Dr. Sherif Sakr
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, /

College of Computer Science and Information Technology,

Department of Computer Information Systems
Dammam, KSA 31441

Phone: (966) 13 3332006
Fax: (966) 13 33330256
Email: sasakr AT ud DOT edu DOT sa
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Research interests

  1. Advanced Big Data Storage and Processing Technologies.
  2. Deployment Architecture of Software Applications in Cloud Computing Platforms.
  3. NoSQL Databases.
  4. Business Process Modeling and Management.
  5. XML/Graph Data Management and Querying Techniques.
  6. Database Indexing and Query Optimization Techniques.

Selected publications

The following list is a selection from over 20 recent publications.

  1. Sherif Sakr, SamehElnikety, Yuxiong He. "Hybrid Query Execution Engine For LargeAttributed Graphs". Information Systems Journal, Elsevier, 2014.
  2. Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu and AymanFayoumi. "The Family of MapReduce and LargeScale Data Processing Systems". Journal of ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR),2014.
  3. Sherif Sakr. "Cloud-Hosted Databases: Technologies, Challenges and Opportunities".Cluster Computing Journal, Springer, 2013.
  4. Liang Zhao, Sherif Sakr and Anna Liu. "A Framework for Consumer-Centric SLAManagement of Cloud-Hosted Databases". IEEE Transactions on Service Computing(IEEE TSC), 2013.
  1. Ahmed Awad and Sherif Sakr. "On Efficient Processing of BPMN-Q Queries". Journalof Computers in Industry, 2012, 63(9).
  2. Basem Suleiman, Sherif Sakr, Ross Jeffery and Anna Liu. "On Understanding theEconomics and Elasticity Challenges of Deploying Business Applications on Public Cloud Infrastructure". Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), 2012, 3(2).
  3. Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu, Daniel M. Batista, Mohammad Alomari. "A Survey of LargeScale Data Management Approaches in Cloud Environments". IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IEEE COMST), 2011, 13(3).
  4. EmilianPascalau, Ahmed Awad, Sherif Sakr, Mathias Weske. "Partial Process Models to Manage Business Process Variants". Special Issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM), 2011, 5(3).
  5. Sherif Sakr, Ghazi Al-Naymat. "Relational Processing of RDF Queries: A Survey".Sigmod Record, 2009, 38(4).
  6. Sherif Sakr. "XML Compression Techniques: A Survey and Comparison", Journal ofComputer and System Sciences (JCSS), 2009, 75(5).
  7. Jens Teubner, TorstenGrust, Sebastian Maneth, Sherif Sakr. "Dependable CardinalityForecasts for XQuery". Journal of the VLDB Endowment (JDMR), 2008, 1(1).
  8. Liang Zhao, Sherif Sakr, Anna Liu. "Consumer-Centric SLA Manager for Cloud- Hosted Databases". Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Informationand Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), CA, USA, October 2013.
  9. David Bermbach, Liang Zhao, Sherif Sakr. "Towards Comprehensive Measurement of Consistency Guarantees for Cloud-Hosted Data Storage Services". Proceedings of the 5th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2013), Trento, Italy, August 2013
  10. Zhanwen Li, Xiwei Xu, Qinghua Lu, Liming Zhu, Len Bass, Sherif Sakr, Paul Bannerman. "Improving Availablity for Cloud-Based Applications through Deployment Choices". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2013), CA, USA, June 2013
  11. Qinghua Lu, Xiwei Xu, Liming Zhu, Len Bass, Zhanwen Li, Sherif Sakr, Paul Bannerman. "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, June 2013
  12. Ivan Bedini, Sherif Sakr, Bart Theeten, Alessandra Sala, Peter Cogan. "Modeling
  13. Performance of a Parallel Streaming Engine: Bridging Theory and Costs". Proceedingsof the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE2013), Prague, Czech Republic, April 2013.
  14. Sherif Sakr, SamehElnikety, Yuxiong He. "G-SPARQL: A Hybrid Engine for QueryingLarge Attributed Graphs". Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), Hawaii, USA, October 2012.
  15. Ahmed Awad, Matthias Kunze, Sherif Sakr, Mathias Weske. "Design by Selection:A Reuse-based Approach for Business Process Modeling". Proceedings of The 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011), Brussels, Belgium, October 2011.
  16. EmilianPascalau, Ahmed Awad, Sherif Sakr, Mathias Weske. "BPModelMasher:Manage Your Process Variants Effectively". Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011), Clermont-Ferrand, France, August 2011.

Courses taught

  1. Project Proposal
  2. IT Project Management
  3. Software EngineeringWorkshop
  4. Service-Oriented Architectures
  5. e-Enterprise Projects
  6. Service-Oriented Architectures
  7. Web ServicesDevelopment
  8. XML Related Technologies

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