Consumer-Centric Dynamic Provisioning for Cloud Databases”. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD'12), Hawaii, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
L. Zhao, S. Sakr, A. Liu (2012) “Application-Managed Replication Controller for Cloud-Hosted Databases”. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD'12), Hawaii, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2012) “Use SQL-like languages for the MapReduce framework”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].
A. Polleres, S. Sakr (2012) “Querying and Exchanging XML and RDF on the Web”. Tutorial in The World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, [PDF].
L. Zhao, S. Sakr, A. Fekete, H. Wada, A. Liu (2012) “Application-Managed Database Replication on Virtualized Cloud Environments”. Proceedings of the Data Management in the Cloud Workshop (DMC'12), ICDE Workshops, Washington DC, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
B. Suleiman, S. Sakr, R. Jeffrey, A. Liu (2012) “On Understanding the Economics and Elasticity Challenges of Deploying Business Applications on Public Cloud Infrastructure”. Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) 3(2): 173 - 193, [PDF] [Project Page].
H. MahmoudiNasab, S. Sakr (2012) “AdaptRDF: Adaptive Storage Management for RDF Databases”. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS) 8(2): 234 - 250, [PDF].
S. Sakr, M. Alomari (2012) “A Decade of Database Conferences: A Look Inside The Program Committees”. Scientometrics Journal 91(1): 173 - 184, [PDF] [Study Results].
S. Sakr (2011) “Investigate state-of-the-art XML compression techniques”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].
A. Awad, M. Kunze, S. Sakr, M. Weske (2011) “Design By Selection: A Reuse-based Approach for Business Process Modeling”. Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011), Brussels, Belgium, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, E. Pascalau, A. Awad, M. Weske (2011) “BPModelMasher: Manage Your Process Variants Effectively”. Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), Clermont-Ferrand, France, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Beheshti, B. Benatallah, H. Motahari-Nezhad, S. Sakr (2011) “A Query Language for Analyzing Business Processes Execution”. Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), Clermont-Ferrand, France, [PDF].
S. Sakr, A. Liu (2011) “MyDeepWeb: An Integration Service for your OWN Deep Web Data”. Proceedings of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2011), Washington DC, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, L. Zhao, H. Wada, A. Liu (2011) “CloudDB AutoAdmin: Towards a Truly Elastic Cloud-Based Data Store”. Proceedings of The 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011), Washington DC, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A. Liu, D. Batista, M. Alomari (2011) “A Survey of Large Scale Data Management Approaches in Cloud Environments”. journal of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IEEE COMST) 13(3): 311 - 336 , [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, M. Alomari (2011) “A Decade of Database Research Publications: A Look Inside”. Scientometrics Journal 88(2): 521-533, [PDF] [Study Results].
E. Pascalau, A. Awad, S. Sakr, M. Weske (2011) “Partial Process Models to Manage Business Process Variants”. Special Issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) 5(3): 240 - 256, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, F. Casati (2011) “Liquid Benchmarks: Benchmarking-as-a-Service”. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2011), Ottawa, Canada, [PDF] [Project Page].
B. Suleiman, C. Eduardo da Silva, S. Sakr (2011) “One size does not fit all:a group-based service selection for Web-based business processes”. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA 2011), Singapore, [PDF].
S. Beheshti, S. Sakr, B. Benatallah, H. Motahari-Nezhad (2010) “Extending SPARQL to Support Entity Grouping and Path Queries”. UNSW-CSE-TR-1019, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia [PDF].
H. MahmoudiNasab, S. Sakr (2010) “Efficient and Adaptable Query Workload-Aware Management for RDF Data”. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2010), Hong Kong, China, [PDF].
S. Sakr, F. Casati (2010) “Liquid Benchmarks: Towards An Online Platform for Collaborative Assessment of Computer Science Research Results”. Proceedings of the 2nd TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2010), Singapore, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2010) “Efficient Relational Techniques for Processing Graph Queries”. Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST) 25(6): 1237-1255, [PDF].
S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2010) “An Efficient Features-Based Processing Technique for Supergraph Queries”. Proceedings of the 14th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2010), Montreal, QC, CANADA, [PDF].
E. Pascalau, A. Awad, S. Sakr, M. Weske (2010) “On Maintaining Consistency of Process Model Variants”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management (rBPM'10), BPM Workshops, New Jersey, USA, [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A. Awad (2010) “A Framework for Querying Graph-Based Business Process Models”. Proceedings of the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, NC, USA [PDF] [Project Page].
