Annual Report 2007-08 - FEA - American University of Beirut

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Books
N.H. Sabah, Electric
Circuits and Signals,
Boca Raton, Fl, CRC
Press, 2008
Journal Papers (sorted by Dates)
M. Awad, X. Jiang and Y. Motai,
“Incremental Framework of Support
Vector Machine for Distributed
Vision Sensors”, EURASIP Journal on
Applied Signal Processing, Volume 7,
Issue 1, pp: 222 – 232, July 2007.
H. Mangassarian and H. Artail, “A
General Framework for Subjective
Information Extraction from
Unstructured English Text”, Data &
Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 62, No.
2, pp. 352-367, August 2007.
H. Safa, H. Artail, H. Hamze, and
K. Mershad, “A collaborative
service discovery and service
sharing framework for mobile ad
hoc networks”, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Vol. 4672, pp.
151-160, September 2007.
S. Hanna, A. Chehab, A. Kayssi, and H.
Artail, “Lighter Weight Mobile Agent
System”, International Journal on
Computers and Their Applications,
Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 170-186,
September 2007.
H. Hajj, “Intel’s AMT enables rapid
processing and Info-turn for Intel’s
DFM Test Chip Vehicle”, SPIE
Photomask, September, 2007.
H. Weerasinghe, I. H. Elhajj, A.
Krsteva,and M. Abou Najm, “Data
Centric Adaptive In-Network
Aggregation Wireless Sensor
Networks”, IEEE/ASME International
Conference on Advanced Intelligent
Mechatronics, Switzerland,
September 2007.
A. Tajeddine, A. Kayssi, A. Chehab,
and H. Artail, “PATROL – A
Comprehensive Reptaion-Based Trust
Model”, The International Journal
of Internet Technology and Secured
Transactions, Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp.
108-131, October 2007.
J. Moyne, H. Hajj, K. Beatty and R.
Lewandowski “SEMI E133—The
Process Control System Standard:
Deriving a Software Interoperability
Standard for Advanced Process
Control in Semiconductor
Manufacturing”, IEEE Transactions
on Semiconductor Manufacturing:
Special Issue on Advanced Process
Control, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 408-
420, November 2007.
A. Bzeih, S. Abou Shahine, K.Y. Kabalan,
A. El-Hajj, and A. Chehab, “An
Improved Broadband E-Patch
Microstrip Antenna for Wireless
Communications”, Radio Science,
Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1-12, November
2007.
R. Hamade, H. Artail, and M. Jaber,
“Evaluating the Learning Process
of Mechanical CAD Students”,
Computers & Education, Vol. 49, No.
3, pp. 640-661, November 2007.
J. Weindl, P. Hanus, Z. Dawy, J. Zech,
J. Hagenauer, and J. C. Mueller,
“Modeling DNA-binding of
Escherichia Coli Sigma70 Exhibits
a Characteristic Energy Landscape
around Strong Promoters,” Nucleic
Acids Research, Nucleic Acids
Research, Vol. 35, No.20, pp. 7003-
7010, November 2007
S. Majzoub, and H. Diab, “Instruction-
Set extension for cryptographic
applications on reconfigurable
platform,” Special Issue on Advances
in Circuits and Systems for Large
Scale Integration, in The Journal of
Circuits, Systems, and Computers
(JCSC), Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 911-927,
December 2007.
P. Hanus, B. Goebel, J. Dingel, J. Weindl,
J. Zech, Z. Dawy, J. Hagenauer,
and J. C. Mueller, “Information and
Communication Theory in Molecular
Biology,” Archiv f¨ur Elektrotechnik,
Volume 90, Number 2, pp. 161-173,
December 2007.
J. Costantine, K.Y. Kabalan, A. El-Hajj,
and M. Rammal, “New Multi-
Wide-Band Design for a Microstrip
Patch Antenna, IEEE Antennas and
Propagations magazine, Vol. 49, No.
6, pp. 181-86, December 2007.
Z. Dawy, P. Hanus, J. Weindl, J. Dingel,
and F. Morcos, “On Genomic Coding
Theory,“ European Transaction on
Telecommunications, Volume 18,
Issue 8, pp. 873-879, December
2007.
R. Hamade and H. Artail, “A study of
the influence of technical attributes
of beginner CAD users on their
performance”, Computer-Aided
Design, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 262–272,
February 2008.
F. B. Chaaban, N. Saliba, A. Dandashle,
and J. H. Dennis, Assessing the risk
of exposure to PCBs among the
employees of the power sector,
World Resources Review, Vol.20,
No.2, pp: 237-246, February 2008.
M. Eid, H. Artail, A. Kayssi and A.
Chehab, “LAMAIDS: A Lightweight
Adaptive Mobile Agent-based
Intrusion Detection System”,
International Journal of Network
Security, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 145-157,
March 2008.
M. Awad and Y. Motai, “Dynamic
Classification for Video Stream using
Support Vector Machine”, Journal
on Applied Soft Computing, online
version, April 2008.
H. Artail, “A methodology for combining
development and research in
teaching undergraduate software
engineering”, International Journal of
Engineering Education, Vol. 24, No.
3, May 2008.
M. A. Al-Alaoui, “Al-Alaoui Operator and
the New Transformation Polynomials
for Discretization of Analogue
Systems“, Electrical Engineering,
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Vol. 90,
Number 6, pp. 455-467, June 2008.
