@article {Chaouni2022251,
	title = {Alignment of Software System Level with Business Process Level: Resolving Syntactic and Semantic Conflicts},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {13},
	number = {7},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {251-262},
	abstract = {Information systems help organizations manage their entities with innovative technologies. These entities are often very different in nature. In this paper, we consider a business process level based on a set of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models and a software system level based on a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram. The differences between these entities make them difficult to align. In addition, an organization{\textquoteright}s BPMN models may be designed by different teams, which can cause syntactic and semantic heterogeneities. We present the first step of our proposed approach for aligning a software system level with a business process level without conflict (redundancy and lost information). Syntactic and semantic rules based on ontologies and other resources for comparing BPMN models are described, as well as a process for transforming BPMN models into UML model. {\textcopyright} 2022. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.All Rights Reserved},
	keywords = {Business Process, Business process model and notation, Business process modeling, Class diagrams, Computer software, Information management, Information system alignment, Information systems, Information use, Ontology, Ontology{\textquoteright}s, Semantic aspect, Semantics, Software-systems, Syntactics, Systems alignments, Unified Modeling Language},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130733},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135807702\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2022.0130733\&partnerID=40\&md5=c926fa84b9a85ef4d8f825d949952fb0},
	author = {Chaouni, S.B. and Habba, M. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {Tamir202273,
	title = {Conception of an Automatic Decision Support Platform Based on Cross-Sorting Methods and the Fuzzy Logic for General Use},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {73-81},
	abstract = {Problems related to the classification of a set of data (methods, tools{\textellipsis}), by using the opinions of a committee members, challenge the need for an effective treatment based on the theoretical methods developed through the literature. Indeed, this study was conducted to answer the need identified during the realization of a prioritization study of a graphic modeling methods set in order to develop it into a computing platform. This platform is based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and is destined for practical and general use. The developed platform uses fuzzy pairwise comparisons and cross-sorting methods. It consists of the calculation of two main results: the overall weight of each data to be classified and the consistency index. Regarding the use of fuzzy logic for calculating weights, we opt for the triangular function in the extension of the principle of least-squares logarithmic regression for taking into account the inaccuracy. Finally, the calculation of the normalized weight values can generate an irrational ordering of fuzzy number elements. In our previous work, we have tried to find the conditions on pairwise comparisons values to get rational outcomes, but the calculation was very heavy with the Matlab software. In addition, the modifications to make on the comparisons are multiple, not automatic and depend on the user{\textquoteright}s appreciation. The present work gives a classification solution of results in order to keep only input data (comparisons) that respect the rational order of the weights values. Then, an optimization algorithm is programmed to maximize the consistency indexes of this part of results, by allowing a limited margin of modification without greatly altering the initial data. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135093234\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_6\&partnerID=40\&md5=c4b7ba813043a527b2117d440b4bfe8e},
	author = {Tamir, M. and Chiheb, R. and Ouzayd, F. and Retmi, K.}
}
@article {Filali20222174,
	title = {Dynamic SDN-Based Radio Access Network Slicing With Deep Reinforcement Learning for URLLC and eMBB Services},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering},
	volume = {9},
	number = {4},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {2174-2187},
	abstract = {Radio access network (RAN) slicing is a key technology that enables 5G network to support heterogeneous requirements of generic services, namely ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). In this paper, we propose a two time-scales RAN slicing mechanism to optimize the performance of URLLC and eMBB services. In a large time-scale, an SDN controller allocates radio resources to gNodeBs according to the requirements of the eMBB and URLLC services. In a short time-scale, each gNodeB allocates its available resources to its end-users and requests, if needed, additional resources from adjacent gNodeBs. We formulate this problem as a non-linear binary program and prove its NP-hardness. Next, for each time-scale, we model the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP), where the large-time scale is modeled as a single agent MDP whereas the shorter time-scale is modeled as a multi-agent MDP. We leverage the exponential-weight algorithm for exploration and exploitation (EXP3) to solve the single-agent MDP of the large time-scale MDP and the multi-agent deep Q-learning (DQL) algorithm to solve the multi-agent MDP of the short time-scale resource allocation. Extensive simulations show that our approach is efficient under different network parameters configuration and it outperforms recent benchmark solutions. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	keywords = {5G mobile communication systems, Deep learning, EMBB, Heuristic algorithms, Heuristics algorithm, Learning algorithms, Low-latency communication, Markov processes, Multi agent systems, Network slicing, Optimisations, Optimization, Quality of service, Quality-of-service, Radio access networks, Reinforcement learning, Resource allocation, Resource Management, Software agents, Software defined networking, Software-defined networkings, Time measurement, Ultra reliable low latency communication, URLLC},
	doi = {10.1109/TNSE.2022.3157274},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126273319\&doi=10.1109\%2fTNSE.2022.3157274\&partnerID=40\&md5=44d6a41c3d7b8b6d8c4d6918856f36c5},
	author = {Filali, A. and Mlika, Z. and Cherkaoui, S. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@conference {Habibi2022462,
	title = {Effect of Features Extraction and Selection on the Evaluation of Machine Learning Models},
	booktitle = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
	volume = {55},
	number = {12},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {462-467},
	abstract = {The exponential growth of sophisticated malware attacks against computer systems, has alerted IT security experts on the shortcomings of traditional protection tools because, they became unable to detect new families of malware that are more advanced and use advanced tools such as polymorphism, metamorphism, and obfuscation tools. Nowadays, machine learning is widely used in several IT fields; and also in cybersecurity, and can be an essential tool for malware detection, moreover, it can go beyond the limits of classic malware detection methods, such as the signature-based method, the anomaly-based method and the hybrid-based method, etc. The purpose of this study is to analyze the feature selection and extraction effects on the performance of malware classification model using machine learning. The results show that reducing dimensionality of datasets can help to improve the efficiency of security models in restricted time but with high performance, Random Forest using chi-square achieves an accuracy of 99.51\%. {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {ANN, Cybersecurity, Decision trees, Extraction, Feature extraction, Features extraction, KNN, Logistic regression, Logistics regressions, Machine-learning, Malware, Malware detection, Network security, Performance, random forest, Random forests},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.07.355},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137165053\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ifacol.2022.07.355\&partnerID=40\&md5=b3575cc26a69761120b672e3d94e63c0},
	author = {Habibi, O. and Chemmakha, M. and Lazaar, M.}
}
@article {Derrouz20225561,
	title = {End-to-end quantum-inspired method for vehicle classification based on video stream},
	journal = {Neural Computing and Applications},
	volume = {34},
	number = {7},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {5561-5576},
	abstract = {Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are the most widely used systems for road traffic management. The vehicle type classification (VTC) is a crucial ITS task due to its capability to gather valuable traffic information. However, designing a performant VTC method is challenging due to the considerable intra-class variation of vehicles. This paper presents a new quantum decision-based method for VTC applied to video streaming. This method allows for earlier decision-making by considering a few stream{\textquoteright}s images. Our method is threefold. First, the video stream is acquired and preprocessed following a specific pipeline. Second, we aim to detect and track vehicles. Therefore, we apply a deep learning-based model to detect vehicles, and then a vehicle tracking algorithm is used to track each detected vehicle. Third, we seek to classify the tracked vehicle according to six defined classes. Furthermore, we transform the tracked vehicles according to a pipeline, consisting of the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and principal component analysis (PCA) methods. Then, we estimate the vehicles{\textquoteright} probabilities of belonging to each class by training multilayer perceptron (MLP) classifier with the resulting features. To assign a class to a vehicle, we apply a quantum-inspired probability integrator that handles each frame{\textquoteright}s information flow. The unique characteristics of the work we propose, compared to the existing ones, are expressed in the decision-making process, since the former requires a sequence of frames of different sizes, compared to the image-based-decision made by the other methods. Our method outperformed the baseline methods with an accuracy up to 96\%. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.},
	keywords = {Classification (of information), Decision making, Decisions makings, Deep learning, Early decision, Early decision making, End to end, Intelligent systems, Intelligent transportation systems, Intelligent vehicle highway systems, Pipelines, Principal component analysis, Quantum inspired algorithm, Tracked vehicles, Type classifications, Vehicle classification, Vehicle type classification, Vehicle types, Video streaming},
	doi = {10.1007/s00521-021-06718-9},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122251939\&doi=10.1007\%2fs00521-021-06718-9\&partnerID=40\&md5=8e1d19359f8245b2f82d8558670d4ba1},
	author = {Derrouz, H. and Cabri, A. and Ait Abdelali, H. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Bourzeix, F. and Rovetta, S. and Masulli, F.}
}
@article {Badaoui2022646,
	title = {Fuzzy Centrality Measures: A Survey},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {505 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {646-654},
	abstract = {Most real-world problems can be pictured as a set of connections and interactions between various entities. Together, these entities create a complex phenomenon investigated in the form of complex networks. Each of the entities in the network plays a particular role in the definition of the structure and the analysis of the studied problem. Several measures of centrality have been proposed in the literature to estimate the contribution and quantify the relevance of network entities. The most influential nodes are defined either locally, via the measurement of their connections with their directly related neighbors, or globally, via the measurement of the importance of their neighbors or their relevance in terms of contribution to the fast propagation of information based on the shortest paths. Due to the incompleteness of real-world data, crisp representations do not adequately describe the problem. Therefore, fuzzy graphs have been proposed to give more realistic representations by taking into account the uncertainties present in data. This paper proposes a state of the art of fuzzy centrality measures with a focus on proposed studies on urban traffic networks. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-09176-6_72},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135013682\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-09176-6_72\&partnerID=40\&md5=20f3763938d5a04e48899262e6cbc4e9},
	author = {Badaoui, F.-E. and Boulmakoul, A. and Lbath, A. and Thami, R.O.H. and Cherradi, G. and Karim, L. and Bouziri, A.E.}
}
@article {Miloudi2022191,
	title = {The Impact of Instance Selection Algorithms on Maintenance Effort Estimation for Open-Source Software},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {470 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {191-201},
	abstract = {Open-source software are very used nowadays in the industry, and the performance of the estimation of their maintenance effort becomes an interesting research topic. In this context, researchers have conducted many open-source software maintenance effort estimation (O-MEE) studies based on statistical and machine learning (ML) techniques for better estimation. This study focuses on the impact of instance selection on the performance of ML techniques in O-MEE, mainly for bug resolution. An empirical study was conducted using three techniques: K-nearest neighbor (kNN), support vector machine (SVM), and multinomial na{\"\i}ve Bayes (MNB) using all-kNN instance selection algorithms on three datasets: Eclipse JDT, Eclipse Platform, and Mozilla Thunderbird datasets. This study reports on a set of 18 experiments and a comparison of the results. The results of this study show that instance selection helped make ML techniques more performant. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-04829-6_17},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130234489\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-04829-6_17\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ac0a2d5915327c057f3ec68815ba211},
	author = {Miloudi, C. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A. and Abran, A.}
}
@conference {Chemmakha2022771,
	title = {Improving Machine Learning Models for Malware Detection Using Embedded Feature Selection Method},
	booktitle = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
	volume = {55},
	number = {12},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {771-776},
	abstract = {Machine learning performance always rely on relevant phase of pre-processing, that includes dataset cleaning, cleansing and extraction. Feature selection (FS) is a crucial phase too, because it is intended to increase the efficiency of Machine Learning (ML) models in terms of predictiveness, by assigning a representative value to the most important features in a dataset of malware. In this study, we focus on feature selection using embedded-based methods in order to minimize computational time and complexity of ML models. Embedded-based methods combine advantages of both filter-based and wrapped-based methods, in terms of studying the importance of features while executing the model and their reduced time of execution. Applying ML models shows a high stability of models will selecting 10 most relevant features from the dataset, with an accuracy that achieve 99.47\%, 99.02\% for respectively Random Forest (RF) and XGBoost (XGB). {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier B.V.. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {ANN, Decision trees, feature selection, Features selection, Lightgbm, Machine learning models, Machine-learning, Malware, Malware detection, Random forests, support vector machine, Support vector machines, Support vectors machine, Xgboost},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.07.406},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137157154\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ifacol.2022.07.406\&partnerID=40\&md5=4c66048ed61a71abdde00c73a3839bbc},
	author = {Chemmakha, M. and Habibi, O. and Lazaar, M.}
}
@article {Elouatouat2022675,
	title = {Integral Sliding Mode Control for DFIG Based Wind Energy Conversion System Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {455 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {675-684},
	abstract = {This paper presents a robust control method for controlling the powers of a wind turbine based on a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) using an integral sliding mode control (ISMC). The sliding gain of the proposed controller is optimized through an artificial intelligence algorithm called ant colony optimization (ACO). The proposed controller is compared to the conventional PI controller in which the ACO is also used to tune the kp and ki gains (ACO_PI). The simulation results indicate that the proposed ACO_ISMC controller has high accuracy, fast response time, and minimal integral time absolute error (ITAE) compared to the ACO_PI controller. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-02447-4_70},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130376806\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-02447-4_70\&partnerID=40\&md5=1838b3a52b0bd684ed18b42ff73f7780},
	author = {Elouatouat, H. and Essadki, A. and Nasser, T. and Chojaa, H.}
}
@article {Elhachmi2022456,
	title = {Interactive Large-Scale Graph Visualization and Analysis for Social Networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {455 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {456-465},
	abstract = {Dramatic popularity and prevalence of online social networking services have involved an increase of members publicly who articulate mutual {\textquotedblleft}friendship{\textquotedblright} relations. Therefore, people have shown a great need to exchange information, share data, and adopt innovations in social networking applications. Data exchange has become the backbone of the economy on a global scale. In this paper, we investigate the Interactive Large-Scale Graph Visualization and Analysis of Social Networks that can process large-scale data. We have adopted a concrete large-scale corporate social networking site to realize this work; however, the approach can be easily generalized to other Social Networks. The problem is first stated as clearly as possible, and the social network is formulated as a joint optimization problem of graph selection. Then we have proposed some low-complexity search algorithms. The simulation results prove that our approach achieves good performance with a much lower computational complexity. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-02447-4_47},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130348236\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-02447-4_47\&partnerID=40\&md5=162443e9c9f4e03e533664cde1fb7e60},
	author = {Elhachmi, J. and Cheikhani, Y.}
}
@conference {Miloudi2022,
	title = {Maintenance Effort Estimation for Open Source Software: Current trends},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {3272},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Software maintenance of Open Source Software (OSS) has gained more attention in recent years and facilitated by the help of the Internet. Since volunteers in OSS do not record the effort of their contribution in maintenance tasks, researchers have to indirectly estimate the maintenance effort of such software. A review of the published OSS-MEE models has been performed using a set of 65 selected studies in a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS). This study analyses, discusses the state of the art about O-MEE and identifies trends through five additional Mapping Questions (MQs). In summary, various maintenance effort estimation (MEE) models were developed for OSS or industrial software. Researchers have mostly expressed the maintenance effort in terms of bug fixing, bug resolution time and severity in conjunction with bug report attributes. Regression Analysis and Bayesian Networks were most used estimation techniques, Recall, Precision, R2 and F-measure evaluation criteria in addition to k-fold cross validation method. Most of the models were implemented using WEKA, R software and MATLAB. More than half of the selected studies lacked of any validity analysis of their results. Trends are also discussed to identify a set of implications for researchers. {\textcopyright} 2020 Copyright for this paper by its authors.},
	keywords = {{\textquoteright}current, Bayesian networks, Bug-fixing, Computer software maintenance, Effort Estimation, Effort estimation model, Industrial software, Maintenance efforts, Maintenance tasks, Mapping, MATLAB, Open source software, Open systems, Open-source softwares, Regression analysis, State of the art, Systematic mapping studies},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85142872497\&partnerID=40\&md5=d5e99ad4babcbb3a4fd5f50001fae51c},
	author = {Miloudi, C. and Cheikhi, L. and Abran, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Clero2022,
	title = {Monitoring Of Geotechnical Instabilities at Deep Underground Mines, Case of Draa Sfar Mine, Morocco},
	booktitle = {World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The scope of this paper concerns the identification of underground geotechnical instabilities and the analysis of the rock mass monitoring data at deep underground mines, taking as a study case Draa Sfar mine in Morocco. In fact, geotechnical conditions complexity increases in the mine{\textquoteright}s deeper levels. Therefore, rock mass behaviour analysis, on-site geotechnical instrumentation and continuous monitoring of the medium are strongly required to avoid geotechnical risks. In this context, this paper focuses on presenting, first, a general state of the art about the most frequent rock mass instabilities encountered in the underground media, their classification, and their monitoring methods. In the following section, this paper provides general information about Draa Sfar mine and presents its geotechnical monitoring data analysis. At the end, conclusions about the current monitoring results and perspectives about innovative instrumentation solutions are discussed. {\textcopyright} 2022, Avestia Publishing. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11159/icgre22.212},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139066071\&doi=10.11159\%2ficgre22.212\&partnerID=40\&md5=58c00b8254f4f94cb74bf2d21ae22607},
	author = {Clero, K. and Ed-Diny, S. and Soror, T. and Rziki, S. and Achalhi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Boanarijesy, A.}
}
@conference {Rachidi202213,
	title = {Network intrusion detection using Machine Learning approach},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {13-17},
	abstract = {Today, intrusion detection has become an active research area. Due to the rapidly increasing number of intrusion variants, intrusion detection system analyses and notifies the activities of users as normal (or) anomaly. In our paper, we built a model of intrusion detection system applied to the NSL-KDD data set using different supervised classifiers such as KNN and Na{\"\i}ve Bayes. We also proposed two algorithms for multi-classification based on the Random Forest (RF) which is an ensemble classifier and KNN. Then we used the K-folds method to evaluate and validate our model. To evaluate the performances, we realized experiments on NSL-KDD data set. The result shows that the second proposed algorithm is efficient with high accuracy and time optimization. {\textcopyright} 2022 ACM.},
	keywords = {Barium compounds, Classification (of information), Computer crime, data set, Decision trees, Intrusion detection, Intrusion Detection Systems, Intrusion-Detection, Machine learning, Machine learning approaches, Multi-classification, Network intrusion detection, NSL-KDD, Random forests, Research areas, Sodium compounds, Supervised classifiers},
	doi = {10.1145/3551690.3551693},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139141127\&doi=10.1145\%2f3551690.3551693\&partnerID=40\&md5=e47a5f8038487b706673543f7fdf2de4},
	author = {Rachidi, Z. and Chougdali, K. and Kobbane, A. and Ben-Othman, J.}
}
@article {ElHaddaoui2022529,
	title = {On the Sensitivity of LSTMs to Hyperparameters and Word Embeddings in the Context of Sentiment Analysis},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {529-542},
	abstract = {Recurrent neural networks are still providing excellent results in sentiment analysis tasks, variants such as LSTM and Bidirectional LSTM have become a reference for building fast and accurate predictive models. However, such performance is difficult to obtain due to the complexity of the models and the hyperparameters choice. LSTM based models can easily overfit to the studied domain, and tuning the hyperparameters to get the desired model is the keystone of the training process. In this work, we provide a study on the sensitivity of a selection of LSTM based models to various hyperparameters and we highlight important aspects to consider while using similar models in the context of sentiment analysis. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_40},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135093996\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_40\&partnerID=40\&md5=695a2003d02e28d6d72df06cca749381},
	author = {El Haddaoui, B. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {Abouaomar2022,
	title = {Service Function Chaining in MEC: A Mean-Field Game and Reinforcement Learning Approach},
	journal = {IEEE Systems Journal},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-12},
	abstract = {Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) and network virtualization technologies are important enablers for fifth generation networks to deliver diverse services. Services are often provided as fully connected virtual network functions (VNFs), through service function chaining (SFC). However, the problem of allocating SFC resources at the edge still faces many challenges related to the way VNFs are placed, chained, and scheduled. In this article, to solve these problems, we propose a game theory-based approach with the objective to reduce service latency in the context of SFC at the edge. The problem of allocating SFC resources can be divided into two subproblems: 1) the VNF placement and routing subproblem, and 2) the VNF scheduling subproblem. For the former subproblem, we formulate it as a mean-field game in which VNFs are contending over edge resources aiming at reducing the resource consumption of MEC nodes and reducing latency for users. We also propose a reinforcement learning-based technique, where the Ishikawa{\textendash}Mann learning algorithm is used. For the later subproblem, we formulate it as a matching game between VFNs and edge resources to find the execution order of the VNFs while reducing the latency. To efficiently solve it, we propose a modified version of the many-to-one deferred acceptance algorithm (DAA), called the enhanced multistep DAA. To illustrate the performance of the proposed approaches, we perform extensive simulations. The results show that the approaches achieve up to 40\% less resource consumption, and up to 38\% less latency than the benchmarked state-of-the-art methods. IEEE},
	keywords = {Computation theory, Computer games, Edge computing, Game, Game theory, Learning algorithms, Network function virtualization, Problem solving, Processor scheduling, Reinforcement learning, Resource allocation, Resource allocation/provisioning, Resource Management, Resources allocation, Routings, Scheduling, Service function chaining, Service functions, Transfer functions, Virtual reality, Virtualizations},
	doi = {10.1109/JSYST.2022.3171232},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85131721006\&doi=10.1109\%2fJSYST.2022.3171232\&partnerID=40\&md5=e7ecad4d011f9a66bf06f1e9f3f4d176},
	author = {Abouaomar, A. and Cherkaoui, S. and Mlika, Z. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Rachih202243,
	title = {Simulation optimization of an inventory control model for a reverse logistics system},
	journal = {Decision Science Letters},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {43-54},
	abstract = {Nowadays, companies are recognizing their primordial roles and responsibilities towards the protection of the environment and save the natural resources. They are focusing on some contemporary activities such as Reverse Logistics which is economically and environmentally viable. However, the integration of such an initiative needs flows restructuring and supply chain management in order to increase sustainability and maximize profits. Under this background, this paper addresses an inventory control model for a reverse logistics system that deals with two separated types of demand, for new products and remanufactured products, with different selling prices. The model consists of a single shared machine between production and remanufacturing operations, while the machine is subject to random failures and repairs. Three stock points respectively for returns, new products and remanufactured products are investigated. Meanwhile, in this paper, a modeling of the problem with Discrete-Event simulation using Arena{\textregistered} was conducted. Regarding the purpose of finding, a near-optimal inventory control policy that minimizes the total cost, an optimization of the model based on Tabu Search and Genetic Algorithms was established. Computational examples and sensitivity analysis were performed in order to compare the results and the robustness of each proposed algorithm. Then the results of the two methods were compared with those of OptQuest{\textregistered} optimization tool. {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors; doi:.},
	doi = {10.5267/j.dsl.2021.9.001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122133768\&doi=10.5267\%2fj.dsl.2021.9.001\&partnerID=40\&md5=d46c9884d1a5aa28b8b6d404febf6820},
	author = {Rachih, H. and Mhada, F.Z. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Yousfi2022,
	title = {Smart big data framework for insight discovery},
	journal = {Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {Big Data deal with new challenges such as data variety, data veracity (correct, incorrect, misleading, etc.) and data completeness (provide a single part of the overall information.). In fact, the knowledge discovered from a single source that can offer incorrect or incomplete data, may have a negative impact on the quality of decisions based on it. Therefore, integrating data coming from multiple sources allows verifying the veracity and ensuring the completeness of the results and thus improving the quality of analysis and enhancing business decisions. In this paper, we present a smart framework that falls within the Big Data value chain process and aims to improve the quality of analytical results by focusing two main concerns regarding Big Data Integration; data completeness and data veracity. The framework integrates Big Data in order to build a complete global and correct insight from heterogeneous sources. The paper presents two implementations of the framework in the context of urban and highway traffic management systems. {\textcopyright} 2021},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jksuci.2021.12.009},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122932927\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.jksuci.2021.12.009\&partnerID=40\&md5=16742da4bfac0205224464c7c43d3855},
	author = {Yousfi, S. and Chiadmi, D. and Rhanoui, M.}
}
@article {Choukri2022274,
	title = {Towards a Generic Architecture of Context-Aware and Intentional System},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {274-285},
	abstract = {Context-awareness is a vital character of IoT and pervasive systems, helping to understand user needs with minimum human intervention. Furthermore, the context-awareness must be completed with Intentionality to improve the accuracy of delivering suitable service for a user.~Most proposed approaches focus on the context{\textquoteright}s static nature but don{\textquoteright}t give enough importance to the user{\textquoteright}s intention and context{\textquoteright}s dynamic nature. Then bringing Intentionality to context-awareness methods is an open-ended research topic with many challenges and opportunities for innovation.~The key issue of our research is enhancing the relationship between the user{\textquoteright}s context and intention based on a situation-centered approach.~This paper proposes a situation-centric meta model by providing practitioners with architecture to develop a context-sensitive intentional service, improving the relationship between the user{\textquoteright}s context and the intention. An illustrative example is provided to explain the proposed architecture using E-tourism as a case study. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_21},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135023098\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_21\&partnerID=40\&md5=662991c2127148e7ca986dc0d03cda9c},
	author = {Choukri, I. and Guermah, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Elmidaoui2022202,
	title = {Towards a Taxonomy of Software Maintainability Predictors: A Detailed View},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {470 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {202-210},
	abstract = {To help practitioners and researchers choose the most suitable predictors when selecting from existing Software Product Maintainability Prediction (SPMP) models or designing new ones, a literature review of empirical studies on SPMP identified a large number of metrics or factors used as predictors of maintainability. However, there is a redundancy and ambiguity in both the naming and meaning of these predictors. To address this terminology issue, a one-level taxonomy of the SPMP predictors identified in the literature review have been proposed. This paper now proposes a more detailed two-level taxonomy where the first level refers to four categories, namely, software design, software size, quality attributes (or factors), and software process, the second to sub-categories, and predictors inventoried from empirical studies on SPMP. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-04829-6_18},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130308935\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-04829-6_18\&partnerID=40\&md5=e8e2d1411e399bbdb041c3d9d26ccad6},
	author = {Elmidaoui, S. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A. and Abran, A.}
}
@article {Habba2021174,
	title = {Aligning Software System Level with Business Process Level through Model-Driven Architecture},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {12},
	number = {10},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {174-183},
	abstract = {Information systems are intended to provide organisations with a new way of sustaining themselves, by helping them manage their activities using innovative technologies. Information systems require aligned levels for maximum effectiveness. In this context, business and information technology (IT) alignment is an important issue for the success of organisations. This paper presents the first step of the proposed approach to align the software system level, modelled by a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram, with the business process level, modelled by the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) model. A model-driven architecture approach is proposed as a means to transform a set of BPMN models into a UML class diagram. A set of transformation rules is proposed, followed by guidelines that help apply those rules. {\textcopyright} 2021},
	keywords = {Business Process, Business process model and notation (BPMN), Computer software, Information management, Information systems, Information use, Innovative technology, Model driven architectures, Model-driven architecture approaches, Software architecture, Software design, Transformation rules, UML class diagrams, Unified Modeling Language, Unified modeling language class diagrams},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121020},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119658852\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2021.0121020\&partnerID=40\&md5=dcda8435272d6d8736ff7112ffa683f0},
	author = {Habba, M. and Fredj, M. and Chaouni, S.B.}
}
@article {Illi2021261,
	title = {Analysis of Asymmetric Dual-Hop Energy Harvesting-Based Wireless Communication Systems in Mixed Fading Environments},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {261-277},
	abstract = {This work investigates the performance of a dual-hop energy harvesting-based fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relaying communication system, subject to fading impairments. We consider a source node ( {S} ) communicating with a destination node ( {D} ), either directly or through a fixed distant relay ( {R} ), which harvests energy from its received signals and uses it to amplify and forward the received signals to {D}. We also consider maximal-ratio combining at {D} to combine the signals coming from {S} and {R}. Both power-splitting and time-switching energy harvesting protocols are investigated. The {S}\,\,-\,\,{R} link is modeled by Nakagami- {m} fading model, while the {R}\,\,-\,\,{D} and {S}\,\,-\,\,{D} links experience \alpha - μ fading. Closed-form expressions for the statistical properties of the total signal-to-noise ratio are derived, based on which novel closed-form expressions are then derived for the average symbol error rate as well as for the average channel capacity, considering four different adaptive transmission policies. The derived expressions are validated through Monte Carlo simulations. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Adaptive transmission policy, Amplify-and-forward relaying, Average channel capacities, Average symbol error rate (SER), Channel capacity, Closed-form expression, Energy harvesting, Maximal ratio combining (MRC), Monte Carlo methods, Signal to noise ratio, Statistical properties, Wireless communication system},
	doi = {10.1109/TGCN.2020.3035512},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103177403\&doi=10.1109\%2fTGCN.2020.3035512\&partnerID=40\&md5=8bfc86e88ca31e88a392a44a37280141},
	author = {Illi, E. and Bouanani, F.E. and Sofotasios, P.C. and Muhaidat, S. and Costa, D.B.D. and Ayoub, F. and Al-Fuqaha, A.}
}
@article {Chaayra202133,
	title = {A Closed-Form Approximation to the Distribution for the Sum of Independent Non-identically Generalized Gamma Variates and Applications},
	journal = {Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {33-44},
	abstract = {Evaluating the sum of independent and not necessarily identically distributed (i.n.i.d) random variables (RVs) is essential to study different variables linked to various scientific fields, particularly, in wireless communication channels. However, it is difficult to evaluate the distribution of this sum when the number of RVs increases. Consequently, the complex contour integral will be difficult to determine. Considering this issue, a more accurate approximation of the distribution function is required. By assuming the probability density function (PDF) of a generalized gamma (GG) RV evaluated in terms of a proper subset H1,0 class of Fox{\textquoteright}s H-function (FHF) and the moment-based approximation to estimate the FHF parameters, a closed-form tight approximate expression for the distribution of the sum of i.n.i.d GG RVs and a sufficient condition for the convergence are investigated. The proposed approximate may be an analytical useful tool for analyzing the performance of certain numbers branch maximal-ratio combining receivers subject to GG fading channels. Hence, various closed-form performance metrics are derived and examined in terms of FHF. Numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the theoretical results. {\textcopyright} 2021. All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.18280/mmep.080104},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103500309\&doi=10.18280\%2fmmep.080104\&partnerID=40\&md5=128310fba0422f48576654498e755104},
	author = {Chaayra, T. and Ben-Azza, H. and Bouanani, F.E.}
}
@conference {Choukri2021,
	title = {Context aware Hidden Markov Model for Intention process mining},
	booktitle = {5th International Conference on Intelligent Computing in Data Sciences, ICDS 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Nowadays, the omnipresence of digital devices and solutions in daily life made the digital footprints of individuals and the traces of their activities widely available. Smart devices generate a tremendous amount of data that and enables tracking their users{\textquoteright} activity. Extensive research has been conducted to produce generic process models based on the analysis of user{\textquoteright}s activity recorded during the enactment of operational processes. Unfortunately, these approaches considered only the relation between the observed activities and their sequences to infer the underlying process. Thus, ignoring the goal conditioning the user{\textquoteright}s behavior when triggering the actual process. Nevertheless, the same activity traces could serve to unhide the intention behind each process. This article will focus on presenting our approach to Contextual intention mining using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). This approach explores the close relationships between intention and context to construct the process model while ensuring consistency between observed context and actual intentions. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Behavioral research, Context, Data mining, Digital devices, Event logs, Goal mining, Goal models, Hidden Markov models, Information systems, Information use, Intention-oriented process modeling, Intentional process modeling, Machine learning, Markov modeling, Oriented process, Process Discovery, Process engineering, Process mining, Process recommendation, Process-aware information systems, Process-models, Supervised learning, Unsupervised learning, User profile},
	doi = {10.1109/ICDS53782.2021.9626765},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123483088\&doi=10.1109\%2fICDS53782.2021.9626765\&partnerID=40\&md5=d61fab7bfc96ede4658a8984da68ef3f},
	author = {Choukri, I. and Guermah, H. and Daosabah, A. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Chakib2021320,
	title = {Contribution of Variable Speed Wind Turbine Generator Based on DFIG Using ADRC and RST Controllers to Frequency Regulation},
	journal = {International Journal of Renewable Energy Research},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {320-331},
	abstract = {In the interconnected power systems, there must always be a balance between the amount of electricity produced and the amount of electricity consumed in order to keep the grid frequency stable and nearby to its nominal value. Therefore, any change in consumption can lead to imbalance, instability, load shedding and system frequency disturbances. With the increase of wind energy penetration level in the electrical network, it has become necessary to make wind generators participate in frequency regulation. The fundamental objective of this research paper is to investigate the ability of wind turbine at variable speed equipped with doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) to contribute in the grid frequency regulation. For the purpose of the contribution in the frequency regulation, the wind turbine system must inject a supplementary power support into the electrical network. To do that, two control strategies are adopted: the first one is the synthetic inertia control which uses the kinetic energy reserved and stocked in the turbine and generator rotors of the wind system. The second one is the droop frequency control which includes the deloading method that allows to the VSWT to create a certain reserve active power. Then, each of these control techniques is implemented and their performances are evaluated in case of frequency variation. Moreover, the control structure that uses the combination of these two techniques is also implemented and studied. The active disturbance rejection control strategy (ADRC), the classical PI controller and the polynomial RST controller have been adopted to command the rotor side converter (RSC) of the DFIG which allows it to provide, in case of frequency fault, a support for the power system into the grid by adjusting the rotor speed. The performance of these controllers are tested and compared and the simulation is performed by MATLAB/Simulink simulation software. {\textcopyright} 2021, International Journal of Renewable Energy Research. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Active disturbances rejection controls, Asynchronous generators, Control strategies, Controllers, Deloading method, Disturbance rejection, Doubly fed induction generators, Droop control strategies, Electric fault currents, Electric load shedding, Electric machine control, Electric power generation, Electric power system control, Electric power transmission networks, Frequency regulations, Inertia control strategy, Kinetic energy, Kinetics, MATLAB, Software testing, Turbogenerators, Variable speed wind turbine system, Variable speed wind turbines, Wind power, Wind Turbine Generators, Wind turbine systems},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85104004530\&partnerID=40\&md5=b73f8dda0c74fb1904944b96c7b3b388},
	author = {Chakib, M. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A.}
}
@article {Cherkaoui-Semmouni202142,
	title = {Cryptanalysis of RSA Variants with Primes Sharing Most Significant Bits},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {13118 LNCS},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {42-53},
	abstract = {We consider four variants of the RSA cryptosystem with an RSA modulus N= pq where the public exponent e and the private exponent d satisfy an equation of the form ed- k(p2- 1 ) (q2- 1 ) = 1. We show that, if the prime numbers p and q share most significant bits, that is, if the prime difference | p- q| is sufficiently small, then one can solve the equation for larger values of d, and factor the RSA modulus, which makes the systems insecure. {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Artificial intelligence, Computers, Continued fraction, Coppersmith{\textquoteright}s method, Cryptography, Lattice reduction, Most significant bit, Prime differences, Prime number, RSA cryptosystems, RSA moduli, RSA variant, S-method, Security of data},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-91356-4_3},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121867699\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-91356-4_3\&partnerID=40\&md5=c9be6e3c3f4c8ed53f31b0bad5cba512},
	author = {Cherkaoui-Semmouni, M. and Nitaj, A. and Susilo, W. and Tonien, J.}
}
@conference {Abouaomar2021273,
	title = {A deep reinforcement learning approach for service migration in MEC-enabled vehicular networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN},
	volume = {2021-October},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {273-280},
	abstract = {Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is a key enabler to reduce the latency of vehicular network. Due to the vehicles mobility, their requested services (e.g., infotainment services) should frequently be migrated across different MEC servers to guarantee their stringent quality of service requirements. In this paper, we study the problem of service migration in a MEC-enabled vehicular network in order to minimize the total service latency and migration cost. This problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer program and is linearized to help obtaining the optimal solution using off-the-shelf solvers. Then, to obtain an efficient solution, it is modeled as a multi-agent Markov decision process and solved by leveraging deep Q learning (DQL) algorithm. The proposed DQL scheme performs a proactive services migration while ensuring their continuity under high mobility constraints. Finally, simulations results show that the proposed DQL scheme achieves close-to-optimal performance. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Deep learning, Edge computing, Infotainment, Integer programming, Learning schemes, Markov processes, Multi agent systems, Multi-access edge computing, Multiaccess, Q-learning, Quality of service, Reinforcement learning, Reinforcement learning approach, Service migration, Vehicle mobility, Vehicular networks},
	doi = {10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524882},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118466383\&doi=10.1109\%2fLCN52139.2021.9524882\&partnerID=40\&md5=8e35dfee04f347da3f757f57f5d575c8},
	author = {Abouaomar, A. and Mlika, Z. and Filali, A. and Cherkaoui, S. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {CHLIOUI20211039,
	title = {Ensemble case based reasoning imputation in breast cancer classification},
	journal = {Journal of Information Science and Engineering},
	volume = {37},
	number = {5},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1039-1051},
	abstract = {Missing Data (MD) is a common drawback that affects breast cancer classification. Thus, handling missing data is primordial before building any breast cancer classifier. This paper presents the impact of using ensemble Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) imputation on breast cancer classification. Thereafter, we evaluated the influence of CBR using parameter tuning and ensemble CBR (E-CBR) with three missingness mechanisms (MCAR: Missing completely at random, MAR: Missing at random and NMAR: not missing at random) and nine percentages (10\% to 90\%) on the accuracy rates of five classifiers: Decision trees, Random forest, K-nearest neighbor, Support vector machine and Multi-layer perceptron over two Wisconsin breast cancer datasets. All experiments were implemented using Weka JAVA API code 3.8; SPSS v20 was used for statistical tests. The findings confirmed that E-CBR yields to better results compared to CBR for the five classifiers. The MD percentage affects negatively the classifier performance: As the MD percentage increases, the accuracy rates of the classifier decrease regardless the MD mechanism and technique. RF with E-CBR outperformed all the other combinations (MD technique, classifier) with 89.72\% for MCAR, 87.08\% for MAR and 86.84\% for NMAR. {\textcopyright} 2021 Institute of Information Science. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Accuracy rate, Breast Cancer, Breast cancer classifications, Cancer classifier, Case based reasoning, Case-based reasoning imputation, Casebased reasonings (CBR), Classification (of information), Data handling, Decision trees, Diseases, Ensemble, Missing at randoms, Missing data, Nearest neighbor search, Parameters tuning, Support vector machines},
	doi = {10.6688/JISE.202109_37(5).0004},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115966179\&doi=10.6688\%2fJISE.202109_37\%285\%29.0004\&partnerID=40\&md5=97c15046a8900f9df38ec3430801c844},
	author = {Chlioui, I. and Idri, A. and Abnane, I. and EZZAT, M.}
}
@article {Li20212522,
	title = {Error Rate Analysis of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access with Residual Hardware Impairments},
	journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
	volume = {25},
	number = {8},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {2522-2526},
	abstract = {In this letter, the impact of residual hardware impairment (RHI) on the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is investigated by taking into account the effect of imperfect successive interference cancellation (ipSIC). The new exact and asymptotic pairwise error probability (PEP) expressions with RHI under ipSIC are derived over Rayleigh fading channels. The asymptotic PEP expression is subsequently utilized to quantify the diversity orders achieved by NOMA users in the presence of RHI. In particular, we show that the effective diversity order of each NOMA user equals to user{\textquoteright}s order for both ideal and non-ideal (RHI) scenarios. Leveraging the derived PEP, the union bound on the bit error rate of NOMA users are further evaluated. We demonstrate that the impact of RHI with ipSIC on each user{\textquoteright}s error rate performance is negligible. In contrast, when perfect SIC is considered, such effects are significant. Numerical and Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to corroborate the analysis. {\textcopyright} 1997-2012 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Bit error rate, Block codes, Diversity order, Error rate analysis, Error rate performance, Errors, Fading channels, Monte Carlo methods, Multiple access, Multiple access interference, Non-orthogonal, Pair-wise error probability, Rayleigh fading, Successive interference cancellations, Trellis codes, Union bounds},
	doi = {10.1109/LCOMM.2021.3075064},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105057184\&doi=10.1109\%2fLCOMM.2021.3075064\&partnerID=40\&md5=1e766a8345ee4978c94bd28545d8aaee},
	author = {Li, M. and Bouanani, F.E. and Tian, L. and Chen, W. and Han, Z. and Muhaidat, S.}
}
@conference {Daosabah2021,
	title = {Integrating Context and Intention for Optimal Semantic Web Service Composition Using AI Planning},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper deals with an approach for the dynamic composition of web service (WS) based on the user{\textquoteright}s intention and context. Our idea to implement this approach is based on the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) planning techniques and the semantic aspect describing the web service that will be composed. To this end, we will transform the web service composition problem into an AI planning problem. First, conversion of web service semantically described in OWL and OWL-S to an alternative problem and domain description specified in the planning domain description language (PDDL) is made. Then, a planner (AI Planner) using the Genetic Algorithm (GA) features will be invoked, by adapting the PDDL planning language actions to the GA rules, in order to generate the most optimal composition plan (sequence of PDDL actions), which solves the conceived service composition problem, having a goal to achieve (the intention) according to the problem domain description (context). {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {And OWL, Artificial intelligence, Artificial intelligence planning, Birds, Composition problem, Domain description, Genetic algorithms, Ontology{\textquoteright}s, OWL-S, Planning domain description languages, Quality of service, Semantic Web, Semantic web service compositions, Services composition, Web services, Webs services, Websites},
	doi = {10.1109/CommNet52204.2021.9641912},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123984789\&doi=10.1109\%2fCommNet52204.2021.9641912\&partnerID=40\&md5=582b92b4fd74d9de0d27f804898dee05},
	author = {Daosabah, A. and Guermah, H. and Choukri, I. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference {Cherqi2021,
	title = {Leveraging Open Threat Exchange (OTX) to Understand Spatiooral Trends of Cyber Threats: Covid-19 Case Study},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Understanding the properties exhibited by Spatialoral evolution of cyber attacks improve cyber threat intelligence. In addition, better understanding on threats patterns is a key feature for cyber threats prevention, detection, and management and for enhancing defenses. In this work, we study different aspects of emerging threats in the wild shared by 160,000 global participants form all industries. First, we perform an exploratory data analysis of the collected cyber threats. We investigate the most targeted countries, most common malwares and the distribution of attacks frequency by localisation. Second, we extract attacks{\textquoteright} spreading patterns at country level. We model these behaviors using transition graphs decorated with probabilities of switching from a country to another. Finally, we analyse the extent to which cyber threats have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak and sanitary measures imposed by governments to prevent the virus from spreading. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Attack analysis, Case-studies, Computer viruses, COVID-19, Crime, Cybe attack analyse, Cybe threat forecasting, Cyber attacks, Cyber threats, Cyber-attacks, Cyber-crimes, Information analysis, Network security, Spatialoral data analyse for cybe-crime analyse, Threat intelligence, Viruses},
	doi = {10.1109/ISI53945.2021.9624677},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123484404\&doi=10.1109\%2fISI53945.2021.9624677\&partnerID=40\&md5=729113fca1f2d9817bbaa46a6f5d0036},
	author = {Cherqi, O. and Hammouchi, H. and Ghogho, M. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
@conference {Abouaomar2021,
	title = {Mean-Field Game and Reinforcement Learning MEC Resource Provisioning for SFC},
	booktitle = {2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2021 - Proceedings},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In this paper, we address the resource provisioning problem for service function chaining (SFC) in terms of the placement and chaining of virtual network functions (VNFs) within a multi-access edge computing (MEC) infrastructure to reduce service delay. We consider the VNFs as the main entities of the system and propose a mean-field game (MFG) framework to model their behavior for their placement and chaining. Then, to achieve the optimal resource provisioning policy without considering the system control parameters, we reduce the proposed MFG to a Markov decision process (MDP). In this way, we leverage reinforcement learning with an actor-critic approach for MEC nodes to learn complex placement and chaining policies. Simulation results show that our proposed approach outperforms benchmark state-of-the-art approaches. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Computer games, Computing infrastructures, Computing resource, e-learning, Edge computing, Markov processes, Mean-field games, Multi-access edge computing, Multiaccess, Network function virtualization, Reinforcement learning, Reinforcement learnings, Resource provisioning, Service function chaining, Service functions, Transfer functions, Virtual addresses, Virtual reality},
	doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685236},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85124062107\&doi=10.1109\%2fGLOBECOM46510.2021.9685236\&partnerID=40\&md5=8319d7756843c2ccadb8f9de4bec7eff},
	author = {Abouaomar, A. and Cherkaoui, S. and Mlika, Z. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Hamlaoui20211,
	title = {Model-driven Approach To Align Heterogeneous Models Of A Complex System},
	journal = {Journal of Object Technology},
	volume = {20},
	number = {2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-24},
	abstract = {To understand and manipulate a complex system, it is necessary to apply the separation of concerns and produce separate models, called viewpoints models. These models represent views on the system that correspond to distinct business domains. They are generally heterogeneous, i.e. conform to different meta-models. The management of the system{\textquoteright}s global model (a complete view of the system) requires the identification of the existing correspondences among the viewpoints models. However, in practice these correspondences are either incompletely identified or not sufficiently formalized to be maintained when models evolve. This restricts their use and does not allow their full exploitation for managing the global model. To fix this issue, we propose AHM (Alignment of Heterogeneous Models), an approach to organize the source models as a network of models through a virtual global model called M1C (Model of correspondences between models) that conforms to a Meta-Model of Correspondences (MMC). AHM proposes also a process, allowing for both the creation of the global model, and its consistency control. Partial automation of this process is done through a refining mechanism supported by a semantics expression described in a Domain Specific Language (DSL). The application of AHM is illustrated by the example of a conference management system. A prototype of a tool called Heterogeneous Matching and Consistency management Suite (HMCS) has been developed to support this approach. {\textcopyright} 2021. All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.5381/JOT.2021.20.2.A2},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111507313\&doi=10.5381\%2fJOT.2021.20.2.A2\&partnerID=40\&md5=606f7cf84d332b83818bec57d20a3d0b},
	author = {Hamlaoui, M.E. and Ebersold, S. and Bennani, S. and Anwar, A. and Dkaki, T. and Nassar, M. and Coulette, B.}
}
@conference {Chakib2021,
	title = {Participation in Microgrid Frequency Regulation of Variable Speed Wind Generator based on DFIG using ADRC Control Method},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2021 9th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ability of the wind energy conversion system (WECS) equipped with doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) to participate in the microgrid frequency regulation when there is an imbalance of power. In order to contribute in the system frequency stability, the WECS have to inject an additional active power support into the power system. To do that, an additional frequency regulation control methods have been adopted to change the reference value of the electromagnetic power of the DFIG. These control strategies are the synthetic inertia control and the droop control. Furthermore, an additional technic called automatic generation control (AGC) has been used for adjusting the power output of multiple generators in the microgrid in response to changes in the load. The role of the AGC is to restore frequency to its nominal value by using a supplementary integral controller. Moreover, the control of the wind turbine generator is necessary so that it can provide the requested power. We used the Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) method and in order to assess its performance, the ADRC strategy was compared to the classic PI controller. Modeling and simulation are carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Active disturbances rejection controls, Asynchronous generators, Automatic Generation, Automatic generation control, Control methods, Controllers, Disturbance rejection, Doubly fed induction generators, Droop control, Electric fault currents, Energy conversion, Frequency regulations, Generation controls, Inertia control, MATLAB, Microgrid, Microgrids, Wind power},
	doi = {10.1109/IRSEC53969.2021.9741195},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85128032003\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRSEC53969.2021.9741195\&partnerID=40\&md5=3a72d255c84742e1cfd84ad0d665fdbb},
	author = {Chakib, M. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A.}
}
@article {Moumen20211634,
	title = {Real-time Arabic scene text detection using fully convolutional neural networks},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {11},
	number = {2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1634-1640},
	abstract = {The aim of this research is to propose a fully convolutional approach to address the problem of real-time scene text detection for Arabic language. Text detection is performed using a two-steps multi-scale approach. The first step uses light-weighted fully convolutional network: TextBlockDetector FCN, an adaptation of VGG-16 to eliminate non-textual elements, localize wide scale text and give text scale estimation. The second step determines narrow scale range of text using fully convolutional network for maximum performance. To evaluate the system, we confront the results of the framework to the results obtained with single VGG-16 fully deployed for text detection in one-shot; in addition to previous results in the state-of-the-art. For training and testing, we initiate a dataset of 575 images manually processed along with data augmentation to enrich training process. The system scores a precision of 0.651 vs 0.64 in the state-of-the-art and an FPS of 24.3 vs 31.7 for a VGG-16 fully deployed. {\textcopyright} 2021 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v11i2.pp1634-1640},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097836850\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v11i2.pp1634-1640\&partnerID=40\&md5=18f6883629a31b869bc0f2225a4cbf29},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {ElHaddaoui2021336,
	title = {Sentiment analysis: A review and framework foundations},
	journal = {International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies},
	volume = {13},
	number = {4},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {336-355},
	abstract = {The rise of social media as a platform for opinion expression and social interactions motivated the need for an automated data analysis technique for business value extraction with optimal investment considerations. In this respect, sentiment analysis (SA) becomes the de facto approach to investigate generated data and retrieve information such as sentiments and emotions, discussed topics, etc., via traditional machine learning and modern neural network-based algorithms. The current techniques achieve reasonable accuracy scores but their performance evolution is depending on the context of application, also most implementations are complex and non-reusable components. Our literature review shows a lack in research studies to unify existing systems under a common framework for SA tasks. This paper also highlights the rending movement of neural networks approaches and pinpoint recent research studies for SA sub tasks. A SA framework design proposition is presented based on key research projects and enhanced with other promising works. {\textcopyright} 2021 Inderscience Publishers. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJDATS.2021.120112},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122875189\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJDATS.2021.120112\&partnerID=40\&md5=e3d2033b898f101c2ec5d087fdf6472e},
	author = {El Haddaoui, B. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference {Chaayra2021,
	title = {Statistical Analysis of Uplink Massive MIMO Systems for MRC Linear Receivers over Weibull Fading Channels},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper investigates the performance of maximum-ratio combining (MRC) linear receivers in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) uplink communication system, that in terms of their signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) operating under independent flat Weibull multipath fading channels (WFCs). Based on a tight approximate probability density function (PDF) expression of the signal-to-noise ratio at the considered receiver output, we derive new accurate closed-form expressions of PDF, outage probability (OP) for mMIMO employing MRC technique. The results show high accuracy for significant values of K{\texttimes}Nr mMIMO system at high/low transmission power and severity fading parameters as well. Indeed, the greater K{\texttimes}Nr, the better the PDF{\textquoteright}s accuracy, therefore, the better is the OP. Numerical outcomes have been assessed by using Mathematica Software to show up our results. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Cummulative density function, G-functions, Linear receiver, Massive MIMO, Maximum ratio, Maximum-ratio-combining, Meije G-function, MIMO systems, Multipath fading, Multipath propagation, Outage probability, Probability density function, Signal interference, Signal receivers, Signal to noise ratio, Signalto-interference-plus-noise ratios (SINR), Weibull distribution, Weibull fading channel},
	doi = {10.1109/CommNet52204.2021.9641935},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123984751\&doi=10.1109\%2fCommNet52204.2021.9641935\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e44ae3af40139cd08615a702accf1ac},
	author = {Chaayra, T. and El Ansari, Y. and El Bouanani, F. and Ben-Azza, H.}
}
@article {Choukri202153,
	title = {Toward a better understanding of intentionality in service engineering: A systematic review},
	journal = {International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology},
	volume = {16},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {53-82},
	abstract = {Putting intentionality adaptation and context-awareness into service in a user transparent way is a critical concern for the pervasive computing paradigm. Several approaches have already been tested to incorporate intentionality in service engineering. However, there are limited results in terms of user intention understanding and context awareness. This systematic literature review interprets available approaches, especially those considered relevant for particular concern: intention representation, intention matching, and context influence on intention. It explains the pros and cons inherent to each proposed method. A total of 51 papers published between 2010 and 2020 were rigorously selected. The current review results demonstrate that the available literature suggests multiple approaches to intentionality adaptation. But with many gaps remaining, especially when it comes to modelling intentionality. Furthermore, this study reveals that little effort is given to handle the close relationship between context and intention. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	keywords = {Context- awareness, Intentionality, Pervasive computing paradigm, Service engineering, Systematic literature review, Systematic Review, Ubiquitous computing, User intention},
	doi = {10.1504/IJWET.2021.115688},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85108458307\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJWET.2021.115688\&partnerID=40\&md5=8543df68df0d6b4486c1e7ccae85f61e},
	author = {Choukri, I. and Guermah, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Pefura-Yone2020297,
	title = {Atopic dermatitis in children and adults in Sub-saharan Africa and Maghreb [{\'E}tat des lieux de la dermatite atopique de l{\textquoteright}enfant et de l{\textquoteright}adulte en Afrique sub-saharienne et au Maghreb]},
	journal = {Revue Francaise d{\textquoteright}Allergologie},
	volume = {60},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {297-299},
	abstract = {{Objective: To describe the demographic, clinical, paraclinical and therapeutic characteristics of patients with atopic dermatitis in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Maghreb. Methods: The Medical Doctors members of the Federation Allergologie Internationale (FAI) working in SSA and the Maghreb were invited to participate in this cross-sectional study to consecutively including patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) seen in their consultations from September 2019 to January 2010 (5 months). Results: A total of 69 patients (53.6\% female) were included. The proportion of female subjects was higher among subjects included in SSA (69.7\% vs 38.9\%},
	keywords = {adolescent, adult, Africa south of the Sahara, allergic rhinitis, asthma, Atopic dermatitis, bacterial skin disease, child, clinical assessment, clinical feature, consultation, cross-sectional study, daytime somnolence, disease association, female, food allergen, human, major clinical study, male, prevalence, prurigo, seborrheic dermatitis, Short Survey},
	doi = {10.1016/j.reval.2020.02.014},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081410340\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.reval.2020.02.014\&partnerID=40\&md5=f42b72ed95d78155dedf2d2b24439201},
	author = {Pefura-Yone, E.W. and Jeddi, Z. and Kouotou, E.A. and Delimi, B. and El Gueddari, Y. and Karkar, R. and Kebe, M. and Diallo Chauvin, M. and Dumur, J.-P.}
}
@article {Chlioui202061,
	title = {Comparing Statistical and Machine Learning Imputation Techniques in Breast Cancer Classification},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {12252 LNCS},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {61-76},
	abstract = {Missing data imputation is an important task when dealing with crucial data that cannot be discarded such as medical data. This study evaluates and compares the impacts of two statistical and two machine learning imputation techniques when classifying breast cancer patients, using several evaluation metrics. Mean, Expectation-Maximization (EM), Support Vector Regression (SVR) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) were applied to impute 18\% of missing data missed completely at random in the two Wisconsin datasets. Thereafter, we empirically evaluated these four imputation techniques when using five classifiers: decision tree (C4.5), Case Based Reasoning (CBR), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). In total, 1380 experiments were conducted and the findings confirmed that classification using imputation based machine learning outperformed classification using statistical imputation. Moreover, our experiment showed that SVR was the best imputation method for breast cancer classification. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Breast cancer classifications, Case based reasoning, Casebased reasonings (CBR), Decision trees, Diseases, Expectation Maximization, Imputation techniques, K nearest neighbor (KNN), Learning systems, Maximum principle, Missing data imputations, Multi layer perceptron, Multilayer neural networks, Nearest neighbor search, Support vector machines, Support vector regression, Support vector regression (SVR)},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_5},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092259110\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-58811-3_5\&partnerID=40\&md5=fd5730e8014d40306df07238106d32ff},
	author = {Chlioui, I. and Abnane, I. and Idri, A.}
}
@article {Chlioui2020547,
	title = {Data preprocessing in knowledge discovery in breast cancer: systematic mapping study},
	journal = {Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging and Visualization},
	volume = {8},
	number = {5},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {547-561},
	abstract = {Data Mining (DM) is a set of techniques that allow to analyse data from different perspectives and summarising it into useful information. Data mining has been increasingly used in medicine, especially in oncology. Data preprocessing is the most important step of knowledge extraction process and allows to improve the performance of the DM models. Breast cancer (BC) becomes the most common cancer among females worldwide and the leading cause of women{\textquoteright}s death. This paper aims to perform a systematic mapping study to analyse and synthesise studies on the application of preprocessing techniques for a DM task in breast cancer.Therefore, 66 relevant articles published between 2000 and October 2018 were selected and analysed according to five criteria: year/channel of publication, research type, medical task, empirical type and preprocessing task. The results show that Conferences and journals are the most targeted publication sources, researchers were more interested in applying preprocessing techniques for the diagnosis of BC, historical-based evaluation was the most used empirical type in the evaluation of preprocessing techniques in BC, and data reduction was the most investigated task of preprocessing in BC. However, A low number of papers discussed treatment which encourages researchers to devote more efforts to this task. {\textcopyright} 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group.},
	keywords = {algorithm, Article, Breast Cancer, cancer classification, cancer prognosis, clinical assessment, clinical outcome, Data mining, Data mining models, Data mining tasks, Data preprocessing, Diagnosis, diagnostic accuracy, Diseases, Extraction process, health promotion, human, image analysis, knowledge, knowledge discovery, Knowledge extraction, Machine learning, Mapping, Medical informatics, nerve cell network, neural crest cell, Performance, Pre-processing techniques, processing, screening test, Systematic mapping studies, Systematic Review, validity},
	doi = {10.1080/21681163.2020.1730974},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85080112312\&doi=10.1080\%2f21681163.2020.1730974\&partnerID=40\&md5=befb1bc3f31f676a8e95bbc5bff5ab6d},
	author = {Chlioui, I. and Idri, A. and Abnane, I.}
}
@article {Boualame202095,
	title = {An Efficient Semi-Algebraic Decoding Algorithm for Golay Code},
	journal = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {1264},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {95-102},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose an algorithm for decoding the QR(23,12,7) code knowing by the binary Golay code. This method never calculates unknown syndromes and does not need the error locator polynomial. Indeed, we use simple parameters to locate the error position. So, to validate the proposed method, all possible error patterns are tested and the proposed decoder correct all of them. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Block codes, Data communication systems, Decoding, Decoding algorithm, Error locator polynomial, Error patterns, Errors, Golay code, Security of data, Unknown syndromes},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61143-9_8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097406038\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-61143-9_8\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ad6a041a67402ca70b0934aed15a68e},
	author = {Boualame, H. and Chana, I. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {PEFURAYONE2020297,
	title = {{\'E}tat des lieux de la dermatite atopique de l{\textquoteright}enfant et de l{\textquoteright}adulte en Afrique sub-saharienne et au Maghreb},
	journal = {Revue Fran{\c c}aise d{\textquoteright}Allergologie},
	volume = {60},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {15{\`e}me Congr{\`e}s Francophone d{\textquoteright}Allergologie},
	pages = {297-299},
	abstract = {{R{\'e}sum{\'e} Objectif D{\'e}crire les caract{\'e}ristiques d{\'e}mographiques, cliniques, paracliniques et th{\'e}rapeutiques des patients ayant une dermatite atopique en Afrique sub-saharienne (SSA) et au Maghreb. M{\'e}thodes Les m{\'e}decins membres de la F{\'e}d{\'e}ration Allergologie Internationale travaillant en Afrique sub-saharienne et au Maghreb ont {\'e}t{\'e} invit{\'e}s {\`a} participer {\`a} cette {\'e}tude transversale en incluant de fa{\c c}on cons{\'e}cutive les patientsatteints de dermatite atopique (DA) vus dans leurs consultations de septembre 2019~{\`a} janvier 2010 (5~mois). R{\'e}sultats Au total, 69~patients (53,6~\% de sexe f{\'e}minin) ont {\'e}t{\'e} inclus. La proportion des sujets de sexe f{\'e}minin {\'e}tait plus {\'e}lev{\'e}e chez les sujets inclus en Afrique SSA (69,7~\% vs 38,9~\%},
	keywords = {Allergie, Allergy, Atopic dermatitis, Atopic eczema, Dermatite atopique, Ecz{\'e}ma atopique, Inflammatory disease, Maladie inflammatoire},
	issn = {1877-0320},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reval.2020.02.014},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877032020300452},
	author = {E.W. Pefura-Yone and Z. Jeddi and E.A. Kouotou and B. Delimi and Y. El Gueddari and R. Karkar and M. Kebe and M. Diallo Chauvin and J.-P. Dumur}
}
@article {Hosni20202177,
	title = {A mapping study of ensemble classification methods in lung cancer decision support systems},
	journal = {Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing},
	volume = {58},
	number = {10},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 8},
	pages = {2177-2193},
	abstract = {Achieving a high level of classification accuracy in medical datasets is a capital need for researchers to provide effective decision systems to assist doctors in work. In many domains of artificial intelligence, ensemble classification methods are able to improve the performance of single classifiers. This paper reports the state of the art of ensemble classification methods in lung cancer detection. We have performed a systematic mapping study to identify the most interesting papers concerning this topic. A total of 65 papers published between 2000 and 2018 were selected after an automatic search in four digital libraries and a careful selection process. As a result, it was observed that diagnosis was the task most commonly studied; homogeneous ensembles and decision trees were the most frequently adopted for constructing ensembles; and the majority voting rule was the predominant combination rule. Few studies considered the parameter tuning of the techniques used. These findings open several perspectives for researchers to enhance lung cancer research by addressing the identified gaps, such as investigating different classification methods, proposing other heterogeneous ensemble methods, and using new combination rules. [Figure not available: see fulltext.] {\textcopyright} 2020, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering.},
	keywords = {Artificial intelligence, Automatic searches, Biological organs, cancer classification, Classification (of information), Classification accuracy, Classification methods, classifier, decision support system, Decision support systems, decision tree, Decision trees, Diagnosis, Digital libraries, Diseases, Ensemble classification, Heterogeneous ensembles, human, lung cancer, Lung cancer detections, Majority voting rules, Mapping, priority journal, Review, Systematic mapping studies},
	doi = {10.1007/s11517-020-02223-8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087501825\&doi=10.1007\%2fs11517-020-02223-8\&partnerID=40\&md5=bdb2bd3f923da33ea3b564a0bd6e739e},
	author = {Hosni, M. and Garc{\'\i}a-Mateos, G. and Carrillo-De-Gea, J.M. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {Filali2020197017,
	title = {Multi-access edge computing: A survey},
	journal = {IEEE Access},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 49},
	pages = {197017-197046},
	abstract = {Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) is a key solution that enables operators to open their networks to new services and IT ecosystems to leverage edge-cloud benefits in their networks and systems. Located in close proximity from the end users and connected devices, MEC provides extremely low latency and high bandwidth while always enabling applications to leverage cloud capabilities as necessary. In this article, we illustrate the integration of MEC into a current mobile networks{\textquoteright} architecture as well as the transition mechanisms to migrate into a standard 5G network architecture.We also discuss SDN, NFV, SFC and network slicing as MEC enablers. Then, we provide a state-of-the-art study on the different approaches that optimize the MEC resources and its QoS parameters. In this regard, we classify these approaches based on the optimized resources and QoS parameters (i.e., processing, storage, memory, bandwidth, energy and latency). Finally, we propose an architectural framework for a MEC-NFV environment based on the standard SDN architecture. {\textcopyright} 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {5G mobile communication systems, Architectural frameworks, Bandwidth, Close proximity, Edge computing, Network function virtualization, Network slicing, Networks and systems, Optimized resources, QoS parameters, State of the art, Transition mechanism},
	doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3034136},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099901543\&doi=10.1109\%2fACCESS.2020.3034136\&partnerID=40\&md5=bc99db081ebbbf5eb6d188c020bb33a2},
	author = {Filali, A. and Abouaomar, A. and Cherkaoui, S. and Kobbane, A. and Guizani, M.}
}
@conference {Fellir2020377,
	title = {A multi-Agent based model for task scheduling in cloud-fog computing platform},
	booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies, ICIoT 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 9},
	pages = {377-382},
	abstract = {The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is a network of physical objects that communicate and exchange data between them over the Internet. These objects, or things, generate a massive amount of data that require powerful analytics approaches and data storage platforms - this is where cloud computing may well come into play. The classic cloud computing paradigm, however, faces several serious issues, due to centralization, such as low performance, latency issues, security issues, bandwidth obstacle, etc.. The Fog (Edge) computing paradigm has been proposed to improve the performance and to address other weaknesses, by providing IoT data processing and storage capabilities locally at the edges (IoT devices), instead of sending all the data to the centralized cloud. Whether in cloud or in fog computing, with billions of devices and a huge number of simultaneous requests, managing limited resources becomes essential. One of the important steps in resource management is task scheduling. In this paper, we consider task scheduling in a cloud-fog computing platform, we propose a multi-agent based model that aims at serving the most important task first, taking into consideration the task priority, its wait time, its status and the resources required to complete it successfully. Furthermore, in the scheduling process, we first propose an update to the priority value of the task, while taking into consideration its dependencies to other tasks and their priorities. Simulation results show that our proposed model can lead to better resource utilization and improve performance. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Autonomous agents, Computational methods, Computing paradigm, Computing platform, Data handling, Digital storage, Fog, Fog computing, Improve performance, Internet of thing (IOT), Internet of things, Multi agent systems, Multi-agent based modeling, Multitasking, Resource Management, Resource utilizations, Scheduling, Scheduling algorithms, Simulation platform, Storage capability},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIoT48696.2020.9089625},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085496418\&doi=10.1109\%2fICIoT48696.2020.9089625\&partnerID=40\&md5=4ee0e2ab76422fc76603ec3b6f6942cb},
	author = {Fellir, F. and El Attar, A. and Nafil, K. and Chung, L.}
}
@article {Chaayra20201121,
	title = {New Accurate Approximation for the Sum of Generalized Gamma Distributions and its Applications},
	journal = {Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences},
	volume = {14},
	number = {6},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1121-1136},
	abstract = {By considering the probability density function (PDF) of a generalized Gamma (GG) random variable (RV) evaluated in terms of a proper subset (Formula presented) class of Fox{\textquoteright}s H-function (FHF) and the moment-based approximation to estimate the H-function parameters, a closed-form tight approximate expression for the distribution of the sum of independent and not necessarily identical GG distributed RVs is presented as well as a sufficient condition for the convergence is verified. Such proposed approximate PDF is useful analytical tool for analyzing the performance of L-branch maximal-ratio combining receivers subject to such a fading model. This result can be also of paramount importance when dealing with an intelligent reflecting surface subject to GG fading channels. Furthermore, various closed-form approximate expressions, such as the cumulative distribution function (CDF), moment-generating function, outage probability (OP), average channel capacity, nth moment of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), amount of fading, and average symbol error probability (ASEP) for numerous coherent digital modulation schemes, are derived and examined in terms of FHF. To gain further insight into the system performance, asymptotic closed-form expressions for the ASEP and OP are derived and interesting observations are made. Particularly, our asymptotic analysis reveals that the achievable diversity order for high SNR values depends essentially on the branches{\textquoteright} number. The proposed mathematical analysis is assessed and corroborated by Monte-Carlo simulations using computer algebra systems, while the PDF and CDF are validated further with the aid of the Kullback-Leibler divergence criterion and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, respectively {\textcopyright} 2020. NSP Natural Sciences Publishing Cor.},
	doi = {10.18576/amis/140619},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100193483\&doi=10.18576\%2famis\%2f140619\&partnerID=40\&md5=a2ca278ea1f812f0a524e23e100a588c},
	author = {Chaayra, T. and Ben-Azza, H. and Bouanani, F.E.}
}
@conference {Elmidaoui2020,
	title = {Predicting software maintainability using ensemble techniques and stacked generalization},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {2725},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {The prediction of software maintainability has emerged as an important research topic to address industry expectations for reducing costs, in particular maintenance costs. In the last decades, many studies have used single techniques to predict software maintainability but there is no agreement as to which technique can achieve the best prediction. Ensemble techniques, which combine two or more techniques, have been investigated in recent years. This study investigates ensemble techniques (homogeneous as well as heterogeneous) for predicting maintainability in terms of line code changes. To this end, well-known homogeneous ensembles such as Bagging, Boosting, Extra Trees, Gradient Boosting, and Random Forest are investigated first. Then the stacked generalization method is used to construct heterogeneous ensembles by combining the most accurate ones per dataset. The empirical results suggest that Gradient Boosting and Extra Trees are the best ensembles for all datasets, since they ranked first and second, respectively. Moreover, the findings of the evaluation of heterogeneous ensembles constructed using stacked generalization showed that they gave better prediction accuracy compared to all homogeneous ensembles. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2020 for this paper by its authors.},
	keywords = {Decision trees, Ensemble techniques, Forecasting, Forestry, Gradient boosting, Heterogeneous ensembles, Maintainability, Maintenance cost, Prediction accuracy, Research topics, Software engineering, Software maintainability, Stacked generalization},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85098182236\&partnerID=40\&md5=32bab56e3a64ff6efa7e8717d9ee67c4},
	author = {Elmidaoui, S. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A. and Abran, A.}
}
@article {Filali202015947,
	title = {Preemptive SDN Load Balancing with Machine Learning for Delay Sensitive Applications},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
	volume = {69},
	number = {12},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 12},
	pages = {15947-15963},
	abstract = {SDN is a key-enabler to achieve scalability in 5G and Multi-access Edge Computing networks. To balance the load between distributed SDN controllers, the migration of the data plane components has been proposed. Different from most previous works which use reactive mechanisms, we propose to preemptively balance the load in the SDN control plane to support network flows that require low latency communications. First, we forecast the load of SDN controllers to prevent load imbalances and schedule data plane migrations in advance. Second, we optimize the migration operations to achieve better load balancing under delay constraints. Specifically, in the first step, we construct two prediction models based on Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) approaches to forecast SDN controllers load. Then, we conduct a comparative study between these two models and calculate their accuracies and forecast errors. The results show that, in long-term predictions, the accuracy of LSTM model outperforms that of ARIMA by 55\% in terms of prediction errors. In the second step, to select which data plane components to migrate and where the migration should happen under delay constraints, we formulate the problem as a non-linear binary program, prove its NP-completeness and propose a reinforcement learning algorithm to solve it. The simulations show that the proposed algorithm performs close to optimal and outperforms recent benchmark algorithms from the literature. {\textcopyright} 1967-2012 IEEE.},
	keywords = {5G mobile communication systems, Auto-regressive integrated moving average, Autoregressive moving average model, Balancing, Comparative studies, Controllers, Delay constraints, Delay-sensitive applications, Forecasting, Learning algorithms, Long short-term memory, Long-term prediction, Low-latency communication, Prediction errors, Predictive analytics, Reactive mechanism, Reinforcement learning},
	doi = {10.1109/TVT.2020.3038918},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097173809\&doi=10.1109\%2fTVT.2020.3038918\&partnerID=40\&md5=4dc77968a74ba95fb61deec16c598fbb},
	author = {Filali, A. and Mlika, Z. and Cherkaoui, S. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@conference {Miloudi2020251,
	title = {A Review of Open Source Software Maintenance Effort Estimation},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {251-256},
	abstract = {Open Source Software (OSS) is gaining interests of software engineering community as well as practitioners from industry with the growth of the internet. Studies in estimating maintenance effort (MEE) of such software product have been published in the literature in order to provide better estimation. The aim of this study is to provide a review of studies related to maintenance effort estimation for open source software (OSSMEE). To this end, a set of 60 primary empirical studies are selected from six electronic databases and a discussion is provided according to eight research questions (RQs) related to: publication year, publication source, datasets (OSS projects), metrics (independent variables), techniques, maintenance effort (dependent variable), validation methods, and accuracy criteria used in the empirical validation. This study has found that popular OSS projects have been used, Linear Regression, Na{\"\i}ve Bayes and k Nearest Neighbors were frequently used, and bug resolution was the most used regarding the estimation of maintenance effort for the future releases. A set of gaps are identified and recommendations for researchers are also provided. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Computer software maintenance, Dependent variables, Electronic database, Empirical validation, Engineering community, Independent variables, Intelligent systems, K-nearest neighbors, Maintenance efforts, Nearest neighbor search, Open source software, Open systems, Research questions, Sodium compounds},
	doi = {10.1145/3419604.3419809},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096413214\&doi=10.1145\%2f3419604.3419809\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ad5b9eacb605d7875e2123cfec6ddeb},
	author = {Miloudi, C. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Biallaten2020,
	title = {Truss Optimization using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This document presents the results of our work aiming to create a tool for generating trusses. The generated structures undergo an optimizing process to be in the best possible form. The automatic generation of the truss structure is done using an algorithm adapted to the type of an initial design domain. Then, the optimization process is launched to resize the generated structure by minimizing the compliance under constant volume constraint. The size optimization is a question of looking for the best distribution of the cross-sections checking the objective of optimization and guaranteeing the stability of the final solution. We chose to implement this optimization using the simulated annealing algorithm. So, we developed a hybrid method based on the simulated annealing algorithm and an algorithm of bars elimination. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Automatic Generation, Constant volumes, Constrained optimization, Hybrid method, Information systems, Information use, Initial design, Simulated annealing, Simulated annealing algorithms, Size optimization, Truss optimization, Truss structure, Trusses},
	doi = {10.1145/3447568.3448534},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103615098\&doi=10.1145\%2f3447568.3448534\&partnerID=40\&md5=2edcc24e3adf365097bd676455eb98f9},
	author = {Biallaten, Z. and Chiheb, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference {Brihi2020,
	title = {UAV for IoT Communications: Beam Selection Using Matching Game and Network Slicing},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2020 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In cellular communication networks, researchers are trying to improve network communication and adapt it to meet the requirements of new technologies such as the Internet of Things. The next generation of wireless networks (5G) promises new network features such as low latency, peripheral computing and radio convergence that will pave the way for a world that is ubiquitously connected. In this context and for the provision of the necessary high-quality services and connection, continuously and everywhere, even under poor network conditions, any network failures must be managed quickly and efficiently. Covering the network in remote areas, providing services in overcrowded areas, or safeguarding the network in the event of damage to the cellular infrastructure (for example, a physical disaster) are a number of challenges. In this paper we discuss the architecture and possible applications of flight modes as a part of a 5G network supporting network splitting and lightweight virtualization at the extent of relay Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as being small cells. It also provides 5G aerial measurement results to support the feasibility check of UAV use in two possible scenarios, namely improving the position of UAVs relative to the position and circulation of users (UEs) additionally because the increased network coverage through algorithms supported theory of games. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {5G mobile communication systems, Antennas, Beam selection, Cellular communication networks, Communication beams, Computation theory, Flying relay unmanned aerial vehicle, Game theory, Internet of things, Matching game, Matching networks, Network communications, Network features, Network function virtualization, Network slicing, SDN, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM50532.2020.9272510},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85098730582\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM50532.2020.9272510\&partnerID=40\&md5=2fd59efd80efa8be8e20ec7601c73dc9},
	author = {Brihi, S. and Ghamizi, A. and Chakri, K.}
}
@conference {Khaldi2019532,
	title = {Forecasting of weekly patient visits to emergency department: Real case study},
	booktitle = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {148},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {532-541},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2019.01.026},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062671151\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.procs.2019.01.026\&partnerID=40\&md5=2d1d746e66e3334ab894f34b3566ecf8},
	author = {Khaldi, R. and Afia, A.E. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Biallaten20191327,
	title = {Hybrid method for automating generation of reticulated structures (lattice structures) in complex conception domains},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {9},
	number = {2},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1327-1334},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v9i2.pp.1327-1334},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85059986939\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v9i2.pp.1327-1334\&partnerID=40\&md5=9e8baf15f27ff8bc5dd5843538b859cc},
	author = {Biallaten, Z. and Chiheb, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {Fellir2019438,
	title = {Improving case based software effort estimation using a multi-criteria decision technique},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {763},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {438-451},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-91186-1_46},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047956575\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-91186-1_46\&partnerID=40\&md5=90f86a0fec53e593e1b5302314993fd4},
	author = {Fellir, F. and Nafil, K. and Touahni, R. and Chung, L.}
}
@conference {Abouaomar2019,
	title = {Matching-Game for User-Fog Assignment},
	booktitle = {2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647545},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063543941\&doi=10.1109\%2fGLOCOM.2018.8647545\&partnerID=40\&md5=2e86072aa15d3175de06d25bff61c79f},
	author = {Abouaomar, A. and Kobbane, A. and Cherkaoui, S.}
}
@article {Rachih201945,
	title = {Meta-heuristics for reverse logistics: A literature review and perspectives},
	journal = {Computers and Industrial Engineering},
	volume = {127},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {45-62},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cie.2018.11.058},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057829016\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cie.2018.11.058\&partnerID=40\&md5=f54213def0a5cf5c548b7574f8063804},
	author = {Rachih, H. and Mhada, F.Z. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Yousfi201979,
	title = {Mixed-Profiling Recommender Systems for Big Data Environment},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {756},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {79-89},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-91337-7_8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047301457\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-91337-7_8\&partnerID=40\&md5=95ad0c9dc701ce47a8fefa5d66452387},
	author = {Yousfi, S. and Rhanoui, M. and Chiadmi, D.}
}
@article {Moumen2019369,
	title = {An NLP based text-to-speech synthesizer for Moroccan Arabic},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {369-379},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97719-5_23},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063269452\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-97719-5_23\&partnerID=40\&md5=0696f7563e81ff83ad6826ed84e31cef},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Chakib2019359,
	title = {Robust ADRC control of a doubly fed induction generator based wind energy conversion system},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {519},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {359-368},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-13-1405-6_44},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051797189\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-13-1405-6_44\&partnerID=40\&md5=2a302a1a265fe62df52bb43456d6e3f1},
	author = {Chakib, M. and Essadki, A. and Nasser, T.}
}
@conference {Afia2019512,
	title = {A Self Controlled Simulated Annealing Algorithm using Hidden Markov Model State Classification},
	booktitle = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {148},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {512-521},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2019.01.024},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062665945\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.procs.2019.01.024\&partnerID=40\&md5=7a6b9cd9dfff11052107df70b4b828f0},
	author = {Afia, A.E. and Lalaoui, M. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Chabibi201917,
	title = {SimulML: A DSML for simulating SysML models},
	journal = {Journal of Computing Science and Engineering},
	volume = {13},
	number = {1},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {17-31},
	doi = {10.5626/JCSE.2019.13.1.17},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064554918\&doi=10.5626\%2fJCSE.2019.13.1.17\&partnerID=40\&md5=9335bd1dbb7ad1c561bf7e9b03c66c37},
	author = {Chabibi, B. and Nassar, M. and Anwar, A.}
}
@article {Yousfi2019207,
	title = {Towards a generic multimodal architecture for batch and streaming Big Data integration},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
	volume = {15},
	number = {1},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {207-220},
	doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2019.207.220},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061562274\&doi=10.3844\%2fjcssp.2019.207.220\&partnerID=40\&md5=5e332b31353f824de4847e4a59a0d84a},
	author = {Yousfi, S. and Rhanoui, M. and Chiadmi, D.}
}
@article {Elmidaoui2019823,
	title = {Towards a Taxonomy of Software Maintainability Predictors},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {930},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {823-832},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-16181-1_77},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064883521\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-16181-1_77\&partnerID=40\&md5=0a2c124cf59cc02604b4d34b5ed98a5a},
	author = {Elmidaoui, S. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@article {Yassir2019241,
	title = {Workflow scheduling issues and techniques in cloud computing: A systematic literature review},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {241-263},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97719-5_16},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063261799\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-97719-5_16\&partnerID=40\&md5=b5aad3942ddfba849ff2d274368dd76b},
	author = {Yassir, S. and Mostapha, Z. and Claude, T.}
}
@article {Elmidaoui201826,
	title = {Accuracy comparison of empirical studies on software product maintainability prediction},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {746},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {26-35},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_3},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045339755\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-77712-2_3\&partnerID=40\&md5=7400e19626fc0aa4658b0ac497b89bda},
	author = {Elmidaoui, S. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Cherqi201879,
	title = {Analysis of hacking related trade in the darkweb},
	booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {79-84},
	doi = {10.1109/ISI.2018.8587311},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061056307\&doi=10.1109\%2fISI.2018.8587311\&partnerID=40\&md5=3f2dbe2fc3377bce7e35dd18dfb3710f},
	author = {Cherqi, O. and Mezzour, G. and Ghogho, M. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@conference {Moumen2018,
	title = {Arabic diacritization with gated recurrent unit},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230931},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484931\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230931\&partnerID=40\&md5=3a401539dc4a1f24a5a97d1b3fdc8e36},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R. and Afia, A.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Hassen2018,
	title = {Assessment of genetic diversity and bioremediation potential of pseudomonads isolated from pesticide-contaminated artichoke farm soils},
	journal = {3 Biotech},
	volume = {8},
	number = {6},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1007/s13205-018-1256-5},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047222547\&doi=10.1007\%2fs13205-018-1256-5\&partnerID=40\&md5=214af9fe1c89045eedc77e9e648d892e},
	author = {Hassen, W. and Neifar, M. and Cherif, H. and Mahjoubi, M. and Souissi, Y. and Raddadi, N. and Fava, F. and Cherif, A.}
}
@conference {Bennani2018152,
	title = {Collaborative model-based matching of heterogeneous models},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {152-157},
	doi = {10.1109/CSCWD.2018.8465228},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85054369642\&doi=10.1109\%2fCSCWD.2018.8465228\&partnerID=40\&md5=5c36a33efe1da810c568cd8ac7f96749},
	author = {Bennani, S. and El Hamlaoui, M. and Nassar, M. and Ebersold, S. and Coulette, B.}
}
@article {Chakib2018964,
	title = {A comparative study of PI, RST and ADRC control strategies of a doubly fed induction generator based wind energy conversion system},
	journal = {International Journal of Renewable Energy Research},
	volume = {8},
	number = {2},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {964-973},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049094463\&partnerID=40\&md5=791f9ce9bd42424e44873787c9bae382},
	author = {Chakib, M. and Essadki, A. and Nasser, T.}
}
@article {Tamir2018475,
	title = {A decision support platform based on cross-sorting methods for the selection of modeling methods: Case of the hospital supply chain performance analysis},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {9},
	number = {10},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {475-484},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091058},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057264376\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2018.091058\&partnerID=40\&md5=86e7cd3123ccc3b5399a68fccad72235},
	author = {Tamir, M. and Chiheb, R. and Ouzayd, F.}
}
@article {Bustos-Vanegas2018839,
	title = {Developing predictive models for determining physical properties of coffee beans during the roasting process},
	journal = {Industrial Crops and Products},
	volume = {112},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {839-845},
	doi = {10.1016/j.indcrop.2017.12.015},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85039453221\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.indcrop.2017.12.015\&partnerID=40\&md5=b7818900c7e9d5412b48bb3e994b0da4},
	author = {Bustos-Vanegas, J.D. and Corr{\^e}a, P.C. and Martins, M.A. and Baptestini, F.M. and Campos, R.C. and de Oliveira, G.H.H. and Nunes, E.H.M.}
}
@article {Moumen2018360,
	title = {Evaluation of gated recurrent unit in Arabic diacritization},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {9},
	number = {11},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {360-364},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85059029808\&partnerID=40\&md5=8ec6347667792a079047e6121cfd5999},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference {Khaldi2018,
	title = {Feedforward and recurrent neural networks for time series forecasting: Comparative study},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230946},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053485247\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230946\&partnerID=40\&md5=6fb59f2f8ddf603c98e96d68b1a47ee4},
	author = {Khaldi, R. and Chiheb, R. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@conference {Khaldi2018,
	title = {Forecasting of bitcoin daily returns with eemd-elman based model},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230948},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484904\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230948\&partnerID=40\&md5=0f2e4191d42a3eaf7857e8a6821b5f27},
	author = {Khaldi, R. and Afia, A.E. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Hamlaoui20181695,
	title = {Heterogeneous design models alignment: From matching to consistency management},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1695-1697},
	doi = {10.1145/3167132.3167425},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050549845\&doi=10.1145\%2f3167132.3167425\&partnerID=40\&md5=e3979910149360a200e2cb9730a3469b},
	author = {Hamlaoui, M.E. and Bennani, S. and Nassar, M. and Ebersold, S. and Coulette, B.}
}
@conference {Chikhaoui2018,
	title = {It collaboration actor-network diagnostic using sna, application on suppliers management},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230937},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484447\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230937\&partnerID=40\&md5=3774424c35e8cbcaee3c76d5ce3f5965},
	author = {Chikhaoui, D. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@article {Landrigan2018462,
	title = {The Lancet Commission on pollution and health},
	journal = {The Lancet},
	volume = {391},
	number = {10119},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {462-512},
	doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32345-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031763844\&doi=10.1016\%2fS0140-6736\%2817\%2932345-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=a37689cb0e79594159ee6f8afc55fae1},
	author = {Landrigan, P.J. and Fuller, R. and Acosta, N.J.R. and Adeyi, O. and Arnold, R. and Basu, N.N. and Bald{\'e}, A.B. and Bertollini, R. and Bose-O{\textquoteright}Reilly, S. and Boufford, J.I. and Breysse, P.N. and Chiles, T. and Mahidol, C. and Coll-Seck, A.M. and Cropper, M.L. and Fobil, J. and Fuster, V. and Greenstone, M. and Haines, A. and Hanrahan, D. and Hunter, D. and Khare, M. and Krupnick, A. and Lanphear, B. and Lohani, B. and Martin, K. and Mathiasen, K.V. and McTeer, M.A. and Murray, C.J.L. and Ndahimananjara, J.D. and Perera, F. and Poto{\v c}nik, J. and Preker, A.S. and Ramesh, J. and Rockstr{\"o}m, J. and Salinas, C. and Samson, L.D. and Sandilya, K. and Sly, P.D. and Smith, K.R. and Steiner, A. and Stewart, R.B. and Suk, W.A. and van Schayck, O.C.P. and Yadama, G.N. and Yumkella, K. and Zhong, M.}
}
@conference {Hamlaoui2018180,
	title = {A MDE approach for heterogeneous models consistency},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	volume = {2018-March},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {180-191},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051955560\&partnerID=40\&md5=e6d1a80051313eed4ea88ae038ac6010},
	author = {Hamlaoui, M.E. and Bennani, S. and Nassar, M. and Ebersold, S. and Coulette, B.}
}
@article {Cheikhi201836,
	title = {Measurement based E-government portals{\textquoteright} benchmarking framework: Architectural and procedural views},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {746},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {36-45},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_4},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045330135\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-77712-2_4\&partnerID=40\&md5=941334f001bfb6ab10e687f93e3f62a7},
	author = {Cheikhi, L. and Fath-Allah, A. and Idri, A. and Al-Qutaish, R.E.}
}
@conference {Merabet201856,
	title = {Measuring human comfort for smart building application: Experimental set-up using WSN},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {56-63},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289110},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058667464\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289110\&partnerID=40\&md5=a0709450c09d2f88eed91fc91471f264},
	author = {Merabet, G.H. and Essaaidi, M. and Benhaddou, D. and Khalil, N. and Chilela, J.}
}
@article {Ouzayd2018433,
	title = {Monitoring vaccine cold chain model with coloured Petri net},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {9},
	number = {5},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {433-438},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090556},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049502237\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2018.090556\&partnerID=40\&md5=e1b01d6274c2d762e344e2b45167d60f},
	author = {Ouzayd, F. and Mansouri, H. and Tamir, M. and Chiheb, R. and Benhouma, Z.}
}
@conference {Zarra201888,
	title = {MOOCs{\textquoteright} recommendation based on forum latent dirichlet allocation},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {88-93},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289115},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058674172\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289115\&partnerID=40\&md5=1de27cf008154c73414e9740b9f86e22},
	author = {Zarra, T. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@conference {Boualame20181,
	title = {New efficient decoding algorithm of the (17, 9, 5) quadratic residue code},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360258},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048326657\&doi=10.1109\%2fCOMMNET.2018.8360258\&partnerID=40\&md5=198217e84a8461108632edc7190041a6},
	author = {Boualame, H. and Chana, I. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {Chentouf20186855,
	title = {A new physical design approach for setup timing optimization in 7 nm global routed designs},
	journal = {Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences},
	volume = {13},
	number = {16},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {6855-6859},
	doi = {10.3923/jeasci.2018.6855.6859},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85054639024\&doi=10.3923\%2fjeasci.2018.6855.6859\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4470513ba81a36fcc1eb2a9d14feff3},
	author = {Chentouf, M. and Cherif, L. and Ismaili, Z.E.A.A.}
}
@conference {Moumen20181,
	title = {An NLP based text-to-speech synthesizer for Moroccan Arabic},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2017},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-5},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2017.8284745},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046676982\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2017.8284745\&partnerID=40\&md5=9ca745be5c63a00cda019ef8b0230a9d},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@conference {Kasmi20181,
	title = {Performance evaluation of StarPU schedulers with preconditioned conjugate gradient solver on heterogeneous (multi-CPUs/multi-GPUs) architecture},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2017},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2017.8284742},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046664197\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2017.8284742\&partnerID=40\&md5=15d1bacdcdc6b413b42b5bc9c3059bfb},
	author = {Kasmi, N. and Zbakh, M. and Samadi, Y. and Cherkaoui, R. and Haouari, A.}
}
@conference {Filali2018,
	title = {SDN Controller Assignment and Load Balancing with Minimum Quota of Processing Capacity},
	booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications},
	volume = {2018-May},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2018.8422750},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051428081\&doi=10.1109\%2fICC.2018.8422750\&partnerID=40\&md5=950211c49ab90c21d84d57b5ecf8c58f},
	author = {Filali, A. and Kobbane, A. and Elmachkour, M. and Cherkaoui, S.}
}
@conference {Lalaoui20181,
	title = {A self-adaptive very fast simulated annealing based on Hidden Markov model},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2017},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-8},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2017.8284698},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046690728\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2017.8284698\&partnerID=40\&md5=019d60ddd6cdf20019791974755a6d33},
	author = {Lalaoui, M. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Lalaoui2018291,
	title = {A self-tuned simulated annealing algorithm using hidden markov model},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {291-298},
	abstract = {Simulated Annealing algorithm (SA) is a well-known probabilistic heuristic. It mimics the annealing process in metallurgy to approximate the global minimum of an optimization problem. The SA has many parameters which need to be tuned manually when applied to a specific problem. The tuning may be difficult and time-consuming. This paper aims to overcome this difficulty by using a self-tuning approach based on a machine learning algorithm called Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The main idea is allowing the SA to adapt his own cooling law at each iteration, according to the search history. An experiment was performed on many benchmark functions to show the efficiency of this approach compared to the classical one. {\textcopyright} 2018 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp291-298},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042923643\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v8i1.pp291-298\&partnerID=40\&md5=804e27501baca7ca4efeeaa3d1ff0ef1},
	author = {Lalaoui, M. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Lalaoui2018291,
	title = {A self-tuned simulated annealing algorithm using hidden markov model},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {291-298},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp291-298},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042923643\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v8i1.pp291-298\&partnerID=40\&md5=804e27501baca7ca4efeeaa3d1ff0ef1},
	author = {Lalaoui, M. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Boudad20182479,
	title = {Sentiment analysis in Arabic: A review of the literature},
	journal = {Ain Shams Engineering Journal},
	volume = {9},
	number = {4},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {2479-2490},
	doi = {10.1016/j.asej.2017.04.007},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85025446495\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.asej.2017.04.007\&partnerID=40\&md5=4c3f2d43d536d6eec5f42878492ea75c},
	author = {Boudad, N. and Faizi, R. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Chadli2018408,
	title = {A survey on the impact of risk factors and mitigation strategies in global software development},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {746},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {408-417},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_39},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045296980\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-77712-2_39\&partnerID=40\&md5=9b40aafda48fa8eff4f79973caf81f38},
	author = {Chadli, S.Y. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Idri2018,
	title = {A systematic map of data analytics in breast cancer},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3167918.3167930},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044739616\&doi=10.1145\%2f3167918.3167930\&partnerID=40\&md5=4cfbf5c917bfa294988a996c72ff2234},
	author = {Idri, A. and Chlioui, I. and El Ouassif, B.}
}
@conference {ElHaddaoui2018,
	title = {Toward a sentiment analysis framework for social media},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230919},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484908\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230919\&partnerID=40\&md5=c602c6dc79537942d4d5ac0b9e4a0197},
	author = {El Haddaoui, B. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@conference {Bahadi201842,
	title = {Towards efficient big data: Hadoop data placing and processing},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {42-47},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289108},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058656669\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289108\&partnerID=40\&md5=52e6fda5215333977a9413c6cb1ff547},
	author = {Bahadi, J. and Asri, B.E. and Courtine, M. and Rhanoui, M. and Kergosien, Y.}
}
@conference {Saidi2018,
	title = {Translation of heterogeneous requirements meta-models through a pivot meta-model},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056807026\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8a470ca9cd9874928c91f4110c79259},
	author = {Saidi, I.E. and El Hamlaoui, M. and Dkaki, T. and Zarour, N.E. and Charrel, P.-J.}
}
@conference {Chaayra2018106,
	title = {Union bound on the bit error probability of TCM coded with TAS/MRC MIMO system subject to weibull fading channels},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {106-111},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289118},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058642340\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289118\&partnerID=40\&md5=eb942c9b4a115381f43ab2d3015f0a49},
	author = {Chaayra, T. and Bouanani, F.E. and Benazza, H.}
}
@conference {Benqatla2017,
	title = {Actor network theory a framework of it collaboration},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2017 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Collaboration between organization changes dynamically and spreads rapidly through a Collaborative Network (CN). Developing methods for handling such networks of collaboration on a real scale requires modeling social interactions between different actors in order to share, analyze, and suggest improvements for a collaboration perspective. This paper describes a new tool for collaboration modeling based on Actor Network Theory. *ANTCollab system is based on Actor Network Theory and Game Theory algorithm that efficiently provides abstract models of collaboration between different actors aiming at uncovering cost allocations concerns. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with a real case study. The analyze of the *interessement phase reveals that we are able to increase the cost saving objectives within a collaborative mode. We also present a what-if simulation feature to assess the impact of scenarios related to future collaboration evolution. Furthermore, we provide a live deployment of the *ANTCollab system that allows users to explore the dynamics of collaboration networks in place as well as their involvement over time. {\textcopyright}2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2017.8238192},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041441057\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2017.8238192\&partnerID=40\&md5=2fd0079935c6f9ed952e02c6a4dcee0a},
	author = {Benqatla, M.S. and Chikhaoui, D. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@conference {Khaldi2017,
	title = {Artificial neural network based approach for blood demand forecasting: Fez transfusion blood center case study},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F129474},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Blood demand and supply management are considered one of the major components of a healthcare supply chain, since blood is a vital element in preserving patient{\textquoteright}s life. However, forecasting it faces several challenges including frequent shortages, and possible expiration caused by demand uncertainty of hospitals. This uncertainty is mainly due to high variability in the number of emergency cases. Thereupon, this investigation presents a real case study of forecasting monthly demand of three blood components, using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). The demand of the three blood components (red blood cells (RBC), plasma (CP) and platelets (PFC)) and other observations are obtained from a central transfusion blood center and a University Hospital. Experiments are carried out using three networks to forecast each blood component separately. Last, the presented model is compared with ARIMA to evaluate its performance in prediction. The results of this study depict that ANN models overcomes ARIMA models in demand forecasting. Thus high ANN models can be considered as a promising approach in forecasting monthly blood demand. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3090354.3090415},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028449243\&doi=10.1145\%2f3090354.3090415\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ab92ea6ba7c2f5837ee88fcb2a91ffc},
	author = {Khaldi, R. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Fath-ALLAH2017326,
	title = {A Best Practice Based E-Government Portals{\textquoteright} Maturity Model-A Case Study},
	booktitle = {IEEE CIT 2017 - 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {326-331},
	abstract = {An e-government portal{\textquoteright}s maturity model is a set of incremental stages that defines the maturity of e-government portals. In fact, these models can be used by e-government agencies to identify the maturity rank of their portal and at the same time provide recommendations and guidelines for agencies to improve their portals{\textquoteright} maturity. In previous research studies, we have built an e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practice model and a maturity model that is based on the former model. Moreover, we have evaluated the model by a set of experts in the e-government field. The model has proved its validity and reliability within the set of the participants. The aim of this paper is to perform a case study on this maturity model on a real portal. Our findings show that the portal being measured is in the presence stage of maturity. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIT.2017.23},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032359695\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIT.2017.23\&partnerID=40\&md5=765abc46de7761960104adbb2b22b013},
	author = {Fath-Allah, A. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A. and Al-Qutaish, R.}
}
@article {Chaker20174221,
	title = {A critical evaluation of the sustainability balanced scorecard as a decision aid framework},
	journal = {International Journal of Applied Engineering Research},
	volume = {12},
	number = {14},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {4221-4237},
	abstract = {Despite being one of the most renowned systemic thinking decision aid frameworks in sustainability management, the Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) suffers from a fragmented literature on architecture design methodologies. These often depend on the modeler{\textquoteright}s viewpoint, contextual inputs and subjective assessment. A structured critical analysis of the existing architectures and their construction methodologies can make a clear contribution to this field of research. In this paper, we initially present an overview of the major decision aid frameworks used in sustainability management which we classify in two categories: operational methods and systemic approaches. Then, we focus on the SBSC and conduct a critical evaluation of this decision aid framework{\textquoteright}s key features and architectures in order to depict the most salient characteristics and conceptual flaws. We propose consequently some research directions for the construction of more promising SBSCs. {\textcopyright} Research India Publications.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029221715\&partnerID=40\&md5=22c30531087947f877090ca4870d9edf},
	author = {Chaker, F. and Janati Idrissi, M.A. and El Manouar, A.}
}
@article {Laghouaouta2017142,
	title = {A dedicated approach for model composition traceability},
	journal = {Information and Software Technology},
	volume = {91},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {142-159},
	abstract = {Context: Software systems are often too complex to be expressed by a single model. Recognizing this, the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) proposes multi-modeling approaches to allow developers to describe a system from different perspectives. In this context, model composition has become important since the combination of those partial representations is inevitable. Nevertheless, no approach has been defined for keeping track of the composition effects, and this operation has been overshadowed by model transformations. Objective This paper presents a traceability approach dedicated to the composition of models. Two aspects of quality are considered: producing relevant traces; and dealing with scalability. Method The composition of softgoal trees has been selected to motivate the need for tracing the composition of models and to illustrate our approach. The base principle is to augment the specification of the composition with the behavior needed to generate the expected composed model accompanied with a trace model. This latter includes traces of the execution details. For that, traceability is considered as a crosscutting concern and encapsulated in an aspect. As part of the proposal, an Eclipse plug-in has been implemented as a tool support. Besides, a comparative experiment has been conducted to assess the traces relevance. We also used the regression method to validate the scalability of the tool support. Results Our experiments show that the proposed approach allows generating relevant traces. In addition, the obtained results reveal that tracing a growing number of elements causes an acceptable increase of response time. Conclusion This paper presents a traceability approach dedicated to the composition of models and its application to softgoal trees. The experiment results reveal that our proposal considers the composition specificities for producing valuable traceability information while supporting scalability. {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier B.V.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2017.07.002},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85021928111\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.infsof.2017.07.002\&partnerID=40\&md5=efd71b14c98f0091be2f0f61bbb50a3f},
	author = {Laghouaouta, Y. and Anwar, A. and Nassar, M. and Coulette, B.}
}
@article {Chaker20176182,
	title = {The dynamic adaptive sustainability balanced scorecard: A new framework for a sustainability-driven strategy},
	journal = {International Journal of Applied Engineering Research},
	volume = {12},
	number = {16},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {6182-6191},
	abstract = {The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard (SBSC) has been widely recognized as a valuable decision aid approach in the management of sustainability. Controversy is nevertheless still prevalent on which SBSC architecture is most suitable for which organizational context. Moreover, the literature unveils some structural flaws in SBSC design methodologies that remain up till now fundamentally based on intuitionist mental models and subjective judgment. Building upon existing critical evaluations and the gaps to be addressed, we propose in this paper a new sustainability decision aid framework based on a novel combination of Multi-Criteria Decision Making methods (MCDM), Fuzzy logic, and System Dynamics modeling. The resulting framework, denoted as the Dynamic Adaptive SBSC (D-ASBSC), offers the advantage of high adaptability, comprehensiveness, and unbiased methodical cause-effect relationship construction. In addition, thanks to a systematic rule-based generation of the causal loop diagram and the stock-flow chart, the D-ASBSC permits to effectively remedy to the infamous mental models restriction that has long been raised in System Dynamics modeling. {\textcopyright} Research India Publications.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029754284\&partnerID=40\&md5=2b1805b81731ebbb7b35691824759d36},
	author = {Chaker, F. and Manouar, A.E. and Idrissi, M.A.J.}
}
@conference {Chaimae2017200,
	title = {ECC certificate for authentication in cloud-based RFID},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2016},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {200-203},
	abstract = {Cloud computing is the access via internet to shared resources and services. Merging this technology with RFID enabled the improvement of the latter such as data storage and processing, and both allow to have intelligent environments and access services anytime and anywhere. But this fusion is the subject of some criticism concerning the data security and privacy. In this article we are interested in the authentication of tag/reader to the cloud interface and we propose a protocol using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) to verify the identity of readers before issuing the certificate which authenticates the reader to tag, and then lets them access the cloud interface. {\"\i}{\textquestiondown}{\textonehalf} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2016.7847699},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013847389\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2016.7847699\&partnerID=40\&md5=98054382849319c9204046d0edee3677},
	author = {Chaimae, E. and Romadi, R. and Abdellatif, E.A.}
}
@conference {Boualame2017,
	title = {An efficient soft decision decoding algorithm using cyclic permutations and compact genetic algorithm},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The compact genetic algorithm cGA is used in this paper to design an efficient soft-decision decoding algorithm, especially for the cyclic codes, because the cGA dramatically reduces the population{\textquoteright}s size and rapidly converges to the optimal solution compared to classical genetic algorithms. Our main contribution is to exploit the cyclic property of cyclic linear codes to reduce the complexity of the decoding process especially in the test sequences generation and re-encoding stage where we use the generator polynomial instead of the generator matrix. The second idea behind our decoding algorithm is the complexity improvement inside of cGA by decreasing the probability vector{\textquoteright}s length, which becomes less than the length of the cGA original one. The experiments were carried out on the most popular cyclic codes, and the results show that the performances of our algorithm are better than some famous decoding algorithms in terms of Bit Error Rate. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843936},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015170559\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843936\&partnerID=40\&md5=249f966f42367ada53bac8892853f1c4},
	author = {Boualame, H. and Tahiri, N. and Chana, I. and Azouaoui, A. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {Ouhbi201749,
	title = {E-health internationalization requirements for audit purposes},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {144},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {49-60},
	abstract = {Background and objective: In the 21st century, e-health is proving to be one of the strongest drivers for the global transformation of the health care industry. Health information is currently truly ubiquitous and widespread, but in order to guarantee that everyone can appropriately access and understand this information, regardless of their origin, it is essential to bridge the international gap. The diversity of health information seekers languages and cultures signifies that e-health applications must be adapted to satisfy their needs. Methods: In order to achieve this objective, current and future e-health programs should take into account the internationalization aspects. This paper presents an internationalization requirements specification in the form of a reusable requirements catalog, obtained from the principal related standards, and describes the key methodological elements needed to perform an e-health software audit by using the internationalization knowledge previously gathered. Results: S Health, a relevant, well-known Android application that has more than 150 million users in over 130 countries, was selected as a target for the e-health internationalization audit method and requirements specification presented above. This application example helped us to put into practice the proposal and show that the procedure is realistic and effective. Conclusions: The approach presented in this study is subject to continuous improvement through the incorporation of new knowledge originating from additional information sources, such as other standards or stakeholders. The application example is useful for early evaluation and serves to assess the applicability of the internationalization catalog and audit methodology, and to improve them. It would be advisable to develop of an automated tool with which to carry out the audit method. {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier B.V.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.03.014},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016069397\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2017.03.014\&partnerID=40\&md5=4cdb24852f0764dc64c9ed73f5614eda},
	author = {Ouhbi, S. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Carrillo-De-Gea, J.M. and Toval, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@article {Chentouf2017,
	title = {Evaluating the impact of max transition constraint variations on power reduction capabilities in cell-based designs},
	journal = {Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications},
	volume = {7},
	number = {4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Power optimization is a very important and challenging step in the physical design flow, and it is a critical success factor of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip. Many techniques are used by the place and route (P\&R) electronic design automation (EDA) tools to meet the power requirement. In this paper, we will evaluate, independently from the library file, the impact of redefining the max transition constraint (MTC) before the power optimization phase, and we will study the impact of over-constraining or under-constraining a design on power in order to find the best trade-off between design constraining and power optimization. Experimental results showed that power optimization depends on the applied MTC and that the MTC value corresponding to the best power reduction results is different from the default MTC. By using a new MTC definition method on several designs, we found that the power gain between the default methodology and the new one reaches 2.34\%. {\textcopyright} 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	doi = {10.3390/jlpea7040025},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031285166\&doi=10.3390\%2fjlpea7040025\&partnerID=40\&md5=27c21efca64d37511e1a35fb74200dcf},
	author = {Chentouf, M. and El Abidine, A.I.Z.}
}
@conference {Faizi2017997,
	title = {Extracting business value from big data},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Education Excellence and Innovation Management through Vision 2020: From Regional Development Sustainability to Global Economic Growth},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {997-1002},
	abstract = {The exponential growth of structured and unstructured data in the last few years has resulted in the emergence of {\textquoteright}big data{\textquoteright} as one of the hottest technology trends. With data of all kinds being generated in record amounts every minute, big data has become a buzzword across various fields. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to explore the various ways through which businesses can derive value from both internal and external data. In this respect, it was found out that companies, both big and small - across all industries - can use big data to increase customers{\textquoteright} retention and to meet the need of every individual customer. This huge amount of data can also help a business identify the strengths and weaknesses of its competitors and, thus, stay ahead of them. Finally, big data can provide businesses with real-time insights that would enable them to spot or predict problems, and solve them before they happen. Given all these benefits, we strongly believe that the collection and processing of the massive amounts of data, generated by customers or smart devices, can help any enterprise make more powerful and accurate decisions and, thus, significantly improve business operations and organizational performance.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029742611\&partnerID=40\&md5=bfa9daca776ba7dea239abddfc70501a},
	author = {Faizi, R. and El Fkihi, S. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Haoues2017886,
	title = {A guideline for software architecture selection based on ISO 25010 quality related characteristics},
	journal = {International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {886-909},
	abstract = {As the complexity of software increases, the choice of the appropriate software architecture becomes a critical task. This paper provides a guideline for selecting the appropriate software architecture based on pertinent ISO 25010 quality characteristics. The guideline was established through an analytical survey of 113 papers published from 2010 to 2014. Through this survey, we first identified a set of commonly used software architectures in the software engineering literature. Secondly, we applied the Formal Concept Analysis technique to classify each one of these architectures according to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. Finally, we identified the relationships among ISO 25010 quality characteristics, which in turn helped us to develop a guideline on how to select the appropriate software architecture with respect to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. In order to make sure about the validation of the proposed guideline, a survey with industrial experts is in progress. Data were collected from two companies working in the software development field (ST2i and Telnet). {\textcopyright} 2016, The Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India and The Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.},
	doi = {10.1007/s13198-016-0546-8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034990679\&doi=10.1007\%2fs13198-016-0546-8\&partnerID=40\&md5=180857479792ea94cf87783efc8285da},
	author = {Haoues, M. and Sellami, A. and Ben-Abdallah, H. and Cheikhi, L.}
}
@conference {Lalaoui2017558,
	title = {Hidden Markov Model for a self-learning of Simulated Annealing cooling law},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {558-563},
	abstract = {The Simulated Annealing (SA) is a stochastic local search algorithm. It is an adaptation of the Metropolis-Hastings Monte Carlo algorithm. SA mimics the annealing process in metallurgy to approximate the global optimum of an optimization problem and uses a temperature parameter to control the search. The efficiency of the simulated annealing algorithm involves the adaptation of the cooling schedule. In this paper, we integrate Hidden Markov Model (HMM) in SA to iteratively predict the best cooling law according to the search history. Experiments performed on many benchmark functions show that our proposed scheme outperforms other SA variants in term of quality of solutions. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2016.7905557},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019141326\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2016.7905557\&partnerID=40\&md5=68063f3aef36190a9965517a3e628711},
	author = {Lalaoui, M. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference {Chafik20171983,
	title = {A hybrid bin-packing algorithm for solving the yard optimization problem},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1983-1991},
	abstract = {Maritime container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between ships or between ships and land vehicles (tucks or trains). They can be automated; semi-automated or static ones depend on the type of the equipments that they contain. There are crucial resources at container terminals; the yard, cranes and the vehicles. The yard refers to the temporary storage area where inbound, outbound containers can be stored. While we have two kinds of cranes depending on the type of the yard we are working on: yard crane and quay crane. Vehicles are used to transfer the container between the seaside and yard side (the external trucks XTs are not considerable in our study). The decision of the container stacking position is the most important operational task for the incoming containers which affects not only the productivity of the stacking but also for the later retrieval and also to avoid the unproductive moves to access to the requested containers stored in the stack. Our aim is to define a new approach to design the container stacking problem using an approach of optimization and simulation. Thus in this paper we will define a new MIP which has as objective the minimization of the number of the stacks used to store a given number of inbound containers, and to define afterwards a simulation model using a simulation software (Arena) which has as input the result of the optimization model. So we will try first to define a relocation model using the standard (FCFS) then the Best fit decrease (BFD) from the bin packing algorithm to store and maintain the storage area and to avoid unproductive moves and reshuffles to find out the requested container sequence. The main inputs are high, weight, destination and the delivery time of each container. Our objective is to have, based on heuristics, a guide to the planner to obtain an optimized stacking / reshuffling plan, given a stacking state and a container demand. We will try to minimize the number of reshuffles as well as the number of stacks used and obtaining a conclusion about possible yard configurations. {\textcopyright} IEOM Society International.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019000218\&partnerID=40\&md5=9aebf3bb53d265a1dd55c143dac817a3},
	author = {Chafik, R. and Benadada, Y. and Boukachour, J.}
}
@conference {Chadli201712,
	title = {Identifying and mitigating risks of software project management in global software development},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F131936},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {12-22},
	abstract = {Managing global software projects is a difficult task further complicated by the emergence of new risks inherent to the dispersion of stakeholders. Project managers of Global Software Development (GSD) projects deal with challenges related to geographical, temporal and socio-cultural distance. The aim of this paper is to identify mitigation strategies intended to counter partially or fully the effects of risk factors related to the management of GSD projects that are available in literature and update the list of risk factors proposed in a previous research. This study proposes a framework for the Software Risk Management (SRM) of GSD projects designed to help practitioners identify risk factors and alleviate their effects through a list of recommended mitigation strategies. Using a systematic literature review (SLR), 39 risk factors and 58 mitigation strategies were identified and classified using a framework inspired from Leavitt{\textquoteright}s model of organizational change. Results show that the mitigation strategies identified in this SLR target 38 out of 39 risk factors, indicating a high academic interest in resolving the challenges of managing GSD projects. Results also reveal that the list of risk factors submitted in this paper and compiled using a different set of selected studies, concurs with the list introduced in a previous research. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3143434.3143453},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85038388343\&doi=10.1145\%2f3143434.3143453\&partnerID=40\&md5=4d1ca1bb448c86a4078da3a7727dc70c},
	author = {Chadli, S.Y. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Amine20171245,
	title = {A many-to-many matching game in ultra-dense LTE HetNets},
	booktitle = {2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1245-1250},
	abstract = {In this work, we focus our study to improving the energy efficiency of mobile cellular users in ultra-dense LTE HetNets. The hyper-dense co-channel deployment of indoor LTE small cell networks (SCNs) within LTE macro cell networks (MCNs) will aggravate the effect of cross-tier interferences caused by the uplink transmissions of macro-indoor users located inside the overlapping zones of small base station (SBS) coverage areas. Hence, degrading the uplink performance at the level of SBSs adopting closed access policy. In order to eliminate the severe cross-tier interferences, each SBS attempts to open the access for macro-indoor users that accept only the SBS with Max-SINR offer. This will lead to network congestion problems in several SCNs. Wherefore, we formulate our problem as a many-to-many matching game. Then, we introduce an algorithm that computes the optimal many-to-many stable matching which consist of assigning each macro-indoor user with multi-homing capabilities to the most suitable set of SBSs and vice versa based on their preference profiles. With regard to the conventional Max-SINR association scheme, our solution can effectively improve the energy efficiency of cellular users. Moreover, it can ensure load balancing in ultra-dense LTE HetNets. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986463},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027886532\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2017.7986463\&partnerID=40\&md5=a4a95449b5ea20b54454dcf7b7bd1e59},
