@article {Haddad20222115,
	title = {1{\texttimes}16 Rectangular dielectric resonator antenna array for 24 Ghz automotive radar system},
	journal = {Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics},
	volume = {11},
	number = {4},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {2115-2123},
	abstract = {This paper presents the design of a 1{\texttimes}16-elements RDRA array for anti-collision radar SRR application at 24 GHz. A single RDRA with high dielectric constant of 41, fed by a simple microstrip line feeding technique, is initially designed to operate around 24 GHz. The RDRA element is further used within an array network structure made up of 16 linear antenna elements to cover the same frequency band. The simulated 1{\texttimes}16 RDRA array can reach a high gain, up to18.6 dB, very high radiation efficiency (97\%), and ensure enough directional radiation pattern properties for radar applications with a 3-dB angular beam width of 6{\textdegree}. To validate our design, RDRA array{\textquoteright} radiation pattern computed results are compared to an equivalent fabricated patch antenna array reported in the literature. {\textcopyright} 2022, Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.11591/eei.v11i4.3068},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85133448647\&doi=10.11591\%2feei.v11i4.3068\&partnerID=40\&md5=a0d9425608cbc6d17f3ea7aeb3718bdd},
	author = {Haddad, A. and Aoutoul, M. and Essaaidi, M. and Sabri, K. and Khoukh, A. and Errami, Y. and Had, A. and El Moukhtafi, F. and Jouali, R.}
}
@conference {Toub2022313,
	title = {Accelerated operating room scheduling using Lagrangian relaxation method and VNS meta-heuristic},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {313-317},
	abstract = {Like any business that produces services, the hospital is part of a process of improving the quality of services provided to patients. As part of this, hospitals are faced with the daunting task of planning operating room patients with budget, time and personnel. Most of the scheduling problems are NP-hard, so researchers have favored the development of heuristics and meta-heuristics to the detriment of exact methods. In a context where high performance computers are in continuous improvement, it is once again interesting to explore exact methods. Here we focus on developing exact methods for solving the operating room planning and scheduling problem. Our contribution is to develop first an accelerated Integer Linear Program (ILP) using the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) meta-heuristic to optimize patient waiting time according to the priority of their surgeries. Afterwards, we expose a new lower bound obtained by optimizing the patient waiting time relaxed. The experimental results validated the performance of the accelerated ILP in comparison with the original ILP. Furthermore, we have shown that the Lagrangian relaxation of the original ILP produces a lower bound of good quality. {\textcopyright} 2022 ACM.},
	keywords = {Budget control, Healthcare, Heuristic algorithms, Heuristic methods, Integer linear programs, Integer programming, Lagrange multipliers, Lagrangian relaxations, Low bound, Meta-heuristic., Metaheuristic, Operating rooms, Operation research, Optimisations, Scheduling, Surgery, Variable neighborhood search},
	doi = {10.1145/3529836.3529928},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85133432791\&doi=10.1145\%2f3529836.3529928\&partnerID=40\&md5=b98b5eb1fa5eebe63a438dcf238538d7},
	author = {Toub, M. and Achchab, S. and Souissi, O.}
}
@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 {Sebbar2022251,
	title = {BDA-enabler Architecture Based on Cloud Manufacturing: the Case of Chemical Industry},
	journal = {International Journal of Supply and Operations Management},
	volume = {9},
	number = {3},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {251-263},
	abstract = {With the advent of cloud manufacturing (CM), alongside the maturity of specific development approaches and systems in the manufacturing industry, has led to the integration of these initiatives into Industry 4.0 to achieve higher performance. In fact, the implementation of Industry 4.0 is a real opportunity for the process industry around the world which is only at the very beginning of its deployment. However, the integration of cloud manufacturing requires the fully digitalization of industrial systems and the implementation of big data management process. Indeed, the lack of resources to handle the huge flows of data in transit and the lack of standards and interoperability is the biggest challenge to the large-scale adoption of smart manufacturing. To get around this problem, it is necessary to put in place management and analysis solutions for big data to facilitate data acquisition, process monitoring, anomaly detection and predictive and proactive maintenance. In addition, the implementation of a smart manufacturing architecture based on big data analytics (BDA) requires a lot of resources in terms of storage and computing power, which is not always available in an industrial context. Thus, it has become essential to offer suitable manufacturing models for the implementation of big data analysis services that meet the new requirements of the manufacturing sector. In this paper, a case study in one of the main African Phosphates Company will be presented. Thus, we will propose a BDA-enabler architecture based on Cloud manufacturing to identified digital opportunities and key benefits regarding performance management, production control and maintenance. The findings will help manufacturer to understand cloud manufacturing and big data analytics capabilities and take advantages from their potential and their digital opportunities to assess manufacturing process. {\textcopyright} 2022 Kharazmi University. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.22034/ijsom.2021.109150.2208},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140920905\&doi=10.22034\%2fijsom.2021.109150.2208\&partnerID=40\&md5=22cf4ece941e282c346700fda9fe056e},
	author = {Sebbar, A. and Zkik, K. and Belhadi, A. and Benghalia, A. and Boulmalf, M. and Ech-Cherif El Kettani, M.D.}
}
@article {Semmouni2022353,
	title = {Bitcoin security with a twisted Edwards curve},
	journal = {Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography},
	volume = {25},
	number = {2},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {353-371},
	abstract = {The security of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency system depends on the Koblitz curve secp256k1 combined with the digital signature ECDSA and the hash function SHA-256. In this paper, we show that the security of Bitcoin with ECDSA and secp256k1 is not optimal and present a detailed study of the efficiency of Bitcoin with the digital signature algorithm Ed25519 combined with the twisted Edwards curve CurveEd25519 and the hash function SHA-512. We show that Bitcoin is more secure and more efficient with the digital signature algorithm Ed25519 and the twisted Edwards curve CurveEd25519. {\textcopyright} 2022 Taru Publications.},
	doi = {10.1080/09720529.2019.1681673},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85080957680\&doi=10.1080\%2f09720529.2019.1681673\&partnerID=40\&md5=1701fb22e429664ce981464ba5838610},
	author = {Semmouni, M.C. and Nitaj, A. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {Majdoubi2022,
	title = {A Decentralized Trust Establishment Protocol for Smart IoT Systems},
	journal = {Internet of Things (Netherlands)},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) is a widely deployed technology to provide innovative services in many several fields such as industry, logistics, healthcare, and energy management. The integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge/cloud computing, 5G networks, big data analytics, and other emerging technologies in IoT systems is leading to the emergence of Smart Systems that support devices to make autonomous decisions in order to improve and facilitate people{\textquoteright}s lives. These smart IoT devices produce a huge amount of sensitive data. Thus, establishing Trust between these devices is vital to ensure the security of the sensed data and for the normal functionality of smart systems. To address these challenges, several Trust establishment protocols have been proposed, but they have some limitations such as centralization, the need for human intervention, and the lack of adaptability to smart devices with computation and storage constraints. In this paper, a decentralized trust establishment protocol is proposed for smart IoT devices and is applicable for different scenarios. The protocol provides decentralized identity management, mutual authentication, access control, and secure communication by combining Blockchain technology with PV-SAS-MCA message cross-authentication protocol based on Short Authenticated Strings (SAS). To the best of our knowledge, this research is the first to propose a new approach that uses Blockchain as an extra distributed and authenticated channel to exchange Short Authenticated Strings without physical interaction. This helps to allow entities in the Smart IoT environment not only to identify each other but also to exchange their public keys in a secure manner. Moreover, the proposed protocol uses Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to secure communications with significantly smaller key sizes and lower computation overhead. Experimental results reveal that the time required to complete the authentication process is less than 90 ms which is a superior performance when compared to state-of-the-art decentralized authentication mechanisms. {\textcopyright} 2022 Elsevier B.V.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.iot.2022.100634},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85141956819\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.iot.2022.100634\&partnerID=40\&md5=09f4ee511269a6c179ffb6176350529b},
	author = {Majdoubi, D.E. and Bakkali, H.E. and Bensaih, M. and Sadki, S.}
}
@article {Ouatiti2022,
	title = {An empirical study on log level prediction for multi-component systems},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Please find the revised abstract attached. IEEE},
	keywords = {Computer software, Data structures, Empirical studies, Java, Java programming language, Learning systems, Log level prediction, Multicomponents systems, Predictive models, Software logging, Software-systems},
	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2022.3154672},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125313776\&doi=10.1109\%2fTSE.2022.3154672\&partnerID=40\&md5=c178439b3606759a34f8e163ece1ea35},
	author = {Ouatiti, Y.E. and Sayagh, M. and Kerzazi, N. and Hassan, A.E.}
}
@conference {Sabiri2022428,
	title = {Impact of Hyperparameters on the Generative Adversarial Networks Behavior},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {428-438},
	abstract = {Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have become a full-fledged branch of the most important neural network models for unsupervised machine learning. A multitude of loss functions have been developed to train the GAN discriminators and they all have a common structure: a sum of real and false losses which depend only on the real losses and generated data respectively. A challenge associated with an equally weighted sum of two losses is that the formation can benefit one loss but harm the other, which we show causes instability and mode collapse. In this article, we introduce a new family of discriminant loss functions which adopts a weighted sum of real and false parts. With the use the gradients of the real and false parts of the loss, we can adaptively choose weights to train the discriminator in the sense that benefits the stability of the GAN model. Our method can potentially be applied to any discriminator model with a loss which is a sum of the real and fake parts. Our method consists in adjusting the hyper-parameters appropriately in order to improve the training of the two antagonistic models Experiences validated the effectiveness of our loss functions on image generation tasks, improving the base results by a significant margin on dataset Celebdata. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Common structures, Computer vision, Deep learning, Generative adversarial networks, Hyper-parameter, Image enhancement, Learning systems, Loss functions, Machine-learning, Network behaviors, Neural network model, Neural-networks, Unsupervised machine learning, Weighted Sum},
	doi = {10.5220/0011115100003179},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140905402\&doi=10.5220\%2f0011115100003179\&partnerID=40\&md5=a465ab3cd8d0650f9e310edf8a94d422},
	author = {Sabiri, B. and Asri, B. and Rhanoui, M.}
}
@article {Najmani2022556,
	title = {The Impact of the k-Nearest Neighbor Parameters in Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {489 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {556-567},
	abstract = {Recommender Systems (RS) have become very important recently, they are a main component of many applications in different fields. They aim to give beneficial information according to the profile of each user among the huge existing online information. RS are based on several approaches to provide the best results and give satisfaction to the active user. Collaborative filtering is one of these approaches. It helps to choose a product according to the consumer{\textquoteright}s preference from many and various choices. It uses the k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) technique for the extraction of similar users from the group of users. In this paper, we will study the effect of the parameters of the kNN algorithm on the obtained results. For that, we have varied the value of k, then we have measured for each value the prediction accuracy, using the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), and the Mean Absolute Error (MAE) metrics. The experiments are carried out also to find the value of k which gives good results in both metrics. Then we have calculated also the RMSE and MAE metrics for different similarities in order to find the similarity which gives good results compared to others. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-07969-6_42},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85135066110\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-07969-6_42\&partnerID=40\&md5=c48c9d53d83b702abcc99c35254e6b72},
	author = {Najmani, K. and Ajallouda, L. and Benlahmar, E.H. and Sael, N. and Zellou, A.}
}
@article {Yousfi2022205,
	title = {The Large Annotated Corpus for the Arabic Language (LACAL)},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {1061},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {205-219},
	abstract = {Annotated corpora has an important role in the NLP field. They are used in almost all NLP applications: automatic dictionary construction, text analysis, information retrieval, machine translation, etc. Annotated corpora are the basis for training operation in NLP systems. Without these corpora, it is difficult to build an efficient system that takes into account all variations and linguistic phenomena. In this paper, we present the annotated corpus we developed. This corpus contains more than 12 million different words labeled by different types of labels: syntactic, morphological, and semantic. This large corpus adds value to the Arabic NLP field, and will certainly improve the quality of the training phase of Arabic NLP systems. Moreover it can be a suitable corpus to test and evaluate the quality of these systems. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-14748-7_12},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85139393388\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-14748-7_12\&partnerID=40\&md5=5e4ea0e7df29b510ad4dae099d9f1725},
	author = {Yousfi, A. and Boumehdi, A. and Laaroussi, S. and Makoudi, R. and Aouragh, S.L. and Gueddah, H. and Habibi, B. and Nejja, M. and Said, I.}
}
@article {Saadaoui2022106436,
	title = {A Local PSO-Based Algorithm for Cooperative Multi-UAV Pollution Source Localization},
	journal = {IEEE Access},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {106436-106450},
	abstract = {Recently, air pollution has grown significantly, and it can frequently be challenging to identify the sources of contaminants. This article studies the deployment of multi-cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to look for sources of pollution in an unknown region. Specifically, a probabilistic search strategy based on the Local Particle Swarm Optimization (LoPSO) method is suggested to design an optimal strategy that enhances the cooperative search of drones while cutting down on overall search time and improving source detection efficiency. The entire strategy is divided into two phases: exploration and exploitation. In the first phase, the detection and tracing of the plume is the favored task, in which each UAV operates in either the Greedy or LoPSO mode and chooses its path based on plane coordinates generated according to the active mode. By utilizing the areas with a high probability of discovering the source on flight mode LoPSO, the search is focused during the exploitation phase on the precise search of the exact location of the pollutant source. This is done under the direction of a probabilistic computation that uses the Bayesian process model to create and update the probability map of the pollutant source location as new sensor data becomes available. The simulation data of the proposed technique demonstrates promising results in terms of the complexity and accuracy attained in identifying pollution sources. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Aerial vehicle, Air pollution, Aircraft detection, Antennas, Cooperative search, Decision making, Decisions makings, Drones, Fleet operations, Greedy, Job analysis, Location, Location awareness, Particle swarm, particle swarm optimization, Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Pollution sources, Robot kinematics, Swarm optimization, Task analysis, Unmanned aerial vehicle},
	doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3212079},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140203997\&doi=10.1109\%2fACCESS.2022.3212079\&partnerID=40\&md5=8b9e22a8dd7a3ee80fc14fb00819a50f},
	author = {Saadaoui, H. and El Bouanani, F.}
}
@conference {Sabiri2022418,
	title = {Mechanism of Overfitting Avoidance Techniques for Training Deep Neural Networks},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {418-427},
	abstract = {The objective of a deep learning neural network is to have a final model that performs well both on the data used to train it and the new data on which the model will be used to make predictions. Overfitting refers to the fact that the predictive model produced by the machine learning algorithm adapts well to the training set. In this case, the predictive model will capture the generalizable correlations and the noise produced by the data and will be able to give very good predictions on the data of the training set, but it will predict badly on the data that it has not yet seen during his learning phase. This paper proposes two techniques among many others to reduce or prevent overfitting. Furthermore, by analyzing dynamics during training, we propose a consensus classification algorithm that avoids overfitting, we investigate the performance of these two types of techniques in convolutional neural network. Early stopping allowing to save the hyper-parameters of a model at the right time. And the dropout making the learning of the model harder allowing to gain up to more than 50\% by decreasing the loss rate of the model. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Computer vision, Convolution, Convolutional neural network, Convolutional neural networks, Data overfitting, Deep learning, Deep neural networks, Dropout, Early stopping, Forecasting, Learning algorithms, Learning systems, Machine-learning, Max-pooling, Overfitting, Predictive models, Training sets},
	doi = {10.5220/0011114900003179},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85140895255\&doi=10.5220\%2f0011114900003179\&partnerID=40\&md5=286b687a1791aefc7394085755e790c8},
	author = {Sabiri, B. and Asri, B.E. and Rhanoui, M.}
}
@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 {Najmani2022,
	title = {Offline and Online Evaluation for Recommender Systems},
	booktitle = {2022 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision, ISCV 2022},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Recommender systems aim to facilitate decision making for users by offering them information according to their preferences, they are now popular in several application domains. The evaluation of recommender systems is very important to have an effective application in practice. In addition, it focuses to find better algorithms and evaluate their performance. However, researchers did not give much attention to it in this field. There are various ways to evaluate a recommender system. In this paper, we will discuss the main types of evaluations in this domain, which are offline and online evaluation, we will start with an overview of recommender systems, then we will present each type of evaluation, and we will compare the offline and the online evaluation for recommender systems. We will base on ten factors which are, the reproducibility, the reliability of the results of each type of evaluation, the preparation cost, the evaluation, the stability, the possibility of extensibility that{\textquoteright}s mean if we can add new metrics or not, the scalability, the passed time, deep analysis, and the sparsity metric. Finally, we will discuss the factors which are presented in the comparison. {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Applications domains, Decision making, Decisions makings, It focus, Offline, Offline evaluation, On-line evaluation, Online systems, Performance, Recommender Systems, Reliability analysis, Reproducibilities},
	doi = {10.1109/ISCV54655.2022.9806059},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134293509\&doi=10.1109\%2fISCV54655.2022.9806059\&partnerID=40\&md5=31b11e740c58602df2b12bf3260a1ec9},
	author = {Najmani, K. and Ajallouda, L. and Benlahmar, E.H. and Sael, N. and Zellou, A.}
}
@article {Toub20221,
	title = {Operating room scheduling 2019 survey},
	journal = {International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics},
	volume = {14},
	number = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {1-30},
	abstract = {Numerous optimisation problems in healthcare have been approached by researchers over the last three to four decades. Hospital logistics - organised and structured to secure patient satisfaction in terms of quality, quantity, time, security and least cost - forms part of the quest for global performance. We provide herein a review of recent study and applications of operations research in healthcare. In particular, we survey work on optimisation problems, focusing on the planning and scheduling of operating rooms. The latter is a highly strategic place within the hospital as it requires key medical competence and according to Macario (2008) surgical sector expenditure represents nearly a third of a hospital{\textquoteright}s budget. We analyse recent research on operating room planning and scheduling from 2008 to 2019; our evaluation is based on patient characteristics, performance measurement, the solution techniques used in the research and the applicability of the research to real life cases. The searches were based on PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct and Google Scholar databases. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.},
	keywords = {adult, agricultural worker, Article, budget, clinical evaluation, computer assisted tomography, Computer simulation, cost effectiveness analysis, eutrophication, febrile neutropenia, female, genetic algorithm, health care cost, health care facility, health care system, hip replacement, hospital cost, hospitalization, human, intensive care unit, length of stay, Machine learning, male, mathematical model, operating room personnel, operation duration, Patient satisfaction, population size, stochastic model, system analysis, Time series analysis, total quality management, vaccination, work environment, workload},
	doi = {10.1504/IJMEI.2022.119307},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120773204\&doi=10.1504\%2fIJMEI.2022.119307\&partnerID=40\&md5=a2ac2109f88463231d4e37b0a988843f},
	author = {Toub, M. and Souissi, O. and Achchab, S.}
}
@conference {Toub2022,
	title = {Operating rooms scheduling using Variable Neighborhood Search meta-heuristic},
	booktitle = {2022 2nd International Conference on Innovative Research in Applied Science, Engineering and Technology, IRASET 2022},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {Healthcare systems around the world are faced with rising costs, increasingly complex illnesses and declining reimbursements. In this context, problems related to health optimization are complex, because they concern the fabrication of schedules that absorb the disturbances occurring in the future. The operating room is a complex environment, at risk for the safety of the patient, and which involves many stakeholders. Its organization must be based on a reflection around the management of flows to contribute to the improvement of the patient{\textquoteright}s journey. In this paper, we propose a smart operating rooms scheduling using Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) meta-heuristic. According to the literature review, VNS meta-heuristic approach still underused to resolve the cited issue. In this work, we have developed two VNS basic schemes of (Variable Neighborhood Descent (VND) and General VNS (GVNS)) in order to show their efficiency to meet operating rooms planning and scheduling problem challenges. {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Complex environments, Healthcare systems, Heuristic algorithms, Heuristic methods, Literature reviews, Metaheuristic, Operating rooms, Operating rooms scheduling, Operating theatre, Operational research, Optimisations, Optimization, Scheduling, Surgerie, Variable neighborhood search},
	doi = {10.1109/IRASET52964.2022.9738371},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127982211\&doi=10.1109\%2fIRASET52964.2022.9738371\&partnerID=40\&md5=a5119109d2fa9362b7b5f3b9ba37aa99},
	author = {Toub, M. and Achchab, S. and Souissi, O.}
}
@conference {Bouijij2022,
	title = {Phishing URL classification using Extra-Tree and DNN},
	booktitle = {10th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, ISDFS 2022},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) methods have become indispensable in cybersecurity. Recently, they are often used to detect and classify phishing websites. Phishing websites are a major problem that has a negative impact on organization and of societies. Statistics report that the number of phishing website is continuously increasing and it is becoming more difficult to detect them. Various works have shown that ML and DL can be efficient to solve this problem. In this work, we adopted lexical analysis and Tiny URL approaches for URL features extraction. The accuracy metric obtained surpasses 98\% for Extra Tree algorithm and can achieve 99\% for Deep Neural Network model. {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Computer crime, Cyber security, Cybercriminals, Cybersecurity, Deep learning, Deep neural networks, Evaluation metrics, Extra-trees, Forestry, Learning systems, Lexical analysis, Machine-learning, Phishing, Tiny URL, Trees (mathematics), URL, Websites},
	doi = {10.1109/ISDFS55398.2022.9800795},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134218804\&doi=10.1109\%2fISDFS55398.2022.9800795\&partnerID=40\&md5=65081aa39ffad3c05f668a253be030fb},
	author = {Bouijij, H. and Berqia, A. and Saliah-Hassan, H.}
}
@article {Saidi2022v,
	title = {Preface},
	journal = {Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies},
	volume = {110},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {v-vi},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85123895200\&partnerID=40\&md5=0b0333a3d7c88e9c46183a1273df88c7},
	author = {Saidi, R. and El Bhiri, B. and Maleh, Y. and Mosallam, A. and Essaaidi, M.}
}
@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 {ElJai2022,
	title = {Socio-economic analysis of short-term trends of COVID-19: modeling and data analytics},
	journal = {BMC Public Health},
	volume = {22},
	number = {1},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Background: COVID-19 caused a worldwide outbreak leading the majority of human activities to a rough breakdown. Many stakeholders proposed multiple interventions to slow down the disease and number of papers were devoted to the understanding the pandemic, but to a less extend some were oriented socio-economic analysis. In this paper, a socio-economic analysis is proposed to investigate the early-age effect of socio-economic factors on COVID-19 spread. Methods: Fifty-two countries were selected for this study. A cascade algorithm was developed to extract the R0 number and the day J*; these latter should decrease as the pandemic flattens. Subsequently, R0 and J* were modeled according to socio-economic factors using multilinear stepwise-regression. Results: The findings demonstrated that low values of days before lockdown should flatten the pandemic by reducing J*. Hopefully, DBLD is only parameter to be tuned in the short-term; the other socio-economic parameters cannot easily be handled as they are annually updated. Furthermore, it was highlighted that the elderly is also a major influencing factor especially because it is involved in the interactions terms in R0 model. Simulations proved that the health care system could improve the pandemic damping for low elderly. In contrast, above a given elderly, the reproduction number R0 cannot be reduced even for developed countries (showing high HCI values), meaning that the disease{\textquoteright}s severity cannot be smoothed regardless the performance of the corresponding health care system; non-pharmaceutical interventions are then expected to be more efficient than corrective measures. Discussion: The relationship between the socio-economic factors and the pandemic parameters R0 and J* exhibits complex relations compared to the models that are proposed in the literature. The quadratic regression model proposed~here has discriminated the most influencing parameters within the following approximated order, DLBL, HCI, Elderly, Tav, CO2, and WC as first order, interaction, and second order terms. Conclusions: This modeling allowed the emergence of interaction terms that don{\textquoteright}t appear in similar studies; this led to emphasize more complex relationship between the infection spread and the socio-economic factors. Future works will focus on enriching the datasets and the optimization of the controlled parameters to short-term slowdown of similar pandemics. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).},
	keywords = {aged, communicable disease control, COVID-19, Data Science, epidemiology, human, Humans, SARS-CoV-2, Socioeconomic Factors, socioeconomics},
	doi = {10.1186/s12889-022-13788-4},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85136870489\&doi=10.1186\%2fs12889-022-13788-4\&partnerID=40\&md5=319bf3cc0bc571a1c7ddf78cab18333b},
	author = {El Jai, M. and Zhar, M. and Ouazar, D. and Akhrif, I. and Saidou, N.}
}
@article {Boumait2022251,
	title = {Survey IOT Systems Security Based on Machine Learning},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {455 LNNS},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {251-258},
	abstract = {IoT technologies are essential for creating a variety of smart applications in the real world that will improve people{\textquoteright}s lives. The focus of this study is on the security of IoT systems using machine learning. It{\textquoteright}s about a thorough examination of the security challenges and threats that applications face. It{\textquoteright}s a survey of machine learning techniques that can be utilized to boost IoT system confidence and security. {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-02447-4_26},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130368202\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-031-02447-4_26\&partnerID=40\&md5=7e46544676b219af8cfdbafd0edc735a},
	author = {Boumait, E.M. and Habbani, A. and Souidi, M. and Didi, Z.}
}
@article {ElMajdoubi2022,
	title = {The Systematic Literature Review of Privacy-Preserving Solutions in Smart Healthcare Environment},
	journal = {Security and Communication Networks},
	volume = {2022},
	year = {2022},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The rapid development of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technology has resulted in various advances in the smart healthcare field; it improves healthcare systems to offer more complicated real-time services and provides an efficient patient motioning system. However, despite the brilliant side of IoMT, several concerns continue to undercut its adoption. In fact, collecting, transmitting, storing, and using data in IoMT applications raises issues regarding privacy and data protection, especially with the multitude of stakeholders involved during the whole data life cycle. Motivated from these facts, this article is devoted to perform a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of privacy-preserving solutions used in the smart healthcare ecosystem. The recent research papers disseminated between 2017 and 2021 are selected from multiple databases and a standardized SLR method is conducted. A total of 100 papers were reviewed and a critical analysis was conducted on the selected papers. Moreover, this review study attempts to highlight the limitation of the current approaches and aims to find possible solutions to them. Thus, a detailed analysis was carried out on the selected papers in terms of the privacy techniques they deployed, the data life cycle phase they addressed, the stakeholders needs they met, and the privacy principles they covered according to privacy laws and regulations. Finally, we summarize our results showing privacy-preserving trends and identifying recommendations to involve privacy principles coverage in smart healthcare applications. {\textcopyright} 2022 Driss El Majdoubi et al.},
	keywords = {Critical analysis, Data life cycle, Health care, Healthcare environments, Healthcare systems, Information services, Laws and legislation, Life cycle, Paper, Privacy preserving solutions, Privacy principle, Privacy-preserving techniques, Real time service, Real time systems, Recent researches, Research papers, Systematic literature review},
	doi = {10.1155/2022/5642026},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127472073\&doi=10.1155\%2f2022\%2f5642026\&partnerID=40\&md5=8fdf8807c5263ec2fe00933f24b13e2a},
	author = {El Majdoubi, D. and El Bakkali, H. and Sadki, S. and Maqour, Z. and Leghmid, A.}
}
@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 {Sabri20211571,
	title = {Acupuncture efficacy study using electromyographic signals},
	journal = {International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1571-1584},
	abstract = {Acupuncture is a centuries-old therapeutic technique. However, because of the large number of complicating circumstances, it has been difficult to clearly prove the treatment{\textquoteright}s therapeutic effectiveness. As a result, acupuncture has failed to acquire acceptance in the mainstream clinical sector. An electromyography (EMG) sensor was built and used to test the effcacy of acupuncture in alleviating muscular stiffness in this study. Electrodes, differential and inverting ampliffers, fflters, and a full-wave rectiffer made up the EMG circuit. The output of the circuit was sent to a microcontroller for analog-to-digital transformation in order to perform data acquisition. Acupuncture was used to treat four participants who had muscular dys function in various regions of their bodies in our case study. Before and after the therapy, EMG signals at the damaged regions were recorded. The ffndings revealed that the therapy had no immediate conceivable impact on the patients, since the levels of muscular contraction before and after the treatment were comparable. When the EMG signals were measured 30 minutes after the therapy, signs of muscular alleviation were found. This shows that acupuncture does supply patients with beneffcial medicine, although slowly. The act of placing the highly conducting needles into the acupuncture sites, we believe, is similar to connecting a parallel wire to a circuit, resulting in a short-circuited route at the meridian. It permits the meridian{\textquoteright}s polarized inner energy, or qi, to pass through. The equilibrium in qi regulation can therefore be restored by unclogging the ow of qi.The repair process is relatively slow, and the treatment impact may not be immediately apparent, because the constitutive qualities at the acupuncture points where the needles are pricked may not alter quickly. {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	keywords = {Acupuncture, Analog-to-digital, Arduino, Case-studies, Damaged region, Data acquisition, Digital transformation, Electromyographic signal, Electromyography, Electromyography signals, Full waves, Metadata, Needles, Signal processing, Signal-processing, Therapeutic techniques, Timing circuits},
	doi = {10.46300/9106.2021.15.169},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85120937321\&doi=10.46300\%2f9106.2021.15.169\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e2167416a17d787084cf65ecb01bc02},
	author = {Sabri, Y. and Lamzabi, S. and Siham, A. and Maizate, A.}
}
@conference {Kawtar2021356,
	title = {Algorithms to analyze the impact of change on Enterprise Architecture},
	booktitle = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {196},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {356-363},
	abstract = {Currently, the organizations are constantly confronted with rapid and radical changes, making the company in turbulence that requires a transformation from a state to a target state. This turbulence needs agility on the part of companies, i.e. the ability to monitor their environment and be ready to react. Enterprise architecture needs transformation if its levels of abstraction are affected by its changes, so enterprise architecture needs to be agile to evolve over time. To measure the impact of change on the abstraction levels. This article proposes different algorithms to proceed to the change impact analysis in the different abstraction levels to be able to analyze the change impact of different projects on the elements of the enterprise architecture and to make it agile. {\textcopyright} 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Abstracting, Abstraction level, Change, Change impact analysis, Change impacts, enterprise architecture, Impact analysis, Impact of changes, Target state, Turbulence},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2021.12.024},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85122850755\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.procs.2021.12.024\&partnerID=40\&md5=b2c3a2dc28e8214916f9d3aef066ddd4},
	author = {Kawtar, I. and Karim, D. and Salah, B.}
}
@article {Illi2021261,
	title = {Analysis of Asymmetric Dual-Hop Energy Harvesting-Based Wireless Communication Systems in Mixed Fading Environments},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {261-277},
	abstract = {This work investigates the performance of a dual-hop energy harvesting-based fixed-gain amplify-and-forward relaying communication system, subject to fading impairments. We consider a source node ( {S} ) communicating with a destination node ( {D} ), either directly or through a fixed distant relay ( {R} ), which harvests energy from its received signals and uses it to amplify and forward the received signals to {D}. We also consider maximal-ratio combining at {D} to combine the signals coming from {S} and {R}. Both power-splitting and time-switching energy harvesting protocols are investigated. The {S}\,\,-\,\,{R} link is modeled by Nakagami- {m} fading model, while the {R}\,\,-\,\,{D} and {S}\,\,-\,\,{D} links experience \alpha - μ fading. Closed-form expressions for the statistical properties of the total signal-to-noise ratio are derived, based on which novel closed-form expressions are then derived for the average symbol error rate as well as for the average channel capacity, considering four different adaptive transmission policies. The derived expressions are validated through Monte Carlo simulations. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Adaptive transmission policy, Amplify-and-forward relaying, Average channel capacities, Average symbol error rate (SER), Channel capacity, Closed-form expression, Energy harvesting, Maximal ratio combining (MRC), Monte Carlo methods, Signal to noise ratio, Statistical properties, Wireless communication system},
	doi = {10.1109/TGCN.2020.3035512},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103177403\&doi=10.1109\%2fTGCN.2020.3035512\&partnerID=40\&md5=8bfc86e88ca31e88a392a44a37280141},
	author = {Illi, E. and Bouanani, F.E. and Sofotasios, P.C. and Muhaidat, S. and Costa, D.B.D. and Ayoub, F. and Al-Fuqaha, A.}
}
@article {Sabri20214132,
	title = {Blocking control and dynamic exchange buffer switching new approach for mobile wireless sensor networks},
	journal = {Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology},
	volume = {99},
	number = {16},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {4132-4140},
	abstract = {Mobile sensor nodes are usually positioned in low battery power unattended surroundings. Wireless hypermedia sensor-based networks have a huge capacity and a continual flow of data from source to sink. The congestion emerges when the input amount exceeds the number of resources available. The effect of congestion is packet loss, buffer overflow, and waste of power, as well as increasing delays from end to end. The suggested dynamic alternating buffer technique for switching and management of the congestion, using the residual buffer, residual energy and sensor-mobile node confidence level, is applied to effectively control the congestion. The system is based on a cost-effectiveness analysis which calculates main and replacement buffers on time. The dynamic buffer shift is possible by this approach and the congest impact is optimized. The BETCC performance is compared to that of other current protocols such as TCEER and TFCC with respect to energy usage and data loss ratios. {\textcopyright} 2021 Little Lion Scientific.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114438577\&partnerID=40\&md5=aa4c26dbcb5803178c55233ce647be05},
	author = {Sabri, Y. and Siham, A. and Maizate, A.}
}
@article {Sabri2021888,
	title = {Cloud Computing in Remote Sensing: Big Data Remote Sensing Knowledge Discovery and Information Analysis},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {12},
	number = {5},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {888-895},
	abstract = {With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, our ability to obtain remote sensing data has been improved to an unprecedented level. We have entered an era of big data. Remote sensing data clear showing the characteristics of Big Data such as hyper spectral, high spatial resolution, and high time resolution, thus, resulting in a significant increase in the volume, variety, velocity and veracity of data. This paper proposes a feature supporting, salable, and efficient data cube for time-series analysis application, and used the spatial feature data and remote sensing data for comparative study of the water cover and vegetation change.The spatial-feature remote sensing data cube (SRSDC) is described in this paper. It is a data cube whose goal is to provide a spatial-feature-supported, efficient, and scalable multidimensional data analysis system to handle largescale RS data. It provides a high-level architectural overview of the SRSDC.The SRSDC offers spatial feature repositories for storing and managing vector feature data, as well as feature translation for converting spatial feature information to query operations.The paper describes the design and implementation of a feature data cube and distributed execution engine in the SRSDC. It uses the long time-series remote sensing production process and analysis as examples to evaluate the performance of a feature data cube and distributed execution engine. Big data has become a strategic highland in the knowledge economy as a new strategic resource for humans. The core knowledge discovery methods include supervised learning methods data analysis supervised learning, unsupervised learning methods data analysis unsupervised learning, and their combinations and variants. {\textcopyright} 2021. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Big data, Cloud computing, Cloud-computing, Data cube, Data distributed, Data integration, Data mining, Engines, Execution engine, Feature data, Geometry, Methods. Data analysis, Remote sensing, Remote sensing data, Remote sensing technology, Remote-sensing, Spatial features, Supervised learning, Time series analysis, Unsupervised learning},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.01205104},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85107802131\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2021.01205104\&partnerID=40\&md5=4251cd5707097684639ead5c44f44bec},
	author = {Sabri, Y. and Bahja, F. and Siham, A. and Maizate, A.}
}
@conference {Saadaoui2021,
	title = {Communication and Energy Optimization of Local PSO-assisted Multi-UAVs for Moving Targets Exploration},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {Limited resources, such as energy, processing power, memory, and communication bandwidth, limit the usage of multi-UAV systems in the target search domain. The limitation of energy, in particular, has a significant impact on the system{\textquoteright}s performance, especially because the overall energy consumption is frequently dominated by the cost of communication, i.e. the computational and sensing energy are insignificant in comparison to the communication energy consumption. As a result, the system{\textquoteright}s lifetime may be considerably prolonged by reducing the communication as well as the volume of communication data, at the penalty of increased computing cost. This work presents a hierarchic approach for allocating multi-UAV resources based on a cooperative and competitive particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, with the goal of achieving an optimal balance between communication and processing energy. According to the simulation findings, our technique can save a substantial amount of energy when compared to a benchmark strategy namely random search (RS) and PSO. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Antennas, Communication optimization, Cooperative communication, Energy, Energy optimization, Energy processing, Energy utilization, Moved target, Moving targets, Multi UAV, Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Power communications, Processing power, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Vehicle to vehicle communications},
	doi = {10.1109/CommNet52204.2021.9641888},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85124033702\&doi=10.1109\%2fCommNet52204.2021.9641888\&partnerID=40\&md5=6d7a08bcf8e4c74d296ed715e537932e},
	author = {Saadaoui, H. and El Bouanani, F.}
}
@conference {Khannat2021768,
	title = {Configurable Process Mining: Semantic Variability in Event Logs},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS - Proceedings},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {768-775},
	abstract = {Configurable process model represents a reference model regrouping multiple business process variants. The configurable process models offer various benefits like reusability and more flexibility when compared to business process models. The challenges encountered while managing this type of models are related to the creation and the configuration. Recently, process mining offers techniques to discover, check conformance of models, and enhance configurable process models using a collection of event logs, that captures traces during the execution of process variants. However, existing works in configurable process discovery lack the incorporation of semantics in the resulting model. Historically, semantic process mining has been applied to event logs to improve process discovery with respect to semantic. Furthermore, from the best of our knowledge, configurable process mining approaches do not fully support semantics. In this paper, we propose a novel method to enrich the collection of event logs with configurable process ontology concepts by introducing semantic annotations that capture variability of elements present in the logs. This is a first step towards discovering a semantically enriched configurable process. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 by SCITEPRESS {\textendash} Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Business Process, Configurable process model discovery, Configurable process models, Data mining, Event logs, Information systems, Model discoveries, Ontology, Ontology{\textquoteright}s, Process Discovery, Process mining, Process variants, Reference modeling, Reusability, Semantics},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85137949536\&partnerID=40\&md5=dd49bcf12987200729d1f5e491d2994b},
	author = {Khannat, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@article {Cherkaoui-Semmouni202142,
	title = {Cryptanalysis of RSA Variants with Primes Sharing Most Significant Bits},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {13118 LNCS},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {42-53},
	abstract = {We consider four variants of the RSA cryptosystem with an RSA modulus N= pq where the public exponent e and the private exponent d satisfy an equation of the form ed- k(p2- 1 ) (q2- 1 ) = 1. We show that, if the prime numbers p and q share most significant bits, that is, if the prime difference | p- q| is sufficiently small, then one can solve the equation for larger values of d, and factor the RSA modulus, which makes the systems insecure. {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Artificial intelligence, Computers, Continued fraction, Coppersmith{\textquoteright}s method, Cryptography, Lattice reduction, Most significant bit, Prime differences, Prime number, RSA cryptosystems, RSA moduli, RSA variant, S-method, Security of data},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-91356-4_3},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121867699\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-91356-4_3\&partnerID=40\&md5=c9be6e3c3f4c8ed53f31b0bad5cba512},
	author = {Cherkaoui-Semmouni, M. and Nitaj, A. and Susilo, W. and Tonien, J.}
}
@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.}
}
@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 {Saadaoui2021134998,
	title = {Information sharing based on local pso for uavs cooperative search of moved targets},
	journal = {IEEE Access},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {134998-135011},
	abstract = {This paper proposes an optimization strategy for searching moving targets{\textquoteright} locations using cooperative unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in an unknown environment. Such a strategy aims at reducing the overall search time and impact of uncertainties caused by the motion of targets, as well as improving the detection efficiency of UAVs. Specifically, we report, based on the UAV{\textquoteright}s scan of a location and taking into account (i) the detection and communication coverage limitations, and (ii) either a false alarm or inaccurate detection of the target, either the existence or the absence of the target. Moreover, leveraging a cooperative and competitive particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, a decentralized target search model, relying on a real-time dynamic construction of cooperative UAV local sub-swarms (LoPSO), is proposed. Each sub-swarm strives to validate quickly the target location, updated based on the Bayesian theory. In such a strategy, each UAV operates in two flight modes, namely, either in swarm mode or in Greedy mode, and takes into consideration the received data from other UAVs to improve the overall environmental information. The simulation results revealed that the LoPSO outperforms other well-known searching methods of target methods for target search in unknown environments in terms of both performance and computational complexity. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Aircraft detection, Antennas, Cooperative search, Decision making, Decisions makings, Information sharing, Location, Moved target, Optimization strategy, Particle swarm optimization (PSO), Sub-swarms, Target location, Target search, Unknown environments, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)},
	doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3116919},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85117048719\&doi=10.1109\%2fACCESS.2021.3116919\&partnerID=40\&md5=9c295c1ff03ee777bc468333f6bc6f4e},
	author = {Saadaoui, H. and Bouanani, F.E. and Illi, E.}
}
@article {Sabri2021708,
	title = {Internet of Things (IoT) based Smart Vehicle Security and Safety System},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {708-714},
	abstract = {The Internet of Things (IoT) is making human life easy in all aspects. The applications it offers are beyond comprehension. IoT is an abstract idea, a notion which interconnects all devices, tools, and gadgets over the Internet to enable these devices to communicate with one another. IoT finds application in various areas, such as intelligent cars and their safety, security, navigation, and efficient fuel consumption. This project puts forth a solution to achieve the desired outcome of saving precious human lives that are lost to road crashes. In this context, we propose to develop a system, we are designing and deploying a system that not only avoids accidents but also to take action accordingly. This research aims at dealing with the issues that cause fatal crashes and also integrates measures to ensure safety. Life without transportation is impossible to imagine; it makes far off places easy to reach and greatly reduces the travel time. But the problems which surface due to the ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road cannot be ignored. The project aims to eradicate a few of the major reasons of car crashes and also aims to integrate post-crash measures. {\textcopyright} 2021. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {Accidents, Human lives, Intelligent cars, Internet of thing, Internet of things, Road crash, Roads and streets, Safety system, Security systems, Smart vehicle security, Smart vehicles, Travel time, Vehicle safety systems, Vehicle security, Vehicle security systems, Vehicles},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0120487},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105821283\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2021.0120487\&partnerID=40\&md5=189019e4527257ddbc9f3942fc925425},
	author = {Sabri, Y. and Siham, A. and Maizate, A.}
}
@article {Bariah20215129,
	title = {Large intelligent surface-assisted nonorthogonal multiple access for 6G networks: Performance analysis},
	journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
	volume = {8},
	number = {7},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 17},
	pages = {5129-5140},
	abstract = {Large intelligent surface (LIS) has recently emerged as a potential enabling technology for 6G networks, offering extended coverage and enhanced energy and spectral efficiency. In this work, motivated by its promising potentials, we investigate the error rate performance of LIS-assisted nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. Specifically, we consider a downlink NOMA system, in which data transmission between a base station (BS) and L NOMA users is assisted by an LIS comprising M reflective elements (REs). First, we derive the probability density function (PDF) of the end-to-end wireless fading channels between the BS and NOMA users. Then, by leveraging the obtained results, we derive an approximate expression for the pairwise error probability (PEP) of NOMA users under the assumption of imperfect successive interference cancellation. Furthermore, accurate expressions for the PEP for M = 1 and large M values ( M > 10 ) are presented in closed-form. To gain further insights into the system performance, an asymptotic expression for PEP in high signal-to-noise ratio regime, asymptotic diversity order, and tight union bound on the bit error rate are provided. Finally, numerical and simulation results are presented to validate the derived mathematical results. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Approximate expressions, Asymptotic diversity order, Asymptotic expressions, Bit error rate, Block codes, Error rate performance, Errors, Fading channels, High signal-to-noise ratio, Mobile telecommunication systems, Pair-wise error probability, Probability density function, Queueing networks, Signal to noise ratio, Successive interference cancellations, Trellis codes, Wireless fading channels},
	doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2021.3057416},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100835822\&doi=10.1109\%2fJIOT.2021.3057416\&partnerID=40\&md5=ea0b361b970ee551c343f99d24bae108},
	author = {Bariah, L. and Muhaidat, S. and Sofotasios, P.C. and Bouanani, F.E. and Dobre, O.A. and Hamouda, W.}
}
@article {Kharbouch2021,
	title = {Mobile Technology for Improved Contraceptive Care in Morocco},
	journal = {Journal of Medical Systems},
	volume = {45},
	number = {2},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The fulfillment of unmet needs for contraception can help women reach their reproductive goals. Therefore, there is a growing concern worldwide about contraception and women{\textquoteright}s knowledge of making an advised choice about it. In this aspect, an outgrown number of apps are now available providing information concerning contraception whether it concerns natural contraception or modern contraception. However, vast amounts of these apps contain inaccurate sexual health facts and non-evidence-based information concerning contraception. On these bases, and in respect to: (1) the needs of women to effectively prevent unintended pregnancies while conducting a stress-free healthy lifestyle. (2) the World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for contraception{\textquoteright}s recommendations, and (3) the results/recommendations of a field study conducted in the reproductive health center {\textquoteleft}Les Orangers{\textquoteright} in Rabat to collect the app{\textquoteright}s requirements, we developed an evidence-based patient-centered contraceptive app referred to as {\textquoteleft}MyContraception{\textquoteright}. Thereafter, we conducted a set of functional tests to ensure that the MyContraception solution is performing as expected and is conform to the software functional requirements previously set before moving to non-functional requirements evaluation. Since customer{\textquoteright}s feedback is valuable to non-functional testing, we choose to evaluate potential users{\textquoteright} feedback. Moreover, giving that mobile app testing is a complex process involving different skill sets, we elaborated a rigorous experimental design to conduct an empirical evaluation of the MyContraception solution, which will exhaustively assess the overall quality of this solution and examine its effects on improving the quality of patient-centered contraception care. {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.},
	keywords = {adult, Article, awareness, contraception, contraceptive agent, Contraceptive Agents, contraceptive behavior, eligibility criteria, evidence based practice center, experimental design, female, female fertility, field study, health care quality, healthy lifestyle, human, Humans, injectable contraceptive agent, long-acting reversible contraception, luteinizing hormone, menstrual cycle, Methodology, mobile application, Mobile applications, Morocco, oral contraceptive agent, patient care, pill, pregnancy, prescription, Privacy, questionnaire, reliability, reproductive health, risk factor, sexual health, technology, unplanned pregnancy, women{\textquoteright}s health, World Health Organization},
	doi = {10.1007/s10916-020-01684-6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099086862\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10916-020-01684-6\&partnerID=40\&md5=91a540c873cdd78725ec3f6987f5b90f},
	author = {Kharbouch, M. and Idri, A. and Rachad, T. and Alami, H. and Redman, L. and Stelate, Y.}
}
@article {Semmouni2021768,
	title = {A New Electronic Voting System Based on Elliptic Curve in a Cloud Computing Environment},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1383 AISC},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {768-778},
	abstract = {The process of democratization is developing and promoting due to electronic voting. However, the increase of frauds and the increasing amount of attacks launched by hackers, gave birth to privacy and authentication problems. Cryptography offers multiple solutions to overcome the sensitive data protection issues in e-voting. In this paper, we study the application of elliptic curve cryptography, and use the homomorphic encryption properties to present a new electronic voting system. Our new scheme is based on the homomorphic cryptosystem EC-ELGAMAL~[7], and zero knowledge algorithm of Schnorr algorithm for identification and authentication. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Authentication, Cloud computing environments, Electronic voting, Electronic voting systems, Elliptic curve cryptography, Geometry, Ho-momorphic encryptions, Homomorphic cryptosystem, Multiple solutions, Pattern recognition, Personal computing, Privacy by design, Public key cryptography, Schnorr algorithm, Sensitive data protections, Soft computing, Voting machines},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-73689-7_73},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105859364\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-73689-7_73\&partnerID=40\&md5=8bb3fcc911f5436bbd6e39378e1aec4a},
