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Mo Sarwat
  • About
  • Publications
  • Service
  • Teaching
  • Students
  • Software
    • Apache Sedona (GeoSpark Formerly)
    • RecDB
  • Current Funding
    • NSF CAREER: Spatial Data Systems Support for IoT

Publications

  • Year 2021
    • [VLDBJ 2021] GeoSparkViz: A Cluster Computing System for Visualizing Massive-Scale Geospatial Data
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in the International Journal on Very Large Databases, Volume TBD, issue TBD
    • [ACM TODS 2021] Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Predicting the Next SQL Query from the Future
      Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri, Kanchan Chowdhury and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in the ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Volume TBD, issue TBD
    • [ACM TSAS 2021] Riso-Tree: An Efficient and Scalable Index for Spatial Entities in Graph Database Management Systems
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in the ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, Volume TBD, issue TBD
  • Year 2020
    • [ACM SIGMOD 2020] A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching
      Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri, Phritviraj Sen, Lucian Popa, Mohamed Sarwat
      n proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, in Portland, Oregon June 2020
    • [IEEE ICDE 2020] Turbocharging Geospatial Visualization Dashboards via a Materialized Sampling Cube Approach
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in Dallas, Texas April 2020
    • [PVLDB 2020] Tabula in Action: A Sampling Middleware for Interactive Geospatial Visualization Dashboards
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases Endowment, PVLDB 2020, in Tokyo, Japan, August 2020 (demo track)
    • [DAPD 2020] Dissecting GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator in Apache Spark
      Jia Yu, Zishan Fu, and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal, Volume TBD, issue TBD
    • Big Geospatial Data Processing Made Easy: A Working Guide to GeoSpark
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in Handbook of Big Geospatial Data, 2020 (book chapter)
    • Spatial Data Systems Support for the Internet of Things – Challenges and Opportunities
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat
      To appear in ACM SIGSPATIAL Newsletter, 2020 (newsletter article)
  • Year 2019
    • [IEEE MDM 2019] Building a Large-Scale Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator in Apache Spark
      Zishan Fu, Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat.
      in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, in Hong Kong, China June 2019
    • [IEEE ICDE 2019] GeoSparkViz in Action: A Data System with built-in support for Geospatial Visualization
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in Macau, China April 2019 (Demo Track) 
    • [IEEE ICDE 2019] Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System
      Yuhan Sun, Jia Yu, and Mohamed Sarwat.
      To appear in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in Macau, China April 2019 (Demo Track)
    • [IEEE ICDE 2019] GeoSpatial Data Management in Apache Spark
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in Macau, China April 2019 (Tutorial Abstract)
    • [IEEE MDM 2019] An Automated Framework for Explaining Facts Extracted From Mobility Datasets
      Anique Tahir, Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, in Hong Kong, China June 2019
    • [SSTD 2019] Demonstrating GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator Based on Apache Spark
      Zishan Fu, Jia Yu, and Mohamed Sarwat
      in proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and SpatioTemporal Databases, in Vienna, Austria August 2019 (Demo Trak)
      Best Demonstration Paper Award Runner-Up
    • [EDBT 2019] Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic User Intent Prediction in Human-Database Interaction
      Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri, Kanchan Chowdhury and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, in Lisbon, Portugal, March 2019 (Short Paper)
    • [GeoInformatica 2019] Spatial Data Management in Apache Spark: The GeoSpark Perspective and Beyond [Source Code]
      Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang and Mohamed Sarwat.
      in Springer International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems, Volume 23, Number 1, Pages 37-78, January 2019
    • [GeoInformatica 2019] A Spatially-Pruned Vertex Expansion Operator in Graph Database Systems
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat
      in Springer International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems, Volume 23, Number 3, Pages 397-423
    • Spatio-Social Data
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In the Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, 2019, Editors: Timos Sellis, Aamir Cheema
    • Spatial Data Wrangling using GeoSpark – A Step By Step Tutorial
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In theACM SIGSPATIAL SpatialAPI workshop 2019Year 2018
  • Year 2018
    • [SIGSPATIAL 2018] A Generic Database Indexing Framework for Large-Scale Geographic Knowledge Graphs
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, in Seattle, WA, USA, November 2018
    • [SSBDM 2018] GeoSparkViz: A Scalable Geospatial Data Visualization Framework in the Apache Spark Ecosystem
      Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang, and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, in Bolzano, Italy July 2018
    • [IEEE ICDE 2018] Human-Database Interaction – a Holistic Approach
      Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in Paris, France April 201 (Abstract)
    • Collaborative Filtering
      Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, second edition, 2017, Editors: Tamer Ozsu and Ling Liu
    • Recommender Systems
      Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, second edition, 2017, Editors: Tamer Ozsu and Ling Liu
    • A Spatially-Pruned Graph Expansion Operator in the Neo4j Graph Database System
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In the 2nd International Workshop on Mobility Analytics for Spatio-Temporal and Social Data, Mates@VLDB, in Rio, Brazil August 2018
  • Year 2017
    • [SSTD 2017] Indexing the Pickup and Drop-off Locations of NYC Taxi Trips in PostgreSQL – Lessons from the Road
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, in Washington D.C. August 2017 
    • [SSTD 2017] On Designing GeoViz-Aware Database Systems – Challenges and Opportunities
      Mohamed Sarwat and Arnab Nandi.
      In proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, in Washington D.C. August 2017 (vision track)
      CCC Blue Sky Award for Best Vision Papers, 3rd place
    • [IEEE ICDE 2017] Database Systems Support for Personalized Recommendation Applications
      Mohamed Sarwat, Raha Moraffah, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and James L. Avery.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in San Diego, CA April 2017
    • [IEEE ICDE 2017] Hippo in Action: Scalable Indexing of a Billion New York City Taxi Trips and Beyond
      Jia Yu, Raha Moraffah and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in San Diego, CA April 2017 (Demo Track)
    • [IEEE ICDE 2017] Answering Location-Aware Graph Reachability Queries on GeoSocial Data
      Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, in San Diego, CA April 2017 (Short Paper)
    • [IEEE MDM 2017] On Evaluating Social Proximity-Aware Range Queries
      Yuhan Sun, Nitin Pasumarthy and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, in Daejeon, South Korea May 2017
    • A Framework for Interactive GeoSpatial Map Cleaning using GPS Trajectories
      Nikhil Vementala, Paolo Papotti and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In the proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, ICWTS, in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS, Redondo Beach, CA, November2017
  • Year 2016
    • [PVLDB 2016] Two Birds, One Stone: A Fast, yet Lightweight, Indexing Scheme for Modern Database Systems [Source Code]
      Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases Endowment, Volume 10, issue 4.  Presented in VLDB 2017 in Munich Germany
    • [IEEE ICDE 2016] A Demonstration of GeoSpark: A Cluster Computing Framework for Processing Big Spatial Data [Project Website]
      Jia Yu, Jinxuan Wu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Helsinki, Finaland May 2016 (Demo Track)
  • Year 2015
    • [SIGSPATIAL 2015] GeoSpark: A Cluster Computing Framework for Processing Large-Scale Spatial Data [Project Website]
      Jia Yu, Jinxuan Wu and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Seattle, WA, USA November 2015  (Short Paper)
    • [IEEE MDM 2015] Recathon: A Middleware for Context-Aware Recommendation in Database Systems [Project Website]
      Mohamed Sarwat, James L. Avery and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management,  Pittsburgh, PA, USA June 2015
      Best Research Paper Award
    • [IEEE MDM 2015] Interactive and Scalable Exploration of Big Spatial Data – A Data Management Perspective
      Mohamed Sarwat.