	author = {Amine, M. and Walid, A. and Kobbane, A. and Cherkaoui, S.}
}
@conference {Rachih2017,
	title = {Metaheuristics applied in remanufacturing and reverse logistics: A review},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F129474},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Due to growing environmental concerns, a large number of companies and organizations in the world give importance to reverse logistics and remanufacturing. Remanufacturing which aims is to take care of used or damaged product in the purpose of returning it like new product, lead many researchers to study the integration of this reverse flow in the process of the forward supply chain. The resulting models are difficult and complex to solve and optimize, hence the need to integrate a strong and efficient method such as Metaheuristics to solve those complex optimization problems. The purpose of this study is to review the published literature on the issues of reverse logistics and remanufacturing, and classified these papers by the type of metaheuristic used. Also, it aims to outline some future opportunities for research based on research gap analysis. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3090354.3090462},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028474536\&doi=10.1145\%2f3090354.3090462\&partnerID=40\&md5=c4408470ba292c01841b6cf733c3b036},
	author = {Rachih, H. and Mhada, F.Z. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference {Chabibi2017,
	title = {Metamodeling approach for creating an abstract representation of simulation tools concepts},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Models have always been adopted in trades implemented in Systems Engineering (SE). Those models go from concrete representations, such as reduced plans or models, to abstract ones like equations systems. In this context, SysML became an SE standard because of its capabilities of supporting the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. However, SysML descriptive models are insufficient to perform system behavior verifications. This lack can be handled by simulation process that allows performing experiments on models to eliminate poor design alternatives, and ensures that a preferred alternative meets the stakeholders{\textquoteright} objectives. As design process efficiency is considerably reduced by the fact that both system modeling and simulation tools are often used separately, several research works aim combining and integrating both approaches in a common framework. This paper proposes a study of common constructs, semantics and modeling methodologies of simulation tools on the basis of whom we define a modeling language that we name: Simulation Modeling Language. This latter is aimed to bridge the gap between SysML modeling and various simulation tools. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945702},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85022040665\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2016.7945702\&partnerID=40\&md5=d1fe0f6b95968d7d57159b55cefc34da},
	author = {Chabibi, B. and Anwar, A. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference {Moumen2017,
	title = {A novel text-to-speech synthesizer for processing sms in moroccan Arabic},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper proposes a novel text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts text messages (SMS) into speech sequences. This system takes into consideration the characteristics of the Moroccan context, where several languages might be used in the same text message. Therefore, the languages that are analyzed in this work are English, French, Moroccan Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Processing French, English, or Modern Standard Arabic is common and has given satisfying results. However, Moroccan Arabic remains under-studied for many reasons, particularly the lack of data resources given that this Arabic dialect is primarily spoken and non-codified.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040947811\&partnerID=40\&md5=1ddd4fb5d94d0350d8211d7bc3fc7c61},
	author = {Moumen, R. and Chiheb, R. and Zarra, T. and Faizi, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {Cherkaoui2017206,
	title = {Performance analysis of intrusion detection systems in cloud-based systems},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {10542 LNCS},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {206-213},
	abstract = {Cloud computing services are widely used nowadays and need to be more secured for an effective exploitation by the users. One of the most challenging issues in these environments is the security of the hosted data. Many cloud computing providers offer web applications for their clients, this is why the most handling attacks in cloud computing are Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). In this paper, we provide a comparative performance analysis of intrusion detection systems (IDSs) in a real world lab. The aim is to provide an up to date study for researchers and practitioners to understand the issues related to intrusion detection and to deal with DDoS attacks. This analysis includes intrusion detection rates, time running, etc. In the experiments, we configured a cloud platform using OpenStack and an IDS monitoring the whole network traffic of the web server configured. The results show that Suricata drops fewer packets than Bro and Snort successively when a DDoS attack is happening and detect more malicious packets. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-68179-5_18},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034613510\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-68179-5_18\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e0ce668710d845db260ee41dabb49b5},
	author = {Cherkaoui, R. and Zbakh, M. and Braeken, A. and Touhafi, A.}
}
@conference {Chaayra2017,
	title = {Performance analysis of TAS/MRC based MIMO systems over Weibull fading channels},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In this paper, we investigate combining single transmit antenna selection (TAS) and receiver maximal ratio combining (MRC) based Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems over independent flat Weibull fading channels. In this system, a single transmit antenna, which maximizes the total received signal power at the receiver, is selected for uncoded transmission and is applied to reduce the system complexity without any loss in diversity. Since much research has been conducted on system performance under Rayleigh and Nakagami-m fading channels, this study will focus on new simple approximate closed-form of the post-processing signal to noise ratio (SNR) probability density function (PDF) over Weibull multipath fading channels. Based on this expression, approximate analytical expressions such outage probability (OP), the average channel capacity (CC), and the average symbol error rate (ASER) for several Mary modulation techniques are derived as infinite series, which converge by using a particular hypergeometric function, known as Meijer G-function. Theoritical analysis is verified by computed simulations using Mathematica software. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843937},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015207144\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843937\&partnerID=40\&md5=d347aa5cd10e0b607b96ad3f8ddea83f},
	author = {Chaayra, T. and El Bouanani, F. and Ben-Azza, H.}
}
@conference {ElFachtali2017824,
	title = {Power-optimized vertical handover scheme for 4th generation heterogeneous wireless network},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {824-829},
	abstract = {Minimizing the total power consumption required for vertical handovers in 4th generation heterogeneous wireless networks is as important as providing users with the best QoS(Quality of Service) continuously. This letter proposes a vertical handover scheme to minimize the total power consumption required for a vertical handover in 4th generation heterogeneous wireless networks, while guaranteeing a particular QoS. The proposed scheme is based on an updated Tabu-search scheme, which helps to efficiently explore the network in order to find an optimal solution and to provide a service performance that adheres to predefined service level agreements (SLA). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can lead to lower total power consumption compared to the RSS (Received Signal Strength) based scheme. The proposed method can achieve promising results in terms of bandwidth, security and cost of service, while minimizing the power consumption. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010224341\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805001\&partnerID=40\&md5=34fca482e3ee5b9533ec0539843e2bb7},
	author = {El Fachtali, I.a and Saadane, R.b and El Koutbi, M.a and Chaibi, H.a}
}
@conference {ElFachtali2017824,
	title = {Power-optimized vertical handover scheme for 4th generation heterogeneous wireless network},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {824-829},
	abstract = {Minimizing the total power consumption required for vertical handovers in 4th generation heterogeneous wireless networks is as important as providing users with the best QoS(Quality of Service) continuously. This letter proposes a vertical handover scheme to minimize the total power consumption required for a vertical handover in 4th generation heterogeneous wireless networks, while guaranteeing a particular QoS. The proposed scheme is based on an updated Tabu-search scheme, which helps to efficiently explore the network in order to find an optimal solution and to provide a service performance that adheres to predefined service level agreements (SLA). Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can lead to lower total power consumption compared to the RSS (Received Signal Strength) based scheme. The proposed method can achieve promising results in terms of bandwidth, security and cost of service, while minimizing the power consumption. {\"\i}{\textquestiondown}{\textonehalf} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010224341\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805001\&partnerID=40\&md5=34fca482e3ee5b9533ec0539843e2bb7},
	author = {El Fachtali, I. and Saadane, R. and El Koutbi, M. and Chaibi, H.}
}
@conference {Khaldi2017,
	title = {Prediction of supplier performance: A novel DEA-ANFIS based approach},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F129474},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The focus of this paper is on investigating the feasibility of using ANFIS combined with DEA for supplier{\textquoteright}s post-evaluation. The proposed framework aims at modeling performance measurement, and forecasting of a selected hospital{\textquoteright}s drug suppliers. Even though it is broadly employed as a benchmarking tool to evaluate DMUs efficiency, DEA can hardly be used to predict the performance of unseen DMUs. For this reason, ANFIS model has been integrated to DEA due to its nonlinear mapping, strong generalization capabilities and pattern prediction functionalities. DEA based BCC model is used to evaluate the efficiency scores of a set of suppliers, then ANFIS intervenes to learn DEA patterns and to forecast the performance of new suppliers. The results of this research highlight the prediction power of the proposed model in a new scope. They present it as an efficient benchmarking tool and a promising decision support system applied at the operational level. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3090354.3090416},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028459962\&doi=10.1145\%2f3090354.3090416\&partnerID=40\&md5=da01d9720d77f4831205623526bfc9d9},
	author = {Khaldi, R. and Chiheb, R. and El Afia, A. and Akaaboune, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Boudad2017,
	title = {Sentiment analysis in Arabic: A review of the literature},
	journal = {Ain Shams Engineering Journal},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0; Article in Press},
	abstract = {Within the last couple of years, Sentiment Analysis in Arabic has gained a considerable interest from the research community. In this respect, the objective of this paper is to provide a review of the major works that have dealt with this research area in this language. A thorough investigation of the available literature revealed that the works were mainly concentrated on dealing with specific Sentiment Analysis tasks. To this end, they used three different approaches, namely supervised, unsupervised and hybrid. The results that these studies achieved are interesting but divergent. This divergence is relatively due to the type of approach opted for, the task that is being analysed as well as to the specificities and intricacies of the Arabic variety understudy. {\textcopyright} 2017 Ain Shams University.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.asej.2017.04.007},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85025446495\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.asej.2017.04.007\&partnerID=40\&md5=4c3f2d43d536d6eec5f42878492ea75c},
	author = {Boudad, N. and Faizi, R. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@article {Boudad2017233,
	title = {Sentiment classification of Arabic tweets: A supervised approach},
	journal = {Journal of Mobile Multimedia},
	volume = {13},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {233-243},
	abstract = {Social media platforms have proven to be a powerful source of opinion sharing. Thus, mining and analyzing these opinions has an important role in decision-making and product benchmarking. However, the manual processing of the huge amount of content that these web-based applications host is an arduous task. This has led to the emergence of a new field of research known as Sentiment Analysis. In this respect, our objective in this work is to investigate sentiment classification in Arabic tweets using machine learning. Three classifiers namely Na{\"I}ve Bayes, Support Vector Machine and K-Nearest Neighbor were evaluated on an in-house developed dataset using different features. A comparison of these classifiers has revealed that Support Vector Machine outperforms others classifiers and achieves a 78\% accuracy rate. {\textcopyright} Rinton Press.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040241035\&partnerID=40\&md5=76bc92b38d241173585a11bc74ae14d7},
	author = {Boudad, N. and Faizi, R. and Thami, R.O.H. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference {Harraz2017230,
	title = {Study of an adaptive approach for a Cloud system implementation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2016},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {230-236},
	abstract = {In the few recent years a new paradigm has emerged, with the onward steps that revolutionized the internet and the machines interconnected over it. This has lead the modern technological world to be considered as a virtual sphere interconnecting things using internet, being called the Cloud Computing where any object can communicate with any other object using a network such as the internet. The Cloud Computing makes it possible for end users to profit from the high speed and high performance of remote machines, and deploys a business where internet providers can implement distributed resources and services based on modern technologies to address the needs of the end users. In such paradigm, all components should work in a fashion to provide the best response time possible, one way of doing that is through load balancing algorithms. In this paper we propose a cloud load balancing algorithm that relates to the stochastic and random behavior of any networking system, we show as a result that we can achieve a game theoretic load balancing policy based on the samples of the load in time. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2016.7847704},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013764269\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2016.7847704\&partnerID=40\&md5=34d05b50f0f8af7eb7ee1964533a0ebd},
	author = {Harraz, A. and Bissiriou, C. and Cherkaoui, R. and Zbakh, M.}
}
@conference {Idri2017,
	title = {A survey of secondary studies in software process improvement},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Software Process Improvement (SPI) has become one of the main strategic objectives in software industry. Companies make more investments in implementing software quality standards and models that focus on process assessment to improve their performance and productivity. To achieve these goals, companies focus on improving their process by means of improvement initiatives which may be implemented. To help practitioners find more innovative ways to manage and implement software process improvement initiatives efficiently, an important number of studies related to this topic have been emerged in recent years. Some of them, referred to as secondary studies, focused on the interpretation and synthesis of available published research works by giving an up to date state of art about SPI. This state of the art is provided in a form of literature surveys or in a methodological form using well established approaches such as systematic reviews or systematic mappings or tertiary studies. The objective of this paper is to identify and present the current secondary studies on SPI. The purpose is to discuss methods that these literature reviews of SPI use, their quality, and specific subjects that they cover. A set of survey research questions have been proposed and discussed through the investigation of 70 selected secondary studies collected from different digital libraries. The results show that success factors and issues related to implementation of SPI initiatives are the most studied, and there is a need to address in depth the measurement aspects in SPI. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945655},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85021871351\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2016.7945655\&partnerID=40\&md5=e6b8548942846520db1fe2f2d41c4ecc},
	author = {Idri, A. and Cheikhi, L.}
}
@conference {ElHamlaoui201618,
	title = {Alignment of viewpoint heterogeneous design models: "Emergency Department" Case Study},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {1731},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {18-27},
	abstract = {Generally, various models can be used to describe a given application domain on different aspects and thus give rise to several views. To have a complete view of the application domain, heterogeneous models need to be unified, which is a hard task to do. To tackle this problem, we have proposed a method to relate partial models without combining them in a single model. In our approach, partial models are organized as a network of models through a virtual global model called M1C (Model of correspondences between models) which conforms to a ubiquitous language based on a Meta-Model of Correspondences (MMC). This paper presents an application of our method to an "Emergency Department" case study. It has been performed as a collaborative process involving model designers and a supervisor. The focus is put on the building of the M1C model from 3 partial models.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84999098977\&partnerID=40\&md5=f0512c94d99ecc99fcd8fc9336ce1668},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M.a b and Coulette, B.b and Ebersold, S.b and Bennani, S.a and Nassar, M.a and Anwar, A.e and Beugnard, A.c and Bach, J.C.c and Jamoussi, Y.d and Tran, H.N.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400006,
	title = {Cryptographic Algorithm Approach for Low Cost RFID Systems},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {45-54},
	abstract = {Today the security of RFID systems is a very important issue especially for low cost RFID tags. Then, it is difficult for several researchers to adopt a strong encryption algorithm due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication abilities of the tag. So, the priority in RFID systems is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and authentication of messages using different algorithms (such as encryption and hashing algorithm). In this paper, we propose a lightweight symmetric key encryption approach that includes integrity as part of the encryption process in order to meet the resource limitations of low cost RFID tags. Furthermore we do not need to use separate hash functions to verify message integrity, thus leading to increase the computational efficiency of the system.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_6},
	author = {Labbi, Zouheir and Maarof, Ahmed and Senhadji, Mohamed and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000385280000048,
	title = {On the Deployment Quality for Multi-intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015 (MEDCT 2015), VOL 2},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), Saidia, MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {469-478},
	abstract = {The intrusion detection in a Wireless Sensor Network is defined as a mechanism to monitor and detect any intruder in a sensing area. The sensor deployment quality is a critical issue since it reflects the cost and detection capability of a wireless sensor network. When the random deployment is required, which sensor nodes are uniformly randomly distributed over on surface area, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. In the intrusion detection application, it is necessary to define more precise measures of sensing range and node density that impact overall system performance. To enhance the detection quality for single/multi intrusion, a probabilistic intrusion detection models are adopted, called single and multi sensing probability detection and the deployment quality issue is surveyed and analysed in term of coverage.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30298-0; 978-3-319-30296-6},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0\_48},
	author = {Assad, Noureddine and Elbhiri, Brahim and Faqihi, My Ahmed and Ouadou, Mohamed and Aboutajdine, Driss},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@article {Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n2016105,
	title = {Effects of Using Requirements Catalogs on Effectiveness and Productivity of Requirements Specification in a Software Project Management Course},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Education},
	volume = {59},
	number = {2},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {105-118},
	abstract = {{This paper presents the results of two educational experiments carried out to determine whether the process of specifying requirements (catalog-based reuse as opposed to conventional specification) has an impact on effectiveness and productivity in co-located and distributed software development environments. The participants in the experiments were 76 students enrolled in three courses on project management for software development at the University of Murcia, Spain, and the Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco. The results of a fixed effects meta-analysis (Hedges{\textquoteright} g) obtained a medium effect (-0.495},
	doi = {10.1109/TE.2015.2454472},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938513136\&doi=10.1109\%2fTE.2015.2454472\&partnerID=40\&md5=b0869dc6ab42c4703c94727e3de076c7},
	author = {Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Carrillo-De-Gea, J.M.a and Vidal Meca, J.a and Nicol{\'a}s Ros, J.a and Toval, A.a and Idri, A.b}
}
@conference {Fath-Allah2016,
	title = {An E-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model - Architectural and procedural views},
	booktitle = {SITA 2016 - 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {E-government portals are changing the way citizens are dealing with their governments. The e-government services can be executed by citizens without any location or time constraints, which results in great benefits for them. Therefore, agencies should follow worldwide e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practices that would contribute in the portals{\textquoteright} quality. E-government maturity models can be used for this purpose. The purpose of this paper is to propose an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model that is based on a best practice model for e-government portals. This maturity model can help agencies identify their maturity rank by measuring the presence of those best practices. At the same time, the maturity model can provide guidelines and recommendations for agencies to move to an upper stage of maturity. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2016.7772272},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010369791\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2016.7772272\&partnerID=40\&md5=9042feeee58af2946ca1ad76185edb6a},
	author = {Fath-Allah, A.a and Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000391420300017,
	title = {An E-government Portals{\textquoteright} Maturity Model - Architectural and Procedural Views},
	booktitle = {2016 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	series = {International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Theories and Applications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), Mohammedia, MOROCCO, OCT 19-20, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE; Univ Hassan Casablanca; IEEE Morocco Sect; Fac Sci Tech Mohammedia},
	organization = {IEEE; Univ Hassan Casablanca; IEEE Morocco Sect; Fac Sci Tech Mohammedia},
	abstract = {E-government portals are changing the way citizens are dealing with their governments. The e-government services can be executed by citizens without any location or time constraints, which results in great benefits for them. Therefore, agencies should follow worldwide e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practices that would contribute in the portals{\textquoteright} quality. E-government maturity models can be used for this purpose. The purpose of this paper is to propose an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model that is based on a best practice model for e-government portals. This maturity model can help agencies identify their maturity rank by measuring the presence of those best practices. At the same time, the maturity model can provide guidelines and recommendations for agencies to move to an upper stage of maturity.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-5781-8},
	issn = {2378-2528},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Abdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali}
}
@article {Mezouary2016325,
	title = {An energy-aware clustering approach based on the k-means method for wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {325-337},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new approach to build energy aware clusters for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The algorithm behind is based on the k-means method which is well known as a clustering technique and widely used in several fields of engineering and research. K-means clustering tends to find clusters of comparable spatial extent (density clustering). We try to enhance the clustering process by selecting nodes as clusters that are centric and have a high level of energy. This will give the same QoS results as given by the K-means approach with a reduction of energy consumption and a prolongation of the lifetime of the sensor network. For the simulation purposes, we have implemented our approach on the OLSR routing protocol which has been selected by our research team as a test bed routing protocol. We have compared our new approach (OLSR-Kmeans-Energy) with a previous work we developed and where we use a Max-Min heuristic (OLSR-MaxMin-Energy) to enhance QoS parameters and the lifetime of the WSN. Our new approach seems to give better results than the MaxMin approach. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5_26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959098093\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-287-990-5_26\&partnerID=40\&md5=bcd3d9d29b98420d13c95f74f11a93c6},
	author = {Mezouary, R.E. and Choukri, A. and Kobbane, A. and Koutbi, M.E.}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100026,
	title = {An Energy-Aware Clustering Approach Based on the K-Means Method forWireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {ADVANCES IN UBIQUITOUS NETWORKING},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), Casablanca, MOROCCO, SEP 08-10, 2015},
	pages = {325-337},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new approach to build energy aware clusters for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The algorithm behind is based on the k-means method which is well known as a clustering technique and widely used in several fields of engineering and research. K-means clustering tends to find clusters of comparable spatial extent (density clustering). We try to enhance the clustering process by selecting nodes as clusters that are centric and have a high level of energy. This will give the same QoS results as given by the K-means approach with a reduction of energy consumption and a prolongation of the lifetime of the sensor network. For the simulation purposes, we have implemented our approach on the OLSR routing protocol which has been selected by our research team as a test bed routing protocol. We have compared our new approach (OLSR-Kmeans-Energy) with a previous work we developed and where we use a Max-Min heuristic (OLSR-MaxMin-Energy) to enhance QoS parameters and the lifetime of the WSN. Our new approach seems to give better results than the MaxMin approach.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_26},
	author = {El Mezouary, Ridouane and Choukri, Ali and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@article {Touil2016385,
	title = {A hybrid metaheuristic method to optimize the order of the sequences in continuous-casting},
	journal = {International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations},
	volume = {7},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {385-398},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm to maximize the production and to minimize the processing time in the steel-making and continuous casting (SCC) by optimizing the order of the sequences where a sequence is a group of jobs with the same chemical characteristics. Based on the work Bellabdaoui and Teghem (2006) [Bellabdaoui, A., \& Teghem, J. (2006). A mixed-integer linear programming model for the continuous casting planning. International Journal of Production Economics, 104(2), 260-270.], a mixed integer linear programming for scheduling steelmaking continuous casting production is presented to minimize the makespan. The order of the sequences in continuous casting is assumed to be fixed. The main contribution is to analyze an additional way to determine the optimal order of sequences. A hybrid method based on simulated annealing and genetic algorithm restricted by a tabu list (SA-GA-TL) is addressed to obtain the optimal order. After parameter tuning of the proposed algorithm, it is tested on different instances using a.NET application and the commercial software solver Cplex v12.5. These results are compared with those obtained by SATL (simulated annealing restricted by tabu list). {\textcopyright} 2016 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.5267/j.ijiec.2016.2.001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84957917029\&doi=10.5267\%2fj.ijiec.2016.2.001\&partnerID=40\&md5=e0284256115fc0d4bf606a30dc17c14b},
	author = {Touil, A.a and Echchtabi, A.a and Bellabdaoui, A.b and Charkaoui, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000390313000030,
	title = {Integrating SysML with simulation environments (Simulink) by model transformation approach},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES (WETICE)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {25th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies - Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Paris, FRANCE, JUN 13-15, 2016},
	pages = {148-150},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Techl Council Software Engn; West Virginia Univ, CERC; Paris Sch Business; CNRS Samovar Res Lab; Telecom SudParis, Inst Mines Telecom; Paris Sch Business Res Lab; Olab Dynam; eFrei Groupe},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Techl Council Software Engn; West Virginia Univ, CERC; Paris Sch Business; CNRS Samovar Res Lab; Telecom SudParis, Inst Mines Telecom; Paris Sch Business Res Lab; Olab Dynam; eFrei Groupe},
	abstract = {In system-level design, descriptive system models seem to be insufficient in order to perform a system verification which fulfils various stakeholders requirements. This fact is accentuated by the increasing complexity of system engineering projects and, as a consequence, the difficulties to deal with both their coordination and traceability. Even if SysML (System Modeling Language) is considered as a flexible and standard tool for system engineering, using only descriptive models are insufficient for system behavior verifications. To deal with this concern, simulation environments (i.e. MATLAB/Simulink) allow verifying if the system preliminary design satisfies requirements or not. As a consequence, various research works have been centered on combining the potential of both SysML modeling and simulation tools. This paper proposes an integration approach based on metamodeling and model transformations to generate Simulink models from SysML diagrams. This approach is handled by models and modern techniques of MDE (ModelDriven Engineering).},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-1663-1},
	doi = {10.1109/WETICE.2016.39},
	author = {Chabibi, Bassim and Douche, Abdelilah and Anwar, Adil and Nassar, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Reddy, SM and Gaaloul, W}
}
@conference {Chabibi2016148,
	title = {Integrating SysML with simulation environments (Simulink) by model transformation approach},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 25th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {148-150},
	abstract = {In system-level design, descriptive system models seem to be insufficient in order to perform a system verification which fulfils various stakeholders0 requirements. This fact is accentuated by the increasing complexity of system engineering projects and, as a consequence, the difficulties to deal with both their coordination and trace ability. Even if SysML (System Modeling Language) is considered as a flexible and standard tool for system engineering, using only descriptive models are insufficient for system behavior verifications. To deal with this concern, simulation environments (i.e. MATLAB/Simulink) allow verifying if the system preliminary design satisfies requirements or not. As a consequence, various research works have been centered on combining the potential of both SysML modeling and simulation tools. This paper proposes an integration approach based on metamodeling and model transformations to generate Simulink models from SysML diagrams. This approach is handled by models and modern techniques of MDE (Model-Driven Engineering). {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WETICE.2016.39},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84983801501\&doi=10.1109\%2fWETICE.2016.39\&partnerID=40\&md5=52ebc18a65b73155173099045a8b3ee2},
	author = {Chabibi, B.a and Douche, A.b and Anwar, A.b and Nassar, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400014,
	title = {A Lightweight System for Correction of Arabic Derived Words},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {131-138},
	abstract = {In this paper, we address the lexicon insufficient problem used in the automatic spell checker. In order to solve that deficiency, we developed an approach that aims to correct the derived words, considering that the most Arabic words are derived ones by adjusting the Levenshtein algorithm to our need. This method is based on a corpus constituted of surface patterns and roots characterized by a scaled down size compared to conventional approaches The proposed method reduced the execution time while maintaining the highest correction rate.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_14},
	author = {Nejja, Mohammed and Yousfi, Abdellah},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000391354500056,
	title = {A Mapping Between a BP model and an E-government Portals{\textquoteright} Maturity Model},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRICAL AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICEIT)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {2nd International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT), Tangier, MOROCCO, MAY 04-07, 2016},
	pages = {326-331},
	abstract = {E-government portals are playing an important role in facilitating the citizens{\textquoteright} life. The e-government services can be executed by citizens without any time or location constraints, which results in great benefits for the citizens. Therefore, agencies should pay a special attention when designing, developing and maintaining those e-government portals. In order to achieve this, agencies need to follow worldwide e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practices that would contribute in the portals{\textquoteright} quality. E-government maturity models can be used for this purpose. The purpose of this paper is to propose an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model that is based on a best practice model for e-government portals.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8469-8},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Labdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and ElHani, S}
}
@conference {Fath-Allah2016328,
	title = {A mapping between a BP model and an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies, ICEIT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {328-333},
	abstract = {E-government portals are playing an important role in facilitating the citizens{\textquoteright} life. The e-government services can be executed by citizens without any time or location constraints, which results in great benefits for the citizens. Therefore, agencies should pay a special attention when designing, developing and maintaining those e-government portals. In order to achieve this, agencies need to follow worldwide e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practices that would contribute in the portals{\textquoteright} quality. E-government maturity models can be used for this purpose. The purpose of this paper is to propose an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model that is based on a best practice model for e-government portals. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/EITech.2016.7519615},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992222180\&doi=10.1109\%2fEITech.2016.7519615\&partnerID=40\&md5=cd259a586d4e37b0c6447aa1206e75d4},
	author = {Fath-Allah, A.a and Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400043,
	title = {On Modeling and Fault Tolerance of NanoSatellite Attitude Control System},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {409-417},
	abstract = {The modeling of a satellite system and its orientation in space is a difficult and important step to define before controlling its attitude. Many methods have been developed since the first satellite was built. In this paper we propose a comparative study of the most important attitude representation methods adopted in the literature. We point out the advantages and disadvantages of each of these methods before choosing the one that suits our objective. Then we present, the Simulink blocks for Rotation angles method, which will be used in our attitude model. After that, we will present the implementation of this model in a system on chip, following the proposed architecture.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_43},
	author = {Bouras, Meryem and Berbia, Hassan and Nasser, Tamou},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000385280000027,
	title = {Multi-hop Clustering Algorithm Based on Spectral Classification for Wireless Sensor Network},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015 (MEDCT 2015), VOL 2},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), Saidia, MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {255-264},
	abstract = {A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is composed of a large number of autonomous and compact devices called sensor nodes. This network can be an effective tool for gathering data in a variety of environments. However, these sensor nodes have some constraints due to their limited energy, storage capacity and computing power. Clustering is a kind of a technique which is used to reduce energy consumption and to extend network lifetime. Hence, multi-hop communication is often required when the communication range of the sensor nodes is limited or the number of sensor nodes is very large in a network. In this paper, we propose a multi-hop spectral clustering algorithm to organize the sensor nodes in a WSN into clusters. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm performs better in reducing the energy consumption of sensors and effectively improves the WSN lifetime.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30298-0; 978-3-319-30296-6},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0\_27},
	author = {Jorio, Ali and El Fkihi, Sanaa and Elbhiri, Brahim and Aboutajdine, Driss},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference {Chanyour201647,
	title = {Network Coding for energy optimization and throughput enhancement of WideMac for IR-UWB based WSN},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM},
	volume = {2016-March},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {47-50},
	abstract = {Energy and throughput optimization occupies an important place in the research area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These networks are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and efficient scheduling in the MAC layer of such networks gives more efficiency and copes with the problem of energy waste and inefficiency management as well as transmission{\textquoteright}s lose and collision. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to assess the contribution of the network coding technique{\textquoteright}s introduction to improve the efficiency and optimize the energy consumption in the MAC layer of IR-UWB based WSNs. Therefore, we tested this new technique using WideMac Protocol; which is a relevant MAC protocols dedicated to WSNs based on IR-UWB. Furthermore, we used XOR coding to fit low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. The obtained results are very encouraging and the proposed MAC scheme{\textquoteright}s improvements have demonstrated the positive impact of using NC in terms of both used metrics. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICM.2015.7437984},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965066384\&doi=10.1109\%2fICM.2015.7437984\&partnerID=40\&md5=8c2c1b23487843900560d8f9e1d858dd},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Chergui Hali, H.b and Saadane, R.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400023,
	title = {A New Semi-analytical Performance Prediction of a Digital Communication System},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {215-223},
	abstract = {This paper proposes a new semi-analytical method for estimating the error probability for any digital communication system. We show that the problem of the error probability estimation is equivalent to estimating the conditional probability density function (pdfs) of soft receiver outputs. The proposed method uses Fast Fourier transform inversion for predicting the pdf. Furthermore, we applied Bootstrap criterion for selecting the optimum smoothing parameter which makes this method more accurate. Simulation results have shown that the obtained error probability with the new approach is close to that measured by Monte-Carlo simulation method.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_23},
	author = {Naamane, Fatima Ezzahra and Et-tolba, Mohamed and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000385280000021,
	title = {OLSR-RAIP5: Optimized Link State Routing with Redundant Array of Independent Paths 5},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015 (MEDCT 2015), VOL 2},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), Saidia, MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {201-210},
	abstract = {The improvement of data routing performances and security in mobile networks mainly depends on the quality and type of message transmitted and also on the routing algorithms used. In Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANET), there are a lot of constraints that must be considered to improve quality and security of mobile communications. In this paper, we propose a new approach to enhance quality, reliability and security of mobile communications based on a multipath routing protocol inspired on the RAID5 technology. We propose a new algorithm for packet segmentation and routing data via multiple disjoint paths. This provides better security and ensures greater reliability of the information exchanged in a MANET. We have tested our proposition and done some simulations on the OLSR protocol which is widely used in context of MANETs. Through conducted simulations, we have shown that our proposed solution offers better reliability and security than the standard OLSR protocol.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30298-0; 978-3-319-30296-6},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0\_21},
	author = {Echchaachoui, Adel and Elmahdi, Fatna and Elkoutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000392439200033,
	title = {Proposal of a modeling approach and a set of KPI to the drug supply chain within the hospital},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL{\textquoteright}16)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Fes, MOROCCO, MAY 23-25, 2016},
	publisher = {Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Univ Fes, Fac Sci \& Technol; Mohammed V Univ Rabat, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Havre; IEEE},
	organization = {Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Univ Fes, Fac Sci \& Technol; Mohammed V Univ Rabat, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Havre; IEEE},
	abstract = {The hospital is a complex system where many actors are involved; The challenges that this environment is facing justify the focus on this research subject. The contribution of the paper includes a proposition of a four-level model, that describes the hospital drug supply chain, based on the combination of the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), and the identification of a set of key performance indicators (KPI) that assess how well the drugs management process within the hospital are effective and efficient and how to improve them.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8571-8},
	author = {Mezouar, Houda and El Afia, Abdellatif and Chiheb, Radouane and Ouzayd, Fatima},
	editor = {Alaoui, AE and Benadada, Y and Boukachour, J}
}
@conference {Mezouar2016,
	title = {Proposal of a modeling approach and a set of KPI to the drug supply chain within the hospital},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The hospital is a complex system where many actors are involved; The challenges that this environment is facing justify the focus on this research subject. The contribution of the paper includes a proposition of a four-level model, that describes the hospital drug supply chain, based on the combination of the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), and the identification of a set of key performance indicators (KPI) that assess how well the drugs management process within the hospital are effective and efficient and how to improve them. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2016.7731691},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85002170892\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2016.7731691\&partnerID=40\&md5=21c51e9ea093480cdc5817205e47fe61},
	author = {Mezouar, H. and Elafia, A. and Chiheb, R. and Ouzayd, F.}
}
@conference {Chaouni2016,
	title = {A Rules-based system for model composition},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	volume = {2016-July},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Model composition is one of the challenges of software systems modeling. As models are usually created independently, they present many types of heterogeneity (syntactic, semantic, local structural and global structural). These heterogeneities cause conflicts when composing models, and may introduce problems and inconsistencies in the resulting model. Indeed, when composing models, to consider that two elements are different when they are equivalent will introduce redundancy. Worst, considering two elements as equivalent when they are different will result in information lost. The purpose of this work is to present an approach of model composition for dealing with conflicts. Our hybrid approach integrates thus all aspects: semantic, syntactic, local structural and global structural in order to detect the right equivalences and right differences. We use ontologies to treat the semantic aspect of the model comparison. We propose a rule-based system called Co-Models. These rules are proposed formally. Finally, our approach is implemented and validated through a use case from banking domain. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2015.7507217},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84980319574\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2015.7507217\&partnerID=40\&md5=2884b5ed453e53a7d4c05f5aaac0781c},
	author = {Chaouni, S.B.a and Fredj, M.b and Mouline, S.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400019,
	title = {Simulated Annealing Decoding of Linear Block Codes},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {175-183},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a hard-decision decoding algorithm using Simulated Annealing (SA) technique. The main idea is to find the optimal solution of the transmitted codeword by a process hopping between two different tasks. The simulations, applied on some binary linear block codes over the AWGN channel, show that the Simulated Annealing decoder has the same performance as the Berlekamp-Massey Algorithm (BM). Furthermore SA Decoder is more efficient compared to other Decoder based on Genetic algorithms in terms of performance and run time.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_19},
