Dr. Brahim Medjahed

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

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

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

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

 

Research Interests
 

o       Service-Oriented Computing, Service Integration, Information and Data Management, Semantic Web, Workflow, Data Integration, Query Processing.

 

Teaching
 

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

o       CIS 4261: Information Systems Design and Analysis

o       CIS 294: Programming in Visual Basic

o       CIS 4262: Information Systems Design and Analysis II

o       CIS 571: Web Services

o       CIS 476/566: Software Architecture and Design Patterns

o       CIS 634: Semantic Web

o       PDED 518: IT in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

 

Grants
 

1.           Ford Motor Company (Ford Innovation Alliance Program). SYNCLet: Mobile Phone Extensions for Vehicle Appropriate Use, Amount: $25,000. From 10/2009 to 01/2010. B. Medjahed (PI) and Paul Watta.

2.           University of Michigan - Dearborn, Center for Engineering Education and Practice. A Self-Healing Approach for End-To-End Change Management in Dynamic Service-Oriented Systems. B. Medjahed (PI). Amount $45,402. From 09/2008 to 08/2010.

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

4.           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.

5.           US Department of State. The Professional Mentoring and Networking Program for Women in Engineering. J. Cristiano (PI), B. Medjahed (Senior Personnel with 6 other Faculty from UM-Dearborn). Amount: $349,305. From 09/2008 to 08/2009.

6.           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. From 05/2007 to 05/2008. This is a competitive grant open to Faculty from the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

7.           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)                M. Barhamgi, C. Ghedira, D. Benslimane, B. Medjahed.
An SOA-based Architecture to Share Medical Data with Privacy Preservation.
Accepted in the International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence
[DOWNLOAD]

2)                Z. Malik, A. Rezgui, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, A. K. Sinha.
Semantics-Enabled Integration in Geosciences
International Journal of Semantic Computing,
4(3), pages 301-330, December 2010
[DOWNLOAD]

3)                M. Barhamgi, D. Benslimane, B. Medjahed
A Query Rewriting Approach for Web Service Composition
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing,
3(3), pages 206 – 222, September 2010
[DOWNLOAD]

4)                Q. Yu, M. Rege, A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani.
A Two-phase Framework for Quality-aware Web service Selection
Service Oriented Computing and Applications,
4(2), pages 63-79, June 2010
[DOWNLOAD]

5)                B. Medjahed, S. Hadi, W. Grosky
A Service-Oriented Framework for Controlling Invasive Species in Agriculture.
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics, and Ontologies,
4(1/2), pages 34-41, January 2009
[DOWNLOAD]

6)                B. Medjahed
Dissemination Protocols for Event-based Service-Oriented Architectures.
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing,
1(3), pages 155-168, September 2008
[DOWNLOAD]

7)                Q. Zhu, B. Medjahed, A. Sharma, H. Huang
The Collective Index: A Technique for Efficient Processing of Progressive Queries.
The Computer Journal,
51(6), pages 662-676, November 2008.
- Best Paper Award (Winner of the Computer Journal Wilkes Award for 2008)
[DOWNLOAD]

8)                Q. Yu , X. Liu , A. Bouguettaya, B. Medjahed
Deploying and Managing Web Services: Issues, Solutions, and Directions.
The VLDB Journal,
17(3), pages 537-572, May 2008
- Ranked 2nd Most Viewed VLDB Journal article from January to November 2, 2008. Source: Coremetrics (Usage Data from springerlink.com)
[DOWNLOAD]

9)                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), pages 1-44, February 2008
[DOWNLOAD]

10)           B. Medjahed, Y. Atif
Context-Based Matching for Web Service Composition.
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD),
21(1), pages 5-37, February 2007
[DOWNLOAD]

11)           B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
Customized Delivery of E-Government Web Services.
IEEE Intelligent Systems,
20(6), pages 77-84, 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

12)           B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
A Multilevel Composability Model for Semantic Web Services.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE),
17(7), pages 954-968, July 2005.
[DOWNLOD]

13)           B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya
A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services.
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD),
17(2), pages 179-206, March 2005.
[DOWNLOAD]

14)           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), pages 121-158, June 2004.
[DOWNLOAD]

15)           B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid
Composing Web Services on the Semantic Web.
The VLDB Journal,
12(4), pages 333-351, November 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]
- Top 10 Most Cited VLDB Journal publications (all years). Source Harzing Publish or Perish Tool (as of March 23rd, 2011)
- Ranked 6th Most Cited VLDB Journal Articles in 2008. Source: ISI Web of Knowledge, 18.08.2009