Conference Papers (sorted by Dates)
H. Artail, F. Mrad, and M. Mortada,
“A case study on the applicability
of software reliability models to a
telecommunication software”, 2nd
International Conference on Software
and Data Technologies (ICSOFT
2007), Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
H. Artail, H. Safa, H. Hamze, and K.
Mershad, “A Cluster Based Service
Discovery Model for Mobile Ad hoc
Networks”, 3rd IEEE International
Conference on Wireless and Mobile
Computing, Networking and
Communications (WiMob’2007),
New York, NY, August, 2007.
R. Moussali, N. Ghanem, and M.A.R.
Saghir , “Microarchitectural
Enhancements for Configurable
Multithreaded Soft Processors”, the
17th IEEE International Conference
on Field Programmable Logic and
Applications (FPL 2007), Amsterdam,
Netherland, August, 2007.
H. Artail, H. Safa, R. ElZinnar, and H.
Hamze, “A Distributed Database
Framework from Mobile Databases
in MANETs”, 3rd IEEE International
Conference on Wireless and Mobile
Computing, Networking and
Communications (WiMob’2007),
New York, NY, August, 2007.
M.A. Al-Alaoui, M. I. Ohannessian, G.
F. Choueiter,C. Akl, T. T. Avakian,
I. Al-Kamal, and R. Ferzli,”A Pilot
Project: From Illiteracy to Computer
Literacy: Teaching and Learning Using
Information Technology,” ICL 2007,
Villach, Austria, September, 2007.
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W. Saad, S. Sharafeddine, and Z. Dawy,
“A Micro-Economics Approach for
Scheduling in CDMA Networks with
End-to-End QoS Guarantees,” in 18th
IEEE International Symposium on
Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio
Communications (PIMRC 2007),
Athens, Greece, September, 2007.
W. Itani, A. Kayssi, and A. Chehab,
“An Efficient and Scalable Security
Protocol for Protecting Fixed-Content
Objects in Content Addressable
Storage Architectures”, 3rd Workshop
on the Value of Security through
Collaboration (SECOVAL), Nice,
France, September, 2007.
L. Bazzi, “Polylogarithmic independence
can fool DNF formulas”, 48th Annual
IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science (FOCS 2007),
Providence, RI, October, 2007.
R. Moussali, N. Ghanem, and M.A.R.
Saghir, “Supporting Multithreading in
Configurable Soft Processor Cores”,
the 2007 International Conference
on Compilers, Architecture, and
Synthesis for Embedded Systems
(CASES 2007), Salzburg, Austria,
September, 2007.
Z. Radwan, C. Gaspard, A. Kayssi, and
A. Chehab, “XPRIDE: Policy-Driven
Web Services Security Based on XML
Content”, the 50th IEEE GLOBECOM
Conference, Washington, DC,
November, 2007.
F. Mrad, M. Hakeem (S), C. Antonios
(S), “Demand-based Control of
Variable Speed Pumps in Multi-Zone
HVAC,” IEEE Industrial Applications
and Control Systems Societies Joint
Seminar, Madrid, Spain, November
2007.
J. Costantine, K. Y. Kabalan, A. El Hajj
, and C. G. Christodoulou, “New
Multi-Wide-Band Design for a
Microstrip Patch Antenna”, 2nd
European Conference on Antennas
and Propagation (EUCAP 2007), UK,
November, 2007.
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F. Bitar, N. Madi, E. Ramly, M. Saghir,
and F. Karameh, “A Portable
MIDI Controller Using EMG-
Based Individual Finger Motion
Classification”, the 2007 IEEE
Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Conference (BioCAS 2007), Montreal,
Canada, November, 2007.
N. Karameh, ”Modeling the role of
cortical layer pyramidal cells in
integrating first and higher order
thalamocortical network activity
in the rat somatosensory cortex”,
Society for Neuroscience Annual
Meeting 2007, San Diego, USA,
November 2007.
R. Ferzli and M. A. Al-Alaoui,
“Subsampling Image Compression
Using Al-Alaoui Backpropagation
Algorithm”, 14th IEEE International
Conference on Electronics, Circuits
and Systems, Marrakech, Morocco,
December, 2007.
A. Chehab, A. Kayssi and A. Ghandour,
“Transient Current Testing of Gate-
Oxide Shorts in CMOS”, International
Design and Test Workshop (IDT),
Cairo, Egypt, December, 2007.
M. Al-Husseini, E. Yaacoub, K.Y. Kabalan,
and A. El-Hajj, “Pattern Synthesis
with Uniform Circular Arrays for
Intercell Interference Reduction”, 5th
International Conference on Electrical
and Electronics Engineering (ELECO
2007), Bursa, Turkey, December,
2007.
M Al-Husseini, K.Y. Kabalan, and A. El-
Hajj, “A Pattern Synthesis Method
for Planar Arrays with Independent
Control of Sidelobe Level and
Beamwidth In Two Principal Planes”,
5th International Conference on
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
(ELECO 2007), Bursa, Turkey,
December, 2007.
Al-Kamal, and M. A. Al-Alaoui, “Online
Machine Vision Inspection System for
Detecting Coating Defects in Metal
Lids”, International Multi Conference
of Engineers and Computer Scientists
200, Hong Kong, March, 2008.
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