@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.}
}
@conference {Hmami2022,
	title = {Applying change tree method in configurable process mining},
	booktitle = {2022 2nd International Conference on Innovative Research in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology, IRASET 2022},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Changes are unexpected events that can be visualized on the logs of each business process. By analysing these logs, particularly change logs ones, we can provide valuable information about changes that occurred during the process{\textquoteright}s execution phases. In this paper we propose to apply a new version of the change tree method to analyse change logs of a configurable process model obtained through configurable process mining approaches, especially change mining ones. The configurable process model is a model that describes a family of business processes. By representing changes related to configurable models, managers can easily detect and retrieve information about changes and obtain answers to questions such as when the change occurs and how long it takes, and which elements are affected by those changes. This information will not be restricted to a single business process but to a collection of process variants. {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Business Process, Change logs, Change mining, Change tree method, Component, Configurable process mining, Configurable process models, Data mining, Forestry, Process mining, Tree method, Unexpected events},
	doi = {10.1109/IRASET52964.2022.9738005},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127982693\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRASET52964.2022.9738005\&partnerID=40\&md5=2c6cd5ffd83ee6a993a4045f7235ecdc},
	author = {Hmami, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {Slimani20224243,
	title = {Automated machine learning: the new data science challenge},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {4243-4252},
	abstract = {The world is changing quite rapidly while increasingly tuning into digitalization. However, it is important to note that data science is what most technology is evolving around and data is definitely the future of everything. For industries, adopting a {\textquotedblleft}data science approach{\textquotedblright} is no longer an option, it becomes an obligation in order to enhance their business rather than survive. This paper offers a roadmap for anyone interested in this research field or getting started with {\textquotedblleft}machine learning{\textquotedblright} learning while enabling the reader to easily comprehend the key concepts behind. Indeed, it examines the benefits of automated machine learning systems, starting with defining machine learning vocabulary and basic concepts. Then, explaining how to, concretely, build up a machine learning model by highlighting the challenges related to data and algorithms. Finally, exposing a summary of two studies applying machine learning in two different fields, namely transportation for road traffic forecasting and supply chain management for demand prediction where the predictive performance of various models is compared based on different metrics. {\textcopyright} 2022 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v12i4.pp4243-4252},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129666214\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v12i4.pp4243-4252\&partnerID=40\&md5=1d5f93103617370f5a92a90901bfe815},
	author = {Slimani, I. and Slimani, N. and Achchab, S. and Saber, M. and Farissi, I.E. and Sbiti, N. and Amghar, M.}
}
@article {Lahlou2022568,
	title = {Automatic Detection of Fake News on Twitter by Using a New Feature: User Credibility},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {568-580},
	abstract = {Nowadays, searching news on social media like Twitter or Facebook is something usual. Any internet users can create a lot of content: posts, comments, and they can also redistribute information with retweet option for example. Nevertheless, a large portion of these pieces of news is fake and its main aim is simply to mislead people. In this case, information credibility on social networks is an increasing important issue. This article develops a method to automatically detect fake news on Twitter by calculating a user credibility. Many approaches uses NLP techniques to analyse the content of tweets to predict the credibility of news. Our approach is based on social context feature; we propose a new feature user credibility. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_43},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135053485\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_43\&partnerID=40\&md5=183d4701938c5f034b79048db6ca5566},
	author = {Lahlou, Y. and Fkihi, S.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Ajallouda2022440,
	title = {Automatic Key-Phrase Extraction: Empirical Study of Graph-Based Methods},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {440-456},
	abstract = {Key-phrases in a document are phrases that provide a high-level description of its content without reading it completely. In some research articles, authors specify key-phrases in the articles they have written. However, the vast majority of books, articles, and web pages published every day, lack key-phrases. The manual extraction of these phrases is a tedious task and takes a long time. For this reason, automatic key-phrase extraction (AKE), which is an area of Text Mining, remains the best solution to overcome these difficulties. Because they are used in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as text summarization and text classification. This article presents a comparison of some methods of extracting key-phrases from documents. Especially the graph-based approaches. These approaches are evaluated by their abilities to extract key-phrases. Our work focuses on the study of the performance of these methods in extracting key-phrases, whether from short or long texts, with the aim of providing information that contributes to improving their efficiency. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_33},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135019633\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_33\&partnerID=40\&md5=399dd65be1f33d58c24c1d31777d2b87},
	author = {Ajallouda, L. and Fagroud, F.Z. and Zellou, A. and Benlahmar, E.H.}
}
@article {Alimoussa2022,
	title = {Compact Hybrid Multi-Color Space Descriptor Using Clustering-Based Feature Selection for Texture Classification},
	journal = {Journal of Imaging},
	volume = {8},
	number = {8},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Color texture classification aims to recognize patterns by the analysis of their colors and their textures. This process requires using descriptors to represent and discriminate the different texture classes. In most traditional approaches, these descriptors are used with a predefined setting of their parameters and computed from images coded in a chosen color space. The prior choice of a color space, a descriptor and its setting suited to a given application is a crucial but difficult problem that strongly impacts the classification results. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a color texture representation that simultaneously takes into account the properties of several settings from different descriptors computed from images coded in multiple color spaces. Since the number of color texture features generated from this representation is high, a dimensionality reduction scheme by clustering-based sequential feature selection is applied to provide a compact hybrid multi-color space (CHMCS) descriptor. The experimental results carried out on five benchmark color texture databases with five color spaces and manifold settings of two texture descriptors show that combining different configurations always improves the accuracy compared to a predetermined configuration. On average, the CHMCS representation achieves 94.16\% accuracy and outperforms deep learning networks and handcrafted color texture descriptors by over 5\%, especially when the dataset is small. {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors.},
	doi = {10.3390/jimaging8080217},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85136887352\&doi=10.3390\%2fjimaging8080217\&partnerID=40\&md5=22239b1c87f0cb6fec0b966689303d2b},
	author = {Alimoussa, M. and Porebski, A. and Vandenbroucke, N. and El Fkihi, S. and Oulad Haj Thami, R.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {AlAfandy2022739,
	title = {Efficient Classification of Remote Sensing Images Using Two Convolution Channels and SVM},
	journal = {Computers, Materials and Continua},
	volume = {72},
	number = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {739-753},
	abstract = {Remote sensing image processing engaged researchers{\textquoteright} attentiveness in recent years, especially classification. The main problem in classification is the ratio of the correct predictions after training. Feature extraction is the foremost important step to build high-performance image classifiers. The convolution neural networks can extract images{\textquoteright} features that significantly improve the image classifiers{\textquoteright} accuracy. This paper proposes two efficient approaches for remote sensing images classification that utilizes the concatenation of two convolution channels{\textquoteright} outputs as a features extraction using two classic convolution models; these convolution models are the ResNet 50 and the DenseNet 169. These elicited features have been used by the fully connected neural network classifier and support vector machine classifier as input features. The results of the proposed methods are compared with other antecedent approaches in the same experimental environments. Evaluation is based on learning curves plotted during the training of the proposed classifier that is based on a fully connected neural network and measuring the overall accuracy for the both proposed classifiers. The proposed classifiers are used with their trained weights to predict a big remote sensing scene{\textquoteright}s classes for a developed test. Experimental results ensure that, compared with the other traditional classifiers, the proposed classifiers are further accurate. {\textcopyright} 2022 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Classification (of information), Classification of remote sensing image, Convolution, Convolution model, Deep learning, Densenet, Extraction, Features extraction, Fully connected neural network, Image classification, Image Classifiers, Image enhancement, Remote sensing, Remote sensing images, Resnet, Support vector machines, SVM},
	doi = {10.32604/cmc.2022.022457},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125387732\&doi=10.32604\%2fcmc.2022.022457\&partnerID=40\&md5=d49f68f82164e31e29c0276c95a3c3ca},
	author = {AlAfandy, K.A. and Omara, H. and El-Sayed, H.S. and Baz, M. and Lazaar, M. and Faragallah, O.S. and Al Achhab, M.}
}
@article {ElKarfi2022561,
	title = {An Ensemble of Arabic Transformer-based Models for Arabic Sentiment Analysis},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {13},
	number = {8},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {561-567},
	abstract = {In recent years, sentiment analysis has gained momentum as a research area. This task aims at identifying the opinion that is expressed in a subjective statement. An opinion is a subjective expression describing personal thoughts and feelings. These thoughts and feelings can be assigned with a certain sentiment. The most studied sentiments are positive, negative, and neutral. Since the introduction of attention mechanism in machine learning, sentiment analysis techniques have evolved from recurrent neural networks to transformer models. Transformer-based models are encoder-decoder systems with attention. Attention mechanism has permitted models to consider only relevant parts of a given sequence. Making use of this feature in encoder-decoder architecture has impacted the performance of transformer models in several natural language processing tasks, including sentiment analysis. A significant number of Arabic transformer-based models have been pre-trained recently to perform Arabic sentiment analysis tasks. Most of these models are implemented based on Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) such as AraBERT, CAMeLBERT, Arabic ALBERT and GigaBERT. Recent studies have confirmed the effectiveness of this type of models in Arabic sentiment analysis. Thus, in this work, two transformer-based models, namely AraBERT and CAMeLBERT have been experimented. Furthermore, an ensemble model has been implemented to achieve more reasonable performance {\textcopyright} 2022, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications.All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Arabic sentiment analyse, Attention mechanisms, Bert, Decoding, Ensemble learning, Learning systems, Performance, Positive/negative, Recurrent neural networks, Research areas, Sentiment analysis, Signal encoding, Transformer, Transformer modeling},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130865},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137156665\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2022.0130865\&partnerID=40\&md5=927293fb0ea8e16df6981eecff917dd6},
	author = {El Karfi, I. and El Fkihi, S.}
}
@article {Echihabi20222005,
	title = {Hercules Against Data Series Similarity Search},
	journal = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment},
	volume = {15},
	number = {10},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {2005-2018},
	abstract = {We propose Hercules, a parallel tree-based technique for exact similarity search on massive disk-based data series collections. We present novel index construction and query answering algorithms that leverage different summarization techniques, carefully schedule costly operations, optimize memory and disk accesses, and exploit the multi-threading and SIMD capabilities of modern hardware to perform CPU-intensive calculations. We demonstrate the superiority and robustness of Hercules with an extensive experimental evaluation against state-of-the-art techniques, using many synthetic and real datasets, and query workloads of varying difficulty. The results show that Hercules performs up to one order of magnitude faster than the best competitor (which is not always the same). Moreover, Hercules is the only index that outperforms the optimized scan on all scenarios, including the hard query workloads on disk-based datasets. {\textcopyright} 2022, VLDB Endowment., All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {CPU-intensive, Data series, Disk-based, Exact similarity searches, Experimental evaluation, Index construction, Multi-threading, Query answering, Similarity search, Tree-based, Trees (mathematics)},
	doi = {10.14778/3547305.3547308},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132784935\&doi=10.14778\%2f3547305.3547308\&partnerID=40\&md5=539332f4b18822ebf450dd3c3f5fda5d},
	author = {Echihabi, K. and Fatourou, P. and Zoumpatianos, K. and Palpanas, T. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
@article {Ajallouda2022283,
	title = {KP-USE: An Unsupervised Approach for Key-Phrases Extraction from Documents},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {13},
	number = {4},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {283-289},
	abstract = {Automatic key-phrase extraction (AKE) is one of the most popular research topics in the field of natural language processing (NLP). Several techniques were used to extract the key-phrases: statistical, graph-based, classification algorithms, deep learning, and embedding techniques. AKE approaches that use embedding techniques are based on calculating the semantic similarity between a vector representing the document and the vectors representing the candidate phrases. However, most of these methods only give acceptable results in short texts such as abstracts paper, but on the other hand, their performance remains weak in long documents because it is represented by a single vector. Generally, the key phrases of a document are often expressed in certain parts of the document as, the title, the summary, and to a lesser extent in the introduction and the conclusion, and not of the entire document. For this reason, we propose in this paper KP-USE. A method extracts key-phrases from long documents based on the semantic similarity of candidate phrases to parts of the document containing keyphrases. KP-USE makes use of the Universal Sentence Encoder (USE) as an embedding method for text representation. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method on three datasets containing long papers, namely, NUS, Krapivin2009, and SemEval2010, where the results showed its performance outperforms recent AKE methods which are based on embedding techniques. {\textcopyright} 2022. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Deep learning, Embedding technique, Embeddings, Extraction, Graph-based classifications, Graphic methods, Key-phrase, Key-phrases extractions, Natural language processing systems, Performance, Research topics, Semantic similarity, Semantics, Signal encoding, Statistical graphs, Universal sentence encoder, Unsupervised approaches},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130433},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129921696\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2022.0130433\&partnerID=40\&md5=880d07ce539281dced3a51a82de6a16c},
	author = {Ajallouda, L. and Fagroud, F.Z. and Zellou, A. and Lahmar, E.B.}
}
@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 {Ettahiri2022553,
	title = {A New Approach for a Dynamic Enterprise Architecture Model using Ontology and Case-based Reasoning},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {553-560},
	abstract = {To meet the demands of a dynamic and constantly changing environment, (DRP) Disaster Recovery Plans, (BCP) Business Continuity Plans, change management, agile activities, and best practice guides are developed with the ultimate objective of providing enterprises with the tools to deal with change rapidly and flexibly. Starting from the premise that Enterprise architecture remains the instrument ensuring this alignment Strategy//business//IT, dynamic aspects should be present in the EA representation but also should be perceived in the reaction of enterprises managing the change. On the other hand, ontologies offer a formal and a shared representation of the domain studied; EA in our case. Once formalized, the representation became computable so, all the EA reactions became dynamic towards the triggers of change. To benefit from the previous experiences, Case-based reasoning is introduced in our approach allowing a problem resolution via similarity and adaptation of knowledge to the current context. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by SCITEPRESS {\textendash} Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Business continuity plans, Case based reasoning, Casebased reasonings (CBR), Changing environment, Disaster recovery plan, enterprise architecture, Enterprise architecture modeling, Enterprise ontology, Memory architecture, New approaches, Ontology, Ontology{\textquoteright}s, Ontology-based},
	doi = {10.5220/0011079400003179},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140894102\&doi=10.5220\%2f0011079400003179\&partnerID=40\&md5=2fb612722e5a4402ee65bad0c47bf383},
	author = {Ettahiri, I. and Doumi, K. and Falih, N.}
}
@conference {ElFhel2022309,
	title = {Quality Evaluation of Mobile GIS for Data Collection},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE - Proceedings},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {309-316},
	abstract = {High-quality software has to fulfil stakeholders{\textquoteright} requirements identified in a requirement engineering process.This paper presents an overview of requirements regarding mobile Geographic Information System for data collection, which have been extracted based on literature, standards and existing apps in the market. The quality model ISO/IEC 25010 was explored using measures stated in the ISO/IEC 25023 standard. A checklist that marks the influence of each requirement on the quality characteristics and sub-characteristics has been established in order to calculate three degrees of the requirements influence on the external product quality of mobile GIS. The result obtained show that requirements related to online data access have the highest impact on the external quality characteristics whereas functional suitability and usability are the most influenced characteristics by the requirements. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by SCITEPRESS {\textendash} Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Computer software selection and evaluation, Data acquisition, Data collection, Geographic information systems, High-quality software, Information systems, Information use, ISO Standards, ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC 25010, Mobile GIS, Mobile GIS for data collection, Quality characteristic, Quality control, Quality evaluation, Requirement Engineering, Requirements engineering, Software product quality},
	doi = {10.5220/0011033900003176},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85141002348\&doi=10.5220\%2f0011033900003176\&partnerID=40\&md5=fdade3912dd3d890bfb0d23f2879e3f0},
	author = {El Fhel, B. and Sardi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Sardi2022435,
	title = {A Reusable Catalog of Requirements for Gamified Mobile Health Applications},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE - Proceedings},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {435-442},
	abstract = {The new era of mobile technologies has revolutionized all fundamental human pursuits in that many sectors have been reshaped and tangibly improved, such as education, finance, and healthcare. Referred to as mHealth, the use of mobile technologies to track and improve health outcomes is a rapidly expanding trend. A plethora of mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are being constantly developed thanks to the rapid adoption of mobile devices. From basic exercise trackers to powerful self-management tools, mHealth apps play several roles towards the provision of better healthcare. To induce playful experiences and boost engagement, gamification has proven to be extremely effective with mHealth apps. This paper presents a catalog of reusable requirements for gamified mHealth apps in terms of gamification, functional suitability, usability, and security, Further improvements are intended to be made continuously to the catalog by adding additional requirements scattered from other standards and information sources. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by SCITEPRESS {\textendash} Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Biomedical engineering, Catalog, Gamification, Health outcomes, ISO/IEC, ISO/IEC 25010, Management tool, mHealth, Mobile health application, Mobile Technology, Requirement, Self management},
	doi = {10.5220/0011071700003176},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140984297\&doi=10.5220\%2f0011071700003176\&partnerID=40\&md5=dc18bd51fe840506f2a31af133df9fb2},
	author = {Sardi, L. and Idri, A. and Redman, L.M. and Alami, H. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {Kharbouch2022,
	title = {Reviewing the features and functionalities of contraception mPHRs},
	journal = {Health Policy and Technology},
	volume = {11},
	number = {3},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Background and objective. Women{\textquoteright}s circumstances and preferences tend to change over times signifying that accessing and choosing a contraceptive method during their reproductive life is crucial. By preventing unintended pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion, effective contraception ensures women{\textquoteright}s well-being and autonomy, improves their social and economic role, and enables them to fully participate in society while supporting the health and development of their communities. The use of mobile applications (apps) for contraception is considered a promising approach by which to facilitate access to a reproductive health service of this nature and spread awareness about contraception. The aim of this paper is, therefore, to assess the features and functionalities of the contraception mPHRs (Mobile Personal Health Records) that are available on both the Android and iOS platforms. Methods. In order to select, extract data from and evaluate the features and functionalities of existing contraception apps, an analysis process based on the well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was conducted for the contraception apps that are available on both the Android and iOS app platforms. The analysis and assessment of selected apps{\textquoteright} features were performed in accordance with a twenty-seven item assessment questionnaire. The latter was developed on the basis of the scientific literature concerning contraception, and a preliminary analysis of the contraception apps currently available. Results. A total of 54 contraception apps were selected, including 38 for Android, 4 for iOS, and 12 for crossed platform apps. The results showed that only 11\% of the apps selected do support the World Health Organization{\textquoteright}s (WHO) medical eligibility criteria for contraception (MEC), and that barely 43\% provide relevant information about contraceptive methods, their efficiency, risks, and contraindications. Conclusion. This study will help users, eHealth apps providers, and developers. Users on the one hand will be able to better select the most appropriate contraceptive apps. On the other hand, both eHealth application providers and developers can thereby: (1) identify the relevant features and functionalities implemented by the top-scoring contraceptive apps, and (2) distinguish contraception-related aspects that require further efforts to be properly addressed and improved. {\textcopyright} 2022},
	keywords = {awareness, contraception, Data availability, female, human, information security, medical record, Monitoring, Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, questionnaire, recording, reminder system, reproductive health, Review, social support, Systematic Review},
	doi = {10.1016/j.hlpt.2022.100633},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132651990\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.hlpt.2022.100633\&partnerID=40\&md5=b101e386be125c92bddf8bf212de3a39},
	author = {Kharbouch, M. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Redman, L. and Toval, A. and Stelate, Y.}
}
@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 {Faizi202252,
	title = {A Sentiment Analysis Based Approach for Exploring Student Feedback},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {13449 LNCS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {52-59},
	abstract = {Student feedback is commonly used as a reliable source of information to evaluate learning outcomes and teaching quality. This feedback has proven to provide faculty not only with valuable insights into how students are learning, but also with an ideal opportunity to reflect on teaching resources and instructional strategies. However, given the increasing massive amounts of feedback that is available online, collecting and analyzing this data manually is not usually an easy task. The aim of this work is, therefore, to put forward a sentiment analysis classifier that is capable of categorizing student feedback as being either positive or negative. To this end, students{\textquoteright} reviews posted about online courses were automatically extracted, preprocessed and then fed into various machine learning algorithms. The findings of this analysis revealed that the Support Vector Machines (SVM) algorithm achieves the highest accuracy score (93.35\%) and, thus, outperforms other implemented models. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Analysis-based approaches, Education computing, Learning algorithms, Learning outcome, Machine-learning, Outcome quality, Quality control, Sentiment analysis, Sources of informations, Student feedback, Students, Support vector machines, Support vectors machine, Teaching quality, Teaching resources},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-15273-3_6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137997385\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-15273-3_6\&partnerID=40\&md5=feac3688f39fab9ad1f85464953459ec},
	author = {Faizi, R. and El Fkihi, S.}
}
@article {Faizi2022549,
	title = {A Sentiment-Based Approach to Predict Learners{\textquoteright} Perceptions Towards YouTube Educational Videos},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {419 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {549-556},
	abstract = {Given the increasing proliferation of educational resources on YouTube, this social media platform has become an optimal space to which students usually resort to improve their learning in various subjects. It has also turned into an online community in which all users can voice their opinion about videos they have watched. However, getting the perceptions of learners on these learning materials is not always an easy task. Our objective in this paper is, therefore, to propose a machine learning approach that can classify learners{\textquoteright} feedback as being positive or negative. For this purpose, textual data was retrieved from YouTube educational videos, pre-processed and then classified using different machine learning algorithms. Results of the present study demonstrated that the Support Vector Machines algorithm performs better than other models. In fact, with an accuracy score of 92.82\% on combinations of unigrams and bigrams and 92.67\% for associations of unigrams and trigrams, this supervised machine learning approach outperforms other implemented models, namely Na{\"\i}ve Bayes, Random Forest and Logistic Regression. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-96299-9_52},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85126255114\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-96299-9_52\&partnerID=40\&md5=488d0e3f5f3597e45e73566a94ba74a7},
	author = {Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Lamrhari2022,
	title = {A social CRM analytic framework for improving customer retention, acquisition, and conversion},
	journal = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change},
	volume = {174},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 4},
	abstract = {Social Customer Relationship Management (social CRM) has become one of the central points for many companies seeking to improve their customer experience. It comprises a set of processes that allows decision-makers to analyze customer data, in order to launch an efficient, customer-centric, and cost-effective marketing strategy. Nonetheless, the inclusion of social media data in CRM introduces new challenges, as it requires advanced analytical approaches to extract actionable insight from such a huge amount of data. Thus, in this paper, we propose a social CRM analytic framework, which includes various analytical approaches, aiming at improving customer retention, acquisition, and conversion. This framework has been tested on various datasets and extensively evaluated based on several performance metrics. The obtained results suggest that the proposed framework can effectively extract relevant information and support decision-making processes. From an academics perspective, the study contributes to an understanding of customers{\textquoteright} experiences throughout their engagement on social media and focuses on long-term relationships with customers. From a managerial perspective, companies should leverage the insight generated through every customer engagement on social media to drive effective marketing strategies. {\textcopyright} 2021},
	keywords = {Acquisition, Conversion, Cost effectiveness, Customer acquisition, Customer conversion, Customer relationship management, Customer retention, Customer satisfaction, Customers{\textquoteright} satisfaction, Decision making, Digital storage, Machine learning, management, marketing, Public relations, Sales, Sentiment analysis, Social CRM, social media, Social networking (online), Strategic planning},
	doi = {10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121275},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118116967\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.techfore.2021.121275\&partnerID=40\&md5=10ffdb7f551bf1e135c01fb362d1a559},
	author = {Lamrhari, S. and Ghazi, H.E. and Oubrich, M. and Faker, A.E.}
}
@article {Ajallouda202231,
	title = {A Systematic Literature Review of Keyphrases Extraction Approaches},
	journal = {International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies},
	volume = {16},
	number = {16},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {31-58},
	abstract = {The keyphrases of a document are the textual units that characterize its content such as the topics it addresses, its ideas, their field, etc. Thousands of books, articles and web pages are published every day. Manually extracting keyphrases is a tedious task and takes a lot of time. Automatic keyphrases extraction is an area of text mining that aims to identify the most useful and important phrases that give meaning to the content of a document. Keyphrases can be used in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as text summarization, text clustering and text classification. This article provides a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to investigate, analyze, and discuss existing relevant contributions and efforts that use new concepts and tools to improve keyphrase extraction. We have studied the supervised and unsupervised approaches to extracting keyphrases published in the period 2015{\textendash}2022. We have also identified the steps most commonly used by the different approaches. Additionally, we looked at the criteria that should be evaluated to improve the accuracy of keyphrases extraction. Each selected approach was evaluated for its ability to extract keyphrases. Our findings highlight the importance of keyphrase extraction, and provide researchers and practitioners with information about proposed solutions and their limitations, which contributes to extract keyphrases in a powerful and meaningful way effective {\textcopyright} 2022, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies.All Rights Reserved.},
	doi = {10.3991/ijim.v16i16.33081},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137632849\&doi=10.3991\%2fijim.v16i16.33081\&partnerID=40\&md5=cf158a54305193c3291a26b2c49d765f},
	author = {Ajallouda, L. and Fagroud, F.Z. and Zellou, A. and Benlahmar, E.H.}
}
@article {L{\'o}pez-Jim{\'e}nez2022,
	title = {Taking the pulse of a classroom with a gamified audience response system},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {213},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {{Background and objective: This paper presents an empirical study of a gamified mobile-based assessment approach that can be used to engage students and improve their educational performance. Method: A gamified audience response system called G-SIDRA was employed. Three gamification elements were used to motivate students in classroom activities: badges for achievements to increase engagement, points to indicate progression and performance in the subject and ranking for promoting competitiveness. A total of 90 medical students in a General and Descriptive Anatomy of the Locomotor System course were taught using G-SIDRA in the academic year 2019/2020. Smart bracelets were configured to collect heart rate measurements from 30 students with the aim of evaluating the impact of the gamification elements. The control group consisted of a sample of 110 students enrolled on the same course in the academic year 2016/2017 using non-gamified SIDRA. Results: Statistically significant differences were found between multiple choice questions (MCQ) scores obtained by using SIDRA and G-SIDRA in the four experiments (U = 1.621,50, p < 0,01 for Exp1; U = 1.950,00, p < 0,01 for Exp2; U = 955,00, p < 0,01 for Exp3; U = 2.335,00, p < 0,01 for Exp4). In the students{\textquoteright} final exam grades, statistically significant differences between students that used G-SIDRA as opposed to SIDRA (T(157) = 3.992; p = 0.044) were obtained. Concerning gamification elements, statistically significantly differences were found in comparing the pulse increases after and before the badge event in the four experiments (U = 2.484,00},
	keywords = {academic achievement, Article, Audience response systems, controlled study, E - learning, e-learning, Empirical studies, empiricism, Gamification, Gamified audience response system, Heart, heart rate, heart rate measurement, Heart rate variations, Heart-rate, human, Human anatomy, human experiment, Humans, Learning systems, Likert scale, major clinical study, medical student, motivation, multiple choice test, Musculoskeletal system, Performance, satisfaction, Statistically significant difference, Students, theoretical study},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106459},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118787418\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2021.106459\&partnerID=40\&md5=6338f4b58ed89528e2663ca12be4c986},
	author = {L{\'o}pez-Jim{\'e}nez, J.J. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Gonz{\'a}lez, L.L. and Sequeros, O.G. and Valle, B.M. and Garc{\'\i}a-Bern{\'a}, J.A. and Idri, A. and Toval, A.}
}
@article {Azougaghe202211,
	title = {Turbo decoding of concatenated codes based on RS codes using adapted scaling factors},
	journal = {Infocommunications Journal},
	volume = {14},
	number = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {11-16},
	abstract = {Iteratively decoded block turbo codes are product codes that exhibit excellent performance with reasonable com-plexity. In this paper, a generalization of parallel concatenated block codes (GPCBs) based on RS codes is presented. We propose an efficient decoding algorithm with modifications of the Chase- Pyndiah algorithm is written by using Weighting factor α and Reliability factor β. In this work, we studied the effect of diverse parametres such as the effect of various component codes, interleaver size (number of sub-blocks) and number of iterations. The simulation results shows the relevance of the adapted parameters to decode generalized parallel concatenated block codes based on RS codes. The proposed algorithm (MCP) using the adapted parameters performs better than the one using with empirical parameters (CP). {\textcopyright} 2022 Scientific Association for Infocommunications. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Block codes, Block Turbo codes, Chase decoding, Concatenated codes, Generalized parallel con-catenated code, Iterative decoding, Iterative decodings, Modified chase- pyndiah algorithm, Performance, Product code, RS codes, Scaling factors, Turbo codes, Turbo decoding},
	doi = {10.36244/ICJ.2022.1.2},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85129965517\&doi=10.36244\%2fICJ.2022.1.2\&partnerID=40\&md5=b8b9da3f379cbf44233c273bb8f4108f},
	author = {Azougaghe, E.-S. and Farchane, A. and Safi, S. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@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 {Fagroud2021335,
	title = {A Brief Survey on Internet of Things (IoT)},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {211 LNNS},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {335-344},
	abstract = {Today it be a necessity to setting off past the thought that IT as a cost center and seeing it as a benefit center, on backing of the improvement and method of the organization. Internet of things can be defined as a propelled standard which make straightforward gadget a shrewdly gadgets which allow transferring simple device an intelligent devices capable of exchanging data over a network without human interaction. It represent a technology that interest research and industry, also serve on transform the way to think, and work. This paper present an overview on Internet of things (IoT), its application areas and its challenges in the aim to give a guideline to future researchers. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-73882-2_31},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111331935\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-73882-2_31\&partnerID=40\&md5=5c90aac71bfc8656430ff23c2e19c367},
	author = {Fagroud, F.Z. and Ajallouda, L. and Lahmar, E.H.B. and Toumi, H. and Zellou, A. and El Filali, S.}
}
@article {Fissaa2021151,
	title = {Combining planning and learning for context aware service composition},
	journal = {International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies},
	volume = {13},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {151-169},
	abstract = {Computing vision introduced by Mark Weiser in the early {\textquoteright}90s has defined the basis of what is called now ubiquitous computing. This new discipline results from the convergence of powerful, small and affordable computing devices with networking technologies that connect them all together. Thus, ubiquitous computing has brought a new generation of service-oriented architectures (SOA) based on context-aware services. These architectures provide users with personalised and adapted behaviours by composing multiple services according to their contexts. In this context, the objective of this paper is to propose an approach for context-aware semantic-based services composition. Our contributions are built around following axes: 1) a semantic-based context modelling and context-aware semantic composite service specification; 2) an architecture for context-aware semantic-based services composition using artificial intelligence planning; 3) an intelligent mechanism based on reinforcement learning for context-aware selection in order to deal with dynamicity and uncertain character of modern ubiquitous environment. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJDATS.2021.114673},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105363779\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJDATS.2021.114673\&partnerID=40\&md5=a71041d2e85a5cf3407180fb5cff29b2},
	author = {Fissaa, T. and El Hamlaoui, M. and Guermah, H. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Fakhari2021867,
	title = {A Comparative Study Between the Most Usable Object Detection Methods Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {183},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {867-876},
	abstract = {Object detection is a computer vision technique that has been revolutionized by the rapid development of convolutional neural network architectures. These networks consist of powerful tools, able to learn and extract high-level features more complex. They are introduced to deal with the problems existing in traditional architectures, to find and characterize a large number of objects in an image. This technique has two types of detection: a simple detection that aims to identify a single object in an image, it is a classification problem. And multiple detections that aim not only to identify all the objects in the image but also to find the location of the objects. This article describes a simple summary of datasets and deep learning algorithms commonly used in object detection. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-66840-2_66},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102654084\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-66840-2_66\&partnerID=40\&md5=cd77d1e63cb0e5eb20f6c381c74915c4},
	author = {Fakhari, A. and Lazaar, M. and Omara, H.}
}
@article {Azougaghe2021348,
	title = {Comparative Study on the McEliece Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on Goppa and QC-MDPC Codes},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
	volume = {416 LNBIP},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {348-360},
	abstract = {In recent years, much research has been conducted on quantum computers {\textendash} machine that exploit the phenomena of quantum mechanics to solve difficult or insoluble mathematical problems for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are built, they will be able to break many of the public key cryptosystems currently in use. This would seriously compromise the confidentiality and integrity of digital communications on the internet. Post-quantum cryptography aims to develop secure cryptographic systems against both conventional as well as quantum computers for interacting with existing protocols and communication networks. In this paper we present a public key cryptosystem of McEliece based on the correcting codes, using two types of correcting codes; QC-MDPC and Goppa correcting codes. This latter seems very interesting considering its two characteristics, namely the power of correction and the efficient decoding algorithm which resistant to quantum attacks due to difficulty of decoding a linear code. On the other hand, QC-MDPC cryptosystem code is rapid and more secure than Goppa cryptosystem. {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Conventional computers, Cryptographic systems, Decoding, Digital communication systems, Digital communications, Information analysis, Large scale quantum computers, Mathematical problems, McEliece public-key cryptosystem, Network security, Post quantum cryptography, Public key cryptography, Public key cryptosystems, Quantum cryptography, Quantum theory, Qubits},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-76508-8_25},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85111125773\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-76508-8_25\&partnerID=40\&md5=e1b3a760dc5546ca8c452d1b973aa5fe},
	author = {Azougaghe, E.-S. and Farchane, A. and Tazigh, I. and Azougaghe, A.}
}
@conference {Nejjari2021,
	title = {Conflict spectrum: An empirical study of geopolitical cyber threats from a social network perspective},
	booktitle = {2021 8th International Conference on Social Network Analysis, Management and Security, SNAMS 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The current evolution of the cyber-threat ecosystem shows that no state or organization is safe from cyber threats. It is therefore important to understand factors that may influence cyber risk. In this paper, we highlight the geopolitical context of cyber threats. The key idea is to verify the assumption that cyber threats are correlated to geopolitical events. We use social network techniques to model our problem as a network. We investigate the relationship between cyber threats and geopolitical events through the measure of similarity between two graphs using the QAP-correlation method. To verify this assumption empirically, we use data from the GDELT project. The results of QAP-correlation measure show a significant similarity between the cyber events graph and the geopolitical events graph in terms of graph isomorphism and structure. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {{\textquoteright}current, Cyber threats, Empirical studies, Event graphs, Geopolitical events, QAP-correlation, Similarity, Social Network Analysis, Spectra{\textquoteright}s, Use social networks},
	doi = {10.1109/SNAMS53716.2021.9732155},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127404986\&doi=10.1109\%2fSNAMS53716.2021.9732155\&partnerID=40\&md5=d81465c991f5d449e0db9613f3c31aa7},
	author = {Nejjari, N. and Lahlou, S. and Fadi, O. and Zkik, K. and Oudani, M. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
@article {Guermah2021110,
	title = {Dealing with context awareness for service-oriented systems: An ontology-based approach},
	journal = {International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {110-131},
	abstract = {In recent years, rapid advances in the enabling technologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing, software paradigms, embedded sensor technologies, and wide range of wired and wireless protocols have been witnessed. Specifically, context-aware services-oriented applications are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available. Contextawareness, being an important ingredient, plays a vital role in enabling such interactive smart environments. More recently, the increasing popularity of ontologies has led to new ontology-based models of context because of their potential to support sophisticated ontology-based reasoning methods. This paper presents an architecture for the development of context-aware services based on ontologies. The authors highlight the context metamodel and discuss about reasoning process. This research also presents the semantic approach for service adaptation in context aware environment. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021, IGI Global.},
	doi = {10.4018/IJSSMET.2021070107},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85108948717\&doi=10.4018\%2fIJSSMET.2021070107\&partnerID=40\&md5=57712a52da5717426a70263e22f08eea},
	author = {Guermah, H. and Guermah, B. and Fissaa, T. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@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 {L{\'o}pez-Jim{\'e}nez2021,
	title = {Effects of gamification on the benefits of student response systems in learning of human anatomy: Three experimental studies},
	journal = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
	volume = {18},
	number = {24},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {{This paper presents three experiments to assess the impact of gamifying an audience response system on the perceptions and educational performance of students. An audience response system called SIDRA (Immediate Audience Response System in Spanish) and two audience response systems with gamification features, R-G-SIDRA (gamified SIDRA with ranking) and RB-G-SIDRA (gamified SIDRA with ranking and badges), were used in a General and Descriptive Human Anatomy course. Students participated in an empirical study. In the academic year 2019{\textendash}2020, a total of 90 students used RB-G-SIDRA, 90 students employed R-G-SIDRA in the academic year 2018{\textendash}2019, and 92 students used SIDRA in the academic year 2017{\textendash}2018. Statistically significant differences were found between final exam grades obtained by using RB-G-SIDRA and SIDRA},
	keywords = {academic achievement, academic performance, anatomy, experiment, Gamification, human, Humans, learning, motivation, perception, student, Students},
	doi = {10.3390/ijerph182413210},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121118668\&doi=10.3390\%2fijerph182413210\&partnerID=40\&md5=29b9263d7b8db439936394c1f2826a10},
	author = {L{\'o}pez-Jim{\'e}nez, J.J. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Garc{\'\i}a-Bern{\'a}, J.A. and Gonz{\'a}lez, L.L. and Sequeros, O.G. and Ros, J.N. and Carrillo de Gea, J.M. and Idri, A. and Toval, A.}
