CSITeA-04 Conference Program

 

 

 

 

8:00 am – 4:00 pm                 Conference Registration

 

9:00 – 11:00 am                     Conference Opening and Welcome                                                                                     Invited Lecture:

 

 

11:00- 11:20 am                     Coffee Break

 

 

Session 1A:  Session on Computing Practices and Applications I

Monday, December 27, 11:20 am – 12:35 pm

Session Chair:

TBA

 

3-Channel Arterial Pulse Waveform Monitoring System

B. Y. Kim (Kangwon National University, Korea) and Y. S. Chang (Daejin University, Korea)

 

An Intelligent Database Application For The Semantic Web

Hussien H. Aly and Amr F. El-Helw (Alexandria University, Egypt)

 

Human Security Index As A Means Of Forecasting Violent Acts: An Empirical Approach

M. W. Youssef  and R. Roushdy

 

 

Session 1B:  Session on Computer Networks and Security I

Monday, December 27, 11:20 am – 12:35 pm

Session Chair:

TBA

 

A Simulation Study of EDFA Characteristics for In-Line Amplification in Optical Networks

Haitham S. Hamza (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Abdel-Wahab F. Hussein (Cairo University, Egypt), Ali M. El-Gendy (Aviation Engineering and technology Institute, Egypt), and Jitender S. Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

 

 

WaterMed: A Watermarking Method For Medical Digital Images

S. Karoui and N. El Kadhi (LEIRA/ISG, France)

 

Routing and Wavelength Assignment with Wavelength Converters Optimization for WDM Networks with Path-Protection

Haitham S. Hamza and Jitender S. Deogun (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

 

 

Session 1C:  Special Session on Image and Multimedia Information Processing I

Monday, December 27, 11:20 am – 12:35 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Morshed Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia

Dr. Sid Ray, Monash University, Australia

                                     

Coherence Based Histograms for Shape Retrieval

Atul Sajjanhar (Deakin University-Melbourne, Australia), Guojun Lu and Dengsheng Zhang (Monash University-Gippsland, Australia),

           

A Comparative Study of Image Cropping Algorithms on Multimedia Retrieval

Nazmul Haque (Telstra Corporation Limited-Melbourne, Australia) and Morshed U. Chowdhury (Deakin University- Melbourne, Australia)

   

Pattern Identification Variable Length Code for Pattern Based Video Coding using Co Occurrence Matrix

Manzur Murshed  and Manoranjan Paul ( Monash University- Gippsland, Australia)

 

 

 

Session 2A:  Session on Computing Practices and Applications II

Monday, December 27, 12:45 – 2:00 pm

Session Chair:

TBA

 

VLSI Design for Real Time Block Based Motion Estimation

Sushmitha Modukuri, Paul Salama, Maher Rizkalla, and Mohamed El-Sharkawy (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA)

 

Determinant Factors In Design Of DSS  “Xenios” For Vehicle Routing And Scheduling In Athens 2004

Manussaridis Z.( University of Thessaly, Greece) and Mamaloukas Ch.( Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)

 

A View Oriented Approach For The Development Of Complex Applications

Joumana Dargham (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

 

 

Session 2B:  Session on Computer Networks and Security II

Monday, December 27, 12:45 – 2:00 pm

Session Chair:

TBA

 

Voice Over Internet Protocol (Voip): A Typical Case Study

Ebada Sarhan, Aliaa A. Youssif, and Ayman M. Nabil (Helwan University, Egypt)

 

A Proposed Packet Filtering System To Protect Open Networks

M. W. Youssef and K. Roshdy

 

Combining Abstract Interpretation And Fsm-Based Method For Cryptographic Protocol Verification

Nabil El Kadhi and Hazem EL-Gendy (Misr International University, Egypt)

 

 

Session 2C:  Special Session on Image and Multimedia Information Processing II

Monday, December 27, 12:45 – 2:00 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Morshed Chowdhury, Deakin University, Australia

