Publications

Theses - Journal Papers - Papers in Refereed Conferences & Workshops ( 20092008 and 2007 before 2007) and selected talks.

Theses

Essam Mansour. A Generic Approach and Framework for Managing Complex Information. PhD thesis, 2008, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin, Ireland.

Essam Mansour, Applying Temporal Database Storage and Retrieval Techniques to XML Data. Master thesis, 2003, the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

 

Journal Papers

Hagen Höpfner, Essam Mansour, and Daniela Nicklas. Review of Data Management Mechanisms on Mobile Devices. it - information technology , 51(2) : 79–84, 2009.

 

Papers in Refereed Conferences & Workshops

2009

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. An Approach to Detecting Relevant Updates to Cached Data Using XML and Active Databases. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2009), March 23-26 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, volume 360 of ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pages 791–802, 2009. ACM.

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. An XML-Based Model for Supporting Context-Aware Query and Cache Management. In Proceedings of the 26th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2009), Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. An XML-Based Manipulation and Query Language for Rule-based Information. The 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability (RuleML 2009), November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: Springer.

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. Replay the Execution History of Rule-based Information. In Proceedings of the The First International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA 2009), March 1-6, 2009, Cancun, Mexico, pages 28–35. IEEE Computer Society.

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. Towards an XML-Based Query and Contextual Information Model in Context-Aware Mobile Information Systems. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009) Workshop ROSOC-M , 18-20 May 2009 Taipei, Taiwan, pages 574–579. IEEE Computer Society.

Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner. A rule-based approach and framework for managing best practices — An XML-Based Management Using Puer Database System Utilities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), May 6-10, 2009, Milan, Italy, 2009.

Hagen Höpfner, Sebastian Wendland, and Essam Mansour. Data Caching On Mobile Devices — The Experimental MyMIDP Caching Framework. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologie (ICSOFT 2009), July 26-29, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, Setúbal, Portugal, July 2009. INSTICC, INSTICC press.

Christian Bunse, Hagen Höpfner, Essam Mansour, and Suman Roychoudhury. Exploring the Energy Consumption of Data Sorting Algorithms in Embedded and Mobile Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009)Workshop ROSOC-M, 18-20May 2009 Taipei, Taiwan, pages 600–607, 2009. IEEE Computer Society.

Jörg Schad, Hagen Höpfner, and Essam Mansour. On analysing the database performance for different classes of XML documents based on the used storage approach. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologie (ICSOFT 2009), July 26-29, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, Setúbal, Portugal, July 2009. INSTICC, INSTICC press.

Hagen Höpfner, Jörg Schad, Sebastian Wendland, and Essam Mansour. MyMIDP: An JDBC driver for accessing MySQL from mobile devices. In Proceedings of the The First International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA 2009), March 1-6, 2009, Cancun, Mexico, pages 74–80. IEEE Computer Society, 2009.

Hagen Höpfner, Jörg Schad, Sebastian Wendland, and Essam Mansour. MyMIDP and MyMIDPClient: Direct Access to MySQL Databases from Cell Phones (Demo). In Proceedings of the 13. Conference on Business, Technology, and Web (BTW 2009), March 2-6, 2009, Münster, Germany, volume P-144 of Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Proceedings, pages 604–607.

Christian Bunse, Hagen Höpfner, Suman Roychoudhury, and Essam Mansour. Choosing the "best" Sorting Algorithm for Optimal Energy Consumption. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2009), July 26-29, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria, Setúbal, Portugal, July 2009. INSTICC, INSTICC press.



2008 and 2007

Bing Wu, Kuda Dube and Essam Mansour. The motion picture paradigm for managing information: a framework and approach to supporting the play and replay of information in computerised information systems. In 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2008), 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Springer.

Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube, and Bing Wu. AIM: An XML-Based ECA Rule Language for Supporting a Framework for Managing Complex Information. The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML 2007), 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA: Springer.

Bing Wu, Essam Mansour, and Kudakwashe Dube. Complex Information Management Using a Framework Supported by ECA Rules in XML. The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML 2007), 2007, Orlando, Florida, USA: Springer.

Essam Mansour, Kudakwashe Dube, and Bing Wu. Managing Complex Information in Reactive Applications Using an Active Temporal XML Database Approach. The 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), 2007, Funchal, Madeira - Portugal: Springer.


Before 2007

Essam Mansour, Bing Wu, Kudakwashe Dube, and Jian Xing Li. An Event-Driven Approach to Computerizing Clinical Guidelines Using XML. The First International Workshop on Event-Driven Architecture, Processing and Systems (EDA-PS 2006), In conjunction with ICWS/SCC 2006. 2006. Chicago, USA: IEEE Computer Society.

Kudakwashe Dube, Essam Mansour, and Bing Wu. Supporting collaboration and information sharing in computer-based clinical guideline management. The 18th IEEE symposium on computer-based medical systems (CBMS 2005). 2005, Dublin, Ireland: IEEE Computer Society.

Mohammed Al-Kateb, Essam Mansour, and Mohamed E. El-Sharkawi. CME: A Temporal Relational Model for Efficient Coalescing, The 12th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2005), Burlington, Vermont, USA. June 23-25, 2005: IEEE Computer Society.

Essam Mansour, Mohamed El-Sharkawi, and Mokhtar Bushra. Restructuring In Temporal XML, Al-Azhar Engineering 7th International Conference (AEIC 2003), Cairo, April, 2003.