	author = {Aylaj, Bouchaib and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@article { ISI:000391824800005,
	title = {Software project management tools in global software development: a systematic mapping study},
	journal = {SPRINGERPLUS},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	month = {NOV 24},
	abstract = {Global software development (GSD) which is a growing trend in the software industry is characterized by a highly distributed environment. Performing software project management (SPM) in such conditions implies the need to overcome new limitations resulting from cultural, temporal and geographic separation. The aim of this research is to discover and classify the various tools mentioned in literature that provide GSD project managers with support and to identify in what way they support group interaction. A systematic mapping study has been performed by means of automatic searches in five sources. We have then synthesized the data extracted and presented the results of this study. A total of 102 tools were identified as being used in SPM activities in GSD. We have classified these tools, according to the software life cycle process on which they focus and how they support the 3C collaboration model (communication, coordination and cooperation). The majority of the tools found are standalone tools (77\%). A small number of platforms (8\%) also offer a set of interacting tools that cover the software development lifecycle. Results also indicate that SPM areas in GSD are not adequately supported by corresponding tools and deserve more attention from tool builders.},
	issn = {2193-1801},
	doi = {10.1186/s40064-016-3670-7},
	author = {Yasser Chadli, Saad and Idri, Ali and Nicolas Ros, Joaquin and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Carrillo de Gea, Juan M. and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article {Chadli2016,
	title = {Software project management tools in global software development: a systematic mapping study},
	journal = {SpringerPlus},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Global software development (GSD) which is a growing trend in the software industry is characterized by a highly distributed environment. Performing software project management (SPM) in such conditions implies the need to overcome new limitations resulting from cultural, temporal and geographic separation. The aim of this research is to discover and classify the various tools mentioned in literature that provide GSD project managers with support and to identify in what way they support group interaction. A systematic mapping study has been performed by means of automatic searches in five sources. We have then synthesized the data extracted and presented the results of this study. A total of 102 tools were identified as being used in SPM activities in GSD. We have classified these tools, according to the software life cycle process on which they focus and how they support the 3C collaboration model (communication, coordination and cooperation). The majority of the tools found are standalone tools (77\%). A small number of platforms (8\%) also offer a set of interacting tools that cover the software development lifecycle. Results also indicate that SPM areas in GSD are not adequately supported by corresponding tools and deserve more attention from tool builders. {\textcopyright} 2016, The Author(s).},
	doi = {10.1186/s40064-016-3670-7},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84996484137\&doi=10.1186\%2fs40064-016-3670-7\&partnerID=40\&md5=303aaf83e70281377e2a1497382f7f9f},
	author = {Chadli, S.Y.a and Idri, A.a and Ros, J.N.b and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and de Gea, J.M.C.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@conference {Chafik2016,
	title = {Stacking policy for solving the container stacking problem at a containers terminal},
	booktitle = {ILS 2016 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Maritime container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between ships or between ships and land vehicles (tucks or trains). They can be automated; semi- Automated or static ones depend on the type of the equipments that they contain. There are crucial resources at container terminals; the yard, cranes and the vehicles. The yard refers to the temporary storage area where inbound, outbound containers can be stored. While we have two kinds of cranes depending on the type of the yard we are working on: yard crane and quay crane. Vehicles are used to transfer the container between the seaside and yard side (the external trucks XTs are not considerable in our study). The decision of the container stacking position is the most important operational task for the incoming containers which affects not only the productivity of the stacking but also for the later retrieval and also to avoid the unproductive moves to access to the requested containers stored in the stack. Our aim is to define a new approach to design the container stacking problem using an approach of optimization and simulation. Thus in this paper we will define a new MIP which has as objective the minimization of the number of the stacks used to store a given number of inbound containers, and to define afterwards a simulation model using a simulation software (Arena) which has as input the result of the optimization model. So we will try first to define a relocation model using the standard (FCFS) then the Best fit decrease (BFD) from the bin packing algorithm to store and maintain the storage area and to avoid unproductive moves and reshuffles to find out the requested container sequence. The main inputs are high, weight, destination and the delivery time of each container. Our objective is to have, based on heuristics, a guide to the planner to obtain an optimized stacking / reshuffling plan, given a stacking state and a container demand. We will try to minimize the number of reshuffles as well as the number of stacks used and obtaining a conclusion about possible yard configurations.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84985990061\&partnerID=40\&md5=fc357733313d1ef8bc1eb86ae909b126},
	author = {Chafik, R.a and Benadada, Y.b and Boukachour, J.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000391420300012,
	title = {A Survey of Empirical Studies in Software Product Maintainability Prediction Models},
	booktitle = {2016 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	series = {International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Theories and Applications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), Mohammedia, MOROCCO, OCT 19-20, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE; Univ Hassan Casablanca; IEEE Morocco Sect; Fac Sci Tech Mohammedia},
	organization = {IEEE; Univ Hassan Casablanca; IEEE Morocco Sect; Fac Sci Tech Mohammedia},
	abstract = {Software product maintainability is critical to the achievement of the software product quality. In order to keep the software useful as long as possible, software product maintainability prediction (SPMP) has become an important endeavor. The objective of this paper is to identify and present the current research on SPMP. The search was conducted using digital libraries to find as much research papers as possible. Selected papers are classified according to the following survey classification criteria (SCs): research type, empirical type, publication year and channel. Based on the results of the survey, we provide a discussion of the current state of the art in software maintainability prediction models or techniques. We believe that this study will be a reliable basis for further research in software maintainability studies.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-5781-8},
	issn = {2378-2528},
	author = {Elmidaoui, Sara and Cheikhi, Laila and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference {Elmidaoui2016,
	title = {A survey of empirical studies in software product maintainability prediction models},
	booktitle = {SITA 2016 - 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Software product maintainability is critical to the achievement of the software product quality. In order to keep the software useful as long as possible, software product maintainability prediction (SPMP) has become an important endeavor. The objective of this paper is to identify and present the current research on SPMP. The search was conducted using digital libraries to And as much research papers as possible. Selected papers are classified according to the following survey classification criteria (SCs): research type, empirical type, publication year and channel. Based on the results of the survey, we provide a discussion of the current state of the art in software maintainability prediction models or techniques. We believe that this study will be a reliable basis for further research in software maintainability studies. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2016.7772267},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010468522\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2016.7772267\&partnerID=40\&md5=8184d51d9fbbba990544f8dc158d2375},
	author = {Elmidaoui, S. and Cheikhi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400036,
	title = {Theoretical Analysis of SINR Performance for Unsynchronized and Nonlinearly Distorted FBMC Signals},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {345-353},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of the joint effect of carrier frequency offset (CFO) and high power amplifier (HPA) nonlinear distortion (NLD) on the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) systems. A promising class of FBMC modulation, called Cosine Modulated Multitone (CMT), is considered and the analytical SINR is derived in the presence of both HPA NLD and CFO. The simulation results have shown a good agreement with the theoretical analysis.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_36},
	author = {Elmaroud, Brahim and Faqihi, Ahmed and Abbad, Mohammed and Aboutajdine, Driss},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000385280000017,
	title = {Toward a Measurement Based E-Government Portals{\textquoteright} Benchmarking Framework},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015 (MEDCT 2015), VOL 2},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), Saidia, MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {161-169},
	abstract = {E-government benchmarking is the process of classifying e-government according to agreed best practices or standards. It can help agencies enhance their portals{\textquoteright} quality by identifying the missing best practices, and providing guidelines to implement them. The aim of this paper is to introduce a benchmarking framework for e-government portals based on measurement of best practices. We have first identified and presented two examples of the benchmarking frameworks available in the literature. Based on the comparison conducted, the findings show that although the benchmarking frameworks are serving their intended purposes, they still suffer from some limitations. The paper also highlights how the new framework differs from the other frameworks and overcomes their limitations.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30298-0; 978-3-319-30296-6},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0\_17},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Abdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference {Chabibi2016,
	title = {Towards an alignment of SysML and simulation tools},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	volume = {2016-July},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {Even if it is considered as an effective language for system modeling because of the descriptive aspect of its diagrams, SysML (System Modeling Language) is insufficient for verification of their behavior. This lack is accentuated by the increasing complexity of recent systems. In order to conduct behavior verifications, designers use simulation tools to realize experiments on the studied system. Thus, the efficiency of the engineering process is often reduced because of the separate and consecutive use of both SysML modeling and simulation tools. As a consequence, various research works focused on unifying the potential provided by the SysML language and simulation environments. We propose in this paper to study links taxonomy between SysML and various existing simulation environments. The ultimate goal of this study is to consider the most optimal passage from SysML to various simulation tools. A common environment based on models and modern techniques of model-based engineering will handle this transformation. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2015.7507216},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84980349948\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2015.7507216\&partnerID=40\&md5=963c125b0daeba5c1d58c329f95e4ef1},
	author = {Chabibi, B.a and Anwar, A.b and Nassar, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000386649000017,
	title = {A Validation of a Measurement Based E-government Portals{\textquoteright} Maturity Model},
	booktitle = {2016 42ND EUROMICRO CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS (SEAA)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {42nd Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Limassol, CYPRUS, AUG 31-SEP 02, 2016},
	pages = {100-107},
	publisher = {Univ Cyprus; Technolog Educ Inst Western Greece},
	organization = {Univ Cyprus; Technolog Educ Inst Western Greece},
	abstract = {An e-government portal{\textquoteright}s maturity model is a set of stages (from basic to advanced ones) that determines the maturity of e-government portals. In fact, these models can be used to provide directions and recommendations for agencies to improve their portals{\textquoteright} maturity. However, before choosing a maturity model by any agency, it is important to know to which extent the e-government community agree or disagree with the model. In previous research studies, we have built an e-government portals{\textquoteright} maturity model that is based on a best practice model. The aim of this paper is to validate this new model by e-government experts using a survey to prove that the model is valid and reliable. For this purpose, we have described the components of this model, and the previous work that has been done to build it. Based on the results of the survey, our findings show that the new model has proven its validity.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-2819-1},
	doi = {10.1109/SEAA.2016.38},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Abdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference { ISI:000392265300025,
	title = {Who Can Help to Review This Piece of Code?},
	booktitle = {COLLABORATION IN A HYPERCONNECTED WORLD},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {480},
	year = {2016},
	note = {17th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE), Porto, PORTUGAL, OCT 03-05, 2016},
	pages = {289-301},
	publisher = {IFIP WG 5 5 Co Operat Infrastructure Virtual Enterprises \& Elect Business; Soc Collaborat Networks; U Porto; INESCTEC; Univ Amsterdam; Nova Univ Lisbon; UNINOVA},
	organization = {IFIP WG 5 5 Co Operat Infrastructure Virtual Enterprises \& Elect Business; Soc Collaborat Networks; U Porto; INESCTEC; Univ Amsterdam; Nova Univ Lisbon; UNINOVA},
	abstract = {Successful software projects require collaboration between team members. Efficient collaboration relies on both technical and social linkages. In this paper, we investigate whether a socio-technical analysis can support software contributors in identifying experts helping to review their source code. We mined the histories of five open source projects (OSS) from GitHub and examined both technical and socio-technical interactions based on Social Network Analysis (SNA). Mapping communication network to files co-edition network shows the existence of collaboration patterns between core teams and peripherals in the studied OSS projects. Our main contribution is the construction and mapping of three sources of social networks, in which contributors interact by co-editing, commenting or reviewing. We were able to identify behavioral patterns between core teams and peripherals related to the activity of code review. Our findings have implications on improving collaboration between contributors within virtual OSS communities witch drive teams{\textquoteright} performance and software products quality.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-45390-3; 978-3-319-45389-7},
	issn = {1868-4238},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3\_25},
	author = {Kerzazi, Noureddine and El Asri, Ikram},
	editor = {Afsarmanesh, H and CamarinhaMatos, LM and Soares, AL}
}
@conference { ISI:000383221800012,
	title = {ACTOR NETWORK THEORY AS A COLLABORATIVE MODE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF GAME THEORY IN THE INTERESSEMENT PHASE},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (WICT)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, DEC 14-16, 2015},
	pages = {67-72},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	abstract = {Global Governance of projects requires cooperation between several actors. In general, such cooperation is ensured by building network collaboration between entities who want to collaborate. In spite of the existence of a number of works interested in collaboration network, only few of them were focused on how to construct a network. In this paper, we address this topic through Actor Network Theory. In particular way, we analyze interessement phase of ANT from a cooperative game point of view. Indeed, it{\textquoteright}s about negotiations between actors involved in business project. Our objective is to propose an approach of network establishment, by inciting actors through cost savings. For that, we use Shapley Value to answer the question: Which coalitions are likely to form in order to ensure best cost-saving objectives in ANT mode of collaboration? We propose also a graphical tool for visualizing networks and simulating their evolution.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8712-5},
	author = {Benqatla, Mohammed Salim and Dikra, Chikhaoui and Bounabat, Bouchaib},
	editor = {Abrahim, A and Alimi, AM and Haqiq, A and Karray, H and Mousannif, H and BenHalima, M and Choo, YH and Ma, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000383221800027,
	title = {Big Data: Measuring How Information Technology Can Improve the Economic Growth and Better Life},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (WICT)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, DEC 14-16, 2015},
	pages = {152-159},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	abstract = {Today data are equivalent of oil or gold, but Succeeding with big data requires more than just data. Data-based value creation requires the identification of a framework from which predictions can be deducted and decisions can be made. Lot of index has been developed to measure the state of development of countries whether economic growth, ICT penetration or Human development. The purpose of the measuring was to assess policy implications and economic growth around the globe as well as share best practices. In this paper we are going to compare the most wildly tools of measurement of economic competiveness, Network readiness, Human development and world press freedom. Those four domains are judged to be the pillars of well-being and good live of a Human. In the second part of this paper, we examine the hypothesis that ICT penetration has positive effects on economic growth, well-being and a better life of a Human. We use the system Generalized Method of Moment for dynamic panel data analysis to extract the causal link between ICT penetration and growth.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8712-5},
	author = {Nouinou, Soumaya and Razafimampianina, Rindra M. and Regragui, Boubker and Doukkali, Abdelaziz S.},
	editor = {Abrahim, A and Alimi, AM and Haqiq, A and Karray, H and Mousannif, H and BenHalima, M and Choo, YH and Ma, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000373736100043,
	title = {Building rich user profile based on intentional perspective},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED WIRELESS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (AWICT 2015)},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Advanced Wireless Information and Communication Technologies (AWICT), Natl Sch Engineers Sousse, TUNISIA, OCT 05-07, 2015},
	pages = {342-349},
	abstract = {Internet technologies evolution, from Web 1.0 to web 2.0 and web 3.0, has led us towards the definition of new requirements to be considered in the design and development of new application. It is important to note that depending solely on the request to satisfy user need is not effective. Indeed, the emergence of many researches related to the study of user behaviour has enhanced the retrieval information effectiveness. Typically, the context and the user profile are the main elements to characterize the user. Hence, we aim through this contribution to build a rich profile and to provide him suitable services. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.002},
	author = {Alaoui, Sara and El Idrissi, Younes El Bouzekri and Ajhoun, Rachida},
	editor = {Boubiche, DE and Hidoussi, F and Cruz, HT}
}
@conference { ISI:000365128500017,
	title = {CIOSOS: Combined Idiomatic-Ontology Based Sentiment Orientation System for Trust Reputation in E-commerce},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE: CISIS{\textquoteright}15 AND ICEUTE{\textquoteright}15},
	series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {369},
	year = {2015},
	note = {8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS) / 6th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE), Burgos, SPAIN, JUN, 2015},
	pages = {189-200},
	publisher = {IEEE Spain Sect; IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; Int Federat Computat Log},
	organization = {IEEE Spain Sect; IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; Int Federat Computat Log},
	abstract = {Due to the abundant amount of Customer{\textquoteright}s Reviews available in E-commerce platforms, Trust Reputation Systems remain reliable means to determine, circulate and restore the credibility and reputation of reviewers and their provided reviews. In fact before starting the process of Reputation score{\textquoteright}s calculation, we need to develop an accurate Sentiment orientation System able to extract opinion expressions, analyze them and determine the sentiment orientation of the Review and then classify it into positive, negative and objective. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised approach which is a Combined Idiomatic-Ontology based Sentiment Orientation System (CIOSOS) that realizes a domain-dependent sentiment analysis of reviews. The main contribution of the system is to expand the general opinion lexicon SentiWordNet to a custom-made opinion lexicon (SentiWordNet++) with domain-dependent {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}opinion indicators{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} as well as {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}idiomatic expressions{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}. The system relies also on a semi-supervised learning method that uses the general lexicon WordNet to identify synonyms or antonyms of the expanded terms and get their polarities from SentiWordNet and then store them in SentiWordNet++. The Sentiment polarity and the classification of the review provided by the CIOSOS is used as an input of our Reputation Algorithm proposed in previous papers in order to generate the Reputation score of the reviewer. We also provide an improvement in calculation method used to generate a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}granular{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} reputation score of a feature or subfeature of the product.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-19713-5; 978-3-319-19712-8},
	issn = {2194-5357},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5\_17},
	author = {Rahimi, Hasnae and El Bakkali, Hanan},
	editor = {Herrero, A and Baruque, B and Sedano, J and Quintian, H and Corchado, E}
}
@conference { ISI:000373736100013,
	title = {The context in automatic spell correction},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED WIRELESS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (AWICT 2015)},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Advanced Wireless Information and Communication Technologies (AWICT), Natl Sch Engineers Sousse, TUNISIA, OCT 05-07, 2015},
	pages = {109-114},
	abstract = {Automatic spell checker systems aim to verify and correct erroneous words through a suggested set of words that are the nearest lexically to the erroneous ones. However, the main disadvantage of those systems is that the wanted solution may bethe most distant lexically but the most appropriate in context. To correctly sort these solutions, the corrector must have some information about the general context of the text; the paragraph or the neighboring words of the misspelled word. In this paper, we will present an automatic spell checking method according to the context. This method is based on a learning corpus containing a distribution of the appearance probability of a word in different contexts. It combines the lexical correction via the Levenstein algorithm and the context based correction through a well definedlearning corpus which is composed of documents collected from the internet. This approach has proven efficiency and the obtained results are much more improved and satisfactory.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.055},
	author = {Nejja, Mohammed and Yousfi, Abdellah},
	editor = {Boubiche, DE and Hidoussi, F and Cruz, HT}
}
@conference {Chanyour2015,
	title = {Cooperation based Instantly Decodable Network Coding for mobile clouds},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Cloud computing Concept has been recognized as the next generation computing infrastructure. In addition, the explosive expansion of mobile devices usage around all over the world leads to more requirements in terms of resources, environment, and security. Therefore, mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm emerges, and it is considered as the future technology for mobile services and applications. Furthermore, Network Coding (NC) is a novel technique that aims to improve performance and throughput in wireless communication. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a delay and throughput optimized network coding scheme with mobile cooperation for broadcast based Mobile clouds applications. Hence, after a deep literature study, we proposed a scheme that introduces the use of cooperation with Instantly Decodable Network Coding. In order to evaluate our proposition, we carried out simulation experiments to test it and compare it with relevant existing solutions. Finally, the results are very encouraging and the proposed scheme gives a satisfactory delay compared to the existing solutions. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2015.7381306},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965036776\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2015.7381306\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8996d2af589d3ec43f7036516366eca},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380509200009,
	title = {Cooperation based Instantly Decodable Network Coding for Mobile Clouds},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International conference on wireless networks and mobile communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, OCT 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {46-51},
	abstract = {Cloud computing Concept has been recognized as the next generation computing infrastructure. In addition, the explosive expansion of mobile devices usage around all over the world leads to more requirements in terms of resources, environment, and security. Therefore, mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm emerges, and it is considered as the future technology for mobile services and applications. Furthermore, Network Coding (NC) is a novel technique that aims to improve performance and throughput in wireless communication. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a delay and throughput optimized network coding scheme with mobile cooperation for broadcast based Mobile clouds applications. Hence, after a deep literature study, we proposed a scheme that introduces the use of cooperation with Instantly Decodable Network Coding. In order to evaluate our proposition, we carried out simulation experiments to test it and compare it with relevant existing solutions. Finally, the results are very encouraging and the proposed scheme gives a satisfactory delay compared to the existing solutions.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8224-3},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid}
}
@conference {Chaker2015,
	title = {CSR dynamics under peer pressure and green confusion: A multi-agent simulation approach},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In addressing the limitations of solving the Prisoner{\textquoteright}s Dilemma problem describing the firm-end consumer Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) dynamics from a purely rational perspective, we propose to introduce the variables of emotions and peer pressure to capture the irrational aspect of human decision making. We refer to the Theory of Planned Behavior to construct a decision making model that describes the game, then we use multi-agent simulation to run the model under various market conditions. Results show that socially responsible firms could achieve above-average profits when they are able to quickly recover their CSR investment and when they operate in a market where a large portion of consumers hold initial positive attitudes towards CSR. In addition, our results indicate that above-average profits can be achieved only in the absence of consumer green confusion. Managerial implications on trust and customer loyalty are discussed based on the above findings. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358404},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962429373\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358404\&partnerID=40\&md5=70f416ef7cc23e161ccc73120f9c3705},
	author = {Chaker, F.a and El Manouar, A.a and Aaminou, M.W.b and Aboulaich, R.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500030,
	title = {CSR Dynamics under Peer Pressure and Green Confusion: a Multi-Agent Simulation Approach},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {In addressing the limitations of solving the Prisoner{\textquoteright}s Dilemma problem describing the firm-end consumer Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) dynamics from a purely rational perspective, we propose to introduce the variables of emotions and peer pressure to capture the irrational aspect of human decision making. We refer to the Theory of Planned Behavior to construct a decision making model that describes the game, then we use multi-agent simulation to run the model under various market conditions. Results show that socially responsible firms could achieve above-average profits when they are able to quickly recover their CSR investment and when they operate in a market where a large portion of consumers hold initial positive attitudes towards CSR. In addition, our results indicate that above-average profits can be achieved only in the absence of consumer green confusion. Managerial implications on trust and customer loyalty are discussed based on the above findings.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Chaker, Fadwa and El Manouar, Abdellah and Wail Aaminou, Mohamed and Aboulaich, Rajae}
}
@conference { ISI:000380570700061,
	title = {Designing ReDy Distributed Systems},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMIC COMPUTING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Grenoble, FRANCE, JUL 07-10, 2015},
	pages = {331-336},
	publisher = {IEEE; usenix; Univ Joseph Fourier; Telecom ParisTech; Spec; GRENOBLE ALPLES METROPOLE; VILLE CRENOBOLE; MINALOGIC; CPS; IEEE COMPUTER SOC; hp; Google; orange; FOCAS; INRIA INVENTORS DIGITAL WORLD},
	organization = {IEEE; usenix; Univ Joseph Fourier; Telecom ParisTech; Spec; GRENOBLE ALPLES METROPOLE; VILLE CRENOBOLE; MINALOGIC; CPS; IEEE COMPUTER SOC; hp; Google; orange; FOCAS; INRIA INVENTORS DIGITAL WORLD},
	abstract = {Distributed systems are largely present and deployed in recent applications. Several systems have common basic requirements, which motivates to adapt reusable solutions for each family of systems. In this paper, we focus on distributed systems designed for large-scale applications requiring a high degree of Reliability and Dynamicity (ReDy distributed systems). We propose a basic architecture for this family of systems and a design solution to guarantee the scalability of the system, the fault tolerance, and a highly dynamic membership management. The studied systems range from hybrid architecture, on which we combine centralized and decentralized solutions.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-6971-8},
	doi = {10.1109/ICAC.2015.63},
	author = {Hafdi, Kaoutar and Kriouile, Abdelaziz},
	editor = {Lalanda, P and Diaconescu, A and Cherkasova, L and Kounev, S}
}
@article {10368063820150701,
	title = {E-Government Portals Maturity Models: A Best Practices{\textquoteright} Coverage Perspective.},
	journal = {Journal of Software (1796217X)},
	volume = {10},
	number = {7},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {805 - 824},
	abstract = {E-government is a field where oriented practice is considered crucial for its prosperity. Therefore, best practices are considered among the success factors of e-government portals. To this end, e-government maturity models can be used to provide guidance and guidelines to identify those best practices. After an extensive literature review, we have collected both; the e-government portals{\textquoteright} best practices and organized them according to their purposes in an e-Government Portals{\textquoteright} Best Practice Model (eGPBPM), and the set of 25 maturity models best practices in two separated previous published studies. The eGPBPM is composed of four best practice categories including: back-end, Web design, Web content and external. Moreover, each maturity model has several stages of maturity and each stage include a set of best practices used to rank the maturity of e-government portals. The goal of this paper is to identify the extent to which e-government maturity models are covering the best practices},
	keywords = {best practices, Capability maturity model (Computer software), E-Government, e-government portal, Information \& communication technologies, Internet in public administration, maturity model, Web design, Web portals},
	issn = {1796217X},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=103680638\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Abdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference { ISI:000361756400014,
	title = {A Formal Approach to Verify Completeness and Detect Anomalies in Firewall Security Policies},
	booktitle = {FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICE OF SECURITY (FPS 2014)},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {8930},
	year = {2015},
	note = {7th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS), Concordia Univ, Montreal, CANADA, NOV 03-05, 2014},
	pages = {221-236},
	abstract = {Security policies are a relevant solution to protect information systems from undue accesses. In this paper, we develop a formal and rigorous automata-based approach to design and analyze security policies. The interest of our approach is that it can be used as a common basis for analyzing several aspects of security policies, instead of using a distinct approach and formalism for studying each aspect. We first develop a procedure that synthesizes automatically an automaton which implements a given security policy. Then, we apply this synthesis procedure to verify completeness of security policies and detect several types of anomalies in security policies. We also study space and time complexities of the developed procedures.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-17040-4; 978-3-319-17039-8},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-17040-4\_14},
	author = {Khoumsi, Ahmed and Krombi, Wadie and Erradi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Cuppens, F and GarciaAlfaro, J and Heywood, NZ and Fong, PWL}
}
@article {Sbai2015111,
	title = {Generating services supporting variability from configurable process models},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {72},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {111-124},
	abstract = {Today, a PAIS (Process-Aware Information System) is the broadly adopted information system by enterprises, which aims to define how to use services and business processes to achieve the business goals of enterprises. For this purpose, research work in PAIS was interested in aligning business processes and services in order to achieve a good connection between business process models as represented in the process layer, and service models as represented in the application layer In this context, to improve the reuse of business processes and services, the concepts of configurable process models and configurable services (which support variability) have emerged as new leading edge concepts for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. More recently, configurable process models become the most popular solution to deal with adaptability in a PAIS. This has increased the research focus in how to extract services from configurable process models. Several approaches have developed solutions for proposing services generation from business process. However, generating configurable services from configurable process model has been neglected in the context of PAIS. In this paper, we propose an MDA approach for an automatic generation of configurable service models from configurable process models. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2015 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84922695803\&partnerID=40\&md5=c3ae357bd43958ac23a5336e13ba61e6},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Chakir, B.}
}
@conference { ISI:000361005100095,
	title = {The impact of data accuracy on user-perceived business service{\textquoteright}s quality},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 10TH IBERIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (CISTI 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Univ Aveiro, Sch Technol \& Agueda Management, Agueda, PORTUGAL, JUN 17-20, 2015},
	publisher = {Iberian Assoc Syst Informat Technol},
	organization = {Iberian Assoc Syst Informat Technol},
	abstract = {As business processes have become increasingly automated, data quality becomes the limiting and penalizing factor in the business service{\textquoteright}s overall quality, and thus impacts customer satisfaction, whether it is an end-user, an institutional partner or a regulatory authority. The available research that is related to business services{\textquoteright} quality paid very little attention to the impact of poor data quality on good services delivery and customer satisfaction, and to the calculation of the optimal level of data quality. The aim of this paper is to present a customer-oriented approach that will help to understand and analyze how an organization business service{\textquoteright}s overall quality is linked to the quality of upstream business processes and of data objects in use. This paper also introduces a calculation framework that allows the identification of an optimal level of data quality - data accuracy dimension in the case of this paper - taking into account the business processes{\textquoteright} execution accuracy and data accuracy.},
	author = {Belhiah, Meryam and Bounabat, Bouchaib and Achchab, Said},
	editor = {Rocha, A and Dias, GP and Martins, A and Reis, LP and Cota, MP}
}
@conference { ISI:000380620300095,
	title = {The impact of data accuracy on user-perceived business service{\textquoteright}s quality},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH IBERIAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (CISTI)},
	series = {Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), Univ Aveiro, Sch Technol \& Agueda Management, Agueda, PORTUGAL, JUN 17-20, 2015},
	publisher = {Iberian Assoc Syst Informat Technol},
	organization = {Iberian Assoc Syst Informat Technol},
	abstract = {As business processes have become increasingly automated, data quality becomes the limiting and penalizing factor in the business service{\textquoteright}s overall quality, and thus impacts customer satisfaction, whether it is an end-user, an institutional partner or a regulatory authority. The available research that is related to business services{\textquoteright} quality paid very little attention to the impact of poor data quality on good services delivery and customer satisfaction, and to the calculation of the optimal level of data quality. The aim of this paper is to present a customer-oriented approach that will help to understand and analyze how an organization business service{\textquoteright}s overall quality is linked to the quality of upstream business processes and of data objects in use. This paper also introduces a calculation framework that allows the identification of an optimal level of data quality - data accuracy dimension in the case of this paper - taking into account the business processes{\textquoteright} execution accuracy and data accuracy.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-8330-8},
	issn = {2166-0727},
	author = {Belhiah, Meryam and Bounabat, Bouchaib and Achchab, Said},
	editor = {Rocha, A and Dias, GP and Martins, A and Reis, LP and Cota, MP}
}
@conference { ISI:000383221800021,
	title = {Iterative Threshold Decoding of Quasi-Cyclic One Step Majority Logic Decodable Codes},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (WICT)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, DEC 14-16, 2015},
	pages = {117-122},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	abstract = {This paper presents a new class of Quasi-Cyclic One Step Majority logic codes of 1/2 rate constructed from perfect difference set. Theses codes can be encoded with low complexity, and perform very well when decoded with the Iterative threshold decoding algorithm. Much of these codes is a subfamily of the LDPC codes and can be decoded using belief propagation algorithm. A comparison between our results and those for LDPC code in terms of BER performance are presented.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8712-5},
	author = {Rkizat, Karim and Lahmer, Mohammed and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {Abrahim, A and Alimi, AM and Haqiq, A and Karray, H and Mousannif, H and BenHalima, M and Choo, YH and Ma, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000377500700024,
	title = {MiCATS: Middleware for Context-Aware Transactional Services},
	booktitle = {ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ICEIS 2015)},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
	volume = {241},
	year = {2015},
	note = {17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 27-30, 2015},
	pages = {496-512},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Enterprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Artificial Intelligence; Asocia},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Enterprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Artificial Intelligence; Asocia},
	abstract = {In context-aware service-based environments, fulfilling user{\textquoteright}s recommendations bring about several challenges that are mainly due to the dynamic nature and limited underlying resources of these environments. In this paper, we mainly focus on the transactional aspects of context-aware services. To cope with the aforementioned issues, we opt for a middleware-based solution (MiCATS). We therefore present our novel approach for managing context-aware transactions which allows for adaptation to the requirements of applications and mobile context in terms of transactional properties. Then, we introduce our context-aware transactional service model (CATSM) and a context-aware architecture based on adaptation policies. The proposed contributions are implemented within a middleware platform.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-29133-8; 978-3-319-29132-1},
	issn = {1865-1348},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-29133-8\_24},
	author = {Ettazi, Widad and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Ebersold, Sophie},
	editor = {Hammoudi, S and Maciaszek, L and Teniente, E and Camp, O and Cordeiro, J}
}
@conference {Adadi2015,
	title = {Modeling and simulation of Web Services composition based on MARDS model},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Web services composition is an emerging paradigm for application integration within and across organizations and enterprises. A set of languages and techniques for web services composition has emerged and is continuously being enriched with new proposals from different vendors. Among these languages we remind Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) which emphasizes the importance of modelling and simulating of business process in Web Services composition. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are composed of autonomous agents that interact and coordinate to achieve their intentions. This makes them particularly adapted to modelling composite and complex information systems. In this paper we propose a new approach for modeling and simulating the process of web services composition using the Multi-Agent Reactive Decisional System (MARDS) Model and BPEL Language. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358410},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962459570\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358410\&partnerID=40\&md5=139a7b0bfa27d7407c85a721fd63883e},
	author = {Adadi, N.a and Berrada, M.a and Chenouni, D.a and Bounabat, B.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500036,
	title = {Modeling and Simulation of Web Services Composition Based on MARDS Model.},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Web services composition is an emerging paradigm for application integration within and across organizations and enterprises. A set of languages and techniques for web services composition has emerged and is continuously being enriched with new proposals from different vendors. Among these languages we remind Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) which emphasizes the importance of modelling and simulating of business process in Web Services composition. Multi-agent Systems (MAS) are composed of autonomous agents that interact and coordinate to achieve their intentions. This makes them particularly adapted to modelling composite and complex information systems. In this paper we propose a new approach for modeling and simulating the process of web services composition using the Multi-Agent Reactive Decisional System (MARDS) Model and BPEL Language.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Adadi, N. and Berrada, M. and Chenouni, D. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@conference {Zbakh2015,
	title = {A multi-criteria analysis of intrusion detection architectures in cloud environments},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Cloud computing promises to increase innovation and the velocity with which applications are deployed all while helping any enterprise meet most IT service needs at a lower total cost of ownership and higher return investment. As the March of cloud continues, it brings both new opportunities and new security challenges. To take advantage of those opportunities while minimizing risks, we argue that Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) integrated in the cloud is one of the best existing solutions nowadays in the field. The concept of intrusion detection was known since past and was first proposed in 1980s. Since that time IDSs are evolving. However, even several efforts have been made in the area of Intrusion Detection Systems for cloud computing environment, many attacks still prevail. Therefore, the work presented in this paper proposes a multi-criteria analysis and a comparative study between several IDS architectures designed to work in cloud computing environments. To achieve this objective, in the first place we will search in the state of the art for several consistent IDS architectures designed to work in a cloud environment. Whereas, in a second step we will establish the criteria that will be useful for the evaluation of architectures. Later, using the approach of multi-criteria decision analysis MacBeth (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique) we will evaluate the criteria and assign to each one the appropriate weight according to their importance in the field of IDS architectures in cloud computing. The last step is to evaluate architectures against the criteria and collecting results of the model constructed in the previous steps. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2015.7336967},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962845309\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2015.7336967\&partnerID=40\&md5=1128e7690631b70d9247248b05a81a50},
	author = {Zbakh, M. and Elmahdi, K. and Cherkaoui, R. and Enniari, S.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380407100006,
	title = {A multi-criteria analysis of intrusion detection architectures in cloud environments},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (CLOUDTECH 15)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech), Marrakech, MOROCCO, JUN 02-04, 2015},
	pages = {87-95},