H. MahmoudiNasab, S. Sakr (2010) “An Experimental Evaluation of Relational RDF Storage and Querying Techniques”. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking of XML and Semantic Web Applications (BenchmarX'10), DASFAA Workshops, Tsukuba, Japan [PDF].
A. Awad, S. Sakr (2010) “Querying Graph-Based Repositories of Business Process Models”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Graph Data Management (GDM'10), DASFAA Workshops, Tsukuba, Japan [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2010) “Graph Indexing and Querying: A Review”. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS) 6(2): 101-120 [PDF].
S. Sakr (2010) “Towards a Comprehensive Assessment for Selectivity Estimation Approaches of XML Queries”. International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET) 6(1): 58-82 [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2009) “Relational Processing of RDF Queries: A Survey”. SIGMOD Record 38(4) [PDF].
S. Sakr (2009) “XML Compression Techniques: A Survey and Comparison”. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) 75(5): 303-322 [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2009) “Purely Relational Implementation of an XQuery Processor”. Journal of Database Management (JDM) 20(3): 76-125 [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2009) “GraphREL: A Decomposition-Based and Selectivity-Aware Relational Framework for Processing Sub-graph Queries”. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), Brisbane, Australia [PDF] [Slides].
S. Sakr (2009) “An Empirical Evaluation of XML Compression Tools”. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Benchmarking of XML and Semantic Web Applications (BenchmarX'09), DASFAA Workshops, Brisbane, Australia, [PDF] [Slides] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2009) “Storing and Querying Graph Data Using Efficient Relational Processing Techniques”. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications (ISTA/UNISCON 2009), Sydney, Australia [PDF].
H. MahmoudiNasab, S. Sakr (2009) “FeedRank: A Semantic-Based Management System of Web Feeds”. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2009), Burgos, Spain., [PDF].
J. Teubner, T. Grust, S. Maneth, S. Sakr, (2008) “Dependable Cardinality Forecasts for XQuery”. Proceedings of the 34th Int'l Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008)/Journal of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 1, Auckland, New Zealand, [PDF] [Slides] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2008) “XSelMark: A Micro-Benchmark for Selectivity Estimation Approaches of XML Queries”. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2008), Turin, Italy, [PDF] [Slides] [Project Page].
S. Maneth, N. Mihaylov, S. Sakr (2008) “XML Tree Structure Compression”. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques (XANTEC 2008), DEXA Workshops, Turin, Italy, PDF] [Slides] [Project Page].
S. Sakr (2008) “Improving the Relational Evaluation of XML Queries By Means of Path Summaries”. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2008), Daejeon, Korea., [PDF].
S. Sakr (2008) “Algebraic-Based XQuery Cardinality Estimation”. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS) 4(1): 7-46 [PDF] [Project Page]. (Emerald Literati Network - Outstanding Paper Excellence Award 2009).
S. Sakr (2007) “Cardinality-Aware and Purely Relational XQuery Processor”. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Computer Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. [PDF] [Amazon Link] [Project Page].
T. Grust, J. Rittinger, S. Sakr, J. Teubner, (2007) "A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler". Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGMOD Int'l Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), Beijing, China. [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A. Gaafar, (2004) “Towards a Framework for Mapping Between UML/OCL and XML/XQuery”. Proceedings of the the seventh conference in the UML series (UML 2004), Lispon, Portugal. [PDF].
T. Grust, S. Sakr, J. Teubner, (2004) “XQuery on SQL Hosts”. Proceedings of the 30th Int'l Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2004), Toronto, Canada. [PDF] [Project Page].
S. Sakr, A.Gaafar, (2004) “Proposed Framework for Integrating XML/XQuery and UML/OCL”. Proceedings of the IADIS e-society conference, Avila, Spain. [PDF]
S. Sakr, (2003) “Towards Web Database”. Master Thesis, Information Systems Department, the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt.
S. Sakr, M. Boshra (2002), “Using Relational Database Metadata to generate enhanced XML document”. International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS 2002), Cairo, Egypt.
S. Sakr (2001), “An assesment and comparative study between the different features provided by different commercial OODBMS Products". Preparatory Master thesis, Information Systems Department, the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt.
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