Dr. Sid Ray, Monash University, Australia

           

Performance of Statistical Inference for Block Classification in Reducing Blocking

Artefact in Video Coded Images

Morshed U. Chowdhury (Deakin University- Melbourne, Australia), Siddheswar Ray (Monash University-Melbourne, Australia) and Thao Pham (Deakin University- Melbourne, Australia)

 

Automatic Character Animation at Behavioral Level

Jinhong Shen (University of Tokyo, Japan), Seiya Miyazaki, Terumasa Aoki and Hiroshi Yasuda (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Japan)

 

A Global Threshold Wavelet-Based Compression Schema For Speech Compression

Jalal R. Karam (Arab Open University, Lebanon.)

 

 

2:00 – 3:00 pm              Conference Luncheon

 

 

Session 3A:  Session on Algorithms

Monday, December 27, 3:00 – 5:05 pm

Session Chair:           

Dr. Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon

           

A Testbed for Linear Time and Constant Space Differencing Algorithms

Fouad B. Chedid and Pauline Mouawad (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)

 

Extension And Use Of Kmrcrelat Algorithm For Biological Problems

Nahla El Zant El Kadhi (LIPN Institut Gallile, France), Nabil El Kadhi, and Pierre-Antoine Gourraud (LIPN/LERIA, France)

 

The Detection Of Dynamic Dependencies Using A Generic Abstract Interpretation Algorithm

Gilbert Musumbu-Kaninda ( Labri-Universite Bordeaux 1, France)

 

Approximation Algorithm For The K-Nearest Neighbors Search

Sherif Saad Mohammed (El-Minia University, Egypt)

 

Multi-Criterion Algorithm for Computer-Based Electric Vehicle Battery Monitoring

R. P. Lisner, H. R. Abachi (Monash University, Australia), and N. C. Debnath (Winona State university, USA)

 

 

 

Session 3B:  Special Session on Computer Networks and Security III

Monday, December 27, 3:00 – 5:05 pm

Session Chair: 

Dr. Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA

                       

Macroscopic Sensor Networks: Application Issues in the Healthcare Industry

Elaine Lawrence, Karla Felix Navarro, Josep Riudavets and Marco Messina (University of Technology–Sydney, Australia)

 

Filtering Mobile Spam by Support Vector Machine

Yang Xiang, Morshed U. Chowdhury (Deakin University-Melbourne, Australia) and Shawkat Ali (Monash University, Australia)

 

An Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for Clustered MANET

R. Jandhyala, V. Doraiswamy, B. Gupta, and S. Rahimi (Southern Illinois University, USA)

 

 

 

Simulation Study of MPLS High-Speed Networks with Traffic Engineering

Mansoor Alam, Ashish Ponugoti (University of Toledo, USA), and Min Song (Old Dominion University, USA)

 

Fluid-flow Modeling Technique for Communication Networks

Sachin Shetty and Min Song (Old Dominion University, USA)

 

 

 

Session 3C:  Special Session on E-Society I

Monday, December 27, 3:00 – 5:05 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece

Dr. George Lepouras, University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Costas Vassilakis , University of Athens, Greece

           

Studying Knowledge Trading with a Business Game

Roland M. Mueller, Stephanie Haiduk, Nadine Y. Heertsch, Hans-J. Lenz, and

Myra Spiliopoulou (Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany)

 

A Fuzzy Model for Agent Control in Virtual Environments

Spyros Vosinakis (University of Piraeus, Greece)

           

Reusability in Electronic Services Development

Costas Vassilakis and George Lepouras (University of Peloponnese, Greece)

             

A First Approach to the E-Protection of Marine Environment against Oil Pollution

Anna Charissi (University of Athens, Greece ) and Leonidas Perivoliotis (Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece)

             

Implementing Digital Folklore Collections

Åirini Lourdi (University of Athens, Greece), Mara Nikolaidou (University of Peloponnese, Greece), and C. Papatheodorou (University of Athens, Greece)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 am – 4:00 pm                 Conference Registration

 

9:00 – 10:00 am                     Invited Lecture:

 

 

Session 4A:  Special Session on Agent-Based Expert Systems I

Tuesday, December 28, 10:00 – 11:40 am

Session Chair:           

Dr. Ahmed Kamel, North Dakota State University, USA

                       

Survey Knowledge Management Systems: An Application for e-Business

Wu, Tung-Xiung (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan)

 

New Stemmer to Support Arabic Information Retrieval

Khalid Alsamara (Chicago State University, USA), Hani Abu-Salem (DePaul University, USA), Saleem Abuleil (Chicago State University, USA) and  Bassam Hammo (University of Jordan, Jordan)

           

An Architecture for Distributed Expert Systems Based on Collaborative Agents

N. Galal (Central Laboratory for Agricultural Expert Systems, Egypt),

Y. Abdelhamid and A. Rafea (Cairo University, Egypt)

 

An Intelligent-Agent Based Weather Alert System

Dheeraj Seth and Ahmed Kamel  (North Dakota State University, USA)

 

 

 

Session 4B:  Special Session on Wireless Networks I

Tuesday, December 28, 10:00 – 11:40 am

Session Chairs:

Dr. Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA

Dr. Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

 

Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Protocols

Huzaifa Al Nahas, Jitender S. Deogun, and Eric D. Manley (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

                                   

Cluster-based Network Architecture for Internet Connectivity of Mobile Ad hoc

Networks

Hoon Oh, Hong Seong Park and Vitaly Li (Kangwon National University, Korea)

           

A Coarse-Grain Analysis for Measurement-based Admission Control Algorithms

Abdelnasser M. Abdelaal, Hesham H. Ali (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA), and Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

 

A Hierarchical Data Dissemination Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Jong-Hoon Youn, Parvathi Chundi (University Of Nebraska at Omaha
USA), Anand Visvanathan and Jitender Deogun (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA)

 

 

 

Session 4C:  Special Session on E-Society II

Tuesday, December 28, 10:00 – 11:40 am

Session Chairs:

Dr. Mara Nikolaidou, University of Athens, Greece

Dr. George Lepouras, University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Costas Vassilakis , University of Athens, Greece

           

A Framework For Dynamic And Context Aware Composition Of Adaptable Mobile Services

Athanassia Alonistioti, Spyros Panagiotakis (University of Athens, Greece) and Alexandros Kaloxylos (University of Peloponnese, Greece)

           

Ontology Aided Information Retrieval in Digital Historical Archives

Katifori Akrivi, Golemati Maria (University of Athens, Greece),

Lepouras Giorgos and Halatsis Constantin (University of Peloponnese, Greece)

 

Utilization of Computer Technology and the Determinants of its Impact in Lebanon

Abdulrazzak Charbaji, Hassan Saleh and Jamal Hayek (Lebanese University, Lebanon)

 

A Framework For Managing Business Policies For Web Service–Based Business Processes

Tarik A. Algawiey (George Mason University, USA), Ibrahim Abdullah and Edgar Sibley (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

11:40- 12:00 noon                  Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 5A:  Special Session on Information Technology Applications I

Tuesday, December 28, 12:00 – 2:05 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Ramzi Haraty, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Dr. Abdul Nasser El-Kassar, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon

           

Rabin Public Key Cryptosystem in Rings of Polynomials over Finite Fields

A. N. El-Kassar (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon), Ramzi Haraty (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)  and Y. A. Awad (Lebanese International University, Lebanon)

           

Ternary and Quaternary Decision Diagrams

Ali El Moussaoui  (Sahel General Hospital, Lebanon), Ali Haidar (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon), Ramzi Haraty (Lebanese American University, Lebanon), H. Shirahama, and M. SakaMoto.