	author = {Semmouni, M.C. and Azougaghe, A. and Nitaj, A. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {Benamri2021,
	title = {An overview of genes and mutations associated with Chlamydiae species{\textquoteright} resistance to antibiotics},
	journal = {Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials},
	volume = {20},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 4},
	abstract = {Background: Chlamydiae are intracellular bacteria that cause various severe diseases in humans and animals. The common treatment for chlamydia infections are antibiotics. However, when antibiotics are misused (overuse or self-medication), this may lead to resistance of a number of chlamydia species, causing a real public health problem worldwide. Materials and methods: In the present work, a comprehensive literature search was conducted in the following databases: PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane Library, Science direct and Web of Science. The primary purpose is to analyse a set of data describing the genes and mutations involved in Chlamydiae resistance to antibiotic mechanisms. In addition, we proceeded to a filtration process among 704 retrieved articles, then finished by focusing on 24 studies to extract data that met our requirements. Results: The present study revealed that Chlamydia trachomatis may develop resistance to macrolides via mutations in the 23S rRNA, rplD, rplV genes, to rifamycins via mutations in the rpoB gene, to fluoroquinolones via mutations in the gyrA, parC and ygeD genes, to tetracyclines via mutations in the rpoB gene, to fosfomycin via mutations in the murA gene, to MDQA via mutations in the secY gene. Whereas, Chlamydia pneumoniae may develop resistance to rifamycins via mutations in the rpoB gene, to fluoroquinolones via mutations in the gyrA gene. Furthermore, the extracted data revealed that Chlamydia psittaci may develop resistance to aminoglycosides via mutations in the 16S rRNA and rpoB genes, to macrolides via mutations in the 23S rRNA gene. Moreover, Chlamydia suis can become resistance to tetracyclines via mutations in the tet(C) gene. In addition, Chlamydia caviae may develop resistance to macrolides via variations in the 23S rRNA gene. The associated mechanisms of resistance are generally: the inhibition of bacteria{\textquoteright}s protein synthesis, the inhibition of bacterial enzymes{\textquoteright} action and the inhibition of bacterial transcription process. Conclusion: This literature review revealed the existence of diverse mutations associated with resistance to antibiotics using molecular tools and targeting chlamydia species{\textquoteright} genes. Furthermore, these mutations were shown to be associated with different mechanisms that led to resistance. In that regards, more mutations and information can be shown by a deep investigation using the whole genome sequencing. Certainly, this can help improving to handle chlamydia infections and healthcare improvement by decreasing diseases complications and medical costs. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s).},
	keywords = {16S, 23S, aminoglycoside antibiotic agent, Anti-Bacterial Agents, antibiotic agent, antibiotic resistance, antiinfective agent, bacterial gene, bacterial genetics, bacterial protein, Chlamydia, Chlamydia caviae, Chlamydia Infections, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Chlamydia psittaci, Chlamydia suis, Chlamydia trachomatis, chlamydiasis, drug effect, enzyme inhibition, Fluoroquinolones, gene mutation, genetics, gyrA gene, health care cost, health care system, human, Humans, isolation and purification, macrolide, Macrolides, murA gene, mutation, nonhuman, parC gene, protein synthesis, quinoline derived antiinfective agent, quinolone derivative, Review, Ribosomal, rifamycin, Rifamycins, RNA, RNA 16S, RNA 23S, rplD gene, rplV gene, rpoB gene, secY gene, tetracycline, tetracycline derivative, Tetracyclines, whole genome sequencing, ygeD gene},
	doi = {10.1186/s12941-021-00465-4},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114291851\&doi=10.1186\%2fs12941-021-00465-4\&partnerID=40\&md5=47741d00acddab5c642ac657b207e205},
	author = {Benamri, I. and Azzouzi, M. and Sanak, K. and Moussa, A. and Radouani, F.}
}
@article {Bouanani2021793,
	title = {Performance Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Wireless Networks with Wireless Power Transfer},
	journal = {IEEE Communications Letters},
	volume = {25},
	number = {3},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 9},
	pages = {793-797},
	abstract = {The low efficiency of wireless power transfer (WPT) poses a key challenge for energy-constrained wireless networks. To address this issue, in this letter, the integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into a WPT network is investigated. To this end, an accurate approximation for the probability density function of the end-to-end cascaded fading channel is presented. By leveraging the derived result, accurate closed-form expressions of the outage probability (OP) and average symbol error probability (ASER) are derived for the proposed IRS-aided WPT system. To gain further insight into the system performance, asymptotic closed-form expressions for the ASER and OP are further derived and interesting observations are reported. Particularly, our asymptotic analysis reveals that the achievable diversity in the underlying scenario is independent of the reflective elements of the IRS. The analytical derivations, corroborated by simulation results, demonstrate that IRSs can be promising candidates for the realization of a highly efficient power transfer enabled wireless network. {\textcopyright} 1997-2012 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Asymptotic analysis, Cascaded fading channels, Closed-form expression, Energy transfer, Energy-constrained, Fading channels, Inductive power transmission, Outage probability, Performance analysis, Probability, Probability density function, Reflecting surface, Symbol error probabilities (SEP), wireless networks, Wireless power transfer (WPT)},
	doi = {10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3036534},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85102847338\&doi=10.1109\%2fLCOMM.2020.3036534\&partnerID=40\&md5=8e9607afdd0ae2ed054c25ab61820b03},
	author = {Bouanani, F.E. and Muhaidat, S. and Sofotasios, P.C. and Dobre, O.A. and Badarneh, O.S.}
}
@article {Illi202190,
	title = {Physical Layer Security of a Dual-Hop Regenerative Mixed RF/UOW System},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing},
	volume = {6},
	number = {1},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 15},
	pages = {90-104},
	abstract = {Ensuring physical layer security is a crucial task in conventional and emerging communication systems, which are typically characterized by stringent quality of service and security requirements. This also accounts for wireless technologies in the context of the Internet of Things paradigm, which are expected to exhibit considerably increased computational complexity. Based on this, the present contribution investigates the secrecy outage performance of a dual-hop decode-and-forward (DF) mixed radio-frequency/underwater optical wireless communication (RF/UOWC) system. Such wireless network configurations are particularly useful in efficient and demanding scenarios, such as military communications. Therefore, our analysis considers one single-antenna source node (SS) communicating with one legitimate destination node (DD) via a DF relay node (RR) equipped with multiple antennas for reception. Particularly, the relay receives the incoming signal from SS via an RF link, applies selection-combining (SC) technique, fully decodes it, re-encodes it, and then forwards it to the destination via a UOWC link. The communication is performed under the eavesdropper{\textquoteright}s attempt to intercept the S-RS-R hop (RF side). In this context, a closed-form expression for the secrecy outage probability is derived along with a thorough asymptotic analysis in the high SNR regime, based on which the achievable diversity order is provided. The offered results provide useful insights on the impact of some key system and channel parameters on the secrecy outage performance, such as the number of eavesdroppers, the number of relay antennas, fading severity parameters of RF links, and water turbulence severity of the UOWC link. The conducted analysis shows that the secrecy outage probability is dominated only by the RR-DD link in the high SNR regime, regardless of the SS-RR parameters, such as the number of relay antennas and the average SNR at the relay branches. The offered analytic results are corroborated with respective results from computer simulations. Since these parameters are closely related with the computational complexity at the involved terminals, the offered insights are useful for the design and computationally sustainable operation of such systems. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Antenna sources, Antennas, Asymptotic analysis, Complex networks, Computational complexity, Cooperative communication, Decoding, Dual-hop relaying, Fading channels, Military communications, Network layers, Optical communication, Performances analysis, Physical layer security, Probability, Quality of service, Secrecy outage probabilities, Secrecy outages, Selection combining, Signal to noise ratio, Single antenna, Source nodes, Underwater optical wireless communication},
	doi = {10.1109/TSUSC.2019.2906545},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85098369882\&doi=10.1109\%2fTSUSC.2019.2906545\&partnerID=40\&md5=3021a37f73c102416a7e51dd6c971930},
	author = {Illi, E. and Bouanani, F.E. and Da Costa, D.B. and Sofotasios, P.C. and Ayoub, F. and Mezher, K. and Muhaidat, S.}
}
@book {ElOuazzani20211503,
	title = {Privacy Preserving in Digital Health: Main Issues, Technologies, and Solutions},
	series = {Research Anthology on Privatizing and Securing Data},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1503-1526},
	abstract = {Recently, digital health solutions are taking advantage of recent advances in information and communication technologies. In this context, patients{\textquoteright} health data are shared with other stakeholders. Moreover, it{\textquoteright}s now easier to collect massive health data due to the rising use of connected sensors in the health sector. However, the sensitivity of this shared healthcare data related to patients may increase the risks of privacy violation. Therefore, healthcare-related data need robust security measurements to prevent its disclosure and preserve patients{\textquoteright} privacy. However, in order to make well-informed decisions, it is often necessary to allow more permissive security policies for healthcare organizations even without the consent of patients or against their preferences. The authors of this chapter concentrate on highlighting these challenging issues related to patient privacy and presenting some of the most significant privacy preserving approaches in the context of digital health. {\textcopyright} 2021, IGI Global.},
	doi = {10.4018/978-1-7998-8954-0.ch072},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127530934\&doi=10.4018\%2f978-1-7998-8954-0.ch072\&partnerID=40\&md5=79d0013c567793bf90816fc766b5c8c2},
	author = {El Ouazzani, Z. and El Bakkali, H. and Sadki, S.}
}
@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 {Sebbar2021355,
	title = {Secure Data Sharing Framework Based on Supervised Machine Learning Detection System for Future SDN-Based Networks},
	journal = {Studies in Computational Intelligence},
	volume = {919},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {355-371},
	abstract = {Securing Data-sharing mechanism between Software Defined Networks (SDN) nodes represent one of the biggest challenges in SDN context. In fact, attackers may steal or perturb flows in SDN by performing several types of attacks such as address resolution protocol poisoning, main in the middle and rogue nodes attacks. These attacks are very harm full to SDN networks as they can be performed easily and passively at all SDN layers. Furthermore, data-sharing permit to an attacker to gather all sensitive flows and data from SDN architecture. In this chapter, we will propose a framework for secure data sharing that detect and stop intrusions in SDN context while ensuring authentication and privacy. To do so, we propose a defense mechanism that detect and reduce the risk of attacks based on advanced machine learning techniques. The learning and data pre-processing steps was performed by using a constructed data set dedicated to SDN context. The simulation results show that our framework can effectively and efficiently address sniffing attacks that can be detected and stopped quickly. Finally, we observe high accuracy with a low false-positive for attack detection. {\textcopyright} 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-57024-8_16},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097909334\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-57024-8_16\&partnerID=40\&md5=0d3b5f0a3c85d400bc35313dfe6f3009},
	author = {Sebbar, A. and Zkik, K. and Baddi, Y. and Boulmalf, M. and Ech-Cherif El Kettani, M.D.}
}
@article {Majdoubi2021,
	title = {SmartMedChain: A Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Smart Healthcare Framework},
	journal = {Journal of Healthcare Engineering},
	volume = {2021},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 6},
	abstract = {Nowadays, the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology worldwide is accelerating the digital transformation of healthcare industry. In this context, smart healthcare (s-healthcare) solutions are ensuring better and innovative opportunities for healthcare providers to improve patients{\textquoteright} care. However, these solutions raise also new challenges in terms of security and privacy due to the diversity of stakeholders, the centralized data management, and the resulting lack of trustworthiness, accountability, and control. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Blockchain-based and privacy-preserving framework called SmartMedChain for data sharing in s-healthcare environment. The Blockchain is built on Hyperledger Fabric and stores encrypted health data by using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a distributed data storage solution with high resiliency and scalability. Indeed, compared to other propositions and based on the concept of smart contracts, our solution combines both data access control and data usage auditing measures for both Medical IoT data and Electronic Health Records (EHRs) generated by s-healthcare services. In addition, s-healthcare stakeholders can be held accountable by introducing an innovative Privacy Agreement Management scheme that monitors the execution of the service in respect of patient preferences and in accordance with relevant privacy laws. Security analysis and experimental results show that the proposed SmartMedChain is feasible and efficient for s-healthcare environments. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2021 Driss El Majdoubi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.},
	keywords = {Access control, adult, Article, Block-chain, Blockchain, Centralised, controlled study, Data Management, Delivery of Health Care, Digital storage, Digital transformation, Distributed ledger, electronic health record, Electronic Health Records, Health care, health care delivery, Health care providers, Healthcare environments, Healthcare industry, human, Humans, Information management, information processing, information storage, Internet of things, Internet of things technologies, Network security, patient care, patient preference, Privacy, Privacy preserving, Privacy-preserving techniques, Security and privacy, Smart contract},
	doi = {10.1155/2021/4145512},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85121960725\&doi=10.1155\%2f2021\%2f4145512\&partnerID=40\&md5=0f8afcea0c53e46d9f3863d4ed04b5b8},
	author = {Majdoubi, D.E. and Bakkali, H.E. and Sadki, S.}
}
@article {Zou2021,
	title = {Wind turbine power curve modeling using an asymmetric error characteristic-based loss function and a hybrid intelligent optimizer},
	journal = {Applied Energy},
	volume = {304},
	year = {2021},
	note = {cited By 4},
	abstract = {Wind energy is one of the most promising solutions to energy crisis and environmental pollution, so it is being developed rapidly. Wind turbine power curves (WTPCs) play an important role in wind energy assessment, turbine condition monitoring, and power grid dispatching. However, there are two challenges in WTPC modeling: model selection and parameter optimization. Many parametric and non-parametric models have been developed to characterize WTPCs, but none can always perform the best due to the complex wind regimes. In this paper, considering the simple structure and interpretability of model parameters, a set of parametric WTPC models is constructed to adapt to the variability of wind regimes, and the optimal candidate will be selected from the set according to their performances. As to the process of parameter optimization, a novel loss function, which considers the asymmetric error characteristic of WTPC modeling, is proposed, and a hybrid intelligent optimization method named GWO-BSA, which makes full use of the advantages of grey wolf optimizer and backtracking search algorithm, is designed. Finally, a novel WTPC modeling strategy, which combines the candidate model set, error characteristic-based loss function, and GWO-BSA, is proposed to obtain better power curves. Experimental results show that (1) GWO-BSA shows faster convergence speed and higher optimization accuracy than single optimization algorithms; (2) the proposed error characteristic-based loss function has better performance than the commonly used symmetric loss functions; and (3) compared with some popular artificial intelligence-based models, the designed WTPC modeling strategy produces better WTPCs under different wind regimes. {\textcopyright} 2021 Elsevier Ltd},
	keywords = {alternative energy, Asymmetric error characteristic, Asymmetric errors, Condition monitoring, Curve fitting, Curve modeling, Electric load dispatching, Electric power transmission networks, energy efficiency, Energy policy, energy use, Error characteristic-based loss function, Error characteristics, Errors, hybrid, Hybrid optimization algorithm, Loss functions, Optimization, Power curves, power generation, Wind power, wind turbine, Wind turbine power, Wind turbine power curve modeling, Wind turbines},
	doi = {10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117707},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114406958\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.apenergy.2021.117707\&partnerID=40\&md5=2247666b1228f85e03abc68add3c45d2},
	author = {Zou, R. and Yang, J. and Wang, Y. and Liu, F. and Essaaidi, M. and Srinivasan, D.}
}
@article {Sikal2020183,
	title = {Configurable process model: Discovery approach from event logs},
	journal = {Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems},
	volume = {5},
	number = {1},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {183-190},
	abstract = {In the domain of business process management, the configurable process model is widely used to optimize time and cost of business process models design, which is known as the concept of "reuse". Using process mining techniques for process model discovery helps to provide a better view on processes and improve quality of models. The majority of existing configurable model discovery approaches work intensively on control flow discovery as main process perspective without considering other perspectives such as resources and data, and do not propose a detailed discovery of variability elements. In addition, the configurable process model creation is generally done by merging variant models not directly from event logs, which is not the optimal way to get a reliable configurable process model. This paper presents an overview of new multi-perspective variability discovery approach. The approach respects the variability of different process perspectives and allows users to create a configurable process model directly from event logs. {\textcopyright} 2020 ASTES Publishers. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.25046/aj050124},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081330401\&doi=10.25046\%2faj050124\&partnerID=40\&md5=716f2277e1926d108d92b8a313d3bac9},
	author = {Sikal, R. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Khannat2020139,
	title = {Event logs pre-processing for configurable process discovery: Ontology-based approach},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2020-June},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {139-144},
	abstract = {Nowadays, process mining offers key tools for companies to discover and develop continuously their processes. Moreover, many research works focus on the application of process mining techniques to manage configurable process models. To provide configurable process models with high quality and less complexity using process mining techniques, the preparation of event logs before discovering processes is strongly required. Therefore, various approaches have introduced semantics to derive knowledge from process execution traces. Although, this knowledge is used for discovering variability rules or deriving process variants. However, existing works lack the discovery of semantically enriched configurable process models from event logs. Since event logs are usually combined with semantics and domain ontology for optimizing process mining applications, it seems to be important to introduce a new approach of semantically enriched configurable process discovery. It will be helpful during configuration, validation, and enhancement of configurable processes that are extracted from event logs. In this paper, we present a new framework for event logs preprocessing using ontologies. Our aim is to enrich a collection of event logs with concepts from ontologies as a first step towards discovering a semantically enriched configurable process. {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Configurable process models, Data mining, Domain ontologies, New approaches, Ontology, Pre-processing, Process Discovery, Process execution, Process mining, Process variants, Semantics},
	doi = {10.1109/CiSt49399.2021.9357303},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85103812408\&doi=10.1109\%2fCiSt49399.2021.9357303\&partnerID=40\&md5=c1a3e5ace97f4f0e5deedd34b987c311},
	author = {Khannat, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference {Hafaiedh2020,
	title = {Fuzzified Double Game for Qos-Aware LTE-U and Wifi Coexistence in 5Ghz Band},
	booktitle = {2020 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium, GIIS 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In the current decade, cellular networks are facing the challenge of meeting aggressive data demand with limited licensed spectrum and LTE over the unlicensed band (LTE-U) has come as an effective way to defeat this problem. Using LTE-U along with superior techniques such as carrier aggregation (CA), it became possible to boost the performance of existing cellular networks. However, LTE-Ucan potentially deteriorate the performance of coexisting WiFi systems operating over the unlicensed bands if not well managed. Mainly because of the LTE-U{\textquoteright}s selfish nature of using the resources without sharing. In this paper, an effective coexistence mechanism between LTE-U and WiFi systems is being investigated. The point is to facilitate the cellular networks to use LTE-U with CA to satisfy the quality-of-service (QoS) of the users while protecting WiFi users, considering multiple operators in a dense deployment scenario. To resolve this problem, a double cooperative game will be used. That game will be implemented, in addition to the fuzzy logic, which will help us in resource allocation for users QoS. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Carrier aggregations, Cellular network, Cellular radio systems, Cooperative game, Deployment scenarios, Fuzzy logic, Mobile telecommunication systems, Multiple operator, QoS-aware, Quality of service, Superior technique, Wi-Fi, WiFi systems, Wireless local area networks (WLAN)},
	doi = {10.1109/GIIS50753.2020.9248487},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85097601439\&doi=10.1109\%2fGIIS50753.2020.9248487\&partnerID=40\&md5=ca56971766f975bae3c7b9a084c6b679},
	author = {Hafaiedh, H. and El Korbi, I. and Langar, R. and Saidane, L.A. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Sardi2020931,
	title = {Gamified e-Health Solution to Promote Postnatal Care in Morocco},
	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 = {931-946},
	abstract = {The postnatal period is a critical phase in both the lives of the mothers and the newborns. Due to all the inherent changes that occur during this period, quality care is crucial during this period to enhance the wellbeing of the mothers and the newborns. In Morocco, the neglection of postnatal care services are often associated to poor communication, financial difficulties and cultural barriers. Mobile technology constitutes therefore a promising approach to bridge this gap and promote postnatal care. In order to improve the effectiveness of mobile technology, gamification has become a powerful feature to boost motivation and induce fun and interactivity into the mobile solutions{\textquoteright} tasks. Based on a previous review on mobile applications for postnatal care available in app repositories, a set of requirements have been identified to build a comprehensive mobile solution that cater the needs of both the mothers and the newborns. These requirements have, then, been enriched with real needs elicited at maternity Les orangers that belongs to the University Hospital Avicenne of Rabat. Along with the functional and non-functional requirements, gamification aspects have been also analyzed. After the analysis and design phases, a pilot version of the solution called {\textquoteleft}Mamma\&Baby{\textquoteright} has been implemented using android framework. {\textquoteleft}Mamma\&Baby{\textquoteright} is a mobile solution dedicated to assist new mothers during their postnatal period. As future work, it is expected to fully integrate the gamification elements into the solution and conduct an empirical evaluation of the overall quality and the potential of the solution with real puerperal women. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {E-health solutions, Empirical evaluations, Financial difficulties, Gamification, Mobile applications, Mobile solutions, Mobile Technology, Non-functional requirements, Overall quality, Quality control, Telecommunication equipment},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_66},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85092252943\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-58811-3_66\&partnerID=40\&md5=2a3490959b88f98611929a0ad0efd78b},
	author = {Sardi, L. and Idri, A. and Rachad, T. and Redman, L. and Alami, H.}
}
@article {Kawtar2020495,
	title = {Impact of Change in Business IT Alignment: Evaluation with CBITA Tool},
	journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
	volume = {11},
	number = {10},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {495-504},
	abstract = {Organizations introduce changes to adapt to an agile context in a turbulent environment. These change often have an impact on business and information technology. In most cases, the change impacts organizational elements that make the adaptation not well defined, leaving out elements that can lead to misalignment. The change is realized in this article as a project, which will impact all the Business-IT alignment elements. It is important to know the scope of the impact in order to make a complete adaptation. By reviewing the literature, we found that there is no work dealing with this aspect. To fill this gap, we determine the impact of the project on the organization by considering of Business-IT alignment and we proceed with a comparison of the AS IS model of the organization with the TO BE model which is the target to be implemented keeping the system aligned. Accordingly, we propose a metamodel for change by the impact of the project on the Business-IT alignment and a set of rules and algorithms to predict the impact and adaptation. To make these contributions operational, the implementation of Change Business-IT Alignment Tool and demonstrate its applicability through a case study of an urban agency. {\textcopyright} 2020. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Agile contexts, Agility, Alignment elements, Business-IT alignment, Change, Change impacts, Impact of changes, Organisational, Project, Turbulent environments},
	doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111062},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100186829\&doi=10.14569\%2fIJACSA.2020.0111062\&partnerID=40\&md5=b28820339849d2496e184e51521f3c5a},
	author = {Kawtar, I. and Karim, D. and Salah, B.}
}
@article {Berradi2020551,
	title = {Improvement of olsr protocol using the hello message scheme based on neighbors mobility},
	journal = {Journal of Communications},
	volume = {15},
	number = {7},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {551-557},
	abstract = {The main idea behind the routing protocols based on multi-hop is to find the required path from the source node to the destination. Since those protocols do not consider the node mobility in their mechanism, we propose to enhance the routing protocols benefiting from localization node and predict the time needed for neighbors to go out of range for a node to increase the robustness of the protocols with the mobility. Firstly, we propose an efficient scheme to predict the time needed for the node to quite the neighbor range. Secondly, we conduct a set of simulations to compare the performance of our proposal against OLSR standard. {\textcopyright} 2020 Journal of Communications.},
	doi = {10.12720/jcm.15.7.551-557},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85090682888\&doi=10.12720\%2fjcm.15.7.551-557\&partnerID=40\&md5=d5420787a7e221baaea54685cd83c661},
	author = {Berradi, H. and Habbani, A. and Mouchfiq, N. and Souidi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {Gryech2020379,
	title = {Machine learning for air quality prediction using meteorological and traffic related features},
	journal = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments},
	volume = {12},
	number = {5},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {379-391},
	abstract = {The presence of pollutants in the air has a direct impact on our health and causes detrimental changes to our environment. Air quality monitoring is therefore of paramount importance. The high cost of the acquisition and maintenance of accurate air quality stations implies that only a small number of these stations can be deployed in a country. To improve the spatial resolution of the air monitoring process, an interesting idea is to develop data-driven models to predict air quality based on readily available data. In this paper, we investigate the correlations between air pollutants concentrations and meteorological and road traffic data. Using machine learning, regression models are developed to predict pollutants concentration. Both linear and non-linear models are investigated in this paper. It is shown that non-linear models, namely Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Regression (SVR), better describe the impact of traffic flows and meteorology on the concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere. It is also shown that more accurate prediction models can be obtained when including some pollutants{\textquoteright} concentration as predictors. This may be used to infer the concentrations of some pollutants using those of other pollutants, thereby reducing the number of air pollution sensors. {\textcopyright} 2020 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Accurate prediction, Air quality, Air quality monitoring, Air quality prediction, Data-driven model, Decision trees, Forecasting, Machine learning, Non-linear model, Nonlinear systems, Pollution sensors, Predictive analytics, Spatial resolution, Support vector regression, Support vector regression (SVR)},
	doi = {10.3233/AIS-200572},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85093821240\&doi=10.3233\%2fAIS-200572\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8b7d726f054f01a2be432560d359fc5},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ghogho, M. and Elhammouti, H. and Sbihi, N. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Sanak2020203,
	title = {MARCO Gene Variations and Their Association with Cardiovascular Diseases Development: An In-Silico Analysis},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {12108 LNBI},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {203-212},
	abstract = {Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. They have complex etiology, influenced by several risk factors including the genetic component. The genetic variations were shown to be highly associated with different CVD forms, in this objective we proceeded to analyze the Macrophage Receptor with Collagen structure gene (MARCO), we performed an in-silico study with a genomic functional analysis, to evaluate the mutations{\textquoteright} effects on the proteins{\textquoteright} structures and functionalities. Indeed, we used dbSNP to retrieve single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of MARCO gene. We proceeded then to a filtration and a stability analysis using several bioinformatics tools to evaluate the most deleterious variations. Moreover we predicted the 3D structures of the encoded proteins by MARCO gene, which was validated using PROCHECK. Then we analyzed and visualize the proteins{\textquoteright} 3D structures. The extraction of the human MARCO gene SNPs revealed that dbSNP contains more than 14000 SNPs. The filtration process revealed the variations G241V and G262W to be the most deleterious SNPs, indeed, I-Mutant and DUET showed decreased protein stability. The validation using PROCHECK revealed a total of 89.9\% MARCO protein residues to be in the favored region. As conclusion, our results let suggesting that G241V and G262W variations can cause alteration in the proteins{\textquoteright} structures and functions. Hence, to improve the health management, screening precariously these variants, can be useful as model for CVD diagnosis and helpful in pharmacogenomics. {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.},
	keywords = {Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics tools, Biomedical engineering, Cardio-vascular disease, Cardiology, Collagen structure, Developing countries, Diagnosis, Diseases, Filtration process, Genes, Genetic components, Genetic variation, Health management, Proteins, Single nucleotide polymorphisms},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-45385-5_19},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085196738\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-45385-5_19\&partnerID=40\&md5=1df531cdc3510e8747834a13a996b1b1},
	author = {Sanak, K. and Azzouzi, M. and Abik, M. and Radouani, F.}
}
@article {Sebbar20205875,
	title = {MitM detection and defense mechanism CBNA-RF based on machine learning for large-scale SDN context},
	journal = {Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing},
	volume = {11},
	number = {12},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 15},
	pages = {5875-5894},
	abstract = {Software defined network (SDN) is a promising new network abstraction that aims to improve and facilitate network management. Due to its centralized architecture and the lack of intelligence on the data plane, SDN suffers from many security issues that slows down its deployment. Man in the Middle (MitM) attack is considered as one of the most devastating attacks in an SDN context. In fact, MitM attack allows the attackers to capture, duplicate and spoof flows by targeting southbound interfaces and SDN nodes. Furthermore, it{\textquoteright}s very difficult to detect MitM attacks since it is performed passively at the SDN level. To reduce the impact of this attack, we generally set up security policies and authentication mechanisms. However, these techniques are not applicable for a large scale SDN architecture as they require complexes and static configurations and as they negatively influence on network performance. In this paper, we propose an intrusion detection and prevention framework by using machine learning techniques to detect and stop MitM attempts. To do so, we build a context-based node acceptance based on the random forest model (CBNA-RF), which helps to setting-up appropriate security policies and to automating defense operations on a large-scale SDN context. This mechanism can realize a quick and early detection of MitM attacks by automatically detecting malicious nodes without affecting performances. The evaluation of the proposed framework demonstrates that our model can correctly classify and detect malicious connections and nodes while keeping high accuracy and precision scores. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.},
	keywords = {Authentication mechanisms, Centralized architecture, Decision trees, Defense operations, Intrusion detection, Intrusion detection and prevention, Machine learning, Machine learning techniques, Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) Attack, Network abstractions, Network architecture, Network security, Random forest modeling, Security systems},
	doi = {10.1007/s12652-020-02099-4},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085987877\&doi=10.1007\%2fs12652-020-02099-4\&partnerID=40\&md5=cf120767ba875958e97b87ce22203057},
	author = {Sebbar, A. and Zkik, K. and Baddi, Y. and Boulmalf, M. and Kettani, M.D.E.-C.E.}
}
@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 {Gryech2020,
	title = {Moreair: A low-cost urban air pollution monitoring system},
	journal = {Sensors (Switzerland)},
	volume = {20},
	number = {4},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 25},
	abstract = {MoreAir is a low-cost and agile urban air pollution monitoring system. This paper describes the methodology used in the development of this system along with some preliminary data analysis results. A key feature of MoreAir is its innovative sensor deployment strategy which is based on mobile and nomadic sensors as well as on medical data collected at a children{\textquoteright}s hospital, used to identify urban areas of high prevalence of respiratory diseases. Another key feature is the use of machine learning to perform prediction. In this paper, Moroccan cities are taken as case studies. Using the agile deployment strategy of MoreAir, it is shown that in many Moroccan neighborhoods, road traffic has a smaller impact on the concentrations of particulate matters (PM) than other sources, such as public baths, public ovens, open-air street food vendors and thrift shops. A geographical information system has been developed to provide real-time information to the citizens about the air quality in different neighborhoods and thus raise awareness about urban pollution. {\textcopyright} 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.},
	keywords = {Agile deployments, Agile manufacturing systems, Air quality, Costs, Decision trees, Geographic information systems, Information systems, Information use, Learning systems, Machine learning, Mobile sensing, Monitoring, Particles (particulate matter), Particulate Matter, Pollution detection, Pollution monitoring, Random forests, Real-time information, Sensor deployment, Urban air pollution, Urban pollutions},
	doi = {10.3390/s20040998},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079609813\&doi=10.3390\%2fs20040998\&partnerID=40\&md5=dc90b4357fcdc64d82d12f57a45f971f},
	author = {Gryech, I. and Ben-Aboud, Y. and Guermah, B. and Sbihi, N. and Ghogho, M. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@article {Baddi2020245,
	title = {Msnd: Multicast software defined network based solution to multicast tree construction},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {12293},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {245-256},
	abstract = {Internet services provider propose increasingly numerous applications depend on multicast communication patterns, such as database synchronization, newsletter updates, video, and audio group streaming. In spite of, IP multicast is frequently suffered from scaling and instability, which causes internet provider administrators to avoid its utilization. While different multicast protocols in all layers, such as routing and switching, have been created by researchers and providers, through several years, to focus on security, congestion control, and scalability, our work aims to scale multicast regarding the number of supported multicast groups and sources in networks and multicast session. In this paper, we propose an SDN-based IP multicast tree construction module to support and deploy multicast communication-based services. To do so, we take advantage to compute multicast tree, in the centralized way, to achieve a dynamic tree construction algorithm that helps SDN controller to dynamically construct and adjust an optimal multicast tree in all multicast session. The experiments studies on the prototype and simulation system exhibit that our solution gives better performance contrasted with the traditional multicast tree construction algorithms, better also to SDN-based solution proposed in the literature, regarding multicast tree cost, delay, delay variation, and multicast tree construction delay. {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.},
	keywords = {Database synchronization, Forestry, Internet protocols, Internet services providers, Multicast communication, Multicast protocol, Multicast sessions, Multicast software, Multicast tree construction, Multicasting, Network security, Overlay networks, Simulation systems, Software defined networking, Trees (mathematics), Ubiquitous computing},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-58008-7_20},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096412695\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-58008-7_20\&partnerID=40\&md5=f5004a1fb0f79381fe80ca313ad89b13},
	author = {Baddi, Y. and Sebbar, A. and Zkik, K. and Boulmalf, M. and El Kettani, M.D.E.-C.}
}
@article {Kharbouch202086,
	title = {MyContraception: An Evidence-Based Contraception mPHR for Better Contraceptive Fit},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {1161 AISC},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {86-94},
	abstract = {The fulfillment of unmet needs for contraception can help women reach their reproductive goals. It was proven to have a significant impact on reducing the rates of unintended pregnancies, and thereby cut the number of morbidity and mortality resulting from these pregnancies, and improving the lives of women and children in general. Therefore, there is a growing concern worldwide about contraception and women{\textquoteright}s knowledge of making an advised-choice about it. In this aspect, an outgrown number of apps are now available providing clinical resources, digital guides, or educational information concerning contraception whether it concerns natural contraception or modern contraception. However, vast amounts of these apps contain inaccurate sexual health facts and non-evidence based information concerning contraception. On these bases, and in respect to the needs of women to effectively prevent unintended pregnancies while conducting a stress-free healthy lifestyle, the World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) for contraception{\textquoteright}s recommendations, and the results and recommendations of a field study conducted in the reproductive health center Les Oranges in Rabat to collect the app{\textquoteright}s requirements, we developed an Android app named {\textquoteleft}MyContraception{\textquoteright}. Our solution is an evidence-based patient-centered contraceptive app that has been developed in an attempt to facilitate: (1) Seeking evidence-based information along with recommendations concerning the best contraceptive fit (according to one{\textquoteright}s medical characteristics, preferences and priorities) helping users make informed decisions about their contraceptive choices. (2) Monitoring one{\textquoteright}s own menstrual cycle, fertility window, contraceptive methods usage, and the correlation between these different elements and everyday symptoms in one app. (3) Keeping record of one{\textquoteright}s family medical history, medical appointments, analyses, diagnoses, procedures and notes within the same app. In future work, conducting an empirical evaluation of MyContraception solution is intended, to exhaustively examine the effects of this solution in improving the quality of patient-centered contraception care. {\textcopyright} 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.},
	keywords = {Clinical resources, Diagnosis, Eligibility criterion, Empirical evaluations, Healthy lifestyles, Information concerning, Information systems, Information use, Informed decision, Obstetrics, reproductive health, World Health Organization},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-45697-9_9},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085491736\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-45697-9_9\&partnerID=40\&md5=18f9987c1855619561fe9cc080957ade},
	author = {Kharbouch, M. and Idri, A. and Rachad, T. and Alami, H. and Redman, L. and Stelate, Y.}
}
@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 {BOULMRHARJ2020101518,
	title = {Online battery state-of-charge estimation methods in micro-grid systems},
	journal = {Journal of Energy Storage},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {101518},
	abstract = {Batteries have shown great potential for being integrated in Micro-Grid (MG) systems. However, their integration is not a trivial task and, therefore, requires extensive modeling and simulations in order to efficiently estimating their State-of-Charge (SoC) within MG systems. The work presented in this article focuses mainly on battery modeling for SoC estimation. We put more emphasize on battery system{\textquoteright}s characterization, modeling, SoC estimation and its integration into MG systems in order to study its performance. In fact, an instrumentation platform, composed of recent and low cost sensing and actuating equipment, is developed in order to identify the battery{\textquoteright}s parameters and then build the battery model. The simulation results show good agreement with the experimental results, and thus the battery model is validated in both charging and discharging processes. Then, the battery{\textquoteright}s SoC estimation in both charging and discharging processes is investigated by means of sophisticated methods, such as, Artificial Neural Network, Luenberger observer and Kalman Filter combined with Coulomb counting. The results of these methods are reported and compared to the SoC estimated using the Coulomb counting method in order to end up with the precise method. The modeled battery is afterwards integrated into an MG system, which is deployed into our EEBLab (Energy Efficient Building Laboratory) test-site, for simulation and experimental investigations. Finally, the four algorithms for SoC estimation are included into the instrumentation platform, which is connected to a Lead-acid battery already integrated into the MG system, in order to show and compare their performances and accuracy for online battery{\textquoteright}s SoC estimation.},
	keywords = {Battery characterization, Battery modeling, MG systems, Online SOC estimation, Parameters identification, Performance assessment},
	issn = {2352-152X},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2020.101518},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X20303984},
	author = {Sofia Boulmrharj and Radouane Ouladsine and Youssef NaitMalek and Mohamed Bakhouya and Khalid Zine-dine and Mohammed Khaidar and Mustapha Siniti}
}
@article {Boulmrharj2020,
	title = {Online battery state-of-charge estimation methods in micro-grid systems},
	journal = {Journal of Energy Storage},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 30},
	abstract = {Batteries have shown great potential for being integrated in Micro-Grid (MG) systems. However, their integration is not a trivial task and, therefore, requires extensive modeling and simulations in order to efficiently estimating their State-of-Charge (SoC) within MG systems. The work presented in this article focuses mainly on battery modeling for SoC estimation. We put more emphasize on battery system{\textquoteright}s characterization, modeling, SoC estimation and its integration into MG systems in order to study its performance. In fact, an instrumentation platform, composed of recent and low cost sensing and actuating equipment, is developed in order to identify the battery{\textquoteright}s parameters and then build the battery model. The simulation results show good agreement with the experimental results, and thus the battery model is validated in both charging and discharging processes. Then, the battery{\textquoteright}s SoC estimation in both charging and discharging processes is investigated by means of sophisticated methods, such as, Artificial Neural Network, Luenberger observer and Kalman Filter combined with Coulomb counting. The results of these methods are reported and compared to the SoC estimated using the Coulomb counting method in order to end up with the precise method. The modeled battery is afterwards integrated into an MG system, which is deployed into our EEBLab (Energy Efficient Building Laboratory) test-site, for simulation and experimental investigations. Finally, the four algorithms for SoC estimation are included into the instrumentation platform, which is connected to a Lead-acid battery already integrated into the MG system, in order to show and compare their performances and accuracy for online battery{\textquoteright}s SoC estimation. {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Ltd},
	keywords = {Battery management systems, Battery state of charge, Charging (batteries), Coulomb counting method, Discharging process, energy efficiency, Energy efficient building, Experimental investigations, Intelligent buildings, Lead acid batteries, Luenberger observers, Model and simulation, Neural networks, Online systems, Sensing and actuating},
	doi = {10.1016/j.est.2020.101518},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085273724\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.est.2020.101518\&partnerID=40\&md5=f5d31d6e8a0f90e2bec4e1dd9d7da9d8},
	author = {Boulmrharj, S. and Ouladsine, R. and NaitMalek, Y. and Bakhouya, M. and Zine-Dine, K. and Khaidar, M. and Siniti, M.}
}
@conference {Berradi2020,
	title = {Optimize the QoS Metrics in Smart Mobile Communication using Multi-Objective Function},
	booktitle = {3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2020},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 1},
	abstract = {The impact of mobility is a major factor that can have an influence on the stability of network behaviour in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET). The selection of paths having stability, security and an extended network lifetime is one of the crucial issues in the design of routing protocols. In this paper, the authors propose an enhanced algorithm relying on a multipurpose function according to three metrics, mobility, energy and reputation levels to improve the routing decision-making process. The main goal is to identify better performing Multipoint relays (MPRs) which are used to relay messages between nodes. They are also necessary for routing and selecting the appropriate route from any source to any destination node. The identification of the most efficient MPRs can upgrade the network performing even in the most challenging conditions of the dynamic environment. The authors implement the advanced algorithm in the OLSR and get the performance result by using a network simulator (NS3) running under the mobility model of the Manhattan network. The achieved results show important performance compared to the default version. In addition, the proposed model can be employed to improve network efficiency for proactive protocols in ad-hoc networks. {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Decision making, Destination nodes, Dynamic environments, Internet protocols, Manhattan networks, Mobile ad hoc networks, Mobile communications, Mobile telecommunication systems, Multi-objective functions, Network efficiency, Network security, Network simulators, Proactive protocol},
	doi = {10.1109/CommNet49926.2020.9199632},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85093653757\&doi=10.1109\%2fCommNet49926.2020.9199632\&partnerID=40\&md5=83e6a0c98ac8386acb6e6aad76a531ec},
	author = {Berradi, H. and Habbani, A. and Souidi, M. and Elmahdi, F. and Mouchfiq, N.}
}
@article {Souidi202043,
	title = {Performance Comparison of Zoning Techniques in Geographic Forwarding Rules for Ad Hoc Networks},
	journal = {EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {43-54},
	abstract = {Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) is a set of devices communicating directly with each other without the aid of an infrastructure. They exchange broadcast messages to detect links between nodes and to create routing tables. However, the broadcasting leads to the multiplication of redundant retransmissions. These retransmissions decrease the performance of the network. The Geographic Forwarding Rules (GFRs) are a technique that allows to scale down the ripple effects of broadcasting in order to increase the reliability of the network. They have been used in the context of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol (OLSR) and have reduced the useless transmissions of topology control (TC) messages. The GFRs use the location of the originator of the TC message to split nodes into virtual groups called the propagation zones. The algorithm freely advertises TC messages inside each zone and avoids redundant retransmissions between them. The authors of GFR presented several zoning techniques. However, they have studied only one method. In this paper, we draw analysis of different techniques to compute the propagation zones. We compare, by simulations, the improvement provided by the GFR algorithm on OLSR protocol using different partitioning methods. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {Ad-hoc networks, Broadcast messages, Broadcasting, Control messages, Geographic forwarding, Mobile ad hoc networks, Mobile ad-hoc networks, Optimized link state routing protocols, Performance comparison, Retransmissions, Topology control, Zoning, Zoning techniques},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-30911-4_4},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85134349769\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-30911-4_4\&partnerID=40\&md5=0f69976ebbd29ca5dc9e70fd2c18ed5e},
	author = {Souidi, M. and Habbani, A.}
}
@book {Ouazzani2020253,
	title = {Privacy preserving in digital health: Main issues, technologies, and solutions},
	series = {Social, Legal, and Ethical Implications of IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing Technologies},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {253-276},
	abstract = {Recently, digital health solutions are taking advantage of recent advances in information and communication technologies. In this context, patients{\textquoteright} health data are shared with other stakeholders. Moreover, it{\textquoteright}s now easier to collect massive health data due to the rising use of connected sensors in the health sector. However, the sensitivity of this shared healthcare data related to patients may increase the risks of privacy violation. Therefore, healthcare-related data need robust security measurements to prevent its disclosure and preserve patients{\textquoteright} privacy. However, in order to make well-informed decisions, it is often necessary to allow more permissive security policies for healthcare organizations even without the consent of patients or against their preferences. The authors of this chapter concentrate on highlighting these challenging issues related to patient privacy and presenting some of the most significant privacy preserving approaches in the context of digital health. {\textcopyright} 2021, IGI Global.},
	doi = {10.4018/978-1-7998-3817-3.ch012},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85104245384\&doi=10.4018\%2f978-1-7998-3817-3.ch012\&partnerID=40\&md5=7b83c4da1344fd81d525a9eacdca6034},
	author = {Ouazzani, Z.E. and Bakkali, H.E. and Sadki, S.}
}
@article {Sayagh2020646,
	title = {Software Configuration Engineering in Practice Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
	volume = {46},
	number = {6},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 12},
	pages = {646-673},
	abstract = {Modern software applications are adapted to different situations (e.g., memory limits, enabling/disabling features, database credentials) by changing the values of configuration options, without any source code modifications. According to several studies, this flexibility is expensive as configuration failures represent one of the most common types of software failures. They are also hard to debug and resolve as they require a lot of effort to detect which options are misconfigured among a large number of configuration options and values, while comprehension of the code also is hampered by sprinkling conditional checks of the values of configuration options. Although researchers have proposed various approaches to help debug or prevent configuration failures, especially from the end users{\textquoteright} perspective, this paper takes a step back to understand the process required by practitioners to engineer the run-time configuration options in their source code, the challenges they experience as well as best practices that they have or could adopt. By interviewing 14 software engineering experts, followed by a large survey on 229 Java software engineers, we identified 9 major activities related to configuration engineering, 22 challenges faced by developers, and 24 expert recommendations to improve software configuration quality. We complemented this study by a systematic literature review to enrich the experts{\textquoteright} recommendations, and to identify possible solutions discussed and evaluated by the research community for the developers{\textquoteright} problems and challenges. We find that developers face a variety of challenges for all nine configuration engineering activities, starting from the creation of options, which generally is not planned beforehand and increases the complexity of a software system, to the non-trivial comprehension and debugging of configurations, and ending with the risky maintenance of configuration options, since developers avoid touching and changing configuration options in a mature system. We also find that researchers thus far focus primarily on testing and debugging configuration failures, leaving a large range of opportunities for future work. {\textcopyright} 1976-2012 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Application programs, Bibliographies, Codes (symbols), Errors, Facebook, Interviews, Program debugging, Software algorithms, Software systems, Surveys, Systematics},
	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2018.2867847},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052624554\&doi=10.1109\%2fTSE.2018.2867847\&partnerID=40\&md5=f1b2d51b59522e24e5c52f064a62d00b},
	author = {Sayagh, M. and Kerzazi, N. and Adams, B. and Petrillo, F.}
}
@conference {Reda202091,
	title = {Towards a data quality assessment in big data},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {91-96},
	abstract = {In recent years, as more and more data sources have become available and the volumes of data potentially accessible have increased, the assessment of data quality has taken a central role whether at the academic, professional or any other sector. Given that users are often concerned with the need to filter a large amount of data to better satisfy their requirements and needs, and that data analysis can be based on inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, duplicated and of poor quality, it makes everyone wonder what the results of these analyses will really be like. However, there is a very complex process involved in the identification of new, valid, potentially useful and meaningful data from a large data collection and various information systems, and is critically dependent on a number of measures to be developed to ensure data quality. To this end, the main objective of this paper is to introduce a general study on data quality related with big data, by providing what other researchers came up with on that subject. The paper will be finalized by a comparative study between the different existing data quality models. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Big data, Comparative studies, Complex Processes, data quality, Data quality assessment, Data quality models, Data reduction, Data-sources, Intelligent systems, Large amounts, Large data},
	doi = {10.1145/3419604.3419803},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096426287\&doi=10.1145\%2f3419604.3419803\&partnerID=40\&md5=7542ef0e44f4d94b808c64ce466a5eca},
	author = {Reda, O. and Sassi, I. and Zellou, A. and Anter, S.}
}
@conference {Khannat202020,
	title = {Towards mining semantically enriched configurable process models},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {20-24},