	abstract = {Cloud computing promises to increase innovation and the velocity with which applications are deployed all while helping any enterprise meet most IT service needs at a lower total cost of ownership and higher return investment. As the march of cloud continues, it brings both new opportunities and new security challenges. To take advantage of those opportunities while minimizing risks, we argue that Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) integrated in the cloud is one of the best existing solutions nowadays in the field. The concept of intrusion detection was known since past and was first proposed in 1980s. Since that time IDSs are evolving. However, even several efforts have been made in the area of Intrusion Detection Systems for cloud computing environment, many attacks still prevail. Therefore, the work presented in this paper proposes a multi-criteria analysis and a comparative study between several IDS architectures designed to work in cloud computing environments. To achieve this objective, in the first place we will search in the state of the art for several consistent IDS architectures designed to work in a cloud environment. Whereas, in a second step we will establish the criteria that will be useful for the evaluation of architectures. Later, using the approach of multi-criteria decision analysis MacBeth (Measuring Attractiveness by a Categorical Based Evaluation Technique) we will evaluate the criteria and assign to each one the appropriate weight according to their importance in the field of IDS architectures in cloud computing. The last step is to evaluate architectures against the criteria and collecting results of the model constructed in the previous steps.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8149-9},
	author = {Zbakh, Mostapha and Elmahdi, Khalil and Cherkaoui, Rachid and Enniari, Saad}
}
@conference { ISI:000380432600013,
	title = {Network Coding for Energy Optimization and Throughput Enhancement of WideMac for IR-UWB based WSN},
	booktitle = {2015 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONICS (ICM)},
	series = {International Conference on Microelectronics-ICM},
	year = {2015},
	note = {27th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), Casablanca, MOROCCO, DEC 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {47-50},
	abstract = {Energy and throughput optimization occupies an important place in the research area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These networks are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and efficient scheduling in the MAC layer of such networks gives more efficiency and copes with the problem of energy waste and inefficiency management as well as transmission{\textquoteright}s lose and collision. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to assess the contribution of the network coding technique{\textquoteright}s introduction to improve the efficiency and optimize the energy consumption in the MAC layer of IR-UWB based WSNs. Therefore, we tested this new technique using WideMac Protocol; which is a relevant MAC protocols dedicated to WSNs based on IR-UWB. Furthermore, we used XOR coding to fit low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. The obtained results are very encouraging and the proposed MAC scheme{\textquoteright}s improvements have demonstrated the positive impact of using NC in terms of both used metrics.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8759-0},
	issn = {2159-1679},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Chergui Hali, Hanane and Saadane, Rachid}
}
@article {Chaimae201581,
	title = {New way of passive rfid deployment for smart grid},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {82},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {81-84},
	abstract = {This article focuses on RFID technology over Power line for smart grid using exclusively passive tags, that operate in the low frequency bands 125 kHz and high frequency bands 13.56 KHz, passive tags are the most common, least expensive, and they have a virtually unlimited life. This solution for Smart grid is secure; it presents a new way of automatic identification with low voltage, low deployment costs and high reliability. This Smart RFID for Smart Grid helps to monitor and control electricity consumption. It can be used in many applications such as ticketing and Payment and charge energy for electric vehicles in smart home appliances such as the smart refrigerators and residential door keys. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2015 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949508486\&partnerID=40\&md5=cfb5dffe47fab90aedf3b8aacd0c5781},
	author = {Chaimae, E. and Rahal, R.}
}
@conference {Adadi2015,
	title = {Ontology based composition of e-Government services using AI Planning},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {A major propelling technology for electronic government (e-Government) is the powerful concept of Semantic Web Service. Semantically enriched Web services promise to increase the level of automation and to reduce integration efforts significantly. On the other hand, and due to the heterogeneous structure of the public sector, the achievement of interoperability and integration is a key challenge for a comprehensive e-Government. Therefore, the combination of e-Government and Semantic Web Services is very much natural. In this paper, we present a dynamic approach for semantically composing e-Government Web services based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. The overall objective of our approach is to improve the citizen centric e-Government vision by providing a platform for automatically discovering, composing and optimizing e-Government services. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358430},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962383271\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358430\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ef06f1db05a4059c1b4423498a9fc41},
	author = {Adadi, A.a and Berrada, M.a and Chenouni, D.a and Bounabat, B.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500056,
	title = {Ontology based composition of e-Government services using AI Planning},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {A major propelling technology for electronic government (e-Government) is the powerful concept of Semantic Web Service. Semantically enriched Web services promise to increase the level of automation and to reduce integration efforts significantly. On the other hand, and due to the heterogeneous structure of the public sector, the achievement of interoperability and integration is a key challenge for a comprehensive e-Government. Therefore, the combination of e-Government and Semantic Web Services is very much natural. In this paper, we present a dynamic approach for semantically composing e-Government Web services based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. The overall objective of our approach is to improve the citizen centric e-Government vision by providing a platform for automatically discovering, composing and optimizing e-Government services.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Adadi, Amina and Berrada, Mohammed and Chenouni, Driss and Bounabat, Bouchaib}
}
@article {ElKhaddar201543,
	title = {A policy-based middleware for context-aware pervasive computing},
	journal = {International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {43-68},
	abstract = {Purpose {\textendash} This paper aims to demonstrate that a policy-based middleware solution which facilitates the development of context-aware applications and the integration of the heterogeneous devices should be provided for ubiquitous computing environments. Ubiquitous computing targets the provision of seamless services and applications by providing an environment that involves a variety of devices having different capabilities. These applications help transforming the physical spaces into computationally active and smart environments. The design of applications in these environments needs to consider the heterogeneous devices, applications preferences and rapidly changing contexts. The applications, therefore, need to be context-aware so that they can adapt to different situations in real-time. Design/methodology/approach {\textendash} In this paper, we argue that a policy-based middleware solution that facilitates the development of context-aware applications and the integration of the heterogeneous devices should be provided for ubiquitous computing environments. The middleware allows applications to track items and acquire contextual information about them easily, reason about this information captured using different logics and then adapt to changing contexts. A key issue in these environments is to allow heterogeneous applications to express their business rules once, and get the preferred data once they are captured by the middleware without any intervention from the application side. Findings {\textendash} Our middleware tackles this problem by using policies to define the different applications{\textquoteright} rules and preferences. These policies can specify rules about the middleware services to be used, type of data captured, devices used, user roles, context information and any other type of conditions. Originality/value {\textendash} In this paper, we propose the design of a flexible and performant ubiquitous computing, and context-aware middleware called FlexRFID along with its evaluation results. {\textcopyright} Emerald Group Publishing Limited.},
	doi = {10.1108/IJPCC-07-2014-0039},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84928536703\&doi=10.1108\%2fIJPCC-07-2014-0039\&partnerID=40\&md5=1ea1a116178cb05d7fea8c54743c528b},
	author = {El Khaddar, M.A.a and Chraibi, M.b and Harroud, H.b and Boulmalf, M.c and Elkoutbi, M.a and Maach, A.d}
}
@conference { ISI:000383221800017,
	title = {A preliminary study on indicator framework for enterprise, based on COBIT 5 processes and SOA approach},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (WICT)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, DEC 14-16, 2015},
	pages = {95-100},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; Lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; Lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	abstract = {Organizations become dependent on Information Technology (IT) to fulfill their corporate aims, meet their business needs and deliver value to customers. For effective and efficient utilization of IT, we intend to contribute to the alignment between IT and organizational strategies. The challenge is to make the enterprise and its Information System (IS) as responsive as possible within the regard to changes in enterprise while taking into account the enterprise operational performance. When a change happens or a new opportunity comes, organizations do not know which assets are linked to which business processes and which services, especially IT services, to bring up first and which can wait until later. Our principal aim is to propose an indicator framework to track and control business-IT alignment. However, this paper is a preliminary study on this framework. We are inspired by COBIT 5 processes as indicators and believe that the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applied to these processes interlinks and can interact well the different processes. The validity and applicability of our theoretical study will be evaluated for future work.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8712-5},
	author = {Razafimampianina, Rindra M. and Nouinou, Soumaya and Doukkali, Abdelaziz S. and Regragui, Boubker},
	editor = {Abrahim, A and Alimi, AM and Haqiq, A and Karray, H and Mousannif, H and BenHalima, M and Choo, YH and Ma, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000373736100045,
	title = {Product Opinion Mining for Competitive Intelligence},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED WIRELESS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (AWICT 2015)},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Advanced Wireless Information and Communication Technologies (AWICT), Natl Sch Engineers Sousse, TUNISIA, OCT 05-07, 2015},
	pages = {358-365},
	abstract = {Competitive Intelligence is one of the keys of companies Risk Management. It provides the company with a permanent lighting to its competitive environment. The increasingly frequent use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); including (namely) online shopping sites, blogs, social network sites, forums, provides incentives for companies check their advantages over their competitors. This information presents a new source that helps and leads the company to identify, analyze and manage the various risks associated with its business/products. Nowadays, a good use of these data helps the company to improve its products/services. In this paper, an overview of opinion mining for competitive intelligence will be presented. We{\textquoteright}ll try to synthesize the major research done for the different steps of product opinion mining. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.004},
	author = {Amarouche, Kamal and Benbrahim, Houda and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Boubiche, DE and Hidoussi, F and Cruz, HT}
}
@conference {Chanyour201557,
	title = {Secure sparse network coding for reliable routing in large scale DTMN},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2015 3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks, RAWSN 2015 - In conjunction with the International Conference on NETworked sYStems, NETYS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {57-62},
	abstract = {Security issue occupies an important part in all communication system and especially for new generation networks. Among these networks, we find Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs) which are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and clustering for routing in such networks gives more efficiency and copes with routing reliability problem among large scale networks. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a secure network coding scheme in the presence of eavesdroppers in large-scale DTMNs. Therefore, we used a cluster based routing protocol dedicated to DTMN specificities. In addition, we used Sparse Random Linear Network Coding (SRLNC) to feat low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. Furthermore, we addressed the packets retransmission decision problem for SRLNC with a fair trade-off throughput/overhead. The results are very encouraging and the proposed routing scheme has the advantage to be reliable as well as secure for large scale DTMN. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/RAWSN.2015.7173280},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966552832\&doi=10.1109\%2fRAWSN.2015.7173280\&partnerID=40\&md5=3d0cbb4c0c91e93d68d64811357a6f36},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b and Belkasmi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380408200012,
	title = {Secure Sparse Network Coding for Reliable Routing in Large Scale DTMN},
	booktitle = {2015 THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RFID AND ADAPTIVE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (RAWSN)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks (RAWSN), Agadir, MOROCCO, MAY 13-15, 2015},
	pages = {57-62},
	publisher = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	organization = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	abstract = {Security issue occupies an important part in all communication system and especially for new generation networks. Among these networks, we find Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs) which are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and clustering for routing in such networks gives more efficiency and copes with routing reliability problem among large scale networks. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a secure network coding scheme in the presence of eavesdroppers in large-scale DTMNs. Therefore, we used a cluster based routing protocol dedicated to DTMN specificities. In addition, we used Sparse Random Linear Network Coding (SRLNC) to feat low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. Furthermore, we addressed the packets retransmission decision problem for SRLNC with a fair trade-off throughput/overhead. The results are very encouraging and the proposed routing scheme has the advantage to be reliable as well as secure for large scale DTMN.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8096-6},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {Berrada, I and Ghennioui, H}
}
@conference { ISI:000373736100014,
	title = {Segmentation of Arabic handwritten text to lines},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED WIRELESS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (AWICT 2015)},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Advanced Wireless Information and Communication Technologies (AWICT), Natl Sch Engineers Sousse, TUNISIA, OCT 05-07, 2015},
	pages = {115-121},
	abstract = {Automatic recognition of writing is among the most important axes in the NLP (Natural language processing). Several entities of different areas demonstrated the need in recognition of handwritten Arabic characters; particularly banks check processing, post office for the automation of mail sorting, the insurance for the treatment of forms and many other industries. One of the most important operations in a handwriting recognition system is segmentation. Segmentation of handwritten text is a necessary step in the development of a system of automatic writing recognition. Its goal is to try to extract all areas of the lines of the text, and this operation is made difficult in the case of handwriting, by the presence of irregular gaps or overlap between lines and fluctuations of the guidance of scripture to the horizontal. In this paper, we have developed three approaches of handwritten Arabic text segmentation, then we compared between these three approaches.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.056},
	author = {Mokhtari, Younes and Yousfi, Abdellah},
	editor = {Boubiche, DE and Hidoussi, F and Cruz, HT}
}
@article {Adadi2015460,
	title = {A semantic web service composition for E-Government services},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {71},
	number = {3},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {460-467},
	abstract = {Emerging from e-business ideas in the late 1990s, e-Government is seen as a concept that is focused on fully exploiting Internet and information and communication technologies to deliver effective government services to citizens, businesses, and other stakeholders. However e-Government has some specific features as opposed to traditional e-business scenarios, because of the enormous challenges it faces in achieving interoperability, integration and security, which are of interest to our dynamic Web service composition research and on which semantic Web service composition architecture could be properly demonstrated. From these reasons, we propose in this paper an approach for the composition of semantically described e- Government Web services, enabling citizens to dynamically compose services according to their goals and through a single point of access. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2015 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84921987930\&partnerID=40\&md5=7328572edfa35d36ddcd880d57061a60},
	author = {Adadi, A.a b and Berrada, M.a b and Chenouni, D.a b and Bounabat, B.a b}
}
@article {Faizi201532,
	title = {Students{\textquoteright} perceptions towards using Web 2.0 technologies in education},
	journal = {International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning},
	volume = {10},
	number = {6},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {32-36},
	abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of Web 2.0 technologies in education. For this purpose, a survey was carried out to explore the students{\textquoteright} perceptions towards using these tools for learning purposes. Results of the research study revealed that all the respondents are greatly immersed in these social platforms and use them for many reasons. However, it was found out that almost half of the surveyed students (i.e. 47\%) devote more than 40\% of the time they spend on Web 2.0 technologies to enhance their learning in different subjects. Taking these findings into consideration, we can stipulate that Web 2.0 applications present many educational advantages for students, hence, contribute in providing opportunities for further learning. Consequently, these online tools provide schools and universities with more opportunities to go beyond traditional delivery formats and develop learnercentered personalized learning environments.},
	doi = {10.3991/ijet.v10i6.4858},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84952788796\&doi=10.3991\%2fijet.v10i6.4858\&partnerID=40\&md5=c22befa5ff5f3e9fcbbfe17e466aeee9},
	author = {Faizi, R. and Chiheb, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article { ISI:000366991600005,
	title = {Students{\textquoteright} Perceptions Towards Using Web 2.0 Technologies in Education},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN LEARNING},
	volume = {10},
	number = {6},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {32-36},
	abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the usefulness of Web 2.0 technologies in education. For this purpose, a survey was carried out to explore the students{\textquoteright} perceptions towards using these tools for learning purposes. Results of the research study revealed that all the respondents are greatly immersed in these social platforms and use them for many reasons. However, it was found out that almost half of the surveyed students (i.e. 47\%) devote more than 40\% of the time they spend on Web 2.0 technologies to enhance their learning in different subjects. Taking these findings into consideration, we can stipulate that Web 2.0 applications present many educational advantages for students, hence, contribute in providing opportunities for further learning. Consequently, these online tools provide schools and universities with more opportunities to go beyond traditional delivery formats and develop learnercentered personalized learning environments.},
	issn = {1868-8799},
	doi = {10.3991/ijet.v10i6.4858},
	author = {Faizi, Rdouan and Chiheb, Raddouane and El Afia, Abdellatif}
}
@conference {Fath-Allah2015,
	title = {A theoretical e-government portals{\textquoteright} benchmarking framework},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {E-government benchmarking is the process of ranking e-government according to some agreed best practices. It can be used not only to benchmark but also to assess achievements and identify missing best practices for stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to propose guidelines to build a new benchmarking framework for e-government portals. This framework is based on measurement of best practices using a best practice model. For this purpose, we have first identified and presented five examples of the benchmarking frameworks available in the literature. Based on the conducted comparison, the findings show that although the benchmarking frameworks are serving their intended purposes, they still suffer from some limitations. The paper also explains how the new framework overcomes these limitations. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358379},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962415171\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358379\&partnerID=40\&md5=b708ecadda763851cd774d01e3b2cd31},
	author = {Fath-Allah, A.a and Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500005,
	title = {A Theoretical E-government Portals{\textquoteright} Benchmarking Framework},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {E-government benchmarking is the process of ranking e-government according to some agreed best practices. It can be used not only to benchmark but also to assess achievements and identify missing best practices for stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to propose guidelines to build a new benchmarking framework for e-government portals. This framework is based on measurement of best practices using a best practice model. For this purpose, we have first identified and presented five examples of the benchmarking frameworks available in the literature. Based on the conducted comparison, the findings show that although the benchmarking frameworks are serving their intended purposes, they still suffer from some limitations. The paper also explains how the new framework overcomes these limitations.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Fath-Allah, Abdoullah and Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference { ISI:000383221800006,
	title = {Using Cloud SaaS to ensure interoperability and standardization in heterogeneous Cloud based environment},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 5TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (WICT)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {5th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, DEC 14-16, 2015},
	pages = {29-34},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE SMC Tech Comm Soft Comp; Lab Informatique, Reseaux Mobilite Modelisation; lab Res Grp Intelligent Machines; MIR Labs},
	abstract = {During the last years, because of the evolution of Cloud applications and the attractive advantages given to consumers, many companies outsource their data and Information Technology (IT) system to the Cloud based technology. With the growth in the number of Cloud Service Providers, many enterprises and organizations can use and associate services from multiple providers. There may be many Internet protocols for service access standards that are used to ensure interoperability between users browser and Web server, such as Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Each service has its specific characteristics such as authentication and security requirements. Hence, Cloud providers attempt to lock customers into proprietary interfaces so consumers can find themselves at not expects inevitable vendor lock-in. Therefore, the focus of our paper is to propose a solution to this problem by using Cloud intermediate between Cloud providers and consumer in heterogeneous Cloud environments interfaces. This is to achieve benefits such as standardization and interoperability, minimizing lock-in of Cloud providers. To reach such benefits, we propose a Cloud SaaS based on two interfaces and an interne component. These interfaces are used in Cloud Consumer and Provider sides and therefore guarantee communication between Cloud Consumer and Provider using different Internet protocols for Web service access such as REST and SOAP. Our approach guarantees interoperability and standardization in heterogeneous Cloud based environments because in this case Cloud Consumer and Provider using REST interface can communicate easily with Cloud Provider and Consumer using SOAP interface.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8712-5},
	author = {Majda, Elhozmari and Ahmed, Ettalbi},
	editor = {Abrahim, A and Alimi, AM and Haqiq, A and Karray, H and Mousannif, H and BenHalima, M and Choo, YH and Ma, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600034,
	title = {Application of Multi-Agent Markov Decision Processes to Gate Assignment Problem},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {196-201},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {Gate assignment Problem (GAP) is an important subject of airport management to ensure smooth traffic operations. However, flights schedule may undergo some stochastic events such as delays that usually occur and have to be considered in the planning. Our approach considers the representation of gates as collaborative agents trying to complete a set of flights assignment tasks as given by a centralized controller. That will allow giving a new model for the GAP based on Multi Agent Markov Decision Processes (MMDP). The aim of this work is to give to controllers at the airport a robust priory solution instead of taking the risk of online schedule modifications to handle uncertainty. The solution of this problem will be a set of optimal decisions to be taken in every case of traffic disturbance.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Aoun, Oussama and El Afia, Abdellatif},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600145,
	title = {Asymmetric and Dynamic Encryption for Routing Security in MANETs},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Marrakech, MOROCCO, APR 14-16, 2014},
	pages = {825-830},
	abstract = {In mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), data transmission is usually performed between mobile entities in an environment without infrastructure. So, data security is a key issue in MANETs. In this paper, we propose a security solution for the routing protocol OLSR. Our system is based on a new approach of asymmetric and dynamic encryption. Our goal is to properly secure the traffic against potential attacks without decreasing network performances.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Echchaachoui, Adel and Choukri, Ali and Habbani, Ahmed and Elkoutbi, Mohamed}
}
@article {Cheikhi2014359,
	title = {Chidamber and kemerer object-oriented measures: Analysis of their design from the metrology perspective},
	journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications},
	volume = {8},
	number = {2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {359-374},
	abstract = {During the last decade, software product measurement field has known many improvements and becomes an emerging field of software engineering. Based on the used programming approaches such as object-oriented, structured programming, etc., different kinds of measures are proposed in the literature. These sets of measures were defined many years ago to measure software artifacts, for example, source code and design, However, such measures need to be verified and validated based on the lessons learned from the measurement and metrology concepts. This paper focuses on software product measures, in particular, the object-oriented measures. Moreover, it aims at analyzing the design of a well-known and one of the most used object-oriented measures, that is, the Chidamber and Kemerer measures suite. In addition, this paper provides an investigation of the extent to which this set of measures addresses the metrology concepts related to the software measurement design. {\textcopyright} 2014 SERSC.},
	doi = {10.14257/ijseia.2014.8.2.35},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896897162\&doi=10.14257\%2fijseia.2014.8.2.35\&partnerID=40\&md5=d21c99cfd00552aeb2bdae4c13dac40c},
	author = {Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a and Sellami, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000346142800010,
	title = {Detection and recognition of road signs in a video stream based on the shape of the panels.},
	booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA{\textquoteright}14)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), Inst Natl Postes \& Telecommunicat, Rabat, MOROCCO, MAY 07-08, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a robust approach of automatic detection and recognition of road signs in national roads, starting from the images resulting from a video stream taken by a camera embarked on a vehicle. Our approach is composed of three main phases: the first phase is to extract video stream images containing a circle or a triangle. This extraction is performed respectively by Hough transformation and Ramer-Douglas-Peucker filter, the second phase consists of extraction areas of the calculated image, in the previous phase. In the third and last phase, we proceed to a matching of the extracted image areas with signs of reference by comparison of interest points extracted by the SURF method and the matching method FLANN.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3566-6},
	author = {Romadi, Mohammed and Oulahhajthami, Rachid and Romadi, Rahal and Chiheb, Raddouane}
}
@conference {Romadi2014,
	title = {Detection and recognition of road signs in a video stream based on the shape of the panels},
	booktitle = {2014 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a robust approach of automatic detection and recognition of road signs in national roads, starting from the images resulting from a video stream taken by a camera embarked on a vehicle. Our approach is composed of three main phases: the first phase is to extract video stream images containing a circle or a triangle. This extraction is performed respectively by Hough transformation and Ramer-Douglas-Peucker filter, the second phase consists of extraction areas of the calculated image, in the previous phase. In the third and last phase, we proceed to a matching of the extracted image areas with signs of reference by comparison of interest points extracted by the SURF method and the matching method FLANN. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2014.6847285},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904598231\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2014.6847285\&partnerID=40\&md5=62713d5791e141de32775236f194bb72},
	author = {Romadi, M. and Oulah Haj Thami, R. and Romadi, R. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600022,
	title = {Efficient Vertical handover scheme on IMS network and cost analysis},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {129-134},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {According to the various mobility, the resource allocation, interference, and the characteristics of heterogeneity and ubiquity of access network based on the next generation network, namely, the network IMS (IP Multimedia subsystem), have imposed several challenges. In regard to mobility management, handover management, and Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning, this paper proposes an adaptive environment based on IMS, between the heterogeneous access technologies, like WiMAX, WLAN, UMTS and LTE/LTE Advanced interfaces. Nevertheless, especially, the problem of handover decision, as resolving it influence, mainly on the handover performance; ANN(Artificial Neural Network) is proposed to solve the problem of decision and selection of best network access based IMS. The objective of proposed approach algorithms, is to maximize handover performance and reliability, with a new generic mobility management architecture, for system resource utilization by reducing handover latency and achieving load balance between different heterogeneous cells and networks},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Allouch, Hamid and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@article {Fath-Allah2014101,
	title = {E-government portals best practices: A comprehensive survey},
	journal = {Electronic Government},
	volume = {11},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {101-132},
	abstract = {An e-government portal is a website that is offering various useful electronic services to the citizens. With the traditional government portals (offices), the services provided to the citizens need a lot of paperwork and many officers are required to conduct such services, and also the citizens need to be present personally, which means they have to leave their jobs for many hours. Thus, making these services as electronic ones through the web will result in great savings for governmental entities and citizens. This paper exploring the e-government portal{\textquoteright}s best practices collected from research and industry. Although these best practices exist in the literature, they are not classified or grouped in a logical way. In addition, this paper aims to provide a structured overview of these best practices according to three categories of best practices (i.e., back-end, front-end, and external). Copyright {\textcopyright} 2014 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/EG.2014.063316},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904336187\&doi=10.1504\%2fEG.2014.063316\&partnerID=40\&md5=3bbc18ed114bf20b4e24d4c7c8ad0b91},
	author = {Fath-Allah, A.a and Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600023,
	title = {Elasticity and Scalability Centric Quality Model for the Cloud},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {135-140},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {Cloud computing seems to be the most logical shift in terms of Information Technology after Internet, Social Networking... Despite the potential benefits that cloud computing offers, the model brings new issues, challenges, and needs in term of SLA formalization, Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation due to the heterogeneous resources and to the special features it implies, such as Elasticity and Scalability. In the scope of this paper we focus on the Elasticity and Scalability attributes to assess their impact on the QoS. The paper provides a multi-lenses overview that can help both cloud consumers and potential business application{\textquoteright}s owners to understand, analyze, and evaluate important aspects related to Scalability and Elasticity capabilities. We determine and analyze the key features of these characteristics and derive metrics that evaluate the cloud elasticity-centric capabilities. We present a specific quality model for those two characteristics derived from their sub-attributes.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Alfath, Abdeladim and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600144,
	title = {An Energy Efficient Clustering Algorithm for MANETs},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Marrakech, MOROCCO, APR 14-16, 2014},
	pages = {819-824},
	abstract = {This paper describes a routing system for a communication network constituted by several ad hoc mobile nodes. This system optimizes energy consumption. It divides the network into clusters. Thereafter it detects the best way in terms of energy to be taken by a stream of data. This consists to calculate the energy required for each available path and select the optimal gateways. Each cluster is identified by a cluster-head which is elected according to its position and its residual energy by using a clustering algorithm. The main objective of this paper is to optimize the number of live nodes by assigning to each network task the appropriate nodes.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Choukri, Ali and Habbani, Ahmed and El koutbi, Mohamed}
}
@conference { ISI:000360095400010,
	title = {A Formal Modeling Approach for Emergency Crisis Response in Health during Catastrophic Situation},
	booktitle = {INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR CRISIS RESPONSE AND MANAGEMENT IN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
	volume = {196},
	year = {2014},
	note = {1st International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (ISCRAM-Med), Toulouse, FRANCE, OCT 15-17, 2014},
	pages = {112-119},
	publisher = {ISCRAM Assoc; IRIT Lab Toulouse; Univ Toulouse; Univ Lorraine; Ecole Mines Albi Carmaux},
	organization = {ISCRAM Assoc; IRIT Lab Toulouse; Univ Toulouse; Univ Lorraine; Ecole Mines Albi Carmaux},
	abstract = {The EMS (Emergency Medical Services: {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}SAMU{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}), which is affiliated to the Moroccan Ministry of Health, is normally dedicated to coordinate, regulate and carry the sick and road casualty to the most suitable hospital facilities. In times of crisis, the EMS (SAMU) collaborates and coordinates with other stakeholders namely Civil Protection and Military health services by setting up advanced Medical positions (PMA). In this work we will focus mainly on the collaborative work between doctors and the EMS (SAMU) in order to provide a remote diagnosis during emergency situations. One objective of this paper is to formally specify the behavior of different components of a collaborative system architecture in telemedicine. The objective of these formal specifications is to increase the confidence in the collaborative architecture and to verify the consistency of the components assembly. This is important towards building a robust system free from specification errors and inconsistencies.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-11817-8},
	issn = {1865-1348},
	author = {Ouzzif, Mohammed and Hamdani, Marouane and Mountassir, Hassan and Erradi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Hanachi, C and Benaben, F and Charoy, F}
}
@article {10001634720141101,
	title = {A Graph Based Approach to Trace Models Composition.},
	journal = {Journal of Software (1796217X)},
	volume = {9},
	number = {11},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {2813 - 2822},
	abstract = {A model driven engineering process involves different and heterogeneous models that represent various perspectives of the system under development. The model composition operation allows combining those sub-models into an integrated view, but remains a tedious activity. For that, traceability information must be maintained to comprehend the composition effects and better manage the operation itself. Against this context, the current paper describes a framework for model composition traceability. We consider the traces generation concern as a crosscutting concern where the weaving mechanism is performed using graph transformations. A composition specification case study is presented to illustrate our contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {aspect oriented modeling, Computer engineering, Computer simulation, Graph theory, graph transformation, Heterogeneous computing, Information theory, model composition, model transformation, traceability},
	issn = {1796217X},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=100016347\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Laghouaouta, Youness and Anwar, Adil and Nassar, Mahmoud and Coulette, Bernard}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600074,
	title = {Green opportunistic access for CRN with selfish users using Coalitional game Approach in partition form},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {425-429},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {We study energy conservation and system performance of decentralized cognitive radio network with cognitive users. Every cognitive radio (CR) user needs to sense the channel to send data, if the channel is unoccupied by a licensed user only one winner transmits its data. Hence, all other users waste their energy in sensing the licensed bands and in negotiating the resource access without managing to transmit data packets. We formulate the sensing-energy tradeoff problem for distributed cognitive radio network as a coalition formation game. Our contribution is to apply the coalitional game design to the most important phases of cognitive radio network (CRN): sensing and data transmission. The concept of coalitional game may enforce the cooperative behavior of CR users in order to improve the system performance (energy and delay..). The network is modeled using a coalitional game in partition form with non transferable utility (NTU). After forming coalitions, no CR user in those coalitions aim to change its position. Indeed, the members of this coalition will cooperate both in sensing and access phases to improve system performance. The selfish behavior becomes evident when the cognitive users are constrained to send their data in a short delay and with a minimum of energy consumption. Our proposed algorithm explains how the selfish atittude of the cognitive user leds to join the coalition that increases its individual gain, and tacitly to improve the performance of the entire system.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Belghiti, Imane Daha and Elmachkour, Mouna and Berrada, Ismail and Kobbane, Abdellatif},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference {ElHamlaoui2014,
	title = {Heterogeneous models matching for consistency management},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {This work is situated in the context of the application of Model Driven Engineering to complex systems view-based modelling. In fact, view-based models - called also partial models - are manipulated by different actors (designers), and are thus generally heterogeneous, that is, described with different DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Instead of building a single global model, which is not realistic, we propose to organize the different partial models as a network of related models, which provides a global view of the system through a correspondence model. As models are modelled separately by different designers, they also evolve separately that induces a problem of consistency. To solve it, we propose a semi-automatic process based on the correspondence model allowing detecting changes, calculating their impacts, and proposing modifications to maintain the consistency among them. The approach is supported by a tool chain and illustrated by the example of a Bug Tracking System. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861074},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84906751582\&doi=10.1109\%2fRCIS.2014.6861074\&partnerID=40\&md5=24df7be74c52394ea7231715c49b9680},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M.a b and Ebersold, S.a and Coulette, B.a and Nassar, M.b and Anwar, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600008,
	title = {Integrating Linked Sensor Data for On-line Analytical Processing On-The-Fly},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {43-47},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {Sensor networks are gaining more and more attention in the current technology landscape. It is undeniable that their use allows a better monitoring of events that occur in the real world. Many sensors have been deployed for monitoring applications such as environmental monitoring, and traffic monitoring. A number of governments, corporates, and academic organizations or agencies hold independently sensor systems that generate a large amount of dynamic information from data sources with various formats of schemas and data. They are making this sensor data openly accessible by publishing it as Linked Sensor Data (LSD) on the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. LSD is the concept that defines the publication of public or private organization sensor data without restrictions. This is achieved by transforming raw sensor observations to RDF format and by linking it with other datasets on the LOD cloud. The seamless integration of LSD sources from multiple providers is a great challenge. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of integrating diverse LSD sources using the hybrid ontology approach for on-line analytical processing (OLAP) on-the-fly. With such an ontology-based integration framework, organizations or individuals will have greater opportunity to make their respective analysis based on a large amount of sensor data openly accessible on the Web.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Guilavogui, Koly and Kjiri, Laila and Fredj, Mounia},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000355910900043,
	title = {Malicious Workers Tolerance in an Agent-Based Grid Resource Brokering System - Preliminary Considerations (Short Paper)},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (CSCI), VOL 2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, NV, MAR 10-13, 2014},
	pages = {233-236},
	publisher = {American Council Sci \& Educ},
	organization = {American Council Sci \& Educ},
	abstract = {The Agent in Grid (AiG) project develops an agent-based infrastructure for resource management in the Grid. The basic assumptions of the project are that (1) agents work in teams, and (2) information is ontologically represented and semantically processed. Thus far, issues involved in trust management were considered only from the point of view of fulfillment of contracts between stakeholders. However, it is also possible that some workers that fulfill their contracts, return incorrect results. In this note, we consider how the trust management in the AiG project can be further conceptualized by using a reputation-based voting.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3009-8},
	doi = {10.1109/CSCI.2014.126},
	author = {Attaoui, Naoual and Essaaidi, Mohammad and Paprzycki (Ca), Marcin and Ganzha, Maria},
	editor = {Akhgar, B and Arabnia, HR}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700057,
	title = {On managing evolution of configurable services based on configurable processes},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {616-621},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {Today, SOA is the most dominant and broadly adopted architecture style by enterprises. It defines how to use services to achieve business goals, and allows interoperability with multiple customers within different business domains. The growing use of SOA has increased research interest on how to improve the reuse of services. Hence, managing services variability was introduced by many approaches as a new leading edge concept for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. Several proposals have been made in this respect. However, none of these seem to deal with the evolution of these configurable services. In service oriented systems, the evolution of services is usually introduced by the evolution of the associated business process. Therefore, if a configurable process model (CPM for short) should evolve in reaction to changing business needs, the associated configurable services (CS for short) are also impacted by this change. In our previous work, we proposed a complete methodology for managing evolution in configurable process models. In this paper, we extend our proposed approach to develop an evolution process for managing the changes of configurable services (variable services) caused by changing the associated configurable process model.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Chakir, Boutaina and Kjiri, Laila}
}
@conference {Sbai2014616,
	title = {On managing evolution of configurable services based on configurable processes},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {616-621},
	abstract = {Today, SOA is the most dominant and broadly adopted architecture style by enterprises. It defines how to use services to achieve business goals, and allows interoperability with multiple customers within different business domains. The growing use of SOA has increased research interest on how to improve the reuse of services. Hence, managing services variability was introduced by many approaches as a new leading edge concept for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. Several proposals have been made in this respect. However, none of these seem to deal with the evolution of these configurable services. In service oriented systems, the evolution of services is usually introduced by the evolution of the associated business process. Therefore, if a configurable process model (CPM for short) should evolve in reaction to changing business needs, the associated configurable services (CS for short) are also impacted by this change. In our previous work, we proposed a complete methodology for managing evolution in configurable process models. In this paper, we extend our proposed approach to develop an evolution process for managing the changes of configurable services (variable services) caused by changing the associated configurable process model. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060934},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988220675\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060934\&partnerID=40\&md5=371668ec9f07b988342b6b176b8c7d7e},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Chakir, B. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600037,