 

Web Services: Technologies and Benefits

Mohamad Ladan (Haigazian University, Lebanon)

           

Model Representation for Geographical Evolutions in Discrete Spatio-Temporal

Databases

Hatem F. Halaoui (Graduate Center/ City University of New York, USA)

 

Modified RSA in the Domain of Gaussian Integers

A. N. El-Kassar (Beirut Arab University, Lebanon), Ramzi Haraty and Y. A. Awad (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)

 

 

Session 5B:  Session on Real Time, Parallel and Distributed Systems

Tuesday, December 28, 12:00 – 2:05 pm

Session Chair:

TBA

 

Fault-Tolerant Performance Checking Application for Distributed Computing

Umair Hassan and Ben Soh (La Trobe University, Australia)

 

Cooperative Caching in Clusters

R. A. Rias, S. Rahimi and B. Gupta (Southern Illinois University, USA)

 

Integration Of Web Services Into A Qos Aware Environment

Yuri Babich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

 

Scheduling and Resource Management in Metacomputing System

Jia Tang, Minjie Zhang and Haijun Zhang (University of Wollongong, Australia)

 

Finding Minimal Overheads in Real-time Systems

Ilhyun Lee, Haesun K. Lee (University of Texas of the Permian Basin, USA) and Narayan Debnath (Winona State University, USA)

 

 

 

Session 5C:  Session on Software Engineering and CASE I

Tuesday, December 28, 12:00 – 2:05 pm

Session Chair:

Dr. Walter Dosch, University of Lubeck, Germany

 

History Abstractions of an Interactive  Dictionary

Walter Dosch (University of Lubeck, Germany)

 

Software Component Structure Updating

Abdelhak Seriai (Ecole de Mines de Douai, France) and Abdellah Sari (Universite de Nantes, France)

 

A New Approach to Data Mining for Software Design

Walid Taha, Kedar Swad, and Scott Crosby (Rice University, USA)

 

Roles In Conceptual Business Components

Oualid Khayati and Brahim Lahna (LSR-IMAG Laboratory, France)

 

Transformational Design of a Synchronization Component For Communication Streams

Walter Dosch (University of Lubeck, Germany)

 

 

2:05 – 3:00 pm              Conference Luncheon

 

 

Session 6A:  Special Session on Agent-Based Expert Systems II

Tuesday, December 28, 3:00 –4:15 pm

Session Chair:           

Dr. Ahmed Kamel, North Dakota State University, USA

 

An Agent-Based System for E-mail Monitoring

Deepak Seth and Ahmed Kamel (North Dakota State University, USA)

 

Agents for Invocation of Web Services

Atul Sajjanhar (Deakin University, Australia) and Hongen Lu (La Trobe University, Australia)

 

Collaborative Planning in Supply Chain Management Using a Proposed Agent Architecture

Umair Hassan and Ben Soh (La Trobe University, Australia)

 

 

 

Session 6B:  Special Session on Wireless Networks II

Tuesday, December 28, 3:00 –4:15 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA

Dr. Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

 

Impacts of Mobility Patterns on Mobile IP Handoff

Ting Zhou (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Song Ci (University of Michigan Flint, USA), and Hamid Sharif (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

 

Wireless Ad Hoc Protocols – Complexity and Optimality

Hamed El-Afandi, Hossein Hosseini and K. Vairavan (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

 

TCP Protocol Modification For Better Performance Over Satellite Links

Khalid I. El-Gazzar, Mohamed N. El Derini, Hussein H. Aly, and Waffaa A. El-Haweet (Alexandria University, Egypt)

 

 

 

Session 6C:  Special Session on Data Engineering I

Tuesday, December 28, 3:00 –4:15 pm

Session Chair:        

Dr. Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA

           

Flexible Support Function for Sequential Pattern Mining

Wei Zheng and Dunren Che (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA)

 

An Empirical Study of Hierarchical Division for Mesh-Structured Networks

Dajin Wang (Montclair State University, USA)