	abstract = {Providing configurable process model with high quality is a primary objective to derive process variants with better accuracy and facilitate process model reuse. For this purpose, many research works have been interested in configurable process mining techniques to discover and configure processes from event logs. Moreover, to use the knowledge captured by event logs when mining processes, the concept of semantic process mining is introduced. It allows for combining semantic technologies with process mining. Despite the diversity of works in mining and customizing configurable process models, the application of these techniques is still limited to use semantics in minimizing the complexity of discovered processes. However, it seems to be pertinent to discover semantically enriched configurable process models directly from event logs. Consequently, this can facilitate using semantic in configuring, verifying conformance or enhancing discovered configurable processes. In this paper, we present a comparative study of existing works that focus on mining configurable process models with respect to semantic technologies. Our aim is to propose a new framework to automatically discover semantically enriched configurable processes. {\textcopyright} 2020 ACM.},
	keywords = {Comparative studies, Configurable process models, Data mining, Intelligent systems, Mining process, Primary objective, Process mining, Process Modeling, Process variants, Semantic technologies, Semantic Web, Semantics},
	doi = {10.1145/3419604.3419797},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096408590\&doi=10.1145\%2f3419604.3419797\&partnerID=40\&md5=a77606eacf64646ccd3459e57f5cabdf},
	author = {Khannat, A. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@article {Sayagh20201259,
	title = {What should your run-time configuration framework do to help developers?},
	journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
	volume = {25},
	number = {2},
	year = {2020},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {1259-1293},
	abstract = {The users or deployment engineers of a software system can adapt such a system to a wide range of deployment and usage scenarios by changing the value of configuration options, for example by disabling unnecessary features, tweaking performance-related parameters or specifying GUI preferences. However, the literature agrees that the flexibility of such options comes at a price: misconfigured options can lead a software system to crash in the production environment, while even in the absence of such configuration errors, a large number of configuration options makes a software system more complicated to deploy and use. In earlier work, we also found that developers who intend to make their application configurable face 22 challenges that impact their configuration engineering activities, ranging from technical to management-related or even inherent to the domain of configuration engineering. In this paper, we use a prototyping approach to derive and empirically evaluate requirements for tool support able to deal with 13 (primarily technical) configuration engineering challenges. In particular, via a set of interviews with domain experts, we identify four requirements by soliciting feedback on an incrementally evolving prototype. The resulting {\textquotedblleft}Config2Code{\textquotedblright} prototype, which implements the four requirements, is then empirically evaluated via a user study involving 55 participants that comprises 10 typical configuration engineering tasks, ranging from the creation, comprehension, refactoring, and reviewing of configuration options to the quality assurance of options and debugging of configuration failures. A configuration framework satisfying the four requirements enables developers to perform more accurately and more swiftly in 70\% and 60\% (respectively) of the configuration engineering tasks than a state-of-the-practice framework not satisfying the requirements. Furthermore, such a framework allows to reduce the time taken for these tasks by up to 94.62\%, being slower for only one task. {\textcopyright} 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.},
	keywords = {Computer software, Empirical studies, Engineering activities, Engineering challenges, Production environments, Quality assurance, Quality control, Run-time configuration, Run-time software, State of the practice, User study},
	doi = {10.1007/s10664-019-09790-x},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85078290351\&doi=10.1007\%2fs10664-019-09790-x\&partnerID=40\&md5=16acb880be24429edc0728ccce2169e2},
	author = {Sayagh, M. and Kerzazi, N. and Petrillo, F. and Bennani, K. and Adams, B.}
}
@article {ElAfia2019337,
	title = {Runtime prediction of optimizers using improved support vector machine},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems},
	volume = {49},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {337-350},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-97719-5_21},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063278208\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-97719-5_21\&partnerID=40\&md5=3326fe51db036a4ca8af1da02286aba7},
	author = {El Afia, A. and Sarhani, M.}
}
@article {Hayat20191040,
	title = {A signaling game-based approach for Data-as-a-Service provisioning in IoT-Cloud},
	journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
	volume = {92},
	year = {2019},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1040-1050},
	doi = {10.1016/j.future.2017.10.001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034971596\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.future.2017.10.001\&partnerID=40\&md5=da16debd38f36b3509fc36e9edb8e561},
	author = {Hayat, R. and Sabir, E. and Badidi, E. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@article {Rezzouqi20181145,
	title = {Analyzing the accuracy of historical average for urban traffic forecasting using google maps},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {868},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1145-1156},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-01054-6_79},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85057079293\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-030-01054-6_79\&partnerID=40\&md5=5c985c898807cd5eb68ed52c62ea6335},
	author = {Rezzouqi, H. and Gryech, I. and Sbihi, N. and Ghogho, M. and Benbrahim, H.}
}
@article {Baltzegar2018S81,
	title = {Anticipating complexity in the deployment of gene drive insects in agriculture},
	journal = {Journal of Responsible Innovation},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {S81-S97},
	doi = {10.1080/23299460.2017.1407910},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045066962\&doi=10.1080\%2f23299460.2017.1407910\&partnerID=40\&md5=b708d0e8dc54ba63bf7d1d406a3bad2f},
	author = {Baltzegar, J. and Cavin Barnes, J. and Elsensohn, J.E. and Gutzmann, N. and Jones, M.S. and King, S. and Sudweeks, J.}
}
@conference {Sinif2018135,
	title = {Approaching an optimizing open linked government data portal},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {135-139},
	doi = {10.1145/3289100.3289122},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85058647467\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289100.3289122\&partnerID=40\&md5=b10fb1fb5f7a72db5f34b00e7a642633},
	author = {Sinif, L. and Bounabat, B.}
}
@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 {Maarof2018,
	title = {Authentication protocol for securing internet of things},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3234698.3234727},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052520501\&doi=10.1145\%2f3234698.3234727\&partnerID=40\&md5=aa4a50dc34245080536baf0939bbbde6},
	author = {Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Labbi, Z. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@book {Brisman2018301,
	title = {Climate apartheid and environmental refugees},
	series = {The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {301-321},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-65021-0_16},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045870954\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-65021-0_16\&partnerID=40\&md5=5e244e1e3c7d4185d8a670712984dee3},
	author = {Brisman, A. and South, N. and Walters, R.}
}
@article {Sahnoun201826,
	title = {A coalition-formation game model for energy-efficient routing in mobile Ad-hoc network},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {26-33},
	abstract = {One of the most routing problems in Mobile Ad-hoc Network is the node{\textquoteright}s selfishness. Nodes are generally selfish and try to maximize their own benefit; hence these nodes refuse to forward packet on behalf of others to preserve their limited energy resources. This selfishness may lead to a low efficiency of routing. Therefore, it is important to study mechanisms which can be used encourage cooperation among nodes, to maintain the network efficiency. In this paper, we propose a cooperative game theoretic model to support more energy-aware and available bandwidth routing in MANET. We introduce a novel framework from coalitional-formation game theory, called hedonic coalition-formation game. We integrate this model to OLSR protocol that is an optimization over the classical link state protocol for the MANETs. Within each coalition, a coalition coordinator acts as a special MPR node to improve the energy efficient and the packet success rate of the transmission. Simulation results show how the proposed algorithm improve the performance in terms of the percentage of selected MPR nodes in the network, the percentage of alive nodes by time, and the Packet Delivery Ratio. Which prove that our proposed model leads, to better results compared to the classical OLSR. {\textcopyright} 2018 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp26-33},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042920602\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v8i1.pp26-33\&partnerID=40\&md5=b4b2c8c95ff6ea605c6d376020831a06},
	author = {Sahnoun, A. and Habbani, A. and El Abbadi, J.}
}
@article {Sahnoun201826,
	title = {A coalition-formation game model for energy-efficient routing in mobile Ad-hoc network},
	journal = {International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering},
	volume = {8},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {26-33},
	doi = {10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp26-33},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042920602\&doi=10.11591\%2fijece.v8i1.pp26-33\&partnerID=40\&md5=b4b2c8c95ff6ea605c6d376020831a06},
	author = {Sahnoun, A. and Habbani, A. and El Abbadi, J.}
}
@conference {Salah-Eddine2018130,
	title = {Computerised method of coping with technostress in organizational situation},
	booktitle = {2018 International Conference on Information Management and Processing, ICIMP 2018},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {130-134},
	doi = {10.1109/ICIMP1.2018.8325854},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85051020956\&doi=10.1109\%2fICIMP1.2018.8325854\&partnerID=40\&md5=edfd6f6dbd98a85dea77c6b85c7adbe3},
	author = {Salah-Eddine, M. and El Hamlaoui, M. and Belaissaoui, M.}
}
@conference {Sikal20181,
	title = {Configurable process mining: A comparative study},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Optimization and Applications, ICOA 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/ICOA.2018.8370585},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048784383\&doi=10.1109\%2fICOA.2018.8370585\&partnerID=40\&md5=7c94107c941b68ce4932aa663659b32d},
	author = {Sikal, R. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference {Sikal2018137,
	title = {Configurable Process Mining: Variability Discovery Approach},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2018-October},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {137-142},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2018.8596526},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061447388\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2018.8596526\&partnerID=40\&md5=74eec99e91001d7dee97e25a580cf92e},
	author = {Sikal, R. and Sba{\"\i}, H. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference {Sebbar2018583,
	title = {Detection MITM Attack in Multi-SDN Controller},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	volume = {2018-October},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {583-587},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2018.8596479},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85061446244\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2018.8596479\&partnerID=40\&md5=04ea13257b17af4ec26de2fe0c9aeba7},
	author = {Sebbar, A. and Boulmalf, M. and Dafir Ech-Cherif El Kettani, M. and Badd, Y.}
}
@conference {Saoud2018211,
	title = {DSS design for carrier collaboration using Big graph IOT},
	booktitle = {2018 International Colloquium on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, LOGISTIQUA 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {211-215},
	doi = {10.1109/LOGISTIQUA.2018.8428266},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052499129\&doi=10.1109\%2fLOGISTIQUA.2018.8428266\&partnerID=40\&md5=d4b142cb74b25e7b0dc1343eab03f24b},
	author = {Saoud, A. and Bellabdaoui, A.}
}
@conference {Souidi2018,
	title = {Energy performance of zoning techniques for broadcast processing with reduced redundancy in MANETS},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3289402.3289507},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85062792171\&doi=10.1145\%2f3289402.3289507\&partnerID=40\&md5=1d25490445c2ab5f8978761851a98837},
	author = {Souidi, M. and Berradi, H. and Habbani, A. and Elmahdi, F.}
}
@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 {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.}
}
@conference {Sarhani2018,
	title = {Generalization enhancement of support vector regression in electric load forecasting with model selection},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3230905.3230947},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85053484922\&doi=10.1145\%2f3230905.3230947\&partnerID=40\&md5=a29a4cececf76f665c91e09b16ba8692},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and Afia, A.E.}
}
@article {Souidi20181,
	title = {Geographic forwarding rules to reduce broadcast redundancy in mobile ad hoc wireless networks},
	journal = {Personal and Ubiquitous Computing},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-11},
	doi = {10.1007/s00779-018-1137-2},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046544087\&doi=10.1007\%2fs00779-018-1137-2\&partnerID=40\&md5=6c36decf0a636de5c2e0472ac7d6cf4e},
	author = {Souidi, M. and Habbani, A. and Berradi, H. and El Mahdi, F.}
}
@article {Bousqaoui2018626,
	title = {Information sharing as a coordination tool in supply chain using multi-agent system and neural networks},
	journal = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {745},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {626-632},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-77703-0_62},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85045145521\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-77703-0_62\&partnerID=40\&md5=3a6c9dcdd6ba98d43e615abe474572b2},
	author = {Bousqaoui, H. and Slimani, I. and Achchab, S.}
}
@conference {Saadaoui20181,
	title = {Information sharing based on local PSO for UAVs cooperative search of unmoved targets},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking, CommNet 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/COMMNET.2018.8360276},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048338815\&doi=10.1109\%2fCOMMNET.2018.8360276\&partnerID=40\&md5=8347839b2152b9792ed6dbc5fb90a466},
	author = {Saadaoui, H. and El Bouanani, F.}
}
@conference {Labbi2018,
	title = {IoT smart homes based on RFID technology: Localization systems review},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1145/3234698.3234700},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052532882\&doi=10.1145\%2f3234698.3234700\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e4d0d9d2a265066d022bd7c80c257b8},
	author = {Labbi, Z. and Senhadji, M. and Maarof, A. and Belkasmi, 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.}
}
@conference {BenHafaiedh20181,
	title = {LTE-U and WiFi coexistence in the 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum: A survey},
	booktitle = {PEMWN 2017 - 6th IFIP International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-7},
	doi = {10.23919/PEMWN.2017.8308025},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85047727398\&doi=10.23919\%2fPEMWN.2017.8308025\&partnerID=40\&md5=65a02857c329a81d3574c38db67a7f92},
	author = {Ben Hafaiedh, H. and El Korbi, I. and Saidane, L.A. and Kobbane, A.}
}
@conference {Saissi2018111,
	title = {A new clustering approach to identify the values to query the deep web access forms},
	booktitle = {2018 4th International Conference on Computer and Technology Applications, ICCTA 2018},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {111-116},
	doi = {10.1109/CATA.2018.8398666},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050215563\&doi=10.1109\%2fCATA.2018.8398666\&partnerID=40\&md5=9301955ef076b676312ef8b2d6fa454a},
	author = {Saissi, Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Selma2018212,
	title = {A New Mapping Approach between XML Schemas in a P2P Environment},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {212-217},
	doi = {10.1109/DeSE.2017.16},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056190704\&doi=10.1109\%2fDeSE.2017.16\&partnerID=40\&md5=9968d6ce7b4ae7d6fb9f91cb21c0281a},
	author = {Selma, E.Y.E.I. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@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 {Kasmi20181,
	title = {Performance evaluation of StarPU schedulers with preconditioned conjugate gradient solver on heterogeneous (multi-CPUs/multi-GPUs) architecture},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2017},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-6},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2017.8284742},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046664197\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2017.8284742\&partnerID=40\&md5=15d1bacdcdc6b413b42b5bc9c3059bfb},
	author = {Kasmi, N. and Zbakh, M. and Samadi, Y. and Cherkaoui, R. and Haouari, A.}
}
@conference {ElAfia20181,
	title = {Performance prediction using support vector machine for the configuration of optimization algorithms},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2017 International Conference of Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2017},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1-7},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2017.8284699},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046624408\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2017.8284699\&partnerID=40\&md5=13c42fe4df8b128f5a87988605c2485f},
	author = {El Afia, A. and Sarhani, M.}
}
@article {Haarhoff20181819,
	title = {Plant population and maize grain yield: A global systematic review of rainfed trials},
	journal = {Crop Science},
	volume = {58},
	number = {5},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {1819-1829},
	doi = {10.2135/cropsci2018.01.0003},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052382932\&doi=10.2135\%2fcropsci2018.01.0003\&partnerID=40\&md5=ae7e4a2754ea799249ee90004df63de8},
	author = {Haarhoff, S.J. and Swanepoel, P.A.}
}
@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.}
}
@book {Maarof2018105,
	title = {Security in the internet of things},
	series = {Security and Privacy in Smart Sensor Networks},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {105-121},
	doi = {10.4018/978-1-5225-5736-4.ch006},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049817262\&doi=10.4018\%2f978-1-5225-5736-4.ch006\&partnerID=40\&md5=80e4b7c3b0310d29dc82712e2dc2e6bc},
	author = {Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Labbi, Z. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@article {Sayagh2018,
	title = {Software Configuration Engineering in Practice: Interviews, Survey, and Systematic Literature Review},
	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2018.2867847},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052624554\&doi=10.1109\%2fTSE.2018.2867847\&partnerID=40\&md5=f1b2d51b59522e24e5c52f064a62d00b},
	author = {Sayagh, M. and Kerzazi, N. and Adams, B. and Petrillo, F.}
}
@article {Angeler2018,
	title = {Sonifying social-ecological change: A wetland laments agricultural transformation},
	journal = {Ecology and Society},
	volume = {23},
	number = {2},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.5751/ES-10055-230220},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049607952\&doi=10.5751\%2fES-10055-230220\&partnerID=40\&md5=d13c737c6c7af34594b114006ad1b2a5},
	author = {Angeler, D.G. and Alvarez-Cobelas, M. and S{\'a}nchez-Carrillo, S.}
}
@conference {Saidi2018,
	title = {Translation of heterogeneous requirements meta-models through a pivot meta-model},
	booktitle = {ENASE 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering},
	volume = {2018-January},
	year = {2018},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056807026\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8a470ca9cd9874928c91f4110c79259},
	author = {Saidi, I.E. and El Hamlaoui, M. and Dkaki, T. and Zarour, N.E. and Charrel, P.-J.}
}
@article {Elorriaga2018,
	title = {Variation in mutation spectra among CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenized poplars},
	journal = {Frontiers in Plant Science},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2018},
	doi = {10.3389/fpls.2018.00594},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046905354\&doi=10.3389\%2ffpls.2018.00594\&partnerID=40\&md5=5813c348dfca604f8eb5bf9c4e3ac76f},
	author = {Elorriaga, E. and Klocko, A.L. and Ma, C. and Strauss, S.H.}
}
@conference {Routaib2017732,
	title = {An asymmetrical nash bargaining for adaptive and automated context negotiation in pervasive environments},
	booktitle = {2017 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {732-736},
	abstract = {To cope with the energy performance concern of pervasive and Internet-of-Thing (IoT) devices, current pervasive systems require intelligent algorithms that can change the behavior of the devices and the overall network. Making the devices aware of their states and able to adjust their operative modes using context information has the potential to achieve better energy performance. Context information is typically obtained from environmental sensors, device sensors, and from external sources. In this work, we study the marketing of context-aware services through an adaptive context negotiation model. The negotiation process between context consumers and one or several context providers aims to satisfy the preferences of each the negotiating party concerning the quality-of-context (QoC) levels required by the context consumer. The proposed negotiation model uses an asymmetrical {\textquoteright}Power Bargaining{\textquoteright} model in which each negotiating party can influence the other party. It implements a learning algorithm for a symmetrical bargaining model. Numerical evaluation of the model shows the convergence of the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) by using a learning algorithm. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983225},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027412664\&doi=10.1109\%2fCCNC.2017.7983225\&partnerID=40\&md5=70dd3b4a091642d07bcfa73b03f0fd96},
	author = {Routaib, H. and Badidi, E. and Sabir, E. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@conference {Maarof2017,
	title = {Authentication protocol conforming to EPC class-1 Gen-2 standard},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is a contactless automatic identification system that uses small and low-cost tags. The restricted computation ability and limited memory space of low-cost tags make existing RFID systems vulnerable. EPC Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC-C1G2) is the most popular standard for low cost passive RFID tags. For improving security of this standard; many security schemes are designed for RFID system since the release of the EPC-C1G2. In 2012, Yoon et al. proposed a new RFID authentication protocol conforming to EPC-C1G2 standard. This paper discuss Yoon et al.{\textquoteright}s protocol, which is conforming to EPC-C1G2 standard, and shows that it suffers from common attack and computational and communication cost. Then we present our enhanced protocol which improves the security, reduce the complexity and increase the performance of identification systems efficiently. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843915},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015189847\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843915\&partnerID=40\&md5=497b5f1e05260548d29eb5491926b3ce},
	author = {Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Labbi, Z. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {Enaanai2017,
	title = {The collaborative relevance in the distributed information retrieval},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Relevance is one of the most interesting topics in the information retrieval domain. In this paper, we introduce another method of relevance calculation. We propose to use the implicit opinion of users to calculate relevance. The Implicit judgment of users is injected to the documents by calculating different kinds of weighting. These latter touch several criteria like as user{\textquoteright}s weight in the query{\textquoteright}s words, user{\textquoteright}s profile, user{\textquoteright}s interest, document{\textquoteright}s content and the document popularity. In this method, each user is an active element of the system, he searches documents and he makes treatments to provide relevant information to other users in the Network. This is similar as the peer-to-peer systems; unlike that, an element (user) have to manage automatically his data by creating a short view model of his most visited documents, and calculates his relative relevance about each one. The relative relevance is variable according each user, so the final relevance is calculated by the averaging of the elementary relevance of all users. Hence, the name of collaborative relevance. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/AICCSA.2016.7945827},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85021875857\&doi=10.1109\%2fAICCSA.2016.7945827\&partnerID=40\&md5=24987a90a9345c06f11af61bc9d9e4c3},
	author = {Enaanai, A. and Doukkali, A.S. and Saif, I. and Moutachaouik, H. and Hain, M.}
}
@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 {Sayagh2017255,
	title = {On cross-stack configuration errors},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2017 IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {255-265},
	abstract = {Today{\textquoteright}s web applications are deployed on powerful software stacks such as MEAN (JavaScript) or LAMP (PHP), which consist of multiple layers such as an operating system, web server, database, execution engine and application framework, each of which provide resources to the layer just above it. These powerful software stacks unfortunately are plagued by so-called cross-stack configuration errors (CsCEs), where a higher layer in the stack suddenly starts to behave incorrectly or even crash due to incorrect configuration choices in lower layers. Due to differences in programming languages and lack of explicit links between configuration options of different layers, sysadmins and developers have a hard time identifying the cause of a CsCE, which is why this paper (1) performs a qualitative analysis of 1,082 configuration errors to understand the impact, effort and complexity of dealing with CsCEs, then (2) proposes a modular approach that plugs existing source code analysis (slicing) techniques, in order to recommend the culprit configuration option. Empirical evaluation of this approach on 36 real CsCEs of the top 3 LAMP stack layers shows that our approach reports the misconfigured option with an average rank of 2.18 for 32 of the CsCEs, and takes only few minutes, making it practically useful. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2017.31},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85027717403\&doi=10.1109\%2fICSE.2017.31\&partnerID=40\&md5=fa56524dafc8d93876ecd8c56f396da3},
	author = {Sayagh, M. and Kerzazi, N. and Adams, B.}
}
@article {Sahnoun201722,
	title = {EEPR-OLSR: An energy efficient and path reliability protocol for proactive mobile Ad-hoc network routing},
	journal = {International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security},
	volume = {9},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {22-29},
	abstract = {Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks has received a lot of attention due to the challenges posed by the self-organizing nature of the network, the dynamic topology, and the unreliable wireless medium. One of the most critical issues for MANETs is how to increase network lifetime, since nodes are typically battery powered. In this paper we consider the proactive MANET protocol OLSR to improve the network lifetime, we propose a novel multiple metric routing scheme for MANET, based on energy efficient and path reliability metrics, integrating it to standard OLSR, named Energy Efficient and Path Reliability OLSR (EEPR-OLSR), in which we investigate cross layer parameters that effect the network lifetime and a prediction-based link availability estimation is introduced. Simulation results, by NS3 simulator, show that the proposed EEPR-OLSR provides significant performance gains in both the network lifetime and packet delivery ration (PDR), compared to the standard OLSR.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85017133726\&partnerID=40\&md5=b9c4bae42e6e2af86bcd792df9345d07},
	author = {Sahnoun, A. and Habbani, A. and El Abbadi, J.}
}
@article {Sahnoun2017399,
	title = {An energy-efficient proactive routing scheme for MANET: Game theoretical approach of forwarding with selfish nodes},
	journal = {International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications},
	volume = {63},
	number = {4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {399-404},
	abstract = {In Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, nodes exchange packets with each other using intermediate nodes as relays. Since nodes in MANETs are battery powered, energy conservation is a crucial issue. Accepting relay all request may not be in the best interest of a node. But if many nodes prefer not to consume energy in relaying packets on behalf of others, the overall performance of routing in network will be influenced. In this paper we address the energy-efficient routing problem in MANETs with selfish nodes. We modeled this problem as a game-theoretic constraint optimization; we defined the utility of each node as a weighted difference between a performance metric and some transmission costs. A motivate mechanism is proposed in order to induce nodes to forwarding cooperation. Each node independently implements the optimal equilibrium strategy under the given constraints. Simulation results by NS3 simulator show that our proposed approach can improve system performance in network lifetime and packet delivery ratio. {\textcopyright} 2017 De Gruyter Open Ltd. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.1515/eletel-2017-0055},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85042877707\&doi=10.1515\%2feletel-2017-0055\&partnerID=40\&md5=62e06e5bfb6b7ad51299584d89bc9a68},
	author = {Sahnoun, A. and Habbani, A. and El Abbadi, J.}
}
@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 {Saif2017210,
	title = {GENAUM: New semantic distributed search engine},
	journal = {Journal of Mobile Multimedia},
	volume = {13},
	number = {3-4},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {210-221},
	abstract = {The rapid development of services based on distributed architectures is now emerging as important items that transform mode of communication, and the exponential growth of the Web makes a strong pressure on technologies, for a regular improvement of performance, so it{\textquoteright}s irresistible to use distributed architectures and techniques for the search and information retrieval on the Web, to provide more relevant search result, in minimum possible time. This paper discuss some solutions researchers are working on, to make search engines more faster and more intelligent, specifically by considering the semantic context of users and documents, and the use of distributed architectures. This paper also presents the overall architecture of GENAUM; the collaborative, semantic and distributed search engine, based on a network of agents, which is the core part of the system. The functionality of GENAUM is spread across multiple agents, to fulfill user{\textquoteright}s performance expectations. At the end of this paper, some preliminary experimental results are presented, that attempts to test the user modeling process of GENAUM, using reference ontology. {\textcopyright} Rinton Press.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85040242169\&partnerID=40\&md5=21e9c1f654b188cfb9b0bcd523769494},
	author = {Saif, I. and Doukkali, A.S. and Enaanai, A. and Benlahmar, E.H.}
}
@article {Haoues2017886,
	title = {A guideline for software architecture selection based on ISO 25010 quality related characteristics},
	journal = {International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and Management},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {886-909},
	abstract = {As the complexity of software increases, the choice of the appropriate software architecture becomes a critical task. This paper provides a guideline for selecting the appropriate software architecture based on pertinent ISO 25010 quality characteristics. The guideline was established through an analytical survey of 113 papers published from 2010 to 2014. Through this survey, we first identified a set of commonly used software architectures in the software engineering literature. Secondly, we applied the Formal Concept Analysis technique to classify each one of these architectures according to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. Finally, we identified the relationships among ISO 25010 quality characteristics, which in turn helped us to develop a guideline on how to select the appropriate software architecture with respect to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. In order to make sure about the validation of the proposed guideline, a survey with industrial experts is in progress. Data were collected from two companies working in the software development field (ST2i and Telnet). {\textcopyright} 2016, The Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM), India and The Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden.},
	doi = {10.1007/s13198-016-0546-8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034990679\&doi=10.1007\%2fs13198-016-0546-8\&partnerID=40\&md5=180857479792ea94cf87783efc8285da},
	author = {Haoues, M. and Sellami, A. and Ben-Abdallah, H. and Cheikhi, L.}
}
@article {Afia20179997,
	title = {Hidden markov model control of inertia weight adaptation for Particle swarm optimization},
	journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
	volume = {50},
	number = {1},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {9997-10002},
	abstract = {Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a stochastic algorithm based population that integrates social interactions of animals in nature. One of the main challenges within PSO is to balance between global and local search throughout the course of a run. To achieve this trade-off, various adaptive PSOs have been proposed in order to control the values of its parameters. The present paper makes an attempt to determine a generalized adaptive framework for the setting of the inertia weight parameter which is named HMM-wPSO. That is, a control mechanism of the inertia weight is proposed based on the estimation of states using hidden Markov model (HMM). We performed evaluations on ten benchmark functions to test the HMM control of inertia weight parameter for the PSO. Experimental results show that our proposed scheme outperforms other compared PSO variants in major cases in terms of solution accuracy and convergence speed. {\textcopyright} 2017},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2030},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85031775272\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ifacol.2017.08.2030\&partnerID=40\&md5=3e5c7fac9adf59cd9559143a77cf11ab},
	author = {Afia, A.E. and Sarhani, M. and Aoun, O.}
}
@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 {Saadaoui2017168,
	title = {Information sharing in UAVs cooperative search based on calculating the minimum time},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F130526},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {168-173},
	abstract = {This paper proposes an optimization strategy for sharing and merging information of target{\textquoteright}s existence in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) cooperative search. That main is to minimize the search time subject to both sensing and communication limitations. We derive limits for the required number of sensor observations considering false alarms and miss detections, to declare the existence or absence of a target. the search environment is partitioned into equal-size cells, where each cell is associated with a probability of target existence and the number of visits by the UAVs, wich constitutes a probability map (search map) and a visit map (certainty map). We present a decentralized control model for cooperative target-searching and we develop a real-time approach for direct cooperation between vehicles, which is based on calculating the minimum time required to reach a cell. Each UAV takes into account the possible actions of other UAVs to increase the overall information about the environment. The simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy by comparing it with the free moving strategy and show that our proposed algorithm performs out it. {\textcopyright} 2017 ACM.},
	doi = {10.1145/3128128.3128154},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030314514\&doi=10.1145\%2f3128128.3128154\&partnerID=40\&md5=54300dddb081438ace965c5a6594a1b0},
	author = {Saadaoui, H. and El Bouanani, F.}
}
@conference {Saoud2017160,
	title = {Model of distributed hierarchical framework for carrier collaboration},
	booktitle = {2017 International Colloquium on Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Competitiveness and Innovation in Automobile and Aeronautics Industries, LOGISTIQUA 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {160-165},
	abstract = {The supply chain is considered as a network composed of heterogeneous structures geographically distributed, that processes a large volume of data which change instantly; it makes the task of logistics deciders very complex, hence the need for distributed intelligent systems, which provide services capable of absorbing the complexity of such networks, and meet the expectations of logistics managers. In this paper, we will present the most recently used systems as intelligent transport systems or even collaborative systems between transport providers, such as multi-agent systems, the physical internet and the Internet of things. Our contribution in this paper concerns the proposal of a distributed hierarchical framework model, composed of four layers, and which will aim at the creation of a collaborative environment for the transport of goods. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/LOGISTIQUA.2017.7962891},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85026681402\&doi=10.1109\%2fLOGISTIQUA.2017.7962891\&partnerID=40\&md5=10e3ee726c02ab8cee23cdc521d5ce26},
	author = {Saoud, A. and Bellabdaoui, A.}
}
@conference {Souidi20178,
	title = {Node localization to optimize the MPR selection in smart mobile communication},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F130526},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {8-13},
	abstract = {Nowadays, we are converging more and more towards smart environments like smart cars, drones, unmanned airplanes, internet of things and connected homes... These new gadgets are in need to communicate and interact with each other for their proper functioning. Due to their easy implementation, the mobile ad hoc networks constitute the fastest and the most efficient way to establish connection in smart environments. However, in proactive ad hoc routing protocol, like the Optimized Link State Routing, maintaining the topology increases the overhead and consumes a considerable energy power. In smart environments, some terminals are battery powered. Designing efficient communication protocols is crucial to decrease the interferences, to enhance the performance of the network and to reduce the consumption of energy. In this paper, we use the node localization in the context of OLSR to select dispersive Multi-Point Relays responsible of broadcasting the topology into the entire network. We divide the environment into several virtual zones. Then we try to elect forwarders at different partitions to cover the maximum surface area in order to reach the greater number of devices. The simulations show that our proposal reduces at certain extent, the amount of traffic overhead, improves the network capacity and lets more bandwidth for the smart environment{\textquoteright}s applications. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3128128.3128130},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030308988\&doi=10.1145\%2f3128128.3128130\&partnerID=40\&md5=36496d536836e72b4534a55afef580a7},
	author = {Souidi, M. and Habbani, A. and Berradi, H. and Essaid, B.}
}
@conference {Labbi2017,
	title = {A novel efficient ultralightweight authentication algorithm for RFID systems},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2016 - Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The security and privacy of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems becomes an important subject especially for low cost RFID tags. A lot of authentication protocols were proposed to insure the security and in the same time meet the resource limitations. In this paper, we proposed an ultralight weight authentication approach based on permutation, XOR and rotation functions. As a result, the computational complexity and communication cost will be reduced as well as increase performance. Finally, our approach proves that the protocol is a lightweight, resistant to known attacks and has an effective security mechanism based on an analytical method. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ACOSIS.2016.7843920},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015208818\&doi=10.1109\%2fACOSIS.2016.7843920\&partnerID=40\&md5=4252c34bda296ca38939e93620bb3164},
	author = {Labbi, Z. and Senhadji, M. and Maarof, A. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference {ElAfia2017,
	title = {Particle swarm optimization for model selection of aircraft maintenance predictive models},
	booktitle = {ACM International Conference Proceeding Series},
	volume = {Part F129474},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Nowadays, predictive models -especially the ones based on machine learning- are widely used to solve many big data problems. One of the main challenges within predictive models is to choose the best model for each problem. In particular, model selection and feature selection are two important issues in machine learning models as they help to achieve the best results. This paper focuses on the restriction of these two problems to σ-SVR (support vector regression) and more specifically the optimization of both problems using the particle swarm optimization algorithm. Our approach is investigated in the estimation of remaining useful life (RUL) of aircrafts which a ects their maintenance planning and which is an interesting issue in predictive maintenances. That is, the experiment consists of predicting RUL of aircraft engines using an σ-SVR optimized by PSO. Experimental results show the efficiency of the proposed approach. {\textcopyright} 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.},
	doi = {10.1145/3090354.3090402},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028474954\&doi=10.1145\%2f3090354.3090402\&partnerID=40\&md5=2d4328ae0f65ce92a35e5516b96bd0b7},
	author = {El Afia, A. and Sarhani, M.}
}
@conference {Sahnoun2017726,
	title = {Path reliability metric for proactive MANET routing},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {726-730},
	abstract = {One critical issue for routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) is how to select reliable paths that can last as long as possible, The reliability of a path depends on the number of links and the reliability of each link constituting the path. In this paper we developed efficient routing metric prediction methods by predicting link stability using a probabilistic computation based on the normal-like distributions of the link lifetimes in typical MANET mobility scenarios, integrating it to proactive MANET routing OLSR, named Path Reliability OLSR (PR-OLSR). We show by simulation that PR-OLSR is more adaptive to the network dynamics and therefore is able to improve performance significantly on packet delivery ratio and prolonged network energy lifetime. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2016.7905622},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85019101373\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2016.7905622\&partnerID=40\&md5=e6eeb0abb95c8eee7c04dea7ae26a2ac},
	author = {Sahnoun, A. and El Abbadi, J. and Habbani, 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. {\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.}
}
@article {Hayat2017,
	title = {A signaling game-based approach for Data-as-a-Service provisioning in IoT-Cloud},
	journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0; Article in Press},
	abstract = {The impressive progress in sensing technology over the last few years has contributed to the proliferation and popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and to the adoption of Sensor Clouds for provisioning smart ubiquitous services. Also, the massive amount of data generated by sensors and smart objects led to a new kind of services known as Data-as-a-Service (DaaS). The quality of these services is highly dependent on the quality of sensed data (QoD), which is characterized by a number of quality attributes. DaaS provisioning is typically governed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between data consumers and DaaS providers. In this work, we propose a game-based approach for DaaS Provisioning, which relies on signaling based model for the negotiation of several QoD attributes between DaaS providers and data consumers. We consider that these entities are adaptive, rational, and able to negotiate the QoD offering even in the case of incomplete information about the other party. We use in the negotiation between the two parties a Q-learning algorithm for the signaling model and a Multi Attributes Decision Making (MADM) model to select the best signal. Moreover, we empirically validate the MADM model using Shannon{\textquoteright}s entropy. The results obtained in the case of a multi-stages negotiation scenario show the convergence towards the pooling equilibrium. {\textcopyright} 2017.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.future.2017.10.001},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034971596\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.future.2017.10.001\&partnerID=40\&md5=da16debd38f36b3509fc36e9edb8e561},
	author = {Hayat, R. and Sabir, E. and Badidi, E. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference {Sara2017244,
	title = {Time aware recommendation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World, ICT4M 2016},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {244-247},
	abstract = {The overload of information can become a significant challenge in relation to information retrieval systems. Often users will need to carry out extensive research to get the information they desire. This issue will only become more challenging as the quantity of data available on the internet increases. This increase shows no signs of slowing down and inevitably demands better solutions. One such solution proposed in this paper will look at the quality of the service discovery, such as adaptation customizing recommendation. In our project we considered ways to customize the contextual recommendation by creating a time awareness system. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICT4M.2016.75},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013052828\&doi=10.1109\%2fICT4M.2016.75\&partnerID=40\&md5=2f395fcbdfe337e52f75ed942f05dffe},
	author = {Sara, A. and El Bouzekri El Idrissi, Y. and Ajhoun, R.}
}
@conference {Saissi201794,
	title = {Towards XML schema extraction from deep web},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {94-99},
	abstract = {Today, not all the web is fully accessible by the web search engines. There is a hidden and inaccessible part of the web called the deep web. Many methods exist in the literature to access and to integrate the huge structured data contained in the deep web. In this paper, we propose our approach to extract the XML schema describing a selected deep web source. Our approach is based on the static and the dynamic analysis of the HTML forms giving access to the selected deep web source. Our approach uses two knowledge database during its process: our proprietary identification tables and Wordnet. The XML schema extracted will be used to integrate the associated deep web source into a mediation system without extracting all its information. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805022},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010190133\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805022\&partnerID=40\&md5=0c383caab22e43a339e6b52acca8947b},
	author = {Saissi, Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Saissi201794,
	title = {Towards XML schema extraction from deep web},
	booktitle = {Colloquium in Information Science and Technology, CIST},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {94-99},
	abstract = {Today, not all the web is fully accessible by the web search engines. There is a hidden and inaccessible part of the web called the deep web. Many methods exist in the literature to access and to integrate the huge structured data contained in the deep web. In this paper, we propose our approach to extract the XML schema describing a selected deep web source. Our approach is based on the static and the dynamic analysis of the HTML forms giving access to the selected deep web source. Our approach uses two knowledge database during its process: our proprietary identification tables and Wordnet. The XML schema extracted will be used to integrate the associated deep web source into a mediation system without extracting all its information. {\"\i}{\textquestiondown}{\textonehalf} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CIST.2016.7805022},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010190133\&doi=10.1109\%2fCIST.2016.7805022\&partnerID=40\&md5=0c383caab22e43a339e6b52acca8947b},
	author = {Saissi, Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Sangai201782,
	title = {Workload balancing in nurse scheduling problem: Models and discussion},
	booktitle = {2017 International Colloquium on Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Competitiveness and Innovation in Automobile and Aeronautics Industries, LOGISTIQUA 2017},
	year = {2017},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {82-87},
	abstract = {Nurses planning is a challenging and a complex task that arises daily within healthcare facilities. Establishing rosters that meet both hospital requirements and nurses{\textquoteright} preferences takes a considerable time and cannot be done manually. The equitable distribution of workload is one of the major factors contributing to nurses{\textquoteright} satisfaction and, eventually, the quality of care delivered. However, the authors have given it a limited attention. This paper is threefold, it aims, firstly, to provide a detailed analysis of all the models proposed in the literature and which deal with this issue, compare and evaluate their relevance and effectiveness according to several criteria in order to highlight, lastly, the lines of reflection and action for further contributions. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/LOGISTIQUA.2017.7962878},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85026673790\&doi=10.1109\%2fLOGISTIQUA.2017.7962878\&partnerID=40\&md5=ef6863f769d71d67312fb080f1d00096},
	author = {Sangai, J. and Bellabdaoui, A.}
}
@article {Bennani20161,
	title = {Achieving QoS in Virtual MIMO systems: a satisfaction equilibrium analysis},
	journal = {Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking},
	volume = {2016},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-13},
	abstract = {This paper presents a game theoretic framework to analyze a cellular-WLAN heterogeneous network from a virtual multiple-input multiple-output (VMIMO) perspective. Namely, we restrict to the uplink case and consider a non-cooperative game where each user seeks to meet some quality of service (QoS). Moreover, mobile users are allowed to re-inject, through their WLAN interfaces, a part of their throughput in the induced game. Thus, the interaction among users defines a distributed VMIMO with a possibly throughput exchange. This mechanism will help all users to meet their respective QoS expressed by the perceived average throughput. The average throughput is considered to be the utility function used in this framework. Now, each mobile user experiences a certain throughput composed of two parts: (1) the throughput received from cellular subsystem and (2) the throughput received from WLAN subsystem. Naturally, we use the concept of satisfaction equilibrium to predict the behavior of the network. Indeed, we provided a sufficient condition for the existence of such an equilibrium. Next, we prove the uniqueness of the equilibrium and compute it explicitly. Afterward, we propose a fully distributed algorithm inspired from the well-known Banach-Picard learning algorithm. Our scheme has many good features facilitating its implementation and usability. Indeed, it accurately converges to the equilibrium (if exists), it is very fast, and it requires no external information. Simulation results validate the algorithm and show its robustness and illustrate numerically the proposed learning scheme for quality-of-service management in such a heterogeneous network. {\textcopyright} 2016, Bennani et al.},
	doi = {10.1186/s13638-016-0612-6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966280664\&doi=10.1186\%2fs13638-016-0612-6\&partnerID=40\&md5=e67ac437a619c2d9ac7539dace4426e6},
	author = {Bennani, H.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Ben-Othman, J.c and El-koutbi, M.a}
}
@article {11515935620160506,
	title = {Achieving QoS in Virtual MIMO systems: a satisfaction equilibrium analysis.},
	journal = {EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications \& Networking},
	volume = {2016},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {1 - 13},
	abstract = {This paper presents a game theoretic framework to analyze a cellular-WLAN heterogeneous network from a virtual multiple-input multiple-output (VMIMO) perspective. Namely, we restrict to the uplink case and consider a non-cooperative game where each user seeks to meet some quality of service (QoS). Moreover, mobile users are allowed to re-inject, through their WLAN interfaces, a part of their throughput in the induced game. Thus, the interaction among users defines a distributed VMIMO with a possibly throughput exchange. This mechanism will help all users to meet their respective QoS expressed by the perceived average throughput. The average throughput is considered to be the utility function used in this framework. Now, each mobile user experiences a certain throughput composed of two parts: (1) the throughput received from cellular subsystem and (2) the throughput received from WLAN subsystem. Naturally, we use the concept of satisfaction equilibrium to predict the behavior of the ne},
	keywords = {Cellular/WLAN heterogeneous network, Equilibrium {\textendash} Research, Game theory, Game theory {\textendash} Research, MIMO systems {\textendash} Research, Quality of service, Quality of service {\textendash} Research, Satisfaction equilibrium, Virtual multiple input multiple output, Wireless LANs {\textendash} Research},
	issn = {16871472},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=115159356\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Bennani, Hassan and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El-Koutbi, Mohamed}
}
@article { ISI:000375569000001,
	title = {Achieving QoS in Virtual MIMO systems: a satisfaction equilibrium analysis},
	journal = {EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING},
	year = {2016},
	month = {MAY 6},
	abstract = {This paper presents a game theoretic framework to analyze a cellular-WLAN heterogeneous network from a virtual multiple-input multiple-output (VMIMO) perspective. Namely, we restrict to the uplink case and consider a non-cooperative game where each user seeks to meet some quality of service (QoS). Moreover, mobile users are allowed to re-inject, through their WLAN interfaces, a part of their throughput in the induced game. Thus, the interaction among users defines a distributed VMIMO with a possibly throughput exchange. This mechanism will help all users to meet their respective QoS expressed by the perceived average throughput. The average throughput is considered to be the utility function used in this framework. Now, each mobile user experiences a certain throughput composed of two parts: (1) the throughput received from cellular subsystem and (2) the throughput received from WLAN subsystem. Naturally, we use the concept of satisfaction equilibrium to predict the behavior of the network. Indeed, we provided a sufficient condition for the existence of such an equilibrium. Next, we prove the uniqueness of the equilibrium and compute it explicitly. Afterward, we propose a fully distributed algorithm inspired from the well-known Banach-Picard learning algorithm. Our scheme has many good features facilitating its implementation and usability. Indeed, it accurately converges to the equilibrium (if exists), it is very fast, and it requires no external information. Simulation results validate the algorithm and show its robustness and illustrate numerically the proposed learning scheme for quality-of-service management in such a heterogeneous network.},
	issn = {1687-1499},
	doi = {10.1186/s13638-016-0612-6},
	author = {Bennani, Hassan and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El-Koutbi, Mohamed}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100012,
	title = {Applying Encryption Algorithm for Data Security in Cloud Storage},
	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 = {141-154},
	abstract = {This paper proposes a simple, secure, and privacy-preserving architecture for inter-Cloud data sharing based on an encryption/decryption algorithm which aims to protect the data stored in the cloud from the unauthorized access.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_12},
	author = {Kartit, Zaid and Azougaghe, Ali and Kamal Idrissi, H. and El Marraki, M. and Hedabou, M. and Belkasmi, M. and Kartit, A.},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@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}
}
@article {Routaib201691,
	title = {A bargaining nash game based adaptive negotiation of context level agreements for pervasive systems},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {91-104},
	abstract = {With the growing popularity of Internet-enabled devices, the impressive progress in sensing technology, and the adoption of cloud computing for provisioning services, users increasingly demand services that can adapt to their recent context. In this paper, we propose a multi-attributes and adaptive approach for Context Level Agreements (CLAs) negotiation between a context provider and a context consumer using a context broker. The approach employs a Nash bargainingmodel and evaluates the global utility of each party as a linear function of normalized Quality of Context (QoC) attributes during the rounds of negotiation. The ultimate goal is to improve context-based adaptation of context-aware applications and services. One of the advantages of this approach is that it permits to resolve conflicts of interests between the context provider and the context consumer when the global utility of each party reaches a Pareto optimum. {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5_8},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959119600\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-981-287-990-5_8\&partnerID=40\&md5=ed4610375cc000b9197b7923d9434dd5},
	author = {Routaib, H.a and Badidi, E.b and Sabir, E.c and Elkoutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100008,
	title = {A Bargaining Nash Game Based Adaptive Negotiation of Context Level Agreements for Pervasive Systems},
	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 = {91-104},
	abstract = {With the growing popularity of Internet-enabled devices, the impressive progress in sensing technology, and the adoption of cloud computing for provisioning services, users increasingly demand services that can adapt to their recent context. In this paper, we propose, a multi-attributes and adaptive approach for Context Level Agreements (CLAs) negotiation between a context provider and a context consumer using a context broker. The approach employs a Nash bargaining model and evaluates the global utility of each party as a linear function of normalized Quality of Context (QoC) attributes during the rounds of negotiation. The ultimate goal is to improve context-based adaptation of context-aware applications and services. One of the advantages of this approach is that it permits to resolve conflicts of interests between the context provider and the context consumer when the global utility of each party reaches a Pareto optimum.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_8},