	title = {MINING USER PATTERNS FOR LOCATION PREDICTION IN MOBILE SOCIAL NETWORKS},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {213-218},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {Understanding human mobility dynamics is of an essential importance to today mobile applications, including context-aware advertising and city wide sensing applications. Recently, Location-based social networks (LBSNs) have attracted important researchers{\textquoteright} efforts, to investigate spatial, temporal and social aspects of user patterns. LBSNs allow users to {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}check-in{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} at geographical locations and share this information with friends. In this paper, analysis of check-ins data provided by Foursquare, the online location-based social network, allows us to construct a set of features that capture: spatial, temporal and similarity characteristics of user mobility. We apply this knowledge to location prediction problem, and combine these features in supervised learning for future location prediction. We find that the supervised classifier based on the combination of multiple features offers reasonable accuracy.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Mourchid, Fatima and Habbani, Ahmed and El koutbi, Mohamed},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000354299300007,
	title = {Model and Application Architecture Indicators of Evaluation the Enterprise Architecture},
	booktitle = {NEW PERSPECTIVES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 2},
	series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {276},
	year = {2014},
	note = {World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST), Funchal, PORTUGAL, APR 15-18, 2014},
	pages = {63-71},
	abstract = {Enterprise Architecture EA provides a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}knowledge base and support for decision making within the enterprise and it serves as the blueprint of current situation and strategy for future directions of the enterprise{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}. The planning and modeling aspect of EA is already fairly well covered in the literature, while the evaluation and the attributes of EA quality have attracted less interest and yet enterprise architecture quality has been perceived as a prerequisite for realizing its benefits {[}6]. The principle goals of EA evaluation are to document the significance of the EA to decision makers, and to identify the development needs of the EA. However it is very difficult to find a complete method of evaluation in term of indicators of evaluation and which ensures the follow-up of all the stages of development of the architecture of company. This article presents a generic model of evaluation enterprise architecture. We do not want to use attributes directly because the model definition could vary in different organizations. Therefore, we introduce this artifact as an intermediate layer as not to limit the flexibility of evaluation.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-05948-8; 978-3-319-05947-1},
	issn = {2194-5357},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8\_7},
	author = {Lakhrouit, Jihane and Baina, Karim and Benali, Khalid},
	editor = {Rocha, A and Correia, AM and Tan, FB and Stroetmann, KA}
}
@conference { ISI:000367072600061,
	title = {Modeling and Enforcing Security and Service Control Policies using FlexRFID Middleware Healthcare Scenarios},
	booktitle = {2014 SCIENCE AND INFORMATION CONFERENCE (SAI)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {Science and Information Conference (SAI), Sci \& Informat Org, London, ENGLAND, AUG 27-29, 2014},
	pages = {461-467},
	publisher = {Microsoft; RK Trans2Cloud; Springer; IEEE Comp Soc, UKRI Sect; IEEE Computat Intelligence Soc, UKRI Sect; IEEE},
	organization = {Microsoft; RK Trans2Cloud; Springer; IEEE Comp Soc, UKRI Sect; IEEE Computat Intelligence Soc, UKRI Sect; IEEE},
	abstract = {RFID and WSN technologies are widely used in today{\textquoteright}s pervasive computing. In Wireless Sensor Networks, sensor nodes sense the physical environment and send the sensed data to the sink by multi-hops. WSN are used in many applications such as military and environment monitoring. In Radio Frequency Identification, a unique ID is assigned to a RFID tag which is associated with a real world object. RFID applications cover many areas such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), healthcare, library management, automatic toll collection, etc. The integration of both technologies will bring many advantages in the future of ubiquitous computing, through the provision of real-world tracking and context information about the objects. This will increase considerably the automation of an information system. In order to process the large volume of data captured by sensors and RFID readers in real time, a middleware solution is needed. This middleware should be designed in a way to allow the aggregation, filtering and grouping of the data captured by the hardware devices before sending them to the backend applications. In this paper we demonstrate how our middleware solution called FlexRFID handles large amount of RFID and sensor scan data, and executes applications{\textquoteright} business rules in real time through its policy-based Business Rules layer. The FlexRFID middleware provides easy addition and removal of hardware devices that capture data, as well as uses the business rules of the applications to control all its services. We demonstrate how the middleware controls some defined healthcare scenarios, and deals with the access control security concern to sensitive healthcare data through the use of policies.},
	isbn = {978-0-9893193-1-7},
	author = {El Khaddar, Mehdia Ajana and Chraibi, Mhammed and Harroud, Hamid and Boulmalf, Mohammed and Elkoutbi, Mohammed and Maach, Abdelilah}
}
@conference {ElKhaddar2014461,
	title = {Modeling and enforcing security and service control policies using FlexRFID middleware: Healthcare scenarios},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2014 Science and Information Conference, SAI 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {461-467},
	abstract = {RFID and WSN technologies are widely used in today{\textquoteright}s pervasive computing. In Wireless Sensor Networks, sensor nodes sense the physical environment and send the sensed data to the sink by multi-hops. WSN are used in many applications such as military and environment monitoring. In Radio Frequency Identification, a unique ID is assigned to a RFID tag which is associated with a real world object. RFID applications cover many areas such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), healthcare, library management, automatic toll collection, etc. The integration of both technologies will bring many advantages in the future of ubiquitous computing, through the provision of real-world tracking and context information about the objects. This will increase considerably the automation of an information system. In order to process the large volume of data captured by sensors and RFID readers in real time, a middleware solution is needed. This middleware should be designed in a way to allow the aggregation, filtering and grouping of the data captured by the hardware devices before sending them to the backend applications. In this paper we demonstrate how our middleware solution called FlexRFID handles large amount of RFID and sensor scan data, and executes applications{\textquoteright} business rules in real time through its policy-based Business Rules layer. The FlexRFID middleware provides easy addition and removal of hardware devices that capture data, as well as uses the business rules of the applications to control all its services. We demonstrate how the middleware controls some defined healthcare scenarios, and deals with the access control security concern to sensitive healthcare data through the use of policies. {\textcopyright} 2014 The Science and Information (SAI) Organization.},
	doi = {10.1109/SAI.2014.6918228},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84909619846\&doi=10.1109\%2fSAI.2014.6918228\&partnerID=40\&md5=14f713233106cde74364d97b68b0b9ad},
	author = {El Khaddar, M.A.a and Chraibi, M.b and Harroud, H.c and Boulmalf, M.d and Elkoutbi, M.a and Maach, A.b}
}
@article {Adadi20141667,
	title = {Multi-agent architecture for business modeling of web services composition based on WS2JADE framework},
	journal = {International Review on Computers and Software},
	volume = {9},
	number = {10},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1667-1674},
	abstract = {Web services have gained popularity today for enabling universal interoperability among applications. In order this, to answer the complex service requirements of the user, composite web services has to be constructed correctly and effectively. For this reason, various approaches have been used for web service composition. Among these approaches we quote the one who allows software agents to access and control Web Services, in this approach the integration between agents and web services platforms is important. For this purpose, the toolkit WS2JADE is developed at the Centre of Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, it allows deployment of Web services as JADE (JAVA agent DEvelopment Framework) agents services at run time. Therefore, composition of web services is returned to that of JADE agents services. In this paper we propose a new approach for modeling the composition of JADE agents services and thus web services using the Multi-Agent Reactive Decisional System (MARDS) Model. {\textcopyright} 2014 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. - All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84918797197\&partnerID=40\&md5=e62783fd0572039e37459b2f34c82d37},
	author = {Adadi, N.a and Berrada, M.a and Chenouni, D.a and Bounabat, B.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600066,
	title = {Multiple Active Cores-based Shared Multicast Tree for mobile IPv6 environment},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {378-383},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {Due to the progress of network multimedia technology, internet research community proposed many different multicast routing protocols to support efficient real-time multimedia application such as, IPTV, videoconferencing, group games. These applications require a multicast routing protocol in which packets arrive to multicast receivers with minimum delay and delay variation. These applications are more important with arrival of mobile IPv6 protocol with mobile receivers and sources with continuous access. Nevertheless, the design of multicast protocols does not take into account that group members may be mobile. Dynamic group members and sources can rapidly affect quality of both routing protocol scheme and multicast tree used. The key idea of this work is to make the handover of multicast members transparent and a quick recovery mechanism to maintain an optimal multicast tree, by using MACT-MIPv6 architecture based on multicast routing protocol with Shared Multiple Active Cores Multicast Tree to hide the mobility of mobile multicast members from the main multicast delivery tree. Simulation results show that good performance is achieved in terms of handoff latency, end-to-end delay, tree construction delay and others metrics.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Baddi, Youssef and El Kettani, Mohamed Dafir Ech-Cherif},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000378641000047,
	title = {Policy Based Security Middleware as a Service},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUTURE INTERNET OF THINGS AND CLOUD (FICLOUD)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), Barcelona, SPAIN, AUG 27-29, 2014},
	pages = {322-327},
	publisher = {IEEE Comp Soc, Tech Comm Internet; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {IEEE Comp Soc, Tech Comm Internet; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Cloud computing is amongst the major topics researched in Computer Science. Cloud computing security is at the heart of the topic. The reason behind this is that, as a technology, cloud computing is a great alternative that allows companies to outsource the management of their computing resources. However, due to the security issues, the cloud technology is not reaching its full potential. In this paper we present a system that allows the enforcement of privacy, accountability, integrity, and availability in each one of cloud computing levels using software policies. We present and describe the architecture of the Policy-Based Security Middleware as a Service.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4357-9},
	doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2014.57},
	author = {Chraibi, Mhammed and Harroud, Hamid and El Khaddar, Mehdia Ajana and Elkoutbi, Mohammed and Maach, Abdelilah}
}
@conference {Chraibi2014322,
	title = {Policy based security middleware as a service},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {322-327},
	abstract = {Cloud computing is amongst the major topics researched in Computer Science. Cloud computing security is at the heart of the topic. The reason behind this is that, as a technology, cloud computing is a great alternative that allows companies to outsource the management of their computing resources. However, due to the security issues, the cloud technology is not reaching its full potential. In this paper we present a system that allows the enforcement of privacy, accountability, integrity, and availability in each one of cloud computing levels using software policies. We present and describe the architecture of the Policy-Based Security Middleware as a Service. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/FiCloud.2014.57},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84922575142\&doi=10.1109\%2fFiCloud.2014.57\&partnerID=40\&md5=e2e0e77c31b6b215de057602faa575bd},
	author = {Chraibi, M.a and Khaddar, M.A.E.b and Harroud, H.a and Maach, A.c and Elkoutbi, M.b}
}
@conference {Chanyour2014274,
	title = {Routing based on network coding and clustering in DTMN},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {274-279},
	abstract = {Network coding is a novel technique that aims to improve routing schemes{\textquoteright} throughput. Besides, clustering is used to cope with the scalability problem among high scale networks. This paper combines the use of both techniques to address routing problem in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN). By the mean of its routing, the cluster based routing protocol we use offers opportunities for principal network coding operation, mainly the coding and decoding operations. Once a routed packet is received by the cluster head, it codes it regarding its destination cluster. The last cluster head performs decoding operation to deliver packets to their destination. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060962},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929144319\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060962\&partnerID=40\&md5=84d1f44e74172c044f700eb2a47a7999},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b and Belkasmi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700085,
	title = {Routing based on Network Coding and Clustering in DTMN},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {274-279},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {Network coding is a novel technique that aims to improve routing schemes{\textquoteright} throughput. Besides, clustering is used to cope with the scalability problem among high scale networks. This paper combines the use of both techniques to address routing problem in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN). By the mean of its routing, the cluster based routing protocol we use offers opportunities for principal network coding operation, mainly the coding and decoding operations. Once a routed packet is received by the cluster head, it codes it regarding its destination cluster. The last cluster head performs decoding operation to deliver packets to their destination.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa}
}
@article {Faizi201464,
	title = {Social media: An optimal virtual environment for learning foreign languages},
	journal = {International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning},
	volume = {9},
	number = {5},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {64-66},
	abstract = {The present paper aims at exploring the potential role that social media technologies play in learning foreign languages. For this purpose, a survey was carried out to examine students{\textquoteright} and language learners{\textquoteright} perceptions and attitudes about using these platforms. Results of the research study revealed that the great majority of the respondents actually use these web-based applications to enhance their language skills. Most importantly, they noted that social media contribute in improving their listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. Accordingly, we strongly recommend that instructors use these online tools in distant, blended, or face-to-face language learning settings.},
	doi = {10.3991/ijet.v9i5.3911},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907689668\&doi=10.3991\%2fijet.v9i5.3911\&partnerID=40\&md5=22bc806cdbaebe7f28f0b9664aa83c8f},
	author = {Faizi, R. and El Afia, A. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference { ISI:000367082904073,
	title = {SOCIAL MEDIA AND EDUCATION: FRIENDS OR FOES?},
	booktitle = {ICERI2014: 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND INNOVATION},
	series = {ICERI Proceedings},
	year = {2014},
	note = {7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), Seville, SPAIN, NOV 17-19, 2014},
	pages = {4410-4414},
	abstract = {Though being relatively a recent addition to the internet landscape, social media have witnessed an exponential growth in the last few years. These are used today in every aspect of our personal and professional lives and are infiltrating nearly every field, including education. In fact, students all over the world are greatly immersed in these web-based applications and have recourse to them to interact with friends, play games and watch television and most importantly to learn. Given the increasing use of these technologies for educational purposes, many educators have started questioning the validity and usefulness of such tools in education, stating that they may distract students and disengage them from learning. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to evaluate the use of these social online platforms in education. To this end, a survey was conducted to examine the perceptions and attitudes of higher education students towards using these tools for learning purposes. Results of the research study revealed that 49\% of the informants devote more than 40\% of the time they spend on social media to enhance their learning experience. Concerning the students{\textquoteright} contributions on these social online platforms, it has been noticed that the great majority of the participants in the survey are active members in these networks as they tend to share learning materials and resources. Taking these findings into account, we may claim that social media applications present many educational advantages for students, hence, contribute in providing opportunities for further learning. As such, they provide educators with an opportunity to go beyond traditional delivery formats and design student-centered customized learning environments.},
	isbn = {978-84-617-2484-0},
	issn = {2340-1095},
	author = {Faizi, Rdouan and El Afia, Abdellatif and Chiheb, Raddouane},
	editor = {Chova, LG and Martinez, AL and Torres, IC}
}
@article {9898253620141001,
	title = {Supporting collaborative development using process models: a tooled integration-focused approach.},
	journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution \& Process},
	volume = {26},
	number = {10},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {890 - 909},
	abstract = {ABSTRACT Collaboration in software engineering projects is usually intensive and requires adequate support by well-integrated tools. However, process-centered software engineering environments (PSEE) have traditionally been designed to exploit integration facilities in other tools, while offering themselves little to no such facilities. This is in line with the vision of the PSEE as the central orchestrator of project support tools. We argue that this view has hindered the widespread adoption of process-based collaboration support tools by incurring too much adoption and switching costs. We propose a new process-based collaboration support architecture, backed by a process metamodel, that can easily be integrated with existing tools. The proposed architecture revolves around the central concepts of {\textquoteright}deep links{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}hooks{\textquoteright}. Our approach is validated by analyzing a collection of open-source projects, and integration utilities based on the implemented process model server have been deve},
	keywords = {Client/server computing, collaboration, Computer software, Computer software development, process-support, Software architecture, Software engineering, Switching costs, tool integration},
	issn = {20477473},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=98982536\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Kedji, Komlan Akp{\'e}dj{\'e} and Lbath, Redouane and Coulette, Bernard and Nassar, Mahmoud and Baresse, Laurent and Racaru, Florin}
}
@conference { ISI:000345780700059,
	title = {Survey of Non-Functional Requirements Modeling and Verification of Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS)},
	series = {International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE 8th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, MAY 28-30, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	abstract = {Undoubtedly, Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) such as security, performance and reliability are critical to software systems as there is a growing demand on a higher quality of software. Simultaneously, the increasing pressure to develop software in less time and at lower costs drives software industry towards the promising paradigm of Software Product Line (SPL). However, different approaches have been advanced for modeling NFR of the traditional individual products and few approaches focused on a family of products. On the other hand, as a product line contains several products, it is impracticable and not feasible to verify NFR for each possible product. Therefore, there is a major need for verification approaches specific to product lines. In this paper, we present and analyze the main NFR modeling and verification approaches of SPL.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2393-9},
	issn = {2151-1349},
	author = {Hammani, Fatima Zahra},
	editor = {Bajec, M and Collard, M and Deneckere, R}
}
@conference { ISI:000345780700058,
	title = {Towards a Co-evolution Model for Software Product Lines Based on Cladistics},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS)},
	series = {International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE 8th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, MAY 28-30, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	abstract = {The evolution of a software product line is more challenging than the evolution of a single product, because its artifacts depend on many products. If a change is not well studied, it can break the integrity of the reference architecture of the software product line and all the derived products. Hence, when dealing with evolution, the understanding of change and its impact must be the most important activity. Biology is the science which studied evolution the most. Therefore it was necessary for us to understand evolution in biology in order to handle evolution in software product lines. This paper presents our approach to deal with change understanding in software product line using co-evolution analysis which was used in biology to understand how organisms influence each other during their evolution over time. Similarly to biological co-evolution, the co-evolution of artifacts of a software product line consists on analyzing how the evolution of an artifact influences the evolution of the others. The input data used in our approach are extracted from the history of changes that happened to each version of the software product. Our objective is to establish a co-evolution model for software product lines using Cladistics classification which illustrates the evolution of a population through an evolutionary tree.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2393-9},
	issn = {2151-1349},
	author = {Benlarabi, Anissa},
	editor = {Bajec, M and Collard, M and Deneckere, R}
}
@article {Hamlaoui2014132,
	title = {Towards a framework for heterogeneous models matching},
	journal = {Journal of Software Engineering},
	volume = {8},
	number = {3},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {132-151},
	abstract = {The overall goal of our approach is to relate models of a given domain that are created by different actors and thus are generally heterogeneous that is, described in different DSL (Domain Specific Languages). Instead of building a single global model, we propose to organize the different source models as a network of models which provides a global view of the system through a virtual global model. The matching of these models is done in a shared model of correspondences. We focus in this study on the elaboration of the model of correspondences, through a transformation called "refine" . The approach is illustrated by a representative use case (a Bug Tracking System) and supported by a modeling tool called HMS (Heterogeneous Matching Suite). {\textcopyright} 2014 Academic Journals Inc.},
	doi = {10.3923/jse.2014.132.151},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84899886336\&doi=10.3923\%2fjse.2014.132.151\&partnerID=40\&md5=2803984c51fbf1cde93310f1e0f01e33},
	author = {Hamlaoui, M.E.a b and Ebersold, S.a and Anwar, A.c and Coulette, B.a and Nassar, M.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380564200105,
	title = {Towards a MDE approach for the establishment of a Contract Service Level Monitoring by Third Party in the Cloud Computing},
	booktitle = {10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIGNAL-IMAGE TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET-BASED SYSTEMS SITIS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-Based Systems SITIS, Marrakesh, MOROCCO, NOV 23-27, 2014},
	pages = {715-720},
	abstract = {Cloud Computing (CC) marks a new step towards IT infrastructure dematerialization. Cloud provides IT resources, software and hardware, remotely accessible, as a service. The adoption of this model raises a number of challenges, particularly with regard to Quality of the provided services. To cope with a highly dynamic environment such as the CC, it is essential to determine in real time Quality of Service (QoS) to meet consumer{\textquoteright}s SLA (Service Level Agreements) specifications. In this context, agreements contract) service level form an appropriate solution to specify these QoS guarantees. It specifies one or more service level objectives (SLO), to guarantee that the delivered QoS satisfies the consumer expectations. Monitoring these QoS agreements for the management of the relationships, between, cloud providers and their services customers is an area that attracts the attention of many researchers and industrialists in the cloud. In our work we introduce the concept of monitoring and respect of the QoS, then we present a third party service provider that ensures the respect of the Quality of Service in real-time to guarantee the performance and the reliability of the Cloud.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-7978-3},
	doi = {10.1109/SITIS.2014.30},
	author = {Maarouf, Adil and Marzouk, Abderrahim and Haqiq, Abdelkrim and El Hamlaoui, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Yetongnon, K and Dipanda, A and Chbeir, R}
}
@conference { ISI:000371484600001,
	title = {Towards a semantic enrichment of configurable process models},
	booktitle = {2014 THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}14)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd IEEE International Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Tetouan, MOROCCO, OCT 20-22, 2014},
	pages = {1-6},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; UAE IEEE Student Branch; Univ Abdelmalek Essaadi; ENSA Tetouan},
	abstract = {In recent years, the concept of Semantic business process management has attracted significant research work, with the emergence of semantic web technologies (SW), which aimed to describe resources in a formal representation with clearly defined semantics in order to be machine-readable. Enriching business process with semantics improves the representation of processes and permits the automation of different tasks such as modeling, configuration, evolution, and promotes more flexible and adaptive solutions according to business requirement changes. Nowadays, the key concept of reuse in Business Process Management is the Configurable Process Model (CPM) solution which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, existing approaches in CPM lack of semantic representation. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach for enriching Configurable Process Models with semantics, as a first step towards the enhancement of the CPM evolution process.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5979-2},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and AlAchhab, M and Chahhou, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000345780700060,
	title = {Towards an Agile Feature Composition for a Large Scale Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS)},
	series = {International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE 8th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Marrakesh, MOROCCO, MAY 28-30, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; EMSI; Lab Math Informatique \& Applicat},
	abstract = {Modern applications tend to be cross-industry and to cover simultaneously different domains. Feature models need then to be composed in order to build domains with much larger scopes. Many approaches have been proposed by researchers to address this composition issue. Though, an overview of these compositional approaches shows that there are several areas for improvement especially in terms of automation tool support and agility. Our proposal in this doctoral paper is to discuss the feasibility of bringing the agility and the dynamism of software oriented computing techniques to the feature models composition relevant to different domains throughout a mashing up of their cooperating services.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2393-9},
	issn = {2151-1349},
	author = {Dehmouch, Ikram},
	editor = {Bajec, M and Collard, M and Deneckere, R}
}
@conference {ElHamlaoui201453,
	title = {Towards an ontology-based approach for heterogeneous model matching},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {1236},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {53-62},
	abstract = {The overall goal of our approach is to relate models - of a given domain - that are designed by different actors in different Domain Specific Languages, and thus are heterogeneous. Instead of building a single global model, we propose to organize the different source models as a network of models, which provides a global view of the system through a correspondence model. This latter, conform to a correspondence meta-model is built via a manual matching process. In this paper we explore the possibility of representing models as ontologies and take advantage of an automated process to match them.in order to enhance the automation of the matching process.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84911940557\&partnerID=40\&md5=3968ced6860eb6d70c7f0d5c78a95a83},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M.a b and Trojahn, C.a and Ebersold, S.a and Coulette, B.a}
}
@conference {Jamoussi2014293,
	title = {Track report of conference on collaborative software process (CSP 2014)},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {293},
	abstract = {Building complex and trustworthy software systems in the shortest time-to-market remains the challenging objective that competitive companies are facing constantly, and mastering the development process is a key issue towards this objective.Companies need to be able to formalize their development processes in order to analyze them, to enact them, and to assess them for quality measurement and efficiency improvement. In the context of complex software and systems development, there are many actors involved in the development who use different tools and heterogeneous modeling languages. So we can say that resulting processes are highly collaborative and must be described and enacted as such. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WETICE.2014.92},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908408744\&doi=10.1109\%2fWETICE.2014.92\&partnerID=40\&md5=fa8f8421794c76aad5438ff06ead15d0},
	author = {Jamoussi, Y.a and Coulette, B.b and Nassar, M.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000352498700056,
	title = {Track Report of CSP Track of WETICE-2014},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE 23RD INTERNATIONAL WETICE CONFERENCE (WETICE)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {23rd IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies, Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Parma, ITALY, JUN 23-25, 2014},
	pages = {293},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; W Virginia Univ; FoCAS EU FP7; IEEE Syst Man \& Cybernet Soc Italian Chapter},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc; W Virginia Univ; FoCAS EU FP7; IEEE Syst Man \& Cybernet Soc Italian Chapter},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4249-7},
	author = {Jamoussi, Yassine and Coulette, Bernard and Nassar, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Reddy, SM}
}
@conference { ISI:000345780300021,
	title = {Automatic Generation of Ontology from Data Models: A Practical Evaluation of Existing Approaches},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN INFORMATION SCIENCE (RCIS)},
	series = {International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science},
	year = {2013},
	note = {7th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Paris, FRANCE, MAY 29-31, 2013},
	publisher = {IEEE; Univ Paris 1; Ctr Rech \& Informatique; IEEE French Sect; Cyrius Consulting; IEEE French CS Joint Chapter},
	organization = {IEEE; Univ Paris 1; Ctr Rech \& Informatique; IEEE French Sect; Cyrius Consulting; IEEE French CS Joint Chapter},
	abstract = {Nowadays, ontology as a knowledge sharing approach plays an important role in semantic interoperability of enterprise applications (EAs). However, the manual process of ontology construction requires deep understanding of the domain. This approach is difficult, expensive and time-consuming. To overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, ontology learning field aims to provide automatic and semi-automatic approaches for ontology generation. Several approaches have been emerged for this purpose. In this paper, we present a practical study of methods that take data models as input to the learning process. The main contributions of this work are: (i) the evaluation of the availability of existing approaches for (semi-)automatic generation of ontology from data models; (ii) the evaluation of tools according to their operability; and (iii) the evaluation of the resulting ontologies to assess their quality in supporting semantic interoperability. Our goal through this study is to find a response to the question: Is there a tool that extracts (semi-) automatically an application ontology from data models, intended for use in semantic interoperability?.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-2912-5},
	issn = {2151-1349},
	author = {El Idrissi, Bouchra and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {Wieringa, R and Nurcan, S and Rolland, C and Cavarero, JL}
}
@article {Nouh2013201,
	title = {Decoding of block codes by using genetic algorithms and permutations set},
	journal = {International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security},
	volume = {5},
	number = {3},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {201-209},
	abstract = {Recently Genetic algorithms are successfully used for decoding some classes of error correcting codes. For decoding a linear block code C, these genetic algorithms computes a permutation p of the code generator matrix depending of the received word. Our main contribution in this paper is to choose the permutation p from the automorphism group of C. This choice allows reducing the complexity of re-encoding in the decoding steps when C is cyclic and also to generalize the proposed genetic decoding algorithm for binary nonlinear block codes like the Kerdock codes. In this paper, an efficient stop criterion is proposed and it reduces considerably the decoding complexity of our algorithm. The simulation results of the proposed decoder, over the AWGN channel, show that it reaches the error correcting performances of its competitors. The study of the complexity shows that the proposed decoder is less complex than its competitors that are based also on genetic algorithms.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84890158477\&partnerID=40\&md5=b6dcd56b7afd948385db98325525744e},
	author = {Nouh, S. and Chana, I. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000350287800020,
	title = {Detection and Recognition of Road Signs},
	booktitle = {2013 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ISKO-MAGHREB},
	year = {2013},
	note = {ISKO-Maghreb 3rd International Symposium, Marrakech, MOROCCO, NOV 08-09, 2013},
	publisher = {ISKO},
	organization = {ISKO},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present an application for the detection and recognition of Moroccan road signs together with their positions in video sequences taken by a mobile scanning vehicle in rural areas. Our approach is based on processing the operations of pictures: morphology, segmentation, edge detection and object recognition. The application runs on an algorithm which consists of five main steps: input (pre-recording video stream), processing of video keyframes, edge detection, detection of geometric shapes known panels, recognizing the meaning and the position of the panel detected.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1},
	author = {Romadi, Mohammed and Oulad Haj Thami, Rachid and Chiheb, Raddouane and Romadi, Rahal}
}
@conference {Romadi2013,
	title = {Detection and recognition of road signs},
	booktitle = {2013 3rd International Symposium ISKO-Maghreb},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In this paper, w e present a n application for t h e detection and recognition of Moroccan road signs together with their positions in video sequences taken by a mobile scanning vehicle in rural areas. Our approach is based on processing t h e operations of pictures: morphology, segmentation, edge detection and object recognition. The application runs on an algorithm which consists of five main steps: input (pre-recording video stream), processing of video keyframes, edge detection, detection of geometric shapes known panels, recognizing the meaning and the position of the panel detected. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728127},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894208510\&doi=10.1109\%2fISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728127\&partnerID=40\&md5=1c3a22fd74b253e4957628821128d02c},
	author = {Romadi, M. and Haj Thami, R.O. and Chiheb, R. and Romadi, R.}
}
@article {9467097620130101,
	title = {Efficient Heuristic Based on Clustering Approach for OLSR.},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks \& Communications},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {1 - 7},
	abstract = {Due to the dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc network (MANET), the quality of service (QoS) requires several improvements. The present paper comes within the framework of research to optimize QoS in MANET. In this paper, we propose a novel version of OLSR based on the clustering approach which is inspired from Lin and Chu heuristic and adapted to be implemented in OLSR. We studied its stability and we compared its performances to those of standard OLSR. The metrics we used in evaluating network performances were average end-to-end delay, control routing overhead, and packet delivery ratio. Experimental results show that our alternative significantly reduces the traffic reserved to monitoring the network, which positively influences other performances such as throughput, delay, and loss. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Ad hoc networks (Computer networks), Document clustering, Heuristic algorithms, Internet traffic, Performance evaluation, Quality of service, Routing (Computer network management)},
	issn = {20907141},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=94670976\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Choukri, Ali and Habbani, Ahmed and Koutbi, Mohamed El.}
}
@article {Choukri2013,
	title = {Efficient heuristic based on clustering approach for OLSR},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks and Communications},
	volume = {2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {Due to the dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc network (MANET), the quality of service (QoS) requires several improvements. The present papercomeswithin the framework of research to optimize QoS in MANET. In this paper, we propose a novel version of OLSR based on the clustering approach which is inspired from Lin and Chu heuristic and adapted to beimplemented inOLSR. We studied its stability and we compared its performances to those of standard OLSR. The metrics we used in evaluating network performances were average end-to-end delay, control routing overhead, and packet delivery ratio. Experimental results show that our alternative significantly reduces the traffic reserved to monitoring the network, which positively influences other performances such as throughput, delay, and loss. {\textcopyright} 2013 Ali Choukri et al.},
	doi = {10.1155/2013/597461},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84877308430\&doi=10.1155\%2f2013\%2f597461\&partnerID=40\&md5=3aa67a9fc125b4b786e82c243f57c7bc},
	author = {Choukri, A.a and Habbani, A.a b and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@article {9171244020131001,
	title = {Exploring the Potential Benefits of Using Social Media in Education.},
	journal = {International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy},
	volume = {3},
	number = {4},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {50 - 53},
	abstract = {The objective of this work is to investigate the potential benefits of using social media in education. A thorough examination of a large set of these online tools has revealed that social media have many educational advantages. In fact, it has been found out that these web-based applications can improve communication among students and between teachers and students. Thanks to these technologies, both teachers and students can interact with each other in a matter of seconds. Social media can also be used to promote students{\textquoteright} engagement. Students who often complain of being intimidated or bored in the classroom may feel comfortable to express their creativity and voice their opinion on a social network website. Another finding of this study is that social media applications foster collaboration as they allow students to work together to achieve a common goal. Given these educational benefits, we recommend that these online social tools should be used in learning environments. [ABSTRACT},
	keywords = {Benefits, collaboration, communication, Computer assisted instruction, education, engagement, Internet in education, Online social networks, social media, Social networks, Teaching aids \& devices},
	issn = {21924880},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=91712440\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Faizi, Rdouan and El Afia, Abdellatif and Chiheb, Raddouane}
}
@conference { ISI:000386611100055,
	title = {Formalization of the User Centric SOA Approach Implementation and End User Satisfaction Evaluation},
	booktitle = {ICEIS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - VOL 2},
	year = {2013},
	note = {15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Angers, FRANCE, JUL 04-07, 2013},
	pages = {481-488},
	publisher = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte},
	organization = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte},
	abstract = {User-centric SOA is a new paradigm allowing unskilled end users to compose services to create new one. Mashups represent new agile and quick ways to compose and integrate structured and unstructured resources, from different types existing on the web. Mashups emerged as a new way to democratize the SOA and realize the user-centric SOA; However, Mashups are emerging applications, and thus consist of immature, non intuitive and non formalized area. In this paper, we formalize the user-centric SOA development by proposing a new cloud-based architecture for user-centric SOA platforms, and by introducing a new rich integration language based on the advanced Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPS). We also propose a new intuitive and self-explanatory semantic methodology and interaction model for end users services integration. Through these contributions, we give the promise of realizing the user-centric SOA.},
	isbn = {978-989-8565-60-0},
	doi = {10.5220/0004446304810488},
	author = {Benhaddi, Meriem and Baina, Karim and Abdelwahed, El Hassan},
	editor = {Hammoudi, S and Maciaszek, L and Cordeiro, J and Dietz, J}
}
@article {Anwar20131,
	title = {A graphical specification of model composition with triple graph grammars},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {7706 LNCS},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1-18},
	abstract = {The concept of model is widely used in the MDE approach in order to represent several software artifacts, which are handled by different development teams throughout the software life cycle. Management of these models requires the definition of a set of model management operators such as the composition operation. This is generally an operation, which is dedicated to merge a number of models in order to create one (or more) incorporated model and which depends on the application context. The current work focuses on the description of a formal approach for model composition where the composition is specified by a set of graph transformation rules over UML-compliant models. The semantics of our composition operator is defined using triple graph grammars (TGGs) formalism. Furthermore, we present a composition scheme interpreted by a three-steps composition process: matching, checking and merging. {\textcopyright} 2013 Springer-Verlag.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-38209-3_1},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84883434558\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-642-38209-3_1\&partnerID=40\&md5=d6c0f27b3631bd269a86415547a1dcb1},
	author = {Anwar, A.a and Benelallam, A.b and Nassar, M.b and Coulette, B.c}
}
@conference {ElHamlaoui2013181,
	title = {Heterogeneous models matching for consistency management},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {181-188},
	abstract = {The overall goal of our approach is to relate models of a given domain. Those models are manipulated by different actors, and are thus generally heterogeneous, that is, described with different DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Instead of building a single global model, we propose to organize the different source models as a network of models, which provides a global view of the system through a virtual global model. The matching of these models is done in a unique correspondence model composed of relationships that are instantiated from a correspondence meta-model. This meta-model is composed of a generic part - common to all the domains - And of a specific part which depends on the specific domain modelled. In this paper, we focus on the elaboration of the correspondence model based on a correspondence meta-model, through a vertical relationship named "refine". The approach is illustrated on a representative use case (a Bug Tracking System). Copyright {\textcopyright} 2013 SCITEPRESS.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887115653\&partnerID=40\&md5=a72804a8195b6d08e4fbdcb715cfd079},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M.a b and Ebersold, S.a and Coulette, B.a and Anwar, A.c and Nassar, M.b}
}
@article {Choukri20131739,
	title = {A hierarchical version of OLSR for MANET},
	journal = {World Applied Sciences Journal},
	volume = {21},
	number = {12},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {1739-1747},
	abstract = {Due to the dynamic nature of Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) the Quality of Service (QoS) requires several improvements. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical routing protocol based on clustering approach inspired on the heuristic Max-Min D-Cluster that we have improved and implemented on standard OLSR. In order to validate this new release named OLSR-MaxMin2C we studied its stability and we compared its performances to those of other alternatives. The metrics we used in evaluating the performance of networks were Average end-to-end Delay, Control Routing Overhead and Packet Delivery Ratio according to VBR traffic (H.264) in addition to CBR traffic. Experimental results show that the control traffic is highly reduced and the improvement in the network performances is gained. {\textcopyright} IDOSI Publications, 2013.},
	doi = {10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.21.12.154},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84876000474\&doi=10.5829\%2fidosi.wasj.2013.21.12.154\&partnerID=40\&md5=d2b2f8cacb2542b846aaada949f18e72},
	author = {Choukri, A.a and Habbani, A.a b and Elkoutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {ElHamlaoui2013,
