Dr. Brahim Medjahed

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer & Information Science

The University of Michigan, Dearborn

4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128

Office: 242 CIS

Phone: (313) 583 6449

Fax: (313) 593 4256

My Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

[Education]

[Research Interests]

[Teaching]

[Grants]

[Selected Publication]

[Students]

[Professional Activities]

[Useful Links]

 

Education

 

o       May 2004: Ph. D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

o       September 1995: M. Sc. in Computer Science, Algiers University of Sciences and Technology (USTHB).

o       June 1991: B. Sc. in Computer Science, Algiers University of Sciences and Technology (USTHB).

More details can be found in my CV (PDF version).

 

Research Interests
 

o       Service-Oriented Computing, Semantic Web, Workflow, Data and Application Integration, Query Processing, Digital Government, Bio-informatics, E-Learning.

 

Teaching
 

Below is the list of courses I taught so far at the University of Michigan, Dearborn:

·        CIS 4261 – “Information Systems Design and Analysis”

·        CIS 294 – “Programming in Visual Basic”

·        CIS 4262 - “Information Systems Design and Analysis II”

·        CIS 571 – Web Services

·        CIS 476/566 – Software Architecture and Design Patterns

 

Grants
 

o       TRW Automotive.  “A Workflow System for Brake Instability Analysis”, B. Medjahed (PI). Amount $3,000. From 02/2008 to 04/2008.

o       National Science Foundation (NSF), ITEST Program.  “Fostering Interest in Information Technology”, M. Duran (PI), M. Hoft, B. Medjahed, E. Orady, and P. Zitsewitz. Amount: $900,000 (personal share: 20%). From 09/2007 to 08/2010.

o       Progress Software (Software Grant). “Using Progress Software Products for Service-Oriented Computing Research and Teaching at UM-D”, B. Medjahed (PI), September 2007.

o       University of Michigan, Office of the Vice-President of Research (OVPR). “Chamaeleo: Self-Managing Changes in Dynamic Service-Oriented Applications”, B. Medjahed (PI). Amount $17,000 (including $7,000 matching from UM-Dearborn). From 05/2007 to 05/2008. This is a competitive grant open to Faculty from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

o       University of Michigan – Dearborn, Center for Engineering Education and Practice. “Developing In-Vehicle Database Management Techniques for Efficient Vehicular Applications”, Q. Zhu (PI) and B. Medjahed. Amount $53,000. From 05/2005 to 08/2007.

 

Selected Publication (See also my DBLP entry)

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Journals

1)     Q. Zhu, B. Medjahed, A. Sharma, H. Huang
The Collective Index: A Technique for Efficient Processing of Progressive Queries.
The Computer Journal,
Accepted for Publication (to appear).

2)     R. Hamadi, B. Benatallah, B. Medjahed
Self-Adapting Recovery Nets for Policy-Driven Exception Handling in Business Processes.
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD),
22(1), February 2008.

3)     Q. Yu , X. Liu , A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed
Deploying and Managing Web Services: Issues, Solutions, and Directions.
The VLDB Journal,
Accepted for Publication (to appear).

4)     B. Medjahed, Y. Atif
Context-Based Matching for Web Service Composition.
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD),
Special Issue on Context-Aware Web Services,
21(1), February 2007
[DOWNLOAD]

5)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
Customized Delivery of E-Government Web Services.
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
20(6), December 2005
[DOWNLOAD]
- Featured among “Timely Topics TechNews for IT Professionals”, ACM TechNews, 8(892), January 23, 2006 (source)
- Featured in an IEEE Internet Computing column, 10(2), page 13, April 2006

6)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
A Multilevel Composability Model for Semantic Web Services.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
17(7), July 2005.
[DOWNLOD]

7)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services.
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD),
17(2), March 2005.
[DOWNLOAD]

8)     B. Medjahed, B. Benatallah, A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid
WebBIS: An Infrastructure for Agile Integration of Web Services
.
International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS),
13(2), June 2004.
[DOWNLOAD]

9)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid
Composing Web Services on the Semantic Web.
The VLDB Journal,
12(4), November 2003.
Special Issue on Semantic Web
[DOWNLOAD]
Ranked “Top Five VLDB Journal Publication in 2003” (source)

10)X. Yang, A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, H. Long, W. He
Organizing and Accessing Web Services on Air.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A,
33(6), November 2003.
Special Issue on M-Services
[DOWNLOAD]

11)B. Medjahed, B. Benatallah, A. Bouguettaya, A. H. H. Ngu, A. Elmagarmid
Business-to-Business Interactions: Issues and Enabling Technologies.
The VLDB Journal,
12(1), May 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]
Ranked “Top Five VLDB Journal Publication in 2003” (source)

12)B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani
Infrastructure for E-Government Web Services.
IEEE Internet Computing,
7(1), January/February 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

13)A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani, B Medjahed, J. Cameron
Managing Government Databases.
IEEE Computer,
34(2), February 2001.
[DOWNLOAD]

Special Issues

1)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya, B. Benatallah.
Semantic Web Services: Issues, Solutions, and Applications (Editorial Introduction).
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology,
8(1), November 2007.

