Knowledge Management Group

Presently I am doing my PhD in Real-time Data Warehousing from The University of Auckland under the supervision of Prof. Gillian Dobbie and Dr. Gerald Weber. Before that I have done my Master in Computer Science with major in Web Mining from Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan. My MS thesis title was "Web Structure Mining in Hidden Web Data" Apart from study I have about six years of teaching experience in Public Sector Univerity of Pakistan.

My research interests are:

• Stream-based Joins
• Real-time Data Warehousing
• Data Management and Real-time Information Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Distributed Databases and Applications

Data warehouses are non-volatile data repositories that play a vital role in making business decisions by analyzing the operational data. Real-time data warehouses focus as increasing data freshness levels. The tools and techniques for increasing this freshness level are therefore rapidly evolving. Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tools feed data from operational databases into data warehouses. Traditionally, these ETL tools use batch processing and operate offline at regular time intervals, for example on a nightly or weekly basis. Naturally, users prefer to have up-to-date data to make their decisions, therefore there is a demand for real-time ETL tools. The Data Transformation is an important phase in ETL where source data is transformed into warehouse format and necessary enrichment of Master Data is performed using join operator. In my PhD research I investigated a family of stream-based joins and proposed a robust stream-based join for Real-time Data Warehousing.

Awarded Merit in Postgraduate Poster Competition 2009, Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland

1. M. Asif Naeem, Gill Dobbie, Gerald Weber, Shafiq Alam, R-MESHJOIN for Near Real-time Data Warehousing, 2010. (Under Review)
2. M. Asif Naeem, Gill Dobbie, Gerald Weber, HYBRIDJOIN for Near Real-time Data Warehousing, Technical report, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2010.
3. M. Asif Naeem, Gill Dobbie, Gerald Weber, Comparing Global Optimization and Default Settings of Stream-based Joins, VLDB Workshop (BIRTE, 2009), Lyon, France, 2009.
4. M. Asif Naeem, G. Dobbie, and G. Webber, An event based near real-time data integration Architecture, In EDOCW '08: Proceedings of the 2008 12th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops, pages 401-404, Washington,DC, USA, 2008. IEEE Computer Society.