Research
Kite ideas are based on our research in Microblogs data management. We have addressed and proposed several research problems in Microblogs data management, documented in the following research publications.
Journal Papers
- Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Suman Nath, and Yuxiong He. "Venus: Scalable Real-time Spatial Queries on Microblogs with Adaptive Load Shedding". In IEEE Transactions on Data Engineering, IEEE TKDE, 28(2): pp. 356-370, February, 2016.
- Amr Magdy, Mashaal Musleh, Kareem Tarek, Louai Alarabi, Saif Al-Harthi, Hicham G. Elmongui, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Sohaib Ghani, Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Taqreer: A System for Spatio-temporal Analysis on Microblogs". In IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 38(2): pp. 68-76, June 2015.
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Conference Papers
- Amr Magdy, Rami Alghamdi, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "On Main-memory Flushing in Microblogs Data Management Systems". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2016.
- Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, and Walid G. Aref. "GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, October, 2016.
- Christopher Jonathan, Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Albert Jonathan. "GARNET: A Holistic System Approach for Trending Queries in Microblogs"(Industrial Paper). In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2016.
- Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Towards a Microblogs Data Management System". In Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, IEEE MDM 2015, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June, 2015.
- Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Suman Nath, and Yuxiong He. "Mercury: A Memory-Constrained Spatio-temporal Real-time Search on Microblogs". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2014, Chicago, IL, April, 2014. Selected among best ICDE papers and invited to TKDE special issue.
- Amr Magdy, Louai Alarabi, Saif Al-Harthi, Mashaal Musleh, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Sohaib Ghani, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Taghreed: A System for Querying, Analyzing, and Visualizing Geotagged Microblogs". In Proceeding of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014, Dallas, TX, November, 2014.
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Mohamed F. Mokbel, Louai Alarabi, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Amr Magdy, Mohamed Sarwat, Ethan Waytas, Steven Yackel. "MNTG: An Extensible Web-Based Traffic Generator". In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2013, Munich, Germany, August, 2013. (deployed on mntg.cs.umn.edu)
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Tutorials
- Mohamed F. Mokbel and Amr Magdy. "Microblogs Data Management Systems: Querying, Analysis, and Visualization". In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA, June, 2016. Slides available here.
- Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Microblogs Data Management and Analysis"(Tutorial). In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2016. Slides available here.
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System Demonstrations
- Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Demonstration of Kite: A Scalable System for Microblogs Data Management". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2017, San Diego, CA, April, 2017.
- Amr Magdy, Louai Alarabi, Saif Al-Harthi, Mashaal Musleh, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Sohaib Ghani, Saleh Basalamah, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Demonstration of Taghreed: A System for Querying, Analyzing, and Visualizing Geotagged Microblogs". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2015, Seoul, South Korea, April, 2015.
- Thanaa M. Ghanem, Amr Magdy, Mashaal Musleh, Sohaib Ghani, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "VisCAT: Spatio-Temporal Visualization and Aggregation of Categorical Attributes in Twitter Data". In Proceeding of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014, Dallas, TX, November, 2014.
- Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Suman Nath. "Mars: Real-time Spatio-temporal Queries on Microblogs". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2014, Chicago, IL, April, 2014. (3rd Best Poster Award at U-Spatial Symposium 2014, University of Minnesota)
- Mohamed F. Mokbel, Louai Alarabi, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Amr Magdy, Mohamed Sarwat, Ethan Waytas, and Steven Yackel. "A Demonstration of MNTG - A Web-based Road Network Traffic Generator". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2014, Chicago, IL, April, 2014.
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Book Chapters
- Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Chi-Yin Chow, Justin Levandoski, Amr Magdy, Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Context Awareness in Mobile Systems". Chapter in "Data Management in Pervasive Systems" book, Data-Centric Systems and Applications Book Series, Springer Verlag, Editors: Francesco Colace, Massimo De Santo, Vincenzo Moscato, Antonio Picariello, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca, 2015.
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Patents
- Mohamed Fathalla Hassan Mokbel, Amr Magdy Mahmoud Ahmed. Towards a Microblogs Data Management System. Provisionally filed in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on September 10, 2014, Ref number: 434819US8.
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Workshop Papers
- Amr Magdy. "Scalable Microblogs Data Management". In Proceedings of the SIGMOD PhD Symposium, in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2016, San Francisco, CA, June, 2016.
- Amr Magdy, Thanaa M. Ghanem, Mashaal Musleh, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Exploiting Geo-tagged Tweets to Understand Localized Language Diversity". In Proceedings of the First International ACM Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data, GeoRich 2014, in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2014, Snowbird, UT, June, 2014.
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