	title = {A process for maintaining heterogeneous models consistency through change synchronization},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper falls into the context of modeling complex systems according to various viewpoints. More precisely, it presents an iterative process of heterogeneous models consistency management - by taking into account various types of evolution - based on building a correspondence model. In the case of models evolution, this process is intended to capture changes in the models, to list modifications to be made in the impacted models and finally to update the correspondence model for a future iteration. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2013.6616433},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887221398\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2013.6616433\&partnerID=40\&md5=6948de7ad7e858c47c2ada2eea43e134},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M.a b and Ebersold, S.a and Anwar, A.c and Nassar, M.b and Coulette, B.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000328097500045,
	title = {ROLE OF MODEL OF EXCELLENCE TO IMPROVE D-LEARNING PROJECTS},
	booktitle = {QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY IN E-LEARNING, VOL 1},
	series = {eLearning and Software for Education},
	year = {2013},
	note = {9th International Conference eLearning and Software for Education, Bucharest, ROMANIA, APR 25-26, 2013},
	pages = {284-290},
	publisher = {Games \& Learn Alliance; intuitext Grup SOFTWIN; ASCENDIA DESIGN; SAP; INSOFT Dev \& Consult; MAGUAY; Adv Technol Syst; PLAGIAT},
	organization = {Games \& Learn Alliance; intuitext Grup SOFTWIN; ASCENDIA DESIGN; SAP; INSOFT Dev \& Consult; MAGUAY; Adv Technol Syst; PLAGIAT},
	abstract = {Learning has always been a fertile ground for research aiming at facilitating access to information and content sharing, with the view towards knowledge, know-how and self-management skills. To this end, researchers interested in learning have striven to use technological innovation for the benefit of learning, we believe that the D-learning-project, added to the technological and pedagogical components involved, must take into account the guiding principles of Project Management as an unequivocally proven managerial practice. However, it is also possible to explore other niches that can ensure the success of this type of project. Total Quality Management (TQM) as a practice seems to be a managerial practice whose foundations are perfectly compatible with the characteristics of a D-learning project.},
	issn = {2066-026X},
	author = {Daoudi, Najima and Lemsalmi, Ikram},
	editor = {Roceanu, I and Beligan, D and Ciolan, L and Radu, C}
}
@article {10115338720131101,
	title = {SV3R: un framework pour la gestion de la variabilit{\'e} des services.},
	journal = {E-Ti: E-Review in Technologies Information},
	number = {7},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {20 - 31},
	abstract = {The emergence and expansion of the development paradigm based on service oriented approaches have been behind the elaboration of new models and methods that aim at facilitating the reuse of services within multiples context of use. This requires providing systematically services with several possible realizations. Among the promising approaches that achieve this objective is the management of variability which has been widely adopted by the software engineering disciplines and whose objective is to facilitate the adaptation or the configuration of software artifacts in a systematic way. Hence, in this work we provide a framework for the development (for and by reuse) of services supporting variability, called {\guillemotleft}SV3R{\guillemotright} (Service Variability Representation and Resolution for Reuse). This paper introduces at first the concept of variability. Afterwards, it presents some related work, before giving an overview of the framework SV3R and describing its components. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTH},
	keywords = {Gestion de la variabilit{\'e}, Ing{\'e}nierie des mod{\`e}les, Model engineering, Reuse, R{\'e}utilisation, SOA, Variability management, Web services},
	issn = {11148802},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=101153387\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Chakir, Boutaina and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@conference { ISI:000386615500047,
	title = {Towards a Process Patterns based Approach for Promoting Adaptability in Configurable Process Models},
	booktitle = {ICEIS: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS - VOL 3},
	year = {2013},
	note = {15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Angers, FRANCE, JUL 04-07, 2013},
	pages = {382-387},
	publisher = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte},
	organization = {ESEO Grp; Inst Syst \& Technologies Informat, Control \& Commun; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence; IEICE Special Interest Grp Software Interprise Modelling; ACM Special Interest Grp Management Informat Syst; ACM Special Interest Grp Comp Human Inte},
	abstract = {Reference process modeling approach has been proposed in order to provide a generic solution for reuse in business process management. These models are intended to be adapted by different organizations to respond to new requirements. As a result of this adaptation, a set of variants of the reference process model must be managed. In this context, configurable solutions have been developed to manage variability by integrating all possible configurations. However, enterprises are involved in competitive and complex environments which impose them to often adapt their configurable process models to deal with the increasing globalisation. Therefore, configurable process models should evolve over time in terms of activities, resources and data to meet new needs. In this paper, we propose a process patterns based approach to guide designers in evolving configurable process models at design time as a first step of our contribution to provide an automated support for evolving configurable process models. The presentation of our process patterns system is limited in this paper to the Activity Insertion Process Pattern.},
	isbn = {978-989-8565-61-7},
	doi = {10.5220/0004565503820387},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila},
	editor = {Hammoudi, S and Maciaszek, L and Cordeiro, J and Dietz, J}
}
@conference { ISI:000353639700241,
	title = {Using lexicometry and vocabulary analysis techniques to detect a signature for web profile},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS AND MINING (ASONAM)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Niagara Falls, CANADA, AUG 25-28, 2013},
	pages = {1494-1498},
	publisher = {IEEE; Assoc Comp Machinery; Assoc Comp Machinery SIGKDD; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE TCDE; Global Univ; Hellen American Univ; Springer; Microsoft; EXtra; Springer Verlag; Assoc Comp Machinery SIGMOD},
	organization = {IEEE; Assoc Comp Machinery; Assoc Comp Machinery SIGKDD; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE TCDE; Global Univ; Hellen American Univ; Springer; Microsoft; EXtra; Springer Verlag; Assoc Comp Machinery SIGMOD},
	abstract = {Our research theme is evolving around the concept of computer profiling. The aim of our work is to propose an approach that will detect web profiles in a unique way and to model a print web for each profile. Our main concern is to find this signature from text messages in the forums, by analyzing the vocabulary used by each user. Also we will focus here on presenting our approach and our future work in a way that will allow us to detect the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Specific Vocabulary{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} for each web profile.},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-2240-9},
	author = {El Bouanani, Sara El Manar and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Ozyer, T and Carrington, P}
}
@article {Choukri20122121,
	title = {AODV protocol behavior based on H.264 multiservice traffic},
	journal = {International Review on Computers and Software},
	volume = {7},
	number = {5},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {2121-2125},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84873308095\&partnerID=40\&md5=a7d603a75c0b90d10b0e6ac5e06924fe},
	author = {Choukri, A. and Amnai, M. and Habbani, A. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@article {Choukri2012208,
	title = {Behavior of ad hoc routing protocols in multi service traffic},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {43},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {208-213},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84867186214\&partnerID=40\&md5=af5b22cc20366d5220d91fac8886944e},
	author = {Choukri, A. and Habbani, A. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@article {Daoui2012137,
	title = {Mobility prediction and location management based on data mining},
	journal = {International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, NGNS},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {137-140},
	doi = {10.1109/NGNS.2012.6656095},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894186087\&doi=10.1109\%2fNGNS.2012.6656095\&partnerID=40\&md5=5539050c158dd348e89a347da6abd380},
	author = {Daoui, M. and Belkadi, M. and Chamek, L. and Lalam, M. and Hamrioui, S. and Berqia, A.}
}
@article { ISI:000304275000012,
	title = {A novel algorithm for the conception and optimization of reticulate structures},
	journal = {APPLICABLE ANALYSIS},
	volume = {91},
	number = {5},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {1019-1027},
	abstract = {The objective of this article is to propose a novel algorithm for the automatic generation of reticulate structures. On the basis of this algorithm, we developed a software program for the conception and optimization of reticulate structures. This application, called OptiStruct, allows us to find among admissible reticular structures those that minimize the elastic energy of the body under the constraint of total constant volume.},
	issn = {0003-6811},
	doi = {10.1080/00036811.2011.559467},
	author = {Chiheb, Raddouane and Panasenko, Grigori}
}
@conference {Chakir2012712,
	title = {Promoting reuse in web services by managing variability},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {712-717},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2012.6320274},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84869766502\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2012.6320274\&partnerID=40\&md5=104c8628b364c9f064f0d3f0f3024f6a},
	author = {Chakir, B. and Fredj, M. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000310353000131,
	title = {Promoting reuse in web services by managing variability},
	booktitle = {2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS (ICMCS)},
	year = {2012},
	note = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), Tangiers, MOROCCO, MAY 10-12, 2012},
	pages = {712-717},
	publisher = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	organization = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	abstract = {Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) refers to an architectural paradigm that describes how organizations, people and systems provide and use services to achieve their goals. Moreover, with the evolution of SOA, the focus in software development has shifted from applications to reusable services. Besides, reuse in SOA has more focused on service composition rather than reuse of existing implementations to build new services with additional functionalities. The preferred way to realize SOA remains web services which explain our interest in promoting reuse of Web services by managing variability. In this paper, we propose a model driven method for managing Web service{\textquoteright}s variability based on MDA (Model Driven Architecture). In fact, through MDA, the method enables the automation of Web service{\textquoteright}s realization regardless of the supported platforms. Moreover, we present a WSDL extension meta-model called VarWSDL which enhances Web services by variability notions. That permits Web services reuse.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-1520-3},
	author = {Chakir, Boutaina and Fredj, Mounia and Nassar, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and Zaz, Y}
}
@article {Cheikhi2012462,
	title = {Software productivity: Harmonization in ISO/IEEE software engineering standards},
	journal = {Journal of Software},
	volume = {7},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {462-470},
	doi = {10.4304/jsw.7.2.462-470},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84857929017\&doi=10.4304\%2fjsw.7.2.462-470\&partnerID=40\&md5=55088a24a8af596776fe0e2ddf74892c},
	author = {Cheikhi, L. and Al-Qutaish, R.E. and Idri, A.}
}
@article {7391589120120201,
	title = {Software Productivity: Harmonization in ISO/IEEE Software Engineering Standards.},
	journal = {Journal of Software (1796217X)},
	volume = {7},
	number = {2},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {462 - 470},
	abstract = {The software productivity is an important key of software quality factors. The productivity measure has become a tool for managers since it is used to compare the performance between different companies (benchmarking) and to compare the efficiency of different developers in the same company. Therefore, it allows doing strategic planning and decision making based on such measurement. A variety of international standardization bodies such as IEEE and ISO as well as software engineering researchers have proposed a set of factors which influence the software productivity attribute, and also a set of measures to evaluate it. However, there is no unique model that integrates all the software productivity best practices. The aim of this paper is to survey the available international standards and research work on software productivity and figure out the key differences in order to propose a standards-based model. Such model will include the set of quality attributes that could be used to ref},
	keywords = {Benchmark problems (Computer science), Computer programmers, Decision making, IEEE 802.11 (Standard), IEEE Std. 1045, International Organization for Standardization, ISO 9126, Measurement, Measurements, Productivity Drivers, Quality Attributes, Quality Models, Software Developers Productivity, Standards},
	issn = {1796217X},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=73915891\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Cheikhi, Laila and Al-Qutaish, Rafa E. and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference {Douiri20111456,
	title = {Direct electromagnetic torque control of induction motors powered by high power PWM inverters for two levels or three levels},
	booktitle = {Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1456-1460},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84055183048\&partnerID=40\&md5=8b40b36f592e36d14b3b967fe852960f},
	author = {Douiri, M.R. and Cherkaoui, M. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A.}
}
@conference {Douiri2011,
	title = {Direct torque fuzzy controlled induction machine drive using an optimized extended Kalman filter},
	booktitle = {2011 International Conference on Communications, Computing and Control Applications, CCCA 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/CCCA.2011.6031399},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80054799287\&doi=10.1109\%2fCCCA.2011.6031399\&partnerID=40\&md5=0f26ab2338a09b165f1925dc6916cb9c},
	author = {Douiri, M.R. and Cherkaoui, M. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A.}
}
@conference {Chana2011,
	title = {An efficient new soft-decision decoding algorithm for binary cyclic codes},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 4},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945580},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961236931\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945580\&partnerID=40\&md5=00f5f52d11fff70371c5fb428973b573},
	author = {Chana, I. and Allouch, H. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000309893900036,
	title = {Experimenting a Modeling Approach for Modeling Enterprise Strategy in the Context of Strategic Alignment},
	booktitle = {ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, PT 2},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {220},
	year = {2011},
	note = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Vilamoura, PORTUGAL, OCT 05-07, 2011},
	pages = {356-368},
	publisher = {Polytechn Inst Cavado \& Ave; Univ Tras os Montes \& Alto Douro},
	organization = {Polytechn Inst Cavado \& Ave; Univ Tras os Montes \& Alto Douro},
	abstract = {Nowadays, the business IT alignment has become a priority in most large organizations. It is a question of aligning the information system on the business strategies of the organization. This step is aimed at increasing the practical value of the information system and makes it a strategic asset for the organization. Many works showed the importance of documentation, the analysis and the evaluation of business IT alignment, but few proposed solutions applicable to the strategic and functional level. This paper aims has to fill this gap by proposing a simple approach for modeling enterprise strategy in the context of strategic alignment. This approach is illustrated by case study of a real project in a Moroccan public administration.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-24354-7},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	author = {Doumi, Karim and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {CruzCunha, MM and Varajao, J and Powell, P and Martinho, R}
}
@conference { ISI:000298664200019,
	title = {A Formal Approach to Model Composition Applied to VUML},
	booktitle = {2011 16TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX COMPUTER SYSTEMS (ICECCS)},
	year = {2011},
	note = {IEEE Int Conf/Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems/Int Conf on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems/Int Conf on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Las Vegas, NV, APR 27-29, 2011},
	pages = {188-197},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Engn Autonomous \& Autonom Syst (TC-AAS); IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Engn Autonomous \& Autonom Syst (TC-AAS); IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Several approaches adopted by the software engineering community rely on the principle of multi-modeling which allows to separate concerns and to model a system as a set of less complex sub-models. Model composition is a crucial activity in Model Driven Engineering (MDE). It is particularly useful when adopting a multi-modeling approach to analyze and design software systems. In previous work, we have defined a view-based UML profile called VUML. In this paper, we describe a formal approach for model composition in which we consider the composition as an algebraic operator on the set of UML-compliant models. We specify the semantics of our composition operator by means of graph transformations. Furthermore, we present a composition scheme interpreted by a two-steps composition process based on two strategies of correspondence and merging. To illustrate our approach, we apply it to the composition of UML class models diagrams into one VUML model class diagram.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-4381-9},
	doi = {10.1109/ICECCS.2011.26},
	author = {Anwar, Adil and Dkaki, Taoufiq and Ebersold, Sophie and Coulette, Bernard and Anwar, Adil and Nassar, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Perseil, I and Breitman, K and Sterritt, R}
}
@conference {Anwar2011188,
	title = {A formal approach to model composition applied to VUML},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2011 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 7},
	pages = {188-197},
	doi = {10.1109/ICECCS.2011.26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79960496037\&doi=10.1109\%2fICECCS.2011.26\&partnerID=40\&md5=90c65ef43cd980578796730f38a6b5dd},
	author = {Anwar, A. and Dkaki, T. and Ebersold, S. and Coulette, B. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000298749600093,
	title = {Metamodels for models complete integration},
	booktitle = {2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION (IRI)},
	year = {2011},
	note = {12th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI)/1st International Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC), Las Vegas, NV, AUG 03-05, 2011},
	pages = {496-499},
	publisher = {IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Soc (IEEE SMC); Soc Informat Reuse \& Integrat (SIRI); IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Soc (IEEE SMC); Soc Informat Reuse \& Integrat (SIRI); IEEE},
	abstract = {Problems occur in the models integration and particularly, in the comparison phase of the integration. Previous approaches have not correctly handled the semantic integration. We propose a complete approach for integrating of UML models. First, we provide a comparison approach incorporating syntactic, structural and semantic aspects in order to detect any correspondence between the models to compare, and secondly, a semantic approach to integrate the compared models. For this purpose, we use domain ontology. In this paper, our contribution is the proposition of the different metamodels needed in the comparison and the integration phases.},
	isbn = {978-1-4577-0966-1},
	author = {Benabdellah Chaouni, Samia and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma},
	editor = {Alhajj, R and Joshi, J and Shyu, ML}
}
@conference {Chaouni2011496,
	title = {Metamodels for models complete integration},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {496-497},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2011.6009602},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80053143653\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRI.2011.6009602\&partnerID=40\&md5=fa10821cadbaa9b876be2fe6f7c4eaa5},
	author = {Chaouni, S.B. and Fredj, M. and Mouline, S.}
}
@conference {Machach2011325,
	title = {Mining social network data for decision support purposes in a teaching context},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2011, IS 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {325-329},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84944034507\&partnerID=40\&md5=93b2a6856fcbb2ea953d1baa0ab4f50e},
	author = {Machach, S. and Chiheb, R. and Kassou, I.}
}
@conference {Chakir2011247,
	title = {A model driven approach supporting multi-view services modeling and variability management},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2011 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems},
	volume = {3 ISAS},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {247-252},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84865115383\&partnerID=40\&md5=8d20ae53821fcb49c60dc00b0c90af72},
	author = {Chakir, B. and Fredj, M.}
}
@conference {Douiri2011,
	title = {A neuro fuzzy PI controller used for speed control of a direct torque to twelve sectors controlled induction machine drive},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 4},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945686},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961222052\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945686\&partnerID=40\&md5=14b83e291be8c3d053a918bfeceefbcd},
	author = {Douiri, M.R. and Cherkaoui, M. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A.}
}
@conference {Souali2011,
	title = {A new recommender system for e-learning environments},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 4},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945630},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961232743\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945630\&partnerID=40\&md5=4d89bd30150afdd564b7caedffba4902},
	author = {Souali, K. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R. and Chiheb, R.}
}
@conference { ISI:000309893900035,
	title = {Strategic Alignment: Comparison of Approaches},
	booktitle = {ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, PT 2},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {220},
	year = {2011},
	note = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Vilamoura, PORTUGAL, OCT 05-07, 2011},
	pages = {345-355},
	publisher = {Polytechn Inst Cavado \& Ave; Univ Tras os Montes \& Alto Douro},
	organization = {Polytechn Inst Cavado \& Ave; Univ Tras os Montes \& Alto Douro},
	abstract = {Nowadays, the strategic alignment of information systems has become a priority in most large organizations. It is a question of aligning the information system on the business strategies of the organization. This step is aimed at increasing the practical value of the information system and makes it a strategic asset for the organization. In the literature several approaches have been developed to solve the problem of alignment. For example the approach of alignment between architecture and the business context, the approach needs oriented, approach alignment between process and information system ... etc. In this paper we propose a detailed study of each approach (benefits and limitation) and we propose a comparison between these different approaches.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-24354-7},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	author = {Doumi, Karim and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {CruzCunha, MM and Varajao, J and Powell, P and Martinho, R}
}
@conference {Chakir2011296,
	title = {Towards a modeling method for managing variability in SOA},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2011, IS 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {296-300},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84944077308\&partnerID=40\&md5=3985e7466b5f7b096ad1611dc605f794},
	author = {Chakir, B. and Fredj, M.}
}
@conference {Kedji2011414,
	title = {Towards a tool-supported approach for collaborative process modeling and enactment},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {414-421},
	doi = {10.1109/APSEC.2011.54},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84856603255\&doi=10.1109\%2fAPSEC.2011.54\&partnerID=40\&md5=4e34de77b1aba838e25b7d14ae3ebd02},
	author = {Kedji, K.A. and That, M.T.T. and Coulette, B. and Lbath, R. and Tran, H.N. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Chiheb201169,
	title = {Using objective online testing tools to assess students{\textquoteright} learning: Potentials and limitations},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {24},
	number = {1},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {69-72},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79951845409\&partnerID=40\&md5=8dfb6d5a464b4a730925a6ff3009b592},
	author = {Chiheb, R. and Faizi, R. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {Ayoub20102021,
	title = {Iterative decoding of generalized parallel concatenated OSMLD codes},
	journal = {Applied Mathematical Sciences},
	volume = {4},
	number = {41-44},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {2021-2038},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77957011978\&partnerID=40\&md5=cbd626b2d840f6a619631feb064ba577},
	author = {Ayoub, F. and Belkasmi, M. and Chana, I.}
}
@conference { ISI:000289216200022,
	title = {A New Task Engineering Approach for Workflow Access Control},
	booktitle = {COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN SECURITY FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2010},
	series = {Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing},
	volume = {85},
	year = {2010},
	note = {3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems, Leon, SPAIN, NOV 11-12, 2010},
	pages = {203-212},
	publisher = {Junta Castilla Leon; Supercomputing Ctr Castilla Leon; Univ Leon; IEEE SECCION ESPANA; IEEE Syst Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; MIR Lab; Int Fed Comp Logic},
	organization = {Junta Castilla Leon; Supercomputing Ctr Castilla Leon; Univ Leon; IEEE SECCION ESPANA; IEEE Syst Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; MIR Lab; Int Fed Comp Logic},
	abstract = {Security and particularly Access control is a crucial issue for workflow management systems (WFMS). RBAC (Role based Access Control) model seems to be suitable for enforcing access control policies in such systems. However, without an effective role engineering process -at administration time- that aims to reduce conflicting situations. using RBAC could be more complex and less useful. Additionally to role engineering, a {\textquoteleft}task engineering{\textquoteright} process at run time- could be useful to allow the satisfaction of access control constraints in even critical situations. In this paper, we identify task engineering as a process to examine the granularity of each workflow{\textquoteright}s task in a way to meet at run time- the main workflow access control requirements, precisely the least privilege and separation of duties principles. Then, we propose an approach of task engineering to improve security enforcement in WFMS. This approach uses an intelligent method namely the Constraints Satisfaction Problem (CSP) formulation and resolution method.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-16625-9},
	issn = {1867-5662},
	author = {El Bakkali, Hanan and Hatim, Hamid and Berrada, Ilham},
	editor = {Herrero, A and Corchado, E and Redondo, C and Alonso, A}
}
@conference {Koudougnon2010,
	title = {PAPR reduction using block coding combined with companding},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656195},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651484205\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656195\&partnerID=40\&md5=15b061fa94450a6529ed579ef2147ee8},
	author = {Koudougnon, H. and Chana, I. and Saadane, R. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {ElHaroussi2010,
	title = {VHDL design and FPGA implementation of a fully parallel BCH SISO decoder},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656415},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651477175\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656415\&partnerID=40\&md5=4ef5d844fa95aea85bc6781b1524b50e},
	author = {El Haroussi, M. and Chana, I. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {Nassar2009412,
	title = {Code generation in VUML profile: A model driven approach},
	booktitle = {2009 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2009},
	year = {2009},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {412-419},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069358},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70349911813\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2009.5069358\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4b947f9a88ea213061c85e81691b486},
	author = {Nassar, M. and Anwar, A. and Ebersold, S. and Elasri, B. and Coulette, B. and Kriouile, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000271458300071,
	title = {Code Generation in VUML Profile: A Model Driven Approach},
	booktitle = {2009 IEEE/ACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, VOLS 1 AND 2},
	year = {2009},
	note = {7th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-09), Rabat, MOROCCO, MAY 10-OCT 13, 2009},
	pages = {412-419},
	publisher = {ACS; IEEE},
	organization = {ACS; IEEE},
	abstract = {VUML is a view-based analysis/design method offering a formalism (UML profile) and a process to model software systems through objects and views. The main extension to UML is the multiview class whose goal is to store and deliver information according to the user{\textquoteright}s viewpoint. VUML supports the dynamic change of viewpoints and offers mechanisms to describe view dependencies. On the semantics side, the VUML meta-model extends the UML one with OCL rules. VUML proposes also a generic implementation pattern to generate the object code corresponding to a VUML class diagram. The proposed pattern uses delegation, handle technique and polymorphism. to implement views. In this paper, we present a model driven implementation of this pattern, which integrates the multi-user aspect and supports Java language. We propose a code generation technique that respects the pattern and uses the MDA approach. We specify transformations as a collection of rules implemented in ATL. The proposal is illustrated by a simple example.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-3807-5},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069358},
	author = {Nassar, Mahmoud and Anwar, Adil and Ebersold, Sophie and Elasri, Bouchra and Coulette, Bernard and Kriouile, Abdelaziz}
}
@conference { ISI:000267425300017,
	title = {Multiview Components for User-Aware Web Services},
	booktitle = {ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS-BK},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
	volume = {24},
	year = {2009},
	note = {11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Milan, ITALY, MAY 06-10, 2009},
	pages = {196-207},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat, Control \& Commun; AAAI; ACM SIGMIS; Japanese IEICE SWIM; Workflow Management Coalit},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat, Control \& Commun; AAAI; ACM SIGMIS; Japanese IEICE SWIM; Workflow Management Coalit},
	abstract = {Component based software (CBS) intends to meet the need of reusability and productivity. Web service technology leads to systems interoperability. This work addresses the development of CBS using web services technology. Undeniably, web service may interact with several types of service clients. The central problem is, therefore, how to handle the multidimensional aspect of service clients{\textquoteright} needs and requirements. To tackle this problem, we propose the concept of multiview component as a first class modelling entity that allows the capture of the various needs of service clients by separating their functional concerns. In this paper, we propose a model driven approach for the development of user-aware web services on the basis of the multiview component concept. So, we describe how multiview component based PIM are transformed into two PSMs for the purpose of the automatic generation of both the user-aware web services description and implementation. We specify transformations as a collection of transformation rules implemented using ATL as a model transformation language.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-01346-1},
	issn = {1865-1348},
	author = {El Asri, Bouchra and Kenzi, Adil and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz and Barrahmoune, Abdelaziz},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Cordeiro, J}
}
@conference {Anwar2008360,
	title = {A QVT-based approach for model composition application to the VUML profile},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems},
	volume = {2 ISAS},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {360-367},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-55849113397\&partnerID=40\&md5=5f1c1fa60105fdd355ccff73f9eb30e4},
	author = {Anwar, A. and Ebersold, S. and Nassar, M. and Coulette, B. and Kriouile, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000259298600002,
	title = {Software cost estimation models using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks},
	booktitle = {SOFTWARE PROCESS AND PRODUCT MEASUREMENT},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {4895},
	year = {2008},
	note = {Joint Meeting of the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM)/International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (MENSURA), Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN, NOV 05-07, 2007},
	pages = {21+},
	abstract = {Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFN) have been recently studied due to their qualification as an universal function approximation. This paper investigates the use of RBF neural networks for software cost estimation, The focus of this study is on the design of these networks, especially their middle layer composed of receptive fields, using two clustering techniques: the C-means and the APC-III algorithms. A comparison between a RBFN using C-means and a RBFN using APC-III, in terms of estimates accuracy, is hence presented. This study uses the COCOMO{\textquoteright}81 dataset and data on Web applications from the Tukutuku database.},
	isbn = {978-3-540-85552-1},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Idri, Ali and Zahi, Azeddine and Mendes, Emilia and Zakrani, Abdelali},
	editor = {CuadradoGallego, JJ and Braungarten, R and Dumke, RR and Abran, A}
}
@conference {Ba{\"\i}na200831,
	title = {Strategic business/IT alignment using goal models},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {336},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {31-43},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84875194981\&partnerID=40\&md5=9da7e48abcceaa5f0d8cee4b42cce2e5},
	author = {Baina, S. and Ansias, P.-Y. and Petit, M. and Castiaux, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000259605900068,
	title = {TOWARD A HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR WORKFLOW GRAPH STRUCTURAL VERIFICATION},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2008: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, VOL ISAS-2: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SPECIFICATION, VOL 2},
	year = {2008},
	note = {10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Barcelona, SPAIN, JUN 12-16, 2008},
	pages = {442-447},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat, Control \& Commun; Workflow Management Coalit; Assoc Adv Artificial Intelligence},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat, Control \& Commun; Workflow Management Coalit; Assoc Adv Artificial Intelligence},
	abstract = {Appropriate definition, analysis, checking and improvement of business process models are indispensable before their deployment within workflow management systems. In this paper, we focus on business process model verification that insures business process structural correctness. Our proposal consist in a new hybrid algorithm of workflow graph structural validation combining graph reduction and traversal mechanisms. Our algorithm will be discussed and compared to existing workflow structural checking approaches.},
	author = {Toure, Fode and Baina, Karim and Gaaloul, Walid},
	editor = {Cordeiro, J and Filipe, J}
}
@conference {Anwar200883,
	title = {Towards a generic approach for model composition},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - The 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, ICSEA 2008, Includes ENTISY 2008: International Workshop on Enterprise Information Systems},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {83-90},
	doi = {10.1109/ICSEA.2008.38},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-57649211986\&doi=10.1109\%2fICSEA.2008.38\&partnerID=40\&md5=2fddbb103e8241a60cdfcc637896b79e},
	author = {Anwar, A. and Ebersold, S. and Nassar, M. and Coulette, B. and Kriouile, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000250559700098,
	title = {Towards managing variability across business component development},
	booktitle = {IRI 2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION},
	year = {2007},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2007), Las Vegas, NV, AUG 13-15, 2007},
	pages = {594+},
	publisher = {IEEE; SMC Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; SMC Soc},
	abstract = {Reusing components, which are specifically set up to suit enterprises requirements, becomes a key element of their software engineering strategy. Consequently, the ability of reusable components to be varied and appropriate to different re-users requirements is a key property in reusable component development. From this need, the concept of variability has emerged. It is defined as the ability of a software artefact to be changed or customized to be used in multiple contexts. The objective of our research is to outline variability issues through reusable component development, and in particular, in the requirements phase of a Business Component (BC) development. The main ideas of this research are (a) to address variability issues through the requirements phase of a BC development and (b) to propose a metamodel to describe variability concepts that must be classified and designed to manage this variability.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-1499-4},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2007.4296685},
	author = {Saidil, Rajaa and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma and Front, Agnes and Rieu, Dominique},
	editor = {Chang, W and Joshi, JBD}
}
@conference { ISI:000253307300054,
	title = {WFESelector - A tool for comparing and selecting workflow engines},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION},
	year = {2007},
	note = {9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007), Funchal, PORTUGAL, JUN 12-16, 2007},
	pages = {330-337},
	publisher = {INSTICC; Univ Maderia; FCT; ACM SIGMIS; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence},
	organization = {INSTICC; Univ Maderia; FCT; ACM SIGMIS; Assoc Advancement Artificial Intelligence},
	abstract = {The task of selecting a workflow engine becomes more and more complex and risky. For this reason, organisations require a broad, and a clear vision of which workflow engines are, and will continue to be, suitable for changing requirements. This paper presents a workflow engines comparison model to analyse, compare, and select business process management modelling and enactment engines (Workflow Engines or WFEs) according to user specific requirements. After the description of the underlying model itself, we present the implementation of this workflow engines comparison model through our multi-criteria workflow engines comparison and selection prototype WFESelector. The later proposes two scenarios for selecting relevant WFE : either to express dynamically multi-criteria query upon a WFE evaluation database, or to browse the whole WFE classification through a reporting aggregation based dashboard. WFESelector is subsequently experimented to assess criteria satisfaction on a very large number of open source workflow engines (as numerous as 35).},
	isbn = {978-972-8865-88-7},
	author = {Baina, Karim},
	editor = {Cardoso, J and Cordoso, J and Filipe, J}
}
@conference { ISI:000241553600078,
	title = {Fundamental region based indexing and classification of Islamic star pattern images},
	booktitle = {IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, PT 2},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {4142},
	year = {2006},
	note = {3rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Povoa de Varzim, PORTUGAL, SEP 18-20, 2006},
	pages = {865-876},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a new method for the indexing and classification of Islamic Stars Pattern (ISP) images based on rotational symmetry information. A computational model for the extraction of rotational symmetry features is proposed. This model is based on the three following steps. First, we detect the rotation center of the ISP image, then we complete the image structure by using symmetry information. Second, we compute the angle of rotation and number of folds. Finally, we extract the fundamental region, a representative region in the image from which the whole image can be regenerated. A method is also proposed for indexing and classifying ISP images on the basis of the extracted features. The classification algorithm is based on the number of folds. We characterize an image by its fundamental region and by its class which is defined in the classification step. Experiments show promising results either for ISP images classification or indexing. Efforts for the subsequent task of repeated pattern images classification can be significantly reduced.},
	isbn = {3-540-44894-2},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Djibril, Mohamed Ould and Hadi, Youssef and Thami, Rachid Oulad Haj},
	editor = {Campilho, A and Kamel, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000222262200022,
	title = {Model-driven web service development},
	booktitle = {ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS},
	series = {BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTRUMENTATION},
	volume = {3084},
	year = {2004},
	note = {16th Intenational Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Fac Comp Sci \& Informat Technol, Riga, LATVIA, JUN 07-11, 2004},
	pages = {290-306},
	publisher = {Riga Tech Univ},
	organization = {Riga Tech Univ},
	abstract = {Web services are emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of inter-organizational interactions. However, despite the growing interest, several issues still need to be addressed to provide Web services with benefits similar to what traditional middle-ware brings to intra-organizational application integration. In this paper, we present a framework that supports the model-driven development of Web services. Specifically, we show how, starting from the external specifications of a Web service (e.g., interface and protocol specifications), we can support the generation of extensible service implementation templates as well as of complete (executable) service specifications, thereby considerably simplifying the service development work.},
	isbn = {3-540-22151-4},
	issn = {0067-8856},
	author = {Baina, K and Benatallah, B and Casati, F and Toumani, F},
	editor = {Persson, A and Stirna, J}
}
@conference { ISI:000184848600019,
	title = {Modeling and tracking of the cardiac left ventricular motion by a state space harmonic model in MRI sequence},
	booktitle = {FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND MODELING OF THE HEART, PROCEEDINGS},
	series = {LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE},
	volume = {2674},
	year = {2003},
	note = {2nd International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH2003), LYON, FRANCE, JUN 05-06, 2003},
	pages = {184-193},
	publisher = {Inst Natl Sci Appl Lyon; Helsinki Univ Technol; French Finnish Assoc Sci Tech Res; French Natl Ctr Sci Res; Sci Acad Finland, Grad Sch, Funct Res Med; French Embassy Helsinki, Sci Dept; French Biomed Engn Soc; Joint Incent Act Beating Heart ISIS Res Grp; },
	organization = {Inst Natl Sci Appl Lyon; Helsinki Univ Technol; French Finnish Assoc Sci Tech Res; French Natl Ctr Sci Res; Sci Acad Finland, Grad Sch, Funct Res Med; French Embassy Helsinki, Sci Dept; French Biomed Engn Soc; Joint Incent Act Beating Heart ISIS Res Grp; },
	abstract = {We present a new method for modeling the left ventricular motion of the heart from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence. We propose to model the 3D time-space trajectory of the points of the endocardial regions of the left ventricle (LV) using an harmonic model of movement, which is linear and describes the dynamics of the left ventricle throughout the cardiac cycle. This new state space model is based on the assumption of quasi-periodicity of the cardiac cycle. We describe our method to obtain the state canonical vector and the corresponding state equations of the harmonic state model (HSM). A Kalman filter is used on this harmonic state model as an estimation tool of the filtered trajectory of the LV. It allows to obtain a robust estimation of the state vector which contains the measured parameter and its derivatives. Thus, a robust estimation of the instantaneous velocity of the LV region is computed using the whole information of the sequence included in the harmonic model. The model is validated on real cardiac sequences. We detail how to get the 3D time-space trajectories of the LV edge points. The results obtained are particularly interesting because they demonstrate the capability of our method to understand and discriminate normal cases from pathological cases.},
	isbn = {3-540-40262-4},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Oumsis, M and Pham, QC and Sdigui, AD and Neyran, B and Magnin, IE},
	editor = {Magnin, IE and Clarysse, P and Katila, T and Montagnat, J and Nenonen, J}
}
@article { ISI:000183893900014,
	title = {A multi-level generic model for content image retrieval},
	journal = {ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS-ANNALES DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS},
	volume = {58},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2003},
	month = {MAR-APR},
	pages = {630-655},
	abstract = {In this paper we propose a generic model for content image modelling. The model is based on several levels of information. Each level is called view and relates to a class of information. We distinguish three types of views : the concept, relation and interpretation views. The view concept or relation makes it possible to define respectively the concepts or the calculable relations automatically that do not require any particular interpretation. The view interpretation relates to the interpretation of the contents of the image. The number, the nature and the contents of each view are adaptable and can vary according to the type of application. The operational model is based on the nested conceptual graphs which we extended. The model is implemented and operational and the results obtained are very encouraging.},
	issn = {0003-4347},
	author = {Thami, ROH and Chaarani, H and Daoudi, M and Rachik, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000187617100054,
	title = {Toward a generation of code multi-target for the VBOOM method},
	booktitle = {SERP{\textquoteright}03: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, VOLS 1 AND 2},
	year = {2003},
	note = {International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, LAS VEGAS, NV, JUN 23-26, 2003},
	pages = {345-350},
	publisher = {Comp Sci Res, Educ \& Applicat Press; Int Technol Inst; Korean Soc Internet Informat; World Acad Sci Informat Technol},
	organization = {Comp Sci Res, Educ \& Applicat Press; Int Technol Inst; Korean Soc Internet Informat; World Acad Sci Informat Technol},
	abstract = {VBOOM method (View Based Object Oriented Method) developed by our team, is a method of analysis and conception by object points of views, specific to the complex system modeling with rights of access. However, it only generates the code VBOOL source (View Based Object Oriented Langage) language targets this last and extension of the Eiffel language. To this subject, one will expose in the present article a new approach to the UML norm (Unified Modeling Language) to generate code multi-target through this method. The approach thus the adopted consist of translation by a mechanism of conversion based on concepts of the UML notation: the flexible class and the visibility{\textquoteright}s relation. These two essential notions, non-existent in the UML and based of the final model of VBOOM, will be able produced by an implementation{\textquoteright}s solution targeting several languages oriented objects as JAVA, C++, etc.},
	isbn = {1-932415-21-1},
	author = {Sbihi, B and Abdelaziz, K and Ahmed, E and Coulette, B},
	editor = {AlAni, B and Arabnia, HR and Mun, Y}
}