 

Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Heartbeat Data: An Experimental Study

Ahmet Ugur, Aydin Cecen and Volkan Tuzcu (Central Michigan Univeristy, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

Session 7A:  Special Session on Information Technology Applications II

Tuesday, December 28, 4:15 – 5:30 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Ramzi Haraty, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

Dr. Abdul Nasser El-Kassar, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon

 

Adaptive Data Retrieval in Multimedia DBMS

Georges Chalhoub, Samir Saad, Richard Chbeir, and Kokou Yetongnon

(Université de Bourgogne, France)     

 

A Multilayered Context Engine For The Smarthome

Kwang-Won Koh, Chang-Ik Choi, Kyung-Lang Park, Shin-Young Lim, and Shin-Dug Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)

 

Al-Monakkeb - A Superior Indexer for Arabic Texts

Ramzi Haraty and Samer Khatib  (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)

 

 

Session 7B:  Session on Information Systems, Databases and

Data Mining I

Tuesday, December 28, 4:15 – 5:30 pm

Session Chair:

Dr. Hazem El-Gendy, Misr International University, Egypt

 

Solving Query Optimization Probelems in Multidatabase System

Mostafa M. Syiam, H. A. Ali, and Amira Rezk (Mansoura University, Egypt)

 

A Nested Matrix Model of Schema Versioning in Object-Oriented Databases

Liu Xian, David Nelson, Sue Stirk, and Simon Stobart (University of Sunderland, UK)

 

Characteristics Of CT-Equivalence

Hazem El-Gendy (Misr International University, Egypt)

 

 

 

Session 7C:  Session on UML and Applications

Tuesday, December 28, 4:15 – 5:30 pm

Session Chair:

Dr. Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA

 

UML design with Security Integration as First Class Citizen

Thuong Doan, Steven Demurjian, Reda Ammar and T. C. Ting (University of Connecticut, USA)

 

Generating Maude Specification From AUML Diagrams: Toward A Systematic Approach

Farid Mokhati, Noura Boudiaf, Linda Badri  and Mourad Badri (Université d’Oum El-Bouaghi, Algérie)

 

An NSUML Extension for the Workflow Modeling

Narayan  Debnath (Winona State University, USA), Daniel Riesco and German Montejano (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina), Marcelo Uva and Edgardo Acosta ( Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Argentina

 

 

5:15 – 5:45 pm              Coffee Break

 

 

7:30 pm                         Conference Banquet and Entertainment

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 am – 12:00 Noon                       Conference Registration

 

 

Session 8A:  Session on Software Engineering and CASE II

Wednesday, December 29, 8:30 – 9:45 am

Session Chair:

TBA

 

An XML-based Collaborative Framework for ASIC eDesign

Amir Hekmatpour, James Coulter and Azadeh Salehi (IBM Microelectronics, USA)

 

Ripple Effect in Object Oriented Programs

Nashat Mansour and Hani Salem (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)

 

A Practical Metrics Set for Object Oriented Application

Gabriela Robiolo (Universidad Austral, Argentina) and Ricardo Fabian Orosco (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Argentina)

 

 

 

 

Session 8B:  Session on Information Systems, Databases and

Data Mining II

Wednesday, December 29, 8:30 – 9:45 am

Session Chair:

TBA

 

The Clustering Gain of Cspw-CLARANS for Network Planning in the Presence of Obstacles

Walaa Khaled, Omar Karam, Lamiaa Fattouh, and Mohamed A. El Sharkawy

 

Implementation of A Statistical Data Mining System with Summary Tables

Yanliang Gu, Zhewei Jiang, Wen-Chi Hou and Chih-Fang Wang (Southern Illinois University, USA)

 

Analyzing Retail Data for Similarity in Sales Patterns

Durga Toshniwal and R. C. Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology, India)

 

 

 