}
@article {Farih2021224,
	title = {Effort Estimation in Agile Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study},
	journal = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
	volume = {337},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {224-234},
	abstract = {Context: Estimating effort has always been considered an important element at the start of each software development project. The challenge of estimating the effort of software development lies in its precision. With the emergence of agile methodologies, methods for effort estimation (EE) had to adapt to this new development path. In this article, we are conducting a systematic mapping study on effort estimation in the context of agile software development. Objective: we want to identify the estimation approaches and techniques used in the context of agile development to better understand the specifics and trends relating to this mode of development. Method: we conducted a systematic mapping study by adopting the guideline explained in[1] [2]. A systematic review of the literature [3] has already been carried out for publications between 2001 and 2013. This work is an extension of this previous study. We queried 5 electronic databases. Conclusion: We retrieved 11350 paper from five electronic databases. A total of 108 papers is selected after applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Based on the results, there is a general increase over the years of studies concerning effort estimation in agile software development. {\textcopyright} 2021 The authors and IOS Press. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Agile Methodologies, Agile software development, Development path, Effort Estimation, Electronic database, Estimation approaches, Estimation techniques, Mapping, Metric, Software design, Software development projects, Systematic mapping studies},
	doi = {10.3233/FAIA210022},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85116486825\&doi=10.3233\%2fFAIA210022\&partnerID=40\&md5=e5d5c11a77c1e5c926d09163394e07d8},
	author = {Farih, N.E. and Nafil, K. and El Messousi, R.}
}
@conference {Hmami2021,
	title = {Enhancing change mining from a collection of event logs: Merging and Filtering approaches},
	booktitle = {Journal of Physics: Conference Series},
	volume = {1743},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	abstract = {An event log is the key element of all change mining and process mining approaches. Those approaches bridge the gap between conventional business process management and data analysis techniques such as machine learning and data mining. In this day, companies and business organizations usually use a family of business processes that may face different variations and adjustments. Still, those processes are widely identical, with a slight difference in specific points. Consequently, performing a process mining or a change mining for each process will be a redundant task. The use of a configurable process model is a practical solution for redundancy problem. Thus, the process mining areas such as discovering verifying the conformity of a business process and enhancing processes, are reduced considerably. However, the configurable process models and the variability concept are rarely introduced in change mining approaches. The existing methods that analyse and manage event logs do not then consider the variability issue. Therefore, the fact of using a collection of event log becomes a challenging task. Our proposed approach is to merge and filter a collection of event logs from the same family with respect to variability. Our goal is to enhance change mining from a collection of event logs and detect changes in variable fragments of the obtained event log. {\textcopyright} Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.},
	keywords = {Business organizations, Business Process, Business process management, Configurable process models, Data analysis techniques, Data mining, Data Science, Enterprise resource management, Filtration, Practical solutions, Redundancy problems, Variable fragment},
	doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/1743/1/012020},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85101766097\&doi=10.1088\%2f1742-6596\%2f1743\%2f1\%2f012020\&partnerID=40\&md5=b0f4b6f1485dd0ca46c497f084c56c74},
	author = {Hmami, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {Hmami2021632,
	title = {Handling Sudden and Recurrent Changes in Business Process Variability: Change Mining based Approach},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {632-640},
	abstract = {Changes are random and unavoidable actions in business processes, and they are frequently overlooked by managers, especially when managers need to deal with a collection of process variants. Because they must manage every single business process variant separately which is a timeconsuming task. They exist many approaches to manage a collection of business process and deal with variability. Such as process mining approaches, that can discover configurable business process models, enhancing them and verify conformity automatically. However, those approaches do not cover changes and concept drift that occur over time. This paper presents a novel change mining approach that discovers changes in a collection of event logs and reports them on a change log. This change log can be analyzed to determine whether the changes are sudden or recurrent and recommend afterward some improvement to the configurable process model. {\textcopyright} 2021. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Business Process, Change logs, Change mining, Component, Concept drifts, Configurable process models, Data mining, Managers, Process mining, Process variants, Sudden change, Variability},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120479},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105804608\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2021.0120479\&partnerID=40\&md5=826c6a1f82674abf6a9a671f65401022},
	author = {Hmami, A. and Fredj, M. and Sba{\"\i}, H.}
}
@article {Faizi2021548,
	title = {Higher Education Students{\textquoteright} Perceptions Towards Using Facebook as a Learning Platform},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {13117 LNCS},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {548-554},
	abstract = {Given the ongoing debate among educators regarding the effect of social networks on education, our aim in this article is to explore the perceptions of students towards using Facebook as a learning environment. In this vein, on the basis of the survey we carried out among university students, it was revealed that 87.4\% of the informants resort to this Web-based community to improve their learning. Facebook has, actually, been reported to provide students with an ideal opportunity to access a plethora of learning resources and all class-related information and activities. It also allows them to discuss different topics with classmates and peers and enables them to seek help on learning problems they encounter. Despite the significant role that Facebook plays in boosting students{\textquoteright} learning experience, 72.3\% of the subjects noted that no interaction occurs with teachers on this platform. Facebook might, thus, be considered to be more useful for informal rather than formal learning. {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Computer aided instruction, e-learning, Facebook, High educations, Higher education students, Learning environments, Learning platform, Learning problem, Learning resource, Online systems, Social networking (online), Student perceptions, Students, Surveys, University students, Web-based communities},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-91540-7_56},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121624980\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-91540-7_56\&partnerID=40\&md5=90703fa8bfd08b30f2af977163ab4fc8},
	author = {Faizi, R. and Rudneva, M.}
}
@conference {Fakhkhari2021,
	title = {A holistic nonlinear framework for developing a national eHealth vision based on Moroccan experience},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The implementation of the eHealth solution is a key issue for improving access, safety, quality, and the performance of healthcare delivery. Furthermore, in the face of the Covid-19 outbreak, healthcare services have recognized the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for improving healthcare delivery. Hence, the development of an integrative national eHealth system becomes a challenge for healthcare systems and organizations to well benefit from the advantages and opportunities offered by eHealth solutions and provide healthcare services more efficiently and cost-effectively. This paper proposes a new framework for implementing a national eHealth vision based on a review of existing frameworks and the analysis of relevant national and international eHealth experiences. The proposed framework incorporates components required to develop, implement and sustain a national eHealth vision. {\textcopyright} 2021 ACM.},
	keywords = {E-health solutions, Ehealth, Framework, Healthcare delivery, Healthcare services, Information communication technology, Key Issues, National vision, Safety qualities, Vision based},
	doi = {10.1145/3454127.3457635},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120856177\&doi=10.1145\%2f3454127.3457635\&partnerID=40\&md5=b5fbb6b68765773db1415a0b4d10d6a4},
	author = {Fakhkhari, H. and Bounabat, B. and Gaizi, Z. and Fatemi, S. and Bennani, M. and Bakkali, R.}
}
@article {ElAfia20211,
	title = {Introduction},
	journal = {International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies},
	volume = {13},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-2},
	doi = {10.1504/ijdats.2021.13.issue-1-2},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105420916\&doi=10.1504\%2fijdats.2021.13.issue-1-2\&partnerID=40\&md5=f62611b1b012adb722cd62fb8366b3a7},
	author = {El Afia, A. and Faizi, R. and Garc{\'\i}a, S.}
}
@conference {Walid2021,
	title = {Modeling and optimization of anaerobic digestion: A review},
	booktitle = {E3S Web of Conferences},
	volume = {229},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {Anaerobic digestion is recognized as being an advantageous waste management technique representing a source of clean and renewable energy. However, biogas production through such practice is complex and it relies on the interaction of several factors including changes in operating and monitoring parameters. Enormous researchers have focused and gave their full attention to mathematical modeling of anaerobic digestion to get good insights about process dynamics, aiming to optimize its efficiency. This paper gives an overview of the different approaches applied to tackle this challenge including mechanistic and data-driven models. This review has led us to conclude that neural networks combined with metaheuristic techniques has the potential to outperform mechanistic and classical machine learning models. {\textcopyright} The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021.},
	keywords = {Anaerobic digestion, Biogas production, Data-driven model, Machine learning models, Management techniques, Meta-heuristic techniques, Modeling and optimization, Monitoring parameters, Optimization, Renewable energies},
	doi = {10.1051/e3sconf/202122901022},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100132508\&doi=10.1051\%2fe3sconf\%2f202122901022\&partnerID=40\&md5=5d2367868bbe9ebe8e867ca9622eda34},
	author = {Walid, F. and El Fkihi, S. and Benbrahim, H. and Tagemouati, H.}
}
@article {Bouzbita2021253,
	title = {A New Hidden Markov Model Approach for Pheromone Level Exponent Adaptation in Ant Colony System},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {906},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {253-267},
	abstract = {We propose in this paper a Hidden Markov Model~(HMM) approach to avoid premature convergence of ants in the Ant Colony System~(ACS) algorithm. Indeed, the proposed approach was modelled as a classifier method to control the convergence through the dynamic adaptation of the α parameter that weighs the relative influence of the pheromone. The implementation was tested on several Travelling Salesman Problem~(TSP) instances with different number of cities. The proposed approach was compared with the standard ACS and the existing fuzzy logic~in the literature. The experimental results illustrate that the proposed method shows better performance. {\textcopyright} 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-58930-1_17},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097964733\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-58930-1_17\&partnerID=40\&md5=220c02fd7287bc58dc79db86db73282b},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and Afia, A.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Fdaili2021,
	title = {Noncontrolled fault current limiter with reactive power support for transient stability improvement of DFIG-based variable speed wind generator during grid faults},
	journal = {International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems},
	volume = {31},
	number = {8},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {According to the recent grid codes, wind turbine systems (WTSs) are required to stay connected to the grid during grid faults and provide reactive power to support the grid. Therefore, this paper proposes a noncontrolled fault current limiter (NCFCL) with reactive power support for transient stability improvement of DFIG-based WTSs under grid faults. The proposed NCFCL is based on a nonsuperconducting reactor located in the rotor side. The NCFCL considerably limits the rotor and stator overcurrents and improves the transient stability of the doubly fed induction generator (DIFG). In addition, the proposed strategy reduces DC-link overvoltage and electromagnetic torque oscillations and also provides reactive power to the grid to support the grid voltage recovery. In this way, the fault ride-through (FRT) requirements of the latest grid codes can be fulfilled without affecting the DFIG stability in normal operation. Simulation studies using MATLAB/Simulink-2019a are performed on a 2-MW DFIG-based WTS to confirm the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed FRT strategy. Simulation results reveal that the proposed strategy provides better performance compared to the crowbar protection to improve the FRT capability. {\textcopyright} 2021 John Wiley \& Sons Ltd.},
	keywords = {Asynchronous generators, Doubly fed induction generator (DFIG), Electric equipment protection, Electric power system stability, Electric power transmission networks, Electromagnetic torques, Fault current limiters, Fault ride-through (FRT), MATLAB, Power quality, Reactive power, Reactive power support, Simulation studies, Stability, Transient stability improvement, Transients, Variable speed wind generator, Wind turbine systems},
	doi = {10.1002/2050-7038.12955},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85106339133\&doi=10.1002\%2f2050-7038.12955\&partnerID=40\&md5=0d56eb902eaedec23510576c443fc7a3},
	author = {Fdaili, M. and Essadki, A. and Kharchouf, I. and Nasser, T.}
}
@article {Achakir2021314,
	title = {Non-Model-Based approach for complete digitization by TLS or mobile scanner},
	journal = {ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing},
	volume = {178},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {314-327},
	abstract = {This paper investigates automatic digitization with complete coverage of large and complex environments using a TLS or a mobile scanner. We propose an adaptive multi-objective view-planner that can operate in an unknown environment to provide guidance for the human operator and ease the scanning task or by a mobile robot for an automatic exploration of the environment. The proposed view-planner is adapted to environments where the sensor is operating on a flat surface such as office spaces, urban areas, open fields or in some cultural heritage applications. First, we propose an adaptive gap-based method to extract occluded areas in a point cloud, which is completely automated and does not require extensive computations in a large environment such as ray-tracing or level-set methods. Then, we introduce a novel exploration strategy that uses specific regions of the environment called {\textquotedblleft}Conservative-Cells{\textquotedblright} to drastically reduce the number of sensing positions to achieve complete digitization of the environment. Both methods were validated with simulated and real point clouds. The proposed approach has been applied to a scanner carried by a mobile robot, then to data acquired by a TLS used by a human operator in a large, complex environment. Experimental results on both TLS and mobile robot show that our view-planning approach is effective in finding a sequence of positions that leads to a complete reconstruction of the environment. Moreover, the proposed approach shows efficient performance in terms of coverage rate and computational time compared to others view-planning approaches as well as the results of an experienced human operator in a large, complex environment. {\textcopyright} 2021 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS)},
	keywords = {automation, Complex environments, cultural heritage, Digitisation, digitization, Human operator, instrumentation, Mobile robots, Mobile scanner, Model based approach, multiobjective programming, Next best view, Non-model-based, Numerical methods, Office buildings, Performance assessment, Personnel, Point-clouds, ray tracing, Remote sensing, Robot programming, robotics, Scanning, Seebeck effect, Simulation, urban area, Urban planning, View planning, Visibility analysis},
	doi = {10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.06.014},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85109077721\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.isprsjprs.2021.06.014\&partnerID=40\&md5=32e85ee602b523c75ec0a6725ad46f50},
	author = {Achakir, F. and El Fkihi, S. and Mouaddib, E.M.}
}
@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 {ElFhel2021324,
	title = {A Requirements Catalog of Mobile Geographic Information System for Data Collection},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1366 AISC},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {324-336},
	abstract = {Mobile Geographic Information System (mGIS) for data collection are designed to capture, analyze and manage geographical data. The aim of this paper is to define a requirements catalog for mGIS for data collection based on the main software engineering standards, GIS standards and literature. The catalog contains functional requirements in addition to requirements about usability, internationalization (i18n), performance efficiency, reliability and sustainability. This catalog can be useful for stakeholders and developers to evaluate their apps and/or identify potential requirements for new mGIS apps for data collection. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Data acquisition, Data collection, Functional requirement, Geographic information systems, Geographical data, Information management, Information systems, Information use, Mobile geographic information systems, Performance efficiency, Software engineering, Software engineering standards},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-72651-5_32},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85107324425\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-72651-5_32\&partnerID=40\&md5=16bcf6a546df5b7bf9d750897b7ad643},
	author = {El Fhel, B. and Sardi, L. and Idri, A.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Fakhkhari2021724,
	title = {Structural Equation Model (SEM) for Evaluating Factors Affecting ICT4D Project Success},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Science},
	volume = {17},
	number = {8},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {724-737},
	abstract = {Abstract: Information Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) enables organizations to transform and evolve. Despite the contributions of methodologies and models for project management, the number of failed ICT4D projects remain high; as a consequence, researching crucial success factors of ICT4D projects remains an important matter for practitioners and researchers. Studies and researches on factors impacting ICT4D projects{\textquoteright} success are various, fragmented and have used different methods to explore the relatedness between various variables. Structural Equation Modeling approach (SEM) has attracted very little attention in the definition of critical factors affecting ICT and ICT4D projects{\textquoteright} success. From this standpoint, we as author of this study have applied the SEM approach and built an empirical model that identifies and justifies the topmost factors that impact the best outcome of ICT initiatives and projects conducted for development. In this regard, we reviewed relevant literature to compile and synthesize important success factors in ICT4D projects. The results obtained revealed that there isn{\textquoteright}t an agreement on ICT4D project factor success. Our work consisted of consolidating the ICT4D success factors and developing a quantitative approach using smart-PLS version 3.3.3 to test and verify the proposed conceptual model. Particularly, we undertook this study to highlights the correlation between {\textquotedblleft}Leadership and Governance{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Project Management{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Quality Management{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Foundations and Requirements{\textquotedblright} factors and how these correlated to the outcomes of the ICT4D project. The results indicate that the R Square value of the model attained 0.84 which reveals that the latent constructs previously mentioned justified 84\% of the variance in project success. This study lays out the contours of the existing literature concluding the critical success factors and coming up with a framework for decision-makers, researchers, practitioners and organizations intending to initiate and implement an ICT4D project. {\textcopyright} 2021 Houda Fakhkhari, Bouchaib Bounabat and Maria Bennani.},
	doi = {10.3844/jcssp.2021.724.737},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85115226816\&doi=10.3844\%2fjcssp.2021.724.737\&partnerID=40\&md5=1dc4b3091bea1e834de120ae5f1ffa6b},
	author = {Fakhkhari, H. and Bounabat, B. and Bennani, M.}
}
@article {Moussaid2021,
	title = {Tree crowns segmentation and classification in overlapping orchards based on satellite images and unsupervised learning algorithms},
	journal = {Journal of Imaging},
	volume = {7},
	number = {11},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {Smart agriculture is a new concept that combines agriculture and new technologies to improve the yield{\textquoteright}s quality and quantity as well as facilitate many tasks for farmers in managing orchards. An essential factor in smart agriculture is tree crown segmentation, which helps farmers automatically monitor their orchards and get information about each tree. However, one of the main problems, in this case, is when the trees are close to each other, which means that it would be difficult for the algorithm to delineate the crowns correctly. This paper used satellite images and machine learning algorithms to segment and classify trees in overlapping orchards. The data used are images from the Moroccan Mohammed VI satellite, and the study region is the OUARGHA citrus orchard located in Morocco. Our approach starts by segmenting the rows inside the parcel and finding all the trees there, getting their canopies, and classifying them by size. In general, the model inputs the parcel{\textquoteright}s image and other field measurements to classify the trees into three classes: missing/weak, normal, or big. Finally, the results are visualized in a map containing all the trees with their classes. For the results, we obtained a score of 0.93 F-measure in rows segmentation. Additionally, several field comparisons were performed to validate the classification, dozens of trees were compared and the results were very good. This paper aims to help farmers to quickly and automatically classify trees by crown size, even if there are overlapping orchards, in order to easily monitor each tree{\textquoteright}s health and understand the tree{\textquoteright}s distribution in the field. {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	doi = {10.3390/jimaging7110241},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119836347\&doi=10.3390\%2fjimaging7110241\&partnerID=40\&md5=28a65e4b68b078f94a4b0144d630f8d8},
	author = {Moussaid, A. and El Fkihi, S. and Zennayi, Y.}
}
@conference {Kharchouf2020,
	title = {Adaptive Fuzzy-PI Control of Wind Energy Conversion System Based DFIG under Voltage Dip},
	booktitle = {2020 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies, ICEIT 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {The Proportional-Integral (PI) and Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLC) cannot deal accurately with the system variation. To overcome the drawbacks of PI and FLC regulators, the Adaptive Fuzzy-PI Controllers (AFPICs) are configured. This paper presents a comparison between three different controllers based control methodology for Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECSs) by means of Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG). Artificial Intelligence (AI) based FLCs is performed to improve the system efficiency and performance under Small Disturbance (SD) and Large Disturbance (LD) cases. To test the PI, FLC, and AFPIC robustness, simulations are done during abrupt wind speed variation (SD), and voltage dip fault (LD). The simulation results show that the proposed AFPIC delivers improved power control, better response rise time, reduced overshoot, undershoot, and settling time compared to classical PI and Fuzzy controllers. The proposed control is proved by simulation using Matlab/Simulink-R2016b. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Adaptive control systems, Adaptive fuzzy-PI control, Asynchronous generators, Control methodology, Controllers, Doubly fed induction generators, Electric fault currents, Electric machine control, Energy conversion, Fuzzy logic, Fuzzy logic controllers, MATLAB, Power control, Proportional integral, Two term control systems, Variable speed wind energy conversion systems, Water craft, Wind, Wind energy conversion system, Wind power, Wind speed variations},
	doi = {10.1109/ICEIT48248.2020.9113215},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086889728\&doi=10.1109\%2fICEIT48248.2020.9113215\&partnerID=40\&md5=514df1b642398d6a25a07b76a59427bf},
	author = {Kharchouf, I. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A. and Fdaili, M.}
}
@article {Bouzbita20205436,
	title = {The behaviour of ACS-TSP algorithm when adapting both pheromone parameters using fuzzy logic controller},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {10},
	number = {5},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {5436-5444},
	abstract = {In this paper, an evolved ant colony system (ACS) is proposed by dynamically adapting the responsible parameters for the decay of the pheromone trails ξ and using fuzzy logic controller (FLC) applied in the travelling salesman problems (TSP). The purpose of the proposed method is to understand the effect of both parameters ξ and on the performance of the ACS at the level of solution quality and convergence speed towards the best solutions through studying the behaviour of the ACS algorithm during this adaptation. The adaptive ACS is compared with the standard one. Computational results show that the adaptive ACS with dynamic adaptation of local pheromone parameter ξ is more effective compared to the standard ACS. {\textcopyright} 2020 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11591/IJECE.V10I5.PP5436-5444},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087312967\&doi=10.11591\%2fIJECE.V10I5.PP5436-5444\&partnerID=40\&md5=fb268b2912214f5d902a8ec0f867a2cd},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Benhar2020,
	title = {Data preprocessing for heart disease classification: A systematic literature review.},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {195},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 25},
	abstract = {Context: Early detection of heart disease is an important challenge since 17.3 million people yearly lose their lives due to heart diseases. Besides, any error in diagnosis of cardiac disease can be dangerous and risks an individual{\textquoteright}s life. Accurate diagnosis is therefore critical in cardiology. Data Mining (DM) classification techniques have been used to diagnosis heart diseases but still limited by some challenges of data quality such as inconsistencies, noise, missing data, outliers, high dimensionality and imbalanced data. Data preprocessing (DP) techniques were therefore used to prepare data with the goal of improving the performance of heart disease DM based prediction systems. Objective: The purpose of this study is to review and summarize the current evidence on the use of preprocessing techniques in heart disease classification as regards: (1) the DP tasks and techniques most frequently used, (2) the impact of DP tasks and techniques on the performance of classification in cardiology, (3) the overall performance of classifiers when using DP techniques, and (4) comparisons of different combinations classifier-preprocessing in terms of accuracy rate. Method: A systematic literature review is carried out, by identifying and analyzing empirical studies on the application of data preprocessing in heart disease classification published in the period between January 2000 and June 2019. A total of 49 studies were therefore selected and analyzed according to the aforementioned criteria. Results: The review results show that data reduction is the most used preprocessing task in cardiology, followed by data cleaning. In general, preprocessing either maintained or improved the performance of heart disease classifiers. Some combinations such as (ANN + PCA), (ANN + CHI) and (SVM + PCA) are promising terms of accuracy. However the deployment of these models in real-world diagnosis decision support systems is subject to several risks and limitations due to the lack of interpretation. {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier B.V.},
	keywords = {Cardiology, Classification (of information), Classification technique, classifier, clinical practice, clinical research, Computer aided diagnosis, data classification, Data mining, Data preprocessing, data processing, Decision support systems, Deep learning, Diagnosis decision, diagnostic accuracy, disease classification, Diseases, empiricism, evidence based practice, feature selection, Heart, heart disease, Heart Diseases, High dimensionality, human, Humans, intermethod comparison, Machine learning, Performance of classifier, prediction, Prediction systems, Preprocessing techniques, publication, Review, Support vector machines, Systematic literature review, Systematic Review, task performance},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105635},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087500300\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2020.105635\&partnerID=40\&md5=cae53ce36903d5d8b817ec96deb39b45},
	author = {Benhar, H. and Idri, A. and L Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.}
}
@article {BENHAR2020105635,
	title = {Data preprocessing for heart disease classification: A systematic literature review},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {195},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {105635},
	abstract = {Context Early detection of heart disease is an important challenge since 17.3 million people yearly lose their lives due to heart diseases. Besides, any error in diagnosis of cardiac disease can be dangerous and risks an individual{\textquoteright}s life. Accurate diagnosis is therefore critical in cardiology. Data Mining (DM) classification techniques have been used to diagnosis heart diseases but still limited by some challenges of data quality such as inconsistencies, noise, missing data, outliers, high dimensionality and imbalanced data. Data preprocessing (DP) techniques were therefore used to prepare data with the goal of improving the performance of heart disease DM based prediction systems. Objective The purpose of this study is to review and summarize the current evidence on the use of preprocessing techniques in heart disease classification as regards: (1) the DP tasks and techniques most frequently used, (2) the impact of DP tasks and techniques on the performance of classification in cardiology, (3) the overall performance of classifiers when using DP techniques, and (4) comparisons of different combinations classifier-preprocessing in terms of accuracy rate. Method A systematic literature review is carried out, by identifying and analyzing empirical studies on the application of data preprocessing in heart disease classification published in the period between January 2000 and June 2019. A total of 49 studies were therefore selected and analyzed according to the aforementioned criteria. Results The review results show that data reduction is the most used preprocessing task in cardiology, followed by data cleaning. In general, preprocessing either maintained or improved the performance of heart disease classifiers. Some combinations such as (ANN~+~PCA), (ANN~+~CHI) and (SVM~+~PCA) are promising terms of accuracy. However the deployment of these models in real-world diagnosis decision support systems is subject to several risks and limitations due to the lack of interpretation.},
	keywords = {Cardiac datasets, Cardiology, Data preprocessing, Datamining, Literature review},
	issn = {0169-2607},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105635},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260720314681},
	author = {H. Benhar and A. Idri and J.L. Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n}
}
@article {Mohamed2020335,
	title = {Detecting text in license plates using a novel MSER-based method},
	journal = {International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {335-348},
	abstract = {A new license plate detection method is proposed in this paper. The proposed approach consists of three steps: the first step aims to delete some details in the input image by converting it to a grey-level image and inverse it (negative) and then use MSER for the extraction of text in candidate regions. The second step is based on a dynamic grouped DBSCAN algorithm for a fast classification of the connected region, and the outer tangent of circles intersections for filtering regions with the same orientations. Finally, a geometrical and statistical character filter is used to eliminate false detections in the third step. Experimental results show that our approach performs better and achieves a better detection than that proposed by Yin et al. (2014). {\textcopyright} 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJDATS.2020.111488},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097276428\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJDATS.2020.111488\&partnerID=40\&md5=ec0868e89fae7b8ade5bbd67748009dd},
	author = {Mohamed, A. and Sanaa, E.F. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Boudad2020243,
	title = {Exploring the Use of Word Embedding and Deep Learning in Arabic Sentiment Analysis},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1105 AISC},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {243-253},
	abstract = {In the past couple of years, improving Arabic sentiment Analysis systems has been one of the important fields of research. There are several challenges and issues facing existing systems, especially, handling multiple dialects and feature extraction. Most of those systems are generated using linear classification models and traditional bag-of-word features. In this work, we explore the use of word embedding as a modern feature representation, and Convolutional Neural Networks as a Deep Neural Network in a sentiment classification of Arabic texts. The application of our model on five benchmark datasets has yielded results that outperform previous works on 4 out of 5 datasets. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Arabic texts, Bag of words, Benchmark datasets, Benchmarking, Convolution, Convolutional neural networks, Deep learning, Deep neural networks, Embeddings, Existing systems, Feature representation, Intelligent systems, Linear classification, planning, Sentiment analysis, Sentiment classification, Sustainable development, Word embedding},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-36674-2_26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85080913982\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-36674-2_26\&partnerID=40\&md5=816d3952c972aa5ce92cb7318fe768aa},
	author = {Boudad, N. and Ezzahid, S. and Faizi, R. and Thami, R.O.H.}
}
@article {Guermah2020300,
	title = {How can reasoning improve ontology-based context-aware system?},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms},
	volume = {15},
	number = {3},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {300-316},
	abstract = {Over the past two decades, the large evolution of software engineering, telecommunication and pervasive devices has lead to emergence of a new vision of development aiming at building systems to meet more complex and personalised needs known as context-aware systems. This type of systems is becoming the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are sensitive to any change of the context, so that plays a crucial role to provide interactive intelligent environments. In parallel, contextual situation refers to a higher level of information inferred from different context data flow that can be extracted from physical and virtual sensors. The power of using situation is lies in their ability to provide a simple and comprehensible representation of context property, which preserve the services that manipulate them from the complexity of sensor readings, data transmission errors and inferencing activities. In this work, we aim to explore the added value of using ontology-based reasoning, focusing on first-order logic and fuzzy logic, to produce contextual situations. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJAIP.2020.105824},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082202504\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJAIP.2020.105824\&partnerID=40\&md5=202a3b83c6a307a1c364213895e826ba},
	author = {Guermah, H. and Fissaa, T. and Guermah, B. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M. and Kriouile, A.}
}
@article {ElFazziki2020136,
	title = {Improving Collaborative Filtering Approach by Leveraging Opposite Users},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1102 AISC},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {136-145},
	abstract = {Collaborative filtering is a widely used recommendation approach that aims to predict for a target user the most appropriate items. This approach uses the ratings given by users who share similar tastes and preferences to predict ratings for items that haven{\textquoteright}t been rated yet. Despite its simplicity and justifiability, CF approach stills suffering from several drawbacks and problems, including sparsity, gray sheep and scalability. These problems affect the accuracy of the obtained results. In this work, we present a novel collaborative filtering approach based on the opposite preferences of users. We focus on enhancing the accuracy of predictions and dealing with gray sheep problem by inferring new similar neighbors based on users who have dissimilar tastes and preferences. For instance, if a user X is dissimilar to a user Y then the user +X is similar to the user Y. The Experimental results performed on two datasets including MovieLens and FilmTrust show that our approach outperforms several baseline recommendation techniques. {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.},
	keywords = {Collaborative filtering, Forecasting, Gray sheep, Intelligent systems, Learning systems, Movielens, Opposite neighbors, planning, Recommendation techniques, Recommender Systems, Similar neighbors, Similarity measure, Sustainable development},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-36653-7_14},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85078457465\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-36653-7_14\&partnerID=40\&md5=fdeb5a86480517f6637d45ebc49b0849},
	author = {El Fazziki, A. and El Madani El Alami, Y. and El Aissaoui, O. and El Allioui, Y. and Benbrahim, M.}
}
@article {FAGROUD2020572,
	title = {IOT Search Engines: Exploratory Data Analysis},
	journal = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {175},
	year = {2020},
	note = {The 17th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC),The 15th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC),The 10th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology},
	pages = {572-577},
	abstract = {IOT search engine (IOTSE) is a search tool proposed with the aim to allow research, list and identification of IOT devices (All devices connected to the internet represent an IOT device). This tool provides a huge amount of data, which is justified by the exponential increase of the number of objects connected in the world. The data provided must be analyzed and interpreted in the aim to give a better understanding, quickly description and help to make decisions. In this work we applied exploratory data analysis on IOT search engine data in order to give an analysis of IOTSE data with visual method.},
	keywords = {Exploratory data analysis, IOT, IOTSE, Search Engine},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.07.082},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050920317828},
	author = {Fatima Zahra Fagroud and Lahbib Ajallouda and El Habib Ben Lahmar and Hicham Toumi and Khadija Achtaich and Sanaa El Filali}
}
@conference {Fagroud2020572,
	title = {IoT search engines: Exploratory data analysis},
	booktitle = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {175},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {572-577},
	abstract = {IOT search engine (IOTSE) is a search tool proposed with the aim to allow research, list and identification of IOT devices (All devices connected to the internet represent an IOT device). This tool provides a huge amount of data, which is justified by the exponential increase of the number of objects connected in the world. The data provided must be analyzed and interpreted in the aim to give a better understanding, quickly description and help to make decisions. In this work we applied exploratory data analysis on IOT search engine data in order to give an analysis of IOTSE data with visual method. {\textcopyright} 2020 The Authors.},
	keywords = {Data handling, Exploratory data analysis, Exponential increase, Information analysis, Internet of things, Search engines, Search tools, Ubiquitous computing},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2020.07.082},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85094620165\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.procs.2020.07.082\&partnerID=40\&md5=d36b954ecd9cc39a0e670b7bcb86a85b},
	author = {Fagroud, F.Z. and Ajallouda, L. and Lahmar, E.H.B. and Toumi, H. and Achtaich, K. and El Filali, S.}
}
@article {Azougaghe2020103,
	title = {Iterative Decoding of GSCB Codes Based on RS Codes Using Adapted Scaling Factors},
	journal = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {1264},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {103-114},
	abstract = {In this work, we have extended two algorithms to decode generalized serially concatenated block codes based on RS codes (GSCB-RS). The first is the modified Chase-Pyndiah algorithm (MCPA) proposed by Farchane and Belkasmi[1]. The second is the Chase-Pyndiah algorithm (CPA) that is developed initially for decoding turbo product codes[2]. We also investigated the effect of different parameters, namely component codes, the size and structure of the interleaver and the number of iterations, using computer simulations. The simulations result shows that the performance of the GSCB-RS codes using the MCPA decoder out performs the CPA decoder that uses predetermined weighting factor (α) and reliability factor (β) parameters. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Block codes, Component codes, Concatenated codes, Data communication systems, Interleavers, Iterative decoding, Number of iterations, Reliability factor, RS codes, Scaling factors, Security of data, Turbo product codes, Weighting factors},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-61143-9_9},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097364331\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-61143-9_9\&partnerID=40\&md5=5a3be47852101aec7c21c1ee8c52200c},
	author = {Azougaghe, E.-S. and Farchane, A. and Safi, S. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {Ajallouda2020169,
	title = {K-means hac and fcm which clustering approach for arabic text?},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {169-174},
	abstract = {Today we are witnessing rapid growth in Web resources that allow Internet users to express and share their ideas opinions and judgments on a variety of issues. Several classification approaches have been proposed to classify textual data. But all these approaches require us to label the clusters we want to obtain. Which in reality is not available because we do not know in advance the information that can be proposed through these opinions. To overcome this constraint clustering approaches such as K-mean HAC or FCM can be exploited. In this paper we present and compare these approaches. And to show the importance of exploiting clustering algorithms to classify and analyze textual data in Arabic. By applying them to a real case that has created a great debate in Morocco which is the case of teachers contracting with academies. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Arabic texts, Classification (of information), Classification approach, Clustering approach, Intelligent systems, Internet users, K-means clustering, Rapid growth, Real case, Textual data, Web resources},
	doi = {10.1145/3419604.3419779},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096415898\&doi=10.1145\%2f3419604.3419779\&partnerID=40\&md5=8aca383d8f485d15b3da191f03c5bf62},
	author = {Ajallouda, L. and Fagroud, F.Z. and Zellou, A. and Benlahmar, E.H.}
}
@article {Fihri2020227349,
	title = {A Machine Learning Approach for Backoff Manipulation Attack Detection in Cognitive Radio},
	journal = {IEEE Access},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {227349-227359},
	abstract = {Cognitive radio (CR) is a promising paradigm that comes to address the scarcity of the radio spectrum by providing opportunistic utilization of the underutilized licensed channels to attain higher spectrum efficiency. The efficient use of the vacant portion of the spectrum depends directly on the medium access control (MAC) layer that coordinates fairly the access of the CR nodes to the idle spectrum. However, the MAC layer is vulnerable to several attacks driven by malicious nodes. One of those attacks is the backoff manipulation attack (BMA), where the selfish attacker deviates from the defined contention mechanism to gain inequitable access to the available channels. This unfair access presents some specific characteristics of an attacker, which can be considered as an input to the supervised machine learning algorithm for classification. In this paper, we propose a support vector machine (SVM) based model in order to distinctively identify the attacker depending on the throughput and the average packet delay to classify/predict an eventual attack. Finally, theoretical predictions and simulation results are presented to validate the proposed framework while giving useful insights into CR systems{\textquoteright} performance, vulnerable to BMA attacks. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3046637},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114120269\&doi=10.1109\%2fACCESS.2020.3046637\&partnerID=40\&md5=2fde7cb3cc8edf297eaef15733f56ca8},
	author = {Fihri, W.F. and Ghazi, H.E. and Majd, B.A.E. and Bouanani, F.E.}
}
@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 {SARDI2020105114,
	title = {Mobile health applications for postnatal care: Review and analysis of functionalities and technical features},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {184},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {105114},
	abstract = {Background Providing a continuum of care from antenatal, childbirth and postnatal period results in reduced maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Timely, high quality postnatal care is crucial for maximizing maternal and newborn health. In this vein, the use of postnatal mobile applications constitutes a promising strategy. Methods A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was adopted to perform the selection, data extraction and functional evaluation of the available postnatal apps on iOS and Android platforms. The analysis of the functionalities and technical features of the apps selected was performed according to a 37-items assessment questionnaire developed on the basis of the scientific literature of postnatal care and a preliminary analysis of available postnatal apps Results A total of 48 postnatal apps were retrieved from the app repositories of the iOS and Android platforms. The results of the functional content analysis show that the postnatal apps selected relatively achieved low scores owing to the complexity and the ramification of the postnatal care. Conclusions The present study helps in identifying areas related to the postnatal care that require further endeavors to be properly addressed. It also provides directions for developers to leverage the advancement and innovation on mobile technology to build complete and well-suited postnatal apps},
	keywords = {Apps, Functionality, Mobile health, Postnatal care},
	issn = {0169-2607},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105114},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169260719304559},
	author = {Lamyae Sardi and Ali Idri and Leanne M. Redman and Hassan Alami and Rachid Bezad and Jos{\'e} Luis Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n}
}
@article {Sardi2020,
	title = {Mobile health applications for postnatal care: Review and analysis of functionalities and technical features},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {184},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 19},
	abstract = {Background: Providing a continuum of care from antenatal, childbirth and postnatal period results in reduced maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Timely, high quality postnatal care is crucial for maximizing maternal and newborn health. In this vein, the use of postnatal mobile applications constitutes a promising strategy. Methods: A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was adopted to perform the selection, data extraction and functional evaluation of the available postnatal apps on iOS and Android platforms. The analysis of the functionalities and technical features of the apps selected was performed according to a 37-items assessment questionnaire developed on the basis of the scientific literature of postnatal care and a preliminary analysis of available postnatal apps Results: A total of 48 postnatal apps were retrieved from the app repositories of the iOS and Android platforms. The results of the functional content analysis show that the postnatal apps selected relatively achieved low scores owing to the complexity and the ramification of the postnatal care. Conclusions: The present study helps in identifying areas related to the postnatal care that require further endeavors to be properly addressed. It also provides directions for developers to leverage the advancement and innovation on mobile technology to build complete and well-suited postnatal apps {\textcopyright} 2019},
	keywords = {Android (operating system), Application programs, Article, childbirth, content analysis, data extraction, evaluation study, female, Functional evaluation, Functionality, human, Humans, Infant, iOS (operating system), mHealth, mobile application, Mobile applications, Mobile health application, newborn, newborn morbidity, perinatal period, Postnatal care, Postpartum Period, pregnancy, Preliminary analysis, procedures, puerperium, questionnaire, Scientific literature, Systematic literature review (SLR), Systematic Review, telemedicine},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105114},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073719026\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2019.105114\&partnerID=40\&md5=df137ca63d506f88c53e16c63f3e0c65},
	author = {Sardi, L. and Idri, A. and Readman, L.M. and Alami, H. and Bezad, R. 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.}
}
@conference {Hmami2020,
	title = {A new Framework to improve Change Mining in Configurable Process},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {The configurable process model is an important approach to reduce the redundancy involved in modeling, reengineering, and adapting a business process with its environment. While process mining approaches aim to discover and, verify conformance and enhance a process, connecting configurable processes and process mining shows considerable improvements, especially in terms of time and cost. However, the configurable process has rarely been applied in change mining. Our goal in this paper is to highlight the importance of using variability to improve change mining from a collection of event logs. We propose a framework that can detect and recommend changes, by mining changes from a collection of event logs. The main purpose is to allow engineers and business process designers to easily adjust business process with the environment changes. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Business Process, Change mining, Configurable process models, Data mining, Environment change, Event logs, Information systems, Information use, Process mining},
	doi = {10.1145/3386723.3387853},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123042985\&doi=10.1145\%2f3386723.3387853\&partnerID=40\&md5=cbdd186e5e2298cef0babe5bb443e4d0},
	author = {Hmami, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {ElFazziki2020815,
	title = {A Novel Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on the Opposite Neighbors{\textquoteright} Preferences},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1076},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {815-824},
	abstract = {Collaborative filtering (CF) has become an effective way to predict useful items. It is the most widespread recommendation technique. It relies on users who share similar tastes and preferences to suggest the items that they might be interested in. Despite its simplicity and justifiability, the collaborative filtering approach experiences many problems, including sparsity, gray sheep and scalability. These problems lead to deteriorating the accuracy of the obtained results. In this work, we present a novel collaborative filtering approach based on the opposite preferences of users. We focus on enhancing the accuracy of predictions and dealing with gray sheep problem by inferring new similar neighbors based on users who have dissimilar tastes and preferences. For instance, if a user X is dissimilar to a user Y then the user +X is similar to the user Y. The Experimental results performed on two datasets including MovieLens and FilmTrust show that our approach outperforms several baseline recommendation techniques. {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.},
	keywords = {Artificial intelligence, Collaborative filtering, Embedded systems, Movielens, Recommendation techniques, Similar neighbors},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-0947-6_77},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085185804\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-15-0947-6_77\&partnerID=40\&md5=68fdeb907c6bb3635b6c19f73a225586},
	author = {El Fazziki, A. and El Aissaoui, O. and El Madani El Alami, Y. and Benbrahim, M. and El Allioui, Y.}
}
@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 {Lamrhari2020,
	title = {Random Forest-based Approach for Classifying Customers in Social CRM},
	booktitle = {2020 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions, ICTMOD 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Social Customer Relationship Management (social CRM) has become one of the central points for many companies seeking to improve their customer experience. It comprises a set of processes that allows decision-makers to analyze customer data in order to launch an efficient customer-centric and cost-effective marketing strategy. However, targeting all potential customers with one general marketing strategy seems to be inefficient. While targeting each potential customer with a specific strategy can be cost demanding. Thus, it is essential to group customers into specific classes and target each class according to its respective customer needs. In this paper, we develop a Random Forest- based approach to classify potential customers into three main categories namely, prospects, satisfied and unsatisfied customers. The proposed model has been trained, tested, and compared to some state-of-the-art classifiers viz., Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) based on several metrics including accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, false positive rate, and false negative rate. The reported results were satisfactory with an accuracy of 98.46\%, a sensitivity of 97.69\%, and a specificity of 98.84\%. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Commerce, Cost effectiveness, Customer experience, Customer relationship management, Decision making, Decision trees, False negative rate, False positive rates, Industrial management, K nearest neighbor (KNN), Marketing strategy, Nearest neighbor search, Neural networks, Potential customers, Public relations, Random forests, Sales, State of the art, Strategic planning, Support vector machines},
	doi = {10.1109/ICTMOD49425.2020.9380602},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103738578\&doi=10.1109\%2fICTMOD49425.2020.9380602\&partnerID=40\&md5=c672980200a36b34b0ae6df0842ef948},
	author = {Lamrhari, S. and Elghazi, H. and El Faker, A.}
}
@article {Kharbouch2020894,
	title = {Software Requirement Catalog on Acceptability, Usability, Internationalization and Sustainability for Contraception mPHRs},
	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 0},
	pages = {894-905},
	abstract = {Contraception Mobile Personal Health Records (mPHRs) are efficient mobile health applications (apps) to increase awareness about fertility and contraception and to allow women to access, track, manage, and share their health data with healthcare providers. This paper aims to develop a requirements catalog, according to standards, guidelines, and relevant literature to e-health technology and psychology. The requirements covered by this catalog are Acceptability, Usability, Sustainability, and Internationalization (i18n). This catalog can be very useful for developing, evaluating, and auditing contraceptive apps, as well as helping stakeholders and developers identify potential requirements for their mPHRs to improve them. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Health, Health care providers, Health data, Mobile health application, Personal health record, Software requirements, Sustainable development},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_63},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092222585\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-58811-3_63\&partnerID=40\&md5=119f051c4582d8079abdb813399d89d1},
	author = {Kharbouch, M. and Idri, A. and Redman, L. and Alami, H. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A.}
}
@conference {Haddad2019,
	title = {Efficient Stacked Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Anticollision Short Range Radar at 79GHz},
	booktitle = {International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication Technologies, ISAECT 2018 - Proceedings},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISAECT.2018.8618833},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062468314\&doi=10.1109\%2fISAECT.2018.8618833\&partnerID=40\&md5=0e4f2684dccbbbf03196e55a1fa16de3},
	author = {Haddad, A. and Aoutoul, M. and Rais, K. and Faqir, M. and Essaaidi, M. and Lakssir, B. and Moukhtafi, F.E. and Jouali, R.}
}
@article {Bouzbita2019153,
	title = {Hidden Markov Model classifier for the adaptive ACS-TSP pheromone parameters},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {774},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {153-169},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-95104-1_10},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053070003\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-95104-1_10\&partnerID=40\&md5=a3b7e585281ec5fd0d0268e2187f8014},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@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 {Kabli201934,
	title = {Optical OFDM (O-OFDM) for Intensity Modulated/Direct Detection Optical Systems},
	booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite, Comnetsat 2018 - Proceedings},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {34-38},
	doi = {10.1109/COMNETSAT.2018.8684118},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064746220\&doi=10.1109\%2fCOMNETSAT.2018.8684118\&partnerID=40\&md5=cbe0395a7c53b386ca8ea8c91ca1da98},
	author = {Kabli, A.E. and Ahmed Faqihi, M.}
}
@article {ElHamlaoui2019167,
	title = {Support cloud SLA establishment using MDE},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {167-184},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97719-5_12},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063299209\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-97719-5_12\&partnerID=40\&md5=78747c9999533ac370999a8301a4f99f},
	author = {El Hamlaoui, M. and Fissaa, T. and Laghouaouta, Y. and Nassar, M.}
}
@article {Benhar2019,
	title = {A Systematic Mapping Study of Data Preparation in Heart Disease Knowledge Discovery},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {43},
	number = {1},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-018-1134-z},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058606352\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-018-1134-z\&partnerID=40\&md5=f92d6f6b431ad7798a78fb05c7a5624d},
	author = {Benhar, H. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {Boualouch201843,
	title = {Adrc performance in power control of dfig used in wind turbine during grid voltage fault 1},
	journal = {International Journal of Control and Automation},
	volume = {11},
	number = {9},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {43-56},
	doi = {10.14257/ijca.2018.11.9.05},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055058735\&doi=10.14257\%2fijca.2018.11.9.05\&partnerID=40\&md5=a603393239c902b7c67ead9deaa9b7be},
	author = {Boualouch, A. and Essadki, A. and Nasser, T. and Frigui, A. and Boukhriss, A.}
}
@conference {Nadour2018,
	title = {Advanced Backstepping Control of a Wind Energy Conversion System Using a Doubly-Fed Induction Generator},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2017},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1109/IRSEC.2017.8477276},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055893932\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRSEC.2017.8477276\&partnerID=40\&md5=19ab86d1cd91b5dca66932022a6df89c},
	author = {Nadour, M. and Essadki, A. and Fdaili, M. and Nasser, T.}
}
@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 {Fdaili2018,
	title = {Comparative Study of MPPT and Pitch Angle Control Strategies for a Wind Energy Conversion System},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference, IRSEC 2017},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1109/IRSEC.2017.8477291},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055865278\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRSEC.2017.8477291\&partnerID=40\&md5=249347eb3bf4485d377aaba5bb045213},
	author = {Fdaili, M. and Essadki, A. and Nadour, M. and Nasser, T.}
}
@article {Benhar20181208,
	title = {Data preprocessing for decision making in medical informatics: Potential and analysis},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {746},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1208-1218},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_116},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045323949\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-77712-2_116\&partnerID=40\&md5=86d2827399aedd6683b71d8893a2d49c},
	author = {Benhar, H. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {Fenjiro201820,
	title = {Deep reinforcement learning overview of the state of the art},
	journal = {Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems},
	volume = {12},
	number = {3},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {20-39},
	doi = {10.14313/JAMRIS_3-2018/15},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85060533274\&doi=10.14313\%2fJAMRIS_3-2018\%2f15\&partnerID=40\&md5=179cf6788e2041bdac84079f25c37a3e},
	author = {Fenjiro, Y. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
@article {Haddad201812,
	title = {Design of high gain novel dielectric resonator antenna array for 24 GHz short range radar systems},
	journal = {Advanced Electromagnetics},
	volume = {7},
	number = {4},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {12-18},
	doi = {10.7716/aem.v7i4.874},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052828658\&doi=10.7716\%2faem.v7i4.874\&partnerID=40\&md5=f03b09d177b785f22ce0d744b8db6f72},
	author = {Haddad, A. and Aoutoul, M. and Rais, K. and Essaaidi, M. and Faqir, M. and Bouya, M.}
}
@article {Hdioud201870,
	title = {Detecting and shadows in the HSV color space using dynamic thresholds},
	journal = {Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics},
	volume = {7},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {70-79},
	doi = {10.11591/eei.v7i1.893},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045525834\&doi=10.11591\%2feei.v7i1.893\&partnerID=40\&md5=ca79c66bd666526ee7849c304d10f7ef},
	author = {Hdioud, B. and El Haj Tirari, M. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Lamrhari201863,
	title = {Enhancing social network communication through dynamic clustering balance},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {2018-March},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {63-69},
	doi = {10.1145/3177148.3180090},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047165145\&doi=10.1145\%2f3177148.3180090\&partnerID=40\&md5=1341cf27a9a6e4281eb6d209f37ec6ea},
	author = {Lamrhari, S. and Elghazi, H. and Tigani, S. and Faker, A.El. and Sadiki, T.}
}
@article {Bachiri2018,
	title = {Evaluating the Privacy Policies of Mobile Personal Health Records for Pregnancy Monitoring},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {42},
	number = {8},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-018-1002-x},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049316852\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-018-1002-x\&partnerID=40\&md5=39f7d1b8a34c6a17937d6935246cf95b},
	author = {Bachiri, M. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A.}
}
@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 {Guermah2018398,
	title = {Exploiting semantic web services in the development of context-Aware systems},
	booktitle = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {127},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {398-407},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2018.01.137},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045686942\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.procs.2018.01.137\&partnerID=40\&md5=dbaaaeb79a87c39b06e634b35eb64baf},
	author = {Guermah, H. and Fissaa, T. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference {Zakroum2018175,
	title = {Exploratory data analysis of a network telescope traffic and prediction of port probing rates},
	booktitle = {2018 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {175-180},
	doi = {10.1109/ISI.2018.8587323},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061067648\&doi=10.1109\%2fISI.2018.8587323\&partnerID=40\&md5=76f77a31025e393df1d23b123bcb8dee},
	author = {Zakroum, M. and Houmz, A. and Ghogho, M. and Mezzour, G. and Lahmadi, A. and Francois, J. and Koutbi, M.E.}
}
@conference {Faizi20182109,
	title = {Exploring the potentials of big data analytics in marketing},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Business Information Management Association Conference, IBIMA 2018: Innovation Management and Education Excellence through Vision 2020},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {2109-2114},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85060828578\&partnerID=40\&md5=f6ed0328b04bb583011318fc69ad0c58},
	author = {Faizi, R. and Fkihi, S.E. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@article {Sarhani2018447,
	title = {Facing the feature selection problem with a binary PSO-GSA approach},
	journal = {Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series},
	volume = {62},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {447-462},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-58253-5_26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032615163\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-58253-5_26\&partnerID=40\&md5=45163b8637f55b8af04f902f4f33afc2},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Sarhani2018447,
	title = {Facing the feature selection problem with a binary PSO-GSA approach},
	journal = {Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series},
	volume = {62},
	year = {2018},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {447-462},
	abstract = {Feature selection has become the focus of much research in many areas where we can face the problem of big data or complex relationship among features. Metaheuristics have gained much attention in solving many practical problems, including feature selection. Our contribution in this paper is to propose a binary hybrid metaheuristic to minimize a fitness function representing a trade-off between the classification error of selecting the feature subset and the corresponding number of features. This algorithm combines particle swarm optimization (PSO) and gravitational search algorithm (GSA). Also, a mutation operator is integrated to enhance population diversity. Experimental results on ten benchmark dataset show that our proposed hybrid method for feature selection can achieve high performance when comparing with other metaheuristic algorithms and well-known feature selection approaches. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2018.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-58253-5_26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032615163\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-58253-5_26\&partnerID=40\&md5=45163b8637f55b8af04f902f4f33afc2},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Elmouhtadi2018435,
	title = {Fingerprint identification based on hierarchical triangulation},
	journal = {Journal of Information Processing Systems},
	volume = {14},
	number = {2},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {435-447},
	doi = {10.3745/JIPS.02.0084},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046883308\&doi=10.3745\%2fJIPS.02.0084\&partnerID=40\&md5=98878a4e67240c4ddadb744f90dab887},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article {Elmouhtadi2018393,
	title = {Fingerprint identification using hierarchical matching and topological structures},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {730},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {393-408},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-63754-9_18},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032002757\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-63754-9_18\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4d45320fd26c5982556a97c07bc754d},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article {Elmouhtadi2018393,
	title = {Fingerprint identification using hierarchical matching and topological structures},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {730},
	year = {2018},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {393-408},
	abstract = {Fingerprint identification is one of the most popular and efficient biometric techniques used for improving automatic personal identification. In this paper, we will present a new indexing method, based on estimation of singular point considered as an important feature in the fingerprint by using the directional file. On the other hand, a hierarchical Delaunay triangulation is applied on the minutiae around the extracted singular point. Two fingerprints calculated by introducing the barycenter notion to ensure the exact location of the similar triangles is compared. We have performed extensive experiments and comparisons to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a challenging public database (i.e., FVC2000), which contains small area and low-quality fingerprints. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2018.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-63754-9_18},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032002757\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-63754-9_18\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4d45320fd26c5982556a97c07bc754d},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@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 {Fkihi20182184,
	title = {How big data is reshaping the e-commerce industry},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st International Business Information Management Association Conference, IBIMA 2018: Innovation Management and Education Excellence through Vision 2020},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {2184-2189},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85060821566\&partnerID=40\&md5=0b245a1936c2cf3e78d4a9af77e3d592},
	author = {Fkihi, S.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Fissaa2018,
	title = {An intelligent approach for context-aware service selection using machine learning},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230938},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053485269\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230938\&partnerID=40\&md5=9a122db8fcb1e41bf5f54261c361ce7a},
	author = {Fissaa, T. and Guermah, H. and Hamlaoui, M.E.L. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@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 {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.}
}
@article {Faizi201886,
	title = {Moroccan higher education students{\textquoteright} and teachers{\textquoteright} perceptions towards using Web 2.0 technologies in language learning and teaching},
	journal = {Knowledge Management and E-Learning},
	volume = {10},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {86-96},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85044324038\&partnerID=40\&md5=dbc2a7327c61d66e53e10b1fe45c000d},
	author = {Faizi, R.}
}
@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 {Admi2018,
	title = {A novel mser based method for detecting text in license plates},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230923},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484803\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230923\&partnerID=40\&md5=e4a83cc458bcdf11fbe9b492ea53bb87},
	author = {Admi, M. and Fkihi, S.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Bensouda2018,
	title = {Opinion spam detection: A review of the literature},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230922},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053485124\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230922\&partnerID=40\&md5=a94b2b0c2405c84e95f213eb29c413f2},
	author = {Bensouda, N. and Fkihi, S.E. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Abouyahya2018,
	title = {An optimization of the k-nearest neighbor using dynamic time warping as a measurement similarity for facial expressions recognition},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230921},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484708\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230921\&partnerID=40\&md5=2651d0ca787e887d19fd3193ed428623},
	author = {Abouyahya, A. and Fkihi, S.E.}
}
@conference {Nouinou2018,
	title = {Overview on last advances of feature selection},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230959},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484371\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230959\&partnerID=40\&md5=e7c10b73c82aca9d8cd0e61aa6e097f4},
	author = {Nouinou, S. and Afia, A.E. and Fkihi, S.E.}
}
@article {Stone20181272,
	title = {The ox fall down: path-breaking and technology treadmills in Indian cotton agriculture},
	journal = {Journal of Peasant Studies},
	volume = {45},
	number = {7},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1272-1296},
	doi = {10.1080/03066150.2017.1291505},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018168972\&doi=10.1080\%2f03066150.2017.1291505\&partnerID=40\&md5=f4d0af4d46562cddbe9c43cf41d389e7},
	author = {Stone, G.D. and Flachs, A.}
}
@conference {Bouzbita2018,
	title = {Parameter adaptation for ant colony system algorithm using hidden markov model for tsp problems},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230962},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053485206\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230962\&partnerID=40\&md5=69e09fa2debc5dc07106895d9ce7948b},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Idri2018607,
	title = {Quality evaluation of gamified blood donation apps using ISO/IEC 25010 standard},
	booktitle = {HEALTHINF 2018 - 11th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2018},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {607-614},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051728605\&partnerID=40\&md5=e296eb3debca9cb6efd2a8d6fbe18690},
	author = {Idri, A. and Sardi, L. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {CruzZapata2018,
	title = {Reusable Software Usability Specifications for mHealth Applications},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {42},
	number = {3},
	year = {2018},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {One of the key factors for the adoption of mobile technologies, and in particular of mobile health applications, is usability. A usable application will be easier to use and understand by users, and will improve user{\textquoteright}s interaction with it. This paper proposes a software requirements catalog for usable mobile health applications, which can be used for the development of new applications, or the evaluation of existing ones. The catalog is based on the main identified sources in literature on usability and mobile health applications. Our catalog was organized according to the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2011 standard and follows the SIREN methodology to create reusable catalogs. The applicability of the catalog was verified by the creation of an audit method, which was used to perform the evaluation of a real app, S Health, application created by Samsung Electronics Co. The usability requirements catalog, along with the audit method, identified several usability flaws on the evaluated app, which scored 83\%. Some flaws were detected in the app related to the navigation pattern. Some more issues related to the startup experience, empty screens or writing style were also found. The way a user navigates through an application improves or deteriorates user{\textquoteright}s experience with the application. We proposed a reusable usability catalog and an audit method. This proposal was used to evaluate a mobile health application. An audit report was created with the usability issues identified on the evaluated application. {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-018-0902-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040984885\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-018-0902-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=32ddf999ef891e8986a8a19c7271249a},
	author = {Cruz Zapata, B. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A. and Idri, 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.}
}
@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 {Bajta2018690,
	title = {Software project management approaches for global software development: A systematic mapping study},
	journal = {Tsinghua Science and Technology},
	volume = {23},
	number = {6},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {690-714},
	doi = {10.26599/TST.2018.9010029},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85055661732\&doi=10.26599\%2fTST.2018.9010029\&partnerID=40\&md5=7601769b8094dafca96fea06d11fd3db},
	author = {Bajta, M.E. and Idri, A. and Ros, J.N. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and de Gea, J.M.C. and Garc{\'\i}a, F. and Toval, A.}
}
@conference {ElKarfi201859,
	title = {A spectral clustering-based approach for sentiment classification in modern standard Arabic},
	booktitle = {MCCSIS 2018 - Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems; Proceedings of the International Conferences on Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence 2018, Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2018 and Connected Sma},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {59-65},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85054167622\&partnerID=40\&md5=101982324dd788664f052d2919012106},
	author = {El Karfi, I. and El Fkihi, S. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Ouhbi2018,
	title = {Sustainability requirements for connected health applications},
	journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution and Process},
	volume = {30},
	number = {7},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1002/smr.1922},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050354987\&doi=10.1002\%2fsmr.1922\&partnerID=40\&md5=70c90bb949fb18d52004aec275734df0},
	author = {Ouhbi, S. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A. and Rivera~Pozo, J. and Idri, A.}
}
@article {Idri201869,
	title = {A systematic map of medical data preprocessing in knowledge discovery},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {162},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {69-85},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2018.05.007},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046706780\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2018.05.007\&partnerID=40\&md5=30324a8f7b2702347d51c7c56b55b294},
	author = {Idri, A. and Benhar, H. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Kadi, I.}
}
@article {Faizi20181219,
	title = {Teachers{\textquoteright} perceptions towards using Web 2.0 in language learning and teaching},
	journal = {Education and Information Technologies},
	volume = {23},
	number = {3},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1219-1230},
	doi = {10.1007/s10639-017-9661-7},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032681369\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10639-017-9661-7\&partnerID=40\&md5=6a82c0e13c947b2aed26c84386814ef2},
	author = {Faizi, R.}
}
@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 {Guermah2018,
	title = {Using context ontology and linear SVM for chronic kidney disease prediction},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230941},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053485109\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230941\&partnerID=40\&md5=41a05c4c09330c364082c52d6546e08f},
	author = {Guermah, H. and Fissaa, T. and Guermah, B. and Hafiddi, H. and Nassar, M.}
}
@conference {ElBouziady20181,
	title = {Vehicle speed estimation using extracted SURF features from stereo images},
	booktitle = {2018 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision, ISCV 2018},
	volume = {2018-May},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/ISACV.2018.8354040},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050956891\&doi=10.1109\%2fISACV.2018.8354040\&partnerID=40\&md5=53370a3035d03bc86531c0e0e81069f5},
	author = {El Bouziady, A. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Ghogho, M. and Bourja, O. and El Fkihi, S.}
}
@article {ElHadj201786,
	title = {ABAC rule reduction via similarity computation},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {10299 LNCS},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {86-100},
	abstract = {Attribute-based access control (ABAC) represents a generic model of access control that provides a high level of flexibility and promotes information and security sharing. Since ABAC considers a large set of attributes for access decisions, using it might get very complicated for large systems. Hence, it is interesting to offer techniques to reduce the number of rules in ABAC policies without affecting the final decision. In this paper, we present an approach based on K-nearest neighbors algorithms for clustering ABAC policies. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first approach that aims to reduce the number of policy rules based on similarity computations. Our evaluation results demonstrate the efficiency of the suggested approach. For instance, the reduction rate can reach up to 10\% for an ABAC policy with more than 9000 rules. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-59647-1_7},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019735144\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-59647-1_7\&partnerID=40\&md5=948de8bee1016664b63163965c4e41fa},
	author = {El Hadj, M.A. and Benkaouz, Y. and Freisleben, B. and Erradi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Ayache2017166,
	title = {Aspect-oriented state machines for resolving conflicts in XACML policies},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {10299 LNCS},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {166-171},
	abstract = {Authorizationin collaborativesystemsisdefinedbyaglobal policy that represents the combination of the collaborators{\textquoteright} access policies. However, the enforcement of such a global policy may create conflicting authorization decisions. In this paper, we categorize two types of conflicts that may occur in such policies. Furthermore, to resolve these conflicts and to reach a unique decision for an access request, we present an approach that uses XACML policy combining algorithms and considers the category of the detected conflicts. The approach is implemented using aspect-oriented finite state machines. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-59647-1_13},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019731058\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-59647-1_13\&partnerID=40\&md5=917cf51c38e853e2423ad411ec1ecadb},
	author = {Ayache, M. and Erradi, M. and Freisleben, B. and Khoumsi, A.}
}
@conference {Er-Rady2017,
	title = {Automatic sign language recognition: A survey},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 3rd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing, ATSIP 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Sign Language, which is a fully visual language with its own grammar, differs largely from that of spoken languages [21]. After nearly 30 years of research, SL recognition still in its infancy when compared to Automatic Speech Recognition. When producing Sign language (SL), different body parts are involved. Most importantly the hands, but also facial expressions and body movements/postures. The recognition of SL is still one of the most challenging problems in gesture recognition. In this survey, we are going to discuss the advancement of sign language recognition through the last decade. In this paper, we provide a review of the state-of-the-art building blocks of Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR) system, from feature extraction up to sign. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ATSIP.2017.8075561},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85035355057\&doi=10.1109\%2fATSIP.2017.8075561\&partnerID=40\&md5=2dda585a2de8f963b1f1f0cc678e01d3},
	author = {Er-Rady, A. and Faizi, R. and Thami, R.O.H. and Housni, H.}
}
@conference {Elmaroud2017,
	title = {BER analysis of FBMC based multi-cellular networks in the presence of synchronization errors and HPA NLD},
	booktitle = {IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study the performance of asynchronous and non linear FBMC based multi-cellular networks. The considered system consists of a reference mobile user perfectly synchronized with its reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSS. We have considered both synchronization errors and high power amplifiers (HPA) non linear distortions (NLD). We analyzed first the signal to noise plus interference ratio (SINR). On the basis of this analysis, derived an accurate of bit error rate (BER) in the presence of a frequency selective channel. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the BER expression, we applied an interesting lemma based on the moment generating function of the interference power. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated through computer simulations which show a high sensitivity of the asynchronous FBMC based multi-cellular network to HPA non linear distortions. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/VTCFall.2016.7880922},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016936548\&doi=10.1109\%2fVTCFall.2016.7880922\&partnerID=40\&md5=170d934dcec5039d0265f9b0310630c6},
	author = {Elmaroud, B. and Faqihi, M.A. and Abbad, M. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Abouaomar2017,
	title = {Caching, device-to-device and fog computing in 5th cellular networks generation: Survey},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2017 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Many researches and standardization work on the challenges that 5th networks generation raised from the radio perspective while employing advanced techniques such as massive MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) and CoMP (Cooperative Multi-points Processes). However the backhaul problems such as bottlenecks has emerged due to the deployment of ultradense and heavy traffic that should be connected to the core networks. In this paper we investigate the caching as a promising solution to deal with the backhaul problems and the offload of the network. By caching the content near the users, at the base stations or at the device side via device-to-device communications or in advanced architecture of the cloud (In the Fog) is a promising solution to bring the interesting content closer to the users. Caching techniques are many, in this paper we grouped the most interesting ones with regard to different architectures, considering the cases and the quality of the solutions. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2017.8238174},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041450036\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2017.8238174\&partnerID=40\&md5=08c633efad0f6759f14c9373be0f0b07},
	author = {Abouaomar, A. and Filali, A. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Slimani2017144,
	title = {Configuration and implementation of a daily artificial neural network-based forecasting system using real supermarket data},
	journal = {International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management},
	volume = {28},
	number = {2},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {144-163},
	abstract = {The purpose of any effective supply chain is to find balance between supply and demand by coordinating all internal and external processes in order to ensure delivery of the right product, to the right customer, at the best time and with the optimal cost. Therefore, the estimation of future demand is one of the crucial tasks for any organisation of the supply chain system who has to make the correct decision in the appropriate time to enhance its commercial competitiveness. In an earlier study, where various artificial neural networks{\textquoteright} structures are compared including perceptron, adaline, no-propagation, multi layer perceptron (MLP) and radial basis function for demand forecasting, the results indicate that the MLP structure present the best forecasts with the optimal error. Consequently, this paper focuses on realising a daily demand predicting system in a supermarket using MLP by adding inputs including previous demand, days{\textquoteright} classification and average demand quantities. {\textcopyright} Copyright 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJLSM.2017.086345},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029227042\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJLSM.2017.086345\&partnerID=40\&md5=ccd93c50554b8b201bac46a1363f9953},
	author = {Slimani, I. and El Farissi, I. and Achchab, S.}
}
@conference {ElFarissi2017122,
	title = {Coordination by sharing demand forecasts in a supply chain using game theoretic approach},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {122-127},
	abstract = {Through the literature, authors give a considerable attention to game theory because of its wide range of applications in various fields including economics, political science, psychology or biology. The aim of this case study is to employ game theoretic approach to model information sharing as a coordination mechanism in a basic two-echelon supply chain composed of a single retailer and a single supplier. This paper is the sequel of previous works; where demand is forecasted based on historical data of a supermarket in Morocco using the Multi Layer Perceptron structure of the artificial neural networks. Nevertheless, this work focuses on the implementation of the obtained forecasting results in the studied system modeled as a game of two players with asymmetric and imperfect information, in order to find the equilibrium of the game that guaranties maximum payoff for both players. In fact, this is what game theory is all about. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805028},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010210515\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805028\&partnerID=40\&md5=79f1785352cd1586a09b76b45cdd93d1},
	author = {El Farissi, I. and Slimani, I. and Achchab, S.}
}
@conference {ElFarissi2017122,
	title = {Coordination by sharing demand forecasts in a supply chain using game theoretic approach},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {122-127},
	abstract = {Through the literature, authors give a considerable attention to game theory because of its wide range of applications in various fields including economics, political science, psychology or biology. The aim of this case study is to employ game theoretic approach to model information sharing as a coordination mechanism in a basic two-echelon supply chain composed of a single retailer and a single supplier. This paper is the sequel of previous works; where demand is forecasted based on historical data of a supermarket in Morocco using the Multi Layer Perceptron structure of the artificial neural networks. Nevertheless, this work focuses on the implementation of the obtained forecasting results in the studied system modeled as a game of two players with asymmetric and imperfect information, in order to find the equilibrium of the game that guaranties maximum payoff for both players. In fact, this is what game theory is all about. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805028},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010210515\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805028\&partnerID=40\&md5=79f1785352cd1586a09b76b45cdd93d1},
	author = {El Farissi, I.a and Slimani, I.b and Achchab, S.a}
}
@conference {Elaalyani2017,
	title = {Current trends in text-spotting},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2017 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Text spotting, i.e., the localization and recognition of text occurrences in natural images and videos, is a challenging problem in computer vision. Important applications of text spotting are: video indexing, retrieval and search, the support of blind persons in finding their way in unknown environments and reading street and shop signs for autonomously driving vehicles or car license plate recognition in traffic control systems. Recently, the use of deep convolutional neural networks as well as recognizing whole words instead of single characters led to significant progress in the field of text spotting. Furthermore, there is a tendency towards merging and unifying the single steps of the text spotting pipeline. Despite current progress, it is still difficult to recognize in-scene text in comparison to overlaid text. This work gives an overview of the state-of-the-art in text spotting and highlights current breakthroughs and trends. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2017.8238215},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041435238\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2017.8238215\&partnerID=40\&md5=a2aecbf47ec51f3f316606d512724a5a},
	author = {Elaalyani, I. and Erradi, M. and M{\"u}hling, M. and Freisleben, B.}
}
@conference {Bouzbita2017344,
	title = {Dynamic adaptation of the ACS-TSP local pheromone decay parameter based on the Hidden Markov Model},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2016},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {344-349},
	abstract = {The objective of the present paper is to propose an improved Ant Colony System (ACS) algorithm based on a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) so as dynamically adapt the local pheromone decay parameter ξ. The proposed algorithm uses Iteration and Diversity as indicators of the hidden states in the search space in ACS. To test the efficiency of our algorithm, we experimented it on several benchmark Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) instances. The results have proven the effectiveness of our algorithm in both the convergence speed and the solution quality. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2016.7847719},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013861130\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2016.7847719\&partnerID=40\&md5=26cafb2d23ee70bf2f3552d7fec22e8a},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R. and Zbakh, M.}
}
@article {ElAfia20172161,
	title = {The effect of updating the local pheromone on ACS performance using fuzzy logic},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {7},
	number = {4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {2161-2168},
	abstract = {Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) has become one of the most frequently utilised algorithms to adapt the metaheuristics parameters as an artificial intelligence technique. In this paper, the Ξ parameter of Ant Colony System (ACS) algorithm is adapted by the use of FLC, and its behaviour is studied during this adaptation. The proposed approach is compared with the standard ACS algorithm. Computational results are done based on a library of sample instances for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSPLIB). Copyright {\textcopyright} 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2161-2168},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030845141\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v7i4.pp2161-2168\&partnerID=40\&md5=b3dc47e58e78c530f0c597ab93eda8bf},
	author = {El Afia, A. and Bouzbita, S. and Faizi, R.}
}
@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.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Abouyahya201746,
	title = {Features extraction for facial expressions recognition},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {46-49},
	abstract = {The recognition of an expression seems obvious and easy when classified by the human brain. However, it is clearly difficult for a computer to detect human face, extract all of the components characterizing the facial expression and then determine its classification from a single image. Moreover, based on videos, the process becomes even more complex because it must take simultaneously into account the temporal and spatial information available. Also, It should be noted that facial features have an important fact to developing a robust face representation because it aims to select the best of features and reduce dimensionality of features set by finding a new set which contains most of the face features information. For those reasons, this paper present several features extraction approaches for facial expressions recognition as state-of-the-art review. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2016.7905642},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019146665\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2016.7905642\&partnerID=40\&md5=9a7be9980a63d7021cf8136fdf05dfd5},
	author = {Abouyahya, A. and El Fkihi, S. and Thami, R.O.H. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article {Elmouhtadi2017714,
	title = {Fingerprint identification using hierarchical matching and topological structures},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {533},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {714-722},
	abstract = {Fingerprint identification is one of the most popular and efficient biometric technique used for improving automatic personal identification. In this paper, we will present a new indexing based method, in the first step, on estimation of singular point considered as an important feature in the fingerprint using a directional file. In the second step, a hierarchical Delaunay triangulation was applied on the minutiae around the singular point extracted. Comparison of two fingerprints was calculated by introducing the barycenter notion so as to ensure the exact location of the similar triangles. We have performed extensive experiments and comparisons to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a challenging public database (i.e., FVC2000) which contains small area and low quality fingerprints. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-48308-5_68},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994504482\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-48308-5_68\&partnerID=40\&md5=8c568e5df1645e23782fc831e2182b69},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article {Elmouhtadi2017714,
	title = {Fingerprint identification using hierarchical matching and topological structures},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {533},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {714-722},
	abstract = {Fingerprint identification is one of the most popular and efficient biometric technique used for improving automatic personal identification. In this paper, we will present a new indexing based method, in the first step, on estimation of singular point considered as an important feature in the fingerprint using a directional file. In the second step, a hierarchical Delaunay triangulation was applied on the minutiae around the singular point extracted. Comparison of two fingerprints was calculated by introducing the barycenter notion so as to ensure the exact location of the similar triangles. We have performed extensive experiments and comparisons to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a challenging public database (i.e., FVC2000) which contains small area and low quality fingerprints. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-48308-5_68},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994504482\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-48308-5_68\&partnerID=40\&md5=8c568e5df1645e23782fc831e2182b69},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M.a and El Fkihi, S.a b and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference {Elmouhtadi2017434,
	title = {Fingerprints indexing algorithms based on multiple characteristics},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {434-437},
	abstract = {Fingerprint identification in large databases is a leading concern preoccupation problem since biometrics still the most reliable and secure means of identification systems. Hence the need to find an accurate and relevant system of research and identification. In this paper we present the different approaches of fingerprints indexing algorithms that have proven satisfactory results in the field, evaluated on large databases provided by FVC. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805086},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010223948\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805086\&partnerID=40\&md5=d8555e034c9089955faeed9880ac4dda},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Elmouhtadi2017434,
	title = {Fingerprints indexing algorithms based on multiple characteristics},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {434-437},
	abstract = {Fingerprint identification in large databases is a leading concern preoccupation problem since biometrics still the most reliable and secure means of identification systems. Hence the need to find an accurate and relevant system of research and identification. In this paper we present the different approaches of fingerprints indexing algorithms that have proven satisfactory results in the field, evaluated on large databases provided by FVC. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805086},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010223948\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805086\&partnerID=40\&md5=d8555e034c9089955faeed9880ac4dda},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M.a and El Fkihi, S.b and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@article {Sardi2017165,
	title = {Gamified mobile blood donation applications},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {10208 LNCS},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {165-176},
	abstract = {Unpaid blood donation is a selfless act of citizenship and the usage of gamification elements in blood donation apps can enhance the donors{\textquoteright} experience, especially among youth. This paper analyses the functionalities and explores gamification elements of the existing blood donation apps in the mobile market. A search in Google Play, Apple Apps store, Blackberry App World, and Windows Mobile App store was performed to select 10 gamified BD apps with three duplicates out of 801 pinpointed. The results show that the majority of the blood donation apps selected do not support multiple languages and that the predominant authentication methods are traditional and social logins. Moreover, all the apps were intended for more than one purpose among helping users to find donors and blood centres, track their records and check their eligibility to donate. Most apps installed include notification features and built-in geolocation services to instantly inform the users of donation need in nearby locations. Badges and redeemable points were the most recurrent gamification elements in the blood donation apps selected. There is a need for better incentives in order to not only retain the potential donors but also to recruit non-willing ones. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-56148-6_14},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85018706816\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-56148-6_14\&partnerID=40\&md5=0e71bd08afeb528b9c0f612b667abd3d},
	author = {Sardi, L. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {ElFachtali2017154,
	title = {Improved vertical handover decision algorithm using ants{\textquoteright} colonies with adaptive pheromone evaporation rate for 4th generation heterogeneous wireless networks},
	journal = {International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing},
	volume = {12},
	number = {2},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {154-165},
	abstract = {ACOR (Ant Colony Optimisation for Continuous Domains) has been proved to be able to adapt to vertical handoff mechanism. Adaptation capabilities of ACO are due to the pheromone evaporation, where the rate is usually fixed as it is done for vertical handover decision algorithm using ant colonies for 4G heterogeneous wireless networks. An adaptive pheromone evaporation rate (PER) is more suitable. High PER will eliminate the high intensity of pheromone trails that represent bad solutions from previous environments, while low PER may be more interesting when we have stagnation behaviours to minimise power consumption. In this paper, an update version of vertical handover decision algorithm using ant colonies for 4G heterogeneous wireless networks is proposed to vary the evaporation rate at different stages of the optimisation process. Simulation results show that ACOR with adaptive pheromone evaporation rate (ACOR APER) achieves promising results, when compared to the original ACOR and ACOR LPER (ACOR with low pheromone evaporation rate) with a fixed pheromone evaporation rate. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1504/IJWMC.2017.084181},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019724918\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJWMC.2017.084181\&partnerID=40\&md5=e6d37478e0a2f4e257a4dd563e20dd01},
	author = {El Fachtali, I. and Saadane, R. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@conference {Idri2017262,
	title = {ISO/IEC 25010 Based Evaluation of Free Mobile Personal Health Records for Pregnancy Monitoring},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {262-267},
	abstract = {Background: Mobile Personal Health Records (mPHRs) are mobile applications that allow organizing and saving the patients{\textquoteright} health data in order to ease their management and access for both patients and doctors. Objective: This study aims to evaluate, based on ISO/IEC 25010 quality standard, the software quality of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring. Method: An External quality evaluation was carried out on 17 pregnancy monitoring mPHRs for iOS and Android. The evaluation consisted of performing a set of tasks and filling in a quality assessment questionnaire that covers the four External quality characteristics: Functional suitability, Operability, Performance efficiency and Reliability. Moreover, 14 mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring were used to study the relationship between the External quality and the Quality in-use by means of four classification techniques: Iterative Dichotomiser 3 (ID3), C4.5, K-nearest neighbors (K-NN) and Na{\"\i}ve Bayes. Results: Functional suitability and Reliability are the most covered quality characteristics by the 17 apps compared to Operability and Performance efficiency. Furthermore, K-NN and C4.5 obtained the highest accuracy rates, as evaluating the accuracy rate of each classification technique can determine if a classifier can be designed to predict the Quality in-use from the External Quality for the apps used in this study. Conclusion: The need of studying the relationship between fulfilling the External quality and the Quality in-use for pregnancy monitoring mPHRs, is of great importance for the developers of these apps for future improvements. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/COMPSAC.2017.159},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031943834\&doi=10.1109\%2fCOMPSAC.2017.159\&partnerID=40\&md5=33e58a2940bb96d4a2c3c7a272a519e5},
	author = {Idri, A. and Bachiri, M. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A.}
}
@article {Kadi201712,
	title = {Knowledge discovery in cardiology: A systematic literature review},
	journal = {International Journal of Medical Informatics},
	volume = {97},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 6},
	pages = {12-32},
	abstract = {Context Data mining (DM) provides the methodology and technology needed to transform huge amounts of data into useful information for decision making. It is a powerful process employed to extract knowledge and discover new patterns embedded in large data sets. Data mining has been increasingly used in medicine, particularly in cardiology. In fact, DM applications can greatly benefit all those involved in cardiology, such as patients, cardiologists and nurses. Objective The purpose of this paper is to review papers concerning the application of DM techniques in cardiology so as to summarize and analyze evidence regarding: (1) the DM techniques most frequently used in cardiology; (2) the performance of DM models in cardiology; (3) comparisons of the performance of different DM models in cardiology. Method We performed a systematic literature review of empirical studies on the application of DM techniques in cardiology published in the period between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2015. Results A total of 149 articles published between 2000 and 2015 were selected, studied and analyzed according to the following criteria: DM techniques and performance of the approaches developed. The results obtained showed that a significant number of the studies selected used classification and prediction techniques when developing DM models. Neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines were identified as being the techniques most frequently employed when developing DM models in cardiology. Moreover, neural networks and support vector machines achieved the highest accuracy rates and were proved to be more efficient than other techniques. {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.09.005},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988689033\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ijmedinf.2016.09.005\&partnerID=40\&md5=9bd4f89bacb9b8dea94dd1f7eefef431},
	author = {Kadi, I. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article { ISI:000390485500002,
	title = {Knowledge discovery in cardiology: A systematic literature review},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS},
	volume = {97},
	year = {2017},
	month = {JAN},
	pages = {12-32},
	abstract = {Context: Data mining (DM) provides the methodology and technology needed to transform huge amounts of data into useful information for decision making. It is a powerful process employed to extract knowledge and discover new patterns embedded in large data sets. Data mining has been increasingly used in medicine, particularly in cardiology. In fact, DM applications can greatly benefit all those involved in cardiology, such as patients, cardiologists and nurses. Objective: The purpose of this paper is to review papers concerning the application of DM techniques in cardiology so as to summarize and analyze evidence regarding: (1) the DM techniques most frequently used in cardiology; (2) the performance of DM models in cardiology; (3) comparisons of the performance of different DM models in cardiology. Method: We performed a systematic literature review of empirical studies on the application of DM techniques in cardiology published in the period between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2015. Results: A total of 149 articles published between 2000 and 2015 were selected, studied and analyzed according to the following criteria: DM techniques and performance of the approaches developed. The results obtained showed that a significant number of the studies selected used classification and prediction techniques when developing DM models. Neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines were identified as being the techniques most frequently employed when developing DM models in cardiology. Moreover, neural networks and support vector machines achieved the highest accuracy rates and were proved to be more efficient than other techniques. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {1386-5056},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.09.005},
	author = {Kadi, I. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J. L.}
}
@article {Kadi201712,
	title = {Knowledge discovery in cardiology: A systematic literature review},
	journal = {International Journal of Medical Informatics},
	volume = {97},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {12-32},
	abstract = {Context Data mining (DM) provides the methodology and technology needed to transform huge amounts of data into useful information for decision making. It is a powerful process employed to extract knowledge and discover new patterns embedded in large data sets. Data mining has been increasingly used in medicine, particularly in cardiology. In fact, DM applications can greatly benefit all those involved in cardiology, such as patients, cardiologists and nurses. Objective The purpose of this paper is to review papers concerning the application of DM techniques in cardiology so as to summarize and analyze evidence regarding: (1) the DM techniques most frequently used in cardiology; (2) the performance of DM models in cardiology; (3) comparisons of the performance of different DM models in cardiology. Method We performed a systematic literature review of empirical studies on the application of DM techniques in cardiology published in the period between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2015. Results A total of 149 articles published between 2000 and 2015 were selected, studied and analyzed according to the following criteria: DM techniques and performance of the approaches developed. The results obtained showed that a significant number of the studies selected used classification and prediction techniques when developing DM models. Neural networks, decision trees and support vector machines were identified as being the techniques most frequently employed when developing DM models in cardiology. Moreover, neural networks and support vector machines achieved the highest accuracy rates and were proved to be more efficient than other techniques. {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2016.09.005},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988689033\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ijmedinf.2016.09.005\&partnerID=40\&md5=9bd4f89bacb9b8dea94dd1f7eefef431},
	author = {Kadi, I.a and Idri, A.b and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b}
}
@article {Frigul2017337,
	title = {Linear active disturbances rejection control (LADRC) applied for wind turbine DFIG based operating in primary frequency control for a micro-grid},
	journal = {International Review on Modelling and Simulations},
	volume = {10},
	number = {5},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {337-345},
	abstract = {The objective of this paper is to simulate the vector control of a double-fed induction generator (DFIG), when it is operating in afrequency control systemfor the micro-grid structure. The control is provided by the linear active disturbances rejection control, (LADRC) controller, which has several benefits over the conventional PI controller such as the estimation and compensation in real time of the internal and external disturbances, which can be summarized in the parameters uncertainties. To ensure the performances and achieve the advantages of the LADRC controller, in case of primary frequency control, the results are compared with the conventional PI by a simulation in MATLAB/Simulink. The results obtained have shown that the LADRC controller is much more efficient compared to a conventional PI controller in terms of control. Finally, the primary frequency control can be better applied with this type of controller which ensures a good dynamic frequency support and a reduction of the frequency variations. {\textcopyright} 2017 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. - All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.15866/iremos.v10i5.12171},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041212842\&doi=10.15866\%2firemos.v10i5.12171\&partnerID=40\&md5=8b2da9540f995d9afe5b4eae14150720},
	author = {Frigul, A. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A. and Boualouch, A.}
}
@conference {Farchane2017,
	title = {New decoder for linear block codes},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper exposes a new decoder for linear bloc codes. The proposed decoder is based on the resolution of the parity equations system. Elsewhere, to reduce its complexity we have developed a criteria for early terminating the decoding, on the one hand. On the other hand, we introduced a fast method for generating test error patterns. Our decoder is suitable for linear bloc code of medium and high code rate. Because, it presents a reduced complexity compared to similar decoders presented in literature. Simulation results show that the basic decoder, Dual-R-0 out performs the Berlikamp-massey{\textquoteright}s one for the decoding of the BCH(63, 51) code with BPSk modulation over an AWGN channel. The performance of the decoder Dual-R-2 for the code BCH(2047, 2014) is about 0.9 dB away from the Shannon{\textquoteright}s limit at the bit error rate (BER) 10-5. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843939},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015196984\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843939\&partnerID=40\&md5=e2078d92b0c8571a77d2222866cf5358},
	author = {Farchane, A. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {Zakaria2017,
	title = {Non-binary Euclidean Geometry codes: Majority Logic Decoding},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Non-binary One Step Majority Logic decodable (OSMLD) codes have several advantages over their binary counterparts but unfortunately their decoding complexity is significantly challenging. In this paper, we propose two contributions. Our first contribution is to use the Majority-Logic Decoding (MLGD) algorithm for non-binary cyclic OSMLD codes, since it involves only finite field addition and multiplication, in addition to a majority vote, and hence has significantly lower complexity than other decoding algorithms, which seems to be an attractive choice. The second contribution is to use finite geometry codes, even those of prime fields, because they have a large number of orthogonal equations which makes them good candidates for the MLGD algorithm, so we can benefit from its low complexity. We also investigate the power correction of this algorithm and the results are quite satisfying. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843943},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015156977\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843943\&partnerID=40\&md5=8b93306a50f5227acb219e0067afb94a},
	author = {Zakaria, M. and Fouad, A. and Mostafa, B. and Anouar, Y. and El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili, Z.}
}
@conference {Bouzbita2017633,
	title = {A novel based Hidden Markov Model approach for controlling the ACS-TSP evaporation parameter},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {633-638},
	abstract = {The aim of this paper is to propose a new method capable of dynamically controlling the evaporation parameter in an Ant Colony System (ACS) using a Hidden Markov Model. The purpose is to improve the performance of ACS by controlling the exploration and exploitation in the search space. To this end, two HMM approaches are proposed. The first is a training method that best suits the observed data of the Hidden Markov Model. The second is a method that dynamically controls the adapted parameter by applying several processes. To test our algorithm we used a set of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) instances. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2016.7905544},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019108752\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2016.7905544\&partnerID=40\&md5=2acc848761420a801ab6567757203ac4},
	author = {Bouzbita, S. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Aoutoul2017125,
	title = {A novel interconnection technique using zero-degree phase shifting microstrip TL for RF QFN package at S-band},
	journal = {Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters},
	volume = {67},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {125-130},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a novel interconnection technique for a flip-chip quad flat no-lead (FC QFN) package which can decrease the amount of the transmission line (TL) phase shift. The RF die inputs and outputs (I/O) are connected to the package lead fingers by a small size, 1000 {\textmu}m length, microstrip line having a gap capacitor consisting of staked plates (fingers) where the space in between is filled by a ceramic material of 10.2 dielectric constant value. This technique can reduce the effect of transmission line inductance and makes the novel package interconnection behaving as a composite left right handed (CLRH) TL; hence, one can set the TL phase shift to zero degree at the desired operating frequency band (i.e., S-band) by just tuning geometrical and/or physical interconnection structure parameters. {\textcopyright} 2017, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.2528/PIERL17031301},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019546909\&doi=10.2528\%2fPIERL17031301\&partnerID=40\&md5=4be55e2571c969bc93a364b5554f37fc},
	author = {Aoutoul, M. and Haddad, A. and Essaaidi, M. and Faqir, 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 {Elmaroud2017550,
	title = {Performance analysis of asynchronous and non linear FBMC 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 = {550-561},
	abstract = {This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the joint effect of synchronization errors and High Power Amplifiers (HPA) non linear distortions on filter bank based multicarrier (FBMC) systems. A promising class of FBMC modulation called Cosine Modulated Multitone (CMT) will be considered. For the studied system, analytical expressions of the signal to interference ratio (SIR) and bit error rate (BER) will be derived in the presence of HPA distortions, timing errors and carrier frequency offset (CFO). To this end, we have developed a closed-form expression of interference and useful signal powers using some acceptable approximations. The proposed model is compared with existing models designed for the considered system or for other multicarrier systems like SMT (Staggered Modulated Multitone) or OFDM. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-68179-5_48},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034587110\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-68179-5_48\&partnerID=40\&md5=6d16308c4170297309c0b8c954bb39aa},
	author = {Elmaroud, B. and Faqihi, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2017557,
	title = {Requirements for a mobile personal health record to improve cardiovascular healthcare services},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing},
	volume = {Part F128005},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {557-562},
	abstract = {Analyzing health records of patients suffering from chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease can help understanding their conditions and therefore improving healthcare services offered to them. To improve the cardiology healthcare quality and efficiency in the Autonomic Nervous System centre in Avicenne Hospital in Rabat in Morocco, a mobile personal health record (mPHR) along with an electronic health record have been developed. This paper presents our mPHR{\textquoteright}s functional requirements used in the product development. It also presents some aspects of quality evaluation of the mPHR. An experiment has been conducted to assess and improve the mPHR{\textquoteright}s quality using the ISO/IEC 25010 standard. Copyright 2017 ACM.},
	doi = {10.1145/3019612.3019725},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020871426\&doi=10.1145\%2f3019612.3019725\&partnerID=40\&md5=6cf797c1b1a37c7309de64935405f2e8},
	author = {Ouhbi, S. and Idri, A. and Hakmi, R. and Benjelloun, H. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Toval, A.}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2017285,
	title = {A reusable requirements catalog for internationalized and sustainable blood donation apps},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2017 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {285-292},
	abstract = {Blood donation mobile applications are efficient tools to increase awareness about the importance of blood donation acts and to attract blood donors. The aim of this paper is to define a reusable requirements repository (catalog) for blood donation applications based on the main related software engineering standards, e-health technology standards and literature. The catalog contains requirements regarding internationalization to bridge the cultural and language barriers among blood donors. It includes also requirements for sustainable blood donation applications which cover the individual, social, environmental, and technical dimensions of sustainability. This catalog can be very useful to develop, evaluate and audit blood donation applications and it can be adapted to other m-health applications. {\textcopyright} 2017 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All Rights Reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85025445810\&partnerID=40\&md5=b3c2b8763e5f5a729522529e5ca3e148},
	author = {Ouhbi, S. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L. and Idri, A. and Toval, A. and Pozo, J.R. and Bajta, M.E.}
}
@article {Boualouch20171,
	title = {A robust power control of a DFIG used in wind turbine conversion system},
	journal = {International Energy Journal},
	volume = {17},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-10},
	abstract = {This paper presents a robust power control of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used in Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) based on the active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) connected to the grid power. In this article we present the performance and robustness of ADRC compared to other controllers regulators such as the polynomial controller RST applied to powers control for DFIG. The proposed control strategy employs ADRC based on Extended State Observer (ESO) scheme to directly calculate the required rotor control voltage in order to eliminate the instantaneous errors of active and reactive powers. Listed in this paper are the advantage, performance and robustness of the Active Disturbance Rejection Control. First, we present a model of wind turbine and DFIG machine, then a synthesis of the controllers and their application in the DFIG power control. Simulation results on a 1.5MW grid-connected DFIG system are provided by MATLAB/Simulink.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020533490\&partnerID=40\&md5=17085b8fbcb00bb5ac36b9fdfab0db0c},
	author = {Boualouch, A. and Nasser, T. and Essadki, A. and Boukhriss, A. and Frigui, A.}
}
@conference {Fezeu2017,
	title = {Safe and irrefutable decentralized communication: Bringing non-repudiation to mesh networks},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F129474},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Securing digital communications is a major preoccupation for industry and academia, and a great number of techniques have been successfully developed to achieve that goal. The predominant model for digital communication is that which relies on trusted third-parties, either as local servers or as cloud services. Meanwhile, emerging technologies such as internet-of-things are set to broadcast growing amounts of potentially sensitive information thereby making centralized architectures problematic for privacy and performance reasons and making decentralized networks ever more relevant. However, these third-parties play an important role in securing brokered communications and are essential in providing Authentication and Non-Repudiation according to current models. Clearly, such an approach cannot be used in peer-to-peer networks and there is need for a simple model applicable in fully decentralized networks to provide Non-Repudiation. This document proposes such a model, presents an implementation and discusses its application, particularly pertaining to implementing irrefutable trustless transaction mechanisms - similar to blockchain - in the realm of limited resources. {\textcopyright} 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.},
	doi = {10.1145/3090354.3090392},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028463840\&doi=10.1145\%2f3090354.3090392\&partnerID=40\&md5=00d345b203cd99bd20f6b7401577a263},
	author = {Fezeu, H.K. and Djotio, T. and Thami, R.O.H.}
}
@conference {Faizi20171760,
	title = {Screening job candidates via social media: Opportunities and pitfalls},
	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 = {1760-1765},
	abstract = {Many businesses have undergone significant changes over the past decade due to the exponential growth of social media. These technologies have not only altered how professionals and businesses operate but also the way they get engaged with target groups. With millions of job seekers being tech-savvy, recruiters are heavily using social media to screen job candidates. Whether seeking a job or hunting for candidates, these online networks seem to be the ideal venue. Therefore, our objective in this paper is to examine the opportunities and pitfalls of using social media in the recruitment process. In this respect, it was found out that these online platforms enable human resources managers to have access to a large and diverse pool of qualified prospective employees at a lower cost, and to get connected with passive candidates. Social media also provide recruiters with an opportunity to get greater insight into an applicant{\textquoteright}s real abilities and competences as well as to view aspects of his personality. Nevertheless, using these platforms in the hiring process usually inundates employers with huge amounts of data that is often difficult to analyze. Moreover, being limited to the information available on social media runs the risk of excluding skilled candidates or hiring under qualified employees. Finally, accessing sensitive information on a job candidate{\textquoteright}s social media profile could be viewed as an invasion of privacy. Despite all these pitfalls, we strongly believe that social media represent a significant component of the hiring process that will give businesses a competitive advantage.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85029761283\&partnerID=40\&md5=099a91a3a97bbda87b2b604b24ae305c},
	author = {Faizi, R.}
}
@article {12059907120170107,
	title = {Sensitivity analysis of FBMC-based multi-cellular networks to synchronization errors and HPA nonlinearities.},
	journal = {EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing},
	volume = {2017},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1 - 10},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study the performance of asynchronous and nonlinear FBMC-based multi-cellular networks. The considered system includes a reference mobile perfectly synchronized with its reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. Both synchronization errors and high-power amplifier (HPA) distortions will be considered and a theoretical analysis of the interference signal will be conducted. On the basis of this analysis, we will derive an accurate expression of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) in the presence of a frequency-selective channel. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the BER expression, we applied an interesting lemma based on the moment generating function of the interference power. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated through computer simulations which show a high sensitivity of the asynchronous FBMC-based multi-cellular network to HPA nonlinear distortions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Bit error rate, Cellular neural networks (Computer science), Filter bank multicarrier, HPA NLD, Multi-cellular networks, Signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio, Synchronization errors},
	issn = {16876172},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=120599071\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Elmaroud, Brahim and Faqihi, Ahmed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article {Elmaroud2017,
	title = {Sensitivity analysis of FBMC-based multi-cellular networks to synchronization errors and HPA nonlinearities},
	journal = {Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing},
	volume = {2017},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study the performance of asynchronous and nonlinear FBMC-based multi-cellular networks. The considered system includes a reference mobile perfectly synchronized with its reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. Both synchronization errors and high-power amplifier (HPA) distortions will be considered and a theoretical analysis of the interference signal will be conducted. On the basis of this analysis, we will derive an accurate expression of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) in the presence of a frequency-selective channel. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the BER expression, we applied an interesting lemma based on the moment generating function of the interference power. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated through computer simulations which show a high sensitivity of the asynchronous FBMC-based multi-cellular network to HPA nonlinear distortions. {\textcopyright} 2017, The Author(s).},
	doi = {10.1186/s13634-016-0441-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008705000\&doi=10.1186\%2fs13634-016-0441-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=28ba324c5eee82072f7555fc9f1f6df0},
	author = {Elmaroud, B.a and Faqihi, A.a b and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@article {Elmaroud2017,
	title = {Sensitivity analysis of FBMC-based multi-cellular networks to synchronization errors and HPA nonlinearities},
	journal = {Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing},
	volume = {2017},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study the performance of asynchronous and nonlinear FBMC-based multi-cellular networks. The considered system includes a reference mobile perfectly synchronized with its reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. Both synchronization errors and high-power amplifier (HPA) distortions will be considered and a theoretical analysis of the interference signal will be conducted. On the basis of this analysis, we will derive an accurate expression of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) in the presence of a frequency-selective channel. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the BER expression, we applied an interesting lemma based on the moment generating function of the interference power. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated through computer simulations which show a high sensitivity of the asynchronous FBMC-based multi-cellular network to HPA nonlinear distortions. {\textcopyright} 2017, The Author(s).},
	doi = {10.1186/s13634-016-0441-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008705000\&doi=10.1186\%2fs13634-016-0441-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=28ba324c5eee82072f7555fc9f1f6df0},
	author = {Elmaroud, B. and Faqihi, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article { ISI:000392177500001,
	title = {Sensitivity analysis of FBMC-based multi-cellular networks to synchronization errors and HPA nonlinearities},
	journal = {EURASIP JOURNAL ON ADVANCES IN SIGNAL PROCESSING},
	year = {2017},
	month = {JAN 7},
	abstract = {In this paper, we study the performance of asynchronous and nonlinear FBMC-based multi-cellular networks. The considered system includes a reference mobile perfectly synchronized with its reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. Both synchronization errors and high-power amplifier (HPA) distortions will be considered and a theoretical analysis of the interference signal will be conducted. On the basis of this analysis, we will derive an accurate expression of signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) and bit error rate (BER) in the presence of a frequency-selective channel. In order to reduce the computational complexity of the BER expression, we applied an interesting lemma based on the moment generating function of the interference power. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated through computer simulations which show a high sensitivity of the asynchronous FBMC-based multi-cellular network to HPA nonlinear distortions.},
	issn = {1687-6180},
	doi = {10.1186/s13634-016-0441-0},
	author = {Elmaroud, Brahim and Faqihi, Ahmed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Sardi201731,
	title = {A systematic review of gamification in e-Health},
	journal = {Journal of Biomedical Informatics},
	volume = {71},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {31-48},
	abstract = {Gamification is a relatively new trend that focuses on applying game mechanics to non-game contexts in order to engage audiences and to inject a little fun into mundane activities besides generating motivational and cognitive benefits. While many fields such as Business, Marketing and e-Learning have taken advantage of the potential of gamification, the digital healthcare domain has also started to exploit this emerging trend. This paper aims to summarize the current knowledge regarding gamified e-Health applications. A systematic literature review was therefore conducted to explore the various gamification strategies employed in e-Health and to address the benefits and the pitfalls of this emerging discipline. A total of 46 studies from multiple sources were then considered and thoroughly investigated. The results show that the majority of the papers selected reported gamification and serious gaming in health and wellness contexts related specifically to chronic disease rehabilitation, physical activity and mental health. Although gamification in e-Health has attracted a great deal of attention during the last few years, there is still a dearth of valid empirical evidence in this field. Moreover, most of the e-Health applications and serious games investigated have been proven to yield solely short-term engagement through extrinsic rewards. For gamification to reach its full potential, it is therefore necessary to build e-Health solutions on well-founded theories that exploit the core experience and psychological effects of game mechanics. {\textcopyright} 2017 Elsevier Inc.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jbi.2017.05.011},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019895406\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.jbi.2017.05.011\&partnerID=40\&md5=9da7af1cff144bf7fab5532c2a4aea66},
	author = {Sardi, L. and Idri, A. and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.}
}
@article {Gourmaj2017244,
	title = {Teaching power electronics and digital electronics using personal learning environments. from traditional learning to remote experiential learning},
	journal = {Journal of Mobile Multimedia},
	volume = {13},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {244-255},
	abstract = {Practical works have a fundamental role in the curriculum of any scientist, engineer, and technician. It helps learners to face the real world and put in practice what they have learned to judge their operability. Moreover, due to some limiting factors and due to the growth number of learners, universities and institutes have become inapt to give efficient learning. Distance education presents a future key to reduce these restrictions. Currently, remote experiments together with web-based courses approach significantly contribute many aspects of education for learners. In this context, the main question addressed is how we ensure that an educational system evolves to better serve the needs of learners? The present work proposes a solution based on student{\textquoteright}s Personal Learning Environments {\textquoteright}PLEs{\textquoteright}. PLEs are educational platforms that help learners take control and manage their own learning process, learning modules with remote experiments, for reaching a specific goal. In order to response these criteria we use the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, the e-portfolio Mahara, the Remote Laboratory Management System (RLMS) iLab Shared Architecture (ISA) with additional tools and plug-ins to implement the learning by doing environment. {\textcopyright} Rinton Press.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040225241\&partnerID=40\&md5=bf688a5ec5060678e1ed74d6a4e98bad},
	author = {Gourmaj, M. and Naddami, A. and Fahli, A. and Berqia, A.}
}
@article { ISI:000389146000004,
	title = {ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF XACML POLICIES IN A MEDICAL CLOUD ENVIRONMENT},
	journal = {Scalable Computing-Practice and Experience},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3, SI},
	year = {2016},
	month = {SEP},
	pages = {189-205},
	abstract = {The connectivity of devices, machines and people via Cloud infrastructure can support collaborations among doctors and specialists from different medical organisations. Such collaborations may lead to data sharing and joint tasks and activities. Hence, the collaborating organisations are responsible for managing and protecting data they share. Therefore, they should define a set of access control policies regulating the exchange of data they own. However, existing Cloud services do not offer tools to analyse these policies. In this paper, we propose a Cloud Policy Verification Service (CPVS) for the analysis and the verification of access control policies specified using XACML. The analysis process detects anomalies at two policy levels: a) intra-policy: detects discrepancies between rules within a single security policy (conflicting rules and redundancies), and b) inter policies: detects anomalies between several security policies such as inconsistency and similarity. The verification process consists in verifying the completeness property which guarantees that each access request is either accepted or denied by the access control policy. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of our method, we also provide the time and space complexities. Finally, we present the implementation of our method and demonstrate how efficiently our approach can detect policy anomalies.},
	issn = {1895-1767},
	doi = {10.12694/scpe.v17i3.1180},
	author = {Ayache, Meryeme and Erradi, Mohammed and Khoumsi, Ahmed and Freisleben, Bernd}
}
@article {11714990120160901,
	title = {ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF XACML POLICIES IN A MEDICAL CLOUD ENVIRONMENT.},
	journal = {Scalable Computing: Practice \& Experience},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {189 - 205},
	abstract = {The connectivity of devices, machines and people via Cloud infrastructure can support collaborations among doctors and specialists from different medical organisations. Such collaborations may lead to data sharing and joint tasks and activities. Hence, the collaborating organisations are responsible for managing and protecting data they share. Therefore, they should define a set of access control policies regulating the exchange of data they own. However, existing Cloud services do not offer tools to analyse these policies. In this paper, we propose a Cloud Policy Verification Service (CPVS) for the analysis and the verification of access control policies specified using XACML. The analysis process detects anomalies at two policy levels: a) intra-policy: detects discrepancies between rules within a single security policy (conflicting rules and redundancies), and b) interpolicies: detects anomalies between several security policies such as inconsistency and similarity. The verification},
	keywords = {Automata, Cloud computing, Completeness, Data security, Formal Verification, Information storage \& retrieval systems {\textendash} Medical care, Security Anomaly Detection, XACML Policies},
	issn = {18951767},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=117149901\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Ayache, Meryeme and Erradi, Mohammed and Khoumsi, Ahmed and Freisleben, Bernd}
}
@article {Ayache2016189,
	title = {Analysis and verification of XACML policies in a medical cloud environment},
	journal = {Scalable Computing},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {189-205},
	abstract = {The connectivity of devices, machines and people via Cloud infrastructure can support collaborations among doctors and specialists from different medical organisations. Such collaborations may lead to data sharing and joint tasks and activities. Hence, the collaborating organisations are responsible for managing and protecting data they share. Therefore, they should define a set of access control policies regulating the exchange of data they own. However, existing Cloud services do not offer tools to analyse these policies. In this paper, we propose a Cloud Policy Verification Service (CPVS) for the analysis and the verification of access control policies specified using XACML. The analysis process detects anomalies at two policy levels: a) intra-policy: detects discrepancies between rules within a single security policy (conflicting rules and redundancies), and b) interpolicies: detects anomalies between several security policies such as inconsistency and similarity. The verification process consists in verifying the completeness property which guarantees that each access request is either accepted or denied by the access control policy. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of our method, we also provide the time and space complexities. Finally, we present the implementation of our method and demonstrate how efficiently our approach can detect policy anomalies. {\textcopyright} 2016 SCPE.},
	doi = {10.12694/scpe.v17i3.1180},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84986332574\&doi=10.12694\%2fscpe.v17i3.1180\&partnerID=40\&md5=86b782c01a2231027ed2e7308e178385},
	author = {Ayache, M.a and Erradi, M.a and Khoumsi, A.b and Freisleben, B.c}
}
@article { ISI:000391839700001,
	title = {Are the expected benefits of requirements reuse hampered by distance? An experiment},
	journal = {SPRINGERPLUS},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	month = {DEC 20},
	abstract = {Background: Software development processes are often performed by distributed teams which may be separated by great distances. Global software development (GSD) has undergone a significant growth in recent years. The challenges concerning GSD are especially relevant to requirements engineering (RE). Stakeholders need to share a common ground, but there are many difficulties as regards the potentially variable interpretation of the requirements in different contexts. We posit that the application of requirements reuse techniques could alleviate this problem through the diminution of the number of requirements open to misinterpretation. Results: This paper presents a reuse-based approach with which to address RE in GSD, with special emphasis on specification techniques, namely parameterised requirements and traceability relationships. An experiment was carried out with the participation of 29 university students enrolled on a Computer Science and Engineering course. Two main scenarios that represented co-localisation and distribution in software development were portrayed by participants from Spain and Morocco. The global teams achieved a slightly better performance than the co-located teams as regards effectiveness, which could be a result of the worse productivity of the global teams in comparison to the co-located teams. Subjective perceptions were generally more positive in the case of the distributed teams (difficulty, speed and understanding), with the exception of quality. Conclusions: A theoretical model has been proposed as an evaluation framework with which to analyse, from the point of view of the factor of distance, the effect of requirements specification techniques on a set of performance and perception-based variables. The experiment utilised a new internationalisation requirements catalogue. None of the differences found between co-located and distributed teams were significant according to the outcome of our statistical tests. The well-known benefits of requirements reuse in traditional co-located projects could, therefore, also be expected in GSD projects.},
	issn = {2193-1801},
	doi = {10.1186/s40064-016-3782-0},
	author = {Carrillo de Gea, Juan M. and Nicolas, Joaquin and Fernandez-Aleman, Jose L. and Toval, Ambrosio and Idri, Ali}
}
@article {CarrillodeGea2016,
	title = {Are the expected benefits of requirements reuse hampered by distance? An experiment},
	journal = {SpringerPlus},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Background: Software development processes are often performed by distributed teams which may be separated by great distances. Global software development (GSD) has undergone a significant growth in recent years. The challenges concerning GSD are especially relevant to requirements engineering (RE). Stakeholders need to share a common ground, but there are many difficulties as regards the potentially variable interpretation of the requirements in different contexts. We posit that the application of requirements reuse techniques could alleviate this problem through the diminution of the number of requirements open to misinterpretation. Results: This paper presents a reuse-based approach with which to address RE in GSD, with special emphasis on specification techniques, namely parameterised requirements and traceability relationships. An experiment was carried out with the participation of 29 university students enrolled on a Computer Science and Engineering course. Two main scenarios that represented co-localisation and distribution in software development were portrayed by participants from Spain and Morocco. The global teams achieved a slightly better performance than the co-located teams as regards effectiveness, which could be a result of the worse productivity of the global teams in comparison to the co-located teams. Subjective perceptions were generally more positive in the case of the distributed teams (difficulty, speed and understanding), with the exception of quality. Conclusions: A theoretical model has been proposed as an evaluation framework with which to analyse, from the point of view of the factor of distance, the effect of requirements specification techniques on a set of performance and perception-based variables. The experiment utilised a new internationalisation requirements catalogue. None of the differences found between co-located and distributed teams were significant according to the outcome of our statistical tests. The well-known benefits of requirements reuse in traditional co-located projects could, therefore, also be expected in GSD projects. {\textcopyright} 2016, The Author(s).},
	doi = {10.1186/s40064-016-3782-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006395692\&doi=10.1186\%2fs40064-016-3782-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=9460f4e677fce457e990913a04d0898d},
	author = {Carrillo de Gea, J.M.a and Nicol{\'a}s, J.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Toval, A.a and Idri, A.b}
}
@conference {Slimani2016266,
	title = {Artificial neural networks for demand forecasting: Application using Moroccan supermarket data},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA},
	volume = {2016-June},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {266-271},
	abstract = {The accuracy of sales forecasts in a supply chain is certainly an important key to competitiveness. Because, for any member of the supply chain system, having a clear vision of the future demand affects his planning, his performance so his profit. In the first study of this work, various Artificial Neural Network models were presented and utilized to predict demand of a costumer{\textquoteright}s product. The training and validating data are provided from a known supermarket in Morocco. In a previous study, the results indicated that the best neural network structure for demand forecasting is the Multi Layer Perceptron, which is by the way, the most commonly used model in the literature. This work focuses on finding the optimal Multi Layer Perceptron structure for demand forecasting. We also present a review of selected works done in the application of game theory and neural networks in the context of management science. The main contribution of our work is the use of neural networks in order to predict the consumer{\textquoteright}s demand and implement this demand forecasting in a two-echelon supply chain with a game theoretic approach. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISDA.2015.7489236},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978383954\&doi=10.1109\%2fISDA.2015.7489236\&partnerID=40\&md5=e101e792765c4a46c2bf395db5f4b1b1},
	author = {Slimani, I.a and El Farissi, I.b and Achchab, S.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000392439200051,
	title = {Configuration of Daily Demand Predicting System Based on Neural Networks},
	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 = {Having a clear vision about future demand is a crucial key to enhance the commercial competitiveness to any efficient supply chain. However, demand forecasting is certainly not an easy task for a manager who had the choice between using traditional forecasting techniques encompassing time series methods, causal methods or simulation methods, or techniques based on artificial intelligence like artificial neural networks (ANNs), fuzzy logic or adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). This paper focuses on the implementation and configuration of the artificial intelligence of neural networks, and more precisely the multi layer perceptron{\textquoteright}s structure, as a prediction system to produce daily demand forecasts based on historical demand information. The results indicate that adding new inputs to the neural network, in our case study, has a positive impact on the accuracy of the short term demand forecasting. In the numerical experimentation, the effectiveness of the proposed model is validated using is validated using a real-world data of a leader supermarket in Morocco.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8571-8},
	author = {Slimani, Ilham and El Farissi, Ilhame and Achchab, Said},
	editor = {Alaoui, AE and Benadada, Y and Boukachour, J}
}
@conference {Slimani2016,
	title = {Configuration of daily demand predicting system based on neural networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Having a clear vision about future demand is a crucial key to enhance the commercial competitiveness to any efficient supply chain. However, demand forecasting is certainly not an easy task for a manager who had the choice between using traditional forecasting techniques encompassing time series methods, causal methods or simulation methods, or techniques based on artificial intelligence like artificial neural networks (ANNs), fuzzy logic or adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). This paper focuses on the implementation and configuration of the artificial intelligence of neural networks, and more precisely the multi layer perceptron{\textquoteright}s structure, as a prediction system to produce daily demand forecasts based on historical demand information. The results indicate that adding new inputs to the neural network, in our case study, has a positive impact on the accuracy of the short term demand forecasting. In the numerical experimentation, the effectiveness of the proposed model is validated using is validated using a real-world data of a leader supermarket in Morocco. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2016.7731709},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85001948885\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2016.7731709\&partnerID=40\&md5=acdd39511da4d8415453e309226bc8c1},
	author = {Slimani, I.a and Farissi, I.E.b and Al-Qualsadi, S.A.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 {Assad2016469,
	title = {On the deployment quality for multi-intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	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. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0_48},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964066188\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-30298-0_48\&partnerID=40\&md5=5dca2bc944d09de42dd56334a955161e},
	author = {Assad, N.a and Elbhiri, B.b and Faqihi, M.A.c and Ouadou, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.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}
}
@article {11387931120160401,
	title = {Efficient deployment quality analysis for intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks.},
	journal = {Wireless Networks (10220038)},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {991 - 1006},
	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. The quality of deterministic deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. In the intrusion detection application, it is necessary to define more precise measures of sensing range, transmission range, and node density that impact overall system performance. The major question is centred around the quality of intrusion detection in WSN, how we can guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by at least one sensor node, and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network connectivity? In this paper, we propose an appropriate probabilistic model which provides the cover},
	keywords = {Graph theory, Integer programming, Intrusion detection probability, Intrusion detection systems (Computer security), Multiple access protocols (Computer network protocols), Network connectivity, Network coverage, Quality of service, Sensing range, Transmission range, Wireless sensor networks},
	issn = {10220038},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=113879311\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Assad, Noureddine and Elbhiri, Brahim and Faqihi, Moulay and Ouadou, Mohamed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article { ISI:000372921300019,
	title = {Efficient deployment quality analysis for intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {WIRELESS NETWORKS},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	month = {APR},
	pages = {991-1006},
	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. The quality of deterministic deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. In the intrusion detection application, it is necessary to define more precise measures of sensing range, transmission range, and node density that impact overall system performance. The major question is centred around the quality of intrusion detection in WSN, how we can guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by at least one sensor node, and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network connectivity? In this paper, we propose an appropriate probabilistic model which provides the coverage and connectivity in k-sensing detection of a wireless sensor network. We have proved the capability of our approach using a geometric analysis and a probabilistic model.},
	issn = {1022-0038},
	doi = {10.1007/s11276-015-1015-z},
	author = {Assad, Noureddine and Elbhiri, Brahim and Faqihi, Moulay Ahmed and Ouadou, Mohamed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article {Assad2016991,
	title = {Efficient deployment quality analysis for intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Wireless Networks},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {991-1006},
	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. The quality of deterministic deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. In the intrusion detection application, it is necessary to define more precise measures of sensing range, transmission range, and node density that impact overall system performance. The major question is centred around the quality of intrusion detection in WSN, how we can guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by at least one sensor node, and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network connectivity? In this paper, we propose an appropriate probabilistic model which provides the coverage and connectivity in k-sensing detection of a wireless sensor network. We have proved the capability of our approach using a geometric analysis and a probabilistic model. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s11276-015-1015-z},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962534941\&doi=10.1007\%2fs11276-015-1015-z\&partnerID=40\&md5=6a1fff96c40ee0d1aa4f74e4d9c1a592},
	author = {Assad, N.a and Elbhiri, B.b and Faqihi, M.A.c and Ouadou, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@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}
}
@conference { ISI:000383373300015,
	title = {An Empirical Evaluation of Mobile Software Usability Using ISO 9126 and QoS DiffServ Model},
	booktitle = {NEW TRENDS IN SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES},
	series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications},
	volume = {286},
	year = {2016},
	note = {15th International Conference on New Trends in Intelligent Software Methodology Tools, and Techniques (SoMeT), CYPRUS, SEP 13-15, 2016},
	pages = {177-188},
	abstract = {The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate a framework that we have developed on the use of the software quality standard ISO 9126 with the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) Quality of Service (QoS) model to assess the software quality of mobile applications, especially the software usability characteristic. To do that, firstly we have carried out an empirical evaluation of the influence of mobile limitations on Diffserv classes by means of the Sensorly tool. Thereafter, a correlation between the influence of mobile limitations on DiffServ classes and its effects on usability characteristic is discussed. As a result of this empirical study, the usability is less correlated with Diffserv classes in terms of influence of mobile limitations given that this characteristic corresponds to the presentation layer unlike the Diffserv model which would focus on the network level quality.},
	isbn = {978-1-61499-674-3; 978-1-61499-673-6},
	issn = {0922-6389},
	doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-674-3-177},
	author = {Moumane, Karima and Idri, Ali and Nafil, Khalid},
	editor = {Fujita, H and Papadopoulos, GA}
}
@conference {Idri2016,
	title = {Experiment design of free pregnancy monitoring mobile personal health records quality evaluation},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE 18th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services, Healthcom 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In order to improve the management of the patients{\textquoteright} health data and promote the exchange between the patients and healthcare providers, mobile personal health records (mPHRs), as mobile applications, are used to access, store and manage these data. In this paper, a design of the software quality evaluation of free mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring is introduced. Ten mobile applications (4 for iOS and 6 for Android) are selected for the evaluation. A list of tasks is set to be executed in order to answer a quality assessment questionnaire that is developed for this purpose, covering the four quality characteristics: Functional suitability, Operability, Performance efficiency and Reliability, by using the ISO/IEC 25010 quality standard. This evaluation aims to analyze the degree of meeting these quality characteristics, in addition to the compliance between the users{\textquoteright} ratings in the apps stores and the fulfillment of the quality characteristics by the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring. This study is intended to be developed by conducting the proposed design of the evaluation, which will be of great use for the developers of these apps for further improvements. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/HealthCom.2016.7749501},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006448693\&doi=10.1109\%2fHealthCom.2016.7749501\&partnerID=40\&md5=874e804ffde0d22f7489462942cc7d43},
	author = {Idri, A.a and Bachiri, M.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000391459700084,
	title = {Experiment Design of Free Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records Quality Evaluation},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-HEALTH NETWORKING, APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES (HEALTHCOM)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {18th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), Munich, GERMANY, SEP 14-16, 2016},
	pages = {466-471},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {In order to improve the management of the patients{\textquoteright} health data and promote the exchange between the patients and healthcare providers, mobile personal health records (mPHRs), as mobile applications, are used to access, store and manage these data. In this paper, a design of the software quality evaluation of free mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring is introduced. Ten mobile applications (4 for iOS and 6 for Android) are selected for the evaluation. A list of tasks is set to be executed in order to answer a quality assessment questionnaire that is developed for this purpose, covering the four quality characteristics: Functional suitability, Operability, Performance efficiency and Reliability, by using the ISO/IEC 25010 quality standard. This evaluation aims to analyze the degree of meeting these quality characteristics, in addition to the compliance between the users{\textquoteright} ratings in the apps stores and the fulfillment of the quality characteristics by the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring. This study is intended to be developed by conducting the proposed design of the evaluation, which will be of great use for the developers of these apps for further improvements.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-3370-6},
	author = {Idri, Ali and Bachiri, Mariam and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article {Idri201650,
	title = {A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records},
	journal = {Journal of medical systems},
	volume = {40},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {50},
	abstract = {Stakeholders{\textquoteright} needs and expectations are identified by means of software quality requirements, which have an impact on software product quality. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring, which have been extracted from literature and existing mobile apps on the market. We also use the ISO/IEC 25030 standard to suggest the requirements that should be considered during the quality evaluation of these mPHRs. We then go on to design a checklist in which we contrast the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements with software product quality characteristics and sub-characteristics in order to calculate the impact of these requirements on software product quality, using the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality standard. The results obtained show that the requirements related to the user{\textquoteright}s actions and the app{\textquoteright}s features have the most impact on the external sub-characteristics of the software product quality model. The only sub-characteristic affected by all the requirements is Appropriateness of Functional suitability. The characteristic Operability is affected by 95\% of the requirements while the lowest degrees of impact were identified for Compatibility (15\%) and Transferability (6\%). Lastly, the degrees of the impact of the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements are discussed in order to provide appropriate recommendations for the developers and stakeholders of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0415-z},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84987608328\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-015-0415-z\&partnerID=40\&md5=423439e4757adcc2e9b6a12c4537fb19},
	author = {Idri, A.a and Bachiri, M.b and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.c}
}
@article {Idri20161,
	title = {A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {40},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-17},
	abstract = {Stakeholders{\textquoteright} needs and expectations are identified by means of software quality requirements, which have an impact on software product quality. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring, which have been extracted from literature and existing mobile apps on the market. We also use the ISO/IEC 25030 standard to suggest the requirements that should be considered during the quality evaluation of these mPHRs. We then go on to design a checklist in which we contrast the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements with software product quality characteristics and sub-characteristics in order to calculate the impact of these requirements on software product quality, using the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality standard. The results obtained show that the requirements related to the user{\textquoteright}s actions and the app{\textquoteright}s features have the most impact on the external sub-characteristics of the software product quality model. The only sub-characteristic affected by all the requirements is Appropriateness of Functional suitability. The characteristic Operability is affected by 95~\% of the requirements while the lowest degrees of impact were identified for Compatibility (15~\%) and Transferability (6~\%). Lastly, the degrees of the impact of the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements are discussed in order to provide appropriate recommendations for the developers and stakeholders of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0415-z},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949224616\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-015-0415-z\&partnerID=40\&md5=df762241f98c62b406bc99f45cbe1418},
	author = {Idri, A.a and Bachiri, M.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b}
}
@article { ISI:000368730900006,
	title = {A Framework for Evaluating the Software Product Quality of Pregnancy Monitoring Mobile Personal Health Records},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS},
	volume = {40},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	month = {MAR},
	abstract = {Stakeholders{\textquoteright} needs and expectations are identified by means of software quality requirements, which have an impact on software product quality. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring, which have been extracted from literature and existing mobile apps on the market. We also use the ISO/IEC 25030 standard to suggest the requirements that should be considered during the quality evaluation of these mPHRs. We then go on to design a checklist in which we contrast the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements with software product quality characteristics and sub-characteristics in order to calculate the impact of these requirements on software product quality, using the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality standard. The results obtained show that the requirements related to the user{\textquoteright}s actions and the app{\textquoteright}s features have the most impact on the external sub-characteristics of the software product qualitymodel. The only sub-characteristic affected by all the requirements is Appropriateness of Functional suitability. The characteristic Operability is affected by 95 \% of the requirements while the lowest degrees of impact were identified for Compatibility (15 \%) and Transferability (6 \%). Lastly, the degrees of the impact of the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements are discussed in order to provide appropriate recommendations for the developers and stakeholders of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring.},
	issn = {0148-5598},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0415-z},
	author = {Idri, Ali and Bachiri, Mariam and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose}
}
@conference {DBLP:conf/balt/OufkirFK16,
	title = {Knowledge Management Performance Measurement: {A} Generic Framework},
	booktitle = {Databases and Information Systems - 12th International Baltic Conference, DB{\&}IS 2016, Riga, Latvia, July 4-6, 2016, Proceedings},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {242{\textendash}254},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5_17},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5_17},
	author = {Latifa Oufkir and Mounia Fredj and Ismail Kassou}
}
@conference { ISI:000389806000017,
	title = {Knowledge Management Performance Measurement: A Generic Framework},
	booktitle = {DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, DB\&IS 2016},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {615},
	year = {2016},
	note = {12th International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems (DB and IS), Riga, LATVIA, JUL 04-06, 2016},
	pages = {242-254},
	publisher = {Univ Latvia, Fac Comp; Exigen Serv Latvia; IEEE; Springer},
	organization = {Univ Latvia, Fac Comp; Exigen Serv Latvia; IEEE; Springer},
	abstract = {This theoretical article aims to propose a generic framework for measuring performance of Knowledge Management (KM) projects based on critical literature review. The proposed framework fills the existing gap on KM performance measurement in two points: (i) it provides a generic tool that is able to assess all kinds of KM project as well as the overall organization KM, (ii) it assesses KM projects according to KM objectives in a generic manner. Our framework (GKMPM) relies on a process reference model that provides a KM common understanding in a process based view. It is based on a goal-oriented measurement approach and considers that KM performance dimensions are stakeholder{\textquoteright}s objectives. The framework application follows a procedural approach that begins with the KM project modelling, followed by the objectives prioritization. The next step consists of collecting and analysing data for pre-designed measures, and produces a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the KM project processes and in accordance with its objectives.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-40180-5; 978-3-319-40179-9},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5\_17},
	author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Arnicans, G and Arnicane, V and Borzovs, J and Niedrite, L}
}
@article {Oufkir2016242,
	title = {Knowledge management performance measurement: A generic framework},
	journal = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {615},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {242-254},
	abstract = {This theoretical article aims to propose a generic framework for measuring performance of Knowledge Management (KM) projects based on critical literature review. The proposed framework fills the existing gap on KM performance measurement in two points: (i) it provides a generic tool that is able to assess all kinds of KM project as well as the overall organization KM, (ii) it assesses KM projects according to KM objectives in a generic manner. Our framework (GKMPM) relies on a process reference model that provides a KM common understanding in a process based view. It is based on a goal-oriented measurement approach and considers that KM performance dimensions are stakeholder{\textquoteright}s objectives. The framework application follows a procedural approach that begins with the KM project modelling, followed by the objectives prioritization. The next step consists of collecting and analysing data for pre-designed measures, and produces a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) related to the KM project processes and in accordance with its objectives. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40180-5_17},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979022041\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-40180-5_17\&partnerID=40\&md5=7353ebf3c020ba8a9bc9458832afda06},
	author = {Oufkir, L. and Fredj, M. and Kassou, I.}
}
@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}
}
@article { ISI:000381647000011,
	title = {Mobile personal health records for pregnancy monitoring functionalities: Analysis and potential},
	journal = {COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE},
	volume = {134},
	year = {2016},
	month = {OCT},
	pages = {121-135},
	abstract = {Background and objective: Personal Health Records (PHRs) are a rapidly growing area of health information technology. PHR users are able to manage their own health data and communicate with doctors in order to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. Mobile PHR (mPHR) applications for mobile devices have obtained an interesting market quota since the appearance of more powerful mobile devices. These devices allow users to gain access to applications that used to be available only for personal computers. This paper analyzes the functionalities of mobile PHRs that are specific to pregnancy monitoring. Methods: A well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was used in the analysis process. A questionnaire was developed for this task, based on the rigorous study of scientific literature concerning pregnancy and applications available on the market, with 9 data items and 35 quality assessments. The data items contain calendars, pregnancy information, health habits, counters, diaries, mobile features, security, backup, configuration and architectural design. Results: A total of 33 mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring, available for iOS and Android, were selected from Apple App store and Google Play store, respectively. The results show that none of the mPHRs selected met 100\% of the functionalities analyzed in this paper. The highest score achieved was 77\%, while the lowest was 17\%. Conclusions: In this paper, these features are discussed and possible paths for future development of similar applications are proposed, which may lead to a more efficient use of smartphone capabilities. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {0169-2607},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.06.008},
	author = {Bachiri, Mariam and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article {Bachiri2016121,
	title = {Mobile personal health records for pregnancy monitoring functionalities: Analysis and potential},
	journal = {Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine},
	volume = {134},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {121-135},
	abstract = {Background and objective Personal Health Records (PHRs) are a rapidly growing area of health information technology. PHR users are able to manage their own health data and communicate with doctors in order to improve healthcare quality and efficiency. Mobile PHR (mPHR) applications for mobile devices have obtained an interesting market quota since the appearance of more powerful mobile devices. These devices allow users to gain access to applications that used to be available only for personal computers. This paper analyzes the functionalities of mobile PHRs that are specific to pregnancy monitoring. Methods A well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was used in the analysis process. A questionnaire was developed for this task, based on the rigorous study of scientific literature concerning pregnancy and applications available on the market, with 9 data items and 35 quality assessments. The data items contain calendars, pregnancy information, health habits, counters, diaries, mobile features, security, backup, configuration and architectural design. Results A total of 33 mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring, available for iOS and Android, were selected from Apple App store and Google Play store, respectively. The results show that none of the mPHRs selected met 100\% of the functionalities analyzed in this paper. The highest score achieved was 77\%, while the lowest was 17\%. Conclusions In this paper, these features are discussed and possible paths for future development of similar applications are proposed, which may lead to a more efficient use of smartphone capabilities. {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.06.008},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978646111\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.cmpb.2016.06.008\&partnerID=40\&md5=5810b4e9f9f1e14a4a7c0721b3d022c8},
	author = {Bachiri, M.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@article {Jorio2016255,
	title = {Multi-hop clustering algorithm based on spectral classification for wireless sensor network},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {381},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	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. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30298-0_27},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964091516\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-30298-0_27\&partnerID=40\&md5=9978fe8f8eb166334a20f4b43e48bf35},
	author = {Jorio, A.a and Fkihi, S.E.b and Elbhiri, B.c and Aboutajdine, D.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}
}
@article { ISI:000381711000011,
	title = {A perceptual analysis of phrasal stress in Amazigh},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES},
	volume = {21},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {501-511},
	abstract = {In the last few years, a number of research studies have been conducted on stress in Amazigh, a Hamito-Semitic language spoken in North Africa. However, these works were mainly confined to analysing word-level stress. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to examine stress distribution beyond this level, namely within the phrase and the sentence in Goulmima Amazigh. Specifically, an attempt is made to investigate whether the stress patterns of isolated words are similar or distinct from those of items that appear within phrases or sentences. Results of the study revealed that the assignment of stress at the phrasal and sentence levels shows marked differences from the assignment of stress at the word level. In fact, stress above the word level no longer depends on the internal make-up of the syllable. Apart from nominal forms that occupy the initial position of a phrase or sentence, those that are part of each of these strings get stressed on the rightmost syllable whose nucleus is a plain vowel. Nonetheless, only the last stressed syllable in the sequence bears more prominence.},
	issn = {1362-9387},
	doi = {10.1080/13629387.2016.1141681},
	author = {Faizi, Rdouan}
}
@article {Faizi2016501,
	title = {A perceptual analysis of phrasal stress in Amazigh},
	journal = {Journal of North African Studies},
	volume = {21},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {501-511},
	abstract = {ABSTRACT: In the last few years, a number of research studies have been conducted on stress in Amazigh, a Hamito-Semitic language spoken in North Africa. However, these works were mainly confined to analysing word-level stress. The objective of this paper is, therefore, to examine stress distribution beyond this level, namely within the phrase and the sentence in Goulmima Amazigh. Specifically, an attempt is made to investigate whether the stress patterns of isolated words are similar or distinct from those of items that appear within phrases or sentences. Results of the study revealed that the assignment of stress at the phrasal and sentence levels shows marked differences from the assignment of stress at the word level. In fact, stress above the word level no longer depends on the internal make-up of the syllable. Apart from nominal forms that occupy the initial position of a phrase or sentence, those that are part of each of these strings get stressed on the rightmost syllable whose nucleus is a plain vowel. Nonetheless, only the last stressed syllable in the sequence bears more prominence. {\textcopyright} 2016 Taylor \& Francis.},
	doi = {10.1080/13629387.2016.1141681},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958046528\&doi=10.1080\%2f13629387.2016.1141681\&partnerID=40\&md5=957f7a2d6d61c252acf888f321071d1a},
	author = {Faizi, R.}
}
@conference {Lamrhari201622,
	title = {A profile-based Big data architecture for agricultural context},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies, ICEIT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {22-27},
	abstract = {Bringing Big data technologies into agriculture presents a significant challenge; at the same time, this technology contributes effectively in many countries{\textquoteright} economic and social development. In this work, we will study environmental data provided by precision agriculture information technologies, which represents a crucial source of data in need of being wisely managed and analyzed with appropriate methods and tools in order to extract the meaningful information. Our main purpose through this paper is to propose an effective Big data architecture based on profiling system which can assist (among others) producers, consulting companies, public bodies and research laboratories to make better decisions by providing them real time data processing, and a dynamic big data service composition method, to enhance and monitor the agricultural productivity. Thus, improve their traditional decision-making process, and allow better management of the natural resources. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/EITech.2016.7519585},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992212960\&doi=10.1109\%2fEITech.2016.7519585\&partnerID=40\&md5=59c8b765838757c9bb090244fe82ab74},
	author = {Lamrhari, S.a and Elghazi, H.b and Sadiki, T.b and El Faker, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000391354500004,
	title = {A Profile-Based Big Data Architecture for Agricultural Context},
	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 = {22-27},
	abstract = {Bringing Big data technologies into agriculture presents a significant challenge; at the same time, this technology contributes effectively in many countries{\textquoteright} economic and social development. In this work, we will study environmental data provided by precision agriculture information technologies, which represents a crucial source of data in need of being wisely managed and analyzed with appropriate methods and tools in order to extract the meaningful information. Our main purpose through this paper is to propose an effective Big data architecture based on profiling system which can assist (among others) producers, consulting companies, public bodies and research laboratories to make better decisions by providing them real time data processing, and a dynamic big data service composition method, to enhance and monitor the agricultural productivity. Thus, improve their traditional decision-making process, and allow better management of the natural resources.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8469-8},
	author = {Lamrhari, Soumaya and Elghazi, Hamid and Sadiki, Tayeb and El Faker, Abdellatif},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and ElHani, S}
}
@conference { ISI:000391420300054,
	title = {Requirements Specification of an e-Health Solution to Improve Cardiovascular Healthcare Services in Morocco},
	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 = {Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of deaths in the world. By analyzing data from health records this chronic disease can be better understood. This paper presents the software requirements specification (SRS) of an e-health solution to improve the cardiology healthcare quality and efficiency in Morocco. Based on this SRS, a mobile personal health record along with an electronic health record have been developed for the Autonomic Nervous System centre in Avicenne Hospital in Rabat. Requirements and characteristics of the mobile solution are detailed in this study. Moreover, an empirical evaluation has been conducted to assess and improve the quality of the mobile personal health record using the ISO/IEC 25010 standard.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-5781-8},
	issn = {2378-2528},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Hakmi, Rachid and Benjelloun, Halima and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2016,
	title = {Requirements specification of an e-health solution to improve cardiovascular healthcare services in Morocco},
	booktitle = {SITA 2016 - 11th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of deaths in the world. By analyzing data from health records this chronic disease can be better understood. This paper presents the software requirements specification (SRS) of an e-health solution to improve the cardiology healthcare quality and efficiency in Morocco. Based on this SRS, a mobile personal health record along with an electronic health record have been developed for the Autonomic Nervous System centre in Avicenne Hospital in Rabat. Requirements and characteristics of the mobile solution are detailed in this study. Moreover, an empirical evaluation has been conducted to assess and improve the quality of the mobile personal health record using the ISO/IEC 25010 standard. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2016.7772309},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010407980\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2016.7772309\&partnerID=40\&md5=005f49eb037586504f1262f955f907b1},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Hakmi, R.a and Benjelloun, H.b and Fernandez-Aleman, J.L.c and Toval, A.c}
}
@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}
}
@article {Ayoub20162179,
	title = {Serially concatenated OSMLD codes: Design and iterative decoding},
	journal = {Applied Mathematical Sciences},
	volume = {10},
	number = {41-44},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {2179-2188},
	abstract = {In this paper, the performance of serially concatenated one-step ma- jority logic decodable (SC-OSMLD) codes is investigated. The iterative decoding process uses a soft-input soft-output threshold decoding algo- rithm [1] as component decoder with our proposed connection scheme [2]. The effect of various components codes, interleaver size (Number of sub-blocks), and the number of iterations are investigated. Simulation results for SC-OSMLD codes transmitted over Additive White Gaussian Noise channel(AWGN) are provided. The simulation result will show that the slope of curves and coding gain are improved by increasing the number of decoder iterations and/or the interleaver size. {\textcopyright} 2016 Fouad Ayoub et al.},
	doi = {10.12988/ams.2016.6387},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84983503792\&doi=10.12988\%2fams.2016.6387\&partnerID=40\&md5=46efa596ad7d8a871fc411883576d89c},
	author = {Ayoub, F.a and Farchane, A.b and Mohamed, A.c and Belkasmi, M.c and Himmi, M.M.d}
}
@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 { ISI:000391107900013,
	title = {Systematic Mapping Study of Ensemble Effort Estimation},
	booktitle = {ENASE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL SOFTWARE APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2016},
	note = {11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering, Rome, ITALY, APR 27-28, 2016},
	pages = {132-139},
	abstract = {Ensemble methods have been used recently for prediction in data mining area in order to overcome the weaknesses of single estimation techniques. This approach consists on combining more than one single technique to predict a dependent variable and has attracted the attention of the software development effort estimation (SDEE) community. An ensemble effort estimation (EEE) technique combines several existing single/classical models. In this study, a systematic mapping study was carried out to identify the papers based on EEE techniques published in the period 2000-2015 and classified them according to five classification criteria: research type, research approach, EEE type, single models used to construct EEE techniques, and rule used the combine single estimates into an EEE technique. Publication channels and trends were also identified. Within the 16 studies selected, homogeneous EEE techniques were the most investigated. Furthermore, the machine learning single models were the most frequently employed to construct EEE techniques and two types of combiner (linear and non-linear) have been used to get the prediction value of an ensemble.},
	isbn = {978-989-758-189-2},
	doi = {10.5220/0005822701320139},
	author = {Idri, Ali and Hosni, Mohamed and Abran, Alain},
	editor = {Maciaszek, L and Filipe, J}
}
@article {Elmaroud201653,
	title = {Theoretical analysis of BER performance for asynchronous FBMC based multi-cellular networks with non linear distortions},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {53-61},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of bit error rate (BER) for asynchronous filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) based multi-cellular networks in the presence of high power amplifiers (HPA) nonlinear distortion (NLD). A promising class of FBMCmodulation called CosineModulated Multitone (CMT) is considered and the analytical BER is derived based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of a cellular network consisting of one reference mobile user (MU), one reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. The proposed model is evaluated and it is found in very good agreement with simulation results. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5_5},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959166330\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-287-990-5_5\&partnerID=40\&md5=0544540b48d8d8ec9e084a310f5f3bea},
	author = {Elmaroud, B.a and Faqihi, A.a b and Abbad, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100005,
	title = {Theoretical Analysis of BER Performance for Asynchronous FBMC Based Multi-cellular Networks with Non Linear Distortions},
	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 = {53-61},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a theoretical analysis of bit error rate (BER) for asynchronous filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) based multi-cellular networks in the presence of high power amplifiers (HPA) nonlinear distortion (NLD). A promising class of FBMCmodulation called CosineModulated Multitone (CMT) is considered and the analytical BER is derived based on the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of a cellular network consisting of one reference mobile user (MU), one reference base station (BS) and K interfering BSs. The proposed model is evaluated and it is found in very good agreement with simulation results.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_5},
	author = {Elmaroud, Brahim and Faqihi, Ahmed and Abbad, Mohammed and Aboutajdine, Driss},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@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}
}
@article {Elmaroud2016345,
	title = {Theoretical analysis of SINR performance for unsynchronized and nonlinearly distorted FBMC signals},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	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 multicarrier (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. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7_36},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964514091\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-30301-7_36\&partnerID=40\&md5=01dafa56c7f8076383e3c81b63f4afbc},
	author = {Elmaroud, B.a and Faqihi, A.a b and Abbad, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.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}
}
@article {Faqihi2016215,
	title = {Toward a new treatment approach of learning content in cloud era},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {83},
	number = {2},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {215-226},
	abstract = {Nowadays, Technological development of human beings is extremely related to information. This is proved on the manners and areas that life was computerized such as in trade, government services, medicine, education, learning etc.Nevertheless, the fast development of designing information systems has created several sub-systems in multiple contexts which are conceived by different communities and totally dispersed geographically but all undertaking the same area. Neither contents nor services that these subsystems are made are certainly in the same technology environments. In our research, the learning field goes through many key steps. Actually, new revolutionized practices were implemented due to technology innovation, so transition from classical learning towards distance learning or d-learning is more than possible, it{\textquoteright}s desired. Consequently, this phenomenon has created more opportunities for learners and teachers but also several challenges; in many cases, the multitude of standards hinders the learner migration from a learning environment to another, so it hampers its learning development.In this paper, we will propose a framework of interoperability based on three levels. Since we are interested in semantic level, we propose a process of interoperability of learning content in the cloud era based on a global ontology. Like recommendation systems, we will start our process by acquisition, then validation and finally structuration of the learning content. This structuration way will give to both actors of learning environment a certain flexibility and access to other resources in Cloud environment. The basic principle is to collect content, to enrich it and to make it interoperable by using unified approach in star based on a comprehensive ontology. Our work is a part of MADAR project which is {\textquotedblleft}Learning Architecture Adapted to Mobile Technology{\textquotedblright}. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2015 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84955166049\&partnerID=40\&md5=211c373530d79c2ab171cd1f8c4a6833},
	author = {Faqihi, B. and Daoudi, N. and Ajhoun, R.}
}
@conference {Oufkir20162744,
	title = {Towards a reference model for Knowledge Management performance measurement},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Business Information Management Association Conference - Innovation Management and Education Excellence Vision 2020: From Regional Development Sustainability to Global Economic Growth, IBIMA 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {2744-2755},
	abstract = {Knowledge Management (KM) projects are socio-technical systems that enable knowledge activities and ensure that the right knowledge gets to the right person at the right time. The growing number of KM applications confirms the need for a performance measurement model able to assess the diversity of KM initiatives in order to rationalize their usage. To the best of our knowledge, a generic KM model for performance measurement fitting any kind of KM projects is missing in the literature. Instead, existing approaches are specific to a particular KM project or assess the overall KM of the organization. In this paper, we propose a KM model for performance measurement that is built on existing KM models literature and enhanced with theoretical findings. It also follows the reference modelling design process in view of producing a high quality model. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2016 International Business Information Management Association},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84984611689\&partnerID=40\&md5=6ee42ddfe7a2a3ce0b1f2f99f09aa05b},
	author = {Oufkir, L. and Fredj, M. and Kassou, I.}
}
@conference { ISI:000381172301090,
	title = {Towards A Reference Model for Knowledge Management Performance Measurement},
	booktitle = {INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION EXCELLENCE VISION 2020: FROM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, VOLS I - VI},
	year = {2016},
	note = {27th International Business Information Management Association Conference, Milan, ITALY, MAY 04-05, 2016},
	pages = {2744-2755},
	abstract = {Knowledge Management (KM) projects are socio-technical systems that enable knowledge activities and ensure that the right knowledge gets to the right person at the right time. The growing number of KM applications confirms the need for a performance measurement model able to assess the diversity of KM initiatives in order to rationalize their usage. To the best of our knowledge, a generic KM model for performance measurement fitting any kind of KM projects is missing in the literature. Instead, existing approaches are specific to a particular KM project or assess the overall KM of the organization. In this paper, we propose a KM model for performance measurement that is built on existing KM models literature and enhanced with theoretical findings. It also follows the reference modelling design process in view of producing a high quality model.},
	isbn = {978-0-9860419-6-9},
	author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Soliman, KS}
}
@conference {Fissaa2016,
	title = {Towards a semantic approach for discovering context aware services},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	volume = {2016-July},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The current service discovery mechanisms are syntactic methods that often offer poor quality results. By researching this area we are able to identify issues that limit the quality of the result with these traditional service mechanisms. To overcome this issue we use ontologies to enable semantic matchmaking. By reasoning on concepts and relations, our approach can derive matches that syntactically would not match. Additionaly, by introducing contextual information in the service discovery process, the quality of the service discovery result may improve. In this paper, we present an overview of the architecture for the discovery of context aware services by using ontologies, we also present our context aware semantic service by extending OWL-S with context properties. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2015.7507223},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84980335938\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2015.7507223\&partnerID=40\&md5=4b536162f82df5902d0c9e87e0681fa3},
	author = {Fissaa, T.a and Guermah, H.a and Hafiddi, H.a b and Nassar, M.a}
}
@conference {Ayache201655,
	title = {Towards an efficient policy evaluation process in multi-tenancy cloud environments},
	booktitle = {CCSW 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop, co-located with CCS 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {55-59},
	abstract = {Cloud computing offers most of its services under multi-tenancy environments. To satisfy security requirements among collaborating tenants, each tenant may define a set of access control policies to secure access to shared data. Several cloud solutions make use of XACML to specify such policies. However, existing implementations of XACML perform a brute force search to compare a request to all existing rules in a given XACML policy. This decreases the decision process (i.e., policy evaluation) performance especially for policies with a large number of rules. In this paper, we propose an automata-based approach for an efficient XACML policy evaluation. We implemented our approach in a cloud policy engine called X2Automata. The engine first converts both XACML policies and access requests to automata. Second, it combines the two automata by a synchronous product. Third, it applies an evaluation procedure to the resulting automaton to decide whether an access request is granted or not. To highlight the efficiency of X2Automata, we compare its performance, based on the OpenStack cloud environment, with the XACML implementation named Balana. {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.},
	doi = {10.1145/2996429.2996431},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85001655008\&doi=10.1145\%2f2996429.2996431\&partnerID=40\&md5=8259d7215d88c0a1a7a94d837b9564a3},
	author = {Ayache, M.a and Erradi, M.a and Freisleben, B.b and Khoumsi, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000390888900008,
	title = {Towards an Efficient Policy Evaluation Process in Multi-Tenancy Cloud Environments},
	booktitle = {CCSW{\textquoteright}16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY WORKSHOP},
	year = {2016},
	note = {8th ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW), Vienna, AUSTRIA, OCT 28, 2016},
	pages = {55-59},
	publisher = {ACM SIGSAC; ACM},
	organization = {ACM SIGSAC; ACM},
	abstract = {Cloud computing offers most of its services under multi-tenancy environments. To satisfy security requirements among collaborating tenants, each tenant may define a set of access control policies to secure access to shared data. Several cloud solutions make use of XACML to specify such policies. However, existing implementations of XACML perform a brute force search to compare a request to all existing rules in a given XACML policy. This decreases the decision process (i.e., policy evaluation) performance especially for policies with a large number of rules. In this paper, we propose an automata-based approach for an efficient XACML policy evaluation. We implemented our approach in a cloud policy engine called X2Automata. The engine first converts both XACML policies and access requests to automata. Second, it combines the two automata by a synchronous product. Third, it applies an evaluation procedure to the resulting automaton to decide whether an access request is granted or not. To highlight the efficiency of X2Automata, we compare its performance, based on the OpenStack cloud environment, with the XACML implementation named Balana.},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-4572-9},
	doi = {10.1145/2996429.2996431},
	author = {Ayache, Meryeme and Erradi, Mohammed and Freisleben, Bernd and Khoumsi, Ahmed}
}
@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}
}
@article { ISI:000391111200027,
	title = {Variability Management in Business-IT Alignment: MDA based Approach},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS},
	volume = {7},
	number = {11},
	year = {2016},
	month = {NOV},
	pages = {212-221},
	abstract = {The expansion of PAIS (Process Aware Information Systems) has created the need for reuse in business processes. In fact, companies are left with directories containing several variants of the same business processes, which differ according to their application context. Consequently, the development of PAIS has become increasingly expensive. Therefore, research in business process management domain introduced the concept of configurable process, with the aim of managing the variability of business process. However, with the emergence of the services-based development paradigm, the alignment of services with business processes is highly required in PAIS. Thus, in this paper an MDA based method which allows for generating configurable services from configurable process is proposed.},
	issn = {2158-107X},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@article {ElFachtali2016,
	title = {Vertical handover decision algorithm using ants{\textquoteright} colonies for 4G heterogeneous wireless networks},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks and Communications},
	volume = {2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {With the development of 4G mobile telecommunication systems, providing users with the convenience of a seamless continuous connection is not enough anymore. Users want to be connected through the best available network with the best quality of service. It is necessary to have a good decision-making algorithm which decides whether it is necessary to perform handoff to another network, the best network to vertically perform handoff to, and the right time to initiate the handover. This paper proposes a new approach in which mobile terminals (MTs) continuously analyze the network and keep a database of the best available networks. The concept is based on QoS aware ant colony built on the vertical handoff mechanism that uses an updated version of ants{\textquoteright} colony optimization decision algorithm (A C O R), the dynamic and static factors such as RSS, the cost of service, bandwidth, the velocity of MT, the power consumption and security, and the module for predicting the traveling distance within an IEEE 802.11 WLAN cell. Simulation results show that we can not only meet the individual needs of users in terms of QoS, but also improve the whole system performance by reducing the number of handover failures and unnecessary handover instances by up to 95\%. {\textcopyright} 2016 Imad El Fachtali et al.},
	doi = {10.1155/2016/6259802},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961880430\&doi=10.1155\%2f2016\%2f6259802\&partnerID=40\&md5=76d5e50d1d0c97071ba232ad71f47e0e},
	author = {El Fachtali, I.a and Saadane, R.b and Elkoutbi, M.a}
}
@article {11338540020160228,
	title = {Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm Using Ants{\textquoteright} Colonies for 4G Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks \& Communications},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {1 - 15},
	abstract = {With the development of 4G mobile telecommunication systems, providing users with the convenience of a seamless continuous connection is not enough anymore. Users want to be connected through the best available network with the best quality of service. It is necessary to have a good decision-making algorithm which decides whether it is necessary to perform handoff to another network, the best network to vertically perform handoff to, and the right time to initiate the handover. This paper proposes a new approach in which mobile terminals (MTs) continuously analyze the network and keep a database of the best available networks. The concept is based on QoS aware ant colony built on the vertical handoff mechanism that uses an updated version of ants{\textquoteright} colony optimization decision algorithm (ACOR), the dynamic and static factors such as RSS, the cost of service, bandwidth, the velocity of MT, the power consumption and security, and the module for predicting the traveling distance within an},
	keywords = {Ant algorithms, Bandwidths, Quality of service, Roaming (Telecommunication), Wireless sensor networks},
	issn = {20907141},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=113385400\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {El Fachtali, Imad and Saadane, Rachid and Elkoutbi, Mohammed}
}
@article { ISI:000372275400001,
	title = {Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm Using Ants{\textquoteright} Colonies for 4G Heterogeneous Wireless Networks},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {With the development of 4G mobile telecommunication systems, providing users with the convenience of a seamless continuous connection is not enough anymore. Users want to be connected through the best available network with the best quality of service. It is necessary to have a good decision-making algorithm which decides whether it is necessary to perform handoff to another network, the best network to vertically perform handoff to, and the right time to initiate the handover. This paper proposes a new approach in which mobile terminals (MTs) continuously analyze the network and keep a database of the best available networks. The concept is based on QoS aware ant colony built on the vertical handoff mechanism that uses an updated version of ants{\textquoteright} colony optimization decision algorithm (ACO(R)), the dynamic and static factors such as RSS, the cost of service, bandwidth, the velocity of MT, the power consumption and security, and the module for predicting the traveling distance within an IEEE 802.11 WLAN cell. Simulation results show that we can not only meet the individual needs of users in terms of QoS, but also improve the whole system performance by reducing the number of handover failures and unnecessary handover instances by up to 95\%.},
	issn = {2090-7141},
	doi = {10.1155/2016/6259802},
	author = {El Fachtali, Imad and Saadane, Rachid and Elkoutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference { ISI:000387917500008,
	title = {Work in Progress: K-Nearest Neighbors Techniques for ABAC Policies Clustering},
	booktitle = {ABAC{\textquoteright}16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ATTRIBUTE BASED ACCESS CONTROL},
	year = {2016},
	note = {ACM International Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), New Orleans, LA, MAR 11, 2016},
	pages = {72-75},
	publisher = {Assoc Comp Machinery; ACM SIGSAC},
	organization = {Assoc Comp Machinery; ACM SIGSAC},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present an approach based on the K-Nearest Neighbors algorithms for policies clustering that aims to reduce the ABAC policies dimensionality for high scale systems. Since ABAC considers a very large set of attributes for access decisions, it turns out that using such model for large scale systems might be very complicated. To date, researchers have proposed to use data mining techniques to discover roles for RBAC system construction. In this work in progress, we consider the usage of KNN-based techniques for the classification of ABAC policies based on similarity computations of rules in order to enhance the ABAC flexibility and to reduce the number of policy rules.},
	isbn = {978-1-4503-4079-3},
	doi = {10.1145/2875491.2875497},
	author = {Benkaouz, Yahya and Erradi, Mohammed and Freisleben, Bernd}
}
@conference {Benkaouz201672,
	title = {Work in progress: K-nearest neighbors techniques for ABAC policies clustering},
	booktitle = {ABAC 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control, co-located with CODASPY 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {72-75},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present an approach based on the K- Nearest Neighbors algorithms for policies clustering that aims to reduce the ABAC policies dimensionality for high scale systems. Since ABAC considers a very large set of attributes for access decisions, it turns out that using such model for large scale systems might be very complicated. To date, researchers have proposed to use data mining techniques to discover roles for RBAC system construction. In this work in progress, we consider the usage of KNN-based techniques for the classification of ABAC policies based on similarity computations of rules in order to enhance the ABAC exibility and to reduce the number of policy rules. {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.},
	doi = {10.1145/2875491.2875497},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966549589\&doi=10.1145\%2f2875491.2875497\&partnerID=40\&md5=2378f9f3208a82bfc833b26f1a7ef267},
	author = {Benkaouz, Y.a and Erradi, M.a and Freisleben, B.b}
}
@conference {Ayache201526,
	title = {Access control policies enforcement in a cloud environment: Openstack},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 11th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, IAS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {26-31},
	abstract = {Cloud computing has become a widely used paradigm in many IT domains such as e-health. It offers several advantages to the users, e.g. elasticity, flexibility and the rapid sharing of a huge set of digital data. However, many security and privacy concerns still pose significant challenges. In particular, the most identified problem is how to enforce the user{\textquoteright}s security policy in the access control of the outsourced data. In fact, cloud environments does not provide facilities to support high level defined security policies. For instance, the swift storage component of openstack supports only fine grained access control to execute a specific action on a specific defined object. In this paper, we designed and implemented a middleware to provide high level security policies while using such swift fine grained primitives. An e-health collaborative application dedicated for remote diagnosis is used to illustrate the suggested approach. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISIAS.2015.7492740},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979530321\&doi=10.1109\%2fISIAS.2015.7492740\&partnerID=40\&md5=bc070d8bb2973f9f221582272c86a588},
	author = {Ayache, M.a and Erradi, M.a and Freisleben, B.b}
}
@article {10906318320150205,
	title = {Analysis of the Deployment Quality for Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks \& Communications},
	volume = {2015},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {1 - 7},
	abstract = {The intrusion detection application in a homogeneous wireless sensor network is defined as a mechanism to detect unauthorized intrusions or anomalous moving attackers in a field of interest. The quality of deterministic sensor nodes deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. An area may require that multiple nodes monitor each point from the sensing area; this constraint is known as k-coverage where k is the number of nodes. The deployment quality of sensor nodes depends directly on node density and sensing range; mainly a random sensor nodes deployment is required. The major question is centred around the problem of network coverage, how can we guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by the required number of sensor nodes and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network coverage? To deal with this, probabilistic int},
	keywords = {Intrusion detection systems (Computer security), Mathematical models, Probability theory, Wireless sensor networks, Wireless sensor nodes},
	issn = {20907141},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=109063183\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Assad, Noureddine and Elbhiri, Brahim and Faqihi, Moulay Ahmed and Ouadou, Mohamed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article { ISI:000362267900001,
	title = {Analysis of the Deployment Quality for Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {The intrusion detection application in a homogeneous wireless sensor network is defined as a mechanism to detect unauthorized intrusions or anomalous moving attackers in a field of interest. The quality of deterministic sensor nodes deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. An area may require that multiple nodes monitor each point from the sensing area; this constraint is known as k-coverage where k is the number of nodes. The deployment quality of sensor nodes depends directly on node density and sensing range; mainly a random sensor nodes deployment is required. The major question is centred around the problem of network coverage, how can we guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by the required number of sensor nodes and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network coverage? To deal with this, probabilistic intrusion detection models are adopted, called single/multi-sensing detection, and the deployment quality issue is surveyed and analysed in terms of coverage. We evaluate the capability of our probabilistic model in homogeneous wireless sensor network, in terms of sensing range, node density, and intrusion distance.},
	issn = {2090-7141},
	doi = {10.1155/2015/812613},
	author = {Assad, Noureddine and Elbhiri, Brahim and Faqihi, Moulay Ahmed and Ouadou, Mohamed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article {Assad2015,
	title = {Analysis of the deployment quality for intrusion detection in wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks and Communications},
	volume = {2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The intrusion detection application in a homogeneous wireless sensor network is defined as a mechanism to detect unauthorized intrusions or anomalous moving attackers in a field of interest. The quality of deterministic sensor nodes deployment can be determined sufficiently by a rigorous analysis before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging. An area may require that multiple nodes monitor each point from the sensing area; this constraint is known as k-coverage where k is the number of nodes. The deployment quality of sensor nodes depends directly on node density and sensing range; mainly a random sensor nodes deployment is required. The major question is centred around the problem of network coverage, how can we guarantee that each point of the sensing area is covered by the required number of sensor nodes and what a sufficient condition to guarantee the network coverage? To deal with this, probabilistic intrusion detection models are adopted, called single/multi-sensing detection, and the deployment quality issue is surveyed and analysed in terms of coverage. We evaluate the capability of our probabilistic model in homogeneous wireless sensor network, in terms of sensing range, node density, and intrusion distance. {\textcopyright} 2015 Noureddine Assad et al.},
	doi = {10.1155/2015/812613},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84923884883\&doi=10.1155\%2f2015\%2f812613\&partnerID=40\&md5=ad555667d0db7cbc297aef916a17e0f5},
	author = {Assad, N.a and Elbhiri, B.b and Faqihi, M.A.c and Ouadou, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@article {Slimani2015411,
	title = {Application of game theory and neural network to study the behavioral probabilities in supply chain},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {82},
	number = {3},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {411-416},
	abstract = {As a review of game theoretic approach to optimize the logistic costs with the objective of modeling interactions among players in a basic supply chain, this paper focuses on a single channel, two-echelon supply chain with a retailer and his supplier of a one-product where careful attention is given to information sharing in general and demand forecasting in particular. Therefore, in the industrial world, firms cannot risk waiting for the actual demand to occur so they can react and determine the quantities to purchase, produce or deliver. Demand forecasts are important and necessary to any member of the supply chain as they gave them the advantage of planning and anticipating for future needs. However, demand forecasting is one of those crucial decisions where an error can cost too much. This is why we choose to implement the artificial neural network as a forecasting technique. Obviously the closest actor to the market i.e the retailer has the best view of demand levels than the supplier, so sharing demand information with the other actors has an impact on the performance of the whole supply chain but it is not necessarily the case since the retailer can choose to withhold this information. This is why we focus in this investigation on the demand{\textquoteright}s prediction when information is not shared using the artificial intelligence of neural networks. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2015 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84952779428\&partnerID=40\&md5=12ffaf47b965757c2f2c6cf341401aac},
	author = {Slimani, I.a and El Farissi, I.b and Achchab, S.c}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2015405,
	title = {Applying ISO/IEC 25010 on mobile personal health records},
	booktitle = {HEALTHINF 2015 - 8th International Conference on Health Informatics, Proceedings; Part of 8th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 7},
	pages = {405-412},
	abstract = {Software product quality requirements reflect the stockholders{\textquoteright} needs in terms of quality. They play a central role in the success of the system and the software product quality. This paper lists mobile personal health record (mPHR) requirements extracted from literature and identifies the requirements which should be included in the mPHR quality evaluation. Moreover, the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality model is used to present a checklist with which to calculate the influence of the mPHR requirements on software product quality. Furthermore, the degrees of influence of mPHR requirements on software product quality are calculated and analyzed. A set of recommendations for mPHRs developers and stakeholders is provided.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938873168\&partnerID=40\&md5=6b335b7b09b476b23c9c36f26f7b5bdc},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b and Benjelloun, H.c}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2015,
	title = {Are mobile blood donation applications green?},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {On a global scale, software sustainability is attracting more and more attention. The term green software often refers to environmental sustainability applied to software systems, however, it is impacted by the different dimensions of sustainability. Green software can be divided into green by software and green in software. Blood donation mobile applications are more and more used by smartphone users. They represent an alternative way to attract volunteers and increase awareness about the importance of blood donation acts. The aim of this paper is to assess the greenability of seventy-two free blood donation applications using individual, social, environmental and technical dimensions of sustainability. The type, functionality and energy consumption of each app are identified and analyzed. Results have shown that the type of the BD app has a great impact on its level of greenability. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358377},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962393996\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358377\&partnerID=40\&md5=20b20223f3a907b755a5d37229297a5d},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Idri, A.b and Pozo, J.R.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500003,
	title = {Are Mobile Blood Donation Applications Green?},
	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 = {On a global scale, software sustainability is attracting more and more attention. The term green software often refers to environmental sustainability applied to software systems, however, it is impacted by the different dimensions of sustainability. Green software can be divided into green by software and green in software. Blood donation mobile applications are more and more used by smartphone users. They represent an alternative way to attract volunteers and increase awareness about the importance of blood donation acts. The aim of this paper is to assess the greenability of seventy-two free blood donation applications using individual, social, environmental and technical dimensions of sustainability. The type, functionality and energy consumption of each app are identified and analyzed. Results have shown that the type of the BD app has a great impact on its level of greenability.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Idri, Ali and Rivera Pozo, Jose}
}
@conference { ISI:000380403000032,
	title = {Co-evolution Analysis for Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 29-30, 2015},
	pages = {263-269},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {The purpose of our approach is to study the co-evolution of the platform and the products of software product lines. Because the platform must be able to derive all the family products, products are not allowed to evolve independently from the plateform, thus the propagation of the products changes must be managed efficiently. Instead of focusing on the change impact analysis we propose an approach to compare the evolution histories of the products and the platform illustrated through evolutionary trees built using the biological technique cladistics. This comparison yields important results concerning the change propagation. In this paper, we introduce the use of cladistics for software product lines to build evolutionary trees for platform and products, then we elaborate a mathematical analysis to compare these trees, afterwards we validate this work through a case study (mobile media software product lines). We also provide the design of an automated tool.},
	isbn = {978-9-8975-8143-4},
	author = {Benlarabi, Anissa and Khtira, Amal and El Asri, Bouchra},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Maciaszek, L}
}
@article { ISI:000356162200002,
	title = {Compliance of Blood Donation Apps with Mobile OS Usability Guidelines},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS},
	volume = {39},
	number = {6},
	year = {2015},
	month = {JUN},
	abstract = {The aim of this paper is to employ the guidelines of Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone to analyze the usability compliance of free blood donation (BD) apps. An analysis process based on a systematic review protocol is used to select free BD apps. An assessment is conducted using a questionnaire composed of 13 questions concerning the compliance of free BD apps with Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows Phone usability guidelines. A total of 133 free BD apps have been selected from the 188 BD apps identified. Around 63 \% of the free BD apps selected have a good compliance with mobile OS usability recommendations. Around 72 \% of Android, 57 \% of Windows Phone, 33 \% of iOS and 33 \% of Blackberry BD apps have a high usability score. The aspect of BD app behavior should be improved along with some style components: the use of pictures to explain ideas and the adaptation of the app to both horizontal and vertical orientations. Structure patterns should also be used to improve the structure aspect of a BD app. Usability is a quality aspect that should be improved in current BD apps. Our study provides smartphone users with a list of usable free BD apps and BD app developers with recommendations.},
	issn = {0148-5598},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0243-1},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Rivera Pozo, Jose and El Bajta, Manal and Toval, Ambrosio and Idri, Ali}
}
@article {Ouhbi2015,
	title = {Compliance of Blood Donation Apps with Mobile OS Usability Guidelines},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {39},
	number = {6},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 10},
	abstract = {The aim of this paper is to employ the guidelines of Android, iOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone to analyze the usability compliance of free blood donation (BD) apps. An analysis process based on a systematic review protocol is used to select free BD apps. An assessment is conducted using a questionnaire composed of 13 questions concerning the compliance of free BD apps with Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows Phone usability guidelines. A total of 133 free BD apps have been selected from the 188 BD apps identified. Around 63 \% of the free BD apps selected have a good compliance with mobile OS usability recommendations. Around 72 \% of Android, 57 \% of Windows Phone, 33 \% of iOS and 33 \% of Blackberry BD apps have a high usability score. The aspect of BD app behavior should be improved along with some style components: the use of pictures to explain ideas and the adaptation of the app to both horizontal and vertical orientations. Structure patterns should also be used to improve the structure aspect of a BD app. Usability is a quality aspect that should be improved in current BD apps. Our study provides smartphone users with a list of usable free BD apps and BD app developers with recommendations. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0243-1},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84927595740\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-015-0243-1\&partnerID=40\&md5=c023ade3c0fdf215297c09380aabc9de},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Pozo, J.R.b and Bajta, M.E.c and Toval, A.a and Idri, A.c}
}
@conference {ElFaquih2015,
	title = {Configurable process models: A semantic validation},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {Nowadays, variability management has been introduced in the field of business process modeling by means of the configurable process models solution, with a view to resolving problems of redundancy and design time errors. Nevertheless, the existing approaches of variability modeling lack of semantic representation, and consequently, present many limits regarding automation of modeling, configuring and evolving configurable processes. Recently, semantic web technologies, especially ontologies, have been proposed in order to increase the level of automation and reduce human intervention in different domains. Business process management has benefited from the emergence of these technologies and the concept of semantic business process management appeared to make the whole business process accessible to intelligent queries as for machine reasoning. Whereas most approaches focus on providing mechanisms for modeling and configuring process models, their validation was treated syntactically rather than semantically. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach to enhance configurable processes validation using ontologies. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358436},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962355570\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358436\&partnerID=40\&md5=05f3833dcf81fed54a94453d9d919358},
	author = {El Faquih, L. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500062,
	title = {Configurable process models : a semantic validation},
	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 = {Nowadays, variability management has been introduced in the field of business process modeling by means of the configurable process models solution, with a view to resolving problems of redundancy and design time errors. Nevertheless, the existing approaches of variability modeling lack of semantic representation, and consequently, present many limits regarding automation of modeling, configuring and evolving configurable processes. Recently, semantic web technologies, especially ontologies, have been proposed in order to increase the level of automation and reduce human intervention in different domains. Business process management has benefited from the emergence of these technologies and the concept of semantic business process management appeared to make the whole business process accessible to intelligent queries as for machine reasoning. Whereas most approaches focus on providing mechanisms for modeling and configuring process models, their validation was treated syntactically rather than semantically. In this paper, we propose an ontology-based approach to enhance configurable processes validation using ontologies.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@conference { ISI:000380401800126,
	title = {curlX: a MiddleWare to Enforce Access Control Policies within a Cloud Environment},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORK SECURITY (CNS)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {IEEE Conference Communications and Network Security CNS, Florence, ITALY, SEP 28-30, 2015},
	pages = {771-772},
	abstract = {Today cloud security and privacy concerns pose significant challenges. One particular challenge consists in how to take into consideration the user{\textquoteright}s security policies while accessing the outsourced data. In fact, for a given application, we may have a set of rules, as high level security policy, which needs to hold prior to any query execution. Therefore, the main problem that we tackle in this ongoing project is how to enforce this high level security policy in the cloud storage layer without conflicts. To address this challenges, we propose a middleware denoted curlX which consists of two main processes: the security policy enforcement process and the verification process.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-7876-5},
	author = {Ayache, Meryeme and Erradi, Mohammed and Freisleben, Bernd}
}
@conference {Ayache2015771,
	title = {CurlX: A middleware to enforce access control policies within a cloud environment},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and NetworkSecurity, CNS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {771-772},
	abstract = {Today cloud security and privacy concerns pose significant challenges. One particular challenge consists in how to take into consideration the user{\textquoteright}s security policies while accessing the outsourced data. In fact, for a given application, we may have a set of rules, as high level security policy, which needs to hold prior to any query execution. Therefore, the main problem that we tackle in this ongoing project is how to enforce this high level security policy in the cloud storage layer without conflicts. To address this challenges, we propose a middleware denoted curlX which consists of two main processes: the security policy enforcement process and the verification process. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CNS.2015.7346928},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966440949\&doi=10.1109\%2fCNS.2015.7346928\&partnerID=40\&md5=bc69af0f99d640d39aa014a6a06475e9},
	author = {Ayache, M.a and Erradi, M.a and Freisleben, B.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380403000031,
	title = {Detecting Feature Duplication in Natural Language Specifications when Evolving Software Product Lines},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 29-30, 2015},
	pages = {257-262},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Software product lines are dynamic systems that need to evolve continuously to meet new customer requirements. This evolution impacts both the core platform of the product line and its derived products. For several reasons, the most common way to express requirements by customers is natural language. However, the experience has shown that this communication channel does not give the possibility to detect system defects such as inconsistency and duplication. The objective of this paper is to propose a method to transform textual requirements into the XML format used by some Feature-oriented software development tools, in order to facilitate the detection of features duplication.},
	isbn = {978-9-8975-8143-4},
	author = {Khtira, Amal and Benlarabi, Anissa and El Asri, Bouchra},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Maciaszek, L}
}
@article {Benkaouz201594,
	title = {Distributed privacy-preserving data aggregation via anonymization},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {9466},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {94-108},
	abstract = {Data aggregation is a key element in many applications that draw insights from data analytics, such as medical research, smart metering, recommendation systems and real-time marketing. In general, data is gathered from several sources, processed, and publicly released for data analysis. Since the considered data might contain personal and sensitive information, special handling of private data is required. In this paper, we present a novel distributed privacy-preserving data aggregation protocol, called ADiPA. It relies on anonymization techniques for protecting personal data, such as k-anonymity, l-diversity and t-closeness. Its purpose is to allow a set of entities to derive aggregate results from data tables that are partitioned across these entities in a fully decentralized manner while preserving the privacy of their individual sensitive inputs. ADiPA neither relies on a trusted third party nor on cryptographic techniques. The protocol performs accurate aggregation when communication links and nodes do not fail. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-26850-7_7},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961141090\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-26850-7_7\&partnerID=40\&md5=518bf129894b27ee29b635e53f9baf0c},
	author = {Benkaouz, Y.a and Erradi, M.a and Freisleben, B.b}
}
@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}
}
@article { ISI:000349001200001,
	title = {Empirical Studies on Usability of mHealth Apps: A Systematic Literature Review},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS},
	volume = {39},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	month = {FEB},
	abstract = {The release of smartphones and tablets, which offer more advanced communication and computing capabilities, has led to the strong emergence of mHealth on the market. mHealth systems are being used to improve patients{\textquoteright} lives and their health, in addition to facilitating communication between doctors and patients. Researchers are now proposing mHealth applications for many health conditions such as dementia, autism, dysarthria, Parkinson{\textquoteright}s disease, and so on. Usability becomes a key factor in the adoption of these applications, which are often used by people who have problems when using mobile devices and who have a limited experience of technology. The aim of this paper is to investigate the empirical usability evaluation processes described in a total of 22 selected studies related to mHealth applications by means of a Systematic Literature Review. Our results show that the empirical evaluation methods employed as regards usability could be improved by the adoption of automated mechanisms. The evaluation processes should also be revised to combine more than one method. This paper will help researchers and developers to create more usable applications. Our study demonstrates the importance of adapting health applications to users{\textquoteright} need.},
	issn = {0148-5598},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-014-0182-2},
	author = {Cruz Zapata, Belen and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Idri, Ali and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article {Zapata20151,
	title = {Empirical Studies on Usability of mHealth Apps: A Systematic Literature Review},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {39},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 27},
	pages = {1-19},
	abstract = {The release of smartphones and tablets, which offer more advanced communication and computing capabilities, has led to the strong emergence of mHealth on the market. mHealth systems are being used to improve patients{\textquoteright} lives and their health, in addition to facilitating communication between doctors and patients. Researchers are now proposing mHealth applications for many health conditions such as dementia, autism, dysarthria, Parkinson{\textquoteright}s disease, and so on. Usability becomes a key factor in the adoption of these applications, which are often used by people who have problems when using mobile devices and who have a limited experience of technology. The aim of this paper is to investigate the empirical usability evaluation processes described in a total of 22 selected studies related to mHealth applications by means of a Systematic Literature Review. Our results show that the empirical evaluation methods employed as regards usability could be improved by the adoption of automated mechanisms. The evaluation processes should also be revised to combine more than one method. This paper will help researchers and developers to create more usable applications. Our study demonstrates the importance of adapting health applications to users{\textquoteright} need. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-014-0182-2},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84921369632\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-014-0182-2\&partnerID=40\&md5=bdc93c6effe3b950d143f7753814b14a},
	author = {Zapata, B.C.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Idri, A.b and Toval, A.a}
}
@article {Jorio2015,
	title = {An energy-efficient clustering routing algorithm based on geographic position and residual energy for wireless sensor network},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks and Communications},
	volume = {2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 4},
	abstract = {Recently wireless sensor network (WSN) has become one of the most interesting networking technologies, since it can be deployed without communication infrastructures. A sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes; these nodes are responsible for supervision of the physical phenomenon and transmission of the periodical results to the base station. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency and maximizing the networking lifetime are the major challenges in this kind of networks. To deal with this, a hierarchical clustering scheme, called Location-Energy Spectral Cluster Algorithm (LESCA), is proposed in this paper. LESCA determines automatically the number of clusters in a network. It is based on spectral classification and considers both the residual energy and some properties of nodes. In fact, our approach uses the K-ways algorithm and proposes new features of the network nodes such as average energy, distance to BS, and distance to clusters centers in order to determine the clusters and to elect the cluster{\textquoteright}s heads of a WSN. The simulation results show that if the clusters are not constructed in an optimal way and/or the number of the clusters is greater or less than the optimal number of clusters, the total consumed energy of the sensor network per round is increased exponentially. {\textcopyright} 2015 Ali Jorio et al.},
	doi = {10.1155/2015/170138},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84924190502\&doi=10.1155\%2f2015\%2f170138\&partnerID=40\&md5=52a0eb2501890a83a608347ccdb9e158},
	author = {Jorio, A.a and El Fkihi, S.b and Elbhiri, B.c and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@article {10906318420150210,
	title = {An Energy-Efficient Clustering Routing Algorithm Based on Geographic Position and Residual Energy for Wireless Sensor Network.},
	journal = {Journal of Computer Networks \& Communications},
	volume = {2015},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {1 - 11},
	abstract = {Recently wireless sensor network (WSN) has become one of the most interesting networking technologies, since it can be deployed without communication infrastructures. A sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes; these nodes are responsible for supervision of the physical phenomenon and transmission of the periodical results to the base station. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency and maximizing the networking lifetime are the major challenges in this kind of networks. To deal with this, a hierarchical clustering scheme, called Location-Energy Spectral Cluster Algorithm (LESCA), is proposed in this paper. LESCA determines automatically the number of clusters in a network. It is based on spectral classification and considers both the residual energy and some properties of nodes. In fact, our approach uses the K-ways algorithm and proposes new features of the network nodes such as average energy, distance to BS, and distance to clusters centers in order to deter},
	keywords = {Data transmission systems, Energy consumption, Routing algorithms, Wireless sensor networks, Wireless sensor nodes},
	issn = {20907141},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=109063184\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Jorio, Ali and El Fkihi, Sanaa and Elbhiri, Brahim and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@article { ISI:000362266900001,
	title = {An Energy-Efficient Clustering Routing Algorithm Based on Geographic Position and Residual Energy for Wireless Sensor Network},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF COMPUTER NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Recently wireless sensor network (WSN) has become one of the most interesting networking technologies, since it can be deployed without communication infrastructures. A sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes; these nodes are responsible for supervision of the physical phenomenon and transmission of the periodical results to the base station. Therefore, improving the energy efficiency and maximizing the networking lifetime are the major challenges in this kind of networks. To deal with this, a hierarchical clustering scheme, called Location-Energy Spectral Cluster Algorithm (LESCA), is proposed in this paper. LESCA determines automatically the number of clusters in a network. It is based on spectral classification and considers both the residual energy and some properties of nodes. In fact, our approach uses the K-ways algorithm and proposes new features of the network nodes such as average energy, distance to BS, and distance to clusters centers in order to determine the clusters and to elect the cluster{\textquoteright}s heads of a WSN. The simulation results show that if the clusters are not constructed in an optimal way and/or the number of the clusters is greater or less than the optimal number of clusters, the total consumed energy of the sensor network per round is increased exponentially.},
	issn = {2090-7141},
	doi = {10.1155/2015/170138},
	author = {Jorio, Ali and El Fkihi, Sanaa and Elbhiri, Brahim and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@conference {Elmouhtadi2015,
	title = {Fingerprint indexing based barycenter triangulation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 IEEE World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Fingerprint indexing is an efficient technique for improving automatic fingerprint identification systems. In this paper we will present a new index method based on a hierarchical Delaunay triangulation of the minutiae points. The comparison of two fingerprints was calculated by introducing the barycenter notion so as to ensure the exact location of the similar triangles. We have performed extensive experiments and comparisons to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach using a challenging public database (i.e., FVC2000 Db1) which contains small area, low quality fingerprints. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2015.7483263},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978427437\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2015.7483263\&partnerID=40\&md5=58fb933699f1e58a80089aca6885a7c3},