Book Chapters

1)     B. Medjahed, W. Grosky.
A
Notification Infrastructure for Semantic Agricultural Web Services.
In “Advances in Metadata and Semantics Research”, Springer-Verlag.
To appear in 2008.

2)     B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, A. Elmagarmid.
Generalization of ACID Properties.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu and T. Ozsu (Eds), Springer-Verlag,
to appear in 2008.

3)     M. Ouzzani, B. Medjahed, A. Elmagarmid.
Correctness Criteria beyond Serializability.
Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu and T. Ozsu (Eds), Springer-Verlag,
to appear in 2008.

4)     A. Bouguettaya, A. Rezgui, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani.
Internet Computing Support for Digital Government.
In
The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, , (M. P. Singh, editor),
ISBN 1-58488-381-2, CRC Press, June 2004.
[DOWNLOAD]

5)     A. Bouguettaya, B. Benatallah, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, L. Hendra.
Adaptive Web-based Communities.
In
Information Modeling for Internet Application, (P. Van Bommel, editor),
ISBN 1- 59140- 050- 3, Idea Group Publishing, October 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

6)     A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, Y. Meng.
Ubiquitous Access to Web Databases.
In Web Powered Databases (D. Taniar and W. Rahayo, editors),
ISBN 1-59140-035-X, Idea Group Publishing, August 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

7)     A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani, B. Medjahed, A. Elmagarmid.
Supporting Data and Services Access in Digital Government Environments.
In
Advances in Digital Government Technology, Human Factors, and Policy (W. J. McIver and A. K. Elmagarmid, editors),
ISBN
0-306-47374-7, Kluwer Academic Publishers, May 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

Conferences & Workshops

1)     B. Medjahed and W. Grosky.
Sentinel: Intelligent Information Sharing for Controlling the Emerald Ash Borer Threat.
Second International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR’07),
Corfu, Greece, October 2007.

2)     B. Medjahed and D. Carver.
An Enterprise Messaging Middleware for Mobile Services.
ICDCS 2007 Workshop on Cooperative Distributed Systems,
Toronto, Canada, June 2007.

3)     A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, X. Liu, Q. Yu.
WebDG: A Platform for E-Government Web Services.
ER 2004 Workshop on Digital Government: Systems and Technologies,
Shanghai, China, November 2004.
[DOWNLOAD]

4)     M. S. Akram, B.Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya.
Supporting Dynamic Changes in Web Service Environments.
1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC),
Trento, Italy, December 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

5)     B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani.
Semantic Web Enabled E-Government Services.
The dg.o 2003 NSF Conference for Digital Government Research,
Boston, USA, May 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

6)     M. Ouzzani, A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed.
Optimized Querying of E-Government Services.
The dg.o 2003 NSF Conference for Digital Government Research,
Boston, USA, May 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

7)     A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed.
Preserving Privacy in Web Services.
The 4th International ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management,
Virginia, USA, November 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

8)     B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, A. Bouguettaya.
Using Web Services in E-Government Applications.
The dg.o 2002 NSF Conference for Digital Government Research,
Los Angeles, USA, May 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

9)     A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, M. Ouzzani, Z. Wen.
Privacy Preserving Composition of Government Web Services (Demo Paper).
The dg.o 2002 NSF Conference for Digital Government Research,
Los Angeles, USA, May 2002.
[DOWNLOAD]

10)A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani.
Ontology-based Support for Digital Government.
VLDB 2001,
Roma, Italy, September 2001.
[DOWNLOAD]

11)A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani.
A Web-based Architecture for Government Databases and Services.
The dg.o 2001 NSF Conference for Digital Government Research,
Los Angeles, USA, May 2001.
[DOWNLOAD]

12)B. Benatallah, B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid, J. Beard.
Composing and Maintaining Web-based Virtual Enterprises.
First VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services,
Cairo, Egypt, September 2000.
[DOWNLOAD]

Theses

1)     B. Medjahed.
Semantic Web Enabled Composition of Web Services.
Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, May 2004.
[DOWNLOAD]

2)     B. Medjahed.
Concurrency Control for Nested Transactions.
M. Sc. Thesis, Algiers University of Sciences and Technology (USTHB), September 1995.