	author = {Routaib, Hayat and Badidi, Elarbi and Sabir, Essaid and Elkoutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000385791400001,
	title = {Cardiovascular Dysautonomias Diagnosis Using Crisp and Fuzzy Decision Tree: A Comparative Study},
	booktitle = {HEALTH INFORMATICS MEETS EHEALTH},
	series = {Studies in Health Technology and Informatics},
	volume = {223},
	year = {2016},
	note = {10th eHealth Conference on Predictive Modeling in Healthcare - From Prediction to Prevention, Vienna, AUSTRIA, MAY 24-25, 2016},
	pages = {1-8},
	abstract = {Decision trees (DTs) are one of the most popular techniques for learning classification systems, especially when it comes to learning from discrete examples. In real world, many data occurred in a fuzzy form. Hence a DT must be able to deal with such fuzzy data. In fact, integrating fuzzy logic when dealing with imprecise and uncertain data allows reducing uncertainty and providing the ability to model fine knowledge details. In this paper, a fuzzy decision tree (FDT) algorithm was applied on a dataset extracted from the ANS (Autonomic Nervous System) unit of the Moroccan university hospital Avicenne. This unit is specialized on performing several dynamic tests to diagnose patients with autonomic disorder and suggest them the appropriate treatment. A set of fuzzy classifiers were generated using FID 3.4. The error rates of the generated FDTs were calculated to measure their performances. Moreover, a comparison between the error rates obtained using crisp and FDTs was carried out and has proved that the results of FDTs were better than those obtained using crisp DTs.},
	isbn = {978-1-61499-645-3; 978-1-61499-644-6},
	issn = {0926-9630},
	doi = {10.3233/978-1-61499-645-3-1},
	author = {Kadi, Ilham and Idri, Ali},
	editor = {Schreier, G and Ammenwerth, E and Horbst, A and Hayn, D}
}
@conference {Oualhaj2016,
	title = {A college admissions game for content caching in heterogeneous delay tolerant networks},
	booktitle = {2016 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications, ICT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have been successfully presented as a possible extension of the Internet architecture in order to provide communication support to existing networks. However, these networks have a major issue which is the coordination among relays. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism source-relay association approach for heterogeneous DTNs that exploits the information about the history and predictability of the relay nodes while also we focus on the source packet dissemination to a destination using tow-hop relaying scheme, considering network resource constraints: the relay buffer, the packet life time, and the energy consumption according to the mobile technologies. We formulate the problem as a college admissions game in which a number of colleges, i.e., data source seek to recruit a number of students, i.e., relays nodes. In this game, the data source and relays nodes rank one another based on preference functions that capture the data sources need to optimize their utilities which are functions of packet success rate and delay. We propose a novel distributed algorithm that leads to a stable matching among data sources and relays nodes. We show that the proposed approach can yields the better performance improvement of the traffic among the source and destination node. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICT.2016.7500348},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84979210767\&doi=10.1109\%2fICT.2016.7500348\&partnerID=40\&md5=641b2fc904d804463ca747bb6dedfe63},
	author = {Oualhaj, O.A.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a c and Ben-Othman, J.c and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000386851600006,
	title = {A College Admissions Game for Content Caching in Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks},
	booktitle = {2016 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS (ICT)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Thessaloniki, GREECE, MAY 16-18, 2016},
	abstract = {In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have been successfully presented as a possible extension of the Internet architecture in order to provide communication support to existing networks. However, these networks have a major issue which is the coordination among relays. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism source-relay association approach for heterogeneous DTNs that exploits the information about the history and predictability of the relay nodes while also we focus on the source packet dissemination to a destination using tow-hop relaying scheme, considering network resource constraints: the relay buffer, the packet life time, and the energy consumption according to the mobile technologies. We formulate the problem as a college admissions game in which a number of colleges, i.e., data source seek to recruit a number of students, i.e., relays nodes. In this game, the data source and relays nodes rank one another based on preference functions that capture the data sources need to optimize their utilities which are functions of packet success rate and delay. We propose a novel distributed algorithm that leads to a stable matching among data sources and relays nodes. We show that the proposed approach can yields the better performance improvement of the traffic among the source and destination node.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-1990-8},
	author = {Oualhaj, Omar Ait and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@article {Bianchini2016283,
	title = {A comparative study of inductive and transductive learning with feedforward neural networks},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {10037 LNAI},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {283-293},
	abstract = {Traditional supervised approaches realize an inductive learning process: A model is learnt from labeled examples, in order to predict the labels of unseen examples. On the other hand, transductive learning is less ambitious. It can be thought as a procedure to learn the labels on a training set, while, simultaneously, trying to guess the best labels on the test set. Intuitively, transductive learning has the advantage of being able to directly use training patterns while deciding on a test pattern. Thus, transductive learning faces a simpler problem with respect to inductive learning. In this paper, we propose a preliminary comparative study between a simple transductive model and a pure inductive model, where the learning architectures are based on feedforward neural networks. The goal is to understand how transductive learning affects the complexity (measured by the number of hidden neurons) of the exploited neural networks. Preliminary experimental results are reported on the classical two spirals problem. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-49130-1_21},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006009614\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-49130-1_21\&partnerID=40\&md5=0072365bc5774e0eec549d8f61a2ddc4},
	author = {Bianchini, M.a and Belahcen, A.b and Scarselli, F.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 {Et-Tolba2016140,
	title = {A cross-validation based semi-analytical performance evaluation for high order modulations},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2016: Green Communications and Networking},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {140-145},
	abstract = {Higher order quadrature amplitude modulation (HOQAM) is one of the key technologies used in advanced mobile communication systems to achieve high data rates. However, in such systems, performance evaluation can be very complicated and time consuming due to the increase of constellation size. As a solution, a QAM scheme is seen as a combination of two pulse amplitude modulations (PAM). Nevertheless, the system remains complex especially with very high constellation sizes. Therefore, Monte-Carlo simulation method is impractical to obtain the expected system performance. In this paper, we propose a semi-Analytical performance evaluation methodology for a PAM modulation. Our approach is based on the probability density estimation using kernel technique in joint application with cross-validation (CV) criterion. We derive both semi-Analytical symbol error probability (SEP) and semi-Analytical bit error probability (BEP) for several modulation schemes. Simulation results show that, in terms of SEP and BEP metrics, our technique is accurate compared with theoretical error probabilities. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2016.7777205},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010403967\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2016.7777205\&partnerID=40\&md5=054454e5fcd4dcb08070936909531a01},
	author = {Et-Tolba, M.a and Naamane, F.E.b and Saoudi, S.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000391420400025,
	title = {A cross-validation based semi-analytical performance evaluation for high order modulations},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), Fez, MOROCCO, OCT 26-29, 2016},
	pages = {P140-P145},
	publisher = {Univ Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah; FST FES; MobiTic; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; FSDM; ENSIAS; FST Mohammedia; CLusMed; TICSM Res Pole; Master Tec; CNRST; EBSA Fez; Mobit Assoc},
	organization = {Univ Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah; FST FES; MobiTic; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; FSDM; ENSIAS; FST Mohammedia; CLusMed; TICSM Res Pole; Master Tec; CNRST; EBSA Fez; Mobit Assoc},
	abstract = {Higher order quadrature amplitude modulation (HOQAM) is one of the key technologies used in advanced mobile communication systems to achieve high data rates. However, in such systems, performance evaluation can be very complicated and time consuming due to the increase of constellation size. As a solution, a QAM scheme is seen as a combination of two pulse amplitude modulations (PAM). Nevertheless, the system remains complex especially with very high constellation sizes. Therefore, Monte-Carlo simulation method is impractical to obtain the expected system performance. In this paper, we propose a semi-analytical performance evaluation methodology for a PAM modulation. Our approach is based on the probability density estimation using kernel technique in joint application with cross-validation (CV) criterion. We derive both semi-analytical symbol error probability (SEP) and semi-analytical bit error probability (BEP) for several modulation schemes. Simulation results show that, in terms of SEP and BEP metrics, our technique is accurate compared with theoretical error probabilities.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-3837-4},
	author = {Et-tolba, Mohamed and Ezzahra Naamane, Fatima and Saoudi, Samir},
	editor = {ElKamili, M and Berrada, I and Badri, A and Ghennioui, H}
}
@article {Labbi201645,
	title = {Cryptographic algorithm approach for low cost RFID systems},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {45-54},
	abstract = {Today the security of RFID systems is a very important issue especially for low cost RFID tags. Then, it is difficult for several researchers to adopt a strong encryption algorithm due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication abilities of the tag. So, the priority in RFID systems is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and authentication of messages using different algorithms (such as encryption and hashing algorithm). In this paper, we propose a lightweight symmetric key encryption approach that includes integrity as part of the encryption process in order to meet the resource limitations of low cost RFID tags. Furthermore we do not need to use separate hash functions to verify message integrity, thus leading to increase the computational efficiency of the system. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7_6},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964556474\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-30301-7_6\&partnerID=40\&md5=f73dc7340fe5d1492eb5cf9011c70a9e},
	author = {Labbi, Z. and Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000376431400006,
	title = {Cryptographic Algorithm Approach for Low Cost RFID Systems},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION \& COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES 2015, VOL 1},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {380},
	year = {2016},
	note = {Mediterranean Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (MedCT), MOROCCO, MAY 07-09, 2015},
	pages = {45-54},
	abstract = {Today the security of RFID systems is a very important issue especially for low cost RFID tags. Then, it is difficult for several researchers to adopt a strong encryption algorithm due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication abilities of the tag. So, the priority in RFID systems is to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and authentication of messages using different algorithms (such as encryption and hashing algorithm). In this paper, we propose a lightweight symmetric key encryption approach that includes integrity as part of the encryption process in order to meet the resource limitations of low cost RFID tags. Furthermore we do not need to use separate hash functions to verify message integrity, thus leading to increase the computational efficiency of the system.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-30301-7; 978-3-319-30299-7},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-30301-7\_6},
	author = {Labbi, Zouheir and Maarof, Ahmed and Senhadji, Mohamed and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElOualkadi, A and Choubani, F and ElMoussati, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100026,
	title = {An Energy-Aware Clustering Approach Based on the K-Means Method forWireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {ADVANCES IN UBIQUITOUS NETWORKING},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2016},
	note = {International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), Casablanca, MOROCCO, SEP 08-10, 2015},
	pages = {325-337},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new approach to build energy aware clusters for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The algorithm behind is based on the k-means method which is well known as a clustering technique and widely used in several fields of engineering and research. K-means clustering tends to find clusters of comparable spatial extent (density clustering). We try to enhance the clustering process by selecting nodes as clusters that are centric and have a high level of energy. This will give the same QoS results as given by the K-means approach with a reduction of energy consumption and a prolongation of the lifetime of the sensor network. For the simulation purposes, we have implemented our approach on the OLSR routing protocol which has been selected by our research team as a test bed routing protocol. We have compared our new approach (OLSR-Kmeans-Energy) with a previous work we developed and where we use a Max-Min heuristic (OLSR-MaxMin-Energy) to enhance QoS parameters and the lifetime of the WSN. Our new approach seems to give better results than the MaxMin approach.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_26},
	author = {El Mezouary, Ridouane and Choukri, Ali and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000381755100043,
	title = {Enterprise Architecture Complexity Component Based on Archimate Language},
	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 = {535-546},
	abstract = {Enterprise architecture (EA) is a business and IT management tool that has grown in popularity during the last decade. It is based on models of business and IT with systematic frameworks. This paper provides an interesting overview on the agility measurement and dimensions. The proposed approach precises the components of each enterprise architecture layers and the complexity of the future architecture.},
	isbn = {978-981-287-990-5; 978-981-287-989-9},
	issn = {1876-1100},
	doi = {10.1007/978-981-287-990-5\_43},
	author = {Lakhrouit, Jihane and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {Sabir, E and Medromi, H and Sadik, M}
}
@conference { ISI:000381172301147,
	title = {An Example of a Big Data Solution Implementation},
	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 = {3263-3265},
	abstract = {Over the last decade, digital data has known an incredible growth. Several businesses have taken advantage of this data abundance, and have moved their decision making strategy from hypothesis driven to data driven approaches. Therefore, new solutions are needed to store and access this big data, then infer knowledge out of it and make it available to managers. In this paper, we will discuss briefly the different issues that should be taken into consideration for implementing a Big Data framework in companies. Then a solution implementation for a Middle East gas and oil distribution company will be presented.},
	isbn = {978-0-9860419-6-9},
	author = {Benbrahim, Houda and Khalaf, Ilias and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Soliman, KS}
}
@conference { ISI:000388603102099,
	title = {Exploiting Multi-homing in Hyper Dense LTE Small-Cells Deployments},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE},
	series = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference},
	year = {2016},
	note = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Doha, QATAR, APR 03-07, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc},
	abstract = {It is expected that in two-tier LTE heterogeneous networks, an extensive deployment of small cell networks (SCNs) will take place in the near future, especially in dense urban zones; hence a hyper density of SCNs randomly distributed within macro cell networks (MCNs) will emerge with many overlapping zones of neighboring SCNs. Therefore, the problems of interferences in co-channel deployment will be more complicated and then the overall throughput of downlink will substantially decrease. In order to mitigate the effect of interferences in a hyper density of SCNs scenarios, a solution based on a fully distributed algorithm for sharing time access to SCNs and multi-homing capabilities of macro cellular users is proposed to improve the overall data rate of downlink and at the same time to satisfy QoS throughput requirements of macro and home cellular users. Our tentative scheme will also reduce the signaling overhead due to the absence of coordination among small base stations (SBSs) and macro base station (MBS). Results validate our solution and show the improvement attained in a hyper density of SCNs within MCNs compared to open, closed and shared time access mechanisms based on single network selection.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-9814-5},
	issn = {1525-3511},
	author = {Walid, Abdellaziz and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Taleb, Tarik and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference {Walid2016,
	title = {Exploiting multi-homing in hyper dense LTE small-cells deployments},
	booktitle = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC},
	volume = {2016-September},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {It is expected that in two-Tier LTE heterogeneous networks, an extensive deployment of small cell networks (SCNs) will take place in the near future, especially in dense urban zones; hence a hyper density of SCNs randomly distributed within macro cell networks (MCNs) will emerge with many overlapping zones of neighboring SCNs. Therefore, the problems of interferences in co-channel deployment will be more complicated and then the overall throughput of downlink will substantially decrease. In order to mitigate the effect of interferences in a hyper density of SCNs scenarios, a solution based on a fully distributed algorithm for sharing time access to SCNs and multi-homing capabilities of macro cellular users is proposed to improve the overall data rate of downlink and at the same time to satisfy QoS throughput requirements of macro and home cellular users. Our tentative scheme will also reduce the signaling overhead due to the absence of coordination among small base stations (SBSs) and macro base station (MBS). Results validate our solution and show the improvement attained in a hyper density of SCNs within MCNs compared to open, closed and shared time access mechanisms based on single network selection. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WCNC.2016.7565055},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84989854253\&doi=10.1109\%2fWCNC.2016.7565055\&partnerID=40\&md5=36cda03e307b208f10f73e923e3e5b77},
	author = {Walid, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Taleb, T.c and Koutbi, M.E.a}
}
@conference {Sarhani2016288,
	title = {Feature selection and parameter optimization of support vector regression for electric load forecasting},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies, ICEIT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {288-293},
	abstract = {Forecasting of future electricity demand has become a promising issue for the electric power industry. Since many factors affect electric load data, machine learning methods are useful for electric load forecasting (ELF). On the one hand, it is important to determine the irrelevant factors as a preprocessing step for ELF. On the other hand, the performance of machine learning models depends heavily on the choice of its parameters. These problems are known respectively as feature selection and model selection problems. In this paper, we use the support vector regression (SVR) model for ELF. Our contribution consists of investigating the use the particle swarm optimization for both feature selection and model selection problems. Experimental results on two widely used electric load dataset show that our proposed hybrid method for feature selection and parameter optimization of SVR can achieve better results when compared with the classical SVR model while using feature selection and without using it. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/EITech.2016.7519608},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992187838\&doi=10.1109\%2fEITech.2016.7519608\&partnerID=40\&md5=c467eb46055ce1640930ac5b1ece403b},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000391354500050,
	title = {Feature selection and parameter optimization of support vector regression for electric load forecasting},
	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 = {288-293},
	abstract = {Forecasting of future electricity demand has become a promising issue for the electric power industry. Since many factors affect electric load data, machine learning methods are useful for electric load forecasting (ELF). On the one hand, it is important to determine the irrelevant factors as a preprocessing step for ELF. On the other hand, the performance of machine learning models depends heavily on the choice of its parameters. These problems are known respectively as feature selection and model selection problems. In this paper, we use the support vector regression (SVR) model for ELF. Our contribution consists of investigating the use the particle swarm optimization for both feature selection and model selection problems. Experimental results on two widely used electric load dataset show that our proposed hybrid method for feature selection and parameter optimization of SVR can achieve better results when compared with the classical SVR model while using feature selection and without using it.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8469-8},
	author = {Sarhani, Malek and El Afia, Abdellatif},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and ElHani, S}
}
@article {Saidi20164615,
	title = {The functional of a mobile agent system to enhance DoS and DDoS detection in cloud},
	journal = {International Journal of Applied Engineering Research},
	volume = {11},
	number = {6},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {4615-4617},
	abstract = {The availability of services is one of the metrics that affect the attractiveness of Cloud providers. Gartner has published on its website Cloud Harmony a summary of outages underwent by 75 american Cloud providers in 2014; Amazon and Google were particularly noticed with respectively 2 and 3,46 hours of outage of their PaaS platform named respectively EC2 and Compute Engine [1]. In this paper, we propose a mobile agent system to detect the first signs of DoS/DDoS flooding attacks on Cloud environment. {\textcopyright} 2016, Research India Publications.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84963690593\&partnerID=40\&md5=6d7de81bac9a3eb60b84f8b6178b5316},
	author = {Saidi, A.a and Kartit, A.b and Bendriss, E.c and El Marraki, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000390993202059,
	title = {A Game Theoretic Approach for an Hybrid Overlay-Underlay Spectrum Access Mode},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)},
	series = {IEEE International Conference on Communications},
	year = {2016},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, MAY 22-27, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {Cognitive radio is emerging as a promising technique to improve the utilization of the radio frequency spectrum in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a hybrid CR (cognitive radio) system where underlay and overlay CR approaches are combined under SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) constraints. This new access type allows to optimize the spectrum sensing time with throughput improvement. The goal of this paper is to provide a new access mode in order to enhance the cognitive system performance while reducing the power spent for detecting the presence of the primary user and the spectrum holes. We consider the problem of spectrum sharing among primary (or {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}licensed{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}) users (PUs) and secondary (or {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}unlicensed{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}) users (SUs). In this scheme, the spectrum allocation problem is modeled as a non cooperative game, with each CR user acting as a player. Nash equilibrium is considered as the solution of this game.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-6664-6},
	issn = {1550-3607},
	author = {Gmira, Sara and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid and Ben-Othman, Jalel}
}
@conference {Gmira2016,
	title = {A game theoretic approach for an hybrid overlay-underlay spectrum access mode},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Cognitive radio is emerging as a promising technique to improve the utilization of the radio frequency spectrum in wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a hybrid CR (cognitive radio) system where underlay and overlay CR approaches are combined under SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) constraints. This new access type allows to optimize the spectrum sensing time with throughput improvement. The goal of this paper is to provide a new access mode in order to enhance the cognitive system performance while reducing the power spent for detecting the presence of the primary user and the spectrum holes. We consider the problem of spectrum sharing among primary (or licensed) users (PUs) and secondary (or unlicensed) users (SUs). In this scheme, the spectrum allocation problem is modeled as a non cooperative game, with each CR user acting as a player. Nash equilibrium is considered as the solution of this game. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2016.7511026},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84981337899\&doi=10.1109\%2fICC.2016.7511026\&partnerID=40\&md5=b33c0dff4da1e3292042d7b39a65c27e},
	author = {Gmira, S.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Ben-Othman, J.c}
}
@article { ISI:000379694400006,
	title = {Group vertical handoff management in heterogeneous networks},
	journal = {WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS \& MOBILE COMPUTING},
	volume = {16},
	number = {10},
	year = {2016},
	month = {JUL},
	pages = {1256-1270},
	abstract = {Traditional vertical handover schemes postulate that vertical handovers (VHOs) of users come on an individual basis. This enables users to know previously the decision already made by other users, and then the choice will be accordingly made. However, in case of group mobility, almost all VHO decisions of all users, in a given group (e.g., passengers on board a bus or a train equipped with smart phones or laptops), will be made at the same time. This concept is called group vertical handover (GVHO). When all VHO decisions of a large number of users are made at the same time, the system performance may degrade and network congestion may occur. In this paper, we propose two fully decentralized algorithms for network access selection, and that is based on the concept of congestion game to resolve the problem of network congestion in group mobility scenarios. Two learning algorithms, dubbed Sastry Algorithm and Q-Learning Algorithm, are envisioned. Each one of these algorithms helps mobile users in a group to reach the nash equilibrium in a stochastic environment. The nash equilibrium represents a fair and efficient solution according to which each mobile user is connected to a single network and has no intention to change his decision to improve his throughput. This shall help resolve the problem of network congestion caused by GVHO. Simulation results validate the proposed algorithms and show their efficiency in achieving convergence, even at a slower pace. To achieve fast convergence, we also propose a heuristic method inspired from simulated annealing and incorporated in a hybrid learning algorithm to speed up convergence time and maintain efficient solutions. The simulation results also show the adaptability of our hybrid algorithm with decreasing step size-simulated annealing (DSS-SA) for high mobility group scenario. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	issn = {1530-8669},
	doi = {10.1002/wcm.2599},
	author = {Walid, Abdellaziz and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Mabrouk, Abdelfettah and Sabir, Essaid and Taleb, Tarik and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@article {Walid20161256,
	title = {Group vertical handoff management in heterogeneous networks},
	journal = {Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing},
	volume = {16},
	number = {10},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1256-1270},
	abstract = {Traditional vertical handover schemes postulate that vertical handovers (VHOs) of users come on an individual basis. This enables users to know previously the decision already made by other users, and then the choice will be accordingly made. However, in case of group mobility, almost all VHO decisions of all users, in a given group (e.g., passengers on board a bus or a train equipped with smart phones or laptops), will be made at the same time. This concept is called group vertical handover (GVHO). When all VHO decisions of a large number of users are made at the same time, the system performance may degrade and network congestion may occur. In this paper, we propose two fully decentralized algorithms for network access selection, and that is based on the concept of congestion game to resolve the problem of network congestion in group mobility scenarios. Two learning algorithms, dubbed Sastry Algorithm and Q-Learning Algorithm, are envisioned. Each one of these algorithms helps mobile users in a group to reach the nash equilibrium in a stochastic environment. The nash equilibrium represents a fair and efficient solution according to which each mobile user is connected to a single network and has no intention to change his decision to improve his throughput. This shall help resolve the problem of network congestion caused by GVHO. Simulation results validate the proposed algorithms and show their efficiency in achieving convergence, even at a slower pace. To achieve fast convergence, we also propose a heuristic method inspired from simulated annealing and incorporated in a hybrid learning algorithm to speed up convergence time and maintain efficient solutions. The simulation results also show the adaptability of our hybrid algorithm with decreasing step size-simulated annealing (DSS-SA) for high mobility group scenario. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2015 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2015 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1002/wcm.2599},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84930151466\&doi=10.1002\%2fwcm.2599\&partnerID=40\&md5=a91b7ce3e8af4694e732a00f04f01d95},
	author = {Walid, A.a and Kobbane, A.a and Mabrouk, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Taleb, T.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000389502600020,
	title = {Hybrid Encryption Approach Using Dynamic Key Generation and Symmetric Key Algorithm for RFID Systems},
	booktitle = {Networked Systems, NETYS 2016},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {9944},
	year = {2016},
	note = {4th International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS), Marrakech, MOROCCO, MAY 18-20, 2016},
	pages = {244-249},
	abstract = {The security of RFID systems become an important subject especially for low cost RFID tags. A lot of Cryptographic algorithms were proposed to insure the security and in the same time meet the resource limitations. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid cryptographic approach as symmetric key encryption technique which generate the key dynamically, together with integrity check parameters. The generation of key stream follows the chained approach, beginning from the initial key pre-shared. As a result, the computational complexity will be reduced as well as increase performance.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-46140-3; 978-3-319-46139-7},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-46140-3\_20},
	author = {Labbi, Zouheir and Maarof, Ahmed and Senhadji, Mohamed and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {Abdulla, PA and DelporteGallet, C}
}
@article {Labbi2016244,
	title = {Hybrid encryption approach using dynamic key generation and symmetric key algorithm for RFID systems},
	journal = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)},
	volume = {9944 LNCS},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {244-249},
	abstract = {The security of RFID systems become an important subject especially for low cost RFID tags. A lot of Cryptographic algorithms were proposed to insure the security and in the same time meet the resource limitations. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid cryptographic approach as symmetric key encryption technique which generate the key dynamically, together with integrity check parameters. The generation of key stream follows the chained approach, beginning from the initial key pre-shared. As a result, the computational complexity will be reduced as well as increase performance. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2016.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-46140-3_20},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84990041918\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-46140-3_20\&partnerID=40\&md5=d8545d3fd6f2b1f8b844953b422053cf},
	author = {Labbi, Z. and Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000381172301152,
	title = {Improving Recommendations Using Context from Users{\textquoteright} Reviews},
	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 = {3312-3315},
	abstract = {Recommender systems enable E-commerce websites to improve their sales by suggesting relevant items to customers. If considering the context of buying situations, more accurate recommendations can be computed. In this paper, we discuss the issue of using the contextual information contained in users{\textquoteright} reviews in order to improve recommendation.},
	isbn = {978-0-9860419-6-9},
	author = {Zahra Lahlou, Fatima and Benbrahim, Houda and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Soliman, KS}
}
@conference {Sahnoun2016,
	title = {Increasing network lifetime by energy-efficient routing scheme for OLSR protocol},
	booktitle = {2016 International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems, CIICS 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {One of the main considerations in designing routing protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is to increase network lifetime by minimizing nodes{\textquoteright} energy consumption, since nodes are typically battery powered. Many proposals have been addressed to this problem; however, few papers consider a proactive protocol like Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) to better manage the energy consumption. Some of them have explored modifications to the MPRs selection mechanism, whereas others have investigated multiple cross layer parameters to increase the network lifetime. In this paper, we explored both modification to MPR selection and integrating appropriate routing metrics in the routing decision scheme to lessen effects of reason that lead to more energy consumption. Our power-aware version of OLSR is proven by simulations in NS3 under a range of different mobile scenarios. Significant performance gains of 20\% are obtained in network lifetime for our modified OLSR and little to no performance gains in term of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR). {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICCSII.2016.7462412},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84969508612\&doi=10.1109\%2fICCSII.2016.7462412\&partnerID=40\&md5=79f4d2f9a4b515d335715ca23943ceac},
	author = {Sahnoun, A.a and Abbadi, J.E.a and Habbani, A.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000382702400019,
	title = {Increasing network lifetime by energy-efficient routing scheme for OLSR protocol},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS (CIICS)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics and Computer Systems (CIICS), Sharjah, U ARAB EMIRATES, MAR 13-15, 2016},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {One of the main considerations in designing routing protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is to increase network lifetime by minimizing nodes{\textquoteright} energy consumption, since nodes are typically battery powered. Many proposals have been addressed to this problem; however, few papers consider a proactive protocol like Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) to better manage the energy consumption. Some of them have explored modifications to the MPRs selection mechanism, whereas others have investigated multiple cross layer parameters to increase the network lifetime. In this paper, we explored both modification to MPR selection and integrating appropriate routing metrics in the routing decision scheme to lessen effects of reason that lead to more energy consumption. Our power-aware version of OLSR is proven by simulations in NS3 under a range of different mobile scenarios. Significant performance gains of 20\% are obtained in network lifetime for our modified OLSR and little to no performance gains in term of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR).},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8743-9},
	author = {Sahnoun, Abdelkabir and El Abbadi, Jamal and Habbani, Ahmed}
}
@conference { ISI:000381172301104,
	title = {Introduction to Competitive Intelligence: Process, Applications and Tools},
	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 = {2876-2885},
	abstract = {In the world of excessive business competitiveness, almost every company tries to monitor its environment to exceed the competitors. Getting knowledge about competitors is the basic principal of what is called Competitive Intelligence (CI). Many applications of Competitive Intelligence can be used like Opinion Mining and Foresight studies and the process of obtaining such intelligence differs according to the company{\textquoteright}s needs. In this paper, we will present in more details the definitions of CI and a general process grouping the most used steps in conducting such study. In the end we will present some tools useful in CI.},
	isbn = {978-0-9860419-6-9},
	author = {Amarouche, Kamal and El Akrouchi, Manal and Benbrahim, Houda and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Soliman, KS}
}
@article {Aoun2016347,
	title = {Investigation of hidden markov model for the tuning of metaheuristics in airline scheduling problems},
	journal = {IFAC-PapersOnLine},
	volume = {49},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {347-352},
	abstract = {The tuning approach consists in finding the most suitable configuration of an algorithm for solving a given problem. Machine learning methods are usually used to automate this process. They may enable to construct robust autonomous artifacts whose behavior becomes increasingly expert. This paper focuses on the restriction of this general problem to the field of air planning and more specifically the crew scheduling problem. Metaheuristics are widely used to solve this problem. Our approach consists of using hidden markov model to find the best configuration of the algorithm based on the estimation of the most likely state. The experiment consists of finding the best parameter values of the particle swarm optimization algorithm for the crew scheduling problem. Our approach has shown that it can be a promising solution for automatic optimization of airline scheduling problems. {\textcopyright} 2016},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.058},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84991108851\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.ifacol.2016.07.058\&partnerID=40\&md5=1a1629bc31766ee8816bba42989cb03d},
	author = {Aoun, O. and Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {Mabrouk20161,
	title = {Meeting Always-Best-Connected paradigm in heterogeneous vehicular networks: A graph theory and a signaling game analysis},
	journal = {Vehicular Communications},
	volume = {5},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-8},
	abstract = {Due to the high mobility of vehicles and the dynamic topology changes of vehicular networks, it is difficult to satisfy drivers needs through a single wireless network. Consequently, by integrating different wireless access networks such as LTE and IEEE 802.11p, the vehicular network is expected to be a good platform called Heterogeneous Vehicular Network that can meet various vehicular user requirements. In such networks, vehicles need to have mechanisms in place to decide which access network is the most suitable for every application that the vehicular user requires. Always-Best-Connected is considered as a special concept to allow users getting connected to Internet using the access network that best suits their needs or profile at any point in time. Clearly, this concept provides multiple access networks simultaneous for mobile users moving in heterogeneous access network environment. In this paper, we propose two approaches called graph theory-based approach, and signaling game-based approach. The first approach is based on graph theory while the second one based on signaling game theory to compute the suitable path which provides Always-Best-Connected service for a smart vehicle moving in vehicular networks. {\textcopyright} 2016 Elsevier Inc.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.vehcom.2016.04.002},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84968902365\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.vehcom.2016.04.002\&partnerID=40\&md5=ba6b2fdee947b78c1a40f384b52a26b6},
	author = {Mabrouk, A.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Ben-Othman, J.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {Chanyour201647,
	title = {Network Coding for energy optimization and throughput enhancement of WideMac for IR-UWB based WSN},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM},
	volume = {2016-March},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {47-50},
	abstract = {Energy and throughput optimization occupies an important place in the research area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These networks are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and efficient scheduling in the MAC layer of such networks gives more efficiency and copes with the problem of energy waste and inefficiency management as well as transmission{\textquoteright}s lose and collision. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to assess the contribution of the network coding technique{\textquoteright}s introduction to improve the efficiency and optimize the energy consumption in the MAC layer of IR-UWB based WSNs. Therefore, we tested this new technique using WideMac Protocol; which is a relevant MAC protocols dedicated to WSNs based on IR-UWB. Furthermore, we used XOR coding to fit low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. The obtained results are very encouraging and the proposed MAC scheme{\textquoteright}s improvements have demonstrated the positive impact of using NC in terms of both used metrics. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICM.2015.7437984},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965066384\&doi=10.1109\%2fICM.2015.7437984\&partnerID=40\&md5=8c2c1b23487843900560d8f9e1d858dd},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Chergui Hali, H.b and Saadane, R.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000392150700344,
	title = {Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS Multi-Criteria Decision-Making using combined Simplified-TOPSIS method and Neutrosophics},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUZZY SYSTEMS (FUZZ-IEEE)},
	series = {IEEE International Fuzzy Systems Conference Proceedings},
	year = {2016},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Vancouver, CANADA, JUL 24-29, 2016},
	pages = {2468-2474},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Computat Intelligence Soc; Int Neural Network Soc; Evolutionary Programming Soc; IET; Gulf Univ Sci \& Technol; IEEE Big Data Initiat},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Computat Intelligence Soc; Int Neural Network Soc; Evolutionary Programming Soc; IET; Gulf Univ Sci \& Technol; IEEE Big Data Initiat},
	abstract = {In this paper, (1) one simplified the standard TOPSIS to new Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) called Simplified-TOPSIS. Simplified-TOPSIS gives the same results and simplifies the calculation of the classical TOPSIS. An example is presented distinctions between Simplified-TOPSIS and classical TOPSIS are underlined. (2) extend the new Simplified-TOPSIS method to Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS using single valued Neutrosophic information. An example showing the interest of Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS to manipulate the uncertainty linked to information presented in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0625-0},
	issn = {1544-5615},
	author = {Elhassouny, Azeddine and Smarandache, Florentin}
}
@conference {Elhassouny20162468,
	title = {Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS multi-criteria decision-making using combined simplified-TOPSIS method and neutrosophics},
	booktitle = {2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {2468-2474},
	abstract = {In this paper, (1) one simplified the standard TOPSIS to new Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) called Simplified-TOPSIS. Simplified-TOPSIS gives the same results and simplifies the calculation of the classical TOPSIS. An example is presented distinctions between Simplified-TOPSIS and classical TOPSIS are underlined. (2) extend the new Simplified-TOPSIS method to Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS using single valued Neutrosophic information. An example showing the interest of Neutrosophic-simplified-TOPSIS to manipulate the uncertainty linked to information presented in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/FUZZ-IEEE.2016.7738003},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85006782927\&doi=10.1109\%2fFUZZ-IEEE.2016.7738003\&partnerID=40\&md5=6283f0a39ef07335f9a028659c5ff384},
	author = {Elhassouny, A.a and Smarandache, F.b}
}
@conference {Maarof2016240,
	title = {A novel mutual authentication scheme for low-cost RFID systems},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2016: Green Communications and Networking},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {240-245},
	abstract = {The importance of radio frequency identification (RFID) increases for its powerful capabilities for identifying, locating and automatic access control objects. Electronic Product Code Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC-C1G2) is served as the most popular standard for passive RFID tags. In the last year several schemes were proposed to improve security of EPC-C1G2, most of these schemes still vulnerable and cannot resist some attacks and others schemes exceeds the powerful computing capacity of passive tag. In this paper, we propose a new authentication mutual scheme compliant to EPC-C1G2 standard. The proposed scheme uses only ultra-lightweight operations, Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC), exclusive OR (XOR) and Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNG). We have demonstrated that proposed scheme resist against security attacks and more that is better than the previous schemes in terms of the communication and computation cost. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2016.7777221},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010332933\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2016.7777221\&partnerID=40\&md5=1fff563fec3d60d322be588205c273c3},
	author = {Maarof, A. and Labbi, Z. and Senhadji, M. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000391420400041,
	title = {Novel Mutual Authentication Scheme for Low-eCost RFID Systems},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), Fez, MOROCCO, OCT 26-29, 2016},
	pages = {P240-P245},
	publisher = {Univ Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah; FST FES; MobiTic; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; FSDM; ENSIAS; FST Mohammedia; CLusMed; TICSM Res Pole; Master Tec; CNRST; EBSA Fez; Mobit Assoc},
	organization = {Univ Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah; FST FES; MobiTic; IEEE; IEEE Commun Soc; FSDM; ENSIAS; FST Mohammedia; CLusMed; TICSM Res Pole; Master Tec; CNRST; EBSA Fez; Mobit Assoc},
	abstract = {The importance of radio frequency identification (RFID) increases for its powerful capabilities for identifying, locating and automatic access control objects. Electronic Product Code Class 1 Generation 2 (EPC-C1G2) is served as the most popular standard for passive RFID tags. In the last year several schemes were proposed to improve security of EPC-C1G2, most of these schemes still vulnerable and cannot resist some attacks and others schemes exceeds the powerful computing capacity of passive tag. In this paper, we propose a new authentication mutual scheme compliant to EPC-C1G2 standard. The proposed scheme uses only ultra-lightweight operations, Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC), exclusive OR (XOR) and Pseudo Random Number Generators (PRNG). We have demonstrated that proposed scheme resist against security attacks and more that is better than the previous schemes in terms of the communication and computation cost.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-3837-4},
	author = {Maarof, Ahmed and Senhadji, Mohamed and Labbi, Zouheir and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {ElKamili, M and Berrada, I and Badri, A and Ghennioui, H}
}
@conference {Sarhani2016,
	title = {Particle swarm optimization with a mutation operator for solving the preventive aircraft maintenance routing problem},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Aircraft Maintenance Routing (AMR) is one of the major optimization problems in the airline industry. In this study, we present a mathematical formulation for the daily AMR problem which aims to minimize the risk of both scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance costs. Exact methods may fail to deal with such problems. Our contribution is then to examine the use of an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm by a uniform mutation operator for solving this probabilistic problem. Computational results show that our hybrid approach gives competitive results comparing to the native binary PSO. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2016.7731683},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85001976721\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2016.7731683\&partnerID=40\&md5=9bef08dc37eff9c6ed7b1c2c6e2e41b6},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and Ezzinbi, O. and Afia, A.E. and Benadada, Y.}
}
@conference { ISI:000392439200025,
	title = {Particle swarm optimization with a mutation operator for solving the preventive aircraft maintenance routing problem},
	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 = {Aircraft Maintenance Routing (AMR) is one of the major optimization problems in the airline industry. In this study, we present a mathematical formulation for the daily AMR problem which aims to minimize the risk of both scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance costs. Exact methods may fail to deal with such problems. Our contribution is then to examine the use of an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm by a uniform mutation operator for solving this probabilistic problem. Computational results show that our hybrid approach gives competitive results comparing to the native binary PSO.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8571-8},
	author = {Sarhani, Malek and Ezzinbi, Omar and El Afia, Abdellatif and Benadada, Youssef},
	editor = {Alaoui, AE and Benadada, Y and Boukachour, J}
}
@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}
}
@article { ISI:000389146000005,
	title = {RESOLVING CONFLICTING PRIVACY POLICIES IN M-HEALTH BASED ON PRIORITIZATION},
	journal = {Scalable Computing-Practice and Experience},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3, SI},
	year = {2016},
	month = {SEP},
	pages = {207-226},
	abstract = {Mobile health has recently gained a lot of attention. Biological, environmental and behavioral data collected from mobile devices can be analyzed and transmitted directly to the person, family or health professionals for immediate and individualized care. However, due to multiplicity of mobile applications and the heterogeneity of actors involved in patient{\textquoteright}s care, conflicts among the privacy policies defined by the different actors can take place. Thus, we present in this paper an approach to resolve the problem of conflicting privacy policies in e-health/m-health environments using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) prioritization technique. Conflicts detection and resolution are facilitated by the adoption of S4P formal privacy policy language used as a standardized language. Finally, a case study is suggested to illustrate how our solution can be applied to resolve such conflicts.},
	issn = {1895-1767},
	doi = {10.12694/scpe.v17i3.1181},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@article {11714990220160901,
	title = {RESOLVING CONFLICTING PRIVACY POLICIES IN M-HEALTH BASED ON PRIORITIZATION.},
	journal = {Scalable Computing: Practice \& Experience},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {207 - 226},
	abstract = {Mobile health has recently gained a lot of attention. Biological, environmental and behavioral data collected from mobile devices can be analyzed and transmitted directly to the person, family or health professionals for immediate and individualized care. However, due to multiplicity of mobile applications and the heterogeneity of actors involved in patient{\textquoteright}s care, conflicts among the privacy policies defined by the different actors can take place. Thus, we present in this paper an approach to resolve the problem of conflicting privacy policies in e-health/m-health environments using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) prioritization technique. Conflicts detection and resolution are facilitated by the adoption of S4P formal privacy policy language used as a standardized language. Finally, a case study is suggested to illustrate how our solution can be applied to resolve such conflicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {AHP, Conflicting policies, Data security, Medical policy, Privacy policy, Privacy preference, S4P, Wireless communication systems in medical care},
	issn = {18951767},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=117149902\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@article {Sadki2016207,
	title = {Resolving conflicting privacy policies in M-health based on prioritization},
	journal = {Scalable Computing},
	volume = {17},
	number = {3},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {207-226},
	abstract = {Mobile health has recently gained a lot of attention. Biological, environmental and behavioral data collected from mobile devices can be analyzed and transmitted directly to the person, family or health professionals for immediate and individualized care. However, due to multiplicity of mobile applications and the heterogeneity of actors involved in patient{\textquoteright}s care, conflicts among the privacy policies defined by the different actors can take place. Thus, we present in this paper an approach to resolve the problem of conflicting privacy policies in e-health/m-health environments using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) prioritization technique. Conflicts detection and resolution are facilitated by the adoption of S4P formal privacy policy language used as a standardized language. Finally, a case study is suggested to illustrate how our solution can be applied to resolve such conflicts. {\textcopyright} 2016 SCPE.},
	doi = {10.12694/scpe.v17i3.1181},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84986308427\&doi=10.12694\%2fscpe.v17i3.1181\&partnerID=40\&md5=3bd7feaa7560d5e70202fd7c24907f06},
	author = {Sadki, S. and El Bakkali, H.}
}
@conference { ISI:000387181100093,
	title = {Strategic Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2016},
	note = {12th International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Paphos, CYPRUS, SEP 05-09, 2016},
	pages = {547-552},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	abstract = {Prolonging the network lifetime is a challenging problem in wireless sensor networks. Using additional mobile agents able to gather data from static sensor nodes reveals to be one of the convenient solutions in order to conserve static sensor nodes energy. In this paper, we focus on a conflictual situation between two Data Collectors (DCs) tending to gather maximum sensed data and deliver them to a sink node before a required deadline. A non-cooperative game is used to model this behavior and evaluate the performance of the gathering scheme when two DCs are competing with each other to gain more sensed data. Under this scheme, aggressive behavior is discouraged since each data gathering operation incurs sensor nodes energy decrease and data delivery delay increase.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0304-4},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Brinis, Nour and Koulali, Mohamed-Amine and Saidane, Leila Azouz and Minet, Pascale and Kobbane, Abdellatif}
}
@conference {Brinis2016547,
	title = {Strategic data gathering in wireless sensor networks},
	booktitle = {2016 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {547-552},
	abstract = {Prolonging the network lifetime is a challenging problem in wireless sensor networks. Using additional mobile agents able to gather data from static sensor nodes reveals to be one of the convenient solutions in order to conserve static sensor nodes energy. In this paper, we focus on a conflictual situation between two Data Collectors (DCs) tending to gather maximum sensed data and deliver them to a sink node before a required deadline. A non-cooperative game is used to model this behavior and evaluate the performance of the gathering scheme when two DCs are competing with each other to gain more sensed data. Under this scheme, aggressive behavior is discouraged since each data gathering operation incurs sensor nodes energy decrease and data delivery delay increase. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577116},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994137830\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2016.7577116\&partnerID=40\&md5=9c385bde486970ab7cb87df7e747837e},
	author = {Brinis, N.a and Koulali, M.-A.b and Saidane, L.A.a and Minet, P.c and Kobbane, A.d}
}
@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 {Sara2016244,
	title = {Time aware recommendation},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for the Muslim World, ICT4M 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {244-247},
	abstract = {The overload of information can become a significant challenge in relation to information retrieval systems. Often users will need to carry out extensive research to get the information they desire. This issue will only become more challenging as the quantity of data available on the internet increases. This increase shows no signs of slowing down and inevitably demands better solutions. One such solution proposed in this paper will look at the quality of the service discovery, such as adaptation customizing recommendation. In our project we considered ways to customize the contextual recommendation by creating a time awareness system. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICT4M.2016.75},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85013052828\&doi=10.1109\%2fICT4M.2016.75\&partnerID=40\&md5=2f395fcbdfe337e52f75ed942f05dffe},
