| 2003 | BTW | Automatic Database Configuration for DB2 Universal Database: Compressing Years of Performance Expertise into Seconds of Execution. | Eva Kwan, Sam Lightstone, K. Bernhard Schiefer, Adam J. Storm, Leanne Wu |
| 2001 | ICDE | Discovery and Application of Check Constraints in DB2. | Jarek Gryz, K. Bernhard Schiefer, Jian Zheng, Calisto Zuzarte |
| 2000 | EDBT | Performance of DB2 Enterprise-Extended Edition on NT with Virtual Interface Architecture. | Sivakumar Harinath, Robert L. Grossman, K. Bernhard Schiefer, Xun Xue, Sadique Syed |
| 1999 | VLDB | Implementation of Two Semantic Query Optimization Techniques in DB2 Universal Database. | Qi Cheng, Jarek Gryz, Fred Koo, T. Y. Cliff Leung, Linqi Liu, Xiaoyan Qian, K. Bernhard Schiefer |
| 1998 | VLDB | IBM's DB2 Universal Database demonstrations at VLDB'98. | K. Bernhard Schiefer, Jim Kleewein, Karen Brannon, Guy M. Lohman, Gene Fuh |
| 1994 | EDBT | On the Estimation of Join Result Sizes. | Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer |
| 1994 | SIGMOD | Estimating Page Fetches for Index Scans with Finite LRU Buffers. | Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer |