Earlier publications (2005–2018)

Work from before the move to knowledge graphs and agentic AI: elastic OLTP, federated linked data, parallel sequence analytics and mobile data management. For recent work see the selected publications. The complete list is on DBLP and Google Scholar.

Patents

• Marco Serafini, Essam Mansour, Ashraf Aboulnaga. “A Method and System for Processing Data,” US Patent application 14/910970, filed February 2016 (pending)

Refereed Journal Papers

• Rebecca Taft, Essam Mansour, Marco Serafini, Jennie Duggan, Aaron J. Elmore, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Andrew Pavlo, Michael Stonebraker: E-Store: Fine-Grained Elastic Partitioning for Distributed Transaction Processing. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 8(3), 2014. PDF

• Marco Serafini, Essam Mansour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Taha Rafiq, Umar Farooq Minhas: Accordion: Elastic Scalability for Database Systems Supporting Distributed Transactions. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 7(12), 2014. PDF

• Majed Sahli, Essam Mansour, Panos Kalnis: ACME: A scalable parallel system for extracting frequent patterns from a very long sequence. VLDB Journal 23(6), 2014. PDF

• Essam Mansour, Ahmed El-Roby, Aron Ahmadia, Panos Kalnis, Ashraf Aboulnaga. RACE: a scalable and elastic parallel system for discovering repeats in very long sequences. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2013. PDF

• Essam Mansour, Amin Allam, Spiros Skiadopoulos, and Panos Kalnis. ERA: Efficient Serial and Parallel Suffix Tree Construction for Very Long Strings. In the volume 5 of Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2011. PDF

• Hagen Höpfner, Essam Mansour, Daniela Nicklas: Review of Data Management Mechanisms on Mobile Devices. it - Information Technology 51(2): 79-84 (2009)

Refereed Conference Papers

• Majed Sahli, Essam Mansour, Tariq Alturkestani, Panos Kalnis: Automatic tuning of bag-of-tasks applications. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015. PDF

• Majed Sahli, Essam Mansour and Panos Kalnis. Parallel Motif Extraction from Very Long Sequences. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), San Francisco, California, USA, 2013. PDF

• Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. An Approach to Detecting Relevant Updates to Cached Data Using XML and Active Databases. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2009. PDF

• Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. Towards an XML-Based Query and Contextual Information Model in Context-Aware Mobile Information Systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM), 2009.

• Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. An XML-Based Model for Supporting Context-Aware Query and Cache Management. In Proceedings of the 26th British National Conference on Databases BNCOD, 2009. Best Paper Award

• Christian Bunse, Hagen Höpfner, Essam Mansour, and Suman Roychoudhury. Exploring the Energy Consumption of Data Sorting Algorithms in Embedded and Mobile Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM), 2009.

• Hagen Höpfner, Jörg Schad, Sebastian Wendland, Essam Mansour. MyMIDP and MyMIDP-Client: Direct Access to MySQL Databases from Cell Phones. BTW 2009

• Essam Mansour, Hagen Höpfner. Replay the Execution History of Rule-Based Information. DBKDA 2009.

• Hagen Höpfner, Jörg Schad, Sebastian Wendland, Essam Mansour. MyMIDP: An JDBC Driver for Accessing MySQL from Mobile Devices. DBKDA 2009.

• Essam Mansour, Hagen Höpfner. A Rule-based Approach and Framework for Managing Best Practices - An XML-based Management using Pure Database System Utilities. ICEIS 2009.

• Christian Bunse, Hagen Höpfner, Suman Roychoudhury, Essam Mansour. Choosing the “Best” Sorting Algorithm for Optimal Energy Consumption. ICSOFT 2009.

• Hagen Höpfner, Jörg Schad, Essam Mansour. On Analyzing the Database Performance for Different Classes of XML Documents based on the used Storage Approach. ICSOFT 2009.

• Hagen Höpfner, Sebastian Wendland, Essam Mansour. Data Caching on Mobile Devices - The Experimental MyMIDP Caching Framework. ICSOFT 2009.

• Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube, Essam Mansour. The Motion Picture Paradigm for Managing Information - A Framework and Approach to Supporting the Play and Replay of Information in Computerised Information Systems. ICEIS 2008.

• Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu. Managing complex information in reactive applications using an active temporal XML database approach. ICEIS 2007.

• Bing Wu, Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube. Complex Information Management Using a Framework Supported by ECA Rules in XML. RuleML 2007.

• Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube, Bing Wu. AIM: An XML-Based ECA Rule Language for Supporting a Framework for Managing Complex Information. RuleML 2007.

• Essam Mansour, Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube, Jian Xing Li. An Event-Driven Approach to Computerizing Clinical Guidelines Using XML. SCW 2006.

• Kudakwashe Dube, Essam Mansour, Bing Wu. Supporting Collaboration and Information Sharing in Computer-Based Clinical Guideline Management. CBMS 2005.

• Mohammed Al-Kateb, Essam Mansour, Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi. CME: A Temporal Relational Model for Efficient Coalescing. TIME 2005.

System Demonstrations and Posters

• Essam Mansour, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Mourad Ouzzani, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Panos Kalnis. A Demonstration of Lusail – Querying Linked Data at Scale. The International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2017.

• Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Essam Mansour, Mourad Ouzzani, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Panos Kalnis. Query Optimizations Over Decentralized RDF Graphs. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2017.

• Raul Castro Fernandez, Dong Deng, Essam Mansour, Abdulhakim Qahtan, Ziawasch Abedjan, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Ihab F. Ilyas, Samuel Madden, Mourad Ouzzani, Michael Stonebraker, Nan Tang. A Demo of the Data Civilizer System. The International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2017.

• Essam Mansour, Andrei Vlad Sambra, Sandro Hawke, Maged Zereba, Sarven Capadisli, Abdurrahman Ghanem, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Tim Berners-Lee: A Demonstration of the Solid Platform for Social Web Applications. WWW, 2016.

• Majed Sahli, Essam Mansour, Panos Kalnis: StarDB: A Large-Scale DBMS for Strings. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 8(12), 2015. PDF

Technical Reports

• Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Essam Mansour, Mourad Ouzzani, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Panos Kalnis. Query Optimizations over Decentralized RDF Graphs. Technical Report, 2017.

• Majed Sahli, Essam Mansour, Panos Kalnis: A Query Language for Large String Processing. Technical Report, 2017.

• Andrei Vlad Sambra, Essam Mansour, Sandro Hawke, Maged Zereba, Nicola Greco, Abdur- rahman Ghanem, Dmitri Zagidulin, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Tim Berners-Lee. Solid: A Platform for Decentralized Social Applications Based on Linked Data. Technical Report, 2017.