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Publications (DBLP)
Refereed Journal:
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, Robin Cohen. “A Multi-faceted Approach to Modeling Agent Trust for Effective Communication in the Application of Mobile Ad Hoc Vehicular Networks”, In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C (SMC-C), Volume 41, Number 3, May 2011.Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, Robin Cohen. "Towards Expanded Trust Management for Agents in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks", In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Theory and Practice (IJCITP), Volume 5, Number 5, June 2010.
Ahmed Soror, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Peter Kokosielis, and Sunil Kamath. "Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads", In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Volume 35, Number 1, February 2010. (extended version of SIGMOD'08 paper)
Refereed Conference and Workshop:
Umar Farooq Minhas, Rui Liu, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Jonathan Ng, Sean Robertson. "Elastic Scale-out for Partition-Based Database Systems", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-managing Database Systems (SMDB'12) held in conjunction with ICDE'12, Washington, DC, April 2012. (to appear)Umar Farooq Minhas, David Lomet, and Chandramohan A. Thekkath. "Chimera: Data Sharing Flexibility, Shared Nothing Simplicity", In International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS'11), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2011.
Umar Farooq Minhas, Shriram Rajagopalan, Brendan Cully, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, and Andrew Warfield. "RemusDB: Transparent High Availability for Database Systems", In Proceedings of VLDB Endowment (PVLDB'11), presented at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'11), Seattle, Washington, August 2011. (best paper award)
Muhammad Bilal Sheikh, Umar Farooq Minhas, Omar Zia Khan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Pascal Poupart, and David J. Taylor. "A Bayesian Approach to Online Performance Modeling for Database Appliances using Gaussian Models", In International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC'11), Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2011.
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, Robin Cohen. “Intelligent Agents in Mobile Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Leveraging Trust Modeling Based on Direct Experience with Incentives for Honesty”, In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’ 2010), Toronto, Canada, September 2010. (short paper)
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran, Robin Cohen. "Promoting Effective Exchanges Between Vehicular Agents in Traffic Through Transportation-Oriented Trust Modeling", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT'10) held in conjunction with the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'10), Toronto, Canada, May 2010.
Ahmed Soror, Umar Farooq Minhas, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem, Peter Kokosielis, and Sunil Kamath. "Automatic Virtual Machine Configuration for Database Workloads", In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD'08), Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
Umar Farooq Minhas, Jitendra Yadav, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Kenneth Salem. "Database Systems on Virtual Machines: How Much do You Lose?", In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Self-managing Database Systems (SMDB'08) held in conjunction with ICDE'08, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.