16)           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), pages 742-757, November 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

17)           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), pages 59-85, May 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]
- Top 30 Most Cited VLDB Journal publications (all years) according to Harzing Publish or Perish Tool (as of March 23rd, 2011)
- Ranked 4th Most Cited VLDB Journal Articles in 2008. Source: ISI Web of Knowledge, 18.08.2009

18)           B. Medjahed, A. Rezgui, A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani
Infrastructure for E-Government Web Services.
IEEE Internet Computing,
7(1), pages 58-65, January/February 2003.
[DOWNLOAD]

19)           A. Bouguettaya, M. Ouzzani, B Medjahed, J. Cameron
Managing Government Databases.
IEEE Computer,
34(2), pages 56-64, February 2001.
[DOWNLOAD]

Books

1)                B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya.
Service Composition for the Semantic Web.
Springer, 8(1), ISBN: 978-1-4419-8464-7, 191 pages, February 2011.
[Book Entry in Springer’s Web site]

Special Issues for Journals

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.
[Link to Special Issue]

Conferences & Workshops

1)                S.-E. Tbahriti, M. Mrissa, B. Medjahed, C. Ghedira, M. Berhamgi, J. Fayn.
Privacy-aware DaaS Services Composition.
22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2011,
Toulouse, France, August 2011.
[DOWNLOAD]

2)                S.-E. Tbahriti, B. Medjahed, Z. Malik, C. Ghedira, M. Mrissa.
Meerkat–A Dynamic Privacy Framework for Web Services.
2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2011,
Lyon, France, August 2011.
[DOWNLOAD]

3)                M. Barhamgi, K. Benouaret, D. Benslimane, A. Hadjali, C. Ghedira, B. Medjahed.
Ranking Skyline Web Service Compositions.
15th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2011,
Vienna, Austria, September 2011.
[DOWNLOAD]

4)                A. Alhosban, K. Hashmi, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed.
Assessing Fault Occurrence Likelihood for Service-Oriented Systems.
International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2011), Paphos, Cyprus, June 2011,
Acceptance Rate: 25% (22/88).
[DOWNLOAD]

5)                K. Hashmi, A. Alhosban, Z. Malik, B. Medjahed.
WebNeg: A Genetic Algorithm based Approach for Service Negotiation.
International conference on Web Services, ICWS'11, Washington D.C., July 2011.
Acceptance Rate: 13.7% (38/277).
[DOWNLOAD]

6)                B. Medjahed and Z. Malik.
Bottom-up Fault Management in Composite Web Services.
The 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering, CAiSE'11,
London, England, June 2011.
Acceptance Rate: 13% (42/320).
[DOWNLOAD]

7)                Z. Malik and B. Medjahed.
Trust Assessment for Web Services under Uncertainty.
10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC’10,
San Francisco, December 2010.
Acceptance Rate: 15% (33/238)
[DOWNLOAD]

8)                Z. Malik and B. Medjahed.
Maintaining Trustworthiness of Service Compositions.
International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology FIT,
Pakistan, December 2010.
[DOWNLOAD]

9)                M. Duran and B. Medjahed.
Fostering Interest in Information Technology (FI3T): Critical Framework.
20th International SITE Conference,
Charleston, South Carolina, March 2009.
[DOWNLOAD]

10)           B. Medjahed, 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.
[DOWNLOAD]

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

12)           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]

13)           M. S. Akram, B. Medjahed, A. Bouguettaya.
Supporting Dynamic Changes in Web Service Environments.
1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC’03,
Trento, Italy, December 2003.
Acceptance Rate: 20% (38/181).
[DOWNLOAD]

14)           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]

15)           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]

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

17)           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]

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

19)           A. Bouguettaya, A. Elmagarmid, B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani.
Ontology-based Support for Digital Government.
The 27th Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2001,
Roma, Italy, September 2001.
[DOWNLOAD]

20)           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]

21)           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, TES 2000,
Cairo, Egypt, September 2000.
[DOWNLOAD]

22)           H. Seba, B. Medjahed, M. Atroun.
Composite Conflict Serializability: A Criterion for Strong Correctness in Multidatabases. 
BDA'98 (French Database Conference),
Hamamet, Tunisia, October 1998.

