Research Interests:

Distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, scalable and fault-tolerant access to multimedia data and digital libraries.

Selected Publications:

• Relative Prefix Sums: An efficient approach for querying dynamic OLAP data cubes, S. Geffner, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, and T. Smith, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Sydney, Australia, March 1999, pp. 328-335.
• Concentric Hyperspaces and Disk Allocation for Fast Parallel Range Searching, H. Farhatosmanoglu, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Sydney, Australia, March 1999, pp. 608-615.
• PowerBookmarks: A System for Personalizable Web Information Organization, Sharing, and Management, Wen-Syan Li, Quoc Vu, Divyakant Agrawal, Yoshinori Hara, and Hajime Takano, Computer Networks, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Elsvier Science, Vol 31, 1375-1389, 1999.
• Mobility and Extensibility in the StratOSphere Framework, D. Wu, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Vol. 7, No. 3, July 1999, pp. 289-317.
• Dimensionality reduction for similarity searching in dynamic databases, K. V. Ravi Kanth, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi and A. Singh, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 75, Nos. 1/2, July/August 1999, pp. 59-72.