 

Students
 

o       M. Sc. Theses:

o       Shamil Hadi, Self-Healing Service-Oriented Applications (Expected: June 2008)

o       Committee Member for M. Sc. Theses:

o       Anshuman Sharma, In-Vehicle Database Management and Progressive Query Processing, CIS Department, UM-Dearborn, June 2006.

o       Yuri Siradeghyan, Association Rule Mining for Manufacturing and Warranty Data, CIS Department, UM-Dearborn, May 2006.

o       Goke Ojewole, Approximate Sliding Window Joins over Data Streams Utilizing Importance/Value Semantics, CIS Department, UM-Dearborn, December 2005.

o       M. Sc. Project

o       David Carver: Enterprise Messaging Middleware for Mobile Services (Fall 2005).

o       Ramesh Akkineni: Web Services for Controlling the Emerald Ash Borer (Fall 2005).

o       Jennifer Durkee: Parallel Blast (Fall 2005).

o       Dheeman Basu: Preserving Privacy in Web Services (Winter 2006).

o       Roshini Bhala: Survey about Grid Services (Winter 2006).

o       Srikant Vaishampayan: Privacy Preserving Web Services (Summer 2006).

o       Iyappan Ramasamy: Matching Web Service Policies (Summer 2006).

o       Vasumathi Raman: Change Detection in Web Services (Summer 2006).

o       Pankaja Balaji: Privacy-Preserving Web Services (Fall 2006).

o       Tariq Alshugran: Change Detection in Web Services (Winter 2007).

o       Arpan Shah: Change Detection in Web Services (Winter 2007).

o       Daniel Miller: Privacy-Preserving Web Services (Summer 2007).

o        Hassan Nasrollahzadeh: Change Detection in Web Services (Summer 2007).

o       Pradeep Vadde: Privacy Preserving Web Services (Fall 2007).

 

Professional Activities
 

Member of Conference Program Committees

o       International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008).

o       International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008)

o       International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (ISPAN 2008).

o       IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE-IRI 2008).

o       The International Workshop on Context Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration, and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008, in conjunction with WWW 2008).

o       International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2008)

o       International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2007).

o       IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE-IRI 2007).

o       International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2007, in conjunction with VLDB 2007).

o       Workshop on Advances for Semantics in Web Services (Semantics4WS 2007).

o       International Workshop on Data Engineering in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2007).

o       IEEE Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2007).

o       Joint IEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 07) and IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE' 07).

o       International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2007).

o       International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS 2007).

o       International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2007)

o       International Workshop on Business Process Management for Outsourcing (WBPMO 2007).

o       International Workshop on Context Modeling and Management for Smart Environments (IWCMM'2007).

o       1ère Journée francophone sur les ontologies (JFO 2007), in French.

o       International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2006).

o       IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2006).

o       International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2006).

o       Joint IEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC' 06) and IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE' 06).

o       International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2006)

o       IEEE Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2006).

o       Workshop on Advances for Semantics in Web Services (Semantics4WS 2006).

o       International Workshop on Data Engineering in E-Commerce and Services (DEECS 2006).

o       IEEE Workshop on Dependability in large-scale service-oriented systems (DILSOS 2006).

o       Mobile and Wireless Learning Workshop, 2006.

o       International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005).

o       IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2005).

o       IEEE Conference on E-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005).

o       International Workshop for Context for Web Services (CWS’05).

o       International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology (WEBIST 2005).

o       International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2005).

o       IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-commerce, and e-service (EEE-05).

o       IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2004).

o       International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC’04).

o       International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2004).

Officer in Conferences                                         

o       Publicity Co-Chair: International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008).

Editorial Activities

o       Guest Editor (with A. Bouguettaya and B. Benatallah) of a special issue on “Semantic Web Services: Issues, Solutions, and Applications” for the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (to appear in February 2008).

Reviewer for Journals                                         

o       ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2006, 2007.

o       Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2007.

o       ACM Transaction on the Web, 2007.

o       ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2007.

o       International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 2007.

o       IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2007

o       IEEE Internet Computing, 2002, 2005, 2007.

o       Distributed and Parallel Databases, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.

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