23)           H. Seba, B. Medjahed, M. Atroun.
Preservation of Strong Correctness in Multidatabases
2nd National conference on Computer Science,
Biskra, Algeria, November 1997.

24)           B. Medjahed.
Serialization Graph Construction in Object Oriented Database Systems.
3rd International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS'97),
Algiers, Algeria, April 1997.

25)           B. Medjahed, N. Belkhodja.
On the Serializability for Nested Transactions.
3rd IASTED International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry,
Cairo, Egypt, December, 1994.

26)           B. Medjahed, N. Belkhodja. 
A Serializability Approach for Nested Transactions.
6th French Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (RenPar'6),
Lyon, France, June 1994.

27)           B. Medjahed, N. Belkhodja, M. Atroun.
Multilevel and Nested Transactions.
7th International Conference on Computer Systems (JISI'7),
Tunis, Tunisia, May 1994.

Book Chapters

1)                B. Medjahed, M. Ouzzani, A. Elmagarmid.
Generalization of ACID Properties.
In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu and T. Ozsu (Eds),
ISBN 978-0-387-35544-3 Springer-Verlag, April 2009.
[DOWNLOAD]

2)                M. Ouzzani, B. Medjahed, A. Elmagarmid.
Correctness Criteria beyond Serializability.
In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, L. Liu and T. Ozsu (Eds),
ISBN 978-0-387-35544-3 Springer-Verlag, April 2009.
[DOWNLOAD]

3)                B. Medjahed, W. Grosky.
A Notification Infrastructure for Semantic Agricultural Web Services.
In Metadata and Semantics, M. A. Sicilia and M. D. Lytras (Eds),
ISBN 978-0-387-77744-3, Springer-Verlag. October 2008.
[DOWNLOAD]

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]

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
 

Undergraduate Research Students

1.                 Zach Bridges (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

2.                 Brandon King (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

3.                 Jordan Lampi (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

4.                 Samer Abbas (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

5.                 Cory Woolf (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

6.                 Jonathon Green (Summer 2011, with Paul Watta)

7.                 Edward Malinowski (Fall 2009, with Paul Watta)

8.                 Robert Muir (Fall 2009, with Paul Watta)

9.                 Kristopher Bechamp (Fall 2009, with Paul Watta)

10.            Brandon King (Fall 20009, with Paul Watta)

11.            Matthew Hartzel (Fall 2009, with Paul Watta)

12.            Mark Wenske (since Fall 2008, with Bruce Elenbogen)

13.            Aaron Curley (Winter 2008).

Graduate Students

Ph.D.

1.     David Carver, Self-Healing Support for Service-Oriented Architectures, Information Systems Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, (Started in 09/2009).

M. Sc. Thesis

1.     Shamil Hadi, Change Detection in Service-Oriented Architectures (Graduated: July 2008).

2.     Olu Obembe, Duplicate Class Resolution by Proximity (Graduated: May 2009).

3.     Sirisha Duggineni, Transactional Support for Service-Oriented Architectures (Expected Graduation: December 2009)

M. Sc. Thesis Committee Member

1.     Viktor Aboyan, “Universal Protocol for Interoperability Between Course Management Systems Using Web Services”, CIS Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, February 2010.

2.     Lilit Yenokyan, Learning Model for Construction of the Best Decision Sequence Using Prior Knowledge, CIS Department, University of Michigan-Dearborn, October 2009.

3.     Rafayel Bezirganyan, Cellular Automata for Fluid Dynamics: Modeling and Implementation, CIS Department, UM-Dearborn, March 2009.

4.     Hyun Jeong Seok, Bulk-Loading and Deletion Techniques for Index Trees in Non-ordered Discrete Data Spaces, CIS Department, UM-Dearborn, January 2009.