      In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Pittsburgh, PA, USA June 2015
    • Context-Awareness in Mobile Systems
      Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Amr Magdy, Chi-Yin Chow, Justin J. Levandoski, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      Book chapter in Data Management in Pervasive Systems Book, Springer Verlag, Data-Centric Systems and Applications Book Series, 2015
    • MobiSocial (Mobile and Social) Data Management
      Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering IC2E 2015, Tempe, Arizona, USA, March, 2015 (Tutorial Abstract)
  • Year 2014
    • [IEEE ICDE 2014] A Demonstration of MNTG – A Web-based Road Network Traffic Generator 
      Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Amr Magdy, Mohamed Sarwat, Louai Alarabi, Ethan Waytas, and Steven Yackel.
      In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2014, Chicago, IL, USA April 2014 (Demo Track)
    • [EDBT 2014] SMILE: A Data Sharing Platform for Mobile Apps in the Cloud
      Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hakan Hacigumus, Haopeng Zhang and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2014, Athens, Greece March, 2014
    • [IEEE TKDE 2014] LARS*: A Scalable and Efficient Location-Aware Recommender System
      Mohamed Sarwat, Justin J. Levandoski, Ahmed Eldawy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE TKDE 2014
      Special issue on best papers of ICDE 2012
    • [ACM TOIS 2014] Matrix Factorization with Explicit Trust and Distrust Side Information for Improved Social Recommendation
      Rana Forsati, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM TOIS 2014
  • Year 2013
    • [PVLDB 2013] Horton+: A Distributed System for Processing Declarative Reachability Queries over Partitioned Graphs
      Mohamed Sarwat, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Mohamed F. Mokbel
      In PVLDB Vol. 6 Issue. 14, PVLDB 2013, presented in the 40th International Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China, Sept, 2014
    • Mobility and Social Networking: A Data Management Perspective
      Mohamed F. Mokbel and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases, PVLDB 2013, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August, 2013 (Tutorial Abstract)
    • [PVLDB 2013] RecDB in Action: Recommendation Made Easy in Relational Databases[Poster] [Source Code] [Project Website] [Demo Video]
      Mohamed Sarwat, James Avery, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases, PVLDB 2013, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August, 2013
    • [SSTD 2013] MNTG: An Extensible Web-based Traffic Generator [Project Website]
      Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Amr Magdy, Mohamed Sarwat, Louai Alarabi, Ethan Waytas, and Steven Yackel.
      In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2013, Munich, Germany, August 2013
    • [IEEE MDM 2013] Plutus: Leveraging Location-Based Social Networks in Recommending Potential Customers to Venues
      Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and John Riedl
      In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, IEEE MDM 2013, Milan, Italy, June 2013 
    • Social Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective
      Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management MDM 2013, Milan, Italy, June 2013 (Seminar Abstract)
    • [GeoInformatica 2013] Generic and Efficient Framework for Search Trees on Flash Memory Storage Systems
      Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, and Suman Nath.
      In the International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems, Springer GeoInformatica 2013, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 417-448, 2013
      Special issue on best papers of SSTD 2011
  • Year 2012
    • The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-Aware Social Networking System
      Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In Proceedings of theACM SIGSPATIALInternational Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks LBSN 2012in conjunction with ACM GIS, Redondo Beach, CA, November 2012
    • RecDB: Towards DBMS Support for Online Recommender Systems
      Mohamed Sarwat
      In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium, SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012
    • LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System
      Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012
      Best of Conference Citation
    • Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System[Poster]
      Mohamed Sarwat Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
      In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012 (Demo Track)
    • Horton: Online Query Execution Engine For Large Distributed Graphs [Poster]
      Mohamed Sarwat, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Gabriel Kliot.
      In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012 (Demo Track)
    • RecStore: An Extensible and Adaptive Framework for Online Recommender Queries inside the Database Engine
      Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Michael D. Ekstrand.
      In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2012, Berlin, Germany, March 2012
  • Year 2011
    • FAST: A Generic Framework For Flash-Aware Spatial Trees
      Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, and Suman Nath.
      In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2011, Minneapolis, MN, August 2011
      Best Research Paper Award
    • Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-based Services 2.0
      Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed ElDawy, Justin J. Levandoski and Mohamed Sarwat.
      In Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases PersDB 2011 in Conjunction with VLDB 2011, Seattle, WA, September 2011 
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