Sorted By Type

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



(Conference Paper Conference paper, Conference Paper Journal paper, Conference Paper Workshop paper)



Magazine Article S. Sakr (2013) “An introduction to InfoSphere Streams: A platform for analyzing big data in motion”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].



Conference Paper 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).



Conference Paper 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).



Conference Paper 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).



Conference Paper 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).



Magazine Article S. Sakr (2013) “Supply cloud-level data scalability with NoSQL databases”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].



Journal Paper 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].



Journal Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Journal Paper A. Awad, S. Sakr (2012) “On Efficient Processing of BPMN-Q Queries”. Journal of Computers in Industry 63(9): 867-881, [PDF] [Project Page].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Magazine Article S. Sakr (2012) “Use SQL-like languages for the MapReduce framework”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Journal Paper 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].



Journal Paper H. MahmoudiNasab, S. Sakr (2012) “AdaptRDF: Adaptive Storage Management for RDF Databases”. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS) 8(2): 234 - 250, [PDF].



Journal Paper 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].



Magazine Article S. Sakr (2011) “Investigate state-of-the-art XML compression techniques”. IBM developerWorks, [Article Link].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Journal Paper 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].



Journal Paper S. Sakr, M. Alomari (2011) “A Decade of Database Research Publications: A Look Inside”. Scientometrics Journal 88(2): 521-533, [PDF] [Study Results].



Journal Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Technical Report 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Journal Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Journal Paper S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2010) “Graph Indexing and Querying: A Review”. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS) 6(2): 101-120 [PDF].



Journal Paper 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].



Journal Paper S. Sakr, G. Al-Naymat (2009) “Relational Processing of RDF Queries: A Survey”. SIGMOD Record 38(4) [PDF].



Journal Paper S. Sakr (2009) “XML Compression Techniques: A Survey and Comparison”. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) 75(5): 303-322 [PDF] [Project Page].



Journal Paper S. Sakr (2009) “Purely Relational Implementation of an XQuery Processor”. Journal of Database Management (JDM) 20(3): 76-125 [PDF] [Project Page].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Workshop Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Journal Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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].



Conference Paper 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.



Conference Paper 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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