News

22
May

Zuhair Khayyat is presenting his work in XLDB 2016

5/22/2016
Zuhair Khayyat is presenting his work in XLDB 2016 (info here​)
08
Mar

InfoCloud celebrated the first 100 citations from an InfoCloud Student

3/8/2016
InfoCloud celebrated the first 100 citations from an InfoCloud Student
22
Feb

InfoCloud celebrated the year 2015 as the most productive year! 10 Full papers and 3 demos

2/22/2016
 InfoCloud celebrated the year 2015 as the most productive year! 10 Full papers and 3 demos
08
Feb

Dimitrios Kleftogiannis has defended his PhD thesis entitled "Identification of enhancers in human: Advances in computational studies" and will join The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London as a research fellow.

2/8/2016
Dimitrios Kleftogiannis has defended his PhD thesis entitled "Identification of enhancers in human: Advances in computational studies" and will join The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London as a research fellow.
07
Jan

InfoCloud has published a paper "Accelerating SPARQL queries by exploiting hash-based locality and adaptive partitioning" in the VLDB Journal 2016

1/7/2016
InfoCloud has published a paper  "Accelerating SPARQL queries by exploiting hash-based locality and adaptive partitioning" in the VLDB Journal 2016
04
Dec

InfoCloud has published a paper "Progress and challenges in bioinformatics approaches for enhancer identification" in Briefings in Bioinformatics 2015

12/4/2015
InfoCloud has published a paper  "Progress and challenges in bioinformatics approaches for enhancer identification" in Briefings in Bioinformatics 2015
03
Nov

InfoCloud has published a paper "Karect: accurate correction of substitution, insertion and deletion errors for next-generation sequencing data" in Bioinformatics

11/3/2015
InfoCloud has published a paper on "Karect: accurate correction of substitution, insertion and deletion errors for next-generation sequencing data" in Bioinformatics​
01
Sep

In collaboration with QCRI, InfoCloud published a paper "Lightning fast and space efficient inequality joins" in VLDB 2015.

9/1/2015
In collaboration with QCRI, InfoCloud published a paper on "Lightning fast and space efficient inequality joins" in VLDB 2015.​
01
Aug

InfoCloud is presenting three demo papers in VLDB 2015: "Spartex: A vertex-centric framework for RDF data analytics", "StarDB: a large-scale DBMS for strings" and "Evaluating SPARQL queries on massive RDF datasets"

8/1/2015
InfoCloud is presenting three demo papers in VLDB 2015: "Spartex: A vertex-centric framework for RDF data analytics", "StarDB: a large-scale DBMS for strings" and "Evaluating SPARQL queries on massive RDF datasets"​
15
Jul

In collaboration with the National University of Singapore, InfoCloud published a paper in Oxford University Press on "Hi-Jack: a novel computational framework for pathway-based inference of host–pathogen interactions"

7/15/2015
In collaboration with the National University of Singapore, InfoCloud published a paper in Oxford University Press on "Hi-Jack: a novel computational framework for pathway-based inference of host–pathogen interactions"
31
May

In collaboration with QCRI and MIT, InfoCloud published a paper in SIGMOD 2015 on "BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing"

5/31/2015
In collaboration with QCRI and MIT, InfoCloud published a paper in SIGMOD 2015 on "BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing"
10
May

Emaad Manzoor has defended his master thesis on "Scheduling Broadcasts in a Network of Timelines" and will join Stony Brook University for PhD.

5/10/2015
Emaad Manzoor has defended his master thesis on "Scheduling Broadcasts in a Network of Timelines" and will join Stony Brook University for PhD.
08
Jan

InfoCloud published in Nucleic acids research a paper "DEEP: a general computational framework for predicting enhancers"

1/8/2015
InfoCloud published in Nucleic acids research a paper on "DEEP: a general computational framework for predicting enhancers"​
01
Dec

InfoCloud published in the VLDB Journal a paper "ACME: A scalable parallel system for extracting frequent patterns from a very long sequence"

12/1/2014
InfoCloud published in the VLDB Journal a paper on "ACME: A scalable parallel system for extracting frequent patterns from a very long sequence"​
01
Mar

InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "Grami: Frequent subgraph and pattern mining in a single large graph

3/1/2014
InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "Grami: Frequent subgraph and pattern mining in a single large graph"
26
Aug

InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "RACE: a scalable and elastic parallel system for discovering repeats in very long sequences

8/26/2013
InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "RACE: a scalable and elastic parallel system for discovering repeats in very long sequences​​
27
Feb

The Mizan paper got accepted to the 8th ACM European conference on Computer Systems-EuroSys 2013​ !​​

2/27/2013
​Paper details: Zuhair Khayyat, Karim Awaraka, Amani Alonazi, Hani Jamjoom, Dan Williams and Panos Kalnis,”Mizan: A System for Dynamic Load Balancing in Large-scale Graph Processing” 
http://thegraphsblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/eurosys13_197_mizan.pdf
23
Jan

InfoCloud in collaboration with MIT is organizing the 2013 ACM-SIGMOD programming contest

1/23/2013
InfoCloud is organizing the next annual SIGMOD programming competition!​​​
http://sigmod.kaust.edu.sa
14
Dec

InfoCloud has openings for new members !

12/14/2012
​Opening for faculty members, research scientists,postoctoral fellows, phd and masters students and interships 
29
Aug

Dr. Essam Mansour presented the paper entitled "ERA: Efficient Serial and Parallel Suffix Tree Construction for Very Long Strings" at VLDB 2012

8/29/2012
Dr. Essam Mansour presented his paper “ERA: Efficient Serial and Parallel Suffix Tree Construction for Very Long Strings at Very Large Databases at VDLB 2012.
This paper was done by Essam Mansour, Amin Allam, Spiros Skiadopoulos, Panos Kalnis.​​​​​​​
24
May

Amin Allam wins the Fourth Annual Sigmod Programming Contest

5/24/2012

Amin Allam won the Fourth Annual Sigmod Programming Contest.  The task was the implementation of a multi-dimensional high throuphput in-memory index that supports common database operations such as point and range queries. 

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