Session 8C:  Special Session on Data Engineering II

Wednesday, December 29, 8:30 – 9:45 am

Session Chair:           

Dr. Gongzhu Hu, Central Michigan University, USA

 

A Novel Approach to XML Query Optimization

Dunren Che (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, USA)

           

Web Documents Classification Using Text, Anchor, Title And Metadata Information

Mohamed Fathi, Noha Adly, and Magdy Nagi (Alexandria University, Egypt)

 

Execution of Distributed Queries in the Web Environment

Gongzhu Hu and Dawei Zhang (Central Michigan Univeristy, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 9A:  Special Session on Intelligent Software Reliability I

Wednesday, December 29, 10:00 –11:40 am

Session Chairs:

Dr. Sultan Aljahdali, College of Business Administration, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Khalid Buragga, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

           

Finite Element Modeling of Magnetostrictive Smart Structures

S. H. Aljahdali and S. J. Hyder (College of Business Administration, Saudi Arabia).

 

Securities Trading on Electronic Communication Networks (ECN’s) E-Finance and the Optimal Market Mechanism

Khaled Ibn El Waleed Samir and Sultan Aljahdali (College of Business Administration, Saudi Arabia)

           

Optimal Hybrid Model of Classifiers for Intrusion Detection

Sanna Kholfi, Muhammad Habib (George Mason University, USA) and Sultan Aljahdali (College of Business Administration, Saudi Arabia)

           

Statistical Meta-Synthesis of E-Commerce Technology Adoption

Ghassan Filimban, Muhammad Habib (George Mason University, USA) and Khalid Buragga (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

Session 9B:  Special Session on Software Metrics

Wednesday, December 29, 10:00 –11:40 am

Session Chair:

Dr. Hany Ammar, West Virginia University, USA

 

Severity Analysis Validation Using Fault Injection

Ahmad Hassan, W. Abdel-Moez, K. Goseva-Popstajanova, H. Ammar (West Virginia University, USA) and  Ali Mili (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

A Systematic Class Refactoring Approach Based On Metrics

Sukhee Lee, Yu-Seung Ma ,  Yong Rae Kwon and Heung Seok Chae (KAIST, Korea)

 

Software Metrics-A Taxonomy

Mohamed El-Wakil (Cairo University, Egypt)

 

 

 

 

Early Risk Assessment of Software Systems

K. Appukutty, Hany H. Ammar and Katerina Goseva Popstajanova (West Virginia University, USA)

 

 

 

Session 9C:  Session on Software Engineering and CASE III

Wednesday, December 29, 10:00 –11:40 am

Session Chair:

TBA

         

Towards A Viewpoint-Based Design Approach

Brahim Lahna and Oualid Khayati (LSR-IMAG laboratory, France)

 

Towards A Patterns System For Modeling Cooperative Information System

Mhamed Saidane and Dominique Rieu

 

Applicability Of Component-Based Development In High-Performance Systems

Amir Zeid, Michael Messiha, and Sami Youssef (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)

 

A Rewriting Logic Based Tool for Automated Support of ECATNets Reachability Analysis

Noura Boudiaf (Université d’Oum El Bouaghi, Algérie) and Allaoua Chaoui (Philadelphia University, Jordan)

 

 

11:40-12:00 noon                   Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session 10A:  Special Session on Software Engineering: Concepts, Issues and Applications

Wednesday, December 29, 12:00 –1:40 pm

Session Chair:

Dr. Ahmed Salem, California State University-Sacramento, USA

 

Experiment in Formal Specification and Verification of a Distributed System

Vincent Botz (Sutter Health- Sacramento, USA), Cui Zhang and Chung-E Wang (California State University- Sacramento, USA)

 

A Practical Method for Performing Object Oriented Requirements Analysis

Ahmed Salem, Bharadwaj Ramanujan, and Michael Darter (California State University-Sacramento, USA)

 

