Publications

Journal Papers 

• Walid G. Aref, Ihab F. Ilyas, SP-GiST: An Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees (PDF), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), ( 2/3), 215 -240, 2001.

Papers in Refereed conferences 

• Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref, Duplicate Elimination in Space-partitioning Tree Indexes (PDF), The  International Conference on Scientific and  Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), Banff, Canada, pp. 18-27, 2007.
• Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Ramy Eltarras, Walid G. Aref, Space-partitioning Trees inside PostgreSQL: Realizing and Performance (PDF), The 22nd International Conference of Data Engineering, (ICDE), pp. 100 -111, 2006.
• Thanaa M. Ghanem, Rahul Shah, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, Jeffry S. Vitter, Bulk Operations for Space-Partitioning Trees (PDF), The 20th International Conference of Data Engineering, (ICDE), pp. 29 -41, 2004.
• Walid G. Aref, Ihab F. Ilyas, An Extensible Index for Spatial Databases (PDF), The 13th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), pp. 49 -58, 2001.