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

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

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

M. Sc. Directed Projects

1.           David Carver (Fall 2005).

2.           Ramesh Akkineni (Fall 2005).

3.           Jennifer Durkee (Fall 2005).

4.           Dheeman Basu (Winter 2006).

5.           Roshini Bhala (Winter 2006).

6.           Srikant Vaishampayan (Summer 2006).

7.           Iyappan Ramasamy (Summer 2006).

8.           Vasumathi Raman (Summer 2006).

9.           Pankaja Balaji (Fall 2006).

10.      Tariq Alshugran (Winter 2007).

11.      Arpan Shah (Winter 2007).

12.      Daniel Miller (Summer 2007).

13.      Hassan Nasrollahzadeh (Summer 2007).

14.      Pradeep Vadde (Fall 2007).

15.      Mundher A. Al-Bakkal (Fall 2008)

16.      Vyacheslav Inger (Fall 2008)

17.      Kevin S. McClure (Fall 2008)

18.      Muniza Movania (Fall 2008)

19.      Mitulkumar Patel (Fall 2008)

20.      Gregory R. Kastelan (Winter 2009)

21.      Shruti Saraswat (Winter 2009)

22.      Samip Desai (Summer 2009)

23.      Lyndon King (Fall 2009)

24.      Dominik Lazarski (Winter 2010)

25.      Ali I. Cheaito (Fall 2010)

26.      Daren J. Iott (Winter 2010)

27.      David J. Terpstra (Winter 2010)

28.      Ahmad H. Almobarak (Winter 2011)

29.      Krishna Marur (Winter 2011)

30.      Neha D. Rahangdale (Winter 2011)

31.      David A. Werden (Winter 2011)

 

Professional Activities
 

Conference Organization

1.                 Program Vice-Chair, International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems, MobiWIS-2011.

2.                 Tutorial co-Chair: IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2009).

3.                 Publicity co-Chair: International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008).

Editorial Activities

1.                 Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Next-Generation Computing.

2.                 Guest Editor (with A. Bouguettaya and B. Benatallah) of a special issue on Semantic Web Services: Issues, Solutions, and Applications, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 8(1), November 2007.

Member of Conference Program Committees

1.                 Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA’11).

2.                 Intern. Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2011).

3.                 The Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2012).

4.                 Intern. Conference Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011).

5.                 Intern. Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2011).

6.                 Intern. Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2011).

7.                 International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2011)

8.                 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web intelligence, WI 2011.

9.                 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, CLOUD 2011.

10.            International Conference on Model Engineering and Data Engineering, DEMI’2011.

11.              Journées francophone sur les ontologies (JFO 2011) – French Conference on Ontology.

12.              Workshop sur les Services Web dans les Systèmes d’Information (WWS 2010), in French.

13.            The Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2010).

14.            International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2010).

15.            International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009).

16.            IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2009).

17.            IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2009).

18.              Journees francophone sur les ontologies (JFO 2009), in French.

19.            International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2009).

20.              Workshop on Web Services Composition and Adaptation (WSCA 2009).

21.            International Conference on Network-based Information Systems (NBiS 2009).

22.            IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2009).

23.            IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2009).

24.            The Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2009).

25.            International Conference Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009).

26.            International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS 2009).

27.            The First International Workshop on Data and Process Provenance (WDPP 2009)

28.            Workshop sur les Services Web dans les Systemes d Information (WWS 2009), in French.

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

30.            International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008)

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

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

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

34.            International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2008)

35.            IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2008).

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

37.            Journees francophone sur les ontologies (JFO 2008), in French.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

47.            International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2007)

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

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

50.            Journees francophone sur les ontologies (JFO 2007), in French.

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

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

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

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

55.            International Workshop on Engineering Semantic Agent Systems (ESAS 2006)

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

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

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

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

60.            Mobile and Wireless Learning Workshop, 2006.

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

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

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

64.            International Workshop for Context for Web Services (CWS 05).

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

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

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

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

69.            International Workshop on Electronic Contracting (WEC 04).

70.            International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing (IWUC 2004).

Reviewer for Journals

1.                 Data and Knowledge Engineering, 2007, 2008, 2009.

2.                 The VLDB Journal, 2009, 2010, 2011.

3.                 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2008, 2009, 2010.

4.                 Distributed and Parallel Databases, an International Journal, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

5.                 IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2009.

6.                 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2006, 2008, 2009.

7.                 World Wide Web Journal, 2010.

8.                 IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2009, 2010.

9.                 IEEE Computer 2007, 2008.

10.            IEEE Internet Computing, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011.

11.            ACM Transaction on the Web, 2007, 2008, 2010.

12.            ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 2006, 2007.

13.            ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2007, 2011.

14.            ACM Transactions in Autonomous Adaptive systems journal (ACM TAAS), 2011.

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

16.            IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2007

17.            International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems, 2005, 2006.

18.            Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, 2006.

19.            International Journal on Web Services Research, 2004, 2005.

20.            International Journal of Science and Technology, 2005.

21.            Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, 2004.

22.            ACM Computing Survey, 2001.

23.            Knowledge and Information Systems, 2000.

24.            International Journal of Information Technology, 1999.

 

 

 

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