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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas, Arlington
335 Nedderman Hall, 416 Yates
Arlington, Texas 76019
E-mail: kamal.taha@uta.edu

I am a Ph.D. Candidate and an Instructor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington. I expect to graduate in the Spring 2009. My PhD supervising Professor is Prof. Ramez Elmasri. My main research areas are: XML keyword and loosely structured querying, distributed query processing and caching, recommendation systems, personalized search, and Bioinformatics Databases (Mediators, Ontologies).

PUPLICATIONS:

Papers in Refereed Conferences and Workshops

Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, XRKeyword: An XML Search Engine for Loosely Structured, Keyword-Based, and Recursive Queries, under review for ICDE'09
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, OOXSearch: A Search Engine for Answering Loosely Structured XML Queries Using OO Programming. In Proceedings of the 24th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2007), Glasgow, Scotland 2007. LNCS 4587, Springer Verlag, Germany, ISBN 978-3-540-73389-8, pp. 82-100
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, CXLEngine: A Comprehensive XML Loosely Structured Search Engine. In Proceedings of the EDBT workshop: The Third International Workshop on Database Technologies for Handling XML Information on the Web (DataX'08), Nantes, France 2008. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, New York, USA; Vol. 261, ISBN:978-1-59593-966-1, pp. 37-42.
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, XPCache: An Efficient Query Processor for Client-Server Architecture. In Proceedings of the ICDE workshop: The 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Databases for Next Generation Researchers (SWOD), Istanbul, Turkey 2007. IEEE Computer Society, ISBN:1-4244-0903-9.
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri,Caching: An Efficient XML Query Mechanism in Client-Server Architecture. In Proceedings of the Southeast Workshop on Data and Information Management (SWDIM '06), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, March 2006.

Papers in Refereed Journals

Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, OOXKSearch: A Search Engine for Answering XML Keyword and Loosely Structured Queries Using OO Techniques. To appear in the Journal of Database Management (JDM), Special Issue on XML Data Services.
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, XCDSearch: An XML Context-Driven Search Engine, under review for the IEEE TRANSACTION ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING (IEEE TKDE)
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, Search Personalization through Group Profile Ontologies, under review for the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)-Special Issue on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction.
Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, BusSEngine: A Business Search Engine, under review for the Knowledge and Information Systems.

Book Chapters

Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, SEEC: A Dual Search Engine for Business Employees and Customers. To appear in the book "Service and Business Computing Solutions with XML: Applications for Quality Management and Best Processes", IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA.

Work In Progress

Kamal Taha and Ramez Elmasri, Improving Response Time of Frequently Used Queries in Grid-Based Environment for Bioinformatics.

Teaching Experience

Instructor:CSE 1310 - Introduction to Computers and Programming.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA): CSE 5331/4331(Database Systems 2), CSE 5330/3330 (Database Systems 1), CSE 1320 (Intermediate Programming).

Industry Work Experience

I worked as Engineering Specialist for Seagate Technology, Minnesota-USA from 1995 to 2005. Seagate Technology is the leading computer disc drive manufacturer in the US, whose employees exceed 10000 worldwide.

Personal Life

I am married and have two children, Ameer (6 years old) and Aya (2 years old). My wife is a teacher and currently pursuing her B.S. in Criminal Justice. Some of my personal interests are:

Fishing
Reading books and watching movies with my family.