	author = {Elmouhtadi, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a and El Fkihi, S.b}
}
@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 {Ouhbi20151,
	title = {Free Blood Donation Mobile Applications},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {39},
	number = {5},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 8},
	pages = {1-20},
	abstract = {Blood donation (BD) is a noble act and mobile applications (apps) can help increase awareness about it. This paper analyzes and assesses the characteristics of free apps for BD as regards features and functionality. A search in Google Play, Apple Apps store, Blackberry App World and Windows Mobile App store was carried out to select 169 free BD apps from the 188 apps identified. The results presented in this paper show that the majority of the apps selected have been developed for the Android operating system. Moreover, most of the apps selected are available to help users search for donors. Few of the apps could not be installed and/or accessed. Of those that could be installed: half of them do not require any kind of authentication; a few of them are available in more than one language; half of them have a geographical restriction; around 60 \% of them do not notify the user of BD events and requests; one, which is available for Android and iOS, can connect with a laboratory; around 45 \% of them allow users to share information via social networks, and the majority of them do not provide BD recommendations. These results are used as a basis to provide app developers with certain recommendations. There is a need for better BD apps with more features in order to increase the number of volunteer donors. {\textcopyright} 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0228-0},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84924066427\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-015-0228-0\&partnerID=40\&md5=0b81a39c8b99408d80fa8b2c470bf493},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Toval, A.a and Idri, A.b and Pozo, J.R.c}
}
@article { ISI:000352821900011,
	title = {Free Blood Donation Mobile Applications},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS},
	volume = {39},
	number = {5},
	year = {2015},
	month = {MAY},
	abstract = {Blood donation (BD) is a noble act and mobile applications (apps) can help increase awareness about it. This paper analyzes and assesses the characteristics of free apps for BD as regards features and functionality. A search in Google Play, Apple Apps store, Blackberry App World and Windows Mobile App store was carried out to select 169 free BD apps from the 188 apps identified. The results presented in this paper show that the majority of the apps selected have been developed for the Android operating system. Moreover, most of the apps selected are available to help users search for donors. Few of the apps could not be installed and/or accessed. Of those that could be installed: half of them do not require any kind of authentication; a few of them are available in more than one language; half of them have a geographical restriction; around 60 \% of them do not notify the user of BD events and requests; one, which is available for Android and iOS, can connect with a laboratory; around 45 \% of them allow users to share information via social networks, and the majority of them do not provide BD recommendations. These results are used as a basis to provide app developers with certain recommendations. There is a need for better BD apps with more features in order to increase the number of volunteer donors.},
	issn = {0148-5598},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-015-0228-0},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio and Idri, Ali and Rivera Pozo, Jose}
}
@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 {Fissaa2015640,
	title = {How can semantics and context awareness enhance the composition of context-aware services?},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2015 - 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {640-647},
	abstract = {The context-aware services refers to applications that use so-called contextual information to provide appropriate services or relevant information to the user or other applications to perform a specific task. An important challenge in context-aware service oriented systems is the creation of a new service on demand to carry out more complex tasks through the composition of existing services. In this work, we aim to propose a semantic based architecture for the development of context aware services composition using Artificial Intelligence (AI) planning. The straightforward translation between AI planning through PDDL and Semantic web services via OWL-S allows to automate the composition process. Thus planning based service composition launches a goal-oriented composition procedure to generate a plan of composite service corresponding to the user request. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2015 SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84939560458\&partnerID=40\&md5=0a9e2c87038f1d032ffe405577e99b17},
	author = {Fissaa, T.a and Guermah, H.a and Hafiddi, H.a b and Nassar, M.a}
}
@conference {Guilavogui201543,
	title = {Integrating linked sensor data for on-line analytical processing on-the-fly},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2015-January},
	number = {January},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {43-47},
	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. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2014.7016592},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938083080\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2014.7016592\&partnerID=40\&md5=b7cd435ce00931bc4db7cd93a4aeaa1b},
	author = {Guilavogui, K. and Kjiri, L. and Fredj, M.}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2015,
	title = {Mobile personal health records for cardiovascular patients},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 IEEE World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Monitoring the heart rate and keeping track of the pulse are important actions in the prevention and the treatment of many diseases, particularly heart diseases. A mobile personal health record (mPHR) offers users with cardiovascular problems the possibility to improve the management of their heart rate along with other health data. A large number of apps have been developed to provide users with the opportunity to choose mPHRs within a mobile platform proposing different functionalities. This paper identifies the current list of free mPHRs available in Android platform for smartphone users with cardiovascular problems. This paper also assesses the specifications of the mPHRs selected. The result of this study may assist mPHR seekers to monitor heart rate in their tasks. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2015.7483226},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978401610\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2015.7483226\&partnerID=40\&md5=548310db175feeb3c9b3ec02d9ed625a},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@article {Ouhbi2015547,
	title = {Predicting software product quality: A systematic mapping study},
	journal = {Computacion y Sistemas},
	volume = {19},
	number = {3},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {547-562},
	abstract = {Predicting software product quality (SPQ) is becoming a permanent concern during software life cycle phases. In this paper, a systematic mapping study was performed to summarize the existing SPQ prediction (SPQP) approaches in literature and to organize the selected studies according to seven classification criteria: SPQP approaches, research types, empirical types, data sets used in the empirical evaluation of these studies, artifacts, SQ models, and SQ characteristics. Publication channels and trends were also identified. After identifying 182 documents in ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Google scholar, 69 papers were selected. The results show that the main publication source of the papers identified was conference. Data mining techniques are the most frequently SPQP approaches reported in literature. Solution proposal was the main research type identified. The majority of the papers selected were history-based evaluations using existing data which were mainly obtained from open source software projects and domain specific projects. Source code was the main artifact concerned with SPQP approaches. Well-known SQ models were hardly mentioned and reliability is the SQ characteristic through which SPQP was mainly achieved. SPQP-related subject seems to need more investigation from researchers and practitioners. Moreover, SQ models and standards need to be considered more in future SPQP research.},
	doi = {10.13053/CyS-19-3-1960},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84943600627\&doi=10.13053\%2fCyS-19-3-1960\&partnerID=40\&md5=caa3593757dd9685bb38aa7309228c08},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@conference {Bachiri2015,
	title = {A preliminary study on the evaluation of software product quality of pregnancy monitoring mPHRs},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 IEEE World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The stakeholders needs and expectations are identified through software quality requirements, which have an impact on the software product quality. In this paper, a set of requirements of mobile personal health records (mPHRs) for pregnancy monitoring are introduced, extracted from literature and existing mobile apps in the market. An illustration of the influence of a block of the mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements is presented using the ISO/IEC 25010 software product quality standard. As results, the external characteristics Reliability and Performance efficiency are the most influenced by all the requirements. Thus, the degrees of this influence are discussed. This study is intended to be extended for the remaining requirements, in order to obtain an extensive conclusion about the influence of mPHRs for pregnancy monitoring requirements on software product quality. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2015.7483224},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84978416128\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2015.7483224\&partnerID=40\&md5=fa262dfcfef04939f7628bcdfcdee056},
	author = {Bachiri, M.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Toval, A.b}
}
@article {10260344020150601,
	title = {Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study.},
	journal = {Requirements Engineering},
	volume = {20},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {119 - 138},
	abstract = {Requirements engineering (RE) has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. Requirements engineering education (REE) is therefore an important undertaking if the field is to have professionals who are capable of successfully accomplishing software projects. This increasing interest demands that academia should provide software engineering students with a solid foundation in the subject matter. This paper aims to identify and to present the current research on REE that is available at present, and to select useful approaches and needs for future research. A systematic mapping study was therefore performed to classify the selected studies into five classification criteria: research type, empirical type, contribution type, RE activity, and curricula. A total of 79 papers were selected and classified according to these criteria. The results of this systematic mapping study are discussed, and a list of advice obtained from the REE literature fo},
	keywords = {Computer software, education, Engineering {\textendash} Study \& teaching, Mappings (Mathematics), Requirements engineering, Software engineering, Software requirements, Systematic mapping study},
	issn = {09473602},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=102603440\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, Jos{\'e} and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article { ISI:000357593500001,
	title = {Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study},
	journal = {REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING},
	volume = {20},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	month = {JUN},
	pages = {119-138},
	abstract = {Requirements engineering (RE) has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. Requirements engineering education (REE) is therefore an important undertaking if the field is to have professionals who are capable of successfully accomplishing software projects. This increasing interest demands that academia should provide software engineering students with a solid foundation in the subject matter. This paper aims to identify and to present the current research on REE that is available at present, and to select useful approaches and needs for future research. A systematic mapping study was therefore performed to classify the selected studies into five classification criteria: research type, empirical type, contribution type, RE activity, and curricula. A total of 79 papers were selected and classified according to these criteria. The results of this systematic mapping study are discussed, and a list of advice obtained from the REE literature for instructors is provided.},
	issn = {0947-3602},
	doi = {10.1007/s00766-013-0192-5},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@article {Ouhbi2015119,
	title = {Requirements engineering education: a systematic mapping study},
	journal = {Requirements Engineering},
	volume = {20},
	number = {2},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 9},
	pages = {119-138},
	abstract = {Requirements engineering (RE) has attracted a great deal of attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. Requirements engineering education (REE) is therefore an important undertaking if the field is to have professionals who are capable of successfully accomplishing software projects. This increasing interest demands that academia should provide software engineering students with a solid foundation in the subject matter. This paper aims to identify and to present the current research on REE that is available at present, and to select useful approaches and needs for future research. A systematic mapping study was therefore performed to classify the selected studies into five classification criteria: research type, empirical type, contribution type, RE activity, and curricula. A total of 79 papers were selected and classified according to these criteria. The results of this systematic mapping study are discussed, and a list of advice obtained from the REE literature for instructors is provided. {\textcopyright} 2013, Springer-Verlag London.},
	doi = {10.1007/s00766-013-0192-5},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929521157\&doi=10.1007\%2fs00766-013-0192-5\&partnerID=40\&md5=f7fd57be932075ffb64b6bcab6101843},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380403000023,
	title = {Software Cost Estimation for Global Software Development A Systematic Map and Review Study},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Barcelona, SPAIN, APR 29-30, 2015},
	pages = {197-206},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Information, Control \& Commun; Tech Council Software Engn; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Software cost estimation plays a central role in the success of software project management in the context of global software development (GSD). The importance of mastering software cost estimation may appear to be obvious. However, as regards the issue of customer satisfaction, end-users are often unsatisfied with software project management results. In this paper, a systematic mapping study (SMS) is carried out with the aim of summarising software cost estimation in the context of GSD research by answering nine mapping questions. A total, of 16 articles were selected and classified according to nine criteria: publication source, publication year, research type, research approach, contribution type, software cost estimation techniques, software cost estimation activity, cost drivers and cost estimation performances for GSD projects. The results show that the interest in estimating software cost for GSD projects has increased in recent years and reveal that conferences are the most frequently targeted publications. Most software cost estimation for GSD research has focused on theory. The dominant contribution type of software cost estimation for GSD research is that of models, while the predominant activity was identified as being software development cost. Identifying empirical solutions to address software cost estimation for GSD is a promising direction for researchers.},
	isbn = {978-9-8975-8143-4},
	author = {El Bajta, Manal and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Nicolas Ros, Joaquin and Toval, Ambrosio},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Maciaszek, L}
}
@conference {ElBajta2015197,
	title = {Software cost estimation for global software development: A systematic map and review study},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2015 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {197-206},
	abstract = {Software cost estimation plays a central role in the success of software project management in the context of global software development (GSD). The importance of mastering software cost estimation may appear to be obvious. However, as regards the issue of customer satisfaction, end-users are often unsatisfied with software project management results. In this paper, a systematic mapping study (SMS) is carried out with the aim of summarising software cost estimation in the context of GSD research by answering nine mapping questions. A total, of 16 articles were selected and classified according to nine criteria: publication source, publication year, research type, research approach, contribution type, software cost estimation techniques, software cost estimation activity, cost drivers and cost estimation performances for GSD projects. The results show that the interest in estimating software cost for GSD projects has increased in recent years and reveal that conferences are the most frequently targeted publications. Most software cost estimation for GSD research has focused on theory. The dominant contribution type of software cost estimation for GSD research is that of models, while the predominant activity was identified as being software development cost. Identifying empirical solutions to address software cost estimation for GSD is a promising direction for researchers.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84933555636\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e6ff23ed380cdb81d078b9b47e09964},
	author = {El Bajta, M.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Ros, J.N.b and Toval, 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 {Faquih20151,
	title = {Towards a semantic enrichment of configurable process models},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2015-January},
	number = {January},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {1-6},
	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. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2014.7016585},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84938088544\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2014.7016585\&partnerID=40\&md5=3fe8210773c4d071e489ee75f3bf7189},
	author = {Faquih, L.E. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, 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:000350044701087,
	title = {Electronic Health Records for Cardiovascular Medicine},
	booktitle = {2014 36TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)},
	series = {IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference Proceedings},
	year = {2014},
	note = {36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-Engineering-in-Medicine-and-Biology-Society (EMBC), Chicago, IL, AUG 26-30, 2014},
	pages = {1354-1357},
	publisher = {IEEE Engn Medicine \& Biol Soc},
	organization = {IEEE Engn Medicine \& Biol Soc},
	abstract = {Nowadays, many cardiology health care centers and hospitals adopt new technologies to improve interaction with their patients. The Electronic Health Records (EHR) offer health care centers and institutions the possibility to improve the management of their patients{\textquoteright} health data. Currently, many physicians are using EHRs to improve health care quality and efficiency. A large number of companies have emerged to provide hospitals with the opportunity to adopt EHRs within a health care platform proposing different functionalities and services which achieve certain certification criteria. This paper identifies the current list of certified EHRs for cardiovascular medicine and assesses the specifications of the EHRs selected. The result of this paper may assist EHR seekers for cardiovascular medicine in their tasks.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-7929-0},
	issn = {1557-170X},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Fernandez-Aleman, Jose Luis and Toval, Ambrosio and Benjelloun, Halima}
}
@conference {Ouhbi20141354,
	title = {Electronic health records for cardiovascular medicine},
	booktitle = {2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {1354-1357},
	abstract = {Nowadays, many cardiology health care centers and hospitals adopt new technologies to improve interaction with their patients. The Electronic Health Records (EHR) offer health care centers and institutions the possibility to improve the management of their patients{\textquoteright} health data. Currently, many physicians are using EHRs to improve health care quality and efficiency. A large number of companies have emerged to provide hospitals with the opportunity to adopt EHRs within a health care platform proposing different functionalities and services which achieve certain certification criteria. This paper identifies the current list of certified EHRs for cardiovascular medicine and assesses the specifications of the EHRs selected. The result of this paper may assist EHR seekers for cardiovascular medicine in their tasks. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943850},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84924056019\&doi=10.1109\%2fEMBC.2014.6943850\&partnerID=40\&md5=f5528e1d7fdbcce3d4a4e0d8d0e2dad1},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b and Benjelloun, H.c}
}
@article { ISI:000339687600009,
	title = {Estimation of time card of collision (TTC) based on the optical flot in para-cadioptric vision},
	journal = {TRAITEMENT DU SIGNAL},
	volume = {31},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2014},
	month = {JAN-JUN},
	pages = {197-219},
	issn = {0765-0019},
	author = {Benamar, Fatima Zahra and El Fkihi, Sanaa and Demonceaux, Cedric and Mouaddib, El Mustapha and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@conference {Jorio2014861,
	title = {A hierarchical clustering algorithm based on spectral classification for Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {861-866},
	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 enviornments. However, These sensor nodes have some constraints due to their limited energy, storage capacity and computing power. Therefor, saving energy and, thus extending the WSN lifetime entails great challenges. In order to prolong the lifetime of WSN, this study presents a hierarchical clustering algorithm based on spectral classification (HCA-SC). First, to overcome the ideal distribution of clusters, HCA-SC partition the network by spectral classification algorithm. Second, for each cluster, HCA-SC selects a node as a cluster head with regard residual energy and distance from base station. Simulation results showed that our algorithm performs better in reducing the energy consumption of sensor nodes and effectively improves the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911354},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84928732445\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2014.6911354\&partnerID=40\&md5=2070584e9f01d9b450a2a4a005ba6a08},
	author = {Jorio, A.a and El Fkihi, S.b and Elbhiri, B.c and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600151,
	title = {A Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm based on Spectral Classification for Wireless Sensor Networks},
	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 = {861-866},
	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 enviornments. However, These sensor nodes have some constraints due to their limited energy, storage capacity and computing power. Therefor, saving energy and, thus extending the WSN lifetime entails great challenges. In order to prolong the lifetime of WSN, this study presents a hierarchical clustering algorithm based on spectral classification (HCA-SC). First, to overcome the ideal distribution of clusters, HCA-SC partition the network by spectral classification algorithm. Second, for each cluster, HCA-SC selects a node as a cluster head with regard residual energy and distance from base station. Simulation results showed that our algorithm performs better in reducing the energy consumption of sensor nodes and effectively improves the lifetime of wireless sensor networks.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Jorio, Ali and El Fkihi, Sanaa and Elbhiri, Brahim and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@conference {Guilavogui2014281,
	title = {A hybrid strategy for integrating sensor information},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {281-286},
	abstract = {The combination of sensor networks with databases has led to a large amount of real-time data to be managed, and this trend will still increase in the next coming years. With this data explosion, current integration systems have to adapt. One of the main challenges is the integration of information coming from autonomously deployed sensor networks, with different geographical scales, but also with the combination of such information with other sources, such as legacy systems. Two main approaches for integrating sensor information are generally used: virtual and warehousing approaches. In the virtual approach, sensor devices are considered as data sources and data are managed locally. In contrast, in the warehousing approach, sensor data are stored in a central database and queries are performed on it. However, these solutions turn out to be difficult to exploit in the current technology landscape. This paper focuses on the issue of integrating multiple heterogeneous sensor information and puts forward a framework for decision making process.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902319248\&partnerID=40\&md5=eed05f56f6af14fa6195619f958c6b85},
	author = {Guilavogui, K. and Kjiri, L. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {Elmaroud20141951,
	title = {On the impact of prototype filter length on the PAPR reduction of FBMC signals},
	journal = {International Journal of Engineering and Technology},
	volume = {6},
	number = {4},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1951-1960},
	abstract = {One of the challenging issues for Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) systems is their high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) which leads to the saturation of the high power amplifiers and consequently increases the out of band power. In this paper, we evaluate different FBMC PAPR reduction techniques and especially analyze the impact of the prototype filter length/overlapping factor on their performances.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908869430\&partnerID=40\&md5=653efcab8375d7b42c7c294a7bf8e2b5},
	author = {Elmaroud, B.a and Faqihi, A.a b and Abbad, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@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: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.}
}
@article {CruzZapata2014,
	title = {Mobile PHRs compliance with android and ios usability guidelines mobile systems},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {38},
	number = {8},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 15},
	abstract = {Mobile Personal Health Records (PHRs) have achieved a particularly strong market share since the appearance of more powerful mobile devices and popular worldwide mobile application markets such as Apple{\textquoteright}s App Store and Android{\textquoteright}s Google Play. However, Android and Apple have a set of recommendations on design and usability targeted towards developers who wish to publish apps in their stores: Android Design Guidelines and iOS Human Interface Guidelines. This paper aims to evaluate compliance with these guidelines by assessing the usability recommendations of a set of 24 selected mobile PHR applications. An analysis process based on a well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was used. The results show that the 24 mobile PHR applications studied are not suitably structured. 46 \% of these applications do not use any of the recommended patterns, using instead lists or springboards, which are deprecated patterns for top-level menus. 70 \% of the PHRs require a registration to be able to test the application when these interactions should be delayed. Our study will help both PHR users to select user-friendly mobile PHRs and PHR providers and developers to identify the good usability practices implemented by the applications with the highest scores. {\textcopyright} 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York.},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-014-0081-6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904039765\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-014-0081-6\&partnerID=40\&md5=6c10e4e66d8521cf01c2571845e3920c},
	author = {Cruz Zapata, B.a and Hern{\'a}ndez Ni{\~n}irola, A.a and Idri, A.b and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.a and Toval, A.a}
}
@article { ISI:000339111400013,
	title = {Mobile PHRs Compliance with Android and iOS Usability Guidelines},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SYSTEMS},
	volume = {38},
	number = {8},
	year = {2014},
	month = {AUG},
	abstract = {Mobile Personal Health Records (PHRs) have achieved a particularly strong market share since the appearance of more powerful mobile devices and popular worldwide mobile application markets such as Apple{\textquoteright}s App Store and Android{\textquoteright}s Google Play. However, Android and Apple have a set of recommendations on design and usability targeted towards developers who wish to publish apps in their stores: Android Design Guidelines and iOS Human Interface Guidelines. This paper aims to evaluate compliance with these guidelines by assessing the usability recommendations of a set of 24 selected mobile PHR applications. An analysis process based on a well-known Systematic Literature Review (SLR) protocol was used. The results show that the 24 mobile PHR applications studied are not suitably structured. 46 \% of these applications do not use any of the recommended patterns, using instead lists or springboards, which are deprecated patterns for top-level menus. 70 \% of the PHRs require a registration to be able to test the application when these interactions should be delayed. Our study will help both PHR users to select user-friendly mobile PHRs and PHR providers and developers to identify the good usability practices implemented by the applications with the highest scores.},
	issn = {0148-5598},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-014-0081-6},
	author = {Cruz Zapata, Belen and Hernandez Ninirola, Antonio and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio}
}
@conference {Rahmouni201494,
	title = {Optimal buffer management policies in DTNs: A POMDP approach},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {94-99},
	abstract = {Using Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) would facilitate the connection of devices and areas across the world that are under-served by current networks. The DTNs are based on the concept of store-carry-and-forward protocols. A node may store a message in its buffer and carry it for a short or a long period of time, until an appropriate forwarding opportunity arises. A critical challenge is to determine routes through the network without even having an end-to-end connection. In order to increase the probability of message delivery, a known approach is implemented using epidemic message replication. This combination of long-term storage and message replication imposes a high storage and bandwidth overhead. Thus, efficient scheduling and dropping policies are necessary to decide which messages should be discarded when nodes{\textquoteright} buffers operate close to their capacity. If a relay buffer is full and needs to store a new packet, it has to decide either to keep the current message or to drop it. This decision depends on the number of transmissions of the message in its buffer and the message which has just arrived. In this paper, a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework is proposed to solve the problem of buffer management in DTNs. This modeling technique predicts some properties of the optimal buffer management policy. In addition, numerical examples are presented to illustrate the findings. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2014.6883301},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84906995806\&doi=10.1109\%2fICC.2014.6883301\&partnerID=40\&md5=382f58d0b8f3dc6541db001ac2f98769},
	author = {Rahmouni, I.a and Kamili, M.E.a and Fenni, M.R.E.b and Omari, L.a and Kobbane, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000366666800017,
	title = {Optimal Buffer Management Policies in DTNs: A POMDP Approach},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)},
	series = {IEEE International Conference on Communications},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Sydney, AUSTRALIA, JUN 10-14, 2014},
	pages = {94-99},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Using Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) would facilitate the connection of devices and areas across the world that are under-served by current networks. The DTNs are based on the concept of store-carry-and-forward protocols. A node may store a message in its buffer and carry it for a short or a long period of time, until an appropriate forwarding opportunity arises. A critical challenge is to determine routes through the network without even having an end-to-end connection. In order to increase the probability of message delivery, a known approach is implemented using epidemic message replication. This combination of long-term storage and message replication imposes a high storage and bandwidth overhead. Thus, efficient scheduling and dropping policies are necessary to decide which messages should be discarded when nodes{\textquoteright} buffers operate close to their capacity. If a relay buffer is full and needs to store a new packet, it has to decide either to keep the current message or to drop it. This decision depends on the number of transmissions of the message in its buffer and the message which has just arrived. In this paper, a Partially Observed Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework is proposed to solve the problem of buffer management in DTNs. This modeling technique predicts some properties of the optimal buffer management policy. In addition, numerical examples are presented to illustrate the findings.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2003-7},
	issn = {1550-3607},
	author = {Rahmouni, Imane and El Kamili, Mohamed and El Fenni, Mohammed Raiss and Omari, Lahcen and Kobbane, Abdellatif},
	editor = {Jamalipour, A and Deng, DJ}
}
@conference { ISI:000345620500014,
	title = {PAPR Reduction of FBMC Signals by Combining Exponential Companding and Hadamard Transforms},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NETWORKS, COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, Hammamet, TUNISIA, JUN 17-19, 2014},
	abstract = {Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) is an efficient multicarrier modulation characterized by its good spectral efficiency and low out of band leakage. Nevertheless, FBMC signals suffer from the high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This leads nonlinear devices such as Power Amplifiers, when used, to operate in their saturation region which may severely impair system performance. In this paper, we propose a PAPR reduction technique based on the combination of Hadamard transform with the exponential companding transform. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can offer better PAPR reduction than exponential companding and Hadamard transforms when used separately.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5874-0},
	author = {Elmaroud, Brahim and Faqihi, Ahmed and Abbad, Mohammed and Aboutajdine, Driss}
}
@conference {Elmaroud2014,
	title = {PAPR reduction of FBMC signals by combining exponential companding and hadamard transforms},
	booktitle = {2014 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications, ISNCC 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) is an efficient multicarrier modulation characterized by its good spectral efficiency and low out of band leakage. Nevertheless, FBMC signals suffer from the high Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This leads nonlinear devices such as Power Amplifiers, when used, to operate in their saturation region which may severely impair system performance. In this paper, we propose a PAPR reduction technique based on the combination of Hadamard transform with the exponential companding transform. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can offer better PAPR reduction than exponential companding and Hadamard transforms when used separately. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SNCC.2014.6866517},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907345923\&doi=10.1109\%2fSNCC.2014.6866517\&partnerID=40\&md5=982b03a2bd8c550f85b39b1d9c441790},
	author = {Elmaroud, B.a and Faqihi, A.b and Abbad, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000349979900075,
	title = {A Semantic Approach for Service Adaptation in Context-Aware Environment},
	booktitle = {9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS (FNC{\textquoteright}14) / THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE SYSTEMS AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING (MOBISPC{\textquoteright}14) / AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {34},
	year = {2014},
	note = {9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), Niagara Falls, CANADA, AUG 17-20, 2014},
	pages = {587-592},
	abstract = {With pervasive computing, Service oriented architectures become more mobile and distributed and are executed in varying contexts. Context is understood as any information about the user needs and operating environment which vary dynamically and have an impact on design choices. Context aware Services oriented systems have emerged as an underlying design and development paradigm. An important challenge in such systems is context modeling, reasoning and adaptating services behavior. Using ontologies and semantic web services to deal with context aware services has attracted a lot of interest. In this paper, we present an architecture for the development of context aware services based on ontologies. We highlight our context metamodel and discuss about reasoning process. we also present our semantic approach for service adaptation in context aware environment. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2014.07.077},
	author = {Guermah, Hatim and Fissaa, Tarik and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz},
	editor = {Shakshuki, EM}
}
@conference { ISI:000380428300019,
	title = {Semantic Variability Modeling in Business Processes: A Comparative Study},
	booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR INTERNET TECHNOLOGY AND SECURED TRANSACTIONS (ICITST)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions{*}, London, ENGLAND, DEC 08-10, 2014},
	pages = {131-136},
	abstract = {Business Process Management (BPM) is an approach that aligns information systems (IT view) with business processes (Business view). Both the dynamic environment of business and the fast changes in requirements have created the need to reuse business processes in order to gain in cost and time. To enhance reuse in BPM, significant research efforts have been made on the development of methods and languages in order to support variability modeling. However, there is no single standard for modeling variability in configurable process models. Each modeling language integrating variability proposes its own method for representing variability, and different representations are used to express the same variability concepts. In addition to that, human intervention is still mandatory in order to create, configure and evolve configurable process models. With semantic annotations and the usage of ontology, these tasks could be automated. In this paper, we propose a comparative study to assess variability modeling approaches in software engineering domains, which include software product line engineering, services engineering and process engineering. This comparative study is conducted in terms of semantics use.},
	isbn = {978-1-908320-39-1},
	author = {El Faquih, Loubna and Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia}
}
@conference {Faquih2014131,
	title = {Semantic variability modeling in business processes: A comparative study},
	booktitle = {2014 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {131-136},
	abstract = {Business Process Management (BPM) is an approach that aligns information systems (IT view) with business processes (Business view). Both the dynamic environment of business and the fast changes in requirements have created the need to reuse business processes in order to gain in cost and time. To enhance reuse in BPM, significant research efforts have been made on the development of methods and languages in order to support variability modeling. However, there is no single standard for modeling variability in configurable process models. Each modeling language integrating variability proposes its own method for representing variability, and different representations are used to express the same variability concepts. In addition to that, human intervention is still mandatory in order to create, configure and evolve configurable process models. With semantic annotations and the usage of ontology, these tasks could be automated. In this paper, we propose a comparative study to assess variability modeling approaches in software engineering domains, which include software product line engineering, services engineering and process engineering. This comparative study is conducted in terms of semantics use. {\textcopyright} 2014 Infonomics Society.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICITST.2014.7038792},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962362206\&doi=10.1109\%2fICITST.2014.7038792\&partnerID=40\&md5=f5188b09e77e3ca69d35da9a3d953678},
	author = {Faquih, L.E. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M.}
}
@article {Assad2014324,
	title = {Short: Intrusion detection quality analysis for homogeneous wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {8593 LNCS},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {324-329},
	abstract = {In this paper we analyze the intrusion detection in a homogeneous Wireless Sensor Network that is defined as a mechanism to monitor and detect unauthorized intrusions or anomalous moving attackers in area of interest. The quality of deterministic deployment can be determined sufficiently by analysis, before the deployment. However, when random deployment is required, determining the deployment quality becomes challenging and depends directly on node density. The major question is centered on the network coverage problem, how can we guarantee that each point of the region is covered by the required number of sensors? To deal with this, probabilistic intrusion detection models are adopted, called single and multi sensing probability detection and the deployment quality issue is surveyed and analyzed in terms of coverage. We evaluate our probabilistic model in homogeneous wireless sensor network, in term of sensing range, node density, and intrusion distance. {\textcopyright} 2014 Springer International Publishing.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09581-3_24},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84905899551\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-09581-3_24\&partnerID=40\&md5=e868b83abeca52460109a066d8ddde51},
	author = {Assad, N.a and Elbhiri, B.b and El Fkihi, S.c and Faqihi, M.A.c and Ouadou, M.a and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@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}
}
@conference {Sbai20141082,
	title = {Support for resources changes in configurable process models},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1082-1087},
	abstract = {Today, researches on business process models reuse are interested in configurable process modeling which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, enterprises are involved in a competitive environment which imposes them to often evolve their configurable process models in terms of activity, data and resource. So, creating configurable process models becomes insufficient since the configurable process models should evolve to meet new needs. To address this issue, we propose a reusable process patterns system for guiding designers in managing changes and evolution of configurable process models. In this paper, we focus on how to manage resources changes. We present one pattern of our proposed system, the variation point resource insertion process pattern. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911319},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84928751275\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2014.6911319\&partnerID=40\&md5=c8fd1066a03aedd1bcdb5fedc72a9dec},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600190,
	title = {Support for resources changes in configurable process models},
	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 = {1082-1087},
	abstract = {Today, researches on business process models reuse are interested in configurable process modeling which is an important approach for reusing and customizing business process models with a set of process variants. However, enterprises are involved in a competitive environment which imposes them to often evolve their configurable process models in terms of activity, data and resource. So, creating configurable process models becomes insufficient since the configurable process models should evolve to meet new needs. To address this issue, we propose a reusable process patterns system for guiding designers in managing changes and evolution of configurable process models. In this paper, we focus on how to manage resources changes. We present one pattern of our proposed system, the variation point resource insertion process pattern.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600115,
	title = {A Support Model for Tutoring to Facilitate and Automate Tutoring Interventions},
	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 = {652-657},
	abstract = {Several approaches have been used to improve online learning systems and make training more attractive and beneficial for learners. One of a prominent approach is to the e-Tutoring that can provide a personalized and continuous support aiming to increase learners{\textquoteright} motivation, reduce feelings of isolation and avoid failure and abandonment in training. We offer in our work a support model for tutoring supporting the tutor{\textquoteright}s actions; this model collects and organize the majority of tutoring interventions to be exploited by a tutor agent in order to (1) facilitate the work of human tutor in the reuse of recorded interventions and in the choice of the most suitable to learning context and learner{\textquoteright}s learning profile, and (2) automate certain procedures for alleviate the work of human tutor of repetitive tasks, simple but boring, and for assist him in order to cope with the important number of learners requiring personalized support.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Fatima-Zahra, Ammor and Driss, Bouzidi and Amina, Elomri}
}
@article {Benamar2014197,
	title = {Time to collision (TTC) estimation maps based on optical flow in paracatadioptric vision [Estimation des cartes du temps de collision (TTC) bas{\'e}e sur le flot optique en vision para-catadioptrique]},
	journal = {Traitement du Signal},
	volume = {31},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {197-219},
	abstract = {The present paper deals with time to collision (TTC) for a mobile robot equipped with a catadioptric camera. This type of cameras is very useful in robotics because it provides a panoramic view field. The time to collision has been extensively studied in the case of perspective cameras. Nevertheless, the methods used are not directly applicable due to strong distortions in the images produced by the omnidirectional camera and they, therefore, need to be adapted. In this work, we propose to compute the TTC thanks to the estimation of the optical flow on omnidirectional images between the robot and the obstacle. We see that the double projection of a 3D point on the mirror and then on the camera plane leads to a new formulation of the TTC for catadioptric cameras. This formulation enables us to know, at each moment and at each pixel of the image, the TTC from the optical flow at this point. Our approach is validated on synthetic data and real experiments. Finally, we show that this calculation can detect obstacles in the motion direction of the robot. {\textcopyright} 2014 Lovoisier.},
	doi = {10.3166/ts.31.197-219},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84930250224\&doi=10.3166\%2fts.31.197-219\&partnerID=40\&md5=1ed78d09cceb5f059e5db87be3aa812f},
	author = {Benamar, F.Z.a d and Fkihi, S.E.b and Demonceaux, C.c and Mouaddib, E.M.d and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@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:000366999600174,
	title = {Towards an Ontology based Architecture for Context-Aware Services Composition},
	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 = {990-995},