	author = {Sara, A.a and El Bouzekri El Idrissi, Y.b and Ajhoun, R.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000389590600130,
	title = {Towards a Context-aware Platform for Complex and. Stream Event Processing},
	booktitle = {2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING \& SIMULATION (HPCS 2016)},
	year = {2016},
	note = {14th International Conference on High Performance Computing \& Simulation (HPCS), Innsbruck, AUSTRIA, JUL 18-22, 2016},
	pages = {961-966},
	publisher = {Assoc Comp Machinery; IEEE; Int Federation Informat Proc; ACM SIGACT; ACM SIGAPP; ACM SIGARCH; ACM SIGMICRO; ACM SIGMOD; ACM SIGSIM; IEEE Austria Sect; IEEE Dayton Sect; Altair PBS Works; E4 Comp Engn; European Grid Infrastructure; HUAWEI Technologies Co },
	organization = {Assoc Comp Machinery; IEEE; Int Federation Informat Proc; ACM SIGACT; ACM SIGAPP; ACM SIGARCH; ACM SIGMICRO; ACM SIGMOD; ACM SIGSIM; IEEE Austria Sect; IEEE Dayton Sect; Altair PBS Works; E4 Comp Engn; European Grid Infrastructure; HUAWEI Technologies Co },
	abstract = {With rapid expansion of wireless ad hoc networks and their interactions with wired networks together with the use of location-based services and the deployment of mobile and wearable sensor devices, it is now possible to develop context aware applications such as those in healthcare and transportation. These applications could react to the environment changes and users{\textquoteright} preference with the main aim is to make their life more comfortable according to their locations, current time and situations. However, handling context changes according to current data and events is a difficult task without supporting tools. Therefore, a platform that includes real-time event/data acquisition and processing is required. In this paper, we first survey existing work related to event processing and big data technologies by highlighting current challenges related to real-time data processing. We then introduce a context-aware platform that merges different technologies such as service oriented architecture, complex-event processing (CEP) tools, and big data technologies. A sample context-aware application for energy efficient buildings control is presented to highlight the different components of the platform and their interactions.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-2088-1},
	author = {Lachhab, Fadwa and Essaaidi, Mohammed and Bakhouya, Mohamed and Ouladsine, Radouane},
	editor = {Smari, WW}
}
@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 { ISI:000391354500075,
	title = {UWB Thin Film Flexible Antenna for Microwave Thermography for Breast Cancer Detection},
	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 = {425-429},
	abstract = {A novel low-cost flexible antenna for a non-invasive and highly sensitive method to detect malign tumors in the early stages, contributing to diminishing the mortality which appears in the cases where the breast cancer was detected in late incurable stages. Using thin film Kapton substrate the flexible antenna has been built and carried out by the use of CST Microwave Studio software. The proposed structure operate in S-band (with reflection coefficient (S11) below -10dB) and has an ultra-wide band (UWB) characteristic providing an important bandwidth of about 2,4 GHz with a center frequency around 3 GHz. In order to predict the effect of the human body on the S-parameter response of the developed antenna design, an inhomogeneous multi-layer model of the women breast is used. The simulated results indicate that the proposed antenna kept it UWB property. The overall size of the miniaturized antenna is 20mmx22mm which make it very suitable for a radar-based breast cancer detection system.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8469-8},
	author = {Afyf, Amal and Bellarbi, Larbi and Achour, Anouar and Yaakoubi, Nourdin and Errachid, Abdelhamid and Sennouni, M. Adel},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and ElHani, S}
}
@conference {Afyf2016425,
	title = {UWB thin film flexible antenna for microwave thermography for breast cancer detection},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2016 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies, ICEIT 2016},
	year = {2016},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {425-429},
	abstract = {A novel low-cost flexible antenna for a non-invasive and highly sensitive method to detect malign tumors in the early stages, contributing to diminishing the mortality which appears in the cases where the breast cancer was detected in late incurable stages. Using thin film Kapton substrate the flexible antenna has been built and carried out by the use of CST Microwave Studio software. The proposed structure operate in S-band (with reflection coefficient (S11) below-10dB) and has an ultra-wide band (UWB) characteristic providing an important bandwidth of about 2,4 GHz with a center frequency around 3 GHz. In order to predict the effect of the human body on the S-parameter response of the developed antenna design, an inhomogeneous multi-layer model of the women breast is used. The simulated results indicate that the proposed antenna kept it UWB property. The overall size of the miniaturized antenna is 20mm{\texttimes}22mm which make it very suitable for a radar-based breast cancer detection system. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/EITech.2016.7519635},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84992195805\&doi=10.1109\%2fEITech.2016.7519635\&partnerID=40\&md5=348267fc2a9e46d247350579e616bbe7},
	author = {Afyf, A.a and Bellarbi, L.a and Achour, A.a and Yaakoubi, N.b and Errachid, A.c and Adel Sennouni, M.d}
}
@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:000392265300025,
	title = {Who Can Help to Review This Piece of Code?},
	booktitle = {COLLABORATION IN A HYPERCONNECTED WORLD},
	series = {IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology},
	volume = {480},
	year = {2016},
	note = {17th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE), Porto, PORTUGAL, OCT 03-05, 2016},
	pages = {289-301},
	publisher = {IFIP WG 5 5 Co Operat Infrastructure Virtual Enterprises \& Elect Business; Soc Collaborat Networks; U Porto; INESCTEC; Univ Amsterdam; Nova Univ Lisbon; UNINOVA},
	organization = {IFIP WG 5 5 Co Operat Infrastructure Virtual Enterprises \& Elect Business; Soc Collaborat Networks; U Porto; INESCTEC; Univ Amsterdam; Nova Univ Lisbon; UNINOVA},
	abstract = {Successful software projects require collaboration between team members. Efficient collaboration relies on both technical and social linkages. In this paper, we investigate whether a socio-technical analysis can support software contributors in identifying experts helping to review their source code. We mined the histories of five open source projects (OSS) from GitHub and examined both technical and socio-technical interactions based on Social Network Analysis (SNA). Mapping communication network to files co-edition network shows the existence of collaboration patterns between core teams and peripherals in the studied OSS projects. Our main contribution is the construction and mapping of three sources of social networks, in which contributors interact by co-editing, commenting or reviewing. We were able to identify behavioral patterns between core teams and peripherals related to the activity of code review. Our findings have implications on improving collaboration between contributors within virtual OSS communities witch drive teams{\textquoteright} performance and software products quality.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-45390-3; 978-3-319-45389-7},
	issn = {1868-4238},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3\_25},
	author = {Kerzazi, Noureddine and El Asri, Ikram},
	editor = {Afsarmanesh, H and CamarinhaMatos, LM and Soares, AL}
}
@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 { ISI:000380407100022,
	title = {An approach for privacy policies negotiation in mobile health-Cloud environments},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (CLOUDTECH 15)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech), Marrakech, MOROCCO, JUN 02-04, 2015},
	pages = {179-184},
	abstract = {Mobile technologies continue to improve patients{\textquoteright} quality of care. Particularly, with the emergence of Cloud-based mobile services and applications, patients can easily communicate with their physicians and receive the care they deserve. However, due to the increased number of privacy threats in mobile and Cloud computing environments, maximizing patients{\textquoteright} control over their data becomes a necessity. Thus, formal languages to express their privacy preferences are needed. Besides, because of the diversity of actors involved in patient{\textquoteright}s care, conflict among privacy policies can take place. In this paper, we present an approach that aims to resolve the problem of conflicting privacy policies based on a Security Policy Negotiation Framework. The major particularity of our solution is that it considers the patient to be a crucial actor in the negotiation process. The different steps of our approach are illustrated through an example of three conflicting privacy policies with different privacy languages.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8149-9},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@conference {Sadki2015,
	title = {An approach for privacy policies negotiation in mobile health-Cloud environments},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Mobile technologies continue to improve patients{\textquoteright} quality of care. Particularly, with the emergence of Cloud-based mobile services and applications, patients can easily communicate with their physicians and receive the care they deserve. However, due to the increased number of privacy threats in mobile and Cloud computing environments, maximizing patients{\textquoteright} control over their data becomes a necessity. Thus, formal languages to express their privacy preferences are needed. Besides, because of the diversity of actors involved in patient{\textquoteright}s care, conflict among privacy policies can take place. In this paper, we present an approach that aims to resolve the problem of conflicting privacy policies based on a Security Policy Negotiation Framework. The major particularity of our solution is that it considers the patient to be a crucial actor in the negotiation process. The different steps of our approach are illustrated through an example of three conflicting privacy policies with different privacy languages. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2015.7336983},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962886191\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2015.7336983\&partnerID=40\&md5=ee5946b2a8e87fa592145c3a5512d21c},
	author = {Sadki, S. and El Bakkali, H.}
}
@conference { ISI:000365128500017,
	title = {CIOSOS: Combined Idiomatic-Ontology Based Sentiment Orientation System for Trust Reputation in E-commerce},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE: CISIS{\textquoteright}15 AND ICEUTE{\textquoteright}15},
	series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {369},
	year = {2015},
	note = {8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS) / 6th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE), Burgos, SPAIN, JUN, 2015},
	pages = {189-200},
	publisher = {IEEE Spain Sect; IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; Int Federat Computat Log},
	organization = {IEEE Spain Sect; IEEE Syst, Man \& Cybernet Spanish Chapter; Int Federat Computat Log},
	abstract = {Due to the abundant amount of Customer{\textquoteright}s Reviews available in E-commerce platforms, Trust Reputation Systems remain reliable means to determine, circulate and restore the credibility and reputation of reviewers and their provided reviews. In fact before starting the process of Reputation score{\textquoteright}s calculation, we need to develop an accurate Sentiment orientation System able to extract opinion expressions, analyze them and determine the sentiment orientation of the Review and then classify it into positive, negative and objective. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised approach which is a Combined Idiomatic-Ontology based Sentiment Orientation System (CIOSOS) that realizes a domain-dependent sentiment analysis of reviews. The main contribution of the system is to expand the general opinion lexicon SentiWordNet to a custom-made opinion lexicon (SentiWordNet++) with domain-dependent {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}opinion indicators{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} as well as {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}idiomatic expressions{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}. The system relies also on a semi-supervised learning method that uses the general lexicon WordNet to identify synonyms or antonyms of the expanded terms and get their polarities from SentiWordNet and then store them in SentiWordNet++. The Sentiment polarity and the classification of the review provided by the CIOSOS is used as an input of our Reputation Algorithm proposed in previous papers in order to generate the Reputation score of the reviewer. We also provide an improvement in calculation method used to generate a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}granular{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} reputation score of a feature or subfeature of the product.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-19713-5; 978-3-319-19712-8},
	issn = {2194-5357},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-19713-5\_17},
	author = {Rahimi, Hasnae and El Bakkali, Hanan},
	editor = {Herrero, A and Baruque, B and Sedano, J and Quintian, H and Corchado, E}
}
@conference {ElAlami2015,
	title = {Cloud computing \& the organizational performance: Different approach of assessment},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications, CloudTech 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper introduces a nutshell of the cloud computing with its different deployment and delivery models. Additionally, it presents an assessment of the impact of the cloud computing on the organizational performance from many points of view. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/CloudTech.2015.7337007},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962861421\&doi=10.1109\%2fCloudTech.2015.7337007\&partnerID=40\&md5=1a58632197fd4c3d98f19023421b1825},
	author = {El Alami, A. and Sadok, H. and Elhaoud, N.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380407100046,
	title = {Cloud computing \& the organizational performance Different approach of assessment},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS (CLOUDTECH 15)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech), Marrakech, MOROCCO, JUN 02-04, 2015},
	pages = {318-322},
	abstract = {this paper introduces a nutshell of the cloud computing with its different deployment and delivery models. Additionally, it presents an assessment of the impact of the cloud computing on the organizational performance from many points of view.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8149-9},
	author = {El Alami, Abdelhamid and Sadok, Hicham and Elhaoud, Naima}
}
@article {Mabrouk2015490,
	title = {Coalitional game theory for cooperative transmission in VANET: Internet access via fixed and mobile gateways},
	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 = {490-495},
	abstract = {In Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs), vehicles need to cooperate with each other or with a roadside infrastructure to transmit data. In this work, we study the cooperative transmission for VANETs using coalitional game theory. Each vehicle has a desire to access Internet via gateways that can be either fixed or mobiles. The gateways can enhance the vehicles{\textquoteright} transmissions by cooperatively relaying the vehicles{\textquoteright} data. Moreover, due to the mobility of the vehicles, we introduce the notion of encounter and predicted lifetime to indicate the availability of forwarding between the vehicle and gateway. We model the problem as a coalition formation game with non-transferable utility and we propose an algorithm for forming coalitions among the vehicles. To evaluate the proposed solution, we present and discuss the numerical results under two scenarios: fixed gateways scenario and mobile gateways scenario. The numerical results show that mobile gateways scenario is more effective than fixed gateways scenario in term of cooperative transmission. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-26850-7_37},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84961155786\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-26850-7_37\&partnerID=40\&md5=1f9337ab54e8c5b7eedf4f0a81a41473},
	author = {Mabrouk, A.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.b and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {Oualhaj2015987,
	title = {A coalitional-game-based incentive mechanism for content caching in heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2015 - 11th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {987-992},
	abstract = {In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have successfully presented as a possible extension of the Internet architecture in order to provide communication support to existing networks. However, these networks have a major issue which is the coordination among relays. In this work, we study the cooperative transmission for DTNs using coalitional game theory. We design a new incentive mechanism for heterogeneous system to induce coordination among DTN relays. In particular, we focus on the source packet dissemination to a destination using tow-hop relaying scheme, considering networks resource constraints: the relay buffer, the packet life time, and the energy consumption according to the mobile technologies. Rational mobiles are organized into separate coalition structures to meet a trade off between the source reward and the energy conservation. We discus the Nash equilibria for our game and the stable strategy state in which no mobile can get a higher payoff through changing unilaterally its coalition. Then, we use the distributed imitative Boltzmann-Gibbs learning algorithm enabling relays to learn the Nash equilibrium strategy; grand coalition. The improvement of the global system performance is examined, and a comparison between different inter-node collaboration states is presented. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2015.7289217},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949490492\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2015.7289217\&partnerID=40\&md5=743073fbd086e6b2dc5623cb07de9531},
	author = {Oualhaj, O.A.a and Kobbane, A.a b and Elmachkour, M.a and Sabir, E.c and Ben-Othman, J.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000381477900169,
	title = {A Coalitional-Game-Based Incentive Mechanism for Content Caching in Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Networks},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS \& MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {11th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE IWCMC), Dubrovnik, CROATIA, AUG 24-25, 2015},
	pages = {987-992},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	abstract = {In recent years, Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) have successfully presented as a possible extension of the Internet architecture in order to provide communication support to existing networks. However, these networks have a major issue which is the coordination among relays. In this work, we study the cooperative transmission for DTNs using coalitional game theory. We design a new incentive mechanism for heterogeneous system to induce coordination among DTN relays. In particular, we focus on the source packet dissemination to a destination using tow-hop relaying scheme, considering networks resource constraints: the relay buffer, the packet life time, and the energy consumption according to the mobile technologies. Rational mobiles are organized into separate coalition structures to meet a trade off between the source reward and the energy conservation. We discus the Nash equilibria for our game and the stable strategy state in which no mobile can get a higher payoff through changing unilaterally its coalition. Then, we use the distributed imitative Boltzmann-Gibbs learning algorithm enabling relays to learn the Nash equilibrium strategy; grand coalition. The improvement of the global system performance is examined, and a comparison between different inter-node collaboration states is presented.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5344-8},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Oualhaj, Omar Ait and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Elmachkour, Mouna and Sabir, Essaid and Ben-Othman, Jalel}
}
@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 {Chanyour2015,
	title = {Cooperation based Instantly Decodable Network Coding for mobile clouds},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {Cloud computing Concept has been recognized as the next generation computing infrastructure. In addition, the explosive expansion of mobile devices usage around all over the world leads to more requirements in terms of resources, environment, and security. Therefore, mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm emerges, and it is considered as the future technology for mobile services and applications. Furthermore, Network Coding (NC) is a novel technique that aims to improve performance and throughput in wireless communication. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a delay and throughput optimized network coding scheme with mobile cooperation for broadcast based Mobile clouds applications. Hence, after a deep literature study, we proposed a scheme that introduces the use of cooperation with Instantly Decodable Network Coding. In order to evaluate our proposition, we carried out simulation experiments to test it and compare it with relevant existing solutions. Finally, the results are very encouraging and the proposed scheme gives a satisfactory delay compared to the existing solutions. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2015.7381306},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965036776\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2015.7381306\&partnerID=40\&md5=f8996d2af589d3ec43f7036516366eca},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380509200009,
	title = {Cooperation based Instantly Decodable Network Coding for Mobile Clouds},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International conference on wireless networks and mobile communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, OCT 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {46-51},
	abstract = {Cloud computing Concept has been recognized as the next generation computing infrastructure. In addition, the explosive expansion of mobile devices usage around all over the world leads to more requirements in terms of resources, environment, and security. Therefore, mobile cloud computing (MCC) paradigm emerges, and it is considered as the future technology for mobile services and applications. Furthermore, Network Coding (NC) is a novel technique that aims to improve performance and throughput in wireless communication. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a delay and throughput optimized network coding scheme with mobile cooperation for broadcast based Mobile clouds applications. Hence, after a deep literature study, we proposed a scheme that introduces the use of cooperation with Instantly Decodable Network Coding. In order to evaluate our proposition, we carried out simulation experiments to test it and compare it with relevant existing solutions. Finally, the results are very encouraging and the proposed scheme gives a satisfactory delay compared to the existing solutions.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8224-3},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid}
}
@article {Elmachkour20151316,
	title = {Data traffic-based analysis of delay and energy consumption in cognitive radio networks with and without resource reservation},
	journal = {International Journal of Communication Systems},
	volume = {28},
	number = {7},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 6},
	pages = {1316-1328},
	abstract = {A new opportunistic cross-layer MAC protocol involving channel allocation and packet scheduling for cognitive radio networks is proposed. Cognitive radio allows secondary users (SUs) to exploit the available portions of the licensed spectrum bands without interfering with primary users. In particular, we consider a cognitive radio system, where SUs are equipped with two transceivers: a control transceiver and a software-defined radio transceiver. Data traffic characteristics of SUs are considered to ameliorate system performance. So, we propose a mechanism of resource reservation to improve QoS requirements that favors successful SUs to transmit data during x time slots without interfering with primary users. The key novelty of this paper is giving priority for SUs with important data traffic and which frequently solicits data channels to transmit for the remaining time of the ongoing time slot and for the next time slots directly after checking the channel availability. We develop a new analytical model to evaluate delay parameter for two scenarios with and without resource reservation and we then investigate the impact of those scenarios on the energy consumption. We show through simulations that cognitive radio performances increase noticeably with the proposed scheme. Copyright {\textcopyright} 2014 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	doi = {10.1002/dac.2764},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84925355761\&doi=10.1002\%2fdac.2764\&partnerID=40\&md5=ecf737b718373c4b7731373c0afd1200},
	author = {Elmachkour, M.a and Kobbane, A.a c and Sabir, E.b and Ben-Othman, J.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@article { ISI:000351605500008,
	title = {Data traffic-based analysis of delay and energy consumption in cognitive radio networks with and without resource reservation},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS},
	volume = {28},
	number = {7},
	year = {2015},
	month = {MAY 10},
	pages = {1316-1328},
	abstract = {A new opportunistic cross-layer MAC protocol involving channel allocation and packet scheduling for cognitive radio networks is proposed. Cognitive radio allows secondary users (SUs) to exploit the available portions of the licensed spectrum bands without interfering with primary users. In particular, we consider a cognitive radio system, where SUs are equipped with two transceivers: a control transceiver and a software-defined radio transceiver. Data traffic characteristics of SUs are considered to ameliorate system performance. So, we propose a mechanism of resource reservation to improve QoS requirements that favors successful SUs to transmit data during x time slots without interfering with primary users. The key novelty of this paper is giving priority for SUs with important data traffic and which frequently solicits data channels to transmit for the remaining time of the ongoing time slot and for the next time slots directly after checking the channel availability. We develop a new analytical model to evaluate delay parameter for two scenarios with and without resource reservation and we then investigate the impact of those scenarios on the energy consumption. We show through simulations that cognitive radio performances increase noticeably with the proposed scheme. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.},
	issn = {1074-5351},
	doi = {10.1002/dac.2764},
	author = {Elmachkour, Mouna and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@article {Saissi20151044,
	title = {Deep web integration: The tip of the iceberg},
	journal = {International Review on Computers and Software},
	volume = {10},
	number = {10},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {1044-1053},
	abstract = {The web is divided in two parts, a part that search engines can access and which is called the surface web, and an inaccessible part called the deep web. The deep web is much bigger and richer in information than the surface web, and its web sources are only accessible through the associated Html forms. Our aim in this paper is to present our automatic approach to extract a relational schema describing a selected deep web source. This relational schema can be used by a virtual integration system to access the associated deep web source. Our approach is based on a static and dynamic analysis of the Html forms giving access to the selected deep web source. Our approach process uses two external knowledge databases: The first one is our proprietary knowledge database about the deep web domains called the Identification Tables and the second one is an external ontology. All the information extracted by our approach from and through the associated Html forms are used subsequently to build our final relational schema describing the associated deep web source. {\textcopyright} 2015 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. - All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.15866/irecos.v10i10.7755},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84959137103\&doi=10.15866\%2firecos.v10i10.7755\&partnerID=40\&md5=d936ba2cd781f89fb3b9bb571b5e02e3},
	author = {Saissi, Y.a and Zellou, A.a b and Idri, A.a c}
}
@article {Naghar20151813,
	title = {Design of compact multiband bandpass filter with suppression of second harmonic spurious by coupling gap reduction},
	journal = {Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications},
	volume = {29},
	number = {14},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {1813-1828},
	abstract = {In this paper, we describe a method to implement compact multiband bandpass filters with suppression of second harmonic frequency. This filter design approach is based on decreasing the coupling gap between adjacent resonators of a parallel-coupled-line bandpass filter in order to achieve both the desired multiband frequency response and the spurious suppression. We present the theoretical analysis of the proposed structure that consists of modeling the frequency dependence of the even- and odd-mode characteristic impedances as well as due to the different phase velocities of the parallel-coupled microstrip lines. As an example, a compact tri-band parallel-coupled-line bandpass filter with suppression of second harmonic frequency was implemented operating at 1.9/3.2/4.6 GHz to cover PCS1900, WiMAX, and C-band applications. A three-pole Chebyshev parallel-coupled microstrip bandpass filter was designed at a center frequency of 3.2 GHz and used as the basis to validate the gapping effect on the filter response which also achieves a narrower bandwidth for the second harmonic. Finally, the filter performance with minimized coupling gap is compared to a filter enhanced by the insertion of apertures in the ground plane. Generally speaking, good agreement was accomplished between simulated, calculated, and measured results. {\textcopyright} 2015 Taylor \& Francis.},
	doi = {10.1080/09205071.2015.1043029},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84940714115\&doi=10.1080\%2f09205071.2015.1043029\&partnerID=40\&md5=b402327d69e8f5f98418025a5c5cd607},
	author = {Naghar, A.a and Aghzout, O.a and Alejos, A.V.b and Sanchez, M.G.b and Essaaidi, M.c}
}
@article { ISI:000360305800001,
	title = {Design of compact multiband bandpass filter with suppression of second harmonic spurious by coupling gap reduction},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND APPLICATIONS},
	volume = {29},
	number = {14},
	year = {2015},
	month = {SEP 22},
	pages = {1813-1828},
	abstract = {In this paper, we describe a method to implement compact multiband bandpass filters with suppression of second harmonic frequency. This filter design approach is based on decreasing the coupling gap between adjacent resonators of a parallel-coupled-line bandpass filter in order to achieve both the desired multiband frequency response and the spurious suppression. We present the theoretical analysis of the proposed structure that consists of modeling the frequency dependence of the even- and odd-mode characteristic impedances as well as due to the different phase velocities of the parallel-coupled microstrip lines. As an example, a compact tri-band parallel-coupled-line bandpass filter with suppression of second harmonic frequency was implemented operating at 1.9/3.2/4.6GHz to cover PCS1900, WiMAX, and C-band applications. A three-pole Chebyshev parallel-coupled microstrip bandpass filter was designed at a center frequency of 3.2GHz and used as the basis to validate the gapping effect on the filter response which also achieves a narrower bandwidth for the second harmonic. Finally, the filter performance with minimized coupling gap is compared to a filter enhanced by the insertion of apertures in the ground plane. Generally speaking, good agreement was accomplished between simulated, calculated, and measured results.},
	issn = {0920-5071},
	doi = {10.1080/09205071.2015.1043029},
	author = {Naghar, Azzedin and Aghzout, Otman and Vazquez Alejos, Ana and Garcia Sanchez, Manuel and Essaaidi, Mohammed}
}
@article {Naghar20151786,
	title = {Design of compact wideband multi-band and ultrawideband band pass filters based on coupled half wave resonators with reduced coupling gap},
	journal = {IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation},
	volume = {9},
	number = {15},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1786-1792},
	abstract = {In this paper we propose a technique to design compact multi-band and UWB bandpass filters based on coupled half wave resonators. The proposed design consists of the modification of a conventional parallel coupled Chebyshev bandpass filter structure by setting a very small or null coupling gap between the resonators of the center sections jointly with a very small spacing between resonators of the extremity sections. This spacing determines the performances of selected frequency bands. An ultrawideband response is accomplished by applying null spacing between all the adjacent resonators. We analysed the effect of the separation distance between the coupled lines on both the fractional bandwidth and group velocity of the filter response. The effect of the order assumed for the initial Chebyshev filter was also discussed. As an illustration of the proposed technique, we designed and measured a dual band and a tri-band filter for the frequencies covering the WiMAX/WLAN/X system bands demonstrating an excellent performance, with a fractional bandwidth covering the 40\% and 100\% of the FCC bandwidth respectively. The proposed technique alleviates the fabrication accuracy requirements. The designs show an optimal improvement in terms of group velocity flatness.},
	doi = {10.1049/iet-map.2015.0188},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949946910\&doi=10.1049\%2fiet-map.2015.0188\&partnerID=40\&md5=ae56641eed11a3a3b77fe146406fba57},
	author = {Naghar, A.a b and Aghzout, O.c and Alejos, A.V.a and Sanchez, M.G.a and Essaaidi, M.d}
}
@article { ISI:000366391200018,
	title = {Design of compact wideband multi-band and ultrawideband band pass filters based on coupled half wave resonators with reduced coupling gap},
	journal = {IET MICROWAVES ANTENNAS \& PROPAGATION},
	volume = {9},
	number = {15},
	year = {2015},
	month = {DEC 10},
	pages = {1786-1792},
	abstract = {In this paper we propose a technique to design compact multi-band and UWB bandpass filters based on coupled half wave resonators. The proposed design consists of the modification of a conventional parallel coupled Chebyshev bandpass filter structure by setting a very small or null coupling gap between the resonators of the center sections jointly with a very small spacing between resonators of the extremity sections. This spacing determines the performances of selected frequency bands. An ultrawideband response is accomplished by applying null spacing between all the adjacent resonators. We analysed the effect of the separation distance between the coupled lines on both the fractional bandwidth and group velocity of the filter response. The effect of the order assumed for the initial Chebyshev filter was also discussed. As an illustration of the proposed technique, we designed and measured a dual band and a tri-band filter for the frequencies covering the WiMAX/WLAN/X system bands demonstrating an excellent performance, with a fractional bandwidth covering the 40\% and 100\% of the FCC bandwidth respectively. The proposed technique alleviates the fabrication accuracy requirements. The designs show an optimal improvement in terms of group velocity flatness.},
	issn = {1751-8725},
	doi = {10.1049/iet-map.2015.0188},
	author = {Naghar, Azzedin and Aghzout, Otman and Vazquez Alejos, Ana and Garcia Sanchez, Manuel and Essaaidi, Mohamed}
}
@article {11164386420151201,
	title = {Design of compact wideband multi-band and ultrawideband band pass filters based on coupled half wave resonators with reduced coupling gap.},
	journal = {IET Microwaves, Antennas \& Propagation},
	volume = {9},
	number = {15},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {1786 - 1792},
	abstract = {In this paper we propose a technique to design compact multi-band and UWB bandpass filters based on coupled half wave resonators. The proposed design consists of the modification of a conventional parallel coupled Chebyshev bandpass filter structure by setting a very small or null coupling gap between the resonators of the center sections jointly with a very small spacing between resonators of the extremity sections. This spacing determines the performances of selected frequency bands. An ultrawideband response is accomplished by applying null spacing between all the adjacent resonators. We analysed the effect of the separation distance between the coupled lines on both the fractional bandwidth and group velocity of the filter response. The effect of the order assumed for the initial Chebyshev filter was also discussed. As an illustration of the proposed technique, we designed and measured a dual band and a tri-band filter for the frequencies covering the WiMAX/WLAN/X system bands dem},
	keywords = {Bandpass filters {\textendash} Research, Chebyshev systems {\textendash} Research, Electric resonators {\textendash} Research, Ultra-wideband antennas {\textendash} Research, Wireless LANs {\textendash} Research},
	issn = {17518725},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=111643864\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Naghar, Azzedin and Aghzout, Otman and Vazquez Alejos, Ana and Garcia Sanchez, Manuel and Essaaidi, Mohamed}
}
@conference { ISI:000381477900056,
	title = {A Distributed Open-Close Access for Small-Cell Networks: A Random Matrix Game Analysis},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS \& MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {11th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE IWCMC), Dubrovnik, CROATIA, AUG 24-25, 2015},
	pages = {320-325},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	abstract = {Nowadays, Small-Cells are widely being deployed to assist and improve performance of mobile networks. Indeed, they are a promising solution to improve coverage and to offload data traffic in mobile networks. In this paper, we propose a signaling-less architecture of the heterogeneous network composed of one single Macro Base Station and a Single Small-Cell. First, we construct a game theoretic framework for channel-state independent interaction. We present many conditions for the existence of Pure Nash equilibrium. Next, and in order to capture the continuous change of the channel state, we build a random matrix game where the channel state is considered to be random (potentially ruled by some given distribution). A characterization of Nash equilibrium is provided in terms of pure strategies and mixed strategies. Convergence to Nash equilibrium is furthermore guaranteed using a variant of the well-known Combined fully distributed payoff and strategy learning. Our algorithm converges faster (only 10-20 iterations are required to converge to Nash equilibrium) and only need a limited amount of local information. This is quite promising since it says that our scheme is almost applicable for all environments (fast fading included).},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5344-8},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Ben Chekroun, Samia and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Tembine, Hamidou and Bouyakhf, El-Houssine and Ibrahimi, Khalil}
}
@conference {BenChekroun2015320,
	title = {A distributed open-close access for Small-Cell networks: A random matrix game analysis},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2015 - 11th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {320-325},
	abstract = {Nowadays, Small-Cells are widely being deployed to assist and improve performance of mobile networks. Indeed, they are a promising solution to improve coverage and to offload data traffic in mobile networks. In this paper, we propose a signaling-less architecture of the heterogeneous network composed of one single Macro Base Station and a Single Small-Cell. First, we construct a game theoretic framework for channel-state independent interaction. We present many conditions for the existence of Pure Nash equilibrium. Next, and in order to capture the continuous change of the channel state, we build a random matrix game where the channel state is considered to be random (potentially ruled by some given distribution). A characterization of Nash equilibrium is provided in terms of pure strategies and mixed strategies. Convergence to Nash equilibrium is furthermore guaranteed using a variant of the well-known Combined fully distributed payoff and strategy learning. Our algorithm converges faster (only 10-20 iterations are required to converge to Nash equilibrium) and only need a limited amount of local information. This is quite promising since it says that our scheme is almost applicable for all environments (fast fading included). {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2015.7289103},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949516312\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2015.7289103\&partnerID=40\&md5=09ea6932ff0311a5cea7e0dc62597821},
	author = {Ben Chekroun, S.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.c and Tembine, H.d and Bouyakhf, E.-H.a and Ibrahimi, K.e}
}
@conference { ISI:000360508700103,
	title = {Early Warning Signs Detection in Competitive Intelligence},
	booktitle = {INNOVATION VISION 2020: FROM REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABILITY TO GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, VOL I-VI},
	year = {2015},
	note = {25th International-Business-Information-Management-Association Conference, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, MAY 07-08, 2015},
	pages = {1014-1024},
	publisher = {Int Business Informat Management Assoc},
	organization = {Int Business Informat Management Assoc},
	abstract = {In a world of excessive competitiveness in the business environment, the competitive intelligence activities are widely used to monitor the competitors. Many techniques are used like opinion mining, event detection and foresight studies. Foresight allows studying the future and tries to predict and anticipate future actions. We can find diverse concepts and methodologies with numerous challenging research topics: trends, weak signals, wild cards... This paper will focus on weak signal detection in which we try to find the early warning signs in a performed quantitative and automatic way. It will present a literature review regarding the weak signals analysis terminology along with the processes to detect these signals, techniques, methods and approaches used.},
	isbn = {978-0-9860419-4-5},
	author = {El Akrouchi, Manal and Benbrahim, Houda and Kassou, Ismail},
	editor = {Soliman, KS}
}
@conference {Sarhani20151,
	title = {Electric load forecasting using hybrid machine learning approach incorporating feature selection},
	booktitle = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
	volume = {1580},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1-7},
	abstract = {Forecasting of future electricity demand is very important for the electric power industry. As influenced by various factors, it has been shown in several publications that machine learning methods are useful for electric load forecasting (ELF). On the one hand, we introduce in this paper the approach of support vector regression (SVR) for ELF. In particular, we use particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize SVR parameters. On the other hand, it is important to determine the irrelevant factors as a preprocessing step for ELF. Our contribution consists of investigating the importance of applying the feature selection approach for removing the irrelevant factors of electric load. The experimental results elucidate the feasibility of applying feature selection without decreasing the performance of the SVR-PSO model for ELF.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84977574358\&partnerID=40\&md5=405be8fb16c29c43f82f16549d26252b},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A.}
}
@article {AitOualhaj2015126,
	title = {A ferry-assisted solution for forwarding function in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	journal = {Pervasive and Mobile Computing},
	volume = {22},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {126-135},
	abstract = {For sure, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are becoming an ultimate part of next generation mobile networks. They are a master piece for Ubiquitous computing. Indeed, they sustain development of numerous paradigms/ technologies such as distributed ambient intelligence, context-awareness and future mobile networking (e.g., B4G and 5G). Battery life remains one of the crucial problems to handle. In this article we propose an infrastructure-based topology using mobile ferries (mobile micro-base stations). In real life, a ferry could be robot, bus, tram, train or any other engine scrutinizing periodically a given area. Yet, message ferries are moving along concentric annulus and may collect data generated by the static sensors (could be classic sensors, smart meters, wearable devices, etc.) randomly distributed on given area. Next, transmissions are performed in a ferry-to-ferry forwarding scheme till arriving at the sink. Considered ferries could sense themselves data and therefore behave as mobile sensors allowing better awareness on the area state [1-3]. Our scheme could also assist Machine-to-Machine communications to increase the network lifetime, with potentially some cognitive-radio capabilities and opportunistic detection and access. Our proposal can easily be integrated in a smart-city for better interaction and green communications. Next, we present a queueing model (queues with finite capacity) to handle the generated traffic and to analyze the behavior of mobile ferries. We provided a close-form expression for both end-to-end throughput and end-to-end delay. The main objective of this work is to improve the energy efficiency of the cognitive sensors by asking cognitive sensors to not care about forwarding data of each other except for urgent data, this latter point is out of the scope of the paper. These static sensors will only care about data sensing, which will reduce their individual energy consumption. {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier B.V.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.05.003},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84941024588\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.pmcj.2015.05.003\&partnerID=40\&md5=83a85e8d64da3c3ac9458a4eba519a14},
	author = {Ait Oualhaj, O.a and Kobbane, A.b and Sabir, E.c and Ben-Othman, J.d and Erradi, M.a}
}
@article { ISI:000360910900010,
	title = {A ferry-assisted solution for forwarding function in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	journal = {PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING},
	volume = {22},
	number = {SI},
	year = {2015},
	month = {SEP},
	pages = {126-135},
	abstract = {For sure, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are becoming an ultimate part of next generation mobile networks. They are a master piece for Ubiquitous computing. Indeed, they sustain development of numerous paradigms/ technologies such as distributed ambient intelligence, context-awareness and future mobile networking (e.g., B4G and 5G). Battery life remains one of the crucial problems to handle. In this article we propose an infrastructure-based topology using mobile ferries (mobile micro-base stations). In real life, a ferry could be robot, bus, tram, train or any other engine scrutinizing periodically a given area. Yet, message ferries are moving along concentric annulus and may collect data generated by the static sensors (could be classic sensors, smart meters, wearable devices, etc.) randomly distributed on given area. Next, transmissions are performed in a ferry-to-ferry forwarding scheme till arriving at the sink. Considered ferries could sense themselves data and therefore behave as mobile sensors allowing better awareness on the area state {[}1-3]. Our scheme could also assist Machine-to-Machine communications to increase the network lifetime, with potentially some cognitive-radio capabilities and opportunistic detection and access. Our proposal can easily be integrated in a smart-city for better interaction and green communications. Next, we present a queueing model (queues with finite capacity) to handle the generated traffic and to analyze the behavior of mobile ferries. We provided a close-form expression for both end-to-end throughput and end-to-end delay. The main objective of this work is to improve the energy efficiency of the cognitive sensors by asking cognitive sensors to not care about forwarding data of each other except for urgent data, this latter point is out of the scope of the paper. These static sensors will only care about data sensing, which will reduce their individual energy consumption. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {1574-1192},
	doi = {10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.05.003},
	author = {Oualhaj, Omar Ait and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid and Ben-Othman, Jalel and Erradi, Mohammed}
}
@conference { ISI:000354859800032,
	title = {FGAV (Fuzzy Global as Views)},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INFORMATION (IC-ININFO 2014)},
	series = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
	volume = {1644},
	year = {2015},
	note = {4th International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO), Madrid, SPAIN, SEP 05-08, 2014},
	pages = {236-243},
	publisher = {Univ Peloponnese; Linnaeus Univ; Aberystwyth Univ; Technol \& Educ Inst Athens; Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Documentac; Inst Disseminat Arts \& Sci},
	organization = {Univ Peloponnese; Linnaeus Univ; Aberystwyth Univ; Technol \& Educ Inst Athens; Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Documentac; Inst Disseminat Arts \& Sci},
	abstract = {The mediation is an approach of integration, which allows to integrate different heterogeneous, autonomous and scalable sources of information, it provide to the user an uniform access, while hiding the peculiarities of each sources. In this paper, we presenting an approach of mapping for mediation systems, an operation that is used to define and describe all the links between the elements of global schema and those of local schemas. To this end, we firstly presenting our approach to mapping that consist to defining and associates for each link between two elements the weight that reflects the degree of its existence by using an analysis of two components: syntactic and semantic. On the other hand, we integrate a set of functionality for source schemas with elements of complex types.},
	isbn = {978-0-7354-1283-5},
	issn = {0094-243X},
	doi = {10.1063/1.4907842},
	author = {El Yazidi, Moulay Hafid and Zellou, Ahmed and Idri, Ali},
	editor = {Giannakopoulos, G and Sakas, DP and KyriakiManessi, D}
}
@conference {Benkhayat2015172,
	title = {Firm business strategy and IT strategy alignment: A proposal of a new model},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Sciences and Information Technologies, CSIT 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {172-178},
	abstract = {Nowadays information technology (IT) has evolved from its traditional orientation of administrative support toward a more strategic role within an organization. But, there is still a lack of frameworks and models to measure this new strategic orientation of IT. To remain competitive, firms should align their IT and Business strategy. A number of alignment models have been offered in the literature, primary among them the strategic alignment model (SAM). However, there is little published research that attempts to give a model which can be easily used in practice. This paper proposes a new model of alignment between Business strategy and IT strategy, based on Miles and Snow{\textquoteright}s strategy representation. And use AHP method to evaluate the decision maker{\textquoteright}s preferences. {\textcopyright} 2015 Lviv Polytechnic National University.},
	doi = {10.1109/STC-CSIT.2015.7325460},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84969963009\&doi=10.1109\%2fSTC-CSIT.2015.7325460\&partnerID=40\&md5=182fc511af5eb3315349d8df6c64df90},
	author = {Benkhayat, A. and Manouar, A.E. and Sadok, H.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380408200011,
	title = {Flexible Miniaturized UWB CPW II-shaped Slot Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Applications},
	booktitle = {2015 THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RFID AND ADAPTIVE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (RAWSN)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks (RAWSN), Agadir, MOROCCO, MAY 13-15, 2015},
	pages = {52-56},
	publisher = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	organization = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	abstract = {A flexible microstrip antenna printed on a Kapton Polymide substrate, excited by a CPW feed line, and operated in S-band at 3.5GHz, is successfully validated. Unlike previous flexible antennas, this structure offers a very thin thickness (0.16mm) with overall dimensions of 36x25 mm(2) that assure an easy integration into clothes and wireless body area network (WBAN) systems. Modeling and performance evaluation of the proposed antenna in term of return loss, voltage standing wave ratio, radiation pattern, and current distribution have been carried out using CST-MW STUDIO Software.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8096-6},
	author = {Afyf, Amal and Bellarbi, Larbi and Riouch, Fatima and Achour, Anouar and Errachid, Abdelhamid and Sennouni, Mohamed. Adel},
	editor = {Berrada, I and Ghennioui, H}
}
@conference {Afyf201552,
	title = {Flexible miniaturized UWB CPW Π-shaped slot antenna for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2015 3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks, RAWSN 2015 - In conjunction with the International Conference on NETworked sYStems, NETYS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {52-56},
	abstract = {A flexible microstrip antenna printed on a Kapton Polymide substrate, excited by a CPW feed line, and operated in S-band at 3.5GHz, is successfully validated. Unlike previous flexible antennas, this structure offers a very thin thickness (0.16mm) with overall dimensions of 36{\texttimes}25 mm2 that assure an easy integration into clothes and wireless body area network (WBAN) systems. Modeling and performance evaluation of the proposed antenna in term of return loss, voltage standing wave ratio, radiation pattern, and current distribution have been carried out using CST-MW STUDIO Software. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/RAWSN.2015.7173279},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966552820\&doi=10.1109\%2fRAWSN.2015.7173279\&partnerID=40\&md5=66469dbc403cd2c742ec86e139da851b},
	author = {Afyf, A.a and Bellarbi, L.a and Riouch, F.b and Achour, A.a and Errachid, A.c and Sennouni, M.A.d}
}
@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 {Walid20151168,
	title = {On improving network capacity for downlink and uplink of two-tier LTE-FDD networks},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2015 - 11th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {1168-1173},
	abstract = {A Long Term Evolution-Frequency Division Duplexing (LTE-FDD) small cell is one of the promising solutions for improving service quality and data rate in both the uplink and downlink of home users. Small cell (e.g., femtocell, picocell, microcell) is short range, low cost and low power base station installed by the indoor consumers. However, the avoidance of interferences is still an issue that needs to be addressed for successful deployment of small base stations (SBS) within existing macro cell networks mainly in co-channel deployment. Moreover, interferences are strongly dependent on the type of access control of small cells. Closed and open access are in conflict interests for macro users and home users in the uplink and downlink. To mitigate this conflict, we propose a fully distributed algorithm based on the shared time access and executed by LTE-FDD small cells, in order to reduce the effect of interferences, improve QoS of users, and maximize the overall capacity of downlink and uplink in two-tier LTE networks when small cells are deployed randomly. Simulation results validate our algorithm and show the improvement attained in offloading macro cell and satisfying QoS requirements of home users compared to the closed and open access mechanisms in both the uplink and downlink. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2015.7289248},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949503704\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2015.7289248\&partnerID=40\&md5=3c58a33b86b3de8e31215575eda6ba0a},
	author = {Walid, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Taleb, T.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000381477900200,
	title = {On Improving Network Capacity for Downlink and Uplink of Two-Tier LTE-FDD Networks},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS \& MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {11th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE IWCMC), Dubrovnik, CROATIA, AUG 24-25, 2015},
	pages = {1168-1173},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Croatia Sect; Univ Dubrovnik},
	abstract = {A Long Term Evolution-Frequency Division Duplexing (LTE-FDD) small cell is one of the promising solutions for improving service quality and data rate in both the uplink and downlink of home users. Small cell (e.g., femtocell, picocell, microcell) is short range, low cost and low power base station installed by the indoor consumers. However, the avoidance of interferences is still an issue that needs to be addressed for successful deployment of small base stations (SBS) within existing macro cell networks mainly in co-channel deployment. Moreover, interferences are strongly dependent on the type of access control of small cells. Closed and open access are in conflict interests for macro users and home users in the uplink and downlink. To mitigate this conflict, we propose a fully distributed algorithm based on the shared time access and executed by LTE-FDD small cells, in order to reduce the effect of interferences, improve QoS of users, and maximize the overall capacity of downlink and uplink in two-tier LTE networks when small cells are deployed randomly. Simulation results validate our algorithm and show the improvement attained in offloading macro cell and satisfying QoS requirements of home users compared to the closed and open access mechanisms in both the uplink and downlink.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5344-8},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Walid, Abdellaziz and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Taleb, Tarik and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500070,
	title = {Integrated enterprise system selection based on a fuzzy MCDM approach},
	booktitle = {2015 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), ENSIAS, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 20-21, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {An integrated enterprise system (IES) is essential to keep an enterprise growing and improving its productivity. Previous research relating to IES selection generally deals only with ERP solutions. The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach that could be followed to enable a given enterprise to select the most appropriate IES among the existing ones (Proprietary ERP, Open source ERP, In-house software, Best of Breed, ASP). Firstly, this paper analyses and synthetizes many criteria used in previous research works and proposes new ones to sort out the most relevant into nine dimensions for our problematic. Secondly, it presents a selection process which combines two fuzzy methods: Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (FDEMATEL) and fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP).},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {Setti, Meryem and Janati Idrissi, Mohammed Abdou and Khaled, Abdelilah}
}
@conference {Setti2015,
	title = {Integrated enterprise system selection based on a fuzzy MCDM approach},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {An integrated enterprise system (IES) is essential to keep an enterprise growing and improving its productivity. Previous research relating to IES selection generally deals only with ERP solutions. The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach that could be followed to enable a given enterprise to select the most appropriate IES among the existing ones (Proprietary ERP, Open source ERP, In-house software, Best of Breed, ASP). Firstly, this paper analyses and synthetizes many criteria used in previous research works and proposes new ones to sort out the most relevant into nine dimensions for our problematic. Secondly, it presents a selection process which combines two fuzzy methods: Fuzzy Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (FDEMATEL) and fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP). {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7393656},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962422567\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7393656\&partnerID=40\&md5=8ed6d970310ca34150ca18d54c5a83f3},
	author = {Setti, M. and Janati Idrissi, M.A. and Khaled, A.}
}
@conference {ElIdrissiSelma2015,
	title = {Mapping discovery methodology in a pure P2P mediation system for XML schemas},
	booktitle = {2015 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The exponential development of information exchange today has updated the difficulties to find the relevant information wished by an end user. Indeed, the information is represented and stored in a multitude of information sources in a very heterogeneous way. The type of these information sources can be varied (textual data, relational, multimedia, semi structured ...) and their very different storage systems (file system, DBMS, applications). It is thus necessary to offer an information sources integration system, while assuring the transparency to the distribution and the heterogeneousness. In this work, we focus to integration of information sources via the mediation approach in a pur P2P environment. We are particularly interested to the Mapping discovery in this type of system integration. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2015.7358380},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962376117\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2015.7358380\&partnerID=40\&md5=cdb3cd7ca4bce869b36a15714aae4901},
	author = {El Idrissi Selma, E.Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380409500006,
	title = {Mapping discovery methodology in a pure P2P mediation system for XML schemas},
	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 = {The exponential development of information exchange today has updated the difficulties to find the relevant information wished by an end user. Indeed, the information is represented and stored in a multitude of information sources in a very heterogeneous way. The type of these information sources can be varied (textual data, relational, multimedia, semi structured...) and their very different storage systems (file system, DBMS, applications). It is thus necessary to offer an information sources integration system, while assuring the transparency to the distribution and the heterogeneousness. In this work, we focus to integration of information sources via the mediation approach in a pur P2P environment. We are particularly interested to the Mapping discovery in this type of system integration.},
	isbn = {978-1-5090-0220-7},
	author = {El Idrissi Selma, El Yahyaoui and Zellou, Ahmed and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference { ISI:000380432600013,
	title = {Network Coding for Energy Optimization and Throughput Enhancement of WideMac for IR-UWB based WSN},
	booktitle = {2015 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICROELECTRONICS (ICM)},
	series = {International Conference on Microelectronics-ICM},
	year = {2015},
	note = {27th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), Casablanca, MOROCCO, DEC 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {47-50},
	abstract = {Energy and throughput optimization occupies an important place in the research area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These networks are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and efficient scheduling in the MAC layer of such networks gives more efficiency and copes with the problem of energy waste and inefficiency management as well as transmission{\textquoteright}s lose and collision. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to assess the contribution of the network coding technique{\textquoteright}s introduction to improve the efficiency and optimize the energy consumption in the MAC layer of IR-UWB based WSNs. Therefore, we tested this new technique using WideMac Protocol; which is a relevant MAC protocols dedicated to WSNs based on IR-UWB. Furthermore, we used XOR coding to fit low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. The obtained results are very encouraging and the proposed MAC scheme{\textquoteright}s improvements have demonstrated the positive impact of using NC in terms of both used metrics.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8759-0},
	issn = {2159-1679},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Chergui Hali, Hanane and Saadane, Rachid}
}
@conference {Gmira2015,
	title = {A new optimal hybrid spectrum access in cognitive radio: Overlay-underlay mode},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, WINCOM 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 2},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a hybrid cognitive radio (CR) system where underlay and overlay CR approaches are combined under SIRN constraints. This new access type allows to optimize the spectrum sensing time with throughput improvement. Our proposed access type is based on a merger of these two modes depending on the number of secondary users (SU) in the Underlay Mode and on the access probabilities for these two modes. The number of all users in the Underlay access mode should not exceed a certain number of users. When a new SU arrives and if the number of SUs in Underlay mode is already equal to the predifined max number, the SU decides to switch to the Overlay mode to access the canal using this method. The SU states will be modeled with a Markov chain, the aim of this work is attempting to show that this new method allows to increase the throughput of the SU with energy optimization. The exact outage probability of secondary system is also derived for this model. Simulation results show that the performance, especiallay the throughput can be significantly increased by the proposed hybrid system. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WINCOM.2015.7381314},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84965043094\&doi=10.1109\%2fWINCOM.2015.7381314\&partnerID=40\&md5=5d077bbb24ef8194362f761a7665f204},
	author = {Gmira, S.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000380509200017,
	title = {A New Optimal Hybrid Spectrum Access in Cognitive Radio: Overlay-Underlay Mode},
	booktitle = {2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS NETWORKS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (WINCOM)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International conference on wireless networks and mobile communications, Marrakech, MOROCCO, OCT 20-23, 2015},
	pages = {92-98},
	abstract = {In this paper, we propose a hybrid cognitive radio (CR) system where underlay and overlay CR approaches are combined under SIRN constraints. This new access type allows to optimize the spectrum sensing time with throughput improvement. Our proposed access type is based on a merger of these two modes depending on the number of secondary users (SU) in the Underlay Mode and on the access probabilities for these two modes. The number of all users in the Underlay access mode should not exceed a certain number of users. When a new SU arrives and if the number of SUs in Underlay mode is already equal to the predifined max number, the SU decides to switch to the Overlay mode to access the canal using this method. The SU states will be modeled with a Markov chain, the aim of this work is attempting to show that this new method allows to increase the throughput of the SU with energy optimization. The exact outage probability of secondary system is also derived for this model. Simulation results show that the performance, especiallay the throughput can be significantly increased by the proposed hybrid system.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8224-3},
	author = {Gmira, Sara and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid}
}
@conference { ISI:000354859800033,
	title = {Pure P2P Mediation System: A Mappings Discovery Approach},
	booktitle = {INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED INFORMATION (IC-ININFO 2014)},
	series = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
	volume = {1644},
	year = {2015},
	note = {4th International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO), Madrid, SPAIN, SEP 05-08, 2014},
	pages = {244-251},
	publisher = {Univ Peloponnese; Linnaeus Univ; Aberystwyth Univ; Technol \& Educ Inst Athens; Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Documentac; Inst Disseminat Arts \& Sci},
	organization = {Univ Peloponnese; Linnaeus Univ; Aberystwyth Univ; Technol \& Educ Inst Athens; Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Documentac; Inst Disseminat Arts \& Sci},
	abstract = {The information integration systems consist in offering a uniform interface to provide access to a set of autonomous and distributed information sources. The most important advantage of this system is that it allows users to specify what they want, rather than thinking about how to get the responses. The works realized in this area have particular leads to two major classes of integration systems: the mediation systems based on the paradigm mediator / adapter and peer to peer systems (P2P). The combination of both systems has led to a third type; is the mediation P2P systems. The P2P systems are large-scale systems, self-organized and distributed. They allow the resource management in a completely decentralized way. However, the integration of structured information sources, heterogeneous and distributed proves to be a complex problem. The objective of this work is to propose an approach to resolve conflicts and establish a mapping between the heterogeneous elements. This approach is based on clustering; the latter is to group similar Peers that share common information in the same subnet. Thus, to facilitate the heterogeneity, we introduced three additional layers of our hierarchy of peers: internal schema, external schema and Schema directory peer. We used linguistic techniques, and precisely the name correspondence technique, that is based on the similarity of names to propose a correspondence.},
	isbn = {978-0-7354-1283-5},
	issn = {0094-243X},
	doi = {10.1063/1.4907843},
	author = {Selma, El Yahyaoui El Idrissi and Zellou, Ahmed and Idri, Ali},
	editor = {Giannakopoulos, G and Sakas, DP and KyriakiManessi, D}
}
@conference {Chanyour201557,
	title = {Secure sparse network coding for reliable routing in large scale DTMN},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2015 3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks, RAWSN 2015 - In conjunction with the International Conference on NETworked sYStems, NETYS 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {57-62},
	abstract = {Security issue occupies an important part in all communication system and especially for new generation networks. Among these networks, we find Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs) which are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and clustering for routing in such networks gives more efficiency and copes with routing reliability problem among large scale networks. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a secure network coding scheme in the presence of eavesdroppers in large-scale DTMNs. Therefore, we used a cluster based routing protocol dedicated to DTMN specificities. In addition, we used Sparse Random Linear Network Coding (SRLNC) to feat low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. Furthermore, we addressed the packets retransmission decision problem for SRLNC with a fair trade-off throughput/overhead. The results are very encouraging and the proposed routing scheme has the advantage to be reliable as well as secure for large scale DTMN. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/RAWSN.2015.7173280},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84966552832\&doi=10.1109\%2fRAWSN.2015.7173280\&partnerID=40\&md5=3d0cbb4c0c91e93d68d64811357a6f36},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b and Belkasmi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380408200012,
	title = {Secure Sparse Network Coding for Reliable Routing in Large Scale DTMN},
	booktitle = {2015 THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RFID AND ADAPTIVE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (RAWSN)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {3rd International Workshop on RFID and Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks (RAWSN), Agadir, MOROCCO, MAY 13-15, 2015},
	pages = {57-62},
	publisher = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	organization = {FST FES; IEEE Morocco Sect; CNRST; MobiTic; Laboratoire Signaux Systemes Composants; LiMs Laboratoire},
	abstract = {Security issue occupies an important part in all communication system and especially for new generation networks. Among these networks, we find Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMNs) which are a class of useful but challenging networks. Combining Network Coding (NC) and clustering for routing in such networks gives more efficiency and copes with routing reliability problem among large scale networks. Our work{\textquoteright}s concern is to build a secure network coding scheme in the presence of eavesdroppers in large-scale DTMNs. Therefore, we used a cluster based routing protocol dedicated to DTMN specificities. In addition, we used Sparse Random Linear Network Coding (SRLNC) to feat low computational capabilities requirement in such networks. Furthermore, we addressed the packets retransmission decision problem for SRLNC with a fair trade-off throughput/overhead. The results are very encouraging and the proposed routing scheme has the advantage to be reliable as well as secure for large scale DTMN.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-8096-6},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa},
	editor = {Berrada, I and Ghennioui, H}
}
@conference { ISI:000382389300061,
	title = {A Signaling Game-based Mechanism to Meet Always Best Connected Service in VANETs},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE (GLOBECOM)},
	series = {IEEE Global Communications Conference},
	year = {2015},
	note = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, DEC 06-10, 2015},
	publisher = {IEEE; QUALCOMM; Keysight Technologies; Huawei; Natl Instruments; Intel; InterDigital; LG Elect; IEEE Big Data; IEEE Stand Assoc; ViaSat; IEEE Commun Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; QUALCOMM; Keysight Technologies; Huawei; Natl Instruments; Intel; InterDigital; LG Elect; IEEE Big Data; IEEE Stand Assoc; ViaSat; IEEE Commun Soc},
	abstract = {In heterogeneous network environments, users need to have mechanisms in place to decide which network is the most suitable at each moment in time for every application that the user requires. Always Best Connected is considered as a special concept to allow users to get connected to Internet using the access technology that best suits their needs or profile at any point in time. Clearly, this concept provides multiple access simultaneously for mobile users moving in heterogeneous access network environment. In this paper, we introduce a signaling game approach to achieve an always best connected service in vehicular networks. Under the considered scenario, we consider two smart vehicles named player 1 and player 2 moving in a road network area equipped with heterogeneous access networks. We assume that player 1 (super player) only has complete information on the road network, whilst player 2 has not any information. Player 1 plays first and sends a signal to player 2 which can be accurate or distorted. Based on the received signal and his belief about that signal, player 2 chooses its own action: it computes its suitable path which provides it an always best connected service.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-5952-5},
	issn = {2334-0983},
	author = {Mabrouk, Abdelfettah and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference {Mabrouk2015,
	title = {A signaling game-based mechanism to meet always best connected service in VANETs},
	booktitle = {2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {In heterogeneous network environments, users need to have mechanisms in place to decide which network is the most suitable at each moment in time for every application that the user requires. Always Best Connected is considered as a special concept to allow users to get connected to Internet using the access technology that best suits their needs or profile at any point in time. Clearly, this concept provides multiple access simultaneously for mobile users moving in heterogeneous access network environment. In this paper, we introduce a signaling game approach to achieve an always best connected service in vehicular networks. Under the considered scenario, we consider two smart vehicles named player 1 and player 2 moving in a road network area equipped with heterogeneous access networks. We assume that player 1 (super player) only has complete information on the road network, whilst player 2 has not any information. Player 1 plays first and sends a signal to player 2 which can be accurate or distorted. Based on the received signal and his belief about that signal, player 2 chooses its own action: it computes its suitable path which provides it an always best connected service. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7417000},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84964825756\&doi=10.1109\%2fGLOCOM.2014.7417000\&partnerID=40\&md5=0828f76d9a6461e859d500b7196f2452},
	author = {Mabrouk, A.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.b and Ben-Othman, J.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380439700114,
	title = {Systematic Mapping Study of Missing Values Techniques in Software Engineering Data},
	booktitle = {2015 16TH IEEE/ACIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, NETWORKING AND PARALLEL/DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (SNPD)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {16th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), Takamatsu, JAPAN, JUN 01-03, 2015},
	pages = {671-678},
	publisher = {IEEE; ACIS},
	organization = {IEEE; ACIS},
	abstract = {Missing Values (MV) present a serious problem facing research in software engineering (SE) which is mainly based on statistical and/or data mining analysis of SE data. The simple method of dealing with MV is to ignore data with missing observations. This leads to losing valuable information and then obtaining biased results. Therefore, various techniques have been developed to deal adequately with MV, especially those based on imputation methods. In this paper, a systematic mapping study was carried out to summarize the existing techniques dealing with MV in SE datasets and to classify the selected studies according to six classification criteria: research type, research approach, MV technique, MV type, data types and MV objective. Publication channels and trends were also identified. As results, 35 papers concerning MV treatments of SE data were selected. This study shows an increasing interest in machine learning (ML) techniques especially the K-nearest neighbor algorithm (KNN) to deal with MV in SE datasets and found that most of the MV techniques are used to serve software development effort estimation techniques.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-8676-7},
	author = {Idri, Ali and Abnane, Ibtissam and Abran, Alain},
	editor = {Saisho, K}
}
@conference { ISI:000373842900038,
	title = {Towards a decentralized OSN for a privacy-preserving e-health system},
	booktitle = {6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS AND PERVASIVE NETWORKS (EUSPN 2015)/THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CURRENT AND FUTURE TRENDS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE (ICTH-2015)},
	series = {Procedia Computer Science},
	volume = {63},
	year = {2015},
	note = {6th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) / 5th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH), Berlin, GERMANY, SEP 27-30, 2015},
	pages = {284-291},
	abstract = {e-health could be defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communication technologies in support of health systems, including healthcare related services and monitoring at both the local site and at a distance. Challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient e-health platforms with great flexibility. Recently, social networks have seen a growing importance in different applications and could play a prominent role in healthcare. Online Social Networks (OSN) offer new possibilities such as easy access to medical data anytime from anywhere. Due to the sensitivity of health data exchanged over such networks, a special attention need to be paid to security and privacy aspects of these data. The use of existing centralized OSNs raises the big brother problem. Moreover, the centralized architectures of OSNs are not scalable and have a single point of failure. In this work, we suggest a layered architecture while promoting the usage of decentralized design to ensure the scalability and the privacy of an OSN-based e-health system. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.},
	issn = {1877-0509},
	doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2015.08.345},
	author = {Benkaouz, Yahya and Erradi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Shakshuki, E}
}
@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.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380450300019,
	title = {Towards negotiable privacy policies in Mobile Healthcare},
	booktitle = {FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE INNOVATIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY (INTECH 2015)},
	year = {2015},
	note = {International Conference on the Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH), Galicia, SPAIN, MAY 20-22, 2015},
	pages = {94-99},
	abstract = {With the increased use of mobile technologies in the health sector, patients are more and more concerned about their privacy protection. Particularly, due to the diversity of actors (physicians, healthcare organizations, Cloud providers.) and the heterogeneity of privacy policies defined by each actor, conflicts among these policies may occur. We believe that negotiation is one of the best techniques for resolving the issue of conflicting privacy policies. From this perspective, we present an approach and algorithm to negotiate privacy policies based on an extension of the bargaining model. Besides, in order to show how our solution can be applied, we present an example of conflicting privacy policies expressed using S4P, a generic language for specifying privacy preferences and policies.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-7551-1},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@conference {Sadki201594,
	title = {Towards negotiable privacy policies in mobile healthcare},
	booktitle = {5th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology, INTECH 2015},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {94-99},
	abstract = {With the increased use of mobile technologies in the health sector, patients are more and more concerned about their privacy protection. Particularly, due to the diversity of actors (physicians, healthcare organizations, Cloud providers. ) and the heterogeneity of privacy policies defined by each actor, conflicts among these policies may occur. We believe that negotiation is one of the best techniques for resolving the issue of conflicting privacy policies. From this perspective, we present an approach and algorithm to negotiate privacy policies based on an extension of the bargaining model. Besides, in order to show how our solution can be applied, we present an example of conflicting privacy policies expressed using S4P, a generic language for specifying privacy preferences and policies. {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/INTECH.2015.7173478},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84946615432\&doi=10.1109\%2fINTECH.2015.7173478\&partnerID=40\&md5=958dc49fb138ea35d757ba394c168cef},
	author = {Sadki, S. and Bakkali, H.E.}
}
@article {Belahcen201583,
	title = {Web spam detection using transductive-inductive graph neural networks},
	journal = {Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies},
	volume = {37},
	year = {2015},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {83-91},
	abstract = {The Web spam detection problem has received a growing interest in the last few years, since it has a considerable impact on search engine reputations, being fundamental for the increase or the deterioration of the quality of their results. As a matter of fact, the World Wide Web is naturally represented as a graph, where nodes correspond to Web pages and edges stand for hyperlinks. In this paper, we address the Web spam detection problem by using the GNN architecture, a supervised neural network model capable of solving classification and regression problems on graphical domains. Interestingly, a GNN can act as a mixed transductive-inductive model that, during the test phase, is able to classify pages by using both the explicit memory of the classes assigned to the training examples, and the information stored in the network parameters. In this paper, this property of GNNs is evaluated on a well-known benchmark for Web spam detection, the WEBSPAM-UK2006 dataset. The obtained results are comparable to the state-of-the-art on this dataset. Moreover, the experiments show that performances of both the standard and the transductive-inductive GNNs are very similar, whereas the computation time required by the latter is significantly shorter. {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-18164-6_9},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84930960218\&doi=10.1007\%2f978-3-319-18164-6_9\&partnerID=40\&md5=e1f9c9b044f8e3b2f28acf473136ff7a},
	author = {Belahcen, A.a b and Bianchini, M.a and Scarselli, F.a}
}
@article {Cheikhi2014359,
	title = {Chidamber and kemerer object-oriented measures: Analysis of their design from the metrology perspective},
	journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications},
	volume = {8},
	number = {2},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {359-374},
	abstract = {During the last decade, software product measurement field has known many improvements and becomes an emerging field of software engineering. Based on the used programming approaches such as object-oriented, structured programming, etc., different kinds of measures are proposed in the literature. These sets of measures were defined many years ago to measure software artifacts, for example, source code and design, However, such measures need to be verified and validated based on the lessons learned from the measurement and metrology concepts. This paper focuses on software product measures, in particular, the object-oriented measures. Moreover, it aims at analyzing the design of a well-known and one of the most used object-oriented measures, that is, the Chidamber and Kemerer measures suite. In addition, this paper provides an investigation of the extent to which this set of measures addresses the metrology concepts related to the software measurement design. {\textcopyright} 2014 SERSC.},
	doi = {10.14257/ijseia.2014.8.2.35},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896897162\&doi=10.14257\%2fijseia.2014.8.2.35\&partnerID=40\&md5=d21c99cfd00552aeb2bdae4c13dac40c},
	author = {Cheikhi, L.a and Al-Qutaish, R.E.b and Idri, A.a and Sellami, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000361140000114,
	title = {A Congestion Game-based Routing Algorithm for Communicating VANETs},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {10th International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Nicosia, CYPRUS, AUG 04-08, 2014},
	pages = {672-677},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	abstract = {Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is considered as a special application of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) in road traffic, which can autonomously organize networks without infrastructure. VANETs enable vehicles on the road to communicate with each other and with road infrastructure using wireless capabilities. In the last few years, extensive research has been performed to extend Internet connectivity to VANETs. Indeed, several routing protocols have been proposed to determine routes between vehicles and gateways. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm which is based on the Congestion Game to resolve the problem of network congestion in VANET and to provide the optimal Internet access paths. The simulation results show that the proposed routing algorithm has better feasibility and effectiveness for communicating VANETs.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-0959-9},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Mabrouk, Abdelfettah and Senhadji, Mohamed and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Walid, Abdellaziz and Sabir, Essaid and Koutbi, Mohammed E. L.}
}
@conference {Mabrouk2014672,
	title = {A congestion game-based routing algorithm for communicating VANETs},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {672-677},
	abstract = {Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is considered as a special application of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) in road traffic, which can autonomously organize networks without infrastructure. VANETs enable vehicles on the road to communicate with each other and with road infrastructure using wireless capabilities. In the last few years, extensive research has been performed to extend Internet connectivity to VANETs. Indeed, several routing protocols have been proposed to determine routes between vehicles and gateways. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm which is based on the Congestion Game to resolve the problem of network congestion in VANET and to provide the optimal Internet access paths. The simulation results show that the proposed routing algorithm has better feasibility and effectiveness for communicating VANETs. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906436},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908611637\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2014.6906436\&partnerID=40\&md5=c4ef74c689e207df64ad7a4808f8c773},
	author = {Mabrouk, A.a and Senhadji, M.a and Kobbane, A.a and Walid, A.a and Sabir, E.b and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {Walid20142817,
	title = {A decentralized network selection algorithm for group vertical handover in heterogeneous networks},
	booktitle = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {2817-2821},
	abstract = {The traditional vertical handover schemes postulate that vertical handover of each user comes on an individual basis. This enables the users to know previously the decision already made by other users, and then the choice will be made accordingly. However, in the case of a group vertical handover, almost all the VHO decisions - which will certainly choose the best network, will be made at the same time which will lead to system performance degradation or network congestion. In this paper, we propose a totally decentralized algorithm for network selection which based on the Congestion Game to resolve the problem of network congestion in GVHO. Therefore, the proposed algorithm named Fully Decentralized Nash Learning Algorithm with incomplete information is a prediction done by each mobile in the group that helps them to reach the Nash equilibrium. Simulation results validate the algorithm and show its robustness under two scenarios. In the first one, we examine the algorithm with a fixed number of mobiles in group to evaluate the mixed strategy and the average perceived throughput of mobiles in WIMAX and HSDPA on the basis of iteration. In the second one, we examine the algorithm with different number of mobiles in group for testing the average number of iterations needed to reach the Nash equilibrium. We also compare it with the traditional vertical handover algorithm. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WCNC.2014.6952895},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84912123155\&doi=10.1109\%2fWCNC.2014.6952895\&partnerID=40\&md5=35a46d7aee23563018fc6f10fc8506ab},
	author = {Walid, A.a and El Kamili, M.b and Kobbane, A.a and Mabrouk, A.a and Sabir, E.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {Naghar20142018,
	title = {Development of a calculator for Edge and Parallel Coupled Microstrip band pass filters},
	booktitle = {IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {2018-2019},
	abstract = {This paper presents an implemented calculator tool for the design of Edge/ Parallel Coupled Microstrip Band Pass Filters (PCMBPF) that makes use of the MATLAB software. This calculator allows estimating both the parameters required for the design of the PCMBPF and the electrical response which is obtained by means of the equivalent circuit of this type of filters. Based on the transmission line theory approach (TLTA), the calculator herein proposed is a good solution to simply obtain the design parameters of this type of filters given that all formulas required for the PCMBPF design are programmed using close-form mathematic expressions and the coupling matrix concept. In order to validate our calculator performance, we implemented the proposed filter in a commercial electromagnetic simulator CST MWs that considers a set of electromagnetic effects, and accurately determine the final filter design. Secondly, we compared these simulation outcomes with the measurement results, achieving a reasonable agreement. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/APS.2014.6905336},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907870530\&doi=10.1109\%2fAPS.2014.6905336\&partnerID=40\&md5=bc3cd87613500ca710b9f58fdca9f27d},
	author = {Naghar, A.a and Aghzout, O.a and Vazquez Alejos, A.b and Garcia Sanchez, M.b and Essaaidi, M.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000361554402054,
	title = {Development of a Calculator for Edge and Parallel Coupled Microstrip Band Pass Filters},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM (APSURSI)},
	series = {IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE Antennas-and-Propagation-Society International Symposium (APSURSI), Memphis, TN, JUL 06-11, 2014},
	pages = {2018-2019},
	publisher = {Inst Elect Elect Engineers; Inst Elect Elect Engineers Antennas \& Propagat Soc},
	organization = {Inst Elect Elect Engineers; Inst Elect Elect Engineers Antennas \& Propagat Soc},
	abstract = {This paper presents an implemented calculator tool for the design of Edge/Parallel Coupled Microstrip Band Pass Filters (PCMBPF) that makes use of the MA TLAB software. This calculator allows estimating both the parameters required for the design of the PCMBPF and the electrical response which is obtained by means of the equivalent circuit of this type of filters. Based on the transmission line theory approach (TLTA), the calculator herein proposed is a good solution to simply obtain the design parameters of this type of filters given that all formulas required for the PCMBPF design are programmed using close-form mathematic expressions and the coupling matrix concept. In order to validate our calculator performance, we implemented the proposed filter in a commercial electromagnetic simulator CST MWs that considers a set of electromagnetic effects, and accurately determine the final filter design. Secondly, we compared these simulation outcomes with the measurement results, achieving a reasonable agreement.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3540-6},
	issn = {1522-3965},
	author = {Naghar, Azzeddin and Aghzout, Otman and Vazquez Alejos, Ana and Garcia Sanchez, Manuel and Essaaidi, Mohamed}
}
@conference {Sadki2014245,
	title = {Enhancing privacy on mobile health: An integrated privacy module},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, NGNS},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {245-250},
	abstract = {The evolution of mobile communication in the health sector has improved patients{\textquoteright} quality of care. Nowadays, doctors can make diagnosis even though the patient is miles away using mobile technologies such as smart phones or tablet PCs. Nevertheless, the exchange of medical information through mobile devices brings on serious threats to patients{\textquoteright} privacy. We believe that privacy must be considered during the development of any mobile healthcare system. In this paper we discuss the efficiency of current privacy and security protection mechanisms used in current mobile systems. The nature and the diversity of medical information shared between different entities (physicians, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies.) increases privacy and security risks. Thus, we introduce a new conceptual module to preserve privacy in mobile healthcare. By integrating this module into current mobile healthcare systems architecture, we obtain a privacy-preserving system enabling patients to monitor and manage the disclosure of their sensitive health information during a mobile transaction. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/NGNS.2014.6990259},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84920023884\&doi=10.1109\%2fNGNS.2014.6990259\&partnerID=40\&md5=13dfe9d4370bb528ce4cd094030a3819},
	author = {Sadki, S. and Bakkali, H.E.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346582400013,
	title = {An Extension of X13-ARIMA-SEATS to Forecast Islamic Holidays Effect on Logistic Activities},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2014 2ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Rabat, MOROCCO, JUN 05-07, 2014},
	pages = {79-84},
	publisher = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	organization = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	abstract = {To better manage and optimize logistic activities, factors that affect it must be determined: The calendar effect is one of these factors which must be analyzed. Analyzing such kind of data by using classical time series forecasting methods, such as exponential smoothing method and ARIMA model, will fail to capture such variation. This paper is released to present a review of the models which are used to forecast the calendar effect, especially moving holidays effect. We adopt the recent approach of X13-ARIMA-SEATS and extend it for being able to forecast the effect of Islamic holidays. Our extension is applied to Moroccan case studies, and aims to give recommendations concerning this effect on logistic activities.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4650-1},
	author = {Sarhani, Malek and El Afia, Abdellatif},
	editor = {Benadada, Y}
}
@conference {Sarhani201479,
	title = {An extension of X13-ARIMA-SEATS to forecast islamic holidays effect on logistic activities},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {79-84},
	abstract = {To better manage and optimize logistic activities, factors that affect it must be determined: The calendar effect is one of these factors which must be analyzed. Analyzing such kind of data by using classical time series forecasting methods, such as exponential smoothing method and ARIMA model, will fail to capture such variation. This paper is released to present a review of the models which are used to forecast the calendar effect, especially moving holidays effect. We adopt the recent approach of X13-ARIMA-SEATS and extend it for being able to forecast the effect of Islamic holidays. Our extension is applied to Moroccan case studies, and aims to give recommendations concerning this effect on logistic activities. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2014.6887423},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908655728\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2014.6887423\&partnerID=40\&md5=de88391f3f7ec0517e753c7aeb4aeae4},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700011,
	title = {Extraction of relational schema from deep web sources: a form driven approach},
	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 = {178-182},
	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 = {The deep web is the biggest unexplored part of the web and we need to access directly to its entire data web sources without using any crawling or surfacing method. For this, we choose to use a virtual web integration system. However, the deep web virtual integration methods existing today, focuses only on the integration of the query interfaces giving access to the deep web. These query interfaces are integrated to build a global query interface able to query all the deep web sources. The objective of our work is to propose another vision of a deep web virtual integration system that uses a mediated schema built with a relational schema describing each deep web source. This paper proposes our approach to extract a relational schema describing a deep web source. The key idea underlying our approach is to analyze two structured information: the HTML Form and the HTML Table extracted from the deep web source to discover its data structure and to allow us to build a relational schema describing it. We use also a knowledge table to take profit of our learning experience on extracting relational schema from deep web source.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Saissi, Yasser and Zellou, Ahmed and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference {Saissi2014178,
	title = {Extraction of relational schema from deep web sources: A form driven approach},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {178-182},
	abstract = {The deep web is the biggest unexplored part of the web and we need to access directly to its entire data web sources without using any crawling or surfacing method. For this, we choose to use a virtual web integration system. However, the deep web virtual integration methods existing today, focuses only on the integration of the query interfaces giving access to the deep web. These query interfaces are integrated to build a global query interface able to query all the deep web sources. The objective of our work is to propose another vision of a deep web virtual integration system that uses a mediated schema built with a relational schema describing each deep web source. This paper proposes our approach to extract a relational schema describing a deep web source. The key idea underlying our approach is to analyze two structured information: the HTML Form and the HTML Table extracted from the deep web source to discover its data structure and to allow us to build a relational schema describing it. We use also a knowledge table to take profit of our learning experience on extracting relational schema from deep web source. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060888},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929193260\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060888\&partnerID=40\&md5=19d19e00ed72fa7b4c9eeae768e3b02e},
	author = {Saissi, Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference {Omar2014,
	title = {A ferry-assisted solution for forwarding function in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Symposium on Computers and Communications},
	volume = {Workshops},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {To ensure connectivity in highly sparse Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), we consider a Ferry-assisted Wireless Sensor Network(FWSN). In our FWSN, message ferries moving along concentric annulus collect the static sensors generated packets and propagate them throughout a ferry-to-ferry forwarding schema to the sink. In this paper we present a queueing model to study and analyze the FWSN behavior. We will adapt a queuing model with finite queues which will allow us to analyze the network behavior in tens of packet loss using an analytic model. The objective of this work is to provide a way to optimize the energy consumption for each individual sensor. In our approach we consider a sensor Ferry, which is a mobile sensor with the capacity to provide the control operation upon the other fixed sensors within to network. Therefor, these fixed sensors will have to perform less control operations which will reduce their individual energy consumption. By doing so, this will automatically impact positively on to the lifetime of the network. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2014.6912648},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908132136\&doi=10.1109\%2fISCC.2014.6912648\&partnerID=40\&md5=5d5c3b3309f7b9a5ed0c66f13985600c},
	author = {Omar, A.O.a and Kobbane, A.a and Sabir, E.a b and Erradi, M.a and Ben-Othman, J.c}
}
@conference {Koulali2014845,
	title = {Ferry-based architecture for Participatory Sensing},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {845-849},
	abstract = {The concept of Participatory Sensing is centered on individuals that collect data using their smart phones (or other dedicated devices) to track the evolution of their work/living places. The main objective is to use the gathered data in order to enhance the offered quality of life. To maximize people involvement in this process we propose a ferry based architecture to leverage the contributors from charges associated with accessing service providers infrastructure to forward collected data. Opportunistic contact with message ferries will be exploited to gather data that will be carried from ferry-To-ferry till it reaches a centralized processing and decision-Taking authority. We provide a closed formula for the End-To-End throughput of the proposed gathering network architecture. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906466},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908610867\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2014.6906466\&partnerID=40\&md5=20f82b554230199456e13e347b4ecbe0},
	author = {Koulali, S.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.c and Azizi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000361140000144,
	title = {Ferry-based Architecture for Participatory sensing},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {10th International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Nicosia, CYPRUS, AUG 04-08, 2014},
	pages = {845-849},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	abstract = {The concept of Participatory Sensing is centered on individuals that collect data using their smart phones (or other dedicated devices) to track the evolution of their work/living places. The main objective is to use the gathered data in order to enhance the offered quality of life. To maximize people involvement in this process we propose a ferry based architecture to leverage the contributors from charges associated with accessing service providers infrastructure to forward collected data. Opportunistic contact with message ferries will be exploited to gather data that will be carried from ferry-to-ferry till it reaches a centralized processing and decision-taking authority. We provide a closed formula for the End-to-End throughput of the proposed gathering network architecture.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-0959-9},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Koulali, Sara and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Azizi, Mostafa}
}
@conference {Saissi2014,
	title = {Form driven web source integration},
	booktitle = {2014 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The web sources contain a huge amount of data that we need to integrate and to use. The integration of the web source requires to know its source description. In general, the web sources contain a structured data like HTML form and HTML table. This paper proposes our approach to extract a relational schema, describing the web source, and using its structured information. The key idea underlying our approach is to extract the relational data structure of the HTML forms contained in the web source. And thanks to the features of the HTML form, the relational data structure extracted will not only describe the HTML form but also the web source associated. After, we propose to query the HTML forms extracted to generate interesting HTML table results. The data structure of the resulting HTML tables will be used to enhance the relational data structure of the associated HTML form. Finally, with all the relational data structure extracted from all the HTML forms and HTML tables, we build the relational schema describing the associated web source. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2014.6847288},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904632763\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2014.6847288\&partnerID=40\&md5=900e69a0f5f601e9d9f86ec1fe81bd55},
	author = {Saissi, Y. and Zellou, A. and Idri, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346142800013,
	title = {Form driven web source integration},
	booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA{\textquoteright}14)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), Inst Natl Postes \& Telecommunicat, Rabat, MOROCCO, MAY 07-08, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	abstract = {The web sources contain a huge amount of data that we need to integrate and to use. The integration of the web source requires to know its source description. In general, the web sources contain a structured data like HTML form and HTML table. This paper proposes our approach to extract a relational schema, describing the web source, and using its structured information. The key idea underlying our approach is to extract the relational data structure of the HTML forms contained in the web source. And thanks to the features of the HTML form, the relational data structure extracted will not only describe the HTML form but also the web source associated. After, we propose to query the HTML forms extracted to generate interesting HTML table results. The data structure of the resulting HTML tables will be used to enhance the relational data structure of the associated HTML form. Finally, with all the relational data structure extracted from all the HTML forms and HTML tables, we build the relational schema describing the associated web source.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3566-6},
	author = {Saissi, Yasser and Zellou, Ahmed and Idri, Ali}
}
@conference {Slimani2014168,
	title = {Game theory to control logistic costs in a two-echelon supply chain},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 4},
	pages = {168-170},
	abstract = {As a mathematical tool of the decision maker, game theory is an essential methodology to analyze and solve situations where the decision of each rational agent, called player, affects the other agent{\textquoteright}s payoff. Indeed, in this work game theory is used to analyze an inventory and transportation optimization problem within a supply chain composed of two agents: a retailer who faces a random demand of a final product and his supplier of raw materials that is also responsible of the transportation function. Since the retailer is closer to the market and has a better view of demand forecasts careful attention given to Information sharing and its impacts. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2014.6887435},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908632329\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2014.6887435\&partnerID=40\&md5=059b1ee51ffe9bf41468fce7e9cd9ed5},
	author = {Slimani, I. and Achchab, S.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346582400026,
	title = {Game theory to control logistic costs in a two-echelon supply chain},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2014 2ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Rabat, MOROCCO, JUN 05-07, 2014},
	pages = {168-171},
	publisher = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	organization = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	abstract = {As a mathematical tool of the decision maker, game theory is an essential methodology to analyze and solve situations where the decision of each rational agent, called player, affects the other agent{\textquoteright}s payoff. Indeed, in this work game theory is used to analyze an inventory and transportation optimization problem within a supply chain composed of two agents: a retailer who faces a random demand of a final product and his supplier of raw materials that is also responsible of the transportation function. Since the retailer is closer to the market and has a better view of demand forecasts careful attention given to Information sharing and its impacts.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4650-1},
	author = {Slimani, Ilham and Achchab, Said},
	editor = {Benadada, Y}
}
@article {Mabrouk20141417,
	title = {Gateways{\textquoteright} mobility increases the capacity of communication in VANETs: Routing algorithm based on congestion game},
	journal = {International Review on Computers and Software},
	volume = {9},
	number = {8},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {1417-1425},
	abstract = {Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is considered as a special application of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks in road traffic, which can autonomously organize networks without infrastructure. VANETs enable vehicles on the road to communicate with each other and with road infrastructure using wireless capabilities. In the last few years, extensive research provided several routing algorithms to extend Internet connectivity to VANETs through fixed gateways installed along the road. However, most of these algorithms have not been effective because of the high mobility of vehicles in the road. In this paper, we propose a routing algorithm which based both on the congestion game to resolve the problem of network congestion and on mobile gateways to resolve the problem of high mobility in VANET. Therefore, the proposed algorithm is a prediction done by each node in the network that helps them to reach the optimal route to access Internet. Simulation results validate the algorithm and show its robustness under two scenarios. In the first one, we examine the algorithm with fixed gateways installed along the road to validate the connectivity to the Internet. Whilst in the second scenario, we examine the algorithm with mobile gateways to show the effectiveness of gateways{\textquoteright} mobility on the capacity of communication and the Internet access in VANETs. {\textcopyright} 2014 Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l. - All rights reserved.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908347271\&partnerID=40\&md5=359209fd84ed425637bce48a01410d6b},
	author = {Mabrouk, A.a and Senhadji, M.b and Walid, A.a and Kobbane, A.b and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000366666805090,
	title = {Green Opportunistic Access for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Minority Game 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 = {5372-5377},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {We investigate energy conservation and system performance of decentralized resource allocation scheme in cognitive radio networks thoroughly based on secondary users competitive behavior. Indeed, the contention on data channel unoccupied by licensed user leads to a single winner, but also involves a loss of energy of all nodes. In this paper, we apply minority game (MG) to the most important phase from the opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) process: the sensing phase. We attempt to carry out a cooperation in a non-cooperative environment with no information exchange. We study the Nash equilibrium solution for pure and fully mixed strategies, and we use distributed learning algorithms enabling cognitive users to learn the Nash equilibrium. Finally, we provide numerical results to validate the proposed approach. The resource allocation based on minority game approach improves secondary users battery life and the performance of the network.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-2003-7},
	issn = {1550-3607},
	author = {Elmachkour, Mouna and Daha, Imane and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Ben-Othman, Jalel},
	editor = {Jamalipour, A and Deng, DJ}
}
@conference {Elmachkour20145372,
	title = {Green opportunistic access for cognitive radio networks: A minority game approach},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 6},
	pages = {5372-5377},
	abstract = {We investigate energy conservation and system performance of decentralized resource allocation scheme in cognitive radio networks thoroughly based on secondary users competitive behavior. Indeed, the contention on data channel unoccupied by licensed user leads to a single winner, but also involves a loss of energy of all nodes. In this paper, we apply minority game (MG) to the most important phase from the opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) process: the sensing phase. We attempt to carry out a cooperation in a non-cooperative environment with no information exchange. We study the Nash equilibrium solution for pure and fully mixed strategies, and we use distributed learning algorithms enabling cognitive users to learn the Nash equilibrium. Finally, we provide numerical results to validate the proposed approach. The resource allocation based on minority game approach improves secondary users battery life and the performance of the network. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICC.2014.6884175},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84907000432\&doi=10.1109\%2fICC.2014.6884175\&partnerID=40\&md5=13fd149d57c8c1d76ace2aecdcd1d08a},
	author = {Elmachkour, M.a and Daha, I.b and Sabir, E.c and Kobbane, A.a d and Ben-Othman, J.d}
}
@article { ISI:000348218400023,
	title = {The Greening of Spectrum Sensing: A Minority Game-Based Mechanism Design},
	journal = {IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE},
	volume = {52},
	number = {12},
	year = {2014},
	month = {DEC},
	pages = {150-156},
	abstract = {Cognitive radio technology allows the reuse of the underutilized frequency spectrum on an opportunistic and non-interfering basis by means of introducing, besides the legitimate primary users of the spectrum, a new kind of users called cognitive or secondary users. Thus, reliable spectrum sensing is critical to dynamically detect available licensed frequency bands and mitigate the primary signals, but it remains realistically difficult to carry out. In fact, although distributed collaborative sensing has turned out to be fruitful for the cognitive radio environment, its accuracy is often affected by the selfish and autonomous behavior of users. In this article, we model distributed spectrum sensing and channel allocation as a non-cooperative game, and apply the minority game to bring forth and study the cooperative behavior of users. The novelty brought by our study consists of alleviating the number of users contending for primary channels by giving them the opportunity to choose between the two, either sensing the channel or being inactive during the time slot. To address the trade-off faced by the SUs, we evaluate the performance of two secondary systems in a green communications context: energy consumption and transmission delay.},
	issn = {0163-6804},
	author = {Elmachkour, Mouna and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Ben-Othman, Jalel and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@article {Elmachkour2014150,
	title = {The greening of spectrum sensing: A minority game-based mechanism design},
	journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
	volume = {52},
	number = {12},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {150-156},
	abstract = {Cognitive radio technology allows the reuse of the underutilized frequency spectrum on an opportunistic and non-interfering basis by means of introducing, besides the legitimate primary users of the spectrum, a new kind of users called cognitive or secondary users. Thus, reliable spectrum sensing is critical to dynamically detect available licensed frequency bands and mitigate the primary signals, but it remains realistically difficult to carry out. In fact, although distributed collaborative sensing has turned out to be fruitful for the cognitive radio environment, its accuracy is often affected by the selfish and autonomous behavior of users. In this article, we model distributed spectrum sensing and channel allocation as a non-cooperative game, and apply the minority game to bring forth and study the cooperative behavior of users. The novelty brought by our study consists of alleviating the number of users contending for primary channels by giving them the opportunity to choose between the two, either sensing the channel or being inactive during the time slot. To address the trade-off faced by the SUs, we evaluate the performance of two secondary systems in a green communications context: energy consumption and transmission delay. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/MCOM.2014.6979967},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84919712749\&doi=10.1109\%2fMCOM.2014.6979967\&partnerID=40\&md5=72e3daa3f2e577d4633668e3bd67f25a},
	author = {Elmachkour, M.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Ben-Othman, J.c and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000366168000006,
	title = {A hashtags dictionary from crowdsourced definitions},
	booktitle = {2014 IEEE 30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS (ICDEW)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {IEEE 30th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Chicago, IL, MAR 31-APR 04, 2014},
	pages = {39-44},
	publisher = {IEEE; Microsoft; Qatar Comp Res Inst; HERE Nokia; Purdue Univ, Cyber Ctr; NW Univ, McCormick Sch Engn; Google},
	organization = {IEEE; Microsoft; Qatar Comp Res Inst; HERE Nokia; Purdue Univ, Cyber Ctr; NW Univ, McCormick Sch Engn; Google},
	abstract = {Hashtags are user-defined terms used on the Web to tag messages like microposts, as featured on Twitter. Because a hashtag is a textual word, its representation does not convey all the concepts it embodies. Several online dictionaries have been manually and collaboratively built to provide natural language definitions of hashtags. Unfortunately, these dictionaries in their rough form are inefficient for their inclusion in automatic text processing systems. As hashtags can be polysemic, dictionaries are also agnostic to collision of hashtags. This paper presents our approach for the automatic structuration of hashtags definitions into synonym rings. We present the output as a so-called folk-sionary, i.e. a single integrated dictionary built from everybody{\textquoteright}s definitions. For this purpose, we achieved a semantic-relatedness clustering to group definitions that share the same meaning.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3481-2},
	author = {Ghenname, Merieme and Subercaze, Julien and Gravier, Christophe and Laforest, Frederique and Abik, Mounia and Ajhoun, Rachida}
}
@conference {Ghenname201439,
	title = {A hashtags dictionary from crowdsourced definitions},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {39-44},
	abstract = {Hashtags are user-defined terms used on the Web to tag messages like microposts, as featured on Twitter. Because a hashtag is a textual word, its representation does not convey all the concepts it embodies. Several online dictionaries have been manually and collaboratively built to provide natural language definitions of hashtags. Unfortunately, these dictionaries in their rough form are inefficient for their inclusion in automatic text processing systems. As hashtags can be polysemic, dictionaries are also agnostic to collision of hashtags. This paper presents our approach for the automatic structuration of hashtags definitions into synonym rings. We present the output as a so-called folksionary, i.e. a single integrated dictionary built from everybody{\textquoteright}s definitions. For this purpose, we achieved a semantic-relatedness clustering to group definitions that share the same meaning. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICDEW.2014.6818300},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84901760198\&doi=10.1109\%2fICDEW.2014.6818300\&partnerID=40\&md5=540602f5d144ab86a039b3b88df86c33},
	author = {Ghenname, M.a and Subercaze, J.a and Gravier, C.a and Laforest, F.a and Abik, M.b and Ajhoun, R.b}
}
@conference {Sarhani201479,
	title = {Intelligent system based support vector regression for supply chain demand forecasting},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {79-83},
	abstract = {Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention from different communities. On the one hand, the optimization of supply chain which is an important issue, requires a reliable prediction of future demand. On the other hand, It has been shown that intelligent systems and machine learning techniques are useful for forecasting in several applied domains. In this paper, we introduce the machine learning technique of time series forecasting Support Vector Regression (SVR) which is nowadays frequently used. Furthermore, we use the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize the SVR parameters. We investigate the accuracy of this approach for supply chain demand forecasting by applying it to a case study. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060941},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929162457\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060941\&partnerID=40\&md5=8f615fc2cd27fff20b0220a543294e57},
	author = {Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700064,
	title = {Intelligent System Based Support Vector Regression For Supply Chain Demand Forecasting},
	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 = {79-83},
	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 = {Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention from different communities. On the one hand, the optimization of supply chain which is an important issue, requires a reliable prediction of future demand. On the other hand, It has been shown that intelligent systems and machine learning techniques are useful for forecasting in several applied domains. In this paper, we introduce the machine learning technique of time series forecasting Support Vector Regression (SVR) which is nowadays frequently used. Furthermore, we use the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to optimize the SVR parameters. We investigate the accuracy of this approach for supply chain demand forecasting by applying it to a case study.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Sarhani, Malek and El Afia, Abdellatif}
}
@article {11154994420140101,
	title = {MALICIOUS WORKERS TOLERANCE IN AN AGENT-BASED GRID RESOURCE BROKERING SYSTEM.},
	journal = {IADIS International Journal on Computer Science \& Information Systems},
	volume = {9},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {55 - 70},
	abstract = {The Agent in Grid (AiG) project aims to develop an agent-based infrastructure that facilitates the resource management in the Grid. The core assumptions behind the system are: software agents representing Grid resources work in teams, and all information is ontologically represented and semantically processed. Thus far, trust management in AiG system is approached from the perspective of breaching an agreement between Users and teams or contracts between teams and Workers. Unfortunately, it is also possible that some Workers, which fulfilled the agreement, could have maliciously returned incorrect results from the jobs that they executed. In this paper, we discuss how the trust management in the AiG project can be improved by using a reputation-based voting technique, in order to assure reliable job execution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {agent system, Computational grids (Computer systems), Distributed computing, Grid computing, Inte lligent agents (Computer software), Job performance, majority voting, malicious workers tolerance, reputation, Teams in the workplace, trust management},
	issn = {16463692},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=111549944\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Attaoui, Naoual and Bendahmane, Ahmed and Essaaidi, Mohammad and Sanyal, Sugata and Ganzha, Maria and Paprzycki, Marcin and Wasielewska, Katarzyna}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700057,
	title = {On managing evolution of configurable services based on configurable processes},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {616-621},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {Today, SOA is the most dominant and broadly adopted architecture style by enterprises. It defines how to use services to achieve business goals, and allows interoperability with multiple customers within different business domains. The growing use of SOA has increased research interest on how to improve the reuse of services. Hence, managing services variability was introduced by many approaches as a new leading edge concept for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. Several proposals have been made in this respect. However, none of these seem to deal with the evolution of these configurable services. In service oriented systems, the evolution of services is usually introduced by the evolution of the associated business process. Therefore, if a configurable process model (CPM for short) should evolve in reaction to changing business needs, the associated configurable services (CS for short) are also impacted by this change. In our previous work, we proposed a complete methodology for managing evolution in configurable process models. In this paper, we extend our proposed approach to develop an evolution process for managing the changes of configurable services (variable services) caused by changing the associated configurable process model.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Sbai, Hanae and Fredj, Mounia and Chakir, Boutaina and Kjiri, Laila}
}
@conference {Sbai2014616,
	title = {On managing evolution of configurable services based on configurable processes},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {616-621},
	abstract = {Today, SOA is the most dominant and broadly adopted architecture style by enterprises. It defines how to use services to achieve business goals, and allows interoperability with multiple customers within different business domains. The growing use of SOA has increased research interest on how to improve the reuse of services. Hence, managing services variability was introduced by many approaches as a new leading edge concept for improving reuse. Indeed, variability refers to the characteristic of a system to adapt, specialize and configure itself with the context of use. Several proposals have been made in this respect. However, none of these seem to deal with the evolution of these configurable services. In service oriented systems, the evolution of services is usually introduced by the evolution of the associated business process. Therefore, if a configurable process model (CPM for short) should evolve in reaction to changing business needs, the associated configurable services (CS for short) are also impacted by this change. In our previous work, we proposed a complete methodology for managing evolution in configurable process models. In this paper, we extend our proposed approach to develop an evolution process for managing the changes of configurable services (variable services) caused by changing the associated configurable process model. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060934},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84988220675\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060934\&partnerID=40\&md5=371668ec9f07b988342b6b176b8c7d7e},
	author = {Sba{\"\i}, H. and Fredj, M. and Chakir, B. and Kjiri, L.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346582400008,
	title = {A metaheuristic approach for solving the airline maintenance routing with aircraft on ground problem},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2014 2ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Rabat, MOROCCO, JUN 05-07, 2014},
	pages = {48+},
	publisher = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	organization = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	abstract = {In the airline industry, the Aircraft Maintenance Routing (AMR) problem has been one of the great successes of operations research. The AMR problem is to determine a particular route for each aircraft to undergo different levels of maintenance checks. The objective is to minimize the total maintenance costs. In this study, our aim is to present a mathematical formulation for the AMR problem which takes into account the case of Aircraft On Ground (AOG). We develop solution approaches based on Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and Genetic algorithm for solving the problem. The results show the effectiveness of this solution in reducing computational time.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4650-1},
	author = {Ezzinbi, Omar and Sarhani, Malek and El Afia, Abdellatif and Benadada, Youssef},
	editor = {Benadada, Y}
}
@conference {Ezzinbi201448,
	title = {A metaheuristic approach for solving the airline maintenance routing with aircraft on ground problem},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {48-52},
	abstract = {In the airline industry, the Aircraft Maintenance Routing (AMR) problem has been one of the great successes of operations research. The AMR problem is to determine a particular route for each aircraft to undergo different levels of maintenance checks. The objective is to minimize the total maintenance costs. In this study, our aim is to present a mathematical formulation for the AMR problem which takes into account the case of Aircraft On Ground (AOG). We develop solution approaches based on Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm and Genetic algorithm for solving the problem. The results show the effectiveness of this solution in reducing computational time. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2014.6887446},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908628134\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2014.6887446\&partnerID=40\&md5=0d3ce9e2a4abfc7cd5949d8a813591cc},
	author = {Ezzinbi, O. and Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A. and Benadada, Y.}
}
@conference { ISI:000354299300007,
	title = {Model and Application Architecture Indicators of Evaluation the Enterprise Architecture},
	booktitle = {NEW PERSPECTIVES IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 2},
	series = {Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing},
	volume = {276},
	year = {2014},
	note = {World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST), Funchal, PORTUGAL, APR 15-18, 2014},
	pages = {63-71},
	abstract = {Enterprise Architecture EA provides a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}knowledge base and support for decision making within the enterprise and it serves as the blueprint of current situation and strategy for future directions of the enterprise{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}. The planning and modeling aspect of EA is already fairly well covered in the literature, while the evaluation and the attributes of EA quality have attracted less interest and yet enterprise architecture quality has been perceived as a prerequisite for realizing its benefits {[}6]. The principle goals of EA evaluation are to document the significance of the EA to decision makers, and to identify the development needs of the EA. However it is very difficult to find a complete method of evaluation in term of indicators of evaluation and which ensures the follow-up of all the stages of development of the architecture of company. This article presents a generic model of evaluation enterprise architecture. We do not want to use attributes directly because the model definition could vary in different organizations. Therefore, we introduce this artifact as an intermediate layer as not to limit the flexibility of evaluation.},
	isbn = {978-3-319-05948-8; 978-3-319-05947-1},
	issn = {2194-5357},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8\_7},
	author = {Lakhrouit, Jihane and Baina, Karim and Benali, Khalid},
	editor = {Rocha, A and Correia, AM and Tan, FB and Stroetmann, KA}
}
@conference { ISI:000346142800015,
	title = {Modeling and Evaluating a Cloudlet-based Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing},
	booktitle = {2014 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS (SITA{\textquoteright}14)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems - Theories and Applications (SITA), Inst Natl Postes \& Telecommunicat, Rabat, MOROCCO, MAY 07-08, 2014},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco},
	abstract = {With the rising popularity of Internet-enabled mobile devices, users are increasingly demanding better quality of service (QoS). However, the resources of these devices and their connectivity levels remain insufficient, even though they are improving, for offering acceptable levels of QoS to users. Cloud computing infrastructures offer large and scalable resources that allow shifting the physical location of computation and storage to the cloud. Nevertheless, the integration of mobile computing with cloud computing would not guarantee adequate levels of service for mobile users. It rather delivers scalability at the cost of higher delay and higher power consumption on the mobile device. Instead, using local resources based on users geographical locations has the potential to improve the performance and QoS for mobile users. In this paper, we present and study a centralized architecture that relies on the concept of local clouds, cloudlets, to leverage the geographical proximity of resources to mobile users and offer them a better user experience. We use a continuous time Markov-chain (CTMC) to model the different nodes of the architecture: user nodes, cloudlets, and the main cloud. We estimate the delay incurred in the proposed architecture by simulating search engine queries generated by mobile users using the CTMC state models. Initial simulation results show that the usage of a cloudlet-based architecture especially centralized architecture has an efficient gains in terms of latency delay and synchronisation mechanisms.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3566-6},
	author = {Routaib, Hayat and Elmachkour, Mouna and Sabir, Essaid and Badidi, Elarbi and Elkoutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference {Routaib2014,
	title = {Modeling and evaluating a cloudlet-based architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing},
	booktitle = {2014 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications, SITA 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {With the rising popularity of Internet-enabled mobile devices, users are increasingly demanding better quality of service (QoS). However, the resources of these devices and their connectivity levels remain insufficient, even though they are improving, for offering acceptable levels of QoS to users. Cloud computing infrastructures offer large and scalable resources that allow shifting the physical location of computation and storage to the cloud. Nevertheless, the integration of mobile computing with cloud computing would not guarantee adequate levels of service for mobile users. It rather delivers scalability at the cost of higher delay and higher power consumption on the mobile device. Instead, using local resources based on users geographical locations has the potential to improve the performance and QoS for mobile users. In this paper, we present and study a centralized architecture that relies on the concept of local clouds, cloudlets, to leverage the geographical proximity of resources to mobile users and offer them a better user experience. We use a continuous time Markov-chain (CTMC) to model the different nodes of the architecture: user nodes, cloudlets, and the main cloud. We estimate the delay incurred in the proposed architecture by simulating search engine queries generated by mobile users using the CTMC state models. Initial simulation results show that the usage of a cloudlet-based architecture especially centralized architecture has an efficient gains in terms of latency delay and synchronisation mechanisms. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/SITA.2014.6847290},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904645627\&doi=10.1109\%2fSITA.2014.6847290\&partnerID=40\&md5=54ed4186648b2b2f3a5de1747850ad4d},
	author = {Routaib, H.a and Badidi, E.b and Elmachkour, M.a and Sabir, E.c and Elkoutbi, M.a}
}
@article { ISI:000335289300002,
	title = {Optimization of inventory levels in the blood transfusion centers in Morocco},
	journal = {TRANSFUSION CLINIQUE ET BIOLOGIQUE},
	volume = {21},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	month = {MAR},
	pages = {15-22},
	abstract = {Purpose of the study. - Improve the flow of quantities of blood products between the different centers to restore the ideal quantities at low cost. Materials and methods. - The problem addressed in this work concerns the balancing inventory levels between blood transfusion centers in Morocco. This problem is characterized by a number of constraints to be taken into account: safety stock, stock ideal proportional balancing of stocks, etc. An integer linear model has been proposed to determine the optimal allocation between different centers. Two variants are examined; the first which aims to minimize the level of inventory loss, the second is to balance the different levels of stock, so that all centers have a level of surplus stock and/or loss proportional to the ideal stock. Results. - Two variants of an integer linear model that determine the optimal allocation between different centers has been proposed and their performance was evaluated by experimental results obtained using a solver commercial. Conclusion. - The results of this study allow us to meet the,goal of PSL availability of sufficient and subsequently the quality of service required blood transfusion. (C) 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.},
	issn = {1246-7820},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tracli.2013.10.004},
	author = {Bellabdaoui, A. and Bennis, I. and Saadi, J. and Benajiba, M.}
}
@article {Bellabdaoui201415,
	title = {Optimization of inventory levels in the blood transfusion centers in Morocco [Optimisation des niveaux de stock dans les centres de transfusion sanguine au Maroc]},
	journal = {Transfusion Clinique et Biologique},
	volume = {21},
	number = {1},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {15-22},
	abstract = {Purpose of the study: Improve the flow of quantities of blood products between the different centers to restore the ideal quantities at low cost. Materials and methods: The problem addressed in this work concerns the balancing inventory levels between blood transfusion centers in Morocco. This problem is characterized by a number of constraints to be taken into account: safety stock, stock ideal proportional balancing of stocks, etc. An integer linear model has been proposed to determine the optimal allocation between different centers. Two variants are examined; the first which aims to minimize the level of inventory loss, the second is to balance the different levels of stock, so that all centers have a level of surplus stock and/or loss proportional to the ideal stock. Results: Two variants of an integer linear model that determine the optimal allocation between different centers has been proposed and their performance was evaluated by experimental results obtained using a solver commercial. Conclusion: The results of this study allow us to meet the goal of PSL availability of sufficient and subsequently the quality of service required blood transfusion. {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.tracli.2013.10.004},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896736577\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.tracli.2013.10.004\&partnerID=40\&md5=ed29d2b7c0e79c59c1d5ff7c9ef8cda7},
	author = {Bellabdaoui, A.a and Bennis, I.b and Saadi, J.b and Benajiba, M.c}
}
@conference {Ezzinbi201452,
	title = {Particle swarm optimization algorithm for solving airline crew scheduling problem},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {52-56},
	abstract = {In air transport, the cost related to crew members presents one of the most important cost supported by airline companies. The objective of the crew scheduling problem is to determine a minimum-cost set of pairings so that every flight leg is assigned a qualified crew and every pairing satisfies the set of applicable work rules. In this paper, we propose a solution for the crew scheduling problem with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, this solution approach is compared with the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for both crew pairing and crew assignment problems which are the two part of crew scheduling problem. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2014.6887447},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908628135\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2014.6887447\&partnerID=40\&md5=61f25771c33cea8f4845104ba352a303},
	author = {Ezzinbi, O. and Sarhani, M. and El Afia, A. and Benadada, Y.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346582400009,
	title = {Particle swarm optimization algorithm for solving airline crew scheduling problem},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2014 2ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Rabat, MOROCCO, JUN 05-07, 2014},
	pages = {52-56},
	publisher = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	organization = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	abstract = {In air transport, the cost related to crew members presents one of the most important cost supported by airline companies. The objective of the crew scheduling problem is to determine a minimum-cost set of pairings so that every flight leg is assigned a qualified crew and every pairing satisfies the set of applicable work rules. In this paper, we propose a solution for the crew scheduling problem with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, this solution approach is compared with the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for both crew pairing and crew assignment problems which are the two part of crew scheduling problem.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4650-1},
	author = {Ezzinbi, Omar and Sarhani, Malek and El Afia, Abdellatif and Benadada, Youssef},
	editor = {Benadada, Y}
}
@conference { ISI:000380428300031,
	title = {PPAMH: A Novel Privacy-Preserving Approach for Mobile Healthcare},
	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 = {209-214},
	abstract = {Mobile technologies are transforming the way providers and patients communicate. Thanks to mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and patient monitoring devices, real time patient information is easily provided to physicians; patients are integrated in managing their own health by measuring their blood pressure, exercise and food diaries, setting reminders on when to take medicines and so on. However, although mobile healthcare offers many benefits, there is also a downside to using these mobile technologies. Privacy is among the primary issues to address. In effect, Patients{\textquoteright} sensitive medical data can be exchanged between different parties including physicians, patients with the same diseases, laboratories, pharmacies. Furthermore, since mobile devices are not only used for healthcare purposes, new privacy breaches may occur. Thus, patients become very concerned about {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}what happen{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} to their data. In this paper, we present a Privacy-Preserving Approach for Mobile Healthcare named PPIAMH. The proposed solution allows patients to control the disclosure of their sensitive medical data while using their mobile devices based on an intelligent mobile application which predict their privacy preferences easily.},
	isbn = {978-1-908320-39-1},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@conference { ISI:000380438500019,
	title = {Providing Always Best Connected Service in VANET with Complete and Partial Information},
	booktitle = {3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES ACSAT 2014},
	series = {International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies},
	year = {2014},
	note = {3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies (ACSAT), Amman, JORDAN, DEC 29-30, 2014},
	pages = {108-112},
	publisher = {Design Sci Renaissance; Unitech; Philadelphia Univ; Patrons Peoamp; Ittihad Univ; Univ Siswa Bangsa Int},
	organization = {Design Sci Renaissance; Unitech; Philadelphia Univ; Patrons Peoamp; Ittihad Univ; Univ Siswa Bangsa Int},
	abstract = {Mobile communication has become the preferred choice of personal communication today. With the rapid proliferation of wireless network technologies, heterogeneous wireless network environments increase more and more. Such environments provide multiple access networks simultaneously for mobile users. Each mobile user wishes to get connected to Internet using the access technology that best suits his needs at any point in time. Always Best Connected is considered as a special concept for mobile users to select their suitable access networks. In this paper, we have presented two scenarios which are based on Always Best Connected concept to provide, for a smart vehicle moving in a road network installed with multiple access technologies, an always best connected service at any point in time. In the first scenario, we assume that the mobile user (vehicle) has complete information on the road network (all access technologies installed in the road network). Whilst the second scenario is the same as the first one except that the mobile user periodically receives a partial information on the road network (only the access technologies installed in the edges which are immediately accessible by mobile user). For both scenarios, we have proposed a graph model to characterize the observed mobility pattern. Also, two algorithms are proposed to find the optimal path that provides always best connected service for vehicles in both scenarios.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-1845-4},
	issn = {2379-7738},
	doi = {10.1109/ACSAT.2014.26},
	author = {Mabrouk, Abdelfettah and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed and Sabir, Essaid}
}
@conference {Chanyour2014274,
	title = {Routing based on network coding and clustering in DTMN},
	booktitle = {2014 2nd World Conference on Complex Systems, WCCS 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {274-279},
	abstract = {Network coding is a novel technique that aims to improve routing schemes{\textquoteright} throughput. Besides, clustering is used to cope with the scalability problem among high scale networks. This paper combines the use of both techniques to address routing problem in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN). By the mean of its routing, the cluster based routing protocol we use offers opportunities for principal network coding operation, mainly the coding and decoding operations. Once a routed packet is received by the cluster head, it codes it regarding its destination cluster. The last cluster head performs decoding operation to deliver packets to their destination. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2014.7060962},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84929144319\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2014.7060962\&partnerID=40\&md5=84d1f44e74172c044f700eb2a47a7999},
	author = {Chanyour, T.a and Saadane, R.b and Belkasmi, M.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000380387700085,
	title = {Routing based on Network Coding and Clustering in DTMN},
	booktitle = {2014 SECOND WORLD CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (WCCS)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2014 Second World Conference on Complex Systems (WCCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 10-12, 2014},
	pages = {274-279},
	publisher = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	organization = {Ibn Zohr Univ; Moroccan Soc of Complex Syst; IEEE Morocco; Int Acad for Syst and Cybernet Sci IASCYS},
	abstract = {Network coding is a novel technique that aims to improve routing schemes{\textquoteright} throughput. Besides, clustering is used to cope with the scalability problem among high scale networks. This paper combines the use of both techniques to address routing problem in Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN). By the mean of its routing, the cluster based routing protocol we use offers opportunities for principal network coding operation, mainly the coding and decoding operations. Once a routed packet is received by the cluster head, it codes it regarding its destination cluster. The last cluster head performs decoding operation to deliver packets to their destination.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4647-1},
	author = {Chanyour, Tarik and Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa}
}
@conference {Maarof201411,
	title = {Security analysis of low cost RFID systems},
	booktitle = {WCCCS 2014 - Proceedings; 2014 5th Workshop on Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {11-16},
	abstract = {RFID technology attracts strong interest worldwide; it provides a means for automatic identification of objects and is regarded as an indispensable part in the vision of the Internet of things. With the aid of RFID systems, life shall become more convenient and businesses shall become more productive. The low cost RFID technology faces serious security and privacy threats, wireless communication and cost-down consideration on RFID systems are the two main factors that cause these security threats. In order to comply with the resource constraint, a few new authentication protocols with lightweight encryptions are invented to fit the physical limitation of a passive tag. However, those proposed schemes cannot provide enough security level in general; more specifically, they cannot prevent all major or general attacks such as eavesdropping, tracking, replay attack and Denial of Service, and preserve the forward secrecy of tagged object at the same time. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WCCCS.2014.7107902},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949928462\&doi=10.1109\%2fWCCCS.2014.7107902\&partnerID=40\&md5=6a46bc68b72d6d71ccd82de1c152cc52},
	author = {Maarof, A. and Senhadji, M. and Labbi, Z. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@conference { ISI:000351503500139,
	title = {Semantic-Based Framework for Innovation Management},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE 15TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (ECKM 2014), VOLS 1-3},
	series = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management},
	year = {2014},
	note = {15th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM), Polytechn Inst Santarem, Santarem Sch Management \& Technol, Santarem, PORTUGAL, SEP 04-05, 2014},
	pages = {1173-1182},
	abstract = {In a turbulent and more competition- oriented environment, organizations need to develop their ability to adapt quickly. To be able to adapt, an organization must, of course, be innovative and attractive, and successful innovation should be carefully planned and efficiently managed. Even if some researchers treat the early stages of innovation as {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}fuzzy{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} because of their uncertainty, we suppose, as many others that a well structured processes, a clear representation and a good designed management framework are crucial for the ultimate success of any innovation. Understanding the process of innovation is to understand the factors that facilitate and inhibit the success of innovations. A best understanding of how these factors are related will lead to define a proper representation and an efficient management framework supporting the innovation full lifecycle. In addition, organizations have become more aware of external knowledge and technology to maintain their competitiveness in the global market and they feel a growing need to open up their innovation processes. Therefore, to achieve successful innovation in an open context, it is necessary to overcome the challenge of integrating distributed and heterogeneous knowledge management systems. The emerging and rapid development of semantic technologies brings new opportunities and provides a promising direction for such challenge. Semantic technologies focus on the formalization of knowledge to create schemes that allow knowledge to be effectively stored, modified, shared, exchanged and reasoned. In this paper, a semantically-powered framework for innovation management is presented. This framework includes a new Lifecycle Model supporting all activities of innovation with a special focus on its front end stages; a Semantic Representation of innovation, based on three factors we have identified as cornerstones of any successful innovation and that supports a set of automatic and intelligent services such as annotation, relationship retrieval and semantic search; used to power the Core Services of our framework that aim to promote innovation, notably within an open context.},
	isbn = {978-1-910309-35-3},
	issn = {2048-8963},
	author = {El Bassiti, Lamyaa and Ajhoun, Rachida},
	editor = {Vivas, C and Sequeira, P}
}
@article {9954595520141215,
	title = {Solving a mixed integer linear program with times setup for the steel-continuous casting planning and scheduling problem.},
	journal = {International Journal of Production Research},
	volume = {52},
	number = {24},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {7276 - 7296},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a novel model that generalise the steelmaking continuous casting planning and scheduling problem. The model includes three stages: converters namely CV, refining stands namely RS and continuous castings namely CC. The obtained problem can be formulated as a mathematical program with typical constraints, namely the times setup constraints. We develop a mixed integer linear program (MILP) to schedule several sequences of charges for more than two continuous castings devices. The aim is: (i) on one hand, to schedule a list of several sequences that are already ordered for each continuous casting with times setup between two successive sequences, (ii) on the other hand, to determine the optimal order of the successive sequences. We use a benchmark and randomly generated instances to test the model and solved by mean of the commercial software solverCplex v12.5. These problems span a variety of instances varying from small to large sized instances with different i},
	keywords = {Continuous casting, Linear programming, Mathematical models, Mathematical optimization, MILP, Mixed integer linear programming, optimisation, planning, Scheduling, setup, steel},
	issn = {00207543},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=bth\&AN=99545955\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Sbihi, Abdelkader and Bellabdaoui, Adil and Teghem, Jacques}
}
@article {Sbihi20147276,
	title = {Solving a mixed integer linear program with times setup for the steel-continuous casting planning and scheduling problem},
	journal = {International Journal of Production Research},
	volume = {52},
	number = {24},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {7276-7296},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a novel model that generalise the steelmaking continuous casting planning and scheduling problem. The model includes three stages: converters namely CV, refining stands namely RS and continuous castings namely CC. The obtained problem can be formulated as a mathematical program with typical constraints, namely the times setup constraints. We develop a mixed integer linear program (MILP) to schedule several sequences of charges for more than two continuous castings devices. The aim is: (i) on one hand, to schedule a list of several sequences that are already ordered for each continuous casting with times setup between two successive sequences, (ii) on the other hand, to determine the optimal order of the successive sequences. We use a benchmark and randomly generated instances to test the model and solved by mean of the commercial software solver Cplex v12.5. These problems span a variety of instances varying from small to large sized instances with different intrinsec parameters as the availability date for a converter CV or the variation intervals of the start time for the first charge at the continuous casting CC stage. We analyse the efficiency of the proposed model based on the CPU time and show the time limitations of the model for large instances. Also, we show the robustness of the model when modifying the initial (starting) state. {\textcopyright} 2014 Taylor \& Francis.},
	doi = {10.1080/00207543.2014.919421},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84911986589\&doi=10.1080\%2f00207543.2014.919421\&partnerID=40\&md5=92cb3ea55263ea6884dc60521a45bded},
	author = {Sbihi, A.a and Bellabdaoui, A.b and Teghem, J.c}
}
@article { ISI:000345075300025,
	title = {Solving a Mixed Integer Linear Program with Times Setup for the Steel-Continuous Casting Planning and Scheduling Problem (vol 52, pg 7276, 2014)},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH},
	volume = {52},
	number = {24},
	year = {2014},
	month = {DEC 17},
	pages = {7549},
	issn = {0020-7543},
	doi = {10.1080/00207543.2014.969490},
	author = {Sbihi, Abdelkader and Bellabdaoui, Adil and Teghem, Jacques}
}
@article { ISI:000345075300010,
	title = {Solving a mixed integer linear program with times setup for the steel-continuous casting planning and scheduling problem},
	journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH},
	volume = {52},
	number = {24},
	year = {2014},
	month = {DEC 17},
	pages = {7276-7296},
	abstract = {In this paper, we present a novel model that generalise the steelmaking continuous casting planning and scheduling problem. The model includes three stages: converters namely CV, refining stands namely RS and continuous castings namely CC. The obtained problem can be formulated as a mathematical program with typical constraints, namely the times setup constraints. We develop a mixed integer linear program (MILP) to schedule several sequences of charges for more than two continuous castings devices. The aim is: (i) on one hand, to schedule a list of several sequences that are already ordered for each continuous casting with times setup between two successive sequences, (ii) on the other hand, to determine the optimal order of the successive sequences. We use a benchmark and randomly generated instances to test the model and solved by mean of the commercial software solver Cplex v12.5. These problems span a variety of instances varying from small to large sized instances with different intrinsec parameters as the availability date for a converter CV or the variation intervals of the start time for the first charge at the continuous casting CC stage. We analyse the efficiency of the proposed model based on the CPU time and show the time limitations of the model for large instances. Also, we show the robustness of the model when modifying the initial (starting) state.},
	issn = {0020-7543},
	doi = {10.1080/00207543.2014.919421},
	author = {Sbihi, Abdelkader and Bellabdaoui, Adil and Teghem, Jacques}
}
@conference {Kawtar2014171,
	title = {Stochastic Model Predictive Control for costs optimization in a supply chain under a stochastic demand},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management, GOL 2014},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {171-175},
	abstract = {This paper aims to present a Stochastic Model Predictive Control to optimize the costs of shipping and storage in a supply chain. The goal is to minimize the objective function of the combined costs in a multi-stage and a multi-level supply chain responding to a stochastic multi-product demand. The simulation using Matlab provides a comparison between classical models and the proposed model, and shows that the Affine Recourse Stochastic Model Predictive Control - AR SMPC offers better results. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/GOL.2014.6887436},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908611786\&doi=10.1109\%2fGOL.2014.6887436\&partnerID=40\&md5=4a6eec4c578041a83cf910609deb9598},
	author = {Kawtar, T. and Said, A. and Youssef, B.}
}
@conference { ISI:000346582400027,
	title = {Stochastic Model Predictive Control for costs optimization in a supply chain under a stochastic demand},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2014 2ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LOGISTICS AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (GOL 2014)},
	year = {2014},
	note = {2nd IEEE International Conference on Logistics Operations Management (GOL), Rabat, MOROCCO, JUN 05-07, 2014},
	pages = {172-175},
	publisher = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	organization = {IEEE; Mohammed VI Souissi Univ, ENSIAS Sch; Univ Le Havre; Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah Univ, FST},
	abstract = {This paper aims to present a Stochastic Model Predictive Control to optimize the costs of shipping and storage in a supply chain. The goal is to minimize the objective function of the combined costs in a multi-stage and a multi-level supply chain responding to a stochastic multi-product demand. The simulation using Matlab provides a comparison between classical models and the proposed model, and shows that the Affine Recourse Stochastic Model Predictive Control - AR SMPC offers better results.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-4650-1},
	author = {Kawtar, Tikito and Said, Achchab and Youssef, Benadada},
	editor = {Benadada, Y}
}
@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 {Bennani201456,
	title = {A tax-inspired mechanism design to achieve QoS in VMIMO systems: Give to receive!},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2014 - 10th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {56-62},
	abstract = {In this paper, we model a Virtual MIMO system using a game-theoretic approach. We are interested in the uplink, considering a non-coopertive game, where each user try to satisfy a quality of service. The uplink of a direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) data network is considered and a non-cooperative game is proposed in which users are allowed to choose their uplink receivers as well as to satisfy their quality of service. The utility function used in this framework is defined so that the throughput used by the user is divided into two components: the throughput received from cellular Network, and throughput received from Virtual MIMO System. In addition, this framework is used to study a constrained Nash equilibrium for the proposed game, and the impact of the interaction among users. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906332},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84908622993\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2014.6906332\&partnerID=40\&md5=8f8afb3e0c78e9a74a2e145125d111ac},
	author = {Bennani, H.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and Walid, A.a and Ben-Othman, J.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000361140000010,
	title = {A Tax-inspired Mechanism Design to Achieve QoS in VMIMO Systems : Give to Receive !},
	booktitle = {2014 INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2014},
	note = {10th International Wireless Communications \& Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Nicosia, CYPRUS, AUG 04-08, 2014},
	pages = {56-62},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	abstract = {In this paper, we model a Virtual MIMO system using a game-theoretic approach. We are interested in the uplink, considering a non-coopertive game, where each user try to satisfy a quality of service. The uplink of a direct-sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) data network is considered and a non-cooperative game is proposed in which users are allowed to choose their uplink receivers as well as to satisfy their quality of service. The utility function used in this framework is defined so that the throughput used by the user is divided into two components : the throughput received from cellular Network, and throughput received from Virtual MIMO System. In addition, this framework is used to study a constrained Nash equilibrium for the proposed game, and the impact of the interaction among users.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-0959-9},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Bennani, Hassan and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Walid, Abdellaziz and Ben-Othman, Jalel}
}
@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 {Sadki2014674,
	title = {Towards controlled-privacy in e-health: A comparative study},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {674-679},
	abstract = {Technological advances in electronic services have made it easier than ever before to access and share different kinds of data. In the healthcare sector, the exchange of patients{\textquoteright} information between different actors (hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies...) improves diagnosis and treatment quality and reduces related costs. However, this exchange arise new security concerns and makes patient information subject to privacy breaches. In the literature, several privacy-preserving approaches have been proposed, most of which focus on protecting private data using cryptographic, access control or anonymitization techniques. Thus, the patient becomes a passive actor regarding the disclosure of his personal information. In this paper we consider the following question: should patients only rely on third parties to protect their sensitive data or shall they be granted some kind of control to select the level of privacy and security they want? In this context, we propose a comparative study of some recent work in the area of e-services privacy. The analysis of this study shows that data privacy is not fairly user controlled particularly in the health sector. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2014.6911323},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84928712879\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2014.6911323\&partnerID=40\&md5=cbabd84ef94415517785664934541c9f},
	author = {Sadki, S. and El Bakkali, H.}
}
@conference { ISI:000366999600120,
	title = {Towards controlled-privacy in e-health: A comparative study},
	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 = {680-685},
	abstract = {Technological advances in electronic services have made it easier than ever before to access and share different kinds of data. In the healthcare sector, the exchange of patients{\textquoteright} information between different actors (hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies...) improves diagnosis and treatment quality and reduces related costs. However, this exchange arise new security concerns and makes patient information subject to privacy breaches. In the literature, several privacy-preserving approaches have been proposed, most of which focus on protecting private data using cryptographic, access control or anonymitization techniques. Thus, the patient becomes a passive actor regarding the disclosure of his personal information. In this paper we consider the following question: should patients only rely on third parties to protect their sensitive data or shall they be granted some kind of control to select the level of privacy and security they want? In this context, we propose a comparative study of some recent work in the area of e-services privacy. The analysis of this study shows that data privacy is not fairly user controlled particularly in the health sector.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3824-7},
	author = {Sadki, Souad and El Bakkali, Hanan}
}
@conference {Bennani201477,
	title = {Virtual MIMO systems: A game theoretical approach},
	booktitle = {WCCCS 2014 - Proceedings; 2014 5th Workshop on Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems},
	year = {2014},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {77-80},
	abstract = {In this work, we present a new game theoretic approach in order to build a Virtual MIMO system. The utility function used in this framework is defined so that the user throughput is divided into two components: the real, received by the base station, and the virtual throughput received by the neighboring users. A non-cooperative game is proposed where each user are allowed to choose its uplink receiver as well as to maximize its utility function. Simulation results validate our model and and illustrate numerically the proposed scheme under different scenarios. {\textcopyright} 2014 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WCCCS.2014.7107924},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84983134494\&doi=10.1109\%2fWCCCS.2014.7107924\&partnerID=40\&md5=7908ed0bd120abe099e5dea1bce6962f},
	author = {Bennani, H.a and Sabir, E.b and Kobbane, A.a and El Koutbi, M.a}
}
@conference {Sabir2013,
	title = {Design of an annular ring Ferry-assisted topology for Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2013 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {To ensure connectivity in highly sparse Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), we consider a Ferry-assisted Wireless Sensor Network (FWSN). In our FWSN, message ferries moving along concentric annulus collect the static sensors generated packets and propagate them throughout a ferry-to-ferry forwarding schema to the sink. Moreover, a ferry may embed a sensor and then could be assimilated to a mobile sensor node generating its own data. We provide a mathematical framework based on queuing theory to model the network and analyze its performances in terms of end-to-end throughput. Some of our findings are the characterization of the forwarding queues{\textquoteright} stability and the average end-to-end throughput as well. At stability, we notice a special feature where the average end-to-end throughput becomes independent of the choice of the weighted fair queuing. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/WMNC.2013.6548984},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84881399979\&doi=10.1109\%2fWMNC.2013.6548984\&partnerID=40\&md5=db7991dded90e289f75582cf59d1e214},
	author = {Sabir, E.a and Kobbane, A.b and Koulali, M.-A.c and Erradi, M.b}
}
@conference { ISI:000352386800113,
	title = {An exact method for solving the buffer sizing and inspection stations allocations problem},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT (IEEE-IESM 2013)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IEEE IESM), Mohammadia Sch Engn, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 28-30, 2013},
	pages = {775-780},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; I4e2; Univ Valenciennes Hannaut Cambresis; Univ Mohammed V Agdal Rabat; CNRST; CISIT; ENIM; ESITH; GDR MACS; LAMIH CNRS; IFSTTAR; IRT RAILENIUM; TEMPO},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; I4e2; Univ Valenciennes Hannaut Cambresis; Univ Mohammed V Agdal Rabat; CNRST; CISIT; ENIM; ESITH; GDR MACS; LAMIH CNRS; IFSTTAR; IRT RAILENIUM; TEMPO},
	abstract = {An unreliable single part type transfer line with fixed inter machine buffer sizes is considered. In general, imperfect machines operating with imperfect raw material, or partially processed raw material, will result in the production of a mix of conforming and non conforming parts. The problem of optimal joint assignment of buffer sizes and inspection station positions is here considered where we assume that defective parts are scrapped upon detection. The performance measure to be optimized is a combination of work in process storage and parts inspection costs, with an eye to determining the adequate number of inspection stations. We propose an exact method for solving this problem and large-scale numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm. Interesting properties of the problem are also denoted based on our empirical results.},
	isbn = {978-2-9600532-4-1},
	author = {Ouzineb, Mohammed and Mhada, Fatima and El Hallaoui, Issmail and Pellerin, Robert},
	editor = {Aboutajdine, D and Skalli, A and Benchekroun, B and Artiba, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000351846000018,
	title = {A new Cross layer Architecture for Service Differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks},
	booktitle = {2013 IEEE MALAYSIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (MICC)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {IEEE 11th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, NOV 26-28, 2013},
	pages = {92-97},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {This paper describes a new cross-layer architecture that supports service differentiation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In WSNs, sensor nodes are supposed to communicate using a random access method. We propose a mathematical model that combines parameters form network and MAC layers. We aim to estimate and to enhance the throughput of multi-hop WSNs and the stability of the forwarding queues used for real-time and best-effort traffic. We suppose in this paper that we have one single sink in the WSN and we study the impact of the probability of transmitting (real-time and best-effort traffic), density of sensor and hop count on the end-to-end throughput.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-1532-3},
	author = {Loutfi, Ahmed and Mohamed, Senhadji and Sabir, Essaid and Kobbane, Abdellatif and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@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 {Mahieddine2013217,
	title = {Pattern-based ontology learning technique for modeling intelligent agents in J2ME},
	booktitle = {26th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {217-222},
	abstract = {To is an intelligent and mobile multi agent system (MAS) running on Java-enabled handheld devices. The universe of to agents is composed of a set of autonomous agents in interaction. The intelligence of to agents is carried out using a reasoning framework. This framework is currently specialized by a rule-based reasoning system. In this paper, we propose a learning framework to support ontology-based learning for intelligent agents. We mean by learning, the process of agent behaviour changing through its interaction with the surrounding world in order to improve its intelligence. Learning for agents is an important task to achieve full intelligence. The framework allows agents on mobile devices to acquire context data from environment, process ontological information and produce inference rules for the reasoner of the agents. We present our design principles and the implementation, and demonstrate the development of reasoning agents on reduced devices with learning capability. The ontology was developed in order to describe the knowledge of the surrounding computing environment of the intelligent agent. This research addresses the lack of a standard model for learning agents on mobile devices under J2ME. In this paper, we propose a framework for building an ontology-based learner producing and expanding inference rules for agent reasoning engine. The domain of ontologies to achieve learning of agents for mobile phones is an emerging area of research and perhaps even the key towards opening the intelligent interaction between agents on reduced mobile phones. We think that the development of agent learning software using design patterns, frameworks, and re-factoring for mobile devices in J2ME, will much improve software quality.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896471436\&partnerID=40\&md5=400462c267905a7b29da85e6a51016b0},
	author = {Mahieddine, M.a and Saliah-Hassane, H.b and Berqia, A.c and Tchoketch-Kebir, A.E.a}
}
@conference { ISI:000350287800004,
	title = {Personalized Recommendation Based Hashtags on E-learning Systems},
	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 = {The data generated by users on various social structures are growing exponentially over time. They become increasingly prodigious unmanageable and difficult to use. Therefore to easily find the content they produce among this mass of data, users label their own content using neologisms appointed hashtags. This practice attracts more and more the interest of researchers, because beyond the acquisition of knowledge, the Semantic Web approaches are also producing relevant information that may be used in practical situations. In this direction, we thought to exploit the activities of social Web users, mainly Hashtags. Hence, we focused on the identification of hashtags (as well as their different definitions) for personalized recommendation on e-learning systems. This paper aims at giving an insight on the pioneers{\textquoteright} works and the opportunities raised by mixing the Social and the Semantic Web for education on one hand. And give the general architecture of our proposition and results obtained on the other hand.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1},
	author = {Ghenname, Merieme and Abik, Mounia and Ajhoun, Rachida and Subercaze, Julien and Gravier, Christophe and Laforest, Frederique}
}
@conference {Ghenname2013,
	title = {Personalized recommendation based hashtags on e-learning systems},
	booktitle = {2013 3rd International Symposium ISKO-Maghreb},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {The data generated by users on various social structures are growing exponentially over time. They become increasingly prodigious unmanageable and difficult to use. Therefore to easily find the content they produce among this mass of data, users label their own content using neologisms appointed hashtags. This practice attracts more and more the interest of researchers, because beyond the acquisition of knowledge, the Semantic Web approaches are also producing relevant information that may be used in practical situations. In this direction, we thought to exploit the activities of social Web users, mainly Hashtags. Hence, we focused on the identification of hashtags (as well as their different definitions) for personalized recommendation on e-learning systems. This paper aims at giving an insight on the pioneers{\textquoteright} works and the opportunities raised by mixing the Social and the Semantic Web for education on one hand. And give the general architecture of our proposition and results obtained on the other hand. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728109},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894115554\&doi=10.1109\%2fISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728109\&partnerID=40\&md5=d8892d965f690375fac4c7923f557c92},
	author = {Ghenname, M.a b and Abik, M.a and Ajhoun, R.a and Subercaze, J.b and Gravier, C.b and Laforest, F.b}
}
@conference {Mhada2013,
	title = {(Q, S) models for inventory policy with random component procurement lead times},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2013 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, IEEE - IESM 2013},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {This paper considers inventory models of (Q, s) type with Q the order-quantity and s the order point. In general, an optimal choice of control parameters (Q and s) will depend on the characteristics of replenishment lead time and the demand process, as well as holding and shortage costs. Although many studies have treated lead time as constant, focusing only on demand variability, a number of authors have shown that a stochastic lead time is an issue that can have significant impact on inventory models and systems. This paper addresses the model when supply is assumed to have an exponential lead time distribution, and the {\textquoteright}customer{\textquoteright} itself is an exponential unreliable manufacturing plant, aiming for a constant mean production rate; thus both supply and demand have random characteristics. Under a so-called averaging principle approximation, we derive closed form expressions of the quantities of interest and illustrate their application in the optimization of the Q and s parameters. {\textcopyright} 2013 International Institute for Innovation, Industrial Engineering and Entrepreneurship - I4e2.},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84899089098\&partnerID=40\&md5=ca62a65e42a136d014c561a103dea138},
	author = {Mhada, F.a and Malhame, R.b and Pellerin, R.b and Sadr, J.b and Gharbi, A.c}
}
@conference { ISI:000352386800106,
	title = {(Q, s) models for inventory policy with random component procurement lead times},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT (IEEE-IESM 2013)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {5th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IEEE IESM), Mohammadia Sch Engn, Rabat, MOROCCO, OCT 28-30, 2013},
	pages = {718-726},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; I4e2; Univ Valenciennes Hannaut Cambresis; Univ Mohammed V Agdal Rabat; CNRST; CISIT; ENIM; ESITH; GDR MACS; LAMIH CNRS; IFSTTAR; IRT RAILENIUM; TEMPO},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Morocco Sect; I4e2; Univ Valenciennes Hannaut Cambresis; Univ Mohammed V Agdal Rabat; CNRST; CISIT; ENIM; ESITH; GDR MACS; LAMIH CNRS; IFSTTAR; IRT RAILENIUM; TEMPO},
	abstract = {This paper considers inventory models of (Q, s) type with Q the order-quantity and s the order point. In general, an optimal choice of control parameters (Q and s) will depend on the characteristics of replenishment lead time and the demand process, as well as holding and shortage costs. Although many studies have treated lead time as constant, focusing only on demand variability, a number of authors have shown that a stochastic lead time is an issue that can have significant impact on inventory models and systems. This paper addresses the model when supply is assumed to have an exponential lead time distribution, and the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}customer{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} itself is an exponential unreliable manufacturing plant, aiming for a constant mean production rate; thus both supply and demand have random characteristics. Under a so-called averaging principle approximation, we derive closed form expressions of the quantities of interest and illustrate their application in the optimization of the Q and s parameters.},
	isbn = {978-2-9600532-4-1},
	author = {Mhada, Fatima and Malhame, Roland and Pellerin, Robert and Sadr, Javad and Gharbi, Ali},
	editor = {Aboutajdine, D and Skalli, A and Benchekroun, B and Artiba, A}
}
@conference { ISI:000326538300127,
	title = {Sharing demand forecasts in a basic supply chain using game theory},
	booktitle = {2013 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELING, SIMULATION AND APPLIED OPTIMIZATION (ICMSAO)},
	year = {2013},
	note = {5th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), Hammamet, TUNISIA, APR 28-30, 2013},
	abstract = {Supply chain can be defined as a set of distributed entities composed of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers and costumers. Supply chain management (SCM) is the supervision of its three flows: the finances flow, the materials flow and the information flow. Indeed, this paper focuses on the information flow, more precisely on sharing information within a one echelon supply chain. It examines a game theory approach applied on a basic supply chain composed of three entities called players: a retailer, a distributor and a supplier with probabilistic demand. Each player is rational: tries to maximize his profit, and consequently tries to find a local optimum; this situation leads to a loss of performance of the whole chain. The goal of our work is to optimize both inventory and transportation costs by using the concept of Game Theory.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-5814-9; 978-1-4673-5812-5},
	author = {Slimani, Ilham and Achchab, Said}
}
@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:000350287800031,
	title = {Toward a Semantic SOA implementation Strategy},
	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 = {SOA allows a rapid and low-cost application development through service composition. Existing used methodologies designed to support service oriented development cannot be reused for semantic SOA without any adaptation. As a consequence, new methodologies are required to ensure effective semantic SOA application development. This paper aims to present an implementation strategy for the semantic layer of the Semantic SOA.},
	isbn = {978-1-4799-3392-1},
	author = {Slimani, Soumaya and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim}
}
@conference {Slimani2013,
	title = {Toward a semantic SOA implementation strategy},
	booktitle = {2013 3rd International Symposium ISKO-Maghreb},
	year = {2013},
	note = {cited By 0},
	abstract = {SOA allows a rapid and low-cost application development through service composition. Existing used methodologies designed to support service oriented development cannot be reused for semantic SOA without any adaptation. As a consequence, new methodologies are required to ensure effective semantic SOA application development. This paper aims to present an implementation strategy for the semantic layer of the Semantic SOA. {\textcopyright} 2013 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/ISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728157},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894117210\&doi=10.1109\%2fISKO-Maghreb.2013.6728157\&partnerID=40\&md5=7b53f42a84801e92d989fdbf09615d72},
	author = {Slimani, S. and Baina, S. and Baina, K.}
}
@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 {10115338220131101,
	title = {Vers une approche d{\textquoteright}analyse des besoins m{\'e}tier d{\textquoteright}un Syst{\`e}me d{\textquoteright}Information D{\'e}cisionnel.},
	journal = {E-Ti: E-Review in Technologies Information},
	number = {7},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {59 - 79},
	abstract = {The field of Decisional Information Systems (DIS) analysis and design is highly applying new techniques and methods to promote the success of the decision process and to minimize the time of design. A comparative study conducted on different approaches for analyzing decisional requirements, raises a series of problems. These problems are coming generally from the nature of the applied requirements analysis process, the difficulties in expressing requirements and the insufficient quality of documents. To face these problems, we propose in this paper a method for analyzing decisional requirements, qualified Decisional Business Intelligence (DBI), as a process and models that support the discovery, specification, negotiation and validation requirements. This approach aims to guide and orient analysts designers throughout the DBI process. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Business requirements Engineering, Decisional Information Systems (DIS), Formalisme P-SIGMA, Ing{\'e}nierie des Besoins M{\'e}tier, P-Sigma formalism, Patron processus, Process pattern, Reuse, R{\'e}utilisation, Syst{\`e}me d{\textquoteright}Information D{\'e}cisionnel (SID)},
	issn = {11148802},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=101153382\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Sabri, Aziza and Kjiri, Laila}
}
@conference {Saad2012,
	title = {Cloud computing architectures based IDS},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Complex Systems, ICCS 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2012.6458581},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874479828\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2012.6458581\&partnerID=40\&md5=6df29286b7630db47e3061bc679f59b0},
	author = {Saad, E.N. and Mahdi, K.E. and Zbakh, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000324984400079,
	title = {Cloud Computing Architectures Based IDS},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (ICCS12)},
	year = {2012},
	note = {1st International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 05-06, 2012},
	pages = {457-462},
	abstract = {Today, cloud computing is an attractive and cost-saving saving service for buyers as it provides accessibility and reliability options for users and scalable sales for providers. Before implementing this method of computing, however, it is important to consider the security of the cloud. In this paper, we will present, a classification of specific and traditional attacks to the cloud computing according to their origin and their category, as a solution to protect the cloud from these attacks, the IDS integrated in the cloud remains among the best solution, therefore we will show some existing cloud computing architecture based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), their strengths and weaknesses. For the comparative study between the architectures, we have adopted transparency, alerts analysis, authentication, accountability, dynamic reaction, centralized management, interoperability, deployability and control from front office side as criterion for comparison, as a result of this comparative study, we propose a new architecture in one hand by correcting some weaknesses and in the other hand integrating certain concept.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-4766-2},
	author = {Saad, En Niari and El Mahdi, Khalil and Zbakh, Mostapha},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and Nemiche, M}
}
@conference {Saadane201262,
	title = {Evaluation of hybrid geo-location based on UMTS and GPS technologies},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, ICMCS 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {62-66},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2012.6320310},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84869822901\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2012.6320310\&partnerID=40\&md5=98c5dfaf44a4e8614b501104ada67870},
	author = {Saadane, R. and Belkasmi, M. and El Koutbi, M. and Dadda, M.R.}
}
@conference { ISI:000310353000012,
	title = {Evaluation of Hybrid Geo-location based on UMTS and OPS Technologies},
	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 = {63-67},
	publisher = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	organization = {Morocco Sect MTT/AP Joint Chapter},
	abstract = {The degree of accuracy and availability of service make a distinction between the two main methods of geolocation that areGPS and UMTS. GPS provides good performances in terms of location in open area, but performances degrade to a significant manner when we go into an enclosed area. While the UMTS offers good results in urban areas, we can note a complementarity between these two techniques. In this paper we present a hybrid algorithm that combines these two techniques and takes best advantage of each of them with two approaches one simple and another advanced.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-1520-3},
	author = {Saadane, Rachid and Belkasmi, Mostafa and El Koutbi, Mohammed and Dadda, Mohamed Rachid},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and Zaz, Y}
}
@conference { ISI:000324984400067,
	title = {GUI Code Generation for Android Applications Using a MDA Approach},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (ICCS12)},
	year = {2012},
	note = {1st International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), Agadir, MOROCCO, NOV 05-06, 2012},
	pages = {393-398},
	abstract = {Developing applications for mobile platforms is a compound task, due to variability of mobile OSs and the number of different devices that need to be supported. Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach could provide a possible solution to provide an automated way to generate a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for such applications. In this paper, we propose an approach based on MDA, to generate GUI for mobile applications on smartphones. The adopted approach consists of three main steps (i) analyzing and modeling the GUI under UML; (ii) transforming the obtained diagrams to a simplified XMI schema using JDOM API; and (iii) generating the GUI based on MDA. Our method has the advantages to generate automatically GUI for several platforms, and gives a graphical way for designing in UML.},
	isbn = {978-1-4673-4766-2},
	author = {Sabraoui, Ayoub and El Koutbi, Mohammed and Khriss, Ismail},
	editor = {Essaaidi, M and Nemiche, M}
}
@conference {Sabraoui2012,
	title = {GUI code generation for Android applications using a MDA approach},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on Complex Systems, ICCS 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ICoCS.2012.6458567},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874457236\&doi=10.1109\%2fICoCS.2012.6458567\&partnerID=40\&md5=a1e6336bcd6c0c33f76c4ff1126d0517},
	author = {Sabraoui, A. and Koutbi, M.E. and Khriss, I.}
}
@conference {Sabraoui2012306,
	title = {An MDA-based approach for WS composition using UML scenarios},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Technology, ITNG 2012},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {306-313},
	doi = {10.1109/ITNG.2012.52},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84863974926\&doi=10.1109\%2fITNG.2012.52\&partnerID=40\&md5=83b43893cc2ec11a345c5cce3c077cec},
	author = {Sabraoui, A. and Ennouaary, A. and Khriss, I. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@conference {Elmachkour201265,
	title = {New insights from a delay analysis for cognitive radio networks with and without reservation},
	booktitle = {IWCMC 2012 - 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 5},
	pages = {65-70},
	doi = {10.1109/IWCMC.2012.6314179},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84869156676\&doi=10.1109\%2fIWCMC.2012.6314179\&partnerID=40\&md5=9cfed6da1f67007546e0b300b3572406},
	author = {Elmachkour, M. and Kobbane, A. and Sabir, E. and Koutbi, M.E.}
}
@conference { ISI:000312146500012,
	title = {New Insights from a Delay Analysis for Cognitive Radio Networks with and without Reservation},
	booktitle = {2012 8TH INTERNATIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING CONFERENCE (IWCMC)},
	series = {International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference},
	year = {2012},
	note = {8th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Limassol, CYPRUS, AUG 27-31, 2012},
	pages = {65-70},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Cyprus Sect; Frederick Univ},
	abstract = {In wireless communication systems, the delay remains a crucial factor. In this work, we focus on the design of a new opportunistic cross-layer MAC protocol involving channels allocation and packet scheduling for cognitive networks in order to optimize system performance. Cognitive radio provides the opportunity for secondary users (unlicensed users) to use available portions of the licensed spectrum bands without interfering with primary users (licensed users). We consider that each secondary user is equipped with two transceivers. The role of the first transceiver is to obtain and exchange channels information on the control channel. The second transceiver is devoted to periodically detect and dynamically use the available data channels. The paper deals with channel allocation considering traffic characteristics of secondary users. So, we propose a mechanism of resource reservation to improve Quality of Service (QoS) requirements that favors successful secondary users to transmit data during x time slots without interfering with primary users. We develop a new analytical model, while taking into account the backoff mechanism. We analyze delay parameter for two scenarios with and without resource reservation. We show through simulations that our approach guarantees an optimal response delay.},
	isbn = {978-1-4577-1379-8},
	issn = {2376-6492},
	author = {Elmachkour, Mouna and Kobbane, Abdellatif and Sabir, Essaid and El Koutbi, Mohammed}
}
@conference {Sadki2012209,
	title = {PPAMH: A novel privacy-preserving approach for mobile healthcare},
	booktitle = {2014 9th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2014},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 3},
	pages = {209-214},
	doi = {10.1109/ICITST.2014.7038807},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84949922689\&doi=10.1109\%2fICITST.2014.7038807\&partnerID=40\&md5=c460de70ba2020750ed03d73979646c3},
	author = {Sadki, S. and Bakkali, H.E.}
}
@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 {Salah2012314,
	title = {Strategies for applying rules in OWL entailment regimes},
	booktitle = {Innovation Vision 2020: Sustainable growth, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development - Proceedings of the 19th International Business Information Management Association Conference},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {314-324},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84896326867\&partnerID=40\&md5=7b168c4068f656c83a4db115af183fb6},
	author = {Salah, A. and El Koutbi, M. and Khriss, I.}
}
@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:000310937500040,
	title = {A Dynamic Timestamp Discrepancy against Replay Attacks in MANET},
	booktitle = {INFORMATICS ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, PT IV},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {254},
	year = {2011},
	note = {International Conference on Informatics Engineering and Information Science (ICIEIS 2011), Univ Teknol Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, NOV 14-16, 2011},
	pages = {479+},
	publisher = {Springer},
	organization = {Springer},
	abstract = {Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs), like traditional networks, are vulnerable to a wide range of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks. A Replay attack is one of them that degrade severely the MANET performance. A replay attacker performs this attack by interception and retransmission of the valid signed messages. The validation of signed messages is verified by a timestamp discrepancy fixed by sender and receiver nodes. In this paper, we propose an enhancement of the timestamp concept, to avoid replay attack, characterized by two properties. The first is dynamic because it depends on the communication duration between sender and receiver nodes. The second is rigid because it estimates approximately the maximum date when the signed message should arrive to receive node.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-25482-6; 978-3-642-25483-3},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	author = {Enneya, Nourddine and Baayer, Aziz and Elkoutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {AbdManaf, A and Sahibuddin, S and Ahmad, R and Daud, SM and ElQawasmeh, E}
}
@conference {Sadok2011726,
	title = {E-banking in Morocco: Study of some specifying factors},
	booktitle = {2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {726-731},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84857468315\&partnerID=40\&md5=6fe06e337094393646fd8d48aa8a98fd},
	author = {Sadok, H.}
}
@conference { ISI:000298664200019,
	title = {A Formal Approach to Model Composition Applied to VUML},
	booktitle = {2011 16TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX COMPUTER SYSTEMS (ICECCS)},
	year = {2011},
	note = {IEEE Int Conf/Workshops on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems/Int Conf on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems/Int Conf on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Las Vegas, NV, APR 27-29, 2011},
	pages = {188-197},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Engn Autonomous \& Autonom Syst (TC-AAS); IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Engn Autonomous \& Autonom Syst (TC-AAS); IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Several approaches adopted by the software engineering community rely on the principle of multi-modeling which allows to separate concerns and to model a system as a set of less complex sub-models. Model composition is a crucial activity in Model Driven Engineering (MDE). It is particularly useful when adopting a multi-modeling approach to analyze and design software systems. In previous work, we have defined a view-based UML profile called VUML. In this paper, we describe a formal approach for model composition in which we consider the composition as an algebraic operator on the set of UML-compliant models. We specify the semantics of our composition operator by means of graph transformations. Furthermore, we present a composition scheme interpreted by a two-steps composition process based on two strategies of correspondence and merging. To illustrate our approach, we apply it to the composition of UML class models diagrams into one VUML model class diagram.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-4381-9},
	doi = {10.1109/ICECCS.2011.26},
	author = {Anwar, Adil and Dkaki, Taoufiq and Ebersold, Sophie and Coulette, Bernard and Anwar, Adil and Nassar, Mahmoud},
	editor = {Perseil, I and Breitman, K and Sterritt, R}
}
@conference {Slimani2011724,
	title = {A framework for ontology evolution management in SSOA-based systems},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 9th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {724-725},
	doi = {10.1109/ICWS.2011.129},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80053152084\&doi=10.1109\%2fICWS.2011.129\&partnerID=40\&md5=ae2c320410fe2e0e670add4bb0ac8e86},
	author = {Slimani, S. and Baina, S. and Baina, K.}
}
@conference {Slimani201141,
	title = {Interactive ontology evolution management using mutli-agent system: A proposal for sustainability of semantic interoperability in SOA},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 20th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE 2011},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 2},
	pages = {41-46},
	doi = {10.1109/WETICE.2011.15},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80052623029\&doi=10.1109\%2fWETICE.2011.15\&partnerID=40\&md5=54b3ef7ca3805124e1fb9436b38dd7f1},
	author = {Slimani, S. and Baina, S. and Baina, K.}
}
@conference { ISI:000298603900010,
	title = {Interactive ontology evolution management using mutli-agent system A proposal for sustainability of semantic interoperability in SOA},
	booktitle = {2011 20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES: INFRASTRUCTURE FOR COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES (WETICE)},
	series = {IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {20th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies - Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), Paris, FRANCE, JUN 27-29, 2011},
	pages = {41-46},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Data Engn; W Virginia Univ, CERC; Telecom SudParis; IEEE Comp Soc; Samovar; Institut Telecom},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Comp Soc Tech Comm Data Engn; W Virginia Univ, CERC; Telecom SudParis; IEEE Comp Soc; Samovar; Institut Telecom},
	abstract = {this paper discusses a new approach towards ontology evolution management framework and relates it to the sustainability of semantic interoperability in SOA. Indeed, when the semantic representation of the service evolves, the interpretation of queries may change. Thus, it{\textquoteright}s often challenging to evaluate the results of the query. Sources of this problem include the lack of support for semantic evolution management in ontology-based service oriented systems, and the static nature of the mappings between ontologies in this environment. To address these issues, we have developed P(2)OManager, an interactive tool for ontology evolution management. This system allows the users to automatically create an ontology agent manager. This agent manages evolution on both ontology and mappings and communicates with other ontology agents to take them aware of all changes which may affect exchanges with their services. Examples illustrate how P(2)OManager can provide valuable support for ontology evolution management, when specific changes are provided.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-4410-6},
	issn = {1524-4547},
	doi = {10.1109/WETICE.2011.15},
	author = {Slimani, Soumaya and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim},
	editor = {Reddy, S and Tata, S}
}
@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 { ISI:000303188300041,
	title = {New Method: Mapping of 802.11e into MPLS Domains, Conception and Experimentation},
	booktitle = {DIGITAL INFORMATION PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS, PT 2},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {189},
	year = {2011},
	note = {International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC 2011), VSB Tech Univ Ostrava, Ostrava, CZECH REPUBLIC, JUL 07-09, 2011},
	pages = {470-483},
	publisher = {Springer; VSB Tech Univ Ostrava; Soc Digital Informat \& Wireless Commun},
	organization = {Springer; VSB Tech Univ Ostrava; Soc Digital Informat \& Wireless Commun},
	abstract = {Mapping between two heterogeneous networks, Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and IEEE 802.11e is choice of future technology as it has ability to perform traffic engineering and create the corresponds between LSP (Label Switch Path) and AC (Access Category). This paper discusses the mapping between IEEE 802.11 MPLS integration to achieve quality of service on MPLS networks. MPLS and 802.11e is very useful approach for today{\textquoteright}s internet to ensure the Quality of service the end to end. It talks about different approaches to map 802.11 e Access Categories (AC) to Label Switched Path (LSP) and their advantages. It then introduces the concept of encapsulated LSPs to achieve future QoS, which requires further study to examine its practicability.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-22409-6},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	author = {Oubaha, Jawad and Echchaachoui, Adel and Ouacha, Ali and Elkoutbi, Mohammed},
	editor = {Snasel, V and Platos, J and ElQawasmeh, E}
}
@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.}
}
@article {7042325720111201,
	title = {ONTOLOGY EVOLUTION MANAGEMENT FOR SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES COOPERATION.},
	journal = {International Journal of Electronic Business Management},
	volume = {9},
	number = {4},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {310 - 321},
	abstract = {Interconnecting services is a complex task. A part of the complexity comes from the need to have a common, shared view of the information, ontology. Thus, there is a need for approaches that help to overcome the differences between service ontologies, and to manage the possible future evolution of the ontologies. The approach proposed in this paper provides a support for cooperation between services. Our proposition is useful for service architectures that evolve and grow in size constantly. The number of services increases and even services are changing to offer new alternatives. The aim is to provide a flexible way to partially automate the processing of ontology and related mapping evolution management. A case study in Telecom service cooperation illustrates the benefits of our approach. We apply our algorithm and implementation prototype p2OEManager to Message Billing Service ontology and Internet Billing Service ontology and particularly, we use our ontology agent model and proto},
	keywords = {Information \& communication technologies, Information technology, Internet industry, Internetworking (Telecommunication), Multi-agent System, Ontology, Ontology Evolution, Semantic integration (Computer systems), Semantic Service, Web services},
	issn = {17282047},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=bth\&AN=70423257\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Slimani, Soumaya and Benslimane, Djamal and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim}
}
@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 {Koudougnon2011,
	title = {Sphere decoding based on QR decomposition in STBC},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems -Proceedings},
	year = {2011},
	note = {cited By 1},
	doi = {10.1109/ICMCS.2011.5945624},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79961243030\&doi=10.1109\%2fICMCS.2011.5945624\&partnerID=40\&md5=909487fa6b86a92432568997aba2bdb6},
	author = {Koudougnon, H. and Saadane, R. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000307083000008,
	title = {Towards an Open Framework for Mobile Digital Identity Management through Strong Authentication Methods},
	booktitle = {SECURE AND TRUST COMPUTING, DATA MANAGEMENT, AND APPLICATIONS},
	series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
	volume = {187},
	year = {2011},
	note = {International Workshop on Convergence Security in Pervasive Environments, (IWCS 2011)/International Workshop on Security on Security and Trust for Applications in Virtualized Environments, (STAVE 2011), Loutraki, GREECE, JUN 28-30, 2011},
	pages = {56-63},
	abstract = {Mobile computing becoming a widespread working tool, and a large scale deployed technology, it should be strong enough to meet basic security expectations. Privacy in a mobile environment should be driven by the choice of appropriate identity management mechanisms, that will have a large impact on different aspects of daily life. But people being unable to spend all their time administering their digital identities, the implementation of mobile identity management technologies has become a top priority for involved companies, in order to protect their customers against fraudsters. Today. identity management and strong authentication are converging, since provided solutions encompass user access, signing and verification of users and transactions, through strong authentication: Although, simply using strong authentication will not resolve all mobile digital identity requirements from a security viewpoint; our objective is to propose an extensible protocol based on an independent architectural model that provides a foundation for user-centric identity management.},
	isbn = {978-3-642-22364-8},
	issn = {1865-0929},
	author = {En-Nasry, Brahim and El Kettani, Mohamed Dafir Ech-Cherif},
	editor = {Lee, C and Seigneur, JM and Park, JJ and Wagner, RR}
}
@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 {Slimani2010664,
	title = {Agent-based architecture for service ontology evolution management},
	booktitle = {SEKE 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {664-667},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79952428512\&partnerID=40\&md5=fb8a4463f0d86e641d791957722d46a3},
	author = {Slimani, S. and Baina, S. and Baina, K.}
}
@conference { ISI:000391891600123,
	title = {Agent-based Architecture for Service Ontology evolution management},
	booktitle = {22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING \& KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING (SEKE 2010)},
	year = {2010},
	note = {22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Redwood, CA, JUL 01-03, 2010},
	pages = {664-667},
	publisher = {Knowledge Syst Inst Grad Sch},
	organization = {Knowledge Syst Inst Grad Sch},
	abstract = {Communication between services requires a common vocabulary to allow reliable exchange of information. However services are evolving independently and their ontologies evolve too. The existing distributed ontology evolution approaches are not scaled to dynamic environments like Semantic Web service architecture. As the distributed system grows in size, the complexity of ontology change management increases, especially if the ontologies are heterogeneous. In this paper, a new approach is proposed to manage ontology evolution in distributed architecture. Our proposal consists of a set of collaborative agents which dynamically manage different ontologies and their mapping.},
	isbn = {978-1-891706-26-4},
	author = {Slimani, Soumaya and Baina, Salah and Baina, Karim}
}
@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 { 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}
}
@conference {Slimani2010449,
	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 = {cited By 0},
	pages = {449-452},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651412575\&partnerID=40\&md5=738d5124f67747d28ceea6fc60784dc6},
	author = {Slimani, S. and Baina, K. and Baina, S. and Henkel, M. and Perjons, E.}
}
@conference {Koudougnon2010,
	title = {PAPR reduction using block coding combined with companding},
	booktitle = {2010 5th International Symposium on I/V Communications and Mobile Networks, ISIVC 2010},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 0},
	doi = {10.1109/ISVC.2010.5656195},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-78651484205\&doi=10.1109\%2fISVC.2010.5656195\&partnerID=40\&md5=15b061fa94450a6529ed579ef2147ee8},
	author = {Koudougnon, H. and Chana, I. and Saadane, R. and Belkasmi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@article {5099547320100301,
	title = {The Uplink Capacity Evaluation of Wireless Networks: Spectral Analysis Approach.},
	journal = {Journal of Computing \& Information Technology},
	volume = {18},
	number = {1},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {1 - 17},
	abstract = {In this paper we study the capacity of wireless cellular network, in particular the uplink of WCDMA system by using the two dimensional continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) technique. Considering two types of calls: real-time (RT) calls characterized by a quasi fixed transmission rate, and best-effort (BE) calls which do not require strict demand but need some reliability conditions, we develop an approach based on the spectral analysis for evaluating the cell capacity. We explicitly obtain the simultaneous distribution of the number of RT connections and the number of BE connections in the steady-state. This analysis allows us to simplify the computation of the performance measures including expected delay and throughput of BE traffic. These performances are obtained explicitly in both cases (finite and infinite) of BE calls as function of system parameters like arrival rate of BE and RT calls, service rate of BE and RT calls. These results allow the operator to evaluate the cell capa},
	keywords = {call admission control, Data transmission systems, Markov processes, Matrix-Geometric method, Mobile communication systems, spectral analysis approach, Spectrum analysis, Telecommunication systems, Wireless communication systems, wireless networks},
	issn = {13301136},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=50995473\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Kobbane, Abdellatif and El-Azouzi, Rachid and Ibrahimi, Khalil and Samanta, Sujit Kumar and Bouyakhf, El-Houssine}
}
@conference {Dya2009889,
	title = {Comparative study of fractal technics for digital compressing images},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2009},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2009},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {889-894},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864947398\&partnerID=40\&md5=55c98dc1493218a0d97c614b1f26e88e},
	author = {Dya, Z. and Badri, A. and Sahel, A. and Hajami, A.}
}
@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 {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 {Badidi2008258,
	title = {Practical load distribution models for Web services based environments},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - 2008 International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies, MCETECH 2008},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {258-261},
	doi = {10.1109/MCETECH.2008.21},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-50249141635\&doi=10.1109\%2fMCETECH.2008.21\&partnerID=40\&md5=03f0747597b0ef9e4d69b153af0df1cc},
	author = {Badidi, E. and Serhani, M.A. and Esmahi, L. and Elkoutbi, M.}
}
@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 {Jakimi2008521,
	title = {Use cases and scenarios engineering},
	booktitle = {Innovations{\textquoteright}07: 4th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 0},
	pages = {521-525},
	doi = {10.1109/IIT.2007.4430418},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-50249112803\&doi=10.1109\%2fIIT.2007.4430418\&partnerID=40\&md5=82fe395e89ce2d783684d6544100e69f},
	author = {Jakimi, A. and Sabraoui, A. and Badidi, E. and Idri, A. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000259601400195,
	title = {Using UAM scenarios in B2B systems},
	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 = {964+},
	publisher = {Int Islam Univ Malaysia, Fac Engn},
	organization = {Int Islam Univ Malaysia, Fac Engn},
	abstract = {Over the past years, scenarios have received significant attention and have been used for different purposes such as understanding requirements, human computer interaction analysis, and object-oriented analysis and design. In this paper, we suggest to apply the scenario approach to B2B systems (Business to Business). We propose, to develop B2B systems as a three activities process deriving formal specifications and code skeletons from UML scenarios. Activities of this proposed process are generally automatic and are supported by a set of developed algorithms and tools.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-2357-6},
	doi = {10.1109/ICCCE.2008.4580750},
	author = {Jakimi, A. and Sabraoui, A. and Salah, A. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@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.}
}
@article { ISI:000208118700002,
	title = {Adjustable SAD matching algorithm using frequency domain},
	journal = {JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING},
	volume = {1},
	number = {4},
	year = {2007},
	month = {JUL},
	pages = {257-265},
	abstract = {Fast Fourier transforms (FFTs) which are O(N logN) algorithms to compute a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of size N have been called one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century. However, even though many algorithms have been developed to speed up the computation the sum of absolute difference (SAD) matching, they are exclusively designed in the spatial domain. In this paper, we propose a fast frequency algorithm to speed up the process of (SAD) matching. We use a new approach to approximate the SAD metric by cosine series which can be expressed in correlation terms. These latter can be computed using FFT algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method when using only the first correlation terms for block and template matching in terms of accuracy and speed. The proposed algorithm is suitable for software implementations and has a deterministic execution time unlike the existing fast algorithms for SAD matching.},
	issn = {1861-8200},
	doi = {10.1007/s11554-007-0026-0},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Haj Thami, R. Oulad and Aboutajdine, D. and Salam, A.}
}
@article { ISI:000256074600006,
	title = {Fast exhaustive block-based motion vector estimation algorithm using FFT},
	journal = {ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING},
	volume = {32},
	number = {2C},
	year = {2007},
	note = {18th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2006), King Fahd Univ Petr \& Minerals, Dhahran, SAUDI ARABIA, DEC 16-18, 2006},
	month = {DEC},
	pages = {61-74},
	abstract = {In video processing, block motion estimation represents a CPU-intensive task. For this reason, many fast algorithms have been developed to improve searching and matching phases. These methods however work generally in the spatial domain. In this paper we propose to benefit from speed of the available FFT algorithms. The proposed algorithm computes the motion vector for two blocks using simultaneous two-dimensional cross correlations and use again the FFT to compute the sum square blocks in the frequency domain. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm gives an optimal SSD (sum square differences) full search results while having a computational cost inferior to the classical fast block matching algorithms.},
	issn = {1319-8025},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Thami, R. Oulad Haj and Aboutajdine, D. and Salam, A.}
}
@article { ISI:000246875600015,
	title = {Fast L4 template matching using frequency domain},
	journal = {ELECTRONICS LETTERS},
	volume = {43},
	number = {9},
	year = {2007},
	month = {APR 26},
	pages = {507-508},
	abstract = {Fast and simple L4 norm computation for translational template matching is presented. The proposed method is based on expressing the L4 norm in terms of two cross-correlations. Speed is obtained from computing the correlations in the frequency domain using FFT algorithms.},
	issn = {0013-5194},
	doi = {10.1049/el:20070793},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Thami, R. Oulad Haj and Aboutajdine, D. and Salam, A.}
}
@article {2489083820070426,
	title = {Fast L4 template matching using frequency domain.},
	journal = {Electronics Letters},
	volume = {43},
	number = {9},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {507 - 508},
	abstract = {Fast and simple L4 norm computation for translational template matching is presented. The proposed method is based on expressing the L4 norm in terms of two cross-correlations. Speed is obtained from computing the correlations in the frequency domain using FFT algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]},
	keywords = {Algebra, Algorithms, Correlation (Statistics), Mathematical statistics, Pattern recognition systems},
	issn = {00135194},
	url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true\&db=iih\&AN=24890838\&site=ehost-live},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Oulad Haj Thami, R. and Aboutajdine, D. and Salam, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000255185000029,
	title = {Practical load distribution models for Web services based environments},
	booktitle = {2008 INTERNATIONAL MCETECH CONFERENCE ON E-TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEEDINGS},
	year = {2007},
	note = {3rd International MCETECH Conference on e-Technologies, Montreal, CANADA, JAN 23-25, 2008},
	pages = {258+},
	publisher = {Univ Quebec; CGI; SAP; IEEE Comp Soc},
	organization = {Univ Quebec; CGI; SAP; IEEE Comp Soc},
	abstract = {Web services QoS management frameworks proposed in the literature deal essentially with issues such as QoS specification, QoS-based discovery and selection, and QoS monitoring of Web services. However, only few works have considered the issue of load distribution in a Web services context. In this paper, we investigate three models that might be used to achieve load distribution in a Web services environment. We focus on load distribution at the operation level by considering the assignment of methods execution to appropriate Web services according to some selection policies. The experiments we have conducted using the broker-oriented model have shown that better results are obtained using the random policy for Web service selection.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-3082-6},
	doi = {10.1109/MCETECH.2008.21},
	author = {Badidi, Elarbi and Serhani, M. Adel and Esmahi, Larbi and Elkoutbi, Mohamed},
	editor = {Kropf, P and Benyoucef, M and Mili, H}
}
@article { ISI:000251549200037,
	title = {Simple noncircular correlation method for exhaustive sum square difference matching},
	journal = {OPTICAL ENGINEERING},
	volume = {46},
	number = {10},
	year = {2007},
	month = {OCT},
	abstract = {We propose a new algorithm to calculate the sum square difference (SSD) metric for estimating translational motion. Using some substitutions and complex arithmetics, computation of the SSD is derived to be a correlation function of two substituting functions. The former can be computed using the fast Fourier transform (FFT) approach, which is less computationally expensive than the direct computation of the SSD. Zero padding of the block is useful both to avoid the circular character of the FFT and to computes the SSD function at once. We prove the existence of a simple and optimal correlation method for noncircular SSD matching. (c) 2007 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.},
	issn = {0091-3286},
	doi = {10.1117/1.2786469},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Thami, R. Oulad Haj and Aboutajdine, D. and Salam, A.}
}
@conference { ISI:000250559700098,
	title = {Towards managing variability across business component development},
	booktitle = {IRI 2007: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2007 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION},
	year = {2007},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI-2007), Las Vegas, NV, AUG 13-15, 2007},
	pages = {594+},
	publisher = {IEEE; SMC Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; SMC Soc},
	abstract = {Reusing components, which are specifically set up to suit enterprises requirements, becomes a key element of their software engineering strategy. Consequently, the ability of reusable components to be varied and appropriate to different re-users requirements is a key property in reusable component development. From this need, the concept of variability has emerged. It is defined as the ability of a software artefact to be changed or customized to be used in multiple contexts. The objective of our research is to outline variability issues through reusable component development, and in particular, in the requirements phase of a Business Component (BC) development. The main ideas of this research are (a) to address variability issues through the requirements phase of a BC development and (b) to propose a metamodel to describe variability concepts that must be classified and designed to manage this variability.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-1499-4},
	doi = {10.1109/IRI.2007.4296685},
	author = {Saidil, Rajaa and Fredj, Mounia and Mouline, Salma and Front, Agnes and Rieu, Dominique},
	editor = {Chang, W and Joshi, JBD}
}
@conference { ISI:000255983000056,
	title = {Use cases and scenarios engineering},
	booktitle = {2007 INNOVATIONS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, VOLS 1 AND 2},
	year = {2007},
	note = {4th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES, NOV 18-20, 2007},
	pages = {274+},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {\textbackslash{} In this paper, we suggest a requirement engineering process that composes (merge) use cases/scenarios and yields a formal specification of the system in form of a high-level Petri net. Use cases and scenarios are acquired in form of diagrams as defined by the Unified Modeling Language (UML). These diagrams are composed and transformed into Petri net specifications and merged to obtain a global Petri net specification capturing the behavior of the entire system. From the global specification, a system prototype can be generated and embedded in a user interface builder environment for further refinement. Based on end user feedback, the use cases and the input scenarios may be iteratively refined. The result of the overall process is a specification consisting of a global Petri net, together with the generated and refined prototype. This paper discusses some activities of this process.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-1840-4},
	author = {Jakimi, A. and Sabraoui, A. and Badidi, E. and Idri, A. and El Koutbi, M.}
}
@conference { ISI:000239482400015,
	title = {A bottom-up workflow mining approach for workflow applications analysis},
	booktitle = {DATA ENGINEERING ISSUES IN E-COMMERCE AND SERVICES, PROCEEDINGS},
	series = {LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE},
	volume = {4055},
	year = {2006},
	note = {2nd International Workshop on Data Engineering Issues in E-Commerce and Services, San Francisco, CA, JUN 26, 2006},
	pages = {182-197},
	abstract = {Engineering workflow applications are becoming more and more complex, involving numerous interacting business objects within considerable processes. Analysing the interaction structure of those complex applications will enable them to be well understood, controlled, and redesigned. Our contribution to workflow mining is a statistical technique to discover workflow patterns from event-based log. Our approach is characterised by a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}local{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} workflow patterns discovery that allows to cover partial results through a dynamic programming algorithm. Those local discovered workflow patterns are then composed iteratively until discovering the global workflow model. Our approach has been implemented within our prototype WorkflowMiner.},
	isbn = {3-540-35440-9},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Gaaloul, Walid and Baina, Karim and Godart, Claude},
	editor = {Lee, J and Shim, J and Lee, S and Bussler, C and Shim, S}
}
@conference { ISI:000241429800054,
	title = {Galois{\textquoteright} lattice for video navigation in a DBMS},
	booktitle = {MULTIMEDIA CONTENT REPRESENTATION, CLASSIFICATION AND SECURITY},
	series = {LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE},
	volume = {4105},
	year = {2006},
	note = {International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security (MRCS 2006), Istanbul, TURKEY, SEP 11-13, 2006},
	pages = {418-425},
	publisher = {Int Assoc Pattern Recognit; Istanbul Tech Univ; TUBITAK},
	organization = {Int Assoc Pattern Recognit; Istanbul Tech Univ; TUBITAK},
	abstract = {Digital visual media encounters many problems related to storage, representation, querying and visual presentation. In this paper, we propose a technique for the retrieval of video from a database on the basis of video shots classified by a Galois{\textquoteright} lattice. The result is a kind of hypermedia that combines both classification and visualization properties in order to navigate between key frames and video segments.},
	isbn = {3-540-39392-7},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Mbaye, Ibrahima and Martinez, Jose and Thami, Rachid Oulad Haj},
	editor = {Gunsel, B and Jain, AK and Tekalp, AM and Sankur, B}
}
@conference { ISI:000245384800059,
	title = {An optimal and statistically robust correlation technique for block based motion estimation},
	booktitle = {2006 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND EXPO - ICME 2006, VOLS 1-5, PROCEEDINGS},
	year = {2006},
	note = {IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, CANADA, JUL 09-12, 2006},
	pages = {233+},
	publisher = {IEEE; IEEE Circuits \& Syst Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Signal Proc Soc},
	organization = {IEEE; IEEE Circuits \& Syst Soc; IEEE Commun Soc; IEEE Comp Soc; IEEE Signal Proc Soc},
	abstract = {In this paper we propose an optimal and robust correlation technique for the local motion estimation purposes. It is based on the maximization of a statistical robust matching function, which is computed in the frequency domain and therefore can be implemented by fast transformation algorithms. We show that our method achieves a significant speed up and robustness over the full search block-matching algorithm. We also present a comparative performance analysis, which shows that the proposed method greatly outperforms the state-of-the-art in correlation motion estimation.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-0366-0},
	doi = {10.1109/ICME.2006.262425},
	author = {Essannouni, F. and Thami, R. Oulad Haj and Salam, A. and Aboutajdine, D.}
}
@conference { ISI:000245715700012,
	title = {WS-QoSM: A broker-based architecture for web services QoS management},
	booktitle = {2006 Innovations in Information Technology},
	year = {2006},
	note = {Innovations in Information Technology Conference 2006, Dubai, U ARAB EMIRATES, NOV 19-21, 2006},
	pages = {56-60},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {QoS management has been extensively studied in network-based multimedia applications. However, its application to Web services is very recent In this paper, we present WS-QoSM, it Web services QoS management architecture capable of supporting at runtime the QoS management operations, QoS provisioning and assurance in delivering Web services. Our proposed architecture is based on the commonly used notion of QoS brokerage service to mediate between service requesters and service providers. Its responsibilities include performance monitoring of Web services, implementation of Web service selection policies, and negotiation of QoS. Besides, we present a server-oriented scheme for load distribution based on the sender-initiated and receiver-initiated strategies previously used in general distributed systems.},
	isbn = {978-1-4244-0673-9},
	author = {Badidi, Elarbi and Esmahi, Larbi and Serhani, M. Adel and Elkoutbi, Mohamed}
}
@conference { ISI:000222262200022,
	title = {Model-driven web service development},
	booktitle = {ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS},
	series = {BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTRUMENTATION},
	volume = {3084},
	year = {2004},
	note = {16th Intenational Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Fac Comp Sci \& Informat Technol, Riga, LATVIA, JUN 07-11, 2004},
	pages = {290-306},
	publisher = {Riga Tech Univ},
	organization = {Riga Tech Univ},
	abstract = {Web services are emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of inter-organizational interactions. However, despite the growing interest, several issues still need to be addressed to provide Web services with benefits similar to what traditional middle-ware brings to intra-organizational application integration. In this paper, we present a framework that supports the model-driven development of Web services. Specifically, we show how, starting from the external specifications of a Web service (e.g., interface and protocol specifications), we can support the generation of extensible service implementation templates as well as of complete (executable) service specifications, thereby considerably simplifying the service development work.},
	isbn = {3-540-22151-4},
	issn = {0067-8856},
	author = {Baina, K and Benatallah, B and Casati, F and Toumani, F},
	editor = {Persson, A and Stirna, J}
}
@conference { ISI:000184848600019,
	title = {Modeling and tracking of the cardiac left ventricular motion by a state space harmonic model in MRI sequence},
	booktitle = {FUNCTIONAL IMAGING AND MODELING OF THE HEART, PROCEEDINGS},
	series = {LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE},
	volume = {2674},
	year = {2003},
	note = {2nd International Workshop on Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH2003), LYON, FRANCE, JUN 05-06, 2003},
	pages = {184-193},
	publisher = {Inst Natl Sci Appl Lyon; Helsinki Univ Technol; French Finnish Assoc Sci Tech Res; French Natl Ctr Sci Res; Sci Acad Finland, Grad Sch, Funct Res Med; French Embassy Helsinki, Sci Dept; French Biomed Engn Soc; Joint Incent Act Beating Heart ISIS Res Grp; },
	organization = {Inst Natl Sci Appl Lyon; Helsinki Univ Technol; French Finnish Assoc Sci Tech Res; French Natl Ctr Sci Res; Sci Acad Finland, Grad Sch, Funct Res Med; French Embassy Helsinki, Sci Dept; French Biomed Engn Soc; Joint Incent Act Beating Heart ISIS Res Grp; },
	abstract = {We present a new method for modeling the left ventricular motion of the heart from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequence. We propose to model the 3D time-space trajectory of the points of the endocardial regions of the left ventricle (LV) using an harmonic model of movement, which is linear and describes the dynamics of the left ventricle throughout the cardiac cycle. This new state space model is based on the assumption of quasi-periodicity of the cardiac cycle. We describe our method to obtain the state canonical vector and the corresponding state equations of the harmonic state model (HSM). A Kalman filter is used on this harmonic state model as an estimation tool of the filtered trajectory of the LV. It allows to obtain a robust estimation of the state vector which contains the measured parameter and its derivatives. Thus, a robust estimation of the instantaneous velocity of the LV region is computed using the whole information of the sequence included in the harmonic model. The model is validated on real cardiac sequences. We detail how to get the 3D time-space trajectories of the LV edge points. The results obtained are particularly interesting because they demonstrate the capability of our method to understand and discriminate normal cases from pathological cases.},
	isbn = {3-540-40262-4},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Oumsis, M and Pham, QC and Sdigui, AD and Neyran, B and Magnin, IE},
	editor = {Magnin, IE and Clarysse, P and Katila, T and Montagnat, J and Nenonen, J}
}
@conference { ISI:000187617100054,
	title = {Toward a generation of code multi-target for the VBOOM method},
	booktitle = {SERP{\textquoteright}03: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, VOLS 1 AND 2},
	year = {2003},
	note = {International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, LAS VEGAS, NV, JUN 23-26, 2003},
	pages = {345-350},
	publisher = {Comp Sci Res, Educ \& Applicat Press; Int Technol Inst; Korean Soc Internet Informat; World Acad Sci Informat Technol},
	organization = {Comp Sci Res, Educ \& Applicat Press; Int Technol Inst; Korean Soc Internet Informat; World Acad Sci Informat Technol},
	abstract = {VBOOM method (View Based Object Oriented Method) developed by our team, is a method of analysis and conception by object points of views, specific to the complex system modeling with rights of access. However, it only generates the code VBOOL source (View Based Object Oriented Langage) language targets this last and extension of the Eiffel language. To this subject, one will expose in the present article a new approach to the UML norm (Unified Modeling Language) to generate code multi-target through this method. The approach thus the adopted consist of translation by a mechanism of conversion based on concepts of the UML notation: the flexible class and the visibility{\textquoteright}s relation. These two essential notions, non-existent in the UML and based of the final model of VBOOM, will be able produced by an implementation{\textquoteright}s solution targeting several languages oriented objects as JAVA, C++, etc.},
	isbn = {1-932415-21-1},
	author = {Sbihi, B and Abdelaziz, K and Ahmed, E and Coulette, B},
	editor = {AlAni, B and Arabnia, HR and Mun, Y}
}
@conference { ISI:000088420800047,
	title = {Performance evaluation of {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}kernel based tree{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} protocol},
	booktitle = {PROCEEDINGS OF 1999 SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS},
	year = {1999},
	note = {Symposium on Performance Evaluations of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (SPECTS 99), CHICAGO, IL, JUL 11-15, 1999},
	pages = {318-325},
	publisher = {Soc Comp Simulat Int},
	organization = {Soc Comp Simulat Int},
	abstract = {Multicasting messages to group members is now allowed thanks to many network level multicast routing protocols. Actually, current multicast routing protocols suffer from inflexibility in relation to their environment resources, and inappropriateness towards dynamic properties of group members. Thus, proposing implementations of new protocols in order to evaluate their performance is a costly issue, and it is better to simulate their behaviour before deciding whether they are efficient or not. We present a global {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}adaptive multicast routing protocol{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}, based on a special multicast tree, KBT (Kernel Based Tree). This strategy may lead to a new {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}QoS multicast routing protocol{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}}. Our approach is based on the choice of a {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}kernel{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} of {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}interception points{{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}} in the initial multicast tree. As part of our work, we present in this paper the architecture, properties, and the main functionalities of our protocol. We finally evaluate the performance of our adaptive protocol through comparisons with classical current multicast routing protocols in the Internet, and show the enhancements provided by our solution.},
	isbn = {1-56555-174-5},
	author = {El Kettani, MDEC and Souissi, Y},
	editor = {Obaidat, MS and Marsan, MA}
}
@conference { ISI:000086483900037,
	title = {Towards an adaptation of the COCOMO cost model to the software measurement theory},
	booktitle = {SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - ESEC/FSE {\textquoteleft}97},
	series = {LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE},
	volume = {1301},
	year = {1997},
	note = {Joint Meeting of the 6th European Software Engineering Conference / 5th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 97), ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, SEP 22-25, 1997},
	pages = {525-526},
	publisher = {ESEC; ACM SIGSOFT; Fdn Software Engn},
	organization = {ESEC; ACM SIGSOFT; Fdn Software Engn},
	isbn = {3-540-63531-9},
	issn = {0302-9743},
	author = {Idri, A and Griech, B and El Iraki, A},
	editor = {Jazayeri, M and Schauer, H}
}
