LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer. - Michael Stillger; Guy M. Lohman; Volker Markl; Mokhtar Kandil (VLDB, 2001)

Automated statistics collection in action. - Peter J. Haas; Mokhtar Kandil; Alberto Lerner; Volker Markl; Ivan Popivanov; Vijayshankar Raman; Daniel C. Zilio (SIGMOD Conference, 2005)

Problem definition for effective workload management. - Adrian M. Teisanu; Sam Lightstone; Mariano P. Consens; Daniel C. Zilio; Mokhtar Kandil; Calisto Zuzarte (ICDE Workshops, 2007)

Progressive optimization in a shared-nothing parallel database. - Wook-Shin Han; Jack Ng; Volker Markl; Holger Kache; Mokhtar Kandil (SIGMOD Conference, 2007)

Alternative Query Optimization for Workload Management. - Zahid Abul-Basher; Yi Feng; Parke Godfrey; Xiaohui Yu 001; Mokhtar Kandil; Daniel C. Zilio; Calisto Zuzarte (DEXA (2), 2012)