	abstract = {An important challenge in pervasive computing environments is to automatically enable software applications by dynamically composing services. Service composition is a way to plan a business process to fulfill business goals that cannot be achieved by individual business services. Given a representation of services in OWL-S, service composition can be modeled as an Artificial Intelligence planning (AI planning) problem. Based on the initial context and the goal context, planning-based service composition launches a goal-oriented composition procedure to generate a plan for the service composition. In this paper, we present an overview of the architecture for the composition of context aware services based on ontologies, we also present our Composition Planner that allows to generate a plan corresponding to the request of the users according to their context.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Fissaa, Tarik and Guermah, Hatim and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz}
}
@conference {Guermah2013,
	title = {Context modeling and reasoning for building context aware services},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {The rapid evolution of software paradigms, wireless technologies and mobile devices induced the emergence of new applications called context-aware services oriented applications. Such applications provide appropriate services or relevant information to the user or other applications to perform a specific task. An important challenge in such applications development process is context modeling and reasoning. Ontology based models presents the most promising instrument for context modeling and offers possibility of applying ontology reasoning techniques. the aim of context reasoning is converting low-level context to highlevel context in order to provide costumized services to users. In this paper, we present an architecture for the development of context aware services based on ontologies. We also highlight our context metamodel and discuss about reasoning process for e-health systems. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2013.6616439},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887225025\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2013.6616439\&partnerID=40\&md5=7ca7da696e2d53b254ab9b4b909c71e7},
	author = {Guermah, H.a and Fissaa, T.a and Hafiddi, H.a b and Nassar, M.a and Kriouile, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000341079600025,
	title = {Context Modeling and Reasoning for building Context Aware Services},
	booktitle = {2013 ACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (AICCSA)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {IEEE and Arab-Computing-Society (ACS) International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Al Akhawayn Univ, Ifrane, MOROCCO, MAY 27-30, 2013},
	publisher = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc},
	abstract = {The rapid evolution of software paradigms, wireless technologies and mobile devices induced the emergence of new applications called context-aware services oriented applications. Such applications provide appropriate services or relevant information to the user or other applications to perform a specific task. An important challenge in such applications development process is context modeling and reasoning. Ontology based models presents the most promising instrument for context modeling and offers possibility of applying ontology reasoning techniques. the aim of context reasoning is converting low-level context to high-level context in order to provide costumized services to users. In this paper, we present an architecture for the development of context aware services based on ontologies. We also highlight our context metamodel and discuss about reasoning process for e-health systems.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-0792-2},
	author = {Guermah, Hatim and Fissaa, Tarik and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz}
}
@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:000351597600002,
	title = {GRADIENT-BASED TIME TO CONTACT ON PARACATADIOPTRIC CAMERA},
	booktitle = {2013 20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP 2013)},
	series = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP},
	year = {2013},
	note = {20th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, SEP 15-18, 2013},
	pages = {5-9},
	publisher = {Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers; IEEE Signal Proc Soc},
	organization = {Inst Elect \& Elect Engineers; IEEE Signal Proc Soc},
	abstract = {The problem of time to contact or time to collision (TTC) estimation is largely discussed in perspective images. However, a few works have dealt with images of catadioptric sensors despite of their utility in robotics applications. The objective of this paper is to develop a novel model for estimating TTC with catadioptric images relative to a planar surface, and to demonstrate that TTC can be estimated only with derivative brightness and image coordinates. This model, called {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}gradient based time to contact{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}, does not need high processing such as explicit estimation of optical flow and feature detection and/or tracking. The proposed method allows to estimate TTC and gives additional information about the orientation of planar surface. It was tested on simulated and real datasets.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2341-0},
	issn = {1522-4880},
	author = {Benamar, F. and El Fkihi, S. and Demonceaux, C. and Mouaddib, E. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Benamar20135,
	title = {Gradient-based time to contact on paracatadioptric camera},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2013 - Proceedings},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {5-9},
	abstract = {The problem of time to contact or time to collision (TTC) estimation is largely discussed in perspective images. However, a few works have dealt with images of catadioptric sensors despite of their utility in robotics applications. The objective of this paper is to develop a novel model for estimating TTC with catadioptric images relative to a planar surface, and to demonstrate that TTC can be estimated only with derivative brightness and image coordinates. This model, called {\textquoteright}gradient based time to contact{\textquoteright}, does not need high processing such as explicit estimation of optical flow and feature detection and/or tracking. The proposed method allows to estimate TTC and gives additional information about the orientation of planar surface. It was tested on simulated and real datasets. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2013.6738002},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84897697160\&doi=10.1109\%2fICIP.2013.6738002\&partnerID=40\&md5=2d096a6f98a59c3c442f3c24ffca4bbc},
	author = {Benamar, F.a d and El Fkihi, S.a b and Demonceaux, C.c and Mouaddib, E.d and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000350287800033,
	title = {Linking Knowledge Management Valuation to Intellectual Capital: a conceptual study},
	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 = {Knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC) are two big research questions in nowadays management topics. In fact, the relation between these two subjects varies from analogy to complementarity. Defining these concepts remains for long years a controversy, because both topics imply different disciplines. And despite the multidisciplinary of the field, it is agreed that KM treats both knowledge as an object, and management as a set of tools and techniques. The association between these two aspects is the essence of KM. Whereas with the IC, the focus is much on the effect and value generated by the intellectual asset, which implies a notion of valuation and measurement. The relationship between concepts of IC and KM needs to be redefined in view of field progress. In our paper, we assume that {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}IC is suited to KM valuation and performance measurement{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}: a conceptual review of the literature within this work should give foundation to this hypothesis. Further foreseen analytical verification may empower it to be a basic rule on the design of future KM valuation indicators.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1},
	author = {Oufkir, Latifa and Fredj, Mounia and Kassou, Ismail}
}
@conference {Oufkir2013,
	title = {Linking knowledge management valuation to intellectual capital: A conceptual study},
	booktitle = {2013 3rd International Symposium ISKO-Maghreb},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Knowledge management (KM) and intellectual capital (IC) are two big research questions in nowadays management topics. In fact, the relation between these two subjects varies from analogy to complementarity. Defining these concepts remains for long years a controversy, because both topics imply different disciplines. And despite the multidisciplinary of the field, it is agreed that KM treats both knowledge as an object, and management as a set of tools and techniques. The association between these two aspects is the essence of KM. Whereas with the IC, the focus is much on the effect and value generated by the intellectual asset, which implies a notion of valuation and measurement. The relationship between concepts of IC and KM needs to be redefined in view of field progress. In our paper, we assume that {\textquoteright}IC is suited to KM valuation and performance measurement{\textquoteright}: a conceptual review of the literature within this work should give foundation to this hypothesis. Further foreseen analytical verification may empower it to be a basic rule on the design of future KM valuation indicators. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728169},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894168406\&doi=10.1109\%2fISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728169\&partnerID=40\&md5=3992beae3e503b5072db3383bfbbc6e8},
	author = {Oufkir, L.a and Fredj, M.b and Kassou, I.b}
}
@article {Jorio2013717,
	title = {A new clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {49},
	number = {3},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {717-724},
	abstract = {Wireless sensor networks have recently become an attractive research area. However, saving energy and, thus, extending the wireless sensor network lifetime entails great challenges. For this reason, clustering techniques are largely made use of. In this paper we propose a new algorithm based on the principle of spectral clustering methods. Especially, we use the K-ways spectral clustering algorithm. The main characteristic of our proposal is that it defines the optimal number of clusters and dynamically changes the election probabilities of the cluster heads based on their residual energy. Up on analyzing the impact of node density on the robustness of the proposed algorithm as well as on its energy and lifetime gains, simulation results show that the approach actually improves the lifetime of a whole network and presents more energy efficiency distribution compared to Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarch, Centralized Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarch, and Distance-Energy Cluster Structure approaches. {\textcopyright} 2005 - 2013 JATIT \& LLS. All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84875692769\&partnerID=40\&md5=ea5125d9aa1b9b5f0b4c870cfad69e2e},
	author = {Jorio, A.a and Fkihi, S.E.b and Elbhiri, B.c and Aboutajdine, D.a}
}
@conference {Elbhiri2013,
	title = {A new spectral classification for robust clustering in wireless sensor networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2013 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {Wireless sensor network has recently become an area of attractive research interest. It consists of low-cost, low power, and energy-constrained sensors responsible for monitoring a physical phenomenon and reporting to sink node where the end-user can access the data. Saving energy and therefore extending the wireless sensor network lifetime, involves great challenges. For these purposes, clustering techniques are largely used. Using many empirical successes of spectral clustering methods, we propose a new algorithm that we called Spectral Classification for Robust Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks (SCRC-WSN). This protocol is a spectral partitioning method using graph theory technics with the aim to separate the network in a fixed optimal number of clusters. The cluster{\textquoteright}s nodes communicate with an elected node called cluster head, and then the cluster heads communicate the information to the base station. Defining the optimal number of clusters and changing dynamically the cluster head election probability are the SCRC-WSN strongest characteristics. In addition our proposed protocol is a centralized one witch take into account the node{\textquoteright}s residual energy to define the cluster heads. We studied the impact of node density on the robustness of the SCRC-WSN algorithm as well as its energy and its lifetime gains. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm increases the lifetime of a whole network and presents more energy efficiency distribution compared to the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) approach and the Centralized LEACH (LEACH-C)one. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WMNC.2013.6548982},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84881393741\&doi=10.1109\%2fWMNC.2013.6548982\&partnerID=40\&md5=648ff469917070df5c7f54337dfa592b},
	author = {Elbhiri, B.a b and Fkihi, S.E.b c and Saadane, R.b d and Lasaad, N.b and Jorio, A.b and Aboutajdine, D.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000350287800027,
	title = {Ontology based Context Aware e-Learning System},
	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 = {With the fast development of e-services and the necessity to use information provided by users and their operating environments, Context-Aware Service (CAS) has emerged as a new paradigm of software engineering to dynamically respond to every change in the status of the user{\textquoteright}s context. Context-aware Service can dynamically capture a range of information from its environment and this information represents a context, the application adapts its execution according to this context. An important challenge in ubiquitous computing is context modeling. Ontology based models presents a suitbale instrument for context modeling. In this paper, we provide an architecture for the development of context aware services for an e-learning system, we also present our context metamodel and how the use of ODM (Ontology Definition Metamodel) can be beneficial for ontology modeling.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1},
	author = {Guermah, Hatim and Fissaa, Tarik and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz}
}
@conference {Fissaa201343,
	title = {Ontology based context modeler for context-aware systems},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - IEEE 6th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, SOCA 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {43-47},
	abstract = {In ubiquitous computing, context-aware service oriented systems refer to applications that use so-called contextual information to provide appropriate services or relevant information to the user or other applications to perform a specific task. An important challenge in such applications is context modeling, using ontologies to model context information and to reason about context at a semantic level has attracted a lot of interest in the research community. However, most of the presented approaches do not usually take into account any software engineering method. Therefore, employing standard approaches to formulate the development process becomes of importance. In this paper, we present an overview of the architecture for the development of context aware services based on ontologies, we also present our context modeler based on ODM (Ontology Definition Metamodel) and model transformations that allows to generate an OWL ontology representing context information. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SOCA.2013.58},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894175652\&doi=10.1109\%2fSOCA.2013.58\&partnerID=40\&md5=7f367b0af0c55bcbc35014d583c37455},
	author = {Fissaa, T.a and Guermah, H.a and Hafiddi, H.a b and Nassar, M.a and Kriouile, A.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000345618100007,
	title = {Ontology based Context Modeler for Context-Aware Systems},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS (SOCA)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {6th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Kauai, HI, DEC 16-18, 2013},
	pages = {43-47},
	publisher = {IEEE; Intel NTU Connected Context Comp Ctr; Tongji Univ; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Business Informat \& Syst},
	organization = {IEEE; Intel NTU Connected Context Comp Ctr; Tongji Univ; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Business Informat \& Syst},
	abstract = {In ubiquitous computing, context-aware service oriented systems refer to applications that use so-called contextual information to provide appropriate services or relevant information to the user or other applications to perform a specific task. An important challenge in such applications is context modeling, using ontologies to model context information and to reason about context at a semantic level has attracted a lot of interest in the research community. However, most of the presented approaches do not usually take into account any software engineering method. Therefore, employing standard approaches to formulate the development process becomes of importance. In this paper, we present an overview of the architecture for the development of context aware services based on ontologies, we also present our context modeler based on ODM (Ontology Definition Metamodel) and model transformations that allows to generate an OWL ontology representing context information.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2701-2},
	doi = {10.1109/SOCA.2013.58},
	author = {Fissaa, Tarik and Guermah, Hatim and Hafiddi, Hatim and Nassar, Mahmoud and Kriouile, Abdelaziz}
}
@conference {Faqihi201356,
	title = {Semantic Interoperability in the d-learning in the era of cloud computing: Simplicity or complexity},
	booktitle = {2013 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {56-60},
	abstract = {Since traditional computing of the 60s, to the innovations of the 80s, passing by emergence of internet, the virtualization advances, the concept of cloud computing have a promising future. Certainly much remains to be done especially for interoperability but also the establishment of norms and standards that will allow to build a set of heterogeneous systems. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICL.2013.6644536},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84898656730\&doi=10.1109\%2fICL.2013.6644536\&partnerID=40\&md5=761c2a496eee37edd0f6c37413f7ff35},
	author = {Faqihi, B.a and Daoudi, N.b and Ajhoun, R.a}
}
@conference {Ouhbi2013231,
	title = {Software quality requirements: A systematic mapping study},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {231-238},
	abstract = {Software quality requirements (SQR) play a central role in software quality (SQ) success. The importance of mastering SQR can be seen as obvious; however, when it comes to customer satisfaction, end-users are often dissatisfied with SQ. In this paper, a systematic mapping study aims to summarize SQR research by answering nine mapping questions. In total, 51 articles were selected and classified according to multiple criteria: publication source, publication year, research type, research approach, contribution type of SQR literature, requirements engineering activity, well-known SQ model, software artifact and SQR type. The results show an increased interest in SQR research in recent years and reveal that conferences are the main SQR publication target. Most SQR research has used case studies. The dominant contribution type of SQR research is method while specification is the main requirements engineering activity identified. SQ models need to be more used for SQR identification. Design module and requirements documentation are the principal artifacts reported in SQR literature. External and internal SQR were the main SQR types addressed in literature. Identifying empirical solutions to address SQR is a promising research direction for researchers. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/APSEC.2013.40},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84933501221\&doi=10.1109\%2fAPSEC.2013.40\&partnerID=40\&md5=f81ca9b922dd0cab1200996357d49459},
	author = {Ouhbi, S.a and Idri, A.a and Fern{\'a}ndez-Alem{\'a}n, J.L.b and Toval, A.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000358736600029,
	title = {Software Quality Requirements: a systematic mapping study},
	booktitle = {2013 20TH ASIA-PACIFIC SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (APSEC 2013), VOL 1},
	series = {Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference},
	year = {2013},
	note = {20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Chulalongkorn Univ, Fac Engn, Dept Comp Engn, Bangkok, THAILAND, DEC 02-05, 2013},
	pages = {231-238},
	publisher = {Prov Elect Author; Metropolitan Elect Author; Thailand Convent \& Exhibit Bur; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Prov Elect Author; Metropolitan Elect Author; Thailand Convent \& Exhibit Bur; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Software quality requirements (SQR) play a central role in software quality (SQ) success. The importance of mastering SQR can be seen as obvious; however, when it comes to customer satisfaction, end-users are often dissatisfied with SQ. In this paper, a systematic mapping study aims to summarize SQR research by answering nine mapping questions. In total, 51 articles were selected and classified according to multiple criteria: publication source, publication year, research type, research approach, contribution type of SQR literature, requirements engineering activity, well-known SQ model, software artifact and SQR type. The results show an increased interest in SQR research in recent years and reveal that conferences are the main SQR publication target. Most SQR research has used case studies. The dominant contribution type of SQR research is method while specification is the main requirements engineering activity identified. SQ models need to be more used for SQR identification. Design module and requirements documentation are the principal artifacts reported in SQR literature. External and internal SQR were the main SQR types addressed in literature. Identifying empirical solutions to address SQR is a promising research direction for researchers.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2143-0},
	issn = {1530-1362},
	doi = {10.1109/APSEC.2013.40},
	author = {Ouhbi, Sofia and Idri, Ali and Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Jose and Toval, Ambrosio},
	editor = {Muenchaisri, P and Rothermel, G}
}
@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:000341079600060,
	title = {To trace and guide evolution in configurable process models},
	booktitle = {2013 ACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (AICCSA)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {IEEE and Arab-Computing-Society (ACS) International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Al Akhawayn Univ, Ifrane, MOROCCO, MAY 27-30, 2013},
	publisher = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; Arab Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Today, research on business process management (BPM) outlines the importance of business process reuse through reference process models which are interested in capturing common practices of organizations. Consequently, reusing these reference process models stresses the necessity of managing a set of process variants. In this context, configurable process model solutions have been developed to facilitate customization of business process in a specific scenario. However, configurable process model should evolve in order to meet new business requirements. To address this issue, we propose a process patterns based approach for leading configurable process model evolution. For supporting traceability of the transition from a given version of a configurable process model to another, an evolution metamodel has been defined. In this paper, we present i) only one pattern of our proposed patterns system, the Activity substitution process pattern, and ii) a proposition of the evolution metamodel.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-0792-2},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila}
}
@conference { ISI:000345294000016,
	title = {Toward a Methodology to Control Interoperability Improvement Projects Execution},
	booktitle = {ENTERPRISE INTEROPERABILITY, IWEI 2013},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
	volume = {144},
	year = {2013},
	note = {5th International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI), Univ Twente, Enschede, NETHERLANDS, MAR 27-28, 2013},
	pages = {186-197},
	publisher = {IFIP; IFIP Working Grp 5.8; INTEROP VLab; IFIP TC5; OMG; TNO; Novay},
	organization = {IFIP; IFIP Working Grp 5.8; INTEROP VLab; IFIP TC5; OMG; TNO; Novay},
	abstract = {In front of the increasing complexity of information systems, improving enterprise interoperability has become a crucial element for better management. To address this issue, several research projects have been launched during the last decade and have resulted in a set of frameworks which help organizing and performing enterprise interoperability projects efficiently. In addition to these frameworks, many metrics have been also developed to measure the interoperability degree between systems. However, these frameworks and metrics are not sufficient to better control execution of these projects. Indeed, they don{\textquoteright}t take into account resource management and unanticipated events or situations that can be encountered during execution. Moreover, there is a real lack in methodologies to deal with this situation. The aim of this paper is to introduce a new approach to control interoperability improvement projects execution by using control theory, project planning theory and a specific quantitative interoperability metric RatIop.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-36796-0; 978-3-642-36795-3},
	issn = {1865-1348},
	author = {Taoudi, Abderrahim and Bounabat, Bouchaib and Elmir, Badr},
	editor = {VanSinderen, M and Luttighuis, PO and Folmer, E and Bosems, S}
}
@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 {Sbai2013382,
	title = {Towards a process patterns based approach for promoting adaptability in configurable process models},
	booktitle = {ICEIS 2013 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {382-387},
	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.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84887716124\&partnerID=40\&md5=f45ed794bc8aa6fa44256d12d21c58e4},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@article {Azouaoui2012,
	title = {Efficient dual domain decoding of linear block codes using genetic algorithms},
	journal = {Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	doi = {10.1155/2012/503834},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84859819545\&doi=10.1155\%2f2012\%2f503834\&partnerID=40\&md5=6e6f96bbb49e27882bf30fa87aebeee4},
	author = {Azouaoui, A. and Belkasmi, M. and Farchane, A.}
}
@article {8699110620120101,
	title = {Efficient Dual Domain Decoding of Linear Block Codes Using Genetic Algorithms.},
	journal = {Journal of Electrical \& Computer Engineering},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {1 - 12},
	abstract = {A computationally efficient algorithm for decoding block codes is developed using a genetic algorithm (GA). The proposed algorithm uses the dual code in contrast to the existing genetic decoders in the literature that use the code itself. Hence, this new approach reduces the complexity of decoding the codes of high rates. We simulated our algorithm in various transmission channels. The performance of this algorithm is investigated and compared with competitor decoding algorithms including Maini and Shakeel ones. The results show that the proposed algorithm gives large gains over the Chase-2 decoding algorithm and reach the performance of the OSD-3 for some quadratic residue (QR) codes. Further, we define a new crossover operator that exploits the domain specific information and compare it with uniform and two point crossover. The complexity of this algorithm is also discussed and compared to other algorithms [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Coding theory, Computational complexity, Data transmission systems, Decoders (Electronics) {\textendash} Software, Genetic algorithms, Performance evaluation},
	issn = {20900147},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=86991106\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Azouaoui, Ahmed and Belkasmi, Mostafa and Farchane, Abderrazak}
}
@article {ElHajTirari201270,
	title = {A new optimal quadratic predictor of a residual linear model in a finite population},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {42},
	number = {1},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {70-74},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84867528812\&partnerID=40\&md5=3adc9b77708ed77880f3937f292856ec},
	author = {El Haj Tirari, M. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@article {Anoual201227,
	title = {A novel texture-based algorithm for localizing vehicle license plates},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {45},
	number = {1},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {27-32},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874531292\&partnerID=40\&md5=58ad16d91d008ad97e88e70a9234486f},
	author = {Anoual, H. and Fkihi, S.E. and Jilbab, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Sbai201222,
	title = {A process pattern for managing evolution of configurable reference process models},
	booktitle = {CiSt 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {22-25},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2012.6388057},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84872551237\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2012.6388057\&partnerID=40\&md5=631ccb9b68bc1ab1c8ad1eb6e57c7078},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@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}
}
@conference {Benamar20123602,
	title = {Time to contact estimation on paracatadioptric cameras},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {3602-3605},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874558961\&partnerID=40\&md5=ed024edcf33e2e2b82c2adf2ecc505f3},
	author = {Benamar, F. and Demonceaux, C. and Fkihi, S.E. and Mouaddib, E. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference { ISI:000315346700024,
	title = {Towards the implementation of semantic interoperability of information systems via technique of matching: Issue and prospective},
	booktitle = {2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE MOBILE AND COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING (IMCL)},
	year = {2012},
	note = {International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning (IMCL), Princess Sumaya Univ Technol (PSUT), Amman, JORDAN, NOV 06-08, 2012},
	pages = {134-140},
	publisher = {IEEE; Carinthia Tech Inst; IAOE; IELA; IGIP; Online Journals},
	organization = {IEEE; Carinthia Tech Inst; IAOE; IELA; IGIP; Online Journals},
	abstract = {It is very important first to state that the emergence of the e-commerce and e-government or the electronic libraries perform a necessity to have an access to multiple resources of information. Otherwise, these sources are not necessarily homogenous, either on the syntactic or semantic standard. For the semantic component, the conflicts appear when the systems don{\textquoteright}t have the some interpretation of exchanged information. Let me give you example which I think bring out what I mean by this, the existing systems are completely heterogeneous, geographically remote and developed under different platforms in the field of E-learning yet, they need to collaborate, exchange, and re-use the data and services by keeping the same meaning. In other words, the user (learner) must have transparent way in all these resources and information in which he is in need although He belongs to other difference. Despite the fact that these resources and information{\textquoteright}s interpretations don{\textquoteright}t change on system to another, this issue is well-known by semantic interoperability in the research field of information. This concept in identified by the ability to interpret and use exchanged data not only the content but also in the meaning. {[}01] Many solutions can be suggested by relying on semantic web approach and basing on ontology. These are instances by which we can describe the structure, semantic content and system{\textquoteright}s objective. This detailed description permits the systems to understand the semantic of exchanged data, to facilitate their localization and to ensure their integration. {[}03] Our direction in this research aimed at finding on approach which responds to semantic issue in domain of learning at the moment the exchange of the information of each interpreted system. And analyze the shared content in its own ontology and treat it in coherent manner without losing its meaning. The major challenge of this approach is how to compare and identify the correspondence among concepts of different ontology systems. There are three major approaches; we can state them as follow: integrated approach, the federated approach and the unified approach. {[}03] Our article is intended to elaborate a comparative study between these approaches, to study the benefits and limits of each approach and perform hosed choice. This technique might permit to a good response to the problem of semantic interoperability.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-4924-6},
	author = {Faqihi, B. and Daoudi, N. and Ajhoun, R.}
}
@conference {Faqihi2012134,
	title = {Towards the implementation of semantic interoperability of information systems via technique of matching: Issue and prospective},
	booktitle = {2012 International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {134-140},
	doi = {10.1109/IMCL.2012.6396464},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84873168694\&doi=10.1109\%2fIMCL.2012.6396464\&partnerID=40\&md5=fc312da1cafe93b0fe3d989cfbcc537c},
	author = {Faqihi, B. and Daoudi, N. and Ajhoun, R.}
}
@conference {Souali2011,
	title = {An automatic ethical-based recommender system for e-commerce},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 2},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945631},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961215460\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945631\&partnerID=40\&md5=8ab17e424b6230f9880c1381229a5999},
	author = {Souali, K. and El Afia, A. and Faizi, R.}
}
@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 {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 {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:000371495900004,
	title = {A process pattern for managing evolution of configurable reference process models},
	booktitle = {2012 COLLOQUIUM ON INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CIST{\textquoteright}12)},
	series = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2011},
	note = {IEEE Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST), Fez, MOROCCO, OCT 22-24, 2012},
	pages = {22-25},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; USMBA IEEE Student Branch; Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mahraz; Faculty of Technical Sciences of Fez; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; IEEE Morocco Comp \& Commun Joint Chapter; USMBA IEEE Student Branch; Faculty of Sciences Dhar Mahraz; Faculty of Technical Sciences of Fez; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Commun Soc},
	abstract = {During the last years, reference process modeling becomes an efficient approach for reuse in business process modeling (BPM). Many BPM tools provide mechanisms to adapt reference process models in order to meet new needs. However, this adaptation results in a set of variants which have to be managed. One of the most proposed solutions is the configurable process model. Therefore, evolving this configurable process model in terms of activities, a data flows and resources changes becomes a crucial issue. In this paper, we propose a process pattern which guides designers for managing evolution of configurable reference process models.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-2725-1},
	issn = {2327-185X},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Kjiri, Laila},
	editor = {ElMohajir, M and Begdouri, A and ElMohajir, BE and Zarghili, A}
}
@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.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Elbhiri2011,
	title = {UWB based maximizing network liftime with route selection strategies for wireless sensor networks},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945636},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961216854\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945636\&partnerID=40\&md5=3640a80cc17beb1f99c1d6741aece8e9},
	author = {Elbhiri, B. and Saadane, R. and Fkihi, S.E. and Aboutajdine, D. and Wahbi, M.}
}
@conference {Anoual2011,
	title = {Vehicle license plate detection in images},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 3},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945680},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961227182\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945680\&partnerID=40\&md5=0640cc288461c0ff15b817b0c5d2a10b},
	author = {Anoual, H. and Fkihi, S.E. and Jilbab, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Elbhiri2010,
	title = {Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks based on near Optimal bi-partitions},
	booktitle = {6th Euro NF Conference on Next Generation Internet, NGI 2010 - Proceedings},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 10},
	doi = {10.1109/NGI.2010.5534469},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77956440742\&doi=10.1109\%2fNGI.2010.5534469\&partnerID=40\&md5=bdb3af7a0347d03735950c66675c8253},
	author = {Elbhiri, B. and Fkihi, S.E. and Saadane, R. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Bouirouga2010,
	title = {A comparison of skin detection techniques for objectionable videos},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656278},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651520179\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656278\&partnerID=40\&md5=cbf0bdbe507be5b0297aaf80e2b30d25},
	author = {Bouirouga, H. and El Fkihi, S. and Jilbab, A. and Bakrim, M.}
}
@conference {Elbhiri2010,
	title = {Developed Distributed Energy-Efficient Clustering (DDEEC) for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 2},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656252},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651495359\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656252\&partnerID=40\&md5=04c6f29644071a785006aab6b93c9c27},
	author = {Elbhiri, B. and Rachid, S. and El Fkihi, S. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@article {Anoual2010157,
	title = {New approach based on texture and geometric features for text detection},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {6134 LNCS},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {157-164},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-13681-8_19},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79956278929\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-642-13681-8_19\&partnerID=40\&md5=c16c63472198a6944f7f472697a0cc7c},
	author = {Anoual, H. and El Fkihi, S. and Jilbab, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference {Rouijel2010,
	title = {A new approach for wireless communication systems based on IDMA technique},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656727},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651500725\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656727\&partnerID=40\&md5=b456d23b9a760f866b87f12544c1ba42},
	author = {Rouijel, A. and Nsiri, B. and Faqihi, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference { ISI:000392778800068,
	title = {AN ONTOLOGY CHANGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM An Experiment on a Health Care Case Study},
	booktitle = {KEOD 2010: Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development},
	year = {2010},
	note = {International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2010), Valencia, SPAIN, OCT 25-28, 2010},
	pages = {449-452},
	publisher = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat Control \& Commun},
	organization = {Inst Syst \& Technol Informat Control \& Commun},
	abstract = {Numerous ontologies have been developed for life science domains. These ontologies are continuously changing. Thus, it is becoming profitable to study and to manage these ontologies change in order to keep all dependent ontologies and their related mappings consistent. The aim of this paper is to propose an agent based approach enabling not only ontology and ontology mapping evolution analysis but also to manage their changes. An experiment in health care illustrates the benefits of our approach. We apply our algorithm, and implementation prototype p(2)OEManager to eye specialist ontology (ESO) and primary health care ontology (PCO), and particularly, we use our ontology agent model, and prototype to manage some significant changes in the ESO ontology.},
	isbn = {978-989-8425-29-4},
	author = {Slimani, Soumaya and Baina, Karim and Baina, Salah and Henkel, Martin and Perjons, Erik},
	editor = {Filipe, J and Dietz, JLG}
}
@article {4980748920100419,
	title = {Stacked complementary metasurfaces for ultraslow microwave metamaterials.},
	journal = {Applied Physics Letters},
	volume = {96},
	number = {16},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {164103},
	abstract = {We have experimentally realized at microwaves a dual-band ultraslow regime by constructing a metamaterial based upon the alternative stack of conventional- and complementary-split-ring-resonators-surfaces. The group delay reaches values larger than two orders of magnitude than those obtained when the electromagnetic wave propagates the same thickness in free-space. The ultraslow waves have been initially predicted by a numerical eigenmode analysis and finite-integration frequency domain simulations. Such ultraslow modes can be integrated into free-space technology for spatial delay lines, and traveling wave amplifier as well as sensors due to the enhanced interaction between different beams or radiation and matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Electromagnetic waves, Metamaterials, Microwaves, Resonators, Simulation methods \& models},
	issn = {00036951},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=49807489\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Navarro-C{\'\i}a, M. and Aznabet, M. and Beruete, M. and Falcone, F. and El Mrabet, O. and Sorolla, M. and Essaaidi, M.}
}
@conference {Saidi2009165,
	title = {Component-based development: extension with business component reuse},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2009},
	year = {2009},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {165-176},
	doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2009.5089280},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-70349443666\&doi=10.1109\%2fRCIS.2009.5089280\&partnerID=40\&md5=6523b0f43c33b8e1ceafc58fa7995adc},
	author = {Saidi, R. and Front, A. and Rieu, D. and Fredj, M. and Mouline, S.}
}
@article {Khafaji200923,
	title = {Impact of human bodies on millimetric bands propagation using ray tracing technique},
	journal = {Physical and Chemical News},
	volume = {50},
	year = {2009},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {23-31},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-76749122475\&partnerID=40\&md5=b6be17acabeae92674dae2050eac6732},
	author = {Khafaji, A. and Saadane, R. and El Abbadi, J. and Belkasmi, M. and Farchi, A.}
}
@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 {Saidi200834,
	title = {From a business component to a functional component using a multi-view variability modelling},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {341},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {34-45},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84880270864\&partnerID=40\&md5=a41f8a90d0ebc85278fb768842e390fe},
	author = {Saidi, R. and Front, A. and Rieu, D. and Fredj, M. and Mouline, S.}
}
@conference { ISI:000259601400047,
	title = {Iterative decoding of parallel concatenated block codes},
	booktitle = {2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, VOLS 1-3},
	year = {2008},
	note = {International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, MAY 13-15, 2008},
	pages = {230-235},
	publisher = {Int Islam Univ Malaysia, Fac Engn},
	organization = {Int Islam Univ Malaysia, Fac Engn},
	abstract = {Parallel concatenated block (PCB) codes based on two systematic block codes and an interleaver are considered. In this study BCH codes are used as component codes. At the reception an iterative decoder using Chase-Pyndiah as Soft-in Soft-Out algorithm is designed. The effects of various component codes, interleaver size and pattern, and the number of iterations are investigated using simulations. The simulation results show that the slope of curves and coding gain are improved by increasing the number of iterations and/or the interleaver size. From the simulations we observe that the codes PCB based on BCH(127,106,7) and BCH(255,215,11) codes are respectively 1.7dB and 2.1 dB from Shannon limit.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-2357-6},
	doi = {10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580602},
	author = {Belkasmi, Mostafa and Farchane, Abderrazak}
}
@conference {Belkasmi2008230,
	title = {Iterative decoding of parallel concatenated block codes},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering 2008, ICCCE08: Global Links for Human Development},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {230-235},
	doi = {10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580602},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-51849099065\&doi=10.1109\%2fICCCE.2008.4580602\&partnerID=40\&md5=2d5a54faa8647d8d5a1cc60bc598e1d8},
	author = {Belkasmi, M. and Farchane, A.}
}
@conference {Saidi200853,
	title = {Specification of business components: An approach by multi-view variability expression [Sp{\'e}cification de composants m{\'e}tier: Une approche par expression de variabilit{\'e} multi-vue]},
	booktitle = {XXVIeme Congres INFORSID 2008},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {53-68},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84884667023\&partnerID=40\&md5=c280035ed6b4033e34d9900b70598566},
	author = {Saidi, R. and Fredj, M. and Mouline, S. and Front, A. and Rieu, D.}
}
@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 { ISI:000261359800058,
	title = {Variability Modeling for Business Component Customization},
	booktitle = {2008 IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS, VOLS 1-3},
	series = {IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC},
	year = {2008},
	note = {13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, JUL 06-09, 2008},
	pages = {370+},
	publisher = {IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; hps; Ctr Natl Rech Sci \& Tech},
	organization = {IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; hps; Ctr Natl Rech Sci \& Tech},
	abstract = {Since a component-based information system has different requirements, components customization for various constraints is needed. Thus, the ability of reusable components to be varied and appropriate to different information systems requirements is a key property in reusable component development, especially in Business Component (BC) development. In this paper, a BC customization approach is presented. In order to do this, we focus on the variability concept, which is defined as the ability of a software artefact to be changed or customized to be reused in multiple contexts. Hence, the objective of this work is to specify business components with the consideration of commonality and variability in a business domain, in order to increase their reusability and applicability.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-2702-4},
	issn = {1530-1346},
	author = {Saidi, Rajaa and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma and Front, Agnes and Rieu, Dominique}
}
@conference {Saidi2008730,
	title = {Variability modeling for Business Component customization},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {730-735},
	doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625644},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-55849092557\&doi=10.1109\%2fISCC.2008.4625644\&partnerID=40\&md5=04315f0e284ab3996e6302eee0e4e6fd},
	author = {Saidi, R. and Fredj, M. and Mouline, S. and Front, A. and Rieu, D.}
}
@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:000082482800093,
	title = {On the influence of the orthogonalization scheme on the parallel performance of GMRES},
	booktitle = {EURO-PAR {\textquoteleft}98 PARALLEL PROCESSING},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {1470},
	year = {1998},
	note = {4th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing, SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND, SEP 01-04, 1998},
	pages = {751-762},
	publisher = {Univ Southampton, Dept Electron \& Comp Sci, Concurrent Computat Grp},
	organization = {Univ Southampton, Dept Electron \& Comp Sci, Concurrent Computat Grp},
	abstract = {In Krylov-based iterative methods, the computation of an orthonormal basis of the Krylov space is a key issue in the algorithms because the many scalar products are often a bottleneck in parallel distributed environments. Using GMRES, we present a comparison of four variants of the Gram-Schmidt process on distributed memory machines. Our experiments are carried on an application in astrophysics and on a convection-diffusion example. We show that the iterative classical Gram-Schmidt method overcomes its three competitors in speed and in parallel scalability while keeping robust numerical properties.},
	isbn = {3-540-64952-2},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Fraysse, V and Giraud, L and Kharraz-Aroussi, H},
	editor = {Pritchard, D and Reeve, J}
}