A Software Safety-Critical Design Concept for the International Space Station

Frederick Ferguson, Joshua Ampofo and Kelly J. Hayhurst (North Carolina A&T State University, USA)

                                   

Requirements Traceability Model for the Coding Phase

Ahmed Salem (California State University-Sacramento, USA)

 

 

 

Session 10B:  Special Session on Object Oriented Software

Engineering I

Wednesday, December 29, 12:00 –1:40 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr. Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 

A Controlled Experiment Concerning Traditional and Distance Learning of UML Sequence Diagrams

Panagiotis Sfetsos (Technological Education Institute, Greece), Athanasis Karoulis and Lefteris Angelis (Aristotle University, Greece)

  

Achieving Software Quality Through Heuristic Transformations: Maintainability and Performance

Bill Andreopoulos (York University, Canada)

                       

Performance Tradeoffs in Policies for Application Level Fault Tolerance

Theodoros Soldatos and Nantia Iakovidou (Aristotle University, Greece)

 

Three Level Semantics-based Version Management in Unified Modeling Language

A. Ananda Rao and D. Janakiram (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)

 

 

Session 10C:  Special Session on Testing Approaches, Tools and

Case Studies

Wednesday, December 29, 12:00 –1:40 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Marcel Karam, American University in Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada-Reno, USA

           

Component Integration Testing by Graph Transformations

Reiko Heckel and Leonardo Mariani (University of Paderborn, Germany)

 

           

 

Code-based Testing Methodologies for GUIs: Issues and Opportunities

Marcel R. Karam and Rami H. Hazimé (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

           

An Agent-based Unit Testing Environment For Extreme Programming (XP)

Ming-Wei Huang, Yong-Feng Lin, and Jason Jen-Yen Chen (National Central university, Taiwan)

 

Testing Classes in Visual Dataflow Languages: Issues and  Opportunities

Marcel R. Karam (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

 

 

1:45 – 2:45 pm              Conference Luncheon

 

 

Session 11A:  Special Session on Intelligent Software Reliability II

Wednesday, December 29, 2:45 –4:00 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Sultan Aljahdali, College of Business Administration, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Khalid Buragga, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

 

Self-Tuning On-Line Scaling Factors Using Neural Networks

Yi Wang, Huiwen Deng and Weiping Hu (Southwest China Normal University,China)

           

Determinants of Computer-Based Information System Success

Khalid A. Buragga (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

A Computational Machine for Optimal Parsimonious Hybrid Models

Khaled S. Alduhaiman (Saudi Telecom, Saudi Arabia), Muhammad K. Habib and Amany Alshawi (George Mason University, USA)

 

 

 

 

Session 11B:  Special Session on Object Oriented Software

Engineering II

Wednesday, December 29, 2:45 –4:00 pm

Session Chairs:

Dr. Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr. Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Restructuring of Object Oriented Distributed Software on a Pipeline Architecture

Amal Abdel-Raouf, Reda A. Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA), and Tahany A. Fergany (University of New Haven, USA)

 

Bad-Smell Detection Using Object-Oriented Software Metrics

Pornsiri Muenchaisri  and Thisana Pienlert (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

 

Towards Component Based Extensible Operating Systems

Amr El-Kadi and Mohamed Fathey Abdel Fattah (The American University in Cairo, Egypt)

 

 

 

Session 11C:  Special Session on Software Engineering and CASE IV 

Wednesday, December 29, 2:45 –4:00 pm

Session Chair:

Dr. S. Kundu, Louisiana State University, USA

 

           

A Multiview Approach for Information System Design

B. Lahana and Oualid Khayati (LSR-IMAG Laboratory, France)

           

Using Class Loader in Function Amelioration of Java Based System

Xu Hui (Tsinghua University, China)

           

Normalized Dataflow Diagrams: a Sound Basis for Software Design and Analysis

Sukhamay Kundu (Louisiana State University, USA)

 

 

4:00 – 5:30 pm              Conference Closing